Chapter 2111
Chapter 2111
Chapter 2111
The terrain of Hirado Island is long and narrow, the distance between the north and south ends is as long as more than [-] miles, and the narrowest point from east to west is less than one mile.The coastline of the entire island is winding and winding, and there are many bays that can be used to build small ports.However, the ability of the rulers of the Hirado domain in this area is obviously not comparable to that of infrastructure madmen like Haihan. Today, Hirado Port is still using the small port built many years ago, and some of the islands are similar to Boxiang Bay and Gujiang. The natural bays that are really suitable for the establishment of large ports have not been fully developed and utilized.
But for the coalition fleet attacking the Hirado Domain, in addition to the key area of Hirado Port located at the northern end of Hirado Island, these bays on the coastline where large ships can berthed are also not to be missed.The generals believed that since the Hirado clan already had a batch of launched warships, they were likely to be deployed in a certain bay on the island, and they must be cleared to prevent future troubles.
To sweep the coastline of the entire Hirado Island, the coordinated action of the coalition fleet is very necessary. The generals need to interpret and respond to the changes on the battlefield together. Therefore, after the fleet rendezvous in the Wudao Islands, Qian Tiandun, Shi Diwen and Xu Yuzhuo, who led the Ming army to the battle, had gathered on the same ship and established a wartime headquarters for instant communication and coordinated command of their respective troops to fight.
Also coming to this majestic-class warship were military observers from North Korea and Portugal.The North Korean sent Shen Xueyi, a general of the Qingzhuang faction, who also participated in the reconnaissance operations of the fleet led by Yuan Zhi in Hirado and Kyushu in the same capacity.
Although North Korea did not directly send troops to participate in the war this time, the high-level officials are very concerned about the progress of this war. If Hai Han can teach the Japanese some profound lessons this time, then King Li Yu and his ministers should be very happy. See what happens.And because Shen Xueyi is the son of Shen Jingzhen, the military judge, he naturally gained more trust than ordinary generals. What he saw and heard during the battle can be directly fed back to the high-level court in the future, so that decision makers can understand Haihan's military strategy this time. Action has a clearer understanding.
The representative of Portugal is Simao, who is already very familiar with the Haihan military. He and several generals in command of the operation are old acquaintances, but the target of this operation is not convenient for Portugal, so it is not Send troops to fight with Haihan as in the past, and only allow Simao to follow the coalition fleet as an observer.
It is not so much that Simao came to see the war, but rather to protect the interests of the Portuguese businessmen in Japan.At present, there are still some Portuguese settlers in Hirado and Nagasaki for a long time, and these people are the main executors of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The war launched by Haihan may inevitably affect the lives and lives of these Portuguese expatriates. work, and Simao can keep these expatriates from being directly involved in the war when necessary, and can even ask the coalition forces to provide some necessary protection for their own expatriates.
But what will happen after the war, Simao does not have a more accurate judgment at present. He only hopes that the trade between his country and Japan will not be completely ended because of this war. It took decades for the pair to operate. Portugal in the current situation will be a serious loss.
Although the Tokugawa shogunate disliked the Portuguese who liked to preach, and Portugal's trade environment in Japan was already quite bad, they were still unwilling to give up Japan as a trade partner.If possible, Simao would like to see if there is a chance to trip the Dutch and attack this competitor's trading organization in Japan.
Of course, as professional soldiers, what Shen Xueyi and Simao were most concerned about was the means the coalition fleet would use against Hirado.Since they learned that Haihan was going to attack the Hirado Domain, they began to calculate how to launch an attack on Hirado Island if they led their own troops to carry out such an operation, and disintegrated the opponent's resistance in the shortest possible time. target of the action.
However, when they saw the coalition fleet after the rendezvous in the waters of the Wudao Islands, they realized that the deduction they had done before was actually redundant, and they thought things were too complicated. For the size of the troops, you only need to land directly in Hirado and push all the way there. There is no need to consider too detailed a combat plan.
