Chapter 2131

Compared with the several large-scale urban street battles that the special battle group has experienced, the battle that took place in Hirado was actually not too difficult. Whether it was the Battle of Hue in Annan Kingdom in 1629 or the Battle of Hue at the beginning of last year

During the combat operation to Luzon Island to attack Manila City, the intensity of resistance the special forces encountered at that time was actually far superior to that of the Hirado domain army at the moment.

In addition, the Hirado Domain has another disadvantage that must be mentioned. Most Japanese houses are made of bamboo and wood, and the same is true in Hirado City. There are not many masonry structures, which makes it difficult for the defenders to rely on solid bunkers to fight against

The Haihan army made a maneuver.

Although the vassal army tried to delay the Haihan Army's offensive by relying on private houses or barricades, the final effect was not ideal. Only a few areas where small groups of vassal soldiers risked their lives and refused to retreat were able to resist a little. However, these

However, the soldiers would lose the opportunity to evacuate and would soon be surrounded and killed by the rapidly reinforcing Haihan Army.

The vanguard troops requisitioned a house belonging to a wealthy local businessman not far from the city's southern defense line and set it up as a frontline headquarters, with Gao Qiaonan commanding the operations from here.

Now, as a senior general commanding a special operations group, Takahashi Minami will basically no longer roll up his sleeves and go into battle personally to participate in the fight. Compared with killing the enemy with his own hands, a more important task for him is to ensure that the troops can complete the combat objectives.

The messengers kept coming in and out, delivering the latest battle reports from the front line, and then taking orders from the headquarters to the firing line. Several staff officers sorted out these battle reports separately, immediately marked the current battle location on the map, and reported to

Takahashi Nan reports all aspects of battlefield information.

Takahashi Minami must master real-time information as much as possible about the enemy's approximate troop strength on the battlefield, strength of resistance, casualty status, our army's offensive direction, advancement speed, and ammunition consumption, and make corresponding adjustments based on the battle situation.

Of course, the battle plan for attacking Hirado City was actually formulated long before the war. Although the current advancement speed has slowed down, because the battle situation is basically going smoothly, all that is needed is to deal with some changes according to the changes in the battlefield.

Make small adjustments to the detailed deployment to slowly squeeze the opponent's space for movement.

If we follow Minami Takahashi's early combat style, when it is confirmed that the opponent is weaker than ourselves, we will definitely advance with great success and defeat the opponent in one go. However, as the position becomes higher and higher, more and more troops are commanded under his command.

Takahashi Minami's commanding style is also slowly becoming more stable.

Part of the reason for this is that after many refresher trainings over the years, he has a deeper understanding of war. He no longer easily chooses more radical combat methods, and is more willing to use sound tactics to win battles; there is also another

The reason that is not common to outsiders is that the unit he commanded has already become the ace unit that Haihan Kingdom is proud of. It is an undefeated division with a good reputation. It is his job to maintain the stability of this glorious record.

One of the responsibilities of a commander.

Takahashi Minami listened carefully to the reports of the staff. Although the current advancement speed is not very ideal, judging from the battle reports, the enemy's resistance has gradually weakened, and the number of troops participating in the battle seems to be far smaller than previously expected.

"According to the battle report, the enemy's operations obviously lacked unified dispatch, and most of the small groups fought independently. I think this is because the enemy was not sufficiently prepared for the stage of urban street fighting, so there was no

It is due to the corresponding combat plan. Of course, even if their commander has thought of this level, there must be no way to conduct drills in advance, otherwise, before we can fight over, Hirado will be in chaos."

After listening to Takahashi Minami, he began to analyze the battle reports. The staff also gathered around him and listened attentively to his interpretation of the information in these battle reports.

Most of these staff officers are young officers selected from grassroots officers and have a certain cultural foundation and practical experience. They have all received professional command training at the Army Academy in Sanya, and have the opportunity to hear Takahashi in actual combat.

It is a very rare experience for them to have an experienced general like Nan analyze the battle situation.

Hirado is one of the most important trading ports in Japan. Whether the current situation here is peaceful or not will have a direct impact on the maritime trade situation of the entire country. One of the purposes of the Hirado clan has always been to make great efforts to build naval forces.

