The mercenary division did a very thorough job in the slaughter of Kagoshima Castle, and after completing the cleaning up of the surrounding crowds, they began to search and kill from house to house. All the men and the old men were killed at the first time, and the young women had to be sent a bayonet first. Machine guns were all set up in the streets, and those who had seen through the situation and wanted to flee at the risk of death also fell under the fire of machine guns. In seven days, the Asano Mercenary Division killed everyone in Kagoshima Castle, and except for the three lucky ones who crawled out of the pile of dead people, the entire city of Kagoshima Castle was killed.

Such a tragic massacre, just now naturally unable to achieve an absolute news blockade, the British who try to make trouble in North Manchuria every day have not heard of it, but the Satsuma clan that is close at hand knows all about it. His home has become a ghost, his wife and children have all been killed, and even the clay people can't bear it. However, Kiyotaka Kuroten, who still had a trace of sanity, and Yasuke Oyama still forced the feudal army to retreat to Kumamoto Castle, and their counterattack now was tantamount to suicide, and it was important to preserve their strength.

After hearing the military order, the feudal lords all jumped up, and at this time, their hearts could no longer tolerate any thoughts except revenge. They can ignore the people, but they must avenge the revenge of their wives and children, and they will not listen to the word retreat no matter what. The feudal army almost mutinied, and Kuroda Kiyotaka and Yasuke Oyama could no longer control the situation, so they had to invite the feudal lord Shimazu Tadayoshi. As soon as Shimazu Tadayoshi appeared, he didn't even say a word, and the feudal lords who were full of loyalty to the monarch quieted down and slowly walked towards Kumamoto Castle while wiping their tears.

Heitian Kiyoshi still hopes that Shimazu Tadaya can say a few words, at this time, everyone needs him to come out to boost morale, but Shimazu Tadaya doesn't want to give Kuroda this face, and his mood is not good. During the Restoration Movement, the Satsuma Domain produced a large number of talents, and everyone was under the banner of good for the feudal country and good for Japan, and Shimazu Tadayoshi supported them in a moment's dizzy. As a result, in the end, not only did he say that he didn't count, but even the position of the Shimazu family, which had been inherited for hundreds of years, was lost, and Shimazu Tadayoshi now hated Saigo Takamori to death, and even regretted his intestines. Shimazu Tadayoshi is actually still the lord of the Satsuma domain, but the abolition of the feudal domain has already begun to be implemented, and sooner or later he will go to Tokyo to become a rich man and hand over all his rights, how can Shimazu Tadayoshi be willing.

Aren't you reformers revering the king? Now that the Yi people of Manchuria have been brought to your house by you, you can find a way to end it yourself! If you need someone to boost your morale, go to the emperor! Now that I think of me, there is no door! Moreover, Shimazu Tadayashi's family has long been out of the city and has been moving with the army, so Shimazu Tadayoshi will not go to the Manchurians to play for his life! It's good to follow the excitement honestly. If the Manchurians really killed in front of him, Shimazu Tadayoshi would surrender, and the Celestial Empire would definitely not embarrass him, the puppet lord, and maybe restore his position, after all, the political significance of his surrender is still very far-reaching.

The group of the Satsuma clan retreated awkwardly to Kumamoto Castle. On the island of Kyushu, such as the Hizen Domain, Kumamoto Domain, Hasuike Domain, Ojo Domain, Kashima Domain, Uto Domain, and Takase Domain, the feudal states also invested their elite in the important Kumamoto Castle, preparing to fight to the death with the Manchurian army relying on the fortified castle. However, at this time, Asano's mercenary division was busy slaughtering the city, so the enemy that the Kyushu feudal alliance army had to face became the 11th Division, the real trump card main force of the Manchurian Army.

"This city is built on high ground, and it is almost the size of the Forbidden City!" Tong Jia, commander of the 11th Division, went to the front line to observe the enemy's situation, but because he looked down on the Japanese in his heart, what he said was all nonsense. Tong Jia, as Guo Xing'a's absolute descendant, has been hating the Qing Dynasty court with ill intentions towards Manchuria for many years, so he has been talking about rebellious words such as swaying Beijing all year round, and comparing the Forbidden City with his attack targets at every turn. Of course, if he said this, the miscellaneous affairs department didn't care, not only connived, but also had some encouragement.

"The east, west, and south are surrounded by water, and the terrain of these two hundred meters in the north is not bad, but unfortunately there is a stone wall nearly ten meters high, which is not easy to fight!" Tong Jia's political commissar Liu Qiang, the first to be born in Guoxing's guard class, was an instructor in the deserted village era, and he never said anything, but Tong Jia's rebellious thoughts were almost all guided by him.

"About seven points of defensive fire, right?" Tong Jia didn't care about the stone wall or anything at all, just find the firing point, there is no problem that can't be solved by a heavy gun with a caliber of 150 mm.

"It should be eight fire points! The aviation said that there is also a concentrated deployment of troops on the side of the Tsukimi notch, which should also be a firepower point! Liu Qiang didn't take the Japanese seriously, but he paid more attention to the opinions of the aviation, which was also part of the supreme directive.

"Hmmm! …… It's all equipped with artillery! We have to take out these cannons first, and we can't do any damage to such an enemy, and we can't afford to lose this man! "Tong Jia is very concerned about the battle losses of his troops, the 11th Division has been relatively average in the trump card for many years, but the battle loss ratio is the lowest, except for the two perverted units of the Guards Brigade and the Special Operations Brigade, no one can compare to them at all.

