"Have you forgotten the pensions for the war dead?!"

The samurai and generals beside Kuroda Tadayuki shouted one after another.

With this shout, the banner of the Kuroda family was fiercely planted on the head of Ninomaru Castle made of rammed earth by Kuroda Tadayuki.

"This is where I am buried! Iron Artillery Team! Above! ”

Under the banner of Kuroda Fujiba Mo, his two younger brothers, Kuroda Takamasa and Kuroda Nagako Yasai, who were also feudal lords, led the feudal clan's own soldiers to pounce on him.

Soon after a slash, a barrier was created between the Kuroda family's main team and the volunteers, and the volunteers faced the spears of the Ichida army and the Kuroda family's supervision, and then thought about the pensions that could be obtained after death, and suddenly broke out into a sky-high war intent, and someone shouted in the team, "Let me die here today!" Kill! ”

The fighting power of the volunteers, who were bent on begging for death for the 200 stone rice pension, was far beyond the strength of these religious fanatics who rushed forward with a moment of courage.

Both sides are not afraid of death, and both believe that death is a kind of destination. However, unlike the Ichikashi Army, the Ronin and the bankrupt samurai of the Volunteers even wanted to die!

In the face of the spears stabbed by Rulin, several ronins even dropped the long knives in their hands, exposed their chests, and pounced on them, letting the sharp bamboo spears pierce into their bodies, and at the same time holding on to the bamboo spears, preventing those disciples from pulling them out, and blood spurted out along the bamboo spears. The disciples were a little overwhelmed by this crazy action, and when they were holding bamboo spears in surprise, someone in the volunteer team jumped out and swung their knives to cut off the arms of these disciples. In the blink of an eye, the cultist who was still killing suddenly became a person holding a severed hand and crying and moaning.

"Let's die here!"

The ronin's offensive continues.

Constantly shouting slogans and rushing into the ranks of the army, slashing fiercely, or letting the opponent's bamboo spear pierce their body.

With the frantic offensive of the volunteers, the Kuroda family's main team rushed to Ninomaru and threw the dead bodies under the castle, paving a ramp up the castle with the straw bags.

"Iron Artillery Team! Array! Fire! ”

"Changxing-kun! You go down to the city, report to Matsudaira Laozhong, and say that my Kuroda family has rushed to Ninomaru, and ask him to transfer the big cylinder of the Celestial Empire to the castle! Bombardment of Honmaru! ”

Kuroda Tadayuki asked his younger brother to report to Matsudaira Laochu. At the same time, reinforcements were requested.

"Let Issei-kun go!" Kuroda Nagahei did not look back and commanded the samurai of the Honto Domain to attack violently. asked his brother to arrange for Kuroda Isseri, a veteran who was one of Kuroda's twenty-four horsemen, to report the victory.

"My lord dislikes me for being old? Although Yicheng is old, he can still break through the enemy! ”

The veteran Kuroda Issei, whose hair has turned gray, stares at his bloodshot eyes, holding the flag of the Kuroda family crest in one hand. Holding a long knife in one hand. Shouting and leading a few royal family members towards a smashing army, the largest number of people. One of the thickest oars in the formation rushed past, and in an instant it was overwhelmed by the crowd.

"Fire!"

Kuroda Tadayuki waved the military pendant in his hand, and spent a lot of money to build a team of 300 iron artillery. Pulled the trigger at the crowd not far away.

This distance is less than ten paces, and even a blind man can hit the target. However, it is not necessarily who is killed or injured.

The first to be hit by the iron cannon were the volunteers, and then the first army.

was baptized by the sudden rain of bullets, and the army was immediately a little flustered, and the momentum of advance was stagnant!

"Good! Keep firing! ”

Seeing that each iron cannon that cost forty yuan to buy from Nanzhong was so powerful, Kuroda Tadayuki immediately felt that the money was well spent! He ordered the second wave of iron gunners to fire forward!

After hearing the order of the feudal lord, the second wave of iron gunners immediately stepped forward, replaced the iron gunners who had already emptied the guns, and pulled the plate machine against the crowded, chaotic and panicked army. The sound of popping beans sounded again. After the iron artillery bombardment, a dense and narrow white smoke field rose in front of the Kuroda family's battle array.

"O Lord! Did you unleash the demons of hell?! ”

In the face of the dead and wounded companions beside them, several of them immediately collapsed, dropped the bamboo spears in their hands, and turned around to try to escape. Immediately stopped by the ronin in the team, and slashed into two pieces!

"Traitor!"

Under the attack of the iron artillery team, the Ichichi army began to decline, and slowly and helplessly retreated in the direction of Honmaru.

