Chapter 152 As long as Ming Kou is defeated (please subscribe, please vote)

Japan, Nagasaki Port.

This port city, located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago and facing the 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 followed the example of the new Ming Dynasty and embarked on the road of reform and founding of the country, Nagasaki made a leap forward.

It has become an industrial and commercial center comparable to Osaka.

Hundreds of islands, large and small, are dotted around Nagasaki Port. They not only provide Nagasaki with excellent wind-sheltered anchorages, but also protect Nagasaki Port layer by layer, making it an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack city.

Fortress cities. These islands located outside Nagasaki Port have either built very secret forts, tall observation towers, or built small military ports where torpedo boats and gunboats can berth. If the enemy from the sea cannot attack these islands

Once everything is cleared, it will be difficult to land in the bay of Nagasaki.

It is not easy to launch an attack from the land behind Nagasaki Port. The city of Nagasaki is built on a strange-shaped peninsula. Only the northwest corner is connected to Kyushu Island, and the width of the connection is only 112 kilometers.

There are mountains and hills in 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. Small pieces of flat land are surrounded by these hills, turning them into a mess.

Valleys are all good places to hide troops and set up ambushes - before the Tokugawa shogunate came to dominate the world, this area of ​​Nagasaki had always been a good place for bandits and pirates!

The home base of Japanese pirates such as the Goto Navy and the Omura Navy is right here!

Today's Nagasaki port area has 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 here, and cranes imported from the Ming Dynasty are densely arranged in the port. Near the pier

, there are cargo warehouses everywhere. However, in late February, Shimazu Sairyo of the Satsuma Domain suddenly led a group of former shogunate navy personnel, Satsuma domain warriors and renounced ronin from all over Japan to attack and occupy Nagasaki, and also fought

In the name of honoring the king and resisting the Ming Dynasty, Nagasaki Port quickly became very desolate - after all, the business and trade here relied on the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are still some ships in the port. They are mainly warships originally belonging to the Shogunate Navy and some pirate ships or raiding ships disguised as civilian ships (there is actually no difference between the two). Oh, there are also a few East India Company ships.

A 10,000-ton fast sailing ship was also parked at the pier in a corner of the port. A group of short Japanese dockworkers, wearing white cloth belts on their heads and shorts, were shuttled back and forth under the guard of dozens of samurai.

Large and small packages of goods were moved from these large sailing ships.

The factory, which can build some small and medium-sized ships, is huddled in a corner of the port area. It is also very busy here. The tall chimneys are filled with black smoke and soot and dust are everywhere. The slipway is even more busy, but what is going on there?

, but outsiders don’t know. Because black curtains have been drawn around these slipways, which are tightly blocked. Only the rattling and clanking sounds of sawing wood can be heard, as well as Japanese workers.

That unique chanting sound.

In Nagasaki City, the flag symbolizing the Tokugawa shogunate has long since disappeared, and the slogan "Honor the King and Fight the Ming" is everywhere. Half of the shops along the street have been closed, but the rest are doing booming business - since

The rogues from all over the country who gathered under the banner of "Zun Wang Hu Ming" seemed to be quite wealthy and spent their money lavishly. But those businessmen who were still running shops in Nagasaki couldn't help but sigh.

Honor the King and fight against the Ming Dynasty!

Honoring the king means going against the Tokugawa shogunate, and fighting against the Ming Dynasty means going against the Great Tomorrow. This Nagasaki city is about to end!

On a mountain peak on the Nagasaki Peninsula, on the wall of a Japanese-style castle hidden in the dense mountain forest, Shimazu Sailiangzheng, who "went into a rage for Akora", and the representative of the British Empire, George Eryu,

There is also the one-eyed dragon Xixiang, who is looking at the sea with a telescope, looking at the giant ship wandering in the distance!

This is a battleship as huge as a city wall, with a scissor-style bow and an inward-sloping hull. The superstructure is relatively smooth, and there are no messy ropes on the tall masts, making it look clean and tidy.

The hull of the ship was painted pure white, and the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon flag hung on the mast.

There is also an armored turret at the bow and stern of the ship, and two 305mm giant guns extend from the armored turret, looking majestic. There are also a large number of secondary guns on both sides of the ship, with at least one on each side.

The 10 155mm secondary guns are also protected by the gun cover.

"This is the Hongwu Emperor class!" One-eyed Dragon Xixiang said in an envious tone, "When will Japan have such a battleship?"

"There will be!" Shimazu Qi Liang said with a livid face, "When we defeat the shogunate and the Zaibatsu and establish a new Japan, we will have our own Great Emperor class!"

Saigo asked again: "Then when can we overthrow the corrupt Tokugawa shogunate?"

Shimazu said in unison: "As long as we can repel the invasion of Mingkou. If we repel the arrogant Mingkou, then all the patriots in Japan will be on our side!"

When George Yilu next to him heard this, he just frowned, and then continued to hold up the telescope and stared at the Emperor-class ship in the distance. This was the second ship of the Hongwu Emperor-class, the Hanwu Emperor, and the Ming Dynasty.

The flagship of the Beiyang Fleet. After raising the banner of "Respect the King and Fight the Ming" here in Nagasaki, the Hanwu Emperor led an entire fleet on 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 equipped with Japan's own 11-inch howitzers, with a total of no less than 100!

The technology of this 11-inch cannon comes from the British Armstrong Company. It was developed in the late Napoleonic War. It was originally intended to bombard Paris, so it was also nicknamed the "Paris Cannon". Although it was an "old cannon" more than ten years ago (this era

The technology of the breech-loading cannon has advanced rapidly, and it basically lags behind as soon as it is installed), but its power is still not small. It can fire shells weighing 217 kilograms and has a range of 7.65 kilometers. Even the Hongwu Emperor class cannot withstand this

A bombardment of artillery!

With the protection of 100 11-inch howitzers, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to attack Nagasaki from the sea.

Therefore, the only feasible way is to land far away from Nagasaki and then march overland. Land warfare is exactly what Japanese samurai are good at!

If nothing else, even if their lives are worthless, they are enough for Ming Dynasty to drink a pot of it.

The number of rogues gathered in Nagasaki now exceeds 20,000, and there is a steady stream of rogues coming! And George Elliot brought a large number of guns and ammunition to Nagasaki with three 10,000-ton sailing ships, enough for them to fight

It was a protracted battle on land.

If Shimazu Qi Liang and others commanded it well, then the Battle of Nagasaki is likely to last for several years, and the Ming army may have paid tens of thousands of casualties. By then, the people of the Ming Dynasty will still want to fight with the British-Indian Empire

Fighting a long protracted war?

Thinking of this, George Elliot finally put down his telescope, turned around and said to Shimazu Qi Liang: "General Shimazu, based on the experience of the Peshawar Battle, as long as you do a good job in position defense engineering and then use water-cooled machine guns for defense, you will be able to

It will definitely cause heavy casualties to the enemy, and the Ming Empire cannot bear that kind of casualties! Once they lose too much, they will give up the attack. At that time, we, the British Empire, will mediate and ask the Ming Dynasty to give up interfering in Japan. In this way, you

The Shimadzu family can replace the Tokugawa family as the masters of Japan!"

Shimazu nodded solemnly: "If our Shimazu family becomes the masters of Japan, Japan will regard the British Empire as its most solid ally. If Ming Dynasty dares to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire, it will become Japan's enemy!"
Chapter completed!