"How long will the rations last?"

"After a few additional meals, it is now less than 120,000 stones."

In the castle tower of Nagoya Castle, when Tokugawa Iemitsu asked Yin Da Masamune with his back, Yin Da Masamune could only tell the truth.

It's just that before Tokugawa Iemitsu could say anything, the sound of hurried footsteps made people's hearts tense like a midnight bell.

A samurai ran up to the castle tower with a nervous expression, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to make a statement:

"General...... Nagano, Yamanashi, Gifu, Fukui and Edo are lost! ”

"What stupid things are you talking about?!" When Yin Da Masamune heard this, he immediately scolded, but the samurai trembled and said:

"The Ming army sent the bodies of several adults, such as Saida, Uesugi, and Takeda, as well as a plaque from Edo Port, and a charred corpse that could not be seen clearly, the corpse ...... Corpse ......"

"What happened to the corpse?!" Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't sit still, he got up and looked at the samurai, and the samurai could only stubbornly shout:

"The corpse is very similar to Lord Xiuzhong!"

The words of "......" were silent, and Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned pale for a moment, but soon a ruddy color slowly appeared.

"It can't be my father, if it's my father, I can't lose Edo in such a short time."

Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't believe it, but the route that Yang Wenyue released to him didn't allow him not to believe it.

Gifu – Yamanashi – Edo ......

This is a route deliberately created by Yang Wenyue, representing the Ming army taking the mountains and capturing Edo.

In other words, even if Tokugawa Iemitsu did not believe that Yang Wenyue had broken through Edo, the fall of Gifu, Yamanashi, and Nagano, and the cutting off of the grain route, in fact, the Japanese army in Nagoya was already in a situation of embattlement.

"General, we have to break through!" Yoon Da Masamune reacted:

"While there is enough food, the samurai and the ashigaru, the contradiction between the iron cannon has not deepened, and now we should abandon the people and retreat with the samurai and ashigaru, and the iron gunners."

"Where to retreat?" Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was full of sadness, because in the blueprint that Yang Wenyue showed him, their team had been trapped.

"Walking in the mountainous areas, there are few Ming soldiers, and it is impossible to surround the entire mountainous area."

Yin Da Masamune said resolutely, and at this time, there were footsteps, and a samurai ran up with an open letter:

"Your Excellency! This is a letter from the generals of the Ming army. ”

"Who took it apart?" Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the letter that had been opened, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

"I saw some of the letters opened, but they probably weren't literate." The samurai opened his mouth weakly.

This kind of thing does not allow him to be unreasonable, after all, many of the ashigaru and folk of this war were captured from these castles in Edo, and maybe some of them can read and write.

Tokugawa Iemitsu naturally knew it, so his expression was ugly.

But even so, he stepped forward and snatched the handbook.

He took a hasty look, and when he learned that the other party's generals were Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng who were transferred from the Ming Dynasty, his mood was instantly low.

"Our opponents are Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng of the Ming Dynasty."

He looked at Yin Da Masamune, and Yin Da Masamune paused instantly when he heard this:

"Is it Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng, among the six generals of the Southwest Rebellion?"

"They also participated in the Battle of Fuliao." Tokugawa Iemitsu sat in his place, his eyes flickering uncertainly, obviously he had fought for so long to find out who the other party's general was, which made him feel defeated.

The Tokugawa shogunate was not a closed country, but to be precise, they were actually very aware of some of the things that were happening in the Central Plains.

Although Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng had been transferred to the local government as political envoys a few years ago as civil officials, their abilities have always been there.

Now that these two people have been transferred to Japan to be their enemies, it is no wonder that this battle will be different from before......

"Samurai, Ashigaru, and how many more Iron Gunners are there?"

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked up and asked Yoon Da Masamune, but Yoon Da Masamune said:

"There are 12,000 samurai, more than 37,000 people after many days of shelling, and 9,000 iron gunners."

"Gather them in one place, each carrying enough military rations for half a month, and we will break through tonight." Tokugawa Iemitsu finally commanded.

"Hey!" Yin Da Masamune relieved his heart, as long as the breakthrough was successful, then with this nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses, they should be able to gain a firm foothold further north.

