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Chapter 741 Bombarding Kobe

Chapter 741 Bombarding Kobe
Zhu Cihong's words made Qi Jiguang and Zheng Chenggong nod frequently.

They are very pleased that Daming will have such judgment in the future.

Qi Jiguang pointed to the map and said:

"War consumes a lot of people's livelihood and resources in the country, and fighting across the sea consumes even more, and if it is delayed for a long time, the national strength will decline.

If the Ming army is unable to quickly defeat the Japanese warships and end the war with Japan in a short period of time, it will face a fatal strategic weakness in the quagmire.

Ming must be fast, accurate and ruthless!Fight quickly, without ink marks, and resolutely do not fight a long-term war of attrition with the Tokugawa shogunate.

Located in the central part of Honshu Island, Osaka is the junction of Japan's traditional Kanto and related areas, and it is also one of Japan's strong cities.

On the road from Shimonoseki to Osaka, there are more than ten feudal clans such as Fukuchiyama, Toyooka, Tatsuno, and Okazaki, and we divide our troops into two groups.

Along the way, Mao Liqiu led the Xiaguan Mingxie Army to lead the way, assisting Huang Ming and the Little Tigers, and restraining their forces from the land.

On the other way, the governor and the navy launched an attack from the sea, and troops will be dispatched early tomorrow morning. "

"Yes"

The generals of the Ming army gave orders in unison.

Maori bowed and saluted:
"Please rest assured, the governor of the Celestial Dynasty, we will definitely assist the Ming army to win this battle!"

Having something to do, a few rapes were very excited. They felt that Tadakatsu Sakai was ignorant and didn't even know what kind of enemy he had provoked!
How could the Ming Dynasty's Heavenly Army be able to resist the shogunate?That kind of artillery fire is too fierce, with Japan's current strength, it is absolutely impossible to be Daming's opponent.

Since it is certain to lose, it is better to seek refuge with Daming early, stand in the team of winners, and enjoy the fruits of victory.

At this time, the thoughts of Japanese traitors and Han traitors rarely overlap. This may be the unified traitorous thinking of the whole world.

Soldiers are so fast, early the next morning, Qi Jiguang and Zheng Chenggong led the army, set off from Xiaguan, transported by the Ming Navy, and sailed to Osaka.

The main force of the navy did not directly attack Osaka, but chose Kobe, fifty miles away from Osaka, as the landing site.

60 years ago, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the troubled times of the Warring States Period in Japan and achieved the great cause of Japan's unification, he once held the Arima Tea Party in Arima Onsen, which is located in Kogoku.

Since then, Kobe has become an important base port for Kitamae ships from West Japan to Hokkaido, and it is also an important station town of Saikoku Kaido.

Qi Jiguang's goal is Osaka, which serves as the frontier of the shogunate's operations in Japan.

It is also a logistics support base, a temporary anchorage for the Japanese transport fleet and navy, and a distribution center for Japanese military logistics materials.

The Tokugawa shogunate had always been wary of the Ming army's attack on Osaka. They assembled heavy troops and set up many forts in Osaka. Qi Jiguang decided to try to attack Kobe first.

The Ming army wanted to control Osaka Bay. There were two key points. One was the Rokko Fort in Kobe, which was the land gateway to Osaka Bay.

The second key point is the Osaka Fort, the two forts rely on each other.

The Liujiashan Fort is a land defense fort, which mainly guards the side and rear of Osaka Bay to resist possible attacks from land.

The Osaka Fort is a coastal defense fort that mainly defends against attacks from the sea.

The Liujia Mountain Fort is located on the highest point of the territory, the Liujia Mountain. The mountain is not steep, and the highest is more than 900 meters. The surrounding hills are covered with dense forests and some towns.

The fort of Liujia Mountain has a five-meter-high parapet, which is densely covered with fortresses. There is only one exit on the south side, which isolates the fort from the surrounding mountains of Liujia Mountain, making the fort an independent military fort higher than the surrounding terrain.

