Ming Kou is coming?
A group of usually high-ranking feudal lords and ministers of each feudal clan all showed frightened expressions, but they quickly tried their best to hide it.
They are all the leaders of the samurai group, how can they let people know that they are actually afraid of death? This is so shameless. And will this "Ming Kou Invasion" bring the shogunate to its knees like the last "Yuan Kou Invasion"? Once the shogunate collapses...then the Warring States Period will be a time of chaos with numerous heroes!
Thinking of the troubled times of the Warring States Period, Mitsuyuki Kuroda, Tsunaki Shimazu, Tsunahiro Mori, Mitsushige Nabeshima, Tsunato Hosokawa, Tsunoma Asano, Tsunamasa Ikeda, Toyomasa Yamauchi, Tsunuki Hachisuka, Sotoshi Date and others His chest involuntarily puffed up.
The troubled times of the Warring States Period were the era that samurai dreamed of. These feudal lords grew up listening to true and false Warring States stories... Although their bodies lived in the comfortable years under the Tokugawa Shogunate. , but their souls all stay in the long-gone Warring States period. Each of them imagined what great deeds they would have created that would be admired by future generations if they had been born in that era when heroes emerged in large numbers.
Now they don’t have to fantasize, they can actually do it right away!
Kuroda Mitsuyuki, the descendant of Kuroda Kanbei, was the first to stand up. His dark face was full of excitement. He looked at the group of feudal lords and ministers below who, like him, had quickly turned from fear to excitement. , and then showed a confident smile: "The defense of Hakata Bay is impregnable. There are forts built on Genkai Island, Shiga Island at the entrance of the bay, and Noko Island in the bay. There are also forts on the edge of Karadami Port at the west entrance of the bay. Forts were built. All the forts were equipped with 12-pound long cannons provided by the Netherlands and England. The number was as many as one hundred! Those who defended the forts were our Kuroda family samurai, with a total of up to four thousand people. They We will definitely be able to keep the Akiko out of Hakata Bay...until the kamikaze and friendly reinforcements arrive!"
After finishing his bragging, Kuroda Mitsuyuki smiled and said to the feudal lords and ministers below: "Gentlemen, the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle is very high and has an excellent view. You can overlook the entire Hakata Bay from there. Why don't we go up together? Go up to the castle tower and watch with your own eyes the Fukuoka samurai use their artillery and bravery to severely defeat the invading Ming invaders!"
After hearing what Kuroda Mitsuyuki said, a group of feudal lords and important ministers also stood up and followed Kuroda Mitsuyuki towards the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle. All of them had uncontrollable smiles on their faces... The troubled times of the Warring States Period were probably coming, and they finally had a stage to display their ambitions and talents!
This group of Japanese samurai leaders who firmly believed that they were really powerful soon followed Mitsuyuki Kuroda to the tall, large and eye-catching Fukuoka Castle Tower. Fortunately, the warships of the Ming Navy had not yet rushed into Hakata Bay, otherwise Aiming at the castle tower and firing a few volleys of rockets would be a lot of fun.
The samurai chiefs who boarded the castle tower all took telescopes from the cute-looking little ones they carried with them - almost all of them were high-end products produced by the "Crystal Palace" in Nanjing. They could see far and clearly, and they were better than Western goods are still cheap. In the past two years, the Japanese Bushido, who has some wealth, has used this kind of telescope.
Everyone opened the telescope and took a look - Hakata Bay is indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although the internal area of Hakata Bay is not small, there is an island-connected sandbar called Uminonakamichi between the east coast of Hakata Bay and Shiga Road, which blocks nearly two-thirds of the entrance to Hakata Bay. .
The remaining one-third - about ten miles wide, is not unimpeded. There is a small island called Genkai Island right in the middle, blocking the entrance to Hakata Bay, Genkai Beach. In the battles of Bunyong and Hong'an, the overwhelming Yuan army entered Hakata Bay through Genkai Beach, and then was blocked at sea and unable to land. Finally, it was blown around by the sudden "divine wind" and had to be defeated. And return.
