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On November 5, in Xiangmo Bay, warships of the Chinese Navy gathered. Three battleships and three heavy cruisers, escorted by several light cruisers, stayed less than ten kilometers from the shore. And on the coast, the Japanese army has long been ready for battle. It's just that it's very difficult to say whether these Japanese soldiers are really so confident in their hearts. Japan's coastal defense artillery was originally small, and it was basically deployed on both sides of the Uraga waterway, making the defense of other areas very weak.

However, instead of directly attacking the Uraga waterway, the Chinese Navy chose to land at Somo Bay, which was completely unexpected by the Japanese army. In their opinion, the Chinese Navy should enter Tokyo Bay directly from the Uraga waterway! The strategy of the Chinese navy suddenly frustrated all the wishful thinking of the Japanese army. The Japanese Minister of War Katsura Taro hurriedly mobilized several divisions from other defense areas to reinforce the Miura Peninsula, wanting to block the landing of the squadron. If there is not enough shore defense artillery, it can only be filled with human lives.

At eight o'clock in the morning, three battleships and three heavy cruisers of the Chinese Navy began to launch an artillery bombardment of the city of Kamakura on the shore of Aimo Bay. It was chosen as the landing site because of the well-developed port facilities. If we can land here, the army's large equipment can be landed smoothly, which can save a lot of time.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The battleship's cannons began to roar, and the muzzles of the guns shone with orange-red fire, one after another high-explosive shells. Under the action of huge kinetic energy. smashed into the positions of the Japanese army.

"Boom!" Huge orange-red fireballs. Rose in the positions of the Japanese troops. Even the sand by the sea can leave a huge crater. Within a radius of hundreds of meters in diameter, it is impossible for any living creature to survive.

"Oh my God! Is this the power of the battleship's main guns? "It's the first time for many Japanese people to experience such a scene, and they are trembling with fear. Even though these Japanese soldiers had dug a lot of anti-artillery holes, they did not think that they had dug anti-artillery holes. Able to resist the main guns of battleships of such power.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The warships of the Chinese Navy frantically poured shells on the Japanese positions on the sea, and the Japanese positions were completely shrouded in gunsmoke. The 29th Division of the Japanese Army, which was stationed and trained, struggled to support itself under the heavy shelling of the Chinese Navy!

"Fight back! Order the artillery to counterattack! Send a telegram to His Excellency Katsura Taro that we are under fierce attack by the Shina people, and ask for help! The commander of the 29th Division of the Japanese Army, Jiro Inowa, ordered anxiously.

Soon, the Japanese shore defense artillery began to fire, but that's it. The Japanese army only deployed a dozen shore defense guns in Kamakura City, how could this be an opponent of the Chinese Navy? After the opening of the Japanese shore defense artillery. The Chinese Navy immediately adjusted its objectives and launched an attack on the Japanese shore defense artillery positions. In less than ten minutes, the Japanese shore artillery positions were destroyed. All the cannons were blown up, and the artillerymen suffered heavy casualties. After resolving the Japanese shore defense artillery positions, the Chinese Navy once again opened fire on the Japanese defensive positions. The Japanese fortifications, under heavy shelling, were blown up in scattered pieces.

By nine o'clock in the morning, when the 6th Marine Brigade began to land, the Japanese positions were in shambles, and even the city of Kamakura on the shore had already been reduced to ruins by the shelling. When the shelling began, tens of thousands of Japanese living here fled with their families and families in tow, and fled inland.

Hundreds of small landing craft sailed quickly towards the coast, and the resistance of the Japanese army was very weak. Under the attack of the Chinese Navy, the Japanese 29th Division had already suffered heavy casualties. It is simply not enough to withstand the attack of the Chinese marines.

By 10 o'clock in the morning, the 6th Marine Brigade had successfully landed and established a beachhead 500 meters long and 1 kilometer wide. The soldiers of the Marine Corps, who were attacking the Japanese in order to be able to widen their positions.

Japan, War Department. The atmosphere at the War Department today was very tense, and everyone knew that the Chinese were going to launch an attack on Tokyo today, especially after the 29th Division sent back a telegram asking for help, which made everyone feel a rushing pressure.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General Ting Erlang of the 29th Division has called that the people of China have begun to land, and the 29th Division, which has been heavily damaged, is powerless to prevent the landing of the people of China!" A staff officer reported to Katsura Taro.

"Yaga!" Katsura Taro scolded secretly, the 29th Army Corps, in the Japanese army, can be regarded as an elite division, and now it is actually beaten like this, which makes Katsura Taro angry, but more frightened.

"We are on the Miura Peninsula, and what troops are there?" Katsura asked.

"Your Excellency, we are on the Miura Peninsula, and there are five divisions in total, in addition to the 29th Division, there are the 7th, 18th, 35th, and 59th Divisions. Among them, the 7th Division is in Zushi City, and the 35th Division is in Fujichi City. The staff officer replied.

