Chapter 504 The Japanese Samurai Who Died Japan, northern Kyushu Island, Hakata Bay.Tsushima Island is not far from Hakata Bay, and when the Ming army washed Tsushima Island in blood, some fishermen came to me in shock and brought back the bad news that the Ming army had invaded Japan.Dazaifu was blinded all of a sudden.Did Ming Guo take the wrong medicine, how did he get to Japan?
However, when the Ming army came, they still lined up with confidence to meet the enemy.Because Yang Yandong deliberately advanced slowly, it was left time for the feudal lords in Kyushu to gather the samurai.From the deck, take the binoculars and look at the harbor.All you see is a piece of brightly colored flags, recognize the flag, carry the flag into a sea, tens of thousands of Kyushu samurai and ashigaru towering array, swords and guns like a forest, battle flags like clouds, the military appearance is prosperous."
It's a little bit of a look!"
The Kyushu samurai were known for their fierceness and tenacity, and they had the advantage of fighting at home, and more importantly, they had a psychological advantage in the face of the Ming army.The disastrous defeat of the Yuan army at Hakata Bay three hundred years ago gave the Japanese a psychological advantage over China, and in their eyes, Japan was a blessed country, protected by a divine wind, and no matter how powerful the enemy, from the moment they decided to burn the flames of war to the Japanese mainland, it was doomed to defeat.The lords of Kyushu were soon disappointed, and they scraped together more than 400 warships, which only lasted less than an hour in the face of the warships of the Ming army, and then completely disappeared.Thick smoke billowed on the sea surface, black and oppressive, dark clouds generally covered the sea surface, from time to time there were explosions, rolling thunder generally shook the air slightly, very terrifying.The sea had been stained slightly red with blood, countless corpses and broken wood were floating on the sea, and more people were shouting and shouting on the rapidly tilting battleship that was burning with a raging fire, or jumping into the sea with everything that could float, desperately swimming towards the sea, even after such a distance, their cries could still be faintly heard.In this naval battle, there was no accident as the Japanese imagined, and the whole family army and navy swept away the leaves with the autumn wind, and cleanly killed the naval divisions of the Japanese feudal lords of Kyushu.Yang Yandong was a little surprised, even if the Japanese navy was defeated, it didn't seem to shake their self-confidence.To be precise, in this battle, Japan was the elite of the Japanese elite, including Terasawa Hirotaka, the lord of the Karatsu domain of the Tokugawa family, Nabeshima Katsushige, the lord of the Saga domain, Mitsutaka Maeda, the lord of the Kaga domain, and Naojun Arima, the lord of the Hinoe domain, and so on, almost nine out of ten of the famous feudal lords of Kyushu Island arrived in Hakata Bay as promised.Although there are many daimyo in Japan, the feudal lords are also the same as the Ming court, the same feudal lords, because of their different relationship with the Tokugawa family, their status is also different.Don't look at Nabeshima Katsushige belongs to the strongest one, Terasawa Hirotaka belongs to the second most powerful, in fact, among the Kyushu feudal lords, the best relationship with the Tokugawa family is none other than Kaga feudal lord Maeda Mitsutaka.Because his mother is Tokugawa Zhuhime, and Tokugawa Zhuhime is the granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the second daughter of the second Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada.With Maeda Mitsutaka arriving in Hakata Bay, all the feudal lords were headed by him, otherwise, everyone was not convinced, and when there was no threat from the Ming army, the feudal lords of Kyushu Island would also pick up their katana and open the piece because of the fiefdom, water source and even sheep gnawing each other's crops.Maeda Guangtaka thought that the Ming army had won the first battle, so he would take a rest, and wait for the follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive, and then attack the landing operation, but unfortunately, as soon as his words fell, he was directly slapped in the face by Shi Lang.Shi Lang commanded more than sixty bird ships and began to rush towards the port.A trace of anger flashed across Maeda's tall and thin face, and he said angrily: "The Ming army is too arrogant, do they think that they can destroy our coastal fortifications with just a few warships!?"
”Nabeshima Katsushige said: "The Ming army got carried away!
We have deployed more than 50 gates on this side of the port, and it is not enough for these few ships to rush over and stuff us between our teeth......
Hey?
How did they stop?
”The family's bird boat suddenly stopped when it was four or five hundred meters away from the shore.This distance made the Japanese army very uncomfortable, and the forts, bed crossbows and trebuchets they deployed on the seashore either couldn't hit so far, or they couldn't hit at all, and they could only watch the waves there, which was really hateful!
Although Shi Lang is young, as an old relative of Zheng Zhilong, he is well-informed, and has even followed Zheng Zhilong to Japan many times, and knows very clearly the range of artillery of the Japanese coastal forts.Of course, these bird ships were all built by Zheng Zhilong, and there were eight guns on each ship, and the power was not very good, but the problem was that the biggest advantage of the gunboats was that there were many guns.It's like a bird ship, with eight on it, facing the port, and more than sixty warships, which are more than four hundred and eighty guns."
Let's shoot!"
On the flagship, a staff officer of the whole family army and navy asked suspiciously: "General, why don't you use rear-loading rifled guns and rocket artillery?"
”"Then you don't need money!"
