For the Ming army, the current task is to hold on to the territory that has been occupied. Therefore, Yang Guangkui ordered Yang Guanggao to lead 4,000 men to live in Ajiune to assist Zhou Yuji's troops, while Zhao Shujiao led 5,000 men to live in Kagoshima Castle. While Qi Zuoguo and Zheng Zhilong led the naval division to be stationed on Sakurajima Island in Kagoshima Bay, and Zhang Qianfang was stationed on Yongdao Island, waiting for the Japanese attack.

On the seventh day of the 11th month of the third year of the Apocalypse, it was sunny. The Japanese army was finally assembled, and under the personal command of Tokugawa Iemitsu, they directly attacked Kagoshima Castle.

The base camp of the Japanese army was in Kirishima, and Tokugawa Iemitsu had already asked the samurai who had fought against the Ming army in front of him, and knew that the Ming army had powerful firearms, so he led 35,000 people, without dividing his troops, and all of them rushed to Kagoshima Castle.

On the fifth day of November, Wu Mengming had already sent information to Akune and Kagoshima Castle. And the generals of the two places couldn't believe it after receiving the information, what kind of play is this, aren't they afraid that Ajiugen's Ming army will copy their back road?

And Wu Mengming also seemed to know that they wouldn't believe it, so he repeatedly emphasized that it was absolutely reliable news, so please be sure to think of countermeasures as soon as possible.

Yang Guanggao discussed with Zhou Yuji and decided to believe Wu Mengming's information, because they knew that it was really difficult to understand that the Japanese army sometimes went crazy. So Zhou Yuji took 2,000 people to stay in Akune, and Yang Guanggao took 6,000 people to rescue Kagoshima Castle.

Yang Guanggao hesitated, whether to intercept the Japanese army halfway, or enter Kagoshima Castle to help defend the city? Zhou Yuji felt that it was better to go to Kagoshima to defend the city, and he was afraid that 6,000 people would not be the opponent of the Japanese army.

So on the afternoon of the sixth day of the first month of November, Yang Guanggao led people into Kagoshima Castle. There were more than 15,000 soldiers in the entire Kagoshima Castle, and this is not counting the large number of sailors stationed on Sakurajima, which is across the water from Kagoshima Castle.

The Japanese army took the land route, because the last time Japan's most powerful Satsuma Domain naval army suffered losses at the hands of the Ming army, Tokugawa Iemitsu of course would not send any more heads to the Ming army, so he chose to attack Kagoshima Castle directly from the coast of Kirishima.

At noon on the seventh day of the first lunar month, all the Japanese troops gathered in front of the northern city wall. More than 30,000 people is a very terrifying number, the black pressure is full of people, and Man Gui has concentrated most of the artillery and infantry in the north, and Yang Guanggao is responsible for patrolling the other three city walls to prevent the Japanese from sneaking up.

Just after noon, the well-fed Japanese began to attack. They carried simple ladders, and the soldiers behind them took cover with arquebuses and bows and arrows, while the soldiers in front shouted and rushed forward with the ladders.

The Japanese cover had little effect on the Guards, because bullets or arrows from a distance could not reach the city, and even if they did, the damage to the Guards in iron armor was slightly equal to nothing.

The artillery of the Guards was venting their artillery fire to their heart's content, and for the dense enemy army, artillery had a natural advantage over firecrackers, and a shell would always be wounded by three or five or even ten before it stopped, and as long as it was wounded, it could basically be said that there was no help.

When the enemy was 500 paces away, the large-caliber artillery had already begun to roar, and these shells of more than 12 pounds could cause a lot of damage to the Japanese army, and then the small-caliber artillery also participated.

According to rough estimates, the shells wounded at least one-fifth of the Japanese troops, but the remaining Japanese troops did not care and continued to rush one hundred and fifty paces away. At this time, the firebolts began to fire, and these firecrackers used a new type of long bullet with a range of up to 200 paces. However, due to accuracy, the order to open fire was given only at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

There were 3,000 new guns, all of which were brought to Japan for combat testing, and there were more than 2,000 in Kagoshima Castle. Although it was only an improvement on the bullet, it was nearly twice as powerful as the original flintlock pistol, making it easier to load the bullet and increasing the rate of fire by about one-third. Taken together, the new firecracker can be considered more than twice as lethal.

Even so, because there were too many Japanese troops, one person fell, and there were immediately new soldiers to replenish them, so a large number of Japanese troops rushed to the city wall, erected ladders and began to climb the city.

Man Gui had already prepared a large number of hooks, there were multiple forks in front of the hooks, and put it against the top end of the ladder, several soldiers shouted at the same time, pushing the ladder out of the city wall, and the Japanese soldiers on the ladder fell to the ground, only making a few muffled snorts.

And Zhang Xinchen found that if he pushed back, he would use a lot of force, and if he pushed to the side, he would have less force, and he could hit the ladder next to him, so he ordered: "Just push to the side." ”

The soldiers pushed the ladder a little away from the wall with their hooks, and then threw it to the side, so that one ladder pressed down the other, knocking down the people on both ladders. If you are lucky, you may also affect the third or even the fourth ladder, and for a while, the ladder of the Japanese army is crooked, and the Japanese soldiers fall like dumplings.

Even so, some Japanese soldiers climbed to the top of the ladder, and when they were overjoyed to climb the city wall, several bayonets were stuck in his head or body at the same time, and the vitality immediately left him, and finally fell down like a stone, taking the Japanese soldiers behind him with him.

Although the number of Japanese troops far exceeded that of the Ming army, after the baptism of artillery, the combing of firearms, and the attack of hooks, the number of Japanese troops who could climb up was very small, and such an attack could not pose a threat to the guards at all.

The Japanese army could not climb up with more than 30,000 people, and as long as they attacked in batches, they would not be able to break through the Ming army's defensive line. But Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't care at all, in his mind, more than 30,000 people, the pile could also pile up the Ming army.

The Japanese were indeed brave, although they did not seem to have fought with their own ideas, and only knew how to charge forward according to the orders from above, and the death and screams of their comrades did not seem to affect their determination to charge.

The frequency of artillery fire of the Ming army is gradually decreasing, because although the weather is cold, the barrel will still be hot, and the gun will have no effect, but people will always be tired, and the soldiers who climbed the city wall slowly increased, and the Ming army finally suffered casualties.

Except for the new muskets, which continued to fire, the rest of the infantry used bayonets to defeat the enemy. On the narrow city wall, the Ming army was always able to form a local short-term battle with more and less, so the whole situation can be said to be under the control of the Ming army.

Mangui ordered the infantry on the other walls to quickly move to the north to replace the Guards infantry, who were already exhausted and out of breath. It's just that the place is narrow, the rotation is not working, and it can't be completed for a while. As a result, the soldiers inside were so tired that they died, but the soldiers outside could not rush in, so they could only shoot outside with muskets from the side.

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