However, the artillery team of the Nanchu Army, which was arrayed under the castle, had a good grasp of the fighter plane, and when they saw the Kuroda family attacking the wooden bridge connecting Honmaru and Ninomaru, they quickly dragged the Great Buddha Crane up the ramp of the upper castle made of corpses and flesh.

Seeing that there was a big tube trying to enter the city, the army fought more and more desperately, and they knew that once these big guys went to the city, there would be no room for everyone to survive! There were also a large number of cultists from Honmaru with various weapons in their hands, and some even rushed over empty-handed.

Bows and arrows were constantly released from the side towards the ramp of the upper city, and from time to time gunners of the Southern Central Army were shot by those bamboo bows.

"Protect the big tube! Protect the big tube! ”

The bannermen of the shogunate tried their best to climb up with the artillery team, and shouted and shouted at the same time.

From time to time, there were flags that used their bodies to shield the gunners from arrows from both sides, and although most of these flags were protected by armor, from time to time there was a muffled sound of arrows piercing their bodies.

"Firecracker! Fire on the city! ”

In the middle of the ranks, a cold voice gave an order, and immediately more than a hundred musketeers jumped out, lined up on both sides of the road where the artillery team climbed, and fired fiercely at the castle heads on both sides.

Dozens of soldiers were hit by a dense rain of bullets, and without snorting, they went to see God.

More of them were beaten and flew out, turning into a pile of rotten flesh and blood.

At this time, there was not much left of the army at the head of Ninomaru Castle, especially those ronins who were stubborn and daring to fight, and they were swept away by several rounds of firearm shooting. However, the combat effectiveness of those ronins is indeed fierce and tenacious, except for the dozens of ronins who were knocked over by the fire at the beginning. Howling and rushing out of the Honmaru along the wooden bridge, hundreds of Ichiku.

They shouted loudly and rushed straight to the Kuroda team and the volunteer team. Then the deafening sound of fire guns sounded again on the top of the city, interspersed with the sound of gold and iron clashing, the muffled sound of weapons piercing into the flesh, and the mournful wails and screams of soldiers on both sides before they were dying.

Because the main force of the two sides fighting to the death on the front line is the ronin, the ronin of the volunteer team is bent on dying in exchange for a pension, and the ronin of the army is the samurai who followed the Arima family back then. They were the first Catholics in Japan, and they belonged to the core of the "ghost and greedy", (the name given to these Catholics by the Tokugawa shogun of the fifth generation.) The faith is extremely strong.

For these ronins. The shogunate and the daimyo all had one idea. That's consumption!

A few minutes had passed, and less than 3,000 of the first volunteers to break through to the city were able to continue to stand. All wolves are unbearable, and many people are hung with colors. Holding the hilt of the knife in his hand, he couldn't stop panting there with his mouth open.

These ronins are under the attack of the ronins and peasants in an army who are not afraid of death. Scarred by the combined attack of the sword and the bamboo spear. I saw my companions around me fall in droves. They were saddened to find that it was difficult to take a step forward in the direction of the wooden bridge at the moment, and both sides were desperately holding on without any fancy.

There was a slight commotion behind Team Kuroda. After paying the price of smashing to death and crushing more than ten people, the Eight Gate Great Buddha Machine was finally dragged to the head of Ninomaru Castle!

With an order, the ronin of the volunteer team secretly shouted luck! It flashed to both sides like a low tide in the sea, and gave way to the wooden bridge leading to Honmaru.

"Fire!"

A grim voice drowned out the roar of an army.

The Big Buddha cannon, all the guns have been replaced with shotguns. In each of them there were a dozen or dozens of shotguns of varying sizes. After the muzzles of the four Great Francs guns erupted with thick smoke and flames, a dense stream of shrapnel whistled past the ears of the volunteers, and the scorching air currents kept them as close to the city as they could, lest they be hit by the projectiles. The rain of bullets smashed into the ranks of a group of soldiers who rushed indiscriminately, front and back, left and right. The popping sound of the projectile penetrating the body was immediately heard, the unbearable groans of the earth and rocks as it hit the head of the city, and the howls and screams of the countless soldiers in the ranks who had hit and pierced their bodies.

With a muffled pop, a leader of the army holding the cross flag in his hand was directly hit by several shotguns, and a cloud of blood mist rose up, and the upper body and the cross flag in his hand flew somewhere.

At sea, the mortars had completed their second round of loading, and huge shells flew over people's heads towards Honmaru.

