"Eight Tooth Road! The despicable Qing people actually deceived us Yamato warriors again! Vile! Yaga! Quick, quick, transfer the formation, transfer the formation immediately! ”

can elevate his own son as a regent to the point of daring to be angry and dare not speak, Shimazu Hisamitsu, the founding father of the Satsuma Domain, naturally has two brushes, no matter how angry and cursing he is, he did not forget to quickly order the transfer of the main formation, so as not to prevent the main army of the Satsuma Domain from being covered by the steam warship fire of the Wu army. And Gui Kogoro, one of the three heroes of the Meiji Restoration, even saved the strength to roar and scold, and personally led the brigade of the Choshu Domain to the depths of the interior early to avoid the Wu army shells that would definitely be overwhelming immediately.

It's a pity that although the Japanese army's movements were fast, the speed of the Wu army's steam fleet was even faster, and before the main forces of the Satsuma Domain and the Changzhou Domain went away, as well as taking away the heavy artillery lined up in front of the formation, the Wu army's steam fleet had already rushed to the near place, and the rear-loading rifled guns with a maximum range of up to four thousand meters were in full swing, and they successively blasted out nearly three pounds of caliber but powerful bitter acid shells, and the Japanese soldiers and generals who had not had time to transfer screamed in despair, but they still couldn't avoid being blown up by the Wu army's shells, and their bodies were incomplete, so they could only quickly throw down the artillery of the army, Chaotically fled in the direction of the Wu fleet.

The Japanese army that did not engage the Wu army could give up the chaotic formation at the critical moment, but the Japanese army that was attacking the Wu army's position from three directions was not so lucky, after being bombed by the shells that came one after another, the attacking Japanese army had just begun to break and flee, and the Wu soldiers on the position in the castle town immediately launched a counterattack, chasing and beating the Japanese army's ass fiercely, desperately shooting and killing the Japanese soldiers who were left behind, and biting the Japanese defeated brigade. At the same time, the gates of Kagoshima Castle were opened, and Li Xiucheng personally led the army out of the city, and launched a full-scale counteroffensive with the Wu soldiers who remained in Kagoshima Castle, and directly rushed to the main force of the Japanese army, which was several times his strength.

Li Xiucheng's army's counteroffensive will definitely not break the Japanese army, this point Li Xiucheng and the Japanese commander are very clear, but the Japanese commander is very clear in his heart, knowing that the purpose of the Wu army's all-out counteroffensive is not to defeat the own army, but to contain the main force of the own army, not to give the army a chance to retreat calmly, and to buy time for the main force of the Wu army to land and participate in the war. Therefore, Katsura Kogoro, Shimazu Hisamitsu and others had no choice but to seize the time to reorganize the team, prepare to fight and retreat in a strict formation, and quickly withdraw to the Ishiki Besin Temple, which was conducive to holding on to the steep terrain.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield changed dramatically, and the Wu army, which was in a weak position, quickly advanced to the front of the Japanese position and opened fire, and the front row immediately made up for it after the fight, trying to maintain the distance between it and the Japanese army; On the Japanese side, while turning back to meet the battle, they strode forward as much as they could, and hurriedly withdrew to the northwest road; At the same time, the two battalions of the Wu Army, which had previously launched the first pursuit, also clung to the two flanks of the main Japanese army, so that the Japanese army did not dare to disconnect from the front and back, and tried to contain the retreat speed of the main Japanese army.

During this period, the guns of the officers and men of the two armies continued to ring, and soldiers on both sides were constantly shot and fell to the ground, but because the Wu army was more calm and the Japanese army was anxious, the Wu army's hit rate was obviously higher, and the number of enemy soldiers killed in the field battle was obviously more, and at the same time, the retreat speed of the Japanese army was also seriously restricted. With the rapid passage of time, the troop transport fleet of the Wu army has also appeared in the telescope field of view of the Japanese commander under the protection of the sail warships of the Wu army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Sachang coalition army could only muster up the courage to transfer troops and send three armies to launch a counter-charge against the Wu army, in a vain attempt to contain the Wu army's pursuers with close combat and give the main force of their own army time to retreat. However, after seeing the Japanese counterattack, the pursuers of the Wu army immediately used picric acid weapons, and although the number of grenadiers and grenades thrown was small, they also successfully blew up the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and then the Wu army immediately launched a charge, and in turn drove the Japanese stragglers to the vanguard and directly attacked the main force of the Japanese army.

