Chapter 16: The Surprise Attack of the Uraga Samurai
Updated: 0/24/202
As soon as the gate of time and space was closed, Wang Tiehammer immediately ordered the lifting of the first-level combat deployment, the cancellation of the light control, and the water on the shore without a trace and the others withdrew. Now that the weapons and ammunition are in hand, the army of Japanese shogunate samurai has no need to worry at all.
Shui Wuxian asked Shao Bei to release all the imprisoned Japanese fishermen, and after comforting them, he led the team to withdraw to the Prince. Everyone on the ship was changing shifts in turn, carrying weapons and ammunition, Shui Wuxian and Shao Bei and others immediately joined in the ranks of carrying ammunition, and everyone was busy until nearly one o'clock, and finally finished being busy.
two M9 Type 05mm light howitzers, one on the foredeck of the Prince, which was set up in the shipyard during the refit as the forward main gun; One was placed on the aft deck, and the position set during the modification was used as the rear main gun. The containers are fully stacked in the area on the aft deck that was previously used to place tows.
All personnel were armed with an M6A4 rifle, the Marine detachment left two 62mm mortars and two machine guns for combat, and all other weapons and ammunition were placed in the cargo hold. The cargo compartment is the former freezer, with a space of 20 square meters, and it seems relatively empty when so many weapons and ammunition are put in.
Jerry, who washed the lead, changed into the sea soul shirt and jeans issued to him, and worked hard with everyone until the end. Now all the members of the advance team are smiling, holding guns and wiping them with cloths, and he squats alone on the side of the ship, a little lost.
"We are a united team, a fighting team, and a team fighting for the Chinese nation!" Wang Tiehammer came up to him and said, "If you want to join us, you must say goodbye to the past and accept our scrutiny." ”
"I'm willing to take all the tests of the team." Jerry looked up and said firmly, "I'll be called Yeyang now." From now on, there is no Jerry in the world, and there is no Ye Yang, only me named Yeyang! ”
Zhang Yuba, Ye Danqing and others rushed over with guns in their arms, "Captain, get a gun, this is a great event, let's put a few shots and celebrate!" ”
"If you want to shoot, you can, but you can't shoot blindly." Wang Tie hammered everyone's look full of anticipation, very happy, "As soon as the M6A4 rifle pulls the trigger, it is three bursts." Everyone shoots at the trees on the shore, remember to aim well before shooting, 0 bullets per person, and go to bed immediately after the fight. ”
Xiao Bailang said on the side: "We can't make bullets now, one shot will be one less, captain, you ask everyone to collect the bullet casings that have been shot and use them to reload." ”
"Yes, although we can't make bullets for the time being, there is no problem with reloading bullets." Wang Tiehammer nodded, "Tan Ke, you are responsible for this bullet distribution; The recovery of bullet casings is the responsibility of Xiao Bailang. ”
Soon there were gunshots on the sea, and in the dark night, there was a "bang" one after another, and the sky over the bay was full of startled birds.
The muffled sound of gunfire flew out of the bay and spread far into the night. The news soon spread from the forts in Edo Bay in the distance to the castle of Uraga Castle.
During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate, in addition to occupying the vast area around Edo (Tokyo), also established a number of important locations throughout Japan as direct jurisdictions, established government offices, and appointed the shogunate's cronies to administer them.
Uraga is located in the eastern part of the Miura Peninsula, and it is the choke point of Tokyo Bay, and its military value is extremely high, so the shogunate has direct jurisdiction over this area and has established the Uraga Commission. There are two main and deputy directors of the Uraga Council, and there are 0 people with force and 50 people with one heart. If the director of the bureau is compared, then Yori is equivalent to the section chief, and Tongxin is the section member. It is an official position with little power and great power. Generally, the flag is held by the flag, and he usually has the right to mobilize the troops of the neighboring feudal domains (daimyo) in an emergency.
Uraga Governor Toda Sakae was woken up from his bed in the early hours of the morning by his subordinates, who said that he had heard the thunderous and long-lasting news of gunfire on the sea, and that soon a fisherman had discovered a very strange boat in a bay, full of lights and as bright as day, and from this bay the gunshots had been heard.
"What?" Toda was shocked when he heard the news. It had not been half a year since the American Perry drove a gunboat to force the shogunate to sign the so-called friendship treaty, and he was afraid that another powerful country would come to make trouble.