Originally, the Tokugawa shogunate deployed 800 people at the Fortress of Mount Rokko. When they learned that the Ming Dynasty sent troops, Tadaki Sakai decided to strengthen the defense force of the Fortress of Mount Rokko.

Transferred 2000 troops from the Miyagawa clan to Kobe and deployed them to the Fortress of Mt. Rokko to assist in the defense.

The Japanese navy was wiped out, and the Ming fleet easily sailed into Osaka Bay.

After learning that Zhu Cihong and the others had arrived near Liujia Mountain, Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered the bombardment of the Liujia Mountain Fort.

"fire!"

"Rumble..."

The ear-piercing buzzing sound pierced through the air, and the fort of Rokko Mountain exploded one by one, and the Japanese soldiers on the fort were blown away in pieces.

One of the heads that had been severed by shrapnel flew over and landed at the feet of the Japanese general Ashgaru, who was so frightened that he hurried into the fort bunker.

Before he got into the bunker, more shells roared in, and the violent explosion immediately engulfed the entire position where the Miyagawa clan was stationed.

Amidst the explosion, the shogunate howled hysterically:
"Run, the enemy is attacking...!"

On the fort position of Liujia Mountain, the corpses of people and horses were blown up and flying around.

The panic-stricken shogunate army hid everywhere aimlessly, and no one knew where the attack came from.

There was not a single Ming soldier on land, and the Ming army closest to them was at least [-] miles away from the sea.

The Grim Reaper let out a palpitating roar over the fortress of Mount Liujia, and the dense shells covered almost every corner of the fortress.

The officers and soldiers of the shogunate army who hid in trenches and fortresses were blown up into the sky together with their bunkers, and their limbs and arms were scattered everywhere.

After more than a dozen rounds of bombardment, it was not easy for the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty to cease fire.

Inside and outside the trenches of the Liujiashan Fortress, apart from howling, there was a breathless dullness.

Some Japanese soldiers who were not killed were just taking a breath when suddenly the sky was illuminated by fire.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

The Japanese ashigaru general looked up and saw cylinders about two feet long flying towards the fortress of Mt. Liujia, dragging the flames.

The entire Liujiashan fort instantly turned into a sea of ​​flames, and then there were screams of Japanese ghosts and wolves.

Admiral Ashgaru quickly determined that these shells came from Osaka Bay, and they should have been fired by warships of the Ming army at sea.

Because of those giant shells and flying rockets, he had seen it in Edo, it was an unforgettable bombing
He stretched his head to look down the mountain, and saw hundreds of landing ships docked on the coast, and densely packed soldiers were bending over to land with guns.
No need to think about it, just by looking at their costumes, you can tell that this is the Ming Dynasty Marine Corps!
There is no suspense in the landing battle of the Ming army. Landing operations have always been one of the key combat techniques trained by the Marine Corps of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty.

They also developed some special landing combat equipment.

For example, assault boats for landing operations. This assault boat is eight meters long and about 1.5 meters wide, and can accommodate twelve soldiers.

The bow of the boat is pointed and covered with iron sheets, which can withstand a certain degree of impact.

And it is equipped with a small gun with a caliber of one inch and five minutes to strengthen the firepower during landing.

The power of the assault boats of the Ming army did not rely on traditional oars. There was an iron propeller at the stern, which was stepped on by two soldiers together.

When necessary, wooden oars can also be used as auxiliary power to start at full speed, and the speed is extremely fast, reaching a speed of [-] to [-] knots in a short time.

The defense forces along the coast of Kobe seem a bit amateurish.

Except for the decent fortress of Liujia Mountain, the other small earthen fortresses, and only a few old-fashioned artillery, the defense force can be said to be negligible, and they have all been destroyed just now.

The Japanese ashigaru general only looked at the Ming army who landed in the distance, but did not find that there was a Ming army behind Liujia Mountain that was advancing rapidly up the mountain.

(End of this chapter)

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