The move of the Wu army to directly blow open the gate of Kagoshima Castle with explosives not only caught the Japanese defenders of Kagoshima Castle off guard, but also killed the main Japanese army stationed at Senyan Temple in a hurry, completely disrupting the wishful thinking of the main Japanese army.

Originally, in the plan of the decision-making level of the Satsuma Domain, it was planned to use Kagoshima Fortified Castle to delay the battle until it was dark, and then it would be best if the Wu army continued to storm the city, and if the Wu army chose to collect troops and return to the camp, then the defenders in Kagoshima Castle would also take the initiative to attack and contain the Wu army, and at the same time, the Japanese army, which was not very far from Kagoshima Castle, took the opportunity to attack in a big way, taking advantage of the familiarity with the terrain in this area and the advantages of troops and physical strength, and the troops raided the Wu army's position in several ways, killing the Wu army in a hurry, and also striving to create victory. Reverse the passive situation on the sea.

It's a pity that although the abacus played beautifully, the Satsuma clan unfortunately encountered the Wu army who did not play cards according to the routine at all, and as soon as they came up, they directly attacked the city, and also used the gate blasting tactics that had not appeared before in the history of Japanese warfare, and directly blew up the gate of Kagoshima Castle. As a result, after the news was sent to the Thousand Eyes Temple by the scouts with a flying horse, Shimazu Hisamitsu could only hurriedly ask the retainers, "What should I do?" Should Kagoshima Castle be abandoned? ”

"It's a shame to just give up Kagoshima Castle." Infantry Supervisor Okubo Ritsu hurriedly said: "Although the Qing army blew open the city gate with gunpowder, they are not familiar with the terrain of the city, and it is impossible to really take Kagoshima Castle in a short time, we should seize this opportunity and immediately send the main force to reinforce Kagoshima Castle, if we can defeat the Qing army that intercepted us in a formation, we will not only be able to keep Kagoshima Castle, but also may turn defeat into victory and win this battle." ”

"You can't take any chances." Saigo Takamori, who had always been good friends with Okubo Ritsu, sang a rare contradiction, saying: "Our scouts reported that the Qing people had dispatched at least 3,000 people to attack Kagoshima Castle, but only sent about 1,500 people on the periphery to prepare to intercept our reinforcements. The Qing people used a high-ranking general to lead a small number of troops to intercept us, which shows that the army around him must be the elite soldiers of the Qing State, and they dare to arrange it like this with confidence and certainty, and we know nothing about the enemy's tactical equipment, and we may suffer a big loss if we risk a decisive battle with their elite soldiers. ”

"Then you can't just watch the Qing people take Kagoshima Castle, right?" Okubo retorted: "If we don't know the enemy's situation, we can't engage the enemy, so if we don't know the actual situation of the enemy, we will never fight the enemy's main force?" ”

"We can send a small number of troops to test the enemy's main force, and if we can fight, we will dispatch the main force, and if we can't fight, we will retreat quickly." Saigo Takamori replied, and said: "As for Kagoshima Castle, to be honest, our Kagoshima Castle was wrong when choosing its location, it did not take into account the threat from the sea, the location was too close to the sea, and the fleet of the Qing people was so strong, even if we keep Kagoshima Castle today, we will definitely not be able to keep it in the future, so it is better to give up here, give priority to our army, and wait for reinforcements to arrive before considering a counterattack." ”

Saigo Takamori's persistence still played a role, at least to calm down Okubo Ritsu, who advocated a decisive battle on this issue, and seriously considered his proposals. Over there, Shimazu Hisamitsu was also moved by Saigo Takamori's words, and after a little calculation, he instructed Okubo Ritsu: "Okubo-kun, with Saigo-kun's method, you first take 3,000 people to test the combat effectiveness of the Qing Kingdom, if you can fight, I will immediately personally lead the main force to reinforce you, if you can't fight, retreat immediately, and give priority to preserving the army!" ”

"Hello!" Okubo agreed without hesitation, and immediately came to the middle of the army to send troops and horses, and personally led 3,000 troops to test the strength of Wu's land division.

At the same time, Chen Yucheng's two new soldiers have also entered Kagoshima Castle, and the result is just as Saigo Takamori expected, because of the ignorance of the internal situation and architectural structure of the Japanese city, the Wu army was indeed very difficult in the street fighting, and was constantly knocked down and wounded by the cold guns of the Japanese army, with many casualties but slow advance, and had to rely on a small number of bitter acid grenades to open up the road, and finally opened up a position in the city, covering the rear team led by Chen Yucheng to enter the city to fight.

