Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 696 One thought of heaven, one thought of hell.

   (4D plus more, even though the recommended monthly ticket is dropped, um, I can bear such a blow.)

   Near 5 o'clock

  The sun is shining on the surface outside Makino on Ryukyu Island. It is now in late June, and the day is getting longer and longer, and the sun will not set until nearly 7 pm.

  The boats in the bay are constantly coming and going, transporting a large number of soldiers and equipment ashore. Because of the two landings during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Sixth Division was organized in an orderly manner and its efficiency was quite high.

  So far, the number of landing officers and soldiers has exceeded 5,500, and after another night of fighting, the entire 6th Division (more than 10,000 people) can go ashore.

  In a pergola not far from the bay

  Kuroki Weizhen Lieutenant General Big Thorn Thorn with his commanding knife in both hands, surrounded by a group of senior generals, looking at a topographic map of the Ryukyu Islands on the table, listening to the staff officer’s explanation;

  "After our army landed, a small group of vanguards was quickly sent out 8-10 kilometers to control the surrounding roads and favorable terrain, shield traffic and all information, in an effort to achieve the suddenness of military operations.

  Currently in the direction of Naha Port, we have not seen any changes from the enemy forces.

The division staff is arranging the landing of heavy equipment to avoid the loss of night operations. It is expected that before dark, most of the division’s artillery and heavy machine guns will land ashore.

  As for the ammunition, we have to wait until dawn tomorrow before organizing the delivery.

we estimate;

  The entire landing operation will end at around 4:00 pm tomorrow. The remaining grain, tents, bedding and other materials are not transported in a hurry. When the Naha port is conquered, the freighter can directly arrive ashore for loading and unloading. "

"Yo Xi, it's good." Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen glanced over the people around him, turning a blind eye to the miserable corpses in the fishing village, and said in an extremely arrogant tone; "General Heyuan, I hope tomorrow morning at 7:00. , Your brigade can prepare for all battles and attack in the direction of Naha Port. By this time tomorrow afternoon, I hope to stand in Naha Port and look at Shuri Castle in the distance, and give the Ryukyu Kingdom these monsters, ghosts, and snakes enough fear of death. Demonstrate the glory of the Great Fusang Empire."

   "Hey, resolutely carry out your orders, your honorable division leader." Major General Kogoro Heyuan "slapped" and answered without any muddling.

"Very good. I believe that the warriors of the empire are invincible. I plan to enter Shurijo Castle in three days. This archipelago country has existed for too long and has brought too much trouble to the empire. It is time to completely erase... "

  His words were murderous, revealing a brutal taste, and suddenly heard a long alarm bell from the bay, choked on the rest of the words, and turned his head in amazement.

  I saw thick black smoke rising from the warships of the Fusang United Fleet in the bay, and they began to turn the bow of the ship to prepare to flee frantically. The ships carrying soldiers also began to move slowly, and the people in the bay screamed horses into a frenzy.

  Nani...what the **** is going on?

When a group of army generals were in a state of uncertainty, a group of cruisers from the southwest of the sea were approaching at high speed. When the huge triangular steel masts jumped out of the sea one by one, the extremely oppressive huge steel hull gleamed. Ice-cold and shiny, the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight ahead, and the chimney with thick black smoke had rendered the blue sky a gray-black color, which was the color of death.

  The Red Mountain Dragon flag hung high on the cruiser fleet fluttered in the wind, instantly driving Lieutenant General Blackwood into the abyss of icy fear, his body began to tremble involuntarily, and he couldn't control it.

  Amaterasu, this is a trap.

   Halfway through, if Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen didn't understand the difficult situation at this time, he would be a fool.

  He jumped up almost immediately and shouted loudly; “Quickly, order the small boat to carry the officers and soldiers ashore, and let the troop carrier wash the beach, and try to preserve the backbone of the 6th Division.”

   "Division commander, did he lift heavy equipment into the sea?"

