The situation in Edo Bay in Honshu is said to be of concern to the Matsumae Domain, but now the old Inoue Trust of the Matsumae Domain's pen head does not have that mind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because he had the most powerful enemy, the Ming army of Hokuriku had arrived at Tengzan Castle, which was holding between Donan and Tokatsu, ten days earlier, and immediately sealed off the east and south, leaving only the north and west.

said that it was a large army, but in fact there were only 2,000 people, but they were all cavalry, and Inoue trusted that he didn't have the heart to go out to face the battle, and he was looking for death when he went out of the city to fight against the Ming cavalry.

Previously, the Ming people only attacked a tentative time, when the city more than ten gates of the big tube roared, the Ming people immediately died down, yesterday there were 5,000 foot troops coming, in addition to the big tube with the arrival of the big tube, Inoue trusted to estimate that the Ming people were going to attack.

Inoue looked at the formation of the Broken Army that was covered with the glittering armor of the field in the east, and his heart was cold, and the people of Honshu were not deeply touched by the Ten Victories and One Battle, and they all thought that the Ten Victories Coalition was too weak, but he and the feudal lord carefully inquired about the samurai who fled back to Ashigaru and the samurai, and came to the conclusion that the elite banners of the shogunate might not be able to withstand the impact of the Akito.

Of course, they wouldn't say it like this, because the shogunate didn't believe it when they said it, and it only added to their troubles, and of course, they had a mark on the Akito's infantry and cavalry in their hearts, and they couldn't be defeated.

This is the strengthening of the city defense of Tengshan City, in a word, as long as you can hold Tengshan City, you can block the Ming people from entering the south, of course, if the Ming people drive directly to the southwest from the sea, they can't, but the road to the south of the road is not good, and it is also very difficult to go ashore from the southwest.

Now there are more than ten large tubes reinforced by the shogunate and 2,000 wandering samurai recruited by Tengshan Castle, and there are nearly 1,000 nearby Ashigaru. There are more than 3,000 defenders in the small Tengshan City.

It should be said that Inoue Trust has a sense of solidity. Of course. When the enemy in front of you is spread all over the field, the pressure is also quite high.

Inoue Nozomi turned around to look at the ashigaru people around him, and he found that many of the recruited samurai were very calm looking at the Ming army outside, after all, they had been in the grass and had absolutely no problem with their courage.

On the contrary, many of the Ashigaru people gathered from the nearby fishing grounds, pastures, and villages were panicked, at least the Ming people outside were the most powerful soldiers they had ever seen, and there was no one. This puts a lot of pressure on such a buddy on the battlefield.

Inoue shook his head, fortunately he found so many samurai, otherwise, alas...

At this moment, the ashigaru people were in an uproar, and Inoue Nobuyo turned around to see twenty or thirty huge cannons appear in the rear of the Akito, and they were slowly approaching Tengshan Castle under the drag of cattle and horses.

Inoue immediately knew that this was a giant cannon much larger than the big barrel at the head of his own castle, so it was very difficult for a few cows to pull a giant cannon, while the castle barrel could be easily pulled by only two oxen.

Inoue trusted, his heart tightened. It seems that the big cylinder at the head of the city has a nemesis.

It took the Ming people half a day to place these cannons five miles away, and ate the war meal after noon. Akito began to get busy.

Boom, boom, boom, several cannons were test-fired, some were too close, some crossed the city, Inoue Trust was not glad at all, because these huge cannons can actually pass the projectile over the city, how powerful is this, this terrifying range, the big barrel on the city is far inferior.

Then the nightmare of the defenders came, and in the second salvo, five projectiles hit the walls of Tengshan City, and the huge impact force made the city walls shake more than once, and many people in the city were terrified.

Three miles away, Ma Quanfu used a telescope to observe the situation behind the cannon in the city wall of Tengshan City, and across three miles, he clearly saw the deep bullet marks behind the cannon in the city wall, Ma Quanfu nodded and was deeply satisfied.

This time, he and Huang Maolin led 2,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry troops, as well as hundreds of gunners, 10 24-pounder guns, and 20 36-pounder cannons, just to pull out Tengshan City in one fell swoop and attack Daonan.

For this reason, Beihua Town has been preparing for a year, and only Lord Zhao can give an order, and finally the military order of Lord Zhao arrived in Beihua a month ago, and told him about the capture of Sado.

All the people of Beihua are excited, the army has become strong enough to compete with the Japanese country, and then the time has finally come to be together with Beihua Island.

Because the soldiers and armor in the official warehouse were complete and the money and food were sufficient, it only took twenty days for the army to set out, and the transportation of the siege artillery from the sea was the most delayed, so the soldiers waited here for ten days before finally waiting for the cannon to arrive.

Of course, the power of this 36-pounder cannon, tsk, is really strong, Ma Quanfu clicked his mouth, it was very energetic, look at the flying sand and stones on the Japanese city, it is to relieve hatred.

"My lord, looking at this, the Japanese people won't last long," Huang Maolin said with a smile.

"I can't say for sure, it depends on how long the city wall can last, as long as the city wall is broken, hehe, it will be a drum down the mountain city." Ma Quanfu said easily.

Boom, boom, thirty huge cannons roared one after another, and occasionally a cannonball landed on the city, throwing away the bodies of several people at once, stumps and blood splattered, and there were bursts of howls.

