Chapter 636: Satsuma Loyal Soul
* As soon as he came out, Yasuke Oyama knew that his situation was gone, and after handing over the command, he immediately slipped back into the castle. Tong Jia, who has experienced a hundred battles, did not need to be reminded by others, and immediately took advantage of the opportunity of the surprise attack of the newly selected brigade to launch a comprehensive general attack. The cannon shook the earth, the gunfire drowned out everything, and everything in Kumamoto Castle was shrouded in dust.
"Your Highness, Domain Lord, please move!" After Yasuke Oyama, who was covered in blood, entered the castle tower, he did not explain to the lords of the domain, and simply said that the only way out was at the moment.
"The Manchurians have come in?" Shimazu Hisamitsu and the others blew up at once, and they all left the table regardless of dignity.
"The Manchurians have launched a general attack from all sides, the inner city has been lost in a moment, and the traitors of the Aizu Domain in the northern city have already attacked the city, at this time, you can't hesitate, please move immediately!" Kuroda Kiyotaka also entered the castle tower with a body of soil, and he came back later than Yasuke Oyama, but he saw it more clearly, Kumamoto Castle was finished.
"Alas! Sekigahara's defeat is repeated today! Shimazu sat down in despair.
Ever since the news that the advance of the Manchurian Army was an Aizu feudal soldier had returned to the inner city, the feudal lords had been guessing that they had completely misunderstood the nature of the war. The feudal lords felt that this war was a continuation of the Boshin War, and that the Aizu Domain, which could not afford to lose, colluded with outsiders to come back and find a place. The southwestern feudal clans took advantage of the Boshin War to avenge the Sekigahara War, and the Aizu Domain wanted to take revenge on the Boshin War by using the Manchurian War.
"Kagoshima Castle has been lost, how can the Tokugawa family give me a way out!" Shimazu Tadayoshi is also declining, and their Shimazu family has no chance to be a foreign daimyo anymore.
"The Manchurian army is besieging on all sides, how can we break through!" Several other feudal lords are still more concerned about survival, either they are not direct participants in the downfall, or they are making up the numbers, and the Tokugawa family will not be repaired too hard if they want to take revenge, as long as they can escape today, they will still be the same as daimyo if they surrender in the future.
"Kitajo was the first to be breached, but Kitajo is mainly the remnants of the Aizu Domain and the Shinsengumi, and they have the weakest combat effectiveness, so they are the only way to survive at the moment." Yasuke Oyama is still very sober, there are Manchurian regular troops on the east, west and south, and it is impossible for them to open the gap at all, and only the direction of the northern Shinkan Brigade will have a way to survive.
"Let's go!" Shimazu Tadayoshi didn't wait for his father to speak this time, he simply got up and left the table, as long as they escaped, they had hope, Matsudaira Rongbao could surrender, and he Shimazu Tadayoshi had no scruples.
The agenda of the escape has been set, and everyone has no nonsense, and those with small families quickly called their wives and children, and those who did not bring small families ran away directly. The troops that had already received the fire could not be withdrawn, but the elites of the various departments that were still on the second line were called back, and then they protected the feudal lords of each domain and began to break through from the north together. Yasuke Oyama's judgment was very accurate, and the Shincho Brigade blocked the front of the north, but their limited strength and they were still fighting in hand-to-hand combat, and they were powerless to prevent the feudal lords from breaking through. The feudal lord and his party who easily escaped were relieved, but they were too happy too early, judging from traditional experience, it was true that no one had discovered them, but they had forgotten the Manchurian airship in the sky.
It is unrealistic to kill all the feudal troops in Kumamoto Castle, no one has ever thought of it like this, and Tong Jia doesn't care about the small-scale breakout and rout. After these people fled, it could not become a climate, and it also reduced the difficulty of the Manchurian army to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city, which was also a good thing. Even if it is a large-scale rout, it is possible to let them out, after all, it is much easier to chase down the remnants of the enemy than to fight in the streets of the city. But the goal of the feudal lord and his group is that it is too big. They had their own families around them, and they also gathered a large number of elite feudal troops, and the ground troops did not find them, and the airship could be seen clearly in the sky. After receiving the message from the airship, Tong Jia didn't have to think about it, and knew who these guys with wives and children were.
"Let the Xinxuan Brigade immediately turn around and chase after it, they don't have to worry about the affairs in the city, and transfer the 067th Infantry Regiment to take over the north side of the city wall! Let the cavalry regiment hurry over too, and be sure to catch these big fish for me!" Tong Jia immediately deployed a pursuit of the feudal lords.
The feudal lords still have a certain political significance, especially the feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Tadashi, if they can catch this guy, even if they can't make the Satsuma feudal lords in the new government give up resistance, it can also deal a heavy blow to the morale of the Meiji government. The Meiji government was supported by the four powerful feudal domains in the southwest, especially Satsuma and Nagasu, and if the lord of the Satsuma domain was caught, the Meiji emperor would definitely be blinded. In addition to the lord of the Satsuma Domain, the lord of the Hizen Domain is also in the team, although this buddy is limited in weight, but he is also one of the top four clans, and it is naturally excellent to be able to catch it.
"Lao Tong, let's let the Infantry 065th Regiment chase after you! The area around Kumamoto Castle is mostly mountainous, and the movement of cavalry is limited, so it is better to use infantry on foot! "Political Commissar Liu Qiang's chief of staff is very competent, he has long noticed the terrain near Kumamoto Castle, and when the cavalry drove over, he also found the problem of difficult cavalry movements.