After receiving the order, he quickly ordered someone to arrange for the distribution of food.

Because he was afraid of delaying the trip, he allocated 30 catties of corn grain and 5 catties of dried fish to each soldier who broke through.

In this way, they could actually only take away less than 20,000 stone of grain, and they had nearly 100,000 stone of grain left.

In order to prevent the people from surrendering, Yoon Da Masajong prepared to set a fire and burn all the 100,000 stone military rations before leaving.

"The army will break through when it is ugly, and you will retreat immediately after you take someone to light the fire!"

"Hey!"

In Yoon Da Masamune's annex, while he was giving instructions to a samurai, a diminutive child heard the news and left pretending to be a clean bucket.

It's just that the route he left was complicated, and after a few circles, he appeared in front of the small courtyard in the back alley of the other garden.

"Tuk-tuk-"

There were three knocks on the door, and then the door slowly opened.

The child pushed the door and walked in, and at the first glance of entering the courtyard, he saw three tall Ming people.

It's too easy to distinguish the Ming people in Japan, but anyone who is more than five feet tall is basically a Ming person.

"An Tonglang, you're here, let's eat first."

The three men around the dinner table greeted the children warmly, and the children also sat down in their seats, and honestly explained:

"My lord, Yoon Da Masamune said that they would break through and retreat when they were ugly, and they would also set fire to the granary."

"Is it......" Hearing An Tonglang's words, the three men looked at each other, and then the man led by him said to An Tonglang:

"Now that the news has been investigated, then you don't go back, have a good rest here tonight, and tomorrow the Heavenly Army will enter Nagoya."

"After tomorrow, I will have someone take you and your mother to live on Jeju Island, where I have asked someone to prepare twenty acres of land for you and twenty acres of orange grove that you like."

"Really?!" Hearing that his mission was over, An Tonglang's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it excitedly.

"Of course, but your name must be changed, or the North Koreans on the island may embarrass you."

The man laughed and took out a money bag and put it on the table:

"It's ten taels of silver, and after tomorrow, use it to live well with your mother on Jeju Island."

"Yes! Thank you very much! An Tonglang bowed his head deeply after hearing this, but the man said:

"We should thank you, your information is timely." After that, the man said to the left and right:

"I have to inform Lu Tongzhi of the news, and by the way, we must spread the news that the granary was burned, so that Ashigaru and the people will be in turmoil, and we can't let Tokugawa Iemitsu retreat in an orderly manner with tens of thousands of people."

"We'll do it." Hearing this, the two people on the left and right grabbed the knife and got up, turned around and left the small courtyard.

As dusk fell, word sprung up among the ruined Nagoya, and many ashigaru orders were given to assemble.

After such an order was issued, the already suspicious people instantly became nervous.

When the atmosphere of suspicion began to spread, some of the outer brocade guards who were hidden in it also began to fan:

"They're going to burn down the granary, let us starve to death here, fight with them!"

"Keep the granary!"

"Even before you die, you have to eat a full meal!"

There were sporadic uprisings and protests, but at such times, no one cared about the people.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, Yoon Da Masamune, and others had already begun to pack their bags and prepare for a breakout, and the samurai were all assembled, so the people began to pour towards the granary.

They walked among the ruins, and at the same time, the brocade guards who had been hidden early also opened the gates of Nagoya's split-level castle walls one by one.

It can be said that the whole of Nagoya has fallen into an undefended situation at the moment.

"Your Excellency! The gates of the city were opened, and the people were noisily rushing to the granary! ”

The Japanese cavalry who came on horseback reported to Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was preparing to evacuate, but Tokugawa Iemitsu heard it and looked directly at Yoon Da Masamune:

"I'll leave the rest to you, I'll go and gather troops and withdraw from the city first."

"Hey!" Yoon Da Masamune bowed his head in response, and then ordered at the same time as Tokugawa Iemitsu and the others left:

"All the people who dare to approach the granary must be killed, and the granary must be burned!"

"Hey!" The cavalry behind Yin Da Masamune hurriedly turned their horses' heads and went to inform the soldiers and horses in the granary.

