The first group of 40,000 soldiers attacked, but within a quarter of an hour, more than 8,000 people had been killed..|2
Tiger Ben Division's three-dimensional fire strike was like a massacre, harvesting the lives of the shogunate Ashigaru at a speed unprecedented in this era.
In the past, the Huben Division dispatched a maximum of 10,000 people and carried only more than 100 cannons. This time, the Huben Division expanded its army, dispatching 20,000 people and carrying 300 cannons to defend the city. Judging from the results, these additional cannons
The effect is good.
The ground about 150 meters in front of the city wall was a mess. The shogunate army never broke through this death zone, and no one knew how many people died on this line. There were corpses, mutilated limbs, and minced meat everywhere. Some corpses were stacked on top of each other.
Some corpses were piled up like dead pigs in a slaughterhouse. Blood flowed on the ground like water and gathered in low-lying areas, making this area covered with large and small pools of blood.
The still alive shogunate ashigaru looked at the 260 cannons densely packed on the city wall, their faces turned pale and their legs felt weak. Only after being bombarded by these cannons several times did they realize how powerful they were. This was a killing that Japanese soldiers had never seen before.
Machine. A single shot can kill more than 3,000 soldiers. How to fight this battle?
The equipment of the Ming army was beyond powerful for this era, and it was impossible for the shogunate army to capture Osaka Castle.
The more than 30,000 shogunate ashigaru lost their fighting spirit almost at the same time, and suddenly fled collectively to the back. The tens of thousands of people used all their strength to escape to the east, just to stay away from the more than 200 cannons.
They threw away their helmets, even their spears and matchlocks, just to run faster.
If you can't escape before the cannon fires again, you will die here.
The more than 30,000 shogunate soldiers were no longer an army, they could only be regarded as a group of defeated troops. Even the samurai who led the charge were frightened and fled with the ashigaru.
Sakai Tadakatsu stood five hundred meters away from the city wall, his face pale. How could this battle end like this? Li Zhi's weapons were too terrifying, right?
Can this battle be won? This battle must be won no matter what! If Osaka Castle cannot be defeated, more and more princes will raise flags against the shogunate, and the Tokugawa family will become shaky and even perished.
danger.
Why is this Li Zhi so strong? Is Japan, which has not been conquered by foreign enemies for thousands of years, going to be defeated by Li Zhi this time? Surrender to Li Zhi?
The shogunate's army has now attacked Osaka, but cannot defeat it. If they negotiate peace with Li Zhi now, will Li Zhi make more demanding demands?
Sakai Tadakatsu was stunned as he stood on the battlefield, but he did not know that twenty cannons were already aimed at him on the city wall. Li Zhi saw this senior shogunate official in gorgeous armor and decided to kill him in formation to boost his morale.
Li Zhi waved his hand and shouted: "Fire!"
"Boom! Boom!"
"boom!"
Twenty cannons fired solid shells, and the shells shot straight towards Sakai Tadakatsu. On the hard soil in winter, the shells bounced forward, destroying everything that blocked him. Sakai Tadakatsu had just seen a flash of sparks on the city wall,
I felt a cold feeling in my stomach, and then I lost my ability to react in severe pain.
He saw that his legs were separated from his upper body. His upper body flew down from his legs and fell on the dirt. Sakai Tadakatsu opened his eyes wide and saw that his waist above his legs was bloody and bloody.
It was separated from his upper body. He stared at his legs for three seconds, tilted his head and died.
The solid bullet hit Sakai Tadakatsu in the stomach, breaking him into two pieces at the waist, and beheading the "big boss" of the shogunate.
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Seeing the death of the elder Sakai Tadakatsu in battle, the faces of the daimyo in the Tokugawa main formation darkened, and they were all shocked and speechless.
The shogunate actually killed a "big boss" in the battle under Osaka Castle.
You must know that to the Japanese shogunate, the elder was equivalent to the assistant, and the second assistant was to the Ming court. If the elder was killed by the Manchus on the battlefield, how would the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty be affected? The powerful elder died in battle.
Under Osaka Castle, it would be a heavy blow to the morale of the entire shogunate army.
When Tokugawa Iemitsu saw Sakai Tadakatsu's death in battle, he rushed to the front of the main formation with blood-red eyes.
Date Tadamune, the lord of the Sendai Domain, rushed to Tokugawa Iemitsu, knelt down on one knee and shouted loudly: "Your Highness, this battle cannot be fought, retreat dozens of miles to avoid the sharp edge of the Ming army!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the battlefield with blood-red eyes: The first team of 40,000 people had lost the ability to continue fighting and ran away on the battlefield. Although there was no cavalry chasing them, each of them looked like they had seen a ghost.
Running wildly, as if the cannon behind him might kill him at any time.
