Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

Seeing the chaos on top of the city, five hundred gunmen from the Shuntian Battalion of the Keelung Army who were responsible for supervising the battle immediately rushed to the city and selected a broken wall that had just been broken open by mortar shells.

"Ba! Ba! Ba!"

Indiscriminately, a volley of fire cannons was fired into the wall.

Dense lead projectiles, propelled by gunpowder, flew into the city at a speed of 200 yards per second, causing scattered bricks and sparks to fly from the broken walls.

After five or six hundred projectiles were fired, the repair project that had dozens of people stationed just now disappeared immediately, and the corpses lying everywhere showed the intensity of the firepower.

"Vanguard! Charge!"

"kill!"

The three hundred vanguards were recruited from daimyo territories across Kitakyushu, including samurai, town samurai, and hatamoto samurai. They were waving swords and spears in their hands, and each of them was madly moving towards the enemy, who were hit by artillery fire and were hit by thousands of people. The scarred Toyooka Castle pounced.

At this time, Toyooka Castle was like a young woman who had taken off her clothes. She had no ability to resist at all and could only allow them to invade in every possible way.

"Come on! Capture the city, everything is ready!"

Following the Hatamoto samurai were more than a thousand Ashigaru. They had no weapons in their hands and only carried a huge straw bag on their backs.

They have to overcome Fukuoka Castle's last line of defense - the moat - for the Hatamoto samurai in front of them.

Although the ashigaru are the most ineffective unit on the battlefield and no daimyo would choose to train them, the ashigaru's cannon fodder and regeneration abilities are obvious to all.

When all the ashigaru blocked a small section of the moat in front of Fukuoka Castle, three hundred banner warriors immediately crossed over and charged into the city.

Under the crazy attack of the vanguard, Keelung's military flag and the Saga family's crest soon appeared on the city.

If you shoot a man, shoot the horse first; if you capture a city, put up a flag first!

The Tokugawa troops at the top of the city faced the vanguard's frantic charge. The defenders, who had already suffered heavy losses, could hardly form effective resistance. They were beheaded by tachi in threes, threes and fives, and they scattered like straw in autumn. The blood flowed down the steps of the city wall, soaking the city walls and moat red.

Facing the vanguard's crazy killing spree, the Tokugawa army's Hatamoto samurai became furious.

The few hundred warriors in the city shouted loudly and rushed to the top of the city: "Today is the day I wait to die! Kill!"

Wearing black armor and holding sophisticated swords, the encounter between samurai was a tit-for-tat confrontation. The two sides were entangled with each other. However, as time went by, the Tokugawa samurai gradually fell into a disadvantage.

On the one hand, there were too few of them, and on the other hand, it was because of the explosive bombs just now. Although they were hiding behind the formation, they still inhaled a lot of gas, and their eyes were distracted.

He could withstand it for a while with his warm blood, but unfortunately it couldn't last long.

After burning the incense, Takashi Asai laughed wildly and mentioned a Tokugawa samurai, and then cut off his head with a tachi. It seemed that he enjoyed this process very much, so the whole process was presented in front of two parties.

madman!

This is what the Saga samurai said about him.

This general who was driven out of the state has completely turned into an emotionless murderous demon. Any Tokugawa samurai who dares to appear in front of him will be killed by him.

Of course, this has to be attributed to his superb martial arts!

"Run away!" The desperate Tokugawa samurai could not overcome the fear in their hearts. They abandoned their troops and armor and retreated one after another.

"Don't retreat! Don't retreat! If anyone retreats, I will kill his whole family!"

Fukuoka coach Tomoko Yamashita led her team to the city wall at the last moment, stepping on corpses.

"Do you want to throw away the glory of the samurai?!" The samurai and generals beside Tomoko Yamashita shouted.

Following this shouting, the Tokugawa family's flag was planted on the top of Fukuoka City by Tomoko Yamashita.

"kill!"

Under the dual encouragement of the Tokugawa flag and the rescue force, the fighting soldiers around them regained their confidence, picked up the weapons on the ground again, and began to fight.

Yamashita Tomoko's aide-general, who was also his two younger brothers, as shoguns and lords of the Shikoku lords, Yamashita Takatake and Yamashita Sangoi, were like two ferocious wolves, leading the vassal soldiers to rush forward and fight to the death. Bite the Saga Vanguard in front of you.

After a quick fight, a barrier was created between the soldiers at the foot of the mountain and the vanguard.

At this time, the vanguard was already exhausted, and it was already impossible for the remaining 200 people to rush and kill the vassal soldiers on the opposite side who were several times their size and better equipped.

"Go back if you're afraid of death?!" Takashi Asai took a mouthful of blood from his sword and rushed towards Tomoko Yamashita.

"Don't be afraid!"

The Hatamoto samurai followed up one after another, guarding Asai Takashi, and used the tachi in their hands to tear open gaps one after another.

The so-called vanguard is the death squad, and they knew it long before they came.