After that, the information they learned from observing the combat meeting basically confirmed this view. The main consideration of the coalition command is to cut off the passage of the Hirado clan to escape and ask for help, and to make the main target of this operation [-] times as far as possible. The Zhiyu Party was trapped on the island, and then carried out encirclement and annihilation. The tactics they formulated were all around this goal.
Starting from the southern tip of Hirado Island, warships in twos and threes have been breaking away from the fleet and sailing towards some nearby small bays, separately checking whether there are enemy warships hiding in these places.
At this time, almost a whole day has passed since the coalition forces launched an offensive on Fukue Island in the early morning, and twilight is slowly falling. It is not impossible to forcefully rush to Hirado Port to start a war, but after it becomes a night battle, the coalition fleet has the advantage. But it will be greatly discounted.
This is not because the coalition forces did not consider well when formulating the combat plan. In fact, some objective reasons such as weather caused some delays during the implementation process, which made the coalition forces arrive at Hirado Island about three hours later than expected.Either the coalition forces chose to launch the landing battle overnight, or they waited until dawn the next day before launching an attack.
After discussing with several generals, they finally decided not to advance rashly, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties in the night battle.Based on the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, it is undoubtedly much more certain to wait until the daytime to launch an attack.Although such an extra night of waiting may give the opponent more time to prepare for the battle, or even escape from Hirado Port, both Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen believe that the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party will not flee without a fight, and should still be in Pingdo. There is a head-to-head showdown.
Five years have passed since the Battle of Miyakojima that year, and the Shiba Shiyu Party has been hiding in the Hirado Domain for the past few years and operating quietly. They should have been waiting for an opportunity for revenge.These people had already escaped once in Miyako Island back then, and now Haihan came to them again. If they choose to continue to escape, then the achievements of hard work in Hirado in the past few years will be destroyed again. So easy to swallow.
The most important thing is that the generals believe that since the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party needs the trust and support of Hirado, it must show its strength at such a critical moment. If it runs away directly, it will make the ruler of Hirado How to treat them?
Of course, they did not know at this time that the Hirado clan had undergone tremendous changes recently. The Tagawa clan replaced the Matsuura clan as the ruler of the Hirado clan, and the armed forces built by Shibashiba were now replacing the original clan. The army became the official armed force of the Hirado domain.Under such circumstances, the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party has no way to retreat, and in order to maintain the Tianchuan clan's dominance, it can only take a risky battle.
The coalition fleet, which was divided into east and west routes and marched northward from both sides of Hirado Island, each found a bay in the middle of the island as an overnight place before sunset.The reconnaissance fleet took advantage of the night to continue heading north to confirm that the enemy would not seize this opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
At this time in Hirado Port, Tagawasuke was also discussing with his retainers how to deal with the enemy who came to the door.After Fukue Island was attacked, the local area sent the warning message back to Hirado with a pigeon letter, and Tagawasuke received the news at noon.
Regarding Haihan's attack, Tian Chuansuke was not particularly surprised. All kinds of information received from Daming before this had already indicated that Haihan was likely to launch a military operation against the Hirado Domain. Now it just proves that The authenticity of relevant news.
The Hirado Clan is not a weakling who pokes at the neck, and the related preparations have already started a few days ago.Although everyone does not have much expectations for defeating Haihan, Tagawasuke believes that although it is difficult to defeat the opponent, it may not be impossible to defeat the opponent with the advantage of the home court. As long as you are fully prepared, there is no reason to let the cross The Haihan army from the sea gained the upper hand.
Of course he has such an idea, mainly because he has never had the experience of directly fighting Haihan Army.The leaders of Shibazhi under him are not so optimistic. Thinking about Shibazhi in its heyday, they were beaten by the Haihan army who just debuted and couldn't take care of themselves. What's more, the Haihan army has fully proved it with countless battles a few years later. In addition, their strength is still growing gradually, and the area of activity also extends northward from the South China Sea to the Liaodong Peninsula.
