Da Luo Luo rolled on the ground and asked: Is there still a monthly pass?

"Row hard, fast! Let the whole world see the bravery of the Satsuma samurai! ”

The name of the person who shouted was Okubo Rishi, and he was a junior feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain, and he was an official who worshipped the Ryukyu Pavilion and served as the director. For Okubo Toshi, who was born as a corporal, it was already smooth sailing. But this smooth sailing has come to an end. Not because of the "open boat attack", but because of being implicated in the "Yura Rebellion". Yura is the favorite concubine of Shimazu Saiko, the lord of the Satsuma domain, and the biological mother of Shimazu Saiko's favorite fifth son, Shimazu Hisamitsu. The apparent cause of the so-called Yura Rebellion seems to be the inheritance issue of the Shimazu family, and the stepmother wants to abolish the palace fight drama of Chang Liyu and helping her own son to power.

However, the original reason for this was the struggle between the old and new parties of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Saixing belonged to the conservative faction, and his sister-in-law Shimazu Saibin was a new faction, and the two were opposed because of the problems of the feudal finances and Ranhaku - the Shimazu family has always been the most Westernized of the "lords" in Japan, and the earliest Japanese land in history where Westerners arrived was Tanegashima under the rule of the Shimazu family. And in the later period of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Shimazu family had another feudal lord Shimazu Shigehiro who liked to spend money, which was Shimazu Saiko's grandfather and Shimazu Saibin's great-grandfather. However, this prince did not spend money indiscriminately, but spent it on the study of orchidology. Not only was he proficient in Dutch and Chinese, but he also set up a feudal school, a shoshikan, a martial arts hall, a myokikan (planetarium), and a medical hall in the Satsuma Domain, and not only recruited samurai from the Satsuma Domain to learn about Rangaku, but also gave civilians the opportunity to receive education. Okubo Riyo was a Satsuma samurai who grew up under the influence of Shigehiro Shimazu, a "daimyo of Ranch". These people are no longer looking at the world with their eyes open, but desperately want to change the closed and backward nature of the Satsuma Domain.

However, Shimazu Shigehiro's "blue fetish" brought the Satsuma Domain's finances to the brink of bankruptcy, so Shimazu Shigehiro's son Shimazu Qixuan. His grandson, Shimazu Saikoto, opposed Shigehiro Shimazu's Westernization policy and wanted to implement a policy of fiscal austerity. Moreover, Shimazu Qi Xuan and Qi Xing are also inclined to conservative Confucianism and Chinese studies, and have little interest in Lanxue. As a result, the study and dissemination of orchid studies in the Satsuma domain regressed during the reign of Shimazu Saiko. However, Shimazu Saibin was a "blue man" who grew up under the influence of his great-grandfather, and he was at odds with his father for a long time on the issue of feudal reform in the Satsuma domain. As a result, Yura and Shimazu Hisamitsu took advantage of the opportunity to create a so-called assassination incident, arresting and killing a large number of feudal clansmen of the Qi Bin faction. Okubo Riyo was exiled as a feudal lord who was proficient in Ranxue, and the Saibin faction was completely defeated in the civil strife of the Satsuma Domain.

It was at this time that the "Attack on the Open Ships" and the "Fall of the Ryukyus" occurred. The Satsuma Domain is in an existential crisis. Shimazu Saibin returned to Kagoshima with orders from Shogun Tokugawa Iekei and Sakuma Zozan. The success of this operation to lure the enemy into Osaka Bay was directly related to whether Shimazu Saibin, who was defeated in the internal struggle of the Satsuma Domain, could get the support of the Tokugawa shogunate.

"Keep it up! Hurry up and paddle! His Majesty the Emperor and the Shogun watched us from Osaka Castle...... "Okubo Toshiyo brandished a torch and roared loudly. There were 500 pounds of gunpowder and 200 pounds of oil on board, all disguised as grain and sealed in the bag, and when the punt hit the white ghost galleon, Okubo would use a torch to set the bag on fire......

Boom Boom Boom ......

At this time "Alexander I" fired another salvo. In the smoke of gunpowder. The black solid bullet swept across the surface of the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye. Okubo Toshiyo heard a loud bang, and a solid bullet fell from the sky, smashing through the roof of the punt and striking a large hole in the bottom of the boat.

