Two days later, Xu Qingshan led 40,000 horses and horses from Xiaguan to be transported by the Ming Royal Navy and sailed to Osaka.

After a four-day voyage, the fleet sailed through the Akashi Strait on the first day of August and arrived in the western part of Osaka Bay.

Xu Qingshan did not attack Osaka directly, but chose the landing site of the Ming army in Kobe, fifty miles away from Osaka.

Sixty years ago, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the troubled Warring States period of Japan and realized the great cause of Japan's reunification, he held a Arima tea party at Arima Onsen in Kami.

Since then, Kobe has become an important port for Kitamaebune from western Japan to Hokkaido, and it is also an important shukuba town in the Nishikoku Kaido.

A few years earlier, the Ming army had defeated the Tokugawa shogunate and forced Japan to sign the Treaty of Osaka, making Kobe one of the first five ports in Japan to open to trade, and quickly developed into one of Japan's most important ports.

Xu Qingshan's goal was Osaka, which was the forward position of the shogunate army fighting on the Japanese mainland, and also a logistics support base, a temporary anchorage for the Japanese transport fleet and navy, and a distribution center for the Japanese army's logistics materials.

Xu Qingshan knew that the Tokugawa shogunate had always been on guard against the Tianwu army attacking Osaka, and had gathered heavy troops and set up many forts in Osaka.

Nishiki has conducted a detailed survey of the topography, hydrology, and currents of the waters around Osaka Bay.

The Ming army wanted to control Osaka Bay, there were two key points, one was the Rokko Mountain Fort in Kobe, which was the land gateway to Osaka Bay, and once the Ming army occupied the fort, it could drive straight into the Osaka Harbor.

The second key point is the Osaka Battery, which relies on each other.

The Rokkoyama Fort was a land defense fort that mainly guarded the flank and rear of Osaka Bay against possible attacks from land.

The Osaka Fort is a coastal defense fort that mainly defends against attacks from the sea.

When the Tokugawa shogunate built the Osaka fortress, the Ming army's naval attack was listed as an important defensive object, so it deployed a lot of large-caliber artillery.

The Rokko Fort is located on Mt. Rokko, the highest point in the territory, the mountain is not steep, the highest is more than 900 meters, the surrounding hills are full of dense forests, and there are some towns.

The Mt. Rokko Fort was built with a five-meter-high breastwork wall, and the breastwork was densely packed with fortresses, with only one exit on the south side, which isolated the fort from the surrounding mountains, making the fort an independent military fortress higher than the surrounding terrain.

Originally, the Tokugawa shogunate had 800 men stationed at the Rokko Mountain Fort, and when they learned that the Ming Dynasty had sent troops, they hurriedly asked Sakai Tadashi, who was stationed in Osaka, to strengthen the defense of the Rokko Mountain Fort.

Sakai Tadashi then transferred 2,000 men from the Miyagawa Domain to Kobe and deployed them at the Rokkoyama Fort to assist in the defense.

It stands to reason that the fort has only twenty guns, which is enough for a few hundred troops, and there is no need for so many people at all.

However, the shogunate had seen the landing strength of the Ming army and did not dare to be careless, so it strengthened the defense force three times.

Sakai Tadashi also thought so, and felt that there was no need to deploy such a large number of troops on Mt. Rokko, but due to the order of the elder Sakai Tadakatsu, he reluctantly transferred the Miyagawa Domain to Mt. Rokko.

According to his idea, the mission of the Miyagawa domain was only to stay in Kobe for a while, assist in the defense of Mt. Rokko, and wait for the Ming army to attack Osaka, and then have to be transferred back.

Because on Sakai Tadashi's defense map, Osaka was the focus of Japan's defense.

The ideas of the middle boss also influenced the defenders of Mt. Rokko.

On the evening of the first day of August, the Rokko Mountain Fort was covered with lead clouds and was bleak.

In the trenches, there was a strong smell of wine, and the entire defenders of the battery inexplicably entered a state of binge drinking.

The wine is not good, it is local sorghum wine, and some of it is on top, and a Japanese general of the Miyagawa domain staggered and swore in his mouth.

"Fuck, one fort is just twenty fucking cannons, and you just let more than 2,000 brothers rush to the nest together, and the head is in the water!"

The fortress was also full of drunk shogunate soldiers, who were expressing their dissatisfaction with the shogunate in their own way.

On a hot day, it's really uncomfortable to stuff so many people in a big fart place.

In one of the trenches, a group of Japanese soldiers surrounded it, cursing and laughing from time to time, and the chaotic sound was mixed with the cries of women, and I don't know where these little Japanese women came from.

A disheveled Ashigaru general pounced on the woman, tearing at the clothes of her compatriots, and the Japanese soldiers around her spewed alcohol and burst into laughter.

The woman was crying and protecting her body with her life, making a cry that would be familiar to later generations of otaku.

"Yaga! What are you doing? ”

A strong voice sounded, and I saw an old man in his sixties wearing a shogunate official uniform coming from the armrest.

The soldiers, who were still awake, immediately stopped and stood, a little cramped.

The disheveled Ashigaru general staggered up straight, didn't look at anyone, and laughed, "Old man, do you want to play together?" ”

"Presumptuous!"

The old man scolded, with rare dexterity, only to see him jump into the trench and grab the chaotic placket of the ashgaru general, and give him a heavy slap in the face.

This slap woke up the ashigaru general, and he opened his eyes wide to recognize who the old man on the other side was, and hurriedly straightened his body and saluted: "Lord Chengdai, the little one is formless......"

This old man's name was Naito Tadashi, sixty-two years old, and the official position of Osaka Castle was the representative of the shogunate in Osaka Castle, responsible for the defense of Osaka Castle, and ruled over the shogunate officials on duty in Osaka.

Admiral Ashigaru sounds very majestic, but in fact he is just a small officer in charge of hundreds of people, how can he be compared to Osaka Castle Dai, who is a daimyo of the spectrum, and invite him to play with women in the wild? It's ridiculous!

Naito snorted coldly and walked over to the woman who had been violated.

The woman nestled in the trench, timidly protecting herself, for fear that the old man would suddenly rise up and join in.

Naito Tadashi pointed at him and said, "Yours, get up!" ”

The woman shook her head in pain, and her thighs were bleeding from the bayonet she had been stabbed with a bayonet.

Naito Tadashi glanced at the soldiers around him and said, "Bandage her, whoever snatches her will send her back, and the others will continue to stick to their posts!" ”

The soldiers around them all looked at Naito Tadashi in a daze, this is the end? Not enforcing the shogunate's military regulations?

Naito Tadashi squinted at the gang of bastards and shouted, "Don't go yet!" Are you waiting for the Ming army to come over? ”

"Yes! Be! ”

A group of Japanese soldiers nodded and bowed, stumbling and preparing to disperse.

Suddenly, a shrill buzz broke through the air, and a cannonball exploded outside the trench not far away, and a human head severed by shrapnel flew over and landed next to Naito Tadashi.

The departing footsteps stopped in mid-air, and all the soldiers stared blankly at the head of a comrade who didn't know which one it was.

After a while, all the soldiers turned their eyes to Naito Tadashiko, and a thought came to their minds: Joshiro-sama's mouth is really effective!

However, more shells whistled in, and a violent explosion engulfed several nearby trenches, covering the entire position of the Miyagawa Domain.

In the midst of the explosion, the hysterical howls of the shogunate soldiers were heard: "The enemy has attacked!" ”

(End of chapter)