Yang Feng of Dagou Port soon knew that his second torpedo sales failed again, but this guy just smiled. He was surprised that the Beiyang Navy could achieve the current results. Even if the fleet is still
Just like in history, the entire army was wiped out, but we finally had a record that would not let future generations despair.
However, almost all of the combined fleet was sent to the dock, which gave him a good opportunity. Although he had made a lot of money these days, he always felt that there was something left in the ointment. In order to make himself feel happier, he decided to take advantage of this good opportunity.
A landing operation.
Of course, the target is not the Japanese mainland. Before the recruits complete their training, he does not have this ability. After Zhang Quan arrived in Yiwu, he quickly sent more than 2,000 recruits. The Chinese people are so poor these days. I heard that there are
A hundred taels of silver work, life and so on are not worth mentioning, not to mention doing the traditional work of their ancestors, but these farmers, miners, and hunters want to become real soldiers, at least
It will take several months of training. I am afraid that Yang Feng will not have the strength to land in Japan within half a year.
But you can't land in Japan, but you can land in Ryukyu. At this time, Ryukyu King Shang Tai has been surrounded by Tokyo by the Japanese, and even Ryukyu has been changed to Okinawa. Of course, the Qing Dynasty government has not recognized their suzerainty over Ryukyu to this day.
It would be a good idea to seize this opportunity to occupy Ryukyu, and then create a Ryukyu royal family to carry out the restoration movement. Anyway, beating the children on a rainy day will be idle.
With this mentality, this guy recalled three landing ships that were looting outside, and then sent a telegram to the destroyers that were hunting on the route from Southeast Asia to Japan, asking them to put down their work and wait to meet with them at Keelung Port.
, then loaded two thousand soldiers onto the ship and were escorted by the Predator. Boss Yang personally took command of the Nautilus and sailed out of Dagou Port and headed straight for Taipei.
The voyage of less than two hundred kilometers is nothing more than a morning for the eighteen-kilometer fleet. They set off in the morning and arrived at noon. They first went to see Xue Fucheng, or to scare Tang Jingsong and others by the way. As a result, they only arrived here.
I found out that Tang Jingsong had run away to his hometown on the pretext of illness, and he was not the only one who ran away. After being tortured by him, almost a third of Taiwan's officials ran away.
The problem is that these guys are not running through the normal procedures. If they want to file a lawsuit, they have to get approval from the governor Xue Fucheng. It is difficult to refuse someone like Tang Jingsong. In addition, Lao Xue is also eager to let this guy get out, but those prefects and county magistrates cannot.
It was approved, so these guys ran away secretly. As a result, there would be no successor in the short term. He was now having a headache about what to do with the counties without officials.
"Isn't that easy to handle? You ask the local squires to choose a highly respected representative, and then use the original set of yamen to make do with it. For important official matters such as case judgments, they can sort out the results themselves first, and then send them to
Go to the governor's office to have it stamped." Yang Feng said nonchalantly, without any awareness of the culprit.
"That's all we have to do now." Xue Fucheng nodded and said, because in the final analysis, Yang Feng was responsible for this matter, so it was naturally difficult to make it public.
After solving this problem, Yang Feng set sail to Keelung the next day. After receiving his order, the four destroyers that were hunting at sea returned one after another during the day. One of the destroyers remanded a Japanese merchant ship.
When he got off the ship, he found that the mental state of the sailors was not very stable, including the British captain, who looked like a frisky male dog.
They hijacked a ship transporting prostitutes from Japan to Singapore. This merchant ship was like a can of sardines, filled with more than 500 Japanese girls with dreams. When they walked into the cabin and saw this scene, Boss Yang felt a little bit
Jaw-dropping.
"Don't tell anyone, keep an eye on this ship. If you have brothers on the ship who want to play, come up and play on the ship yourself at night. After we capture Ryukyu, throw these women there and build a house for the brothers."
There are five hundred people in the comfort station. If we catch something like this in the future, we will replace them and send them to remote villages in China to be sold directly." This guy said to the captain shamelessly.
In fact, he suddenly thought that capturing Japanese slaves was also a good business. You must know that Japan was actually quite poor at this time. Landing in more decent cities would naturally yield huge rewards, but now there are only a few decent cities. If you are not careful,
If you set up shop in a poor place and can't recoup the cost of landing operations, then you can't catch some Japanese women to sell. In addition, it seems good to catch some beautiful Japanese boys. This kind of thing is still very popular among Chinese scholar-bureaucrats at this time.
Yes, you can tell by looking at the prosperity of the opera industry.
The next morning, under the leadership of several Ryukyu people that Xue Fucheng helped find, a huge offensive fleet set sail from Keelung Port and headed for Okinawa, which is what the Ryukyu people call the big island. As for the landing location,
Yes, there is no need to consider this. There are not even Japanese troops stationed on the island now, that is, there are only a few armed policemen. There is no need to consider the issues that the US military considered back then, and they can just beach in Naha Bay.