The whistling sound of the projectile was like a talisman to the defenders of the city, and they didn't know when it would fall on their heads, and they didn't know when the city wall would not be able to withstand it and would collapse.

The walls were constantly shaking, and Inoue had never experienced such a huge bombardment of the city, so it was pitiful to say that the Matsumae clan generally bullied the backward and scattered Anui people, and if the polemic power was worse than that of the daimyo in Honshu, it was much worse than the flag of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Even the samurai who have experienced the conflicts of some daimyo in Honshu have not experienced such artillery battles, and this kind of passivity that can only be beaten and cannot fight back is too aggrieved.

Inoue decided to let most of the soldiers go down to the city to hide, if they were to be so hard-hitting, I am afraid that it would not be long before they were defeated.

Boom, boom, the artillery of the Broken Army bombarded unhurriedly, and at the same time the artillery team also adapted to this kind of giant artillery, after all, the artillery team of the infantry army was generally mainly nine-pounder and six-pounder guns, and twelve pounder was already heavy artillery, and now these are twenty-four and thirty-six pounder guns.

The heavy cannon body, the ****** that is more than twice the size, and the projectile that is twice as heavy are also different from the previous loading methods, and if it were not for the assistance of the gunners sent by the naval division, the artillery team would really be a little difficult to play.

On the first day, he was not very proficient, and it was already past noon, plus the heat dissipation, that is, the cannon was twenty rounds larger, and half of the projectiles hit the east city wall, which made nearly half of the bricks shattered, revealing the rammed earth city wall inside.

In the evening, the cannon did not return to the barracks, but was guarded by a cavalry commander, who welcomed the Japanese in the city to go out of the city and sneak attack, but unfortunately, Inoue trusted to stay honest, that is, the tiger did not come out of the hole.

On the second day, the artillery roared, and at night, several large cracks appeared in the rammed earth wall of the eastern city, and even a peasant woman knew that the wall could not hold on.

Inoue Trust was faced with two choices, one was to go out of the city to sneak attack, and the other was to wait for the city to break down, and fight in the streets of the city, thinking about the big impact of the Ming centaur team that he might face after leaving the city, he still decided to stay in the city and hold on.

He withdrew all the Ashigaru samurai to the castle and decided to fight in the streets, the reason why he did this was to give the Ming people the greatest damage, even if he was killed and Tengshan Castle fell, the Ming people did not dare to attack Fukuyama Castle like this for fear of casualties, after all, the feudal lord and family were there, and this was the last thing he did for the feudal lord, and he still had the dignity of a samurai.

On the third day, the east city wall stubbornly withstood the bombardment of the Ming people, but the cracks in some parts of the city wall had reached the width of a person, and some were also tilted.

On the fourth day, the captive army came to the city and shouted to the soldiers in the city to surrender, which could save their lives.

At the beginning of the day, with the first volley after lunch, the east city wall roared twice, and two large sections of the city wall collapsed, and there were gaps of more than 30 steps each.

The long-awaited Breakers and North Korean soldiers immediately filled the moat with sandbags and swarmed into the city, but the result was not very good, and the Japanese in the city resisted desperately in the crooked and narrow streets of the city.

The spears of the Broken Prisoners were not conducive to playing the role of long weapons in the narrow streets and alleys, and at the same time, they had to deal with the sneak attacks of the Japanese archers on various houses, and in just half an hour, dozens of Broken Prisoners and more than 100 Korean soldiers were killed and wounded.

This made Ma Quanfu furious, he ordered the city to be set on fire, it would be better if he could get a complete Tengshan City, if not, he didn't mind burning it all and killing it all.

The Breakers stopped attacking, but instead brought oil rockets into the city and threw them at them, and soon the flames began to rise in the city, and the unique wooden houses of the Japanese people made the fire uncontrollable, and finally the whole city was caught in flames.

Many of the Japanese soldiers turned into fire men and rolled around in the city and wailed, while many more Japanese soldiers braved the smoke and flames to protrude the fire city and fled west and north.

It's just that there are two cavalry guards of the Beihua Army in these two directions outside, these soldiers were killed one by one on the way to escape, many Japanese soldiers knelt down and surrendered with tears in their eyes, but because of the resistance of the Japanese people in the city, many soldiers of the Beihua Army were injured, therefore, Ma Quanfu violently ordered, not to leave a living mouth, thinking that the latecomers were quitting, so these Japanese people and samurai were killed on the spot one by one.

Inoue trusted that he didn't run away, he estimated that he couldn't escape, and in the end he was buried in the fire, finally worthy of the lord of the Matsumae Domain and the identity of his pen family.

The scorching fire burned until midnight before it gradually extinguished, and when the temperature in the city went down and the disgusting smell inside dissipated a lot, the Beihua army sent men into the collection.

They entered not to look for the enemy's banner or anything, but to look for silver money, and sure enough, in the official treasury that had turned into ashes, they found tens of thousands of silver and gold judgments that had melted together, which was to reward these samurai and ashigaru, and now it is cheaper for the Beihua Army, but it is really not easy to clean up these black and melted silver.

Ma Quanfu doesn't care about this, and the soldiers don't care about this, as long as there is a harvest, thirty percent of the capture will be rewarded to them, and a few silver dollars per person is not a small amount.

The fall of Tengshan City opened the gate of the hinterland of Daonan, and Daonan immediately fell into turmoil. (To be continued.) )