"Fixed shooting, loading, target the Japanese camp outside Kyoto City, elevation angle 62 degrees, ready to ...... Put! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

On the fourteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, when the people of the Ming Dynasty were preparing for the Lantern Festival a day later, the army led by Yan Siqi had arrived at the city of Kyoto.

After three months of stubborn defense, Osaka Castle was captured by Yan Siqi, and Matsudaira Tadaaki led the remaining army to withdraw to Nara Castle.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong in the southern part of the main island was like a bamboo, and successively attacked Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Hyogo, Okayama, Tottori and other places.

The fall of the southern part of the main island and the fall of Osaka Castle made Tokugawa Iemitsu, who commanded the 30,000 coalition forces of the northern daimyo south, hurriedly led his army to Kyoto Castle.

In Kyoto Castle, Emperor Gomizuo, the titular ruler of the Yamato nation, and his family.

Although he was only a mascot under the Tokugawa shogunate, if he fell into the hands of the rebels, it would be a fatal blow to the authority of the shogunate.

At noon on the 14th, with the sun shining, Yan Siqi, who was dressed in armor, wore gray-brown gloves on his hands and a Yanling knife pinned to his waist, and the whole person looked very powerful.

Behind him, there were eighteen Zhizhi, among which Zheng Zhilong stood eye-catching, after all, he led his troops to capture the Iwami region that Yan Siqi valued the most.

In front of Yan Siqi and Eighteen Zhi, there were more than 30 garrisons and more than 100 chief flag officers.

The establishment of the Gongwei battalion has been screened, which is the general soldier - the general general - the garrison - the general flag officer - the captain - the captain - the captain - the sergeant.

Yan Siqi summoned all the middle and high-level generals, naturally it was impossible to put on a score, what he wanted to say was very simple and rude:

"I told you everything else before the war, although the scale of this battle is not large, but it is also a battle that His Highness is concerned about, if you want to make meritorious achievements, in the shortest possible time, take Kyoto and capture the king alive!"

As Yan Siqi's voice passed out, a trace of fire rose in everyone's hearts, in this era, who doesn't want to make war achievements and enjoy wealth?

Although they were dealing with the Japanese Invaders, rather than the Northern and Jianguo, which reduced the beheading reward to five taels and one level, as long as they beheaded enough, they could still gain wealth by virtue of their military exploits.

"Take the Kyoto ...... Enter! ”

Yan Siqi shouted with his real arms, and all the middle and high-level generals in the audience shouted in response.

At this moment, they were only less than three miles away from Kyoto City, which was not far away, at least after the Ming army generals conveyed the news to the people below, the cheers of tens of thousands of people were enough to reach the ears of the daimyo of the shogunate in Kyoto City.

The shogunate soldiers on the walls of Kyoto did not understand Chinese, but the top officials of the shogunate were extremely familiar with Sinology, and even Tokugawa Iemitsu himself could compose poems.

Although it was also at the level of Qianlong in later generations, it could not be considered bad in the shogunate.

When the high-ranking officials of the shogunate heard the phrase 'take Kyoto', their faces were extremely gloomy, and Tokugawa Tadanaga, as the heir of Tokugawa Hidetada, was even more furious.

"Bastard! Who do they think they are?! In the land of the Tokugawa family, you dare to be so arrogant......"

"Jiaguang, I am willing to lead the army to meet the enemy!"

"Hmph, Zhong Changjun doesn't need to worry, wait for them to get closer, lest they run to the beach before they fight."

Yin Da Masamune, who was on the side, shouted in a low voice, he was qualified to belong to the older faction among the daimyo, and he had become a pivotal figure since the Warring States period, so he was not polite to Tokugawa Tadanaga at all.

"Humph......"

A hint of anger flashed across Tokugawa's face, but he didn't want to argue before the battle, so he shut his mouth and sulked alone.

"Okay, it's not too much of a hurry, since they dare to come to Kyoto City today, they must be ready to stay all!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was kneeling on the throne, said coldly:

"Before I came, I had already consulted with the Prime Minister."

