Kowloon wins

Chapter 459 Battle of the Osaka Bay Gateway ([-])
"Damn it! Order, the entire fleet prepares for battle on the starboard side, and give me a damn! The commando's original order remains unchanged. If they can't take down the Wakayama Fort, they will ask Li Shun to come and see him!"

Hearing the strange noise from the side and rear, Wang Yanxia couldn't help being startled. He hurriedly raised the binoculars and looked back, only to find that the Awaji Island Fortress had been ready for battle at some point. Surprisingly, it was launched from the Awaji Island Fort. Although none of them hit the target, Wang Yanxia, ​​who deeply felt the threat, looked a little embarrassed, and gave the battle order with a gloomy face.

Unlike the incompetent and lazy commander Saburo Kabe of the Wakayama Fort, Masahiko Haruyama, the commander of the Awaji Island Fort, is a standard professional soldier with a strong personality and good conduct. He was dispatched to the fortress of Awaji Island, which is such a shameless place, but he was not depressed because of it. He was still a soldier who practiced the fort diligently for more than ten years, and it was precisely because of this , He was able to lead his troops to resist when he learned that the Qing fleet had arrived. Unfortunately, the fort facilities were old and in disrepair. Of the 38 shore guns on display, only [-] could barely shoot. Not good, after a round of shooting, none of them hit.

"Boys, come again, aim at the China fleet, and give me a blast!"

Faced with the result of no hits, Haruyama Masahiko is obviously extremely dissatisfied, but he is also very helpless, nothing else, although he has always been very strict about training, but there is no support from above, and the fort has not been updated for decades , the old artillery also lacks maintenance and ammunition. The so-called training on weekdays is just a drill. There are only a handful of days when you can actually fire the artillery. Masahiko Haruyama worked so hard to get it. It is obviously unrealistic to expect his subordinates who lack actual combat experience to hit in one fell swoop.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The adjustment of the Qing fleet takes time, and the loading of the Japanese old-style artillery is also very cumbersome. Although the two sides gave orders in sequence, the firing time is almost the same. At that time, the eighteen shore guns on Awaji Island also started firing salvos, and the sound of roaring suddenly became one, but two waves of shells crossed in the sky, roaring and hitting their respective targets.

The gunners on both sides are newcomers to the battle for the first time, but the difference in training quality is huge. Not to mention, each gunner in the Qing army has fired more than two hundred shells in a year, which is far from Those Japanese soldiers who only let go of one or two guns can compare, not to mention that the three warships of the Qing fleet fired a full salvo of sixty naval guns, while the Japanese fortress can only use eighteen cannons. , This gap is really too big. There is no doubt that the results of the battle under the bombardment are also very different-the Qing army only fired a volley, and it completely destroyed the six shore guns of the Japanese country, killing the Japanese army. There were more than [-] Japanese soldiers, and there were more than a dozen wounded, but the Qing army was only hit by a bullet on the rear deck of the "Weifeng". Two sailors who were busy were slightly injured, but the hull was not seriously injured. On the other hand, the Japanese shore artillery had a limited range, and it was already at the end of its strength when the shells flew to the Qing fleet, and they never even penetrated the deck of the ship, let alone caused serious trauma to the Qing warships.

"Hold on, don't mess around, and keep booming!"

The fort on Awaji Island had only about two hundred soldiers in total. After this confrontation, a quarter of them fell in a pool of blood, and the rest were frightened, and there were not a few people who ran away with their heads in their hands. Seeing this, Chun Shan Even when Masahiko got angry, he slashed and killed two fleeing soldiers with a samurai sword, which was considered to be barely stable.

"You've done a great job, come again, pass on the order, the commandos move quickly, and must take down the Wakayama Fort before the end of time!"

Compared to Masahiko Haruyama's exasperation, Wang Yanxia was obviously much more relaxed, but he also didn't dare to take it lightly, waved his hand, and gave the order again.

The artillery power and number of the two sides are very different, and the morale is also very different. The result of this battle is naturally doomed. After three rounds of confrontation, the shore artillery that can continue to fire on the Awaji Island fort is only left. As for the soldiers, there were only about [-] soldiers killed or injured. Even Haruyama Masahiko himself was hit in several places by the flying shrapnel, and blood spurted wildly all over his body, like a blood man, but even so, He also refused to give up his last effort, still screaming with all his strength, urging the remaining soldiers under him to make a final resistance, and the artillery battle was really stalemate for a while.

"Pad, paddle quickly, rush me to the beach, hurry up, move quickly!"

Two flowers bloomed, one for each, not to mention the fierce battle between the fleet and the fort on Awaji Island was still going on, but it was said that Li Shun personally led the commando team of more than [-] soldiers in [-] small boats to go all out to attack the fort. The beach under the Wakayama Fort was washed away. Although the sailors on board had tried their best, the current in the strait was so fast that the small boat was repeatedly washed off course and had to be adjusted frequently so that the speed was always fast. Don't get up, once such a situation happens, Li Shun's eyes will turn red with anxiety.

