Chapter 341: Great Victory

Late at night, Li Dingguo was summoned to Wang Pu's tent.

Li Dingguo saluted, Wang Pu waved his hand, and asked, "Dingguo, how do you think this battle should be fought?" ”

Li Dingguo thought for a while and said: "First bombard with the general's cannon, and then charge with infantry, and fight a bloody way out of the encirclement and interception of the shogunate army, as long as a gap can be opened, the siege of the shogunate army will be self-defeating." ”

Wang Pu bowed his head slightly, the infantry and artillery coordination course in the Nanjing Army Military University had just been established, Li Dingguo had not studied systematically in advance, but he knew how to prepare for artillery fire before the infantry charged, it was not easy to know that this concept was not first proposed by Napoleon in Europe until the end of the eighteenth century.

In other words, Li Dingguo, like Napoleon, was also a natural military strategist.

Wang Pu changed his words and then asked, "But have you ever thought about the restrictions on artillery in the terrain?" There is no suitable open terrain in the canyon, and it is difficult to deploy the bulky general cannon, and if the cannons are lined up in front and back in the canyon, and they cannot form a dense fire coverage, the lethality will inevitably be greatly affected. ”

Although the artillery of the Central Army artillery battalion has made great progress compared with the European artillery of the same period, it still cannot be compared with the modern artillery, and if the general artillery wants to form sufficient lethality, it is necessary to concentrate dozens or even hundreds of guns together and fire at the same time, so that the shells that go out will form a large-scale damage.

"That's not a problem." Li Dingguo said, "Let the sappers temporarily open up artillery positions." ”

After two reorganizations of the Central Army, there were a total of five wings in an infantry battalion, including three infantry wings, a baggage wing, and an engineer wing.

"Hmm." Wang Pu happily bowed his head and said, "It is certain to open up an artillery position, but your task is not this. ”

Li Dingguo's ears were sharp, and he immediately heard Wang Pu's voice, and said awe-inspiringly: "What does the prince mean ......"

"Come here."

Wang Pu beckoned to Li Dingguo, motioned for him to walk to the side of the case, and then pointed to the map on the case and said, "Look, this is the Uenohara Gorge, this is the valley mouth, and the more than 100,000 troops of the Tokugawa shogunate are gathered here, if our sappers can build the artillery position close to the valley mouth, then the hundreds of thousands of shogunate troops gathered outside the valley mouth will become a live target for the general's artillery!" ”

Li Dingguo said: "The prince is saying...... Forced advance with infantry and squeezed out tens of thousands of shogunate troops deep into the gorge? ”

The scouts reported that about 20,000 shogunate troops had already penetrated ten miles into the gorge, and if the sappers of the Central Army wanted to build an artillery position close to the mouth of the valley, then they would first have to deal with the 20,000 shogunate troops who had penetrated deep into the canyon.

"No, no." Wang Pu waved his hand and said, "Using infantry to squeeze out the shogunate army that went deep into the canyon, wouldn't that be a war of attrition?" Although our army occupies an absolute advantage in firepower, but the terrain in the canyon is not conducive to the play of firearms, if we really want to fight, the numerical superiority of the shogunate army will play a great role, and in the end it will definitely become a war of attrition, and before the hundreds of thousands of shogunate troops are exhausted, this day may be warmed up, and then we should have big trouble, this is exactly what China and Japan want, we must not do such a stupid thing. ”

Wang Pu didn't listen to the alarm, although the **** of the Ming Central Army is powerful, but this canyon is indeed too narrow, and the number of troops that can be invested is so much every time, even if the front shogunate army can be wiped out, it is only a hundred people at a time, or even dozens of people, at such a consumption rate, if you want to exhaust hundreds of thousands of shogunate troops, which year and month will you get?

