indianbanksassociation Chapter 378 Bombarding Nagasaki Castle
Chapter 378 Bombarding Nagasaki Castle
Chapter 378 Bombarding Nagasaki Castle
On this day, Wei Zhongxian received a distress letter from Chen Guangping.
After receiving the distress letter, Wei Zhongxian discussed with Ryukyu King Zhu Changhao, and then left Ryukyu Island with all the warships and [-] Musketeers, and then quickly headed north towards Japan.
Several Galen warships rushed to the road with all their strength. According to the average speed of seven or eight knots of sail warships, it only takes seven or eight days for the fleet to sail day and night to reach Japan.
Compared with merchant ships that can only run three or four knots and travel even slower at night, it is several times faster.
As a result, the rescue merchant ship sent by Chen Guangping took more than half a month to reach Ryukyu, and the six Galen warships rescued arrived at Nagasaki port on the eighth day after they set off from Ryukyu.
At this time, in Nagasaki City, Chen Guangping had been guarding the business building with three hundred musketeers for almost a month.
Later, Arima Qingxin sent people to persuade Chen Guangmang to surrender every day, but Chen Guangping ignored him.
As long as the Japanese dared to attack, Chen Guangping ordered a resolute counterattack.
After more than half a month, the Japanese bombarded the Royal Merchant Hall almost every day, and the entire building of the Merchant Hall has been bombarded into ruins.
But the three hundred musketeers are still holding on inside.
Because of the shortage of water and food, life for Chen Guangping and others is not easy.
Also due to disease, wound infection, and bad weather such as rain, a large number of non-combat attrition was caused, and dozens of Musketeers died.
Fortunately, because Chen Guangping pays attention to hygiene, there have been no plagues and other infectious diseases.
However, if the reinforcements don't come again, it will only take about ten days, and everyone will starve to death.
Even so, Chen Guangping had no intention of surrendering at all.
However, Chen Guangping's persistence was not in vain.
On this day, six warships flying the flag of the Royal Fleet arrived at Nagasaki Port.
For a while, the Japanese in Nagasaki Port suddenly became alarmed.
Just after Wei Zhongxian led six warships to Nagasaki Port, several Ming merchant ships came and gave Wei Zhongxian a detailed report on the situation in Nagasaki City.
"It's okay, it's okay." Hearing that Chen Guangping was still insisting, Wei Zhongxian also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Chen Guangping is relatively young, the relationship between the two of them is very good because they run the sea trade together. If something happens to one of them, the other will inevitably be sad.
"Send me the order to bombard the Nagasaki Fort."
After arriving at Nagasaki Harbor, Wei Zhongxian gave the order to bombard the Nagasaki Fort without waiting for the Japanese to react.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
All of a sudden, countless shells were fired from the battleship and headed towards the forts hundreds of meters away on both sides of the bank.
Unlike the artillery used by the Japanese to attack Chen Guangping, the Royal Battleship was equipped with a large number of shells.
Only a few rounds of shells are needed, and the forts at Nagasaki Port are basically useless.
"Your Excellency, the Japanese sent an envoy." Someone reported to Wei Zhongxian.
"I won't see you for now." Wei Zhongxian directly refused to meet the Japanese envoy.
Immediately he issued an order saying: "Some ships have entered the port, and I will sink all the Japanese ships in the port."
At this time, in the direction of Nagasaki Castle, Harunobu Arima looked very ugly looking at the six huge Galen warships.
This kind of warship reminded him of the nightmare of attacking Portuguese merchant ships a few months ago.
More than 30 warships and more than 3000 warriors attacked the Portuguese merchant ships for several days, and did not force the Portuguese captain to sink the ship until the Portuguese who towed them were exhausted.
But now, Daming suddenly came with six galleons that were only one size smaller than the Portuguese merchant ships.
With so many galleons, how many ships and how many people would they have to send to defeat them.
One hundred or two hundred? 3000 or 3?
Moreover, the shells fired from these ships would explode, and the Nagasaki Fort was completely destroyed in less than half an hour, which shows how powerful the enemy is.
Arima Harunobu sent several waves of envoys, hoping to negotiate with the Imperial Fleet of Ming Dynasty, but Royal Fleet of Ming Dynasty directly refused the negotiation and broke into Nagasaki port.
In the following time, Arima Harunobu and Shimadzu Tadakiyo could only watch as the six Galen warships fired continuously, sinking one ship after another in the port.
At this moment, both of them felt a strong sense of powerlessness in their hearts.
"It's okay, they can only be arrogant in the water, they can't go ashore." Arima Harunobu said to himself, Asashimazu Tadakiyo.
A few hours later, except for ships from various countries that were allowed to leave, all other large and small ships were sunk in Nagasaki Port, and only some small boats escaped along the river.
Wei Zhongxian's six Galen warships sailed too fast on the sea. Even if the fleet encountered many Japanese ships passing the Japanese coast, Nagasaki had no time to receive the signal of the enemy's arrival.
As a result, hundreds of Japanese ships moored in Nagasaki Port were blocked in Nagasaki Port, resulting in extremely heavy losses.
Hearing the rumble of artillery from Nagasaki Port, Chen Guangping immediately knew that reinforcements had arrived in Nagasaki City.
"Master Chen, my general really wants to seek peace with the Ming Dynasty. Please tell Governor Wei to stop the bombardment. We admit defeat."
Arima Qingxin's envoy couldn't see Wei Zhongxian, so he ran to Chen Guangping to seek peace, hoping that Chen Guangping could communicate with Wei Zhongxian.
"Now I know I'm afraid and it's too late to ask for peace." Chen Guangping snorted coldly and ordered his men: "Throw him out."
At this time in Nagasaki Port, after the six warships completed the task of sinking the Japanese ship, Wei Zhongxian began to issue orders again.
"All artillery is aimed at Nagasaki North Castle and attacked."
At this time, the six Galen warships had completely entered Nagasaki Bay, and Nagasaki City was located on the northeast shore of the bay.
The Royal Commercial Building was located to the south of Nagasaki Castle, so Wei Zhongxian ordered the attack on the North City to prevent accidental damage to friendly forces.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
Following Wei Zhongxian's order, hundreds of artillery pieces fired at once, and immediately, countless shells flew towards Nagasaki City.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
The next moment, a violent explosion sounded in Nagasaki City.
For a while, Nagasaki City was in chaos.
Countless people in Nagasaki fled in all directions as if they were fleeing from a disaster, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
Under Wei Zhongxian's order, the bombardment lasted for half an hour, and after a fire broke out in the city, Wei Zhongxian ordered the bombing to stop.
"Hey, our family can be regarded as helping brother Chen out of the anger of being bombarded for half a month!" Seeing the flames of the northern city of Nagasaki rising into the sky, Wei Zhongxian laughed.
"It's getting late, let the Musketeers go ashore." Looking at the sky, it was already afternoon, so Wei Zhongxian gave an order and said.
Under Wei Zhongxian's order, the two warships began to dock at Nagasaki Wharf.
The other four, warships, were covering the sun not far away.
In the distance, Arima Harunobu and Shimadzu Tadakiyo could only grit their teeth and watch all this, there was nothing they could do.
"Arima-kun, let's rush over and kill the Ming army by surprise, right?" Shimazu Tadayoshi said to Arima Harunobu with a gloomy face.
(End of this chapter)