After the castle tower was bombed, the entire building collapsed. Li Zhi didn't know whether Nagasaki's Nagasaki warrior Toshige was killed in the bombing, but the morale of the soldiers in the castle was obviously hit hard. Li Zhi saw the guards on the shooting holes in the city wall.
The soldiers trembled for a while and turned to look at the castle tower. The matchlock guns that had been withdrawn from the shooting holes were not raised again for a long time.
Obviously, the Japanese "iron gunners" were already a little confused in their suspicion.
However, what surprised Li Zhi slightly was that the soldiers in the castle did not surrender despite seeing the power of their own artillery.
Japanese soldiers are very tough.
Li Zhi's invasion of Japan was the first time Japan encountered a "foreign enemy" invasion in hundreds of years. The Japanese soldiers on the city wall seemed ready to fight to the end.
Li Zhi commanded the cannon to begin bombarding the walls of the castle. Although the armor-piercing ability of the explosive shells was not as good as that of solid shells, it was more than enough to break the thin wall outside the "executive office" castle. Fifty cannons were aimed at a
The city walls inside and outside started shooting one after another.
The morale of the Japanese soldiers is good, but their weapons are too backward. Although they have many matchlocks, they have almost no artillery. If they face the Ming or Qing armies, the Japanese army with many matchlocks will probably be considered a formidable enemy. But facing
The Tiger Division had so many artillery pieces that they could only be beaten passively.
The explosive bombs slammed into the outer wall of the castle, smashing the wall into pieces, and then exploded inside the castle. The iron pellets in the explosive bombs splashed around inside the castle like raindrops, making the flesh and blood dripping with blood.
The wall outside the "Principal Office" castle is only two hundred meters long and more than a hundred meters wide. Although fifty cannons are not many, they are already very scary for such a small Administrative Office castle. Li Zhi let the cannons fire
In four hours, almost two thousand rounds of ammunition were fired at the small castle, killing an unknown number of people in the castle.
According to Li Zhi's estimate, even if one shell killed only one person, two thousand people died in the castle.
All the walls on the west side of the castle have been blown up. From Li Zhi's perspective, he can see the samurai houses inside the castle. After a morning of bombing, those houses were blown to pieces, and many houses were on fire.
The only defensive features in the entire castle were a few ditches and ridges. Japanese soldiers who had seen the power of explosive shells lay on the ridges and held on to their last posts with trembling determination.
Every round of explosive shells fired into the small castle would cause huge casualties. Li Zhi could see clearly with a telescope that all the soldiers in the castle were lying on the ground. Every time a soldier was killed, other soldiers got up.
Carry these dead people to an area designated for laying the dead.
In the area where the corpses were placed, there were thousands of corpses.
This was a completely one-sided battle, and it would not be an exaggeration to say it was a massacre. The Japanese soldiers in the castle could do nothing but be bombed and die. They insisted on not surrendering. Rather than fighting with Li Zhi, it was better to say that they were fighting with Li Zhi.
Their inner willpower is fighting.
After all, this is the first time that Japan has been invaded by a foreign enemy in hundreds of years. Even Kublai Khan's three expeditions to Japan were defeated by the "divine wind". The Japanese are not willing to hand over their country to Li Zhi easily.
in the hands of the person.
But Li Zhi has appeared in this era, and it is not the Japanese soldiers who would rather die than surrender that can change the wheel of the times.
Finally, when Li Zhi's cannon was about to start the fifth stage of bombardment, the soldiers in the castle collapsed. Even the belief in fighting for the country could not support such casualties. All the soldiers in the castle laid down their weapons and surrendered.
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Li Zhi asked Zhong Feng to lead a thousand people into the city, collect the weapons and armor of the Japanese soldiers, and tie their hands.
Baba Toshige was also arrested, and his condition was very bad. His right leg was broken by a wooden beam when the castle tower collapsed, and he looked half-dead. Li Zhi asked the medical team to treat the wound of this senior Tokugawa shogunate official to ensure that he
He was transported alive to Hirado so that he could be shot.
When Li Zhi walked into the prison castle, he learned that 4,000 Japanese soldiers had been bombed and more than 2,600 of them had been killed. The castle was filled with the blood of the dead, and the smell of blood was so strong that it looked like a slaughterhouse.
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On the eighth day of November, in the middle of the Hirado Port City, Toshige Baba was tied up and held down on the execution ground. The merchants in Hirado City gathered around the execution ground, three floors inside and three floors outside, to witness Li Zhi's execution here.
Nagasaki was enacted by the Kawa Shogunate.
After everything that happened in Nagasaki was settled, the owner of Hirado Castle, the Lord of the Hirado Domain, did not have the courage to confront Li Zhi. If the Hirado Domain resisted Li Zhi at this time, he would probably be beaten to pieces by Li Zhi just like Nagasaki.
In any case, Li Zhi did not occupy the territory of Hirado. He just executed Baba Toshige in Hirado Castle, and the lord of the Hirado Domain pretended not to know.
Around the execution ground, the Japanese merchants who were watching were a bit conflicted. They hated Toshima Toshiba, the Nagasaki man who practiced cruel and barbaric methods. He went on a killing spree in Hirado overnight, killing the merchants who were unwilling to hand over the Li family's fine cloth.
Mr. Hirado citizens made a rough count and found out that Toshige Baba killed more than a hundred people that night.
How can there be no hatred under such killings?
The trade that the merchants relied on for survival was banned, and the fine cloth was destroyed by the horse field. Many merchants became destitute and even had problems in their livelihood. The merchants wished they could kill the horse field and eat his flesh.
However, on the other hand, they do not want to see a person from the Ming Dynasty come forward to kill the horse race for profit.
After all, this is Japan, a place where the "Japanese nation" has thrived for generations. If a Ming Dynasty Duke comes to uphold justice, doesn't it mean that the northwest of Kyushu Island has been conquered by the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses?
The Hirado merchants who witnessed the execution were full of contradictions. They stared blankly at Baba Toishuu who was kneeling on the execution ground and remained silent.
Zheng Kaida walked up to Baba Lizhong, slapped him hard twice on the face, and said: "Bachang Jun, something you can't believe has happened. Duke Jin of the Ming Dynasty has come to Japan!"
Baba Toshige was slapped twice by Zheng Kaida, and his face turned pale. He looked at Zheng Kaida nervously, and said loudly: "Don't be complacent, the shogunate's 200,000 troops will attack soon! If you kill me, you will be killed when I arrive.
General Zhengyi will not let you go."
Hearing the translator's translation, Zheng Kaida laughed loudly, patted the machang Lichung's face again, and said with a smile: "Machang Jun, you disappoint me so much. I originally thought you would have a caesarean section at the monastery!"
When Baba Toshige heard this, his eyes widened, and finally he suddenly closed his eyes and lowered his head in shame.
As a samurai, Baba Toshige did not have the guts to commit suicide and fell into the inferior ranks.
Li Zhi looked at the audience with conflicting expressions and waved. A soldier from the Huben Division armed with a rifle walked up, aimed at the back of Ma Changli's head, and pressed the trigger.
With a snap, blood splashed everywhere, and Ma Changli Zhong fell forward and fell on the execution ground.
The Japanese merchants who were watching suddenly made a noise, shouting "Ah!" "Ah!" and looking at Baba Toshige's body with wide eyes.
Li Zhi smiled and said loudly: "Friends of Fanjiazhuang, don't worry, I, Li Zhi, will not let you suffer! I will definitely fight until the shogunate is convinced, until the shogunate compensates for your losses, and reopens Li Zhi.
