Chapter 308

More than 40,000 small day troops, which can be regarded as the most elite troops that Kyushu can mobilize, including more than 6,000 arquebuses purchased from Portugal, Spain, and the Dutch.

If you just look at the proportion of muskets, the Xiaori army is actually much higher than the muskets equipped by the Ming border army, and as for the guards, there is no way to compare.

In addition to more than 6,000 arquebuses, there are as many as 30 Hongyi cannons and 56 Franc machine artillery, 86 guns are called the collapse of the country by the people of Xiao Ri, under the attack of the Ning naval artillery, Xiao Ri will be the fastest speed of the nine clans of Kyushu Island, each leading their own troops, so that the nine armies are Satsuma Domain, Fukuoka Domain, Kuroda Clan, Hizen Domain, Saga Clan, Kumamoto Domain, Hosokawa Clan, and so on.

The nine feudal lords each led their armies and came to the Ning Navy's array, where they found that the Ning Navy had arranged a defense system along Kagoer Castle and the docks.

Facing the trenches and breastwork arranged by the officers and men of the Ning Navy, it was the first time for Xiao Ri to see this kind of fortification, and he asked with some puzzlement: "What is the defense line of the Ming army...... It doesn't look good! ”

Hosokawa Tadashi rode his war horse and observed the Ming army's position with a telescope, and all he saw was a layer of deer and horse rejection piles only about ten meters deep, and a wall made of sandbags, and nothing else.

Hosokawa Tadashi asked in some surprise: "This is the defense line of the Ming army?" What about fences? What about the trenches? What about the fence and the watchtower? How come there is nothing? This line of defense is too rudimentary, isn't it? ”

Heishi Xinger said: "I can't believe that they went deep into the territory of Xiaori, and they dared to be so big when they were surrounded by strong enemies, and they only made such a simple fortification to fool people!" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa said: "Don't underestimate it, the combat effectiveness of this Ming army is very strong, and the bows and crossbows they are equipped with have an amazing range, more than twice that of our longbows, and even comparable to our iron cannons......"

"So the Ming army relied on these powerful bows and crossbows to have no fear, and did not take us seriously, and only built such a rudimentary fortification?"

The general of the Fukuoka Domain, Kuroda Yukiji, sneered: "In my opinion, we don't need to be nervous, first concentrate all the national collapses to destroy their fortifications, and then the cavalry charges, and the infantry follow and cover the killing, and at most pay the price of a thousand dead and wounded to drive all this Ming army into the sea to feed the fish!" ”

Among the major feudal armies in Kyushu, only the Shimazu clan fought against the Ning Navy, but because the Satsuma clan lost Kagoshi Castle, in the eyes of the other feudal lords of Kori, the Shimazu clan lost his old face and was not qualified to point fingers in front of them.

Of course, Shimazu Mitsuhisa was also very angry, and he also quickly shut his mouth and made the other feudal lords' armies suffer a little.

With the deployment of the various armies, the sun has set in the west, and it is already past noon.

"What the hell are they doing!"

Li Dingguo glanced at Liu Wenxiu angrily and said: "Tens of thousands of troops, it is very difficult to organize and mobilize, there is such an easy thing, they are not like our old brothers, they have rich experience!" ”

The troops under Zhang Xianzhong's command have not suffered defeats, but the problem is that as Zhang Xianzhong's elite descendants, they have their own management system, in fact, their management model is somewhat like the Tianxiong Army, with the same township, county and government as the management method, regardless of the number of people, and only care about their own group of people.

This is because there was no Mandarin in ancient times, and the language was very difficult to communicate, only in the local town and county could communicate, because everyone was familiar with each other, and it would be easier to be there.

It's been a good day for half a day. When the artillery began to deploy the formation, more than a dozen cavalry members of the Xiaori cavalry galloped over in a team, rushing back and forth around the Ming army's defense line, and their mouths emitted a series of weird, beast-like, non-beast-like, non-human, strange screams, attracting the attention of the Ming army, and even pulling out a longbow with a length similar to their height and firing arrows towards the Ming army's position, trying to lure the Ming army to open fire and consume the ammunition and arrows of the Ming army.

