Qiao Haipeng's No. 1 landing ship, after two days of non-stop sailing, had already arrived off the coast of Japan, and before they came to Japan, they had chosen their destination on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan, west of Honshu. In modern times, Sado Island belongs to Niigata Prefecture, with an area of 857 square kilometers and a population of 88,000, making it the sixth largest island in Japan.

The reason why this place was chosen is that from 1600, when Zodo Kanzan was discovered, Sado Island began to attract attention from all sides. At its peak in the 17th century, Sado Kanzan was said to be the world's largest gold producer, and it was the backbone of the shogunate's finances for 300 years. At its peak, nearly 40 tonnes of gold could be mined annually.

Sado Island is home to a large number of Japanese gold miners, whose lives are extremely miserable, and they are among the easiest people to transform. And the company can loot a considerable amount of gold here, which is hard currency in any era. Therefore, when Gao Jianguo, Qiao Haipeng, and Li Ming made their plans, they set the location of this raid on Sado Island.

In the early hours of the third day, the No. 1 landing ship made its way to the coast of Aikawa in the western part of Sado Island, which itself is a famous open-pit gold mine, and not far to the north is the famous Sado Kanayama gold mine.

At this time, it was more than 3 o'clock in the morning, and the coast of Aikawa was dark, and the huge figure of the No. 1 landing ship appeared on the sea. Landing ship No. 1 opened the front tongue door, and several fighters rushed out in two assault boats.

They measured the hydrology near the coast, selected a suitable site for beaching, and then made contact with Landing Ship No. 1 and guided the huge Landing Ship No. 1 to the coast of Aikawa, where a BTR-60 armored transport vehicle and two UAZ-469 jeeps drove onto the beachhead.

100 members of the army and 30 marines from the ship's navy also went ashore. These personnel are organized into 4 platoons, a total of 12 combat squads, each combat squad of 10 people, equipped with nine AK74 automatic rifles, one SVP sniper rifle, one PK machine gun. In addition to the nine combat squads, an artillery squad was formed, each operating three mortars.

Qiao Haipeng personally led a platoon to strengthen an artillery squad, pulling three mortars to take the lead. The second row, the third row, and the fourth row followed, and everyone marched quickly, regardless of the villages and towns they passed along the way, and the team went directly to Xiangchuan Castle.

When the troops arrived at Xiangchuan Castle, the sky was still dark, and they could only vaguely see the low city walls and dilapidated city gates, and the city was still silent at this time.

He Liang, the leader of the artillery squad, walked to Qiao Haipeng's side and said, "Old Qiao, do you want to set up an artillery position now?" ”

"No, such a small broken city, there is no need to waste shells."

Qiao Haipeng turned around and shouted at the BTR-60 armored transport vehicle: "Li Liansheng, you drove the armored car and smashed the city gate open for me." ”

The driver of the BTR-60 armored transport vehicle listened to Qiao Haipeng's words and immediately started the vehicle, and the BTR-60 armored transport vehicle suddenly let out a huge roar, and then rushed out with full horsepower and slammed into the gate of Xiangchuan City.

There was a loud "boom".

The dilapidated wooden gate of Aikawa Castle was smashed to pieces in an instant, and the BTR-60 armored transport vehicle roared into Aikawa Castle, followed by two UAZ-469 jeeps that followed suit. Four platoons of fighters also rushed into Aikawa Castle in a swarm.

Two squads of fighters quickly ascended to the head of Aikawa Castle and began to sweep the Japanese defenders at the head of the city from two directions.

Fujita Yoshiki was the leader of the Ashigaru Castle defenders, and he led dozens of Ashigaru under his command and was sleeping on the castle walls. The sudden loud bang woke them up in an instant, and they got up in a daze, holding bamboo guns and trying to rush to the city, but they were blocked by a group of tall samurai dressed in strange feet.

The brave ashigaru rushed forward with a bamboo spear, but was instantly repelled by the iron cannon in the hands of the samurai opposite, Fujita Yoshiki saw with his own eyes a ashigaru next to him, who was hit in the head by the iron cannon that the opponent could fire continuously, and the unlucky ashigaru's head exploded, and the blood and brains collapsed on his face, and the surviving ashigaru suddenly scattered.

Fujita Yoshiki shouted and rushed forward with a katana. But as soon as he rushed over, he was lightly hit by several fleeing ashishi, and his body fell to the ground, and just as he was about to get up, a tall samurai suddenly picked up the iron cannon in his hand and slammed it into his face, and then he knew nothing.

When he woke up, he found that he had been locked in a warehouse, he rubbed his sore face, looked around, and saw that there were people sitting around him, all of them had been stripped of their clothes, only a crotch cloth remained, and sitting next to him were several of his subordinates, who carried him here, fortunately Fujita Yoshiki was usually good at his ashigaru, otherwise he might have died at the hands of those people.

