"The terrain of Nagasaki is indeed very dangerous. There are islands in the front and mountains in the back. There are at least ten forts arranged quite secretly. Some of them are also arranged on the reverse slope behind the mountains. There is no way for naval guns to attack them. They destroy!”
"According to reliable information, the artillery force under the jurisdiction of the Nagasaki Army has 100 280mm howitzers alone... These artillery pieces are heavy-duty howitzers that can be moved. They can not only be used to attack targets at sea, but also Used to support the battle on land!"
"There seem to be three East India Company sailing ships on the dock of Nagasaki Port. They are all loaded with munitions, right? These are sailing ships with a load of over 10,000 tons. The load capacity must be several thousand tons, right?"
"According to intelligence, these sailing ships left India only after the Battle of Peshawar. They were probably equipped with machine guns and barbed wire..."
"There is no need for barbed wire in the terrain of Nagasaki? As long as a machine gun is set up at a high place, one man can hold the barrier, and no one can open it."
"A forceful attack is unrealistic. Let's use airships to drop incendiary bombs and bombs... Most of the buildings in Nagasaki are made of wood, which should be easy to ignite. Once the fire is done, let them dare to fight again!"
"We can also besiege Nagasaki. As long as we land at Karatsu and then advance to Saga, we can complete the land blockade around Nagasaki. At the same time, the navy can mine the waters near Nagasaki and the exit of Omura Bay and blockade it from the sea. Nagasaki. Not even a grain of rice is allowed to be transported in, and all these Japanese pirates who don’t know how high the sky is are starved to death!"
In the command tower of the Hanwu Emperor, the people who were talking a lot about how to deal with the Japanese pirates in Nagasaki were of course military experts from the Combat Training Bureau of the Army Staff Department. All of them were top students from the Army Academy and the Army Staff College. Half of them are descendants of Miao Zhenggenhong's eight major aristocratic families, including Zheng Guoxian, Zhuge Weidao's "good friend", Mu Zhongjun, who took army experts to Peshawar last time to gain experience, and a Zhuge, named Among those who called Zhuge Weimin were Liu Xuanwu of the Liu Shu family and Li Tieshan of the Li Kui family. They are all experts who are familiar with "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Napoleon's Art of War" (not written by Napoleon, but by Zhuge Youlun, an admirer of Napoleon) and "On War". I'm just a little cowardly... I'm afraid of killing people, so I don't want to attack Nagasaki, either in words or in words, so I just want to set fire to it and blockade it.
Zhuge Weidao was also in the command tower of the Hanwu Emperor at this time. He had just been promoted from Navy Lieutenant Colonel to Navy Captain - this was a front-line promotion, and there was no need to consider seniority at all. All naval officers and soldiers who participated in the Jiyin naval battle were promoted within one month after the war. The formation admiral Li Chenghui was promoted to rear admiral and has served as the admiral of the first detachment (battleship formation) of the Beiyang Fleet and the captain of the Hanwu Emperor! Guan Tianpei, who commanded the bombing in the air, was promoted to lieutenant general and secured his position as aviation admiral.
After Zhuge Weidao was promoted to colonel, he was given the position of admiral of the Second Division (cruiser division) of the Beiyang Fleet, while still serving as the captain of the Lushun. However, he was not on the Lushun today. Instead, he followed the Admiral of the Beiyang Fleet, Lieutenant General Liu Deyi, and accompanied the senior advisers of the Naval Aviation and the Army to inspect the battlefield outside Nagasaki Port.
Zhuge Weidao, who had already participated in two battles, accumulated a lot of war experience, and also learned a lot of military expertise on his own under Wang Wen's guidance, couldn't help but frown a little after hearing what these army elites said.
Arson and blockade are right, Zhuge Weidao also planned this before.
However, the encirclement should not be too big. According to the methods of army experts like them, the Tangjin landing was pushed to Zuohe City and a blockade of more than 30 kilometers was established. The territory inside the encirclement covered several thousand square kilometers! Is this going to take until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse to siege him to death?
Moreover, if the encirclement is too large, the Japanese pirates in the circle will have more space to move around. Of course, the city of Nagasaki can be burned to ashes, but there are thousands of square kilometers within the Nagasaki encirclement, and there are plenty of places for those Japanese pirates who "resisted the Ming" to hide.
Also...why didn't any of these army elites consider the righteous cause of setting fires and starving people?
