Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 694 Landing

  Off the Ryukyu Islands

  This is a sunny and sunny weather, the blue water is gently rippling under the blue sky and white clouds, the outer sea waves are no more than one meter high, the wind force is 2~3, and the bright sunshine is even more peaceful.

   around 9:00 am

After a day and night of sailing, a large-scale ship group appeared in the sea off Ryukyu. This ship group is a mixed ship group composed of 11 large troop carriers, two coal ships, 4 cargo ships, and 6 combined fleet battleships. He rushed straight to the direction of the Ryukyu Islands.

  The thick black smoke from the tall chimneys rendered the sky, the cold and mighty shells of the 6 battleships of the United Fleet were covered with bullet marks, and the muzzle of the black holes indicated that this was a veteran who had experienced **** battles.

I know my family’s affairs. The 6 battleships of the Fusang United Fleet are just what they look like. The hulls are more or less with injuries of varying severity, and they are barely able to move. Fighting is absolutely impossible. of.

  But this does not detract from its aggressive momentum, the muzzle of the black hole glows with icy luster, who dares to say that no deadly shells can be shot here?

The landing port chosen by the Fuso Fleet Group is Maki Port, which belongs to the southern part of Ryukyu Island. It is only more than 40 kilometers away from the largest port of Naha, and only more than 80 kilometers away from the capital of the Kingdom of Ryukyu.

The main reason for choosing the port for landing is to avoid direct conflicts with the Marine Police District of Naha Port, where the Ocean Kingdom’s Far East Fleet is located. war.

  As long as the army is sent and landed, then all the dust will settle.

  In the "wind" landing plan formulated by the base camp, the Ocean Kingdom Association did not consider sending army troops to the Ryukyu Kingdom to fight a **** battle for the archipelago with the Fusang Army.

  To be honest, this possibility is infinitely close to zero.

  The flagship of the combined fleet "Matsushima" cruiser

  Lieutenant General Ito Yuhiro held a telescope in his hand and stood on the bridge to observe the sea for a long time. Seeing that the ship group was approaching the port, everything was under control, and he couldn't help but smile with a smile on his lips;

   "Yo Xi, Amaterasu, this is really a good weather for landing!"

  "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, thanks to the protection of the 8 million gods on the island of Fusang, our military operations are going smoothly every time. But it is a good sign, indicating that the great Fusang Empire will have a long-term martial arts."

"Hey, Omoto Daisaku said very well. The joint fleet sailed very smoothly this day and night. The machinery and pipelines for temporary repairs of the ships were very good. No headaches happened. I can have a foreboding of the joint fleet. The brilliance is not far away!"

  "This is all due to the wise leadership of the commander. Omoto knows the admiration."

"Ha ha ha ha…"

In the flagship store bridge, hearing the two people's shameless praise of each other, Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen, the commander of the Sixth Division, twitched the corners of his mouth insignificantly, and turned his head to look at the mixed brigade Major General Yumichi Arai. He also saw a look of contempt in his eyes.

  The feud between Changzhoufan and Samofan has been around for a long time. The victory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 not only failed to bridge the rift between the two sides, but on the contrary, it has become more and more intense.

  If the Qing Dynasty receives a huge compensation of 230 million taels of silver, as in the original history, then the Fusang Navy and the Army will be able to eat and fill up, and the stomach will be greasy and slippery, and the contradiction will be slightly smaller.

  Look at the original historical line of the whereabouts of the compensation for the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. You can see why the conflicts between the army and the navy were so great;

  The navy was allocated 150 million taels of silver, the army 50 million taels, and only 30 million taels of silver were used for people's livelihood, and it was used for the nation’s general Bushido education, serving the war in disguise.

  Now the war indemnity is only 70 million taels of silver. All departments of the Fusang government are staring at this huge sum of money, and they want to rush to grab it with their hands. Where can the huge amount of money be shared by the military?

"Arai-kun, the air here is really filthy. Let's breathe fresh air on the Ryukyu Islands. If we want to open up territory for the empire, we can only rely on the sacrifice and dedication of the great hibiscus warriors. It is not trustworthy to count on those idiots who eat steak. "

   "You are right General Kuroki, I still think it is more practical to eat fish and rice balls, please go here." Major General Arai Youdao diligently opened the hatch, asking Kuroki to take the lead.

The two army generals left the bridge with their heads upright like proud roosters, turning the eyes of the naval officers behind them red, and cursing loudly "Baga", "Army horse dung" and "Ignorant Changzhou". Fan Countryman".

  However, naval officers only dared to scream behind their backs. In front of them, they would never provoke those fanatical warriors who drew their swords at every turn.

Maki Port is actually a small fishing village tens of kilometers north of Naha Port. There is a short trestle bridge extending into the sea. Because of the limited draft, it can only moor fishing boats of no more than 200 tons, and huge ships of thousands of tons can only be anchored in the bay. Then use the small boats on board to transport personnel and equipment to the land.

  Although it’s a bit troublesome, it’s better than going with the Ocean Kingdom Marine Police District.

The arrival of the huge boat group caused great panic in the small fishing village. Ryukyu islanders panicked and screamed and fled. The Fuso officers and soldiers who landed laughed and started rowing more vigorously.

