Chapter 65: The Fall of Shuri Castle

"Run!" Suddenly, there were frightened screams on the beach, and then I saw the Japanese policemen lying behind the sand pile turn around, in the end, they are just police, and there is an essential gap between them and the regular army, zhenya The resistance of the Ryukyuan people is okay, and in the face of artillery, it is completely scum.

"Stick to your post!" Governor Nara was alone, brandishing a katana and shouting on the beach.

But at this moment, the condescending twelve seven- and six-millimeter naval guns spewed flames at the same time, and these cannons, which could fire more than twenty rounds per minute, turned the entire beach into hell in an instant, and those unsheltered Japanese policemen were shattered one by one in the dense explosion, stumps and broken arms were splashed all over the sky, and blood stained the beautiful white sand.

Now Governor Nara's words were even more regarded as farts, almost all the Japanese police began to collapse, there was no hope for the confrontation between rifles and artillery, and the confrontation between manpower and ironclad ships was also something that only fools would do, not to mention them, even the armed civilians who had not yet been shelled collapsed.

"Yaga, you cowards!" Governor Nara brandished his katana and let out a desperate roar of rage, then drew his pistol and vented his anger on the battleship not far away, and the lead bullet was immediately bounced off by the thick steel plate.

A turret that was turning towards him, probably finding this guy interesting, kindly raised the muzzle a little more.

Amid the whistling of shells overhead, Governor Nara, who had bravely shot a nest of bullets, bent down and was about to reload, but at this time his mouth opened wide in astonishment, because the bows of the three ironclad ships suddenly opened at the same time, and then a gangplank slowly stretched out inside, and a soldier with a rifle poked his head out.

Yang Feng's landing ship is similar to the American LST, of course, he does not need to transport tanks, so the structure is greatly simplified and the power system is even stronger I don't know how many times, plus because the technology of the Armstrong shipyard is limited at this time, many of the parts that are difficult to manufacture inside also use a large amount of wood, so it can reach 20 knots of high speed, the bow is the same circle, the upper part is equipped with a large hatch that can be opened to one side, and the wooden springboard can stretch out inside, and when the beach is washed with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, the bow draft can reach less than one meter, Coupled with the nearly twenty-meter-long springboard, the soldiers were basically able to rush directly to the beach, and today this scene was perfectly staged in front of Governor Nara.

The four-meter-wide gangplank slowly stretched out under his stunned gaze, until it reached the beach nearly twenty meters away, and the heavily armed soldiers swarmed out of the cabin, like three green water dragons, rushed onto the beach, and then scattered and raised their rifles in their hands and began to shoot at the fleeing Japanese, a rough-looking officer walked up to the already stupid Governor Nara with two pistols, spat very rudely, and then waved the pistol, and the two soldiers behind quickly moved forward.

That's when Governor Nara reacted.

"Yaga!" As soon as he raised his hand, the gun in the officer's hand rang out, and a shot was hitting his Colt revolver, and the revolver flew with a whoosh, and Governor Nara did not hesitate to pull out the ancestral sword, and raised it above his head to the officer's head with a shout, and then the officer raised his hand and fired another shot, Governor Nara's hand was shocked, and there was still half a section left when the knife fell again, and then the handle of the gun in the officer's other hand slammed on his head, and the famous kendo master fell on the beach like a dead dog.

Two thousand soldiers quickly rushed to the beach, Governor Nara's three thousand troops had already herded sheep at this time, including hundreds of dead sheep, and the beach was covered with corpses, and there were countless Japanese running for their lives in front of them, while continuing to make corpses in the light of the explosion of shells.

At the same time, the 76 guns on the landing ship were also firing extendedly, cooperating with the pursuing infantry to pick up the remnants of the Japanese, while the other part of the infantry quickly took control of the harbor, and then the Nautilus, which was watching the battle from a distance, drove up from the back of the fleet and slowly docked at the port of Naha.

Dressed in his classic SS fur coat and carrying a scepter with a hawk's head in his hand, Boss Yang walked down the gangway with a large number of bodyguards on his toes, and the Ryukyu guide beside him followed him like a dog's leg, just as two soldiers escorted Governor Nara over.

Dogleg's eyes lit up immediately.

"Lord Yang, this is the governor of Okinawa sent by the Japanese." He hurried to Yang Feng's side and said.