"Although the feudal government has a small amount of money, it is enough to reward you for your merits! If you can kill the enemy's generals, there will naturally be no shortage of high-ranking officials! ”

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu bent down and bowed very solemnly.

"Please work hard!"

"Hey!" Many daimyo bowed down one after another, and the reason why they agreed so readily was also because Tokugawa Iemitsu moved out Tokugawa Hidetada, who had abdicated as regent at this time.

Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the shogunate, retired seven years after his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu, following the example of his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu, in favor of his son Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Now that Tokugawa Iemitsu has moved him out, it is obvious that Yan Siqi's rebels have reached the point where Tokugawa Hidetada can't sit still.

Many daimyo understood this, so they began to mobilize their troops after withdrawing from the castle tower in Kyoto.

At this moment, there were a total of 40,000 shogunate soldiers in Kyoto Castle, and the rebels outside the castle needed to defend Osaka Castle and prevent it from being attacked by Tokugawa Tadanaga in Nara, so their number was only 12,000 and four battalions.

About half an hour later, the 3,000 infantry of the Ming army's front army plus more than 300 Yanshan five-pound cannons arrived at the city of Kyoto.

Although there are still three miles between the two sides, the atmosphere is extremely solemn, and a big war is almost imminent.

More than 600 battalion cavalry marched outside the infantry formation, alerting Tokugawa Iemitsu for the surprise troops that might be placed in the mountains around Kyoto Castle.

As for the castle, looking at the layout of the Ming army, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was also very unsightly.

The shogunate's artillery was scarce, so even though Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that the rebels had a lot of artillery, he was able to mobilize only 36 pieces of artillery.

With thirty-six against more than three hundred artillery pieces, this is unreliable no matter how you look at it......

Especially the 600 Ming cavalry cruising around the Ming army camp, the appearance of tall horses and elite weapons made Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but glance at his own cavalry.

The cavalry of the shogunate rode the native horses of Japan, and the native horses were short and weak, with an average height of only about four feet three inches, and the height of the shogunate cavalry was generally only four feet four or five inches, so the shogunate cavalry was once called the "dwarf army" by Westerners who came to preach.

As for their war horses, they were jokingly called "big rats" by some missionaries.

Compared to the cavalry of the Ming army, the shogunate cavalry was like a monkey riding on a dog.

Therefore, before the war began, Tokugawa Iemitsu already felt that he had lost half of his spirit.

But he also has a little bit of confidence, and that is the number of people.

They were almost four times the size of the Ming army, and since they were the defenders of the city, and the city of Kyoto was impregnable, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not think that the rebel Ming army would be able to take them in a very short time.

However, compared with Tokugawa Iemitsu's "self-confidence", the Ming army appeared more confident.

The six battalions of soldiers and horses under Yan Siqi's command, except for the two battalions in front, the remaining four battalions were all elites transferred from the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion.

The long-term opponents of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion were all Jianjiao, so when they changed from facing Jianguo to facing the Japanese invaders, the soldiers of the Eastern Military Governor's Mansion always maintained a lofty posture.

This gesture is not only racial superiority, but also tactical superiority.

However, it was precisely this superiority that deeply stung the shogunate soldiers.

They built a 7,000-strong garrison in front of the stone bridge outside Kyoto, with various fortifications of the shogunate, and in this respect their tactics did not lag much behind the Ming army and Eurasia.

"Tentative attack first."

Tokugawa Iemitsu wanted to test the strength of the rebels, so he confessed to Yoon Da Masamune, and Yoon Da Masamune asked Tokugawa Tadacho, who had always wanted to be the vanguard, to go outside the city and lead 7,000 men and horses outside the city to test the strength of the Ming army.

Tokugawa Tadadenaga, who received the order, had completely let go of his lofty posture and turned vigilant after seeing the appearance of the Ming army with his own eyes.

Therefore, when he left the city, he did not directly order the army to pour out, but approached step by step according to traditional tactics.