   "This... order to ship it ashore as soon as possible."

  Lieutenant General Heimu Weizhen was reluctant to bear the heavy equipment of the division. The Fusang country is really poor. These heavy equipment are all the wealth of the family that has been accumulated for many years. How can you say that you lose it?

   just now

  The artillery fire of the cruise fleet in the distance has been smashed, and the mobile strike fleet headed by the heavy cruiser Suzaku is fully fired, exploding the sea in front of you into a boil.

  Fire, corpses, such as the water column of the forest and cruel killings, this is an asymmetrical heavy fire strike.

  Poor Fuso United Fleet’s flagship Matsushima has just increased its pressure rapidly, and its boilers and pipes exploded, lying on the sea like a dead snake, only moving slowly at a speed of 3 to 4 knots per hour.

  This speed is no different from stillness.

  The key is that the Matsushima’s front main gun was also injured. It was a standard model and could not fire back at all, so it was a tragedy.

  In just a few minutes

   "Matsushima" was washed by the intensive rapid-fire artillery firepower. The whole ship that was beaten caught fire and lay crookedly on the surface of the sea.

Also encountered were "Kumamoto", "Itsukushima", "Nishijimaru", the only two cruisers "Hashidate" that could escape, and the cruiser "Fuso" scurrying, and was taken by the heavy cruiser "Suzaku". The other three cruisers were chased and fought fiercely. They were beaten into big fireballs at 12 nautical miles and 16 nautical miles, and sank in the sea after burning.

  On the bay landing field

The remaining cruisers were a fire-focused blow against the troop carrier. Except for the four ships that had been roughly unloaded, the Japanese soldiers on the other troop carriers jumped into the sea like dumplings, and were densely packed with them. The shelling shook to death.

  A 152mm shell exploded in the sea, and a strong shock wave would be formed at a distance of 15 meters. Soldiers within this range had almost no possibility of surviving unless it was a Super Saiyan.

  A 305mm shell exploded in the sea, and a 40-meter radius is the death penalty zone, without exception.

  The rumbling shelling in the bay lasted for half an hour and finally stopped. When the smoke that filled the sea dissipated, what was presented to everyone was an extremely tragic scene.

Several huge troop carriers are burning fiercely and are sinking slowly. There are countless corpses floating on the surface of the sea, loaded with oil stains and broken limbs. The sea outside the pastoral port has been dyed red with bright red blood, exuding choking. Burnt smell.

  The damage caused by the shelling of just half an hour was astonishing. Tens of thousands of Fusang soldiers died tragically, with no resistance at all.

  In the rolling tide

  It is still possible to see a few survivors swimming struggling, hoping to swim to the coast to recover their lives.

  This kind of hope is very slim, because most of the troop carriers are docked on anchorages 4 to 5 kilometers away from the bay. The sea water here is deep enough that there is no need to worry about stranding.

  Swimming 4 to 5 kilometers in the sea to the coast is an impossible task for most people who are proficient in water.

  This is not about swimming 4~5 kilometers in a swimming pool, nor in an inland river. Even when the sea is calm, there are waves of 1~2 meters outside the pastoral port. If you don’t master the techniques, you can easily be overwhelmed by a wave.

Watching his own Arai independent mixed brigade completely collapsed, Major General Arai Youdao's heart was dripping blood, and his legs fell weakly on the beach, shouting harshly like blood; "Amaterasu God! , Why is this?"

  "They are here again. They are going to shell the coast. Run!"

  The clever officer saw the cruise fleet in the distance lined up in a long line, with the side of the ship facing the coast, so scared, he jumped up and turned around and ran wildly.

  Don’t tell me anything at this time, let’s run!

Sure enough, the cruiser’s secondary artillery bombarded intensively, and the fireball that exploded on the landing site was rolled and dusty. The corpse was thrown into the air along with the weapon parts. The house in the fishing village collapsed and the big tree broke. It was the end of the world. .

