Chapter 840: Attack on Okazaki Castle
Start the siege!
Outside Okazaki City, Tokugawa Kayo and his party were already in formation.
Fifty guns, lined up, began the shelling of Okazaki Castle.
With an earth-shattering sound, dozens of solid bullets slammed into the walls and gates of Okazaki Castle.
To be honest, the defenders of Okazaki Castle have never seen such a formation. So their faces suddenly changed dramatically and they trembled.
The envoy to the peace talks sent by Fujita High School was beheaded by Tokugawa Yoshiyo by order.
Judging from the current occupation and situation, Tokugawa Kayo is unwilling to negotiate peace with Fujita High School. Although after the armistice with Fujita High School, it was easy to enter Okazaki Castle.
However, this would put up a very big obstacle to controlling the entire Miyazaki territory.
At the same time, the existence of Fujita High School is also very detrimental to the future rule.
The reason why Fujita High School has proposed an armistice and peace talks is that the current situation is very unfavorable for him.
It was precisely because of such unfavorable reasons that he was very reluctant to want a truce.
Therefore, if there is a chance in the future, then we have to guard against the possible rebellion of this guy.
Therefore, it is better to take this opportunity to eradicate the Fujita family from Miyazaki in one fell swoop and extinguish this scourge.
Even if Tokugawa Kayo doesn't understand military affairs very well, she still knows some political things very well.
Besides, even if Tokugawa Kayo can't understand it, but Hattori Hidezo and Yuji Kawabe are not given for nothing.
Therefore, the envoy sent by Fujita High School was a complete tragedy.
In this way, Tokugawa Kayo also proved his determination to solve the Fujita family.
After the news was transmitted back to Okazaki Castle, Fujita was terrified.
But what can he do now?
He had already missed his last opportunity. Now he can only continue to hide in Okazaki Castle to survive.
If he returns to Okazaki Castle, abandons Okazaki as soon as possible, and then heads to northern Kyushu with his army, maybe he will have a chance to breathe and live.
However, this guy can't let go of everything he enjoys now, so he missed the most desperate opportunity to survive, and he can't blame others.
Okazaki Castle is very large, and it is impossible to completely surround Okazaki Castle with just Tokugawa Kayo and others.
Therefore, if Fujita can seize this opportunity, then maybe there is still a chance to survive.
But. After the beheading of the messenger, Fujita lost his former shrewdness, and he hid in his residence and began to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha.
This gave a great opportunity to slip away from him.
For Fujita High School, he can only be described as self-inflicted.
Tokugawa Kayo and the others arrived at Okazaki Castle at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and as soon as they arrived at Okazaki Castle, they set up a formation and began to attack Okazaki Castle.
This was proposed by Yuji Kawabe, who didn't want to give the other party too much time to react.
According to Yuji Kawabe's judgment, although there were still more than 10,000 defenders in Okazaki Castle. But those are militias that have not been trained rigorously, so there is nothing to fear.
With powerful artillery, it was fairly easy to open the gates of Okazaki Castle.
As long as you can break through the gates of Okazaki Castle. Then the defenders of Okazaki Castle, which now have little morale, are quite easy to defeat.
Therefore, Okazaki Castle is not so difficult to fall.
As long as Okazaki Castle can be conquered, then in the name of the Tokugawa family. Quickly stabilize the people in the city, and you can start attacking the rest of Miyazaki's territory in a short time.
According to Zhao Hongyu's original plan, Miyazaki was captured within seven days. Not that difficult task.
Whether it is as Tokugawa Kayo or Yuji Kawabe, both of them want to take this opportunity to perform well, and want to complete this combat mission perfectly, so that Zhao Hongyu can take a high look at him.
The walls of Okazaki Castle were bombarded by artillery, and stone chips were splashed, and a solid bullet could basically leave a deep pit in the city wall.
Probably because the bombardment had just begun, the accuracy was not enough, so the first bombardment was able to hit the target very few.
But even this made the defenders defending the head of Okazaki Castle tremble, and their legs trembled uncontrollably.
They had never seen such a weapon or such a siege method.
In the siege of the Japanese kingdom, the entire city is basically surrounded first, and then the siege is impassable, and then into a long confrontation, the enemy and us will constantly look for opportunities to attack.
But these enemies were different, and as soon as they arrived at the city, they began to attack.
Moreover, instead of using infantry, they used a powerful weapon to bombard the walls.
