On the Mt. Rokko fort position, the corpses of men and horses were blown apart and flew in all directions.

The panicked shogunate army hid aimlessly, no one knew where the attack was coming from, there was not a single Ming soldier on land, and the nearest Ming army was at least three hundred miles away.

The Grim Reaper let out a heart-pounding roar over the Rokko Mountain Fort, and a dense barrage of cannonballs covered almost every corner of the fort, and the Shogunate officers and soldiers who had taken refuge in the trenches and forts were blasted into the sky along with their bunkers, scattering stumps and severed arms everywhere.

All the soldiers are on the run, Osaka Castle Dai Naito Tadashi is also running, as an official of the shogunate, he can govern the place, and he can supervise the army, and he is completely amateur in commanding the war.

However, he still had a little brain, and quickly judged that these shells came from Osaka Bay, and they should be Ming warships firing at sea.

Because of these huge shells and rockets flying in the sky, he had seen it in Edo, and it was a haunting bombing event......

After a few rounds of shelling, it was not easy for the Ming Royal Navy to cease fire, and inside and outside the trenches of the Rokko Mountain Battery, except for the howling, it was a breathless dullness.

Naito knew that these bastards were stimulated by the war and lost control of their emotions.

He stretched out his head to look down the mountain, and saw hundreds of landing ships docked on the coast, and dense soldiers were bending down to land with guns.

You don't have to think about it, just look at their costumes and you can tell that this is the Ming Marines!

There was not a trace of suspense in the landing battle of the Ming army, and the landing operation has always been one of the key combat techniques trained by the marines of the Ming Royal Navy, and they have also developed some special landing combat equipment.

For example, the assault boat for landing operations, which is eight meters long and about one and a half meters wide, can accommodate 12 soldiers, has a pointed bow and is covered with iron sheets, which can withstand a certain degree of collision, and is equipped with a small artillery gun of one inch and five minutes caliber to strengthen the firepower during landing.

The power of the Ming assault boat did not rely on the traditional oars, the stern was equipped with an iron propeller, which was stepped on by two soldiers with foot force, and if necessary, the wooden oars could also be used as auxiliary power, and they started at full speed, and the speed was extremely fast, and it could reach a speed of 16 to 18 knots per hour in a short time.

Each warship of the Ming Royal Navy is equipped with four to twelve assault boats, which can put nearly 4,000 marines at a time, as well as swimsuits, airbags, fins, diving goggles and other equipment.

In this era, the Daming Royal Marines are the first Marine Corps in the world, and they are also the most professional.

The defensive force along the coast of Kobe is a bit amateurish, except for the Rokko Mountain Fort, which is decent, other small earthen forts, and only a few old guns, the defense force can be said to be insignificant.

The Ming army knew the sea area around Kobe very well, where the water was deep, where the water was shallow, where there were reefs, and where ships could be moored.

Their landing battle was met with extremely unprofessional interception, and in less than a quarter of an hour they destroyed the shore defenses off the coast of Kobe, easily occupying the shore and occupying the land, and the soldiers had the feeling of killing chickens with knives.

After the marines occupied the beachhead, they dug trenches and built beachheads on the shore, and then guided the warships to anchor on the shore and build gangplanks and pontoon bridges, so that the army, heavy weapons, and various material resources could be continuously ashore.

Because there had been dozens of exercises in peacetime, everything about the Ming army's landing operations was carried out in an orderly manner, and all branches of the armed forces performed their own duties, and they were busy but not chaotic.

Not long after, the artillery fire of the Ming army rang out again, and launched a general attack on the Rokko Mountain Fort, and thousands of Ming marines formed a scattered formation to approach the fort in an attempt to occupy the fort.

On the hillside, the bombed and dizzy shogunate army took advantage of the Ming army's landing and finally relieved itself, and they rushed to the commanding heights of the fort in groups.

"A bunch of idiots!"

Naito Tadashi, who was running, scolded coldly and went down the mountain without looking back.

These shogunate troops still thought that the fort was a safe area, but as everyone knows, the next thing the Ming army is fighting for is the fort, and this group of fools is obviously drawing the ground as a prison!

In fact, it wasn't that the soldiers of the shogunate army were stupid, they were drunk one by one, and the first thing that came to mind under danger was to hide in the fortress, because there was a sense of security.

On the beach, a group of soldiers in blue uniforms, armed with Takeshi breech-loading rifles, with handcuffs and grenades pinned to their waists, moved quickly and quickly outflanked the Rokko Mt. Fort.

Naito Zhongxing smiled bitterly, the other party was the elite of the Ming army armed to the teeth, and their individual equipment greatly exceeded the shogunate army!

He seems to have figured it out, Japan has no chance of winning against the Ming Dynasty!

