In the night, the thunderous roar of artillery continued to sound, and the pitch-black shells pierced the dark night sky and rained down on the camp of Tao Qingxian's army, I don't know how many camp tents were smashed, and I don't know how many soldiers were killed and wounded, and the whole camp was like purgatory, full of horror and desperate wails.

At this time, not only was Tao Qingxian, who was awakened, scared to death, but even the father and son of Mori Motoku, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakei, who were hiding on the side to watch the excitement, were scared and lost their souls.

How many artillery pieces does this Hong Tiezhu have in his hands?

If calculated according to one artillery shell, Hong Tiezhu may have more than 10,000 artillery pieces in his hands!

Because the roar of artillery on the sea has been thought of for more than ten rounds, and each round is at least a thousand artillery guns roaring together, which Mao Liyuan can still hear.

So, how many artillery pieces does Hong Tiezhu have in his hands?

Talking about tens of thousands, that is really a bit exaggerated, but Hong Tiezhu still has thousands of artillery pieces in his hand, about three thousand to be exact.

Originally, Hong Tiezhu only had hundreds of artillery pieces in his hands, and only a few on each ship, which should be said to be normal, but since the elite of the Ming army began to change their equipment, the number of artillery pieces in his hands has become more and more abnormal.

Because almost all the artillery replaced by the Ming army was purchased by him, and at this time, the speed of the Ming army's refitting was getting faster and faster, so there were more and more artillery in his hand.

Of course, he basically has dozens of pounds of tiger squat cannons in his hands, and hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of giant cannons are quite rare.

However, this also made Wang Zhi's eyes red.

Wang Zhi really wanted to say to Yang Cong, my lord, you don't have such eccentricity, why don't you sell it to me?

He has coveted the tiger squat cannon of the imperial court system for a long time, and Yang Cong has no intention of selling it to him at all, and he does not dare to mention it to Yang Cong.

As for the reason, it is very simple, just because Yang Cong does not want other forces to master this kind of sub-mother cannon technology that can fire continuously, at least, in a short period of time, he does not want other forces to control this technology.

Therefore, he strictly controls the flow of new artillery, Hong Tiezhu's fleet, to put it bluntly, is his Yang family's fleet, and of course it is no problem to equip this kind of artillery.

Wang Zhi can't do it, this guy doesn't have a sense of precaution, Dongying's iron cannon technology is spread because of his negligence.

At this time, artillery casting technology is the key to defeating the enemy, as long as the number of artillery, range and reloading speed are always maintained, the Ming Dynasty can be invincible, this point, Yang Cong is quite clear.

Therefore, even if he wanted to make crazy money from the hands of the princes of Dongying through artillery, he only asked the Ministry of Industry to cast the most primitive iron cannons, and there were strict regulations on the quantity, at most 100 guns a month, 1,200 guns a year, and no more.

In order to prevent the princes of Dongying from uniting to counter the Ming army after the number of iron cannons in their hands increased, he also specially ordered the Ministry of Industry to start casting a large tiger squat cannon of more than 200 catties for the elite of the Ming army.

This kind of tiger squat cannon is not only nearly twice as far as the ordinary tiger squat cannon and iron cannon in terms of range, but also in terms of loading speed, it is incomparable to the iron cannon, because this time, he equipped each large tiger squat cannon with ten sub-guns, that is to say, each large tiger squat cannon can fire ten times in a row, and one can top ten iron cannons!

At this time, the Ministry of Engineering did not deliberately increase the output of iron cannons, because casting a hundred iron cannons a month was as ordinary as eating and drinking water for them, and even a group of apprentices could complete it.

However, they were not idle, and almost all of the money they earned from Dongying was used to build a new workshop and production line for casting large tiger squat cannons.

Therefore, at this time, the speed at which the Ministry of Industry cast large tiger squat cannons is quite amazing, and the number of ordinary tiger squat cannons that have been replaced is also very large, and these are just cheaper than Hong Tiezhu, one hundred and two one, and he has purchased more than 2,000 guns.

In this way, not only the strength of Hong Tiezhu's fleet has been greatly enhanced, but the Ming Ministry of Industry has more benefits, which can be described as a great joy.

Nearly 3,000 tiger squat cannons bombarded non-stop, which was really quite terrifying, 1,000 shells per round, a full 15 rounds, more than 10,000 shells bombarded down, and the entire Tao Qingxian army camp was about to become a ruin.

You must know that the main force of Tao Qingxian's army is only more than 20,000 people and less than 30,000 people, and they were bombarded by Hong Tiezhu, and their casualties were almost more than half.

What is the concept of more than half of the casualties?

According to the normal battlefield logic, basically if the casualties exceed 30%, the morale of the army will suffer a heavy blow, more than half of the casualties, and all of a sudden and inexplicable casualties of more than half, and the blow to Tao Qingxian's army is simply devastating.

At this time, Tao Qingxian's army had no fighting spirit and just wanted to flee for their lives, and Mori Motoyoshi, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakei were so frightened that they even forgot about the surprise attack, and they didn't react until the surviving soldiers of Tao Qingxian's army ran out of the camp and rushed to them.

There is nothing to say about the next battle, on the one hand, it has been planned for a long time, and it is specially run over to sneak attack, on the other hand, it is unnoticed, and it is bombarded, and the casualties are heavy, and the morale of the army is gone, and there is no suspense about the outcome of the victory

As soon as Mori Motosa, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakei led their troops out of the shadows, Tao Qingxian's army was so frightened that they collapsed without a fight, and they didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, they just wanted to flee for their lives.

So, the small Itsukushima began to stage a vigorous pursuit and escape battle, Mori Motosa, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakei led more than 10,000 people to chase, Tao Qingxian led more than 10,000 surviving horses to escape, the soldiers on both sides almost ran the entire Itsukushima, and even ran back and forth several times, until the sky showed the dawn, the line of sight slowly became clear, Tao Qingxian's army had nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape, and this pursuit and escape battle was slowly coming to an end.

In the end, this "big war" Maori clan won a complete victory, Tao Qingxian's army was almost wiped out, in addition to more than 10,000 people killed by artillery, the remaining more than 10,000 people were almost all captured, and even Tao Qingxian himself was swarmed by the Maori coalition army because of the fierce resistance, hacked to death.

After the war, Mao Liyuan deliberately held an inspection ceremony in Zhou Fangguo's Sakurao Castle, nominally to test Tao Qingxian's head, to see if Tao Qingxian had really been ambushed, but in fact it was a display of martial arts, warning all the local wealthy clans of the Ouchi clan, so that they could see the situation clearly and hurry up to swear allegiance.

In fact, even if he didn't hold this ceremony, all the local wealthy clans of the Ouchi clan would recognize the situation and come over to join him.

Just kidding, although Tao Qingxian is vulnerable, he is also famous and known as the "No. 1 General of the Western Kingdom", which is quite famous in the entire Dongying, such a famous general is vulnerable under Mao Li Yuan, who else dares to disagree.

Mao Liyuan was also enshrined as the "No. 1 God of War in the West" because of this battle, and nearly 30,000 horses were wiped out overnight with more than 10,000 men, and his name as the god of war is worthy of his name.