Li Dingguo pondered for a moment, and suddenly pointed to the position of the valley mouth and said: "Lord Wang, if our army sets up a card here to cut off the way for the shogunate army to continue to go deep into the canyon, and then close the door to the 20,000 shogunate troops who go deep into the canyon, beat dogs, and catch turtles in the urn, wouldn't it be possible to build the artillery position close to the valley mouth?" ”

"Haha, good!" Wang Pu said happily, "Dingguo, you and this king want to go together, and this is what I came to you for this time." ”

Li Dingguo said solemnly: "Please give an order." ”

Wang Pu also said solemnly: "You take the strength of two wings to climb over the mountain beam, and nail me like nails to the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth, cut off the way for the shogunate army to continue to go deep into the canyon in one fell swoop, and buy time for the follow-up army to completely annihilate the shogunate army in the canyon, pay attention, you may fall into the front and rear of the shogunate army at that time, so everyone should bring as many dragon king cannons as possible!" ”

Li Dingguo said in a condensed voice: "Don't worry, the prince will never disgrace his life!" ”

Wang Pu patted Li Dingguo's shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Go to the cannon." ”

"Yes!"

Li Dingguo suddenly agreed, saluted Wang Pu again, and then took the order.

In the deep canyon, there was a dead silence.

Li Dingguo led two wings of infantry to quietly leave the barracks, stepping on the snow and began to climb the mountain beams on both sides with difficulty, although the mountain beams on both sides are not steep, but because they are covered with thick accumulation, they will slip and fall if they are not careful, and then slide down the slope to the bottom of the valley.

However, this small difficulty could not stop the well-trained Central Army, when the eastern sky slightly "revealed" a trace of fish belly white, Li Dingguo had already led two wings of infantry from the mountain beam to the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth, and without resting, Li Dingguo ordered to repair the fortifications.

Outside the canyon, the shogunate army camp.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was woken up from his deep sleep, and when he got up, he saw that it was his chief guard, and he couldn't help but say angrily, "Is there something wrong?" ”

The chief of the guard bowed his head and replied, "General, Lord Doi and Lord Aoyama are waiting in the outer tent, saying that there is an important military report. ”

"Important military information?" Tokugawa Iemitsu "rubbed" his sleepy eyes, and said angrily, "Let them wait first, General Ben will be there soon." ”

"Hey."

The chief of the guard answered and took the order.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu came to the front account after washing and changing clothes, Doi Toshikatsu and Aoyama Tadashi were already anxious like ants on a hot pot, seeing this situation, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but be taken aback in his heart, and asked in a condensed voice: "Doi-kun, Aoyama-kun, what is it that makes you two anxious like this?" ”

Toshikatsu Doi turned around and said hurriedly: "General, something happened!" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "What's wrong?" ”

Doi Toshikatsu said: "Last night, a Ming army actually drilled along the mountain beam, and when we found out after dawn, they had already occupied the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth!" Now the exit of the entire canyon has been cut off by the Ming army. ”

"Huh?" Tokugawa Iemitsu was taken aback when he heard this, and said hurriedly, "Is there any news from Inaba-kun?" ”

Yesterday, Inaba Masayoshi had already led 20,000 shogunate troops deep into the canyon, and at this time, a Ming army suddenly appeared to occupy the cliffs on both sides of the canyon and cut off the valley mouth.

"Ugh." Doi Toshikatsu said, "It's all to blame for the carelessness of the next moment, although the artillery and baggage teams of the Ming Dynasty army are cumbersome and can't cross the mountains and mountains, but their infantry doesn't have many fetters, and they can completely climb over the mountain beams on both sides of the canyon. ”

Toshikatsu Doi is completely pushing himself.

In the era of cold weapons, the army stationed on the mountains on both sides of the traffic arteries can not stop the advance of the enemy army at all, and it is possible to be surrounded by the enemy if it is not good, if there is no water source on the mountain, it will be even worse, so in the era of cold weapons, camping on the mountain is a taboo for soldiers, and only waste materials like Ma Tan will do stupid things that will be put to death and then lived.

In fact, even if the light soldiers of the Ming army can come over the mountains and mountains, the number of troops that can cross over is limited, and if the Ming army is also a cold weapon army, what role can such a small army play when they cross over? It's not enough to stuff the teeth of hundreds of thousands of shogunate troops!

Therefore, it did not occur that it was not at all the responsibility of Doi Toshikatsu to send troops to garrison the mountains on both sides of the valley mouth.

