Mingkou is coming?

A group of usually high-ranking feudal lords and ministers all showed frightened expressions, but they quickly tried their best to hide it.

They are all the leaders of the samurai group, how can they let people know that they are actually afraid of death? This is too shameless. And will this "Mingko invasion" bring the shogunate to the same level as the last "Yuanko invasion"?

Did it collapse? Once the shogunate collapsed...it would be a chaotic time during the Warring States Period with numerous heroes!

When I think of the troubled times of the Warring States Period, Mitsuyuki Kuroda, Tsunaki Shimazu, Tsunahiro Mori, Mitsushige Nabeshima, Tsunato Hosokawa, Tsunoma Asano, Tsunamasa Ikeda, Toyomasa Yamauchi, Tsunuki Hachisuka, Sotoshi Date and others

His chest involuntarily puffed up.

The troubled times of the Warring States Period were the era that samurai dreamed of. These feudal lords grew up listening to true and false Warring States stories... Although their bodies lived in the comfortable years under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

, but their souls all stay in the long-gone Warring States Period. Each of them has imagined what great deeds they would have created that would be admired by future generations if they had been born in that era when heroes emerged in large numbers.

Now they don’t have to fantasize, they can practice it right away!

Kuroda Mitsuyuki, the descendant of Kuroda Kanbei, was the first to stand up. His dark face was full of excitement. He looked at the group of feudal lords and ministers below who, like him, had quickly turned from fear to excitement.

, and then showed a confident smile: "The defense of Hakata Bay is impregnable. There are forts built on Genkai Island at the entrance of the bay, Shiga Island and Noko Island in the bay. There are also forts on the edge of Karadami Port at the west entrance of the bay.

Forts were built. All the forts were equipped with 12-pound cannons provided by the Netherlands and England. The number was as many as one hundred! The forts were defended by our Kuroda family samurai, with a total of four thousand people. They

We will definitely be able to keep the Mingko out of Hakata Bay...until the kamikaze and friendly reinforcements arrive!"

After finishing his bragging, Kuroda Mitsuyuki smiled and said to the feudal lords and ministers below: "Gentlemen, the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle is very high and has an excellent view. From there you can overlook the entire Hakata Bay. Why don't we go up together?

Go up to the castle tower and watch with your own eyes the Fukuoka samurai use their artillery and bravery to severely defeat the invading Ming invaders!"

A group of feudal lords and ministers below heard what Kuroda Mitsuyuki said, and they all stood up and followed Kuroda Mitsuyuki towards the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle... All of them had uncontrollable smiles on their faces.

....The troubled times of the Warring States Period are probably coming, and they finally have a stage to display their ambitions and talents!

This group of Japanese samurai leaders who firmly believed that they were really powerful soon followed Mitsuyuki Kuroda to the tall, large and eye-catching Fukuoka Castle Tower. Fortunately, the warships of the Ming Navy had not yet rushed into Hakata Bay, otherwise

Aiming at the castle tower and firing a few volleys of rockets would be a lot of fun.

The samurai chiefs who boarded the castle tower all took telescopes from the cute-looking little ones they carried with them - almost all of them were high-end products produced by the "Crystal Palace" in Nanjing. They could see far and clearly, and they were better than

Western goods are still cheap. In the past two years, the Japanese Bushido, who has a certain wealth, has used this kind of telescope.

Everyone opened the telescope and took a look - Hakata Bay is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even though the area inside Hakata Bay is not small, there is a building called Uminakamichi between the east coast of Hakata Bay and Shiga Road.

The continuous island sandbar blocks nearly two-thirds of the entrance to Hakata Bay.

The remaining one-third - about ten miles wide, is not unobstructed. There is a small island called Genkai Island right in the middle, blocking the exit of Hakata Bay, Genkai Beach. In Bunyong and Hongan

During the battle, the overwhelming Yuan army entered Hakata Bay through Genkai Beach, and then was blocked at sea and unable to land. Finally, it was knocked around by the sudden "divine wind" and had to return defeated.

