After learning about the situation in Japan, the sixth knew that he could not expect to solve the problem purely by naval warfare.

But whether it is his city fleet or Yu Tongyuan's water division, they are all good at water warfare and neglected land warfare. The three guards of the king of Chu were trained by the two uncles, and they cultivated both land and water, which can be regarded as the earliest marine team of the Ming Dynasty.

The sixth child is still not at ease, so he will ...... the future father-in-law One of the Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi also brought it.

Don't look at Wang Bi as an official and selling his daughter for peace, but he, the Marquis of Dingyuan, didn't sell his daughter. The prestige of the 'Double Knife King' is not obtained by chopping tofu.

He was the pioneer officer of the first fierce man in the Ming Dynasty, and even the fierce general brother admired by the King of Kaiping. It was the sixth canister for the siege, but I didn't expect it to be used in this first battle......

Wang Bi was also very excited, after all, the stone wall was a defense line that Kublai Khan's Yuan army had not breached. If you win it, you can definitely brag about it for a few lifetimes.

So he happily accepted the order and hurriedly discussed the specific division of labor with Hu Quan and Hu Bo. The armies participating in the war were also in full swing to make pre-war preparations. Although the three guards of the king of Chu have not yet been opened in earnest, from officers to soldiers, they are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and these things do not need to be worried about by the main general.

At noon, fifty battleships carrying 10,000 landing troops left the main fleet's anchorage at the mouth of Hakata Bay and slowly approached the dock, which had been burned to ashes.

Yu Tongjiang's reconnaissance ship had already discovered that Hakata Bay was a deep-water harbor, and there was no need to worry about whether the battleship would run aground if it was too close to the shore.

The sailors, under the command of the officer, shouted together and pushed the rudder to make the battleship turn, line up in a battle line, and face the enemy with the side side.

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Seeing the Ming warships lined up on the shore and facing them with their sideboards, this made the Japanese troops on the stone wall hundreds of feet away scratch their heads...... After the Ming army discovered the sulfur they had buried in the houses in the port area, there was no point in hiding it, and the Japanese troops rushed to the city to prepare to defend it.

Guarding this sacred wall are the three local tyrants of Kyushu, known as the three people of Kyushu, the governor of the Chikuzen Shaoji clan, Yorisumi, the family governor of the Bungo Otomo clan, and the family governor of the Satsuma Shimazu clan.

These three are natives of Kyushu daimyo, and it is their duty to defend their hometown, and they were the main force to resist the Yuan army a hundred years ago. The commander who resisted the Yuan army for the first time was Shao Er Lai Cheng's great-grandfather Shao Er Jingzi.

A hundred years later, these three will stand on this stone wall.

But the movements of the Ming army made them incomprehensible, why did they put up this formation, just for the convenience of landing? But the ship didn't really come to the dock, and it was still a few feet away from the shore.

Fortunately, the Ming army didn't let them wonder for too long, and after arranging the formation, the sailors skillfully opened the cannon window, launched the cannon, loaded the gunpowder projectile, inserted the fuse, and prepared to ignite the cannon.

"It's artillery!" The distance between the two sides was less than a mile, and the movements of the Ming army could be clearly seen with eyesight. The trio were not unfamiliar Honshu daimyos, and although they had never seen them in person, they had heard of such large firearms from the mouths of maritime merchants and Japanese kokos.

However, in this era, Japan did not have artillery, not even a firearm. So they didn't have an intuitive feeling of the power of the artillery, but just looked at the dense cannon barrels on those battleships, and their scalps instinctively tingled.

"That's a lot." Shao Er Lai Cheng exclaimed, now they understand why the Ming army is facing them on the side, just to use as many cannons as possible.

"At such a distance, their cannons can hit me?" Shimazu was the only one who had seen artillery with his own eyes, and that was when the Ming pirates showed off their firepower to him, and they performed a shelling show, but he had the impression that the cannonballs began to fall before they could fly a hundred feet.

"Just look at it." Otomo said calmly.

So the three of them stood on the stone wall and watched the Ming army light up and open fire.

I saw that the Ming army ignited the fuse with a torch, and the fuse sparked, quickly igniting the gunpowder in the barrel, and the muzzle spit out a series of fire snakes. Immediately followed by the earth-shattering rumbling cannon, a large iron ball the size of a melon, roared with a thunderous momentum.

Facts have proved that the shells of the Ming army can not only fly over, but also fiercely. Before they could react, several Japanese soldiers who stood on the wall and watched the scene were severely bitten off their hands and feet, eaten their heads, and smashed open their chests by the spinning shells.

In an instant, blood was splashed everywhere on the wall, stumps flew sideways, and the wounded Japanese soldiers fell to the ground screaming in pain, falling off the wall like dumplings.

The trio were lucky, the nearest cannonball to them only smashed the head of their escort warrior and splashed the brains of Shao Er Lai Cheng's face.

The three of them hurriedly lay down in embarrassment to dodge, seeing that the samurai and ashigaru around them were still standing there and being cannoned, they hurriedly shouted for them to lie down too.

More shells smashed into the walls of the stone walls, each of which splattered countless debris and left a crater the size of a bowl. Dozens of shells bombarded up at the same time, shaking the stone walls slightly. It feels like it's going to collapse at any moment......

It was not enough to jump off the stone wall, and he hid several feet away, lest the stone wall collapse and crush him.

The samurai quickly drew their swords and drove Ashigaru back to his place with a hoarse voice, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

At this time, the three of them found that the Ming army had begun to land, and they rowed small boats to transport soldiers from the big boats to the shore in waves.

This wave of artillery fire was apparently intended to cover the landing. Sure enough, under the sudden artillery bombardment, the Japanese troops on the stone wall defense line were in chaos, and they had no time to organize an attack, so they could only watch the Ming army go ashore......

By the time the shelling was over, the trio had quelled the chaos and regained control of the army. The Ming army that landed had already exceeded two thousand people and had built a solid defensive line, passing the most chaotic and dangerous stage of the landing.

The three of them were all experienced generals, and they knew that it was useless to attack again at this time, so they hurriedly ordered their subordinates to inspect the fortifications, count the losses, replenish the troops, and meet the attack of the Ming army.

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In that room, Wang Bi also went ashore in a small boat, and Hu Bo, who was the pioneer, hurriedly caught up. "Master Hou."

"Well, Uncle Nanchang's movements are very sharp, and the sword is not old." Wang Bi was very satisfied that Hu Bo was able to establish a good defense line in such a short time.

"Master Hou said with a smile, if you can't do this thing, you are embarrassed to lead the troops?" Hu Bo wore armor and did not show his trademark braids, which made him feel very unaccustomed. "Let's say okay, I'll take the lead in the attack later."

"Rest assured, it's sure to make you shine. But not today. Wang Bi shook his head and stared at the long stone wall in front of him:

"I didn't expect this broken wall to be quite strong, I thought that the cannon just now could at least collapse one or two sections."

"It's too far." Hu Bo said in a sullen voice: "It's no problem for our artillery to kill people, we want to collapse the city wall, but we don't have that ability." ”

"It's not our kind of wall." Wang Bi handed the telescope to Hu Bo, asked him to look at the wall carefully, and said, "I believe that if it can collapse, it is nothing more than to get closer and open fire." ”

(End of chapter)