Chapter 730: Attacking Yokosu Cong

Edo, the location of the Tokugawa Shogunate, is Tokyo, the capital of Japan in later generations.

In historical books, the period when the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled Japan is also called the Edo Shogunate and the Edo period.

The demise of the Satsuma clan also declared the demise of the Japanese navy.

This made the Tokugawa shogunate no longer able to block the Ming army's progress from the sea.

On September 6, the 19th year of Chongzhen, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty rushed eastward.

The journey was unobstructed and rushed towards Edo. The fleet sailed into Uraga and Kanagawa in Edo Bay on 7 days.

Edo Bay is the seaside barrier of Edo Castle, with houses on both sides and houses surrounded by Miura Peninsular islands. The Uraga Waterway connects the outer ocean, with wide inside and narrow outside, and the narrowest part of the bay entrance is only eight kilometers.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan and established the shogunate, a fort was built in the Yokosuka area of ​​the Miura Peninsula at the entrance of Edo Bay, and the first line of defense on the Edo Bay sea was built.

Later American military bases stationed in Japan were selected as Yokosuka Military Port, which guarded the throat of Tokyo Bay.

At this time, Yokosuka was just a small fishing village, silent.

Half a month ago, all the villages along Yokosuka were empty, and now there is no sign of a single person.

In fact, neither the Tokugawa shogunate nor the local daimyo had issued war alerts to the coastal residents, nor did they organize evacuations to the residents.

They prepared the whole nation to unite against the Ming army.

The Japanese people have been rumored from the news and the increasing number of shogunate troops on the coast. They smelled the smell of war. They usually don’t have enough food to eat, so they won’t work hard for the shogunate.

These rumors were denounced as rumor by the shogunate, but the Japanese people believed in the so-called rumor.

The people have their own judgments, and those that are generally declared as rumor by the shogunate are basically facts.

On the eighth day, when the sun gradually rose, Zheng Chenggong issued an order to destroy Yokosuke's Fort!

Sixty large and medium-sized warships of the Ming army lined up on the sea, aimed at Yokosuka's fortress, and launched a fierce bombardment.

Don’t think that Zheng Chenggong’s mother is Japanese. He was also born in Japan. Zheng Chenggong will show mercy to the Japanese.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong hated Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate. The Tokugawa Shogunate detained his mother and also detained Zheng Chenggong for several years.

Until now, his mother was under house arrest in Japan by the shogunate and was not allowed to return to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to giving birth to Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Zhilong also gave birth to six sons. Among them, his second son, Zheng Zongming, is also a legendary figure.

At that time, Zheng Zhilong was engaged in overseas trade and lived on Hirado Island, west of Kita-Matsuura Peninsula, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, and was given the advantage of the local prince Matsuura clan.

Matsuura gave him land, built a mansion, and married him to Matsumatsu, the daughter of Takawa Yuhuang, the Hirado family retainer.

In 1623, Zheng Zhilong married Tian Chuansong. The next year, in 1624, their first child was born and named Zheng Sen. This was Zheng Chenggong, the famous national hero later.

Not long after Zheng Chenggong was born, Zheng Zhilong left Hirado Island, set up his own doorstep, and went out to explore.

Later, Zheng Zhilong brought the young Zheng Chenggong to Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong wanted to bring his wife Takawa Matsu to Fujian, but was blocked by the Tokugawa shogunate on the grounds that "Japanese women did not enter the Central Plains" and failed.

So, Takawa Matsu stayed in Japan and gave birth to her second child with Zheng Zhilong in 1626, named Zheng Zongming.

Zheng Zhilong's nickname is "Yiguan", and Zheng Zongming's nickname is "Yiguan", which shows Zheng Zhilong's favor for his second son.

In 1645, Zheng Zongming was 19 years old.

At this time, the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui supported the Ming Dynasty Tang King Zhu Youjian in Fuzhou, Fujian, and their careers were booming.

