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Edo Bay is a natural bay surrounded by the two peninsulas of Boso and Miura, and the narrowest part of the bay is only a little more than 7 kilometers, and it is connected to the ocean by the Uraga waterway.

Yokosuka, located on the Miura Peninsula, is like a mouth jutting out into Edo Bay, and it is at the narrowest point of the mouth of the bay. Although it was only a small fishing village, its location was very dangerous, so it was highly valued by the shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate had fought with Spain and Portugal, and had seen their Western warships, armed merchant ships, and even a few years earlier, the Dutch sail warships. Therefore, forts were built in the Yokosuka area of the Miura Peninsula at the entrance to Edo Bay to protect the entrance to Edo Bay and to serve as the first line of defense on the sea south of Edo.

The direction of Edo Bay is similar to that of Kagoshima Bay, with a north-south orientation. However, Kagoshima Bay is straight to the north and south, while Edo Bay as a whole has deviated about 30 degrees from east to west.

The narrow Uraga waterway was the choke point into Edo Bay, and the shogunate also placed a series of forts here, just like the forts around Minami-Osumi and Nishi-Osumi at the entrance to Kagoshima Bay. However, the scale is even larger, after all, it is the central region of the Wa Kingdom, and the Satsuma Domain still can't compare. Therefore, if the Mawei fleet wanted to attack Edo Bay, it first had to destroy the Yokosuka Battery.

From Kagoshima Bay to Edo Bay, it was only 800 kilometers (450 nautical miles) by sea, and the Mawei fleet followed the southeast wind in only two and a half days. Abe Tadaaki's speed is not slow either. Coming back from Tokugawa Ietsuna. He immediately sent people to the Yokosuka Fort to order the patrol of the sea and the defense of the fort. But time is tight after all. When he came out, the naval fleet had already entered the Izu Islands, and it was only about fifty kilometers away from Edo Bay.

In the afternoon, although the sun is still overhead, the temperature is not high, less than 30 degrees, much cooler than Fuzhou. Approaching Edo Bay, the Mawei naval fleet did not slow down either. It was less than two hours. One hundred and forty-three warships, large and small, appeared on the Uraga waterway.

The defenders on the Yokosuka Fort had just received an order from Abe Tadaaki to strengthen their defenses, and the artillery shells and other supplies had just begun to be prepared, when they suddenly found such a huge Western fleet in front of them, and they couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and it took a while to come back to their senses and immediately sound the alarm.

Hearing the siren, the defenders of the Yokosuka Fort immediately rushed to their respective forts, but fortunately they received the order one step earlier, so they did not panic. But after all, the Wa Kingdom has not experienced war for decades, and even the former veterans are not dead. They are all too old to move. The defenders of these forts had not been in the army for a long time, and naturally they had not been baptized by the fire of war. When I got on the fort and saw such a large Western fleet, I had an expression of disbelief, exactly like the defenders on the Shimazu fort. The tiger flag on the blue background hanging on the battleship seems to be the Geng family's Mawei fleet that the old man said!

After a naval battle in Kagoshima Bay, the Mawei fleet once again accumulated a lot of experience in naval warfare. Wang Zhenbang raised his binoculars and took a closer look, then ordered: "Just like the Kagoshima Bay Battery, let the Fifth Squadron at the forefront send a few warships to probe their firepower first." ”

The five fourth-rank battleships slowed down and cautiously moved forward, about a kilometer and a half away from the Yokosuka battery, and several battleships stopped and opened fire on the battery first. This means that the ship's heavy guns have a long enough range, otherwise several warships would not have done this. After a round of cannons, I looked at the Yokosuka Fort, hey, it was a good fight, and there were already a lot of Japanese wounds. When the Japanese defenders saw the enemy ships firing their guns, they were not far behind and immediately returned fire.

The Yokosuka Fort had quite a few guns, more than 100 heavy guns. The heavy artillery of this Japanese was not a little worse than the heavy artillery on the naval battleship, and when they saw the point where their shells fell into the water, the generals of the naval fleet couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and sure enough, it was no different from the batteries in Kagoshima Bay, and the range was not more than one kilometer.

"Order, let the second squadron follow the fifth squadron, and the two teams will press on the whole ship, and pull out this Yokosuka battery for me!" Wang Zhenbang held up the telescope lens and did not reply to the order.

After receiving the flag order, the two detachments immediately lined up all the fleets close together, and aimed the muzzles of the black hole hole on the starboard side at the Yokosuka battery.

"Fire!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The sound of a fierce platoon of artillery resounded in the sea at the entrance to Edo Bay, and the 40 large and small warships of the 2nd and 5th fleets began to clear the batteries on the shore at their own fixed points, and the batteries in Yokosuka were immediately plunged into a dense rain of bullets like a raging storm. Over the past few years, the naval gunners have trained them in a good technique, and they don't know how many rounds of live ammunition they have fired. Besides, the navy soldiers just experienced a big battle a few days ago, and this moment is the best time to feel it.

