Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 357 Landing on Honshu Island

Early the next morning, just after dawn, the fleets of the Dongyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy left Hirado Port and headed east.

Two huge fleets, more than [-] large and small ships spread out on the sea for dozens of miles.

Such a large and huge enemy army came at the door of the house, and the Maori navy that once dominated the entire Dongpu naturally discovered it very quickly.

The Daming Navy really wanted to cross the sea and land on Honshu Island to launch an attack on the Changzhou Domain!
Mao Lixiuyuan was really surprised when he received the news.

However, he was considered a seasoned veteran, so he didn't panic.

Moreover, after he received the news that Kyushu Island was captured by the Ming army, he mobilized land and water troops and began to deploy defenses in the Maguan Strait.

If the Ming army wanted to land on Honshu Island and attack the Changzhou Fan, they had to transfer their infantry from the Maguan Strait. Otherwise, the navy alone would definitely not be able to take the Changzhou Fan.

At least he thought so.

Therefore, at this moment, the opposite side of the Maguan Strait is densely packed with the army of the Changzhou Fan, and all places that are easier to land are guarded by land and water troops.

He thought that the Daming Navy would definitely sail to the Maguan Strait to transfer infantry.

And the Maguan Strait is quite narrow, and the warships of the Daming Navy cannot be used at all.

Moreover, the water depth in many places is less than three feet. If the building boats and gunboats go in and drive wildly, they will run aground in all likelihood.

He has crossed the Maguan Strait back and forth several times. He has attacked as an attacker and defended as a defender. He is not too familiar with this curved and narrow strait.

As for the Daming Navy, who had just arrived, the building boats and gunboats definitely would not dare to rush into the strait. Even if they did, they would run aground in all likelihood because they were not familiar with the waterways.

In other words, it is basically unlikely that the Ming army's most threatening building ships and gunboats will participate in landing operations.

Under such circumstances, he still has a little confidence in defending the Maguan Strait.

Therefore, he did not panic after receiving the news.

To his surprise, the Daming Navy did not sail towards the Maguan Strait, they actually crossed the Maguan Strait and rushed towards Hagi City.

This time, he was really frightened.

Because his land and water army has basically been transferred to guard the Maguan Strait, and there are less than [-] infantry guarding Hagi City!
At this time, he remembered that the Daming Navy had rushed directly to the Tsurumaru Castle of the Satsuma Domain, and took down the main city of the Satsuma Domain in one fell swoop.

At that time, the Shimadzu family also led less than [-] infantry to defend Tsurumaru Town.

Hagi Castle is not as dangerous as Tsurumaru Castle, and the Daming Navy can take it in one fell swoop, and he must not be able to defend Hagi Castle with less than [-] pawns under his command!

If the city of Hagi is lost, what's the point of defending the Shimonoseki Strait?
Most of the wealth and food accumulated by the Mori family over the years are in Hagi City!
In desperation, he could only order that the land and water troops guarding the Maguan Strait rush to Hagi City for support.

At this moment, a strange scene appeared on the sea north of Changmen Country.

The Daming navy fleet is sailing eastward at full speed tens of miles away from the coastline, while the Maori navy is also desperately paddling eastward along the coastline!
The warships on both sides were even less than ten miles apart, and everyone could see each other, but they had no intention of fighting at all.

It was as if they were competing who would arrive at the port near Hagi Castle first, and no one paid any attention to the other!

As for the [-] to [-] infantry on land, they spread their feet and ran towards the direction of Hagi City, running all over the mountains and plains.

Obviously, the Maori family of the Changzhou clan has already been tricked!
Taichang couldn't help laughing secretly when he received the news.

It seems that this Maori family is not very good, and such obvious tricks can't be seen.

Of course, even if Maori saw it, there was nothing he could do.

If they don't mobilize land and water troops to go back to guard Hagi Castle, then Hagi Castle will be like Tsurumaru Castle, and it will fall in less than half a day!

Once Mori's main city, Hagi Castle, is lost, the Nagato Kingdom will be opened wide. As long as the navy ships continue to transport troops, it will not make much sense to defend the Shimonoseki Strait.

In fact, even if they could take Hagi City within half a day, Zhang Yuanfang, Shen Yourong and Cao Bianjiao would not do so, because their main task was to attract the Maoris army.

