Just after the Songshan opened fire, the other warships that got the order also fired at the same time, for a time the roar of the cannons was endless, countless cannonballs tilted towards the small battery, the solid iron cannonballs brought a terrible impact because of the speed, these cannonballs smashed to the ground and collided back and forth, and soon the battery was beaten beyond recognition, the soil was scratched deep scratches, and even flesh and blood were mixed in it, and the whole miserable situation was as if it had been ploughed dozens of times by an iron plow.

Zhao Song stood on the deck of the Songshan, quietly looking at the distant fort with a telescope, and did not move. Years of riding had already made him immune to the roar of the cannons, and the ship, though constantly shaking, could not let his heels loosen in any way.

The smoke from below deck had risen to the top and enveloped everyone, making him feel as if he was floating in the clouds.

"Zhao Shuai, what do you think of this shelling?" Cai De asked him with a smile, and there seemed to be some smug in his face.

Because the Han Dynasty has always been expanding on land before, the navy has never had too many opportunities to appear, and there are even many people who think that most of the navy's military spending is a hundred flowers, so now the officers of the navy enjoy the fun of being the protagonist.

They were not stingy with shells, because just behind them, in the port of Pusan, Goryeo, the Han army had stockpiled a large number of shells, enough for them to cope with countless such shells.

"The effect is very good, let them put another round of artillery, and when they are almost smashed there, you will smash the battery on the other side, and then I will let people land on the left flank." Because of the results achieved in the first battle, Zhao Song was also in a good mood, and smiled slightly, "The brothers of the navy have finished performing, and it is time for the brothers of the army to behave." ”

"Good!" Cai De immediately responded, and then continued to give orders calmly.

Under Zeid's orders, the Han fleet continued to bombard with great patience, until it was determined that the batteries on both sides could no longer pose any threat to their ships, the fleet began to change formation, and then sailed into the bay in a long snake formation, and then continued to shell the shore.

With the relentless onslaught of these ships, the rubble and fire turned this once scenic harbor into a terrible battlefield, filled with yellow smoke and screams and screams.

Soon, a number of small boats were lowered among the transports at the rear of the fleet, which were laden with soldiers, and stopped at the flanks of the outstretched arms outside the harbor.

Then, the soldiers in red uniforms immediately disembarked and formed a group under the orders of the officer, and then climbed to the fort on the high ground according to the formation they had trained before.

Because it was the first army of the Han Dynasty to set foot on Japanese soil, they were all very excited, and even their feet and weapons in their hands seemed to be much lighter.

Among the leading team was the regiment of the Han Liaodong Army. Originally, it stands to reason that as a regimental leader, he did not need to participate in such a skirmish, but because the stakes of the first battle were so high, and the honor of being the first to set foot on Japanese soil was too tempting, he took the lead and landed on land first.

Originally, before leaving, the other two regiments also wanted to compete for this task, but Zhao Song finally gave the opportunity to his old subordinates. Zhao Shuai's hard work is clear, and he also knows what method he should use to repay his boss.

Under his command, more than 100 officers and men who had landed first gathered and then walked up the high ground along the flanks and marched towards the battery.

Just as they were on the high ground, there was a neat roar in the heart of the harbor. Then, a large group of figures rushed out of the deep mountains and forests, and killed them.

Bi Su did not panic in the slightest, because the distance was still enough, so according to his previous combat experience in Liaodong, he first observed these Japanese soldiers who rushed over.

These people had strange hairstyles, roared strange smiles that he didn't understand, and even their clothes were not uniform. Although the leader was holding a long knife and his expression was very fierce, in the eyes of Bi Su, who had fought many battles with the Jurchens and the Mongols, what was it?

It's just a rabble. He smiled coldly in his heart, then waved his hand.

The Han soldiers, who had already climbed the heights, quickly formed a formation, and then lined up in small formations. According to the custom of the Great Han, several rows of soldiers with muskets stood in front of the formation first.

The navy had already discovered the abnormal movement here, so it turned the muzzle of the gun and launched an artillery attack on the hinterland of the mountains and forests that those people had rushed out just now, and the roar of the shelling drowned out the roar of these Japanese soldiers, but it did not affect Bi Su's judgment. He looked coldly at the people who rushed over, calmly estimating the distance between the two armies.

When he felt the time was right, he waved his hand heavily.

"Fire!" The officers shouted loudly.

"Bang!" With the roar of the guns, the dense projectiles rushed towards these Japanese soldiers in unison, and then ruthlessly took away their flesh and blood, but although many people fell, the Japanese soldiers next to them were unaware, and kept screaming and rushing towards this side, as if they had gone crazy.

"Fire!" The officer continued to give the order, and the muskets roared again, taking more lives.