This weapon is so powerful that it makes a thunderous sound when used, and at the same time, it can blast the city wall into a big void, and people can't help but feel weak after seeing it.
Even the stones on the city walls will be smashed to pieces, let alone flesh and blood.
The generals at the head of the city kept shouting loudly, scolding the militiamen who had begun to fear in their hearts. Although these generals were also very scared in their hearts, they were all samurai after all.
Under the reprimand of these generals, the morale of the military at the head of Okazaki Castle was finally stabilized.
But as long as you are not a fool, you will know that it is impossible for the soldiers to stabilize for too long under such a bombardment.
If there were a few more attacks like this, the soldiers would surely collapse.
But the problem is that they can't control these things, and the initiative is not in their hands.
So, soon, they had a second shelling.
With the sound of the earth-shattering cannon, fifty solid shells flew out of the barrel again, shooting straight at the walls and gates of Okazaki Castle.
After the first shelling, the gunners adjusted the muzzle of the gun, so that the second shelling became much more accurate than the previous one.
Of the 50 shells, six hit the gates of Okazaki Castle, leaving a large hole in the gates of Okazaki Castle. The remaining shells hit the battlements of the city wall. Smash the battlements that are weaker in defense.
Under the burst of rubble, it brought great damage to the defenders at the head of the city.
Some of the soldiers were even thrown under the city at once, or they were beaten beyond recognition by the rubble, and even their skulls were torn open by the rubble, and Bai Huahua's brains flowed to the ground.
This kind of scene brought great shock to the militia who were defending at the head of the city.
Strictly speaking, a scene like this is much smaller than the scene in the battle of Maitreya.
When it comes to the cruelty of flesh and blood, it's nothing.
But, the militia is the militia. If you want to talk about the level of discipline or something, compared to the regular army, it is really not half a point.
After two shellings, the defenders at the head of the city were completely in chaos.
Seriously, they would rather rush out of the city and fight the enemy face to face than shrink at the head of the city and let the enemy attack them like this.
"The Second Army of the Imperial Cooperative Army, attack!"
As the gunners began to reload with gunpowder and shells, the third shelling was about to begin.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yuji Kawabe ordered. Let the captives of Kyushu who surrendered begin to attack Okazaki Castle.
These guys are now cannon fodder for Yuji Riverside.
Although they say that they have surrendered themselves, Yuji Kawabe has always expressed cautious belief in their loyalty.
Now is their chance to prove their loyalty, and that is to be the first wave of troops to attack Okazaki Castle.
As long as they can survive this attack. to be eligible to gain the trust of Yuji Riverside and change their living treatment.
For the siege troops as the first wave, these Kyushu captives did not have much resentment in their hearts.
Because they are all very well aware that as a captive of the defeated side. In fact, it is quite normal to do these things.
At this time, they were still wearing Kyushu-style attire, and they were holding spears and katanas that had just come down. Lined up in a neat line, under the shout of a slogan, they began to think about the gate of Okazaki Castle and launched a charge.
To be honest, their equipment is really much worse than that of the Imperial Army.
They didn't have riot suits, helmets and boots, so they couldn't cope with the counterattack of Okazaki Castle.
"Archer, prepare! Shoot! ”
When the Kyushu captives, who were now organized into the Second Legion of the Imperial Allied Army, they immediately ushered in a rain of arrows shot from the head of Okazaki Castle.
Due to the lack of effective protective measures, the team fell many people on the way to the charge.
However, they did not dare to retreat at all, because if they retreated, death awaited them.
They themselves are captives, and although they have taken refuge in their captives, they will not be valued. Even because they didn't come up with anything that could make people trust them, their status was actually no different from that of captives.
Just like just now, they were only unroped when they were about to attack.
Therefore, I want to change my destiny and gain the trust of others. Then now they have to take out the strength to eat milk and fight to the death with the defenders of Okazaki Castle.
Only in this way can it be proved that they have really taken refuge in each other.
In the process, they all know that their companions or themselves will die, but at least this is a chance, isn't it?
If they don't seize this opportunity, then they will all be captives with no status in the future. Even if you say you surrender, people won't accept it.
If it's okay, what do you do with accepting a waste?
Everyone understands this truth, and it is very clear.
Braving the arrows in the sky, the Second Corps of the Imperial Allied Army launched a tragic charge...... (To be continued......)