1825 My New Daming

Chapter 152 Just Defeat Ming Kou (please subscribe, ask monthly ticket)

Japan, Nagasaki Port.

This port city, located at the westernmost end of the Japanese archipelago and facing Ming Dynasty, has become an important center for exchanges between Japan and the world since the middle and late Warring States period.After the Tokugawa shogunate emulated the new Ming Dynasty and embarked on the road of reform and founding the country, Nagasaki became an industrial and commercial center comparable to Osaka.

Hundreds of large and small islands are dotted around Nagasaki Port, not only providing Nagasaki with excellent sheltered anchorages, but also guarding Nagasaki Port layer by layer, turning it into a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. fortress city.These islands located outside Nagasaki Port either built quite hidden forts, tall lookout towers, or small military ports where torpedo boats and gunboats could berth.If the enemy from the sea cannot clean up these islands, it will be difficult to carry out landing in the bay of Nagasaki.

And it is not easy to launch an attack from the land behind Nagasaki Port. The city of Nagasaki is built on a peninsula with a strange shape. Only the northwest corner is connected to Kyushu Island. The width of the connection is only eleven or twelve kilometers. There are mountains and hills in the front, back, left and right, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack!The peninsula where Nagasaki is located is even more densely covered with low hills, and the small flat land is surrounded by these hills, turning into valleys, all of which are good places for Tibetan soldiers to set up ambush——in the Tokugawa shogunate Before the unification of the world, the Nagasaki area has always been a good place for bandits and pirates to occupy!

The lairs of Japanese pirates like Goto Navy and Omura Navy are here!

In today's Nagasaki port area, it is a mixture of old and new that is most common when an ancient country enters a new era.Ming-style and Western-style buildings are dotted among them, and cranes imported from Daming are densely arranged in the port.Near the wharf, there are cargo warehouses everywhere.However, because Shimadzu Qiliang of the Satsuma domain suddenly led a group of former shogunate navy personnel, Satsuma domain vassals, and vagrants from all over Japan to attack and occupy Nagasaki in late February, and also played the banner of respecting the king, so Nagasaki Port soon became very bleak - after all, the commerce and trade here depended on Daming.

However, there are still some ships in the port.They are mainly warships that belonged to the shogunate navy and some pirate ships or raiding ships disguised as civilian ships (there is no difference between the two). Oh, there are also a few [-]-ton fast sailing ships of the East India Company, also in the corner of the port parked by the pier.A group of short Japanese dockworkers with white cloth straps on their heads and shorts on their bodies, under the guard of dozens of samurai, shuttled back and forth to unload the large and small packages of goods from these galleons.

The factory that can build some small and medium-sized ships is huddled in a corner of the port area. It is also very busy here, with black smoke filling the tall chimneys and coal dust everywhere.The berth is even more busy, but outsiders don't know what they are busy with.Because the surroundings of these slipways have been drawn up with black curtains, covering them tightly.All I could hear were the rattling and clanging of sawing logs, and the unique chants of Japanese workers.

In Nagasaki City, the banner symbolizing the Tokugawa Shogunate has long since disappeared, and the banner of "Respect the King and Fight the Ming" is planted everywhere.Half of the shops along the street have been closed, but the rest are thriving—the rogues gathered from all over the place under the banner of "Respect the King and Fight the Ming" seem to be quite rich, and spend lavishly.But those businessmen who are still running shops in Nagasaki still can't help but sigh
Respect the king!
Respecting the king means fighting against the Tokugawa shogunate, and fighting Ming means fighting against the Tomorrow Dynasty. This city of Nagasaki is about to end!
On a mountain peak on the Nagasaki Peninsula, on the wall of a Japanese-style castle hidden in the dense forest, Sailiang Shimadzu, who "turned out to be a sora", and George Elliot, the representative of the British Empire, There is also that one-eyed dragon Xixiang, who is holding up a telescope to look at the sea together, and is looking at the giant ship wandering in the distance!

