The first group of 40,000 soldiers had already lost more than 8,000 dead in less than a quarter of an hour. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The three-dimensional firepower of the Tiger Master is like a massacre, harvesting the lives of the shogunate Ashigaru with a speed never seen before in this era.

In the past, the Tiger Ben Division dispatched a maximum of 10,000 people and carried no more than 100 cannons. This time, the Tiger Division expanded its army, dispatching 20,000 men and bringing 300 cannons to defend the city. Judging by the results, these increased cannons worked well.

About 150 meters in front of the city wall, the ground was in shambles. The shogunate army never broke through this forbidden area of death, and I don't know how many people died on this line. There were corpses, stumps, minced flesh everywhere. Some carcasses were layered on top of others, piled up like dead pigs in a slaughterhouse. Blood flowed like water on the ground and gathered in low-lying places, filling the area with pools of blood, large and small.

The shogunate ashigaru, who was still alive, looked at the 260 cannons densely packed on the city wall, their faces turned pale and their legs went limp. I was bombarded by these cannons a few times before I knew how powerful they were. This is a killing machine that Japanese soldiers have never seen before. A single shotgun can kill more than 3,000 soldiers, how can this battle be fought?

The equipment of the Ming army was too strong to belong to this era, and it was impossible for the shogunate army to capture Osaka Castle.

More than 30,000 shogunate ashigaru lost their fighting spirit almost at the same time, and suddenly fled en masse. Tens of thousands of people fled to the east with all their strength, only to stay away from the more than 200 cannons. They threw away their armor and their spears and arquebuses in order to run faster.

If you can't escape before the cannon fires again, you're going to leave your life here.

The more than 30,000 Shogunate soldiers were no longer an army, they could only be regarded as a group of routs. Even the samurai who led the charge were frightened and fled with Ashigaru.

Sakai Tadakatsu stood five hundred meters away from the castle wall, his face pale. How did this battle come to this? Li Zhi's weapon is too terrifying, isn't it?

Can't win this battle? This battle is going to be won no matter what! If Osaka Castle could not be defeated, more and more princes would raise their banners against the shogunate, and the world of the Tokugawa family would become shaky and even in danger of extinction.

This Li Zhi, why is he so strong? Could it be that Japan, which has not been attacked by foreign enemies for thousands of years, will be defeated by Li Zhi this time? Surrender to Lee Sik?

The shogunate army has now attacked Osaka, but it can't be defeated. If he talks to make peace with Li Zhi now, will Li Zhi make more demanding demands?

Sakai Tadakatsu stood on the battlefield in a bit of a daze, but he didn't know that there were already twenty cannons on the city wall aimed at him. Li Zhi saw this high-ranking shogunate official in gorgeous armor and decided to kill him to boost morale.

Li Zhi waved his hand and shouted, "Fire!" ”

"Boom! Rumble! ”

"Boom!"

Twenty cannons fired solid shells, and the shells went straight at Sakai Tadakatsu. On the hard dirt of winter, the cannonballs bounced forward, destroying everything that stood in his way. As soon as Sakai Tadakatsu saw the sparks on the city wall, he felt a chill in his stomach, and then he lost his ability to react in severe pain.

He saw his legs parted from his upper body. His upper body flew off his legs and fell on the dirt. Sakai Tadakatsu's eyes widened and he saw that the flesh and blood on his waist above his legs were blurred, separated from his upper body. He stared at his legs for three seconds, then tilted his head and died.

The solid bullet hit Sakai Tadashi in the stomach, knocking him in two and beheading the shogunate "elder".

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Seeing the death of the elder Sakai Tadakatsu, the faces of the daimyo in the Tokugawa main camp darkened, and they were speechless in shock.

The shogunate actually killed an "elder" under Osaka Castle.

You must know that the elder is equivalent to the first assistant and the second assistant to the Ming court. If the Ming Shoufu was killed by the Manchus on the battlefield, how would the Ming soldiers be impacted? The death of a high-ranking elder under Osaka Castle will be a heavy blow to the morale of the entire shogunate army.

Tokugawa Iemitsu saw Sakai Tadakatsu's death in battle, and rushed to the front of the main camp, his eyes bloodshot.

Date Tadamune, the lord of the Sendai domain, rushed to Tokugawa Iemitsu, knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Your Highness the General, this battle can't be fought, retreat dozens of miles to avoid the edge of the Ming army!" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the battlefield with blood-red eyes: the first team of 40,000 people had lost the ability to continue fighting and were desperately fleeing on the battlefield. Although there were no cavalry chasing them, they ran wildly one by one, as if the cannons behind them could kill them at any moment.