He immediately dispatched a guard ship, Saburosuke Nakajima, who was in charge of coastal defense, to reconnoiter and at the same time sent an early warning signal to the four feudal domains of Kawagoe, Shinobi, Hikone, and Aizu, who were in charge of coastal defense near Edo. In addition, Toda sent a quick horse to deliver the news to Hiromichi Ido, the deputy minister who stayed in Edo Castle, and asked Hiromichi Ido to report the matter to the shogunate.
It wasn't until dawn that Uraga's guard ship swayed to the harbor where the Prince was anchored.
Zhang Yuba has just taken up his post and is on duty. He yawned as he stood on the side of the ship, holding the M6 and constantly aiming at various targets at sea. Suddenly, a small boat appeared in his scope, Zhang Yuba hurriedly raised his head, and he was far away to the outside of the bay, and more than a dozen small boats formed a battle formation and headed straight for the bay.
Zhang Yuba was very excited, he grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Report, the devil is here!" "Then he was about to shoot at the boat 000 meters away.
"You can't just put the gun away, just wait for orders!" Tan Ke, the head of the replacement, hurriedly stopped Zhang Yuba.
In the cabin, everyone heard in their sleep that the devil was coming, and they were all awakened, and they hurriedly put on their clothes, picked up the guns next to the bed and prepared to leave the warehouse door.
"What's the panic? Just a few devil reconnaissance ships. Wang Tiehammer blocked the hatch, very unhappy, "The chaos is like a rabble." He blasted everyone back into the cabin and rushed to the cab with Shui Wuji.
Zhang Xin, who was on duty, had already turned on the marine radar, and the radar showed that there was a small spot on the sea, and there was no target in the distance.
Tan Ping, who rushed to the wheelhouse, handed over the binoculars, "Captain, there may be more than ten devils' boats." ”
"There are three or four people in a boat, a total of forty or fifty little devils, and they dare to come out and wander!" Wang Tiehammer picked up the telescope and stayed away for a while, then smiled, "We don't bully people, let them do it first." ”
Uraga's guard ship was far away into the bay, and a large silver-gray ship was moored close to the shore, not much smaller than the American ships that had come before, with a cannon in the front and rear, and the bow seemed to be marked with some number. As the alert ship approached, the words "Prince" on the bow became clearer and clearer. The two Chinese characters "Prince" are known to Saburosuke Nakajima. Where did this ship come from? His heart chuckled.
When the guard ship approached, they found that the ship was quite strange, with a red flag embroidered with the pattern of the sun and the moon hanging high on the mast, a length of more than 40 meters, and a width of nearly 10 meters, but there was not a single mast sail, no steam chimney of an American ship, no pulp, no wheel, and no people moving on it.
The Japanese alert ship circled around the Prince and screamed a few times, but no one on board responded. The side of the Prince was much taller than these small wooden ships, and the Japanese soldiers were very short, tiptoeing and stretching their necks to the top.
Nakajima Saburo Suke is the force of the institute, he knows that the sun and moon sign is the banner of the former Ming Dynasty of China, I heard that there are a lot of chaotic parties in China, many of them are playing the banner of the former Ming, and this ship is marked with the word "Prince", Nakajima wondered if the big leader of the Manchu Qing Dynasty chaotic party ran to us?
A samurai next to him asked, "My lord, it seems that it is a ship from China, should we go back and report it?" ”
Saburo Nakajima secretly thought, there are many people on the Mi Guoyan boat, we can't afford to provoke it, the Chinese rebels are on this boat, and there are only two cannons when they go up, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
"Up!"
More than a dozen small boats lined up around the Prince, and the samurai either carried firearms on their backs or bit long knives in their mouths, threw ropes one by one, hooked the side of the Prince, and climbed up with a few clicks.
Several Japanese samurai who had already climbed aboard the Prince, armed with long knives and firearms, were about to rush to the bridge.
"This is the warship of the Ming Empire in China." The prince's horn suddenly sounded a majestic voice, "Intruder, you must lay down your weapons and lie on the ground, otherwise you will die!" Shao Bei took the microphone and shouted loudly over and over again in Japanese.
The little devils were startled, but they didn't pay any attention to it, and continued to rush and climb.
"Bang bang bang", "bang bang bang" The gunfire was very crisp, Shui Wuxian led people out of the bridge, Shui Wuxian led people to guard the front deck, Tan Ke led people to guard the rear deck, Ban Xue took people to live on the port side, and Fu Baichen took people to live on the starboard side. Zhang Yuba, Ye Danqing and other other marines all guarded the cabin and closed the hatch to prevent the little devil from breaking through the defense line and rushing in.
