Lord of Ming Dynasty

The warship met five [-]-ton warships on patrol in the bay of Kochi County, Shikoku Prefecture, and then the warship escorted him into the harbor. The guards went down first, half of them cleared the field, and Zhang Qiang waited until the defense of the Marine Corps. He reported first. After knowing the situation, he disembarked and rode to the palace.

On the way, Zhao Hui, who received the news, came to meet him with his bodyguards, and the two of them went forward side by side.

"I heard that you have already contacted the Second Prince?" Zhang Qiang asked in a low voice.

There are personal guards around him, left and right, and the whole street has been sealed off. The people who closed the street are marines, all of whom are Han Chinese soldiers. There is no danger for the two of them riding tall horses.

"Yes, after some negotiations, the other party accepted our opinion, quit the cooperation with the Japanese, and went away. However, if they want to go away, they must kill the Japanese on the island. At least they can control the situation, otherwise they will not be able to evacuate safely. , so we have to cooperate with them to launch a comprehensive counter-offensive to wipe out the Japanese on Denios Island. If this counter-offensive is successful, we can get at least 40 to 50 Japanese soldiers or more Japanese civilians."

Zhao Hui said.

"I don't want any more Japanese on this island, and I want to find a way to deal with them. The cabinet has organized an immigration, a large-scale immigration, and fishers from the coast, especially those who are familiar with Japan, and coastal towns. fishermen, and then they will send some chieftains from Sishanzhou to come here. The Japanese soldiers here will be transferred to other directions one after another, and their families will be immigrated to Qiongzhou Island or Baodao. Your task is to ensure that At least 90.00% of the Japanese will be immigrated, so there should be no trouble." Zhang Qiang said.

"But Your Majesty, despite the continuous immigration and fighting, there are still nearly 300 million Japanese people in the two prefectures here. There are so many people, and those Japanese people who have been obedient and have surrendered to us, are these Chinese? Do people want to immigrate too?"

Zhao Hui was a little undecided. He knew that if such a one-size-fits-all approach was taken, the Japanese soldiers in the Siguo Mansion and Xinlu Mansion on the front line would be shaken, and the damage caused would be immeasurable. It might cause large-scale resistance and uprising. Easy gains are lost.

"There is nothing to be afraid of. Those who disobey us will be taken away and made prisoners. Anyway, we will eliminate the Japanese. I hope that in the future there will be a unified nation, not a hodgepodge of countless nations. We can advocate Differentiation, respect for national characteristics, but we can’t let them fully have their own characteristics, their independence is too strong, the Japanese nation is more independent and cohesive than our Han nationality, so we can’t let their people be more than ours, we must let them become A minority group." Zhang Qiang patiently explained to Zhao Hui.

The two returned to the palace and stood on a platform at the highest point of the palace, looking into the distance.

Soon, there was a violent explosion in front, which was the Japanese artillery bombarding the positions of the new army of the Shikoku Prefecture.

The attack direction of Dabao Wine Industry is the direction of Xiangchuan County. Here he leads [-] young and strong militiamen, [-] of whom have been trained and tempered by war, and are commanded by [-] instructors who have been trained by Thais and Westerners.

The 500 militiamen, armed with knives, spears, bows and arrows, charged step by step. They were covered by about 32 artillerymen, with 24 cannons, and an average of five people controlled one cannon. One hundred are the four-thousand-pound cannons supported by the Qing army, which can shoot 400 meters away. There are three hundred heavy cannons that the Taixi people moved from their ships. They are all 1600-pound cannons, [-]-pound cannons, and [-]-pound cannons. The cannon has a maximum range of [-] meters and a recent range of [-] meters, distributed in layers.

For these cannons, they paid the Qing Dynasty 50 dans of raw silk, 300 million taels of silver, and [-] Japanese knives.

Since the Huaxia Kingdom occupied the south, the raw silk of the Qing Dynasty was cut off, and the silk satin was quickly exhausted. The Qing Dynasty had to import raw silk from other places, because there were few large-scale silkworms in the north, and the raw silk of the Ming Dynasty was all The south is farming, the north is using it, and there are coarse cloths in the north. Although there are some farmers in Shanxi Prefecture, they cannot provide all the raw silk needs in the north. Even Kangxi had to wear coarse cloth clothes at ordinary times.

Although Japan is not as good as the scale and quality of breeding in the south of Ming Dynasty, it still has raw silk, which is just enough to meet the Japanese market. At the same time, it has a lot of storage through the original Lu Kingdom's transaction, so it can exchange raw silk for Qing cannons.