If they had not fled to Hirado, Japan, but somewhere along the northern coast of Daming, they would have died several times under the hands of the Haihan army.Five years later, it is hard to say whether the strength gap between the two sides has continued to widen, but it is absolutely impossible to narrow it down to the point where they have a chance to defeat the Haihan army.
But worry is nothing but worry, escape is definitely not possible.It took them five years to take down the Hirado domain, paving the way for the Zheng descendants to take over the area in the future.And this is based on the fact that Zheng Zhilong had an in-law relationship with the Tagawa family in Hirado, so that Tagawasuke was willing to make Zheng Zhilong's descendants as heirs in exchange for the support of the Shibazhiyu Party.If you want to repeat this operation in another place in the future, you will not have such prerequisites at all.
It is certainly not difficult to escape from Hirado before the Haihan people come, but for them, escaping may mean that there will be no chance of revenge for the rest of their lives.Although the possibility of repelling Haihan is not great, they still have to fight, and this is a test of whether the five years of hard work have achieved the expected results.
Of course, with the experience of fighting in the early years, they would not choose to fight head-on with Haihan. The gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides cannot be made up by the brothers fighting desperately. They can only find ways to attack each other with their own strengths. short.
Although the Hirado Clan has already built many warships, the construction techniques of these warships basically follow the original principles of Shibazhi back then, except that artillery is installed on the ships.This configuration is indeed more than enough to deal with ordinary ships. It can even compete with the armed sailing ships of Western countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands by virtue of its numerical advantage. It will not be better than the situation five years ago, and it is safer to preserve strength as much as possible.In this way, if the war progresses to an irreversible situation, the remaining sea power will still have a chance to take some people out of Hirado.
Familiarity with the environment of Hirado Island and the surrounding areas is probably one of the few advantages of the Hirado Clan, and they decided to make the most of this condition.Since the possibility of defeating Haihan's fleet at sea is slim, the only option is to place the main battlefield on land—but this happens to coincide with Haihan's thoughts.
Tagawasuke and his subordinates believe that relying on the mountainous terrain of Hirado Island, the Hirado Domain can completely deal with the incoming enemy.Once the defenders can drag the situation into a tug-of-war, the Haihan army, which is far away from the base camp and fighting across the sea, will gradually fall into a passive position due to supply problems.At that time, try to send your own armed fleet to harass Haihan's supply line, and perhaps the battle situation will develop in a direction that favors the defenders.
Of course, this strategy is easy to say, but planning the details of the operation, assigning combat tasks, and even commanding during the battle will still test the combat capabilities of the new Hirado Fan Army.These old people in Shibazhi knew very well that the combat effectiveness of the Haihan army on land was not inferior to that at sea, and they had to be handled with care.
Tian Chuansuke received the news that the Haihan Fleet raided Fukue Island today, but he felt a sense of peace of mind that the dust had settled.All kinds of anxiety, speculation, and nervousness before, with the arrival of this news, all turned into excitement before the war.Whether the preparation measures taken in the past few days are effective or not will soon be tested on the battlefield.
"If the Haihan army moves fast enough, they will arrive at Hirado Port tomorrow. I don't think they have any plans to negotiate with us, so they will start a war when they meet with the Haihan army tomorrow. Everyone, do you want to fight? Victory's confidence?"
The question raised by Tian Chuansuke is really embarrassing. For these retainers who were born in Shibazhi, winning the battle is not so easy to say.
And those who were present at the moment were really stunned, and immediately responded loudly: "Yes!"
In response, this person is Tagawa Kojiro, who has been heavily used by Tagawasuke recently. The vassal army he is in charge of reorganizing is actually not the main force of this combat mission, but this does not seem to prevent him from expressing his determination to Tagawasuke in front of everyone.However, since he took the lead, others of course couldn't keep silent anymore, and hurriedly expressed their attitudes, so as not to make Tian Chuansuke think that he was a person who was afraid of war.
Tian Chuansuke's face paled slightly, and then he nodded and said: "This fight with the Haihan people is related to the life and death of the Hirado Clan, everyone must fight to the death!"
