Doi Toshikatsu led the infantry cavalry army in Shimonoseki and did not sit idle, and carried out two formation training in the large open space that had already been sorted out in the Choshu Domain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Five days after the fleet's departure, the first ships returned from the storm, and Doi was shocked to hear the bad news and hurried out of the tent.

I saw that the imposing and majestic fleet at the time of departure was now dilapidated, and more than half of the ships were damaged, which can be described as crooked armor.

The key point is that most of the ones who came back were small morning boats, with less than five Ataka ships and less than twenty customs ships, and the others were nearly 100 small morning boats.

Doi Toshikatsu's surprise and disbelief at the defeat of the battle disappeared, and it must have been a great defeat, and it was a question of the number of sailors and ships that had returned.

Standing beside Toshikatsu Doi were the stunned Imperial Three Commanders and the Choshu Domain's pen head Toshihara Toshihara and Shimizu Keiji.

The three royal families were really shocked and sad, the losses were huge, and the retainers of the Changzhou Domain were surprised and delighted, and the surprise was that the Ming army's naval division was strong, and the shogunate naval army was defeated.

In the following day, nearly 100 Sekibunes and Kozafune in their early 200s returned, and less than 20 Ataka ships returned, among which the Kaga Domain and Tosa Domain, the ship of the Date family were killed, the ships of the Tsushima Domain and the Matsumae Domain were seriously injured, and the ship of the Satsuma and other four families did not return, and the most important thing was that the Shogunate Ataku fleet led by Mukai Tadakatsu of the Shogunate Imperial Ship Commission did not return.

If Mukai Tadakatsu was killed, none of the families present would have good fruit to eat, after all, this was the death of an important minister of the Tokugawa shogunate. Many of the other daimyo generals returned unharmed. That's why the shogunate went berserk.

For this. Doi Toshikatsu sent twenty Seki ships and fifty Kozao ships out to sea to find Mukai Tadakatsu, and the unease in the camp was pervasive, and the defeat of the war, the disappearance of the main general, and the post-war accountability were all sources of unease.

At the end of the second day, Shimazu Kudori, the head of the Satsuma Domain, returned with two Ataka ships and six Seki ships, and at the end of the day, Mukai Tadakatsu's ship finally returned under the escort of four Seki ships and more than a dozen Kozai.

When everyone heard the news and came to the dock, they saw three tattered ironclad houses and two broken two-sided boats parked on the pier, and many wounded sailors who got off the boats. Including Mukai Tadakatsu, who was carried off the ship by his subordinates, his leg was seriously injured and he was already unconscious.

Today's situation is obvious, not the cowardice of the naval army but the invincibility of the battle, and the many damaged warships that have returned show the fierceness of the battle, which can only show that the combat strength of the man-water division is strong.

Doi Toshikatsu also breathed a sigh of relief at this time, as long as he was not afraid of the enemy, even if he was not defeated, the face of the shogunate would still exist.

But. Soon he understood that Akito had no intention of saving him any face.

At the end of noon on the third day, the small morning report of the sailors cruising in the open sea was coming. According to this, it was only thirty miles, and the warships in the harbor of Shimonoseki were in chaos when they boarded, and no one thought that the Ming warships would come to attack blatantly.

Due to the lack of finances in the domain, Shimonoseki did not build a fort to protect it at all, and could only rely on warships to defend it, and the main general of the navy was seriously injured and unconscious, and Doi Toshikatsu immediately ordered the Satsuma feudal ship to defend against the invasion of the Aketo fleet led by Shimazu Hisadori.

Shimazu Hisatsu is still confident in the defense of Shimonoseki, as a harbor defense, it is best to have a battery, and then a fleet to assist, complement each other.

At the moment, there is no need to think about the fort, but there is a fleet, and in the vast space of the outer ocean, the Ming fleet can use the speed of ships and giant cannons to guerrilla, and go back and forth with one blow.

But if the Ming people want to attack the port of Shimonoseki, they can only attack strongly, at this time, the small early fire fleet can come in handy, in the harbor six or seven miles deep, the small early fire fleet will be as much as the enemy comes. He was confident, of course.

Shimazu Kutsu mobilized all the more than 70 fireships and divided them into seven teams, four of which were widely spread at the mouth of the bay, and three of which were hidden among the ships of the large group in the bay and waited for the enemy in concealment. Nearly 30 ships attacked outside the harbor to resist, and were immediately defeated, leading the Ming fleet into the harbor and setting fire to the ships.

The ship had just come to the open sea, and the black Akito Galen battleship came violently.

After Zhao Lie's fleet went west to escape the wind and rain, he spent another day sorting out the aftermath, breaking sails, replacing broken mast decks and gangways, and holding a funeral for more than 50 sailors who died in battle early the next morning, which was the largest one-time casualty of Zhao Lie's sailors, but it was nothing compared to the results of this battle and the enemy's casualties.

Zhao Lie convened a group of captains to discuss, and finally decided to let the more seriously damaged Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu, Li Guang, Chen Tang, Shan Xiong Signal, and Cheng Zhijie return to Jeju Island for repairs, and the other 31 warships went to Xiaguan as a whole to come and go without being rude.

"Boom, boom." A salvo of 36-pounder cannons and 36-pounder Tiago guns on the starboard side of the Li Jing disemboweled, and the ship slowly sank into the bay, where the sailors who were still swimming lost their body temperature and died in less than twenty minutes in the cold waters.

This is already the fourteenth shogunate warship killed along the way, but all the ships that encounter Zhao Lie's fleet are replenished, and the resistance encountered is weak, and these ships are all staggering after being seriously injured, and they have no ability to fight back.

