Chapter 10: Landing in Ryukyu (IV)

Asakura Masao is a team leader with thirty-six soldiers under his command, stationed on a coastal turret west of Naba Port. This turret was built ten years ago. The shore defense artillery weighed thousands of people to transport it to the turret. Now ten years have passed, and this majestic artillery has basically become a decoration. As the supreme commander of this turret, he has served here for almost two years and has not fired a single shell. He doesn't even know whether this cannon can still shoot out those black and round shells.

Guarding the fort is a chore, especially keeping an eye on the movements on the opposite sea. Fortunately, it is a peaceful era. Although the pirates are rampant, they dare not run to Naba Port, which is heavily guarded by heavy troops, to die. Therefore, this is a chore and a leisure time. The lonely time is difficult, especially for young soldiers. The blood of the commotion always drives them to do something they like. As long as it is not too out of line, Asakura Masao usually turns a blind eye. As for the bitter master, the government of the Ryukyu Kingdom never dares to come to the fort to ask for people. The Shimazu family is the heaven of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and they are the protectors of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It is also appropriate for the protectors to ask for some sacrifices to the protected person. These humble Ryukyu people should understand this truth.

Takeshi Asakura is Masao Asakura's father, but now he has been buried in the soil. Asakura's family samurai, Masao Asakura has been instilled with loyalty to the family and bravery of samurai since he was a child. Unfortunately, loyalty has been achieved, but bravery is Masao Asakura's nightmare. So despite his father's relationship, he has only reached the point of a small team leader when he was over 100 years old. Some of his friends who were familiar with him in childhood are already the team leader. For example, Jiro Sasaki, who is stationed in Naha Port, is the team leader. He has 500 people under his command, and he eats delicious food every day, and takes the groom every now and then. He lives so beautiful that day. Masao Asakura yearns for it very much, but he has no money and power, and he has no ability. He can only sit at the highest point of the cannon fort to look at the busy Naha Port.

The food in Japan is very tight. Many people starve to death every year, so there is not much surplus grain for making wine. This kind of thing that men like very much is not something that can be drunk every day. A small cup per day, and a very small cup is enough to envy many people. However, not many people like this kind of wine now, because it is too light, and it is almost the same as drinking water. No wonder it is called sake, which is exactly the Qing Dynasty. A kind of strong wine passed from the Celestial Empire has become a favorite of the upper nobles of Japan. This is strong and spicy, but it is refreshing to drink it. Asakura Masao was lucky to have eaten it once again at a banquet for Ryukyu officials, and then he missed it. It’s a pity that not many of this kind of wine exported to Ryukyu, which is the kind that even if you have money, it is not a shortage of this kind of wine. This person is Sasaki Jiro.

Jiro Sasaki and Masao Asakura are childhood friends, and their relationship is pretty good. In addition to the unequal status and power of both parties, their interests are surprisingly similar. One is wine and the other is sex. Jiro Sasaki is rich and powerful than Masao Asakura, so he married several wives. It is said that one of them is a Celestial native in Ryukyu. Although it is a side room, it is a deep Sasaki Jiro likes him. Masao Asakura is not as good as Masao Sasaki, but he also has a wife and a concubine in Satsuma. During the period of Ryukyu's garrison, he fell in love with a girl from Ryukyu, so he gritted his teeth and took out a limited salary to support him. He threw down his post every now and then ran down the fort to keep him warm.

Secretly taking a sip of the Celestial Spirit that was coming from Jiro Sasaki. Asakura Masao closed his eyes and bathed in the warm sunshine. He hummed the tune of the hometown that his mother taught him when she was a child. He recalled the charming breath of satisfaction and satisfaction after the woman "hee sex" under her body last night. He felt that her heart was hot and hot. Liquor, woman, haha, in fact, this kind of life is also good. But one year later, he will go back to Satsuma. Should he bring this woman back?

Asakura Masao, who was dreaming of a hundred days, was suddenly awakened by a violent push. Just as he was about to return home, the three women were all cheering under him. When he was about to climax, he was suddenly pushed and all the beautiful dreams disappeared. He opened his eyes in anger, and raised his head and slapped the samurai subordinate who woke him up, shouting: "Ba Ge, don't you know that the captain told me that he didn't come over and wake me up?"

The warrior cried and said, "Captain, it's not good. A huge fleet was found on the sea opposite, coming towards Naha Port!"

"What?" Asakura Masao was shocked and didn't care about picking up the squad leader's majesty and teaching the samurai a lesson. He jumped up and ran towards the lookout on the fort.

Looking at the opposite sea from the telescope, a huge fleet was rushing towards Naha Port quickly. Asakura Masao could even see clearly the black muzzle of his giant cannon on the front deck of the giant ship in the middle. You could feel the chill on the muzzle for dozens of miles away.

Asakura Masao took a breath and felt his body weak. He quickly ordered the enemy situation to Naha Port and other artillery units, and ordered the order to fire artillery at any time.

