Chapter 168: Charming Edo Castle

"How many shells do you think can break their walls or gates?"

Chen Cao stood on his horse and looked at Ning Guoxing, who was arranging in front.

"Master Hou, the city gate is easy to say, if the flower bullet hits, it will be solved with one shot, if you want to break through the city wall, the real heart bullet will be at least 300 rounds."

"Three hundred?" Chen Cao really hadn't tried to hit the city wall with artillery, although the wall of the Wa Kingdom was very low, but it was also the first time: "What if two cannons are used at the same time?" ”

"The solid bullet starts at the beginning, and the flower bullet finishes with the flower bullet, and it is estimated that it will take 200 rounds at the end."

Chen Cao shook his head, because the *** he brought this time was only 200 rounds, and he used 10 rounds in the middle: "How many mortar shells are there?" ”

"Since the landing of the Japanese Kingdom, not a single cannon has been used, and the fifty rounds are complete."

Chen Cao smacked his lips, he felt that before the invention of high explosives, there would be less siege warfare, because it was not cost-effective...

'Boom...'

There was a muffled thunder in the sky, and Chen Cao looked at the gun position at first glance, but the Shenwu cannon was still installed on their side, so...

"Protect Lord Hou..."

Song Che shouted...

"Master Hou be careful..."

Zhao Xin, who was beside him, knocked Chen Cao down from his war horse, and when Chen Cao and Zhao Xin fell off their horses at the same time, a round solid cannonball stopped its kinetic energy and remained between the gun position and his war horse.

Chen Cao was full of excitement, stood up from the ground in pain, and then hurriedly took fifty steps back...

"The dog-said widows still have cannons?"

Chen Cao really didn't know this, the spy in Edo didn't explain this matter clearly, Liao Yaowen was angry at the moment, grabbed the spy from his side, and slapped him roundly: "What the hell are you doing?" ”

Ning Guoxing, who was arranged in front, was also trembling with fright from the artillery shot from Edo City, the most important thing was that it was too sudden, so he hurriedly ordered the Shenwu cannon that was being assembled to be disassembled immediately and retreated fifty steps.

Chen Cao got back on the horse, his ass was very painful: "Zhao Xin, if it weren't for your Lao Tzu's life, I would have to explain it here." ”

Zhao Xin looked embarrassed: "Where is Master Hou, this is what his subordinates should do." ”

"Lao Tzu asks you, how is the Japanese artillery in Edo Castle?"

The spy who was slapped by Liao Yaowen before learned that he had caused a big disaster, so he crawled to Chen Cao's horse and knelt down: "It is not good to do things in a humble position, please forgive the Hou Ye, the Tokugawa family in Edo Castle has its own firearms workshop, but they do not produce artillery, just because the use of artillery consumes a huge amount of copper, and they can't afford it." ”

"Where did their artillery come from?"

Chen Cao asked, and the spy said: "I remembered that the shogunate had purchased a lot of cannons from the red-haired ghost in the past few years, and the quantity was unknown. ”

Chen Cao waved off the secret agent, and then raised the Qianli Cylinder to take a closer look, and sure enough, there was really a cannon coming out of the hole in the female wall at the location of the arrow tower in front of him: "Hey, there are a lot of them, there are six doors, I don't know if they have opened a flower bomb..."

If the opponent has a flower bullet, it will be difficult to attack the city this time, and a few people will die...

"We are two miles away from the city, and their cannons are right in the middle, that is to say, their cannons can only hit two and a half miles, and it just so happens that our Shenwu cannon is added by Tang Ruowang and several Western masters on the basis of the Franc machine gun, and the firing shell can reach up to three and a half miles."

Chen Cao analyzed it, and then said: "Ning Guoxing, the artillery position is over, and the five cannons must fire twenty rounds of open flower shells, first hit the artillery on their arrow tower, and then knock out their city gate." ”

The Shenwu cannon was disassembled and mounted by mules and horses, and most of them had been installed just now, so they had to be reinstalled now.

The castle tower of Edo Castle stands proudly throughout the castle, towering like a signal tower, and Tokugawa Iemitsu holds a Western clairvoyant mirror in his hand that has been brought in from Satsuma Province.

"This is..."Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the small dot four miles away in the distance, and then exclaimed: "Aren't the people of the Ming Kingdom civil strife?" Their armor is so sound that if it were a field battle, those tens of thousands of cavalry would be enough to trample through all our samurai. ”

Ishikawa Shuwa was standing next to Tokugawa Iemitsu, and when he heard his lord say this, he said: "Don't worry, my lord should not worry, my Edo Castle is built according to the castle of the Ming Kingdom, they only have cavalry, they have artillery, and our army is also equipped with it, if they attack the city, they must build siege equipment, so that the nearest reinforcements from our Tatebayashi can arrive in an hour, as long as the reinforcements arrive, then the whole army can attack, and these guys who don't know the thickness of the sky and the earth will not be left behind." ”

"Good..."

'Boom...'

Tokugawa Iemitsu had just shouted hello, and there was a muffled thunder along with his voice, which he was certainly familiar with, it was the artillery of the Ming army.