In just one minute, more than a dozen Japanese devils fell in a pool of blood, groaning in pain, and frightened the other devils who climbed onto the boat to throw away their weapons and lie on the deck.
Saburo Nakajima craned his neck upwards, but he was too short to reach the situation above, and only heard the chaotic sound of gunfire.
Soon the gunfire stopped one after another, and the horn of the Prince made an impassioned voice again, "The personnel who illegally violated the ** ship of our Chinese Emperor Ming have all been arrested." If the ships around my ship do not withdraw immediately, it will be regarded as a threat to our warship, and we will solve it by force! ”
"It's over, the people who went up have been wiped out!" Saburo Nakajima suke left and right, and there was only one helmsman left in each guard ship, and he suddenly collapsed, "Withdraw!" ”
Tan Ke led the team to clean up the battlefield, killing a total of 10 Japanese soldiers, wounding 7 and capturing 15 prisoners. He rushed to the cab and asked if he had re-shot the wounded devil.
"It doesn't have to be, the devils are here. We are a great country in the Celestial Empire, a teacher of benevolence and righteousness! Wang Tiezhu immediately shook his head and said that he was right, "You go to Dr. Fan and ask her to organize personnel to rescue the wounded devils, this is a good opportunity to practice the first aid skills of war wounds." ”
Tan Ke hurriedly explained, "Dr. Fan has already bandaged the wounded on the back deck, and she said that she didn't bring that much medicine. ”
"Why waste medicine," Wang Tiezhu's eyes widened, "It's purely to practice the skills of fighting wounded and ambulating the wounded." Inform all Marines of the Water Without Trace organization to learn the experience. Tell them that war wounded care is a skill that must be mastered, and self-help and mutual rescue on the battlefield can save their lives. ”
The six lightly wounded were quickly bandaged and carried to the broadside. The remaining one was the seriously wounded. This devil was shot in the abdomen, his intestines flowed out, and he lay on the deck dying.
Fan Hua hastily examined the devil's wound and hesitated.
"Tricky?" Wang Tiezhu, who was standing on the side, asked.
"No assistants, no anesthesiologists." Dr. Fan shook his head, "There is no assistant to help with the surgical instruments, just to make the chief surgeon a little troublesome." Without anesthesia, he would have died on the operating table in shock. ”
"Well, then let him be euthanized, so that his pain can be relieved sooner." Wang Tiehammer turned his head to Shui Wuxian and said, "Your battle rescue training is here, and you will have to organize more such training in the future." Now you go and organize all the personnel to use the time before lunch to summarize the battle, and you have to summarize the battle once you fight, so that everyone's combat quality can be improved. ”
After lunch, Wang Tiehammer found Shui Wuxi, Tan Ke and You Nanzhe, "Shui Wuxian, now that the Prince has two cannons, you will first take on the gun commander of the Prince." Tan Ke is the former main artillery squad leader, and You Nanzhe is the rear main artillery squad leader. You hurry up and send the personnel to familiarize themselves with the armament, and in a moment we will go to Edo Castle and talk with cannons. ”
At this time, the armed forces reported that there were many Japanese soldiers on the land of the bay, and that there were several guard ships at the exit of the bay.
Wang Tiehammer didn't care at all, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how many people come from them." We're going to Edo Castle now and talk to the shogunate. ”
Coming to the shore were the men and horses of the Hikone Domain, one of the four feudal domains that protected Edo Bay. The soldiers they sent finally arrived in the bay at noon.
It wasn't until the afternoon that the Uraga Office learned of the disastrous defeat of Nakajima Saburosuke and his people, and Toda Sakae, who was furious, immediately ordered Nakajima Saburosuke to commit suicide by caesarean section. Soon his subordinates brought a bloody knife from a plate, which was the knife used by Saburo Nakajima to commit suicide.
Although Saburosuke Nakajima is dead, how to deal with the Prince? Toda Sakai thought for a long time with a sad face, since the Prince was too strong to beat him, then he still followed the method of dealing with the Americans and used the method of Huairou to deal with it. Just as he was about to send someone to negotiate with the Prince, Toda Clan Ei received news that the large ship flying the sun and moon flag was heading in the direction of Edo Castle at noon, and the speed of the big ship was too fast for the guard ship to keep up with and could not stop it.
"Nani!" His face turned gray at once. He didn't know how he was going to report it to the shogunate.