New Shun 1730

Tosa has not experienced war for many years, and has no chance to see Western-style sailing ships.

During the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong told the missionaries that you couldn't figure it out, but the calendar was still very good. You might as well go back to Italy and buy more astronomy and mathematics books and bring less theology books; Li Zicheng and the missionaries drank together in Beijing. , praising the moral and astronomical standards of the missionaries in the capital at that time.

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

The shogunate could know that Charles II married a Portuguese princess, but most Japanese had never seen such a warship in these years. They knew they would be beheaded if they held silver coins with crosses on them, but they didn't know where those things came from.

Along with the sound of artillery fire during the demonstration, many Tosa people watching the excitement on the shore were frightened and ran around.

Tosa Domain has a total of five seki ships, but only two can come out to meet the enemy at this time.

When the two rowing sailboats came out of the river mouth, Liu Yu fiercely slapped himself in the face, thinking that he had traveled to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Isn't this thing the same as the captain in "Luo Shen Fu Picture Scroll"? After thousands of years of progress, can you believe that this is the level of shipbuilding that allowed Galen to cross the Pacific?

The gunners who were trained in Weihai with gunpowder that seemed to be free of charge could not wait any longer. With every rocking of the ship, the most experienced gunners are waiting for the best shooting time. The first group of veteran gunners to board the ship can control these details by feel.

Liu Yu looked at the two Guan ships in the distance and couldn't help but sigh, thinking I know where those descriptions came from.

The boat is fifty feet long and six to seven feet wide. It is equipped with a large gun facing outwards. It can penetrate the stone city and shake it for dozens of miles. It can smash people and ships. This is one of its special skills on the poisonous sea...

Before he could finish sighing, the two Kanchuan ships had been reduced to powder in a salvo from the fleet. The gunners fed the gunpowder cooperated with the flintlock mechanism. This slow-moving boat was the target.

"Sir, you said that the coastal defense of this Japanese country is so fragile and there is so much gold and silver. Why don't the Westerners force it to open and close?"

Chen Qinghai stood beside Liu Yu, observing the wooden boards floating on the sea, feeling a little puzzled.

He often heard Liu Yu say that Japan no longer had a navy after the country was closed to the country, but he had followed Liu Yu to Nagasaki and had seen large Dutch ships staying in Nagasaki. He really didn't expect that Tosa's navy would be so fragile.

"Thank you to the Zheng family of the former Ming Dynasty for this. If it hadn't been for what happened in Taiwan, would you really think that the Dutch didn't think about gunboats to found the country? After Taiwan, they were frightened. Besides, how many Dutch can there be in Nanyang? Soldiers? They can’t take India, and no one in the West has the ability to provoke China and Japan.”

"The French guy who came back to Weihai last time, Dupleix, was a terrible person. He was thinking of recruiting Indian soldiers to fight the barbarians. This man is quite capable. It's a pity that the French navy is too weak. He can even be regarded as a The Governor of India and the French are no good, let alone the Dutch.”

"The Chinese Empire can easily gather an army of ten thousand people to cross the sea. It is impossible for the British, French and Dutch to gather three thousand troops in Nanyang."

"Although the naval battle will be won, the Japanese country will not export, lock the country without peace talks, what can you do? Let's put it bluntly, the navy is the army's transportation team this time, do you expect to make meritorious service here? Hey, don't think about it, Really, even if you wiped out all the Japanese navy, I would be embarrassed to take credit."

In front of his confidants, Liu Yu has nothing to hide. He talks to these confidants as much as possible about the outside situation and cultivates their overall view.

In fact, before the South China Sea bubble exploded, the Dutch had thought about gunboats opening the door to Japan. However, although the South China Sea Company exploded the bubble in the UK, the Dutch East India Company had long since lost interest in industry and commerce and switched to the financial industry. The South China Sea bubble also seriously hurt the Netherlands.

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 earthquake in Beijing collapses the Forbidden City, there will be no accidents.

Chen Qinghai looked at these Japanese boats, thinking about what Liu Yu just said, and thought that this was true. Even if their navy was annihilated, it was really not worth mentioning.

As long as the captain does not seek death and dives into the river channel or foreshore, there will be no need to fight a battle at sea.

Thinking again about what Liu Yu had told them about Date Masamune's creation of Galen and the Japanese Youth League's visit to Europe in the tenth year of Wanli, they couldn't help but sigh.

"It's time and luck. If the Japanese country had maintained the level of Galen's ships crossing the Pacific and made no progress for more than a hundred years, why would it be like this? Our government 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 here cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences. It can be said that there are accidents and inevitabilities.

What can I learn from going to Europe in the tenth year of Wanli? It was far from shocking to the point of making people stunned. On the contrary, the members of the European Youth League were quite impressed by the Europeans carefully putting away the silk for wiping their hands, and a sense of superiority arose spontaneously.

As for Date Masamune, rumors were flying that he wanted to ask Spain to borrow troops to divide Japan equally. It was good that he was not liquidated. He still wanted to engage in sailing? 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 drafted into a Spanish warship, and it was impossible to return.

Anyway, whether it was accidental or inevitable, Dashun took the first step at this time, and this step has been taken almost ten years in advance, and Japan will never be able to catch up.

Amid the rumbling of cannons, Liu Yu was also observing the situation on the shore, and compared it with the information given by the merchant. He thought that it seemed that Japan really didn't care about coastal defense at all.

