Chapter 2116

There is a clear gap in performance between the weapons used by the two warring parties, and the combat experience is even more different. This allows the special operations group to relatively easily suppress the resisters hiding in private houses without spending too much time.

This destroyed this fragile line of defense.

But this is the place where the Hirado clan produces artillery. There is no way that there is a black muzzle behind the window of a private house in front. The special battle group who is concerned about this does not dare to rush in, but disperses the troops on the firing line.

, slowly encircling the target area in an arc.

Sun Zhen walked to the outside of a private house, gestured to his men on the other side, then stood up, kicked open the door, and rushed in with a gun. His men in the other direction also rushed in with him.

In the room, he and he completed the control of the space in the house back to back. Then several Haihan soldiers followed closely and filed in to ensure that no corner of this private house was missed.

In fact, Sun Zhen, who has been promoted to captain, has never experienced such combat missions 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.

Well, after asking Gao Qiaonan for a fight, Sun Zhen appeared on the line of fire again.

There were a few locals in the house, but they had been hit by incoming bullets in the previous battle. At this time, they had long since fallen to the ground. Although they had not yet died, they had lost the ability to struggle and resist. This kind of shack

Inside and outside the house, only a few load-bearing column heads and beams were made of wood. The rest was made of bamboo, straw and other materials. There were only a few wooden boards, which could not stop bullets at all.

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

Sure enough, after some inspection, it was discovered that this house was not a place for people to live. Most of the space was piled with coke, limestone and other raw materials used for smelting steel. It seemed that it was only used as a temporary warehouse. And some similar sheds around it,

They should all be given the same functions.

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

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It was not difficult to verify this issue. After Sun Zhen asked his Japanese-speaking men to question the dying prisoners, they quickly confirmed the identities of these resisters.

Sure enough, these people were not the army of the Hirado Domain, but the local residents of Kagawa and the craftsmen engaged in smelting work. The feudal army actually responsible for guarding this place had been transferred to the Hirado Port in the morning. Because the feudal army

After being temporarily transferred away, these young men were called up to serve as guards. Although these people who were given the task of staying behind were also assigned some weapons, they were purely laymen on how to fight.

Facing the sudden attack 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. However, they did not expect that the opponent did not go directly to Hirado in the east after landing.

Instead, they rushed straight into the valley and headed towards Jingchuan River. In a hurry, these people could not organize a decent defense, so they could only choose to hide in the shack and fire off one shot at a time.

Such resistance was naturally difficult to stop the experienced special operations group, and these armed personnel resisting outside the village were defeated in a few strokes. However, according to the prisoners' confession, there may be several artillery pieces in the weapons warehouse deep in the valley to the south.

, I don’t know if anyone used these heavy weapons at the moment.

This information immediately attracted Sun Zhen's attention. He immediately adjusted the battle plan, canceled the frontal assault arrangement, divided the offensive troops into two groups, and slowly surrounded the weapons warehouse in the south from the high altitudes on both sides of the valley.

According to the intelligence, the artillery manufactured here in Jingchuan are all relatively primitive Western-style cast iron cannons, with heavy and bulky barrels and poor maneuverability. There is only one road in Jingchuan to Boxiang Fishing Port to transport the cannons out, and then transport them by sea.

Go to the deployment destination. Even if Hirado Port is only a few miles away, because the two places are surrounded by mountainous terrain with poor traffic, the most convenient way to transport the built artillery to Hirado Port for deployment is

We need to take a trip from the sea.

Now that the Haihan Army has occupied the northern seaport of Jingchuan, the artillery stored here can no longer be transported out. The narrow terrain in the valley also means that the artillery can only be deployed towards the northern entrance, so the special warfare

The regiment can effectively avoid the firing range of artillery by going around to the high places on both sides of the valley. It can also observe the enemy movements in the valley from the hillside, so the risk of launching an attack on the target building is much smaller.

Sun Zhen's arrangement soon bore fruit. Although some remaining resisters in the valley tried to use artillery as a last resort, they were unable to use artillery with limited firing angles to deal with enemies coming from high places on both sides of the valley.

