"What's that? The enemy's fleet! Go and report to the old family, there is an enemy! "The sentry guarding the dock immediately observed a large fleet entering the mouth of the bay, and hurried to his companions to report to the river for a long time.

The location of their naval division, that is, the wharf, was less than six kilometers from the mouth of Lijinwu Bay, and by the time the sentries observed the First Fleet, the first few warships were already less than three kilometers from the wharf!

Ning Wu, the captain of the Fuzi detachment, and Yan Qi, the captain of the Xizi detachment, are both old men in the navy, and the first fleet is under the command of the two of them, Ning Wu is the right, and Yan Qi is the vice. They had accumulated considerable experience in successive anti-piracy operations.

"Order, all the warships form a half-moon formation, the muzzle is due north, and three rounds of fire in a row! Until the enemy ship is sunk! "Ning Wu led the army to observe the situation clearly when he entered Jinwu Bay, and at this moment the enemy ships were moored at the dock and did not go to sea for training, so they just became their live targets! In fact, it would be good for the Shimazu family to be able to station a partial naval division here, where there are so many artillery ammunition for this naval division to squander every day for training, they all think it is the Mawei Navy, and they will go to sea for a drill at every turn!

Twenty-eight large and small battleships quickly lined up in formation, less than a kilometer from the pier, and exactly within the range of the best shelling! At this moment, the muzzles of nearly 400 large and small guns were unanimously aimed northward, aiming at the dozen or so Shimazu warships.

"Fire!" Ning Wu gave an order! The captains of the other ships also gave orders almost simultaneously when they received the flag order.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

For a time, the nine-pound, twelve-pound, eighteen-pound, twenty-four-pound, and several thirty-two-pound guns on the battleships spat out their shells and flew over in dense clusters. Most of them accurately fell on these dozen or so warships of the Japanese Kingdom, and suddenly. The unmanned warship suffered heavy losses. As soon as the Mawei Navy came into service, it attached great importance to the training of its gunners. At this moment, their rate of fire was already able to reach one shot a minute, which was comparable to that of a regular British naval soldier at this moment. However, the artillery produced by Geng Jingzhong's artillery workshop uses iron molded guns, and its range and power have greatly exceeded all kinds of Western artillery. Now they are bombarding these dozen Japanese warships from a long distance, and it is estimated that after a while, it is time to get close and kill people with scattered bullets!

Hearing the rumbling cannon, there was no need to wait for the soldiers to shout, Kawakami had already risen automatically for a long time. Such a dense cannon sound was definitely not fired on his naval battleship. They are far from that strength, who is it to die? When I ran out of the house, I saw that my ship was almost finished! The sail warships in the bay are so powerful that he has no resistance mentality.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Shimazu family's sailors gathered on the outskirts of Kintakecho, not daring to step forward or retreat, just waiting for Kawakami's long-lasting decision. "My lord, what are we going to do?" Kawakami's long-standing guard asked nervously.

Kawakami was also a little numb at the moment, and he had never seen such a huge battleship. Even the very powerful Taiwanese Zheng Jing's sailors have no such thing. He quickly took his telescope and looked at the sea, which didn't matter, but only when he saw it. Tiger flag on blue background. This flag is too familiar to me, and it is the culprit of the Daozhì himself being assigned, the fleet of the Geng family in Fujian! More than a year in the last year. He had also heard about the Mawei Navy's purge of pirates, but he didn't care. Because those pirates were indeed no match for the Mawei Navy, he had learned this firsthand. But. He didn't think that the Geng family's fleet would be stronger than the Shimazu family's sailors, because that time they only dispatched half of the sailors' fleet, although the Geng family's strength was good, but they definitely didn't have the strength to hit Kyushu Island.

But at this moment, the Mawei Navy with the tiger flag on a blue background appeared in front of him, and it was a brand-new huge sail battleship, seeing this scene, which made his hands and feet cold in an instant. "It's over!" These were the first two words that popped into his head at the first glance. After a long while, he reacted: "Order, defend Kanemu Town, send someone to Wanza in the west, see if the merchants over there are okay, if they are okay, borrow a boat from their hands to report to the family!" Fast! ”

Kawakami is still extremely loyal to the Shimazu family, and he knows the situation in front of him very well, and by this time, there is no place for them to escape. Since the Geng family's navy can find this place and block them in the harbor, it means that the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom are also helping the Geng family, otherwise the Geng family's naval fleet would not have been able to run in front of their eyes. He only hoped that the Japanese merchants on the back had not yet suffered, and that there would be ships for his soldiers to return to report the news, and that he would hold off the enemy here and fight to the death with the enemy.

