Although Tsurumaru Castle is not big, it is located in the center of the city. The Tianshou Pavilion still looks very tall and magnificent. It is divided into seven floors. Except for the bottom floor, which is a warehouse, the second floor is full of living rooms. Standing in Atu On the other side of the river, the second floor below the Tianshou Pavilion cannot be seen, but from the third floor, they are all gray tiles and white walls with eaves and flying corners, while the highest floor is made of golden pink green tiles. On the window sash and eaves, The stigma also has a large number of colorful paintings and sculptures. Although the decorations in the Tianshou Pavilion cannot be seen, it can be imagined that they should be equally gorgeous.
The city wall was covered with Satsuma Army soldiers, as well as bows, arrows, muskets, stones and other weapons to defend the city, all piled up on the city wall, and there were actually four trenchers, which also showed that the Satsuma Army did defend Tsurumaru Castle to the death. The plan.
However, since yesterday, Alisandra has looked at this tall and magnificent building dozens of times. At this time, she looked at her face without any expression. She just simply said two words: "Start."
Twenty Pili Rocket launchers were parked by the Zatu River. Each car had four thirty-six Pili Rocket launchers. With the order of Alisandra, The soldiers lit the leads.
"Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh-swoosh-swoo-swoo-swo
The thunder rockets, which had not been used in the previous battles, finally had a great opportunity to show their skills. They made a sharp whistling sound, flew over the Katu River, and fell into the city of Tsurumaru. Some of them shot in Tsuraru City. The building explosion, some of which exploded when it flew to the Tsurumaru Castle. With a series of roars, tinder oil splashed everywhere. At the same time, the sixty cannons mounted by the Katu River also started in turn, all of which were 45. The angle of the angle was curved and the shells were shot into Tsurumaru Castle.
Although Shoitian Pavilion looks majestic and tall, it is almost all made of wooden structure. It is splashed by tinder oil, and it will explode immediately. After a while, the entire Shimaru City was almost everywhere, and Shimaru City The defenders started shooting arrows and fired thrusts, and fired fire at the merchant's position. However, all the arrows, bullets, and stones fell to the Jiatu River at the farthest and could not hit the merchant at all. The army's position comes.
However, the artillery and thunder rockets of the merchant army were still firing into the city of Tsurumaru. The fire in the city was getting bigger and bigger. Even in the Gutian Pavilion, flames were burning in many places, and the defenders gradually became more and more powerful. They could not continue to stick to the city walls, and instead went to the city to put out the fire.
From the beginning, Alisandra never thought about attacking. The merchant army had only more than 6,000 people in total. Even if they could use artillery to bombard the city wall and launch siege operations, they would suffer great losses, let alone Shimaru There is also a Katu River in front of the city. Although the river is not wide, it is not easy to cross forcing it. Therefore, it simply uses the Thunder Rocket to directly attack and burn the Tsurumaru Castle.
Although it is a pity that the money stored in Tsurumaru City is stored, to be honest, Shang Yi is not short of money now. This time, the attack on Satsuma and robbery of wealth is not the main purpose. Guan Jian wants to defeat the Satsuma family and let them never go in the future. I dare not peek at Ryukyu. In addition, I plundered a group of people from Satsuma to Taiwan to open up land. The burning of the capital of the Satsuma clan was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the Satsuma clan, and it also showed the super strength of the merchant army to the Satsuma clan, allowing them to I understand that I am simply unable to confront the merchant army.
Even after this battle, the Satsuma family refused to surrender, but they had already suffered severe damage to their vitality. They would probably not recover for at least ten years, and they would be unable to compete with the merchant army for Ryukyu.
Naito Masatoki and others who were sandwiched in the merchant army's formation, looked at Tsurumaru Castle, which was being swallowed by the fire bit by bit, and couldn't help but lose sight of each other. It was not surprising that the merchant army adopted the fire attack tactic, because they thought of attacking.
Shimotsumaru Castle will definitely suffer considerable losses, so using fire is the best way to do it. This tactic is also very common in previous wars in Japan.
However, in the past, Japan had to shoot rockets into the city near the city wall. However, on the one hand, it had to withstand the attacks of the city wall defenders, and on the other hand, the combustion effect of this primitive rocket was also very poor, and sometimes it shot thousands of them.
Tens of thousands of rockets may not necessarily burn the city in full. However, the merchant army does not use it at all, and does not know what weapons they are using. Not only are they extremely long in range, but they also burn very quickly. Since the war started, it has only been half at most.
In just one hour, the fire in Tsurumaru Castle was uncontrollable, and it was almost a matter of time before it was burned.
In addition, this is the first time Naito Masatoshi saw the merchant army using this weapon, which shows that they obviously preserved their strength in the battle on the beach and did not take full advantage. So this time, the merchant army has shown all its strength.
Will they come up with any other strange new weapons in future battles?
Thinking of this, Naito Masato immediately corrected his assessment of the merchant army a few days ago. I am afraid that the national strength of Japan will not be able to compete with Shang Yi. Because with this weapon, almost no merchant army can be captured in Japan.