It can be seen that the quality of the samurai in these days is still quite high, and all the tactics are linked one by one, and they are very disciplined, which is worthy of being an elite division tempered in the war that lasted for two hundred years.

It's a pity that the small days are just a little bigger, the pattern is limited, and the tactical cooperation that they think is very coincidental is just like that in the eyes of the Ming army.

For those small day cavalry that are flying back and forth and bluffing, the officers and men of the Ning Navy are too lazy to look at it, because compared with the Jiannu cavalry, the cavalry of the small day is too far behind, not to mention compared with the Jiannu cavalry, even if it is the Mongolian cavalry of Jiannu's servant army, it is more professional than them to play cavalry to disturb the enemy.

Li Dingguo was a little curious, and asked Cheng Shijie: "Dashuai, what the hell are these little dwarfs doing?" ”

Cheng Shijie didn't speak, but Sun Kewang, who wanted to show himself in front of Cheng Shijie, took over the conversation and said, "What else can you do?" It is nothing more than an attempt to attract our attention, to cover the deployment of artillery, and by the way to test the range of our army's crossbows and muskets......"

"Not bad!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Hopefully, notify me and don't move anything!" ”

"Yes!"

At this moment, Liu Wenxiu asked, "Dashuai, what is that?" ”

Cheng Shijie picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of Liu Wenxiu's finger, only to see more than a dozen wheelbarrows appear on the position of Xiaori, a huge shield on the front of this wheelbarrow, with dozens of sharp spears on it, this kind of car is a bit similar to the ancient Chinese Saimen knife car.

This is the ancient city gate was knocked open by the enemy, used to temporarily block the enemy's armed vehicles, it is estimated that it was also learned from the Sui and Tang dynasties, Xiaori improved the Saimen knife car, and put a lot of wet quilts and other things on it.

In this way, Xiao Ri is equivalent to having an earthen tank that can prevent the attack of the fire gun or the bowl mouth gun, but don't underestimate this kind of earth tank, at least the Ning Navy's musket can't penetrate it.

"It's just a dirt tank, it's not a big deal!"

"What is an earthen tank?"

"Tanks are ......"

Cheng Shijie suddenly thought that this thing was the product of several centuries later, even if he said it, Liu Wenxiu and the others would not understand what a tank was, so they had to change their words and say: "It's a kind of invincible chariot." I said that those little dwarfs are really idiots, do they need both shields and quilts, wouldn't it be better to put loose soil directly on the car? Not only can it prevent arrows and fire, but it can't even hit the shells. ”

"Damn Minggou, now you have to pay the price of blood for your arrogance!"

The flag of the Ming army fluttering in Kagoshi, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, muttered to himself.

Of course, now he is even more speechless, the Nine Routes Army, seven of which are heading towards the field offensive of the Ning Navy, as for Kagojo, there is no one, after all, Kagoer Castle is the city of their Shimazu family, and has nothing to do with other feudal lords.

Looking at the kind of earthen tank that was getting closer and closer, a Ning Navy general said: "Commander-in-chief, they have entered the range of the mine, do you want to ......?"

"Let the dwarfs be happy for a while, and when they cry!"

Cheng Shijie yawned, waved his hand and said, "Hopefully, you will command, Ben Shuai will go to sleep!" ”

Just when the cavalry of Xiaori saw that the Ming army was not fooled at all, and their artillery positions were arranged, the cavalry of Xiaori retreated like a tide.

Immediately afterwards, the ground of the artillery position in Xiaori shook suddenly, erupting a large cloud of gunpowder smoke and firelight, and the loud bang formed a line like a runaway train, and hit the eardrums of the Ming soldiers.

The Ning Navy soldiers, who had been observing the situation over there, shouted: "Shelling! ”

All the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the soldiers of the decisive battalion almost instinctively jumped into the trench or anti-artillery hole, lying on the ground, and in the next second, the heavy lead ball spun all the way, slamming it with terrifying power!

Quickly hiding in the trenches in the face of artillery bombardment, this has become the instinctive reaction of the Ming army. When they hear the sound of cannons, they will instinctively roll into the trench, and a trench is the boundary between life and death!

