The eleventh generation of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, one of the powerful daimyos with a prominent reputation in the surrounding area, the Genji Temple, has not yet figured out why the Tang Dynasty, which has always been better with him, wants to attack him.

Its temple was already bombarded by the artillery of the Tang Army, and he himself was directly killed by the artillery!

He didn't know until he died, why did the Tang Empire suddenly attack him!

When the Tang Dynasty sent a large fleet to Osaka, he once thought that it was the Tang Empire's efforts to increase troops in the Osaka area in order to contain the Miyoshi family and Oda Nobunaga.

At that time, he had even made a plan that if the Tang Dynasty wanted to send troops to attack the Miyoshi family or Oda Nobunaga, or any of the daimyo in the surrounding area, he would send troops to attack in coordination.

In his opinion, after seven or eight years of hard work by his father and his own two generations, the strength of Ishiyama Honganji Temple has become much stronger, not only the 3,000 troops armed with pure Tang weapons, but also the hoarding of a large number of ordnance and ammunition purchased from Datang, including even three heavy cannons purchased secretly.

It was not the small-caliber shotgun approved for export by Datang, but a real long-barreled five-pound cannon, which he bought from a Datang merchant ship at a high price.

He is also preparing to use these five-pound naval guns as a blueprint to imitate his own cannons.

With a stockpile of weapons and ammunition, and a number of believers ready to be recruited, he was more than capable of organizing an additional army of more than two thousand men.

A total of 5,000 troops, this is the strength of Ishiyama Motogenji today!

Coupled with the Takeda family, which is related to him by marriage, it is enough to become a huge force that can compete with the Miyoshi family and Oda Nobunaga.

However, Xianru has not yet figured out which daimyo Datang is planning to do to, and he has not had time to meet the officials and generals of Datang.

The Tang Army, which had just landed, was attacked.

After resting on the island of friends for two days, after arriving in Osaka, the fleet of the Tang Dynasty did not have a short rest time, but rested on the spot for three days, and used this time to remove many artillery and shells and other ordnance from the ship, and they immediately sent troops to attack Ishiyama Motoji.

And one dozen is to attack Stone Mountain Castle.

The castle is also the center of power of Ishiyama Motogenji Temple!

The origin of the name of Ishiyama Honganji Temple is derived from Ishiyama Castle!

Obviously, when the three thousand troops only had time to mobilize half of them, and the remaining half of the troops were still in chaos, Shishan City had already been breached.

The 1st Mixed Brigade and the Osaka Garrison Regiment, except for some troops left behind in Osaka, the rest of the troops poured out and dispatched nearly 5,000 troops.

Among them, there are 12 9-pound guns and 24 5-pound guns, and not all of the above-mentioned guns are army artillery, and some are naval guns supported by the navy.

All of the above-mentioned artillery pieces are equipped with flowering shells!

After years of development, howitzer shells are already very mature for the Tang Empire, and the manufacturing cost has reached the level where a large number of equipment can be used, so since many years, howitzer shells have been officially installed in the fleet of the Tang Army and Navy, the Guards and the Tang Western Company.

And together with solid shells and grenade shells, it has become a standard shell!

Under the bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces, the soldiers defending the city of Ishiyama Motogenji could not support it at all.

Such a battle is obviously beyond the scope of their cognition!

They knew about guns and used them in battle, but they used shotguns and arquebuses, and they had no contact with large-caliber guns, let alone howitzers.

From the beginning of the shelling, the head of the city was connected with the smoke and dust of the explosion!

The heavy shelling alone actually caused the death and wounding of nearly 300 Fuso soldiers, and these 300-meter Fuso soldiers accounted for one-sixth of the nearly 2,000 Fuso soldiers mobilized.

And at this time, the war started in less than half an hour!

The Tang Army didn't even show up infantry!

The reason for such heavy casualties among the Fuso is simple: they were all crowded on the top of the city to set up defenses, and there were no corresponding anti-artillery fortifications.

When howitzers and grenades exploded at the top of the city, countless shrapnel and iron balls swept almost the entire city, and the denser the defending force, the more serious the casualties.

This is a siege battle that surpasses the knowledge of the Fuso people!

If it was replaced by the former Ming army, everyone knew that they could not stay in the city when the Tang Dynasty was bombarded, even if they stayed in the city, they had to hide behind the anti-artillery fortifications, and when the infantry of the Tang Dynasty launched a charge, they would run out of the city to fight, and use various artillery pieces to intercept and shoot at medium and long distances.

Cover shots at medium to close range with shotguns, arquebuses, bows and arrows!

Back then, the Ming army defended the city, and it was still very set!

According to the internal judgment of the Tang Army, the Tang Army score is 100, the former Ming army should have 70 points, although its strength is a little worse, but its strength is numerous, when the number of troops to a certain extent, the quantitative change will appear qualitative change, plus their weapons and equipment are actually not bad, cold weapons are complete, not to mention, and they were able to produce a large number of arquebuses and artillery on their own, so the Ming army was actually a hard bone, especially when they defended the city, it was especially difficult to bite, and it was necessary to concentrate absolute superior forces and firepower, comprehensive scoring, can be scored about 70 points.

