Chapter 681: The Great Fire of Nagasaki

"Ouchi isn't monolithic." Chen Xuan said to Zhu Houhuang on the boat. This is the summary of Chen Xuan's mission.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Regardless of whether the Ouchi clan is an iron plate or not, it must be smashed with an iron hammer first, even if he is an iron plate, he must be smashed for him, not an iron plate, but it will be broken faster." Huang Shilong. ”

"The minister is here." Huang Shilong said.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Now you can put the hammer down." ”

"Yes." Huang Shilong said.

Huang Shilong immediately ordered that all ships should anchor overseas in Nagasaki,

Nagasaki is located in a bay, a peninsula that stretches at right angles from the south of Nagasaki into the sea, sheltering many waves, and there are many islands off the coast of Nagasaki, making Nagasaki a good harbor.

However, at the moment, the storm in the sea of Nagasaki is not sheltered by the peninsula.

"Boom." A cannonball flew through the sky and smashed into the castle town of Nagasaki.

As if it were a signal, countless cannonballs slashed across the sky and smashed into the castle town.

Although the castle town is relatively prosperous and is a commercial area, it is also mixed with a large number of civilians, and the army of the Ouchi clan has been stationed in Nagasaki Castle at will, which has caused many people with a good sense of smell to leave Nagasaki.

Most of Nagasaki Castle's bustling castle towns are empty. Especially the Chinese.

Why King Yong came here has long been spread in Nagasaki, they have left long ago under the organization of Shaofu, and now they are fighting at sea, even if they are on the Japanese side, they may not be able to completely get rid of the shadow of Dongyong.

But a large number of Japanese refused to leave, because they also had nowhere to go, perhaps by luck, and these people were hiding in their houses.

It's like the inside of this house can keep the flames of war out.

I didn't know if I could stop Zhu Houhuang before, but today Zhu Houhuang knows that he definitely can't stop it.

But I saw countless people rushing out of the castle like crazy. One house after another was knocked down.

One after another, the shells hit the crowd, and in an instant, they hit several alleys of flesh and blood. But the rest of the people went crazy and spun around.

But the crowd comes and goes fast.

Although many corpses were scattered on the streets of the castle town, many more people were evacuated from the castle town, after all, the artillery of this era was not the artillery of later generations. Some of the shots are solid bullets, and they can't even cover the entire castle town, but only near the dock.

This shelling was nothing more than a deterrent.

However, Zhu Houhuang also saw some problems.

The firing range of the first Franc cannon is really problematic, and the power is too small.

The biggest advantage of the Franc cannon is rapid fire, but success is also rapid fire, and defeat is also rapid fire. The Franc cannon is also known as the sub-mother cannon, which is characterized by the separation of sub-mother, which increases the rate of fire, but also makes the problem of air leakage, so that the firing range and power are greatly weakened.

Zhu Houhuang clearly saw that in the arc of the shells, some of the shells shot far, and some of the shells could only reach the dock, and even more of them smashed on the ships at the dock.

However, all the big ships at the Nagasaki pier were withdrawn, and it was only to sink a few small boats, which was of no great use at all.

It seems that Huang Shilong also discovered this. Ordered to stop all the Franc cannons.

Zhu Houhuang saw that the sky was about the same, and he was not going to spend the night off the coast of Nagasaki. Just as I was about to stop the shelling and go back. A lot has changed on the shore.

I don't know where a fire came from, and this fire spread rapidly. At this moment, the castle town was under shelling, and no one dared to put out the fire. And there are too many buildings in Japan, and they are all made of wood.

The speed of flame expansion was actually too fast, and after a while, it was like a fire dragon.

"Stop." Zhu Houhuang said suddenly.

Huang Shilong immediately ordered to stop the shelling.

But from giving orders, to those below receiving orders. It's going to take a while.

However, the artillery stopped one after another. After the cannon stopped, the sound of crackling flames and burning clearly reached Zhu Houhuang's ears.

Zhu Houhuang looked at the shore, and he didn't notice that his face had reflected the look of flames.

It was already evening, and at this time there was a gust of wind blowing from the sea to the shore, and the flames that had been raging near the harbor suddenly rushed in the direction of Nagasaki Castle.

