Chapter 154: Surrender!
Ten miles away, Shimazu Mitsutake saw the wolf smoke and hurriedly led 150,000 soldiers to the direction of Tokugawa Iejin's retreat.
The shogunate soldiers on the left and right saw that the army in the middle had collapsed, and they all lost their fighting spirit, and they all thought about how to escape.
Now that they were charged like this by the soldiers of the Zhou family, the shogunate soldiers completely collapsed.
As soon as Tokugawa Iejin fled back with 100,000 soldiers for about ten miles, he was intercepted by the 150,000 troops of Shimazu Mitsutake leading the Satsuma Domain.
Seeing that it was Shimazu Mitsutake, a traitor to Fuso, Tokugawa Iejin immediately shouted angrily: "Shimazu Mitsutake, you lackey of the Ming army, you get out of the way for me now, otherwise you will be spurned by the entire Fuso." ”
"Haha, I am not a lackey of the Ming Dynasty, I just saw that you Tokugawa Shogunate has not been used to it for a long time, and now it is time for my Shimazu family to be the shogunate."
Shimazu Mitsutake laughed triumphantly.
"General, let's stop talking nonsense with this traitor, let's rush over directly, they can't resist us at all." A general next to him persuaded.
"Rush for me, kill this group of scum of Fusang!" Tokugawa Iejin took his opinion and ordered directly.
Suddenly, the shogunate soldiers behind him screamed and rushed towards the Satsuma Domain soldiers.
The anger that the shogunate soldiers received on the Zhou family army, they want to find it back in the soldiers of the Satsuma domain.
They were greeted no longer by the hand-to-hand combat of the past, but by 10,000 flintlock muskets.
Under the training of the officers of the Zhou family, the flintlock muskets of the Satsuma Domain had learned the way of fighting with flintlock pistols.
At this time, I saw that 10,000 flintlock soldiers of the Satsuma clan were divided into three rows and took turns shooting at the shogunate soldiers.
Although the flintlock pistol achieved good results, shooting thousands of shogunate soldiers, there were too many shogunate soldiers who charged.
After another wave of Satsuma clan soldiers, the shogunate soldiers finally came close to them.
Then the two sides began hand-to-hand combat, and the battle was fierce, because the Tokugawa family Jin gave the Satsuma clan a traitor's hat, so the soldiers of the shogunate especially hated the soldiers of the Satsuma domain.
Similarly, the soldiers of the Satsuma clan hated the shogunate soldiers for treating them as traitors, they were the samurai of Shimazu Mitsutake, they only obeyed Shimazu Mitsutake's orders, they didn't care about anything else, Shimazu Mitsutake asked them to fight whoever they wanted, they would fight whomever they wanted, and never asked for the reason.
In terms of numbers, the Satsuma clan still had the advantage, but the swords and armor of the shogunate soldiers were better, and everyone was evenly matched for a while.
The Tokugawa family in the back saw this scene but became anxious, if there was no Ming army behind, it didn't matter if they fought here for a day.
But now that the Ming army is behind, maybe when it will be able to break through the army behind and come at any time, how can this make the Tokugawa family not anxious.
The current situation on the battlefield seems to be impossible to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while and a half.
With no choice but to abandon his pawn to protect the commander, the Tokugawa family immediately ordered 50,000 soldiers to drag the Satsuma Domain, and the remaining 50,000 soldiers continued to retreat.
As the order was delivered, the soldiers of the shogunate began to fight and retreat.
Seeing this scene of the shogunate soldiers, Shimazu Mitsutake hurriedly ordered: "They want to escape, entangle them for me!"
The soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, who had received the order, suddenly became brave and began to chase after the shogunate soldiers, fighting desperately with them.
Due to the obstruction of the Satsuma Domain's soldiers, the shogunate soldiers were unable to withdraw as they wished.
Some of the soldiers of the shogunate who had killed the red-eyed were no longer retreating, and the red-eyed soldiers fought with the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain.
At this time, the Zhou family army behind finally caught up, and the Tokugawa family Jin who saw this scene suddenly changed his face, and he hurriedly fled back with five thousand soldiers regardless of the battlefield situation.
The shogunate soldiers, who were fighting with the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, immediately panicked when they saw the Zhou family army coming, and when they saw the Tokugawa family Jin running away with his own soldiers, their hearts suddenly cooled.
The shogunate soldiers, who had lost their fighting spirit, were immediately defeated, and soon more than 10,000 shogunate soldiers were killed, at which point the shogunate soldiers collapsed and began to flee in all directions.