As for the Tatars, the cavalry advantage is too great, but the strength of defending and besieging the city is too scummy, and the score can be about sixty points in total.

The Portuguese and Spaniards, these foreign armies, although there is no shortage of guns, but the number of troops is too small, if they are fighting on the mainland, at most they are given a standard of more than ten points, but if the battlefield is in the South Seas, such as Banten or Malacca to the South Seas, this score will quickly rise to seventy or eighty points, if it is to India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions, this score will quickly soar to one hundred, if it is fighting in Europe, then it is not a hundred, but several hundred.

In the battle with the Portuguese, the distance, and the length of the supply line are the main basis for judging the strength of both sides, and the weapons, tactics, and strength of the troops are actually not important.

As for the Fusang people, in the eyes of the Tang Navy, their strength is at most a single-digit score, and in the eyes of the army, it is at the level of twenty or thirty points.

Well, the Datang Army and Navy unanimously believe that the equipment and tactical level of these Fuso people are not even as good as the level of the former Ming Dynasty, which was destroyed seven or eight years ago.

Even the pirate gang that was born in the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty and is now active in the waters of the South and Indian Oceans, and the 'Fourth Fleet' commanded by He Ding is not as good.

If the Portuguese and the Tang people do not block this famous pirate gang and let them flow to the Fusang Islands, it is estimated that they will be able to sweep the Fusang Islands.

The Fourth Fleet, a well-known pirate gang, has grown a lot in recent years, and it is rumored that it has several warships under its command, dozens of armed pirate ships of various kinds, and thousands of pirates from all over the world.

Crucially, the gang is militarized and is rumored to have its own secret bases in India and Burma.

This gang of pirates is quite vicious, plundering all visible sea targets on the sea, and sometimes they even dare to attack warships.

The Portuguese and the Datang people have suffered a lot of losses in their hands, and the fleet of the Datang Western Company even has an embarrassing record of a frigate being sunk by this pirate!

After the news came back, the senior management of the Western company was criticized, and some of the senior management even resigned because of this!

If such a Fourth Fleet runs to Fuso, it will not be empty talk to sweep through the Fusang Islands!

In the face of such Fusang people, the Tang Army is naturally captured, if it is not for the long nights and dreams, there is no need to even dispatch the first mixed brigade, just send an infantry battalion, plus the Osaka garrison regiment, it is possible to take Shishan City.

But in that case, the war can last for a long time, and it is easy to change, and Ishiyama Honganji will be able to mobilize more troops if he has enough time, and Ishiyama Honganji also has allies, and the Takeda family has a close relationship with them, so it is possible to send reinforcements.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, and also to deter other daimyo from acting rashly, this is the knife used to kill chickens, and the first mixed brigade was directly used.

After dozens of artillery bombardments, the Tang Army sent infantry to carry out a tentative attack on the city, and the infantry dispatched were all wearing heavy armor.

Although plate armor is no longer of much use for an army that is already equipped with flintlock pistols, this is based on the premise that the enemy and your own side are evenly matched and have the same level of equipment.

Today's enemies of the Tang Dynasty, even the Portuguese, are not equipped with flintlock pistols, and the proportion of arquebuses equipped will not exceed 50%.

Therefore, during this period, at least until the Tang empire was fully equipped with flintlock pistols, the Tang army would still be equipped with plate armor on a large scale.

The heavily armored troops rushed directly with muskets, and some of the soldiers did not even use muskets, but temporarily used stainless steel waist knives, and turned into heavy sword soldiers.

There was nothing special about the battle in the city, and when hundreds of heavily armored infantry rushed to the head of the city, the Fuso people, who had already been stunned and had no power to resist at all, turned around and ran away.

From launching the artillery bombardment to capturing the city walls, it took only half an hour before and after!

Then the troops of the Tang Army swaggered into Shishan City!

An hour later, the small city of Ishiyama was completely controlled, and the remnants of the Fuso people were either hanged or laid down their weapons and surrendered, and according to reports, even the eleventh generation of the Ishiyama Motogenji Temple, Xianru, was killed in the shelling.

It took less than a day for the Tang Empire to completely capture Shishan City, regardless of the reason for the attack on Shishan City, but it brought deep fear to the surrounding daimyos.

The Miyoshi family sent a number of heavyweight clansmen to Osaka that day, and when they came to Osaka, they also brought a lot of gold, silver, and beautiful women.

What he did was nothing more than one thing, that is, to show a deferential attitude, so as not to rise up the Tang Dynasty, and easily destroy their three good families, if this is the case, how vain it will be!

Not only the Miyoshi family, but also other daimyo sent envoys one by one, and some even came to Osaka in person, and most of them came to Osaka for the same purpose as the Miyoshi family.

Avoid becoming the next target of the Datang people!

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