"Eight Tooth Road! Shameless Qing people! Shoot! Shoot! Leave those cowards on the run away and shoot me! ”

The Japanese commander did not hesitate to shoot at the defeated soldiers of his own army, and successfully avoided the doom of being entangled by the Wu army in close combat, but the commander of the Wu army, Li Xiucheng, was more experienced in the battlefield, and when the flag waved, more than 1,000 Wu soldiers suddenly increased their speed and rushed forward from the two wings of the Japanese army, and when the Japanese generals woke up, the Wu army outflanked by the two wings had formed a neck and neck with their front team, and once again forced the Japanese army into danger - speed up and race with the Wu army, it will definitely cause confusion in formation; Maintaining the current speed, the Wu army will definitely pass the front line of the Japanese army and run to the front of the main force of the Japanese army to intercept it.

At this time, the Sacho coalition formed on an equal footing was still in a very desperate command confusion, and Shimazu Hisamitsu, who was anxious to withdraw to Ishiki Besin to preserve his strength, sent someone to contact Katsura Kogoro and asked the army of the Choshu domain to speed up with him, first rush to the mountain road with the dangerous terrain, and then find a way to get rid of the pursuit of the Wu army. At the same time, Katsura Kogoro also sent someone to contact Shimazu Hisamitsu, advocating taking advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the Wu army had not had time to land and participate in the battle, and continue to retreat at the original speed. As a result, before the unification decision was made, the army of the Satsuma Domain had already begun to charge, causing the Wu army to quickly accelerate the charge, and at the same time, the army of the Choshu Domain had no choice but to speed up and chase the ass of the Satsuma Domain and flee to Ishiki Besin Temple.

The formation of the Japanese army was quickly chaotic, because of the gap between the individual soldiers, the originally very strict and orderly Japanese army was constantly stretched and deformed, the fast steps rushed forward, the slow steps were dragged behind, and you pushed and pushed each other, although because the sky was bright and there was no large-scale self-trampling, but you also had to push me crookedly, I knocked you over, intentionally or unintentionally blocking the path of friendly soldiers, and gradually there were signs of danger that soldiers could not find generals and soldiers could not find soldiers.

Of course, the situation is the same on the Wu army's side, but fortunately, the last thing the Wu army is afraid of now is to be chaotic with the enemy, Li Xiucheng's attitude is resolute, and the Wu army brigade just rushed to the mountain road where the Ishiki Bein is located, preparing to use the narrow mountain road to block the retreat of the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to compete with the Wu army soldiers in track and field, and the formation of the fast march is more chaotic. At the same time, the troop transport fleet of the Wu army has also begun to dock, and the elite soldiers of the well-equipped Wu army have also jumped into the shallow water to assemble ashore.

In the end, the front team of the Wu army and the front team of the Japanese army rushed to the entrance of the mountain road where the Ishiki Bein was located at almost the same time, Li Xiucheng's command flag waved, the soldiers of the Wu army shouted and pounced on the enemy, threw grenades one after another to open the way, rushed to the near place and the Japanese army hand-to-hand combat, and soon the narrow mountain road entrance was in a big mess, and the later Japanese army had no way out, so they could only be forced to join the battle group, and the two armies had no extra time to load ammunition with each other, so they could only fight hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, and fought in front of the mountain road to flesh and blood, Dark all round.

In the melee, the actual combat experience accumulated by the Wu soldiers over the years once again played a key role, and the three of them fought each other back to back with the enemy, and desperately stabbed the enemy in the vital places when they seized the opportunity. Although the Japanese army is also strictly trained, and also pays great attention to hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat, it has no choice but to lack actual combat experience, especially the experience of large-scale melee, no matter how much it swings its knife and shouts, it cannot gain the upper hand.