With a loud bang, a black solid bullet smashed into the arrow tower at the main entrance, smashing a large piece of the roof tiles of the arrow tower.

Apparently, this was the first locator gun fired by the artillery battalion.

Ning Guoxing drew his knife and shouted: "The crosshairs of the cannon position remain unchanged, Zhuyuan is loaded, and the flower shells are ready..."

"Zhuyuan is loaded..."

"Ignition..."

'Knock knock knock...'

The five Shenwu cannons fired in unison, and in the eyes of war fanatics, it was a beautiful symphony.

In their eyes, the positioning cannon of the Ming army just now was solid, and now it must also be solid, but the situation is unexpected.

'Boom, boom...'

The huge explosion caused the arrow tower to be torn apart by the effect of five firebolts, and the defenders on the main gate were killed and wounded.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was full of spirits, and if he continued to fight like this, the city gate could not be held.

In addition to the famous sentence that 'the truth is within the range of the cannon', Chen Cao instilled in Ning Guoxing the idea that 'before the battle, you must use artillery to plow the opponent's position'.

Since the opponent also has artillery, it is necessary to deal a heavy blow to the opponent at the beginning of the game.

"Zhuyuan is loaded, and the real heart bomb is ready..."

"Zhuyuan is loaded, and the solid bullet is loaded..."

"Ignition fires..."

'Knock knock knock...'

After the twenty rounds were fired, the entire arrow tower was in ruins, and the artillery on the head of the city was also affected and destroyed, and these real bullets were fired towards the city gate.

Although Edo Castle was built in imitation of Nanjing, the Wa Kingdom did not implement the defensive measures of the gate hole, and the city gate was blocked by a simple gate, and the depth of the door hole was only three meters, so how could this situation block the impact of the army.

This tactic of focusing on the city gate is still the only one invented by Chen Cao, even when the Ming army fought in the early days of Liaodong, the artillery did not hit the city gate hole.

The most critical reason is that although the use rate of firearms in Liaodong was high at that time, most of them were on muskets, and a large number of Hongyi cannons were put into use seven years after Chongzhen, and the current Ming army's serious artillery is still an old-fashioned general cannon, with a weight of more than 1,000 catties, and it is still common to blow up the chamber.

As far as the Shenwu cannon made of mille-feuille steel is less than 800 catties, the general's cannon was completely thrown a few streets by the Shenwu cannon, and the general's cannon could not hit three miles at all in terms of range.

Two miles is already the limit.

The so-called 'ten miles with one shot' is just an exaggeration of the ancients.

"Master Hou, the shelling is over..."

Looking at the wide open gate of Edo City, Chen Cao looked at it for a long time, and then made up his mind to tell Song Che: "You must be careful when you enter the city, since they all have Hongyi cannons, then there must be other firearms, you must be careful." ”

Song Che nodded: "Don't worry..."

"Prepare artillery cover ..."

Chen Cao shouted, be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Ship, even if Tokugawa Hidetada took away most of the elite, he had to be cautious.

Song Che rushed away with thousands of cavalry, and the suspended bridge raised high was blocked by the moat, making it impossible for Song Che's team to move forward from the distance of the moat in front of him.

And at this moment, a large number of Japanese troops suddenly appeared on the city, all holding their iron cannons...

"Be careful, the enemy has an ambush..."

Song Che's shouting did not work, because the Japanese iron artillery team at the head of the city had already opened fire, and the continuous sound of muskets had drowned out Song Che's shouting.

"What the hell..."

Chen Cao scolded, and in his line of sight, he had clearly seen the gunpowder smoke at the head of the city and the Dingwu sergeant who fell off his horse because he was shot.

"Shoot back..."

More than 1,000 cavalry arrived in front of the moat and could not retreat at all, so they could only shoot back.

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

The two sides exchanged muskets from one high and one low, and there were quite a few casualties.

"Tang Kainian, the first division pressed up and suppressed their muskets with muskets, quick..."

Chen Cao shouted: "Ning Guoxing, artillery cover..."

'Knock knock knock...'

The Tokugawa shogunate's guard at Edo Castle was now led by Ishikawa Sukazu, but he was only in charge of the dispatch, and the guard was Sakai Iehei, who was commanding the battle in front of the urn castle tower at the moment.

"Iron artillery team, put the muskets on the rack, if the Ming people rush into the city gate, bomb it..."

"Yes..."

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"Knock off the rope on the drawbridge, where is the sharpshooter?"

Song Che's shouting caused those who boasted of their invincibility during training to turn their guns one after another, and the lead bullets beat the rope holding the drawbridge like a dense rain.

'Boom...'

The drawbridge fell.

"Rush in..."

"Kill..."

A company of cavalry rushed towards the city, and to Song Che's surprise, the cavalry who had just rushed into the city gate was all knocked to the ground after a burst of gunfire.

Song Che's eyes were red at that time, and he shouted: "Fierce fire oil... Thunder Jar... Throw it in, throw it all in..."