"Landing on Honshu Island is a sure thing."

On the 20th day of July in the 11th year of Wu'an, in Ogura Castle, Su Fu, who had come from Fukuoka on purpose, looked at the generals in the room, and said in a firm but slow tone.

"The Japanese army has deployed 140,000 troops in the Chinese region, and its strength far exceeds that of our army, and if it is forced to land, even if it has the cover of the naval division, it will still pay a huge price, and it may be driven down the Guanmen Strait by the Japanese counterattack that reacts at any time." Yasukuni Duke Yuan Zongdi said in a deep voice.

Su Fu was not convinced at all, he said: "Although the Japanese army is far superior to me, most of its troops are rabble, and in the frontal field battle, the Japanese army has no chance of victory, but Japan is not so easy to conquer, and the Governor has already sent a message to the imperial court to form the seventh town in the provinces of Shandong as a reinforcement for the Japanese conquest."

Hearing that Su Fu had already played to the court to form a new army, all the generals nodded, although the Japanese campaign was progressing rapidly, and the Japanese army was not the opponent of the Xia army at all, but the Xia army was still too small after all, although the quality of the Japanese army was poor, but they were better at home and could reinforce at any time, while the Xia army could only come from the mainland across the sea with a lot of effort to transport troops and horses.

Moreover, in the current Tsukushi Province, the Xia army has only more than 85,000 troops, and it is still scattered in the coastal areas of the Seto Inland Sea to prevent the Japanese army from landing, and the inland is mainly maintained by the 50,000 Korean officers and troops who have conquered Japan together.

After some ideological games, Su Fu still decided to gather heavy troops, forcibly cross the Guanmen Strait, and land in Changmen Kingdom.

To this end, he gathered all the first towns in Fengzen Province, preparing to use the first town as the main attack, and the fourth town except for some soldiers and horses still scattered in the coastal areas to garrison, most of the troops were used as reserves, once the first town failed to attack, the fourth town will be reinforced.

Su Fu was unwilling to wait for the formation of the Seventh Town to be completed before launching an attack after arriving in Japan, he knew very well that from Tsukushi to Jiangning, and then to the imperial court ordering conscription - the completion of conscription - training of new soldiers - and then to enter the DPRK and wait for transportation to Tsukushi, this period of time may be as long as half a year at the earliest, and if the Japanese army is given half a year, there may be more than 140,000 Japanese troops in China.

Therefore, at the insistence of Su Fu, the plan to forcibly cross the Guanmen Strait and land in Nagato Province was finally formulated.

The landing operation will begin in early August, with Su Fu personally serving as the chief general and sitting in Kokura Castle, the first town of Yasukuni Gong Yuan Zongdi personally leading the first town to cross the sea, and Fuhou Tan Wen and Renshou Hou Tan Yi as deputy generals to fight on the front line together.

After the landing plan was finalized, the first town immediately entered a state of combat readiness, and all the Beiyang naval divisions were transferred to the Guanmen Strait, and under the cover of the Korean naval divisions, they launched a fierce attack on the Japanese warships in the area of the Guanmen Strait.

The Japanese naval division did not have an advantage, and was quickly defeated under the fierce offensive of the allied naval division, and surrendered the control of the sea in the Guanmen Strait, and this move of the allied naval division immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese envoy Abe Tadaaki, who was keenly aware that this was a precursor to the offensive of the Xia army, so he ordered the coastal Japanese army to increase its vigilance and increase troops to the coastal areas.

The Kanmon Strait, which separates Bungo Province from Nagato Province, was very long, and the Japanese deployed heavy troops on each stretch of the beach, setting up high watchtowers to monitor the movements of the Xia army on the other side of the sea.

In this case, Xia Jun's every move will be monitored by the Japanese army, so Su Fu gave up any conspiracy and tricks, since he has enough strength, then directly push it!

So, the time quickly came to the early morning of the first day of August.

In the early morning of the first day of the eighth month, a rare thick fog appeared in the Kanmon Strait, and the situation on the other side of the sea could not be clearly seen from the watchtower of Nagato Province, which made many Japanese sentries subconsciously raise their alert.

On the sea, 29 tall Western-style warships braved the wind and waves, and under the leadership of Chen Zhaojun, they broke into the Guanmen Strait.

In the early morning, the Xia army battleship rushed out of the cover of the dense fog and approached the coast of Nagato country, when the Xia army battleship appeared, the Japanese army on the watchtower frantically sounded the gong of warning, accompanied by a rapid sound, the Japanese army in the camp fell into a chaos, the Japanese army hurriedly changed into armor, took weapons and ran out of the camp tent, into their respective places

of combat posts ready to fight.

Under their gaze, the Xia warship was just moored on the sea, like looking down on the humble ants, quietly watching the panicked Japanese camp, the Japanese did not try to shell the sea with artillery - to be precise, they tried, but the range of the artillery was not enough to hit the Xia warship.

On the contrary, the artillery on the Xia battleships was able to easily cover them, but to their puzzlement, the Xia army did not shell them.

Under the puzzled gaze of the Japanese army, a large number of boats gradually appeared on the sea, and when they saw those boats, the expressions of every Japanese soldier present changed greatly, and the lord of the Nagato Kingdom who came to the front line was even more pale, how could he not know what those boats represented - the Xia army had landed!

"Prepare for battle!"

"Iron Gunner, reload your ammo!"

Immediately, the Japanese camp fell into a panic again, the Japanese soldiers were all on standby, and the iron gunners stood behind the wooden fence, poking the iron cannon out of the fence, staring at the increasing number of Xia army ships with scattered eyes.

Under their gaze, the first Xia army ship rushed onto the beach, a piece of long pedals were put down, and the heavily armed Xia soldiers went down, with the boots of the first Xia army stepping on the soft sand, the Japanese army finally couldn't sit still, I don't know who shouted first, and the Nanban barrel and the national collapse cannon in the Japanese camp roared one after another.

The black round cannonball immediately flew out of the muzzle, whistling and flying towards the warships and Xia soldiers on the beach, the Xia soldiers quickly dispersed and dodged, and a cannonball hit the hull of a warship with a sharp sound of breaking the air, making a huge gap in the hull, and then killing and wounding many Xia soldiers.

More shells fell on the beach, splashing pieces of sand, in the shouts of the Xia army, the sand particles fell like a curtain of rain, and the flying shells were also mixed in it, falling into the crowd, head-on cutting off the upper body of a Xia army infantryman, and then smashing backwards to kill and wound several people, before finally falling into the water.

After the Japanese opened fire, the Xia warships on the sea seemed to be turned on, and they poked their guns out of the gun window, with the shouts of officers one after another, the dazzling fire was lit from a section of the side side, and then quickly spread to the entire side of the side, dozens of guns assembled on the side opened fire in turn, and the fierce shells fired into the Japanese camp like raindrops!

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