Yongren had been busy all day, and he felt that everything had been arranged properly. He only had to wait for all the troops to be in place before the Ming army could enter the encirclement. Yongren was in a good mood. He put aside military matters for the time being and went to the backyard of the palace. He saw the concubines sitting under the cherry blossom tree laughing and laughing, so he couldn't help but walk up. When all the concubines saw Yongren coming, they were all overjoyed and fell down to pay their respects. Yongren sat down and asked with a smile: "What are you talking about?"
All the concubines came to Yongren, and a particularly beautiful concubine said: "We are talking about cherry blossom viewing. Every spring, the cherry blossoms in Kyoto are the most beautiful. I really want to see them! Linger in the cherry blossom trees. Come on, that’s a wonderful thing!”
Yongren smiled and said, "I will accompany you to enjoy the cherry blossoms and drink sake."
All the concubines were overjoyed, but then their joyful expressions dimmed. The particularly beautiful concubine said: "I'm afraid we won't be able to see the cherry blossoms this year! Your Highness wants to stay to deal with the Han people, and we have to stay with you." Your Highness!" The other concubines nodded.
Yongren couldn't help but feel a little moved, and smiled and said: "Don't worry, we will get rid of the Han people soon. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in March, there is enough time!" When the concubines heard this, they were very happy.
Yongren was leaning on the edge of the pond, drinking sake one cup after another. Two concubines were kneeling next to him holding bottles of wine, while several other concubines were dancing unique Japanese dances to the accompaniment of unique Japanese music. Japanese dance uses folding fans and other objects as props. The dance posture is very different from other ethnic groups. It does not have the dynamic and graceful postures of other ethnic dances. The rhythm is very slow, but it is slow but has a strange beauty, which is also particularly attractive. . Yongren drinks while enjoying Aiji's dance. Everyone gets drunk even if they are not drunk.
At this moment, the sound of rapid footsteps suddenly came and came to Yongren's side, saying urgently: "Your Highness!"
Yonghito turned around and opened his sleepy eyes. He saw Ohno Satoshi, a senior samurai who was close to him. He smiled and said, "It's Ohno-kun. Come on, come on, come and drink a glass of sake with me. Although Kumamoto's sake is not as good as Kyoto's sake." So soft and long, but with a spicy taste! I like it very much, just like the blood of our warriors!"
Onochi said hurriedly: "Your Highness, a military report has just been sent that Oya Haikou has been lost!"
As soon as these words came out, the scene immediately fell silent. Although Yongren was stunned, the music and dancing also stopped, and all the concubines showed very frightened expressions. Yongren's expression changed, and he glared and yelled: "This is impossible, absolutely impossible! With the terrain of Daya Haikou and dozens of cannons, how could the Ming army attack in less than ten days and a half! This is absolutely impossible!" Ohno! Chi said anxiously: "This is absolutely true! It was said by the samurai and ashigaru who escaped from Oyakaikou. The troops we sent to support Oyakaikou have also withdrawn. The Ming army captured it in just half a day. Oya Kaiguchi!”
Yongren, who had always been very calm and confident, couldn't help but panic. The Ming Army's offensive far exceeded his imagination. Although he knew that the Ming Army was powerful and had superb tactics, he could never have imagined that the Daya Haikou, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, would be breached in just half a day! ? He couldn't help but wonder if the Ming army was all the demon army of the Eight-pronged Orochi! ? I couldn't help but feel like I was having a nightmare! ? As soon as I thought about this, I couldn't help but reach out and pat my head. I felt sober. However, the scene in front of me didn't change at all. Obviously everything just now was true!
