Just when the Kyoto authorities were panicking because of this sudden cannon fire, in the Ming army camp more than 70 miles away from Kyoto City, Xue Ke was happy like a child.

Of course, this cannon was ordered to be fired, and the purpose was only to create some panic among the Japanese near Kyoto.

The logistical supplies have not yet arrived, and there is still time before the final decisive battle.

"The first batch of supplies, a total of three base shells, has just arrived at Osaka Port, and the second and third batches are still at sea."

The staff officer always pays attention to the progress of logistics and gives feedback to Xue Ke almost every day.

The base mentioned here is the measurement data of a kind of exclusive cannon.

In order to ensure the safety of the barrel to the greatest extent and speed up the cooling rate of the barrel, the Firearms Division has set 15 shells as a base number, and after firing a base number, it will take two hours to cool down.

This time, the fleet brought by Xue Ke dismantled a total of 800 heavy guns with a caliber of 42 inches, and the three bases were 36,000!

And this is only the first batch, and the eight hundred cannons are not all that Xue Ke brought, this is only dismantled, and there are hundreds of guns that have not been dismantled and thrown on the ship.

It's just that it wasn't dismantled, and it was naturally to carry out the task of escorting and supplying ships at sea.

"If you get to Osaka, it's fast."

Xue Ke walked to the sand table, and his spirit became excited: "The army is preparing to pull out the camp, let those soldiers prepare, they have given them two days off in Kobe, and they should have enough." ”

"Yes."

Inside the tent, several heralds were ordered to leave.

After looking at it for a while, Xue Ke asked the staff officer again: "How is the military situation in Kyoto?" ”

"It's like a big army." As soon as he said this, the staff officer laughed: "The large camp set up by the Japanese outside the city of Kyoto stretches for more than 40 miles, and it is estimated that there are at least hundreds of thousands of people. ”

"Wow!"

Hearing hundreds of thousands, Xue Ke suddenly sighed in amazement, and then lifted his forehead and laughed: "The Japanese can't make up their heads with dung, and under the power of our army's artillery array, do they think that they can withstand the bombing with a neat military formation?" ”

Hundreds of thousands of people are densely packed together, that is, hundreds of thousands of live targets, and the gunner does not need to aim, it is enough to shoot directly blindly.

In this regard, the Japanese are sometimes like Germans, stubborn and rigorous, but in fact they do not know how to be flexible.

It is not nonsense that the Japanese still insist on the tactics of large-scale operations in large armies and clear formations in the era of cold weapons, but in the era of hot weapons, the Japanese still insist on the tactics of advancing with extremely neat military appearance.

Before the Meiji Restoration, the British fleet arrived in Japan, and the war between the Japanese authorities and John Bull was like this, even if the shells of the British fleet on the sea covered the sky, the Japanese on the shore defense stupidly piled up together to bomb them, and did not disperse and dodge at all.

And after Yamaguchi Aritomo became Japan's land minister, his student Nogi Noshinori used this tactic to the point of almost pathology.

After the Japanese invasion of Korea, they fought against the Tsarist Russia in Lushun, and in the face of the heavy machine gun positions of the Tsarist Russia, Nogi Noshinori ordered the Japanese army to line up in a uniform military formation and crash head-on into the metal storm composed of heavy machine gun bullets.

It has set a record of more than 10,000 casualties in a single day, which is rare in the history of modern warfare!

This was not a general battle like Verdun, it was just a small-scale local battle.

Nogi Noshinori used the neat military formation of the cold weapon era to participate in modern warfare, which is simply a hole in his brain.

This style of play is also known as the 'meat and egg tactic' in the West.

After the end of the Battle of Lushun, Nogi Noshinori was dismissed, and it was only after the Battle of Lushun that the Japanese began to learn to adapt to the stragglers of thermal weapons warfare.

And in today's battle, Japan is still so stubborn and stupid, the Ming army has advanced to the suburbs of Kyoto, and almost all the Japanese troops in Osaka and Kobe along the way have been annihilated, and in Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also set up a clear military formation, concentrating hundreds of thousands of troops together.

This kind of operation really made Xue Ke unable to understand it all the time, and in the end it could only be summarized that the Japanese brain has not developed well.

"Since they are bent on death, of course we have to fulfill them."

Xue Ke is not a good man and a good woman, from the first time he was enabled to pacify Taiwan, and then to pacify the hundred countries of Nanyang for more than ten years, in his years of fighting horses, he may not have killed as many people as the horse army, but he is also worthy of a sentence of blood debt.

Just as the Ming army was preparing for the battle, Minoru also appeared in the barracks of the Japanese army outside Kyoto City with the encouragement of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Since ancient times, all the kings who have driven the military have greatly boosted the morale of the army.

The emperor's spiritual encouragement and blessings for Japan are extremely impressive, and the moment Shiren showed up, the Japanese army camp sitting dozens of miles on the ground was full of jubilation and fanaticism.

"Long live the Emperor."

Regardless of nationality and ethnicity, the Japanese worship their emperor is also in the bones, and this fanatical support is far greater than what we know in later generations.

In ancient times, the emperor was not powerless, and if he was a promising emperor, the Japanese cabinet and government were willing to return power to the emperor.

For example, Emperor Shuji and Emperor Hirohito, who was notorious during World War II, had bloody hands on his hands, and personally ordered numerous massacres.

Hidden in the deep palace and long in the hands of women, it is naturally impossible for Shihito to shake the status of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but when he leaves the palace and shows up in the military camp, it is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and he also wants to save face for Shihito in front of these hundreds of thousands of fanatical troops, and personally drive horses and chariots for Shihito.

"See Your Majesty."

Looking at the generals and soldiers in the army who were kneeling in front of him, Shiren cleared his throat, because he was still young, his voice was slightly sharp.

"My subjects, I think you already know that the Ming Dynasty army has invaded our Japanese territory, and their aggression is criminal and a blatant blasphemy against the god of Rizhao, and this action will definitely be punished by the god of sunshine.

Before the miracle of the god of sunshine himself appeared, we, as the people of the god of sunshine, must bravely take up our own weapons to resist, and prove to the god of sunshine that we are determined and fearless to resist.

The armies of the Ming Dynasty were not terrible, and we can definitely defeat them!

I and Ashikaga Shogun are convinced of this, and you, as my people, must also be firm in your convictions and firmly believe in this.

Let's kill every enemy who invades the sacred land of Japan and protect our Kyoto. In the end, the complete victory of the holy war must belong to all of Japan and to every Yamato people, and I will watch you in Kyoto and support you in your heroic fight until the end! ”

Shihito's encouragement fell like sparks on firewood stained with fire oil, and all the Japanese kneeling on the ground raised their heads and responded feverishly: "Take up arms and kill every thief!" ”

"Long live the Emperor, long live the Holy War!"

The frenzied atmosphere infected the entire barracks, and the roar of the 200,000-strong army soon stirred up the whole city of Kyoto, and every Japanese shouted slogans like crazy.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was standing beside Shihito, had a look of relief in his eyes, and Shihito did not disappoint him.

With this encouragement, the Japanese army, whose morale was greatly boosted, would definitely be able to give the Ming army a head-on blow.

Let the horses come!