Chapter 901 Going north for inspection (3)

After sending Li Zian away, Chen Yixin didn't take it to heart. These Ming merchants were notoriously bold. Many so-called merchants were privately known as pirates, and not all merchant ships were armed.

It is used for self-protection, or it may be convenient for turning into robbers at any time at sea. Especially these maritime merchants who can trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty all year round are often not fuel-efficient lamps, otherwise they would have been captured in Japan long ago.

The Japanese pirates and ronin who were operating offshore had looted everything. Although Chen Yixin treated Li Zian politely, it was because he had some knowledge, and he did not really treat Li Zian as a weakling.

Intervening in Japan's import and export trade is not Chen Yixin's mission on this trip. His mission in coming to Nagasaki is mainly to understand Japan's current trade status with various countries, so as to provide reference for the Executive Committee to formulate strategies for Japan in the future. From the second

At the beginning of the day, Chen Yixin asked the invited guide to take him to various parts of Nagasaki to learn about the trading prices and conditions of commodities. By the way, he also visited some Ming Dynasty people who had been living in the local area all year round to learn about the current political situation in Japan.

Although the Japanese history of this period is recorded in the large database in Sanya, for specific people and events, first-hand information is obviously more detailed and more reliable. And people of this era have little regard for economic intelligence.

The level of attention was quite low. Chen Yixin encountered almost no obstacles in the process of collecting information. On the contrary, many people hoped to obtain Haihan's supply from Chen Yixin, so they knew everything he was interested in. Chen Yixin almost

You can get all the information you want without any effort.

In order to cover the real purpose, the fleet led by Chen Yixin also shipped a lot of cargo when it sailed from Zhoushan Dinghai Port. During its stay in Nagasaki Port, the cargo shipped came in handy. Similar to Li Zian's

There are not many maritime merchants who can go to Zhoushan to purchase goods, so Haihan products are also extremely popular in the Japanese market. Chen Yixin used the goods in hand as a condition of exchange and obtained a lot of valuable information, including

Hydrographic data and military defense information of Nagasaki Port.

The official in charge of port affairs at the Port of Nagasaki did not maintain his integrity in front of the Haihan glassware and boxes of silver delivered to his home. Of course, maybe he didn’t know what integrity was at all. After accepting the bribe, he quickly handed over the information he had.

He made a bamboo tube and poured the beans into it, and told the Haihan people everything.

Compared with Sanya, which is in a period of rapid development, the volume of goods trade in Nagasaki may be slightly better. After all, the import and export trade here concentrates the resources of the entire country. But in terms of market prosperity and urban development, emerging

The seaport city of Sanya is far more advanced than Nagasaki. The dock facilities and urban construction conditions here are far inferior to those of Ming Dynasty seaport cities like Ningbo. In Chen Yixin's view, the level of port construction here can only be described as "simple", at best.

It is similar to Zhoushan Dinghai Port before Haihan entered the port.

However, the construction level of the port is still second. After all, the ports controlled by Haihan were not that good in the early stages of construction. The real gap lies in the level of port operation. The management style of the Japanese counterparts is almost a wild-stocking style and that of Haihan.

Fine planning will inevitably seem very backward in comparison. In terms of port management and operation, Haihan has accumulated experience that is hundreds of years ahead of this era. This advantage is completely impossible for its peers to catch up.

In time, the operating scale of Sanya Port, Kaohsiung Port and even Dinghai Port, which has just been included in Haihan's territory, will definitely exceed that of Nagasaki Port. If Haihan really wants to open up a port colony on the west coast of Japan in the future, then Nagasaki's status will

It will also become precarious as a result.

The expedition fleet stayed in Nagasaki Port for three and a half days before leaving the port and continuing north along the coastline. After a voyage of about thirty nautical miles, it arrived at the entrance of Sasebo Bay. This island is formed by the northern and southern peninsulas.

The width of the clamp-shaped entrance is less than one kilometer, and there are commanding heights on both sides of the river. It can be regarded as the military's favorite port terrain. As long as a strong firepower point is set up high, the channel in and out of the port can be easily controlled.

