"General, if you continue to fight like this, I'm afraid that this group of pirates under my command will abscond!" Among the few stone buildings in the walled city of Amami, which were destroyed to a tattered but still standing under the fierce fire of Hongtang, a middle-aged widow covered in dust and with a few scars on his face was reporting to a hideous old man with gray hair and several deep scars on his face.

This old man is none other than Satsuma's commander on the five islands of Amami - Kayama Hisadaka, who has been in the army for decades, and his body is full of every major war that the Shimazu family of Satsuma has participated in along the way from the Warring States period to the attack on Korea and the Ryukyu Kingdom.

I thought that this time I was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the Shimazu family, and it was the Shimazu family who saw him getting old and let him spend his old age here, but he didn't expect that when he was old, he still met such a fierce opponent.

The Japanese people are sparsely populated, and the collection of materials is relatively troublesome and relatively scarce, and he has been in the army for so long, and he has never encountered such an extravagant use of artillery to siege the city.

In fact, not to mention the Wa Kingdom, even the Ming Dynasty has done it to this day, and no army can use artillery on such a large scale. At the time of land warfare, a cannon was at least hundreds of kilograms, and even thousands of kilograms in weight, where did the general logistics baggage team draw too many people to transport too many cannons, let alone use them on a large scale.

It is only in naval warfare that there is an opportunity to use artillery on a large scale by relying on the powerful transportation capacity and storage space of the sea ship, and the fact that it is a good firing platform.

However, the army of the Ming Dynasty was eroded, and the sailors had been in ruin for a long time, and it was quite slim to see this opportunity, and most of the pirates were short-sighted and unwilling to invest so much money in it, that is, which Westerners had the ability and motivation to arm their sea ships, which was also a powerful magic weapon that Western warships have always been invincible among the Orientals.

But now it is different, Hong Tang, under the leadership of Li Tianyang, has embarked on the same path as the Westerners, paying attention to the configuration of artillery in the team, and there is now this shocking battle.

"How to discipline the pirates in your hands, I don't need to teach you! These pirates are afraid of masters who are more fierce and brutal than them, if you look weak at this time, then they will dare to jump on your neck and! The old man didn't seem to give any specific advice to his subordinates, but the widow who knew the old man's temperament quickly nodded his head tremblingly, indicating that he knew what to do.

"Tell them that as long as they hold out for a maximum of ten days, I will double what I have asked them to do!" Looking at the uneasy expression on his face that his subordinates still had on their faces although they nodded, Kayama Hisaka couldn't help but say more.

"Hey!" Only then did the Japanese have to order them to go down and pacify the soldiers.

When the widow was gone, Hisataka turned around and asked a figure in the dark corner, "Are our casualties great?" ”

"It's huge, according to the numbers reported by my men, our samurai have lost at least 200 people in this series of shelling, and more than 300 pirates have died." In the dark corner, there was a gloomy and calm voice, which was in stark contrast to the explosions and collisions that came and went, as if the owner of the sound had not been affected by the environment at all.

"Then you say, can we hold out this battle until the reinforcements come back?" Rather than asking about this figure, Hisataka Kayama was asking himself rhetorically.

The figure did not answer the news of Hisakayama, but instead changed the topic to another question: "My people have hidden a fast boat behind the island, and if it is impossible to do anything, we can definitely guarantee the safety of the general!" ”

"Hehe, it seems that you are not optimistic about our battle this time, and you have even arranged a way to retreat. But I'm so old, where else can I escape? Birch Mountain Hisataka's eyes darkened, and he took back the eyes that looked at the dark place: "Just let me bury this old bone here, and it can be regarded as worthy of the honor given to me by the lord, and when I die in battle, as long as you help me do something, then you will be free in the future." ”

"General, please speak!" The figure in the gloom was still calm, not infected by the old man's words at all.

"Help me find a way to kill this hall master of Hongtang, that person named Li Tianyang, I have a hunch that this person will bring great danger to our Shimazu family in the future!" Birshan's eyes were deep, and the murderous aura gradually spread out from him.

"Hey!" The figure answered, and then vanished into the darkness, no longer to be seen, as if no one had ever been there.

The artillery fire did not stop, during which Hongtang finally suffered casualties, a team of artillery loaded with ammunition, I don't know whether they did not clean up the debris in the chamber, or the cannon was deformed after multiple rounds of shelling, when they finished loading the shells and fired, suddenly this thousand pound Franc machine gun exploded.

Five gunners in charge of the cannon were killed on the spot, while several gunners from the left and right gun emplacements were wounded.

After this incident, Wu Daofu ordered to lower the frequency of artillery fire by a notch, and also gave the group of opponents on the island a chance to breathe.

There is no way, whether it is the gunners of this era, or the artillery, there is no complete and scientific system, so things like exploding are always inevitable.

However, Wu Daofu seems to have been prepared to bomb this Japanese for a whole day, although after the explosion incident, the frequency of artillery fire has slowed down, but Hongtang's team members still have not received the order to cease fire, so they can only carefully fire the shells on the opposite island.

It wasn't until it got dark and all the ships had less than a base of ammunition that the team got a ceasefire agreement from above.

Finally, after a hard day's work, everyone had just had a hard day, and after dinner, suddenly all the team members received an order from above again, telling them to prepare for the landing operation after nightfall.

Although there were some complaints in their hearts, when the order really reached their ears, they still did not hesitate to equip themselves with their weapons and urgently prepare for the pre-war work of the landing operation.

Originally, everyone thought that this landing operation would only require the warship to dock at the dock area outside Amami Island, but Wu Daofu used small boats to transport the landing team members to the shallow area far away from the wharf and start landing from the flank.

The third watch, the weekend broke out again, and the third watch broke out today!

(End of chapter)