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Chapter 1053 – Iron Defense Line

As an island nation, Japan had close to hundred ports in total. 70% of these were gathered in Honshu.

In comparison, the number of ports near Hokkaido were sparser and even fewer were suitable for the army to disembark and fight. Along with the geographical position and combat planning, all that remained was the port of Kushiro on the east, Rumoi Port on the west as well as Port of Tomakomai on the south side.

Oda Nobunaga knew this too.

Before the country war began, Sanli City spent a lot of effort to build up many defenses at the ports.

Keisuke Honda really went all out.

Before the country war began, he ordered the demolishment of the port and the use of torpedoes to lock down the bay such that the Great Xia squadron could not even enter the port and had to disembark on the beaches on the two sides.

The core defenses were three rows of cannon turrets lined up from low to high to ensure the continuity of the firepower. Cannon after cannon aimed down from above ensured that they could cover the entire beach region.

The closely packed firepower net was enough to destroy all land troops.

Apart from that, behind the cannon turrets were many arrow turrets and rows of archers. They could shoot from afar to cover the beach and ensure their own safety.

Lastly, there would be the gunners.

They hid within the cannon turrets and supported and complemented the cannon fire through small shooting holes.

The ingenious part was that such a combination basically made it impossible for Great Xia to use flying devices unless they acted as kamikaze pilots that embarked on a death mission.

The cost of the building the flying devices was too expensive, and they could not afford it.

Such a sick defensive line was something that only perverts like Keisuke Honda could think of. In order to build such defensive forts at the major ports, he pretty much spent all the money of Sanli City.

Luckily, the Japanese players were really united, and during the process, they chipped in money and manpower.

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6th month, 2nd day, Hokkaido Port of Kushiro.

At 9 AM, the Yashan Squadron protected the vanguard forces of the army as they arrived in the nearby ocean region.

On the flagship canopy.

The expedition army vanguard general Guo Ziyi looked out at the cannon formations, and he frowned tightly. He said toward Fleet Admiral Yu Dayou, ”General, can the squadron cannons hit the enemy formation?”

Yu Dayou shook his head, ”The enemy is experienced, and their cannon formation is placed really exquisitely. As our shooting ranges are similar, the enemy fire can hit the beach region, but our warships are unable to proceed forward to hit the shore.”

The warships were huge and went really deep into the water, so it could not go near the shore. Otherwise, it would get stuck.

Guo Ziyi asked, ”Can we use the mimicry flying devices to bomb them from the air?”

”If we do not want the enemy to shoot them down, they have to stop at least 400 meters above them, and the accuracy of the bombs would greatly decrease. We can try, but do not hold too high hopes.”

The mimicry flying device had long become the standard unit of the Great Xia navy. Not mentioning the squadron level, but even the division level flagships had two to three of them.

Toward the combat abilities of the flying devices, Yu Dayou were really familiar with them.

”This is tough.” Guo Ziyi gritted his teeth, ”No matter what, let's give it a try!”

”We can only do that!”

Yu Dayou had no other ideas.

Very quickly, five mimicry flying devices flew up from the deck and formed up in a line as they flew toward the enemy airspace.

As this was right next to the ocean, there were often winds.

There was currently a westerly wind, especially in the air, where the strength of the wind reached level 5. If one threw down bombs from above, one might easily miss the target due to the wind.

In the first round of bombing, none hit.