After all, the Japanese army had the advantage of troops, and was seriously brainwashed by the so-called bushido spirit, and gradually accumulated a certain advantage in troops on the local battlefield, the Japanese army gradually reversed some of the situation. On the battlefield, you can see everywhere the soldiers of the two armies who are fighting against each other, and you can also see everywhere the Chinese and Japanese soldiers who have been killed and covered in blood but are still fighting, the blood gushes in the knife and gun array, the screams and roars come and go, the murderers are killed immediately, and the fallen people and some people desperately hug the legs and feet of the enemy around them, creating opportunities for their companions to avenge themselves, bayonets and katanas alone have not played all the roles in the melee, many soldiers on both sides have used fists and stones, and even teeth!

Li Xiucheng of the Wu army, who was mostly killed by the Taiping army, naturally suffered serious losses because of this, but these Wu soldiers were not sacrificed in vain, relying on the precious time they had gained, the main force of the Wu army was already striding towards the battlefield, and when the front team of the main force of the Wu army rushed to the edge of the battlefield, before the huge number of grenadier shells smashed on the head, the Japanese army did not have the courage to continue the bloody battle, shouting and screaming and only rushing to the mountain road, in order to escape faster and not hesitate to overturn the front and the companions around him, The previous occasional trampling began to occur on a large scale, and many Japanese soldiers died tragically under the straw sandals of their comrades.

The matter is not over, seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the experienced Li Xiucheng did not rush to withdraw from the battlefield with the army, but chose to take the remaining soldiers and horses wrapped in the dense crowd of the enemy, and fled into the mountain road with the enemy. I could only watch the soldiers of the Wu army rush into the camp of the army along the crowd to kill people and set fire.

The Japanese army's hard-working construction of the camp fortifications was therefore completely scrapped, first by their own defeated soldiers to collapse the front, and then the Wu army made trouble inside, set fire to the camp everywhere, and then when the main force of the Wu army pursued and killed in front of the camp, the Japanese army had no way to stop it, and was killed into the camp by the main force of the Wu army, and the frightened Japanese soldiers could not resist and did not dare to resist, so they could only escape from the camp with a howl of ghosts and wolves, and fled into the mountains and forests to rob and kill the fallen warriors composed of Japanese civilians, or fled directly to the Ishiki Courtyard of the Japanese army headquarters, In vain, he tried to hide in a temple protected by a moat courtyard wall to survive.

"Eight Tooth Road! This herd of useless red deer! ”

Seeing this scene, Shimazu Hisamitsu, who had fled into the Ishiki Courtyard first, of course understood that the Ishaki Courtyard was difficult to keep, in order to survive, Shimazu Hisamitsu could only hurriedly escape from the back door with some small surnames from the back door, and the defenders in the annex then collapsed, and there were countless people who fled over the wall, and then the Japanese army defeated the soldiers swarmed into the city, and then abandoned the temple after looting, Li Xiucheng led the army to attack the temple immediately, successfully occupied the Ishiki Courtyard, and planted the Wu army flag on the wall.

Wu Jun planted the flag on the wall, not only representing the victory of the occupation of Ishiki Villain, but also successfully led to the complete collapse of the Japanese army's defeated brigade, seeing that Ishiki Villain had been lost, and the Japanese army who was still fighting with the Wu army in the camp was even more warless, whether it was the Satsuma Domain Army or the Choshu Domain Army, they were all scrambling to flee for their lives, and the Japanese army generals such as Katsura Kogoro and Yama Prefecture Aritomo, who were originally shouting for 10,000 jade pieces, were also among them, and fled to the distance with the defeat crowd in embarrassment. The goal was to completely annihilate the main force of the Wu army, which was the main force of the Sachang coalition army, and decisively pursued and rushed to the defeated Japanese brigade.