Why did Ming Dynasty come to Japan to kill people and set fires? It is impossible for a country as full of justice as the Ming Dynasty to invade Japan! And it’s impossible to start a war in the name of “dog hunting”!
Just when he thought of this, someone finally mentioned the matter of righteousness.
"Master once said, if the name is not right, then the words will not go smoothly; if the words are not right, then the things will not be accomplished. Emperor Daoguang of Dajin also used the name of banning films and resisting the British and aiding Afghanistan when he used troops in Afghanistan, so the lone army that went deep into Peshawar could We have the support of the local people. And in what name can we use troops against Japan? We can burn Nagasaki with just a word from the ronin who is entrenched in Nagasaki? Isn't it too arrogant?"
Zhuge Weidao turned around and looked at the person who spoke. It turned out to be his brother from the same clan, Zhuge Weimin, who was ranked seventy-fourth - he was an army elite of the Zhuge family. He had already held the rank of major general before he was forty years old. Now he is The director of the Army Combat Training Bureau is more senior than Mu Zhongjun of the Mu family.
He also saw Zhuge Weidao's eyes, and after thinking about it, he asked: "Eighteenth Military Advisor, what name do you think we should use?"
"Brother Seventy-Four," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Japan's rightful title is first the emperor, and secondly the general. Now the Japanese pirates in Nagasaki are using the banner of respecting the king, so they naturally want to borrow the title of the emperor. In fact, we also We can compete with them for the emperor. If we can get the emperor to side with us, then we are sure to win. As for what name to use... I think we can use it to fight against the barbarians! Our Ming Dynasty is 'Xia', and the white ghosts are barbarians. The ronin of Nagasaki colluded with the white ghosts to oppose our Ming Dynasty, which is to sell Japan to the British and foreign white ghosts, and use them as cannon fodder to oppose our Chinese protoss. They are Japanese traitors!
As long as we capture the Emperor, it will be justifiable for us to set fire to Nagasaki! "
"What about the generals of Edo?" Zhuge Weimin asked.
"The general is strong, the emperor is weak..." Zhuge Weidao said, "The best policy is to support the weak and suppress the strong!"
Zhuge Weimin smiled and nodded, and then said to Mu Zhongjun: "How?"
Mu Zhongjun smiled, "The Zhuge family's military advisor is indeed well-deserved... But there must be someone on the general's side to comfort him, and we cannot push the Tokugawa family to Nagasaki."
After saying this, he, Zhuge Weimin, Guan Tianpei and Beiyang Fleet Admiral Liu Deyi looked at Zhuge Weidao.
"I will go lobby the general!" Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Who will go to the emperor?"
"I'll go," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "The current Emperor of Japan and my sister are best friends, and I also know her. I'll just go to Kyoto!"
...
"Lord, Ming's fleet has withdrawn!"
In the fortress on the Nagasaki Peninsula, with the cry of the one-eyed dragon Saigo, the people on the fortress wall finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they also know that they have enough artillery to resist the frontal attack of the Ming fleet, the British Sovereign class and Indomitable class can theoretically sink the two Port Arthur class!
But what's the result?
Shimazu breathed a sigh of relief and asked Saigo: "Xixiang, when can our airship team be dispatched?"
The Mito feudal lords in the airship fleet of the Tokugawa shogunate also rebelled collectively and followed Shimazu Sairyo to Nagasaki in an airship.
However, the airship team's direct adviser to the shogunate did not follow, so the personnel were insufficient, and the airship ground crew did not follow, so the airship team could not immediately form combat effectiveness. Fortunately, among the people Yi Lu brought, there were instructors from the airship unit.
So Shimazu Qi Liang ordered his confidant Xixiang to join the airship team with a group of warriors from the Haitao Team, preparing to learn how to fly and steal the Ming Dynasty's Jueying Island base.
"Lord, are we going to attack soon?" Xixiang was stunned for a moment, "They haven't launched an attack on us yet..."
Shimazu shook his head: "They are the Ming Dynasty! If we let them strike first, will we still have a chance to fight back? So we must strike first!"
Saigo Yoshihei Takamori frowned and asked: "Then...are we going to ask His Majesty the Emperor to declare war on the Ming Dynasty?"
"No, there is no need..." Shimazu said in unison, "We should not leave this problem to His Majesty the Emperor...and His Majesty and Empress Dowager Zheng of the Ming Dynasty are close friends!"
"Hayin!"