Aoyama Tadashi hurriedly said: "Doi-kun, now is not the time to hold accountable, let's think of some way to annihilate this group of Ming troops, open up the main road at the mouth of the valley, and get in touch with the 20,000 shogunate troops in the canyon." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Tokugawa Iemitsu said repeatedly, "We must rescue Inaba-kun who is trapped in the valley." ”

Doi Toshikatsu said miserably: "General, Aoyama-kun, just when this Ming army was discovered, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa had launched more than a dozen attacks in a row, but they were all repelled by the Ming army, this group of Ming troops was very cunning, they firmly occupied the broken banks on both sides of the valley mouth, condescendingly put their guns, and our soldiers couldn't attack it at all." ”

"If you can't attack it, you have to attack it!" The Tokugawa family was so angry that they were furious, "Tell Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa that they will take the cliffs on both sides of the valley at all costs, and these damn Ming Dynasty people are all dead, ......"

"Hey!"

Doi Toshikatsu bowed his head and answered, and went with a solemn face.

Seeing Doi Toshikatsu and Aoyama Tadashi leave one after another, Tokugawa Iemitsu suddenly turned his hand and pulled out his katana, and slashed it on the table in the center of the tent.

Inside the canyon, the fierce battle has been going on for a whole day!

The shogunate army trapped in the valley has become a turtle in the urn, the central army of the Ming Dynasty launched an overwhelming offensive against it, although the general can not play much role, but the dragon king cannon is very powerful, this kind of melee weapon with great lethality falls like raindrops in the formation of the shogunate army, often a blast is a piece!

Under the onslaught of the Ming army at any cost, by the time of the Japanese general, most of the 20,000 shogunate troops in the valley had already suffered casualties!

The fierce battle was fierce, and there were constantly cannonballs whistling over the mountain beams, one of which fell directly on the side of Inaba Masayoshi not far away, only to hear a loud bang, a cloud of smoke rose into the sky in an instant, and the scorching fragments accompanied by the slush paddles splashed in all directions, and a dozen unlucky shogunate soldiers immediately screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

Inaba Masayoshi was also swept to the ground by a huge wave of air, and the only thing that was fortunate was that he was not hit by shrapnel.

Getting up in disgrace, Inaba Masakichi was so angry that he screamed, grabbed a high-ranking samurai beside him and roared, "Matsudaira Jiro, what did you just say? ”

The samurai named Matsudaira Jiro said gloomily, "Lord Inaba, my subordinates are incompetent and have not been able to recapture the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth. ”

"Yaga!"

Inaba Masayoshi was furious when he heard this, and pulled out his katana with his backhand and stabbed Matsudaira Jiro viciously in the abdomen.

The cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth could not be recovered, and Inaba Masaka, who was trapped in the valley, could not get out, and the reinforcements of Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa outside the valley could not enter, and if this battle continued, there would be only a dead end, and it was no wonder that Inaba Masayoshi was furious.

Inaba Masayoshi had just killed Matsudaira Jiro with a single sword, and another disgraced shogunate samurai rushed back from the front, rushed to Inaba Masayoshi and shouted: "Lord Inaba, the offensive of the Ming army in front is very fierce, their muskets are much more powerful than our iron cannons, our army has already suffered more than 2,000 casualties, if we don't send reinforcements, we will not be able to withstand it!" ”

"You, you, you!" Inaba Masayoshi gasped twice, pointed at the three samurai beside him and shouted, "Go up, go up!" ”

"Hey!"

The three warriors suddenly agreed, and led their troops forward in a panic to meet the overwhelming attack of the Ming army.

Inaba Masakichi turned around and roared at the last remaining samurai beside him: "Oda Shiro, you lead someone to forcibly break out of the valley, and tell the two idiots, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa, that if they still can't recapture the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth before dark, then wait to collect the corpses for me!" ”

"Hello!"

Shiro Oda said yes and went with fifty ninjas.

Outside the valley.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa had done their best, they had done their best, from the time they discovered the Ming army in the morning until it was getting dark, they had driven their army to storm for a whole day, and the corpses lying under the cliffs had been piled up into mountains, and the blood that had flowed had melted the snow outside the valley.

"Your Excellency." A samurai knelt down in front of Matsudaira Nobutsuna and said miserably, "This battle can't be fought again." ”

The muscles on Matsudaira Nobutsuna's face began to twitch violently, how could he not feel sorry for the "sex" lives of his soldiers, these are his subordinates, if these subordinates are all defeated in this battle, then his daimyo will exist in name only, but he has no choice, Tokugawa Iemitsu has already given the death order, if he can't take the cliffs on both sides before dark, he will have to commit suicide!