The shelling lasted for a full 20 minutes before it stopped. Not to mention the loss of a large number of personnel and equipment, the high piles of materials were all exploded into large burning torches. The head of the fire was thirty to forty meters high, and it made "cracking" from time to time. The sound of the explosion, this is the infantry ammunition was smashed.

  This scene of love and love makes people want to cry without tears!

  Check loss afterwards;

Most of the heavy equipment of the    division was lost, about 80%, and only the remaining was lack of ammunition, because all the ammunition sank to the bottom of the sea with the ordnance ship.

   The 20-minute violent bombardment caused more than 800 casualties. Even with the hundreds of people who swam to the coast desperately, the total force was only more than 4,830, and most of them were incomplete.

  Bedding, food, tents and other materials are all lost, so how can it be a "miserable" word.

  It can be seen that landing without mastery of the sea is tantamount to suicide.

  But now it’s too late to say anything, and stepping into this pit, leaving Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen is a mess. The disaster of the landing troops has not ended yet, and he is facing an extremely difficult situation.

  Think about it with your toes. I am afraid that the Ryukyu Kingdom has already been ready for a long time. Maybe the Ocean Kingdom’s army has to be added, with good soldiers and plenty of ammunition, just waiting for the landing troops to bump into it?

  It’s all right now. In the small fishing village of Mugang, you can’t even find food. An army of thousands of people is trapped in a corner. If you don’t make a **** way out, all TM will starve to death.

  The change from happiness to despair was so rapid that even Japanese officers could not accept it.

  This is a total of 16,555 officers and soldiers. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, five Japanese divisions fought for 8 months without so many casualties.

  The key is that the last number is for casualties, and now most of the officers and soldiers are buried in the abdomen, dead upright, and very few injured.

  Before night falls

  Ocean Kingdom’s mobile strike fleet finished work, patted its **** and left, leaving only the cruiser "Compassion" to watch from a distance, always staying at the end of the sea horizon.

  I have to say that it is very ironic. The cruiser "Mercy" did something extremely cruel.

at this point

  Lieutenant Kuroki Weizhen will no longer consider those things that are not there, and now the only hope is pinned on the North Amami Island.

  The Ryukyu Islands have hundreds of islands. In addition to the main island, Amami Oshima is the second largest island in the north. It was occupied by the Satsuma clan more than 30 years ago and is still in the hands of the Fuso people.

  The two islands are more than 140 kilometers apart. If the garrison on the island can find something wrong in time, they should be able to find ways to send some supplies. If you don’t want anything else, you will need ammunition and food.

  But this idea just came to the mind of Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen, and it quickly disappeared.

  Fuso’s combined fleet has been wiped out, how can there be a fleet that can escort?

at this time

  There was a cry of surprise in the darkness. It turned out that it was Lieutenant General Ito Yuhiro of the Joint Fleet and the Matsushima Captain Nagaomoto who knew that several survivors such as Dasuo floated back from the sea.

  Compared with the Army Malu jumping into the sea like a headless fly, the naval officers and men are much smarter. At least they know that they should find a life jacket to put on, and then jump into the sea after the shelling is almost over. This way the probability of survival is much higher.

  In the middle of the night, some naval officers and soldiers floated ashore one after another, about seventy to eighty people. This is the only remaining bone and blood of the combined fleet.

  After the war, the combined fleet lost 2,631 officers and soldiers, and almost a generation of elites was buried in the belly. It is really heartbreaking and inexplicable.

  Every gunner, a communications officer, every semaphore, and every marine soldier here is an elite trained at a huge cost. Not everyone can be a navy officer and soldier. As a noble service, at least one must learn to eat steak.

  Now, don’t mention anything!

  There is only one thought from heaven to hell. If measured by time, then the officers and soldiers of the joint fleet will speak for half an hour, absolutely no more.

  (End of this chapter)