Li Shunnai was born in Jianghu, and later entered Prince Cheng's Mansion together with Li Minxing. He started as an ordinary bodyguard and was promoted to a high position as a general in seven years. General, this time he went on an expedition, he was ordered in a critical situation and took on the important task of rushing to the beach in the first battle. He naturally didn't want to be defeated in his first battle. Besides, he couldn't afford to be defeated. If he couldn't win Wakayama before the Japanese side reacted , this Eastern Expedition is bound to be in danger of failure-the reason why a surprise attack is a surprise attack is to have a sudden effect, and whether Wakayama, which is stuck in the main entrance and exit of Osaka Bay, can be successfully won is the most critical battle. Now that the fort has been destroyed, it is the best opportunity to take advantage of the situation. How could Li Shun not be in a hurry, but no matter how anxious he is, he can only shout and order the sailors to row forward with all their strength.

"Come with me, rush, take the fort!"

After a lot of effort, the small boat finally landed on the beach, and before the hull stabilized, Li Shun jumped off the bow like a sharp arrow, regardless of the depth of the water on the shore, he still had no knees, and let out a loud roar , stepped on the water and rushed to the shore. Seeing this, the soldiers on the same boat did not dare to delay a little bit. They jumped out of the small boat one after another, rushed to the shore roaring, and walked along the slope of the shore. Dao tried his best to kill the fort on the top of the hill.

"Teams A and B set up defenses on the spot, and the rest follow me to wipe out the enemy camp without leaving anyone alive!"

There was no one on the fort in Wakayama, and there were only puddles of blood and minced meat. Seeing this, Li Shun felt a little relieved, but he still didn't dare to be careless, leaving two small teams to deploy defenses on the spot. However, he led three teams of soldiers into the barracks below the fort. After sweeping around, he suddenly found that the place was empty, and there was no sign of a ghost. Li Shun couldn't help but punch him. There was nothing to do with the feeling of depression in the empty space, and he could only lead his troops back to the hilltop position resentfully, and sent the signal back to the squadron that they had successfully captured the fort.

"Fire, keep firing, don't stop, fire, fire!"

The Wakayama Fort has already fallen into the hands of the Qing army, but the artillery battle between the Awaji Island Fort and the Qing fleet is still going on. After six rounds of confrontation, the Qing Fleet suffered almost no losses, but the Awaji Island Fort still remained. There are only two shore guns that can continue to fire, and there are only 12 soldiers who can continue to operate the guns. Even so, Masahiko Haruyama, who has been injured in many places, refuses to admit defeat and is still wild Roaring, commanding the last remnants to fight fiercely with the Qing fleet.

"Order: The whole fleet aims at the enemy's flag, shoots salvo, let me kill him!"

Seeing that they have been fighting fiercely for so long, and still unable to break through the resistance of the Awaji Island fort, Wang Yanxia's face immediately turned ugly, biting his lip, and squeezed out a death order from his teeth with an extremely ferocious expression.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

When Wang Yanxia gave such a deadly order, the gunners of the whole fleet also became ruthless, and quickly finished loading the shells. Under the orders of the gunners of each ship, they fired one by one. Sixty huge shells roared across the sky, hitting heavily. It hit the fort, and under such intensive critical strikes, Haruyama Masahiko was immediately plunged into a sea of ​​death flames. Countless shrapnel flew around, tearing Haruyama Masahiko into pieces in an instant. Seeing this, the Japanese soldiers who were busy reloading on the other side had no fighting spirit at all. They dropped the half-filled cannon and fled down the fort in a panic. The fort that had been roaring for a long time suddenly fell silent. Except for the broken corpses and blood all over the ground, there was no one alive on the huge fort.

"Order, the entire fleet breaks down at Wakayama, and rectifies on the spot!"

After the seventh round of bombardment, Wang Yanxia was not in a hurry to issue new orders, but looked at the Awaji Island fortress with a binoculars for a long time, and saw that it was dead silent, so he was convinced that the enemy fortress had no way of resisting. Therefore, they did not order bombardment, nor ordered the fleet to sail into Osaka Bay. Instead, they ordered the entire fleet to move closer to Wakayama, and stopped at the outer edge of the Tomoshima Strait. It rose up and fluttered with the wind, which indicated that the gateway to Osaka Bay had been breached by the Qing army, and the unprotected Osaka Bay was exposed to the guns of the Qing army...

"Report, Mr. Watanabe, the Chinese people are aggressively invading, and they are fighting fiercely with the two forts on Wakayama and Awaji Island. Please tell me clearly!"

Just over an hour after the Qing army captured the Wakayama Fort, a fast horse had already arrived at the Osaka Enforcement Office. Regardless of the taboo of the enforcement office's daimyo Watanabe Ichiro, who was having a banquet with local celebrities, he hurriedly broke into the flower hall where the banquet was held. Kneeling down in front of Ichiro Watanabe, he hastened to report the emergency battle report. As soon as these words came out, the Manhua hall suddenly became chaotic...

(End of this chapter)