Chapter 592: Unexpected Ease

Edo Bay has become a hell, and the fate of the small morning boat of less than 100 tons, the larger one of the seki ships, and the more than 300 tons of Ataka ships are all the same. This naval division was the most powerful force that the shogunate could muster, and in front of a mere fifteen battleships, this naval division was destroyed. The numb gunfire was still ringing out one after another, and the craziest scene appeared, countless flames suddenly rose from the battleship, and fifteen thousand Chen's rockets were also shot out.

What a solid bullet could not do, the rocket did, and the houses near the dock turned into a sea of fire.

Chen Xie, who was holding a war knife in both hands, the pleasure in his heart reached the extreme at this time. Is it cruel? Perhaps, as long as you are a Chinese, as long as you know a little about history, it is not difficult to understand what this neighbor around you is.

The fire grew bigger and bigger, and slowly spread to the center of the city, and the cries in the sea of fire shook the sky and reached into the sky. The flames rose dozens of meters high, and the sound of crackling ruins and broken walls was really pleasant to listen to. Chen Xie had a thought now, hitting him until he felt fear in his bones, and hit him until he knelt on the ground and licked in various postures. As for how many people died, Chen Xie didn't care at all.

Before the battle broke out near the bay, Tokugawa Iemitsu stood in front of the drum in full armor and beat the drum himself. The sound of the drums was very morale-boosting, and the samurai standing at the forefront, riding on a donkey-high horse, responded with various shouts, and the soldiers behind him also shouted: "Onboard!" "These are the elite of the shogunate, and the worst ones have leather armor. He was not holding a bamboo spear, but also an iron cannon and a spear.

The samurai began to make small cannons, and the soldiers behind them followed the small cannons, about a thousand of the three thousand cavalry, leaving the team and circling from the flanks. In front of the Chinese army. No less than 3,000 shogunate soldiers launched the first wave of attacks under the leadership of the samurai.

Su Haochen has been standing very calmly in front of the formation, the flat section on the right side is suitable for cavalry impact, and the sappers are frantically making final preparations. It is not realistic to pull up a few barbed wires, and it is not difficult to pull some barbed wire in a staggered manner to slow down. After all, they are all good finished products. Fifteen meters of barbed wire, with wooden stakes wrapped around the ends, and the tip of the tip is as sharp as an iron spear head. As soon as it rolls on the ground, the barbed wire is pulled apart, and the efficiency is not low when the three people smash the stakes.

At a distance of five hundred, one test shot, after the shells knocked over several soldiers, the three-pounder gun group began to suppress fire from a distance.

A samurai at the front. No one knew what his name was, but he was hit in the stomach by a cannonball, and the whole person flew up from the horse, fell backwards fiercely, and after smashing over seven or eight people, he struggled a few times and then got up, and a big hole was opened in the stomach, and his intestines flowed to the ground.

Shooting of the first round of solid shells. The effect is actually very average, and the three-pounder gun is not for this job. But the deterrent is absolutely powerful. Even the bravest samurai died a miserable death after a single shot. The trotting team loosened a little, and the drums behind them became more intense, carrying all kinds of small flags. Follow the whoast and continue to rush with his head.

These soldiers have all fought and seen blood, and they will not be downed by this wave. Praying in your heart for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas is something that everybody does. The "Great Qing Dynasty" introduced Buddhism to the steppe, and as a result, the fighting spirit of the Mongols was abolished. Xuanzang brought Buddhism to Japan, and it is known how much it played a role. Again, that's the truth. A bad guy is a bad guy, and wherever he puts it, he is a bad guy in Nima, and he won't change because of the camp.

A slight breeze blew from the sea, sending a strong smell of gunsmoke, and the choking people couldn't help but sneeze, and Tokugawa Iemitsu sneezed, and then he didn't have time to wipe his snot urgently, and continued to beat the drum and cheer. At this moment, he saw a scene that stunned him, far above Edo Castle, black smoke billowed out, and pillars of smoke obscured the sky.

What's going on? Obviously stunned, the drum beat stopped. Without much thought, Tokugawa Iemitsu handed the drumstick to the samurai beside him, hurriedly walked to the side, and looked at the burning city. There, is his lair.

"Yaga!" Such a sentence popped out from between his teeth, and Tokugawa Iemitsu felt that he had been fooled. In fact, it is not fooled, but Chen Xie was more cautious and chose two landing sites, one inside Edo Bay and one outside Edo Bay.

Just when Tokugawa Iemitsu was hesitating whether to go back, the sound of the row of guns sounded, and he subconsciously turned his head to see that those samurai and battle-hardened soldiers were like wheat in front of a sickle, falling down one by one. What's going on here? This distance, this distance is two hundred steps, right? How can you hit someone so far?

