Dragon Sea Empire

One day at the end of September, the typhoon stopped for several days and nights. In the morning, it was already hot under the sun. As the water vapor on the ground quickly evaporated, the vanguard of the Kyushu Allied Forces, the Shimadzu family with the cross flag The cavalry appeared in the fields 500 meters north of the Inari River. They cruised outside the range of the field artillery of the Inari River Chinese Army position, and then retreated and disappeared. Only half an hour later, behind the Inari River earth wall position The soldiers of the Chinese Army felt the slight tremor of the ground under their feet.

The Conch blew the warning signal one long and one short, and all the Chinese troops at Shiroyama, the north bank of the Inari River, and the fortress at the mouth of the river entered a state of battle.

A large number of enemies appeared in the large hills, plains, and fields north of the Inari River and south of Mieyake, and various heraldic banners stretched for miles.

On the fortress of Chengshan, Yin Feng held up his binoculars and watched the fields and woods in the north slowly being filled with Japanese troops of various colors and banners, with a sneer on his lips all the time.

The places such as Kajiki and Pusheng Town in the south of Kirishima have all been abandoned by the Chinese Army and completely burned down. The places in Sichuan, Oguchi, and Isa in the northwest of the Satsuma Peninsula have also been abandoned by the Chinese Army. What is left is a piece of white land, only the Satsuma Peninsula Izushui City on the northwest coast was supported by ten three-masted Fuchuan gunboats of the Chinese Army Fleet, and 300 sailors and musketeers were guarding Ishui City to ensure that the seaport adjacent to the East China Sea was in the hands of the Chinese Army.

In the northwest of Kagoshima, Irai-in and Iji-in are located in mountainous areas, and large troops cannot pass through the mountain roads. In addition, the small amount of harassing troops left by the Chinese army are guerrilla-strikes in Yaeshan and Chongpingshan. It is more reassuring that the Kyushu coalition forces can only go south along the coastline of Kagoshima Bay when they cannot obtain supplies on the spot, and enter Kagoshima by the main road east of Miedake through the land of Kajiki.

The terrain here is relatively open, which is conducive to the deployment of large troops. Of course, it is also conducive to the Chinese Army's firepower advantage.

On this morning, the Kyushu Island Allied Forces of Japan arrived with more than 40000 people, and it took a whole morning to form a team.

However, Yin Feng ordered the Chinese Army to stand firm and not to fight. Therefore, the Kyushu Allied Forces lined up from the northwest to the southeast, from the foothills of the city to the sea, stretching for several miles on the narrow coastal plain, showing off their might under the sun all morning. , the Chinese on the opposite side seemed not to know how to appreciate this spectacular sight, and did not respond.

"Is the enemy's formation very thick? However, isn't such a dense formation just our target?" Yin Feng put down his binoculars, wiped his sweat, and said with a smile to a large group of people behind him, including Portuguese Jesuit missionary Lu Ruohan, old mercenary Kutre, captain of the black bodyguard Magaro, captain of the bodyguard Lin Yue, head of the first regiment Zhao Tie, commander of the first regiment and battalion Huang Lue, secretary Chen Dong, and Yin Feng's guest minister, Chen Di, an old general who only eats but doesn't work.

Yin Feng clapped his hands and said: "Okay, everyone, take your positions. After this battle, the Northern Expedition against the Japanese pirates will come to an end. Let's fight hard and let these Japanese pirates have a good taste of the strength of our Chinese army. They have given up the idea of ​​reaching out to our Taiwan Island,"

Everyone said yes, and everyone took their positions.

In the afternoon, fighting broke out at the foot of the mountain north of Shiroyama first. A group of soldiers from the Kato family belonging to the Kumamoto domain launched a sneak attack north of Shiroyama, but the Shimadzu family who led them did not know that the situation had changed. The mountain road that can pass three people in parallel has been buried with tripping wheel fire mines.

