Looking at the few dozen cavalry who had fled back, Matsudaira Nobutsuna couldn't believe his eyes. More than 3,000 banners led by Honda Tadayoshi were eaten by the Ming Dynasty people like this?
These are more than 3,000 of the most elite warriors, and they are cavalry!
At this moment, Matsudaira Nobutsuna finally believed that Tokugawa Yoshinao and Inaba Masato might not be lying, and that the Ming army's combat effectiveness was far stronger than he imagined.
After realizing this, Matsudaira Nobutsuna was finally not as arrogant as before, thinking that Osaka could be easily taken over by the first force he led alone.
Therefore, after advancing to the outskirts of Osaka, we stopped moving forward and camped on the spot.
The Japanese army was busy setting up camp, and the Ming army in Osaka opposite did not act rashly.
Chongzhen's intention was very simple. He wanted to wait for the main force of the shogunate army to arrive before the decisive battle. By annihilating the main force of the Tokugawa shogunate in one battle, he could save a lot of trouble.
Two days later, the main force of the Tokugawa shogunate finally arrived outside Osaka Castle.
Along with the main force of the shogunate of more than 300,000 people, there were more than 300,000 civilians who arrived at the same time. The total number of people exceeded 600,000. The Tokugawa shogunate was known as a million-strong army to the outside world.
Looking at the mighty convoy of men and horses, Tadakatsu Sakai, the commander-in-chief of the shogunate army, felt quite complacent, because in the history of Japan, there had never been a general who could command an army of such a size, even if it was truly unified.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who defeated Japan, could only mobilize 300,000 troops.
With such an army, Sakai Tadakatsu felt that it would not be difficult to defeat the Ming army.
Sakai Tadakatsu even left aside his young master, Tokugawa Ietsuna, and directly, as the elder of the shogunate, sent an arrogant letter to the Ming army in Osaka Castle to persuade them to surrender.
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Xu Sanguan read aloud Sakai Tadakatsu's letter of persuasion to surrender in front of Chongzhen.
Of course, the original letter of surrender sent by Sakai Tadakatsu was in Japanese, and Xu Sanguan translated it into Chinese.
"The land of the rising sun, the great general who conquered the barbarians, the eldest boss, the commander of an army of one million, the leader of the Kawagoe and Kohama tribes, the current head of the Sakai family, Tadakatsu, with a general salary of 123,500 stone, Xiaoyu Osaka Castle's Mingren...
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Hearing this, Chongzhen, Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, Jiang Tianyi and others couldn't help laughing.
Zhu Cizheng, who was accompanying him on the expedition, curled his lips and said, "Land of the Rising Sun? There are quite a few titles."
By the way, Zhu Cizheng could not defeat Chongzhen after all, and reluctantly entered the Nanjing Imperial College to study. He was studying in the fifth phase of the Naval Science Department and was in the same detachment with Li Dingguo and his four brothers.
During this expedition to Japan, Zheng Zhilong also brought out students from the Naval Academy to gain experience.
Chongzhen couldn't help but glanced at Zhu Cizheng. Well, it's not bad. After a year of practical classes and traveling to the mountains and rivers of the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, he was darker and thinner, but he finally had
With a little energy, he is no longer like before, he looked like a handsome and handsome young man at first glance.
"Zhen'er, come here." Chongzhen waved and said.
"What are you doing?" Zhu Cizhen came to Chongzhen reluctantly.
Chongzhen followed the rules in everything, even between father and son. There was a good side to doing so, but there were also bad sides. For example, Zhu Cizheng was not very afraid of his father.
Because Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong received strict Confucian education since they were young, the ethics of father and son, monarch and minister, have been engraved in their bones, so they never violate the rules.
Chongzhen was not angry and asked with a smile: "Do you want to participate in this battle?"
"I don't want to." Zhu Cizheng refused directly, "Bullets don't have eyes, and they won't fly around just because I am the Yongwang of the Ming Dynasty. So if you let me make my own choice, I will never do such a high-risk thing."
When Chongzhen heard this, he was immediately furious. Why did he raise such a cowardly son?
This coward is not only greedy for life and afraid of death, but he actually openly says it in front of so many people.
Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui, Xu Yingwei and others who were also on the deck turned around in unison and pretended to appreciate the beautiful scenery of Osaka Bay. What did King Yong say just now? He didn't hear it.
"Bitch, I want you to go to the battlefield today."
Chongzhen was really angry this time and issued an imperial edict directly.
Zhu Cizheng's naval cadet unit was temporarily incorporated into the 1st Army Division.
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but hesitate and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you really want King Yong to participate in the battle?"
"Is this still false?" Chongzhen said with a dark face, "Just treat him as a soldier, don't treat him as a prince. If he doesn't participate in a real battle, he is not qualified to inherit the title of king."
Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to send his son Zheng En's detachment.
At the same time, Li Dingguo, Yao Qisheng and other students were told to protect the safety of King Yong.
Although Zhu Cizheng was unwilling to do so, the imperial decree had already been issued, so he could only follow the classmates of the same detachment, go ashore along the gangway, and then follow the infantry of the 1st Division to start lining up.
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After sending the letter of persuasion to surrender, Sakai Tadakatsu has been waiting for Osaka Mingjun's reply.
