Chapter 590: Asymmetrical War

The fleet raged with naval guns for two whole hours before swaggering away. Chen Xie, who had a crooked mouth, had an expression of "I knew this earlier, I wouldn't have to bother so much, I should have landed directly". In fact, he is just more cautious, and there is nothing wrong with being careful. Although you have been collecting intelligence on Japan before, it is difficult for you to get too much detailed information in this closed country. In contrast, there was more information on the Nagasaki side, but Chen Xie did not plan to move for a long time, and those samurai who did it to the Chinese, Tokugawa Iemitsu would tie it up himself.

"When will Nagasaki's sailors arrive?" When he returned to Tokugawa Iemitsu in the Shogun's Palace, the first thing he asked was this. This will make it impossible for him to admit defeat, how can the dignified general of Zhengyi be captured? If you don't fight, you will definitely not be reconciled.

Knowing that the day after tomorrow would come, Tokugawa Iemitsu settled down a little and sent someone to pass on his cronies and subordinates to hold a meeting! This war needs to be re-studied, and things are a bit different from what I expected. Soon everyone arrived, and Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't want to be a great general, and carefully told everyone what happened today. Of course, he didn't say that he was scared, so he told him about the situation of the Ming fleet, and everyone was silent after speaking.

What if a ship has sixty or seventy guns, and it's a huge warship, several times larger than the largest ship in Edo Bay? It's true that I've seen the Dutchman's ship, this ship is almost laughing than the Dutchman's ship, the problem is that the Dutch don't have many ships, they still come to do business, this ship comes with cannons, it's here to settle old accounts.

On the elder's seat, someone suddenly spoke: "If I remember correctly, Japan is a country not to be conquered by the Ming Taizu, why don't you send someone to ask this Ming general." Why attack Japan at the risk of violating the ancestral system? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu saw that it was Sakai Tadashi who spoke, and immediately said: "Okay, since this is the case, then the elder will make a hard trip to the Tsushima Domain to meet the Ming commander." Ask him what he means. "It's really a surprise, why did you forget it before? Sakai Tadashi did not refuse, and said prostrately: "The subordinates must live up to their mission." ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait for the fleets of Nagasaki and other places to be assembled." Sakai Tadashi wanted to persuade him, but Tokugawa Iemitsu had already said first: "It's so decided, let's discuss how we should deal with it once the combined forces of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea land." "Tokugawa Iemitsu is not young and vigorous anymore, and this will be his consideration, and it still seems very thoughtful. Although the artillery of the Ming fleet is powerful. But a little less. The entire Japanese sailors must have four or five hundred boats combined, right? Just pile him to death, I admit that you are amazing, but I have many people and boats.

Human life is really worthless, especially in this year, human life can't be used as money at all.

After some deliberation, it was finally decided. Prepare several echelons and wait for the Ming army to land. Immediately meet the head-on attack, and then the opponent's artillery superiority will not be brought into play. In short, it's still the same, and the decisive battle is at the time of landing. Actually, they don't have any other way, it's the same thing over and over again. The Japanese compare the axis. Do things but strive for excellence, but if you want to be flexible, it will be very bad. Just look at the Anti-Japanese War, the tactics of the Japanese army were just like that, from 37 to 45 years. A set of tactics to fight to the end. This kind of national character, it is difficult for you to evaluate its merits. Let's put it this way, the Japanese have a bit of an ethnic obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Back on Tsushima Island, Chen Xie did not completely relax, how to fight this battle, in fact, there is a lot of attention. One is the weather, the other is the sea state, the hydrological situation, etc., and these days stopping in Tsushima, a large distance dù is due to the unfamiliarity of the situation. The clippers sent out caught a lot of Japanese fishing boats, brought the fishermen back, and made some inquiries, and they were good at talking and eating and drinking, but it was not their conscience that they found it, but it was necessary to do so. Even on Tsushima's side, the same is true. The discipline of the Ming army was excellent, and they all brought some things back to the old fishermen for questioning. With such a comparison, the North Korean army carried the black cauldron.

Thinking about it a little more, in fact, it is not difficult to see that without the Ming army, can the Koreans have the courage to worry about the whole of Japan? Tsushima is also a good idea, the four islands on the mainland, that is absolutely not to be thought about. The real aggressors, who brought disaster to the Japanese people, were those Ming troops who came here under the banner of settling accounts. Don't look at their good military discipline, don't they sleep like the women captured by the North Korean army? The difference is that they can leave a pack of biscuits, a canned food and other worthless things after they finish sleeping. These things are free in the army, and the quartermaster has a good relationship, so it's really not a problem to take one or two more.