"Pseudo-official, not worth mentioning." Boss Yang glanced at Governor Nara arrogantly, and then stretched out his hand back, the mute black slave who understood his mind very well, quickly handed over a pistol, and handed it to the guide next to him and said, "Correct the law on the spot."

"Huh?" The guide was stupid all at once.

"Why, don't dare? Or do you have any friendship with this puppet official?" Yang Feng said with a glare.

The guide looked at the pistol with a sad face, gritted his teeth and took it from Yang Feng's hand, then grabbed Governor Nara's hair and kicked him in the crook of his knee.

Poor Governor Nara fell to his knees and was shot in the head.

"I've got you this gun." Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction, didn't even look at the corpses on the ground with his hands behind his back, and then walked in the direction of Shuri Castle, at this time the vanguard of the landing force had driven the remnants of the Japanese army in, leaving more than a thousand Japanese corpses along the way, but because they did not get the order to attack the city, the naval guns stopped firing.

The remnants of the Japanese fled into Shuri Castle in a hurry, and then closed the gate and prepared to be a turtle with a shrunken head, some of the bold ones also ran to the city wall to shoot outside, Yang Feng's mercenaries quickly scattered to find their own concealment, probably the city wall gave them enough courage, and then even some armed civilians ran up, and some actually took bows and arrows to shoot out, Yang Feng frowned.

"Why don't we slow down for a while, wait for the villain to sneak into the city, and contact Lord Xiang Zhili in the city, he has always been looking forward to the Heavenly Empire, and he will definitely be able to raise righteousness when he has this opportunity, and when the time comes, you should cooperate with your lordship, and you can break through Shuri Jiancheng." The guide next to him said busily.

"Is this also called Jiancheng?" Yang Feng looked at the low city wall in the distance very speechlessly, but it was already rare to be able to build a castle on such a small island, and he couldn't complain that they were boasting, considering that there were still three countries here back then, he was very curious about the scale of the war between the Ryukyuans? Won't it be like those famous generals of the Warring States period in Japan who were touted, and take the hundred and ten people to play with weapons, right? If that's the case, then there is such a castle that can indeed be invincible.

The guide smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer Yang Feng, and then he saw that the chief soldier who was not in a very stable mental state turned his head to a soldier behind him, and said something in a voice that he did not understand, and the Western soldier immediately turned his head and waved two small flags in his hand at the giant ironclad ship on the sea in the distance.

Suddenly, a fire shone on the giant ship, and a chilling whistling sound swept overhead.

The guide subconsciously turned his head along with the whistling sound, and saw that on the Shuri city wall in the distance, four huge fire balls suddenly exploded, and the impregnable city wall that had been impregnable in his mind since childhood disappeared in the firelight.

"There is no fortified city in front of the cannon, let alone the small Shuri, it is the Forbidden City in Beijing that can be blasted open." Yang Feng looked arrogantly at Shuri Castle, which had been blasted by a cannonball in the distance, and said, not feeling that his words seemed to be a little disrespectful.

Fortunately, at this time, the guide was already stupid by the heavy artillery, and he didn't hear what he said at all.

The Marauder fired a total of nine shells in this round of salvo, four of which hit the city wall, two hit the outside of the city, and three flew into the city, and then created three blanks in the city with a diameter of several tens of meters.

The Japanese have just annexed the Ryukyus for more than ten years, and among the bureaucrats and ordinary people here, many of them still miss the old country, and they didn't have enough courage before, but now they can't, and if they let them fight again, their own homes are gone, to be honest, those ordinary people may not care who rules on their heads, but if they don't care about their homeland.

There was no need for anyone to get up and launch, the Ryukyuan people, who were already more savage and aggressive, poured out of their homes one by one, although there were no decent weapons, but like harpoons, short knives were still not lacking, and then murderously attacked the Japanese on the city wall from behind, those Japanese were already frightened by the heavy artillery, how could they still hold their stomachs and backs to suffer the enemy.

At this time, on the Marauder, the second round of shelling began, this round of shelling accuracy was relatively high, basically all hit near the city wall, only one flew into the city, and now the front of the city wall has been blown down by a third, the city wall has no meaning to defend, and all the remaining Japanese hurriedly retreated to the east of the city.

The mercenaries outside immediately rushed out of their hiding places and, led by their respective officers, poured into Shuri Castle like a tidal wave.