In the core fortress of the Osaka Fort, several Japanese admirals were staring dryly.

A quarter of an hour ago, they heard gunfire from the north that had lasted for half an hour, and now they had been confirmed by Osaka Castle that it was the Ming army attacking Osaka Castle!

The Japanese naval commander-in-chief, Hachiro Kayama, turned pale: "How is the battle going?" ”

The Osaka Fort Guard, Hidaka Dacheng, sighed and said, "It's not clear, the Ming army is fighting stubbornly, and the old and middle adults are fighting hard, I'm afraid that my shogunate army will have to pay huge sacrifices again!" ”

Hachiro Kayama nervously asked, "What should we do?" ”

Hidaka hesitated and said, "Why don't you lead thirty naval warships along the Neihe River and give them flank support?" ”

Hachiro Kayama was silent.

A few years ago, the Ming Royal Navy fought a decisive battle with the Nisshin Combined Fleet, and Kayama Hachiro's father, Kayama Hisamori, was captured by the Ming army and was escorted to Nanjing after the war to be crushed.

This left a shadow in the heart of Hachiro Kayama, and he was afraid of the shadow of the Ming army, because he had also participated in that battle, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he secretly jumped into the sea and slipped away at the first time.

After the war, Hachiro Kayama was awarded a large number of medals by the shogunate for his participation in this naval battle, and gradually rose to the rank of the supreme commander of the declining Japanese Navy.

Hidaka persuaded in a big way: "The Ming army is attacking from the land, do we want to watch the brothers of Osaka Castle shed blood and die?" ”

Hachiro Kayama remained silent, his eyes staring at the sea level outside the castle.

Just kidding, my Huashan family has always been based on running away and being promoted, when did you take care of your comrades-in-arms?

Escaping is a technical job, being able to run away is the basic skill, and if you can run away, you can pretend to be a heavy blow to the enemy, and you can defeat and retreat, this is the technical work!

During the Battle of Miyako that broke out in the Ryukyus tomorrow, his father Hisamori Kayama escaped due to defeat, and after returning to the Satsuma Domain, he was still promoted, and he was the pride of the Japanese Navy!

Now Hachiro Kayama is calculating how he can get out of this tomorrow's conflict.......

Suddenly, a shrill whistle sounded from the Osaka battery, and the observation post outside the fort shouted in horror: "Enemy ship! It's an enemy ship! ”

"Nonsense!"

Hachiro Kayama reprimanded: "The Ming army is attacking on land, how can there be enemy ships in Osaka Bay, how can it be ......"

However, he could no longer shout.

His eyes were staring at the sea level outside the bunker.

At sea level, a group of black dots appeared, which grew larger and clearer, revealing tall masts and ship towers.

On the mast, the bright red dragon flag fluttered in the wind.

"That's ....... Ming Royal Navy! ”

The muzzles of the 36-pounder guns on the Daming battleship were aimed at the Osaka Battery.

"Huashan-kun, the time has come for us to shed blood and sacrifice!"

Hidaka said something in a deep voice, and then walked out of the fortress quickly, shouting at the Japanese soldiers outside.

A sharp chirp pierced the sky of the battery, and the battleships of the Ming Royal Navy opened fire!

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On the sea, there are a total of fifteen Ming warships, led by the three Tianshu, Tianquan, and Pojun, each with a displacement of 1,200 tons, equipped with about 70 guns, and a crew of 500 to 700 people.

This kind of three-class sail battleship is a combination of firepower, speed, and cost, and is the backbone of the Ming Royal Navy!

In the Battle of Miyako that year, these three warships achieved outstanding results, especially in the Battle of Mountains and Rivers, the Tianquan fought against four, and brazenly overturned two large Japanese warships, causing 2,000 Japanese troops to die in the belly of the fish.

The remaining warships, all with a displacement of more than 800 tons and 50 guns, can provide strong fire support for the Marine Army.

