Zhou Yuji sighed and said, "They are brave enough but not resourceful."
However, he still admired the bravery of these people and thought that in the future, bravery education should be carried out in the Guards to cultivate some soldiers who are not afraid of death.
The situation was already clear.
Although the Japanese army charged frantically, they were unable to break through the Guards' defense line.
The Japanese commander also understood this, so he soon sounded the call to retreat, and the Japanese troops retreated like a tide.
The Guards moved into the earthen enclosure and then positioned their artillery to the east and north.
Zhou Yuji ordered soldiers from a bureau to go buy military rations.
Akune seems to be relatively wealthy, and the people here are very cooperative with the Guards.
The Guards can easily buy a lot of food with copper coins.
As long as they give money, the Japanese are willing to use small cars to help the Guards deliver food to Akune City.
Zhang Qianfang was responsible for transporting old copper coins to Japan for sale, so the Guards brought a large amount of copper coins with them to the battle.
Although Ma Shiying said that military discipline is not allowed in Satsuma Domain, the Guards have always had strict military discipline.
If you can buy it with money, it is better not to rob it.
Besides, if the Satsuma Domain wants to become part of the Ming Dynasty in the future, it is best if the people can win over it.
Now that he had food, Zhou Yuji didn't panic.
After arranging the artillery, he let the infantry train as usual every day and placed the scouts far away to always be alert to the Japanese counterattack.
The situation of Mangui's march was not so smooth.
Hioki is a relatively large city.
Of course, from Mangui's point of view, it is still a small town, but this small town is taller and larger than Akune.
Mangui ordered the artillery to start setting up the artillery.
Not wanting Hioki to have artillery, their artillery fired first, and a shell hit the newly erected artillery, knocking it to the ground.
Fortunately, the artilleryman reacted quickly and evaded, but there were no casualties.
Mangui said angrily: "Hurry up and set up artillery to attack.
I don't believe their artillery will be better than ours."
The artillerymen hurriedly set up the artillery and started firing.
The Hioki only had a few cannons in total, and there were only two in the west.
Therefore, after the Guards' artillery was set up, they quickly took advantage and suppressed the enemy's firepower.
The cannonballs smashed the earthen wall into pieces, but there was no way to completely destroy the city wall, because although it was an earthen wall, its wall was relatively thick, and the solid bullets did not have much effect and could destroy some things on the surface.
Break it into pieces, but don't destroy the main body.
Mangui then ordered a special attack on the city gate.
No matter how good the city gate was, it was only made of wooden boards and iron plates, so the city gate was quickly destroyed.
It's just that the city gate is so narrow that no more than two people side by side can pass through.
Mangui stopped the officers' request to dispatch infantry and ordered artillery to continue attacking both sides of the city gate.
After expanding the city gate, he ordered infantry to attack again.
The earthen walls beside the city gate were knocked down piece by piece, accompanied by screams from time to time in the city.
Mangui waited until the city gate was five or six steps wide before giving the order: "Infantry attack."
The commander of the first battalion, who had been waiting impatiently, took the lead and led the infantry forward.
The enemy's artillery had been damaged, and only sporadic lead bullets fell on the soldiers, but they did not do much damage at all.
After passing the city gate, a large number of Japanese troops rushed up with swords and guns.
A battalion commander ordered: "Use bayonets and do not load ammunition."
At this time, the number of Ming troops was obviously smaller than that of the Japanese troops.
If they used firecrackers, the enemy would soon be defeated.
It will drown them.
The soldiers held fire guns and rushed towards the enemy.
The usual assassination training finally came into play at this time.
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The Japanese army was stronger than the White Lotus Army, but weaker than the Houjin Army.
It was a training target with just the right intensity.
Only samurai in the Japanese army had Japanese swords.
Most of the soldiers carried matchlocks or ordinary swords and guns, and some even carried bamboo spears and wooden swords.
Such equipment can be said to be vulnerable to the carefully crafted bayonets of the Guards, and most of their weapons cannot break through the armor of the Guards.
This was a tragic battle, and of course, it was the Japanese who suffered the most.
Although they were all brave, and some of the warriors were good at fighting, they soon had to be massacred in front of the Guards infantry who were equally brave or even better at fighting.
After the Guardsmen killed with bayonets for a while, most soldiers felt that killing with bayonets was much more satisfying than killing with firecrackers, and they fell in love with this feeling.
Of course, some soldiers could not see the enemy when they used firecrackers to kill people.
I haven't felt anything about the wound yet, but now that the knife is piercing my flesh, I feel a little uncomfortable.
A battalion of soldiers entered Hioki Castle one after another, gradually squeezing the Japanese troops into a corner of the city, and constantly reducing the Japanese troops' space for movement.
People who knew Japanese kept shouting: "Surrender without killing, surrender without killing." ” The Japanese found that there was no way to continue fighting, so they dropped their swords and guns and knelt on the ground.
A battalion commander had people tie them up one by one and put them aside for supervision.
Mangui entered Hioki Castle at this time, and a battalion commander asked him for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners.
Man Gui thought for a moment, waved his hand, and Bai Jiansen hurriedly said: "General Man, it is unlucky to kill prisoners.
Man Gui looked at him in surprise and said, "No one said they wanted to kill prisoners."
Bai Jiansen looked at him and said sheepishly: "When I saw General Man waving his hands, I thought General Man was going to kill the prisoners."
Man Gui smiled and said: "I don't know if killing prisoners is unlucky, but it is indeed not a good habit.
The emperor once said that using barbarians to rule barbarians is an excellent way to manage occupied areas.
These prisoners must have a strong It’s useful, but if you’re unwilling to cooperate, of course you won’t be able to keep it.”
Bai Jiansen volunteered and said: "Xiaguan learned some Japanese a few days ago, why not help persuade him to surrender?"
Man Gui looked at him and said, "That's fine.
You people who are studying have more bent intestines.
Maybe there is a good way."
Bai Jiansen came to the place where the Japanese prisoners were staying, and first said in Japanese: "The Satsuma clan invaded our Ming Dynasty, so our emperor ordered us to punish the Satsuma clan.
You dare to fight against the Ming Dynasty soldiers.
It is an unforgivable crime, but Our emperor is kind, as long as he is willing to surrender to Ming Dynasty, we can not kill him. " A Japanese with a rude face came forward and said, "You are invading our place.
Can't we even resist?"
Bai Jiansen looked at him calmly and said, "Yes, you can't resist because you were at fault first."
After saying that, he took out his gun and pulled the trigger, killing him in front of him.
He raised his short blunderbuss, blew into the mouth of the blunderbuss, and then said: "Anyone else wants to reason with me, I welcome them."
The Japanese were silent and lowered their heads one by one, but occasionally the looks in their eyes revealed the unwillingness and dissatisfaction in their hearts
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