Osaka Castle, that is, the acting lord of Osaka Castle, Abe Masaji, was stunned by the cannons of the Tiger Castle Division. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is simply the most efficient killing machine in the world.

The Japanese call the cannon "kokukai" or "big barrel". Originally, the sixteen "big tubes" of Osaka Castle were a very confident support for Abe Massaji, and Abe Massaji also felt that these "big tubes" could stop the Ming army. Who knew that these cannons were taken off by the cannons of the Ming Kingdom as soon as they came up.

What is even more shocking is that the shells of the Ming cannons will explode. Osaka Castle was first smashed by the impact of the cannonball, and then it had to bear the force of the cannonball. One building after another in the city was set on fire by flowering bombs, and there were fires everywhere. The iron projectiles that flew out of the cannonball killed an unknown number of soldiers.

Abe Masaoji had never heard of an artillery shell exploding. If he hadn't seen the ashigaru people killed by a shell, Abe Shoji wouldn't have believed such a thing anyway.

The power of the bombardment was terrifying. If the Ming army had fired solid shells, Abe Masaji might have held the castle to the death, using the buildings in the city to resist the shells and hold out until the Ming shells were finished. But under the bombardment of flowering bombs, Abe Masaji had only one choice to go out of the city desperately. Because the lethality of flowering shells to soldiers is much greater than that of solid shells, as soon as the shells explode, all the soldiers within a few meters of the vicinity will be killed. If the fight continues, the entire city will be killed.

Although Abe Masacji knew that Li Zhi had more soldiers and horses than himself, and it was more than lucky to rush out, he always had confidence in the elite iron gunners under his command. These iron gunners were excellent soldiers selected from the Tokugawa army, well-disciplined and skillful, and their shooting hit rate was higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

The Japanese iron cannon was a smoothbore arquebus with a range of only a hundred meters. If Abe Masaji wants to win this battle, he must rush to the front of the Ming army and open fire.

However, the terrible artillery of the Ming army did not give Abe the slightest chance at all.

The Ming army fired shotguns at the Tokugawa family's Ashigaru. Abe Shoji had only heard of this terrible method of warfare in the description of the expedition to Korea by the generals of the previous generation, and had never seen it with his own eyes. Seeing it in person today, Abe Masaji realized how bloody and terrible this method of warfare is.

As soon as the cannon fired, the first few rows of ashigaru were all shot. The flesh and blood of the dead and wounded flew in the air like raindrops, staining the still alive Ashigaru all red. Those expensive ashichi are as fragile as pieces of paper in front of a shotgun.

One hundred and sixty heavy artillery shelled in just one shell, and more than 7,000 Tokugawa Ashigaru fell a quarter. Where is this war, this is simply a massacre.

The lives of nearly two thousand soldiers disappeared in one fell swoop on this terrible battlefield. Those young people who were alive yesterday turned into corpses in an instant.

How could the ashigaru people in Osaka Castle ever see such a terrible weapon? I was stunned all of a sudden. The soldiers stood in a pool of blood and were so frightened that they did not dare to rush forward.

Even Masaji Abe, who was standing behind and commanding, was shocked by the terrible lethality of this cannon, and his mouth opened wide all of a sudden, and he didn't react for a long time.

It took at least five seconds for Abe Shoji to come back to his senses and shout hoarsely, "Beat the drums!" Charge! ”

The generals of the previous generation of the expedition to Korea said that the Ming army was powerful, but there were no iron cannons. Although the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to be holding Ming-style iron cannons, perhaps they were not good at using iron cannons at all. Perhaps as long as they rushed within range of the iron cannon, the soldiers of the Tokugawa family would be able to win the war.

The drums sounded, and the samurai, covered in blood, roared loudly, urging the iron cannon Ashigaru to continue to charge.

After being bombarded by shotguns, the morale of the Ashigaru of the Tokugawa clan was close to collapse, but it recovered somewhat in the roars and encouragement of the samurai. Tremblingly, they held the iron cannons that had been loaded with gunpowder and bullets, and trotted towards the Ming army in front.

But they ran too slowly. Li Zhi's artillery was able to load the cannon with shotguns in less than twenty seconds without considering the heat dissipation of the cannon. Ashigaru in Osaka Castle was in chaos for a few seconds, and when they charged again, Li Zhi's cannon fired again.

With a loud roar, one hundred and sixty shotguns shot out of the barrel. Tens of thousands of projectiles were fired at the Tokugawa soldiers more than 200 meters away, like a doomsday trial.

If the shotgun hits the torso, it will pierce two holes, pass through the body and shoot out of the back, and continue to kill the back row of Ashigaru.

Patches of blood burst out from the wounds caused by the shotgun projectiles and sprayed into the air like a heavy rain. The ashigaru in the first few rows were almost completely wiped out at once, and they discarded the fine iron cannon in their hands in the screams, fell to the ground, and never got up again.

The ashigaru of the Tokugawa family collapsed. Even if there were foreign invaders invading Japan on the other side, they did not dare to resist. The casualties among the soldiers of Osaka Castle had reached terrible proportions, with at least half of the soldiers slaughtered in just a few hours. The thousands of soldiers who were still alive were reduced to a rout, and fled in a panic to the east.

They didn't dare to enter Osaka Castle to hide, the Ming army was so terrible, hiding in Osaka Castle and resisting was a dead end. The only hope of survival is to hide in the wilderness to the east and hide in the people's homes.

Abe Masaji saw the army collapse and turned pale with shock. With the help of his guards, he mounted his horse and fled northeast, hoping to escape to the castle of Kyoto.

But after only five miles, Li Zhi's 500 cavalry of the Chosen Front Regiment caught up with this Osaka Castle - the soldiers of the Chosen Front Regiment rode fine horses that were one out of ten miles, and rode faster than the samurai who fled in front of Abe Masaji. The soldiers of the Election Regiment aimed their guns at Abe's mount and wounded the "Kisoma" with a single shot.

Abe Masaji only felt that the mount under his crotch was weak, and he was thrown to the ground by the war horse. The samurai beside him jumped off their horses and drew their swords to protect Abe Masaji, only to be knocked down one by one by the tricky Minnie rifles. In the end, only seven or eight of the more than twenty samurai around Abe Shoji remained, and these seven or eight people did not dare to resist anymore and fled.

However, these escaped samurai were not spared, and were used as targets by the soldiers of the Selective Regiment, and they were brought down one by one.

The soldiers of the Election Regiment tied up Abe Masaji and escorted him back to Osaka Castle.

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Seeing the defeat of the main force, the hundreds of defenders of Osaka Castle abandoned Osaka Castle and fled northeast, and Osaka became an empty castle.

The Tiger Warrior quickly took over Osaka Castle and took control of various key positions.

Li Zhi took Zheng Kaida and walked quickly into the warehouse in Osaka City.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu did not lie to Lee Sik. In the granary of Ninomaru in Osaka Castle, Li Zhi saw countless warehouses of rice.