Hearing the sound of continuous explosions from the north of the mountain, Huang Lue looked around at his generals: "The Japanese pirates are coming up from the northern mountain. I heard that the direction is close to the southwest. The enemy probably wants to go around the ridge east of our fort and go south to Tsurumaru Castle. There are only 150 brethren from the third sentinel guard a section of the stone parapet, and we must go to reinforce it,"

"Let me go," several whistle chiefs shouted scramblingly.

"No, each of your teams is on guard, and you can't move." Huang Lue glanced at Chen Dageo, a staff officer who was temporarily sent to practice, and hesitated for a while. Chen Dageo-Yu Zigao had already stood up on his own initiative: "I'll go,"

Huang Lue heard about Yu Zigao when he was studying at the Chinese Military Academy; this man was born in an official family, and he was arrogant and rude at first, but after more than a year of study, he was able to survive various harsh training courses. I survived hard.

Huang Lue glanced at Yu Zigao and smiled: "Okay, you take my guards and the artillery team of the fourth post, and you must stick to the important area at the foot of Beishan Mountain."

After Yu Zigao led the team to leave, Huang Lue's battalion supervisor asked in a low voice: "Old Huang, it is said that this kid is the son of an imperial court official. He can't bear the hardships of the recruit training and contradicts the instructor. Is it okay?"

Huang slightly rolled his eyes: "His grades in the final assessment are still good, and he is excellent in physical fitness and combat skills. Let him try it. In this way, you lead the team directly under you to support Beishan, and keep an eye on this kid by the way."

"The enemy below the mountain has begun to attack," a sentinel came to report.

A moment later, the fortress on the hill overlooking the entire Kagoshima plain and bay opened fire. With the rumble of cannons, a dozen shells weighing ten catties flew towards the formation of the Kyushu Allied Forces north of the Inari River.

The Kyushu Allied Forces took the Shimadzu family army and Tachibana Muneshige's troops as the vanguard, the Kumamoto clan soldiers and Nabeshima Katsushige's troops from the Kashima clan in the center, and the Arima Toyo clan's troops from Kurume and the Hosokawa Tadori camp of the Ogura clan on the left. On the right wing, Terasawa Takedaka's department of Karatsu Clan, as well as Kuroda Tadayuki, Ogasawara Tadama, Matsudaira Shigenao and other troops were concentrated on the right. With the advantage of numbers, they broke through the Inarigawa Chinese Army position in one fell swoop.

The Japanese Long Snake Formation was immediately bombarded by more than 120 cannons from three places: the castle mountain fortress, the Inari River position, and the estuary fortress.

At the same time, hundreds of Thunderbolt rockets were fired from the front of Inarigawa at the same time, and the farthest rocket hit the central headquarters where the superintendent Itakura Shigemasa and the deputy Toda Shitetsu were located.

At a distance of 700 meters from the Inari River, the vanguard of the central front of the Kyushu Allied Forces was bombarded by a series of rockets, and then bombarded by hundreds of shells.

Li Kuiqi's artillery positions were busy in full swing.

Li Kuiqi used the chain bullets originally used to destroy the mast cable structure on the ship in naval battles to bombard the Japanese army.

A chain bomb is two solid iron balls tied together by an iron chain. After being fired, the chain will be pulled apart and rotated. The chain bomb fired by Li Kuiqi not only has two connected cannons, but also three or four rounds. The linked shells are almost the same as grape shells.

The chain bullet opened the three-foot-long iron chain, and swept across the Japanese pirate team in a high-speed rotation, knocking down the soldiers of the Kyushu Allied Forces in pieces, and some soldiers of the Kyushu Allied Forces were even cut in two by the iron chain.

When the Japanese rushed to a distance of 3 steps from the position on the north bank of the Inari River, the 6-pound and [-]-pound field light guns of the Chinese Army fired cannonballs, and countless irons covered the front of the central front of the Kyushu Allied Forces of Japan, knocking down a large area Shimadzu Army, Tachibana Muneshige's ashigaru unit.