If the Tokugawa family had such a weapon at the beginning, Osaka would have been captured by the Tokugawa army long ago. It seems that the Satsuma family will be in great trouble this time.
At this time, there were no soldiers defending the walls of Tsurumaru City, and everyone had already devoted themselves to the firefighting work. However, wood and tincture oil were not so easy to be extinguished, and there were still new things.
The rockets and artillery shells were shot in, and explosions were still occurring. Many soldiers died in the fire, were killed, burned, and choked to death by smoke. All kinds of soldiers were found.
Shimazu Kokusa and others could not stay in the Tensou Pavilion, so they ran out. Not only were the old and important officials of Shimazu Kokusa's Masashimatsu, the eldest son Shimazu Kokusa, who were also Shimazu Kokusa's Masashimatsu, and the eldest son Shimazu Tokusa.
The eldest daughter Aman and others. But at this time, the entire Tsurumar City was already a sea of fire, with heat waves everywhere, and the smell of scent and choking smoke. Nothing was safe at all.
Looking at the fires all over the city, Shimazu Kokusa was confused because according to his previous idea, he should have used the strong city defense fortifications of Tsurumaru Castle to resist the attack of the merchant army, and he could also take the opportunity to cause huge amounts to the merchant army.
The damage, because according to common sense of war, the losses of the troops who attacked the city will be greater than those of the defending troops. Then when the reinforcements arrive, they can defeat the Ming army and turn the defeat into victory. Then they know that the Ming army does not follow the routine they have thought.
He played cards and didn't come to attack the city at all. Instead, he set fire to the city, and he used such a terrible rocket. Therefore, Shimazu Kokusa didn't know what to do at this time.
At this time, several wives, concubines and girls burst into tears, and Shimazu Kokusa was also confused and said, "What should I do?"
Fortunately, the old man from Xinnahara Tadashi was still a little awake at this time and hurriedly said, "Lord, now we can't stay in Tsurumaru City, so let's escape first."
Shimazu Kokusa said with a sad face, "Where will we escape?"
Tadashi Shinnahara said: "No matter what, you have to escape from Tsurumara Castle first. If you stay in the city, your horse will be burned to death."
Shimazu Kokuha's fourth brother Kitaki said directly: "Yes, brother, after escaping from Tsurumara Castle, we will go to Kajiki to hide first, and then think of his solution."
Shimazu Kokusa could not come up with any good ideas now, so he had to say, "Okay, let's go to Kajiki Castle first."
Tsurumara Castle was built on the back of the mountain, and after the north gate was Chaeshan, Shimazu Kokusa, with his wives, concubines and children, escaped from the east gate of Tsurara Castle into Chaeshan under the protection of his retainers, and then turned north to prepare for
Bypass Kagoshima Bay and escape to the Osumi Peninsula.
There are still six or seven thousand people in Tsurumaru City, most of them are soldiers, and a considerable number of them are soldiers. Not all of the families of the retainers ran away with Shimazu Kokusa, and many people escaped from Ximen.
At this time, Alisandra ordered people to attack the people who escaped from the city. At this time, Tsurumara Castle was like a mountain of flames, with magnificent flames rising to a height of more than ten feet.
As a result, more than 2,000 prisoners were captured, including about 600 Satsuma soldiers, and the others were the families of retainers, samurai and others. Two of them were Shimazu Kokusa's concubines, although Shimazu Kokusa was old
Not big, but it is also a town of magistrates. There are more than a dozen wives and more than ten girls. However, when they escaped from Tsurumaru Castle, they only brought the Masashi Ise family, the Masashi Matsuhei family, and the eldest son Shimazuki.
After a long time, the eldest daughter Aman and a few others were killed, and most of the others were in a fire. The two concubines escaped by chance.
Yalisandra ordered the prisoners to be taken into custody in a classified manner, and the army stationed in Kagoshima City. Then, by interrogating the prisoners, he learned that Shimazu Kokusa did not defend Tsurumaru City, but fled to Kajiki.
Sandra estimated that this time it should be almost done, so she called Naito Masatoto and ordered him to go to Kajiki immediately to look for Shimazu Kokusa to see if he still wanted to pay compensation and ask for peace.
After Naito Masatoki received the order, the horse set off, and then Alisandra ordered a carpet-style plundering in Kagoshima Castle.
Because of the trade transfer of Ryukyu and the tribute from Ryukyu Dynasty, the Satsuma family is also one of the richest names in Japan. Although Tsurumaru Castle was burned, the money and materials hidden by the Shimazu family were basically buried in the fire, but outside
There are still many Satsuma merchants, warriors, retainers, etc. in the city. They are all middle-class in Japan and have a lot of savings at home.
Therefore, the merchant army also searched door to door in the outer city, mainly to plunder food. Of course, they did not put away valuable items such as gold, silver, copper coins, samurai swords, dismantling fans, prints, etc. Anyway, all the valuable things that could be moved away were moved away, and at the same time, they also
A large number of young and middle-aged men and young women were arrested and detained in a classified manner. They began to load ships and transport them to Ryukyu first.