Hearing that Toshiaki Kirino was quite familiar with the history and tactics of the world's navies, Gonbei Yamamoto couldn't help but be surprised.

Broadside warfare coupled with white-knuckle combat is a naval tactic born in the era of sail warships, linking this ancient tactic with steam and steel warships, which may be difficult for people to imagine and understand in later generations, but in the current era, it is still one of the standard tactical styles of naval operations in the world. The fleet maintains an overall formation to approach and exchange fire, and when it reaches a close enough distance, the warships begin to break away from the overall formation to try to ram the enemy ships, and then the marines and sailors wielding broadswords and rifles and spears will rush to the enemy ships to fight, "Whoever touches the ship must move forward with the muzzle...... If the enemy ship has been wounded, it can be captured." The traditional weapons of the Marine Corps, such as broadswords and spears, have been in service with the warships of the British Royal Navy (in World War II, the destroyer "Cossack" of the British Royal Navy also used this ancient tactic, accompanied by the Nelson era "Boarding the fleet, rush!"). The British sailors rushed aboard the German cargo ship "Altmark", and the Germans were surprised to find that some of the swarming British sailors were brandishing gleaming Marine broadswords. —Author's note).

"You're right, General, there are still such ways of fighting in the navies of Western countries." Yamamoto said to Kirino Toshiaki, "But now, since the Battle of Langqiao and the Battle of the Ryukyu Sea, the situation has changed. The Lin's machine guns and Haqikaisi machine guns equipped on the Qianguo warships have completely put an end to this mode of warfare. ”

Hearing Yamamoto Gonbei's answer, Kirino Toshiaki, Shinohara Kunikan, Murata Shinhachi and other samurai all changed their faces.

They knew very well the power of Lin's machine guns and Haqikes machine guns.

It was these two weapons that inflicted the greatest casualties on the Japanese army in the Battle of Moss Bay!

According to the confessions of the survivors of the "Battle of Langqiao" and the "Battle of the Ryukyus" in these two naval battles, out of a total of 1,467 people killed in these two naval battles, 1,024 people died with these two weapons!

"What Yamamoto-kun said is very reasonable, but I think the ship-taking plan that Lin Jun wants to implement may not be as Yamamoto-kun imagined." Oyama Yan, who had not spoken all this time, replied.

"Oh? What kind of situation does Oyama-kun think? Gonbei Yamamoto asked.

"Lin Jun's plan to seize the ship should not be implemented through a frontal battle." Oyama replied with a smile.

"Why do you say that?" Saigo Takamori looked at the army officer, and a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes.

"I've seen Lin Jun's training records, and there are very few frontal combat exercises, most of which are sneak attack operations." Da Shanyan said, "So I guess that Lin Jun's plan to seize ships should also be a sneak attack, rather than a frontal battle." Because if you want to succeed in capturing the warship, you have the greatest possibility of a sneak attack. In the Battle of Ezo, there was a precedent for the Ezo army to sneak attack on the 'Huitian' ship to seize our 'armor' ship! ”

Hearing Oyama Rock's words with a reminder, Yamamoto Gonbei suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but turn pale.

It was during the Shogunate War, and after the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the shogunate was already in full swing. After several negotiations between the Restoration government and the shogunate, Edo was able to open the castle without blood, and the Tokugawa shogunate's rule of more than 260 years came to an end. However, the shogunate hardliner Takehiro Natsumoto could not tolerate surrender to the Restoration government. Not only did he refuse to hand over the fleet under his command (he was later persuaded by the Shogunate Army President Katsu Kaishu to reluctantly hand over four old, weak, sick and disabled ships), but he even planned to lead a raid on the rear of the shogunate army, but he only gave up because he was worried about causing trouble to the shogunate.

Soon after, as the Restoration Government held the Aizu Domain, which had been a strong supporter of the shogunate, accountable, the Tohoku feudal clans formed an alliance of the Ougosu Domains to confront them. Upon hearing the news, Natsumoto Takehiro led his fleet out of Edo Bay at night and sailed to the Sendai Domain, one of the backbone of the Alliance. After the alliance quickly collapsed, he landed at Washinogi at the southern tip of Ezo (formerly known as Hokkaido), and later captured Hakodate (present-day Hakodate). In the summer of the following year, Ben proclaimed the establishment of the "Republic of Ezo" and openly opposed the Restoration government.

In the spring of the second year of the Meiji era, the Restoration Government, which had pacified the Tohoku feudal domains, began to launch a campaign against the Ezo Republic, and various armies marched to Aomori in the northern part of Honshu in preparation for the sea crossing. The navy, on the other hand, took the newly arrived ironclad ship "Kotetsu" (which had not been delivered to Japan because of the United States' "outside neutrality") as its flagship, and led three warships including "Kasuga" and four transport ships from Shinagawa Bay all the way north to Miyako Bay (present-day Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture) in China.

The "Kaiyang" was the only ironclad ship in East Asia at that time, and it was the pillar of the Meiji government fleet, and the soul of the Ezo fleet, the "Kaiyang", had been stranded and damaged by a storm, and the naval strength of the two sides had undergone a major reversal. As a result, Nakamoto dispatched the "Huitian", "Panlong", and "Kaohsiung" ships to Miyako Bay, where the government fleet was anchored, in an attempt to seize the "armor iron" by engaging in broadside battles, so that the balance of victory and defeat would be tilted in his favor again.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning of May 6, the "Huitian" rushed into Miyako Bay with a group of commandos, including the Ezo Army and the former deputy head of the Shinsho Group, Toshizo Hijikata, and launched a surprise attack on the "Kotetsu" (the other two ships failed to participate in the operation due to bad weather and machine failure).

At the time of the attack, most of the crew of the Meiji government fleet, led by Captain Shiro Nakajima, was resting on the shore to eliminate the fatigue of the long voyage. And the only one that maintained a state of vigilance and had all the crews in place was the "Kasuga". Although the captain Genroku Akatsuka is rude and arrogant, giving people the feeling of a martial artist, he is a rough and fine character. He studied in Britain and had the qualities of a modern naval officer, and he was extremely strict in administering the army, and he established disciplines on the ship, such as "smoking on the deck," "defecating in the toilet," and "non-officers are not allowed to enter the officer's room," thus establishing a good atmosphere for the ship.

In the faint morning light, the officer on duty on the "Spring Day" anchored to the north of the "Jiatie" spotted a warship flying the Stars and Stripes sailing into the ranks of government warships. However, the presence of American warships here is not a cause for all the fuss, so "Kasuga" did not take action. Unexpectedly, this warship suddenly lowered the Stars and Stripes Flag, raised the Rizhang Flag, and rushed straight to the "Jiatie" to "get in close contact" with it -- it was the "return to heaven" that it was determined to achieve! Although the conditions were unfavorable for gang jumping (the difference between the two ships was as high as 3 meters), the ship's commandos jumped onto the deck of the enemy ship with their katanas.

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