Baba Toshige watched the flames spread rapidly in Nagasaki Castle, filled with despair but unable to do anything.
Every once in a while, hundreds of artillery shells exploded in Nagasaki Castle, which was full of wooden houses. The fire ignited was impossible to extinguish by human power.
Nagasaki is over, Japan's most prosperous port is over.
Li Zhi actually crossed the vast East China Sea and invaded Japan.
There was a scream in the sky, and hundreds of more artillery shells hit. One artillery shell landed in front of the street, and dozens of citizens on the street suddenly ran away as if they had seen a ghost.
Nagasaki City has completely lost order, and citizens are everywhere rushing out of the city with their belongings. The rolling flow of people on the street rushed towards Baba Toshige and passed him by. A strong man holding a package was in a hurry.
As he was walking out of the city, he bumped into the shoulder of Baba Rizhong in a panic, knocking him to the ground.
Just as Baba Toshige was about to get up, a young man who ran away from the city stepped on his hand, almost breaking his leg.
Baba Toishige's face was full of embarrassment. He put away his aching hand, jumped up and shouted loudly: "Let's go! Go back to the prison!"
There was another scream in the sky, and hundreds of shells were fired towards Nagasaki Castle. Knowing that if he stayed in Nagasaki any longer, he would either be burned to death or blown up by shells, so he quickly mounted his horse.
He raised his whip and fled outside the city.
More than a dozen Ashigaru soldiers chased Baba Toshige's fast horse. Several Dutch businessmen had nowhere to escape, so they also chased Baba Toshishige and hid outside the city.
On board the Yangwei, Li Zhi stood on the side of the ship and was in a good mood as he watched sixty-three pointed ships and ten armored warships carrying enough firepower to bombard the city of Nagasaki six miles away.
The Japanese burned Li Zhi's Li Jingbu in Hirado, and Li Zhi was about to burn the Japanese's Nagasaki.
Li Zhi's eighteen-pound cannon is actually a "long cannon" with an outstanding range. The direct range is a little more than three miles. If it is projectile, this kind of cannon can shoot ten miles. Of course, if it is thrown at a distance of ten miles, the cannonball will not
He knew where it landed. But by ejecting it six miles away, Li Zhi could still ensure that all the shells were scattered in Nagasaki Castle.
This is a completely asymmetric war. Not to mention that the Japanese have no artillery to fight back at Li Zhi's fleet at this distance. In fact, the Japanese don't even have a few artillery. There are eight artillery pieces in the port of Nagasaki Port.
A quick look through a telescope revealed that it was a Dutch "four-shot cannon." The cannonballs weighed twelve pounds and their maximum range was only four miles.
Li Zhi bombed the Hong Kong city six miles away, and the Japanese could only stare.
Seventy-three large ships fired their bows left and right, firing more than 700 shells at Nagasaki Castle every minute. In just ten minutes, Nagasaki Port was bombed into a sea of flames. Almost all Japanese-style buildings were made of wood, without any traces of shells.
They were all lit up in suspense.
Nagasaki had lost its strategic value, and the artillerymen on the dock abandoned eight pieces of artillery and withdrew.
The city of Nagasaki has turned into a sea of flames.
A Japanese businessman felt sorry for the raw silk worth tens of thousands of dollars, and called the clerk to rescue the raw silk in the yard during the fire. However, after dozens of clerks pushed the raw silk cart for dozens of steps, they were surrounded by raging fires from the front, rear, and left. The clerks did not care.
If he dared to push the cart again, he abandoned the raw silk and fled outside the city, hoping to escape from the city before the fire burned him to death.
A silk merchant ran out holding a piece of yarn in his left hand and a piece of silk in his right hand. However, his load was too high and he ran very slowly. As he walked, he suddenly found that the way forward was blocked by a collapsed business building.
The two-story business building collapsed in the middle of the alley, burning, blocking the way of the merchants.
The businessman's eyes widened, and he finally realized that he could no longer save his wealth. He would not be able to save his life if he delayed any longer. He threw away the silk and yarn and ran away to find other escape routes.
Li Zhi let the cannon fire ten rounds and then stopped shooting. The entire Nagasaki burned down. Both the elegant Japanese business building and the Dutch business building surrounded by solid walls were engulfed in flames, and there was no need to continue bombing.
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It is unknown how many goods were destroyed by the fire. Even some Japanese who were slow to escape were also killed in the flames.
But these are no longer Li Zhi's considerations. Since Japan has chosen to go to war with Li Zhi, Li Zhi must let Japan understand what pain is. Destroying Nagasaki City is just the beginning.
The burning of the entire city caused the temperature to rise for miles around. Li Zhi took off his coat and waited slowly on the boat.
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The fire burned for a whole day before gradually getting smaller. The entire city was now in ruins, with coke and black ash everywhere. Although the fire had become smaller, the buildings that had turned into charcoal still had dark flames.
It's burning. But this kind of dark fire can no longer hurt anyone, and the dock is ready for use.
Li Zhi led 4,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division to disembark at the pier and attack a small castle outside Nagasaki City.
That castle was the place of worship for the Nagasaki warrior racehorse Toshige. Li Zhi learned from Zheng Kaida's letter that the Nagasaki warrior had burned the entire Hirado area and wanted to catch this arrogant samurai with his own hands.
In order to capture this Nagasaki warrior, Li Zhi took the only 500 cavalrymen off the ship.
The Nagasaki Executive Office has a wide range of responsibilities. Not only does it manage the commercial affairs of Nagasaki and Hirado, it is actually the highest shogunate official in Kyushu and the arbiter of various conflicting affairs among local princes. There are two offices built next to the Nagasaki Executive Office.
There are four thousand soldiers of the Japanese prince "Saga Nabeshima family" stationed here, and these four thousand soldiers are also under the command of Toshige Baba.
The Japanese soldiers had never seen the power of the Tiger Division and were ready to defend the city.
Although the main building of Japanese castles, the "Tenshu Pavilion", is often not large, which is the size of a small building in later generations, Japanese castles often dig trenches and build walls near the castle tower according to the terrain to form a stepped defense system.
.Thousands of soldiers and horses can be stationed in the entire defense system outside the castle.
In fact, the four thousand soldiers of the Saga Nabeshima family are well equipped. Two thousand of them are equipped with Japanese matchlocks and iron cannons. The remaining two thousand use Jumonji guns. All four thousand soldiers are wearing iron plates and armor.
With its sufficient ashigaru, this kind of armor has considerable protection against cold weapons.
However, in front of Li Zhi's cannon, all the armor and equipment were in vain.
Fifty 18-pound cannons were erected one mile in front of the Japanese castle, and loading and ammunition began.
The four thousand soldiers outside the castle put their matchlocks in the shooting holes in the wall and prepared to fight Li Zhi in an arduous offensive and defensive battle, but Li Zhi had simply ignored them. Li Zhi's cannon was aimed at the main body of the castle.
Build the "Tenshu Tower" and prepare to bomb the three-story castle tower with explosive bombs.
The castle tower is made of masonry and is very capable of defending against bows and arrows. Even rockets cannot ignite the castle tower. During Japan's Warring States Period, such a castle could be surrounded by attackers for months and unable to capture it.
But in front of Li Zhi's eighteenth-century cannons, this ancient castle from the sixteenth century was like paper.
Li Zhi waved his hand, and fifty cannons fired in unison. The shells hit the wall of the castle tower without any suspense, and exploded inside. With the huge rumbling sound, the castle tower in the distance seemed to have fallen to the ground.
