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"Bai Siwen, what's wrong with that Komatsu?" Putiyatin hurriedly waved his hand at Bai Sven. Bai Swen hurriedly knelt beside Komatsu and worked with a Russian soldier to turn Komatsu's body over. This Japanese devil has been out of breath and intake in too much, and he is still vomiting blood, and he can't do it when he sees it.

"He, he, he...... Committed suicide by taking poison! Bai Siwen gasped and shouted loudly, "Lieutenant General, I'm afraid we have fallen for this Japanese, this is a trap!" ”

Putiyatin shook his body and almost sat down on the deck, this is Osaka Bay in the Inland Sea of Japan! If it's a trap, then that fort on Awaji Island is a ghost gate! There are also flat-bottomed sea boats of the surrounding Satsuma clan......

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, someone is jumping into the sea! The Japanese are jumping into the sea ......" the voice of the chief of staff of the fleet sounded again.

Jumping into the sea!? What day is today, and why are there so many Japanese people who can't think about it? Putiatin looked in the direction of the chief of staff's finger, and it turned out to be the Satsuma soldiers on the Satsuma Domain's fleet who jumped into the sea, and one by one they took off their armor, threw their weapons and pounced into the sea to make dumplings, and then swam to the shore. However, not all the soldiers jumped into the sea, and the soldier in charge of the oars did not jump, but turned the bow of the boat and paddled hard.

What's going on? When Putiyatin was confused, many of the Satsuma Domain's flat-bottomed boats began to turn their bows and row wooden pulp towards the battleship "Alexander I"!

"Hell! Sure enough, it's a trap! Putiyatin stomped his foot, "Can't let these Japanese ships get close!" Hang the sails, hang the sails. Let the formation maneuver! We withdrew from the ......"

Putiyatin didn't understand what these Japanese punts were up to. But one thing he was sure of. The Japanese must not have been kind! The Satsuma Domain and the Japanese shogunate were in collusion at all, and this was a trap to lure and annihilate the Russian fleet, so the Russian fleet must not stay in Osaka Bay!

"But Your Excellency, 1,500 Marines have already gone ashore, and there are still many sampans that have not been recovered!"

"Lieutenant General, look there, the Japanese shogunate army is coming...... They seem to be a European-style army! ”

Putiyatin looked over to Osaka again, and sure enough, it was on a charred black earth. Both the shogunate and the Russian marines had already formed a horizontal formation. The charred open space was not wide, but it was only large enough for an infantry regiment to spread out in a horizontal formation. Now that the distance between the two armies is less than 200 yards, the exchange of fire will soon begin!

Standing on the aft deck of the battleship "Alexander I", Putiyatin could clearly see that the streets behind the three horizontal columns of the Japanese shogunate army were full of shadows of bayonets and human heads! There are tens of thousands of people! No matter how much the Russian GIs can fight, it is impossible to fight dozens of them at a time, right?

"The Marines are going to be finished...... Putiyatin's eyes darkened, and he almost fainted, "Quick, send a boat to meet them!" ”

The Russian marines who landed at this time did not know that their opponents numbered tens of thousands. The terrain of Osaka is flat, and the area around the port is even smoother like a table. So the Russians simply can't see what's behind the row of Japanese guns on the opposite side?

The way the two sides fought was still the traditional queue of shots, and the weapons were similar. All line infantry were equipped with smoothbore guns, a small number of skirmishers used rifles, and the cannons and cavalry on both sides did not come up. So the first thing to fire was the rifles on both sides, and the bullets flew around the battlefield, and many soldiers fell to the ground when they landed, and the screams rang out, but the horizontal formations of the two sides were still approaching.

"The tactics of the Russians are a volley of guns and then a bayonet charge!" Saigo Takanaga had already arrived at the front line in full gear, standing on top of a half-burned house, and shouted to the shogunate officers beside him, "Later, a long team of gunners will be sent up for reinforcements!" Kill all the white ghosts, not a single one will be left! ”

"Let the others stop moving forward, and don't get into the range of the Russian fleet, their more than a thousand cannons are no joke!"