Yongren was not a mediocre person who gave up easily. After a brief period of panic, he calmed down and thought: 'Oya Haikou has been captured, and the original plan can no longer be carried out! However, the overall situation has not changed, and the original plan only needs slight adjustments! After the Ming Dynasty army breaks through Oyahaikou, it will definitely concentrate its efforts to attack Kumamoto. I just took advantage of Kumamoto's solid city wall and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to firmly contain the Ming army here. When the armies from all walks of life gathered together and used the elite to recapture Oyahaikou with lightning speed, we could still form a closed-door fight. situation! '
When Yonghi thought of this, he couldn't help showing a confident smile, and immediately said to Ohno Satoshi: "Ohno-kun, you immediately lead an army of five thousand to the shore to support Taro Tatsumoto. I am allocating fifty cannons to you. You must give them I'll hold on to the shore! As long as you can hold on for more than ten days, our army will have a sure chance of victory!" "Hi!" Ohno Chi promised and prepared to leave.
Yongren suddenly remembered something and shouted quickly; "Wait a minute!" Ohno Satoshi stopped and waited for Yongren's instructions.
Yongren stood up, walked up to Ohno Satoshi, frowned and asked: "How on earth was Daya Haikou captured? I don't believe that the Ming army is really that powerful!"
Ohno Satoshi said: "According to the retreating warriors, it was because the Ming army's artillery had a much farther range than our artillery. They bombed our positions wildly, but we couldn't hit them at all! Several rounds of fierce After the artillery attack, our army suffered heavy casualties, and defensive facilities such as fences and horses were almost completely destroyed. The Ming elite took the opportunity to attack, but although our army tried its best, it was unable to resist it!"
Although Yongren was a little surprised when he heard this situation, he put down his worries. He believed that the Ming army achieved such a victory entirely by relying on sharp artillery fire, and there was nothing particularly remarkable about it. Then he frowned and murmured: "We must find a way to offset the Ming Dynasty's artillery superiority!" Then he thought of the trenches, and immediately ordered his concubine to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and drew on white paper with a brush while explaining to Ono Satoshi. , Ohno Satoshi soon understood. Then Yonghito explained the Ming Dynasty's bunker while drawing it, and Ohno Satoshi quickly figured it out. Yongren explained it carefully again, and handed the schematic diagram depicting trenches and artillery bunkers to Ohno Satoshi. Ohno Satoshi took the diagram with both hands and left in a hurry.
Yongren frowned and murmured: "The Ming Dynasty's artillery is so much stronger than ours! Why can't our craftsmen improve the artillery?!" It turns out that Yongren has been trying to improve the artillery for a long time, and He also put forward many advanced concepts. However, the artillery that the Japanese craftsmen continued to trial-produced continued to have accidents with the barrel exploding during the experiment. Up to now, there have been dozens of major accidents with the chamber exploding, and more than a hundred people have died. Craftsmen, but the improved artillery has never appeared.
In fact, it is not surprising that such a situation occurs. In the Middle Ages more than a thousand years ago, although the Japanese craftsmen developed sophisticated techniques for casting samurai swords by stealing the casting technology of Tang swords, they were unable to do so in other aspects. If compared with the Central Plains region at that time, the Japanese country was at least hundreds of years behind the Song Dynasty. This is why the Song Dynasty was so weak, but the Japanese still yearned for the Central Plains so much.
In the early hours of the morning, an alarm came, saying that the sentry ship had discovered that the Ming Dynasty's huge fleet was heading across the Ariake Sea towards Kumamoto. Yonghito immediately climbed to the highest point of the Kumamoto Palace and looked to the west. Although Kumamoto is not on the seaside, only ten or twenty miles away, the sky is clear at this time. Looking from a high place, you can clearly see the vast sea to the west and the fortifications on the seaside, and the busy samurai and ashigaru , only countless black spots can be seen, and it feels like thousands of ants.
After a while, countless black spots appeared on the sea in the distance. Yongren was shocked and knew that those dense black spots on the sea must be Ming's fleet.
The Ming fleet formed a huge flying geese formation and headed towards the east coast. Urgent sirens sounded on the east coast, Japanese warriors shouted repeatedly, and each team of ashigaru rushed into the position. The atmosphere was very tense.
Taro Tatsumoto climbed to the highest point of the fortifications and looked towards the sea. His eyes showed excitement and he murmured, "Come on! I want you Han people to see the bravery of our Yamato warriors!" He was as excited as he was. There are many others, and a kind of beast-like blood boils in everyone's chest.
