Chapter 590 [Battle of Tarma, Assault in a Distressed City] Two
Mu Linfeng finally gave up the idea of going south, and did not decide to go to the north to join Tokugawa Iemitsu. Instead, he decided to stay in Tajima, sweep away the Westerners here, and open up the barriers between north and south. At that time, Tokugawa Iemitsu could
Then he led his army southward, joined up with Mu Linfeng, captured the southern cities in one fell swoop, and unified Japan.
Mu Linfeng told Tokugawa Iehui about this plan. Although Tokugawa Iehui was anxious to go back to see his relatives, after hearing Mu Linfeng's plan, he also felt that Mu Linfeng's plan was the best one at present.
Besides, even after Mu Linfeng went to the north, he still had to go south. Even if he definitely had to go south, he was already here, so why would he waste the energy to go north?
Mu Linfeng asked all the soldiers to rest in Tajima City, and then asked Tanma to disguise himself as Japanese and go to the mountainous area east of Tajima City to find out news.
Tan Ma did not return until night to report to Mu Linfeng, but there was a foreign military camp in the mountainous area east of Ma City. The number of people may be about 5,000, and they were all equipped with firearms.
After Mu Linfeng took out Tajima's map and asked Tanma to point out the location of the Western military camp, he immediately mobilized five thousand men and horses, brought along two hundred artillery pieces, and headed for the mountains in the middle of the night.
Tokugawa Iie was worried, Mu Linfeng went alone, and insisted on following him no matter what, Mu Linfeng had no choice but to let Tokugawa Iie go with him.paóshu⒏Сom
The entire country of Japan is mountainous, and the mountain roads at night are very difficult to walk. Moreover, Mu Linfeng did not allow the soldiers to light a torch, and relied entirely on the moonlight to illuminate their way forward, for fear of disturbing the situation.
According to the position marked on the map, Mu Linfeng roughly calculated the range of the artillery in his mind. After feeling that the Western military camp was already within range, he stopped the troops.
Mu Linfeng asked all the artillerymen to prepare and lined up all the artillery. After the shells were ready, they waited for the order and then asked the five thousand musketeers to move forward, divided into two teams, and marched to both sides of the Western Military Camp.
After the musketeers on both sides were lurking in secret, Mu Linfeng ordered the pistolmen on both sides to shoot whenever they saw someone coming out of the enemy camp after the cannon was fired. No Western soldier could be allowed to escape.
After giving instructions to the musketeers, Mu Linfeng returned to the artillery crew, looked up at the full moon in the sky, and then gave an order to fire two hundred artillery pieces at the Western military camp at the same time.
In the middle of the night, the entire mountainous area was immersed in silence. At this time, after the rumble of cannons, birds in the entire mountainous area flew out at the same time, and the entire mountainous area shook like an earthquake.
The Western military camp was suddenly bombarded with artillery fire, and the tents were already on fire. All the Western soldiers ran out of the tents. Some of them had not even put on their clothes, and their bodies were immediately blown up by the shells.
The entire Western military camp was ablaze, and the Western sergeants were in a panic. Some fled in all directions, while others were looking for the launching point of the cannonballs. Some fired indiscriminately after leaving the tent...
The musketeers who were ambushing on both sides of the military camp were impatient for a long time. When they finally saw the Western soldiers in the military camp starting to flee to both sides, they immediately started firing at them.
The artillery shells had no intention of stopping. Mu Linfeng made a preliminary calculation and estimated that each artillery piece had fired at least hundreds of artillery shells. Then he asked the artillery crew to stop and stand by, and then went to the ambush of the musketeers with Tokugawa Ie.
At this time, Western soldiers were rushing out of the military camp in large numbers, but under the firepower of Mu Linfeng's subordinates, there was no possibility of breaking out.
The gunfire continued for about an hour. Looking at the Western barracks, no one came out anymore. Mu Linfeng immediately ordered all the musketeers to rush out and rush into the enemy barracks.
There were basically no survivors in the military camp. Occasionally, when one or two were encountered who were half-dead, they were immediately shot twice by Mu Linfeng's musketeers and killed immediately.
The entire mountainous area instantly returned to its previous silence. Only the burning tents in the Western military camp occasionally made the sound of collapse. The air was filled with the smell of fire and the stench of burned corpses.
Taking over the Western military camp was as easy as Mu Linfeng thought in advance. The number of casualties among his own troops was zero. This was the first time since Mu Linfeng's uprising.
Only then did Mu Linfeng see a flagpole erected in the military camp, with a blue and white tricolor flag flying on the flagpole, and then he realized that this Western army belonged to France.
Mu Linfeng did not stop, and asked the soldiers to collect the battlefield as quickly as possible, mainly taking the firearms from Western military history. Mu Linfeng thought about taking them back to Wu Xing for detailed examination to see the origin of these firearms.
Ever since Mu Linfeng went to sea, he had always been victorious in this battle until tonight. The morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow. If it hadn't been that it was getting late and the mountain road was difficult to travel, Mu Linfeng would have wanted to kill Harima immediately.
After taking over the battlefield, Mu Linfeng led his army back to Tajima City immediately, preparing to rest for a night before going to Harima.
Mu Linfeng did not dare to neglect this night, and still asked the harvest soldiers to be more vigilant and not to be dazzled by the victory, and then went to rest with Tokugawa Ie.
At night, Mu Linfeng held Tokugawa Ie in her arms, but her mind was completely focused on the war in the future. In addition, she knew that the war would continue from tomorrow on, so she didn't have anything to do with Tokugawa Ie. She just lingered for a while and then fell asleep.
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Mu Linfeng was sleeping when he was suddenly awakened by a loud noise. He sat up and found nothing unusual for a long time. He thought he heard wrongly, but Tokugawa Ie also woke up. After asking, he found out that he had also been given this opportunity.
The sound woke me up.
At this moment, there was another loud noise, and Mu Linfeng was shocked. He immediately jumped up, put on his clothes and rushed out of the room. Only then did he see that two private houses in the distance were already on fire.
Then there was another "boom", and the cannonball exploded not far from Mu Linfeng, and flames suddenly flew everywhere.
Mu Linfeng knew that the enemy must have come to attack, so a soldier hurriedly ran over and said to Mu Linfeng: "Your Majesty, it's not good, but Ma City is surrounded on all sides!"
Mu Linfeng's heart trembled when he heard this. Without saying a word, he immediately went up to the city tower. He saw bright lights outside the city and enemies everywhere.
Tokugawa Ie said at this time: "Husband, it seems that this is a premeditated plan by the enemy to trap us in Tajima Castle. The military camp in the mountainous area is just a bait to make us think that Tajima Castle is
All the enemy troops have been eliminated, relax your vigilance!"
Mu Linfeng nodded when he heard this and said: "Not bad!" But he asked in his heart, where is such a group of troops hidden?
Thinking of this, Mu Linfeng suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and said: "This is just as Tokugawa Ie said, I should have discovered it when we entered Tajima City. Since the Western army has retreated to the mountainous area, how could their whereabouts be easily exposed?
, they exposed it to me on purpose."
Mu Linfeng was just thinking when he suddenly heard "Boom, boom, boom..." Loud noises continued, but the city was already in flames, and many buildings had been hit by bullets and collapsed.
Mu Linfeng immediately asked all the artillery on the tower to start firing back, and at the same time asked other artillery to push them up the tower, using all the walking artillery as tower artillery.