"Plug the loopholes and don't let the sea in." As soon as Okubo's shout, several samurai who were paddling pounced, and one of them sat on the top of the hole with his butt and actually plugged the hole with his body. The rest of the paddlers were paddling with all their strength. Let this punt gallop on the surface of the sea as if it were flying.

"It's over! Finished! Bai Siwen looked at the suicide attack ships surging in all directions, and regretted it in his heart. Why are you going to this troubled water? Obviously, he is already worth two or three million, and he has blonde and blue-eyed beauties, so he is not good at doing real estate business in Hong Kong, what are you doing in Japan! Now it's okay, I'm going to die in Japan!

With a bang, a Japanese flat-bottomed ship was loaded onto the "Alexander I".

"Dive, I'll leave it to you!" Okubo Toshiyo yelled for the samurai on the boat to jump into the sea, although this location is really a bit far from Osaka beach, and it's hard to say whether these exhausted samurai who have been paddling can swim back, but a little life is better than nothing, right? Seeing that only he and the samurai who had stuffed the hole in his butt were left on the ship, Okubo did not hesitate to stuff the torch into a purse full of gunpowder and kerosene......

Thundered!

A huge ball of fire rose on the port side of the "Alexander I", and Bai Sven fell on the aft deck without standing firmly, and he struggled to get up, and looked in the direction of the fire, and the port deck was in disarray, all the cannons were staggered and out of place, and the fire was burning, and the sailors were pouring buckets of sand onto the burning deck, trying to extinguish the fire. But such efforts were doomed to be in vain, because soon another Japanese suicide ship crashed into it, and then there was another loud bang! The starboard side of the "Alexander I" suffered the same fate.

I can't keep the battleship anymore! Even if Bai Siwen no longer understands naval warfare, he knows that the big thing is not good, and the fire is secondary, and the huge shock wave of the two explosions made most of the deck guns temporarily mute. The entire battleship was tantamount to a temporary loss of firepower. There are dozens of Japanese suicide ships in the four places!

"Your Excellency, Commander, please transfer the flagship immediately!"

The captain of the "Alexander I" also saw this, and said to Putiyatin with a sad face.

"Transfer Flagship...... Not really! Putiyatin was almost in tears. A first-class battleship was actually lost like this! If it spreads to Europe, it will definitely make the entire world navy treat the Russian Navy as a joke, and this kind of thing is that the Turkish Navy can't do it, right?

Boom and boom! "Alexander I" was hit again! This time, it was hit by a Japanese suicide ship on the starboard side, and the huge explosion caused heavy casualties to the sailors who were fighting the fire, and the wood chips swept across the three-story gun deck. The fire that had just been brought under control spread again, and the scattered sparks even lit the sails of the "Alexander I"!

"I really can't keep the battleship...... "Putiyating nodded bitterly and gave the order to abandon the ship. A third-class battleship "Potemkin" approached, and Putiyatin looked back at Bai Sven, "Bai, will you go back to swimming?" I'm waiting for you on the Potemkin. As he spoke, he took off his heavy military uniform and threw himself into the sea......

"The 'Alexander I' is finished!" Standing on the top floor of HSBC, Shi Dakai was watching through the telescope as a giant ship with a displacement of 4,300 tons turned into a fireball at sea.

"This kind of suicide fireboat tactic is really ......" Although he didn't know much about naval warfare, Shi Dakai still saw some clues. The madness of the Japanese has brought the old-fashioned fireship tactics to an unimaginable effect. Traditional fireship warfare relies on specific wind and current to drive the ship, and the fireship that is released cannot adjust its course and is very easy to avoid. However, the Japanese suicide fireship warfare is not limited by the direction of the wind and the current, the fireboat is driven by oars, and there are people who steer and adjust the direction, which belongs to the "guided" fireship!

"If the news of this war spreads internationally, I'm afraid that no foreign power will dare to covet Japan for a long time, right?" Zheng Hong, who was watching the battle at Osaka Castle, came to another conclusion. The Russians have now become a chicken that has been killed, and Britain, the United States, France, and even the Ming Dynasty are probably afraid that they will not dare to attack the idea of this seemingly poor and weak small country.

And Tokugawa Iekei, who was far away in Nijo Castle in Kyoto, learned the news of the "Osaka Bay Victory", but said with a smile to Matsudaira Kanyu, the side employee who rushed to report the news: "Now the whole world knows that my samurai is the pillar of Japan!" (To be continued......)