Yang Yandong smiled bitterly: "These old guns are waste utilization, we have built twelve 10,000-material cannon ships in the shipyards in Liaodong and Dengzhou at the same time, all loaded with new naval guns, and all bird ships will be eliminated in the future, and more importantly, the shells of this thing are cheap!"
”The sound of the ......cannon was like a midsummer thunderstorm, exploding above the waves, and a large black cloud instantly rose on the blue sea, and the fire of the muzzle erupted, and more than 480 old-fashioned solid cannonballs roared out from the muzzle and smashed into the dock!
The Japanese on the Hakata Bay pier suddenly jumped chickens and dogs, the Japanese on the island never dreamed that the Ming people would turn their faces so quickly, they said that they would fight, and they didn't even give a reason, and the sound of the cannon that hit the eardrum like thunder shook their souls, and many people had weak legs and sat on the ground, and more people escaped from the dock with their hands and feet.Over the years, I have dealt with Hongyi ghost animals a lot, and the Japanese know more or less the power of artillery, this thing is not something that flesh and blood can resist at all, and it is better to escape from a distance.However, the problem is that the cannons of the bird ship are all cast by craftsmen under Zheng Zhilong, and the guns are old, the power is also small, and the hit rate is extremely poor.The first round of shooting hit very poorly, most of the shells hit the sea, stirring up rows of high columns of water, but the few shot put balls that hit the pier jumped and jumped, rubbing the head and bursting brains, touching the arms and bones, and the people who were smashed to the torso exploded like firecrackers, and the blood sprayed wildly, and screams were everywhere on the dock.The soldiers of the whole family army and navy cleaned the cannon chamber as fast as they could, and they cursed as they cleaned the cannon chamber.Compared to rear-loading rifled guns, the hit rate of this gun is simply speechless.Although many Japanese people were very scared, it was a pity that they saw the hit rate and saw that the actual damage was outrageously low, and slowly, these Japanese samurai began to reorganize their team.Quite a few unscrupulous Japanese samurai unbuckled their belts and urinated on the battleships of the Ming army.Well, Yang Yandong was angry.He immediately ordered: "Exocet warship, rocket artillery salvo!"
”The dense and sharp whistling sound of "Xiu ......" rose from the ground, the rocket artillery launch tube erupted a scorching wave of air, the white gunpowder smoke rolled like a wall, and the fire dragons shot out from the launch tube, the trajectory was staggered, and in an instant, it converged into a terrible fire net, screaming sharply, and swept towards the port!
The Japanese samurai, daimyo, and feudal lords who had just finished arranging the formation all raised their heads in shock, looking at the fierce fire curtain and turning pale: "What the hell is this, such a terrifying ......"
The next moment, meteors fell from the sky, like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers.One rocket after another hit the ground, the explosion point bloomed like a kaleidoscope, expanding into a large ball of fire, spreading at an alarming speed, and the thunderous explosion made the sky rumble and the earth tremble violently.Many samurai and ashigaru only felt that their legs were weak, and they sat on the ground with their butts!
As they watched in amazement, the gun port pier in Hakata Bay turned into a boiling crater, erupting terrifying flames.Buildings were torn to pieces by the blast, and trees were either cut into toothpicks by flying shrapnel or ignited into torches by the high temperature generated by the explosion, and the fire burned fiercely on the canopy, and the burning branches and leaves rained down wherever they fell.The entire dock was in flames, and no one knew how many people were blown to pieces in an instant, and those who were still alive let out a terrifying scream in the fire.The artillery, which was given high hopes by Katsushige Nabeshima, was enveloped by rocket shells at this moment, and you must know that many of these rocket artillery shells were frantic sulfur incendiary bombs.When it landed, it was a sea of fire, and the gunpowder was detonated, accelerating the power of the explosion, and a cannon was thrown into the air by a huge blast wave, and it turned into a twist when it landed.......There was a loud bang, and the barrel of a cannon that had been twisted into a twist smashed in front of Nabeshima Katsushige, and his eyes almost fell to the ground.Nabeshima Katsushige hissed, "This...
What kind of weapon is this?
Is it a rocket?
When did rockets become so powerful?
”Maeda Hikatsu's forehead was covered with cold sweat: "It's terrible, it's terrible, if those rockets just fell in the middle of our troops, there would definitely be countless casualties!"
”Speaking of this, Mitsutaka Maeda finally reacted: "Generals, let the minister retreat and stay away from the sea!"
Here they can't do anything, on the contrary, they will be killed and wounded all over the place by the rockets of the Ming army!
”Retreat, for the Japanese samurai, this was impossible.What kind of samurai is he who retreats without a fight?
All samurai families have no such tradition!
However, the problem was that the power of the Ming army's rockets frightened the daimyos, feudal lords, and samurai very much, and at the same time made him realize that it was really not a smart move to put troops here.In front of the Ming army's rocket artillery, no matter how many troops there are, they are just a bunch of targets!
Shi Lang watched all the heavy equipment such as artillery and trebuchets disappear from the port, and the Japanese samurai were retreating, and he shouted: "Attack, land!"
”How would those Japanese samurai feel if they knew that if they did not provoke the Ming army, this wave of rocket artillery shells would not have fallen on their heads?
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