Therefore, after the Dongyang Navy and Beiyang Navy fleets arrived near Hagi Castle, they did not immediately seize the pier and let the pawns land to attack Hagi Castle. They just caught the Maori Navy on the sea and beat them up.

At this time, the Maori navy did not dare to run away, because once they ran, the ships of the Daming Navy would cooperate with the infantry to attack Hagi Castle.

If the Daming Navy cooperates with the infantry to attack Hagi City, the less than 1 horses in Hagi City will definitely not be able to hold it at this moment.

So, they can't run.

They could only resort to the tactics of sending them to death, entangle the Daming navy, and buy time for the infantry who were desperately rushing back.

Zhang Yuanfang and Shen Yourong didn't expect that the strategy of playing east and west could have such benefits.

They rush forward to die, so they naturally have no reason not to kill.

Ever since, the Maori Navy, which was once famous in Japan, hit the Daming Navy in such a "tragic" way, smashing itself into pieces like an egg hitting a stone, and the last warship did not stay.

Their sacrifice seemed to be worthwhile, because they bought half a day for the pawns.

When their entire army was wiped out, the infantry of the Changzhou Fan finally rushed to Hagi City out of breath.

When Taichang received the news, his mouth was almost crooked.

Unexpectedly, a tactic that strikes east and west can kill two birds with one stone. The Maori water army that once ranked first in Japan was wiped out like this!
He immediately ordered the flagship to leave Hirado Port without hesitation, and headed straight for the Shimonoseki Strait with hundreds of Spike warships.

At this moment, the fleets of the Dongyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy have more than 700 ships, because the Wubei City Shipyard has been building all kinds of warships with all their strength.

The aegis ship will not be built for a while, but the construction speed of the wolf tooth warship is very fast, and the construction speed of the dragon tooth warship is not slow.

At this moment, the Dongyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy have already produced ten more Dragon Fang warships and one hundred Spike warships.

And the extra hundred Spike warships were just used to transport the infantry of Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion.

At this time, there was no Maori Navy warship in the Maguan Strait, and there was no Changzhou Fan infantry across the strait. There was no obstacle for the infantry of the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion to land on Honshu Island.

Taichang directly ordered the flagship to sail carefully into the Maguan Strait, picked the most suitable place for cross-sea landing, and then ordered hundreds of Spike warships to carry the infantry of Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion to land.

Mao Lixiuyuan thought that they were not familiar with the waterway of the Maguan Strait, but in fact, they had already pried out the specific situation of the Maguan Strait from the prisoners of the Matsutaka family.

After all, the Matsutaka family also had some warships more or less, and they had traveled through the Maguan Strait more than once, so they knew the waterways here quite well.

In fact, giant ships like the Aegis and the Louchuan gunboat will not run aground as long as they always walk along the center line of the strait, because of the depth of the water in the middle.

Of course, the transfer of infantry still had to rely on the Spike Warship, and neither the Aegis Ship nor the Dragon Fang Warship could go to the waters less than three feet deep on both sides.

Although only a hundred Spike warships were in transit at the moment, the soldiers from the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion landed relatively quickly, because they had prepared a lot of materials for the construction of the temporary dock in advance.

Less than an hour after the first batch of infantry arrived on the opposite bank, they built more than ten temporary piers on each side of the bank, so that the transfer speed was faster.

That night, 30 infantry from the Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp crossed the Maguan Strait.

Early the next morning, they launched a full-scale attack on Nagato and Zhou Fang.

At this time, the Mori clan's army was almost assembled in Hagi City, and there were basically no people stationed in Nagato Kingdom and Zhoufang Kingdom, so the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion basically did not encounter any decent resistance.

In less than three days, almost the entire territory of Nagato State and Zhou Fang State was captured by them.

In the end, more than [-] infantry and [-] building boats and gunboats jointly attacked Hagi City.

The cannonballs all over the sky and the endless pawns directly collapsed Mao Lixiuyuan.

He has a total of more than 3 horsemen, how could he do better than others, in despair, he led his army to surrender!
Taichang naturally smiled from ear to ear.

Well now, they finally successfully landed on Honshu Island, and they took down the Changzhou Domain, which was second only to the Satsuma Domain in strength, and the Tokugawa Shogunate was basically powerless!
(End of this chapter)