Chapter 391: The Horseman's Impact
A frightened Tokugawa Nen was helped down the city wall.
But before he could stabilize his mind, he heard another fierce explosion on the city wall behind him, and Tokugawa Nen suddenly understood. Osaka Castle may really be untenable.
There were tens of thousands of Ming troops, and what they saw at the moment was only a handful.
The bow and arrow could not reach, and the poor smoothbore cannon in Osaka Castle was no match for the sharp artillery of the Ming army, so it can be said that Tokugawa Nen could no longer find a way to resist the attack.
In this way, with Zhang Chong's constant deterrence and harassment under Osaka Castle.
The follow-up Great Tomorrow Tiger Army completed the landing at Osaka Fishing Port.
"Osaka . . . Is there any hope? ”
Tokugawa didn't know, but he made a very bold attempt.
It didn't take long.
The gates of Osaka Castle were opened, and a group of hundreds of Japanese cavalry, wielding long knives in their hands, suddenly rushed from Osaka Castle to the position of the Great Tomorrow Tiger Army not far away.
All dressed in iron armor, they charged.
Seeing this, the expression on Zhang Chong's face instantly became richer... The Ming soldiers who had been waiting here for a long time held their rifles tightly, and the machine guns on the side had been poured with fresh water prepared in advance to cool the barrels.
"The Japanese cavalry is coming! All ready to shoot! ”
"Reload!"
Click! The sound of loading came and went, but it was extremely neat.
In an instant, this group of cavalry of the Wa Kingdom was less than a few hundred meters away from the position formed by the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army led by Zhang Chong.
When the time was ripe, Zhang Chong shouted: "Shoot!" ”
You must know that this is the strength of an infantry brigade, even if it is shot in line... Shooting in sections, the first time the soldiers involved in the shooting were up to a regiment.
Projectiles gushing out from the muzzle of the gun, breaking through the air!
Like an invisible iron curtain scythe, it flew towards the cavalry of the Wa Kingdom.
The horses of the Japanese cavalry were generally short, so when shooting, many soldiers placed their primary targets on the horses ridden by the Japanese according to the predetermined pre-determined target.
The Japanese soldiers who were wielding long knives did not expect that the firearms held by the Ming army would be so sharp.
Almost at the moment when the bullet collided with the Japanese cavalry!
A large number of war horses have bloody eyes on their bodies one after another! And some Japanese soldiers were even coerced and fell down by the war horses that were paralyzed under their crotches in an instant.
The so-called samurai spirit and the long knives in their hands were overshadowed by the firearms of the Heavenly Tiger Army.
In the smoke of gunpowder, the scene instantly became tragic.
Bang bang bang!
The shooting of the Tianhu Army continued, and Zhu Youzhen's logic has always been the same: "As long as the enemy can still stand on the battlefield, then there is no need to be stingy with bullets." ”
The three-stage shooting method highlights the acceleration of the firing frequency.
The constant loading and firing made the cavalry team of hundreds of people sent by Tokugawa Nensu instantly wiped out in a very short period of time.
Zhang Chong was very satisfied with this result.
But after dealing with these hundreds of cavalry, there was no next move, he was waiting for the follow-up troops to come, and the architectural style of all the cities in the Wa Kingdom was very different from that of the Ming Dynasty.
Although many places reveal elements of the Tang Dynasty, there are still some differences in the Wa Kingdom.
Contrast with Daming City.
In most cases, the cities of the Wa Kingdom not only played the role of sheltering the people, but also played the role of an armed fortress, and their war significance was far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty.
This is also the reason why the war potential of the Wa Kingdom will always be continuous.
A tentative charge by the cavalry outside the city failed.
Once again, an atmosphere of panic was in the air of Osaka Castle, and many samurai were already shaken after witnessing this one-sided slaughter-like battle.
And Tokugawa Nen, even more so, saw him after learning the news of the annihilation of the entire army from the side of the city wall.
Almost without stopping, he returned to his residence.
began to pack the things that had been packed before, and sent someone to pack them into the carriage.
He's going to run!
As long as you can escape to other places, as long as you can leave Osaka.
Tokugawa Nen felt that even if Tokugawa Iemitsu wanted to punish himself, he was afraid that Nin would still bypass his own life in the face of the same Tokugawa family's heir, and stay here to face the attack of the Ming Dynasty.
I'm going to die... Tokugawa thought so.
...
100,000 troops landed in the Wa Kingdom.
This was not a simple matter, but it was made a lot easier by Tokugawa Nen's weakness, after all, the people of the Wa Kingdom almost invariably chose to stay closed.
Even the garrison of the Japanese Kingdom in Osaka Castle was the same, which made Zhao Yunkai overjoyed.
I saw him standing on the beach, and when he saw that most of the weapons and supplies had been unloaded from the sea boat, he shouted to all the officers around him: "Organize an infantry division, an artillery division, and I will give you a day.. Be sure to take Osaka directly! ”
The one who received the order was a division commander of the Tianhu Army and Zhang Chong's division commander.
I saw that his expression was solemn, and he replied directly: "Your Excellency! In one day, I'll definitely take Osaka! ”
"Good! Go get ready! There is an artillery division as a booster .. I don't believe you can't even take down the tiny Osaka Castle! ”
"Yes!"
The soldiers of the two divisions began to move, ready to assemble outside Osaka Castle.
And at this moment, Zhang Chongzheng, who was outside Osaka City, looked at the third company commander beside him with a bored face and said: "We still have too few artillery pieces, if only there was an artillery brigade now!" I dare to attack Osaka directly! ”
The complexion of the third company commander is also not very good-looking.
The three new guns in his hand are indeed very powerful... But in the face of the huge Osaka Castle, I still feel a little powerless, and there is always a feeling of tickling the Osaka City Wall.
We had to concentrate all the artillery fire on the castle of Osaka as much as possible.
"Brigadier .. How long will we have to wait... The brothers in the back are not coming! ”
"It should be soon.. It shouldn't take long for the division commander to come and take care of us! ”
After Zhang Chong finished saying this, he turned his head to look at Xue Meng, a staff officer of the brigade headquarters on the side, and said, "Staff Officer Xue, you say... Why is this city built so strongly? ”
Xue Meng was originally a cadet at the Ming Royal Army Academy, and when he pacified the Battle of Liaodong last year... Because Zhu Youzhen once ordered all the enrolled Army Academy cadets to be incorporated into the Tianhu Army.
He went directly to the current brigade headquarters and became a staff officer, only to see him say: "Brigade commander... You don't know this... Almost all the castles in the Wa Kingdom were built like this. ”
"Huh? Doesn't that mean that the next thing is all this kind of hard bones? ”