Chapter 761: Japan (5)
The originally tense parties on the shore were all stunned to watch the battle on the sea at this time. It's only been a long time, and hundreds of Anzhai big ships, Guan Chuan and Xiaozao are all gone. Even those that were not sunk were lit up with flames that soared into the sky, like torches, dotted across the sea.
The sea was covered with corpses, and the sea water was almost dyed red, like a sea of blood. The Far Eastern Admiralty didn't want to be captured at all, and most of the tens of thousands of Tokugawa shogunate sailors, as well as Sanuki's Ikoma clan's navy, and Awa's and Awaji's Wasuka clan's navy died here.
And the slaughter on the sea continued, and the bursts of intense gunfire never stopped. The water-cooled heavy machine guns on the sides of the Far Eastern warships were still firing back and forth at the Japanese sailors on the sea.
There were screams everywhere, and the sound was so terrible that people felt panicked when they heard it.
The commander of the Tokugawa Shogunate Army was Tokugawa Yoshinao, the ninth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the lord of the Owari Domain, a daimyo of the Tokugawa Shogunate. After the attack on Edo Castle, almost all the men of the Tokugawa family were wiped out, and the daimyo of the Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal lord, immediately filled the vacancy in the shogunate, and Tokugawa Yoshinao, who was the second powerful man at the time, also rushed to the Edo Tokugawa family to reorganize the shogunate.
This time, the Satsuma Domain led the Kyushu Coalition Army to launch the Shogunate War, and Tokugawa Yoshinao was also ordered to be in danger, as the commander of the Tokugawa Shogunate Army, he led the troops to fight fiercely with the Kyushu Coalition Army for several months, consumed a large number of personnel and materials of the Satsuma Domain, and retained a large number of elite reserves, and also sent people to meet with several Kyushu daimyo and feudal lords such as the Saga Nabeshima family, and paid a considerable price to reach an agreement with them, and the Saga Nabeshima family will change the battlefield after the Tokugawa Shogunate Army's offensive begins.
Tokugawa Yoshinao seized the opportunity of the battlefield and launched a fierce counterattack when the Kyushu coalition army was exhausted and depleted of supplies, defeating the Kyushu coalition army in one fell swoop.
During such a chaotic period of the Tokugawa shogunate. At the beginning of the war, Tokugawa Yoshinao was able to block the fierce attack of the Kyushu coalition and drag the war into a stalemate, buying a lot of time for the Tokugawa shogunate, which really showed his extraordinary ability.
At this time, he was standing in the main camp of the Tokugawa shogunate army, looking at the battle on the sea with a solemn face. In fact, this can't be regarded as a battle at all, the Tokugawa shogunate's naval army is simply passively beaten, and there is no power to fight back, it should be a naked slaughter.
Not only were the shogunate forces stunned, but the defected Kyushu coalition forces and the allied forces of daimyo from all over Japan were also shocked by the strength of the Far East Fleet. They looked at more than 100 warships in the Far East, and in such a short period of time, they wiped out a fleet of hundreds of shogunate naval forces, Sanuki's Ikoma naval forces, and Awa and Awaji's Wasuka naval forces.
That's tough, isn't it? What kind of artillery is loaded on the Far Eastern ship, each firing can tear apart the shogunate's naval warship, disintegrate and explode, and ignite a raging fire. What firearms have such a big weapon, and the sea ships of the Southern Barbarians are not so powerful.
Moreover, there were more than a dozen huge divine boats floating above the sea, which scared them even more. There is actually a big ship flying in the sky in the Far East, Shenzhou, is it possible that there are gods and immortals in the Far East to help each other. Now the most regrettable ones are a few daimyo and feudal lords who have defected to the Saga Domain, such as the Nabeshima family.
If the Satsuma Domain is saved by the Far East today, then their ambition to dominate Kyushu will be shattered in an instant. If you knew this, you might as well fight to the end with the Satsuma Clan. With the help of the Far East. Why can't you win the world.
Tokugawa Yoshinao looked at the tragic situation on the sea, not to mention how aggrieved he was. The Far East has plagued them not once or twice. Sado Kanayama and Sakai Port, and later supported the Satsuma Domain in launching the War of the Shogunate.
Although the Tokugawa family hated the Far East to the core, they were still very afraid of the Far East's strong strength, so they could only pretend that nothing had happened to the Far East. And when Tokugawa Ieyasu was alive. It has been said that the Far East, at least for a short time, did not attempt to get its hands on Japan. In fact, they supported the Satsuma Domain, but they just wanted to mess up Japan so that they could profit from it.
Tokugawa Ieyasu secretly sent people to Jeju Island and Tanegashima Island in the Far East several times in an attempt to establish a certain cooperative relationship with the Far East. But the Far East does not bird the Tokugawa family at all. It made Tokugawa Ieyasu very depressed.
A few months ago, Edo Castle Honmaru was attacked, and the Tokugawa family was like a mirror in their hearts, and this matter was inseparable from the Far East, but they all deliberately avoided this topic, and no one mentioned it. After several months of the Falling War, until the Kyushu Coalition was finally defeated, the Far East did not appear, and Tokugawa Yoshinao, who had been worried all along, was also relieved.
But the Far East was killed from the sea at such a moment.
Tokugawa Yoshinao smiled bitterly, and lamented in his heart: "Unexpectedly, there was still a ...... in the Far East."
He exhaled deeply, and then shouted to the Honjin Banner Honsamurai beside him, "Order all the troops to attack immediately, and quickly destroy the remnants of the Satsuma Domain before landing in the Far East." The samurai and ashigaru of the Satsuma Domain, one of them will not be killed, including Shimazu Tadashi, and they will not be spared. ”
As the Samurai rode away on their horses, the Tokugawa Shogunate Army, the Saga Nabeshima family and other defected Kyushu Coalition Army, as well as the Honshu Island Coalition Army composed of the feudal lords of Yasumo, Bichu, Bizen, Bigo, Tajima, Inaba and other countries, launched an attack almost simultaneously and rushed towards the Satsuma Army on the coast from three directions.
Tokugawa Yoshinao looked at the remnants of the Satsuma soldiers in front of him with a distorted face, and said with a sneer: "Even if the Far East arrives, today I will kill all of your Satsuma Domain's Shimazu family, no matter how strong the fleet of the Far East is, they will not be able to save you from the shore." ”
At this time, the Far Eastern Navy on the sea, in addition to sweeping the warships of the Shogunate Navy everywhere, there were also more than a dozen large offshore steam deck barges, which were already lined up on the shore at this time.
The armor of the ship's 105-mm assault gun and twelve-barreled 107-mm rocket launcher has been uncovered. Many gunners were nervously adjusting the guns, and as the shells were pushed into the chambers, the sighters were nervously waiting for the various data of the firing elements.
The artillery observation group on the airship was also calculating all kinds of artillery yuan, because the distance was relatively close, in order to gain time, the observation group simply canceled the artillery test link and directly sent back all kinds of shooting yuan to the more than a dozen fire support boats on the shore. Let's bang a few rounds first, and then correct if you miss. I'm not afraid of blowing up the people of the Satsuma Domain, so if you get injured by mistake, you can get injured by mistake, anyway, they're all Japanese devils, so it's good that they all blow them up. (To be continued......)