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"Ouch!"

"Hanat!"

On December 5, 1614, the shogunate army completed their encampment under Osaka Castle and began their attack on Osaka Castle.

Unsurprisingly, the shogunate placed the main attack direction in the south of the city. During the Warring States Period, the Uesugi family's army, known as the most powerful in combat, was the first to attack.

However, as the Uesugi family was known as the most conservative during the Warring States Period, its main force was basically infantry and cavalry with cold weapons. Of course, there were firearms troops, but all of them were matchlocks. In this cold and humid winter weather, such equipment

The troops, facing the south of Osaka City, passed the cement bastion built by Yan Siqi, Sanada Yukimura and others.

Although due to the serious lack of construction time, the bastion is only 4 meters high. But when the soldiers of the Uesugi family attack the city with ants, any soldier, no matter how tightly he sticks to the city wall, will be attacked by at least two edges.

Fusiliers shooting from above

Then, the 10,000 troops of Yonezawa Domain Lord Uesugi Kagekatsu only lasted about half an hour to attack before collapsing.

"Hahaha, it seems that after Mr. Kagekatsu moved to Yonezawa, Yonezawa's samurai are not as brave and good at fighting as Echigo's."

Looking at the Uesugi family's army facing the bastion south of Osaka Castle, they had nothing to say. The soldiers were shot and killed one by one after entering the firing range of the bastion. Everyone from Tokugawa Ieyasu down was livid. The result was always that the head was missing.

Shimazu Tadashi, the normally well-known Lord of the Satsuma Domain, actually stood up and ridiculed him at an extremely inappropriate time. This immediately made the already disgraced Uesugi Kagekatsu jump to his feet.

"What Satsuma Mamoru means is that our Yonezawa men can't do it? How about Satsuma's samurai go out and give us a try?"

"Eh" Poor EQ does not mean low IQ. Everyone knows that such a fortress, which has never been seen before, is difficult to fight. Shimazu Tadahashi will not say stupid things like our Shimadzu clan going up to attack it all.

"Okay, okay, please be patient."

After all, it was Ieyasu. After he spoke, everyone quickly fell silent.

"Takechiyo, what do you mean this is?"

"Father, this is a bastion, which originated in Western Europe. Its characteristic is to build multiple protruding facets on the city wall, so that there are no blind spots for shooting on the city walls and city gates. No matter where the siege soldiers are, they may be shot by the people on the city wall.

The musketeers fired."

"What is the material of the city wall?"

"It is cement, a special powder that dries and hardens quickly after being mixed with water. If bamboo bars or steel bars are added to it, its hardness will be far greater than that of ordinary stone walls."

"Then, other than a long-term siege, is there any way to quickly break this cement fortress?"

"Yes, you can use the trench siege method. The basic method is to take Osaka Castle specifically. This place is close to the sea and there are many rivers nearby. So even in the flat land south of the city, if you dig deeper, there will definitely be

Groundwater gushes out. And if enemies in the city break this method, they can easily attract water to attack. Therefore, before the actual trench is dug, we must build the aqueduct."

"Everyone, what do you think?"

"That's it! Your Majesty the Major General is really a genius!"

"That's right, the Major General was born under the protection of Susanoo!"

"Your Highness, I am willing to undertake trench excavation work."

"Your Highness, I am willing to undertake the escort work when the friendly forces dig trenches."

"Your Highness"

"Hahaha, okay, everyone, you see, as long as we unite as one, won't the problem be solved? Then please take your place."

"Hi!"

After everyone retreated, Tokugawa Ieyasu said: "Takechiyo, it seems that you didn't finish what you just said."

"Yes, father. The trench siege took a very long time, and there is too much groundwater here. Even this method may not be successful. My son just wanted to ensure the morale of the entire army. It's hard to explain clearly."

"Well, although this is the first time I heard about this bastion and trench. However, the things on the battlefield are all the same. Many of the famous names who went out are veteran generals. They don't think about it now, and it won't be long before

You will understand. So, do you have any other methods?"

"Father, there are two things we can do next. First, bring our new fleet in Edo Bay over. The Kuuki family's blockade of Osaka Castle is obviously ineffective. It was obviously caused by a flintlock gun when the Uesugi family attacked.

casualties, the material of this bastion is also cement. It is impossible for the Toyotomi family to make these things by themselves, they can only be sent from the Ming Dynasty. And the Ming Dynasty can only send them by sea.

With so many things, one ship is not enough. Therefore, the navy of the Jiugui family cannot be trusted. Secondly, we can use some tricks."

The so-called little plot, in terms of history, was Ieyasu's own idea.

The specific method was to deploy the large-barreled artillery in the shogunate army to the east of Osaka Castle and concentrate the firepower to bombard Osaka Castle.

As mentioned above, there are several rivers to the east of Osaka Castle. This place is very unsuitable for attack. But because of this, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was building the city, he built Honmaru's castle tower here.

With the development of the times, especially after the artillery technology of the Portuguese was further improved and introduced to Japan, it was possible to shoot artillery outside Osaka Castle and hit the castle tower.

And now, in the castle tower of Osaka Castle, lives Toyotomi Hideyoshi's widow Chacha, who was honored as Yododen at this time, and their son Toyotomi Hideyori.

"Well, Takechiyo, your idea is good! Just do it like this, use your newly built big cannon to bombard the castle tower of Osaka Castle. In addition, I also agree to the request to bring the new navy from Edo Bay.

"

"Hi! Thank you very much, Father."

The time came on December 13th. In the meeting hall behind the bastion in the south of Osaka Castle, Osaka Governor sat at the top, and Yan Siqi sat at the first place on his right. The others were many generals in Osaka Castle.

"Ohno-kun, Yan-san, and Tianta-kun led the army out of the city the day before to raid the shogunate's trench excavation team, killing about 700 people of the Ikeda family, and losing less than 100 people.

At the same time, I also led an army to raid the Kuroda Army in the southwest of the city, killing about 500 of them, and destroying about three of the aqueducts they dug."

"Yoshi! Sanada-kun, Goto-kun, thank you for your hard work."

"Everywhere, you all commanded well. In addition, yesterday and this morning, the shogunate army shelled us from the east of Osaka Castle, and we also fired back from the city wall. Some lookouts saw us with their own eyes.

A cannonball fell into the shogunate's artillery position, which should have caused a lot of casualties to the opponent. The shogunate's cannonball also fell into the city. One shell hit the third floor of the castle tower, but the damage was minimal. There was only a nearby maid.

He was killed by a falling wooden beam."

"Hahaha, are all the people in the shogunate stupid? The land east of the city is not suitable for attack at all."

Just as everyone in the meeting loudly laughed at the shogunate army's lack of ambition, Osaka Haram, who was the chief boss of the Toyotomi family in Osaka Castle at this time, frowned tightly.

And Yan Siqi, who had received Zhu Youdong's guidance in advance, looked very unhappy now.

After the two looked at each other, they both smiled helplessly.
Chapter completed!