Chapter 233: Expedition

Shuai Yin has been taken down, but it does not mean that everything is fine, on the contrary, the real busyness has just begun - the construction of new ships must be accelerated; The fleets that go out on the expedition should strengthen their training; The production of artillery and shells also had to be accelerated; The large number of sailors who had been mobilized also needed time to familiarize themselves with the new ship; In order to carry out amphibious landing drills, the more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers of Li Ke's troops who crossed the sea had to be familiar with the new type of artillery, and at the same time, they also had to conduct mountain warfare and urban warfare drills according to the terrain of Nagasaki. Although as early as a year ago, Yinzuo had secretly ordered Li Ke, who was the governor of Shandong, to reorganize the army and conduct various small-scale drills under various names, but after all, it was all done in private, not to mention the small scale, and the effect was not satisfactory.

Judging from the current armament conditions, the sea-crossing operation is actually a non-logistical operation, and due to the means of transport, logistical supplies cannot be continuously transported from the mainland to the front line on a large scale, which determines the arduousness of this battle. Although Yinzuo had made all kinds of preparations in advance, when the old man really issued the edict to send troops, he suddenly found that there were so many things that he had to mobilize all his strength to carry out various preparations, even the nominal boss of the old fourteenth was too busy to touch the ground.

On the morning of June 2, the 42nd year of Kangxi, Prince Cheng Yinzhi played a chapter, saying that the flag was corrupt, the idle flag people were constantly making trouble, and the Beijing division was restless, and asked the saint to rectify the flag affairs, and on the "Flag Rectification Proposal", Bao played the eighth elder brother to rectify the flag affairs, the old man Kangxi praised it very much, and then ordered Prince Lian to lead the rectification of the flag affairs, for a time the Beijing division was full of dust, the old and young flag people complained bitterly, Prince Lian was busy and dizzy, and he did not have time to take care of the matter of sending troops to recruit Dongying. Henan Province of the apportionment into the mu, the gentry of the integration of the grain has also come to the time of the summary, the accounting of the number of acres, the work of customizing taxes and silver is already cumbersome, plus the money law restructuring on the affairs are very much, and the normal operation of the household also needs to invest a lot of energy, the fourth and thirteenth brothers are also dizzy and dizzy by these miscellaneous things, although the brothers who did not fight for the handsome position are a little unwilling, but there is no spare time to pay attention to the matter of the water master. As for Yinzuo and Lao Fourteen, the two brothers are also busy preparing for the dispatch of troops, so naturally they will not cause trouble at this time, and the entire court is quiet for a while, and the big guys are busy with their own affairs, which can be regarded as peaceful.

On August 3, the 42nd year of Kangxi's reign, 20 large warships and 15 medium-sized warships, which were originally scheduled to be completed in mid-August, were completed ahead of schedule, and left the Shanghai wharf together with a large number of sailors mobilized by Yinzuo, and at the same time set sail with nearly 50 large sea ships mobilized by Yinzuo to be used as transport ships, and nearly 100 ships arrived at the Qingdao wharf on 20 August loaded with various logistical materials. Liu Shuangcheng, the veteran 14th and commander of the Shandong Navy Division, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately began to reorganize personnel and conduct a large-scale naval training operation. On September 16, the 42nd year of Kangxi, Yinzuo, who was ordered to see off the army on behalf of the old man Kangxi, rushed to Qingdao and immediately held a pre-war preparation meeting.

The commanders of the water and land armies who participated in the war this time are all minions of Yinzuo's men, and Lao Fourteen can be regarded as the elder brother on Yinzuo's side, and this preparation meeting can be regarded as a "family meeting". The battle plan had been drawn up in advance, and the commanders at all levels had already known their tasks, and they had conducted targeted large-scale simulation training several times, but it was not a big deal, but Yinzuo still explained the plan in detail again on the chart.

The Nagasaki Peninsula is long and narrow, and apart from the port, the only place that can allow the fleet to land on the beach is Motegi Town, which leads directly to the port of Nagasaki on the Amakusa Beach, and once the beach is landed, Li Kebu must quickly pass through this 50-mile main road, go straight to Nagasaki's belly, cut off the retreat route of the Nagasaki defenders, and block the defenders with one section, while most of them set up an ambush in Kaminishiyama, preparing to ambush the enemy troops coming to aid in the Unzen and Isaya areas, and annihilate the enemy forces as much as possible. In addition to covering the landing of the main force at Motegi Town, the main force of the Naval Division will attack the port of Nagasaki with all its might, in order to destroy the Toei Nearshore Naval Division and the coastal batteries in Nagasaki Port, which is a funnel-shaped harbor with two batteries opposite each other, Mt. Okubo and Kanzakiba, as well as four batteries in Kuo Town and Otani Town.

