If you want to take the whole of Japan, there are two ways to choose, one is to completely conquer Japan through war. This is the most straightforward way, but it takes a long time and is very expensive to digest Japan, which is a country with a population of more than 15 million.

The other way is colonial plunder, which is gradually incorporated into the "Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere", which is less costly and less resilient.

Wang Yue chose the second way, so this time the Tiance army attacked Japan, which can be regarded as the two opium wars and the Eight-Nation Coalition War launched by Westerners in the late Qing Dynasty.

The inclusion of Japan under the rule of the starting point city is not in line with Wang Yue's Japanese strategy, because Japan is not eligible to enjoy the preferential policies of the starting point city. What Wang Yue needed was a divided, weakened, colonial Japan.

When the Shogunate coalition approached about 800 meters, they began to erect artillery positions, which was the effective range of the Franc field guns.

Japan is proficient in using all kinds of iron artillery tactics, but the use of artillery has always been backward, and although there are many "big cylinders" and "national collapses" in the country, most of them are placed on the major famous cities. The Battle of Sekigahara, which changed Japanese history in 1600, used only three artillery pieces.

However, since the rise of the Righteous Army and the Hirado Domain, Japan fought a civil war for two years, and the major armies successively purchased a large number of artillery pieces from the Dutch and Portuguese, and the daimyo who had the conditions copied them, so the shogunate coalition forces that came this time had a lot of artillery, including 80 Franc machine field guns and more than 200 other types of artillery.

The 100,000-strong army continued to advance, and the rumbling sound of artillery sounded in the direction of the Tiance Army, the whistling sound of shells came from the sky, and there were continuous explosions on the Japanese artillery position that had just been halfway arranged.

This is the shelling of 24 155 self-propelled howitzers, the heavy grenades are amazingly powerful, and after they land, they emit a huge explosion, sweeping all the people and things around, and the half-ton Franc cannon has been lifted into the air, and it has been completely deformed and destroyed after falling to the ground.

With the explosion point as the center of the circle, the artillery within a radius of 50 meters was either torn apart on the spot or was instantly shocked to death, and a large area of artillery within a radius of 100 meters was also swept to the ground by the shrapnel that burst out.

They twitched and rolled on the ground, shrapnel stabbing the artillerymen's bodies with a column of blood like water, splattering everywhere. Not only was the blood flying, but even some of the artillerymen's limb parts were cut off by shrapnel.

With just one salvo, half of the artillery positions of the Shogunate coalition were paralyzed, and the ensuing shelling ensued, giving the Japanese no time to react.

For a self-propelled howitzer with a range of up to forty kilometers and a fire control device, such a distance is completely a hundred shots. The rate of fifteen salvos in one minute was also staggering, and three hundred and eighty rounds of heavy grenades had already completely covered the Japanese artillery positions in one minute.

When the bombardment began, the attacking forces of the shogunate coalition were stunned, and after discovering that the shells had not fallen on their heads, they advanced one after another.

General Matsudaira Nobuyo was not calm, and the tragic situation of the artillery position made his hands holding the monoculars tremble, and cold sweat also flowed on his forehead.

Tokugawa Iemitsu also opened his mouth wide, looking at the artillery position that was being swept away by artillery fire in disbelief, and his palms were cold.

Adjutant General Katsunari Mizuno muttered, "Our artillery is finished, it's over." ”

Ogasawara Tadashi said to Matsudaira Shinyo: "General Matsudaira, judging from the shelling situation, the enemy's artillery range is much higher than that of our army, but there is no shelling of our attacking troops.

The general judged that the enemy might not have enough artillery, or that he might be hiding evil intentions, so I suggested that the attacking troops speed up, otherwise the enemy would turn their guns and rely on artillery to increase our casualties. ”

"Shuffle!" Matsudaira Nobutsuo waved his command knife and said, "Order the front army to immediately accelerate the attack." ”

Of course, he agreed with Ogasawara Tadashi's judgment that the enemy had a huge artillery superiority, and the enemy had an absolute superiority in troops, and only by making contact as soon as possible could he give full play to his strengths.

Drums and trumpets sounded, and 100,000 Shogunate coalition troops rushed towards the barrel Sasama with all kinds of weapons and shouts.

Most of the shogunate coalition forces, like Zheng Zhilong's army, almost each had a "bamboo shield", and the Japanese army's bamboo shield style was more uniform and the number of equipment was higher, which the Japanese army called bamboo bundles and foot trees.

Japan is a vassal state, and it has fought against each other, and in the past two years of civil war, in order to prevent bullets, they have developed the bulletproof weapon of bamboo beams. Tie together the tough and elastic old bamboo, bundle it into a thickness of more than a foot, and arrange it in a row, which can effectively prevent the impact of the projectile.

If a hole is dug in the bamboo bundle, the gunner can hide behind and shoot.

The same is true of the inpacing, which is several inches thick and more than one person high, which can effectively protect the arrows, and the archers can also use it to cover the archery.

The Shogunate Coalition came prepared this time, not only was the array covered with ordinary bamboo bundles and walking sticks, but also a large number of model bamboo bundles were prepared in front of the array, which was not only convenient for pushing and moving. Moreover, there are holes in the inside, and the soldiers can hide in the inside, regardless of whether they shoot arrows and guns.

The rebel army was large in number, with only a small amount of this equipment, and the shogunate army had relatively much more financial resources, and it was precisely by relying on such equipment that it was able to block the attack of the rebel army.

However, the generation gap between the Tiance army and the Japanese army has far exceeded the generation difference between the British and French forces and the army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which is unimaginable for the shogunate leaders.

When the Shogunate coalition forces entered within 400 meters, gunfire was heard one after another from the direction of the Tence Army, which were automatic rifles and submachine guns, and the heavy machine guns placed on the high slopes on both sides of the barrel narrows also fired crossfire.

Although the Japanese army was equipped with a large number of iron cannons, it was still a medieval army, and the neat formation meant that the number of people per unit area was very dense, and the rifle fire within three or four hundred meters was almost a hundred shots.

As the Japanese soldiers approached with a shout, more and more people fell, and blood flowers continued to bloom on the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and the bullets fired by rifled guns fired by modern primers easily penetrated the bamboo bundles or walking poles, and then penetrated the human body.

The Japanese soldiers fell in rows like wheat, and the blood mist drifted in the air, and even if they did not hit the vital point, the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground screaming would be trampled to death by countless pairs of big feet that followed.

"Whoosh!" "Woooooo The whistling sound of bullets shuttled through the crowd, constantly emitting a "poof, poof!" that hit the human body. At the same time, it was mixed with all kinds of terrible screams and howls.

The astonishing range and immense power of the Tiance Army rifles are heart-wrenching, but the stubborn character of the Japanese makes them not flinch easily. So many years later, the Battle of the New Barrel Narrows was also called the "Barrel Narrows Meat Grinder".