Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

Back to nine o'clock in the morning, Wei Xiaobao led the majestic guard regiment, the fearless samurai guard regiment and the powerful Osaki Regiment, and arrived in Edo in a mighty manner on the ironclad ships No. 201, 202 and 203 and the spectacular treasure ship No. 501.

This Edo Castle, later known as Tokyo, is located in the Kanto region of Japan. It was built as early as the middle of the fifteenth century and was originally just a small fishing village with only a thousand households.

However, since the eighth year of Chokei (1603 AD), when Tokugawa Ieyasu established the shogunate here, more than years of Tokugawa shogunate rule led to the gradual rise of Edo Castle, becoming the undisputed political and cultural core of Japan.

Edo Castle is located in a unique geographical location, right in the middle of what would later become Tokyo Bay. The bay is like a giant gourd, and the Uraga Channel, which borders the Pacific Ocean, is like the mouth of the gourd.

If the fleet wants to enter Tokyo Bay smoothly, it must pass through the narrow and critical Uraga Channel.

Uraga Channel is a strait located in the southeastern part of Honshu Island, Japan. The west coast on the left is the Shishu area of ​​Shima County in Tokaido, which was later part of the port city of Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture - Yokosuka City.

This busy port city is world-famous for its large military port, especially the presence of the United States' infamous Seventh Fleet.

At the same time, on the right east coast of the Uraga Channel is the Sanshu of Sanwa County in the Tokaido, which is the Chiba Prefecture on the Boso Peninsula of Japan in later generations.

The waterway is approximately 40 kilometres long, but surprisingly, is only 1.5 kilometres wide at its narrowest point.

In order to ensure the safety of Edo Castle located at the bottom of the gourd, a large number of powerful coastal defense guns were deployed on both sides of the waterway to form a solid line of defense.

At this moment, the Edo Navy mobilized by the Tokugawa shogunate and the Izu Navy controlled by the Hojo family were guarding near Yokoreiga Lane on full alert. They were vigilantly watching the surrounding waters, ready to respond to the arrival of the Tenchibang navy at any time.

Wei Xiaobao was quite familiar with the Uraga Channel. Not only had he listened to the detailed explanations of the leaders of the Samurai Guards, but he had also studied Tokyo Port in his previous life, so although he could not say that he had a complete understanding of the area, he knew it quite well.

The last time he left Edo Castle, he returned on the Fukufune battleship No. 102, and successfully crossed the Uraga Channel with a dozen leaders of Bushido sects and Miyamoto Musashi as hostages.

Today, Wei Xiaobao visited this place again, but this time he was not on a modified Fuchuan warship, but a fully armed and indestructible ironclad ship.

When the naval fleet was about ten kilometers away from Uraga Channel, they lowered the sails and stopped adding coal to the steam engines. The entire fleet gradually slowed down and eventually stopped.

Wei Xiaobao picked up the telescope and carefully observed the coastal defense artillery positions on both sides of the Uraga Waterway.

The Tokugawa Army's coastal defense artillery positions were bustling with activity. Hundreds of 240mm giant red cannons had their gun covers removed, revealing their hideous appearance.

The artillerymen were busy in an orderly and tense manner, shuttling back and forth between the artillery positions. Some of them were concentrating on filling the gunpowder into the barrel and carefully placing the shells; others were concentrating on adjusting the position and angle of the artillery to ensure that each gun could accurately aim at the target.

All the cannons were on full alert, pointing in the direction of the waterway, like a group of hungry beasts waiting for their prey to come to them.

As long as the navy of the Tiandi Army dares to intrude into the Uraga Waterway, these steel behemoths will launch a fierce attack without mercy, using dense artillery fire like rain to beat the enemy into a coma, or even sink them directly to the bottom of the sea to feed the turtles.

Wei Xiaobao stood on a high place and looked from afar. He saw that the early warning beacon towers on both sides of the river had already been burning with thick smoke.

The smoke rising into the sky was like a winding dragon, continuously passing from one beacon tower to the next, spreading deep into the waterway. It can be imagined that the Japanese navy in Yokosuka Port and the defenders in Edo Castle must have received the news of the invasion of the powerful enemy navy of the Tiandi Army at this moment.

Seeing the coastal defense artillery on both sides of the Tokugawa army, Wei Xiaobao asked Mao Shiba if he had the confidence to destroy it.

Mao Shiba said that it’s a piece of cake for a tiger to eat a chicken!

Then, he decisively ordered the ironclad ships No. 201 and No. 202 to be organized into a group and concentrate their firepower to attack the coastal defense guns in the direction of Zhizhou on the west coast; at the same time, he dispatched treasure ships No. 203 and No. 501 to attack the coastal defense guns in the direction of Sanzhou on the east coast.

He developed a tactic of steady and cautious progress, like a sparrow pecking at food - gradually weakening the enemy's defenses and advancing step by step towards the Uraga Channel.

In an instant, the main guns of each warship fired powerful 280mm giant shells, which streaked across the sky like meteors and rushed straight towards the coastal defense artillery positions on both sides of the strait.

There was a deafening roar as the 120-kilogram shell exploded, as if it was going to uproot the entire mountain. The shock wave from the explosion raised a cloud of dust that covered the sky and blocked out the sun.

When the smoke cleared, Wei Xiaobao saw through a telescope that a huge crater with a diameter of 30 meters was created at the impact point, and there was no sign of life within a radius of meters.

The first round of salvos from four 280mm naval guns instantly reduced the four artillery positions to ruins, and the soldiers stationed there were reduced to ashes, with nowhere to hide.

Those sturdy artillery positions originally built with huge stones instantly collapsed and scattered under this fierce blow. The huge 240mm coastal defense gun also fell crookedly to one side. The damage was extremely serious and it was beyond recognition. Apart from being able to be melted down and recast into iron blocks, it had completely lost its function as a coastal defense gun.

"Okay, good, let's do it." Wei Xiaobao nodded and praised with satisfaction.

The Tiandihui army launched the first attack, and the shells rained down on the enemy. The Japanese pirates on the other side were not to be outdone, and several coastal defense guns roared in unison, and huge iron shells whizzed into the sky, but when they flew halfway, they fell powerlessly into the sea, splashing water up to four or five meters high.

"Haha, little Japanese devils, try harder! Your skills are not good enough!" Mao Shiba couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene.

However, at this moment, Yingzi suddenly reminded Mao Shiba: "Husband, be careful of the frogman ninjas of the Edo Navy!"

"Frogman Ninja?" Mao Shiba asked with a puzzled look on his face. At the same time, Wei Xiaobao, Su Quan, Shuang'er, Ling Zhao, He Ti Shou and others beside him also turned their eyes to Yingzi.