At this moment, the Ming army fleet that appeared outside Xuanjie Beach was not as large as everyone imagined, and it did not cover the entire sea. There were only a dozen Chinese-style sailing ships, and they did not dare to approach Xuanjie Island, but only from a distance. Shooting. The firepower is not strong. It seems that there is only one cannon on each ship (there is a heavy cannon on the bow) firing, which is much worse than the Western warships with several layers of cannons on both sides of the ship... ..
In addition to these large ships, there are also thirty or forty Ming army small boats that are quickly approaching Xuanjie Island, which has a dangerous terrain, and seem to be sending the landing troops there.
At this time, the fort on Xuanjie Island began to fire back! There are two forts on this island, both built on the hillside, used to block the channels on the east and west sides of Xuanjie Island. What is firing now is the fort on the east side of Xuanjie Island. There are twelve twelve-pound cannons placed on this fort, and the firepower is quite powerful when fired in a salvo!
In addition, a fort on Shiga Island also began to show its power. It also had twelve twelve-pound cannons, which output a burst of firepower against the Ming fleet on the sea. I saw water pillars rising continuously around the two Ming army's big bird ships, threatening to engulf the Ming army's warships.
Such rapid firepower was something the Kamakura samurai of those days did not have!
And the Ming army's artillery... seems to be much weaker than imagined!
Seeing this scene, the feudal lords at Fukuoka Castle's castle tower were a little disappointed - is this the so-called Great Tomb Soldier?
If they are defeated in one fight, then the Tokugawa world will be difficult to shake...
However, the Ming army did not let them down for long, because two-thirds of the thirty-odd small boats approaching Xuanjie Island were so-called assault boats!
And on the remaining dozen or so small boats, there were a full two collars of North Korean Ming Army grenadiers!
The boats looked harmless, and their targets were too small to hit. So an elder of the Fukuoka clan who defended the island decided to "lure the enemy to land" and mobilized hundreds of samurai to set up a battle formation near the beach and dock in the southern part of Genkai Island, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's landing to attack the enemy. Their fatal blow!
At this time, the tactics of the Japanese shogunate army and the vassal armies were still roughly at the level of the late Warring States Period. The army is dominated by Ashigaru, and Ashigaru is dominated by pikemen. Muskets only account for about 10% of the total number of Ashigaru troops, and most of them are equipped with matchlocks - only the new army directly under the shogunate is equipped with flintlock muskets. , but the flintlock guns used by the Japanese samurai were not equipped with bayonets... They were still used to using samurai swords to chop people!
The Ming army's small boats on the sea were divided into two formations. One formation headed towards the east side fort on Xuanjie Island that was firing, and the other formation passed under the Japanese gun muzzle and went around to the south of the island to see. Come to prepare for landing.
"Haha," Mitsuyuki Kuroda put down the telescope confidently, as if muttering to himself, and as if he was telling the people around him on purpose, "Victory is in sight, Mingkou is nothing more than that... "
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sharp whistling sound of "chirp, chirp, chirp!"
Before he could react, a thunderous roar followed.
"It's a thunder rocket!"
I don’t know who shouted!
Kuroda Mitsuyuki quickly raised his telescope and happened to see several Ming army assault boats shooting sky thunder!
There was a huge cloud of smoke on the sea, and the firelight flickered, and then I saw rockets dragging smoke bombs and roaring towards Xuanjie Island at extremely fast speeds - not flying randomly, but flying with a clear target. The Fukuoka clan troops near the east fort of Genkai Island and the dock and beach in the south of Genkai Island!
In just the blink of an eye, Kuroda saw balls of fire and clusters of black smoke rising from the fort! The hundreds of Fukuoka samurai lined up near the docks and beaches were covered by the roaring rockets without even seeing the enemy landing soldiers... Although the number of casualties was unknown, The momentum of this rocket explosion is really amazing!
"Lord..." Someone shouted at this time, "Shiga Island and Kaichu were also beaten... Mingkou is so powerful!"
Chapter 682 The heavenly soldiers have arrived, now we need kamikaze and reinforcements! (Please vote for me, please recommend me)