(End of this chapter)
The terrain of Hirado Island is long and narrow, the distance between the north and south ends is as long as more than [-] miles, and the narrowest point from east to west is less than one mile.The coastline of the entire island is winding and winding, and there are many bays that can be used to build small ports.However, the ability of the rulers of the Hirado domain in this area is obviously not comparable to that of infrastructure madmen like Haihan. Today, Hirado Port is still using the small port built many years ago, and some of the islands are similar to Boxiang Bay and Gujiang. The natural bays that are really suitable for the establishment of large ports have not been fully developed and utilized.
But for the coalition fleet attacking the Hirado Domain, in addition to the key area of Hirado Port located at the northern end of Hirado Island, these bays on the coastline where large ships can berthed are also not to be missed.The generals believed that since the Hirado clan already had a batch of launched warships, they were likely to be deployed in a certain bay on the island, and they must be cleared to prevent future troubles.
To sweep the coastline of the entire Hirado Island, the coordinated action of the coalition fleet is very necessary. The generals need to interpret and respond to the changes on the battlefield together. Therefore, after the fleet rendezvous in the Wudao Islands, Qian Tiandun, Shi Diwen and Xu Yuzhuo, who led the Ming army to the battle, had gathered on the same ship and established a wartime headquarters for instant communication and coordinated command of their respective troops to fight.
Also coming to this majestic-class warship were military observers from North Korea and Portugal.The North Korean sent Shen Xueyi, a general of the Qingzhuang faction, who also participated in the reconnaissance operations of the fleet led by Yuan Zhi in Hirado and Kyushu in the same capacity.
Although North Korea did not directly send troops to participate in the war this time, the high-level officials are very concerned about the progress of this war. If Hai Han can teach the Japanese some profound lessons this time, then King Li Yu and his ministers should be very happy. See what happens.And because Shen Xueyi is the son of Shen Jingzhen, the military judge, he naturally gained more trust than ordinary generals. What he saw and heard during the battle can be directly fed back to the high-level court in the future, so that decision makers can understand Haihan's military strategy this time. Action has a clearer understanding.
The representative of Portugal is Simao, who is already very familiar with the Haihan military. He and several generals in command of the operation are old acquaintances, but the target of this operation is not convenient for Portugal, so it is not Send troops to fight with Haihan as in the past, and only allow Simao to follow the coalition fleet as an observer.
It is not so much that Simao came to see the war, but rather to protect the interests of the Portuguese businessmen in Japan.At present, there are still some Portuguese settlers in Hirado and Nagasaki for a long time, and these people are the main executors of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The war launched by Haihan may inevitably affect the lives and lives of these Portuguese expatriates. work, and Simao can keep these expatriates from being directly involved in the war when necessary, and can even ask the coalition forces to provide some necessary protection for their own expatriates.
But what will happen after the war, Simao does not have a more accurate judgment at present. He only hopes that the trade between his country and Japan will not be completely ended because of this war. It took decades for the pair to operate. Portugal in the current situation will be a serious loss.
Although the Tokugawa shogunate disliked the Portuguese who liked to preach, and Portugal's trade environment in Japan was already quite bad, they were still unwilling to give up Japan as a trade partner.If possible, Simao would like to see if there is a chance to trip the Dutch and attack this competitor's trading organization in Japan.
Of course, as professional soldiers, what Shen Xueyi and Simao were most concerned about was the means the coalition fleet would use against Hirado.Since they learned that Haihan was going to attack the Hirado Domain, they began to calculate how to launch an attack on Hirado Island if they led their own troops to carry out such an operation, and disintegrated the opponent's resistance in the shortest possible time. target of the action.
However, when they saw the coalition fleet after the rendezvous in the waters of the Wudao Islands, they realized that the deduction they had done before was actually redundant, and they thought things were too complicated. For the size of the troops, you only need to land directly in Hirado and push all the way there. There is no need to consider too detailed a combat plan.