A few of them panicked and filled the gun barrel with too much gunpowder. After lighting the fuse, the barrel exploded, causing the resisters who had no combat skills to fall into chaos.

The soldiers of the special operations group advanced slowly along the hillside to the bottom of the valley. Anyone who tried to rush out for a last-ditch effort was shot mercilessly, and the clearing of the valley was quickly completed.

The first thing Sun Zhen did after arriving was to inspect the weapons warehouse here. However, the result was that he was very disappointed. Except for the three small cannons that had been moved outside by the resisters and put into combat, there were no other artillery in stock in the warehouse.

, but there are still a lot of raw materials such as saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur in stock for making gunpowder. Sun Zhen took a general look and found that there were at least two to three thousand kilograms of each item.

Such a discovery did not make Sun Zhen feel relaxed. Instead, he realized that the Hirado Domain had moved the cannons and gunpowder elsewhere, such as deploying them to the area near Hirado Port. This may also be learned from another

The angle explains why the Hirado clan did not deploy troops to guard the warehouses in Kagawa.

At this time, Tagawasuke, who was in Hirado City, had just learned the news that the enemy had landed at Hoshika Bay on the west coast. This was indeed somewhat beyond his expectation.

The intelligence received before this showed that the Xu family army from Fujian landed on Fukue Island, with a strength of more than 1,000 people, while the main force of the Haihan fleet went directly to Hirado Island. Under such circumstances, Tagawasuke

He and his staff all believed that Kaihan would concentrate his forces to attack Hirado Port. After all, their purpose of crossing the sea this time was obviously for the Tagawa clan and the Shiba Shiba Party. Hirado Port and nearby urban areas should be the opponent's choice.

primary goal.

Under this premise, Tagawasuke decided to concentrate his armed forces on the Hirado Port area to resist the enemy's landing at Hirado Port as much as possible. Such a deployment of forces would require temporarily abandoning the defense on the west coast of the island, and would inevitably require

It takes greater risks, but Tagawasuke believes that Kaihan is not that familiar with the geographical environment of Hirado Island, and may not have enough troops and ships to conduct another division of troops on Hirado Island and concentrate the troops at Hirado Port.

Spreading your defenses around gives you a better chance of repelling enemy attacks.

However, the information sent back from Fukue Island via flying pigeons was unclear. Otherwise, Tagawasuke should have realized that the enemy was not unfamiliar with the situation on Fukue Island. The chosen landing point and subsequent attack targets were very targeted. Obviously, they had already

We have some local intelligence. And places like Fukue Island have not escaped enemy reconnaissance, and Hirado Island is even less likely to be a "strange territory" in the eyes of the enemy. Naturally, there may be other places outside the main attack direction.

Alternative battle plans.

But even though he was aware of the fact that the enemy had landed on the west coast, Tagawasuke could not help but have some lucky thoughts about the situation. After all, a fierce battle was going on in Hirado Port today, and the Haihan people obviously treated this place as the main battlefield.

The landing from the west coast was more likely to be an unintentional move by a small enemy force, or it was an action to attract firepower so that the Hirado clan could not concentrate its forces to respond to the offensive on the east coast.

Tagawa Suke made a serious error in his judgment of the situation, which also made the response measures he took unreliable. He immediately summoned Tagawa Kojiro and asked him to lead 500 feudal troops to the Hoshika fishing port on the west coast to retreat from the enemy.

In order to ensure that he could fight against the landing enemy troops, Tagawa Suke not only allocated one hundred musketeers to Tagawa Kojiro, but also allocated a limited number of twenty samurai in the feudal army to him. These soldiers were equipped with armor.

And the samurai who can charge on horseback can be regarded as the strongest individual force of the Hirado clan.

And Tagawa Kojiro was able to gain such trust, in addition to his previous good performance, it was also because he was originally a member of the feudal army samurai, and had a good relationship with the samurai assigned to him by Tagawa Suke, which also facilitated his ability to fight in battle.

use this special armed force.