There was no decent engagement, only brutal slaughter, and during the pursuit, the soldiers of the Wu army, who had high morale, were flying one by one, interspersed with sprints in the chaotic Japanese defeated troops, wantonly slashing and shooting, sometimes rushing straight ahead, smashing the core of the enemy brigade, and sometimes encircling and outflanking, annihilating the besieged enemy. Countless Japanese soldiers died tragically under the guns of Wu's saber, and more Japanese soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, and the Japanese army completely collapsed and fled in all directions.

In the escape, Katsura Kogoro was very clever to emulate the ancient Japanese sage Tokugawa Ieyasu, and put down the handsome flag early to avoid revealing his identity, but unfortunately Katsura Kogoro's luck was obviously not as good as the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu, and in the chaos, he didn't know that he was pulled by a Japanese soldier on that side, and dragged off the war horse alive, and then when Gui Kogoro angrily beat the damned Japanese soldier to death with a pistol, more Japanese defeated soldiers rushed up again, not only snatched his war horse, but also trampled on his leg alive, Katsura Kogoro cried for help, but none of the Japanese soldiers who were eager to flee for their lives paid attention to him. In the end, when the Wu army pursued the soldiers rushed forward, Gui Xiaogoro originally wanted to surrender to save his life, but unfortunately the Japanese he shouted was not understood by any Wu army soldiers, and a red-eyed Wu army soldier also shot his hand and directly ended his life.

Gui Xiaogoro's most beloved military general, Yama County Youpeng's luck was even worse, and he was directly surrounded by a team of Wu soldiers during the escape, but Shan County Youpeng was very courageous to raise his katana and fight with Wu soldiers, but he only slashed one Wu army soldier, and was immediately shot in the face by a Wu army commander, and died beyond recognition. And the generals of the Japanese army who died as miserably as Yama Youpeng and Katsura Kogoro were by no means more than ten or eight.

Thousands of Japanese soldiers were slaughtered, the corpses of which were strewn along the avenues, covered the fields, filled the ditches, the blood was pooled, the streams were stained red, flags of all kinds were scattered everywhere, and mutilated weapons were thrown all over the mountains. Although this made the neighboring Japanese common people make a windfall after the fact, the Choshu Domain, the other main force in Japan's Meiji Restoration, was greatly damaged, and countless Choshu Domain samurai who were about to play an important role in the Meiji Restoration died in the wilderness, like countless Satsuma Domain Restoration fighters, died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Wu army, and there was no way to overthrow the shogunate, respect the locusts, invade and harm the innocent Asian people like history.

The Wu army not only directly strangled Japan's Meiji Restoration by force, but also in the Ishiki Bein Temple during the same period, the Wu army soldiers led by Li Xiucheng also unexpectedly found Shimazu Tadayoshi, the puppet lord of the Satsuma Domain, who was under house arrest by Shimazu Hisamitsu, and as a result, with the help of the Satsuma Domain's own translator, the first thing Shimazu Tadayoshi told Li Xiucheng was, "I surrender, I am the lord of the Satsuma Domain, and I am willing to lead the people of the Satsuma Domain to obey all your orders and compensate you for all the losses you deserve." ”

"It's okay for you to surrender, but you have retainers Okubo Ritsu and Saigo Takamori, and you have to die!" Li Xiucheng told Shimazu Tadayoshi very directly: "They are the people named by our Zhennan King to ask for their heads, and none of us has the right to forgive them." ”

"Okubo Ritsu is dead, killed by your quick cannons." Shimazu Tadayoshi replied truthfully, pointed to a corpse next to the door, and said, "Saigo Takamori is there, and he committed suicide by seppuku." ”

Li Xiucheng, who refused to be reassured, opened Saigo Takamori's corpse with his feet, and saw that Saigo Takamori did not close his eyes until he died, but both eyes were hollow, and there was no expression on his face, as if he was extremely lost and desperate. Although Li Xiucheng has experienced a hundred battles and seen countless dead corpses, it is the first time he has seen such a blind person.