So, not everyone has the ability to see the essence through the phenomenon, where do ordinary people care about you, they know that the army of the Ming Dynasty is good, and the women who were arrested to be soldiers and prostitutes all think that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are good people. Who to sleep with is not sleeping? The North Korean soldiers are coming, and after they finish sleeping, they won't give anything, and maybe they will beat you up.

After a few days, in the area around Edo Bay on the opposite side, where it was easy to land, where the water was shallow, where the channel was, the tide conditions, and so on, all of which were fully recorded and prepared, the landing site was selected, and the battle plan was introduced. This plan is very thorough, first of all, considering that Japan is an island country, and the sailor did not appear before, it must not be afraid, but not there. Then, before the landing, it is necessary to destroy the Japanese sailors, otherwise the process of this landing will be troublesome. In terms of combat ships, Chen Xie was not worried, and the Dutch armed merchant ships were auctioned after they were captured, and this time thirty armed merchant ships were requisitioned to transport troops and logistics. These Dutch ships were underestimated, at least at the level of twenty or thirty cannons, and there was no problem at all in dealing with these Japanese ships.

The specific battle plan was to use a fleet of fifteen ships to attack, seduce the main force of the Japanese shogunate sailors, and then destroy them, and then carry out a landing operation. Under the supervision of Su Haochen, the people in the staff department carefully became perverts. All the problems that came to mind, were taken into account, and even the problem of accidentally falling into the sea during the landing of the soldiers. Therefore, on the landing boat, there is also a live buckle, which can be fastened with the armed belt, and the kind that can be loosened by pressing both sides of the hand. With such a perverted preparation, only the Dengzhou battalion has the financial resources to play.

As soon as Qiē was ready, before dusk came, the landing force began to board the boats, drift on the sea for the night, and arrive at the sea outside the river early the next morning. In the middle of the night, the fleet set off and slowly crossed the strait, and at dawn, when it appeared outside the river, the shore suddenly became full of smoke. More than 300 warships, large and small, and ships of various purposes, rushed out of the bay and killed the fleet of the Ming Navy.

Seeing this scene, Chen Xie on the flagship was really dumbfounded, what kind of brain structure are these Japanese? Get rid of, the people of the sea, will there be a naval war? In fact, the Japanese at this time were really not very good at naval warfare. If you don't learn from Britain in modern times, the navy doesn't talk about fighting wars and learning from the British, eating and walking are all British models.

At this time, the Japanese sailors did not fight much and killed the Daming sailors, and there were all kinds of ships and various combat methods. What arson boats, what turtle boats, and even fishing boats, there are many tricks, rushing out together, it is a tactic, not afraid of death, close to you and play jumping gang melee with you. There is also the trick of arson, which used to be very effective.

Fifteen battleships immediately seized the T-shape, relying on the superior speed and soon appeared in the horizontal position, looking at the chaotic Japanese fleet opposite, many gunners were lamenting in their hearts, where is this here to fight a naval battle, this is to send death.

The Japanese on the ship kept screaming, as if they could scare away their opponents. But what awaited them was calm, and on the extreme sea, the seagulls were even chasing the warship in search of food.

In just an instant, there was a violent shock on the sea, and many seabirds that followed the warship to find food scattered and flew away in an instant. The Liaodong was the first to fire, the battleship shook violently, and the forty cannons on one side fired the cannonballs at the approaching Japanese ships in turn, and the distance at this time was 500 meters. In fact, there is no need to fight so closely, Chen Xie is just afraid that they will run away, so he put it closer, according to the speed of his own warship, it is not a risk.

In just ten minutes, nothing could be heard on the sea, all of them were the roar of cannons. The time of a T-ring is limited, and the gunner must fire as many shells as possible during this time period. The outcome of a naval battle is often decided by such a little time.

Later, in the military field, there was a term called asymmetric warfare. What does that mean? I can hit you, but you can't hit me. The Daming fleet commanded by Chen Xie played this routine. Taking full advantage of the advantages of range and speed, in just a few dozen minutes, more than 300 of the opponent's boats were injured by forty or fifty, and the entire sea surface was covered with floating objects.

When the fleet had finished getting rid of and turning, and a new suitable distance appeared again, Chen Xie saw a miserable situation.

Wooden boats did not have much resistance in the face of solid shells from large-caliber guns. When a cannon hit, it was devastated, and if it was unlucky, it was hit by the vital point, and it was directly a big hole, which sank in the water. I don't have time to count how many ships are sinking, but there is a large area on the sea surface full of floating objects and people who have fallen into the water, and this must not be wrong.

It was not a question of whether the Japanese sailors should continue to attack now, but before they came to their senses, the fierce shelling came again, and Chen Xie had no intention of letting go of a boat at all, let alone considering their feelings. (To be continued......)