Behind the hill, a group of men dressed in the uniforms of the soldiers of the Zhentai Army were crouching there, quietly looking at the woods in the distance that had been destroyed by artillery fire from the city.

One after another shells fell in the woods and exploded, stirring up a large column of smoke, and a large tree was directly hit by a large-caliber cannonball, which shattered to pieces, and the broken wood chips flew in all directions, making the sound even more terrifying.

"This is what Lin Jun said, the power of the German-made Krupp cannon...... a middle-aged man sighed and said, "Is it really past our era?" ……”

Like the others, after putting on the uniforms of the enemy officers and soldiers, he took off the scarf from his face, revealing a weather-beaten face with ravines and ravines.

Like the military, ninjas also have different hierarchical identities, and when changing into the clothes of the dead officers and soldiers of the Zhentai Army, the leaders of the ninjas wear the uniform color of the officer, and their subordinates are all the color of the soldier.

"The cannonball that exploded just now is much more powerful than the others." A young ninja beside the middle-aged ninja didn't seem to notice the emotion in the elder's heart, and said, "But there is only one such giant cannon shooting here, that is, it is very likely that there is only one giant cannon in this direction." ”

"It should be so, but we need to go into the city and investigate carefully before we can be sure." Another young ninja said.

At this time, the shelling continued, and seeing that the Zhentai army was still firing shells at the already empty woods in vain, the two young ninjas had a look of contempt on their faces.

"What a waste!" Someone said.

"Mr. Nanzhou's army, there will also be such cannons, right?"

"Yes, I heard that I bought it from a foreign country......

"Let's go into town after dark." The middle-aged ninja leader stared at the rising black smoke from the woods, interrupted his subordinates' discussions, and ordered in a hoarse voice.

The ninjas knew that the leader had ordered the city to enter the city at night, probably because they were afraid of such a terrible bombardment after being discovered entering the city during the day, and it was true that many of them had participated in the Boshin War and had seen the power of the cannons at that time, and now compared to the cannons that shocked them at that time, they can now only be regarded as a tool to scare people.

The ninjas who had received the order stopped talking, but instead lurked in their own pockets, waiting for night to fall.

At night, the snow finally stopped, and a bright moon hung high in the sky, sprinkling an infinite amount of silver light, gilding the entire Kumamoto Castle with a layer of silver.

"The moonlight is so beautiful tonight." On the tower of the city, some of the soldiers of the Zhentai Army on duty praised.

Zhentai soldier Tatsujiro Uezaki looked up at the bright moon in the sky blankly, but his mood was completely different from the others.

Tatsujiro Uezaki, who participated in the Battle of Moss Bay, has always had a sense of foreboding in his heart after hearing the news of the ninjas sent by the Satsuma Army to carry out sabotage and infiltration operations.

He had a feeling that the enemy would definitely attack this evening.

"Will those ninjas sent by the Satsuma thieves make a move tonight?" Some people seem to have the same concerns as Tatsujiro Uezaki.

"Most likely, those guys are pervasive." Someone replied.

"But the moonlight is too bright tonight, and if they want to do sabotage, it will be easily exposed."

Tatsujiro Uezaki looked away from the moon and scanned the city wall below the castle tower, only to see the emplacement of a 120-mm Krupp cannon not far away, and the four gunners were also watching.

"The artillery didn't rest either, it's really hard!" Someone sighed.

"Chief Chuanlu seems to be a little nervous, hehe."

At this moment, Tatsujiro Uezaki saw four patrolmen with rifles, lined up, walking along the walkway behind the battlements towards the emplacement of the 120-mm cannon.

Seeing these four patrolmen, everyone didn't care, but continued to chat, seeing these four patrolmen come to the side of the gun emplacement, greeting the gunners, Uezaki Tatsujiro was about to turn his head, but suddenly saw them split up and rushed towards the four gunners.

A few dazzling flashes of light flashed, and Tatsujiro Uezaki saw that the four gunners all bowed to the ground like shrimp in an instant.

The four patrolmen dragged the bodies of the gunners away, took something out of their pockets, and placed them under the gun carriage, and Tatsujiro Uezaki understood, immediately raised his rifle in his hand, and fired a shot at them.

Uesaki Tatsujiro's shot failed to hit the target, but it alerted the other soldiers around him, and everyone immediately noticed what was happening on the gun emplacement, and understood that the patrolmen should be ninja disguises, and raised their rifles to fire at them.

The cooperation of the ninjas was obviously much more tacit than that of the Zhentai soldiers who were mostly farmers, and when they saw the Zhentai soldiers on the castle tower shooting downward, the two ninjas crouched in the corner of the wall, raised their guns and shot at the castle tower, covering the other two companions, while the two ninjas ignored the bullets that came and were busy by the gun carriage.

The ninja's marksmanship was extremely accurate, and he wounded two Zhentai soldiers on the castle tower one after another, and their shooting interfered with the shooting of the Zhentai soldiers on the castle tower, so that after a row of guns was released, none of them hit the target.

More Zhentai soldiers on the castle tower rushed over and fired fiercely at the ninja on the gun emplacement, and one of the ninjas next to the gun carriage was shot, but the moment he fell to the ground, Uesaki Tatsujiro saw the fire in his hand and the grim smile on the corner of his mouth.

In an instant, a huge ball of fire burst out and engulfed everything.

Tatsujiro Uezaki had never seen such a violent explosion, and he was completely stunned, until the wheel fragments of a gun carriage lifted by the blast crashed heavily in front of him, and he realized what had happened.

Uesaki Tatsujiro stood there dumbfounded, and he saw that in the firelight, several ninjas were slashing the thick barrel with the long knives in their hands, trying to destroy the cannon.

Uezaki Chenjiro mechanically raised his rifle and opened fire on the ninja who was destroying the cannon at the gun emplacement, and one ninja fell in response, while the other ninjas did not shoot back, but continued to slash the cannon until the knife in his hand broke.

Suddenly, there were bursts of gunfire behind him, and Uezaki Tatsujiro turned his head to look and saw the soldiers of the Zhentai Army rushing towards him, and he recognized the figure of Sakuma Zuo Ma Nakasa, who was leading the team.

Sakuma Zuo Matthew pulled out his command knife and shouted loudly, the soldiers of the Zhentai Army stopped, raised their rifles in unison, and shot at the ninjas on the gun position, and after a thick rain of bullets, the ninjas fell to the ground one after another.

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