He sat up and took in the people around him, most of the hundreds of defenders in the city were locked up. This made Fujita Yoshiki very angry and very aggrieved, they were very brave, but in the face of the powerful iron cannon that could be fired continuously, no matter how heroic they were, it would be useless.

With a bang, the heavy warehouse door was pushed open, and several tall samurai walked in, bringing with them hundreds of people, mostly merchants and civilians from the city, who looked panicked, as if they were frightened.

A man who looked like a businessman, just because his movements were a little slower, was smashed in the head by a samurai next to him with a short iron cannon, Fujita Yoshiki knew the merchant, although he was a stingy and despicable bastard, but at this moment, Fujita Yoshiki still felt sorry for the guy who fell to the ground.

At this time, there was silence in the warehouse, and several samurai gave them a cold look, and then turned and walked out. The heavy closing of the door woke them up from their shock and fear, but no one dared to make a sound, and some began to cry quietly.

The merchant with his head shattered still lay there, a thick smell of blood in the air.

The sky has slowly brightened, the warehouses in Xiangchuan City are full of people, each warehouse has a person with a broken head, these warehouses are now quiet, the civilians in the city stay at home and dare not go out, the whole family gathers in horror.

Qiao Haipeng walked on the empty streets of Xiangchuan City, watching the soldiers collect the loot from shop to shop along the street, a large amount of loot was piled up outside the house, and from time to time there were cries and scolding, and occasionally one or two gunshots could be heard.

The broken city gate was sealed again, and at this time Aikawa Castle had been completely charged. Qiao Haipeng stopped and said to the several platoon commanders behind him: "Now assign the task, the first platoon and the second platoon and I will go out of the city together with the artillery squad and three vehicles to go to the Sado Jinshan mining area, the third platoon will continue to collect materials and chariots and horses in the city to prepare for the transportation of prisoners and booty, and the fourth platoon is responsible for guarding Xiangchuan City." ”

Several platoon commanders went separately to gather the troops, Qiao Haipeng was wandering around a few shops, a seven or eight-year-old girl carefully poked her head out from behind the door of a shop, the girl flashed a pair of innocent eyes, and her eyes were full of fear. But she saw Qiao Haipeng outside at once, and immediately turned around and ran away in horror, and her little feet made a crisp sound when she stepped on the clogs.

Qiao Haipeng looked at the child's back blankly, until he heard the voice of the whole team, and then pulled Qiao Haipeng back from his chaotic thoughts. He shook his head, turned and walked towards the queue, and walked out of Aikawa Castle with a second row.

In the afternoon, Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the fourth platoon who was responsible for guarding the city, received a report from the sentry at the head of the city, and a Japanese shogunate cavalry was found in the northeast of Xiangchuan City.

It seems that their actions are still exposed, and someone may have informed the nearby shogunate army, these cavalry units were the first to rush to Aikawa Castle for reinforcements because of their speed, and these cavalry were about 500 people, each riding a Kiso horse that was not much bigger than a donkey, dressed beautifully, with a flag behind their backs, and a group of singing operas.

Wang Mingzhang issued a series of orders, all the personnel in the third row came to the head of the city, only one squad was left in the fourth row, and the rest of the people also climbed the city wall, they hid on the city wall, patiently waiting for the approach of the shogunate cavalry.

The speed of hundreds of war horses is quite fast, raising endless dust and smoke all the way, murderous and majestic.

Several samurai-looking people rushed to the forefront of the team, and the horse team rushed directly to the city wall more than a hundred meters away, "Bang...... Snap ......", the samurai led by them were all hit by sniper rifles, and they were planted under their horses one by one, and the cavalry team behind had no time to avoid it, and directly trampled on the bodies of several samurai.

Immediately followed by bursts of dense machine gun sounds, from both sides of the city head of Xiangchuan City to carry out cross-fire on this cavalry unit, six PK machine guns spit tongues of fire, firing hot bullets, more than 600 rounds per minute of the rate of fire, this horse team of more than 500 people, instantly killed and wounded more than 100 people.

Dozens of AK74 rifles also joined the attack, and the entire horse team was immediately confused, they frantically turned their horses, trying to escape from here, but in the face of dozens of automatic weapons condescending attacks, they were all beaten to pieces.

The battle lasted less than ten minutes, and not a single person from the cavalry force of more than 500 people escaped in the end.

The following night, several waves of shogunate troops came, all of them had just rushed to the city and were hit by a dense number of bullets and fled, and after a night's work, there were many dead and wounded, and there were two or three thousand corpses all over the outside of Aikawa Castle.