It was also to ensure peace in this place. But no matter how the Hirado clan troops trained, they were obviously unlikely to practice street fighting in their own city. In addition to disturbing the local trade environment, it was more likely to cause panic among the people.

Takahashi Minami judged this point, so he believed that the reason why the opponent's resistance operations lacked command and dispatch was due to the inability to prepare for this special combat environment in advance. Although this is an unfamiliar environment for the special operations group,

The troops can completely rely on their past accumulated experience in urban street fighting to deal with these mobs scattered throughout the city.

"How to deal with this small group of enemies in an urban combat environment? I think you have all learned the corresponding tactics during your training, including insertion, cutting, encirclement, and annihilation... Go and issue combat orders to the troops you are responsible for. Let's

We must try our best to complete the control of the city before dark... At least, we must cooperate with the navy to occupy the port area first, so that we can obtain supplies nearby." Takahashi Minami once again emphasized the next main attack direction to the combat staff.

In this battle to attack the city, each staff officer was responsible for the actions of a company, collecting and sorting out relevant battle reports, and at the same time conveying to them the latest combat instructions from the headquarters. These orders were not all issued by Takahashi Minami personally, he

Now it is only necessary to determine the overall strategy and direction, and specific instructions are formulated and distributed by these staff officers, and then implemented by the front-line troops.

This kind of combat method allows the information exchange between the headquarters and the front line to remain efficient. At the same time, the commander can also focus more on the direction of the entire battle situation, rather than spending a lot of energy on micro-control of each squad, platoon, and company.

Take command.

In addition to improving the operational efficiency of the command headquarters, the staff department is also cultivating a group of senior officers with collaborative command capabilities. After accumulating a certain amount of experience, most of these officers will return to combat units and serve as company and battalion commanders.

level commander.

The order was quickly conveyed from the headquarters to the front-line combat troops. At this time, the line of fire had actually advanced to the southern end of the port area, only one street away from the port terminal.

However, the old site of Hirado Castle, the feudal lord's mansion and some of the residences of retainers are also concentrated on the seaside highland on the south side of the port area, and the Kaihan Army believes that most of Hirado's remaining resistance may be concentrated on this highland. Therefore,

Instead of rushing to launch an attack on this area, they first bypassed this place and attacked the port where a large number of shore defenses were built.

At this time, the port defense area commanded by Lu Yuanlong had actually lost most of its combat capabilities, with only about four or five guns left that could continue to fire at sea. However, these heavy artillery could not turn around for a while, and outside the port

Even an entire armed fleet was watching eagerly and might launch a landing operation at any time. Therefore, Lu Yuanlong did not dare to order people to turn the muzzles of these cannons to deal with the enemies attacking from land first.

In fact, Lu Yuanlong knew very well that, whether on land or at sea, as long as one of the enemy forces captured the port, Hirado would definitely fall. But as the gunshots of the exchange of fire got closer and closer to the port, Lu Yuanlong's heart

Also sinking bit by bit, he knew that the last moment was coming soon, and the area he was responsible for guarding would face a frontal attack by the Haihan Army.

The last combat order issued by Tagawa Suke was delivered to him an hour ago. There was no warrant, just a message, ordering him to lead his troops to defend the port. If he still fell in the end, he could retreat to the mountains to the north.

North of Tasuke Bay where Amakusa Shiro originally swam ashore, the northernmost tip of Hirado Island is a mountainous forest area covering an area of ​​about six to seven square kilometers. There are not many people living in this area, and it is basically virgin forest, so it is also known as

Tagawa Suke regarded it as the last direction of retreat. The day before yesterday, he quietly sent Tagawa Nanzaemon away and walked through the mountains and forests to a secret location on the northern coast of the island, where he let the Hirado Navy ships take him.

Picked up.

Lu Yuanlong understood that Tagawasuke's purpose of asking him to defend the port was to buy more time for others to withdraw to the north. When the enemy captured the port and then evacuated, they would definitely be unable to leave. But even if he knew this, he did not

Instead of abandoning the port and escaping early, we decided to make a complete break with the Haihan people here.