The fortifications built by the Japanese on the east coast are very different from the ancient fortifications in the traditional sense. Influenced by Yongren, the Japanese urgently built this fortification within a few days, which is similar to the coastal fortifications in World War I and World War II. Stretching trenches, densely packed enemy horses outside the trenches, Tibetan military posts distributed at regular intervals along the trenches, and artillery bunkers with roofs.
Taro Tatsumoto said to Ohno Satoshi next to him: "Ohno-kun, the enemy will launch an attack soon. Let those farmers and fishermen leave, and don't get in the way here!" In order to build a coastal defense line in a short time, the Japanese temporarily stayed nearby. A large number of Japanese people were forcibly recruited, and most of the work on this fortification was completed by these people. Ohno Satoshi responded and ran down. The Japanese samurai and Ashigaru drove away the Japanese people rudely. There was a commotion on the defensive position, and farmers and fishermen fled the defensive position in panic.
Yang Peng stood on the flagship building, looking at the Japanese positions in the distance. I couldn't help but feel a little surprised to see that the positions built by the Japanese looked like the fortifications from World War I and World War II.
The huge fleet approached and stopped six hundred paces from the shore. The Ming cruisers took two hundred steps forward, then turned sideways and lined up. Various orders continued to be conveyed. Immediately, a huge roar resounded on the sea, and thick smoke was seen. Shells flew towards the Japanese positions on the coast like raindrops, making a sharp whistling sound. There was panic and shouting on the Japanese position, and Japanese samurai and ashigaru hid in trenches and barracks. Almost at the same time, a loud rumbling sound came from the Japanese position, dust and smoke were billowing, and the horse stakes were struck by huge force. It was thrown high into the sky, and the entire Japanese camp seemed to be boiling!
While the Ming Dynasty's artillery fire was wreaking havoc on the opponent, the Ming Dynasty's assault troops were waiting in the ship for the assault order to be issued. A soldier smiled and said to the soldier next to him: "Brother, this kind of war is really boring. The artillery fire has defeated the enemy. We are just going up to clean up the mess!" The soldier next to him smiled and said: "Isn't this good? ? Although we are not afraid of death, wouldn't it be nice to be able to live without death?" The soldier raised his eyebrows and said: "To die in battle and then be buried in the Loyal Soul Hall, to have such an honor, I would rather die in battle!" In addition, A soldier laughed and said: "It's interesting to live and win glory!"
At this moment, the captain came in and said loudly: "Attention everyone, the artillery attack will end soon. Everyone check their armor and weapons! Don't cause trouble for me during the attack, otherwise I will definitely kick him." Your balls!" The soldiers laughed loudly and checked their armor and weapons one after another. The equipment of the Ming Army is completely different from other armies. Almost all soldiers are wearing heavy armor and have more than the same weapons. Like the soldiers on this boat, their main equipment is an iron shield in their left hand and a short spear in their right hand. They are also equipped with daggers and repeating crossbows. , when necessary, they would insert iron shields on the ground to form a barrier, and use repeating crossbows to attack the enemy. Several of these soldiers are also equipped with primitive hand grenades, thunder bombs, which can bombard nearby enemies. In ancient times, there should be no army better equipped than them. It can be said that they are armed to the teeth!
The rumbling cannons overhead gradually calmed down, and then the soldiers in the cabin felt the ship under their feet suddenly move. The sergeants couldn't help but get excited when they knew that the charge was about to start in the boat. Twenty warships carried two thousand commandos, divided into two groups, left and right, and rushed towards the enemy's position. The warships cut through the waves, and their flags flew in the wind.
Ohno Satoshi rushed to the artillery position and shouted: "The enemy is coming, prepare to shoot!" The gunner immediately pushed the artillery out of the bunker and onto the shooting platform. The Japanese artillery was thick and short, and it was impossible to shoot from the bunker. It had to be pushed to a platform with a wide field of vision to effectively shoot on the sea. Artillery pieces came out of the bunkers, and the gunners were busy loading gunpowder pellets, adjusting the firing angle and preparing to shoot.
