The bamboo bundles of the shogunate army could protect against ordinary iron cannon bullets, but they could not protect against cannon shotguns. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the caliber of the iron cannon, the Japanese divided the iron cannon into one barrel to ten barrels. The so-called ten barrels are heavy iron cannons with a charge of 20 grams at a time and a bullet weighing 37 grams. This type of cannon can only be used by very strong samurai. In an experiment conducted by the Japanese Front-loading Gun Shooting Alliance, at a distance of about 30 meters, 10 canisters penetrated six layers of bamboo bundles with a diameter of four centimeters.

It can be seen that although the bamboo bundle has excellent defensive power, it can still penetrate in the face of heavy firearms.

In the face of more than 10,000 shogunate gunners slowly approaching with bamboo bundles, more than 200 heavy guns on the city wall waited with bated breath. When the 40,000 shogunate soldiers walked 300 meters away under the cover of bamboo bundles, the cannon fired.

The kinetic energy of the cannon shotgun was stronger than that of ten barrels, and it pierced through those heavy bamboo bundles without any suspense. The iron projectile shot through the bamboo bundle and into Ashigaru's armor, piercing through the thin layer of iron armor again, and stabbing into the flesh of the iron cannon Ashigaru.

Almost as soon as the cannon on the city wall fell, blood burst out like flowers from the soldiers in the front row holding bamboo bundles, and the screams of more than a thousand people merged into a huge sound. The ashigaru in the front row fell down along with the bamboo bundles in their hands, screaming and moaning on the ground. It's like a domino that has been toppled and can no longer stand.

The terrible screams shook the morale of the shogunate, and the shogunate troops in the back row stopped for a while.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun in this formation, saw the heavy blow to the ashigaru in the front row, and suddenly stood up from a small chair.

"Red deer!"

He scolded loudly and pointed hard at the fan. Behind him, several drummers blew their horns loudly and began to cheer on the ashigaru people in front of him.

The samurai heard the sound of the horn and began to cheer loudly on the ashigaru around them. The samurai, who shouted desperately, quickly regained Ashigaru's morale. The ashigaru lifted the heavy bamboo bundle and sped forward to the front.

But after only walking a hundred meters, the ashigaru men were bombarded by artillery fire from the castle.

Piercing sparks suddenly erupted from the muzzles of the black holes in the city walls, and the rumbling cannons rang out one by one. The overwhelming amount of shotgun projectiles rained down like raindrops. Ashigaru, who was holding a bamboo bundle in the front row, was hit hard again. No matter how you dodge behind the bamboo bundle, those projectiles can pass through the bamboo bundle and directly pierce Ashigaru's carcass.

One by one, the soldiers fell to the ground, twitching and rolling in the blood that spurted from their bodies. Life is like the least valuable thing, and it is rapidly consumed on the battlefield.

However, the commander of the shogunate army was ruthless. Waeling his katana, Sakai roared behind an army of 40,000 men, urging it to speed up.

Sakai Tadakatsu had his army rush to within a hundred meters and fire at the cannons on the city walls.

In fact, Li Zhi's cannon can hit faster. At the most critical moment, the gunners were able to complete a shotgun reload in twenty seconds. But in that case, the barrel will heat up rapidly, and it will take an hour to cool down after five or six shots. In order to fire a few more shots before the barrel cooled down for a long time, Li Zhi asked the gunner to shoot only one shotgun per minute.

The gunners continued to walk forward, within two hundred meters of the Sannomaru Castle Wall.

The riflemen of the Tiger Division on the city walls began to shoot.

The eastern wall of Sannomaru is just over 900 meters, and there are more than 800 shooting holes on the wall. Apparently these firing holes were designed for arquebusiers, with a distance of more than a meter between each one. In fact, for the flintlock mini rifle of the Tiger Division, only half a meter of space is needed between the soldiers.

The riflemen aimed at the shogunate iron gunners behind the bamboo bundles on the firing holes in the city walls.

The bamboo bundle is heavy and cannot be made too large, and the area of defense is also limited. Moreover, except for the thickest part in the middle, there are seven or eight layers of bamboo, and there are only fewer layers of bamboo on both sides of the bamboo bundle, and the tiger master's conical bullet can penetrate. Although it is impossible to hit 100% of the shots aimed at the side of the bamboo bundle at a distance of more than 100 meters using a simple crosshair, as long as the shot is shot, there is a possibility of hitting.

The crackling sound of gunfire rang out above the city walls, and more than 800 bullets were fired at the slowly approaching bamboo bundle soldiers.

Not all bullets hit the target, most of them hit the thick middle of the bamboo bundle, or flew away. Only two or three percent of the bullets pierced through the sides of the bamboo bundles, through the armor of the iron artillerymen, and into the bodies of the bamboo bundlers. More than 100 bamboo-bundled iron gunners in the front row were put down, let out a terrible howl, and fell limply on the cold ground.

The rifleman does not deal as much damage in one shot as a shotgun, but the rifleman's advantage is that it is continuous. Li Zhi had the riflemen form four rows of rounds in front of the shooting hole, on which a shot was fired almost every four seconds.

The shogunate's iron gunners were stunned by the ferocious rifle fire.

Tokugawa Iemitsu stood in the middle of the main formation, looking in disbelief at the constantly fire-breathing shooting holes on Osaka Castle.

The daimyo of the shogunate were even more surprised. It has been 100 years since iron cannons were introduced to Japan, and it is basically common sense that ordinary iron cannons can only shoot 100 meters. In the case of an ordinary six-barrel, at a distance of 100 meters, not to mention the uncontrollable landing point, the kinetic energy is only half of the original, and it cannot even penetrate the armor of a high-level samurai.

It is unbelievable that Li Zhi's rifle can shoot accurately at a distance of 100 and can also penetrate the bamboo bundle.

The rifle of the Tiger Division suddenly seemed to shatter the worldview of these professional officers. They looked at each other with disbelief on their faces, and each of them seemed to have three big words written on their faces.

And apparently, the rifle of the Tiger Warrior was also more powerful than the iron cannon used by the general Japanese ashigaru. Even at a distance of a hundred, those rifles were able to penetrate the sides of the bamboo bundles.

How can this battle be fought?

Although each rifle only had a hit rate of two or three percent, the bamboo beam iron gunner walked too slowly. For the riflemen on the city walls, the Japanese ashigaru behind those bamboo bundles seemed to be standing upright and being beaten.

The Japanese iron gunners carrying bamboo bundles seemed to have entered a forbidden area of death, constantly moving forward, constantly falling, and the iron cannon Ashigaru was killed by more than 2,000 people, but the battle line did not advance a few meters at all. The endless stream of rifles on the city walls dealt with the slow-moving bamboo bundles, and the scene on the battlefield was like a massacre.

Finally, Sakai Tadashi understood that he couldn't rush up with a bamboo bundle at all, and he was in a hurry. He waved his katana and shouted, "Throw away the bamboo bundle and rush up and shoot!" ”

"Boom! Rumble! ”

"Boom!"

As soon as the iron gunners threw down the bamboo bundles, the two hundred and sixty cannons on the city wall opened fire. Without the resistance of the bamboo bundle, the shotgun projectile pierced through two holes, penetrated the first layer of Ashigaru and shot into the second layer of Ashigaru's body, and suddenly swept through the rows of Japanese soldiers in front.

With just one shot, the shotgun projectile understood the lives of three or four thousand Japanese soldiers.

Blood splattered everywhere and everything was stained red. The minced flesh was brought out of the body of the wounded by the projectiles fired at the wounded and sprayed on the soldiers in the back, in the face.