After more than twenty minutes, Deng Fei reported new data after some calculations.
"This time we are going to shoot at the castle guard in the city. Two quick shots." Deng Fei added after reporting the data.
The recruits on the deck saw the cannon's muzzle begin to rotate and knew that it was about to fire again, so they quickly hid behind the sandbags and covered their ears tightly.
Torayoshi and Heita checked the soldiers one by one, and slapped anyone who reached out and said, "Do you want to die?! Squat down and open your mouth wide!"
After the two artillery pieces were adjusted, Zhao Xin gestured to Pingtai and Huji, telling everyone to prepare.
"Load!" When the sailors loaded the shells and cartridges, Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng, who were responsible for the inspection, kept watching their operations. They nodded in approval when they saw that the scale on the bullet feeding rod inserted into the gun barrel met the requirements.
"shooting!"
At this time, after being hit by the first two shells, the Ninomaru area of Matsumae Castle was filled with howls of ghosts and wolves.
Outside the meeting hall, a large crater blasted by the first shell was still smoking. The Ninomaru courtyard, which was originally covered with white sand and decorated with standing stones, was filled with blown bricks, rubble, and corpses of flesh and blood.
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"Help! Someone is coming..."
In the collapsed double oar, an injured warrior was pressed under the masonry and wooden beams, screaming for help.
Several senior family ministers who had been hit by shrapnel fell on the steps of the meeting hall, screaming in agony, while Michihiro Matsumae was trembling in a corner of the house, protected by several guards.
The few retainers who were lucky enough to be uninjured staggered and shouted to several of Michhiro's guards: "Take the master of the house to the Honmaru Castle and take shelter!" After that, they retreated to Honmaru's castle tower with Michihiro Matsumae in their arms.
In the main building, Dohiro's side room and the maids were frightened by the huge explosion and fled in all directions. Some women who were frightened and fainted ran out of the house, ran back into the house, and ran out again, completely confused and messing around.
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At this time, someone heard attendants yelling "get out of the way" outside the courtyard, so they ran out and saw Michihiro Matsumae and several retainers who were surrounded by his men and fled to the castle. These women did not care about the jewelry and property in the house.
, and quickly followed him into the castle tower.
In the castle town, the townspeople walking on the street were stunned by the explosion sound coming from the city and the subsequent black smoke column. The sudden change made the people in the market at a loss, not knowing what to do.
The two teams of "town fire fighters" began to gather at the intersection under the leadership of the team leader. However, they could not enter the feudal city, so they could only stand and wait under the city. If the fire on the city burned through the moat, they would start demolishing it.
A firebreak has been built in the house.
On the dozens of large ships in the port, the busy shipowners and sailors were startled by the explosion in the city, and the two smoke pillars that followed made them all stunned.
"Boom~Boom~" Two more low thunders came from the distant sea, but then they disappeared into the sound of waves and the noise on the shore. However, when the sharp and piercing whistling sound passed through the sky
, the sound becomes louder and louder.
A sailor pointed to a black spot on the sea in the distance and shouted to his companions: "That's where the sound is coming from!"
A town dweller who had been standing there for a long time looked up at the blue sky and suddenly shouted: "Here we go again! Everyone, run for your lives!"
"Boom!" A shell fell in the main pill, and a dozen people who were looking under the eaves of the main pill were immediately blown away by the shock wave of the explosion.
Immediately afterwards, a second explosion was heard from the Honmaru again, and the fireball and smoke column that immediately rose up shocked the hearts of the townspeople who were familiar with the architecture in the castle. "Could it be the castle tower?!"
In the longhouse area on the east side of the castle town, residents who were confused about the situation ran towards the hill on the east side. From the temple wall there, one could see the Honmaru in the distance.
Hundreds of people were running up the mountain when another sharp roar stopped their steps, followed immediately by two huge explosions.
The first few townspeople who came to the temple came to the west side of the courtyard wall. They leaned on the wall and looked towards the west side of the feudal city. They saw that the originally heavy and beautiful gate had been blown away, and a section of the originally white courtyard wall had disappeared.
It also collapsed into a pile of rubble; under the two-fold oar of Sannomaru, a large field of camellias was burning; as for the castle tower of Honmaru, it had disappeared from sight and was replaced by a group of fire that was emitting black smoke.
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"Oh my God! Is this being bombarded?" A clerk from a store muttered while lying on the wall of the temple.
"Nonsense! The Dutch cannons are not that powerful. This is a meteorite falling from the sky!"
"I don't see it." The store clerk looked at the fire rising in the main pill and argued without looking back: "I have never heard of meteorites falling in two pieces at the same time. Have any of you seen it?"
Just as a few people were about to discuss the matter, a town citizen behind him ran over panting and shouted: "Some people say that the whistling sound came from the sea."
Hearing what he said, hundreds of people turned their heads to look in the direction of the port. But at this time, fog began to form on the sea. The fog gradually thickened, and soon covered the sea in the distance, and then spread towards the shore.
, even the ships in the port became shadowy.
After waiting for more than half an hour, the terrifying whistling sound never sounded again. So, led by a few brave warriors, a group of people went around to the northeast of Matsumae Castle and entered the city from the side gate to investigate.
In the hazy mist, the bloody and broken walls everywhere made the torch-carrying samurai scared speechless. When they rushed into Sannomaru, they finally saw the collapsed castle tower and several dead bodies.
With the corpses under the bricks and stones, these warriors could not help but kneeling on the ground with their legs limp and crying loudly.
At night, news came from the feudal city.
Michihiro Matsumae, the 30-year-old eighth-generation lord of the Matsumae Domain, was trapped in the collapsed castle tower along with his two side chamberlains and three important ministers. There was no possibility of survival.
Five of the important ministers of the Matsumae Domain who had been meeting with him in the Ninomaru Council Hall were killed and two seriously injured. Except for the two dozen samurai who were responsible for guarding the Goyama Shrine and escaped with their lives, all the samurai on duty in the city were lost.
Three days later, the workers responsible for cleaning up the ruins found hundreds of metal fragments of various sizes from various parts of the city. Until this time, the Matsumae clan thought it was a meteorite falling.
By the time they learned the truth of the matter, it was already a year later.