Suddenly, Ohno Satoshi saw thick smoke billowing on the sea, and then a huge thunder-like noise came like a tsunami. Ohno Satoshi's expression changed, and he hurriedly rolled and crawled towards the artillery bunker. Almost at the same time, countless black projectiles rained down, and the scene was filled with dust and flesh and blood. Immediately afterwards, there was a violent explosion, flames were rolling on the artillery position, and broken limbs were flying all over the sky. There was chaos. Among them, there were heart-rending screams!
It turned out that Yang Peng guessed the enemy's layout as soon as he saw the opponent's fortifications, so he deliberately sent out assault troops to lure the enemy's artillery out of the bunker after preparing the artillery fire. At this moment, the Ming Dynasty cruisers, which were already ready to go, opened fire together, and the dense rain of bullets destroyed the enemy's artillery force almost instantly! However, the artillery fire did not stop there. Round after round of powerful firepower continued to sweep away the enemy positions like a tsunami. It was not until the two thousand assault troops approached the shore that the bombardment stopped.
Just when the Japanese soldiers were dizzy and didn't know where they were, exclamations came one after another: "The enemy is about to land! The enemy is about to land!" The Japanese soldiers poked their heads out of the trenches one after another. , and suddenly saw the Ming warships docking one by one. At this time, there were several loud bangs from the artillery position, and several shells roared towards the Ming Dynasty warships that were landing. Most of them fell into the water and stirred up water columns. One of them actually hit the ship of a warship directly. The whole body was penetrated with a loud bang, but the warship was not greatly affected and continued to sail towards the shore. At this time, the cruisers of the Ming Army no longer fired. This era is different from modern times. It is difficult to accurately strike with artillery fire. The assault force has already approached the enemy. If they fire again at this time, they will definitely injure their own people.
Taro Tatsumoto became very anxious when he saw more and more Ming troops coming ashore, and immediately ordered two mid-level samurai to lead thousands of low-level samurai and ashigaru to fight back. He wanted to drive the enemy troops into the sea in one go before they could gain a firm foothold.
The Japanese war drums sounded loudly, and a crazy shout suddenly came from the Japanese position! Thousands of Japanese warriors and ashigaru were seen rushing from the position.
Upon seeing this, the commander of the Ming Dynasty immediately shouted: "Form a defensive formation!"
More than a hundred Ming soldiers holding shields and short spears immediately rushed forward and stacked their shields layer by layer to form an arc-shaped fish-scale shield defense line. In an instant, the Japanese rushed up like a tide, wielding spears and samurai swords and slashing at the shield wall crazily, making a loud crackling sound, mixed with the crazy shouts of the Japanese!
Suddenly, countless short spears were thrust out from the gaps in the shield, and the Japanese who were close to the shield wall screamed and fell to the ground. The commander of the Ming Dynasty raised his horizontal sword and shouted: "Charge!"
The shield defense line was immediately removed. Hundreds of Yanyun troops standing behind the shield defense line immediately fired with their crossbows. Dense arrows flew in the sky like locusts. The Japanese warriors and Ashigaru screamed and fell to the ground. , their charging momentum has completely collapsed! More than a hundred soldiers armed with iron shields and short spears rushed into the middle of the Japanese. The short spears kept stabbing and the sky was filled with blood rain. The iron shields kept hitting the Japanese and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. The Ming army was like a flock of tigers and chickens, killing the corpses of the Japanese. The blood is flying! The Japanese howled crazily and attacked at the risk of their lives. However, their attacks hit the Ming Dynasty warriors as if they were hitting a boulder. There was a clanging sound and sparks flying, but they could hardly hurt the Ming Dynasty warriors! The battle at the scene was simply a one-sided massacre! The Japanese finally became frightened and turned around and ran backwards. The Ming army took advantage of the situation and attacked the Japanese defensive positions!