The main pill is also made of rammed earth, and the castle wall with glutinous rice juice and other materials is said to be unusually strong, and there is a castle tower, on which you can observe the situation of the enemy, and you can also send some troops to defend the castle at each level, and condescendingly strike at the enemy attacking below. However, the castle forged by the famous builder Matsukura had no problem defending against iron cannons and bows and arrows, but under the bombardment of nearly 200 pounds of mortar shells, the so-called strong walls of the city became fragile. Several walls collapsed in an instant, creating breaches.

A group of soldiers above the city, and a group of troops in the barracks below the city, ready to pounce on the city to fight with the officers and soldiers, let out bursts of exhortations and screams, and were smashed by the collapsed masonry and wood, and were buried by the mounds of earth and stones that fell from mid-air, and a large number of earth and stone fell from the overhead, and these members of the army under the city were buried alive in the masonry and wood, and only a few of them were afraid that they could survive.

Rumble! Another cannonball smashed on the city wall, and the huge impact force smashed open the battlements of the city, and the cannonball jumped and fell like the middle of the city, mixed with countless bricks and stones. In the dust, large clouds of blood mist stained the dust, and a group of soldiers was hit by mortar shells, and was beaten to pieces on the spot, and some broken limbs flew around with the dirt.

A few others were knocked to the ground by the passing shells, all covered in dust and dust, and covered in mud and flesh. A teenager was about to flee when he was shocked to find his legs under a few bricks and stones not far away, but he could not die for a while. Crawling on the ground in agony, letting out a heart-rending wail.

Rumble! Rumble! ……

Mortar shells fell on Honmaru Castle one after another.

"Isn't there a shogunate of loyal and courageous men? Why let the Ming people come? Have you forgotten the predecessors who died in the Korean War?! ”

In the smoke and dust of artillery fire, a group of soldiers roared half desperately, half mockingly.

For such a roar. Tadayuki Kuroda didn't hear it. His eyes were good at the tactics of the Nanzhong Army beside him.

The tactics of the Nanchu Army also seem to be unremarkable, which is nothing more than using a large barrel to bombard the formation of an army with a shotgun, and then commanding the Kuroda family and the Nanchu Army's artillery guards and gunners of the Shogunate Imperial Family to fire iron cannons.

After the large barrel blew up the formation of the Ichigaku, the non-stop fire of the iron gunners killed and wounded the remaining Ichikashi, and then those Ashigaru clutched their spears and rushed up under the leadership of Ashigaru Shogun, killing the remaining Ichikatsu. And so on and so forth, wave after wave of attacks, tried and tested. Gradually, the wooden bridge from Ninomaru to Honmaru was controlled by the Kuroda team, and the Mizuno team and Hosokawa team behind also rushed to the head of Ninomaru Castle. The Hosokawa family banner of Ninoki Marunouchi. The Mizunoya banner of the Sawa pattern is all over the castle.

For a while, I saw more and more shogunate troops on the head of the city, approaching closer and closer. Countless black-pressed guns were raised again, and one ronin in the army shouted in despair: "Believers of the Lord, let us fight for God here today!" ”

Above the hills, with the help of clairvoyance. Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Tokugawa Yoshinao and others saw the battle situation clearly. This battle down. At least a few thousand people will die on both sides.

The rebels formed by the ronin were not yet part of the shogunate army. Belong to the casual worker. But the dead and injured are subject to high pensions.

"People who are so brave and brave to death and violate the ban by force still died earlier!"

"Old and middle-aged adults, you can pass the order. Whoever captures one person and hands it over to our Nanzhong Army will be rewarded with consistent money, and the cloth will be two zhang! ”

Hua Yu had already woken up from the shock brought by watching this bloody battle array for the first time. began to plan for the interests of the South Central Army.

Now that the South China Army is carrying out capital construction on a large scale, it is these laborers that are lacking.

There are tens of thousands of people in the original city of this island, regardless of men, women and children, even if there are 10,000 dead and wounded, there are still 20,000 people who can be used to contribute to the construction of the South Central Army, and use flesh and blood to lubricate this huge machine.

"Alas! Compared to Daddy, it's still a lot worse! ”

The smooth silk panties gliding over the skin make people feel comfortable and delicate, thinking about the sweat-soaked underwear that he quietly changed when changing clothes just now, Li Huayu was a little embarrassed. "When my father started the family business, I was only my age, and I was able to brave the arrows and stones. Now I am so far away from the battle array, but so cowardly, alas! It's still better to learn one or two! ”

"Herald! His Royal Highness has the virtue of a good life, and he can't bear to kill more. If there are prisoners among the officers and soldiers of each army, they can be sent to the Nanzhong Army, and His Royal Highness will have a heavy reward! ”

The elders of the Tokugawa family and the flags shouted together, and the shouts were spread from near and far, and they were repeated by more and more people. The volunteers, Kuroda, Mizuno, and Hosokawa teams who fought at the front were extremely excited. These damn Chechi Dan can be exchanged for money and cloth!