"Master Yang, there are actually many islands with people in the south." The guide who led him said with a smile on his face.
"This problem will be solved by the Ryukyu Army in the future." Yang Feng waved his hand and said, how could he have time to take care of such trivial matters.
"You mean we can have our own army?" the guide said excitedly.
"Of course, Ryukyu is an independent country. Since it is an independent country, it should naturally have an army. Of course, with your own strength, you will definitely not be able to stop foreign invasion, so I will maintain a thousand-man garrison in Ryukyu.
His Majesty the King just needs to designate a military base for me. If the situation there is suitable, maybe I will build a port there, build a factory or something." Yang Feng said, it is a bit far from Taiwan to land in Japan, but there are Ryukyus.
It's no problem to give yourself a current base.
A six-hundred-kilometer voyage, starting in the morning and arriving at night, the ship stopped at sea to rest, and early the next morning this guy headed for Naha, or Shuri.
"It's not a good sign!" Okinawa Prefecture Governor Shigeru Narahara looked at the drizzling sky outside and said to himself. His eyelids have been twitching since this morning, and he even got stuck on a fish bone while eating. There are various signs.
It shows that today is definitely not a pleasant weather. As a Samoan warrior, he has extraordinary intuition for crises, but even so, when he learned that a fleet flying the Yellow Dragon flag appeared off the coast of Okinawa, his whole person was shocked.
Still stunned.
"Asshole, have you seen clearly what kind of warship it is?" He angrily grabbed the neck of the police officer who reported the news and yelled.
"The Yellow Dragon Flag, it's definitely the Yellow Dragon Flag!" the police officer said with a white face. In fact, he didn't need to emphasize this, because at this time, the governor was already staring out the window with his mouth wide open. On the sea of Naha Bay, a hanging
The huge fleet carrying the Yellow Dragon Flag is slowly approaching.
"Quick, call all the police and all native male immigrants to prepare to resist the invaders!" Governor Nara pushed away the police, took out his samurai sword, thought for a moment and took out a Colt revolver, then gritted his teeth and ran out.
The whole of Naha was in chaos at this time, the alarm bells were ringing constantly, and the streets were full of running police and armed civilians. Due to the lack of guns, most of them were actually armed with cold weapons, and some even carried harpoons.
of.
The Governor of Nara personally led a huge army of nearly 3,000 people to prepare for the enemy in Naha Bay. As an excellent samurai, he quickly made careful arrangements. First of all, the Naha port was too small, and the enemy's huge armored ships were too small.
It was absolutely impossible to reach the shore. In fact, when he saw these behemoths that were comparable to the battleships of the United Fleet, he already knew that he might be broken into pieces this time, but even if he was broken into pieces, he still had to maintain the dignity of a samurai.
Judging from the course of this fleet, they were preparing to land on the beach using small boats. This gave him a chance to survive. First, he built a bunker on the beach with sand. This task forced the Ryukyus to use bayonets to quickly
After completing this, he then deployed the most powerful hundreds of armed policemen behind the bunker, and when the enemy's small boats docked, they greeted them with a dense volley of guns.
In addition, a group of cavalry was deployed in the woods not far away. Of course, it was called cavalry, but in fact it was a group of more than a dozen horses delivering messages, and armed civilians were deployed on the other side of the defense line, waiting for the enemy to board.
After landing, he launched a desperate charge in an effort to drive the enemy back into the sea. However, looking at the black muzzles of the battleships in the distance, he was not very confident that his soldiers could persist until this moment.
However, what surprised him was that the fleet on the opposite side suddenly stopped, and then the three strange-looking warships behind them began to move forward and rushed directly to the shore.
"Nani?" Governor Nara was at a loss. He knew very well that such a large ironclad ship must have a draft of four to five meters, and it would definitely run aground if it moved forward. A smile immediately appeared on his face, and he decided to watch a good show on the shore.
,However,
Five minutes passed, and the three warships traveling side by side still did not run aground. At this time, they were only a hundred meters away from the coast.
"Aground, aground, Baga, why aren't you aground yet?" the furious Governor of Nara shouted, waving his fist in an awkward manner.
"The enemy ship has run aground!" At this moment, the soldiers behind the bunker suddenly let out an earth-shattering cheer. The three ironclad ships finally ran aground, only a few dozen meters away from the coast.
Looking at this distance, the cheers instantly turned into fear. This is not called stranding, this is called docking.
The three approaching warships brought deep fear to the Japanese on the shore. They felt as small as ants in front of this steel behemoth.
Then they saw the six twin turrets on the bow of the ship, and the muzzles began to slowly press down.