Chapter 615: Landing on Kyushu Island
The coastal strikes of eighty warships of the Ming Combined Fleet were fatal.
After leaving Tokyo Bay, Kanagawa and Chiba, two prefectures not far from the mouth of Tokyo Bay, were heavily bombarded, followed by Ibaraki, Sendai, Nagoya, Ise, Osaka, Kobe, and other Japanese castles that dared to be built within 3,000 meters of the coast were devastated, turned into a sea of fire, and eventually became ruins.
"Quick, supply shells, go to the next coastal city of the Japanese Kingdom!" On the sea, a large number of huge Ming ocean-going ships sailed, loaded with cannonballs to supply eighty warships, and the battleships that ran out of shells resupplied on the sea not far away, and then went to bombard the coastal cities of the next Wa Kingdom.
As one coastal castle after another of the Wakoku coastal castles was reduced to flames, in just ten days, all the coastal castles of the Wakoku on the Edo side were in ruins.
Eighty warships circled the coast on the other side of the Wa Kingdom and continued their heavy artillery bombardment, vowing to leave no more intact Wa cities within 3,000 meters of the Wa Kingdom's coast.
Nagasaki, Sasebo, Fukuoka, Nagato, etc., also in just ten days, the coast on the other side of the Wakoku country was also in ruins.
The Wa State is an island country, the land is long and narrow, most of the cities are built on the coast, now hundreds of cities along the coast have been bombed into ruins, the blow to the Wa State is devastating, the Wa State not only killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people, even the army soldiers were killed and injured more than 30,000 people, the whole Wa State is in mourning.
Of course, the price paid by the Ming Dynasty is not only the cost of artillery shells, but all this will be replenished from the Japanese after the landing of the army.
October 27, Korean Strait.
No less than 1,000 large and small ships gathered along the coast of Korea, ready to transport the assembled army to land on the Japanese kingdom.
In order to destroy the Japanese state, the Ming Dynasty concentrated three regular armies and seven garrison armies in Korea, with a total of 200,000 strong troops, and Yan Yingyuan, the commander of the Fourth Army, was the commander of the marshal of the Japanese army!
The first to land was the 4th, 9th, and 18th armies, three regular armies of 60,000 people, who landed directly from Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in the Japanese country.
Although the strength of the Japanese state is stronger than that of North Korea and Annam combined, it also has a fatal weakness, that is, the territory is scattered, the four major islands are divided by the sea, and now the sea is already the world of the Ming fleet, and several large islands are blocked by the Ming warships, unable to get in touch with Honshu Island.
Kyushu Island is the second largest island in the country after Honshu, with a population of more than 1.7 million.
The coast is already in ruins, and there are Ming warships cruising past on the sea from time to time, and there are no Japanese pirates rushing to the coast, and naturally no Japanese can see the current scene that can make them frightened.
Countless ships appear on the sea off the coast of Fukuoka, and the black pressure seems to stretch as far as the eye can see.
On the ship, there are a large number of Ming soldiers active, which is the landing army of the Ming army.
Due to the large number of supplies and heavy equipment such as horses and cannons, although there were thousands of ships of large and small size, the first batch only carried 30,000 troops to land, and the fourth and ninth armies were one part.
The shoal in front of you is an excellent landing site, capable of landing dozens of ships at once.
"Login!"
A large number of Ming soldiers began to land, and hundreds of Ming soldiers who landed first rushed to the shore with rifles and machine guns to guard, imitating the Japanese army to come to attack when they landed.
Soon, more than 3,000 Ming troops had landed, and horses and a small number of artillery pieces began to be unloaded.
"Kill" After all, the Japanese army still can't let go of the sneak attack when the Ming army has not landed steadily.
The most important thing is that the Japanese did not know where the Ming army had landed in advance, and their forces were scattered and there was no time to gather, and only the nearest Japanese army of less than 10,000 people to Fukuoka came to attack.
This army of nearly 10,000 Japanese invaders appeared, and before it was within the range of the Ming soldiers, it first attracted the attention of several Ming Shenwei-class warships escorting on the sea.
"Fire!" Artillery shelling began on several battleships.
"Boom Boom"
"Ah" a round of shelling past, killing and injuring a large number of Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were frightened, and reminded them of the power of the coastal shelling of the Ming warships a few days ago, when many people were in Fukuoka Castle, and now Fukuoka Castle has been reduced to ruins after the shelling at that time.
"Kill Gaga," the general yelled.
With the generals taking the lead, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers of the Japanese army was suppressed a lot.
"Kill Quack"
The Japanese soldiers finally braved the artillery fire to kill the defending Ming soldiers.
On the Korean battlefield, although the Ming army annihilated 150,000 elite Japanese invaders, and the artillery bombardment of warships also destroyed a large number of coastal cities in the Japanese country, all of which showed the terror of the Ming Dynasty, but these Japanese soldiers in the Japanese country were the first time to encounter the Ming army.
Although the Ming warship frightened them, the Ming Dynasty had never seen the Ming Army shoot, and they still had some courage in their hearts, hoping to rush into the Ming Army to fight with the Ming soldiers.
It's a pity that they rushed into the Ming army to fight face-to-face with the Ming soldiers was undoubtedly impossible, and they were greeted by a dense number of bullets.
"Fire!"
"Da Da Da" rifles and machine guns opened fire at the same time, killing a large number of Japanese soldiers.
Like the god of death who has just come out of the region to harvest life, it is impossible for the Japanese who dare to rush into the range of the Ming army with their flesh and blood to cross the thunder pool to kill the front, they have only one end, and that is to be slaughtered.
"Poof! Puff puff" The sound of a large number of bullets piercing flesh and blood.
In just a few moments, the Japanese who had already rushed to within 100 meters had been killed more than 200 meters away, and there were no more standing Japanese in the firing range, and nearly 2,000 Japanese were killed and wounded, and not a single Ming soldier was injured.
In this moment, this is a massacre! **Naked slaughter!
The rest of the Japanese soldiers were immediately frightened and stupid, how could they have ever seen such a might, this is a desperate attack, making people powerless!
On the ground, the smell of blood was permeating, and many of the Japanese soldiers turned pale, their legs trembled, and they were so frightened that they couldn't hold the katana in their hands.
The remaining thousands of Japanese soldiers began to flee in fear.
A division commander of the Fourth Army, who commanded the defense, sneered disdainfully at the remnants of the fleeing Japanese soldiers, but did not order a pursuit, defense was their task, and the real attack would not begin until the landing of the large army was completed.
Regardless of whether or not the Japanese army came to make trouble, the landing of the Ming army was not affected, everything was in order, and after an hour, half of the Ming soldiers and supplies and horses had completed the landing, and the remaining half of the soldiers would also complete the landing after an hour.