It was basically the same as what the merchant said. A river about three or four miles wide flowed into the sea here, but before entering the sea, it narrowed suddenly, with only an estuary of less than 500 meters.

Stuck at the estuary was a cape with a small hill that was not too high.

It can be said that controlling that place was equivalent to blocking Tosa's outlet to the sea and protecting Tosa's coastal defense security.

There was originally a city there.

The castle of the Chosokabe clan before the Battle of Sekigahara was on this cape, originally named Urado Castle.

If a city was built in this place, as long as a gun platform was built, Liu Yu's warships would be dumbfounded. Captains who dared to use ship guns and shore guns to bombard each other on such estuary mudflats could all be shot for dereliction of duty.

If this place had defenses, they could only land nearby and rely on the marines to go around and take it down before the warships dared to approach.

However, the Yamanouchi clan, who were granted fiefdoms here after the Battle of Sekigahara, disliked this place as too narrow and built a Kochi Castle more than ten miles away from the coast.

Under the one-country-one-castle order, it is conceivable that Urado Castle was demolished.

Even if it was not demolished, considering that Kochi Castle had just caught fire a few years ago, they would definitely recycle the waste and move all the building materials of Urado Castle to Kochi Castle.

This place with such important terrain is now a ruin. There is no one visible in the telescope.

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

Once they occupied the place and dragged the cannons up, not to mention that Yamanouchi Shishiki had not returned from Edo, not to mention that Tosa Domain only had 200,000 stones, even if they gave him twice the stone, they would not be able to capture this place.

The cape extended to block the estuary and formed a narrow peninsula.

As long as the Marines climbed up, they could only attack from the coast on the west side of the river, which was within the range of the warships. Liu Yu could not even make the Tosa clan gather and deploy in front of the battle.

Before lunch, the Marines occupied the ruins of Urado Castle and raised the navy flag on it. The 18-pound cannon was too heavy, so they were temporarily left on the ship and pulled up after the situation was stabilized.

The lighter howitzers and 12-pound cannons were pulled up.

Liu Yu and others landed on the shore and stood at the location of the Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Hall in later generations, looking down at the surrounding situation.

It is said that Urado Castle was used as a shipbuilding base for the Chosogabe clan when invading Korea. It is now abandoned, but there is still a small shipyard in the river, which is estimated to be able to build a small boat of about 500 stones, which can be completely ignored.

Japan is surrounded by the sea, but Japan is not a maritime power at this time, and the Yamanouchi clan's Kochi Castle did not consider the function of offshore defense at all.

There is a mountain blocking it, and Kochi Castle cannot be observed.

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

Under the ruins of Urado Castle, there is a commercial district. Some people below are panicking, 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 took turns to lower the boats and let the sailors go ashore in batches to rest.

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

These people walked closer and closer, and Shi Shiyong, who was watching with a telescope, said hey, and was a little uneasy.

Seeing Shi Shiyong's strange expression, Liu Yu took back the telescope and asked, "Why, do you know him?"

"Well, we sparred in Edo. The sturdy one is called Hayashi An Taifu Masa. When I followed the lord of Tosa Domain to Edo to pay homage to the emperor, wasn't I teaching horseback archery in Edo at that time? This one is a Japanese sword player, and he seems to be the master of some unparalleled direct transmission of the Eishin school? He is good at using Japanese swords. I can't beat him with just a sword."

"However, swords and knives are for the lower class, and bows are for the upper class. The upper class must use bows..."

Speaking of this, he looked helplessly at the guards around Liu Yu who were carrying Minié rifles, and then touched the flintlock pistol hanging on his waist, smiling bitterly without saying anything.

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

"I have seen him too. Their families are related. You know, most Japanese warriors are related to each other. His name seems to be Daikoku Kosho. When he was in Edo, he learned Yamato-ryu archery from people in Toki Mino and exchanged ideas. His archery skills are far worse than mine, and his horseback archery skills are even worse. Daikoku Kosho's cousin is the mother-in-law of Hayashi Yasuta Fumasa, who is a son-in-law and has received the true teachings of Iaido."

After thinking for a while, Shi Shiyong still thought of a piece of information that might be very useful.

"By the way, this Daikoku Kosho seems to be the daimyo of Tosa, the daimyo of Tosa, who supervises the Christians of the Kirishintan."

Liu Yu didn't know much about Yamato-ryu, the unparalleled direct transmission of the Hiei Shin-ryu, and he was not interested. He just felt that even the swordsmanship master Sakamoto Ryoma believed that the revolver was better than all swordsmanship. This broken thing was useless to learn, otherwise he would not have been confident and bold enough to let Shi Shiyong go to Japan to teach the method of horseback archery.

But when he heard the duty of "monitoring Christians of Christians", he immediately understood. The so-called Christians of Christians are Catholics. It seems that the Tosa Domain thought that they were Catholics?

Think about it, whether it is the shape of the ship or the style of the sail, it is normal to have such an illusion. It also shows that the shogunate is more stable than anything else, and is afraid of the spread of Catholicism.

On second thought, the reaction speed of the Tosa clan is that they have fewer people. If there were two more troop transport ships and twice as many soldiers, they would have docked in the morning and sent people to check and investigate in the evening. With this reaction speed, they would have reached Kochi Castle long ago.

Now that we are in such a good position, we are just going to fight a little to show these people, and it is just right for us to come.

There is no need to use courtesy first and then force. The real thing is to make these people angry first and ask them to quickly gather troops to attack.