It was as if a fiery dragon had rushed up.

For a while, the sound of crying and screaming, all kinds of sounds, faintly reached Zhu Houhuang's ears.

Zhu Houhuang also felt uncomfortable in his heart.

He knew that not many people died in the shelling he had just done, and even the people who had just stepped on it killed more people than the shells had killed. After all, the artillery of this era is very limited.

But this fire can kill too many people.

Zhu Houhuang didn't need to look at it to know that Nagasaki Castle Town was finished. There was nothing left in this fire.

Not to mention how many people were killed by this fire, I am afraid that a large number of people will starve to death just because of the people who depend on the city to live.

And although this one was not intentionally put by Zhu Houhuang, the cause of the fire was inseparable from him. Zhu Houhuang couldn't bear to look at it.

"Let's go." Zhu Houhuang walked into the cabin.

Huang Shilong immediately ordered all ships to pull anchor and leave here.

Zhu Houhuang left here, but the flames would not be extinguished because of Zhu Houhuang's departure.

Ouchi Yoshixing didn't want to care, in his opinion, the castle town burned down, and without him, he knew very well that the future would be a siege war, and all those buildings outside the city would be a hindrance at all, and they would have been cleaned up.

But a lot of people don't want to.

Many of the generals' industries are in Nagasaki Castle Town, and Ouchi Yoshiko has no intention of demolishing it, and wants to wait for Zhu Houhuang to arrive before doing it, but he never expected that Zhu Houhuang would set it on fire.

It's just that after a long time, Yoshiko Ouchi realized that something was wrong.

Because the fire was so big that it went straight to Nagasaki Castle, if it was not restricted, Nagasaki Castle would not have to be defended, and it would be burned to the ground.

Ouchi Yoshiko immediately sent troops to demolish all the nearest houses in Nagasaki Castle.

Most of the houses in these castle towns are made of wood, and many are thatched houses, which are particularly easy to set on fire and easy to tear down.

However, the barrier is easy to get, but this fire is not easy to extinguish.

In the face of such a raging fire, even if the army is sent to extinguish the fire, I am afraid it will not be extinguished.

Ouchi Yoshiko can only let them fend for themselves.

The fire burned all night, and the next morning there were still fires in the city.

Ouchi Yoshixing found that the morale of his men was extremely low, and these soldiers secretly called King Yong Hushura. Because King Yong is not a human, he is the incarnation of the god of fire.

Ouchi Yoshiyuki severely reprimanded and declared that the fire was just an accident.

But even this will not restore the declining morale.

Ouchi Yoshiko is also not easy to do.

There are not many soldiers of the Ouchi clan in these armies, and there are many soldiers attached to the family. Ouchi Yoshihei is an order that is not too easy for them.

In fact, Ouchi Yoshixing's heart has not wavered.

"Great unification, great unification." Ouchi Yoshixing secretly said in his heart: "There must be a great unification." ”

This time he saw the power of artillery, and immediately understood that the future world must be ruled by artillery. He secretly sent his cronies' family members to write to Ouchi Yoshitaka to tell him about the situation here, and emphasized that the Ouchi clan must have its own unity, and the more the better.

This fire shook the whole of Kyushu.

Not to mention that Nagasaki Castle was originally an important port for trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty, and many daimyo had industries here, just to say, the battle between Dongyong and the Ouchi clan has affected the minds of too many Japanese.

I don't know how many ninjas are hiding near Nagasaki Castle to find out the battle for the master. But I never expected that there would be such a big scene at the beginning.

Moreover, the name Zhu Houhuang Fire Shura spread at an unprecedented speed, so much so that it later became the title of Zhu Houhuang in Japan.

It can stop the child from crying.

It was not anyone else who was even more shocked, it was the princes of Kyushu, such as the Otomo family, the Shaoji family, and so on.

These families were overwhelmed by the Ouchi clan's suppression, but they didn't want to just go to a Ouchi and have a fire Shura that was even more terrifying than the Ouchi clan.

In an instant, they sent a batch of supplies to Nagasaki in an unprecedented manner, and of course they secretly sent people to meet His Royal Highness King Yong.

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