As the distance got closer, more and more Japanese soldiers died under the gun.

Slowly, the speed of their charge slowed down, and the fear of death began to take away their previous bravery, but the leading warriors still did not stop, and led them to rush to the front of the Han soldiers.

However, at this time, the musketeers of the Great Han retreated, and the soldiers with spears stepped up.

The soldiers walked towards these Japanese soldiers with skillful formation and steady pace, like a long wall of moving spikes.

The two armies soon met once, and the leading warriors were pierced by the dense spears almost at the same time, and they wielded their long knives weakly, but they found that they had no chance to bring any harm to these red-clothed soldiers, and could only die with helplessness and unwillingness.

After seeing the samurai being crushed so easily, the rest of the force finally collapsed, some of them standing still, others screaming and throwing down their weapons, and then running back at a faster speed than before.

However, no matter what they did, their chances of survival were pitiful, and after the enemy began to flee, the pikemen and musketeers, based on their many years of experience in fighting in Liaodong, soon launched a surprise attack, and their weapons once again took the lives of most of them.

Soon, there was nothing left of this small battlefield but the wails of the dying. In the end, some resistance turned into futility.

Bi Su stopped the soldiers from pursuing further, and then regrouped his troops, just as new reinforcements came ashore. They walked along the heights towards the battery, trying to capture it immediately.

Although there was sporadic resistance along the way, their resistance was almost worthless because the fierce bombardment had destroyed most of the defenders, and the morale and courage of the survivors had collapsed, and they were quickly wiped out by the Han soldiers.

When the entire fort was occupied, a red flag was slowly unfurled on the original site of the fort. Then cheers rang out almost simultaneously on the ship and on the batteries.

Although everyone was convinced of the superiority of their army, when they saw that the first battle went so smoothly, the soldiers couldn't help but feel joy from the bottom of their hearts.

In this way, in the initial engagement, the Han suffered no casualties, and the navy bombarded the two small forts of the Fukuoka domain at Hakata Bay beyond recognition, and the army then crushed the first soldiers of the clan to engage them.

They established a stronghold in Hakata Bay and would soon continue to land with troops, eventually expanding the stronghold into an occupation zone that became a fulcrum for the Han army in Kyushu.

As cheers arose, the naval bombardment slowly stopped, and they stayed in the harbor, monitoring the interior, waiting for a possible build-up of the Fukuoka Domain's troops and a counter-attack on the forts.

"Zhao Shuai, everything is going well, this is a jackpot!" Cai De looked at Zhao Song with joy on his face, "Let's hurry up and send a good news back, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't wait, right?" ”

"It was a good game, but it's just the beginning." Zhao Song put down the binoculars, as if to say to himself. "Alright, let's go, let's leave for the sea off Nagasaki!"

Having learned the lesson that when the Great Yuan attacked Japan, he was twice restrained and unable to deploy his troops because all the ships and troops were concentrated in Hakata Bay, and the Han army also made many adjustments when formulating the plan to attack Kyushu.

Taking full account of the fact that the Han had absolute superiority at sea and that the shogunate simply did not have enough sea power to resist, so the Han army could move at sea without restrictions, Zhao Song and his senators decided to divide their troops into two routes and land in two places at the same time.

One is Hakata Bay in northern Kyushu, and the other is Nagasaki in western Kyushu.

Both of these places were geographically excellent and convenient for landing, and Nagasaki was the core area of the shogunate in Kyushu, and a direct attack on Nagasaki would allow the shogunate to have to fight the Han and save the Han time to capture Kyushu.

In the afternoon, under the command of the banner, the Dahan's fleet suddenly turned around, and most of the warships and transports left Hakata Bay, leaving only a small part of the army here to rest for a day, and then continue the coastal attack on the Fukuoka Domain, taking this area into the hands of the Dahan army, and then they would continue to march towards northern Kyushu, planning to capture Kokura and Moji Port, and cut off the connection between Kyushu and Honshu Island.

And here, it will also become a base for material transfer in Dahan to support the next operation of the Dahan army.

Zhao Song also sailed all the way to Nagasaki with this fleet, and he set the direction of the main attack in Nagasaki, so he naturally had to come to command it in person. Once again, the huge fleet assembled and sailed southward.

They had not been around for a long time before they reached the surface of the Hirado Sea, but several ships were in the way of them. These ships were very large and Western-style, and they looked like they were foreign merchant ships coming to Japan, not Japanese warships.

Cai De did not dare to slack off, and immediately asked people to raise flags on the sea, asking these ships to retreat immediately, not to obstruct the actions of the Han fleet, and at the same time ordering his own fleet to be on guard. If it weren't for the fact that the battle just now had extinguished too much fire, I'm afraid he would have wanted to directly order these ships to fire and use them to sacrifice the flag.

