Wang Qiang's words almost didn't make Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong squirt out a mouthful of food.

"You! Xiao Wang, where is this? Finally stopped laughing, Lu Wei pointed at Wang Qiang and said.

"You'll know if it's useful or not, and I said you don't know anything about the Japanese nation at all." Wang Qiang swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said to the two.

"We don't know, do you know?" Zheng Chenggong said unconvinced.

"Of course I know a lot better than you do." Wang Qiang replied without hesitation.

"What are the characteristics of the Japanese?" Zheng Chenggong asked.

"What's the feature? It's too simple, eat hard and not soft, remember to beat but not eat! Wang Qiang took a big bite of the food, and waited until he swallowed it before he said slowly.

Wang Qiang's simple words caused Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong to think, and the two were eating while thinking about what Wang Qianggang said.

"Brother Weisheng, don't say it, I think what Master Wang said is really reasonable, think about whether the Japanese we have seen are like this?" Zheng Chenggong put down the dishes and chopsticks, looked up and said to Lu Wei.

Lu Wei didn't answer Zheng Chenggong's words, but looked at Emperor Shaoren and several ministers who were gobbling up, and didn't know what to think in his heart.

Early the next morning, with the first rays of sunlight rising from the sea, the fleet began to continue its advance towards Edo from Osaka Bay.

Wang Qiang stood on the main deck of the "Yue Fei" and looked at the ships that followed one after another.

"What's on board?" Wang Qiang pointed to the sacks piled high on several troop carriers, turned to Zheng Chenggong who was walking out of the hatch and asked.

"What's that? Isn't that the food and vegetables you asked the soldiers to collect at Osaka Castle yesterday? It's a bit crowded on the boat now. Zheng Chenggong said with a smile.

"So much?" Wang Qiang was a little strange.

"No, you didn't let them collect much, so they 'collected' as much as they could, and the boat was almost unloaded." Zheng Chenggong shook his head helplessly.

"It's worthless to ship this thing back, let's let everyone eat it with their stomachs!" Wang Qiang couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, and said to Zheng Chenggong.

The fleet never encountered any Japanese warships to intercept it along the way, and the march went extremely smoothly.

The fleet traveled for five or six days, and finally reached Suruga Bay (Fuji Bay) again, and Lu Wei called Zheng Chenggong and Wang Qiang, who were taking a nap.

"I have to send someone to Fuji to contact me about the purchase of saltpeter, this is something that cannot be delayed." Lu Wei said to the sleepy-eyed two.

"Spend money to buy?" Wang Qiang asked suspiciously, he hadn't woken up yet.

"How can you get it if you don't buy it? Are you still robbing? Lu Wei stared at Wang Qiang and said.

"Buy? Do you have the money to buy it? If we don't rob it, we can always take credit, right? Wang Qiang said with a smile.

Listening to Wang Qiang's words, Lu Wei scratched his head, he really didn't have any silver to buy, this time the fleet came to Japan, and he brought a lot of weapons and ammunition, but there was no goods and silver.

"No matter how much it is, let's send someone to contact us first." Lu Wei gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay! Send someone quickly, we can't afford to delay here for long. Wang Qiang didn't recruit either, so he had to ask Lu Wei to send someone to contact him.

The fleet stayed outside Fuji Bay for more than two hours, and the "Ankei" escorted a small boat and sent a dozen people to land from Shizuoka.

Among these dozen people, there were three or four Japanese businessmen brought from Osaka, and these three or four people were the ones who were bought by Wang Qiang with glass, and with them, they would not have encountered too much danger.

When the "Ankei" returned to the fleet, the fleet began to set off again and headed for Edo Bay.

By the time the fleet reached Edo Bay at full speed, it was already the morning of the third day.

Wang Qiang and Zheng Chenggong both stood on the deck of the "Yue Fei" and looked at Edo Port, today's port seems to be very different from the last time Wang Qiang and the others came, Edo has built a row of dozens of forts, and the thick gun ports are facing Edo Bay, and there are no such things when they came last time.

"Fuck! The Japanese are prepared for this, right? Wang Qiang burst into a foul mouth, pointed to the fort and said to Zheng Chenggong.

"What shall we do?" Zheng Chenggong looked at Wang Qiang hesitantly.

"What else can I do? If we don't knock these things down, will we be able to land? Wang Qiang said directly.

"This is going to start? Don't wait for them to send someone to negotiate? Lu Wei stepped forward from behind and asked the two.

"Hit! Get rid of all these batteries and artillery for me, and then we'll talk about it! Wang Qiang pointed to the fort and said resolutely.

As Wang Qiang's order was transmitted to the ships, the gunners on the ships began to prepare nervously.

"Bring the Emperor and his ministers up to watch the battle, and see how we knock out his opponents." Wang Qiang turned to the guards and said.

"Xiao Wang, why bother?" Lu Wei looked at Wang Qiang helplessly.

The guards looked at the two of them hesitantly, and Wang Qiang glared, "Didn't you hear the order?" ”

The guards hurried towards the cabin where Shao Ren and several ministers were being held.

The 300-millimeter main gun on the deck of the "Yue Fei" was already raised high, and several soldiers were loading shells weighing more than 100 catties with small carts, and Shao Ren and several ministers were taken to the deck.

Shohito and the three or four ministers looked at the huge cannon with horror and envy, and began to worry about Tokugawa Iemitsu in their hearts.

The "Weiqing", "Huo Quai" and "Anqing" and "Fengyang" were lined up, and the muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the turrets on the Edo Port.