When the Japanese pirates were only 150 steps away from the Inarigawa North Line position, the Chinese soldiers stood behind the trenches and earthen walls and started firing muskets.

When only 50 steps away from the Chinese Army's position, the grenades of the Chinese Army Grenadiers began to explode.

When the Shimadzu Army, the vanguard of the Kyushu Allied Forces, was only 10 steps away from the Inari River position, the entire Chinese Army began to shoot rapidly. The Japanese Kyushu Allied Forces launched a full-scale attack from 1000 steps away from the Inari River. After the bombardment of rockets, shotgun shells, musket bullets and grenades, the attack was forced to stop.

The troops of Kuroda Tadayuki and Ogasawara Tadama who were attacking the city were also attacked by Huang Lue's gunpowder barrel that made people roll down.

A large amount of gunpowder stored in the Tsurumaru Castle of the Shimadzu family and various branch cities were confiscated by the Chinese Army. The black powder formula of the Shimadzu family is different from the granular gunpowder of the Chinese Army, so it cannot be used to launch the new flintlock muskets of the Chinese Army. They are not medicines, but they can be made into dynamite packs and explosive shells of sky bombers, and can also be made into grenades.

Therefore, the Chinese poured firepower into the Kyushu Allied Forces of Japan without any money, and the soldiers of Kuroda and Ogasawara suffered heavy casualties, and they retreated crying and howling.

The Japanese troops on the left flank of Matoshi and Hosokawa Tadori were attacked by solid shells, bombardment cannons, and rainstorm guns outside the Hekou Fortress, and retreated in disorder.

The Kyushu allied forces of the Japanese have almost no weapons that can attack the enemy at a long range, except for bows and arrows and iron cannons, within two hundred steps of the Chinese army's position. However, thousands of bows and guns are completely unable to resist rocket explosions, cannon bombardments and explosions. Bullets, gunpowder barrels, and grenades, almost can only be beaten and cannot fight back.

When the battle was in full swing, Yin Feng had already left Chengshan Fortress and returned to Tsurumaru City, where the envoy sent by Luo Aquan told him: the night before, soldiers from the special battalion and Taiwanese native soldiers had crossed the mountain road to the mountain near Sanchongyue. They were lurking there, waiting for an opportunity to launch an assault on the rear of the Kyushu Allied Forces.

Yin Feng walked up to Tsurumaru Castle and picked up the binoculars. The front line of the Inari River in the camera was filled with gunpowder smoke, and he could only vaguely see the figures of some Chinese soldiers shaking. He sneered: the Japanese met them A tactic that has never been seen before, a method of combat that relies entirely on the output of firepower, any individual's pure bravery is meaningless in the face of the hail of bullets and the shock wave of the explosion.

Shimadzu Tadahito greeted the battered Tachibana Zongshige in the battle, and said with a worried face: "Tachibana, you saw it, this is the combat tactics of the Chinese maritime merchants,"

Tachibana Zongshige sighed with a heavy heart: "You are right, I underestimated the enemy. The fighting style of these Chinese is completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers in North Korea. In the face of such fierce firepower, our frontal attack is a It's hard to break open,"

He thought for a while and said, "Since we can't break through head-on, let's try a surprise attack at night."

However, bad news came from the left wing. During the assault on the Kawaguchi Fortress, the Ogura soldiers under Tadori Hosokawa were continuously attacked by dozens of bombardment bombs. He was also injured, and now the Xiaocang soldiers are retreating, as if they are going north to return to their home territory.

At the same time, Ogasawara of the Matsumoto Domain who attacked Shiroyama was injured by the shock wave of the explosion of the gunpowder barrel. He is now unconscious. Said it was an order from the feudal lord.

The Kyushu Allied Forces of the Japanese began to disintegrate after only one general attack,