Osaka Castle, Abe Shoji, the acting lord of Osaka Castle, was stunned by the cannon of Tiger Division.
This is simply the most efficient killing machine in the world.
The Japanese call artillery "National Collapse" or "Big Barrel". It turned out that Osaka Castle's sixteen "big barrels" were the basis of Shoji Abe's confidence. Abe Shoji also believed that these "big barrels" could stop the Ming army. Who?
I know that these cannons were taken away by the Ming Dynasty's cannons as soon as they came up.
What is even more shocking is that the shells of Ming Dynasty cannons will explode. Osaka Castle was first hit by the impact of the shells, and then had to withstand the power of the shells exploding. One building after another in the city was ignited by explosive shells.
There were raging fires everywhere. The iron pellets flying out of the artillery shells killed countless soldiers.
Abe Shoji had never heard that artillery shells could explode. If he had not seen the Ashigaru men being killed by artillery shells with his own eyes, Abe Shoji would never have believed such a thing.
The power of the bombing with explosive bombs was too terrifying. If the Ming army had fired solid bombs, Masaji Abe might have defended the city and used the buildings in the city to resist the shells until the Ming army had finished firing the shells. But with the explosive bombs
Under the bombing, Shoji Abe had only one option: to leave the city and fight for his life. Because the destructive power of explosive shells to soldiers is much greater than that of solid shells, once the shell explodes, all the soldiers within a few meters nearby will be killed. If the bomb continues, the soldiers in the entire city will be killed.
They're all going to be blown up.
Although Shoji Abe knew that Li Zhi had more troops than himself and that rushing out would be a disaster, he always had confidence in the elite iron gunners under his command. These iron gunners were outstanding soldiers selected from the Tokugawa army and were well-disciplined and operated.
Skilled, the shooting hit rate is higher than that of ordinary soldiers.
The Japanese iron cannon is a smoothbore matchlock gun with a range of only one hundred meters. If Shoji Abe wants to win this battle, he must rush to the front of the Ming army and fire.
However, the terrifying artillery of the Ming army did not give Masaji Abe the slightest chance.
The Ming army fired cannonballs at the Tokugawa Ashigaru. Abe Shoji had only heard of this terrifying large tube warfare method in the previous generation of generals' descriptions of the Korean expedition, but had never seen it with his own eyes. I saw it with my own eyes today.
, Abe Shoji realized how bloody and terrifying this method of warfare was.
As soon as the cannon fired, all the ashigaru in the front rows were hit by bullets. The flesh and blood of the dead and wounded were flying in the air like raindrops, dyeing the living ashigaru red. Those expensive ashigaru equipment were in the face of the shot.
As fragile as paper.
One hundred and sixty heavy artillery fired only once, and a quarter of the more than 7,000 Tokugawa Ashigaru fell. This is not a war, this is simply a massacre.
The lives of nearly two thousand soldiers disappeared on this terrible battlefield. Those young people who were still alive and kicking yesterday turned into corpses in an instant.
The Ashigaru people in Osaka Castle had never seen such a terrifying weapon before. They were immediately stunned. The soldiers stood in a pool of blood and were stunned, not daring to attack forward.
Even Abe Shoji, who was standing behind and commanding, was shocked by the terrifying destructive power of the cannon. He opened his mouth wide and did not react for a long time.
It took at least five seconds before Shoji Abe came back to his senses and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Beat the drum! Charge into the formation!"
The previous generation of generals who went on an expedition to Korea said that the Ming army had powerful cannons but no iron cannons. Although the Ming army on the opposite side looked like they all had Ming-style iron cannons, maybe they were not good at using iron cannons at all. Maybe they were not good at using iron cannons at all.
As long as they rush within the range of the iron cannon, the Tokugawa soldiers can win the war.
The drums sounded, and the blood-covered samurai roared loudly, urging the Tiepao Ashigaru to continue charging forward.
After being bombarded by shotguns, the morale of the Tokugawa ashigaru was close to collapse, but they recovered somewhat amidst the roars and encouragement of the samurai. They cautiously held up the iron cannons that had been loaded with gunpowder and bullets, and trotted towards the
The Ming army in front rushed forward.
But they ran too slowly. Li Zhi's artillery could load the cannon with shotshells in less than twenty seconds without considering the heat dissipation of the cannon. The Ashigaru in Osaka Castle was confused for a few seconds. When they charged again,
Li Zhi's cannon fired again.
Amidst the huge roar, one hundred and sixty rounds of shotguns were fired from the barrel. Tens of thousands of projectiles were fired at the Tokugawa soldiers more than 200 meters away, like a doomsday judgment.
If the shotgun hits the torso, it will pierce two holes at once, pass through the body and shoot out from the back, continuing to kill the ashigaru in the back row.
Pieces of blood spurted out from the wounds caused by shotgun pellets, spraying in the air like a heavy rain. Almost all the Ashigaru in the front rows were wiped out in one fell swoop, and they dropped their hands amidst the screams.
The fine iron cannon he carried fell to the ground and never got up again.
The Ashigaru of the Tokugawa family collapsed. Even if they were facing foreign invaders who invaded Japan, they did not dare to resist. The casualties of Osaka Castle soldiers had reached a terrible level, with at least half of the soldiers in just a few hours.
Thousands of soldiers who were massacred and still alive broke into a rout and fled eastward in panic.
They did not dare to escape into Osaka Castle. The Ming Dynasty's army was so terrifying that hiding in Osaka Castle to resist would be a dead end. The only hope of survival was to hide in the wilderness to the east and hide in private homes.
When Shoji Abe saw the army collapse, his face turned pale with shock. With the help of his guards, he mounted his horse and fled northeast, hoping to escape to the city of "Kyoto".
But after only running for five miles, Li Zhi's 500 cavalrymen of the selected vanguard regiment caught up with the Osaka City acting vanguard regiment soldiers. They rode excellent war horses that were only one in ten. They were better than the samurai who surrounded Shoji Abe's escape.
Faster. The soldiers of the Selective Regiment aimed their guns at Masaji Abe's mount and wounded the "Kiso horse" with one shot.
Abe Shoji only felt that the mount under his crotch was weak, and he was thrown to the ground by the war horse. The samurai beside him jumped off the horse and drew their swords to protect Abe Shoji, but they were knocked down one by one by the tricky Mini rifle. In the end, Abe
Only seven or eight of the more than twenty samurai around Shoji were left. These seven or eight people did not dare to resist anymore and ran away.
However, these escaping warriors were not spared. The soldiers of the Chosen Regiment were used as targets for shooting and were knocked down one by one.
The soldiers of the Selection Regiment tied up Shoji Abe and escorted him back to Osaka Castle.
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Seeing the main force's defeat, the hundreds of garrison troops in Osaka Castle abandoned Osaka Castle and fled to the northeast. Osaka became an empty city.
Tiger Division quickly took over Osaka Castle and controlled various key positions.
Li Zhi took Zheng Kaida and quickly walked into the warehouse in Osaka City.
Shimazu Mitsuhisa did not lie to Li Zhi. In the Ninomaru granary in Osaka Castle, Li Zhi saw countless warehouses of rice.
