The rumbling of artillery broke the silence of the early morning, and the guns of the battleships, cruisers, and armed troop carriers cruising along the coast spat out huge bursts of artillery flames and shelled the flat shores of Sendai, and no one knew how many Japanese troops were defending on the coast, just as no one knew how many Japanese troops would be attacked after landing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Surprisingly, there was no return fire!

But even so, the fleet of the Russian Imperial Navy, flying the flag of St. Andrei, continued to do its duty faithfully - they poured a steady stream of artillery fire near the coast, and used a dense barrage of shells to create a beachhead barrier on the coast.

This is perhaps the first time in human history that such a dawn has occurred. On November 22, 1891, after a day's voyage in the hazy and gray morning light, a fleet of 78 warships and troop carriers formed a formidable formation on the outskirts of Sendai Beach on the east coast of Japan in Tosa Bay.

At this time, the sea was only a few hundred miles away from the land, and the gunners on the troop carriers looked vigilantly at the shore churning in the flames, but more were soldiers, soldiers with rifles on their backs, staring at the shore shrouded in gunpowder with fanatical eyes.

The flags flew over the sea, crackling in the cold breeze, and the merchant ships of the convoy approaching the landing position had dropped their anchor chains, and after a night's voyage, the soldiers with guns on their backs had passed through the chaotic cabins that were difficult to penetrate, and came to the deck.

The boats and soldiers on the deck had already lowered their climbing nets to the sea. One by one, the wooden landing dinghy was lifted into the sea. Tied by ropes, it was parked around the troop carrier.

Compared to the troops of the two brigades invested during the Hokkaido land climb. The landing unexpectedly involved three divisions -- an army force of 50,000 men. And more importantly. It was a surprise attack, and in the opinion of almost everyone, with the onset of winter, the icy shores were not suitable for landing.

A large-scale landing battle will break out after next spring!

When observers and military experts from Japan and around the world made such an assertive claim, the unexpected landfall almost unfolded in the snowflakes, not the expected Sado Strait, nor the Miho Bay opposite the island of Shimago, nor the Tsugaru Strait. It's a fairy Taiwan near the Pacific Ocean!

Compared with the defenses of the northern and western coasts of Honshu, the defenses of the eastern coast were undoubtedly somewhat lax, or at least the defense was seriously insufficient - the Japanese did not have enough forces to defend the long coast, which led the Russians to believe that they could easily break through the Japanese coastal defenses if they chose the right place.

Although there were not enough maps, and even hydrographic data was obtained decades earlier when the Russian Navy sailed along Japan, the desire for revenge led the Russians to take the plunge of landing on the east coast of Honshu Island, a battle fraught with too many adventures.

First of all. This is in winter, when the sea is icy. They didn't even have a map - just a map of Japan that they bought from a bookstore. But no one doubted that victory would be won - Japan was a weak country after all! It only takes a heavy blow to crush the country completely.

The deck of the troop carrier was also crowded with noisy soldiers, waiting for the signal to rush to the beach, their expressions were extremely frenetic, and even their breathing seemed a little short.

"Kill the Japanese monkeys!"

Almost everyone had this in their mind, and even in Hokkaido, when they were training to cross the Tsugaru Strait, they used their own way to avenge the crown prince and prince who were killed by shameless Japanese monkeys - killing the Japanese!

The large number of ships lined up in the wide sea area were noisy, and despite the bitter cold wind, every soldier was full of energy, waiting to rush to this legendary "Golden Country". The torpedo boats released from the warships shuttled back and forth between the fleets, and the sailors on the torpedo boats watched vigilantly into the distance to prevent any fish from slipping through the net to attack the troop transport fleet.

The engines on the surface of the sea vibrated and made a muffled sound, and the booms staggered out one sampan after another, and the chains on the racks creaked. The nervous-looking soldiers began to disembark along the climbing nets as the whistle sounded, and on the landing craft, sailors familiar with the sea held the climbing nets in their hands.

When the sailors were shouting for the landlubbers of the army to get on the boat, several water columns suddenly exploded on the sea, and a wooden landing craft was directly torn to pieces because of the near miss, and the two sailors on the boat who were in charge of guiding the ship disappeared, and then the sea was suddenly red.

The Japanese guarding the coast began to return fire, but their return was extremely weak, not even mentioned, only a few waves in the middle of the fleet.

"It's an army gun!"

When the officers on the troop carrier saw this, they became excited, and the weak firepower meant that the Japanese defenses were insufficient and could not stop their attack at all.