The shortcomings of the cannons of the Qing Dynasty are obvious, the quality is not good, and they can’t be used for a long time. The key is that the rate of fire is not high, and it takes two rounds in 3 minutes, which is much higher than before, but it is not comparable to the Huaxia Army. Three shots per minute, the cannons of the Taixi people can basically reach one shot per minute, and the quality is better than that of the Qing Dynasty, and the weight is lighter. However, due to the blockade of the Huaxia Army Navy, the Taixi people cannot bring them too much. cannon.

As far as the more than 700 doors are concerned, the Qing Dynasty still squeezed them out. The Thais and Westerners brought some of them, and then dismantled some of them from their own ships and handed them over to them.

The other cannons are the cannons on the city wall before the demolition. They are all cannons traded by some old-fashioned Portuguese. The range is only 300 meters. These cannons are considered heavy artillery, but there are only [-] of them. The shooting range is also short, some of them are small cannons, the big general cannons of Ming Dynasty, and their iron cannons.

In order to conquer the enemy's line of defense as soon as possible and take Shikoku Island, the Japanese did their best to concentrate all the heavy artillery from the whole country on this line of defense.

The effect is still very obvious. The enemy in the direction of Kagawa County was beaten so hard that they couldn’t lift their heads. The fire was soaring everywhere. The soldiers ran around and panicked. As before, the enemy facing them is the first line of defense guarded by the native soldiers of Southeast Asia and the militia servants of the third prince. The second line of defense is that the servants of Prime Minister Yan were scattered in the militia team after they were broken up. About [-] militiamen Guarding the line of defense, these militias are the auxiliary militias of the regular army of the Shikoku Prefecture composed of Japanese people.On the other side of the county seat is a regiment of regular army soldiers composed of Han Chinese, and [-] soldiers of the regular army of the Shiguo Prefecture composed of Han Chinese.

The soldiers of the regular army of the Shikoku Prefecture, most of which are composed of Japanese civilians, are defending Kochi County, with about 10 people. Behind them are the natives of Southeast Asia and Nanyang. About 8 people.

Dabao Liquor had figured it out a long time ago. After all, many of the soldiers on the opposite side were Japanese civilians. It was not difficult to figure out the enemy's deployment.

About 8 Han regular army soldiers guarded Ehime County. The defense line was a militia servant army composed of Southeast Asian natives, and behind it was an artillery unit composed of Nanyang Han people.

This time, Dabao Wine Industry is going to rush to Xiangchuan County to take down Xiangchuan County, and then use the reserve team to attack Ehime County, directly cutting off the enemy's landing points on both sides.

As for the battle on the other side, he will wait for his side to make a breakthrough before attacking. The enemy will definitely mobilize troops to help Xiangchuan County.

At that time, he could transfer the artillery troops to the position on the other side of Kochi County, let the artillery fire cover 30 Japanese soldiers, and the [-] prince's troops made an assault, took down the enemy in one fell swoop, and drove the enemy into the sea.

After the artillery bombarded for half an hour, [-] Japanese young men began to attack.

Under the guidance of dots of torches, countless Japanese youths jumped out of the trenches and rushed over.

While rushing, shouting, the flames of the fire on the other side were scattered. It seemed that they were frightened by the bombardment of the artillery. Although they were solid bullets, the volley of [-] artillery pieces was still frightening. .

Chapter 781 The Test of Blood and Fire

The officers of the Southeast Asian indigenous servant army hiding in the trenches were indeed frightened and stupefied. The falling shells destroyed some trenches and killed many soldiers who were poking around, causing panic among other soldiers in his team. Many people began to throw away their guns, turned around and climbed out of the trench to flee to the back.

The officer who reacted shot down two fleeing soldiers with double-barreled singles and an arquebus one after another. Then he drew his waist knife and chopped down several guards who were also wavering. He turned over the fleeing soldiers, stabilized his position, and forced the native soldiers to fire.

At this time, the enemy had rushed to a distance of 50 meters, and bows and arrows shot in like splashing water. Many soldiers quickly dropped their guns, covered their wounds and wailed.

But no matter what, there are always people firing, and the enemy can't move forward unscrupulously. People keep falling down. At this time, the artillery in the rear starts to fire and directly bombards the enemy with shotguns. Those who fire are some artillery arranged a little behind. The three-pounder in the pit.