The riots in Nagoya Castle and the news of the Nishiki Guard were naturally known by the Ming army outside the castle.

In the face of the riots, Yang Wenyue, who was sitting on the sentry box, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform:

"Get ready to go to the Divine Fire Crow and Fire Dragon out of the water! The trebuchet throws oil and fireballs and lights them on fire. ”

"Yes!" When Cao Bianjiao next to him heard this, he immediately went down to do something, and the Divine Fire Crow and the Fire Dragon were also arranged by the Ming Army.

The "Divine Fire Crow" is divided into a spherical and two-winged "Flying Thief Earthquake Thunder" and a "Winged Rocket".

The two rockets are filled with gunpowder in the crow and spherical bodies, respectively, and the gunpowder line in the gunpowder is passed through and connected in series with the gunpowder in the powder cartridge of the take-off rocket.

When launching, the gunpowder line of the take-off rocket is ignited, so that the rocket flies to the enemy, and the gunpowder in the crow body and the sphere is detonated, killing and burning the enemy's men and horses, which is a sharp weapon for breaking the formation and attacking the city.

As for the fire dragon out of the water, this is the Ming Dynasty "Wubei Zhi" recorded in the multi-stage rocket, with a paper lake tube tied to the first stage of the rocket, there is a second stage rocket in the dragon's mouth, after the shot to increase the range to hit the enemy ship, for water attack, the range can reach three miles.

Both of these firearms, which were able to fly over the city walls, were improvised by Yang Wenyue before the war, their bellies were gunpowder, and the outside was wrapped in a bamboo tube of Menghuo oil.

As long as they fly into the city and explode, they will get the fire oil on the ground and houses, and even if the explosives can't ignite them, the fireballs of the subsequent trebuchets are enough.

Due to the unrest in the city, all the movements of the Ming army were not monitored, and they easily advanced 300 trebuchets under Nagoya Castle.

Immediately after that, hundreds of chariots were pushed up, and with the screeching sound of ignition, hundreds of fire dragons and divine fire crows flew out of the top of the chariots.

Some of them were unlucky enough to hit the castle walls, but most of them flew into Nagoya Castle.

All the generals of the Ming army watched the battlefield with binoculars clairvoyance, only to see the Divine Fire Flying Crow and the Fire Dragon flying out of the water and flying into the city not far before they exploded in the air.

Immediately afterwards, the trebuchet attacked, and barrels of wooden barrels filled with Menghuo oil were thrown, each weighing fifty catties.

Three hundred trebuchets were thrown unscrupulously, and their range was even longer, so when barrels of Menghuo oil fell from the sky, some of the people who were still marching were stoned to death on the spot, and some were splashed with Menghuo oil.

Some unknown Japanese soldiers were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands one second, and the next second they were drenched in the face by the fire oil that fell from the sky.

"What is this?" A samurai sniffed, and Tong Kong, who was originally relaxed, immediately tightened and shouted, "It's Menghuo oil!! ”

"Go find the shovel, no! Directly bury them in the soil with a knife!! ”

Some Japanese generals reacted quickly, but at this time, the catapults of the Ming army outside the city began to load with fireballs.

With no one interfering, they lit the fireball with torches, then smashed the switch, and the three hundred trebuchets threw the fireball in an instant.

The fireballs with flames, under the terrified eyes of the Japanese generals, swept over the castle and fell into Nagoya Castle one after another!

"Peng—"

When a dull sound sounded, the entire Nagoya was instantly set on fire, and the people who were still in a stalemate with the granary samurai were also affected.

For a while, Nagoya Castle at dusk was lit up by a big flame, and Yang Wenyue, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror, teased with a mouth:

"It's a big bunch of fireworks......"

"Shouldn't we send troops to intercept Tokugawa Iemitsu and them?" Wu Aheng next to him asked, and Yang Wenyue also waved his hand and said:

"30,000 catties of fire oil, two battalions of cavalry, you pick someone to do it."

The words of the two were finished, and Wu Aheng also turned to look at Cao Dingjiao with a smile:

"Jiexiu, you and your eldest brother lead two battalions of cavalry, bring 30,000 catties of fire oil, and go to the mountain road to set up an ambush."