The violent explosion ignited the buildings, and the Japanese-style wooden buildings in Taga Castle were set on fire, and the fiery red flames and billowing smoke engulfed the entire Taga Castle, and the streets were full of fleeing citizens, and the indiscriminate shelling seemed to engulf the city, and steel fragments flew in the streets and buildings, harvesting lives.

Before dawn, Taga Castle, which was in flames, was also in chaos, and death was enveloping the chaotic city.

In the deafening explosion, the two-story Western-style customs building in Sendai Port, which was the headquarters of the 37th Brigade, was directly hit, and the masonry of the building and the remains of the officers were thrown into the air in the smoke of gunpowder. Oshima Ishone was dragged into the bunker by the staff officer next to him, and watched as the warships of the Lu Kingdom bombarded the city indiscriminately.

The shelling lasted about 20 minutes before it ended. After the shelling was over, Oshima Ishone took a breath and climbed out of the bunker, and was about to inquire about the situation when he heard the rumbling of artillery in the distance. An artillery shell blossomed around Oshima Ishone, and Oshima Ishone's body, which had just escaped a round of shelling, was torn apart in the terrifying sound of explosions, and the staff officers around who had narrowly escaped the shelling were all dizzy with a new round of shelling, and could only lie in cover and wait for the shelling to end.

"Your Excellency Wing Commander, Your Excellency the Brigade Commander is killed!"

In the midst of the deafening explosions, Nishijima Sukeyoshi, who was hiding from the shelling in the bunker, listened to the officer's report, but he just opened his eyes and looked towards the harbor, and through the thick smoke of gunpowder, he could faintly see the trestle bridge in the harbor - that must be the target of the Lu Guoren!

"Lu Guo and the army are landing, and their target is this port!"

Pointing to the pier that can dock 2,000-ton merchant ships, Nishijima shouted loudly.

Sendai Port is not a big port, only a trestle bridge, but as a soldier, he knows very well what will happen if the people of Lu Guo occupy Sendai Port - a steady stream of Lu Guo and troops will pour into Japan from the port like a tide.

"Blow up the trestle immediately, understand? Blow it up now! ”

The order was quickly given to the sappers, and while the sappers of the 37th Brigade braved the rain of bullets to begin to lay explosives on the trestle, hundreds of sampans rushed towards the beach a few kilometers away on the sea.

Occasionally, the falling shells exploded more than ten meters away from the sampan, and the waves hit the soldiers, the cold sea only made the Russian soldiers soaked, and the cold made them shiver, and occasionally one or two fragments hit the thin wooden planks of the sampan hull in the water, and the small hole that pierced the sampan poured water into the sampan, and the icy sea water soaked their military boots.

It seems that for these soldiers, the biggest enemy is not the poor Japanese soldiers on the shore, but the icy water, indeed, this is indeed the greatest enemy, although the Russians are used to the cold, it does not mean that they can adapt to the cold of the sea, especially after arriving at the coast, they still need to wade through the knee-deep water.

Even so, they still rowed desperately, letting the sea romance over the hull, only the soaked uniforms and purple lips reminded people that they were battling the icy waters.

While the soldiers of the army were approaching the land against the waves and the navy, the sailors on dozens of motorized transport boats commanded the noisy attack boats to form a formation, and constantly announced loudly with loudspeakers made of iron sheets:

"Get in line! Get in line!"

At the same time, the soldiers on the transport ship crowded the deck, waiting to take turns climbing slippery ladders or crawling nets to get into the wooden sampans. During the whole process, all the officers on board the ship were holding iron sheets rolled into loudspeakers and constantly giving announcements and encouraging words.

"Fight hard and rush to land......"

"The population of Russia is watching us, rushing up and letting the damned Japanese monkeys go to hell!"

"Don't forget the blood ...... of Crown Prince Nikolai"

Propaganda and agitation like this echoed in the voices of the officers, but for these soldiers, they would also row desperately without the encouragement of the officers, hoping to reach the army as soon as possible, and then kill the damned Japanese monkeys, only then could they stop the fight, light a bonfire to dry their wet clothes, and warm up their cold bodies.

However, things did not go as smoothly as expected, because of the waves, many sampans swayed with the waves like toys in the waves. A large wave hit and pushed the soldiers on a few small sampans into the sea, and the uniforms soaked in the sea caused the soldiers to sink to the bottom of the water like lead.

But the waves did not stop the hundreds of sampans rushing towards the shore like a hundred boats, and almost as soon as the sun jumped over the horizon, dozens of white dinghy reached the shore one after another.

"Ulla!"

With deafening howls, hundreds of Russian soldiers landed on the land of Honshu...... (To be continued.) )