Seventy thousand Torano soldiers dug a trench east of Osaka Castle and prepared to attack the shogunate army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

By this time, the battlefield had shifted to the plains outside the city. After the arrival of 50,000 reinforcements, the shogunate army realized that it could no longer besiege Osaka Castle and removed the encirclement of Osaka. Today, the shogunate is stationed in the open area east of Osaka Castle.

The shogunate army had carefully observed the trench warfare in Huai'an and understood the role of the trenches, and at this time they dug several layers of trenches on the open Gyeonggi Plain in Japan to defend them, trying to resist stubbornly.

Of course, in front of the mortars of the Tiger Army, these trenches were just fixed targets.

Zheng Kaicheng stood in the trench and used a telescope to observe the Japanese shogunate army a mile away.

According to intelligence, there are now 60,000 "riflemen" armed with Mini rifles in Japan, which are the main force guarding the trenches. In addition, there were 20,000 cavalry behind the trenches, and although these cavalry rode inferior Japanese horses, they still had a certain impact. In addition, there are 25,000 speared ashigaru and 5,000 flag samurai, a total of 110,000 people.

This 110,000-strong army was the main force of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and as long as this army was defeated, the Tokugawa family would not be far from destruction.

Compared with the 60,000 riflemen of the Tokugawa family, Li Zhifang now has 70,000 tiger troops and 5,000 local defenders of Osaka on the Osaka battlefield, which is far superior to the shogunate army.

And this time, 50,000 reinforcements brought all the 7,500 mortars that participated in the battle on the battlefield of Huai'an. These mortars are now operated by skilled gunners and are incredibly lethal.

In the trenches on the shogunate's side, the soldiers of the Tokugawa clan clutched the Mini rifles in their hands and were confident in the war. After all, the tactics of this trench are very advanced, and it seems that nothing can hurt this side by holding a rifle and hiding in the trench.

The soldiers of the Shogunate also felt that they could defend their country.

The Japanese soldiers did not yet know how the Jiangbei Army was defeated in the Battle of Huai'an. They only knew that this time they had annoyed the king of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty. In any case, these trenches must be held. If they can't hold it, maybe the shogunate to which they are loyal will perish.

Ashigaru General Matsudaira Zeye stood in the front line of trenches, his face solemn. As a general of Ashigaru who led 800 riflemen, Matsudaira Sawaye knew more about the situation than the soldiers. It was rumored among the generals in the army that after the elder Doi Toshikatsu returned to the Tokugawa shogun, he entered Osaka Castle as an envoy to the peace talks. It is said that Doi Toshikatsu was disemboweled in front of Zhong Feng, the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty.

However, even the noble act of disembowelment did not extinguish the anger of the Ming people. The people of the Ming Kingdom threatened to destroy the country of Japan and destroy this country that is once in all ages.

The fact that the country might be destroyed made Matsudaira Savoy feel very confused, and he didn't know what his dignity as a samurai would be if Japan was destroyed, and how would he survive? If he fails to win the battle this time, Matsudaira Sawaye may no longer be qualified to call himself a samurai.

"Fight! Defeat is the destruction of the country! ”

Matsudaira Sawaye suddenly raised his katana and yelled at the surrounding gunners in the trenches.

Hearing Matsudaira Zeye's words, the Japanese iron gunners were stunned, and they were all a little surprised. Defeat is the destruction of the country? Was this the last battle to defend Japan?

In Japan, a country ruled by samurai, the spirit of dedication to one's family is the most important thing. Hearing Matsudaira Zeye's roar, the iron gunners' eyes turned red one by one. If this battle was the final battle of Japan, many Shogunate soldiers were willing to fight until the last second.

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight to the end!"

The iron gunners clenched their fists and roared, each with the determination to break the net.

Matsudaira looked at the surrounding ditches and relaxed. This trench tactic is worthy of the tactics created by Li Zhi, and it can be described as impeccable. Neither a rifle nor a shell had the angle to shoot into the trench buried under the ground.

Although the Ming army on the opposite side was better equipped than on this side, if the infantry on the opposite side attacked the trench of the shogunate army, the shogunate army waited for them to rush to within 200 meters, raised their heads and went out to deal with the enemy, which was a matter of one shot.

Unless shells and bullets fell from the sky and entered the trench, nothing could hurt the soldiers in the trench.

Matsudaira Zeye had never seen the battlefield of the Huai'an War, and he didn't understand that the shells of the Tiger Ben Army really fell from the sky.

At the very beginning of the war, it was started by mortars.

Zheng Kaicheng waved his hand, and Ling Qi passed on his orders one by one. The soldiers of the Tiger Army pulled the mortar's rope with great force, and the sound of continuous artillery fire suddenly sounded on the quiet battlefield.

The sky above the battlefield was suddenly dominated by more than 7,000 mortar shells, which drew a beautiful parabola of fifty or even sixty degrees in the sky, flew high into the air, and then fell like a stone from the sky and smashed into the Japanese trenches.

Matsudaira Zeye looked at the small cannonballs flying high, and he was stunned, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden.

Is there such a cannon in the world?

Drawing beautiful curves in the sky, mortar shells smashed into the trenches like a grim reaper, exploding with a bang. The Japanese trenches suddenly seemed to be filled with dazzling fireworks, and huge sparks burst out one after another.

Matsudaira saw a cannonball fall three feet away from his right, exploding between the two gunners. Seeing a flash of flames, the two gunners fell to both sides screaming.

The armor "Tokugawa carcass" on the iron gunner's body focused on the defense of the front and had no effect on such an explosion that exploded on the side. The slag from the shell tore through the leather guard on the side of the carcass like a throwing knife, and stabbed into the gunner's body. The two badly wounded gunners rolled on the ground with heart-rending screams that turned the faces of the other gunners around them pale.

On the other side, a cannonball also fell four feet to the left of Matsudaira Zeye. This shell smashed into the head of an unlucky gunner, smashing the gunner's head open. The iron gunner was stoned to death in one fell swoop.

The cannonball fell from the gunner's head to the ground and exploded under the gunner's body. A huge flame exploded, and the Iron Gunner's feet were instantly blown off, turning into minced flesh and bones, which flew out with the shockwave of the explosion. Fortunately, there were no other gunners around this gunner, and the shells did not kill the second person. But the blood that had broken from the lower limbs of the gunners was all splattered on the walls of the trench, painting the black-and-yellow walls of earth a blood-red color.

Matsudaira Zeye's face turned snow-white. What kind of cannon is this, Matsudaira Zeye heard for the first time that a cannon can be projectile at such a large angle. This is no longer like a cannon, more like a catapult.

Isn't this just passively beaten?

Matsudaira was about to go to the right to see if the two seriously wounded were still saved, when he heard the sound of tom tom shooting from the trench opposite. The artillery of the Ming people began to fire again.

That's a terrible rate of fire, isn't it?

This exploding cannonball is no child's play. Matsudaira Zeye immediately clung to the cat under the wall of the trench, not daring to move.

The explosion of the flowering bombs was like fireworks, exploding in the trenches of the Japanese, one after another.