"There were six artillery positions, of which Fujisakidai on the western flat area had the most, with more than twenty. However, most of the Japanese artillery was replaced by the British, and the caliber, range, and type of ammunition were not in the same climate, and they could be defeated in one round. "Liu Qiang is not only the political commissar and the chief of staff of the division, he also shoulders it. Liu Qiang has been in the political department, and the speed of promotion is not slow, but seeing that Tardu has become the commander of the Marine Corps, he will inevitably have some thoughts of moving.

"During the dry season in winter, the amount of water outside the city is not large, so we don't need to be too cautious, let's besiege it from all sides! You can take the west as the main direction of attack, and I will first dispense his artillery fire to see if they can withstand it! "The General Staff Headquarters has already instructed that the Japanese on Kyushu Island will be severely attacked unless they surrender, and Tong Jia will naturally not play any tricks, and all the artillery fire will be killed.

Kumamoto Castle was built by Masaaki Kato in 1591 and completed in 1600. The city built on the mountain perfectly relied on the topography of the hill, and used the original slope to build a three-fold earthen wall. This three-fold earth wall can reflect the wisdom of the ancients very well, relying on the original hillside, and then applying gravel, stone and rammed earth, the defense ability is very strong, if you want to get this thing, you have to be more than 150 mm heavy artillery. Kato Masaaki is still building a large number of oaks, which are roughly equivalent to the urn castle or tiger's mouth in the Chinese city wall, but the number of urn castles in China is generally very small, but Kato Masaaki built seventy-two oaks in Kumamoto Castle in one go, and captured a basic defense, at least five of these chain defenses. If you hit all the way to Honmaru from the outside, you have to go through the seventy-two oaks, and the changes in the fortifications are almost the same as the tower defense maze, and there are gun holes in all directions.

However, when Kato Masaaki was engaged in this set of things, Japan still only had arquebuses, so his thinking was still the idea of the cold weapon era, and he was not used to it at all when he encountered the Manchurian Army, which was fully and nearly modernized. Whether it's Ishigaki or Tsukaku, it needs enemy soldiers to follow obediently to have an effect, but Tong Jia's 11th Division is not ready to obediently cooperate with the Japanese, and their attack method is something Kato Masaaki has never dreamed of.

After Tong Jia and Liu Qiang discussed, he casually sent a captured Japanese old man into the city to persuade him to surrender, the meaning was also very simple, surrender to avoid death, if there is resistance to go down to the city, the chicken and dog will not stay. The samurai of the Satsuma Domain, who were in charge of the city, were also very simple, and they did not reply, but just threw the old man's head out. There is nothing to talk about below, Tong Jia gave an order, and all the artillery belonging to the 11th Division began to demolish Kumamoto Castle, and even the 70-mm infantry guns of each company also began to strike at the wooden targets in Kumamoto Castle.

The Satsuma samurai, who had just been blasted out of their homes by naval guns, could barely endure the army guns whose caliber had shrunk by nearly half, but the samurai of the other feudal clans were almost in good spirits, and the devastating artillery fire was really terrifying. But the power of example is endless, and seeing that the Satsuma people are still persistent, the samurai of the other clans who are not willing to taste the people behind them also gritted their teeth, and then they gritted their teeth and were bombarded into pieces.

After half an hour of shelling, all the defenders' firepower points marked on the map by Tong Jia were all in the early Qing Dynasty, and the stone walls also collapsed in large numbers. However, the command of the ancients is really not built, and the stone wall built by the mountain is strong, although it has collapsed a lot, but the main body is still upright.

"There are no big guys above 200 millimeters, it seems that they can't gnaw on this rotten wall!" Tong Jia also took it, he really couldn't help this stone wall.

"There is a lot of rammed earth behind the stones, which is the original hillside, and we can't bulldoze the mountain, just bulldoze those fir fortifications!" Liu Qiang's requirements were not high, and he had no interest in razing Kumamoto Castle to the ground.

The vanguard of the 11th Division successfully crossed the Ishikawa River and the Tsubui River and entered the outer castle of Kumamoto Castle, while the samurai abandoned the people and retreated into the inner castle to hold on. Tong Jia, who attacked the outer city, was very depressed, he really underestimated the terrain of Kumamoto City, this ghost place is really too tricky, the terrain of the outer city is still lower than the inner city, and the Manchurian army entered the outer city, and still had to attack the inner city. Tong Jia, who was reluctant to play with his soldiers, could only order his troops to suppress the enemy army at the head of the city, and slowly consume the enemy army with artillery fire, and Kumamoto Castle fell into a very annoying war of attrition.

Although it was a war of attrition, it was mainly the Japanese army that was consumed, and few people in the Manchurian Army were wounded or killed, because Tong Jia, who felt sorry for the soldiers, chose a very scoundrel style of play. Only heavy machine guns and artillery were put into battle in the 11th Division, and the riflemen were all resting in the back! The firepower of these two weapons is only one of them, the most important thing is the long range, the Japanese army's Schneider and front-loading guns are simply not able to reach the Manchurian army, naturally no matter how they fight, the Japanese will suffer.

With a loss of 2,000 men per day, the Japanese army consumed three days with the 11th Division. Although the city is still in their hands and the army is still very rich, the bigwigs of the various domains are facing a major crisis, and they are running out of ammunition.