In the traditional warfare of the shogunate, iron artillery and bows were usually placed in front of the shogunate, then spears and spears, and the two wings were 800 shogunate cavalry, ready to wait for an opportunity to flank.

It's just that this set of tactics that has repeatedly won victories does not have much effect in front of the Ming army, because the gap in musket technology between the two sides, as well as the gap in the number of artillery, is enough to make the shogunate soldiers suffer a lot.

Sure enough, when the distance between the shogunate soldiers and the Ming army was gradually approaching five miles, the artillery positions of the Ming army were also prepared.

The gunnery officer had already demarcated the firing boundary, and the hands that had already raised the red flag waved in unison, and all the gunners who saw the information of the flag had attached their torches to the gun doors and lit the standard length fuses.

"Bang bang bang-"

More than 300 Yanshan five-pound cannons roared, and they were divided into six batches of 50 guns each, firing continuously.

Only at the first time, more than 50 stone bullets, accompanied by arcs, directly penetrated the marching formation of the shogunate soldiers.

The splattered mud from the stone bullets enveloped the stumps of the shogunate's soldiers, spraying a cloud of blood in the air.

The corpses that fell in all directions fell to the ground like wheat that had been harvested.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who saw this scene, stood on the head of Kyoto City, and couldn't help pinching the clairplane, and his heart sank directly to the bottom......

This means that his previous prediction was correct, and the power of the Ming army's artillery was not small, and the range far exceeded the range of their artillery.

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Tadanaga glanced at the daimyo who were watching the battle from the side, and saw that their faces had turned pale, believing that they had understood the strength of the opposition on the other side.

Indeed, just this round of shelling has already made Tokugawa Iemitsu regret it.

The rebels he faced were by no means something that Yan Siqi could form with the strength of one person!

"Daming ......"

Tokugawa Iemitsu remembered Matsudaira Tadaaki's persuasion to him, and now it seems that Matsudaira Tadaaki is right, there must be a figure of Daming standing behind Yan Siqi.

"Can't fight anymore ......"

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at Yoon Da Masamune with anticipation on his face, and his voice became extremely difficult:

"Yin Dajun, I think this battle can only end here, I want to send you to be a messenger and ......make peace with the rebels."

When Yin Da Masamune heard this, he couldn't help but sigh lowly, and the brows on his face furrowed even more.

After a moment he spoke slowly:

"Behind Yan Siqi, there should be a figure of Daming, if Daming wants to do something to us, then we can negotiate with Yan Siqi, and we can't stop Daming's footsteps."

"Besides, General, now that the war has just begun, it is not suitable to sue for peace, if you don't ask for peace, I am afraid that you will be treated as if you were defeated."

Tokugawa Iemitsu was also messy just now, and after hearing Yin Da Masamune's reminder, he reacted immediately.

In any case, this battle must be fought, otherwise with the current situation, how could the rebels and the Ming give themselves a generous peace treaty?

In fact, any sober-minded person knows that what cannot be obtained on the battlefield is even more unavailable at the negotiating table, and that if you want to have a decent treaty, you must fight a decent victory.

"In that case, let's fight with them!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu gritted his teeth, and he had already made up his mind and began to call the shots.

"Tell the loyal chief, you must shoot desperately at close range, and inflict huge casualties on the Ming army!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu changed the name of the rebel to the Ming army, apparently having guessed that they were not facing the rebels, but the main force of the Ming army under the guise of the rebels.

Under his command, someone on the castle wall immediately went to the front and told the news to Tokugawa Tadanaga, who was looking ugly.

In the face of Tokugawa Iemitsu's order, Tokugawa Tadashi was even more disgusted with this guy who had robbed him of his position as a general, but on the battlefield, he had to take the order, and ordered the generals around him:

"Yin Zhaijun, the iron cannon of the former army is entrusted to you, you must shoot desperately at close range!"

"Yes!"

"Fujiwara-kun, the spear ashigaru of the rear army must follow closely with the iron cannon ashigaru, and when the distance is enough, launch a charge!"

"Yes!"

