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The ensuing battle continued as expected, until two o'clock in the afternoon. Even early in the morning, the warriors were well fed, but now they were hungry.

In addition to the nearly 1,000 killed and wounded in the battle between the two armies, the other 24,000 soldiers and 4,000 Ryukyu soldiers chased after them and rushed into Kagoshima Castle. It's a pity that the cities of the Wa Kingdom basically don't have outer walls, and the warriors don't need to think about the outer city walls to block them, so they rush straight in.

This large city with a population of more than 150,000 people began to chaos the moment the warriors entered. All the forces that resisted were killed. The soldiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom were even more ruthless, except for the women, they did not move, as long as it was a man, even a child of eleven or twelve years old died under their swords. This qiē cultivation nature was not hindered at all, and in his opinion, he had to be ruthless to the enemy.

The battle in the city didn't take much time, and in less than three hours, the city was basically swept aside. In just three hours, half of the population of 150,000 people was lost, which is the cruelty of war. In the eyes of the Mawei soldiers, this was just revenge for the retreat of the Satsuma clan and revenge for the coastal people, after all, most of them had an unforgettable hatred for the Japanese invaders.

When the chase reached the back, the horsetail warriors still encountered a problem. The place where the Shimazu family lived was a castle that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is the famous Kagoshima Castle of the Satsuma Domain, which was expanded on the basis of the original Tsurumaru Castle. The castle is located on a hill at an altitude of 100 meters. Because the city is surrounded by cliffs. Therefore, Kagojo Castle is a fortified castle that takes advantage of the natural terrain.

More than a dozen artillery pieces were installed on the castle. There are also many holes in the walls where the Japanese warriors can shoot their guns and arrows. When the horse-tailed warriors rushed to the city, they caused a lot of damage, twenty people were directly killed, and more than thirty were injured.

"General, this is it, the brothers have been shooting at the castle for a long time, but there is no movement in it. But as soon as we rush upward, the clusters of bullets and arrows above will fall on the warriors. Casualties for us. "Guo Jing, the commander of the eighth battalion, was the first to kill here, but it was his command that planted the most here.

"This castle is not bad, it is not worse than the round and square buildings in Fujian!" Zeng Yangxing was not in a hurry, but took a closer look at the castle. Now not to mention how the castle was built, it was this hundred-meter hill that was the biggest problem for their attack. The height of more than 30 meters is still surrounded by cliffs, and there is only one road facing east to go up, so dangerous. It's not easy to take it.

"Damn, it's not your house. I won't look for the brothers from the artillery battalion to help! Bang it on Lao Tzu! Zeng Yangxing looked at it, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he reprimanded Guo Jing loudly.

Guo Jing was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, he only thought about how to attack it, but he didn't expect to directly bombard it with a cannon. "What are you doing in a daze!" Guo Jing reacted quickly, and immediately slapped the guards on the head. "Go and ask the brothers of the artillery battalion, hurry up and pull the cannon over!"

"Yes!" The guards saluted, and quickly ran out of the crowd to find the artillery camp.

Previously, the large army pursued and killed with the Japanese ranks, but the artillery battalion did not immediately follow. After all, it is not convenient for artillery to move. It is convenient to put the cannon down and set it up, but it takes some effort to remove the bracket in turn. It would take a few minutes just to remove the bracket and put the mule back on.

The guards went to the south of the city to find the artillery battalion and pulled the guns of the two brigades together. These two brigades are all equipped with Hongyi cannons, a total of sixteen. From the time Zeng Yangxing gave the order to the sixteen cannons being pulled here to set up, a total of twenty minutes had passed.

"Fire!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

At such a close distance, the muzzle of the cannon was directly facing the castle, and one by one the shells fell on the city wall and roof, and then there was a violent explosion, and the wall and roof were immediately blown apart. The sound of cannons continued for more than ten minutes, and each cannon fired ten shells, and the once majestic and beautiful castle had become miserable. After each round of shelling, a terrible howl could be heard, and it seemed that many of the pirates in the castle were wounded or killed.

"Stop shelling!"

Just as the gunners were about to fire the eleventh shell, a white flag was erected on the castle, and the pirates surrendered!

"You shout at them, drop your weapons and come out on your own, we won't kill the prisoners!" Zeng Yangxing ordered to a Ryukyu country guide beside him. This guide was also a subordinate of Karaji, and he had followed Karaji to Kagoshima Castle and Edo many times to pay tribute.

"Listen to the Japanese inside, the general said, I want you to lay down your arms and take the initiative to surrender, and the powerful horsetail army will not kill the prisoners! I repeat, quickly lay down your arms and take the initiative to come out and surrender, the mighty horsetail army does not kill prisoners! The guide's voice was loud enough to repeat the command twice.

After hearing the shouting inside the castle, the Japanese robbers immediately held their heads in their hands and slowly walked down. The first of them is Shimazu Mitsuhisa's brother-in-law, Shimazu Akihisa, the head of the Shimazu family's new castle family. The helmsman of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, after being dragged back to Kagoshima Castle by Shimazu Akihisa, originally wanted to use the complex terrain in the city to engage in street battles with the horsetail soldiers, so that the artillery of the Shimawei army could not play its role. In this way, there may be a chance to turn the defeat into a victory.