After nearly an hour of artillery battle, the fleet left the wreckage of more than 10 ships and retreated to Xiaguan.

Near the mouth of the bay, according to the plan, the Han-class battleships of smaller tonnage were lined up in a column, with the side facing Xiaguan, and the Sui-Tang-class battleships were lined up in a column behind them.

The task of the Han-class battleship was simple, it was to escort the Sui-Tang-class battleships behind, and the Sui-Tang-class battleships bombarded Shimonoseki with their 36-pounder and 48-pounder cannons.

When he saw that the Akito fleet had not entered the bay, Shimazu Hisatsu felt bad, but he just thought that the fire attack strategy had failed, and Akito was too vigilant. However, he is still confident in the defense of the bay.

However, when the Ming people sealed the mouth of the bay, 200 huge cannons bombarded Xiaguan. He felt distraught. There are nearly 40,000 water infantry troops in the camp near the Shimonoseki pier. What a toll this must have caused.

The roar of 200 cannons echoed in the bay, and huge projectiles roared and rushed to the docks of Shimonoseki, and the camp with flags fluttering became a hell on earth.

The human body, the horses, and the tents rose into the air, the dust rose to the height of a tree, and the screams and howls and the wailing of the horses rang out, and no one expected that the enemy's artillery would be able to bombard it ten miles away, and immediately suffer heavy casualties. The soldiers ran around, hoping to get out of this hell, and no one wanted to just be beaten and not be able to do it.

Doi Toshikatsu and the others were pressed under the guards, and they were resigned to their fate by letting the projectiles fly sideways around them.

After the first wave of shelling, nearly a hundred breaths later, the second wave of shelling began, and the dust of the first wave did not dissipate, and once again a large puff of smoke and dust rose up, and the cries resounded through the camps. The majesty of the samurai was gone, only the horror and helplessness of the first sight of the power of firearms.

Shimazu Kudo's eyes were red. can't let it go on, if there is a good guy in the back, such as Doi Toshikatsu and the Royal Three Family, he will only commit suicide by caesarean section.

Under his strong order, the boats, boats, and boats in the harbor were activated, and the oarsmen used all their strength and splashed in all directions, rushing towards the mouth of the bay like a dragon boat race. At a distance of three miles, nearly 100 huge cannons of the Han-class battleships opened fire, and in an instant, more than 20 shogunate warships were hit and shattered, and other ships still swarmed forward.

When the distance was two miles, the two sides fired their cannons almost at the same time, and two lines of smoke appeared, almost every Han-class battleship was hit, wooden planks and dust were everywhere, and at the same time, more than 20 battleships of the shogunate navy were recruited.

When they arrived at Yili, the eighteen-pound and twenty-four-pounder Tiago guns of the Han-class battleships joined the ranks of the shelling, and more than a dozen shogunate warships were broken and paralyzed for a while, and the bombardment of the shogunate navy also caused damage to the side sides of the Han-class battleships Huo Qubing and Geng Yi, and the front mainmast of Huo Qubing was shattered.

Almost every Han-class battleship had sailors killed or wounded, after all, this hard-fought confrontation was different from the previous blow.

The cabin of the Weiqing was also hit hard by the projectile, but there was no major problem, Zhao Lie watched the tragic situation of the shogunate army at the Shimonoseki dock with a telescope, and his heart was very happy.

"My lord, the enemy has entered less than a mile." Zhao Da shouted, no way, the roar and noise of the artillery around him made Zhao Da only roar.

Zhao Lie put down the binoculars unsatisfactorily, "Return." ”

Seeing the tragic situation in the place where the so-called Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in the future, he was deeply satisfied.

Under the command of the drum and trumpet flag, the Galen fleet withdrew to the open sea, and the nearest shogunate ships went more than a hundred paces away, and even fired rockets, causing some sails to catch fire, but the strength of their oarsmen was exhausted.

Besides, when entering the open sea, the enemy will strike again and leave, and it will not be good to send away the life that has finally run out, and the shogunate navy will invariably stop paddling outside the mouth of the bay, and watch the Akito Galen fleet sail and go away victoriously.

Doi Toshikatsu's attendant helped Doi up, Doi Toshikatsu looked at a young samurai lying more than ten steps away, this is the third son of the old subordinate Asui, of course, following him for the future future, but now his head was grazed by a projectile, and his flesh and blood were lying on the ground and died, and there are two such attendants here.

"Doi-sama," a pitch-shifting shout made Doi Toshikatsu turn around, only to see Sakata, a retainer of the Mito family, approaching, with the head of the moon scattered and covered in dust, "Mito-sama Shigenabe-sama, the general of Mito, has a broken left arm and is unconscious." I hope that the Lord will send a doctor to diagnose and treat him. ”

Damn, Doi Toshikatsu has a lot of hatred in his heart, what are he afraid of, the general of the Mito Domain of the Imperial Three Families is seriously injured and in a coma, is there any worse news than this.

As soon as someone was sent to help Watanabe, more than a dozen generals such as the general Yamamoto of the Kaga Domain and the deputy general of the Satsuma domain, Hisazhang, were injured.

Two hours later, Doi Toshikatsu had 436 infantry killed and more than 1,330 wounded, and more than 60 horses killed and more than 100 wounded. In the battle, the navy sank 132 ships in Anzhai, 227 ships and more than 200 ships in the morning, and the navy lost more than 5,000 people and suffered heavy losses.

Toshikatsu Doi stood by the dock, looking at the debris and corpses that covered the bay for a long time, knowing that he was leading the army for the last time, and that he would not have a chance to wash away the shame in the future.

Doi Toshikatsu issued a petition that night, asking General Zhengyi to punish him. (To be continued.) )