After that, the information they learned from observing the combat meeting basically confirmed this view. The main consideration of the coalition command is to cut off the passage of the Hirado clan to escape and ask for help, and to make the main target of this operation [-] times as far as possible. The Zhiyu Party was trapped on the island, and then carried out encirclement and annihilation. The tactics they formulated were all around this goal.
Starting from the southern tip of Hirado Island, warships in twos and threes have been breaking away from the fleet and sailing towards some nearby small bays, separately checking whether there are enemy warships hiding in these places.
At this time, almost a whole day has passed since the coalition forces launched an offensive on Fukue Island in the early morning, and twilight is slowly falling. It is not impossible to forcefully rush to Hirado Port to start a war, but after it becomes a night battle, the coalition fleet has the advantage. But it will be greatly discounted.
This is not because the coalition forces did not consider well when formulating the combat plan. In fact, some objective reasons such as weather caused some delays during the implementation process, which made the coalition forces arrive at Hirado Island about three hours later than expected.Either the coalition forces chose to launch the landing battle overnight, or they waited until dawn the next day before launching an attack.
After discussing with several generals, they finally decided not to advance rashly, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties in the night battle.Based on the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, it is undoubtedly much more certain to wait until the daytime to launch an attack.Although such an extra night of waiting may give the opponent more time to prepare for the battle, or even escape from Hirado Port, both Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen believe that the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party will not flee without a fight, and should still be in Pingdo. There is a head-to-head showdown.
Five years have passed since the Battle of Miyakojima that year, and the Shiba Shiyu Party has been hiding in the Hirado Domain for the past few years and operating quietly. They should have been waiting for an opportunity for revenge.These people had already escaped once in Miyako Island back then, and now Haihan came to them again. If they choose to continue to escape, then the achievements of hard work in Hirado in the past few years will be destroyed again. So easy to swallow.
The most important thing is that the generals believe that since the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party needs the trust and support of Hirado, it must show its strength at such a critical moment. If it runs away directly, it will make the ruler of Hirado How to treat them?
Of course, they did not know at this time that the Hirado clan had undergone tremendous changes recently. The Tagawa clan replaced the Matsuura clan as the ruler of the Hirado clan, and the armed forces built by Shibashiba were now replacing the original clan. The army became the official armed force of the Hirado domain.Under such circumstances, the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party has no way to retreat, and in order to maintain the Tianchuan clan's dominance, it can only take a risky battle.
The coalition fleet, which was divided into east and west routes and marched northward from both sides of Hirado Island, each found a bay in the middle of the island as an overnight place before sunset.The reconnaissance fleet took advantage of the night to continue heading north to confirm that the enemy would not seize this opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
At this time in Hirado Port, Tagawasuke was also discussing with his retainers how to deal with the enemy who came to the door.After Fukue Island was attacked, the local area sent the warning message back to Hirado with a pigeon letter, and Tagawasuke received the news at noon.
Regarding Haihan's attack, Tian Chuansuke was not particularly surprised. All kinds of information received from Daming before this had already indicated that Haihan was likely to launch a military operation against the Hirado Domain. Now it just proves that The authenticity of relevant news.
The Hirado Clan is not a weakling who pokes at the neck, and the related preparations have already started a few days ago.Although everyone does not have much expectations for defeating Haihan, Tagawasuke believes that although it is difficult to defeat the opponent, it may not be impossible to defeat the opponent with the advantage of the home court. As long as you are fully prepared, there is no reason to let the cross The Haihan army from the sea gained the upper hand.
Of course he has such an idea, mainly because he has never had the experience of directly fighting Haihan Army.The leaders of Shibazhi under him are not so optimistic. Thinking about Shibazhi in its heyday, they were beaten by the Haihan army who just debuted and couldn't take care of themselves. What's more, the Haihan army has fully proved it with countless battles a few years later. In addition, their strength is still growing gradually, and the area of activity also extends northward from the South China Sea to the Liaodong Peninsula.
