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Chapter 1052 Siege of the Shogunate Navy
boom!The grenade with the fuze exploded not far from Tokugawa Iemitsu, and more than a dozen fragments flew, causing a light foot holding a long gun to fall suddenly.The rough piece of iron pierced his thigh, and blood flowed out.

"Retreat...retreat!" The surrounding Qingzu saw their companions being shot, and the smell of blood made them retreat.

"Anyone can't wait to retreat, as long as they charge forward without fear of life and death, and surpass the opponent's firepower, they can defeat them with spears!" Tokugawa Iemitsu personally led the supervisory team to supervise the battle.

His face was covered with gunpowder smoke and dust, his eyeballs were bloodshot, and he watched unwillingly as the soldiers in front retreated steadily under the offensive of the Kyushu Army reinforcements.

"Your Excellency, General, this place has entered the attack range of the Kyushu Army's artillery. The opponent's solid bullets can hit here. Besides, there is a flag behind you. The opponent may concentrate their artillery to bombard this place."

Matsudaira Tadaaki's West Route Army was defeated and had to join Tokugawa Iemitsu's main force.The East Route Army led by Mizuno Katsunari and Date Tadamune chose to withdraw from Sanada Maru when they learned of the arrival of reinforcements from the Kyushu Army. .

Tokugawa Iemitsu and others had originally attacked the city of Osaka, but now they were pushed to the Tennoji and Okayama areas by the Kyushu Army reinforcements and the Allied Forces.The south of Osaka Castle is almost all plains, which is conducive to the advance of the shogunate, but after the defeat of the shogunate army, the plain terrain became a disaster.

Although they were defeated, the shogunate army of the Tokugawa family still fought hard in order to maintain their own group interests, because they might have nothing after defeat!
The shogunate army was not as disastrous as the rumors in Edo City said. The Kyushu Army had only 3000 ground reinforcements. Tokugawa Iemitsu still had a relatively deep strategic depth and was not completely defeated.

The shogunate army took advantage of the positions set up in Tennoji and Okayama before the fall of the Allied Forces, and they are still waiting for a chance.

An infantry brigade of the Kyushu Army joined Lu Xiangsheng, and a total of 18 smoothbore guns attacked Tennoji. Tachibana Zongshige also led the army to counterattack to Okayama.

Tokugawa Iemitsu saw the opposite Kyushu army attacking Tennoji in several lines from all directions, and there was a trace of despair and unwillingness in his eyes.

The opponent's army seems invincible, and it is all new-style muskets, filled with smoke, dense guns and cold weapons, and the troops will soon be unable to withstand the rapidly rising casualty ratio and collapse. Compared with the muskets of the 19th century, the muskets of the 17th century In other words, it has advanced a lot. It cannot be defeated by the traditional army charging with muskets. Unless it is an indigenous tribe with a firm belief or in a special terrain such as a jungle, it dares to risk a large number of casualties and attack the line composed of muskets. array.

"I am General Zhengyi, if I am also hiding behind, how can the soldiers fight bravely?" Tokugawa Iemitsu refused to retreat.

"What should we do if something happens to you? Please retreat one mile to avoid the enemy's Bingfeng." Ikeda Mitsumasa begged Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"Urgent report! The defenders on the Nagoya Fort witnessed the fleet of the Kyushu Army blockade the Irago waterway near Nagoya. Our navy was blocked at the port of Nagoya and was bombarding the opponent's warship!" Nagoya's shogunate scouts galloped Come here and report the urgent military situation to Tokugawa Iemitsu, but this news is nothing more than a bolt from the blue for Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Once the shogunate navy is defeated, all seas will be controlled by the fleet of the Kyushu Army.At that time, don't say that you can't get supplies from the waterway, and even retreat will become a problem.

"After Nagoya is occupied, we will be encircled in Nara and Osaka. The rear road will be cut off, and there is a danger of annihilation..." Mitsumasa Ikeda, Tadaaki Matsudaira and other ministers knew that the Kyushu fleet might land from Nagoya. .

Nagoya is located on the Nobi Plain, blocking the East and West of Honshu Island with Kyoto and Osaka Castle. When the fleet of the Kyushu Army captures Nagoya Castle on the Nobi Plain, [-] shogunate troops will be trapped in the Kii Peninsula and the Shima Peninsula. It's the battle of trapped beasts.

Blocking the Iliang Lake waterway is the Kyushu Army's Zhili Fleet, which is also the first fleet, with the most advanced sailing battleships.Several large warships, Victory, Monarch, Constitution, and Poseidon blocked the exit of the Irago waterway, and blocked the shogunate navy in the Leju Irago waterway. The shogunate navy dared not come out to fight. Their main battleship was the Anzhai ship. , In the war that broke out in the Wanli period, it was barely enough to fight against Fuchuan and Turtle Ship, but it was too weak to face the sailing battleships that were really used for sea battles.

The shogunate used all of its navy to transport food and blockade the waterways from Shikoku Island to the Kii Peninsula in this crusade against the rebels. There were more than 300 ships in total. little morning.

The capital ship of the shogunate navy is a shogun's exclusive royal ship customized by Tokugawa Iemitsu.It is 40 meters long, has a large mast, and is mainly driven by manpower to operate the large scull.This kind of large sailing ship that relies on manpower to operate is simply a joke to Nelson, a bit like the navy of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Sea a long time ago.Not to mention that the artillery equipped by the Ataka boat is very small, and it is even necessary to use muskets and boarding battles to win when close to the battle.

After the big ship came to sail, the Tokugawa shogunate gradually realized the importance of sea power and wanted to imitate the sailing battleship of the Kyushu Army.But they don't have the technology to build sailing battleships, nor do they have the proper artillery to deploy them!The most advanced shipyard in Japan is the Yokohama Shipyard established by the Kyushu Army, which specializes in the manufacture of small and medium-sized maritime merchant ships and fishing boats active in Hokkaido fishing grounds.

"The opponent's ships are like moving castles on the sea. This battle is different from 40 years ago. 40 years ago, we were able to fight hard against the Ming army and the Korean navy, but now the opponent's warships are advancing by leaps and bounds. We are not opponents at all..." The Shogunate Admiral was authorized to drive the general's exclusive Ataka ship as the main warship. He saw rows of warships blocking the waterway of Lake Irago on the deck, and his heart was awe-inspiring.

He originally thought that the Dachu and Daqi battleships of the Beiyang Fleet, which had fifty guns, were already huge.However, the arrival of the Zhili Fleet made him realize that he still far underestimated the strength of the Kyushu Army Navy.It was not the Beiyang Fleet that blocked the waterway at all.With a length of nearly 70 meters, three decks, and hundreds of cannons, the Victory looks like a sea castle composed of cannons. The general's house ship he is riding on looks like a small man in front of the Victory.

(End of this chapter)