Xinshun 1730

Chapter 337
Tosa has not experienced war for many years, and has never had the opportunity to see Western-style sailing ships.

During the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong told the missionaries that you can’t figure out what you are doing, but the calendar is still very good. You might as well go back to Italy and buy more books on astronomy and mathematics, and bring less books on theology; Li Zicheng and the missionaries were drinking together in Beijing. , praised the moral and astronomical standards of the missionaries in the capital at that time.

Dashun and Japan are different after all, maybe even Daxi will be different.

The shogunate can know that Charles II married a Portuguese princess, but most Japanese have never seen such a warship in recent years.They can know that they will be beheaded for holding silver coins with crosses in their hands, but they don't know where those things come from.

With the sound of the demonstration artillery, many Tosa people who were watching the excitement on the bank were also frightened and ran around.

There were a total of five closed ships of the Tosa clan, and only two ships could come out to meet the enemy at this time.

When the two sailing boats rowed out from the mouth of the river, Liu Yu slapped himself fiercely, thinking that he had traveled to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and wondered if this thing was the same as the captain in "Luo Shen Fu Picture Scroll"?There has been no progress for thousands of years. Can you believe that this is the level of shipbuilding that surpassed Galen to cross the Pacific Ocean?

The gunners trained in Weihai with gunpowder that cost no money can't wait.With every shake of the ship, the most experienced gunners waited for the best shooting time, and the first group of veteran gunners on board could control these details by feeling.

Looking at the two closed ships in the distance, Liu Yu couldn't help sighing, thinking that I know how those descriptions came about.

Its boat is fifty feet long and six to seven feet wide, all of which are equipped with large guns facing outwards. They can penetrate through a rocky city and shake for tens of miles. People and boats should be smashed to pieces. This is one of his great skills in poisoning the sea...

Before he finished feeling, the two closed ships had been turned into powder in a salvo of the fleet, and the gunners fed the gunpowder cooperated with the flintlock mechanism. This kind of slow boat was the target.

"My lord, you said that Japan's coastal defense is so fragile, and there are so many gold and silver, why don't Westerners force it to switch?"

Standing beside Liu Yu, Chen Qinghai observed the planks floating in the sea, feeling a little puzzled.

He often heard Liu Yu say that Japan had no navy after the country was locked up, but he had followed Liu Yu to Nagasaki, and he had also seen large Dutch ships staying in Nagasaki. He never thought that Tosa's navy would be so fragile.

"For this matter, thank the Zheng family of the former Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for the incident in Taiwan, you really thought that the Dutch never thought about the founding of the country by gunboats? After the incident in Taiwan, they were frightened. Besides, how many Dutch can have in Nanyang? Soldiers? Can’t take down India, and no one in the West can provoke the Celestial Dynasty and Japan.”

"The French guy who came back to Weihai last time, Duplex, is a terrible person. He is thinking about recruiting Indian soldiers and using barbarians to control barbarians. Governor of India, France is out of the question. Not to mention the Dutch."

"The Celestial Dynasty can easily gather troops of ten thousand people to cross the sea. It is impossible for the current British, French and Dutch to gather three thousand troops in Nanyang."

"Although the naval battle is sure to win, the Japanese country does not export, locks the country and does not negotiate peace, what can you do to him? Let's put it bluntly, the navy is the army's transport team this time, you expect to make meritorious service here? Hey, don't think about it, Really, even if you completely annihilated the Japanese navy, I would be ashamed to take credit for it."

In front of his confidantes, Liu Yu has nothing to hide. He tries to talk to these confidants about the situation outside as much as possible to cultivate their overall view.

In fact, before the South China Sea bubble exploded, the Dutch thought about opening the Japanese gate with gunboats.However, although the South Sea Company exploded the bubble in the UK, the Dutch East India Company had long since given up on industry and commerce, and switched to the financial industry. The South Sea bubble also hurt the Netherlands badly.

Japan escaped disaster by relying on the South China Sea bubble incident in the British stock market, but in the end Dashun still sent troops.

This time, unless the Forbidden City was collapsed by the capital earthquake, there would be no accidents.

Chen Qinghai looked at these small Japanese boats, thought about what Liu Yu said just now, and thought that this was true, even if they wiped out all their navy, it was really nothing to mention.

As long as the captain does not risk his life and drills into the river and the foreshore, there is no need to fight at sea.

Thinking about what Liu Yu once told them about Date Masamune making Galen, and about the Japanese Youth League visiting Europe in the tenth year of Wanli, I couldn't help but sigh.

"Time and luck. If the Japanese country maintained the level of Galen ships crossing the Pacific Ocean and made no progress for more than a hundred years, why did it come to this? I should learn from it."

Liu Yu just smiled, but didn't answer.There are not so many things that can be learned from, and the things inside cannot be explained clearly in a sentence or two. It can be said that there are accidents and inevitability.

Wanli went to Europe for ten years, what can he learn?It was far from shocking to the point of stunned. On the contrary, the members of the visiting European youth troupe were quite impressed by the Europeans' careful storage of the silk they wiped their hands, and a sense of superiority spontaneously emerged.

As for Masamune Date, there were rumors that he was going to ask Spain to borrow troops to divide Japan equally.At that time, the Netherlands was still at war with Spain, and the ship did not return to Japan. When it returned to Manila, it was recruited as a Spanish warship, and it could not return at all.

Anyway, no matter whether it was accidental or inevitable, Dashun took a step ahead at this time, and this step had been advanced by almost ten years, and Japan could not catch up no matter what.

Amidst the rumbling gunfire, Liu Yu was also observing the situation on the shore, and compared it with the information given by the businessman, it seemed that Japan really didn't care about coastal defense at all.