  The eyes of these officers and soldiers were violent and cruel, and they looked at these islanders like naked little sheep.

  Depressed in the cabin for a day and a night, they can't wait to relax on the shore and let them vent to their heart's content.

  The commander has already given the order; the chickens and dogs will not stay after landing.

More than a dozen small boats filled with officers and soldiers rowed to the shore. At this time, a dozen soldiers with live ammunition ran out in Mugang Village. The leader was an army lieutenant. He ordered a heavy machine gun to be placed on the side of the trestle. Bring people to come forward and shout loudly;

  The meaning faintly transmitted from the sea breeze; it is to make the Japanese soldiers who landed immediately stop this infringement of the territory and retreat in place.

  Nani, what is going on?

At the moment when the Japanese soldiers were surprised, two small boats full of Japanese soldiers had already arrived on the coast. The sergeant sitting on them led the heavily armed Japanese soldiers "Hulala" all down, and pulled out the sharp ones. The commanding knife yelled; "Kill here."

  Suddenly there was a big shot

  The opposing soldier was shot and fell down several times. Just as the ensign lowered his body and hugged his head, the heavy machine gun set beside the trestle fired.

   "Da da da da, da da da da..."

  Heavy machine gun bullets roared and beaten in the sea. On the soldiers, on the wooden boats, the Japanese soldiers who hit them immediately fell down like chaff, and a large group of blood spattered from the gunholes in their bodies, and they fell to the sea and died.

  The sergeant who rushed in front was hit by several heavy machine gun bullets in a row, and the huge blood gap in his waist was almost discounted. He staggered and fell to the ground to death.

The heavy machine gun firepower on the trestle bridge is extremely cruel. As long as the wooden boats that have not reached the shore are focused on the fire, they will immediately burst into blood fog, and the Japanese soldiers will be beaten to pieces and hide. There is nowhere to hide.

Seeing that the landing force was blocked by more than a dozen enemy soldiers, Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen was so angry that the blue veins on his forehead jumped, and he rushed to the rapid-fire gun position next to the warship and ordered loudly; "Fire, give me a shot. Drop that heavy machine gun."

The navy officers and soldiers on the rapid-fire position only hesitated, Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen drew out the shiny saber around his waist, and the dazzling blade pressed against the gun position commander’s neck, shouting with a ferocious expression; Fire the cannon right away, otherwise I will send you to see Amaterasu."

  At this time, the command came from the microphone of the gun position. The naval officer standing on the bridge saw this scene and finally issued the shelling order. They didn't want to have any conflict with the brutal Malu of the army.

   "Boom boom boom..."

  The bombardment of warships bloomed more than 10 fire regiments beside the trestle, enveloping a dozen soldiers who resisted, and the violent explosion blew up the remains of the corpse and the wooden planks into the sky, becoming torn apart.

  Without the obstruction of the enemy, the Japanese soldiers who landed cheered, rowed their boats to the coast, and then shot into the fishing village.

  Like a hungry wolf smashing into the flock, screams and gunfire came from the fishing village, followed by a scene of **** slaughter with fire blazing into the sky.

  "Matsushima" cruiser.

Lieutenant General Yuhiro Ito curled his lips with an expression, turned his gaze back from the burning port of blood and fire, and said in a cold voice; "These army horses are a group of wild beasts, and I never know what the war between civilized people is. It’s a strange idea to blindly use killing and conquer to satisfy the cruel psychology, and even to be proud of it."

  "Your Excellency Commander, they are hopeless. What they are worried about is that the dozen or so soldiers were bombarded just now. They were wearing the uniforms of the Ocean Kingdom."

   "No way, it's just an accident. The landing operation cannot be stopped because of this. This kind of thing will be left to the diplomatic department. Anyway, some of them are denying them, and in the event of a big deal, they will lose more money."

   "It seems that this can only be done."

After removing the minor troubles at the beginning, the rest of the landing operation went smoothly. From about 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, the Army's 6th Division rafted more than 3,000 soldiers ashore and transported a large number of them. Weapons and ammunition and other materials have established a stable bridgehead position on the shore.

  At this point, the landing operation has been mostly successful, and all that is left is time.

If personnel and equipment are being transported to the shore day and night, in almost two days, the 6th Division and the Arai Mixed Brigade, a total of more than 17,000 people (part of the battle damage has not been supplemented) will be fully landed, and the base camp has formulated "wind" operations. The plan was executed perfectly.

   "Report and spot an enemy cruiser."

The one that should have come will still come. Following the report from the masthead lookout, Lieutenant General Ito raised the telescope in his hand. From the high-magnification lens, he could see that a plume of black smoke from the sky rushed straight into the sky. Ocean Kingdom’s new cruiser "Compassion" is coming all the way through the waves.

  Looking at this dazzling and powerful cruiser, Lieutenant General Ito Yuhiro flashed an envy look in his eyes. He knew that this was a cruiser supported by the Borneo fleet after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and then ordered;

   "Order the cruiser Qiao Li of the 2nd Cruiser Fleet to intercept, so that the opponent cannot approach the landing site, so as not to affect the landing operation."

   "Yes, Commander Commander."

  (End of this chapter)