The situation in the city was still very chaotic, and the Japanese soldiers who were familiar with the terrain hid in various hiding places, constantly shooting Wu soldiers with cold guns, and the Wu soldiers usually did not find out where the enemy was until the enemy opened fire. Fortunately, the commander of this Wu army was Chen Yucheng, who had both experience and brains, and in the case of knowing nothing about the interior of the enemy's city, judging by various signs such as fire, flags, and the enemy's dense and thorough firepower, Chen Yucheng still quickly discovered that the Japanese army's headquarters was likely to be in the western part of Kagoshima Castle, and decisively pointed to the position called Nishimaru by the Japanese, and shouted: "Fight west!" The headquarters of the Japanese Kou, eighty percent is there! ”

Facts have proved that Chen Yucheng's judgment is correct, after launching a strong attack on Nishimaru in Kagoshima Castle, the Wu army was indeed stubbornly blocked by the intensive fire of the Japanese army, Chen Yucheng was not polite, and decisively ordered the soldiers to use a small number of bitter acid grenades to open the way, bitter acid grenades smashed into the enemy one after another, and the Japanese soldiers hiding inside and outside the house cried wolf howling, either dead or wounded, and kept escaping from the hiding place where the fire had been fired. However, when there was only one step away from the wall of the West Pill Courtyard, the offensive of the Wu army suddenly slowed down, and only two grenade bombs were thrown at the gate of the courtyard and there was no movement, Chen Yucheng was furious, and he leaned forward and shouted to the sentry officer in charge of the assault and asked, "Why did you stop?" Why not keep pitching grenades? ”

"Returning to Cheng Tianyu, it's gone." The sentry officer replied dejectedly: "The forty grenades of the last general's own post, as well as the grenades of other sentry teams to support the last general, have all been used up. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Yucheng shouted: "Get out of here, change my pro-soldier team!" ”

"Cheng Tianyu, you can't go up in person!" The sentinel hurried to stop it.

"Shut up! Call me Chen Shoubei, next time I call it wrong, military law is engaged! ”

shouted out his subordinates, Chen Yucheng gave orders again and again, and called the six personal soldiers and soldiers under his personal command to come forward, first arranged grenade throwers, and hurriedly prepared a log for hitting the door. Then an order was given, and the grenade throwers immediately stepped forward in turn, and threw 20 grenades at the gate of the West Maru Courtyard in one breath, which blew up the Japanese soldiers guarding the courtyard gate, and the dead and wounded all over the ground.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Under the repeated impacts, the old-fashioned courtyard gate that had been injured by the grenade was finally knocked open by Chen Yucheng's own soldiers, but as soon as the courtyard gate was opened, a dense number of gunshots were immediately fired from the courtyard, killing and wounding several Wu soldiers who hit the door. Fortunately, Chen Yucheng was also mentally prepared for this, and the grenade thrower immediately stepped forward again, and smashed more than a dozen grenades into the courtyard in one breath, in the thick smoke of the fire, Chen Yucheng suddenly roared, and took the lead in rushing to the gate of the West Pill Courtyard.

When Chen Yucheng rushed into the courtyard with his direct personal team, the soldiers of Wu Army were greeted by bullets on the walls and pavilions, and there were also Japanese soldiers with bayonets in the countercharge. However, after getting through the initial shock, Chen Yucheng immediately shouted with joy: "Get on the bayonet!" Let the Wakos see how good we are! ”

The bayonets were unsheathed one after another, and quickly inserted into the head of the Minnie gun, and the soldiers of the Wu army under the leadership of Chen Yucheng took up the bayonets and charged, and a bloody bayonet white-knuckle battle was also launched in the Japanese army headquarters Nishimaru, the Japanese army shouted eight checks, and the soldiers of the Wu army yelled, "Son of a bitch!" Die! ”

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At the same time on the battlefield outside the city, Huang Yuanbao, the commander of the Wu Army's land division, had also received the news that the Japanese army in the Thousand Eyes Temple was striding towards Kagoshima Castle, and what made Huang Yuanbao angry was that the Japanese army only sent 3,000 people to deal with the three elite battalions of the Wu army led by himself - this is not to show that he looks down on the fierce general Huang Yuanbao who can be counted on his fingers in the ranks of the Wu army.

"Third Brother Huang, let me go." A battalion officer also volunteered: "The last general will only take the battalion of the headquarters to go up and keep and kill these 3,000 Japanese robbers!" ”

"Shut up, what else do I have to do if you beat me away?" Huang Yuanbao scolded angrily, and suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly shouted: "Column the phalanx, and arrange the three phalanxes in a zigzag shape, so that the Japanese Kou think that we are afraid and dare not fight with them head-on!" Look at my banner to fight, there is no order, no grenadiers, let alone shooting in a lying position! The sniper also gave Lao Tzu an honest stay, without an order, he was not allowed to shoot! ”

The order was transmitted, and the elite battalion of the Wu army, which had strict training, immediately lined up three hollow hedgehog formations in a zigzag shape, and put on a defensive posture of only defending and not attacking early. As a result, after the news was reported to Okubo Ritsu by the Japanese scouts, Okubo Ritsu was really fooled, and he no longer had too many scruples to just urge the army to hurry, and soon rushed to the periphery of the Wu army's position with the army.