When Taro Ryumoto saw the Ming army attacking, he didn't care about his own soldiers and immediately ordered the archers to shoot. The archer immediately fired his arrow, and the arrows flew past and fell into the crowd. The Japanese warriors and Ashigaru who were escaping back suddenly fell on their backs; the Ming sergeant raised his shield, and the arrows fell on the shield or hit the armor, which did not cause much damage to the Ming army at all! This round of bow and arrow shooting by the Japanese only killed a lot of their own people!
Taro Tatsumoto showed a ruthless look and shouted: "Yamato warriors, pig attack!"
Hundreds of Japanese Ashigaru immediately rushed out of the trenches holding gunpowder packets one by one and rushed towards the Ming army, howling crazily.
The Japanese Ashigaru rushed into the middle of the Ming army, and Yanyun's warriors stabbed them with spears and slashed with swords. The Japanese Ashgaru couldn't withstand the blow, and they all screamed and fell in a pool of blood. Suddenly there was a boom, and a ball of fireworks rose up among the crowd. Then there was a boom and explosion, and the fireworks rolled, almost submerging the open space. Only the broken limbs and fragments were seen flying in the sky! The Japanese soldiers on the battlefield shouted excitedly: "Wanzai! Wanzai!..."
The smoke gradually dispersed, and almost half of the hundreds of attacking Japanese Ashigaru were killed. The rest lay in a pool of blood and howled. Those who were lucky enough to survive were also seriously injured. But those Yanyun warriors slowly got up from the ground, and in the end, only a few of them were actually killed! It turns out that these Yanyun warriors not only wore heavy armor, but also held steel shields. The gunpowder bags of this era were by no means as powerful as the gunpowder of the twentieth century. The power of the gunpowder explosion was almost entirely lost to the steel shields and armors. It was blocked, so not many died!
The Japanese couldn't help but panic when they saw that the suicide attack had little effect.
The Ming army reorganized and rushed towards the enemy's position. The enemy hurriedly fired arrows, but as before, it had almost no effect.
Before the Ming army rushed to the trenches, a dozen soldiers threw thunderbolts into the trenches. Immediately, dull explosions sounded one after another, and smoke and dust billowed in the trenches. The Ming army took the opportunity to rush into the trenches and cut down any figures they saw in the thick smoke. The sound of cracking and slashing was heard together with the miserable screams.
When the thick smoke dissipated, a pile of corpses were found inside the battlefield, dripping with blood, all of which were Japanese corpses. The remaining Japanese had already fled to the trenches behind.
Seeing that the attack was going smoothly and overwhelmingly, Yang Peng immediately ordered five thousand soldiers to attack head-on. Fifty warships carrying five thousand soldiers of the Ming Dynasty cut through the waves and rushed towards the front position of the Japanese. At this time, the Japanese had been beaten to a pulp by the Ming Dynasty's first wave of attacking troops, and they could not care about anything else.
Yongren stood at the highest point of the palace and saw the unfavorable battle situation ahead. He couldn't help but feel flustered and his face was uncertain. He was amazed by the tactics of the Ming Dynasty, and the powerful combat power of the Ming Dynasty army not only amazed him, but also felt very scared and puzzled.
Five thousand Ming troops attacked the Japanese position from the front. The Japanese could no longer resist, but at this time they were attacked head-on by five thousand Ming troops, and the entire position was immediately on the verge of collapse.
A group of Japanese could not withstand the fierce attack of the Ming army and retreated to a Tibetan military station. A low-level samurai shouted loudly: "Get ready! Fight to the bitter end with the Han people!" All the ashigaru shouted in unison, regaining their fighting spirit.
Suddenly, several round spheres were thrown in from the door. The expressions of all the Japanese people changed greatly and they screamed in surprise. At this moment, there were several muffled booms, smoke and dust billowed in the Tibetan military base, and screams were heard. At this moment, several Ming Dynasty warriors rushed in and returned to kill fiercely. The low-level samurai and several ashigaru escaped from the other side while crawling.
The Ming army's offensive was wave after wave, extremely swift and fierce. The Japanese felt as if they were facing the most terrifying tsunami, and their fighting spirit quickly collapsed. In the end, the Japanese samurai and Ashigaru fled their positions and ran towards Kumamoto Chen.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