The idea was good, but the remaining 26,000 or so Japanese warriors had been completely frightened by the ferocity of the Mawei navy, and they simply did not have the courage to fight the Mawei warriors again. Mitsuhisa Shimazu and Akihisa Shimazu retreated all the way back to the castle, wanting to defend against the danger. Unfortunately, his wish was once again frustrated, and ten rounds of shelling, one hundred and sixty flowering shells almost destroyed the castle. During the tenth round of shelling, one was lucky to find him. The flowering bullet passed through the hole in the roof and happened to land beside him.

"Boom!" , and it was pitch black in front of his eyes. "The Shimazu family is finished!" That was his last consciousness. Then they went to see their Amaterasu.

In a small castle. Slowly walked out of the 1,500 or 6 Japanese warriors. Look at the clothes of these samurai. It's obviously better than ordinary Japanese samurai, and those ronin samurai are far from comparable. It seems that these people are the elite of the Shimazu family. In fact, it is true, they are all the personal guards of the Shimazu family, a total of 3,000 people. In the shelling just now, another thousand people were directly reimbursed, and more than 500 were seriously injured and lying in the ruins of the castle.

These would-be robbers are coming. Guo Jing led the soldiers of the eighth battalion under his command to rush up, searching to see if there were still Japanese robbers who had not surrendered. And those who were seriously wounded and still wailing, in the spirit of humanitarianism, the soldiers were very merciful to make up for it.

Zeng Yang looked at the captives in front of him carefully, and when he saw Shimazu Akihisa, his eyes couldn't help but light up. "You're Mitsuhisa Shimazu?"

"No, I'm Shimazu Akihisa, the brother-in-law of the head of the Shimazu Mitsuhisa family, and the head of the Shinjo family." Akihisa Shimazu said quickly in Chinese. Many of them, the nobles of the Wa Kingdom, can speak fluent Chinese. It's a pity that the Japanese people in later generations are the same as the country of sticks. If they don't change, they don't recognize that their culture is inherited from China.

"Huh. They can also speak our official language! Zeng Yangxing turned his head and said to Guo Jing with a smile. Guo Jing also nodded with a smile. "What about your head Shimazu Mitsuhisa? Dead? ”

"Yes, just now your shell hit him and killed him instantly. The corpse was on it. Shimazu Akihisa said dejectedly.

"Hmph, it's cheap! Well, since you're a member of the Shimazu family and the head of a separate family, you must be very effective in what you say. You still have some armies that are rebelling against our army, go and tell them, lay down your arms and surrender, we will not kill the prisoners. And you have been defeated, so stop making useless resistance! Take him down! Zeng Yangxing waved his hand, and a soldier by his side took him down.

"Alright, the battle is over, start cleaning up the battlefield. Drag all the corpses out of the city and bury them! It's still a slow hot weather, don't stink, but the prince has long said that rotting corpses will cause epidemics. Hurry up and do it! ”

"Yes!"

Geng Jingzhong has stayed at the dock until now, it's not that he doesn't want to enter the city, Wang Zhenbang and Yang Jian around him have blocked him. If a cold shot is fired from any alley, the consequences are unimaginable. Geng Jingzhong couldn't resist them, so that's it, anyway, he had already won a big victory in this battle. If you are in a different place, it is better to be cautious.

The capture of Kagoshima Castle also marked the end of the Shimazu family. Although the Shimazu family is more than this castle, the main force they have has been wiped out. It is estimated that at this moment, the 20,000 troops of Kakuya Castle and Shibuzhi Castle of the Shimazu family in the east are still on their way, but it doesn't matter. A soldier who has never experienced war is a chick no matter how he says it, and in front of a horse-tailed soldier, he is not much different from a sheep.

The remaining two castles are not far from Kagoshima Castle in a straight line, but they are separated by Kagoshima Bay, so you have to take a detour to get there. The whole journey has increased several times. Under the expectation of Geng Jingzhong and others, it is estimated that they will arrive this evening.

By the time the evening came, the fighters would probably have enough rest. When the time comes, they will set up a position in the north of the city, waiting for the Japanese to send them to the door, and they will be caught off guard.

Cleaning up the battlefield was not an easy task, and some of the horsetail warriors commanded the captives who had surrendered to carry the corpses of the city outside the city, dig large pits, and bury them. Some horse-tailed warriors went around raiding houses, sorting and packing a valuable thing into a box. It's not the first time they've done this kind of work, and in the past few years, they have cleaned up pirates of all sizes, and they don't know how many nests they have copied.

After all, only a part of the soldiers cleaned the battlefield, and the total number was just over five thousand. The other 20,000 warriors and 4,000 Ryukyu warriors were ambushed on the road north of the city, waiting to give them the final blow.

At half past six in the evening, the pocket watches in the hands of Zeng Yangxing and other generals all showed this time, and the Japanese army finally came. Since it was already dark, we didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Suddenly, a rumbling cannon sound reached their ears, followed by a violent explosion in the midst of them. The one hundred and sixty artillery pieces scattered in the mountains and forests once again came into full swing, dealing a huge blow to the long procession. The 20,000 horsetail warriors who were lying in ambush on both sides of the mountain forest also opened fire. Gunshots rang out, and the pirates fell one by one.

This battle was the same as the battle in the morning, and after more than half of the Japanese were killed and wounded, they began to flee, but unfortunately the front and back were all horse-tailed warriors in ambush, and the 20,000 Japanese were completely annihilated in less than an hour. At this time, the Shimazu family can be regarded as completely removed from the name of the Japanese daimyo! (To be continued......)

PS: There are quite a lot of classes in the afternoon, and I'm so busy that I haven't coded the second chapter until now, brothers, sorry, I've been waiting for a long time!