It's just that he no longer has too many scruples, and after carefully observing the three phalanxes of the Wu army, he found that the formation of the Wu army is extremely difficult to break, and the forced attack must have suffered a lot of casualties, and Okubo did not dare to take risks, so he chose to divide his troops in a roundabout way, first blocking the back road of the Huangyuan Leopard Army with a thousand people, and then invested 200 troops to carefully attack the hollow hedgehog array in front of the Wu army.

Under the personal command of Huang Yuanbao, the actual combat performance of the Wu army once again relieved Okubo Ritsu - the soldiers of the Wu army deliberately used two shots to meet the attack, and after firing a shot of the pin gun, they had to be silent for dozens of times before reloading and firing, deliberately slowing down the rate of fire of the self-army to only slightly faster than the front-loading gun, and at the same time deliberately did not use the grenadier as a field killing weapon, and the precious snipers who were piled up with silver also hid in the hollow phalanx and did not fire a single shot from beginning to end, trying to preserve their strength.

The tentative attack of the two hundred Japanese soldiers was quickly repelled by the platoon guns of the Wu army, and after discovering that the elite battalion of the Wu army did not have any outstanding points, Okubo Ritsu was finally relieved, first played the banner, let the 1,000 people who had detoured back to the rear of the Wu army to launch an attack, pinning down the two elite battalions of the rear of the Wu army, and then decisively invested 1,500 people, and attacked the Wu army camp team in front of the front from the front and the left and right flanks at the same time, and directly shouted: "Rush up and break through the phalanx of the Qing State!" Kill all the Qing people in this phalanx for me! ”

When the Japanese troops rushing from the direction came within the range of the rifle, Huang Yuanbao first gave an order, and the Wu soldiers immediately fell to the ground, and then the Wu army grenadiers that were ambushed inside the hollow hedgehog array immediately opened fire together, and a full forty grenadier shells were fired in one breath, and at the same time, the snipers of the Wu army had also fired, accurately shooting the Japanese generals wearing conspicuous armor.

The brutal massacre began, and at the same time that the middle and grassroots generals of the Japanese army were hit one after another by the bullets fired by the snipers of the Wu army, the grenadier shells that came from the sky had also fallen from the sky, smashed into the dense horizontal column of the Japanese soldiers, and the earth-shattering explosions exploded one after another, and the Japanese soldiers also fell into a pool of blood in pieces, and there were countless Japanese soldiers who went directly to see Amaterasu with a strange scream, and the originally very dense and neat horizontal team also became chaotic.

The grenadier shells that seemed to be fired in bursts were still falling, and the Japanese soldiers also continued to fall to the ground one after another in the sound of explosions, either they were blown up to the point that their bones were gone, their limbs were incomplete, or they were blown up to the point of blurred flesh and blood, and there were many Japanese soldiers on fire rolling on the ground and screaming, and the pitiful sound of desperate crying even the Wu soldiers felt a little distressed when they heard it, and almost in the blink of an eye, the ground was already full of Japanese soldiers' corpses and seriously wounded.

The Japanese soldiers must be praised for their bushido spirit, and while many of their companions fell to the ground, there were still many Japanese soldiers who launched a charge on board, in a vain attempt to rush to the close and fight with the Wu soldiers who were so frightened that they dared to lie on the ground to avoid bullets. But it is a pity that these Japanese soldiers have become the live targets of the Wu army's soldiers, and the elite of the Wu army, who can also reload, calmly shoots the soldiers, and knocks down these Japanese soldiers who charge forward like a roll call, almost none of the Japanese soldiers can rush into the 30 meters in front of the Wu army's formation, let alone fight with the Wu army in close combat.

The situation of the 1,000 Japanese troops attacking from behind was even worse, under the joint attack of the two elite battalions of the Wu army, these Japanese soldiers with front-loading guns were purely a group of lambs to be slaughtered, and they were also first dizzy by the grenadiers of the Wu army, suffering heavy casualties, and then they were beaten by the Wu soldiers who suddenly took a lying position to shoot and screamed, fell to the ground continuously, and then quickly collapsed and fled everywhere.

