1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2116
There is an obvious gap in the performance of the weapons used by the two warring parties, and the difference in combat experience is even greater. This allows the special operations group to easily suppress the resisters hiding in civilian houses without spending too much time It broke this fragile line of defense.

But this is the place where the Hirado Clan produces artillery. It is impossible to say that there is a black muzzle behind the window of a certain house in front. The special forces who are concerned about this do not dare to rush in, but disperse the troops on the line of fire. , forming an arc and slowly outflanking the target area.

Sun Zhenmao stooped to the outside of a private house, and after gesturing to give instructions to his subordinates on the other side, he got up, kicked open the door, and rushed in with a gun.The subordinates from the other direction also rushed into the room with him, and completed the control of the room with him back to back.Afterwards, several Haihan soldiers followed closely to make sure that there was no corner that was missed in this private house.

In fact, Sun Zhen, who has been promoted to captain, has never personally participated in this kind of combat mission on the front line. However, he is used to leading the team to fight on the battlefield. It is really hard to wait for him to sit in the rear and command. Live, after asking Gao Qiaonan to fight, Sun Zhen appeared on the line of fire again.

There were a few locals in the house, but they had already been hit by bullets shot in during the battle just now, and they had already fallen to the ground at this time. Although they hadn't died yet, they had already lost the ability to struggle and resist.Inside and outside of this kind of shed, only a few load-bearing pillars and beams are made of wood, and the rest are made of materials such as bamboo and straw. There are not even a few planks, which cannot stop bullets at all.

Based on Sun Zhen's experience, it is not difficult to see that these shacks are temporary buildings built recently. Otherwise, with such a fragile building structure, once the typhoon season comes, this kind of shack will be uprooted and blown into the sky.

Sure enough, after some inspection, it was found that the house was not a place for people to live in. Most of the space was piled up with various raw materials such as coke and limestone for smelting steel, and it seemed that it was only used as a temporary warehouse.And the similar sheds around them should all be endowed with the same function.

The resisters hid in such a place to fight the Haihan army, which shows that they lack a basic understanding of Haihan's combat methods.This may be because they have never fought against the Haihan army before, or these people are not real soldiers at all.

It is not difficult to verify this question. After Sun Zhen asked his Japanese-speaking men to question the dying captives, he quickly confirmed the identities of these resisters.

Sure enough, these people were not the soldiers of the Hirado Clan, but the local residents of Kagamigawa and craftsmen engaged in smelting work, and the real military guards who were in charge of guarding this place had already been transferred to the Hirado Port in the morning.Because the Fan army was temporarily transferred away, these young men were called up to serve as guards, and although these people who were given the task of staying behind were also assigned some weapons, they were pure laymen on how to fight.

Facing the sudden onslaught of the coalition fleet, these people had no choice but to abandon Boxiang fishing port and retreat inland, hoping to hide in the valley to avoid Haihan's offensive.But I didn't expect that after the opponent landed, he didn't go directly to Hirado City in the east, but went straight into the valley and came straight to Jingchuan.In a hurry, these people couldn't organize a decent defense, so they could only choose to hide in the shed and fire a shot.

This kind of resistance is naturally difficult to stop the experienced special operations group, and these armed men who resisted on the outskirts of the village were defeated in two or three strokes.However, according to the confession of the captives, there may still be several artillery pieces in the weapon warehouse deep in the southern valley. It is not known whether anyone has used these heavy weapons at the moment.

This information immediately attracted Sun Zhen's attention. Even if he adjusted the battle plan, he canceled the arrangement of the frontal assault, and divided the attacking troops into two groups, from the high places on both sides of the valley to the weapon warehouse in the south, and slowly surrounded them.

According to intelligence, the artillery made here in Jingchuan is relatively primitive Western-style cast iron cannon, with a heavy and clumsy body and poor maneuverability.There is only one road leading to Boxiang Fishing Port in Jingchuan, where the cannon can be transported out, and then transported by sea to the destination of deployment.Even Hirado Port, which is only a few miles away, because the two places are full of mountainous terrain with poor traffic, the most convenient way to transport the finished artillery to Hirado Port for deployment is to go around the sea .