"Yaga!" Matsudaira kicked the samurai to the ground, then pulled out his katana with his backhand and raised it high above the top, shouting at the last few high-ranking samurai behind him, "Kill the ......"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna led the last remaining troops of the feudal kingdom and launched an attack on the cliff to the left of Taniguchi.

Almost at the same time, Itakura Shigemasa also personally led an attack on the cliff on the right side of the valley mouth, and his situation was not much better than that of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and from the morning to the evening, most of Itakura Shigema's 20,000 troops had been killed and wounded, and less than 5,000 men were left to barely go to battle.

In the distance, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Doi Toshikatsu and others who stopped to watch the battle were already numb to watch, they couldn't believe their eyes, they couldn't believe what the Ming Dynasty people on the two cliffs had become? Nearly 50,000 troops attacked from the morning to the dark, but they have not been able to capture these two small cliffs, but have paid extremely heavy casualties!

The mouth of the canyon valley, the cliff on the left.

An officer hurried up to Li Dingguo and said loudly: "General, our brigade has run out of bullets. ”

Two more officers ran up to Li Dingguo and said, "General, we don't have any bullets anymore." ”

Li Dingguo took a breath of cold air and said in a condensed voice: "What about the Dragon King Cannon, is there any Dragon King Cannon?" ”

Several officers responded in unison: "The Dragon King Cannon has long been gone. ”

Li Dingguo turned to the other two captains and asked quickly, "What about you, do you still have any bullets?" ”

"We're gone, too." The two captains said quickly, "Little Japan is coming up again, general, let's fight with them." ”

"Okay." Li Dingguo shouted, "It's all ...... Above****! ”

"Click......"

The sound of "insertion" into the "insertion" slot sounded, and the officers and soldiers of the Central Army quickly got on the ****, and the remnant sun sprinkled the last ray of residual light from the western sky, shining on the bright **** of the central officers and soldiers, and suddenly "shooting" a dazzling cold light, and the cold murderous aura began to permeate the air endlessly.

Li Dingguo took out his waist knife sonorously, jumped on the fortification, raised his knife and shouted: "The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty will win!" ”

"The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty will win!"

"The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty will win!"

"The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty will win!"

The shogunate army under the cliff was like a black oppressive ant colony, and the central officers and soldiers on the cliff looked like iron, and the response of the mountains and tsunamis resounded in the sky.

"Good!" Li Dingguo continued, "In today's battle, we killed at least ten times the enemy with the strength of two wings, and we only need to hold on for another half an hour, and our army will be able to completely annihilate the Japanese in the valley, and then our engineers will be able to repair the artillery position under the noses of the Japanese, and we will win this battle!" ”

"Oooh oh ......"

The officers and soldiers of the central government on the cliff cheered hysterically.

Li Dingguo turned around slowly, the waist knife in his hand was slightly lowered, and he met the shogunate army swarming under the cliff, and a terrible howl resounded in the sky: "Brothers, for yourself, for your family, for the Ming Empire, and for the sake of the entire Han nation, drive these Japanese mongrels with small arms and short legs down the mountain and kill ......."

"Kill ......"

Nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers jumped up from the improvised fortifications with the **** of the best ****, and swooped down under the cliff behind Li Dingguo.

"Hah!"

Li Dingguo, who was at the forefront, shouted, and the waist knife in his hand had pierced the chest of a shogunate samurai, and with the powerful inertia of rushing from top to bottom, the waist knife in Li Dingguo's hand actually carried the body of the shogunate samurai and continued to go down, and pierced the chest of another samurai.

The waist knives worn by the officers of the Central Army are all made of stainless steel, and the knives have special blood grooves.

Red blood splashed out like a fountain from the chests and backs of the two shogunates, splashing Li Dingguo's head and face, Li Dingguo's eyebrows were hideous, and he kicked the corpses of the two shogunate samurai without bothering to wipe the blood on his face, and the eyes of the evil wolf quickly began to search for the next prey.

On the muddy hillside that had been trampled by the shogunate, the Japanese shogunate army and the Ming Central Army were in full swing.