Sent by Saigo Takanaga to take the lead was the shogunate army called the "Imperial Army", and all the soldiers were members of the imperial family of the Imperial Family, which was about 2,000 catties of brown rice per year. Because you can also get an additional income of one silver dollar (vegetable gold) per month for participating in the shogunate army, the requirements for conscription are extremely high, not only requiring young strength and martial arts, but also taking cultural exams! It is necessary to be proficient in Chinese studies (the study of bushido), Confucianism, and a little Tonglan studies. If you go to Zhu Jishi at this level, you will definitely be admitted to the Royal Army Military Academy, but here in Japan, you can only be a small soldier!

The captain of the Ottogun team is named Takashima Asataro, the son of the famous Japanese military scientist and gunner Takashima Akiho. Takashima Akiho once served the shogunate elder Nakamino Tadakuni, opened a school in Edo to teach Western artillery and Western battle formations, and led his disciples to hold a Western-style infantry and artillery live-fire exercise in Musashi Kunitokumaruhara, in the 12th year of Tenpo. However, with the fall of Mizuno Tadakuni, Takashima Akiho was imprisoned for a time, but after Zhu Jishi's visit to Japan, he was reused again and served as the head of gunnery and weapons at the Numata Military Academy.

Fifty, forty, thirty......

Takashima Asataro walked on the left side of the infantry column under his command, compared the approximate distance with his hands, and seeing that the distance between the two sides was only thirty paces, Takashima Asataro shouted: "Risada!" Look to the right! ”

Not only Takashima was shouting, but the shouts of the junior officers in the horizontal line came and went, the first row was half-crouching, the second row was upright, and the two rows of muskets were raised at the same time, aiming at the Russian troops on the opposite side.

Thirty steps is almost forty yards, and the foreign guns can already exert a lot of power at this distance, so the Russian marines also stopped and raised their guns to aim at the other side.

"Fire!"

As the officers of both sides gave the order to shoot almost simultaneously, the smoke of gunpowder suddenly spread across the battlefield, and the soldiers of the two armies standing in the front row threw down a large area at the same time. Then I heard "Ulla! And the shouts of "onboard" rang out. It turns out that both sides are starting to charge! The Russians were tall and large, and in Europe they were famous for fighting bayonets. The Japanese samurai are even more fearless of death, and have been practicing their fighting skills since they were children, and of course they are not willing to show weakness to the big man opposite. When the two groups of people collided, the "pop" sound of bayonets piercing into the body was heard incessantly, and the front where the two armies met was soon filled with corpses.

"Defeated, defeated ......" Putiyatin was still a little unwilling to hold a telescope to look at the battlefield in Osaka port at the moment, but there was no luck in the result. This is a completely European-style army! Except for the costumes, which are a bit quirky, everything else is European! Such an army is no different from the Russian army, no wonder the British and Americans did not dare to come......"

Thundered!

At this moment, a huge fireball suddenly rose into the air 300 yards to the right of the battleship "Alexander I".

What's going on? Putiyatin was stunned and stunned, and before he could figure out what was going on, the chief of staff of the fleet suddenly shouted: "Those ships, the ships of the Satsuma Domain are strange!" ”

Of course there are quirks! Before he could imagine what was so strange, another Satsuma Domain's flat-bottomed ship had turned into a flaming ball of fire! The ship of the Satsuma clan will explode!!

"Oh my God, there's gunpowder on board! The Japanese will die with us! These devils! "Putiyatin finally understands what the Japanese are thinking, this is to fight with himself! And it's a suicide attack!

"Run! Get out of here, get out of Japan, get out of this group of madmen...... "At this time, Putiyatin can no longer care about saving the marines who are fighting hard in the port of Osaka, and the thousands and hundreds of marines will die, and the battleship "Alexander I" can not have any accidents! Russia relies on this first-class battleship with a displacement of 4,500 tons (British tons) and 130 cannons to deter the Ming Empire, and if it sinks in Japan, the Chinese's third-class battleships will have their tails cocked!

However, it was not easy to get out of Osaka Bay, which was a calm inland sea, and now there was no wind, and the Japanese flat-bottomed ships powered by wood pulp were more maneuverable than the battleships "Alexander I", and the Kitam Strait was mostly blocked by the Japanese with heavy artillery...... (To be continued......)