It is basically consistent with what the businessman said. A river about three or four miles wide enters the sea here, but before it enters the sea, it narrows suddenly, and there is only a mouth less than 500 meters into the sea.

Stuck at the mouth of the sea is a headland with a small hill that is not too high.

It can be said that taking control there is equivalent to blocking Tosa's sea outlets and safeguarding Tosa's coastal defense security.

There used to be a city there.

The castle of Nagamune Gabe clan before the Sekigahara War was on this cape, and it was originally called Urado Castle.

To build a city in this place, as long as a fort is built, Liu Yu's warship can only be dumbfounded.Captains who dared to use naval guns and shore guns to bombard such estuary tidal flats could all be shot for dereliction of duty.

If there is defense in this place, they can only land nearby, relying on the marines to go around and chew down, so that the warships dare to approach.

However, the Yamauchi Clan who enfeoffed here after the Sekigahara War disliked the narrowness of the place, and built Kochi Castle more than ten miles away from the coast.

Under the One Country One City Order, it is conceivable that Urado Castle was demolished.

Even if it is not demolished, considering that Kochi Castle just caught fire a few years ago, the waste will definitely be reused, and all the building materials of Urado Castle will be moved to the city.

This place with such an important terrain is now completely in ruins, and there is not a single person visible in the telescope.

Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the marines to land and first occupy the ruins of Urado Castle.

Once the place is occupied and the cannons are dragged up, don't say that Yamauchi Fushiki has not returned from visiting Edo, nor that the Tosa clan is only 20 stone high. Even if he doubles the stone height, he will not be able to attack here .

The headland extends to block the mouth of the river and forms a narrow peninsula.

As long as the marines climb up, they can only attack from the coast west of the river, and that is within the range of the warships. Liu Yu can make it impossible for the Tosa clan to gather and deploy in front of the battle.

Before lunch, the Marine Corps occupied the ruins of Urado Castle and raised the flag of the Navy on it.The [-]-pound cannon was too heavy, so they stayed on the ship for the time being, and pulled it up after the situation stabilized.

The lighter howitzers and twelve-pound guns were pulled up.

Liu Yu and others boarded the shore, stood at the location of the Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Hall in later generations, and observed the surrounding situation condescendingly.

It is said that Urado Castle was used as the shipbuilding base of the Nagamune family when they invaded Korea. It is now abandoned, but there is still a small shipyard in the river. It is estimated that a boat of about [-] stone can be built, which can be completely ignored.

Japan is surrounded by the sea, but Japan is not a sea power country at this time, and the Kochi Castle of the Yamauchi family did not consider the function of offshore defense at all.

Kochi Castle was blocked by a mountain.

If you want to see it, you can only walk along the river, or walk up along the river.It is not easy to go over the mountain, there is no road, and the trees are lush.

Under the ruins of Urado Castle, there is a commercial area. Some of the people below are panicked, some are nervous, and some gather nearby to watch the excitement, but no one dares to go up the mountain.

After the cannons were deployed, the warships put down the boats in turn, allowing the sailors to go ashore in batches to rest.

Before evening, two Japanese warriors approached down the mountain holding the three-petal flower flag of the Yamauchi family, apparently wanting to negotiate or inquire.

These people walked closer and closer, and Shi Shiyong, who was watching with a telescope, let out a hey, a little less calm.

Seeing Shi Shiyong's strange expression, Liu Yu withdrew his binoculars and asked, "Why, do you know him?"

"Well, I sparred in Edo. The thick guy is called Hayashi An Taifu. When I went to Edo with the lord of the Tosa domain to attend the pilgrimage, wasn't I teaching riding and archery in Edo at that time? ? This is a Japanese sword player, seems to be the master of some Wushuang direct transmission Yingxin style? The Japanese sword is good, but I can’t beat him with only the sword.”

"However, both swords and swords are learned by corporals, and bows are learned by sergeants. Sergeants must use bow skills to learn..."

Speaking of this, he looked helplessly at the guards around Liu Yu who were carrying miniature rifles, and then touched the flintlock hanging on his waist, smiling wryly and speechless.

Liu Yu looked at it for a while, and asked, "What about the one next to it?"

"I have also seen that the two families are related. You also know that the Japanese warriors are basically related. It seems that Dahei is aggressive. He learned from the people from Toki Mino when he was in Edo. Yamato's archery skills, I have talked with him, his archery skills are far worse than mine, and his riding and archery skills are even worse. Dahei's aggressive cousin is the mother-in-law of Mrs. Lin An. The truth of the Tao."

After thinking about it, Shi Shiyong still thought of a potentially useful piece of information.

"By the way, this big black fighter seems to be Tosa's daimyo Daimezuke, who supervises the Chichitan believers."

Liu Yu doesn't know much about the Yamato style, Wushuang direct transmission Yingxin style, etc., and he is not interested. He just thinks that even the master of swordsmanship, Sakamoto Ryoma, thinks that the revolver is better than all swordsmanship. Feel free to let Shi Shiyong go to Japan to teach riding and archery.

But when he heard the duty of "monitoring Chechitan believers", he immediately understood.The so-called Chietchitan religion is Catholicism. It seems that the Tosa domain thinks that they are Catholics?
Think about it, no matter the shape of the ship or the style of the sails, it is normal to have this illusion.It also shows that the stability of the shogunate is greater than the sky, for fear of the spread of Catholicism.

Thinking about it again, the Tosa Clan's reaction speed means that there are few people.As long as there are two more troop carriers and double the number of soldiers, they call at the port in the morning and send people to check and inquire in the evening. With this reaction speed, they have already reached the city of Kochi.

Now that our side occupies such a good position, we are going to have a small fight to show these people, and it is just right for us to come.

I don't need to be courteous before fighting. It is the right thing to make these people angry first and tell them to quickly gather troops to attack.

(End of this chapter)