"Lord, the enemy has a large number of stone fire arrows. We can't rush out." Ibusuki Tadamasa's bodyguards were covered in blood. They knelt on one knee and reported to him: "They have a large number of tap fire iron cannons. We..."
Ibusuki Tadamasa waved his hand and said: "Don't charge anymore. They have surrounded us. Now we can only hold on to the end. I hope the sound of artillery here can be heard from the direction of Tsurumaru Castle."
Big iron cannon, stone fire arrow, big tube, national collapse, Buddha Wolf machine, etc. were all the names the Japanese used for cannons at that time. In the fourth year of Tianzheng (1576), two cannons were presented to Otomo Sorin after the Portuguese merchant ship arrived. The Japanese Just call it "National Collapse". It is a Portuguese-style blunderbuss.
Ibusuki Tadamasa's subordinate samurai no longer attacked the outside of the city. They just huddled inside the city and defended it.
Huang Lue mobilized the artillery battalion to launch another bombardment at the gate of Ibusuki Castle. At the same time, he organized the 300 soldiers of the first battalion to line up in a column of 6 people in the front and 50 rows in depth. Each row of soldiers rushed forward continuously, threw grenades and then got on the spot. Raise the gun and aim forward. The comrades in the back row overtake them and rush forward. Throw the grenade again. Then half-crouch and aim the gun. Repeat. Move forward bit by bit. Maintain fire suppression. The Hongtian Cannon also spoke at this time. After a dull "pengpeng" sound, the huge iron ball hit the castle of Ibusuki Tadamasa in a parabola, and a huge explosion shook the city.
Taking advantage of the city being bombarded by cannons and causing chaos, the soldiers of the first battalion broke into Ibusuki Castle again.
In this era of Asia, the Armed Forces of the China United Company were the first armies to install smoothbore rifles with flintlock devices and bayonets. The infantry of the Chinese Army became a pure firepower unit. Although they also pay attention to stabbing, after all, they have already Hand-to-hand hand-to-hand combat has been placed in a relatively low position. Moreover, since the Jiajing Japanese Pirates period, the Chinese army has always found it very difficult to deal with Japanese pirates in close combat. Even famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou have to admit that the Japanese pirates are single-handedly capable. The soldiers have strong combat effectiveness. The Chinese army is not afraid of hand-to-hand combat. However, the Chinese company has rarely encountered strong and stubborn opponents like the Shimazu family of Satsuma domain before. It was really uncomfortable for a while.
They could only use their own firepower advantage, use cannons to open the way, and use grenades to cover the enemies behind the gate. Finally, they broke into Ibusuki Tadamasa's castle again.
Ibusuki Tadamasa personally led the team. A dozen of his bodyguards braved the hail of bullets and rushed to the gate of the city first, followed by more than a hundred samurai under him.
In order to maximize his own firepower advantage, Huang Lue issued an order to "shoot rapidly for all".
The invention of flintlock muskets and paper-packed fixed ammunition has enabled the Chinese army to achieve world-class musket shooting speed. In terms of corresponding tactics, there is also a rarely used "rapid shooting method", which is to bite the ammunition. After wrapping paper and pouring it into the gun chamber, the formal shooting procedure of holding a strip to tamp the ammunition is omitted. There is also no need to pay attention to precise aiming. Just aim roughly in the direction of the enemy and directly pull the trigger to shoot. Such rapid shooting is only possible in extreme situations. Yin Feng once experimented with this method and found that when using this method, a skilled flintlock musketeer can shoot at the fastest speed of 5 rounds per minute. Some people can even shoot at the ultimate speed of 7 rounds per minute.
However, this kind of shooting method cannot maintain the shooting frequency for a long time. Firstly, the physical strength of the soldiers is too much. Secondly, if the ammunition is fired continuously for a long time, the barrel of the flintlock gun will not be able to withstand it, and the possibility of exploding the chamber will increase.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
The Chinese soldiers crowded at the gate and quickly formed three rows of salvo arrays. Everyone was loading ammunition and pulling the trigger at extreme speed. Rapid firing will affect the range and accuracy of the bullets. But now the enemy has rushed to more than ten steps There is no time to think about any precise issues. Every soldier of the first battalion is nervously and mechanically loading ammunition, holding the gun, and pulling the trigger. Then loading ammunition again, holding the gun and pulling the trigger...
Smoke filled the air all around the soldiers of the first battalion. But they were completely blind to the surrounding situation. They just kept shooting, shooting, and shooting...
Outside the city, the sky-blasting cannons are also firing continuously. Every half a minute, a huge explosion that shakes the earth will occur in Ibusuki Castle.
When each soldier fired more than fifteen times in a row, the barrels of the Chinese soldiers' guns were already exploded. Huang Lue could only vaguely see his own people on the left and right. Things a foot away were already trapped in the In the smoke, nothing could be seen clearly.
"Ceasefire. Ceasefire. Ceasefire." Huang Lue jumped up and down in the queue, kicking and beating his soldiers and forcing them to stop shooting.
The sound of shooting gradually stopped. But everyone still did not dare to relax. Although the surroundings were filled with choking gunpowder smoke and nothing could be seen clearly, the soldiers of the Chinese Army still maintained a shooting-ready posture with their guns in hand, regardless of the slightest sound in any direction. This will trigger a series of shots.
Huang Lue's eyes widened. He stood at the front of the queue and stared warily into the smoke. Suddenly, someone behind him tapped him heavily on the shoulder. He tightened his fingers and fired the flintlock pistol with a "pop." As a result, the brothers around him started shooting indiscriminately.
"Stop shooting." A deep voice sounded behind Huang Lue. Zhao Tie, the official leader of the first regiment.