The 80,000 soldiers and horses in the back directly raised their weapons against the 30,000 defeated soldiers, and even some iron gunners shot directly at the defeated soldiers, so that these defeated soldiers did not attack Tokugawa Iemitsu's main formation.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had only 80,000 soldiers left. There were 20,000 Li Zhibu in the city, and nearly 30,000 in the four rebellious feudal towns. Li Zhibu's firepower was far stronger than that of the shogunate army, and the 20,000 tiger divisions had at least 40,000 combat strength. The advantage of the shogunate on the battlefield was already minimal.

Do you want to quit the army?

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned pale, and he looked at Osaka Castle towering over the Plain with some dismay.

He was hesitating, but he saw the gates of Osaka Castle open, and Li Zhi's 50,000 men lined up in a long formation, and walked out of Osaka Castle one after another. Under Tokugawa Iemitsu's suspicious gaze, Li Zhi's 50,000 men formed an offensive formation and pressed the shogunate army with 300 cannons.

Li Zhi went out of the city to fight?

The four rebellious feudal towns also followed Li Zhi out to fight? Do they all think that Li Zhi can defeat the shogunate army with 80,000 soldiers?

Li Zhi's cannon had already hit many rounds, and although it cooled down for more than ten minutes after the rout of the first team of shogunate troops, it was still very hot. After three or four more shots, these cannons will no longer be able to fire at all. Therefore, instead of bombarding the Tokugawa army's main position in the distance with flowering shells, Li Zhi asked the artillery to load the cannon with shotguns and push the cannon forward.

The two armies approached little by little, five miles, four miles, three miles, and they were getting closer and closer. Date Tadamune shouted at Tokugawa Iemitsu, "General! Hurry up and get out of the army! Now the retired soldiers can still negotiate peace with Li Zhi! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu, however, was enraged by the menacing Li Zhijun. He glared at Date Tadamune and sat back down on his small stool.

He waved the fan in his hand forward: "The whole army is attacking!" Defeat the Ming army out of the city! ”

Date Tadamune bowed his head in frustration and fell to one knee on the ground speechless.

In this battle, the flag was unfurled, the trumpet sounded, and the 80,000 troops of the shogunate were divided into two parts. 30,000 men from the north went into battle to meet the nearly 30,000 horses of the four rebellious daimyo. The 50,000 men in the south, including 15,000 cavalry, met Li Zhi's 20,000 tiger divisions.

There were fifteen thousand cavalry in the shogunate army, and these cavalry were the elite of the shogunate army.

Japan's military horses were relatively short, and although there were fine horse breeds such as the Kiso horse that could rival the Mongol horse, not every cavalry in the shogunate army had a Kiso horse. Shorter breeds such as Noma and Misaki are also widely used, and these horses are only 1 to 1 meter 2 tall at the shoulder.

Of course, the ancient Japanese were not tall and did not need such tall war horses.

After receiving the order, 15,000 cavalry and other 35,000 infantry pressed towards Li Zhi's soldiers and horses. In today's Japan, such a large-scale cavalry force can be said to be unique. If it were to conquer other feudal towns, the fifteen thousand cavalry would swing there, and the momentum alone would be able to scare the local feudal towns.

Two miles away, the cavalry rode out of the phalanx of infantry and began to charge.

The shogunate cavalry on horseback kicked up a sandstorm of smoke and dust on the dirt, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the ground slightly.

However, for the Tiger Ben Division, who was accustomed to seeing tens of thousands of Manchu Tartars rushing into battle, these fifteen thousand people were nothing at all. The Japanese horse is a head shorter, and the momentum is not so intimidating. The soldiers of the Tiger Division looked indifferently at the Japanese cavalry rushing over, still maintaining their calmness and discipline.

Li Zhi's 20,000 men were in a paper formation, and a hundred artillery pieces were placed in front of the hollow paper formation. Seeing the shogunate's cavalry getting closer and closer, Li Zhi's artillery immediately aimed their shotguns at these cavalry.

The horses' hooves rolled, and the Japanese cavalry that charged into battle was getting closer and closer. At a distance of four hundred paces, three hundred paces, two hundred paces, the Japanese cavalry came within range of the shotguns.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Boom! ”

One hundred eighteen-pounder guns spewed shotguns at the Japanese cavalry.

Shotgun projectiles were fired at the cavalry like a storm. The cavalry in the front row fell forward as if they had hit an invisible wall. The shotgun projectiles were overwhelming, the military horses were shot, and the cavalry were also shot. The cavalry spurted bloody arrows, unable to control his hands and feet, and fell to the ground while screaming.