"The last general commands!" Cao Dingjiao heard that he finally had a chance to play, so he immediately responded, then turned around and got on the horse, and rode away.

However, Yang Wenyue looked at Nagoya Castle with big fireworks, and said dissatisfied:

"I thought I could provoke them and let them kill each other, but I didn't think that this group of people was still too bold."

"It's already good to get this result, you and I should be a little relieved." Wu Aheng stroked his beard:

"After this battle, Edo Castle can be won in just ten days."

"Come to think of it, you and I can also prepare to return to Daming."

"In this kind of place, it is really unsatisfactory to fight with such rats, but I am willing to fight with Jianlu and the barbarians in the southwest."

"It's good to have to fight, if you don't like it, just throw it to me." Yang Wenyue responded with a smile, and Wu Aheng could only shake his head with a smile.

The two of them talked here, and the unknown ancient house castle has become a sea of fire.

The people scrambled for the grain in the granary, and even if some people were slashed several times, they had to fall on the grain, bite open the bag hard, and stuff a large handful of corn before dying contentedly.

"Retreat! Can't burn anymore. ”

The samurai in charge of burning down the granary saw that he was swallowed up by the people, so he had no choice but to give the order to retreat.

Similarly, due to the ignition of the fire, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not have time to wait for all the ashigaru to assemble, and after only gathering 40,000 troops, he hurriedly led people out of the north gate.

They rushed towards the deep mountains, but they didn't know that the 6,000 Ming cavalry had already carried enough Menghuo oil to enter the mountain road before them.

"Pour me all the oil!"

Cao Bianjiao put the horses on his back, grabbed the knife in one hand, and poured out all the Menghuo oil in his kettle with the other.

Following his example, all the cavalry poured out the fire oil.

At the same time as the oil was poured, the cavalry also rode their horses and replied:

"General, the Japanese army is only seven miles away from here."

"The whole army retreats into the mountains on both sides!" Cao Bianjiao, who heard the words, hurriedly ordered, and all the cavalry immediately led their horses into the mountains and hid their traces.

In May, the Great Infernal Mountain burned at one point, and the smell of corruption in the mountains and forests, as well as the smell of Menghuo oil and smoke from Nagoya Castle in the distance, were constantly entangled in the mountains, and it was impossible to smell the smell of Menghuo oil that had been poured down by Cao Bianjiao.

Even the strong wind sided with the Ming army, blowing the smell of oil and smoke from Nagoya into the mountains.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had gathered 40,000 men to retreat, but on the way to retreat, there were fewer and fewer people.

Some of the ashigaru took the opportunity to take off their armor and escape, and the smoke provided them with an environment to escape, so when they ran into Yamajima, Tokugawa Iemitsu realized that there were less than 30,000 people left.

"Bastard!"

He cursed in his heart, but Yin Da Masamune looked at the smoke around him and said:

"It's easy to set up an ambush, and we have to get through it quickly."

"Naturally......" Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, but at this time when they were discussing, Cao Bianjiao, who was hiding in the mountains, suddenly took down his bow and arrow.

He drew his bow and fired a rocket at a marked mound at the bottom of the mountain.

The rocket pierced through the smoke and the sky, hitting the mound in an instant, and this unusual movement also attracted the attention of Tokugawa Iemitsu and others.

"Enemy attack!"

"Hum Peng—"

"The big picture is decided!"

Cao Bianjiao's palms were sweaty, and the fire ignited in an instant ignited the mountains in an instant, and all the Ming cavalry did not need Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao to order, they took the initiative to ride their horses, swooped down from the mountain, and slashed the Japanese soldiers who tried to escape from the mountain pass.

Under the onslaught of the 6,000 Ming cavalry, the Japanese army, which was already close to collapse, was completely defeated, and no one could stop a favorable counterattack, not even a little block.

Rushing, defeating, fleeing, and even completely breaking up have become a reality that the Japanese army is witnessing little by little, and a large number of swords have been thrown on the ground.

They frantically fled towards the mountain pass, as the so-called defeat is like a mountain, once this army retreats, there is no chance, no matter what stands in the way, it will not be able to stop the rout.

