But it's this tactic that works so well! Those who can be shot with a short gun must be the backbone of the rout, and they can have the strength to fight. Moreover, their morale is already relatively low, and the leader is dead, and they have no heart to fight, so the sailors and pirates are becoming more and more courageous, and they have combed the entire city in less than an hour!

Moreover, the pirates had a long memory this time, and did not loot without permission, but just patrolled the streets after killing all the routs. It seems that Liu Haojia is still very useful to beat them.

By the time the pirates and sailors had occupied the castle, Liu Haojia had gathered back the pursuing enemy and gathered them outside Tsuru no Maru.

The castle tower is also built on a hill, the highest hill in the plains. At the foot of the hill there is a symbolic wall, and halfway up the hill there is a real wall, which looks much thicker than the wall at the foot of the mountain.

Further up the mountain road, there is a fence on the flat ground at the top of the mountain, and inside is the Shimazu family's castle tower, Tsuru no Maru! Tsuranomaru is a completely wooden building on a stone pedestal, and the cornices and arches are very gorgeous! It happens to be built on the highest hill in this small plain, and it looks even more majestic and magnificent!

According to the way of fighting the Wa Kingdom, it is basically impossible for this kind of castle tower to be captured without paying a lot of casualties! But this castle tower is nothing more than Erer in Liu Haojia's eyes, because he has something that the Japanese people don't have, that is, artillery!

Standing on the railing of the second platform of the castle tower, Shimazu Yoshihiro was wearing a full set of mustaches, holding the hilt of his sword with a very serious expression. Ever since he saw Shimazu Yoshihisa leave, he knew that the responsibility of guarding the castle tower fell on his shoulders.

However, he is very confident that he will complete this task, he sees that all the people in the Ming army below are only more than 2,000 people, according to previous experience, it is completely no problem to keep the first song by himself!

Then he said to the warriors beside him, "Abandon the wall at the foot of the mountain, and take all the guards there up, and place them on the wallside of the mountain. In addition, send all the iron artillery ashigaru over and let them inflict a lot of damage on them when the Ming army attacks! But tell them to be prepared to withdraw at any time.

The samurai bowed down and agreed to deliver the order, and then he called another samurai and said, "Place all the archers outside Tsuru no Maru. As soon as the wall on the mountainside is broken, the soldiers there will be withdrawn immediately."

After the samurai left, he said to another samurai, "Nansheng-kun, you and those elite ashigaru should continue to rest now, and when the Ming army attacks, you will need to fight back against the wall."

The samurai was not surprised to receive the order, as he had already encountered similar situations. A counter-assault while the enemy is attacking is an ideal way to effectively kill the opponent and reduce the morale of the opponent.

In this way, Shimazu Yoshihiro called the samurai one by one to his side and dispatched them all, mobilizing the entire Tsurunomaru to run quickly. After the arming was over, he was still uneasy, and walked from the bottom to the top again, making sure that everyone had followed his orders before returning to the second platform of the castle tower.

But as soon as he got on the platform and looked down at the railing, his whole body instantly stiffened! The reason was not the loss of the outermost wall, which itself was ready to be abandoned. And what frightened him was that there were six more artillery pieces in the ranks of the Ming army!

The Shimazu family didn't have artillery, because it was too expensive for ordinary daimyo to make. But this does not prevent Yoshihiro Shimazu from knowing the terrible power of artillery! Otherwise, these Japanese people would not have given the fire a particularly powerful name, called the collapse of the country!

Seeing the six artillery pieces being pushed into the bottom wall, the frightened Shimazu Yoshihiro couldn't help but shout to the samurai beside him: "Why didn't you tell me immediately when the Ming army launched the national collapse?"

The samurai beside him also ran left and right after him, so naturally he didn't know about this situation. But when he was reprimanded by the superiors, he could only bow down and say loudly, "I'm really sorry!"

Shimazu Yoshihiro also knew that he couldn't complain about the samurai around him, so he snorted and turned his head to stare at the artillery on the other side. But there was a glimmer of hope in his heart

Thinking about it, this kind of national collapse may not be able to shoot into the mountains, maybe they will not use it after trying it and find that there is no way.

But his hopes were soon dashed, because some of the Ming troops below began to dig holes neatly, and some soldiers removed the wheels of the cannons, put the barrels into the gun box and buried them directly into the ground, so that the muzzle of the cannon pointed directly at the wall on the mountainside!

Seeing this scene, Shimazu Yoshihiro's cold sweat immediately flowed down! But in the face of this situation, he was helpless, and could only watch the neat completion of the arrangement around him.

Judging from Shimazu Yoshihiro's position, the two guns in the middle are aimed at the gate directly in front of them, and the other four guns are aimed at the walls on both sides. Now it's up to him to see if the wall can withstand the test of the collapse of the country, anyway, he knows that the gate will definitely not be able to withstand it!

After those soldiers set up their positions, they immediately opened fire without hesitation! The six cannons fired one after another, and Shimazu Yoshihiro watched as six iron balls flew out of the cannon and slashed through the air and smashed into the wall in front of him! Especially when you stand on the wall, you can see it more clearly!

It seemed to them that the shells were flying very slowly, as if they could stop them with their hands! But it was just an illusion, and in the blink of an eye, the cannonballs were already flying closer!

The first shell missed any targets and flew over the wall. The second shell didn't hit the wall either, but it hit an iron cannon and shattered his upper body, leaving only the lower half of his two-legged body standing on the ground for a moment before falling!

Without waiting for the soldiers to feel frightened, the third and fourth shells hit the upper part of the gate accurately, and the wooden gate could not stop the bombardment of the shells at all, and directly opened two large holes in the upper part! And the fifth cannonball hit the wall, and the flying fragments directly hit the two iron cannons all over the body, and they fell from the wall screaming! The sixth shell hit the middle of the wall, and the wall shook for a while!

It was only then that the fear of the Japanese soldiers came to their hearts, and they let out a series of screams! Especially the sight of the corpse that was only left below the waist made them even more creepy! So driven by fear, these ashigaru men fired at the artillery at the foot of the mountain, completely ignoring the fact that the other party was out of their range!