Soon after the Ming fleet opened fire, the Japanese navy docked near the Osaka Fort made an emergency sortie.

Since the last naval battle, Japan's navy has basically cooled down, and the combat effectiveness of this so-called navy, which has been put together on a temporary basis, is not to mention.

Fifteen Ming warships, except for three on alert duty, the remaining 12 were all across the sea and fired at the Osaka Fort and the Japanese Navy in the port of Osaka.

The enemy and us launched a fierce artillery battle, the sea was filled with gunsmoke, the waves were turbulent, and the Ming Royal Navy braved the enemy's artillery fire and continued to attack the coastline.

Twelve Ming warships had a total of more than 600 guns, the largest caliber was a 48-pounder gun, and the smallest was 12-pounder.

The Osaka Fort had only 80 large and small guns, including three 36-pounder guns, which were built by the Tokugawa shogunate with huge sums of money.

In terms of the number and caliber of artillery, it was obvious that the Ming army had the advantage, and even if the Ming army used a line of warfare to bombard one side, there were 300 guns that took turns to attack.

On the Osaka Battery, thick smoke billowed from the base, and Hidaka saw through the telescope that a mortar position in the southeast corner of the fort had been hit, and the corpses of his subordinates, along with the body of the mortar gun, were thrown into the air by a violent explosion and rolled down from the battery.

At the same time, a shell from a Ming battleship hit the port stern of the Japanese battleship Yagyu Domain, and the guns that had just been spitting fire at the stern suddenly disappeared, and more than a dozen sailors on the deck were blown up without a trace.

The explosion sparked a fire, and the smell of burnt human flesh wafted through the flames, and the sailors on the Japanese battleship rushed to the place where the fire started, struggling to extinguish the fire.

Then two more shells exploded on the deck, and the entire hull of the Yagyu Domain sank violently in the sea, and then freed up the water, and dozens of Japanese sailors were thrown out of the sea.

The battleship Yagyu Fan still reacted quickly and rushed out of the harbor early, and behind it, several Japanese Navy warships that had not yet reacted directly nested in the harbor and received the baptism of Ming artillery shells.

The sails they had just pulled up were cut open by countless chain bullets of the Ming army, lost power, and became a live target for the Ming army's artillery.

More and more shells exploded in the Osaka Military Port, smoke billowed from the Japanese warships, and the flag-flying masts fell to the sea, and the hulls of the ships began to tilt.

The commander of the Japanese Navy, Hachiro Kayama, was scared stupid, this scene was so miserable! The battleship that the shogunate had worked so hard to build for several years was actually served at home!

"What to do? What am I going to do? ”

Hachiro Kayama kept talking to himself, thinking quickly in his mind about how to get out and create a scene of hard fighting......

The overwhelming artillery fire blackened the earth around the fort, and one of the Japanese mortar positions was hit by Ming artillery fire, and the artillery on the position, along with more than 30 gunners and auxiliary personnel, was blown into the sky.

However, the resistance of the defenders of the Osaka battery was strong, and dozens of artillery pieces still roared like thunder.

Because they have a good commander, the sun is high.

Hidaka squatted on the Hongyi cannon position on the north side of the turret, and firmly issued one order after another.

At this time, he had bandages on his forehead, covered in blood, and there were two corpses of his subordinates lying beside him.

A quarter of an hour earlier, his position had been hit by a twenty-four-pounder cannon shot from the Ming army, and when the shells streaked across the sky with a sharp buzz, it was two of his men who fell on him at the same time.

Hidaka is an authentic Japanese peasant who has not read much, but he has a lot of enthusiasm.

Japan's weakness is in stark contrast to the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and this contrast gives the Japanese high state an illusion.

He felt that Japan's weakness was completely imposed on Japan by the barbaric and unreasonable Ming people, and as long as the Japanese united to drive out the Ming people, Japan could enter a peaceful and prosperous era!