"Hit the mark! The Qing people deliberately showed weakness to lure me into throwing in a large number of troops! I can't imagine that the elite soldiers of the Qing people will be so powerful! ”

Okubo Ritsu's pale face found that it was too late, more than 2,000 troops on the front line had been completely collapsed by the fierce fire of the Wu army, the generals and soldiers were killed innumerable, and the rest of them rushed to flee back to their own formation, even the military law team could not stop their defeat and escape, forced to helpless, Okubo Ritsu could only wave his hand in despair, and shouted in a hoarse voice that did not resemble a human voice: "Retreat!" ”

The retreat signal was issued, and the Japanese soldiers who had collapsed naturally fled faster, and only the 500 people around Okubo Ritsu remained in the queue, while protecting Okubo Ritsu and slowly retreating, they were forced to take on the task of being the queen of the palace. As a result, Huang Yuanbao, who had not been addicted to killing at all, was of course furious when he saw it, and immediately urged the two battalions in the rear to launch a pursuit, shouting: "Catch up, kill the rear army of the Japanese for Lao Tzu!" If you see it, try to kill the leader of the Japanese Bandits! ”

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Kagoshima Castle, Nishima Marunai.

"Eight Tooth Road! Damn the Qing people! Damn bastards! ”

Howling like a beast, Shimazu Hisakei, the head of the defenders of Kagoshima Castle, was covered in blood and like crazy, clutching the gaped katana in both hands and quickly flanking, trying to find the flaws of the enemy on the opposite side. Chen Yucheng, who personally fought against Shimazu Jiujing, was also covered in blood, holding a bayonet and vigilantly looking at the enemy who had already cut down several Wu soldiers with his own hands, and his footsteps were equally fast.

"Eight Tooth Road!"

With another crazy howl, Shimazu Jiujing suddenly stepped forward and slashed out with a knife, slashing hard at Chen Yucheng's left lower abdomen, the knife was heavy, as fast as the wind. However, Shimazu Jiujing moved quickly, and Chen Yucheng, who was the enemy of him, moved faster, his hands sank quickly, and the body of the gun almost blocked the blade of the katana between the lightning and flint, and the swords and guns collided, splashing sparks.

It was too late, it was fast, the knife and gun had just collided, Shimazu Jiujing suddenly let go of his hands, let his katana be bounced into the air, his right hand quickly thrust into his waist, pulled out the small knife that was obliquely inserted in his waist, and stabbed out the knife to Chen Yucheng's ribs, the action was faster, and the momentum was more vicious. However, at the moment when the little knife was about to touch Chen Yucheng's lower abdomen, a big hand like iron tongs suddenly grabbed Shimazu Jiujing's right hand and forcibly pushed the little knife back by an inch. Shimazu Jiujing looked up in surprise, but was extremely surprised to see that the person holding his right hand turned out to be Chen Yucheng, who seemed to have revealed a fatal flaw just now.

"Dog mongrel, if it weren't for Lao Tzu crawling out of the pile of dead people countless times, he would have been really yin by you!"

With a cruel smile and said a sentence of Chinese that Shimazu Jiujing didn't understand, Chen Yucheng suddenly exerted all his strength, grabbed Shimazu Jiujing's right hand and threw it with all his might, an over-the-shoulder fall threw Shimazu Jiujing to the ground, and quickly picked up the rifle with a bayonet, clenched his hands and plunged heavily into Shimazu Jiujing's chest, and roared angrily: "Dog! Die! ”

Filthy blood gushed out, splashing on Chen Yucheng's already bloodstained face, embellishing Chen Yucheng's notoriously handsome face even more hideously and terrifyingly. And beside Chen Yucheng, the Wu soldiers had already stabbed the remaining few Japanese samurai so that they were still dying. - The Japanese army attaches great importance to melee training, and the intensity of training is by no means comparable to that of ordinary armies, but compared with the corporal under Chen Yucheng who survived a hundred battles, the samurai of the Satsuma Domain trained against wooden dummies not only lack experience in actual combat, but also lack the spirit of life or death.

On that day, the Wu army broke the Japanese army in two battlefields inside and outside Kagoshima Castle at the same time, beheaded the Japanese Kagoshima defender Shimazu Kui, and wounded the important retainer of the Japanese Satsuma Domain in the pursuit battle, Okubo Hisato, the two battlefields totaled more than 2,000 Not to mention, after the war, Wang Fu, the commander of the Wu expeditionary fleet, followed Wu Chaoyue's secret order, in the name of respecting Japanese customs and habits, executed all the defenders in Kagoshima Castle on the spot!

This was customary during the Warring States period of Japan, and in order to take revenge on the enemy, after the castle was broken, the victor would usually execute all enemy soldiers who participated in the defense of the city. Because of the story of the famous beauty of Japan's Warring States Period, Wu Chaoyue happened to know this custom, so he told his accomplice lackeys early on to respect this custom in Japan.