"Yes, let's let the infantry regiment chase after it! At the same time, inform the aviation troops, bite these people for me, don't let them run! Tong Jia nodded again and again.
Knowing that he was going to chase after the feudal lords, he immediately saw that Shangwen did not delay at all, and immediately left the enemy in front of him, turned around and chased north. The feudal troops who were struggling to resist the onslaught of the Xinxuan Brigade suddenly felt a sharp decrease in pressure, and then the Xinxuan Brigade receded like a tide, and they were naturally overjoyed. But they were not happy for long, and before they could even restore the city's defenses, a new enemy was killed. And the new enemies no longer fight with them, all of them use bullets to solve problems, and the samurai with samurai* swords are suddenly sudden, and the samurai with samurai* swords are reduced to lambs to be slaughtered in a daze.
"The Manchurians have no credit at all, don't they fight with swords? Why did they all suddenly change to muskets! "Countless feudal soldiers muttered such complaints in their hearts before they died.
The feudal lords ran very fast, but after all, they were marching in a large group, carrying a lot of baggage and family members, and their speed was naturally not as fast as the pursuing Xinxuan brigade. When the feudal lords of the Aizu Domain learned that they were going to capture the lord of the Satsuma Domain, they all ran faster than rabbits. The feudal lords were less than twenty miles away from the city when they were bitten by the tail of the Shinxuan Brigade. The Schneider rifle and Gatling heavy chicken gun of the Xinxuan Brigade were backward equipment in North Manchuria, and they were not backward at all against the Satsuma Domain.
"Your Highnesses, please return to your territory!" Kuroda Kiyotaka didn't want to say that he would scatter and break through and run out one by one, so he could only express his meaning in a very euphemistic way. Everyone got together to fight the enemy, and now they suddenly said that they would go back to their own homes, and everyone naturally understood what it meant.
"It's definitely not just the traitors of the Aizu Clan who catch up, and if no one breaks off, even if we disperse, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape." Naoda Naodai, the lord of the Hizen Domain, was the first to say something dejected, and what he meant by this was that he wanted to simply surrender, and they, the daimyo families that had lasted for hundreds of years, had not surrendered a few times.
"I, the Satsuma Domain, should be the queen of your highness!" Yasuke Oyama is still full of enthusiasm, he doesn't understand the hearts of these daimyos, because he is a samurai, and the daimyo are all politicians.
"Take care!" Yasuke Oyama said that he was dead, and Nabeshima Naodai couldn't say anything more, so he could only say that he cherished it, and then ran away quickly.
After Yasuke Oyama left behind and all the feudal lords were on the road, Naodai Nabeshima knew that he had been calculated by the seemingly loyal Satsuma. Everyone else can go back to their own homes, but Hosokawa Gohisa of the Kumamoto Domain and Shimazu Tadayoshi of the Satsuma Domain have nowhere to go, and their nests are occupied by the Manchurians, so they have to follow Nabeshima Naodai. Yasuke Oyama's seemingly righteous and awe-inspiring behavior was simply done for the boss of his family, and it didn't matter if he sold it well, he threw such two big burdens to Nabeshima Naoda. Now Nabeshima Naodai leaves these two orphans behind, it means that he is not righteous, and this dumb man has to eat it.
The Satsuma Domain and the Kumamoto Domain are over, and now that they surrender, they can't keep their status as daimyos, so they naturally have to fight to the death. Nabeshima Naodai's Hizen Domain is still in his own hands, and if he surrenders the city, he will definitely not be treated harshly, but the Satsuma people have played such a hand, and if Nabeshima Naota wants to have face, he has to die with these two. Although politicians can be shameless at any time, but if they are not forced to a certain extent, Naoda Nabeshima really can't afford this infamy. People are all mourning for your elite after the break, how can you be embarrassed to betray others! The mouth of the world!
The feudal lords finally fled, and Yasuke Oyama and the Satsuma samurai had to face their final fate, and the 065th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Division of the Manchurian Army arrived. Although the Shinsengumi came up with a lot of good equipment, the Satsuma Domain Army was able to resist for a while, but as soon as the fully modernized 065th Regiment arrived, the Satsuma Domain Army had no strength to fight back. The powerful artillery broke up the already scattered formation of the Satsuma Domain's army, and flexibly interspersed, dividing them into countless small pieces, and the rapid assault of the infantry artillery finally completely defeated them.
None of the brave Satsuma warriors surrendered, and when the defeat was assured, they raised their * one after another and launched a final assault on the Manchurian army. Light and heavy chicken guns weaved a dense net of fire, and the charging samurai fell to the ground one after another, and even Yasuke Oyama was shot in the left leg. Yasuke Oyama, who was seriously injured, chose seppuku, and he had no chance to change his name to Oyama Iwa, and this was his final destination. Oyama Iwa couldn't find anyone with a similar identity, so he had to be interrogated by a mid-level samurai named Koji Yoshimura and cut off his head with a knife, which originally belonged to Saigo Takamori.
As Yasuke Oyama stabbed himself, the remnants of the Satsuma clan also committed suicide, and blood flowed all over the foothills, and all the three thousand Satsuma samurai were shattered. They were loyal and valiant, and they didn't do anything wrong, heroes and robbers were determined by victory or defeat, but this time they were defeated.
"Tell Asano to come over as soon as possible! The Great Shogun's Commandment, Kumamoto Slaughter the City! Tong Jia was a little depressed about not catching the big fish, but he was quickly relieved that he had never fought with the world.