The defenders of the Yokosuka Battery, like the defenders of Kagoshima Bay, had never experienced a war, and they were negligent in practicing on weekdays. Suddenly hit by this kind of dense bullet rain, everyone was panicked, where could they care about fighting back, and they couldn't fight back at all. After a round of shelling, the defenders on the battery were almost half reduced.

While the rest of the defenders were still in shock, in a very short time, the second round of shells whistled again, and those who moved a little slower did not even have a chance to flee for their lives. There were no more artillery and defenders than there were in Kagoshima Bay, and the two detachments did not stop, and they carried out six rounds of artillery bombardment in a row before they stopped. Half of the shells fired were solid iron shells, and half were flowering shells.

At this moment, the entire Yokosuka Fort was shrouded in smoke, and after the sound of the cannon stopped, the entire sea and the shore were silent.

When the smoke cleared, there were no standing figures on the fort, the corpses fell to the ground, and almost all the dead and could not move ran away, who cared about any orders from above. In the face of this fierce cannonball, everything is in vain, and it is only right to save your life first!

After carefully observing through the telescope for a while, Wang Zhenbang ordered to divide into two teams and alternately pass through the Guò Uraga Waterway. "This bay mouth is very dangerous, and a fleet must be left to garrison it. Order, let the Seventh Squadron stay here in case the Japanese return to cut us off! ”

"What! The Mawei fleet has entered Edo Bay? What's going on? Abe Tadaaki was shocked when he received the report, the speed of the Mawei fleet was so fast, and it actually came to attack Edo. Did he think this was the Satsuma Domain, they already had some precautions, and their troops were far superior to the Shimazu family, so they really didn't want to die.

"Lord Hui, the enemy has a total of one hundred and forty warships, all of them are Western sail warships, their artillery is very powerful, and the Yokosuka Fort should have been lost at this moment!" The defenders who came back to report reported truthfully.

"There really are so many!" For Western warships, Abe Tadaaki has only seen them once, and they are still fourth-class battleships in the Netherlands, but he has not seen it with his own eyes when it is powerful, but he has heard a detailed description. He clearly remembered that the number of guns on the sail battleship was extremely large, and it was also powerful, and against such a battleship, it could only outwit the enemy, not the enemy! "Someone, immediately give an order, let the sailor set off. Possessed with fireboats to the head, burning the enemy ships in one fell swoop. If the number of fireships is not enough, all the merchant and fishing boats in the harbor will be requisitioned, poured with fire oil, and used as fireboats! ”

The head coach of the Edo Naval Division, Tokugawa Tsunada, is the fourth brother of Tokugawa Ietsuna, who is chubby but very smart. After receiving the order of the old middle Abe Tadaaki, he immediately led the sailor to set off. The original size of the Edo Naval Division was not as strong as that of the Shimazu family, but after the Shimazu family lost some of their warships at the mouth of the Min River, it became somewhat weaker than the Edo Naval Division. At this moment, the Edo Naval Division, one hundred and thirty warships, and one hundred search fireships that had just been prepared had appeared on the surface of the sea of Edo Bay. Of course, those fireships are the headers.

From a long distance, Tokugawa Tsunashige saw through the telescope the huge ships and the two rows of black holes on the giant ships. He could completely imagine what it would be like for so many warships to fire a salvo?

Fortunately, it was summer and July, and the sea was full of easterly, southern, or southeasterly winds, but there were no north or northeast winds, and from the upward wind, the battle situation was slightly in their favor. However, the difference in strength was too large, and Tokugawa Tsunashige had no way out, and their sailors received orders to destroy the invading enemy, even if the old man Abe Tadaaki didn't know what the situation was at all.

Looking at the slowly approaching huge fleet, the muscles of Tokugawa Tsunada's heavy face twitched, and after a little groaning, Ho shouted in a deep voice: "All the fireships sail on the left side, and the horizontal formation will attack the enemy formation, enter the range of the enemy's artillery, and immediately ignite." The other warships pay attention to follow up and prepare for a jumpoff battle! ”

At the moment of the order, the entire sailor immediately took action, and a hundred fireships rushed forward without dying. Today the east wind is blowing on the sea, and the fireships are rushing from the northeast, the situation is not bad, but it is indeed better than the Mawei fleet. Although the Edo Naval Division was not really northeastern, but only about thirty degrees east-north, a little windy, but better than the horsetail fleet of thirty degrees south-west, a little headwind!

The 130 warships of the Edo Navy Division also turned around, drew arc-shaped waves on the sea, and rushed fearlessly towards the Mawei fleet after the fireboats.

As soon as the Edo sailor made a move, Wang Zhenbang and the others discovered the situation here. It was clear that the Waiko were trying to use a large number of fireships to snipe at them, and of course this situation would not allow the Waiko to succeed. "Order, as soon as the fireship is in range, fire the cannon immediately, let them have a good taste of our artillery!" (To be continued......)

PS: Talking to my brothers again tonight, I'm so tired at the moment!