If they had not fled to Hirado, Japan, but somewhere along the northern coast of Daming, they would have died several times under the hands of the Haihan army.Five years later, it is hard to say whether the strength gap between the two sides has continued to widen, but it is absolutely impossible to narrow it down to the point where they have a chance to defeat the Haihan army.
But worry is nothing but worry, escape is definitely not possible.It took them five years to take down the Hirado domain, paving the way for the Zheng descendants to take over the area in the future.And this is based on the fact that Zheng Zhilong had an in-law relationship with the Tagawa family in Hirado, so that Tagawasuke was willing to make Zheng Zhilong's descendants as heirs in exchange for the support of the Shibazhiyu Party.If you want to repeat this operation in another place in the future, you will not have such prerequisites at all.
It is certainly not difficult to escape from Hirado before the Haihan people come, but for them, escaping may mean that there will be no chance of revenge for the rest of their lives.Although the possibility of repelling Haihan is not great, they still have to fight, and this is a test of whether the five years of hard work have achieved the expected results.
Of course, with the experience of fighting in the early years, they would not choose to fight head-on with Haihan. The gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides cannot be made up by the brothers fighting desperately. They can only find ways to attack each other with their own strengths. short.
Although the Hirado Clan has already built many warships, the construction techniques of these warships basically follow the original principles of Shibazhi back then, except that artillery is installed on the ships.This configuration is indeed more than enough to deal with ordinary ships. It can even compete with the armed sailing ships of Western countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands by virtue of its numerical advantage. It will not be better than the situation five years ago, and it is safer to preserve strength as much as possible.In this way, if the war progresses to an irreversible situation, the remaining sea power will still have a chance to take some people out of Hirado.
Familiarity with the environment of Hirado Island and the surrounding areas is probably one of the few advantages of the Hirado Clan, and they decided to make the most of this condition.Since the possibility of defeating Haihan's fleet at sea is slim, the only option is to place the main battlefield on land—but this happens to coincide with Haihan's thoughts.
Tagawasuke and his subordinates believe that relying on the mountainous terrain of Hirado Island, the Hirado Domain can completely deal with the incoming enemy.Once the defenders can drag the situation into a tug-of-war, the Haihan army, which is far away from the base camp and fighting across the sea, will gradually fall into a passive position due to supply problems.At that time, try to send your own armed fleet to harass Haihan's supply line, and perhaps the battle situation will develop in a direction that favors the defenders.
Of course, this strategy is easy to say, but planning the details of the operation, assigning combat tasks, and even commanding during the battle will still test the combat capabilities of the new Hirado Fan Army.These old people in Shibazhi knew very well that the combat effectiveness of the Haihan army on land was not inferior to that at sea, and they had to be handled with care.
Tian Chuansuke received the news that the Haihan Fleet raided Fukue Island today, but he felt a sense of peace of mind that the dust had settled.All kinds of anxiety, speculation, and nervousness before, with the arrival of this news, all turned into excitement before the war.Whether the preparation measures taken in the past few days are effective or not will soon be tested on the battlefield.
"If the Haihan army moves fast enough, they will arrive at Hirado Port tomorrow. I don't think they have any plans to negotiate with us, so they will start a war when they meet with the Haihan army tomorrow. Everyone, do you want to fight? Victory's confidence?"
The question raised by Tian Chuansuke is really embarrassing. For these retainers who were born in Shibazhi, winning the battle is not so easy to say.
And those who were present at the moment were really stunned, and immediately responded loudly: "Yes!"
In response, this person is Tagawa Kojiro, who has been heavily used by Tagawasuke recently. The vassal army he is in charge of reorganizing is actually not the main force of this combat mission, but this does not seem to prevent him from expressing his determination to Tagawasuke in front of everyone.However, since he took the lead, others of course couldn't keep silent anymore, and hurriedly expressed their attitudes, so as not to make Tian Chuansuke think that he was a person who was afraid of war.
Tian Chuansuke's face paled slightly, and then he nodded and said: "This fight with the Haihan people is related to the life and death of the Hirado Clan, everyone must fight to the death!"
(End of this chapter)