"Let the 7th Division and the 35th Division go to Kamakura at once and stop the Shina people. In addition, from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the 12th, 17th, 33rd, and 34th Divisions were mobilized to the Miura Peninsula. Since the people of China are going to land in Xiangmo Bay, stop them over there! Katsura Taro ordered. The mission of the Japanese Army was to protect Tokyo. Since the squadron did not choose to land directly in Tokyo Bay, they can also make changes, and there is no need to stick to Tokyo.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" After the staff officer had recorded the order, he immediately went down to deliver the order. The entire Japanese army in the Tokyo area was mobilized. Four divisions of Japanese troops went directly to the Miura Peninsula from Tokyo.

After the successful landing of the 6th Brigade of the Chinese Marine Corps, the 9th and 36th Divisions of the Eighth Army immediately began to land with the help of the port of Kamakura City. The 29th Division of the Japanese Army tried to seize the port several times, or destroy the port, but the 6th Brigade of the Chinese Marine Corps was repulsed. After a few times, the Japanese army also gave up.

At noon, the 9th Division of the Chinese Army took the lead in completing the landing, and with the strength of a regiment and the 6th Brigade of the Marine Corps, launched an attack on the urban area of Kamakura. After a long battle, the 29th Division of the Japanese Army had already had only a few thousand people left, and it was simply unable to resist the attack of the squadron, so it had to withdraw from Kamakura City.

In the afternoon, the 36th Division also completed the landing. After that, the 6th Marine Brigade was stationed in Kamakura, and the 9th and 36th Divisions of the Eighth Army launched an attack on the Miura Peninsula. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese 7th Division, which was rushing from Zushi City to Kamakura, encountered the squadrons of the two divisions, and a major battle began.

Three heavy cruisers of the Navy supported two divisions of the army, and the Japanese 7th Division was almost completely wiped out in a major battle. After that, the squadrons of the two divisions immediately launched an attack on the city of Yokosuka, preparing to conquer the Japanese naval base.

On October 6, the 9th Division of the Army routed the Japanese 18th Division and captured the city of Yokosuka. The 36th Division, with the cooperation of the navy, launched an attack on the batteries blocking the Uraga waterway on the Miura Peninsula. The design of these batteries is very unreasonable, and they can only be used for naval shelling, and for the enemy on land, they mainly rely on the army. When the 36th Division of the Chinese Army defeated the Japanese Army guarding the batteries, the Light ones captured these batteries. Subsequently, the battleships of the Navy began to attack the shore defense batteries on the side of the Boso Peninsula. The Japanese army had relatively few coastal defense batteries on the side of the Boso Peninsula, and after the fall of the batteries on the Miura Peninsula side, it was impossible to complete the important task of blocking the Kii waterway.

Before the sun went down on October 6, all the Japanese coastal defense batteries on the side of the Fangso Peninsula were destroyed, and several battleships and heavy cruisers of the Chinese Navy paid the price of only a little damage. By this time, the passage into Tokyo Bay had been opened.

At the same time, the fighting continued on the Miura Peninsula, and the Japanese troops of four divisions drawn from Tokyo launched a fierce attack on Kamakura. The 6th Marine Brigade with more than 8,000 troops fought very hard to cope with the fierce attack of nearly 100,000 Japanese troops. In the end, he even had to abandon the city of Kamakura and retreat to the port. Fortunately, although the main force of the navy went to the Uraga waterway, two light cruisers and four destroyers were left in Kamakura. These six warships provided strong fire support for the 6th Marine Brigade of the Marine Corps. In particular, the four destroyers drove less than a kilometer from the coast and fired frantically at the Japanese with rapid-fire guns, killing and damaging the Japanese army as much as possible.

In the process of attacking Kamakura, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and several divisions and regiments paid the price of more than half of the casualties. In the end, the 9th Division of the Chinese Army, which conquered Yokosuka, returned to Kamakura, and the 6th Brigade of the Marine Corps worked together to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army. The entire Miura Peninsula fell into the control of the squadron. After the Navy opened the Uraga Waterway, the 9th and 36th Divisions were to attack Tokyo from land along Tokyo Bay. And the naval ones, covering the main forces of the Eighth Army, landed directly in Tokyo.

"Your Excellency, the Uraga waterway has been opened by the people of China. The shore defense artillery position on the south side of the Uraga waterway was conquered by the Chinese army, and the shore defense artillery position on the north side was destroyed by the Chinese navy! A staff officer reported to Katsura Taro with a panicked expression.

"Yaga! How so? Katsura Taro was shocked. The opening of the Uraga waterway means that Tokyo has fallen under the guns of the Chinese! (To be continued.) )