Five hundred and seventieth chapters bamboo bundle
The first thing the shogunate army launched was their fifty-four cannons.
The range of these artillery is not far. Not to mention the large barrels produced by the Japanese, even the Dutch cannons have a limited range, with a direct range of only one mile.
This time Li Zhi unloaded 300 cannons from the ship to defend the city. Seeing that the shogunate army was mainly attacking the east side of the castle, he moved 260 of them to the east. As soon as the shogunate's cannons approached the castle Sannomaru, the city wall
A deafening barrage of cannon fire rang out, and the shells hit the Tokugawa artillery like raindrops.
When the shogunate's artillery was still five miles away, it was bombarded by Li Zhi's army's long artillery.
The artillery shells are ejected when shooting at targets five miles away. The artillery shells will not ricochet after they hit the ground, so Li Zhi used explosive shells. Although the accuracy of the projectiles was not very good, there were too many 260 cannons and they flew at extremely high speeds in the air.
The continuous cannonballs smashed one shogunate army artillery car after another outside the castle.
The explosion of blooming bombs is actually not very lethal in this scenario. The Japanese army will avoid it when seeing blooming bombs falling around them. However, blooming bombs that explode once are always stronger than solid bombs that do not explode. There are several blooming bombs that
The nearby shogunate army artillery carriage was blown up, which was considered worthy of the cost of the explosive shells.
The artillery carriages of the shogunate army were dragged by horses, and their advance was not very fast. After three minutes of walking for two miles, the cannons on the city wall fired three rounds. When the cannons of the shogunate army finally advanced to within three miles of the castle Sannomaru, five
Twenty of the fourteen cannons had been smashed, and at this time the cannons on the city wall began to bombard with solid bullets.
Within a distance of three miles, the 18-pound long cannon can already shoot directly. When fired directly, the solid projectile will continue to bounce forward after landing, and all obstacles in the straight line of the cannonball's advance will be hit. Compared with the flower that smashes into the soil after being ejected,
The hit rate of bouncing solid bullets is much higher.
The artillery carriage hit by the solid bullet instantly fell apart. The steel parts and wooden parts were scattered by the impact of the solid bullet and fell to pieces on the ground. The artillerymen behind the artillery carriage were not safe either. From time to time, some artillerymen were hit by the ejected solid projectiles.
In mild cases, arms and legs were severed; in severe cases, the body was torn apart and transformed into a human shape.
The 18-pounder gun on the city wall only fired one round and destroyed more than 30 gun carriages.
There are only seven Tokugawa gun carriages left.
Speaking of which, the Japanese soldiers were still very tenacious. When most of the artillery pieces were destroyed, the artillerymen of the last seven artillery pieces did not escape, but continued to move forward on horseback and walked bravely.
However, their courage was just showing off. As soon as the second round of solid shells fired from the city wall, the artillerymen of the last seven cannons were so frightened that they abandoned their guns and fled in panic, fleeing in the direction of their own formation.
However, there is no difference between escaping and not escaping at this time. The bouncing solid bullets drew 260 death curves on the ground. The area near the artillery carriage was covered by straight lines shot from these city walls. Even the escaping artillerymen
There was no way to avoid it. The solid bullet was like a devil, turning the human body it touched into a bloody mess. Only the screams of the wounded soldiers were heard on the battlefield.
In just a few minutes, dozens of the shogunate's precious cannons were wiped out by Li Zhi's army on the city wall.
On the city wall, looking at the vulnerable shogunate army artillery, the soldiers of the Huben Division laughed. The laughter of tens of thousands of people merged into a huge sound that spread for several miles.
This was the first time for the four Japanese lords who had taken refuge with Li Zhi to see Li Zhijun's cannons with their own eyes. They looked at each other for a while, and they increasingly felt that taking refuge with Li Zhi was the right choice.
Zhong Feng waved his hand excitedly, and Zhong Feng said loudly: "Master, let's just fight out?"
Li Zhi shook his head and said: "Since they have the confidence to attack the city, we will wait for work in the city."
Zheng Kaicheng said flatteringly: "The Duke is wise!"
In the Tokugawa army's main formation, the shogunate's daimyo and generals looked at the scene on the battlefield, and their faces turned pale.
Li Zhi's cannon was too powerful. The shogunate's lords and generals didn't know what the iron billet casting method was, nor did they know the huge innovation in cannon casting efficiency brought about by this method. They only knew that Li Zhi was far more powerful.
For his own artillery, there may be seven or eight hundred, or even thousands.
Artillery of this magnitude is unimaginable for an island country. In an island country that still uses ancient castles to defend its territory, even seven or eight heavy artillery can completely change the battlefield situation.
The number of artillery pieces owned by Li Zhi is even comparable to that of Westerners.
The "eldest boss" of the shogunate, Doi Toshikatsu, suddenly ran to Tokugawa Iemitsu and said loudly: "Your Highness, the general, retreat! Li Zhi's request is not harsh. If we lose this battle, we will lose more!"
The other daimyo and generals were in a daze when they heard Doi Toshiki's words. Li Zhi's cannon was so powerful that they lost confidence in victory for a while. Doi Toshiki's words made them even more shaken, and they all looked towards
The general who conquered the barbarians in the shogunate.
Tokugawa Iemitsu glanced at Doi Toshikatsu angrily, waved his hand and said: "Disrupt the morale of the army and capture Doi Toshikatsu!"
Several "horse warriors" rushed out, held down Doi Toshikatsu, who was wearing samurai armor, and took him down.
Seeing that the "eldest brother" of the shogunate was captured like this, the other daimyo and officials looked at each other in shock and did not dare to say anything about retreating.
Tokugawa Iemitsu took a breath and said loudly: "The first team attacks! Attack the city!"
The Tokugawa Central Military Department ordered the flag to be waved and passed on the order. The elder Sakai Tadakatsu personally led 40,000 ashigaru to attack the fortified Osaka Castle.
Most of Japanese castles were originally built on mountains. The terrain was rugged and steep, which was not suitable for deploying siege equipment. Therefore, Japan did not develop complex siege equipment technology. In the late Warring States Period, some daimyo began to build cities on the plains. But this
By that time, artillery had been introduced to Japan, rendering other siege equipment useless.
All in all, the Japanese had basically no other equipment except cannons to attack the city. The shogunate army, whose cannons were all destroyed by Li Zhi, could only climb Osaka Castle with their hands and feet to attack Osaka Castle.
Li Zhi had watched some Japanese movies before traveling through time, and was deeply impressed by the scenes of Japanese soldiers climbing up castles in the Middle Ages to storm the castle. At that time, Li Zhi thought the director had made a mistake, but at this time he saw with his own eyes soldiers from the shogunate rushing up to climb the city wall with their bare hands.
, Li Zhi realized that this is how the islanders attacked the city.
Japan is a country prone to earthquakes. In order to prevent earthquakes, the city walls are all slanted, so the siege soldiers can climb up with their hands and feet.
Of course, in order to cover these soldiers climbing the wall, the iron gunners of the shogunate followed behind carrying thick bamboo bundles. The iron gunners hoped to rush within 100 meters of Sannomaru Castle Wall, hide behind the bamboo bundles and shoot at the top of the wall to suppress the city wall.
The soldiers on the wall prevented Li Zhi's troops from attacking the soldiers climbing up the wall.
The so-called bamboo bundles are made by cutting dozens of bamboos into bamboo sticks of the same length and then tying them together to defend against the attacks of iron cannon bullets. These bamboo bundles are very heavy and require a lot of strength from the carriers to move them.
Carrying such a bunch of bamboo can't even move a hundred meters in one minute.