After receiving the order, Tagawa Kojiro immediately gathered his troops and set off from Hirado City in a hurry. He basically had no chance to fight in the current land and sea battle in Hirado Port, and the enemy situation on the west coast was very difficult for him.

For him, it was an opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

Tagawa Kojiro did not think that the Chinese navy was really as powerful as those Han leaders claimed. He felt that this was just a group of Han people making excuses for their past failures, and at the same time using this to make Tagawasuke believe in their so-called strategy.

Tagawa Kojiro had dealt with the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch before, but he didn't think the Western colonists who could make muskets and artillery were so powerful. What's more, the Hirado Domain can also make its own firearms and train musketeers and artillery.

, even the maritime armed fleet has begun to take shape. The Hirado Domain already has the ability to defend itself, and there is no need to be too afraid of a distant country.

So what if the Kaihan Kingdom has the ability to conquer across the sea? Tagawa Kojiro also watched the battle near the port area today. Although the Kaihan warship has fierce firepower, it is also helpless in the face of the shore defense firepower deployed in advance at Hirado Port.

? If such a battle lasts for ten days and a half, even if the enemy's food and grass have not been exhausted, can they still manufacture cannonballs and gunpowder on the ship out of thin air?

Tagawa Kojiro's understanding of the current battle situation is somewhat similar to Tagawa Suke's. Since the enemy can't get through from the front, it is reasonable to send a team of troops to find the back of the Hirado clan. But he was sent out to carry out this kind of sneaky attack.

The troops on the mission must not be powerful characters. Tagawa Kojiro felt hot all over and wished he could rush to Boxiang Bay immediately, kill all these enemies, and then take the heads and enemy flags back to Hirado Port to hang them high.

Let's see what the enemy troops at sea think.

Of course, things were not as simple as he imagined, and he did not expect that the enemy he would face would be the most elite army unit of the Haihan Kingdom.

Not far from the Boxiang Fishing Port, Tagawa Kojiro's troops ran into the Second Battalion of the Special Forces Regiment, which was preparing to march towards Hirado City. When he had just issued a military order for his troops to stop and deploy their battle formations, the opponent was in trouble.

He opened fire without hesitation, which was completely different from what he understood as a gun battle.

According to what Tagawa Kojiro learned before, the musketeers need to form a formation before starting the battle, and then complete a series of steps such as loading, aiming, firing, and changing positions in standard actions under the command of the officer, so as to ensure the intensity of the firepower output.

and hit rate within the shooting range.

Although Tagawasuke only allocated one hundred musketeers to him, this happened to be the establishment of a hundred-man musketry team. Fighting in a formation of five rows and twenty people, it was basically able to maintain a stable frequency of rotational shooting.

This tactic was enough to deal with five times more old-style infantry. Tagawa Kojiro also felt that it should be able to fight the invading enemy, so even though he saw that the opponent's force did not seem to be less than his own, he still decided to fight here.

Use encounters to test the enemy's quality.

But the Haihan people on the opposite side did not play their cards according to common sense at all. They did not waste time in forming a formation, but opened fire on the feudal army in a skirmish formation. At first, Tagawa Kojiro thought that this was a sign of the opponent being too panicked. This kind of zero

It would be difficult to ensure a hit rate with scattered shots, not to mention that the opponent's firing distance is too far, and the bullets may not even be able to fly here.

But he soon discovered that something was not right. After firing a shot, the opponent's soldiers did not stop and slowly reload ammunition. Instead, they continued to raise the gun to aim, and then quickly fired the next shot. This shooting interval was even longer than

The rotational shooting tactics he knew were much shorter. The shooting distance was 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 muskets.

It was actually too late to turn around and escape at this time, but Tagawa Kojiro would not back down so easily. He still ordered the soldiers to quickly form a fighting formation, trying to engage in a head-on firefight with the Haihan Army on the opposite side.
Chapter completed!