Now that the Haihan Army has occupied the northern mouth of Jingchuan, the artillery stored here can no longer be transported out.The narrow terrain in the valley also allows the artillery to be deployed only towards the northern entrance, so the special operations group first circled to the high places on both sides of the valley to effectively avoid the firing range of the artillery. The movement of enemies in the valley can be observed, and the risk of launching an attack on the target building is much smaller.

Sun Zhen's arrangement soon paid off. Although some remaining resisters in the valley tried to use artillery as a last resort, it was difficult for them to use the artillery with a limited firing angle to deal with the enemies from the high places on both sides of the valley.A few of them panicked and filled too much gunpowder into the barrel, and after igniting the fuze, the barrel exploded all of a sudden, which immediately made these resisters who had no combat skills into a mess.

The soldiers of the Special Operations Regiment advanced unhurriedly along the hillside to the bottom of the valley. Anyone who tried to rush out for the last fight was shot and killed mercilessly, and the valley was quickly cleared.

The first thing Sun Zhen did after he arrived was to inspect the weapon warehouse here, but the result made him very disappointed. Except for the three small cannons that had been moved outside by the resisters to fight, there were no other artillery in the warehouse. However, there are still a lot of raw materials such as saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur for making gunpowder. Sun Zhen took a look at them and found that there were at least two to three thousand catties of each.

Such a discovery did not make Sun Zhen feel at ease. On the contrary, he realized that the Hirado Domain had moved the finished artillery and gunpowder to other places, such as deploying them to the area near Hirado Port.This may also explain from another angle why the Hirado clan did not deploy troops here to guard the warehouses of Jingchuan.

At this time, Tagawasuke, who was in Hirado City, had just learned the news that the enemy had landed in Boxiang Bay on the west coast, which was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations.

According to the information received before this, the Xu family army from Fujian landed on Fukue Island with a force of more than a thousand people, while the main force of the Haihan Fleet came directly to Hirado Island.Under such circumstances, Tagawasuke and his staff all believed that Hai Han would concentrate his forces to attack Hirado Port. After all, the purpose of their cross-sea attack was obviously for the Tagawa family and the Eighteen Shibayu Party, Hirado Port and its surrounding areas. The urban area should be the primary target of the opponent's choice.

Under such a premise, Tagawasuke decided to concentrate his armed forces on the Hirado Port area to resist the enemy's landing in Hirado Port as much as possible.Such a deployment of troops would have to temporarily abandon the defense on the west coast of the island, and would inevitably take greater risks. However, Tagawasuke believed that Haihan should not be that familiar with the geographical environment of Hirado Island, and he might not have enough troops and ships on the island. Hirado Island will conduct another division of troops. Concentrating troops at Hirado Port has a better chance of repelling the enemy's attack than dispersing defenses in various places.

However, the information sent back from Fukue Island through the letter sent by Feige is vague, otherwise Tagawasuke should have realized that the enemy is no stranger to the situation on Fukue Island, and the chosen landing point and subsequent attack targets are very targeted. Got some local information.And places like Fukue Island have not escaped the enemy's reconnaissance, and Hirado Island is even less likely to be an "unfamiliar area" in the eyes of the opponent. Naturally, there may be alternative combat plans besides the main attack direction.

It's just that even though he was aware of the fact that the enemy had already landed on the west coast, Tagawasuke couldn't help thinking about the situation. After all, Hirado Port was in full swing today, and the Haihan people obviously treated it as the main battlefield. The landing from the west coast is more likely to be an unintentional move by a small group of enemy troops, or to use this action to attract firepower, so that the Hirado Domain cannot concentrate its forces to deal with the offensive on the east coast.

Tagawasuke made a serious mistake in judging the situation, which also made his subsequent countermeasures less reliable.He immediately summoned Tagawa Kojiro and asked him to lead 20 vassal troops to Boxiang Fishing Port on the west coast to retreat from the enemy.In order to ensure the ability to fight against the enemy troops that landed, Tagawasuke allocated [-] Musketeers to Kojiro Tagawa, and also allocated [-] warriors from the Fan Army to him. The samurai charging on horseback can be regarded as the strongest individual force of the Hirado domain.

