Port of Nagasaki, Japan.

Located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago facing the Ming Dynasty, this port city has been an important center for exchanges between Japan and the world since the mid-to-late Warring States period. After the Tokugawa shogunate followed the example of the new Ming Dynasty and embarked on the road of the restoration and opening of the country, Nagasaki became an industrial and commercial center comparable to Osaka.

Hundreds of islands, large and small, are dotted around Nagasaki Port, which not only provides Nagasaki with an excellent sheltered anchorage, but also protects Nagasaki Port into a fortress city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The islands, located outside the port of Nagasaki, were either built with fairly secret batteries, tall lookouts, or small military harbors where torpedo boats and gunboats could anchor. If the enemy from the sea could not clear all the islands, it would be difficult for them to land in the bay of Nagasaki.

It is not easy to attack from the land behind the port of Nagasaki, the city of Nagasaki is built on a strangely shaped peninsula, only the northwest corner is connected to the island of Kyushu, the width of the connection is only 112 kilometers, and there are mountains and hills in front and back, left and right, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack! The peninsula where Nagasaki is located is densely covered with low hills, and small pieces of flat land are surrounded by these hills, turning into valleys, all of which are good places for Tibetan soldiers to set up ambushes - before the Tokugawa shogunate ruled the world, this area of Nagasaki has always been a good place for bandits and pirates to entrench!

What is the nest of the five islands navy and the Omura navy and other Japanese robbers here!

Today's Nagasaki port area is a mix of old and new, which is the most common thing in an old country as it enters a new era. Ming-style and Western-style buildings are dotted throughout, and cranes imported from the Ming Dynasty are densely packed in the port. Near the wharf, there are cargo stacks everywhere. However, when Shimazu Sairyo of the Satsuma Domain suddenly attacked and occupied Nagasaki in late February with a group of former shogunate naval personnel, Satsuma feudal clansmen, and rendezvous ronins from all over Japan, and also raised the banner of honoring the king, the port of Nagasaki soon became very sluggish - after all, commerce and trade here were carried out by the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are still some ships in the port. Mainly, there were warships that belonged to the shogunate navy and some pirate ships or raid ships that disguised themselves as civilian ships (there was actually no difference between the two), and oh, and a few 10,000-ton galleons of the East India Company, which were also parked by the dock in a corner of the harbor. A group of diminutive Japanese dock workers, wearing white cloth sashes and shorts, were shuttling back and forth to carry large bags of goods off the galleons, guarded by dozens of samurai.

Factories that could build small and medium-sized ships are huddled in a corner of the harbor, which is also very busy, with black smoke on the tall chimneys and soot dust everywhere. The slipway is even busier, but what exactly is busy, outsiders do not know. Because around these slipways, black curtains have been drawn, and they are tightly covered. All you can hear is the rattling of sawn wood, the clanging of timber, and the characteristic sound of the trumpets of Japanese workers.

In Nagasaki City, the flag symbolizing the Tokugawa shogunate has long since disappeared, and the banner of "Honoring the King" is planted everywhere. Half of the shops along the street have been closed, and the rest are doing brisk business – the ronins who have gathered from all over the world under the banner of "Respect for the King" seem to be quite wealthy and spend lavishly. But the merchants who still run shops in Nagasaki can't help but sigh......

O king!

The king means to work against the Tokugawa shogunate, and to fight against the Daimei dynasty...... This Nagasaki city is about to end!

On a mountain peak on the Nagasaki Peninsula, on the walls of a Japanese-style castle hidden in the midst of a dense mountain forest, Shimazu Ryomasa, who was "angry at the crown for Akon", and the representative of the British Empire, George Shimasa. Yilu, and that one-eyed dragon Xixiang, are holding binoculars and looking at the sea together...... It's looking at the giant ship that wanders back in the distant sea!

It was a battleship as large as a castle wall, with a scissor-like bow and an inward-sloping hull, a smooth superstructure, and a tall mast with no cluttered ropes, making it look clean and tidy.

The hull of the ship was painted in a clean white color, and the sun and moon were hung on the mast.

In the bow and stern, there is also an armored turret, and two 305 mm cannons stretch out from the armored turret, which looks majestic. The ship also had a large number of secondary guns on both sides, each with at least 10 155 mm secondary guns, all under the protection of the gun covers.

"That's what it is...... Hongwu Emperor level! The one-eyed dragon Saigo said in an envious tone, "When will we have such a warship in Japan?" ”

"There will be!" Shimazu Qi Liang said with a blushing face, "When we defeat the shogunate and the chaebol and establish a new Japan, we will have our own emperor!" ”

Saigo asked again, "...... When will we bring down the corrupt Tokugawa shogunate? ”

Shimazu Qiliang said: "As long as we can repel the invasion of the Ming Kou...... If we defeat the invincible Myko, then all the heroes of Japan will be on our side! ”

Next to George. When Yilu heard this, he just frowned, and then continued to hold the binoculars, staring at the Great Emperor class in the distance, which was the second ship of the Hongwu Great Emperor class, the Hanwu Great Emperor class, and also the flagship of the Ming Beiyang Fleet. After waving the banner of "Honoring the King and Ming" here in Nagasaki, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty led a whole fleet around the sea near Nagasaki.

However, the Ming naval fleet did not dare to get too close to Nagasaki, after all, there were no less than ten batteries around Nagasaki Port, and these batteries were set up with 11-inch howitzers produced by Japan, with a total of no less than 100 guns!

The technology of this 11-inch cannon came from the British Armstrong company, which was developed in the late Napoleonic Wars and was originally intended to be used to bombard Paris, so it also had the nickname "Paris Cannon". Although it is an "old gun" more than ten years ago (the technology of rear-loading guns in this era has progressed rapidly, and it is basically backward when it is installed), it is still not small, it can fire shells weighing up to 217 kg, and the range can also reach 7.65 kilometers. Even the Hongwu Emperor level can't withstand the bombardment of this artillery!

With the protection of 100 11-inch howitzers, it was impossible for the Ming to attack Nagasaki from the sea.

So the only feasible way was to land at a distance from Nagasaki and then march by land...... And fighting land battles is precisely the strength of the Japanese samurai!

Not to mention anything else, their lives are worthless, and they are enough for Daming to drink a pot.

Now there are more than 20,000 ronins gathered in Nagasaki, and there is a steady stream of ronins coming! And George. Yoshiro brought 30,000 tons of sailing ships to Nagasaki with a large amount of guns and ammunition, enough for them to fight a protracted battle on land.

If Shimazu Qiliang and their command are correct, then the Battle of Nagasaki is likely to last for several years, and the Ming army may pay tens of thousands of casualties...... At that time, will the people of the Ming Dynasty still want to fight a long and protracted war with the British-Indian Empire?

Come to think of it, George. Yoshiro finally put down his binoculars, turned back to Shimazu Qiliang and said, "General Shimazu, according to the experience of the Battle of Peshawar, as long as you do a good job in the defensive engineering of the position and then defend it with water-cooled machine guns, you will definitely be able to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy...... And the Ming Empire can't bear that kind of casualties! As soon as they lose too much, they will abandon the attack. At that time, we, the British Empire, will intervene to make the Ming give up interfering in Japan, so that your Shimazu family can replace the Tokugawa family as the lord of Japan! ”

Shimazu nodded heavily: "If our Shimazu family becomes the master of Japan, Japan will regard the British Empire as its most solid ally...... If the Ming Dynasty dares to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire, it will be an enemy of Japan! ”