Driving into Sasebo Bay, to the south is Omura Bay, a huge closed harbor. This bay is about 26 kilometers long from north to south and 11 kilometers long from east to west. It covers an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers and is connected to Sasebo Bay and the sea outside through a waterway with a width of only 200 meters.

.The southern end of Omura Bay is twenty miles inland north of Nagasaki Port.

The main natural harbor areas of Sasebo Bay are concentrated in the northern part of the harbor, which is also the key project of the expedition team. Almost all of the military bases and military ports built by the Americans in Sasebo Bay are concentrated in the northern bay, and the harbor

There is also a large-scale shipyard built inside. The Americans’ planning and construction plan for Sasebo Port will also become a reference for Haihan to develop this place in the future.

However, Sasebo Bay in the 17th century was still a sparsely populated place. Currently, only a few fishermen have settled here. Even Japanese pirates are unwilling to choose this place as their foothold. The reason is very simple. The access channel here is too narrow. If Japanese pirates are encircled and suppressed, they will be killed.

It is difficult to escape from the sea by boat. This provides more convenient conditions for Haihan's future development plans, and there is no need to spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to organize and suppress bandits like in the Zhoushan Islands.

Fleet Commander Takemori very cautiously sent out a small boat to investigate the water conditions near the harbor, and then ordered the fleet to anchor near the coast near the Sasebo Circuit. After the army soldiers landed, they conducted a simple survey of the nearby coast.

After the search, Chen Yixin also led a team to land. In later generations, at least two-digit warships were stationed in this area all year round. Chen Yixin also intended to investigate the hydrological conditions here for the military to see how to develop it to best meet the needs of the military.

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This kind of field investigation is relatively difficult. However, the army troops who came with the fleet this time are all affiliated with the special operations battalion. The mountain jungle is the combat environment they are good at. Such field activities have no effect on them.

If you don't adapt, you will feel at home like a fish in water.

The troops first established a camp on the coast and deployed peripheral defense measures in accordance with standard operating procedures. Takemori left a ship and a platoon of sailors as support, and then left with the remaining ships to attack other forces in Sasebo Port.

Inspect the area and modify the topographic map drawn based on the satellite map based on the actual situation. This task is very time-consuming, but it has to be done because it may also affect the future development and construction process of the local area.

Wu Sen was very impressed by the fact that the chiefs could actually hold such a detailed map of this place, because it was obvious that the chiefs had never been to this place before. Only God knows how such a high-precision map was drawn.

.However, the naturalized people of Haihan have always regarded the leaders as omnipotent gods. It is said that "the sky knows half and the earth knows everything." This is really not a joke. The leaders have shown it in various incidents.

The prophets, as well as various miraculous inventions and creations, have fully demonstrated their almost demigod abilities. Wu Sen himself has now become a fanatical Haihan supporter, and the longer he stays in this system, the more time he spends in this system.

The longer you grow, the more you can feel the various magical abilities of the leaders.

There is a radio station on the ship Wu Sen is on, and it is equipped with a specially trained transmitter, so that he can keep in touch with Chen Yixin on land at any time. Wu Sen is not only impressed by this ability to send messages across thousands of miles, but also admires him greatly.

There is nothing else to say. As a soldier, he naturally knows how useful this thing is in the military.

The Haihan Militia actually has radio operation training courses for naturalized officers who have reached a certain level of military service. Wu Sen is one of the officers qualified to learn to send and receive radios, but he thinks it is too difficult to master this skill, and he does not want to touch it easily.

I had no idea about the "artifact" of the radio station, so I gave up after taking two classes, and handed over the operation of my radio station to the full-time communications soldiers.

That night, the land and water detachments camped and rested in Sasebo Bay and Omura Bay respectively. Nothing happened overnight. However, early the next morning, Wu Sen received a message from Chen Yixin's department on the radio, saying that a suspicious armed ship was found near Sasebo Bay and requested force.

Sen immediately rushed back to support. Wu Sen did not dare to neglect and quickly ordered to turn around and return to the north.

The one who discovered the abnormality was the light reconnaissance ship "Sailfish" deployed at the entrance of Sasebo Bay. The biggest advantage of this small boat, which imitates the shape of a later sloop, is that it can sail fast enough. Under ideal conditions, its speed is no less than

It was because of the two catamaran sailboats brought by the Time Travel Group from another time and space. The Sailfish discovered that several armed ships were quickly approaching Sasebo Bay, and quickly turned the ship back to the station to warn the garrison on the shore.