After seeing the banner of the Han Navy, these merchant ships also replied, and when they understood what they were talking about, Cai De's face became a little strange.

"What's going on?" Zhao Song asked.

"Zhao Shuai, these ships are Dutch ships, they are merchants, they are preparing to go to Hirado to do business, and now they want to talk to us......" Cai De's face was a little strange, "Zhao Shuai, without further ado, just leave them alone, if they dare to get in the way, it would be good to sink them directly." ”

"Although the Dutch have few ships, after all, the ships are strong and the guns are strong, if you can, you should not fight them again, what is the point of forcing them to the side of the shogunate to oppose us." After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Song shook his head and rejected Cai De's proposal, "Those who don't know are not guilty, and they don't know what we're doing, so it's normal to have doubts." Well, you can tell them not to get in our way, and I can meet with a few of their representatives and explain the situation to them. ”

"Okay, Zhao Shuai." Zede nodded.

Although he is a marquis and one of the veterans of the navy, and Zhao Song is still only an earl, and only one of the army brigades, but in today's Han navy is still lower than the army after all, and the emperor and the crown prince have been ordered many times, Zhao Song is the main general of this expedition, whether it is the army or the navy, they must follow his instructions, so Cai De does not mind being a little respectful to him and acting according to his judgment.

What's more, he is still a real 'Zhao family'.

Under the instruction of Cai De, the Songshan immediately raised the flag, and then the Dutch quickly made a decision, several ships turned their course, no longer interfering with the Han fleet, and the merchant ship put down a small boat, and several people rowed the small boat to the Songshan side.

They were quickly pulled onto the Songshan, and then despite their already wet bodies, the leading Dutchman immediately asked. "I am Van Gozett, a Dutchman, and I am currently the Dutch trade representative at the Japanese Trade Pavilion, who is the commander of this fleet? I want to see him! ”

He muttered a lot, and the soldiers were at a loss to understand, but there were some Westerners on the Songshan, and some of them were waiting for Dutch, so someone soon came to translate, and then brought him to Zhao Song and Cai De's side.

"Honorable Excellencies, it's a pleasure to meet you." After the translator introduced the identities of Cai De and Zhao Song, he immediately saluted these two people, "At such a time, I think you must have a heavy responsibility...... However, I would like to take the liberty of asking you to take the time to explain what you are going to do when such a large fleet of people comes here. ”

Because of the scale of the bombardment, the rumbling of artillery on Hakata Bay had already reached the territory of the Hirado domain, and when they heard this sound, the Dutch, who were already a little scared by the harassment of the Daihan pirates, became even more panicked. When the merchant hall discovered that there was a Han fleet heading south from the north, they took the courage to take a few ships to the open sea, wanting to find out what was going on and decide what to do next.

"I am a general sent by the Great Han to conquer the Japanese shogunate." Zhao Song didn't go around in circles with him, and directly laid out the facts, "We have bombarded the Fukuoka Domain just now, and then we will go south to attack Nagasaki and even more places." ”

"You...... Are you saying that your country has already started a war with Japan?! Gozette was taken aback, looking dazed, "But...... But we didn't get a similar notice? ”

"We didn't start a war against Japan, we just came to crusade against the shogunate, and the shogunate was not the imperial court of Japan, which are two different things." Zhao Song replied with a straight face, "In short, this war has begun, I hope you don't interfere in the future, so as not to affect yourself." ”

Gozette has now understood that this is an undeclared war. Without giving any prior notice to the Japanese side, the Great Han directly launched the war, and then launched an attack on the island of Kyushu with his own fleet.

Although the shogun deliberately justified his country's actions by citing the fact that the shogunate was not the legitimate government of Japan, this seemed to him to be an untenable excuse.

However, he did not want to make a moral comment on the behavior of the Great Han, he was a businessman, and a businessman who had traveled thousands of miles from Holland to Batavia and finally to Japan, and he had already done a lot of immoral things himself, so where was he interested in blaming others?

Besides, the same is true in Europe today, the wars in Germany are still going on, and the feudal lords and princes everywhere have already been unscrupulous and unscrupulous, and the whole German land has been mourned and wounded, and this kind of undeclared war has long been commonplace.

Now that such a reality has happened, he has to think about how to profit from it, or at least avoid more losses.

Interference is definitely impossible, the Netherlands only has a few ships in Japan, and it is also a merchant ship, and the combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the naval fleet of the Han Dynasty at all, and interfering is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and he will never do this.

However, Japan was an important market for the Netherlands in the East, and the East India Company had great interests here, and it would be difficult to accept the loss of such a war.