After three rounds of shelling, when the smoke cleared from the sea, a dozen or so warships of all sizes had disappeared and all sunk in the deep bay of the wharf. "Herald! Let the brethren of the 3rd and 15th battalions prepare to go ashore and kill all the widows! After Ning Wu observed it carefully, he calmly ordered. Here in Jinwu Bay, although the Shimazu family has stationed a team of sailors, it is not useful to operate it here, if Geng Jingzhong sends people to garrison here, there will be more artillery batteries installed in case of accidents. Unfortunately, the Shimazu family was only to deter the Ryukyu Kingdom, but they did not expect that there would be enemies outside the Ryukyus, so they did not build forts, and besides, their artillery was not rich.

The 2,000 soldiers of the 3rd and 15th Battalions of the Marine Corps were scattered on the ships of the First Fleet, and they were responsible for these landing operations. Just now when they stayed on the deck and watched the three rounds of shelling by their naval brothers, they couldn't wait. Each hundred households, that is, the captain, and the squad leader below saw it through the binoculars, but there was no one on the boat opposite, which means that the Japanese sailors are all on the shore. In this way, in the end, it is they who really clean up the pirates, how can this not be excited!

Since the glass factory can produce telescopes on a large scale, Geng Jingzhong has also equipped the troops on a large scale, and each squad has one, of course, it is in the hands of the team leader. The production cost of a telescope is very low, it is all monocular, less than a large silver dollar. This telescope is not large, only seven inches in length, and it is very convenient to use when inserted in the arms. When they got the telescope, the soldiers were very rare, and they all knew that the price of this thing was very high.

The battleship approached the long pier, and the soldiers, with their guns on their backs, quickly landed and lined up at the first time, and then steadily approached Kinmu Town under the leadership of the captain. The Marines are still the same, and when they get closer, some of the soldiers walk in front with large shields to prevent an enemy attack with shotguns or bows and arrows! This tactic has been proven correct in many battles, and in every battalion, sword and shield soldiers are indispensable! There are no walls in this town, just a small group of houses gathered together, and some low wooden walls around it. At this moment, Kawakami led his men to lie in ambush behind a house, and the iron cannon in his hand, that is, the musket of the Japanese bandits, was also aimed at the approaching marines.

Two battalions, that's two thousand. The 2,000 marines in full armor were enough to destroy the Japanese who were several times the enemy, and it was absolutely no problem to deal with this part of the sailors. But attacking like this, the soldiers of the Marine Army do not like it very much, because the enemy is all in ambush, hiding in the shadows, not fighting you, and they will not be able to give full play to the advantage of firepower, in case they are suddenly approached and rushed into the formation, they can only fight them hand-to-hand. Although they are not afraid, but after all, it will increase casualties!

"Shoot!" When the Marines approached the house about sixty paces, the Japanese who were crouching behind the low wooden wall quickly opened fire with the iron cannon in their hands. This part of the Japanese naval division, equipped with much more iron cannons than the army on Kagoshima, reached six floors. In other words, at this moment, the six hundred people led by Kawakami have more than three hundred guns. This round of gunfire came down, but more than two dozen soldiers were hit, and several people closed their eyes when they landed.

"There's a wolf in front of you, shoot!" Having already loaded their ammunition, the fighters with their guns immediately began to pull the trigger in the direction of the wooden wall. At a distance of sixty or seventy meters, a Mini bullet can pass through an inch-thick oak plank, and an ordinary thin plank like this can still be extremely lethal when it hits a Japanese coar. Rows of gunfire were heard, and a large area suddenly fell from behind the wooden wall. After firing one shot, the Japanese are not like the soldiers of the Marine Corps, who can quickly reload and fire a second shot. After all, they didn't have regular ammunition and no new muskets.

The remaining three or four hundred pirates quickly rushed forward, trying to fight the warriors hand-to-hand. Unfortunately, the fighters did not give them this opportunity, and two thousand guns fired at hundreds of people, which was not far less than the strafing of several heavy machine guns. The pirates fell in rows, never to get up, and even if they were not dead, they were wailing on the ground.

"Stop!" The commander of the third battalion waved his hand, and the fighters also stopped firing. At this moment, there were no more standing pirates in front of them. "Forward, go into Zhuangzi to search for the Japanese Kou, and if you find it, kill it immediately!"

"Yes!"

The captains below received the order, and then led their respective teams to quickly enter the small Jinwu Town. Walking past the Japanese in front of him, he continued to make up for the non-dead ones, and so far, all 600 Japanese have been killed. Kawakami was the saddest for a long time, and in the first round of shooting by the soldiers, he was directly hit in the head, and he died! After some searching, to the disappointment of the soldiers, there were no more Japanese robbers in Jinmu Town, only a small number of female dependents, but they had also been guarded by the soldiers.

"Report to the battalion commander, all the pirates have been killed, and there are only some women in this stockade!" The first to search for it was a captain of the 3rd Battalion, who reported to his battalion commander.

"Take care of it first, the prince and the general only say that they will kill the widows, not the women, so let's go back and wait for the prince to deal with them." The commander of the 3rd Battalion then gave the order. This is also a proper disposal, Geng Jingzhong has long ordered that only the widows be killed, not the women and children. (To be continued......)