The lead ball flew over and hit the Ming army's position. I have to say that although the solid lead ball fired by the front-loading smoothbore gun is very poor, and it is all dependent on Mongolia for more than 300 meters, and the power is not very good, but the destructive power is still quite amazing.

Eighty-six cannons fired at the same time, the power was extremely terrifying, just a salvo, the chest wall arranged by the Ming army was smashed into a mess, there were a few lead balls flying over the chest wall all the way rolling and bouncing, flying over the heads of the Ning Navy soldiers, falling in the middle of a temporary detention of Xiao Ri prisoners, suddenly stirred up a wave of blood, several Xiao Ri prisoners were smashed on the spot and smashed their heads, one of the chest was hit by a five-pound lead ball, the whole person was broken, and several legs came with a click, Foamy bone fragments mixed with flesh splattered radially in all directions, and the major arteries were exposed to the air, pumping out large strands of plasma.

The mortally wounded prisoners fell to the ground with their legs shortened, and they only had time to let out a half-scream before they passed out, and even in the coma, their bodies were still convulsing.

Li Dingguo's face turned white with a brush.

In all fairness, in terms of cavalry bravery, the cavalry of Xiaori is really inferior to the cavalry of Jiannu, and in terms of artillery battles, the artillery of Xiaori is really more professional than the Han army banner of Jiannu, after all, they have been taught by the Dutch and the Spaniards.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The second salvo of the small day began again, and the chest wall was beaten to pieces flying all over the sky, looking at the speed, if anyone was hit, he would be stabbed in the heart. The breastwork shook slightly, apparently hit by a lead ball. Surprisingly, the shot put hit the sandbag, only piercing the sandbag, and then sinking deep into the sand, without causing any substantial damage to the Peng wall, this seemingly inconspicuous line of defense is as solid as a rock.

It's just that the Xiaori captives are still so unlucky, a huge warehouse at the dock location, where hundreds of Xiaori captives are imprisoned, the warehouse was hit by Xiaori's Hongyi cannon, and the Xiaori captives who were locked inside were pressed under the ruins, making a terrible scream, and they couldn't even scream.

Many people's intestines have been pressed out, and they are still called hair?

The tragic experiences of the captives of these small days are extremely vivid and illustrate what it means to "no harm without contrast".

"Damn ......"

Countless small days of captives greeting these little days of gunners, it is the Ming people who kill you, why do you always shoot us!

Sun Kewang saw that he also had dozens of casualties, and hurriedly looked at Yuan Shiliang and asked, "General Yuan, when will we be able to fire back with artillery?" ”

"Right away!"

Yuan Shiliang looked at the artillery staff officer holding the calculated shooting parameters, so he said: "All gun positions, listen to my orders, azimuth XX, elevation angle XX, open the cannon!" ”

The first to fire was naturally the rocket artillery, and the fire dragons rushed out of the launch tube with a roar, pulling out straight parabolas, and pounced on the artillery position of Xiaori with teeth and claws, and in an instant, thousands of rocket artillery shells smashed into the artillery position of Xiaori.

Xiao Ri, who had never seen rocket artillery, asked in surprise: "What is this?" ”

The artillery of the Shimazu family, who had seen rocket artillery, ran away, but it was a pity, no matter how fast they were, they couldn't be faster than the rocket artillery shell, and a rocket artillery shell fell at Kuroda's feet, and the commander in charge of commanding the Kuroda family's artillery Kuroishi Jun flashed an orange fire in front of his eyes, and then, his consciousness was shattered.

Not only his consciousness, but also his body, every cell of him, was shattered in an instant, disappearing without a trace! The blast wave of the explosion spread like a sea of mountains, and a cannon weighing six or seven hundred pounds rolled and flew into the air with a deafening loud noise, and the rebel soldiers within 15 meters of the explosion point were shattered in an instant, and those within 25 meters fell down wailing in a flash of firelight, bleeding from all angles, spitting out dirty blood, and it seemed that they would not survive.

The terrifying firelight continued to bloom in the middle of the artillery position of the small day, and the violent sound of thunder made their souls scatter, they stood too closely, each artillery had a powder keg, and the powder keg was detonated by the rocket artillery, and exploded in the middle of them, and more than a dozen or even dozens of people were thrown into the air by the blast, torn into pieces and then falling one after another, draining a burst of blood rain, even in hell, such a terrifying scene is rare!

