In July 1854, the year after the Japanese Black Ship attack, the United States demanded that the Ryukyus open the port of Naha. So Perry led his fleet back to the Ryukyus, the port of departure for the American fleet in the event of the attack on the black ships.

In the face of the big thick arms of the Americans, what resistance can the young seedling of the Ryukyus have? The two sides soon signed the Treaty of Reconciliation between the two sides. It provides for seven unequal provisions, including free trade, the provision of wages for U.S. ships, and the recognition of U.S. consular jurisdiction.

After the departure of the Americans, France and the Netherlands entered one after another, and the Ryukyus had the "Treaty of Reconciliation of Ryuran" and the "Treaty of Reconciliation of Ryukyu".

Although Liu Xian won the victory against France, he was not arrogant enough to challenge France's international dignity. The "Treaty of Reconciliation between Liufa and the United States" and the "Treaty of Reconciliation between Liufa and the United States" were not touched by Liu Xian. He instructed the Ryukyuan people to trouble the Dutch, of course, by picking up the soft persimmons, so as to test the reaction of the Western world.

After all, when he raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, he also had to face this big problem. Do you recognize the unequal treaties signed by the Manchus with European and American countries, or do you not recognize them at all? Or is it a limited recognition?

Today, the Ryukyus stabbed the Netherlands, and Liu Xian just wanted to see the reaction of Britain, France and the United States! It will be interesting to see if the three countries will immediately jump up like being stabbed in a chrysanthemum, unite and put pressure on the Ryukyus.

This is of great reference significance for him to make a judgment in the face of the same problem in the future.

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In Tokyo Bay in the early morning, the sun rises and the morning fog has just cleared from the sea. The combined fleet of Qin and Chu, led by four Qin ironclad gunboats, Yangwei, Zhenwei, Pinghai, and Anhai, suddenly appeared on the sea two or three nautical miles away from Guanyinqi Fort.

Equipped with four 152mm breech guns and six 120mm breech guns, the Kannonzaki battery quickly entered a state of combat readiness under the reprimand of the battery commander Kuroda Motozaburo Nakasa.

"Your Excellency, the Qing warship is 2,300 meters away from our battery!"

"Your Excellency, the Qing warship is 2,000 meters away from our battery!"

"Your Excellency, the Qing warship is 1,800 meters away from our battery!"

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Just like the case during the Mawei Naval Battle in the original time and space of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when the strength was inferior, Japan also issued an order to all batteries in Haiphong to strictly prohibit active artillery provocations.

Therefore, the current Kannonzaki Fort is up and down to watch the four ironclad gunboats continue to approach. A mile behind them, five shipbuilders followed suit, and farther away were six transports, with three warships on their side. This is to prevent the main fleet from suddenly killing Japanese warships from behind when it is really with the fort, and then the two ships Yunyang and Fengxiang in Tokyo Bay will come out with a few younger brothers to watch the excitement, and the six transport ships may really be in danger.

After all, there is no radar in this era, and except for Liu Xian, the living radar, no one knows what is hidden outside the line of sight.

The small number of warships of the Japanese army was divided in two, which was a great thing. Don't turn a happy event into a funeral because of a little negligence.

"Nakasa, the distance is getting closer, and it can't go on like this! It's dangerous to go on like this! ”

Kuroda Motozaburo's deputy, a junior officer, said to him anxiously. As a rising Japan, in its current army, it is really difficult to find a person who eats and waits for death, especially the officers who are equipped in some key positions that are crucial, and each of them is so responsible. Shaozo was familiar with the range of the guns on the Guanyinqi Fort and the strength of the blows that the fort could withstand. Kannonzaki Fort is one of the earliest forts built in Japan, at the beginning of the design and construction, the corresponding reference was not the current steam warship, at that time the British Empire was still playing with sail warships, and sail warships were the mainstream of the world's navy at that time. Obviously, the caliber of the guns of the sail battleship is not comparable to that of the steam battleship, which means that the Kannonzaki battery is congenitally deficient.

Although both the Tokugawa shogunate and the Restoration government made corresponding repairs and improvements after the attack of the black ships, they were not very successful. The reason is that there is no money for both.

The Tokugawa shogunate won't talk about it, and if it had money, it wouldn't have fallen so quickly. As for the new government, a large amount of funds were invested in the construction of the army, and Japan's relations with Britain, France, the United States, and Russia were all relatively harmonious.

The Kannonzaki Fort has two floors and ten cannon holes, and the outer body is made of stones, and the inner part is a wooden structure. The tall reinforced concrete has not yet been used for the reinforcement of the Kannonzaki Fort. Therefore, in the face of the four ironclad gunboats of the Qin army's central armored fort, the thickest rifled guns that could reach eight inches [203mm] were fired, and the defense of the Guanyinqi Fort itself was not enough to rely on.

"Fire two solid shells to warn the Qing fleet. Give them a signal to leave the garrison range of our batteries immediately, otherwise our troops will carry out the necessary armed defense when necessary. ”

The Japanese army gave the signal first, and Shi Qingyan and the others saw it clearly, but no one paid attention to it, and even omitted the answer. The four Qin ironclad gunboats continued to move forward, continuing to approach the Guanyinqi Fort at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Suddenly. A strange scream came from far and near, followed by a column of water rising from a distance of 100 meters outside the Zhenwei.