Although the shogunate army occupies an absolute numerical advantage, there are nearly 10,000 shogunate troops attacking the cliff on the left side alone, while the condescending counter-assault of the Ming Central Army is less than 1,000 people, and the strength of the shogunate army is almost ten times that of the Ming army, but it is unbelievable that with the favorable terrain, the Ming army actually has the upper hand!

Although there are a large number of samurai in the shogunate army, whether it is physical fitness or fighting skills, they are not under the Ming Central Army, but the shogunate samurai advocate individual martial arts, and rarely conduct joint attack training in peacetime, while the Ming Central Army is not.

Therefore, if it is a single fight, a central army soldier may not be the opponent of the shogunate samurai, but if it is a collective stab, the shogunate samurai will be far worse than the Ming central army, basically two central army soldiers back to back in formation, can withstand the attack of three shogunate samurai, three central army soldiers in a zigzag formation, at least five shogunate samurai attack.

In less than a bag of cigarettes, the menacing shogunate army was driven off the cliff by the central army of the Ming Dynasty.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, Doi Toshikatsu, Aoyama Tadashi and others who stopped to watch the battle from a distance couldn't believe that all this was true, this time the Ming Dynasty people did not use muskets, nor did they use the terrible dragon king cannon, this time it was completely face-to-face white-edged combat, white-knuckle combat without any tricks, and the shogunate samurai were the best and favorite way to fight.

However, the result was that the shogunate army was defeated again and was driven off the cliff by the Ming army.

It's finally getting dark.

The 20,000 shogunate troops trapped in the canyon were all wiped out, and the daimyo Inaba Masaka was also captured alive, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa ordered people to light torches, and when they planned to fight at night, the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth suddenly erupted into a landslide tsunami-like cheers, and by the bright light of the fire on the cliff, the two were horrified to find that more Ming troops had appeared on it.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa's hearts immediately sank to the Nine Hells, and the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty arrived, which also meant that Inaba Masayoshi and the 20,000 shogunate troops trapped in the canyon were finished.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Itakura Shigemasa glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of misery in each other's eyes, whether Inaba Masayoshi had been killed or captured, it was a heavy blow to Tokugawa Iemitsu, and with his close relationship with Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokugawa Iemitsu would definitely vent his anger on them.

Itakura Shigemasa looked up to the sky and sighed, and said to Matsudaira Nobutsuna: "Matsudaira-kun, go first. ”

After that, Itakura Shigemasa knelt on the ground, pulled out his katana sonorously, and stabbed into his abdomen without any hesitation.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna's facial muscles twitched violently twice, and unspeakable fear welled up in his eyes.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna didn't want to die, and he was afraid of death, but he knew that Tokugawa Iemitsu would never bypass him, if it fell into the hands of Tokugawa Iemitsu, he was afraid that he would die even worse, and his family would be humiliated at that time, his son would be deprived of the right to inherit the daimyo, and if he committed suicide, he would be able to retain the glory of the samurai, his family would not be implicated in any way, and his son would inherit his fief smoothly.

Swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, slowly pulled out the sharp katana, and compared it to his abdomen for a long time, Matsudaira Nobutsuna just couldn't do it, and the chief of the guard on the side really couldn't stand it, and kicked him in the ass, Matsudaira Nobutsuna stumbled to the ground, and the katana in his hand pierced his chest.

At this point, there is no longer any suspense in the battle of Uenohara.

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Sakai Tadayo, and Doi Toshikatsu did not know that the end of the shogunate army had come, and the Kwantung Cluster Army and the Kansai Cluster Army still firmly guarded the exits at the east and west ends of the canyon, trying to trap the Ming Central Army in the canyon and wait for the day when spring and snow would melt.

In the next few days, the Ming Central Army did not take the initiative to attack.

But this is only on the surface, in fact, the four engineer wings of the Ming Central Army are rushing to repair the artillery position close to the valley mouth, this artillery position is close enough to the valley mouth, and the valley mouth of the canyon is in the shape of a horn, so it can not have much impact on the "shooting" angle of the artillery.

It was calculated that the general in the artillery position was enough to cover the entire battalion of the shogunate army.

