Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Just when Pan Chengzhang returned to the military headquarters and ordered to make way for Fan Shaozeng along the route, Fan Shaozeng also boarded the train and prepared to go to Shanghai immediately.

Wang Hongchang and the others also arrived near Yizhou Island.

The first thing they came to was Yizhou City, an important city in the northern part of Yizhou Island.

At this time, Masao Yamamoto in Yizhou City had long heard reports from soldiers that a strange fleet appeared on the sea.

Although the opponent's warships are not many in number, the warships are extremely powerful.

Hearing what the soldiers said, Masao Yamamoto immediately thought of the telegram sent from China some time ago, saying that Daxia had a giant ship again.

Originally, Yamamoto Masao didn't believe it. He thought everyone in the country was crazy.

Is it that easy to buy a giant ship? Moreover, as the governor of Yizhou Island, he naturally understands the special position of Yizhou Island.

Let's put it this way, more than [-]% of the ships going to Daxia need to pass near Yizhou Island.

As long as he passes near Yizhou Island, he can get news.

But now, he has never heard of any fleet passing through Yizhou Island. So where did this batch of battleships in Daxia come from?

Therefore, Masao Yamamoto simply did not believe that Daxia had any battleships.

However, when he saw with his own eyes a fleet coming from the north, he had to believe it.

"Sound the alarm! Let the foreigners in the city evacuate Yizhou City immediately! At the same time, order the fort at Chai Yushan to restrain them. As long as the opponent does not fire, they are not allowed to fire first and provoke a war!" Yamamoto Masao immediately ordered .

"Hi!" The guard responded quickly after hearing Yamamoto Masao's words.

After the guards left, Masao Yamamoto and Youcai looked at the fleet in the distance.

At this time, Wang Hongchang in the Qinhuang had already ordered all ships to prepare for battle.

"Order all ships to stop at eight nautical miles and do not go deeper. Be careful of the enemy's coastal defense guns!"

"At the same time, order all ships to fire freely, and knock out their shore defense guns first!" Wang Hongchang looked at Chai Yushan in the distance and said sternly.

"Yes!" Liu Yuxi responded, and then asked people to send messages to each ship.

Soon, the eight battleships of the Daxia Empire turned their hulls sideways and began to adjust their gun muzzles.

The battleship is positioned horizontally, so that the battleship's own firepower advantage can be maximized.

At the same time, since Yizhou City is full of immigrants from Sakura Country, they can fight without any psychological burden.

Moreover, thanks to Koizumi Jiro's intelligence, Wang Hongchang and the others now also know that the shore defense artillery in Yizhou City are all old-fashioned artillery.

The range is short, only seven nautical miles. At the same time, the firing rate of those coastal defense guns is also slow, and they can only fire one shot per minute.

On the other hand, the fleet, not to mention all its main guns, has a range of more than ten nautical miles, and its rate of fire is faster than that of coastal defense artillery.

Under the current situation, even if Wang Hongchang ordered the ships to stop at eight nautical miles and fire at the coastal defense artillery, they would not suffer any loss.

Of course, Wang Hongchang would not be so stupid. He would stop the warship and stand still and shoot at Yizhou City's shore defense artillery.

When the fleet arrived at a position only eight nautical miles away from Yizhou City, it took the lead in firing.

The target of the first round of shelling was the location of the shore defense artillery that Koizumi Jiro had already marked for Wang Hongchang and the others.

"Boom boom boom~"

A series of explosions directly frightened the Sakura Nation soldiers on the Yizhou City shore defense artillery position and made them miserable.

Although this round of shelling did not directly hit the shore defense artillery position, it could even be said that it was still a long way away from the position.

But the huge explosion power also startled the Sakura State artillerymen stationed at the shore defense artillery.

"Baga, where did the Daxia people get such powerful warships?" Captain Sakura, who was stationed at the coastal defense artillery position, felt his scalp numb all over when he looked at the traces after the explosion.

"Your Excellency, the squadron leader, the opponent is too far away from us. We can't hit the opponent!" At this time, an observer responsible for observation quickly ran to the squadron leader and said to him.

"Nani?" The squadron leader was stunned when he heard the observer's words.

As a squadron leader of coastal defense artillery, he knew exactly what this sentence meant.

In other words, if you can't hit the opponent, it means that you can only be beaten passively!

"Baga, wait for me, wait for the other party to enter the shooting range!" the squadron leader said angrily.

"But your Excellency, squadron leader, the opponent has stopped and is only wandering around eight nautical miles, and is not moving forward at all!" The observer was about to cry.

If the other party continues to move forward, he will not run over and report to the squadron leader.

Now the other party has turned the ship sideways, making it clear that it does not want to move forward.

"Baga! How did the Daxia people know the range of our warships? Otherwise it would not be such a coincidence. Our range is seven nautical miles, and they stopped at eight nautical miles!" the squadron leader said angrily.

"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, I don't know this either. What should we do now?" the observer asked eagerly.

And this is, before the squadron leader had time to speak, the fleet's second round of bombardment arrived.

Another burst of gunpowder smoke drifted by, and the choking smell of gunpowder made all the Sakura soldiers on the fort cough non-stop.

It was obvious that the impact point of this round was closer to the fort than the previous round.

"Baga, we can't go on like this, order all the artillery to counterattack! Fire immediately!" the squadron leader spat out and said to the observer.

In contrast, the observer's face was blackened by gunpowder smoke. He put on a big painted face and said to the squadron leader: "But Your Excellency, we can't hit them!"

"Baga, I know we can't hit him, but if we don't do anything, we can only wait to die!"

"If we can get rid of the shells as soon as possible..."

The squadron leader did not say the next words, but the observer already understood what the squadron leader meant.

The current situation is that Daxia's fleet can launch artillery attacks on them, and their duty is to work hard to block Daxia's fleet.

However, due to the artillery gap between the two sides, the current situation is that they can only be beaten passively.

If they want to survive, they can only withdraw from the coastal defense artillery positions.

However, if they withdraw from their position while there are artillery shells, they will be deserters and will die if caught.

But what if there are no more shells?

They can say that the coastal defense artillery has run out of ammunition and food, and it is useless for them to continue stationed at the coastal defense artillery position.

For the sake of Sakura Country, they are willing to pick up rifles and fight the enemy!

In this way, they can evacuate the coastal defense gun positions.

As for whether they will join the defense forces of Yizhou Island after they withdraw, there is no need to think about this issue, that is ironclad.

However, in the view of the squadron leader and the others, even that would be better than now. Before, they could fight the Daxia people head-on, instead of being beaten like now.

They believe that as long as they start a street battle with Daxia soldiers, victory will definitely belong to their side!

The heroic Sakura Empire soldiers will definitely drive the invading Daxia out of Yizhou Island again.