Chapter 569: The Battle of Nihonmatsu
Asano Zongxiu got Zong Haichen's permission, and hurriedly ran to meet Wang Zifu, who had just sobered up, and used his character as collateral to buy all the goods of Wang Zifu in one go. At the same time, he implored Wang Zifu to bring more guns after returning to Manchuria. Because it is uncertain how many soldiers the Nihonmatsu Domain has, Asano has no way to give Wang Zifu an accurate number, in short, the more the better.
After getting the guns, Asano entered the inner city as soon as possible, and he wanted to consult with the old Niwa Kazugaku about how to distribute the weapons. Niwa Kazugaku, who was ready to die in the city, saw that Asano Munohide's attitude suddenly took a 180-degree turn, and he almost didn't soak his snot in the beauty. But he's just happy, the Nihonmatsu Domain is exhausted, and there is no one with a gun, unless Asano's guards participate in the battle, otherwise Niwa Kachigaku still can't escape the fate of seppuku suicide.
"Elder Yu, the equipment I brought back can arm a team of five hundred people, please arrange how to distribute it! My guard is about 500 people, and we can train one-on-one as soon as your assignment is decided. Asano still has a hint of fantasy, hoping that with these more than 500 new equipment, he can temporarily resist the new government army, and then he is trying to find a way to take his family away.
"Thank you! But there's no need to assign it, just let them collect it themselves, and the current Nihonmatsu doesn't have five hundred defenders even if he adds the junior team. Niwa has already fallen into decline, and all he thinks about now is the first half of his life, and he is ready to seppuku at any time.
As soon as Niwa learned this, he would definitely not be able to count on him to command operations, and he was left behind to die for martyrdom. Although Shiro Naito of Oshiro is also rushing to die, he is in a better state than the old man Niwa Kachigaku, and he is also arranging the affairs of Yiying. After a hypocritical polite exchange between Asano and Niwa, he followed Naito Shimojo and began to distribute firearms to prepare for the defense of Nihonmatsu Castle.
After Shiro Naito easily gathered all the defenders together, Asano wanted to cry in particular, this battle really couldn't be fought. The defenders of Nihonmatsu Castle were now only 461 people, and more than half of them were teenagers under the age of fifteen. Thirteen-year-old Soshige Asano was not the youngest among them, and there were more than twenty children who had just turned ten years old. Their bodies have not yet grown, that is, they cannot draw long knives, nor can they smoothly reload front-loading guns, and letting them go to the battlefield is simply sending them to death.
"Asano-kun, thank you!" The captain of the junior team, Kimura Shotaro, thanked Asano excitedly, although the ending seemed to be doomed, but this time his children may die more worthwhile.
"Kimura-kun, promise me to try to bring them back alive!" Asano looked at a group of immature faces, and could only make this request almost pleadingly.
"The spiritual fire of the Nihonmatsu Domain will never be extinguished!" Kimura didn't promise Asano anything, and he didn't think he would ever have a chance to come back.
It was the 3,000 troops of the new government army Itagaki Resuke and Oyama Yasuke who killed Nihonmatsu, and it was the 500 soldiers of the Miharu Domain who had just turned against the water who were the vanguard for them. The 800 Tosa Domain soldiers under the command of Itagaki Resuke are extremely well-equipped, and they are veterans who have experienced many wars, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. The Satsuma Domain soldiers of Yasuke Oyama, not to mention, can be called a first-class strong army in Japan, and even the Nagasu Domain has suffered their losses many times. Kimura only used more than 200 half-grown children who had never seen anything to resist them, and there was no possibility of victory at all, but behind them was Nihonmatsu Castle, and for the sake of their homeland, they couldn't back down a single step, so there was only one way to die in battle.
"The family members have already boarded the ship and gone to Dalian, the commander of the Asano Division, please immediately order your subordinates to withdraw from the battle area, and display the national flag to show our identity, and at the same time keep neutrality!" Zong Haichen, who worked part-time as a political commissar for a day, sent off his female dependents and came to urge Asano to withdraw from the war zone. It was already a bit too much for a group of Manchurian soldiers to remain neutral on Japanese soil, but they could no longer wander around the area of engagement, and it would be difficult to say in case of accidental injury.
"They're so rusty that they haven't even figured out how to aim! Teach them a little longer! Asano looked at his younger brother who was specially assigned to operate the artillery, and he was all kinds of uneasy.
"Commander of the Asano Division, unless you can train them here for half a month, they will definitely look like this when they go to the battlefield. The Japanese government forces are already less than 20 kilometers away from here, and you can't delay here any longer, because if an accident happens, the consequences will be unimaginable. "There is still a large area of land in Northern Manchurian that has just been occupied that has not been digested, and the reserves of ammunition are almost consumed, and now is not the time for war, so Zong Haichen must take Asano away.
"Please!" Asano bowed to Kimura, and then, with tears in his eyes, retreated with his men outside Nihonmatsu Castle. Asano found a high ground with a better view, set up a high-powered telescope, and wanted to keep looking at the line of the big altar that his brother was defending.
"Commander Asano, you won't do anything out of the ordinary, right?" Zong Haichen followed the high ground and found that the terrain here was very good and he could overlook the entire battlefield, and he was very worried that Asano would make some irrational moves.
"Sect Chief, don't worry! If you want to fight on the battlefield from here, you have to have at least a heavy gun with a caliber of more than 120 mm, and we don't have weapons with such a large range, so even if I go crazy, I can't do anything! "Asano can't afford to offend the people in the miscellaneous department, but he really wants to strangle Zong Haichen now, and then go down to fight for his younger brother himself.
Niwa Kazugaku in Nihonmatsu Castle judged very correctly, and he strengthened his defense at the focus of the new government army's attack. The government troops, who could not figure out the reality of the Nihonmatsu Domain, did not rush to attack, but rested for the night not far away. Then, early the next morning, he launched a fierce attack on the various defensive lines of the Nihonmatsu Domain. No matter how well Niwa is deployed, he has to face the embarrassing situation of a clever woman who has no rice to cook, a group of temporarily filled old, weak, sick and disabled, and the combat effectiveness is really poor. Less than an hour after the battle began, the eastern entrance to the middle was broken by the new government forces, and a fierce battle broke out at the large altar mouth defended by Asano Muneshige.
"It's a failure!" Zong Haichen was a little distressed, the weapons that Asano had just sent yesterday had become trophies of the Japanese government army. The Nihonmatsu Domain is finished, and this money can only be Asano, and it is still Goxing when it comes to the roots, and this is a loss.
"There is still a turnaround, and there is hope!" Asano had been holding a telescope and watching, for fear that the soldiers of the Nihonmatsu clan at the entrance of the Great Altar would collapse at the touch of a button, because his younger brother was also there.
"Someone has to go court-martialed!" Zong Haichen also watched for a while, the soldiers of the Erbensong Domain at the entrance of the big altar fought really well, and gradually moved back to the disadvantage. But looking at some familiar plays, Zong Haichen turned around and counted the officer corps behind Asano, and there seemed to be a few people missing from it.