Chen Yixin responded calmly. The soldiers he brought with him were all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. Although they only had one platoon, relying on their equipment and the standard defenses outside the camp,

It is not a big problem to deal with an enemy ten times his own. Chen Yixin asked the Sailfish and the other supply ship left here to leave immediately. With their superior navigation performance, there is no problem in self-protection at sea.

However, the opponent's ability was worse than Chen Yixin expected. An hour had passed since he summoned all the members to enter combat mode, but no trace of the enemy was seen at all. The reason is actually very simple, because the place where the Haihan Militia is stationed has been consciously selected.

, it is not conspicuous when observed from the sea, and it is difficult to find it until near the shore. Although the unidentified armed fleet sailed into Sasebo Bay, it could not catch up with the fast sailfish, so it could only search slowly along the coast.

Haihan's fleet, but Haihan's other two combat ships are on their way back from Dancun Bay in the south. It is difficult to find the complete Haihan fleet here.

The battle finally started at about nine o'clock in the morning. The armed fleet finally discovered the Haihan camp hidden on the coastline, but its distance from the seaside was obviously beyond the reach of their weapons, so they had no choice but to land on the shore, and this was also

This gave the Haihan militia sufficient observation opportunities and reaction time.

Chen Yixin used a telescope to confirm the identity of the visitors. Most of them were dressed as Japanese ronin, and they looked like a group of Japanese pirates. Amakusa Shiro next to him also immediately confirmed this judgment: "Chief, these ships are Japanese pirates' Hachiman

The ship should be coming for our money!"

A few days ago, the expedition fleet made a lavish deal in Nagasaki Port. Everyone in the market knew that these people were extremely wealthy, so it was not an accident that they were targeted by Japanese pirates. When the expedition fleet left the port, it was probably already

They were followed until they entered the "dead end" of Sasebo Bay, and then the other party gathered their troops and fought in. Judging from this posture, they also planned to take the deal of the expedition fleet.

Of course, if they knew the performance of the Haihan people in the Zhoushan Islands in the past few months, they might not be so impulsive in delivering food to their doorsteps. This is really no different from voluntarily applying for suicide. Use the station as a position to deal with this kind of cold-hearted people.

The Haihan Militia, a stragglers mainly armed with weapons, already had a very complete tactical system, and it was basically impossible to destroy Haihan's defense line by relying on primitive charge tactics.

The Japanese pirates also had a small number of matchlocks and flintlock guns in their hands, but their quality was not of the same level as the standard rifles equipped by the Haihan militia, and there were complete bunkers on the Haihan side.

The risk of combatants being shot was reduced to a minimum. The two sides exchanged fire at a distance of 100 meters, and the result was basically a one-sided situation.

However, what really blocked the charge of the Japanese pirates was the accordion-type barbed wire fence that the Haihan Militia was accustomed to deploying outside the camp. This thing was a magical tool for dealing with charging infantry who lacked large equipment. As long as they slowed down a little in front of the barbed wire fence, they would be far away.

Rows of bullets will be fired from behind the parapet of only twenty meters, knocking these living targets to the ground. If the people behind react quickly and cruelly enough, and decisively use the injured or dead bodies in front as cushions to cross the barbed wire, then

There is still hope of rushing to the front of the Haihan formation, but most people find it difficult to react like this in the first place.

Even if a few people can break through this line of defense, there will still be a deer stronghold in front of them across their path. These deer strongholds are simple fortifications made when setting up camp. They cannot really block the attack. At most, they can delay the attack for a moment.

The speed of advancement is high. But at a distance where you can hit someone with a gun with your eyes closed, such a moment of delay is enough for someone to lose their life.

After the Japanese pirates dropped more than thirty corpses on the barbed wire defense line, they finally found a breakthrough. However, before they could rush to the second line of defense, rumbles of gunfire were heard from the sea. Two armed sailboats led by Wu Sen,

Appeared right behind the Japanese pirates.
Chapter completed!