They tried all kinds of ways to escape from the battlefield, but they were originally limited by the terrain of the Great Infernal Mountain, except for the direction that was ignited by the fire, all other directions were already crowded, and there was no way to allow so many people to escape.

The Great Infernal Mountain has become a Jedi, the Japanese soldiers have no way to escape, when they are caught up by the Ming army, they kneel down and beg for mercy, and some people even directly threw away their swords and guns and knelt directly on the ground.

The scenes staged on the battlefield were like the last straw, completely announcing the demise of the Japanese army.

A large number of Japanese ashigaru and iron gunners surrendered first, while Tokugawa Iemitsu and Yoon Da Masamune, who were supposed to command the army, were blocked by the fire.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! ”

The Tokugawa family shouted hoarsely and ordered, and then the "whirring" of the flames completely overwhelmed his voice.

"Your Excellency! Let's get out first! ”

Yoon Da Masamune grabbed Tokugawa Iemitsu and was about to lead him through the fire and retreat alone.

However, he didn't say much, and whistles sounded everywhere in the Great Infernal Mountain.

"Withdraw!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook the reins of his horse and led his three thousand cavalry to rush through the sea of fire that had not yet formed a wall of fire, preparing to flee to the depths of Yamajima.

"The Japanese slaves dare!"

Suddenly, a deafening roar sounded, and Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao brothers chased after them from the rear with three hundred cavalry.

"It's the generals of the Ming army, kill them!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who originally wanted to escape, immediately reined in his horse and tried to use 3,000 cavalry to kill Cao Bianjiao.

"Let's get out first!" Yin Da Masamune's bitter dissuasion.

"Less!" The Tokugawa family ignored it and led the cavalry head-on.

In the midst of the fire, the Ming cavalry raised their cavalry and pulled the trigger at a distance of thirty paces.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The sound of the cavalry sounded, and the Japanese cavalry also fell off their horses one by one, and the fallen war horses triggered a domino effect, and the Japanese cavalry in the rear was tripped and fell, and the people turned over on their backs.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was also one of the people who was thrown away, and he got up in a daze, drawing his sword to fight again, but a spear flew through the air and pierced his arm in an instant.

"Bastard!"

The pain in his arm made Tokugawa Iemitsu can't help but scold, but after scolding, there is fear.

He turned around and wanted to run, but before he could escape, Cao Bianjiao led people to rush from behind.

He grabbed the spear stuck in the corpse, threw it away and stuck it in the corpse, and stabbed it out in the middle of the body.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was stabbed in the back with a spear, and Cao Bianjiao held the gun in one hand, suspended him in the air, and sprinted more than ten steps.

"Uhhhh

The terrible screams continued to sound, and Tokugawa Iemitsu kept waving his hand, trying to grab the gun on his back to get out of trouble, but in the next second, Cao Bianjiao threw the spear and threw him out and smashed it on a piece of bluestone.

His head collided with the bluestone, blood splattered, and after a few convulsions, he was dead and could not die again.

"Kill!"

Without caring about Tokugawa Iemitsu, Cao Bianjiao turned his horse's head and killed the thousands of cavalry in front of him like a tiger entering a flock.

"Kill!"

Behind him, more than 300 Ming cavalry also swarmed up, showing their martial arts in the face of the Japanese army who were several times with them.

Install the latest version. 】

Compared to the cavalry of the Ming army, the cavalry of the Japanese army was like a child riding a dog.

It was obviously three hundred against three thousand, but it played a power of three thousand against three hundred.

Seeing the might of the Ming cavalry, Yin Da Masazong hurriedly shook the reins of his horse and fled towards the depths of the Great Infernal Mountain with more than ten cavalry around him.

In just half an hour, most of Tokugawa Iemitsu's 30,000 people were captured, burned to death, and most of them were killed.

His own body was also burned beyond recognition because the Ming army did not harvest it in time.

When the sky gradually brightened, Cao Bianjiao put the head of the Tokugawa family on Yang Wenyue's head, Yang Wenyue couldn't help but stroke his beard:

"Now, there is no obstacle for the country to sweep away the Japanese invaders."

"Forget it, you can basically report to Your Highness......"