Just one salvo, the artillery of the little day was completely dumbfounded!

A severed arm fell from the sky and landed beside Kuroda Yuji, blood splashing directly on his body. He looked at the corpses scattered all around him and the broken limbs and broken arms that fell from the sky, and his face turned slightly pale.

Look at Hosokawa Tadashi again, this bandit's war horse is struggling like crazy, and his limbs are stiff, his eyes are scattered, and he was almost thrown off by the war horse!

looked at each other, and each saw the horror in each other's hearts: Hell, what kind of ghost cannons are the Ming army's equipment, they are so crazy!

Hosokawa Tadashi finally managed to control the war horse, and roared at the six gods and ownerless artillery: "What are you doing in a daze?" Open fire! Hurry up and shoot out their artillery, or we'll all die! ”

It's just that what he didn't know was that the surviving artillerymen around him just saw his mouth open and close.

With the artillery of Xiaori being almost completely wiped out, the attack ended without a hitch.

In the next few days, due to the lack of artillery cover, Xiao Ri's attack on the Ning Navy was just a bluff, in fact, Xiao Ri's Nine Roads were gnawed for several days, and they never gnawed.

Of course, Xiao Ri did not do his best, they always touched and left, and every time they used small forces to harass attacks.

At first, Sun Kewang thought that Xiao Ri was avoiding the important and preparing to make breakthroughs, but the problem was that gradually he pondered the taste.

"Dashuai, what the hell are you doing on a small day?"

"They're waiting!"

"Wait?"

Sun Kewang said with some puzzlement: "Wait for reinforcements from the Tokugawa Shogunate?" ”

"It's possible, but, it's more important to wait for the kamikaze to blow our fleet away!"

To be sure, Hakata Bay in late September and early October was very dangerous because of the high winds and rough seas. This season is the season of high typhoons, and it is during this time that the historical kamikaze blows, and the huge waves that set off the Yuan army slapped the Yuan army to the bottom of the sea.

More than 300 years later, in mid-October 1945, a superstorm blew and sank 12 US destroyers and frigates in one fell swoop, causing heavy losses to the US Pacific Fleet. If we hold out for another two months, maybe we can inflict heavy losses on the US army under the protection of the kamikaze and turn the tide of the war! ”

Of course, it was pure obscenity to turn the tide of the war or something, as far as the situation in China at that time was small, not to mention the kamikaze, even if the super storm of Jupiter was moved, it was useless, and even the roots of the pine trees were dug up in order to boil pine oil, so it was only enough fuel for the Yamato to make a one-way voyage, and it also hit the US army hard?

But I have to say that Xiaori's delaying tactics are exactly what Cheng Shijie's strategy is.

If you look at the map, you can see that the four islands are not connected in small days, and Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy Expeditionary Force to fight with the Shimazu clan on Kyushu Island, the purpose is also to attract reinforcements from the Tokugawa shogunate.

Don't look at Cheng Shijie's performance and don't pay attention to Xiao Ri, with the combat effectiveness and artillery of the Ning Navy, it is very easy to defeat Xiao Ri, but the problem is that these Xiao Ri are like stones in a pit, smelly and hard. The real reason why Cheng Shijie fights Xiaori is not to occupy Xiaori, but to eliminate their living force.

There are only two ways to break Xiao Ri's will to resist, to avoid Xiao Ri's so-called kamikaze, and the second is to completely defeat their reinforcements.

Compared to the land forces of the Ning Navy, the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy is much stronger, and if you sink Xiao Ri's reinforcements at sea, it will be easier to pay than to destroy Xiao Ri on land.

Under these circumstances, Li Zhixiang led a total of 36 main warships of the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy, together with 18 troop carriers, to quietly leave Hakata Bay and go to Ogijo, the base camp of the Changzhou Domain.

Although there are a total of 278 feudal domains in Kohō Nationwide, in fact, the strongest are the four strongest feudal domains, namely the Choshu Domain, Satsuma Domain, Hizen Domain, and Tosa Domain.