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the general Sagawa Konjiro that he had pulled up, and the other party was in control of the current battlefield, the shogunate's elite eight hundred cavalry samurai, which can be called a sharp knife of the shogunate outside the city.

"Konjiro, after the front army receives the enemy, you will lead the cavalry samurai to destroy the enemy's artillery positions at all costs!"

"Yes, please rest assured, I will definitely complete the mission of the shogun, and watch the shogun's flag be planted on the opponent's artillery position!"

Sagawa Jinjiro had a bit of solemnity on his face, and he could naturally understand what Tokugawa Tadanaga meant.

The so-called at all costs, including himself, if he can't complete the task, then he will die on the road of the charge!

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The artillery of the Ming army was constantly pouring, but the number of times more than 300 guns were poured was also limited, and after the seven batches of alternating fire were over, the Ming army began to clean the chambers of the cannons, and the cavalry began to advance.

Similarly, with Tokugawa Tadacho's order, the shogunate soldiers on the battlefield who had just finished the indiscriminate bombardment by the Ming artillery also changed their previous pace and began to stride in the direction of the Ming army.

Taking advantage of the rest of the Ming artillery, they wanted to crush the cavalry of the Ming army in the shortest possible time.

They still have more than 6,000 men, and with 6,000 against 600, the advantage is on their side.

"Such tactics have long been backward, and it seems that this group of Japanese robbers has not improved at all after the Korean battle."

"If you don't improve elsewhere, no matter how high your morale is, it will just collapse later......"

Yan Siqi, who was holding binoculars clairvoyant and leading three battalions of soldiers and horses to watch the battle in the rear, sneered, and Zheng Zhilong, who was next to him, also said:

"Big brother, three hundred and twenty-six artillery pieces can play such an advantage, and when we mobilize all six hundred artillery pieces, I am afraid that we will be able to capture Kyoto City within ten days and capture the Shogunate Emperor alive!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness let us ......fight slowly," Yan Siqi responded with a relaxed expression.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's request for them to fight slowly, I'm afraid Yan Siqi would have led people to Edo City a long time ago.

Although he didn't know why His Royal Highness King Qi wanted them to fight slowly, it was always right to be obedient.

As for the frontal battlefield, the battle has reached this point, in fact, tomorrow the generals of both sides will know that it is already very obvious what tricks the other side will have, and now it is equivalent to both sides beginning to play cards and compete for hard power.

However, if it is a competition of hard power, I am afraid that there is no country in the whole world that can fight for the Ming army in the eight years of the Apocalypse with the same number of people.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

At the head of Kyoto Castle, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally did not hold back and took the lead in exposing the location of his artillery.

More than 30 stone bullets spanned a distance of one and a half miles and hit the front of the Ming cavalry, causing the horses to neigh and stand high.

"Sure enough, I can't help it!" Yan Siqi saw that the shogunate artillery was exposed, and immediately said to Zheng Zhilong:

"Mobilize the remaining artillery and shell the shogunate artillery positions, I will cripple all the artillery of Tokugawa Iemitsu!"

"Order the gunners of the front army to abandon the artillery, replace the gunners of the Chinese army to take over the artillery, and the gunners of the front army prepare the rifle platoon guns."

"Yes!" Zheng Zhilong heard the sound and immediately went to mobilize the artillery, and before the two armies collided tomorrow, the remaining more than 200 artillery pieces of the Ming army were pushed to the front of the formation, and this move made Tokugawa Tadashicho, who commanded the army, break out in a cold sweat.

"Fixed-firing loading, direction to the enemy's artillery position at the head of the city, elevation angle height of fifty-seven, preparation for test firing...... Put! ”

"Bang ......"

The artillery roared, and the shogunate soldiers, who had been slightly united in morale, began to fight themselves, but before they could fully open the fire, they found that the Ming artillery did not hit them.

"Peng Peng Peng!"

Stone projectiles flew and smashed into the root of Kyoto Castle, causing the walls to shake.

"Bastard! The Ming army wants to hit our artillery, quickly transfer the artillery! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was still watching the battle, was caught off guard and was almost hit by the Ming army's test shot, and he quickly ordered the artillery to be transferred.

