After Li Ming decided to carry out the plan to raid Kumamoto Castle, he reported the plan to the Military Commission and submitted the plan of action jointly drawn up by Billy Zhou and the General Staff of the Tanegashima Garrison to the Military Commission for deliberation. After careful study, Gao Jianguo and the members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission finally agreed to this plan.

After receiving the instructions of the Military Commission, Li Ming immediately began to make preparations. After research, he and his colleagues decided to increase the target of the plan to five, including the Kumamoto, Takase and Uto domains of the Hosokawa family, the Yanagawa domain of the Tachibana family, the two castles of the Miike domain, and the three jinyas.

Two landing ships of the Admiralty's First Fleet set sail for Tanegashima first, accompanied by two landing craft and six offshore steam deck barges. There are also more than 100 sappers and a large number of supplies transferred from the Jeju Island garrison area.

In addition, six Type 32 twin-engine small airships and two Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airships of the Air Force Department's airship detachment also set off from Liaodong and flew in the direction of Tanegashima. Accompanied by a support team composed of dozens of snipers, artillery, drone operation teams, PK general-purpose machine gun teams and other personnel supported by the Military Commission.

Fujita selected three thousand elite samurai from the daredevils to form six assault brigades. Each samurai was armed with a katana, a revolver, a short-barreled double-barreled shotgun, and four grenades. Each squad was also equipped with two short-barreled forty-mm grenade launchers. All of them are dressed up in imitation of the Tokugawa shogunate's lineage, as well as ghost faces and bulletproof vests. Each squad leader is equipped with a night vision device, and each platoon is reinforced with a radio station.

Billy Zhou also issued an order to the intelligence stations stationed in Japan, asking them to conduct reconnaissance in advance, and informing the Far Eastern supernumerary intelligence officers in Kumamoto Castle and Yanagawa Castle to transmit the situation back to the Tanegashima headquarters. In addition, the special combat team has already set off by boat and landed along the northern part of Higo Province and the coast of Chikugo Province to carry out reconnaissance.

A few days later, ships from the Admiralty and an airboat detachment from the Air Department arrived at Tanegashima one after another. The five Death Strike Brigade also completed their training. Information from the Japanese intelligence station also sent back Tanegashima in a steady stream.

Wait for Song Tao's special combat team to return to Tanegashima. Li Ming once again gathered everyone and made the final deployment of the plan for the surprise attack on Kumamoto Castle, Yanagawa Castle and the three camps based on the various information gathered in the past few days.

Li Ming stood next to the sand table on Kyushu Island, holding a baton, pointing to the sand table and said solemnly to everyone: "The troops participating in this operation. There were six Death Strike Brigades, each of which was reinforced with a number of reinforced combat and logistical support units, of which the Sixth Assault Brigade was the general reserve. Song Tao, commander-in-chief of front-line operations, and Hu Guosheng and Fujita, deputy commanders-in-chief.

I would like to ask you that we would rather abandon our mission than expose our strategic intentions in the Far East. After the troops broke through and entered the city, they must act quickly and ruthlessly, and after controlling a few cities and formation houses, the assault brigades washed the city with squadrons as units. Strive to settle the battle before dawn. The troops then quickly withdrew. The departure time is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, so let's go down and get ready. ”

When the heads of the units in the Tanegashima Garrison Headquarters heard Li Ming's words, they all responded loudly. Then they left the headquarters one after another, and each returned to the unit for final preparations before departure.

After everyone left, only Song Tao and Zhou Billy were left in the room. Song Tao took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff hard, and then said with a smile: "I have taken a look at Kumamoto Castle and Yanagawa Castle in the past two days, and the feudal cities in Japan are relatively small. It is not comparable with cities such as Shenyang and Liaoyang in eastern Liaodong. But the design of the little devil's city is quite insidious and weird, if there is no support from the red-coated cannon in this era. It's really not that easy to take these two cities.

It's a pity that we met our Far East, and we gave them a drop from the sky, and landed directly in their castle Honmaru, destroying their feudal lord first. Blossom in the center and easily capture their city. That's right, Lao Zhou. Did your intelligence department get the maps of these cities? ”

Billy Zhou nodded, and then said with a smile: "The plans of several cities have been sent to Tanegashima a few months ago. In the two days you have been away, the units have studied the plane maps of several cities, and we have arranged for the personnel to meet them in the city. After the troops broke through into the city, they would act as guides in the city, leading the way for the main army. ”

When Song Tao heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Then it's no problem, even if we live together, we can definitely easily take these cities in the shortest possible time." ”

Li Ming glared at him and said angrily to Song Tao: "Don't be careless, if you show your stuffing at that time, you can see how I will clean you up." ”

Song Tao laughed and said: "Dude, we haven't touched the city once or twice at night, and this time we still have internal response, as well as the support of the empty boat, we will definitely not be wrong." This time I have to kill a little bit, little devil, your Song Ye is here, haha......"

Li Ming glared at him, then turned his head to Zhou Billy and said, "Old Zhou, the Intelligence Department has personnel in Kumamoto City and Yanagawa City, right?" ”

Zhou Billy nodded and said, "I just telegraphed with Kitai, and before the shogunate army landed, they had already sent additional personnel in the major feudal lords of Kyushu, and they were all equipped with radios to ensure that the information about the battle between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Satsuma domain was conveyed back. The supernumerary intelligence officers in the two cities have formed a team and will cooperate with the troops in the city to attack the city. ”

Seeing that the two of them were relatively relaxed, Li Ming's heart was also in his stomach. In this era, in the dark night, only the Far East can have the ability to fight at night, and Song Tao's special combat team, after several years of conquest, has no problem dealing with a few cities.

In the afternoon, a large number of troops gathered at Tanegashima Military Harbor and were boarding ships one after another to leave. The Admiralty sent more than 100 warships from Jeju Island, Ryukyu and other places to provide maritime support and escort for the operation.

After all the thousands of officers and men boarded the ship, Li Ming shook hands with the heads of the assault units one by one, and then watched the fleet slowly leave Tanegashima Military Port, where they would sail to anchor in the waters near Amakusa Beach at night and move after dark.

Several airships in the air also slowly rose into the air, and then slowly flew towards the center of Kyushu. The airship carried all the special combat personnel, and as the vanguard of tonight's assault operation, it adopted the combat method of vertical landing, and carried out a decapitation operation against the resulting feudal lord, destroying the enemy's command center at the first time, and completely cutting off the enemy's ability to counterattack. (To be continued......)

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