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Chapter 1108 Not a drop left

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    Yoshikawa Motoharu's remaining soldiers hid in Moji Castle, while Tachibana Michyuki's pursuers arrived behind them.  This Kyushu military god originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the gateway to Kyushu and completely drive the Maori family back to their home state.

    " However, Moji Castle is located on an ancient city mountain that is nearly 200 meters high. It is surrounded by cliffs on three sides. Only dangerous mountain roads connect to the plains, making it extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.  In addition to the main city located on the top of the hill, there are five small fortresses surrounding it as defensive fulcrums.  Any enemy army that wants to reach the main city must first conquer these outer fortresses one by one.

    Since the Mori family occupied Moji Castle, they have been carefully managing this bridgehead to attack Kyushu.  Not only did the city defenses be re-reinforced, but a large amount of ordnance and food was also stockpiled in the city to serve as a transit station for supplying the front lines.  Of course, the most important thing is that the two flags of "Maori Ryogawa" are in Moji City at the moment. How could the defenders lose their will to fight?

    As a result, the Dayou army launched a fierce attack and was beaten all over the head by the condescending Maori army.  Knowing that he could not take the opportunity to seize the city, Tachibana Michyuki had no choice but to abandon thousands of corpses and withdraw his troops with gold.

    Then he ordered to set up a flag camp at the foot of the ancient city mountain, making a gesture of long-term siege.  On the one hand, he cooperated with the Chinese fleet to receive the prisoners in the fjord.  They worked until midnight before all the more than 5,000 prisoners were escorted ashore.  Finally, hundreds of captured ships and pontoons were burned to the ground

    It made Tachibana Michyuki very distressed when so many ships were burned down in one fire.  If we keep these ships and counterattack Honshu in the future, we will save the cost of building new ships.  But the lord has strictly ordered him to follow the instructions of the Celestial Master. The other party asked him to leave nothing behind, so he had no choice but to obey.

    At this time, after the two Ming Dynasty fleets merged, they had left the Kanmon Strait and anchored at Noda Uraka, four miles east of Moji Castle, where the sea was relatively calm.

    In the commander's room on the stern of ship 101, Mr. Zhao was eating minced meat porridge under the light of the sky outside, with a gauze wrapped around his head.

    This was caused when the flagship collided with the Anzha ship earlier. Although the frigates had tried every means to protect him and even tied him to a chair, but when people are unlucky, it is impossible to guard against it. The violent impact actually broke the glass window  It was shattered.

    Although it was reinforced with tic-tac-toe wooden strips, most of the glass did not fall off. A piece of glass the size of a fingernail flew out and hit him squarely in the forehead.  At that time, he was bleeding profusely and almost scared his elder brother to death.

    Gao Wu thought he was about to die, so he quickly flew to find the ship¡¯s doctor. Fortunately, it was just a skin injury

    ¡°Speaking of which, it¡¯s all self-inflicted. If Mr. Zhao didn¡¯t show off his glass and just used window paper on the ship, wouldn¡¯t he have been in trouble?

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    The north wind brought a burst of pine wood fragrance, which was emitted when the Japanese ship was burning. It smelled quite good.

    "Seven to eight hundred boats, large and small, were burned down like this. It's such a pity." The eldest nephew snored and ate porridge with a look of regret on his face.

    "Alas, Shi Zhen's words are wrong." Zheng Ruozeng said with a smile, holding tea in his hand.  The old man was jolted so hard today that he couldn't even eat a mouthful of porridge, but he was in good spirits.  "The workmanship and materials used in those Japanese ships are so poor. If they are barely used, the cost of repairing the ships in the future will probably be higher than building new ships."

    "Yes, they can only sail offshore, they cannot withstand wind and waves, and they cannot be equipped with sails." Mr. Zhao nodded and said: "The most disgusting thing is, look at how many oarsmen a boat requires, and how much we spend to raise oarsmen.  It¡¯s more than building a new ship.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good to burn all the Japanese pirates¡¯ boats so that they don¡¯t go to sea!¡± Gao Jie, who had been eating porridge, suddenly interjected.

    "Goodbye, Zhongcheng." Everyone looked at him in surprise after hearing this. Since he went to sea, Lao Zhongcheng's condition has been getting better day by day. After this battle, he feels almost like a normal person.

    "Hey, hey, hey." This made Gao Jie so proud that his beard, covered with gruel, rose to the sky.

    Yes, we have to continue to recover

    While we were talking, Jin Ke came.

    "Come, sit down and eat porridge together." Zhao Hao smiled and asked him to sit down, and the guard quickly gave him a bowl of porridge.

    "Brother Jin, you have worked hard along the way. Today, a magic weapon came from heaven. He beat the little devil and made him cry for his father and mother." Zhao Hao put a piece of black bean fish with chopsticks into Jin Ke's porridge bowl.  The pots and pans in the small kitchen were also smashed to pieces. It was difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. She could only eat on the big stove with the soldiers tonight.

    "How could my subordinates be absent from such a big event? As soon as I received the order from the young master, I immediately took my brothers and set off." Jin Ke had actually drank two bowls before coming, but the young master did not dare to refuse.  I had no choice but to continue eating with a look of enjoyment.  "I hurriedly hurriedly along the way, but luckily I was just in time for the banquet to start, so I had a meal and a drink."

    "That's not true??Eat and drink, you guys have enough firepower.  Zhao Hao smiled and said: "A hundred cannons fired together, the sound was overwhelming."  The little devil was completely frightened out of his wits.  "

    "Actually, I was lucky. The two large Western sailing ships had just been repaired before departure, and the sailors and gunners were all prisoners of war. It happened to be the fleet that sent supplies this month, and I brought ten big ships with them.  . We also installed all the 100 cannons sent this time on them. There were not enough gunners, so we had to use them from the prisoners." Jinke was very excited. Wang Rulong led the fleet out for nearly two months, sweeping across Kyushu and reporting great successes.  The frequent rumors made him feel very itchy.

