"Ladies and gentlemen, the fleet of the Han people has sailed outside the port of Edo Castle, and the authority of the shogun is being provoked by the Han people, and from the moment we swear allegiance to the shogun, our lives have been ......"

Rumble~~~

Before the samurai at the head of the castle could finish their pre-battle speeches, a purely coincidental 305-millimeter Jinyuan main gun shell fell from the sky and fell into the crowd of hundreds of freshly assembled mixed Ashigaru and samurai troops......

The old flag warrior standing on the high platform bore the brunt of the attack, and after the smoke cleared, only a mutilated head remained, and as for the body and limbs, I don't know whether they were evaporated or flew to an unknown area.

Interestingly, on the broken head, except for the burnt marks, only the wide open mouth is well preserved, and it still retains the impassioned spirit of the speech......

Obviously, death came so suddenly that the samurai of Hagimoto died honorably before he even had time to change his facial expressions......

If the shogun had been able to win the war, or get a decent ending, the samurai, whose corpse had been blown up, might have been able to enter a place like the Martyrs' Shrine and be offered as a heroic samurai martyr, but the current war situation seems to be the end of the shogunate......

In the face of the arrogant and arrogant expansion of the Japanese shogunate, the Taiping army did not even take a solemn statement, and randomly sent a division of the main force of the Taiping army......

The entire main force of the Taiping Army was equipped with only 10 Makqin heavy machine guns, 10 grenadiers, and 3 75-mm rapid-fire guns, which fully demonstrated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's contempt for the Japanese island nations......

You must know that Hong Tiancheng's armies in Southeast Asian countries have more than three main divisions of the Taiping Army, more than three-digit Makqin heavy machine guns and grenadiers!

In addition, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also had plans to further increase its troops, and pulled out a large number of native Han troops from the eastern mainland of the Heavenly Kingdom, and threw them into the meat grinder of the jungles of Southeast Asia to carry out a deadly guerrilla war......

These indigenous Han troops mainly came from the former Qing Green Battalion soldiers who surrendered to Chengcheng, as well as local troops of the nature of training and bravery, and of course, there were also many Taiping Heavenly Kingdom troops who were trained in accordance with modern military practices and shot in line.

All of them were equipped with flintlock muskets captured and eliminated by the Taiping army, and for this reason, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also transferred a large number of former white European craftsmen to establish several workshops specializing in the production of flintlock muskets in the eastern part of the Heavenly Kingdom.

To deal with the natives of Southeast Asia who are still in the stage of broadswords and spears, flintlock smoothbore guns are enough.

After all, the indigenous Han people were not systematic soldiers and could not fight to the death, on the contrary, due to the serious non-combat attrition, the indigenous Han troops who were thrown into the meat grinder in Southeast Asia were extremely superior in numbers and equipment, but their morale was always sluggish, which seriously slowed down the progress of the Taiping army's offensive......

Compared with the Southeast Asian countries, which are not fully developed and are full of jungles and mountains, the combat environment of the Japanese island is very good, so the Taiping Army only sent one division and let the main naval force cooperate to occupy the entire Japanese island.

The Taiping Army, which had an absolute advantage in firepower, was not polite at all, and as soon as they came up, they rushed to the base camp of the Edo Shogunate!

Then, several salves of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships smashed down, and the vast majority of the Ashigaru regular army and samurai troops of the Edo shogunate collapsed......

When the Taipings landed, as they had previously conquered all parts of the Manchus, there was no resistance on the port of landing, except for corpses and scattered fleeing soldiers!

As for the defense system of Edo Castle, it was reduced to ruins under the bombardment of naval guns, and the Taiping army even saved the blasting work, and it was possible to climb it directly......

A vanguard battalion of several hundred troops of the Taiping army, armed with two Makqin heavy machine guns, climbed to the top of Edo Castle, met no resistance, and began to advance into the city.

At this moment, hundreds of heavily armed samurai wearing Japanese armor and waving katana swords suddenly appeared in Edo Castle, rushing up from all directions.

Many samurai also carry small colorful flags behind their backs, which seem to represent their regions and numbers......

The commander of the pioneer battalion quickly ordered the soldiers to send out a platoon of guns and set up two Maxim heavy machine guns on the commanding heights of the left and right flanks.

"Fire!"

The two Makqin heavy machine guns on the left and right spewed out hot fire snakes, and under the control of the skilled Taiping Army machine gunners, they quickly formed a cross-firing network!

"For the sake of the shogunate, give it to !!"

Puff puff......

A series of dense bullets sounded into the flesh, and the armor of the valiant charging warriors burst out a large amount of blood, they spat blood foaming at the mouth, knelt on the ground without looking at it, stared straight at the Taiping Army battle flag spraying fire snakes in front of them, and slammed into the street!

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Taiping Army pulled the 98k rifle in their hands, and rounds of gunfire rang out, and the speed at which the Japanese samurai who were being slaughtered were reduced increased again, and the commander of the Taiping Army's pioneer battalion was slightly surprised that none of the hundreds of charging samurai retreated from beginning to end, and all of them were beaten into a hornet's nest in the face of the rain of bullets!

It is quite like the situation of their Taiping soldiers charging......

In a series of previous wars, this kind of army, which did not retreat until the last man was killed, was only seen by the Taiping army when they captured the Manchu capital, a group of impoverished soldiers of the Eight Banners.

It's not the Eight Banners, let alone the so-called royal Eight Banners guards, it's just a group of low-level Eight Banners disciples who have been promised and brainwashed, wearing patched Eight Banners uniforms, launching a suicidal charge at the machine gun position of the Taiping Army, which can be regarded as the most tragic resistance encountered by the Taiping Army when it captured Beijing......

As for those Eight Banners Honors and so-called Eight Banners Guards who enjoy high salaries and high treatment, they are basically all goods that are about to collapse at the touch of a button......

The pampered life has already worn out their sharpness!

When attacking the Manchu Dynasty, it is understandable to encounter this kind of poor ghost warriors who are barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, they have nothing but one life, plus some die-hard brainwashing ideas that they have received since childhood, it is not difficult to become a dead soldier.

However, the hundreds of Japanese samurai who committed suicide in front of them were all shiny and shiny in armor, and many of the samurai were buried with their personal guards and entourage......

This kind of samurai is clearly part of the ruling class, not a destitute big-headed soldier!

Where did they get the courage to charge?

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