However, their transfer was seen by Zheng Zhilong, who used binoculars clairvoyance.

Zheng Zhilong ordered unhurriedly: "The artillery is tilted to the left three degrees, and the angle is raised by four degrees. ”

He waited for the second round of test firing after the artillery chamber cooled, and while he waited, the army of tomorrow had already begun to make contact with the front.

The former sergeants of the Ming army, who had changed their rifles, advanced under the cover of the sword players, and as the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, when the shogunate soldiers were about 100 paces away from the Ming army, they began to pull the trigger indiscriminately.

At this distance, facing the Ming Army's infantry players who were protected by sword players, their bird guns failed to penetrate any of the rattan tiles.

On the contrary, after the Ming army advanced twenty steps, the general who commanded the Ming army also gave the order to platoon the guns.

The Ming army advanced twenty paces, and the shogunate gunners also advanced twenty paces, and the distance between the two sides was only sixty paces, and the fire and infantry guns of the two sides also began to fire at each other.

At this distance, the Ming army could maintain a high accuracy in shooting the shogunate, while the shogunate could not, they still needed to advance about twenty paces.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang

The dense and crisp sound of rifles continued to sound, and the shogunate, who was dressed in a simple armor, was constantly killed, and the iron gunners were constantly knocked down in the counterfire.

Compared with them, the Ming soldiers who were wearing iron armor on the outside and armor on the inside with armor and cotton armor were hit and fell, but they were not killed immediately.

"You can't line up your guns, you can't charge with a long spear!"

"Onboard! For the sake of the Lord, onboard! ”

A hint of madness flashed across Tokugawa Tadanaga's face in the rear, and he shouted frantically, driving the feudal soldiers to charge to the death.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang

The spear-light charge was particularly vulnerable in the face of the Ming army, which had gunpowder and flintlock pistols.

Forty paces is like a moat, and each step requires hundreds of lives.

At this time, after the artillery bombardment of the Ming army in front and the volley of the Ming army's guns, the entire team had fallen more than 700 people, and the rest of the people were trembling and drugged the firecrackers.

"Bang...... Bang bang ......"

Regardless of the choice made by the shogunate, for the Ming soldiers who were firing a salvo, it was no different from the past.

They reload their ammunition and then raise their guns and pull the trigger......

It's like doing farm work in a crop field, so that this kind of bloody killing has a bit of uniform beauty.

It was only a four-wheeled row of guns, and there were only a handful of spears that could rush in front of the Ming army's foot guards, and before they could move, the sound of horses' hooves from both sides made them pause.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The crisp sound of the cavalry sounded endlessly, even if they dodged some of the spears of the cavalry, before they could react, they were attacked by the Ming cavalry's golden gourd hammer.

A hammer smashed on the face, teeth splashed, and the whole person spun around and fell directly under Kyoto Castle.

The three thousand spears in the front row were completely wiped out with the final harvest of the Ming cavalry......

Such a scene made all the daimyo watching the battle break into a cold sweat, and their bodies seemed to be frozen.

However, the war was not over yet, and when the cavalry withdrew from the front of the infantry men, the infantry men raised their guns again and pulled the trigger on the iron gunners who were also raising their guns.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

"Run!"

"Run!"

Blood splattered, falling to the ground and converging into small red puddles.

watched his companions fall to the ground one by one, and watched the blood pool into puddles under his feet.

Faced with such a horrific picture, the shogunate's iron gunners and rear army Ashigaru could no longer hold on, and finally a rout occurred.

"Bastard! Stop it all, stop it all! ”

The rout of one person triggered the rout of the whole army, and Tokugawa Tadadenaga led the overseers to continuously cut and kill the fleeing soldiers, but they still could not stop the rout of the army.

While he was still yelling, hoping that the army would hold its ground, the sound of heavy horses' hooves broke into his head.

As he looked up, he was greeted by the iron cavalry of the Ming army who were preparing to harvest the rout......