Chapter 677: Looting
After Toyotomi Kunimatsu led 8,000 troops to rush out of the city, he simply sorted out the formation, and then pounced on the Tiance army.
The soldiers in Osaka were equipped with a large number of arquebuses, which were all produced by the Japanese.
The technology came from the Portuguese, and the Japanese seized a few Portuguese arquebuses that year, and the road to imitation began. Because of the backward technology, the arquebus imitated by the Japanese has a shorter firing range than the original, about 100 to 150 meters, and this smoothbore gun must rely on platoon guns to be effective, so it must have a formation.
"Beat the drums, charge!"
Toyotomi Kunimatsu did not have time to wait for the army to be completely lined up before charging, and the enemy's artillery fire was so fierce that he feared that such artillery fire would soon fall on his head, so he could not wait to charge.
In the front row were the ashigaru iron gunners armed with arquebuses, who, led by the samurai, rushed towards the Tence army.
The muzzle of the Tence Army was not turned, because Toyotomi was in a hurry to loosen out, and he did not carry a single trot. The key is that through the shelling just now, he already knows that the range of the Tiance Army's artillery is too long, and it is difficult for any artillery in Osaka City to reach it.
They were greeted by 30 armored vehicles and dozens of Type 85 heavy machine guns, the formation of the Japanese troops was too dense, and the on-board machine guns and Type 85 heavy machine guns began to fire from 600 meters away.
The 12.7 mm heavy bullet shuttled through the crowd, and the ashigaru was constantly hit by the bullets, and the bullets immediately penetrated the ashigaru on the bodies of these Japanese soldiers, and the human body penetrated through the front and back. The kinetic energy of the bullet was still sufficient, and it was only after knocking down two or three people in the rear one after another that the kinetic energy was released.
Any of the ashigaru hits had difficulty keeping their bodies intact, and some of them were broken into two pieces, their internal organs spilled all over the ground, and they were still steaming in the cold wind of early spring.
Even if it didn't hit the vital point, just a scrap would take away a lot of flesh and blood, and the injured foot fell to the ground twitching, rolling, screaming, and never getting up again.
The Japanese ashigaru was constantly charged, constantly being knocked to the ground, and as the distance approached, the speed at which he was hit to the ground continued to increase.
Riding on his horse, Toyotomi Kunimatsu, who fell behind, was shocked, shocked by the range and power of the heavy machine guns of the Tiance Army, which had such terrifying power in more than a mile, it was simply unimaginable.
As the distance continues to draw, the truly unimaginable scene has just begun.
Within 400 meters, the soldiers of the Tiance Army opened fire one after another, and at such a distance, the soldiers all took point shots, and the Japanese ashigaru became the target of shooting.
At this time, the Japanese ashigaru was like the weeds cut down by the lawnmower, and they fell to the ground in rows, like a condemned prisoner being executed, or more precisely, this is a massacre.
Three hundred meters away became an insurmountable distance, and the ashigaru were all infantry, and the speed of movement was incomparable to that of cavalry, and the corpses in this area were accumulating more and more.
The so-called late and fast, this process lasted only a little more than a minute, and Japan's Ashigaru has already reimbursed more than half.
At this time, both ordinary soldiers and Toyotomi Kunimatsu reacted, this was not the war they wanted, and the enemy on the opposite side was too efficient in killing people.
The first to collapse were the ashigaru who rushed ahead, screaming as if they had seen a ghost and turned to run, as if there was a bloody jaw behind them ready to devour their lives at any moment.
It is true that the ashigaru people collapsed, and the Tiance army also moved.
The armored vehicles and the soldiers of the Tiance Army rushed forward, and the gunfire did not stop, and bullets were fired into the back of the Japanese ashigaru.
Toyotomi Kunimatsu bystander Kiyoshi had long since reined in his war horse and watched in amazement as his ashigaru men were slaughtered by the Tence Army. By the time he could react, the ashigaru had collapsed, so he rode his horse and fled. Osaka Castle is afraid to go back, it has become hell, and his direction is Kyoto.
But his horse is fast, and the armored vehicles of the Tiance Army are faster.
In the roar of the motor, "Boom! With a bang, an armored car collided, and more than a dozen guard samurai around Toyotomi Kunimatsu were knocked into the air, several samurai died tragically under the tracks, and Toyotomi Kunimatsu's war horse was also taken down, and he himself rolled off the horse.
There was no enemy in front of the armored car, and the driver turned the front of the car in a dozen directions, but then the commander of the armored car said: "Don't be busy crashing, that guy is wearing bells and whistles, he should be a big fish, catch it alive." ”
Toyotomi Kunimatsu's guards lifted him up from the ground, and Toyotomi Kunimatsu's leg had already fallen. Seeing the soldiers of the Tiance Army approaching, the guards hurriedly drew their swords in a defensive posture, and the bullets on the opposite side had been fired one after another, and the guards fell to the ground one after another.
"Tie it up, take it away!" After killing all the guards, Toyotomi Kunimatsu was tied up and escorted away by the soldiers of the Tence Army.
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The few hundred remaining defenders of Osaka Castle immediately abandoned the castle and fled when they saw that the city's army had been completely destroyed.
The city gate has been opened, and the second brigade of the Tiance Army and the two brigades of the public security army quickly entered the city to control the key points.
The damage to Osaka Castle caused by the large-scale shelling of the Tence Army was incalculable, and the casualties among civilians in particular were very serious, and according to the statistics of the shogunate after the incident, nearly 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded in Osaka Castle, and thousands of houses were damaged.
Therefore, when the Tiance army entered the city, Osaka Castle was full of smoke and fire, ruins and broken walls, and it was a mess.
This was not Zhou Yan's concern, and after entering the city, he quickly ordered people to seal off all the residences and warehouses of the Toyotomi family.
Osaka is an important city in Japan, and the wealth hoarded by the Toyotomi family is also considerable, and the capture of goods is also one of the main tasks of the Tiance Army, and the battle is not in vain.
After intense statistics, the results were not long in coming.
Instructor Sun Mingyang took a statistical table and happily came over to Zhou Yan and said, "Brigade commander, this time you have gained a lot." The granary of Osaka Castle alone has 600,000 koku, oh! That's more than 40,000 tons. and three million three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, and eleven thousand taels of gold. ”
Zhou Yan also smiled and said: "Japan is worthy of being a silver-producing country, and the treasury of Osaka City can seize so much silver." Old Sun, you can arrange for someone to load the ship as soon as possible. ”
The more you harvest, it means that the Tiance Army has made a fortune again, and everyone can enjoy it for a while.
Japan is also a major silver-producing country in this time and space, and the amount of silver mined far exceeds that of the Ming Dynasty.
This is also the reason why the Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese broke their heads to fight for Japan's trade rights, and the Dutch occupied the island of Taiwan for the sake of the Japanese route, and Zheng Zhilong's main trade direction was also the Japanese route.
The main task of the motorized cargo ships that came with the fleet was to transport the captured goods to the mainland, and they had already been transported back after the battle with the rebels.
While the 2nd Brigade was busy looting Osaka Castle, Wang Yue's main fleet also encountered the Japanese naval division.