Zhou Yuji sighed and said, "There is more than bravery, but not enough resourcefulness." However, he still admired the bravery of these people, and thought that in the future, he would also carry out bravery education in the Guards and cultivate some military talents who were not afraid of death.

The situation was already clear, and although the Japanese were charging frantically, they were simply unable to break through the Guards line. And the Japanese commander also understood this, so he quickly sounded the call to call his troops, and the Japanese army retreated like a tide.

The Guards marched into the earthen enclosure and then placed artillery on the east and north sides. Zhou Yuji ordered the soldiers of a bureau to go and buy military rations.

Akune seems to be relatively wealthy, and the people here are very cooperative with the Guards, who can easily buy a lot of food with copper coins, and as long as they give money, the Japanese are willing to help the Guards deliver food to Akune Castle in small carts.

Zhang Qianfang was responsible for transporting the old copper coins to Japan for sale, so the Guards brought a large number of copper coins with them this time. Although Ma Shiying said that it was okay not to observe military discipline in the Satsuma Domain, the Guards had always had strict military discipline, and if it could be bought with money, it was better not to rob it. Besides, if the Satsuma Domain wants to become a part of the Ming Dynasty in the future, it is best for the people to strive for it.

Now that there is food, Zhou Yuji did not panic, and after arranging the artillery, let the infantry train as usual every day, and put the scouts far away, always vigilant against the counterattack of the Japanese army.

And the situation of Mangui's march was not so smooth. Hioki is a relatively large city, of course, in the eyes of Man Gui, it is still an earthen enclosure, but this earthen enclosure is taller and larger than Ajiune.

Man Gui ordered the artillery to start setting up the artillery, not wanting that the Japanese would also have artillery, but their artillery was fired first, and a shell hit the newly erected artillery, knocking it to the ground. Fortunately, the artillery reacted quickly and evaded, but there were no casualties.

Man Gui said angrily: "Hurry up and set up artillery attacks, I don't believe that their artillery will be better than ours." ”

The artillery hurriedly set up the artillery and began to fire, and there were only a few guns in the Japanese and only two in the west, so after the guns of the Guards were mounted, they quickly took advantage and suppressed the enemy's fire.

The cannonball smashed the earth enclosure, but there was no way to completely destroy the city wall, because although it was an earthen enclosure, its wall was relatively thick, and the solid bullet could not play much role, and it could break some things on the surface, but it could not destroy the body.

Man Gui then ordered a special attack on the city gates, no matter how good they were, they were only made of wooden and iron plates, so the city gates were soon destroyed. It's just that the city gate is narrow, and at most two people can pass through it side by side.

Mangui stopped the officers' requests for infantry and ordered the artillery to continue the attack on both sides of the gate, and then to attack with infantry after the gate was enlarged.

The earthen walls around the city gate were knocked down piece by piece, accompanied by screams from time to time in the city. Man Gui waited until there were five or six paces wide at the city gate before ordering: "Infantry attack." ”

The commander of the 1st battalion, who had been waiting anxiously, took the lead in leading the infantry forward, and the enemy's artillery had already been damaged, and only sporadic lead bullets fell on the soldiers, but they did not have much damage at all.

After passing the city gate, a large number of Japanese soldiers rushed up with knives and guns, and the commander of a battalion ordered: "Use bayonets, no ammunition is allowed." At this time, the Ming army was significantly outnumbered by the Japanese army, and if they were to be fired, the enemy would quickly overwhelm them.

The soldiers rushed towards the enemy with their firearms, and the usual assassination training finally played a role at this time, the Japanese army was stronger than the White Lotus Army, but weaker than the Houjin Army, and it was a suitable training object for the intensity.

In the Japanese army, only samurai had swords, and most of the soldiers were armed with arquebuses or ordinary knives and guns, and some even carried bamboo guns and wooden knives. Such equipment can be said to be vulnerable to the well-crafted bayonets of the Guards, and most of their weapons are simply unable to break through the armor of the Guards.

It was a terrible battle, and of course, it was the Japanese who were miserable. Although they were all brave, and some of the samurai were adept at fighting, they were soon slaughtered in front of the equally brave and even more combative Guards infantry.

After the guards killed with bayonets for a while, most of the soldiers felt that it was much cooler to kill with bayonets than with firearms, and they fell in love with this feeling, of course, there were also some soldiers who could not see the enemy's wounds when they killed with firearms on weekdays, and they didn't feel anything, and now they would be a little uncomfortable with the knife in the flesh.

A battalion of soldiers continued to enter the castle, gradually squeezing the Japanese troops into a corner of the city, constantly reducing the space for the Japanese army to move, while people who knew Japanese kept shouting: "Surrender or kill, disarm or kill." ”

The Japanese found that there was no way to continue fighting, so they dropped their knives and guns and knelt on the ground. The commander of a battalion had them tied up one by one and put them aside to be guarded.

At this time, Man Gui entered Rizhi Castle, and the commander of a battalion asked him for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners. Man Gui thought for a moment and waved his hand, Bai Jiansen hurriedly said, "General Man, it's ominous to kill prisoners."

Man Gui looked at him in surprise and said, "Didn't anyone say that they wanted to kill prisoners?" ”

Bai Jiansen looked at him and said embarrassedly: "When the subordinate saw General Man waving his hand, he thought that General Man was going to kill the prisoner." ”

Man Gui smiled: "Although I don't know if it will be ominous to kill prisoners, it is indeed not a good habit. The emperor once said that it was an excellent way to govern the occupied areas, and that these captives were of great use, but if they refused to cooperate, of course they could not be kept. ”

Bai Jiansen volunteered: "Xiaguan learned some Japanese a few days ago, why don't you go and help persuade him to surrender?" ”

Man Gui looked at him and said, "It's okay, you people who read have a lot of bent intestines, maybe there is a good way." ”

Bai Jiansen came to the place where the Japanese prisoners were staying, and first said in Japanese: "The Satsuma Domain invaded my Ming Domain, so our emperor ordered us to punish the Satsuma Domain, you dare to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the crime is unforgivable, but our emperor is merciful, as long as we are willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, we can not kill him." ”

A Japanese man with a full face stepped forward and said, "Can't we all resist when you invade our place?" ”

Bai Jiansen looked at him calmly and said, "Yes, you can't resist, because you are at fault first. With that, he drew his handcuffs, pulled the trigger, and killed him in front of him.

He raised the short gun, blew into the mouth, and said, "Anyone else who wants to reason with me, I welcome." ”

The Japanese were silent, bowing their heads one by one, but occasionally the gaze in their eyes still revealed the unwillingness and dissatisfaction in their hearts.

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