At this time, Naito Tadashi secretly thought that as a high-ranking official of the shogunate, it would be a very dishonorable thing if he was a prisoner of the Ming army.

Therefore, Naito Tadashi raised his legs and ran.

However, he also knew his physical strength, and it seemed that he couldn't outrun the Ming army.

A fire raged in the stables next to the fort, neighing desperately from the dead and wounded horses, and the living horses struggled desperately to free themselves from the reins attached to the manger.

Naito Tadashi ran over and jumped onto a calm-looking war horse.......

"Da Da Da ......"

In the direction of the Rokko Mountain Battery, an unfamiliar gunfire rang out.

The shogunate army running in front was like a cut leek, pouring a large piece, and the Japanese army behind had not yet reacted, running forward desperately, and in the dense gunfire, the shogunate army was full of flesh and blood.

Naito Tadashi, who was galloping wildly, turned his head suddenly, and he saw tongues of fire spit out from the scattered formation of the Ming army charging in front of the fort.

"Wu Jiu Thunderbolt!"

Naito Zhongxing muttered, and he immediately judged that it was the Wujiu Thunderbolt that had just come out of the Ming Dynasty, a firearm that came out for slaughter!

I heard that the thunderbolt improved by the Ming Dynasty in the ninth year of Tianwu can fire up to eighty-one bullets at one time!

Naito had only heard of this firearm, but had never seen it in kind.

And today, he has seen not only this legendary new weapon, but also its great power.

In front of the fort, the Ming soldiers were in groups of three, carrying the Wujiu Thunderbolt, and dozens of Ming Thunderbolts spewed tongues of fire at the Japanese soldiers running wildly on the Liujiashan Fort, and the tongues of fire ruthlessly devoured the lives of the Japanese soldiers!

Zhao Shizhen, a firearms expert of the Wanli Dynasty, invented the eighteen-tube thunderbolt, which can fire more than 40 bullets in a row at most, but its structure is complex, the operation is time-consuming, and it is difficult to form a battle formation in a short time during combat, and can only be used as a defensive weapon.

And the Wujiu Thunderbolt, on this basis, has been upgraded three times, overcoming this shortcoming, at the cost of "overload", in exchange for actual combat application.

The Wujiu Thunderbolt uses a turn-tube machine gun, which uses a separate steel chamber with a separate chamber from the barrel, and its tail is closed and equipped with a percussion cap.

The shooter rotates the barrels evenly arranged along the circumference by shaking the crank, and the chamber filled with ammunition enters the locking slot behind each barrel from the feed hopper, and then fires the ammunition.

The barrel of the Wujiu Thunderbolt rotates in one week to complete the loading, firing and unloading of six rounds of ammunition, with a firing rate of up to 200 per minute!

To put it bluntly, this is the first Gatling!

Dozens of Daming Thunderbolts spewed out tongues of fire, which mercilessly devoured the lives of Japanese soldiers.

With such a high rate of fire, who the can handle this!

Such an artifact is not a perfect thing, and he also has great shortcomings, because the Ming army used paper-shell guns and bullets, which led to the core problem of gunpowder gas leakage in Wujiu Xunlei.

A Ming army shooter was shot by a comrade next to him by Little Japan, which caused him to be emotional, he couldn't control himself because of his red eyes, and turned the handle like crazy, turning faster and faster.

The tongue of fire in his hand did not stop for a moment, and the little Japan that was running wildly in front fell one after another, and the shooter shouted loudly and continued to strafe.

However, the accident happened, only to hear the sound of "bang", the machine gun exploded due to overheating, and the shooter's shouting came to an abrupt end, and unfortunately he was martyred.......

On the slopes of the Rokko Fort, the corpses of Japanese officers and soldiers were strewn.

Under the double blow of artillery fire and Wujiu's thunderbolt firepower, as well as the encirclement of the Ming army that continued to land and encircle, the 2,000-strong shogunate army of the Miyagawa Domain was killed and wounded.

The female compatriot Ashigaru survived, and he led the last 100 surviving soldiers, carrying Japanese Japanese birds, to launch a breakthrough at the foot of the mountain.

However, before these 100 Japanese soldiers could reach Kobe Castle, they were engulfed by the tongue of fire of Wu Jiu Xun's thunderbolt.

There was a deathly silence on the battlefield, and the 2,000 men and horses of the shogunate army were all wiped out, including of course some drunk, half-asleep ones, and the kind that couldn't wake up with artillery bombardment.

Sadly, in addition to the overwhelming cannonballs and the enemy's tongues of fire, they also figured out what had happened to them until they died.

Fortunately, they did not run out of the range of the Rokko Mountain Fort until they died, and they could be regarded as "fighting to the death" for Japan.

The only person who was fortunate enough to learn the truth was Fuji Tadashi, who fled to Kobe Castle.

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