The shells fell like dense hail into the trench where the two hundred iron gunners were, exploding into dazzling sparks.
The dense flames dazzled Lei San's eyes.
The sound of the explosive bomb explosion was deafening, followed by the screams of the injured soldiers. Unknown how many shogunate soldiers were killed and injured by the violent explosion. Lei San even saw a person being blown up by the shock wave and flying to the back of the trench.
on the soil layer.
With quick eyesight and quick hands, Songping Zeye hid in the hole he had dug as quickly as possible, avoiding the shock wave and flying steel slag.
But when the blast of the explosion passed, he looked up and found that the damage caused by the bombing was too terrible to accept.
In the blink of an eye, Matsudaira Zeye's seven Ashigaru teams lost 70-80% of their manpower.
At least two hundred people were injured and 150 were killed. There were wounded soldiers rolling on the ground and corpses that were mangled with blood everywhere. Broken limbs and minced meat were everywhere, soaked in the blood flowing from the wounds.
The earthen walls of the trench were scorched black, and groans and howls were like background music, filling every corner of the trench.
The entire trench looked like a position for more than 200 soldiers. It was simply a hell on earth after a massacre.
The iron gunners who were lucky enough not to be bombed were also covered in blood, probably from the casualties of the soldiers. They had no fighting spirit to continue fighting, their faces were pale and they were so frightened that they could not stand upright. The weapons were thrown away.
On the ground, the broken soldiers fled to other trenches behind the first line of trenches on their hands and knees.
Songping Zeye stood there for a moment, shocked by the hell-like scene around him, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should stop the defeated troops.
However, Matsudaira Zeye was still in a daze when a second round of mortar shells was fired.
More than 200 shells fell from the sky again.
Matsudaira Zeye hid in the cave at his feet, but still did not escape. A cannonball landed firmly on Matsudaira Zeye's thigh and broke his leg bone. Matsudaira Zeye shouted loudly.
He screamed, but his voice was masked by the huge explosion of the exploding bomb.
The bomb exploded next to Songping Zeye's thigh, and Songping Zeye's lower body was blown up in an instant. Songping Zeye's "contemporary possessions" could not defend himself against the steel slag that shot out from the nearest place, and his body did not know how to be hit.
How much steel slag penetrates.
The pain caused Matsudaira Zeye to lose consciousness in an instant. He could no longer scream. He only groaned a few times and died in the hole dug by his own hands.
In the blink of an eye, there were no enemies in the trench in front of Lei San.
The battles in other places were basically similar. Not only Lei San's company defeated the enemy, but other elite companies also relied on breech-loading guns and fire support to defeat the shogunate army who tried to stop them.
The shogunate army suddenly suffered more than 10,000 casualties.
In fact, the 110,000-strong shogunate army had already killed more than 20,000 people, and they could no longer bear such casualties.
The trenches leading from the front line trenches to the rear were crowded with defeated soldiers. These defeated soldiers had been beaten crazy by breech-loading guns and mortars. They had lost their minds and just ran to the rear desperately.
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Even the warriors holding the formation slashed at the deserters with sharp samurai swords, but they could not stop the fleeing soldiers. The deserters rushed up and struggled with the warriors guarding the formation, while other deserters continued to flee from these warriors.
Panic spread among the shogunate's trenches.
The battle is lost!
Soon, however, a worse situation emerged.
The elite Tigers and Ben troops holding breech-loading rifles broke into the first line of trenches where only wounded soldiers and corpses were left. These elites held rifles and guarded the passage to the rear trenches, completely controlling the first line of trenches.
Even the Huben Army's mortar batteries began to move toward the newly occupied trenches.
The massacre is about to take place in the second and third line trenches.
Seeing this scene, even the soldiers of the Tokugawa family who had not participated in the battle had no fighting spirit to continue fighting. If they could not defeat the Tiger and Ben army, they would be destroyed, but if they continued to fight, they would be slaughtered. For ordinary soldiers, annihilation
After the country is over, you can still hide in the mountains and become a farmer, but you will lose your dignity. If you die, you will have nothing.
With a bang, the more than 90,000 soldiers who were still alive broke into a rout, threw away their weapons and fled towards the wilderness to the east.
When the samurai wearing samurai uniforms saw the team collapse, they drew their samurai swords and slashed at the fleeing soldiers crazily. But with the battle going like this, how could a few samurai stop the collapsing army? In the end, the samurai realized that the situation was over, and they were defeated by the defeated soldiers.
He was bundled up and fled to the east.
Of course, the 70,000 Tigers and Ben troops would not easily let go of these defeated troops, and chased after them one by one with their rifles raised.
Zhong Feng laughed heartily as he watched the Tokugawa soldiers running wildly.
Zheng Kaicheng said: "In this way, the main force of the Tokugawa family will be killed and injured. As long as we capture Edo, Japan will be destroyed."
Zhong Feng thought for a while and said nothing.
Zheng Kaicheng's younger brother Zheng Kaida said: "I am afraid that the warriors will not accept the fact that the country will be destroyed and will go into the mountains to become thieves and fight guerrillas!"
Zheng Kaicheng took a breath when he heard this.
Zhong Feng laughed loudly and said: "I'm afraid that the Japanese samurai will not resist and surrender. If they resist stubbornly, we will have a reason to kill them all."
Zheng Kaida has been in Japan for nearly ten years, but he is not as cold and bloodthirsty as Zhong Feng. He was stunned and said: "Japanese samurai are also human beings. Why bother to kill them all..."
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In the castle tower of Edo Castle, Tokugawa Iemitsu, dressed in white, knelt on the smooth floor of the meeting hall, with a rib for disembowelment in front of him.
Next to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the swordsman of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yagyu Sangan, stood holding a katana in his hand.
Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at Ribasa in front of him and said slowly: "A lifetime of glory is like a dream. Life, death and glory are the paths of the world. However, the shogunate was destroyed by my hands. How can I, with my ominous body, meet Izumoshita's grandfather?"
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After singing his death words, Tokugawa Iemitsu wrapped the Ribashi with Yamato paper. With a strong force, he inserted the Ribzai into his stomach.
Enduring the severe pain, Tokugawa Iemitsu closed his eyes, pulled the knife sharply to the right, and cut open his stomach.
Blood gushes out like water from a spring.
There were huge beads of sweat on Tokugawa's bald head, and he was obviously in extreme pain.
He turned the edge of the knife and cut upwards from the bottom of the wound, finally cutting a cross on his stomach.
After finishing the stab, Tokugawa Iemitsu could no longer control himself, his eyes widened. He shook his hand and dropped the bloody ribs on the floor.
Yagyu Sangan did not let General Tokugawa let out an degrading scream. He slashed hard and cut off the shogun's head with a knife, ending his painful life.
Blood spurted out from the broken neck. The head fell down and fell into the arms of the corpse.
Tokugawa Iemitsu suddenly burst into tears. He ran to the platform outside the castle tower and shouted loudly to the samurai warriors standing below: "Dead! His Highness committed suicide by caesarean section!"
"The Tokugawa Shogunate is destroyed!"
The young man lay on the railing and shouted hysterically: "The shogunate is destroyed, Japan is destroyed! There will be no more Japan!"
Below the castle tower, the eyes of the warriors all turned red.
Gradually, all the warriors knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
Someone suddenly shouted loudly: "Japan has not been destroyed! Enter the mountains, we enter the mountains and hold on, we fight to the last person and the last sword!"