Zheng Zhilong sent someone to Japan to pick up Takawa Matsu, and Zheng Zongming and his son returned to Fuzhou, Fujian.

Japan once again came forward to obstruct. After Takawa Matsu's argument, the Japanese agreed to Takawa Matsu leave Japan and go to Fuzhou, Fujian, but insisted on keeping Zheng Zongming as a hostage.

In desperation, Tian Chuanmatsu had to leave 19-year-old Zheng Zongming in Japan, and came to Fuzhou, Fujian alone to Zheng Zhilong.

Although Zheng Zhilong missed Zheng Zongming very much, he knew it would be difficult to meet again from now on, so he adopted him to his wife Takawa Matsu (Zheng Ming lived with his grandfather since he was a child), and changed his name to Takawa Shizaemon.

Because he was Zheng Zhilong's second son, he was also known as Tagawa Jiro Zuemon. From then on, Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Zongmei became a Japanese in terms of nationality.

Although Takawa Shizaemon never met his father Zheng Zhilong and his brother Zheng Chenggong when he grew up, he had heard of their heroic deeds.

When he became an adult, he became a samurai and served as the spokesperson for Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong in Japan, assisting in managing the Japanese branch on the East Asian route.

In 1646, the Qing army launched a large-scale attack on Zheng Zhilong's hometown, Nan'an, Fujian, and looted everywhere to search for Zheng Zhilong's family.

Tian Chuansong was worried that he would be humiliated by the Qing army, so he committed suicide by cutting his stomach with a sword at the age of 45.

The death of Tagawa Matsuki gave Zheng Chenggong and Tagawa Qizaemon a huge stimulation.

After that, Zheng Chenggong insisted on the cause of anti-Qing throughout his life and was determined not to surrender to the Qing court.

Takawa Qizaemon asked to go to Fujian to help Zheng Chenggong fight the Qing army, but failed to do so.

He then took another approach: establish a logistics support base for Zheng Chenggong in Japan, continuously transporting him various materials and helping him maintain overseas trade.

During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to crack down on Zheng Chenggong's forces, the Qing court ordered "relocating the boundary and banning the sea" and "no sails entered the sea, and those who violated the situation were given a major punishment."

Under the "Sea Ban Order", Zheng Chenggong fell into an unprecedented dilemma.

Fortunately, Takawa Qizaemon was supported by the back, which allowed Zheng Chenggong to survive the most difficult period.

There was even a lot of effort to launch the Northern Expedition three times in 1658, 1659, and 1660. The troops headed straight to Nanjing, which gave the Qing court a heavy blow.

Later, Zheng Chenggong crossed the Taiwan Strait, drove away the Dutch army, and took back Taiwan.

It is no exaggeration to say that the results of Zheng Chenggong's military operations are inseparable from the support behind his younger brother Takawa Shizaemon.

He had hatred for the Japanese shogunate, but now he is the naval governor who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Chenggong fought against Japan without any ambiguity.

All the naval guns on the warships fired at the coast of Yokosuka together.

"The Ming army is attacking!"

Amid the explosion, the shogunate howls hysterically.

In the military camp and on the fort, the warning drums were knocked and the short shogunate troops were in chaos, and everyone was panicked to prepare for the war.

Soon, more shells roared and the violent explosions drowned the turret, and the bodies of the exploded horses and people flew around the turret.

The panicked soldiers were in a trance and were hiding aimlessly, no one knew where the next shell fell.

The Ming army launched not only flowering bullets, but also solid bullets and hundreds of Maokang rockets.

On the sea, smoke from the Ming army warships was everywhere, and the Japanese artillery on the other side was even shrouded in huge explosions and smoke.

The dense shells covered almost every corner of the turret. The shogunate soldiers who hid behind the cannons, together with the cannons, were blown into the sky, and their limbs and broken arms were spilled everywhere.
Chapter completed!