The topography of Nagasaki Port determined that the battle of the naval division was not easy - although the Nagasaki Dongying Water Division was weak, if it could not be annihilated before attacking the fort, once the Oshimizu Division entered the narrow port and began to attack the fort and port, then the Dongying Water Division could give full play to the advantage of the small U-turn of the ship, and there would be more ants to gnaw at the elephant, even if the battle was won, there would inevitably be damage. For Yinzuo, even if it is a slight injury, he is not willing to pay, for this reason, Yinzuo designed three sets of combat plans - one is to show the enemy to be weak first, after sending troops to land in Motegi Town, with a small group of medium-sized warships as bait, to lure the Dongying Naval Division to go to sea to meet the battle, and annihilate the Dongying Naval Division on the sea with superior forces, although this plan is good, but some are too wishful thinking, the initiative is not in their own hands, once the Dongying Naval Division does not fight, but there is the possibility of fighting the grass and startling the snake. The second plan was to take advantage of the darkness to send a small landing force to surprise attack the Okubo Mountain and Kanzaki two forts, and the fleet launched a surprise attack at dawn to annihilate the Toei Naval Division on the shore. The third plan is to attack by force, with powerful artillery fire and direct attack.

The matter of the landing battle is very cumbersome, it is impossible to calculate everything at all, Yinzuo can only grasp the general direction, as for which plan to use or how to operate, Yinzuo handed it all over to the old fourteenth to decide, everyone discussed around the chart for a while, and then dispersed, Yinzuo and Yinyu took advantage of the night to go for a walk outside.

"Old Fourteen, you and remember, it is not difficult to take Nagasaki, and it is easy to hold Nagasaki, but if you plan to destroy the country with such a small number of troops, it is impossible, once you gain a firm foothold in Nagasaki, the main force of the fleet will immediately divide into two routes, one way to bombard Osaka and Kobe in the east, and the other way will go straight to Edo with the main fleet, give me a fucking shit, and then sit down and talk about it when the fight is almost over, as for the negotiation, it will be handed over to Sun Quanmin, the official of the Ministry of Rites, you just need to keep an eye on it, don't interfere, Then there is the construction of Nagasaki for me, and that place can be regarded as my enclave of the Qing Dynasty. Yinzuo said with a calm face.

Yinyu grinned and replied: "Sixth brother, you have spoken countless times, and the younger brother has already been able to recite it." ”

Yinzuo glanced at the old fourteenth, and said calmly: "Just remember, you already know a lot about the theory of naval warfare, and my brother won't say anything more, but there is one, don't be greedy, you have to stop when you should stop, don't fight too much, Nagasaki will be beaten into ruins, in the end, you have to rebuild, and the sixth brother still hopes to save some silver." ”

"Got it." The fourteenth replied a little absentmindedly, thought silently for a while, and suddenly smiled and said: "Sixth brother, the younger brother heard that the Dongying woman is soft and very tasteful, why don't you bring you a boat back?" ”

Depend on! A boat? Damn,Lao Tzu didn't open a brothel.,Why do you get a boat back.,But well,It's okay to come a few.,Even if you don't use it.,It's good to give it away.,Woe.,It seems that we still admired Japanese AV movies in our previous life.,Alas,Past life、Past life,I can't go back to my past life.。 Yinzuo was a little distracted, thinking all the way, he didn't say anything, but the old fourteen couldn't hold it back, and looked at Yinzuo a little strangely and said: "Sixth brother, shouldn't you be worried about the sisters-in-law scolding?" Hey, it's better to be a little brother, the mother-in-law and aunts at home are very well-behaved......"

Yinzuo waved his hand a little irritably and said: "Enough, don't talk about those who don't have it, this is a war, you think it's a child's house, let's talk about it after occupying Nagasaki." It's not early, I'm back, and I'll go out early the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow's things are still cumbersome. ”

Seeing that Yinzuo was a little annoyed, the old fourteen didn't dare to ask what was going on, so he responded in a low voice: "Okay, sixth brother, the younger brother will go back first." "I took care of myself and returned to the Chinese military account. Yinzuo walked alone under the moonlight, but his heart was really a little uneasy, and a wave of melancholy came to his heart for no reason, smiled self-deprecatingly, and went back to rest.

On September 18, the 42nd year of Kangxi, the originally busy Qingdao wharf was crowded, more than 150 large and small ships lined up in battle formation, moored on the sea not far away, only the flagship led three frigates docked on the wharf, more than 100 local officials under the leadership of Yinzuo saw off the sailors who were about to go on the expedition, read the edict of the old man, worshiped the sea dragon king, and sent the Zhuangxing wine by Yinzuo, the old fourteen drank all the wine in the bowl in one gulp, laughed, threw the bowl to the ground, and got on the boat with his head high, and said: " Set sail", the big ships left the dock and joined the large fleet, and after the ships fired three cannons, they sailed eastward......

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