Ten days later, the artillery position was finally repaired, and the four hundred general guns of the two artillery battalions "revealed" their hideous faces on the position, and under the twisting of the winch, the dark barrels slowly cocked, and the black hole pointed straight into the air, like a hideous iron beast, opening its cold mouth.

The moment of decisive battle has finally arrived.

Wang Pu looked up at the sky, then at the pocket watch in his hand, and said indifferently: "Let's start." ”

"Rustle!"

On the guard tower at the edge of the artillery position, the flag soldiers who were waiting for the battle quickly raised the two "color" flags in their hands and waved them vigorously twice, and on the guard tower at the edge of the artillery position, the flag soldiers who were waiting for the battle quickly also raised the two "color" flags in their hands and waved them vigorously twice, and a crisp sound of metal friction sounded on the artillery position, and the officers at all levels of the artillery battalion had already raised their waist knives at the same time.

Suddenly, the waist knives of officers at all levels slashed down.

A dull roar suddenly sounded in the canyon, and the whole valley began to tremble, and the next moment, a terrible scream pierced the sky, dragging a long tail towards the shogunate army camp.

Shogunate Battalion.

No one from the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, to the lowliest, Ashigaru, knew that their doom had come, and when they heard the screams in the sky, the Japanese, who had not seen the power of the shogun's cannons, came out of their tents and pointed at the sky one by one, and they did not know what was going on with this terrible sound.

Soon, though, the Japanese learned what was going on.

A few seconds later, those screams fell on their heads, and the next moment, a dazzling red light rose from the camp of the shogunate army, a huge wave of air accompanied by a deafening roar, and countless scorching fragments flew all over the sky, many Japanese were torn to pieces by the huge wave of air before they could even understand what was going on, and many more Japanese were "shot" through their bodies by the flying fragments, and one by one fell in a pool of blood and wailed in pain......

The shelling of 400 artillery guns is quite terrifying, if the shrapnel radiation "fire" range of each shell is 100 square meters, then the coverage area of a single artillery bombardment of the Ming Central Army is 40,000 square meters! Under the splash damage of the flowering bullet, there is basically no "shooting" dead spot in such a large area!

The Japanese had never seen the horror of the great general's artillery, they had zero knowledge and experience in dodging the shells, they had no idea that they had to lie down when the shells fell, and when the shells fell with a scream, they either stood there in a daze, or they were dancing everywhere.

A round of artillery bombardment by the Central Army blew up hundreds of tents of the shogunate army, killing and wounding at least 1,000 soldiers of the shogunate army.

However, the doom of the Japanese has just begun, because the general cannon is not the Hongyi cannon, and it takes a long time to reload the Hongyi cannon after firing, but after the general cannon is "fired", it is reloaded and fired again, and the interval between the two is only less than ten seconds!

Soon, the second row of shells fell with a terrible scream, and the camp of the shogunate army once again burst into a dazzling red light, and the huge waves of air and the fragments flying in the sky once again brought great damage to the shogunate army, and more Japanese screamed and fell in a pool of blood......

When the shogunate army was beaten by the artillery of the Ming army and ran around the camp like rats, the infantry of the Central Army, who had been waiting for a long time, drove out of the canyon in groups and set up a rigorous "shooting" formation on the flat ground outside the valley mouth.

Although the general's artillery is powerful, it cannot decide the outcome of a war, and it is their infantry who ultimately decides the outcome of a war.

For a full twenty rounds of shelling, the two artillery battalions of the Central Army fired a full 4,000 shells! While the shogunate army was still running wolf and howling in the camp, the two infantry battalions that had already set up a "shooting" attack queue began to shout loud trumpets and slowly move forward with neat steps, like a rolling torrent running towards the shogunate camp.

At this time, the shogunate army was completely "chaotic", Doi Toshikatsu was directly killed in the shelling just now, although Tokugawa Iemitsu was not dead, but he had been frightened by the terrible shelling just now to "pee" his pants, and the whole person had become delirious, and he could not effectively command the shogunate army at all.

The only shogunate elder Nakayama Tadashi, who could command the overall situation, didn't know where to hide, and most of the remaining daimyo ran away with his subordinates, basically the daimyo couldn't find the samurai, the samurai couldn't find the daimyo, and the whole was already "chaos" into a pot of porridge, and at this time, the infantry of the Ming Central Army began the final attack.