After receiving the request for help from the Shimazu Domain, the Choshu Domain did not hesitate, they knew very well that it was a national war now, even if they fought with the Kyushu Domain, they were just internal disputes, but once the Ming army gained a foothold on Kyushu Island, it was not only the Shimazu clan that was unlucky, but also their Choshu Domain.

"This sea area is really ......"

Li Zhixiang looked at Yang Honggui, deputy commander of the Fourth Fleet in front of him. Yang Honggui is a grassroots officer of the original Zheng fleet, and because he is not surnamed Zheng, he has been suppressed, of course, Yang Honggui is very familiar with the sea conditions near Xiaorihai, and he has traveled back and forth between Fujian and Xiaorihai many times in more than ten years.

However, at this time, in the face of high wind and waves, Yang Honggui saw sweat on his forehead, "In comparison, Nanyang is as calm as a bathtub!" ”

Li Zhixiang smiled and said, "It's exciting, isn't it?" ”

"It's really exciting."

A small island appeared in front of them, and everyone suddenly became highly nervous, and the lookout stared at the sea with binoculars, loudly instructing the helmsman to correct the course and avoid the reef that might be hidden under the surface of the sea.

Where there are islands, it often means that there are reefs, which is not a joke, those reefs are inconspicuous and seemingly harmless, but once they collide, no matter how big the ship is, it will kill a large number of people, so you must be cautious when passing through this kind of sea area.

Fortunately, there are sailors of the Zheng Group who are familiar with the sea areas in this area on every boat, and there are sailors who are familiar with the sea conditions of Xiaori, which is also the confidence of Cheng Shijie to take the initiative to attack Xiaori.

If there were no sailors from the Zheng Group to serve as pilots for the warships of the Ning Navy, it would have been a bit difficult to pass safely.

However, the problem is that, despite all the attention, there is still a Giant Shark-class battleship "Lanling" that has hit the reef, fortunately, the Giant Shark-class has thirty-two dense water tanks, four more than the twenty-eight dense water tanks of the Sea Shark class, unless more than one-third of the dense water tanks are watered, the battleship will have the risk of sinking, and it took most of the day to pass through this dangerous sea area without danger, and in the distance, a sharp sail shadow came out from behind the sea level, and then another corner, and another corner......

The lookout shouted: "Spot the enemy fleet!" At least more than two hundred warships are heading head-on with us! ”

Li Zhixiang was overjoyed: "The warships that can appear in this sea area can only be the troop transport fleet of the Changzhou Domain, kill them, surround them, and annihilate them!" ”

While listening to Li Zhixiang's orders on the walkie-talkie, the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy adjusted their course in unison, grabbed the wind, and spread their sails full.

The strong sea breeze blew the sails high, and under the impetus of the wind, the battleships of the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy were like arrows from the string, rushing towards the hapless troop transport fleet.

The gunners on the battleship of the Ning Navy lifted their gun jackets with all their hands, opened the ammunition box, took out the shells from inside, and began to reload.

More than a dozen nautical miles away, more than 200 small sailing ships, including eleven armed merchant ships of the Dutch Galen, were cleaving the waves.

These merchant ships were all armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company hired by the Choshu Domain, which could find a little trouble for the Ning Navy, and the Dutch were willing to serve. This time, Dutch merchant ships were hired to support the Satsuma clan and the Ning navy, and the Dutch not only did not ask for commissions, but supported more than 1,000 mercenary musketeers.

These transports or armed merchant ships were laden with grain, grass and soldiers, and yes, they were the troop convoys of the Choshu Domain. The Chōshū Domain was a relatively belligerent feudal country, and the Kyushu War, from the head of the family to the samurai, was like a chicken blood, and they were full of energy to dominate this war that was enough to shake the whole small day, and in this great change that has not been seen in hundreds of years, they made a show and won huge political capital.

Now these large sailing ships carried a total of 13,000 soldiers and 5,000 stone grain and grass, such a force was quite strong in Xiaori, no matter which battlefield it was placed in, it was a very powerful supplement, and the samurai of Xiaori were also highly motivated, singing and shouting at the undulating waves of the sea, and they were so happy that they did not know that they were running towards the bloody mouth of the god of death.

At this time, the Ning Navy fanned towards this transport fleet, and they would be greeted with a merciless blow.

(End of chapter)