Everyone cheered immediately after hearing Liu Haojia's order! It should be noted that drinking is prohibited during the expedition, but how can a man at sea live without strong liquor! After many days at sea, the alcohol bug in his stomach has already become unbearable, and today the Marquis opened his mouth.
, naturally it’s time to have a drink!
That night, all the ships gathered together, and their cooks showed off their skills and brought out all the edible things! All the wine stored in each ship was also taken out and drank freely! Everyone knew that it was only a day's journey from the civil servants, and on this ship
Don’t worry if you run out of wine. As long as you log in, you will naturally have wine to drink!
So there was no need to persuade everyone to drink, everyone was already half drunk! Fortunately, everyone knew that the war was coming, so they did not go too far and stopped after drinking half drunk. So the banquet at sea did not end until the full moon was in the sky. The officers stayed behind
The night watchers each went to sleep.
By the time the sun rose on the second day, the three-pole fleet was sailing slowly. After slowing down its speed, it sailed for a day and a half. It had already approached the civilian coastline. The city harbor could be seen in front, and their destination was here!
When the ship approached the port, everyone found that there was no ship on the sea! Not even a fishing boat appeared here. It seemed that the Shimazu family knew that the navy was useless, so they deliberately avoided it.
Liu Haojia raised his telescope and looked towards the shore, and saw a large number of troops slowly forming formation. Then he moved the telescope to the distant city wall and saw a large group of people dressed as warriors pointing directly at the city and saying:
From time to time, people were ordered to leave. It seemed that the Shimazu family had assembled troops on land to prevent them from landing.
Finally, Liu Haojia carefully looked at the pier, curled his lips and put away the binoculars. Because he found that the Shimadzu family did not seem to know how to counter-landing. Because they arranged a large number of soldiers on the pier without any obstruction! These
In Liu Haojia’s view, people are destined for death!”
But at this time, the exploring ship reported that there were a lot of logs nailed into the water next to the pier. As long as the ship came close, the logs would pierce the bottom of the ship! Moreover, they also arranged a large number of archers and iron cannons on the pier.
The Ashigaru also prepared long spear Ashigaru in the rear. It seemed that they were planning to use long-range firepower to cause damage when Liu Haojia approached, and then use their reserve forces to counterattack.
Later, several other exploring ships sent news. Several easy landing places were also arranged by the Shimadzu family to watch, and wooden stakes were nailed into the water. It seems that the Shimadzu family still used their care.
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After asking for the news, Liu Haojia said: "When will the tide start to ebb here?"
The officer who came to report the news said: "I guess there are still two hours."
After some calculation, Liu Haojia said: "We will force the landing from the dock! First send people to clear the wooden piles and prepare other ships to dock."
Then the officer sent people to lower the boats. There were four rowers, four sword and shield soldiers, and two water ghosts on these boats!
As soon as these small boats fell into the sea, the oarsmen inserted the oars into the sea water and rowed hard, and the boats headed for the dock. Seeing this, the Japanese immediately reacted. The iron cannon ashigaru moved forward to prepare for a fight. However,
They were also very surprised that if the other party wanted to land on the beach, it would be impossible for them to just send dozens of small boats!
When the small boats came closer, they calculated that the distance was still outside the effective range of the iron cannon. The officers ordered the soldiers not to act rashly. When they were confused, they saw two people jumping into the water in each small boat, but
There seemed to be something like a rope tied around his waist.
Liu Haojia then smiled and said to everyone: "These Japanese people have a biased understanding of the art of war! So if the navy cannot win, they will all have to withdraw? If some small boats are left as a disturbance at this time, how can our people get close to the dock so easily!
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At this time, Li Wenliang stepped forward and said: "Master Hou, even though I have said this, we still have to worry about the Japanese counterattack!"
Liu Haojia nodded and said: "Yes, that's the truth! Li Wenliang, Zhang Zhiyong, each of you will send half of the fleet to the left and right to prevent the Japanese navy from raiding."
Li Wenliang and Zhang Zhiyong took the order and left, and then many boats were separated from the fleet to patrol the left and right sides. The boat in front was still busy. After the water ghost entered the water, he fixed the iron claws in his hands on the wooden pile, and then the boat
The oars moved like flying, pulling out the wooden piles in the sea one by one.
The Japanese were impatient when they saw this, but the boat was far out of the range of bows and arrows and iron cannons, so they could only watch.
Time flies so fast, two hours are about to pass in the blink of an eye, and the sea begins to slowly ebb. When the tide recedes, the wooden piles in the sea can be seen more clearly, making it easier for the water ghosts to pull them out.
Less than two moments later, the wooden piles around the dock had been cleared away. When the boats searched again and confirmed that there were no more wooden piles, they waved the red flag, and the fleet suddenly cheered, everyone knew about the attack.
It’s about to begin! But there are quite a lot of Japanese people on the pier, so it might be difficult to rush up!
Just when the soldiers were gearing up to kill people and make meritorious deeds, they saw three cruisers raising their sails and slowly approaching the pier. Upon seeing this, the Japanese on the pier took action one after another, and under the command of the samurai, they began to form a dense formation.
Prepare to meet the enemy with iron cannons, bows and arrows!
At this moment, the samurai watching the battle on the castle tower finally reacted. The four people gathered in the middle were brothers Shimazu Yoshihisa, the current governor of the Shimazu family.
When you come to the Shimazu family, you can't avoid Shimazu Yoshihisa and the three brothers! They are Shimazu Yoshihiro, Shimazu Tokuhisa and Shimazu Iehisa. There is no fight among the four brothers in the big family at all.
Instead, they worked together and almost unified Kyushu! This earned the Shimazu family the title of "The Strongest Satsuma Samurai of the Warring States Period"! But this title has not yet been obtained!
Shimazu Yoshihisa then put down his telescope and asked the people around him: "Are those three ships large Western ships?"
He had no choice but to ask this. The city wall was actually too far away from the pier, and the telescope was too poor to see clearly. Shimazu Iehisa took the telescope and looked at it carefully, and then said: "It is indeed a Westerner's.
Big ship."
Shimazu Yoshihisa nodded and said: "It is said that there are many artillery pieces on this ship, but it doesn't look like there are many artillery pieces on the deck. Could it be that the navy lied about the military situation yesterday?"
It was not surprising that Shimazu Yoshihisa asked this, because he had never seen this new type of gunboat. This new type of gunboat was similar to Western warships. However, he had never seen a Western ship, so he could only rely on guessing.
Moreover, the ships that came to Asia at this time were all merchant ships, and most of the artillery was arranged on the deck. There was no dedicated artillery deck for warships, so they relied on the news sent back by overseas wanderers and did not understand the actual situation at all.