And Tagawa Kojiro was able to gain such trust, in addition to his good performance before, it was also because he was originally a member of the samurai of the Fan Army, and he had a good relationship with the samurai dispatched to him by Tagawasuke, which was also convenient. Use this special armed force in China.

After receiving the order, Tagawa Kojiro immediately gathered his troops and set off from Hirado city in a hurry.He basically has no chance to fight in the current stage of sea and land battles in Hirado Port, but the enemy situation on the west coast is an opportunity for him to make meritorious service.

Tagawa Kojiro didn't think that the Haihan army was really as powerful as those Han leaders claimed. He thought it was just that the Han people made excuses for their past failures, and at the same time used it to convince Tagawasuke of their so-called strategy.

Tagawa Kojiro had dealt with the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch people before, and he didn't think the Western colonists who could make guns and artillery were so powerful.What's more, the Hirado clan can also manufacture their own firearms, train musketeers and artillery, and even the armed fleet at sea has begun to take shape. The Hirado clan already has the ability to defend itself, so there is no need to be too afraid of a distant country .

Even if the Haihan Kingdom has the ability to conquer across the sea, so what?Kojiro Tagawa also watched the battle near the port area today. Although the Haihan battleship had fierce firepower, it was also helpless in front of the shore fire defense deployed in advance at Hirado Port.If such a fighting situation lasts for ten days and a half months, even if the enemy army has not run out of food and grass, can they still make shells and gunpowder on the ship out of thin air?

Tagawa Kojiro's understanding of the current battle situation is somewhat similar to Tagawasuke's. Since the enemy cannot break through from the front, it is reasonable to send a team of troops to explore the rear of the Hirado Clan.But the troops sent out to carry out this kind of stealthy mission must not be any powerful characters. Tagawa Kojiro was feverish all over, wishing he could rush to Boxiang Bay immediately, kill all these enemies, and then take the heads and the enemy's banners with him Go back to Hirado Port and hang high to see how the enemy troops at sea feel.

Of course, things were not as simple as he imagined, and he also never expected that the enemy he was going to face would be the most elite army unit of Haihan Kingdom.

Tagawa Kojiro's troops collided with the Second Battalion of the Special Operations Regiment not far from Boxiang Fishing Port, which was preparing to march towards Hirado City.When he had just issued the military order to stop and deploy the battle formation, the opponent had already opened fire without hesitation, which was completely different from the musket battle he understood.

According to what Tagawa Kojiro learned before, musketeers need to be in formation before going to war, and then complete a series of steps such as loading, aiming, firing, and changing positions with standard actions under the command of the officer, so as to ensure the intensity of firepower output and hit rate at shooting range.

Although Tian Chuansuke only allocated one hundred Musketeers to him, this happened to be the establishment of a hundred-man Musketeers. Fighting in a formation of five rows of 20 people can basically keep the rotation firing at a stable frequency.This tactic is enough to deal with more than five times the old-style infantry. Tagawa Kojiro also felt that he should be able to fight against the invading enemy, so although he saw that the opponent's strength seemed to be no less than his own, he decided to fight here. Encounter to test the quality of the enemy in the end.

But the Haihan people on the opposite side didn't play their cards according to common sense at all. They didn't waste time forming an array, but opened fire on the fan army in the formation of skirmishers.At first, Kojiro Tagawa thought it was a sign of the opponent being too flustered. Such sporadic shooting would make it difficult to guarantee the hit rate, not to mention that the firing distance of the opponent was too far, and even the bullets might not be able to fly here. .

But soon he found that something was wrong. The opponent's soldier did not stop to slowly reload the ammunition after firing a shot, but could continue to raise the gun to aim, and then quickly shoot the next shot. He knew much shorter rounds of shooting.And the shooting distance was even beyond his imagination. Some soldiers in the front row had already fallen down, but this distance was far beyond the effective range of his own musket.

It would be too late to turn around and run away at this time, but Kojiro Tagawa would not back down so easily. He still ordered the soldiers to quickly form a battle formation, trying to engage in a head-on firefight with the Haihan army on the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)