    In fact, the Karak galleon ¡®Governor of Goa¡¯ was not repaired at all.  In order to catch up with the final decisive battle, Jin Ke asked the shipwrights to bring the materials on board and repair the ship while rushing on the roadside, so that there was no delay.

    "Are those prisoners obedient?" Zheng Ruozeng asked curiously.

    "Mr. Kaiyang doesn't know. Although those two large sailing ships are in the order of the Folangji army, except for the captain and dozens of important personnel, 90% of the crew are actually hired by the Folangji people. As long as the money is given  Once they are in place, they will do the same to anyone." Jin Ke explained with a smile: "But for safety reasons, I still arranged for coast guard members to monitor one-on-one. So far, they have behaved quite well. It seems that they have grown up with the young master.  I have something to do with the eastern patron of Chechidan Sect.¡±

    "That's just to give them a reason to convince themselves." Zhao Hao said with a faint smile: "The Thai people regard sailors as consumables.

    Their status is very low, their treatment is extremely poor, and half of them die every time they sail away.  loyalty?  nonexistent.  They are all guys who have breasts and are mothers.  "

    "After commanding the gunners to fire the artillery, Mr. Ping said to me, look, how powerful the multi-deck salvo is! If it hadn't been a shameful sneak attack and the decisive battle had been carried out openly, it is not certain who would lose and who would win." Jin Ke  He smiled again.

    "How did you respond to him?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

    "My subordinate said to him sternly, I'm sorry, Mr. Ping, I will leave you with lifelong regrets." Jin Ke replied seriously.

    "Hahaha!" Everyone burst out laughing. Zheng Ruozeng almost spat out a mouthful of porridge and couldn't help laughing while wiping his tears.

    "Well said, if you win, you win. Why are there so many ifs?" Mr. Zhao picked up his thumb and gave a thumbs up.  Just as he was about to continue talking, he saw Ma Yinglong walking in with a serious expression.

    "Has the casualty statistics been released?" The smile on Mr. Zhao's face froze, and it was the moment he least wanted to face.

    "Yes." Ma Yinglong nodded.

    "Read it." Zhao Hao didn't want to read it.

    "In terms of personnel, a total of 43 people were killed on each ship in this battle, and 15 people were missing. 50 people were seriously injured, and 201 people were slightly injured." Ma Yinglong sighed: "The combat effectiveness of the Maori Navy is really not comparable to the rotten fish and shrimps of Kyushu."

    In this battle, more than 3,500 enemy people were killed and more than 4,000 people were captured. However, behind the glorious victory was the huge sacrifice of the Coast Guard officers and soldiers.  Waves of desperate attacks by the Maori army and rough sea conditions all cost the soldiers a heavy price.  When the fighting was at its most intense, even Zhao Hao's guards were used as reserves, so it was understandable that the number of casualties would soar.

    In the past two months and more than ten battles, both large and small, only 12 sailors were killed, which was not as many as those who died due to illness or accidents.  The casualties in this battle were more than five times that of the previous one With the current medical level, it would be a blessing if only half of the seriously injured soldiers could survive.

    How can it not make people heartbroken?

    "Sir, this is an essential training for the Coast Guard. If you can't bear sacrifices, you can't develop true courage!" Jin Ke hurriedly comforted Zhao Hao.

    "Yes, sir, the sacrifice is not terrible. What is terrible is that the soldiers lost the courage to fight hand-to-hand." Ma Yinglong also hurriedly responded.

    "I know." Zhao Hao waved his hand, indicating that they didn't need to persuade him.

    The powerful powers in the Age of Discovery all regard hand-to-hand combat as the most important means of annihilating enemies.  Although the Dutch had the best warships and cannons, their main tactics in the battles with Spain and England were still to engage in broadside and hand-to-hand combat.

    The British won the Battle of Trafalgar by relying on cannons with bayonets. Nelson's sacrifice prevented Napoleon from landing in Britain.

    When the battleship cannot destroy the battleship, the ancient and cruel boarding battle is absolutely inevitable.  It was precisely because he knew this that he agreed to Wang Rulong's battle plan to break into the fjord.

    He understands the truth, but it is still difficult to get used to it emotionally. For the sake of his so-called "grand plan", hundreds of good men have been killed or injured.

    After a while, Zhao Hao suppressed the discomfort in his chest and continued to listen to Ma Yinglong's report:

    "In addition, all our warships were damaged to varying degrees. Eight warships including 101, 201, and 203 all showed signs of water leakage. Although they cannot be sunk, they are no longer able to fight anymore and must return to the base for overhaul immediately. And our artillery  Thirteen guns were blasted, half of the gun barrels were deformed, and more than 30% were severely deformed and could no longer be fired. Ammunition was basically exhausted, with dozens of rockets left, grapeshot was exhausted, and shotgun shells were basically used up, leaving only more than 500 solid bullets.  "

    "There really isn't a drop left." Mr. Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, now you have to withdraw your troops even if you don't want to." (Remember this site's website address: www.hlnovel.com)There are signs of flooding. Although it cannot be sunk, it is no longer able to fight anymore and must return to the base for overhaul immediately.  Moreover, 13 of our artillery guns exploded, half of the gun barrels were deformed, and more than 30% were severely deformed and could no longer be fired.  Ammunition is also basically exhausted, with dozens of rockets left, grapeshot and shotgun shells are basically gone, with only more than 500 solid bullets left.  "

    "There really isn't a drop left." Mr. Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, now you have to withdraw your troops even if you don't want to." (Remember this site's website address: www.hlnovel.com
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