Birds die for food, and people die for wealth. Thinking about the benefits that can be obtained after death, fighting spirit suddenly broke out. Someone in the team shouted loudly, "Let me die here today! Kill!"

The vanguard, who wanted to die for the one hundred stone white rice and thirty taels of silver dollar pension, unleashed a fighting power that was far beyond what these feudal soldiers could match.

In fact, neither party is afraid of death, and both believe that death is a destination.

However, compared with the Yamashita soldiers who are not afraid of death but do not want to die, the Hatamoto samurai in the vanguard only wants to die!

Only by dying can their families live a better life. This is the baptism of Saga Asaichi's thoughts on them.

As long as he wins, Saga is doing the right thing. If he loses, everything is in vain.

In history, few winners have reversed the verdict for the losers, saying that they gained the world through conspiracy.

For the winners, we often praise and praise, but for the losers, we feel pity and endless ridicule.

Winners and losers often change, but this law is eternal.

Facing the spears that were stabbing like a forest, several Saga warriors even dropped their swords, bared their chests, and rushed forward, letting the sharp spears pierce their bodies, while hugging the sword tightly. Several spears were not allowed to be pulled out by the soldiers at the foot of the mountain, and blood spurted out along the spears.

^.^，

Several soldiers at the foot of the mountain were frightened by this crazy move and were at a loss. Just as they were holding their spears in surprise, someone from the vanguard suddenly jumped out and cut off the arms of these soldiers with a knife.

In the blink of an eye, the soldiers who were still killing people suddenly turned into a man holding a severed hand and howling and moaning.

"Let us die here!" The Saga warriors' offensive continued.

People kept shouting slogans and rushing into the ranks of the soldiers. The swords in their hands were like holy weapons. They slashed fiercely, making it difficult for the enemy to accept it, or they let the opponent's spear pierce their own bodies in order to make sacrifices.

The two generals, Yamashita Takatake and Yamashita Sango, were dumbfounded. They could not have imagined that a small Kyushu Saga family could cultivate such a fierce and fearless Hatamoto samurai.

Respectable, hateful!

Even so, the two of them were confident enough to eliminate all these Hatamoto samurai on the city walls of Fukuoka.

Unlike her two younger brothers who were full of confidence, Tomoko Yamashita fell into endless grief as she watched the fight in front of her.

Shouldn't I be here?

Can Tokugawa Daiden's rescue come to the rescue?

Can I hold Fukuoka Castle?

In fact, no one needs to say it. Yamashita Tomoko knows the answer is no.

In fact, before the enemy's artillery attack, he and his two brothers were still talking and laughing. Fukuoka City had nearly 10,000 defenders.

If the previous ratio of attacking three to defending one was used, the enemy would need at least thirty thousand dead soldiers to conquer it.

Although they don't know Keelung's strength, 30,000 people are definitely not something they can accept. Tomoko Yamashita, who has experienced many battles, still has this in mind.

"Gaowu, Sanfengxing!" Tomoko Yamashita called back his two younger brothers who were killing the enemy in front of the formation.

After calling them forward, Yamashita Gaowu, whose face was stained with blood, seemed a little dissatisfied with him.

Before he could complain, Tomoko Yamashita issued a military order to them as a general: "You take a team to protect Matsudaira Nobutsuna back to Edo and tell the general about Keelung's combat power."

Yamashita Takatake obviously didn't understand the situation and wanted to refute, but Yamashita Sanbo saw the decline in Yamashita Tomoko's eyes.

The matter has come to this, what can we do!

"It is impossible for the enemy to block the entire sea. You may retreat and leave some seeds for the Yamashita family." Yamashita Tomoko's idea is actually very simple, she just wants to leave some useful talents for the family.

Although his two younger brothers are not good at commanding generals, their tempers are much better than mine, especially Yamashita Sangoyo, who is still very much appreciated by Tokugawa Daiden.

It seems that only when people are dying can they figure everything out and face it calmly.

Yamashita Tomoko's era of commanding troops should be over, but before it ends, he still needs to learn the combat power of the Keelung Army for Tokugawa Main Hall.

"Commander! Go and report to the general, saying that our army has achieved initial combat strength and is requesting support. Please bring the navy's artillery over!"

Seeing Takashi Asai being dragged down from the city by the Tokugawa army, Saga Fengtada knew that the Hatamoto samurai on top of the city were in danger and it was time to ask for help.

The message asking for help was sent to Qin Hao, and soon to the navy warship.

Riding on the air attack of the Keelung navy transporting artillery, several small boats on the sea rowed quickly and headed towards the ship. The lookouts who were attracted by the battle of Fukuoka Castle did not notice these small boats.

At the same time, Tomoko Yamashita at the top of Fukuoka Castle also took advantage of this gap to begin to gather his soldiers and arrange a war.