Lu Yuanlong ordered to collect the remaining gunpowder from each fort and put it all into a fort at the innermost side of the port, and prepared the fuse. He planned to wait here for the Haihan army to attack, and when the surrounding area was surrounded by Haihan soldiers

When the time comes, take the initiative to ignite the gunpowder and die together with your opponent.

When the Haihan Army and the Fujian Navy jointly attacked Miyako Island, Lu Yuanlong was the only one in his family who successfully escaped. The fate of his family was always uncertain, which made him always regret that he should have stayed on the island to share the difficulties with his family. Over the years, he has supported

What drives him is the belief in revenge, and he has always thought of defeating the Haihan Army one day to avenge Shiba Zhi. However, when he fought against the Haihan Army again this time, he realized that his wish might not be realized at all.

There was no other reason, but he realized that the Kaihan Army today was stronger and more difficult to defeat than before. Even if the Hirado Domain could barely survive the current disaster, it would not be able to defeat the Kaihan Army on the battlefield, let alone

Let’s talk about revenge. After this battle, Hirado will definitely be looted by the Haihan people, and the little wealth that they have saved over the past few years will be completely lost. Even if they can start all over again, they will still not be able to defeat the Haihan people. Maybe in a few years

In the next year, the strength gap between the two sides will become even greater. If they fight again then, they will just be tortured by the Haihan Army again.

For Lu Yuanlong, the only thing he cared about in the world was revenge. But when he realized that revenge could not be achieved and his heart was filled with despair, living became a very tiring thing. He fought in the battle of Hirado

A complete end, he thought, might be the best destination for him.

The first unit to attack the port area was the battalion commanded by Sun Zhen. This was not a very difficult task for him. The reason why it took him an entire afternoon to get through the short mile from the southern defense line to the port area was

In many places, the main purpose was to comply with the orders of the headquarters and avoid unnecessary casualties as much as possible, so it took more time to clean up the houses along the way.

However, the command also requested that the port be captured before dark. Sun Zhen hurriedly hurried and finally reached this level. Sun Zhen was not too afraid of the coastal defense forts in the port mentioned in the intelligence. He knew these very well.

The old coastal defense artillery is so cumbersome. As long as the attack area is slightly wider, the few coastal defense batteries in the port area will not be able to stop the swarming of infantry.

What Sun Zhen is interested in is who the opponent's commander is. He can train so many gunners in Hirado, build a coastal defense fort at the port, and command this line of defense to block the East China Sea Fleet at sea for several days. These achievements

It's not something that ordinary people can accomplish. He really wants to capture this person alive and take him back for a thorough interrogation. Maybe there will be some special gains.

The operation to capture the port went much smoother than Sun Zhen expected. The soldiers successfully captured several forts on the south side of the port with almost no effort. There were very few Hirado Domain troops stationed at these forts, and most of them were mobile.

The injured soldiers were inconvenienced, and those who could escape had probably already escaped.

Then someone came to report that the enemy commander in charge of this area was found at another fort in the port. This news made Sun Zhen quite excited, and he immediately led the team there to meet this person.

But when he arrived at the place, he was shocked to find that this powerful man was already a corpse lying on the ground, with a row of prisoners kneeling next to him.

"What's going on?" Sun Zhen asked another officer who arrived before him.

The officer saluted Sun Zhen and then reported: "Battal Commander, according to these prisoners, this person is the officer commanding them, a Han Chinese named Lu Yuanlong. This person plans to ignite gunpowder and die with us. These people under him

If you don’t want to die, try to kill him first!”

Lu Yuanlong wanted to die, but his men were unwilling to be buried with him. Therefore, after discovering his intention, several of his men wanted to survive, but Lu Yuanlong refused to let them go, so they were desperate.

A few people simply acted ruthlessly and killed Lu Yuanlong. Knowing that they could not escape from Pingdo, they simply used this as a sign of surrender, hoping to get a way out.

After hearing this, Sun Zhen looked at the barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in the fort. He couldn't help but feel a little frightened. If he hadn't been lucky enough, he might have already flown into the sky at this time.
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