Asakura Masao was not a stupid officer. At least he knew that such a huge fleet could not belong to his own country, especially that giant ship, which was not built in China. There were only two countries that could have such a huge fleet. One was the Red-haired Dutch who had business dealing with Japan. However, the Dutch had just fought with the Celestial Empire in Taiwan and suffered a considerable loss. If he had no power to send such a fleet, the other was the Celestial Empire's navy.

"Old Hong, should we fight directly, or should we be polite first and then soldiers?" Facing the sea breeze, Song Xiance asked Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou looked back at Song Xiance and asked meaningfully: "What do you think?"

Song Xiance smiled embarrassedly: "I didn't ask!"

"Transfer our military order and order all ships to knock out all the shore defense artillery artillery batteries along the coast of Naha Port according to the original plan!" Hong Chengchou ordered loudly, and as the flag soldiers waved the flag in their hands, he passed this order to each ship. After receiving the order, each ship immediately formed an attack formation, pushed the artillery out of the shore cabin, loaded the artillery, and advanced at full speed.

"These turrets were built pretty well, it would be a pity to knock them out." Song Xiance murmured to himself.

"Hehe, anyway, there is no need for the court to spend money when the cultivation is restored. What do you feel sorry for?" Hong Chengchou finally found an opportunity to fight back.

"coax!"

The first shell landed on the turret of Asakura Masao. Although the position was a bit off, the strong explosion caused a violent shock to the entire turret. Before the huge shore defense artillery could make a fortune, it rolled down from the solid artillery mount, smashing the head of a soldier who was operating the artillery and injuring several soldiers carrying the artillery shells.

Asakura Masao was scared and was afraid of death. Now even the counterattack weapons were turned into a pile of scrap iron. What was the way this fortress still? He quickly rolled and crawled to retreat. Although the warriors were dedicated, the soldiers were dissatisfied with the cowardly and incompetent commander like Asakura Masao, they did not dare to disobey the orders of their superiors. A small group of people, wolves and rats ran off the fort, followed by a series of explosions behind him. After the smoke of gunpowder, they smelled the strong smell of sulfur in the air. The solid turret was already ruined. If they retreated one step later, no one would survive and all would die without a burial place!

Even so, less than half of them escaped.

The people on the fortress, Masao Asakura, survived half of them, not because of his good command, but because of his fear of death. It was precisely because of his fear of death that he issued the most correct military order in his life, that is, "retreat"!

However, the Satsuma defenders of the other forts were not so lucky. Under the sudden blow, they showed their dedication to Bushido. In the end, they were mostly buried with the fort. Only a few people survived, and they all lost their own care and became useless waste people!

The war came too suddenly, and the defenders on Naba Port had no time to prepare. The fierce artillery fire turned one shore defense turret after another into ruins. Although several shore guns reacted and fired several shots, they didn't even have a sampan in their capacity. This was simply an asymmetric war.

Jiro Sasaki felt like the sky collapsed and the earth was cracking, and there were rumbling sounds of cannons everywhere. At the last moment, he had just gotten up from a woman. If it weren't for the shot on the fort before the test guarded by Masao Asakura, he would still be holding his fat body and snoring!

"Eight squares, how could the damn Ming Navy attack Ryukyu?" Jiro Sasaki was no longer able to use his mind at this time. His eyes were red, as if he had chosen people to eat. He roared and ordered his subordinates to gather. Reality told him that he might be loyal to his master this time!

"I didn't expect that the Japanese are so vulnerable, so prepare to land!" From the telescope, Hong Chengchou almost saw that the Japanese soldiers were in a hurry and had no ability to organize effective resistance. This was a unilateral massacre!

"Born in comfort, die in comfort, the Japanese are arrogant and have natural dangers in the ocean, so they will relax in their natural defenses." Song Xiance came to the nail on the head.

"You are right, this is all a lesson. In the future, we will not repeat the same mistakes when we guard Ryukyu!" Hong Chengchou nodded.

The fierce gunfire sounded like fried beans, and the Marines began to land. Although Sasaki Jiro still built three blocking defense lines in a hurry, the Sasaki army suffered heavy casualties under the fierce coverage of a round of artillery fire, and it was difficult to effectively block the organization. With just one sprint attack, the Ming Dynasty Marines had already gained a foothold. At the same time, the blocking operation was used in actual combat for the first time. As long as the enemy was different from ordinary soldiers, whether it was an officer or a samurai, they would be killed within the range of the sniper rifle. Due to the death of a large number of officers, the Sasaki army without effective command was simply a mess and was not an opponent of the elite Marines at all. They soon formed an effective occupation of Naha Port.

After controlling Naha Port, Hong Chengchou ordered the removal of the remaining enemies in Naha Port. All Japanese were concentrated in several warehouses in the port and were taken care of. Anyone who resisted would be killed!

All merchant ships at the port were temporarily detained. After the relevant people left the port without waiting, the army landed, and occupied the Liangzuomori City and the North Bank Sancho City on the south bank. Since the forts of these two cities were knocked out, almost no large amount of troops were used to encompass the two cities.
Chapter completed!