The 80,000 soldiers and horses behind directly raised their weapons against the 30,000 defeated troops, and some iron gunners even fired directly at the defeated troops, so these defeated troops did not attack Tokugawa Iemitsu's main formation.
Tokugawa Iemitsu only had 80,000 soldiers left. There were 20,000 Li Zhi's troops in the city, and nearly 30,000 in the four rebel towns. Li Zhi's firepower was much stronger than that of the shogunate army, and the 20,000 Tiger Ben division had at least 40,000 soldiers.
Combat strength. The advantage of the shogunate army on the battlefield is already minimal.
Are we going to withdraw from the army just like that?
Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned pale, and he looked at Osaka Castle towering on the Kinki Plain with some pity.
He was hesitating when he saw the gates of Osaka Castle opened. Li Zhi's 50,000 men lined up in a long formation and walked out of Osaka Castle one after another. In Tokugawa Iemitsu's surprised eyes, Li Zhi's five
Thousands of people formed an offensive formation and pushed 300 cannons towards the shogunate army.
Li Zhi went out to fight in the city?
The four rebellious vassal towns also followed Li Zhi out to fight in the field? They all thought that Li Zhi could defeat the shogunate army with 80,000 soldiers?
Li Zhi's cannons had fired many rounds. Although they had cooled down for more than ten minutes after the first group of shogunate troops were defeated, they were still very hot. After three or four more rounds, these cannons would no longer be able to fire at all. So Li Zhi's cannons were unable to fire at all.
Instead of bombarding the Tokugawa main line in the distance with explosive shells, Zhi asked the artillerymen to load the cannon with shotshells and push the cannon forward.
The two armies were getting closer and closer, and the distance was five miles, four miles, three miles, getting closer and closer. Date Tadamune shouted to Tokugawa Iemitsu: "General! Retreat the troops quickly! If you withdraw now, you can still negotiate peace with Li Zhi!"
However, Tokugawa Iemitsu was angered by the menacing Li Zhijun. He glared at Date Tadamune angrily and sat back on his little stool as the commander-in-chief.
He waved the cattail leaf fan in his hand forward: "The whole army attacks! Defeat the Ming army leaving the city!"
Date Tadamune lowered his head in annoyance and knelt on the ground on one knee, speechless.
In this formation, flags were waved and horns were blown. The shogunate's 80,000 troops were divided into two. Thirty thousand people from the north came out to fight against nearly 30,000 horses from the four rebel daimyo. Fifty thousand people from the south, including 15,000 cavalry, met them.
Li Zhi's 20,000 tiger troops.
There are fifteen thousand cavalry in the shogunate army, and these cavalry are the elite of the shogunate army.
Japanese military horses are relatively short. Although Japan also has excellent horse breeds such as Kiso horses that can rival Mongolian horses, not every cavalryman in the huge shogunate army has a Kiso horse. Shorter horses such as Noma horses and Misaki horses
Horse breeds are also widely used. The height of these horses at the withers is only 1.1 to 1.2 meters.
Of course, the ancient Japanese were not very tall and did not need such tall war horses.
After receiving the order, the 15,000 cavalry and the other 35,000 infantry pressed towards Li Zhi's troops. In today's Japan, such a large-scale cavalry team can be said to be unique. If it were to conquer other
The vassal town, if these 15,000 cavalry move there, they can scare the local vassal town to pieces just by their momentum.
At a distance of two miles, the cavalry galloped out of the infantry square and began to charge.
The charging shogunate cavalry raised up smoke like a sandstorm on the soil, and the sound of horse hooves shook the ground slightly.
However, to the Huben Division, who was used to seeing tens of thousands of Manchu and Qing Tatars rushing into battle, these fifteen thousand people were nothing at all. The Japanese horse was a head shorter and not that scary in terms of momentum. The soldiers of the Huben Division
He looked indifferently at the charging Japanese cavalry, still maintaining calmness and discipline.
Li Zhi's 20,000 men were arranged in a circular formation, and a hundred artillery pieces were placed in front of the hollow circular formation. Seeing the shogunate's cavalry getting closer, Li Zhi's artillery immediately aimed cannonballs at these cavalry.
Horse hooves rolled, and the charging Japanese cavalry got closer and closer. At a distance of four hundred steps, three hundred steps, and two hundred steps, the Japanese cavalry entered the range of the cannonballs.
"Boom! Boom!"
"Boom! Boom!"
One hundred 18-pounder cannon sprayed shotgun shells at the Japanese cavalry.
The shotgun pellets hit the cavalry like a storm. The cavalry in the front row seemed to have hit an invisible wall and fell forward. The shotgun pellets were overwhelming, the horses were hit, and the cavalry were also hit.
Bloody arrows spurted out from the cavalry's body. He couldn't control his hands and feet and fell to the ground while screaming.