Huang Lue turned around angrily and said, "Hey, it's the group leader. Why are you on the front line..."
"Stop talking nonsense. Send someone quickly to find out the situation."
At this time, a gust of wind blowing from the sea blew away the smoke that filled the surroundings. Everyone watched the smoke dissipate silently. They saw hundreds of corpses of Shimadzu samurai lying in front of them. From the honmaru where Ibusuki Tadayama lived to the gate .A radius of 100 meters was filled with all of Tadamasa Ibusuki's subordinates who died under the hail of bullets.
The Chinese soldiers took a breath together. Some people sat down on the ground. Some people were holding their guns and gasping for air.
"Damn, they are all lunatics. They keep hitting each other with guns like this. They are all lunatics." Huang Lue took a few steps forward and kicked the body of a Japanese warrior closest to him. He spat: "They are all. The guy who doesn’t care about his life. He clearly knows that there is life and death, but he still rushes in..."
At the climax of the battle just now, the Ibusuki warrior who rushed forward was only a few steps away from Huang Lue.
"Enemies like this are our real opponents. Pay attention, everyone. Search around. Don't let anyone go. If there is resistance, we will kill them on the spot." Zhao Tie issued the order. He looked at the scene where corpses were strewn with a livid face. .I feel that this battle will be very difficult.
Covered by a dense rain of bullets, Ibusuki Tadamasa was protected by his loyal subordinates and hid at the end of the charge team. But at the last moment, all his subordinates fell down. He also took several bullets in a row and died in the end. .In the original historical time and space, veteran Ibusuki Tadamasa could live for another sixteen years and did not die until he was 83 years old. Now, his life has been disrupted by the big butterfly Yin Feng and ended prematurely.
Ibusuki Castle fell at noon. After cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers of Zhao Tie's first regiment discovered that they had not been able to capture a single prisoner. All 280 samurai in the city were killed.
Yamada Masa escaped again. When Tadamasa Ibusuki led the charge for the last time, he escaped from the city through the backyard sewer and ran towards Kagoshima Castle in the north.
Behind him, the gunfire in Ibusuki Castle gradually subsided. On the coastal mountain road, Yamada Masa saw the silhouette of sails covering the sea in the distance. The main force of the Chinese army was heading north along the west coast of Kagoshima Bay. At the same time. In front of Yamada Masaru, there is already a group of Chinese company troops heading north quickly.
Yamada Masa hid in the bushes in the mountains. He couldn't help but feel very discouraged. The road north to Tsurumaru Castle to report the news had been cut off by the Chinese.
On board the Flying Tiger, Lu Ruohan, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, was introducing the geographical situation of the Satsuma Domain to Yin Feng in front of a map: "Only this area. The plain between the Kotoku River and the Inari River is suitable for a large army battle."
Chen Di, a veteran standing on the bow of the ship, looked at Sakurajima in the north of Kagoshima Bay. He shook his head and sighed: "I didn't expect that the scenery of this Japanese pirate's hometown is not bad."
Yin Feng raised his head and smiled and said: "Kaiwendake and Sakurajima are both volcanoes that may erupt at any time. When they erupt, the earth will be shaken. That would be spectacular."
Yang Dacheng, the deputy commander of the first regiment, hurried over from the stern direction of the ship. He raised his hands and saluted: "Report to the commander-in-chief. The sentry commander of the Yiwu Bird Gun Soldiers wants to see you."
Yin Feng was a little curious: "What happened to Lao Yang?"
About 200 of the Yiwu gunmen who surrendered to Yin Feng after the Battle of Penghu participated in the Battle of Satsuma. They formed an independent company called the Yiwu Sentinel.
Yang Dacheng said with some distress: "Sir, Captain, wasn't the artillery battalion assigned to my command? I asked the Yiwu Sentinel to help defend the artillery battalion and stay at the artillery position after the war started. But they were unwilling. They had to follow the brigade to the front line. .”
"Their captain's name is Luo Quanxiu. He seems to be a veteran who participated in the Imjin Korean War. Well, let him come over and see what he says." Yin Feng picked up the binoculars and stood at the bow of the ship, looking toward the long coastline to the west. Looking out, there are already black smoke rising in many places, proving that the frontline of the Chinese army's land troops has quickly moved northward.
Yan Siqi did not want to continue setting fires along the way. Unfortunately, the road between the mountains and the sea was very narrow. It was inevitable to pass through some villages. Along the way, many Satsuma village communities had people constantly jumping out to resist or provoke. Yan Siqi led his boy scouts all the time. Walking at the forefront, let the Taiwanese indigenous warriors from Alishan, Huweilong and other villages be responsible for eradicating the Japanese villages along the way.
The march couldn't be fast like this. It wasn't until nightfall that Yan Siqi's vanguard arrived 30 miles north of Ibusuki City. Due to the favorable wind and the push of the sea current during high tide, Yin Feng's fleet moved very quickly. Appeared at the mouth of the Inari River in the early morning of the next day.
At this time, only some places in the south of the entire Satsuma Domain knew about the Chinese invasion.
Kagoshima Castle built a small fortress at the mouth of the Inari River. It housed a cannon. It was the "National Collapse" cannon that Shimazu Yoshihiro had captured from Otomo Sorin decades ago. It was also called the "Broken Arhat Barrel". It's a large Portuguese-style blunderbuss. Its range is only 200 meters.
As for the entire Satsuma Domain, except for the Ming Dynasty cannon carried by Kaguyama Kutaka who went to Ryukyu, only Tsurumaru Castle... Shimadzu Furniture Castle also has a cannon sent by the Portuguese.
In other words, in front of Yin Feng's fleet, only two artillery can be used in the entire Satsuma Domain.