When the flag that the reports of all ships had been prepared came, Zheng Chenggong ran to Wang Qiang, and was about to ask if it would start, but there was a fire on the opposite battery, and the Japanese artillery on the shore took the lead in firing, but now the fleet was not within the range of their guns.

"Hit!" When Wang Qiang saw that the Japanese had opened fire first, he couldn't help but hit the fire upwards, and roared angrily at the moment.

As the flag on the "Yue Fei" came out, the fleet began to shoot, and with a rumbling cannon sound, a layer of gunpowder smoke rose over the fleet, and dozens of shells flew towards Edo Port.

The firing momentum of the main guns on the "Yue Fei" was extremely alarming, and the loud noise frightened Shaoren almost to sit on the deck, and a minister next to him helped him, so that he did not fall.

After the first round of firing, the fleet paused for a moment, as the ships were correcting their impact points, and a moment later, the guns rang out again.

The port of Edo was already shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and Wang Qiang and Zheng Chenggong both held binoculars to observe carefully.

The fleet fired five salvos before stopping, and both Wang Qiang and Zheng Chenggong could not see the situation in the port at all.

After more than ten minutes passed, the sea breeze slowly blew away the gunpowder smoke on the port, and the port, which had been battered and riddled with holes, was once again displayed in front of everyone.

There are five large craters on the shore, and at a glance you can see that they were made by the main guns on the "Yue Fei." There was no longer a single Japanese soldier standing on the battery, and some of the guns had been blown to pieces, which was caused by a direct hit of the shell.

Zheng Chenggong ordered the flag soldiers to sound the flag again, and ordered the "Wei Qing" and "Huo Quai" to approach the battery and use smoothbore guns to shoot at the fort, and only by completely destroying these guns could the fleet be truly safe.

The two ships that received the order quickly advanced more than 1,000 meters toward the port, and the gunners on the ship had already finished loading; following the captain's order, the smoothbore guns on the "Wei Qing" were fired first, and then the sound of cannons sounded on the "Huo Quai."

The accuracy of this kind of direct-aim shooting is extremely high, and basically two shells will hit a battery, and the artillery on the battery will be knocked out crookedly, and whether the artillery will be completely useless will have to be found out after going ashore.

As the "Wei Qing" and "Huo Quzhi" maneuvered forward, the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" also maneuvered forward quickly in a zigzag pattern, so that the guns on the side of the ship would always face the port.

Probably frightened by the ferocity of the fleet's artillery fire, Wang Qiang and Zheng Chenggong did not see the Japanese troops in Edo come out for a long time.

"All ships maneuver forward and prepare to land!" After Wang Qiang carefully observed for more than ten minutes, he gave the order again.

The "Yue Fei" was the last to press the line, and the five troop transports began to sail toward the harbor, and the guns of the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" were ready to stop and shoot at any time.

Wang Qiang and Lu Wei boarded the small boat laid down on the "Yue Fei", and under the full paddling of the sailors, the small boat rushed towards the pier with all its might, and at this time the infantry on the troop transport had already begun to land.

Wang Qiang stood on the bow of the boat, his eyes unblinking, looking at the port, he was most worried about the Japanese army coming to attack at this time.

Whatever he was most worried about would come, Wang Qiang saw that the samurai and soldiers of the brigade began to pour towards the port, and at this time there were less than a hundred soldiers who had landed.

Zheng Chenggong had already seen the situation in the harbor on the tall "Yue Fei", and as a series of flags were issued, the guns on the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" began to fire, and more than a dozen shells flew towards the swarming Japanese troops.

Subsequently, the artillery on the "Wei Qing" and "Huo Quai" also fired, and dozens of artillery pieces finally stopped the Japanese army, and countless Japanese warriors and soldiers fell into the artillery fire.

But the Japanese army was still rushing towards the port, Zheng Chenggong was so anxious that his fists were clenched, he turned his head to stare at the main gun on the "Yue Fei", saw that the gunners had been prepared, and ordered the main gun to start firing as well.

With a loud bang, a huge cannonball fell into the ranks of the Japanese soldiers, and after the shell exploded, there was not a single living Japanese soldier in a radius of thirty or forty meters.

The terrifying effect of the main cannon fire stunned the samurai and soldiers who were desperately running forward, slowing them down.

As the guns on the other battleships sounded again in succession, the Japanese samurai and soldiers who rushed over finally collapsed and desperately turned around and ran towards the back.

Wang Qiang led the guards to the shore, and there were more than 1,000 soldiers who had landed, and Wang Qiang quickly organized them to set up a defensive formation.

Under the organization of the officers, the soldiers who had landed advanced one by one, and the landing site was finally stabilized, and the artillery on the fleet was still continuing to extend and shoot, and Wang Qiang was completely relieved.

All the warships anchored in the harbor, and now the ship's guns provided strong fire support for the infantry.

By the time the infantry had set up camp at the port and organized the troops to have lunch, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and Wang Qiang had time to carefully observe Edo Port.

Compared to the port of Nagasaki, Edo Port looks similar in layout except for its larger scale, and Edo Castle is not far northwest of the port, and the walls of Edo Castle are not short, and from the port, you can clearly see several gates in this direction.

Wang Qiang watched while calculating in his heart whether to attack Edo City and look at the city, and then looked back at the fleet moored in the port, estimated the distance, stretched out his hand and gestured, and felt that this distance was probably only the main gun on the "Yue Fei" could hit.

Wang Qiang felt that it was necessary to find a few locals to understand the situation carefully, and he heard that there was a river leading directly to Edo, and whether a few warships in this river could sail or not, he also had to find someone to ask.