The loss was heavy, both sides suffered heavy losses. A garrison regiment commanding the Southeast Asian indigenous officers here directly killed half of them, and the remaining half continued to resist. However, this time was different from the past. The enemy did not retreat. The second wave of enemies rushed up. The first wave of enemies was squeezed into the trenches, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand with cold weapons in the trenches.

This is true across the defense.

The various artillery positions 50 meters behind the line of defense began to fire continuously, suppressing the enemy's charge in the rear. These are native Nanyang soldiers.

But they were covered by more enemy artillery, and each point was hit by three or four pellets, some destroyed and some still firing.

5 of the 3 people on the front line were caught in hand-to-hand combat. The enemy's third wave of troops rushed up, and the enemy's artillery was still violently bombarding the artillery positions and forts in the rear.

Those forts were guarded by Japanese soldiers. Where there were nine-pound guns, they could bombard farther, and even reached the positions of three-pounder and six-pounder guns in front of the enemy. The artillery of both sides suppressed each other. The artillery, especially the small guns below the nine-pound gun, suffered heavy losses.

In less than an hour, the Japanese lost two hundred three-pounders, one hundred six-pounders, fifty nine-pounders, and several ten-pounders.

On the side of the Shikoku Mansion, the loss was also not small. The three-pound guns were basically destroyed, some of the six-pound guns were still standing, and some had already fallen into the siege of the fourth wave of the enemy's assault infantry.

When the fifth wave of the enemy ran to the front of the trenches with sporadic artillery fire, some jumped down to help the first wave clean up the trenches, some directly crossed over to attack the craters for the three-pounders, and the rest charged directly and besieged the six-pounders. In the artillery position, some people went directly to help the third wave of charge to besiege the forts 50 meters behind, and became one with their compatriots. Many forts fell in the third hour of the battle.

The sixth wave came up and rushed directly to the second line of defense behind.

On this line they were met with heavy fire from their fellow guards.

Many people fell on the second line of defense.

When the first line of defense was completely breached and the battlefield began to be cleaned up, soldiers from the seventh, eighth, and ninth waves rushed to attack the second line of defense. More and more people fell on this line of defense. .

This is not the position guarded by the aborigines of Southeast Asia and Nanyang. The people here have the same determination and the quality of not fearing death.

The seventh wave was basically wiped out. The eighth wave approached the position and continued to charge. When the enemy suffered some casualties at a close distance of 50 meters, it was basically wiped out. The ninth wave basically rushed to the edge of the trench. , causing certain losses to the soldiers in the trenches, and the tenth wave also came.

After the tenth wave came, the Japanese militia and servants of the Shikoku Prefecture in the trenches were quickly wiped out. The first five waves of personnel in the original first position were organized and rushed up again. There were more than 3 people. The second line of defense is at stake.

When the enemy's artillery and [-] soldiers of the regular army rushed up, the second line of defense was supported by the reserve force at the rear, and [-] regular troops under the command of the Han people's soldiers came to support the second line of defense. The fight was in full swing.

Dabao Liquor looked at the time. It was almost one o'clock in the evening. He moved the remaining [-] heavy artillery to Kochi County.

For two hours, he hadn't taken down the enemy's second line of defense. The artillery over there opened fire. In cooperation with the 20 artillery pieces left there, a total of [-] artillery pieces fired, and then nearly [-] cannon fodder began to fire. Charge, one hundred thousand regular army soldiers lined up neatly step by step and slowly lined up to the front of the enemy's position.

Commanding here is Keiyama Kazuya, a general of the Shimadzu Yamashita family.

When he heard that the enemy's first line of defense had been taken over there and wiped out the enemy's [-] servants, he felt that the time had come, and he let the artillery launch a pre-bombardment on the enemy's position without waiting for the heavy artillery from there to arrive.

The natives of Southeast Asia and Nanyang are also guarding the front line. They are deployed as cannon fodder on the front line. The Japanese servants who master the artillery are smarter and more obedient than them. There are [-] troops on the front line.

The enemy's shelling of five hundred cannons did not break up the native servant army trained by the Huaxia Army. Compared with the servant army trained and commanded by the third prince's troops, and the Japanese army left by the second prince The servant army composed of captives is more effective in fighting.

At least there were few deserters, the front line was not shaken, and the three hours of bombardment did not cause a lot of losses, only a thousand unlucky ghosts were killed or injured. This is a drop in the bucket for a 10-kilometer front line guarded by [-] people.