At this moment, the Ming army fleet that appeared outside Xuanjie Beach was not as huge as everyone imagined, and it did not cover the entire sea. There were only a dozen Chinese-style sailing ships, and they did not dare to approach Xuanjie Island, but only from a distance.

The cannons were firing. The firepower was not very strong. It seemed that there was only one cannon on each ship (there was a heavy cannon on the bow) firing, which was much worse than the Western warships with several layers of cannons on both sides of the ship.

.....

In addition to these large ships, there are also thirty or forty Ming army small boats that are quickly approaching Xuanjie Island, which has a dangerous terrain, and seem to be sending the landing troops there.

At this time, the fort on Xuanjie Island began to fire back! There are two forts on this island, both built on the hillside. They are used to block the channels on the east and west sides of Xuanjie Island. The ones who are firing now are on the east side of Xuanjie Island.

There are twelve twelve-pound guns on this fort, and the firepower is quite powerful when fired in salvo!

In addition, a fort on Shiga Island also began to show off its power. It also had twelve twelve-pound cannons, which directed a burst of firepower at the Ming army fleet on the sea. Only water columns were seen continuously shooting at the two bright ships.

The big bird ships of the Ming army rose up around them, threatening to engulf the Ming army's warships.

Such rapid firepower was something the Kamakura samurai of those days did not have!

And the Ming army's artillery... seems to be much weaker than imagined!

Seeing this scene, the feudal lords at Fukuoka Castle's castle tower were a little disappointed - is this the amazingly boasted Daimei Tomei?

If they are defeated in one fight, then the Tokugawa world will be difficult to shake...

However, the Ming army did not let them down for long, because two-thirds of the thirty-odd small boats approaching Xuanjie Island were so-called assault boats!

On the remaining dozen or so small boats were a full two collars of North Korean Ming Army grenadiers!

These small boats did not seem dangerous, and their targets were too small to hit. So an elder of the Fukuoka Domain who defended the island decided to "lure the enemy to land" and mobilized hundreds of samurai to attack Genkai Island.

A battle formation was set up near the southern beaches and docks, ready to take advantage of the Ming army's landing to give them a fatal blow!

At this time, the tactics of the Japanese shogunate army and the various feudal armies were still roughly at the level of the late Warring States Period. The army was dominated by Ashigaru, and the Ashigaru was dominated by pikemen. The muskets only accounted for about 10% of the total number of Ashigaru troops, and

Most of the equipment was matchlocks - only the new army directly under the shogunate was equipped with flintlock muskets, but the flintlock muskets used by Japanese samurai were not equipped with bayonets... They were still used to using samurai swords to chop people!

The Ming army's small boats on the sea were divided into two formations. One formation headed towards the east side fort on Xuanjie Island that was firing, and the other formation passed under the Japanese gun muzzle and went around to the south of the island to see.

Come and prepare to log in.

"Haha," Mitsuyuki Kuroda put down the telescope confidently, as if muttering to himself, and as if he was telling the people around him on purpose, "Victory is in sight, Mingkou is nothing more than this...

"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sharp whistling sound of "chirp, chirp, chirp"!

Before he could react, a thunderous roar followed.

"It's a thunder rocket!"

I don’t know who shouted out!

Kuroda Mitsuyuki quickly raised his telescope and happened to see several Ming army assault boats shooting sky thunder!

There was a huge cloud of smoke on the sea, and the firelight flickered, and then I saw rockets dragging smoke bombs and roaring towards Xuanjie Island at extremely fast speeds - not flying randomly, but flying with a clear target.

We captured the Fukuoka Domain Army near the eastern fort of Genkai Island and the southern dock of Genkai Island, as well as the beach!

In just the blink of an eye, Kuroda saw clouds of fireballs and clouds of black smoke rising from the fort! And hundreds of Fukuoka samurai lined up near the pier and beach did not even see the faces of the enemy's landing soldiers.

As soon as I saw it, I was covered by the roaring rockets... Although I don't know the number of casualties, the momentum of the rocket explosion is really amazing!
Chapter completed!