If Tokugawa Iemitsu was just shocked and incomprehensible, a samurai named Yamauchi who rushed to the front was using the last bit of strength of his life to find the answer from the bullet hole in his chest. The lead bullet tore through the armor lightly, cut an eye in the chest, blood splattered out of the body, looked down, looked up again, and finally leaned back unwillingly.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had only seen an arquebus, could not understand the tragedy caused by the rifled rifle, and the officers and soldiers of the Azi Battalion were no longer surprised, and similar scenes, even the new recruits, became numb under the continuous indoctrination of veterans. Raise the gun, aim, fire, reload, raise the gun, aim, fire again. Every movement has been practiced countless times, just like the instinct of a person to eat.

The cavalry was unusually wolf in front of the barbed wire, and after the unbelieving cavalry tripped over it, the rifle rang out in time. Just like shooting a fixed target during training, the soldiers opened fire with unusual calmness. The splashes of blood are like cherry blossoms blooming in spring, and when the wind blows, they fall like raindrops, and the smell of blood is strong and disgusting.

It's not a war, it's a harvest of life. The pattern of the war was completely beyond Tokugawa Iemitsu's expectations, with the city burning behind him, and the brave samurai and soldiers, inspired by the sound of drums, were still going to die one after another. Just when Tokugawa Iemitsu decided to retreat, the elite troops, who had always been known for their courage to die, rushed to a hundred meters away, ushered in the baptism of shotguns, and in the face of tragic casualties, the self-proclaimed most elite shogunate army finally dispersed with noise and turned around and ran. The more elite cavalry, when they saw that this side ran first, also turned around and ran.

At a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters from the Ming army, the piled up corpses formed a low wall, and the warriors who were running back had to run around this wall. In addition to the corpses, there was only a mess of weapons, knives, guns, and iron cannons scattered on the ground. These things are all money. In the past, it must have been crazy to rob, but now I can't take care of it, and it is important to escape.

Su Haochen, who was standing at the front of the team, smiled at the corner of his mouth, raised his battle knife, and the sound of clicking sounded, and the sound of the bayonet was neat. "Dengzhou battalion, forward!" The slogan that has not changed, the officers who have not changed are at the forefront.

The big scalp shoes stepped on the ground, making neat footsteps, and the soldiers with their bayonets and their heads held high moved forward with empty eyes.

Chasing the defeated soldiers, the Dengzhou battalion chased more with less, ignoring the thousands of troops in front of them, and stabbed forward directly. This move, Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't expect, Sakai Tadakatsu didn't think of either, and all Japanese didn't think of it. What I didn't expect was that the defeated soldiers rolling back disrupted the formation of the team, chased after the platoon of guns, and forced them to run wildly.

The whole formation was disrupted, and when the plague was lost and the threat of death was imminent, the soldiers began to run back. This battle, for them, there are too many things that cannot be understood.

Before the men and horses of the headquarters could stabilize their positions, the grenades emitting black smoke fell all over the crowd, and one explosion point was a piece. At this time, the entire shogunate army was like a flood that opened the floodgates, pouring thousands of miles. The most elite mother-clothed people could only protect Tokugawa Iemitsu and run back, while the bayonets of the Dengshu battalion followed behind, and the sound of bayonets entering the flesh kept ringing.

In this battle, the Dengzhou battalion defeated more than 8,000 shogunate troops with 2,000 people, killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, and paid eight minor injuries in the pursuit, and then there were three broken feet. There are countless flags and banners that have been captured, but this thing can't be counted in the battle merits, and the Dengzhou battalion will not take this as a military merit. The only thing that was taken by the staff officer of the Chronicle was actually the large stock brought by Tokugawa Iemitsu, not that it was good, but that it could be taken back as a trophy as a souvenir.

Chased out for more than ten miles, a bunch of messy seizures, the most sought-after is the Japanese katana, this thing is honestly still a very good trophy, it is a very suitable object to bring back as a show-off.

The landing in the bay went very smoothly, and after clearing the last living man on the sea, the fleet dropped anchor in the bay, and when the supply ships ran out of ammunition, the two landing forces joined forces and set up camp on the shore. I was preparing unhurriedly, it was not early, and the interest in fighting the night battle was not high, anyway, this battle was not in a hurry.

The fire in the residential area on the wharf burned all night, and was slowly extinguished the next morning, and this fire, according to the statistics of Japanese historians, burned down more than 8,000 houses, caused more than 10,000 deaths, and left 100,000 people homeless. Interestingly, in this time and space, Japanese historians emphasized not the invasion of the Ming army, but reflected on the actions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi back then, and agreed that this was the key to the Dengzhou battalion, the most benevolent army of the Ming Dynasty, to fight Japan. There is another point of view that emphasizes that the so-called Nagasaki merchants did not pay attention to their credibility and poisoned the Ming people who came to do business, which was the key point that led to the war. History, that's it, whoever wants to come to Japan.

More historians have focused on the shogunate's reaction to the battle, arguing that this was the key to shaping the next 500 years of Japanese history. Well, this is a mainstream view, which shows that the sensationalism is still in the minority. (To be continued......)