It was the Seventh Division led by Zhang Qingyun who caught up, and after seeing the collapse of the shogunate soldiers, Zhang Qingyun did not pay attention to these routs, but chased directly to the Tokugawa iejin.
The Satsuma Domain's soldiers began to roam the mountains to catch the Shogunate's rout, and about 10,000 soldiers were killed in this battle, and 20,000 soldiers were killed by the Satsuma Domain, which can be said to be the best record of the Satsuma Domain.
In the past, the Satsuma clan did not even have the courage to fight against the shogunate, but now the shogunate soldiers who were able to kill collapsed, which made Shimazu Mitsutake feel very happy.
Shimazu Mitsutake knew in his heart that all this was the credit of the flintlock pistol, and if it were not for the previous flintlock pistol's killing and deterrence of the shogunate soldiers, the Satsuma Domain would be at most open to the shogunate.
As soon as the Tokugawa family fled for ten miles, they were caught up by Zhang Qingyun and the Seventh Division.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Tokugawa Jiajin hurriedly ordered the last 5,000 personal soldiers to fight with the Zhou family's army.
After receiving the order, these pro-soldiers did not hesitate, and drew their knives one after another and rushed towards the Zhou family army with a shout.
Looking at these shogunate soldiers rushing over with knives, Zhang Qingyun suddenly felt very funny.
"Let them know that the times have changed now, and no matter how good their sword skills are, they are afraid of guns." Zhang Qingyun ordered with a smile.
As soon as the 5,000 shogunate soldiers rushed to a point of three hundred meters, the soldiers of the 7th Division began to shoot.
These personal soldiers of the Tokugawa family are indeed brave, knowing that rushing forward is a dead end, but they still rush to this side without hesitation, which is quite a bit of a dead man.
But this kind of bravery, in Zhang Qingyun's view, is a lack of tendons in the head.
It only took more than ten minutes for these 5,000 dead soldiers to complete their mission, and all of them were killed by the Zhou family army on the way to charge.
When the Tokugawa family and the generals in the back saw this scene, they all showed despair.
These Zhou family troops are so terrifying that ordinary soldiers are simply useless in front of them.
Tokugawa Ijinjin didn't run away either, he knew that he couldn't escape today, so he sat down in place as if he was fated.
The Tokugawa family, who was once the master of the entire Fuso, couldn't accept the fact that he lost so quickly for a while.
A moment ago, he was a high-ranking shogun, but now he is about to become a prisoner.
Thinking of this, he regretted very much that he had come here to supervise the battle in person, and he thought that his shogunate army would be able to destroy all existence as before.
The Tokugawa family now knows what it means to have people outside the world, and there are heavens outside the sky.
When the Tokugawa Iejin was thinking nonsense, Zhang Qingyun came to him and said in Fusang dialect: "Presumably you are the famous Tokugawa Shogunate Shogun Tokugawa Iejin!"
"That's right, I'm Tokugawa Iejin!"
Hearing that Zhang Qingyun could actually speak Fusang dialect, this surprised Tokugawa Iejin, and he was stunned for a while before he answered.
"Let's go, come back with me, our commander wants to see you!"
After Zhang Qingyun finished speaking, he took the lead and walked back.
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In the big tent of the Zhou family's army, Xiang Shaoyun sat on the main seat, looked at the Tokugawa Iyajin who was standing there with a decadent face, and said with a smile: "The Tokugawa shogunate general, Tokugawa Ijin, is really disrespectful!" ”
"Don't be ridiculous at me, it's just a matter of winning or losing!"
The current Tokugawa family seems to have figured out something, and he has become neither arrogant nor humble again.
After all, he is also a person who has been in power for many years, and after the initial panic, he has now become a little calmer again.
"If you are worthy of being a shogun, then I will say it bluntly, do you choose to order your shogunate soldiers to surrender, or choose to die." Xiang Shaoyun said lightly.
When he heard the word dead, Tokugawa Iejin's heart trembled.
After all, who is not afraid of death? What's more, people like Tokugawa Issein who have enjoyed glory and wealth.
"I give the order to surrender!"
Immediately, Tokugawa Iejin softened.
In this battle, a total of 150,000 shogunate soldiers were annihilated, 300,000 were taken prisoner, and 50,000 escaped.
The Zhou army suffered more than 300 casualties, and the Choshu and Satsuma domains each suffered more than 10,000 casualties.