Motozaburo Kuroda, who was holding the binoculars, nodded in satisfaction, and the shelling landed very appropriately.

The four Qin warships immediately raised their battle flags. Yangwei, Zhenwei, Pinghai, and Anhai, the muzzles of the guns that had been prepared for a long time, immediately burst into flames.

Then the fleet in a line quickly turned into two roads in the shape of a goose, two large with two small, and the big one covered the small one. Because both the Yangwei and the Zhenwei were thick-skinned and thick-skinned, one armor belt reached 4.5 inches, and the other reached 4 inches. But the muzzle of the cannon was far less than that of the two gunboats behind him.

The four Armstrong guns of the Yangwei were only six inches in caliber and 152 mm. The caliber of the Zhenwei's two front-loading rifled guns is one inch larger, reaching 178mm, but the Pinghai and Anhai behind them are the famous mosquito boats, and the 'classic examples' of small boats carrying cannons. Each one carried two eight-inch guns.

The two guns fired one after another, and the hull of the Pinghai, which was more than 400 tons, trembled violently, and the 203mm main gun was aimed again at the fastest speed. After the warhead and propellant were loaded, Wang Fuyou shouted: "Hit!" ”

"Boom!"

The hull of more than 400 tons trembled again! The bow of the ship was shrouded in billowing smoke, and two armor-piercing shells flew into the distance with the sound of the wind!

And at this moment, a huge spark is blooming on the Yangwei. Even though the four battleships were in motion all the time, the Japanese batteries had been built for more than 20 years, and the gunners had been training and firing live ammunition year after year, and the guns were fired at fixed points on land, which was much higher than the ship's guns.

In the first round of the Guanyinqi Battery, two shells hit the Yangwu ship where it could not live 100 meters, smashing a large splash! In the second round of launches, it was indeed a hit. And it's 152mm shells.

Shi Qingyan's heart is like being hammered! The Japanese really couldn't be underestimated, and they hit a shot in the second round. I don't know if they really have such strength, or if they were just blinded for a while.

Fortunately, the Japanese shells failed to break through the Yangwu's iron armor, and the shells hit the bow of the ship, which was the thickest place for the entire battleship's armor protection, and some positions were as thick as more than five inches due to the assembly of the iron armor.

At a distance of more than three miles, four Qin warships attacked a fixed target, and after two rounds, dozens of shells were fired, and naturally some of them hit the Guanyinqi Fort.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Messy shells were constantly falling on or around the battery. Almost every interval took only a dozen seconds, and most of them were armor-piercing shells, which caused considerable losses on the Kannonzaki battery. Fortunately for Kuroda Genzaburo, not a single gun emplacement has been hit. But Guanyinqi Fort Town was useless, and the shells of the Qin army's ironclad ships were really able to break through its protection.

Almost every shell that landed nearby made the hearts of the people up and down the battery tremble!

Kuroda Motozaburo gritted his teeth, his face tensed, and he couldn't stop muttering in his heart: "Amaterasu God bless!" Asumasu blesses. Don't be hit, don't be hit......! ”

But the gap in strength is not something that luck can make up. When the four ironclad gunboats braved the fire to a distance of only about a kilometer from the Guanyinqi Fort, first a shell from the Zhenwei extinguished a Japanese shore defense gun of the Kannonzaki Army, and then the performance of the Pinghai and Anhai began.

So many cannons have been fired, and the distance has been pulled to about 1,000 meters. That's a much higher accuracy rate.

Genzaburo Kuroda was shouting morale-boosting praise, when suddenly the entire fort trembled, and a soldier exclaimed, "Ah! Shot! "And more than one. The good fortune of the Japanese army came to an end, and two 203mm heavy artillery shells in a row bombarded the Kannonzaki battery at almost the same position, and immediately smashed the layer of stones outside the fort to pieces.

The scorching shrapnel shuttled through the narrow space inside the gun emplacement, cutting the entire gun group on the gun emplacement into pieces like cutting tofu. Then the shells piled up on the gun emplacements were detonated.

A large ball of intense fire burst from the bottom of the Guanyinqi Fort, and the mixed rubble was lifted dozens of meters high, I don't know how many artillery soldiers were affected, and a corpse was blown up on the spot, and the limbs were broken and scattered everywhere.

The whole fort is like a tofu block that has been stuck with a stick, a hideous-looking hole, and billowing smoke is coming out!

"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire quickly......"

The inside of the turret is a wooden structure, and if the open flames are not extinguished, the entire turret will be destroyed. The counterattack force of the Kannonzaki Fort was also lost by more than a third in an instant.

This explosion completely destroyed the upper and lower gun emplacements, plus the gun emplacements extinguished by the Zhenwei, and the Kannonzaki battery with a total of ten gun emplacements, three of which were unusable. Coupled with the manpower used to fight the fire, the return fire did not drop by half, and it can only be said that Kuroda Motozaburo trained the soldiers properly in the past.

Then, the Guanyinqi fort guarded by 400 Japanese soldiers was hit one after another in a series of shells, and the weak protection was completely unable to resist, and the entire battery was continuously opened out of a fatal hole, and finally with the complete destruction of ten gun emplacements, it became a pile of ruins...... R1152