As a result, the spear, which was supposed to be stabbed at the chest, abdomen, and skull, became limbs.

"Herald! Those who capture or kill Amakusa Shizashiro and other rebels, and those who capture or kill the monks of Kirita Danchu and above alive will be rewarded! ”

"Those who have won Amakusa will be rewarded with thousands of dollars and five hundred stones. Seal 600 stones and serve one person! Those who have been awarded the monk will be rewarded with 100 yuan and 50 stones! ”

The rich reward was once again passed to Shimahara Castle, and the soldiers and horses became more and more crazy, and when they saw every boy about fifteen years old, they stabbed their heads, and then asked others, is this person Amakusa?

"Young Marshal, you can get our people out. This Shimabara Castle could not be defended. ”

Liang Kuan, who was beside Li Huayu, had been in battle for a long time, and he had seen too much of this kind of city battle. In front of the castle, the banners of various shogunate army units were all over the castle, and people kept jumping up to the castle from the gap in the city wall, rushing into the castle along the upper road to fight with the army in the castle.

The flags of the emblems of the various daimyo clans fluttered all over Shimabara Castle, and several Mitsuha Aoi flags quickly moved towards the castle tower. As long as the Tokugawa family's banner is planted on the castle tower, the time has come for this Shimabara Castle to fall.

Liang commanded, signaled, ordered the sailors to stop the shelling. You bring someone forward. Withdraw our artillery out of the city and recuperate. Order the horse team to patrol the perimeter of Shimabara Castle, and don't let a single person escape! Let the brothers go to the city to experience it! ”

As the infantry of the Southern Chinese Army stormed Shimabara Castle, the last straw that pressed on the Ichijun army fell.

The red cross banner fluttering on the castle tower was thrown from the fifth floor, and someone waved a long knife and shouted "I! Yamada Uemon has already won the head of the rebel! ”

Seeing that some people surrendered, the offensive of the shogunate army and the Nanchu army became more and more powerful.

"Fighting does not matter whether you win or lose, one qiē for the glory of God, for the sake of devotion to God."

"Thousands of Catholics and missionaries who have been innocently tortured in the past have reached our final moments! Let us resolve to die for our faith! ”

Some of the cultists began to roar in despair, swinging their swords at their wives and daughters, lest they be subjected to inhumane treatment when they were captured by the shogunate.

"Kill!"

"Those who kneel and abandon their weapons and surrender to our Nanzhong army will not die!"

"Those who kneel and abandon their weapons and surrender to our Nanzhong army will not die!"

The 500 musketeers who rushed into the city, chanting slogans of surrender everywhere, casually discarded the captured belongings to the shogunate soldiers, ordering them to tie up the captured Ichijun disciples and escort them out of the city to the horses of the Nanchu army.

"Catch Amakusa!"

"Catch Amakusa!"

A cheer rang out from the corners of the castle, and dozens of blood-stained people were escorted out by the shogunate army and deported to Huayu, Matsudaira, Tokugawa Yoshinao, and others.

"Your Highness, please decide!"

"This is an internal matter of your country, and it is up to the shogunate to decide. Our army does not intervene. Hua Yu smiled and kicked the ball back at the feet of Matsudaira Nobutsuna.

"You are Li Huayu of the Southern Central Army?"

Amakusa Shisadashiro, who was about the same age as Hua Yu, raised his emaciated face and glanced at Li Huayu.

"I am defeated today, not by this group of infidels, but by your cannons! If it weren't for your cannon, this place would be filled with corpses! If I had your support, Japan would be a country under the light of God! ”

"Finished?" Li Huayu's voice suddenly became cold.

"Old man, send him to his God!"

A shogunate soldier waved a long knife in his hand and cut off the head of Sadashiro Amakusa and raised it high with a spear.

Along with them, dozens of leaders with the title of monk were beheaded.

"Tento-sama!" "Tento-sama!"

When he saw Amakusa, Sadashiro was beheaded, and suddenly the cries of the captives resounded in the sky.

"Come, come, come! Come here, and if you have a prisoner of the bandits, come to our army in exchange for money and cloth! ”

Several Nanzhong soldiers rode their horses loudly in front of the arrays of various daimyos, and read out loudly the kindness of the young marshal.

A captive can be exchanged for money consistently, cloth two zhang. This price has long spread among the various daimyo armies.

Shimabara Castle, as the head of Sadashiro fell to the ground in Amakusa, tens of thousands of believers became prisoners of the Nanchu Army.

The Shimabara Peninsula fell into the hands of the Shogunate Army. (To be continued......)