He hasn't given up yet yet. With the thought of biting off a piece of Keelung Army's flesh even if he died, he quickly gathered 800 soldiers of various types who could fight, and even the soldiers who made fires for cooking were attracted by him. At the top of the city, make the final desperate call.

Looking at the fearful soldiers, Tomoko Yamashita didn't know what words to use to inspire courage.

It can be said that this is a decisive battle to the death.

However, those wounded soldiers lying behind the formation might be able to escape. The poisonous mist of the explosive shells was a weapon Tomoko Yamashita had never seen before. This alone allowed him to reduce his number by nearly 5,000 people. Visible power.

"Come with me and charge!" Tomoko Yamashita took out the sword given to her by Tokugawa Ieyasu from her waist, and led a group of soldiers to charge towards the artillery array that was gathering outside the city.

At this time, they were deeply impressed by the power of Keelung's big barrels. They knew that once these big guys were loaded, there would be no room for everyone to survive on the city!

"Protect the artillery! Protect the artillery!"

Many of the soldiers at Yamashita were good at bows. They stood on the top of the city, stringing their bows and stringing them, and kept releasing them to cover Yamashita Tomoko. From time to time, Keelung Army artillerymen were shot by those iron bows.

Compared with ordinary bamboo bows, these iron-tied bows with a compound structure have a longer range, and the soldiers at the foot of the mountain occupy the high ground, which greatly helps the arrow's range.

"Firegunner! Fire on the city!"

Facing the intrusion of bows and arrows, a cold voice in the team gave an order, and immediately more than a hundred gunmen jumped out, guarding the front line of the artillery team, and fired fiercely at the city head.

Dozens of soldiers at the foot of the mountain were hit by the dense rain of bullets, and went to see God without even a groan.

Most of them were beaten and flew out, turning into a pile of rotten flesh and blood.

All that's left to deal with is the upcoming Tomoko Yamashita.

This is an easy solution for the Keelung army with fire guns.

Tomoko Yamashita led his army to shout loudly and rushed straight to Keelung's military formation.

As a result, the deafening sound of firecrackers sounded again in front of the city wall, interspersed with the sound of gold and iron clashing, the muffled sound of weapons piercing, and the screams of soldiers dying before they died.

After just a few minutes, the smoke dissipated, and except for the Kirung soldiers, there was no longer a living creature standing in front of Fukuoka City.

The fire rifle soldiers in the front row had more or less stab wounds on their bodies. This was the enemy's last effort.

After a round of lead bullets, the gunmen consciously loaded the bayonets on their waists. They were infected by the spirit of the warriors in front of them. Even if they were enemies, they had to fight in an upright manner.

^.^，

Although such behavior is strictly prohibited in the military, everyone was in tacit understanding at that moment.

After rigorous and brutal training, they are confident and proud that they will not lose to any team.

.........

"Those who kneel down and abandon their weapons and surrender to our Keelung army will avoid death!"

When the five hundred gunmen who rushed into the city shouted slogans of surrender, they saw Tokugawa sick patients all over the place. Most of them were injured by explosive shells, and a few were injured by mortar shell fragments.

He casually threw away the captured property to the Saga soldiers and ordered them to gather the prisoners in the city and escort them out of the city to the custody of the Keelung Army's horse team.

According to the rules, all seriously injured people except the Keelung Army were sent away directly. This is the cruelty of war. Without a surgeon, it is difficult to treat such seriously injured people. Even if they are cured, they are still disabled. As an enemy, Qin Hao cannot use them at all. .

Although it is ruthless, this is reality, and reality is often cruel.

"Main Hall, there is a big harvest!"

Qin Hao jumped into the gate of Fukuoka City, and a burst of cheers came from the corner outside the city. A man covered in blood was escorted out by Saga Chaoichi and deported in front of him.

"Master Hall, this is Yamashita Tomoko, a general of the Tokugawa family." Saga Chaoichi was extremely excited now, "Master Hall, please make your decision!"

"Are you Qin Hao, the general of the Keelung Army?!"

Yamashita Tomoko raised her thin face and glanced at Qin Hao. She was very surprised by his youth, just as surprised that he was not killed by a fire gun.

"Hahahaha, I lost today, not to your army, but to your big barrel! If it weren't for your big barrel, this place would have been filled with corpses! You would have been killed by me too!" Tomoko Yamashita is still very unrestrained when the time comes, no wonder Tokugawa Iemitsu doesn't like him.

"Are you done?" Qin Hao's voice suddenly turned cold.

"Saga-sama, send him to meet his God!"

A samurai wielded a long sword in his hand, chopped off Yamashita Tomoko's head, and raised it high with a spear. Dozens of seriously injured Tokugawa Ashigaru were also beheaded.

In Fukuoka City, as Tomoko Yamashita's head fell to the ground, thousands of Tokugawa soldiers became prisoners of the Keelung Army.

The Shimabara Peninsula also fell into the hands of the Keelung Army.

The war in Kitakyushu has come to an end.