349 Charge
If the Japanese knew what the ships that had come to join Hongtang's fleet in the evening were doing, they might have collapsed.
During the day, the Hongtang warships had been silent all the time, except for keeping an eye on the Japanese artillery, in case they would inflict too much damage on the Hongtang soldiers who had come ashore, the rest of the time, because of the lack of shells, they were also watching the battle on the island with silence.
However, with the arrival of these ships, from tomorrow, the Hongtang warships will no longer need to remain silent, but can do another big job and carry out high-intensity strikes on the islands of the Japanese people.
This was the ship that the Ryukyu King provided for Wu Daofu and his family to provide logistics and transport ammunition, and they had already made a request to Wu Daofu after they went to Shuri and met with King Shangning, and at the same time blackmailed King Shangning. It was only now that King Shangning prepared the supplies and ammunition and found someone to transport them.
With this batch of supplies, there was also a piece of information brought by King Shangning, saying that the Shimazu family's fleet had already gone to sea, and there were still five days left at most to reach the waters of the five islands of Amami, so that Wu Daofu quickly found a way to end this battle.
This information came in a timely manner, Wu Daofu had been a pirate, and he knew that the pirates were actually not strong-willed, so he did not hesitate to lose a huge amount of ammunition yesterday to play such a play, but what he didn't expect was that this group of pirates was really beyond his expectations, and they were still very fierce with the Hongtang team members today.
Now that he understands, the opponents on this island have long known that there is such a reinforcement, and they are also willing to drag Hong Tang's team members here, and wait for the reinforcements to come and give Hong Tang a fatal blow from behind.
Of course, Wu Daofu and the others did not think that the Japanese still had reinforcements, but in Wu Daofu's simple intelligence system, the Japanese had already come with a batch of reinforcements, and this second batch of reinforcements was not too diligent.
Moreover, what Wu Daofu didn't expect was that the reinforcements that the Japanese people came back to help were at least 2,000 people, which was about the same as the remnants of Hongtang now.
"Do you think it's necessary for us to continue fighting in this situation, at this time?" Wu Daofu was a little discouraged in his heart, at most five days plus a stubborn opponent, Wu Daofu was not sure that he would be able to deal with the opponent in front of him, and even if Wu Daofu and they got the opponent, how would they deal with the Satsuma reinforcements from afar!
Xiao Xiurong and Zhao Xingdou were also silent, to be honest, the battle was fought to this extent, and the team members who died in Hong Tang from last night to today were almost catching up with the losses of the previous naval battle.
If they withdraw like this, not only Wu Daofu and them will be unwilling, but I'm afraid even the teammates below will not be reconciled!
"There's still plenty of time, why don't we try to play for two more days, and leave a three-day buffer time, how about it?" Xiao Xiurong discussed it with them and came up with a compromise plan.
"I'll see it!" Zhao Xingdou also nodded in agreement.
"That's fine, but it's time for the brothers to work harder!" Wu Daofu saw that everyone agreed, and he didn't say anything more, but just told Zhao Xingdou to let him do mobilization: "We can't keep our hands either, today the ammunition is in place, and tomorrow we will continue to put pressure on Amami Island, and locate the target within one mile in front of our army's formation." ”
"Does that mean we can hurt our own people by mistake?" Zhao Xingdou was a little worried, this distance is really a little unstable, the gunner makes a slight mistake, the shells will hit his own position, and today the artillery fire on the Japanese side hit his own position is not uncommon.
"We can't care so much, now that time is tight, then we have to take this risk, and besides, the artillery fire covering and killing the enemy can also reduce the difficulty of our attack and advance." Wu Daofu was ruthless, and he couldn't care about the problem of accidental injury anymore: "But remember to remind the boys on the boat tomorrow that you should be on time when firing the cannon!" ”
"Also, remember to save some shells, if you can't shoot them down in two days, then blow up those sea ships on their dock, we can't get it, and they don't want to be able to fall well!" Wu Daofu suddenly thought of this problem, until today, the Japanese sea ships still have no movement at all, Wu Daofu and they are already 100% sure that there is a problem here, so they are even more reluctant to provoke these sea ships, just let them crowd there!
After making up this decision, the next day, as soon as the sky was white, the offensive on Hongtang's side began again, and the artillery that had made the Japanese uncomfortable the day before yesterday began again in the morning.
At this time, Kayama Hisaka couldn't imagine that the few sea ships that came yesterday evening were here to replenish supplies to Hongtang, so he would sit in the position of general in vain. But unfortunately, even if they guessed this at the time, they didn't have the ability to go out to sea to intercept or sink these ships, and in the end, the ammunition would still fall into Hong Tang's hands.
However, it was obvious that this time, they felt that Hongtang's attack on their walled city had increased more than a notch.
With the support of artillery fire from the sea, the battlefield that had been scorched on the beach for a day and a night finally began to move towards the island. Hongtang's team members rushed into the position of the Japanese people almost suppressed the sound of artillery fire to support them, and the front foot had just stopped less than two breaths of artillery fire, and the Japanese had not yet gotten up from the bunker where they were dodging the shells, and a group of Hongtang team members who were not afraid of death on the back foot killed them.
Loaded muskets, unsheathed knives and guns, do not give the Japanese and pirates the slightest chance, but if they find a figure still moving, they will go up with a knife or a shot. Immediately, they continued to advance without delay, and with full fighting spirit, they drove the Japanese and pirates back to the ruined walls of Amami Walled City.
Even so, if you look closely, you can still see the formation of Hongtang's players, melee combat, and long-range performances, and there is no disturbance at all because of the fierceness of the battle.
It was only at this time that this group of Hongtang warriors could be said to have the appearance of an army, and they were no longer a rabble.
On the other hand, on the side of the Japanese and the pirates, although the leaders of the Japanese and the leaders of the pirates desperately greeted their subordinates, trying to block the attack of the Hongtang team members. However, from the beginning of the morning, the battle of Hongtang began to unfold ferociously, and when it failed to stop Hongtang's fiercest charge at the beginning, and the Japanese and pirates began to retreat, it was a little difficult to regain a foothold.
It was not until the end of noon, when Hongtang's position extended to dozens of zhang in front of the Amami Walled City, and there was no longer a single living Japanese or pirate outside the Walled City, that Hongtang stopped their attack.
(End of chapter)