This is a battleship as huge as a city wall, with a flying scissor bow and an inwardly inclined hull. The superstructure is relatively smooth, and there are no messy ropes on the tall mast, which looks clean and tidy.

The hull of the ship was painted in a pure white color, and the flag of the Ming Dynasty with the sun and the moon was hung on the mast.

There is also an armored turret on the bow and stern of the ship, and two 305mm cannons stretch out from the armored turrets, looking majestic.There are also a lot of secondary guns on both sides of the ship, with at least ten 10mm secondary guns on each side, all of which are protected by gun covers.

"This is the Hongwu Emperor class!" Cyclops Xixiang said in an envious tone, "When will Japan have such a warship?"

"There will be!" Shimadzu Qiliang said with a livid face, "After we overthrow the shogunate and the chaebol and establish a new Japan, we will have our own emperor class!"

Xixiang asked again: "Then when can we bring down the corrupt Tokugawa shogunate?"

Shimadzu Qiliang said: "As long as we can repel the invasion of the Ming invaders. If we repel the mighty Ming invaders, then all the patriots in Japan will stand by our side!"

George Elliot next to him just frowned when he heard this, and then continued to hold up the binoculars, staring at the Great Emperor class ship in the distance. The flagship of the Beiyang Fleet.After playing the banner of "respecting the king and fighting the Ming" here in Nagasaki, the Emperor Wu of the Han class led an entire fleet around the sea near Nagasaki.

However, the Ming Navy Fleet did not dare to get too close to Nagasaki. After all, there were no less than ten forts around Nagasaki Port. These forts were all equipped with Japanese-made 11-inch howitzers, and the total number was no less than 100!
The technology of this 11-inch cannon comes from the British Armstrong Company. It was developed in the late Napoleonic Wars and was originally intended to be used to bombard Paris, so it is also nicknamed "Paris Cannon".Although it is an "old gun" more than ten years ago (the technology of rear-loading guns in this era has made rapid progress, basically it is outdated when it is installed), but its power is still not small. It can fire shells weighing up to 217 kg and has a range of Can reach 7.65 kilometers.Even the Hongwu Emperor class can't withstand the bombardment of this kind of artillery!
With the protection of 100 11-inch howitzers, it is impossible for Ming to attack Nagasaki from the sea.

So the only feasible way is to land at a place far from Nagasaki, and then enter the army by land. And fighting land battles is precisely the strength of Japanese samurai!
Among other things, their lives are worthless, and they are enough for Daming to drink a pot.

Now the number of rogues gathered in Nagasaki has exceeded [-], and there are still a steady stream of rogues coming!And George Elliot brought three [-]-ton sailboats to Nagasaki with a large amount of guns and ammunition, enough for them to fight a protracted battle on land.

If Qiliang Shimadzu and the others command well, then the Battle of Nagasaki is likely to last for several years, and the Ming army may have suffered tens of thousands of casualties. At that time, the people of Ming Dynasty will still want to fight with Great Britain—the Indian Empire Fight a long protracted war?
Thinking of this, George Elliot finally put down his binoculars, turned his head and said to Qiliang Shimadzu: "General Shimadzu, according to the experience of the Battle of Peshawar, as long as you do a good job of defending your positions and then defend with water-cooled machine guns, you will be able to It must be able to cause heavy casualties to the enemy, and the Ming Empire cannot afford that kind of casualties! Once they lose too much, they will give up attacking. At that time, our British Empire will come forward to mediate and let Ming Dynasty give up interfering in Japan, so that you The Shimadzu family can replace the Tokugawa family as the lords of Japan!"

Qiliang Shimadzu nodded heavily: "If our Shimadzu family becomes the master of Japan, Japan will regard the British Empire as its most solid ally. If Ming dares to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire, it will be an enemy of Japan!"

(End of this chapter)