If given a choice, Sakai Tadakatsu still hoped to defeat the enemy without fighting. Many Japanese, including Sakai Tadakatsu, had been familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War and knew that defeating the enemy without fighting was the highest state of war.
If it is possible to force the four thousand Ming troops to surrender in Osaka Castle with just a letter persuading them to surrender, then Tadakatsu Sakai can definitely use this to go down in history and become a famous military god in Japan's thousands of years of history.
However, the cruel reality gave Sakai Tadakatsu a blow.
Instead of surrendering, the Ming army in Osaka City killed the envoy.
Chongzhen did this deliberately, just to provoke the Japanese and induce them to take the initiative to attack.
The effect was also impressive. After Sakai Tadakatsu saw the heads picked up with bamboo poles in front of the Ming army's formation, he was so angry that he immediately ordered the entire army to come out of the camp and form an array.
However, Sakai Tadakatsu was not completely carried away by his anger. He still listened to Inaba Masato's advice and the formation location was fifteen miles away from the coastline.
During the last Osaka Winter Formation, the cannons of Ming warships could hit more than ten miles away.
Therefore, placing the formation location fifteen miles away from the coastline can ensure safety.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Inaba Masamori did not know that the naval guns of the Ming Dynasty had evolved to metal shells with fixed-loading ammunition, and the performance of the artillery had been greatly improved, not only the 25-inch gun
And the 4-inch caliber naval gun can hit twenty miles away, and the 6-inch caliber naval gun can hit thirty miles away.
As for the artillery carried by the Ming Army, they can only fight hard.
After all, Japan also bought hundreds of Hongyi cannons from Hongyi.
Soon, both sides lined up one after another, and the second Battle of Osaka officially kicked off.
The first to launch the attack was the shogunate army, which dispatched a force and slowly advanced towards the Ming army's position pushing temporary wooden fences. These wooden fences were used as shields and were equivalent to the carriages of the slaves.
It's just that the wooden fence is made of two to three-inch logs, which can't even defend against the Ming Army's Type 25 rifle, let alone a 25-inch caliber mountain gun or a 4-inch caliber field gun.
However, in order to prevent the Japanese army from collapsing prematurely, the Ming army did not use artillery fire prematurely.
Waiting until the Japanese army advanced to within a hundred steps, at the same time the Japanese artillery on the left and right wings had also advanced to within a distance of 500 steps. The Ming Army's 1st Division, 2nd Division and the troops anchored at Osaka Bay
The 36 Zhou Yu-class cruisers opened fire in unison, pouring firepower on the Japanese army.
This is not a one-dimensional battle at all.
The shogunate army still wants to fight strictly according to the previous tactics, which is to invest one fan side to launch a tentative attack. If there is no chance, they will invest another fan side to strengthen the offensive. If there is a chance, they will invest all the main force to launch a general attack. A battle.
This is basically the process of destroying the Ming army.
But the Ming army no longer follows this process.
The Ming Army is now a truly modern army.
As long as the enemy troops entered within fifteen kilometers, they would have been exposed to the firepower of the Ming army. If the enemy troops did not build fortifications, they would basically only be massacred.
And if the enemy troops are arranged in a dense formation, it will be even worse.
Unfortunately, both of these two measures destroyed the shogunate's army.
So the final result can be imagined, miserable in one word!
First, the group that made a tentative attack saw the wooden fence used as a shield directly penetrated by the Ming army's 128-caliber Type 25 rifle. The Japanese pirates hiding behind the wooden fence were also penetrated.
Immediately afterwards, 324 mountain guns and field artillery shells from 12 artillery regiments of the 1st and 2nd Divisions rained down on the main Japanese army formation.
That's right, the six brigades of the 1st and 2nd Divisions have each been reinforced with a mountain artillery brigade.
The Crouching Tiger Cannons of the two divisions were of no use, because the main force of the Japanese army was already beyond the range of the Crouching Tiger Cannons, and the Japanese army on the first attack side had no need of the Crouching Tiger Cannons at all.
Under the attack of rifles, mountain artillery, and field artillery, the shogunate army suffered heavy casualties in an instant.
However, this was not over yet. More than twenty seconds later, 4-inch and 6-inch large-caliber shells fired from naval guns also rained down on the shogunate's formation.
At this time, looking down from high in the sky, you can clearly see that fireworks have bloomed one after another in the huge and dense formation of the shogunate army. Each firework is as small as ten steps in radius.
With as many as ten steps, the huge infantry formation of the shogunate army would be blown to pieces in an instant.
In that scene, broken limbs and broken bodies were really flying all over the sky.
Sakai Tadakatsu, who stayed behind, was completely dumbfounded.
Such a scene was completely beyond his imagination.
The two sides hadn't even started a real battle, and more than 600,000 shogunate troops were blown to pieces?
In fact, even the rear formation where Sakai Tadakatsu was located was not safe. With a harsh and short scream, rows of artillery shells fell overwhelmingly again, and then exploded.
One of the cannonballs landed right next to Sakai Tadakatsu's horse.
The air wave generated by the explosion tore Sakai Tadakatsu into pieces in one stroke.
Flags within a radius of dozens of meters were also shot into sieves by fragments.
The armor on the flag itself could not stop the fragments flying at high speed.
