Unexpectedly, the leader sat down and slowly unfastened the breastplate, and the other Nanban carcasses did the same. The leader took off his breastplate, said something to the sky, and then stabbed his sword into his abdomen, and turned it around again, when a southern barbarian carcass behind him slashed his head out.

The Ming army was dumbfounded, and the things that followed were like the previous copy, and more than thirty Nanban carcasses committed suicide and died. By this time, the Japanese had slowly retreated and entered the castle.

Man Gui looked at this scene with a complicated mood, the emperor once said that the Japanese are a strange people, and from today's point of view, this is really a bit strange.

Since the Japanese army had retreated into the castle, the Ming army could only follow and surround the castle from afar. Because the Japanese have artillery, let alone here, the Ming army is stationed outside the range of the castle artillery.

The inner castle of the Satsuma Domain was made of rock, and it was only a little difficult to use the method of dealing with the Japanese position, so Mangui gathered the generals above the bureau chief to discuss the method of attacking.

The generals' opinions were nothing more than two kinds: one was to besiege the city and send reinforcements so that the inner city would run out of food, and the other was to attack the city gate and open a passage before attacking. No one has proposed an ant-annexed siege.

Man Gui said: "The plan formulated by the staff is to attack the city with artillery, and now it seems that it can only be so, first break the city gate, and then attack from the city gate, as for the method of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, I am afraid that it is not very useful, where their feudal mansion is located, the food must be very sufficient, and we can't besiege the city with few people." ”

Of course, the siege of the city will not work today, so they will send people to buy food, and the guards will bury the pot and cook, set up tents, and prepare for the siege tomorrow. Man Gui led people to patrol the camp in person, ordered the soldiers not to disarm and sleep, and only entered the camp to rest after the sentry was properly arranged.

At about three o'clock in the evening, there was a sound of enemy attack outside the camp, and Man Gui jumped up, picked up his knife and rushed out of the tent. Sure enough, the Satsuma clan dispatched many samurai to carry out night attacks, but fortunately, the sentry did not doze off, and the enemy movement was detected in time.

When Man Gui arrived, the Japanese army had just arrived next to the camp, and the soldiers were already ready with firearms. The commander issued the order: "Open fire." The crackling sound of firecrackling rang out, and screams rang out outside the camp.

It is not easy to take advantage of the camp when the other party is prepared, not to mention that the firearms of the Ming army can be far away, and at this time, the sound of artillery also sounded, causing more and louder screams.

But there were still Japanese soldiers who rushed through the low wall, jumped in, and when they came in, they did not fight the Ming army at all, but pounced directly on the tents in the camp, and then sparks came out of them, and quickly set the tents on fire, and if they were not dead at this time, they pounced on another tent.

Although the Ming army quickly repelled the enemy outside and killed the death squads that jumped in, the tents of the Ming army were still burned at least forty percent, and looking at the messy camp, Man Gui further affirmed that the Japanese nation was indeed a strange nation.

They carried gunpowder on their bodies, poured fire oil on their clothes, and burned down the camp tents of the Ming army by setting fire to themselves, and they themselves were killed or burned to death.

Man Gui suddenly shuddered, and remembered another sentence that Zhu Youxiao had said to him: "We must fight them to be afraid when they see us, otherwise they may become our biggest enemies in the future." "The emperor really sees everything, these Japanese are really terrible.

But Man Gui thought again, fortunately, we have a wise emperor, fortunately, we have weapons and equipment that far surpass them, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the emperor, we can also ignore our own life and death, so the victory must be ours in the end, and it can only be ours.

He ordered the tent to be repaired urgently, and those that could not be repaired were squeezed first. He summoned a herald and told him to return to Kushikino and inform the navy to enter Kagoshima Bay and help the infantry attack the castle.

The next morning, after breakfast, the Guards began the siege, and the large-caliber twelve- and fifteen-pound guns aimed at the gate and began to fire. Kagoshima's artillery was not at a range of enough, so I could only watch as the shells were dumped at the castle gates and nearby.

The fifteen-pound cannon had no effect on the stone city wall, but it was still very useful against the city gate, and soon the city gate was broken with a hole, but the exposed stone inside made Man Gui's joy disappear.

Shimazu Tadashi was really ruthless enough, and when he couldn't rob the camp, he immediately blocked his city gate with stones. Now Mangui is out of line, the only weakness is that the Japanese themselves can block it, so they can only attack hard.

Man Gui chose a point about thirty paces next to the gate and ordered all the fifteen-pound cannons to bombard this place. The shells fell near that point as if they didn't want money, and the stones were splashed everywhere.

Man Gui didn't believe that he couldn't break the city wall by hitting just one point, but an hour passed, and the artillery battalion commander had calculated that more than three hundred shells had been fired, and that point was only lowered by about a foot.

The commander of the artillery battalion cautiously asked: "General, do you want to let them rest?" "There are only ten fifteen-pound guns in total, and although they stop from time to time to cool down the barrels, the barrels are already a little overheated.

Man Gui waved his hand down vigorously and said, "Use water to cool down outside, and continue to hit that little bit for me." Then he turned to the infantry battalion commander and said, "Prepare the first battalion, I think you may be able to use you soon." ”

Although the commander of the first battalion felt that it would be useless to fight until tomorrow, he quickly ran to his soldiers and began to mobilize the whole team and before the battle.

The artillerymen took the damp cloth and covered it outside the barrel to cool, and Man Gui stepped forward and said, "Prepare the shells, I will also try some cannons." The artillerymen loaded the gunpowder shells and handed the torches to Man Gui.

At this time, the other cannons stopped, and watched the general test the cannons. Man Gui brought the torch close to the primer, and with a bang, the cannonball flew out, hitting the city wall, and the artillery battalion commander looked at the obviously low shot, and said softly that it was a pity.

At this moment, there was a louder roar, and the city wall fell in its entirety, leaving a hole about twenty paces wide.

The Ming army was dumbfounded, but the artillery battalion commander was anxious and wise, and shouted loudly: "General Man is mighty, and there are gods to help." Only then did the soldiers react, and they also shouted: "General Man is mighty!" ”

Man Gui himself was also dumbfounded, and he couldn't imagine that his indiscriminate shot would have this effect. He had thought of smashing a small hole with a cannonball and then rushing in with infantry. However, now that the opening is so big, the Japanese can't block it even if they want to, but they are not in a hurry to let the infantry rush in.

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