Unexpectedly, the leader sat down and slowly took off his breastplate, and the other Nanmans also followed suit.
After the leader took off his breastplate, he said something to the sky, then stabbed himself in the stomach with the Japanese sword, and then turned the Japanese sword.
At this time, a Nanman behind him chopped off his head with a sword. go out.
The Ming army was dumbfounded.
What happened next was just like the previous one.
About thirty Southern Barbarians committed suicide.
At this time, the Japanese army had slowly retreated and entered the castle.
Mangui watched this scene with complicated emotions.
The emperor once said that the Japanese are a strange nation.
From today's perspective, this is really strange.
Since the Japanese army had retreated into the castle, of course the Ming army could only follow and surrounded the castle from a distance.
Since Hioki has artillery, let alone here, the Ming army was stationed outside the artillery range of the castle.
The inner city of Satsuma Domain was made of rocks, so it would be difficult to attack Hioki.
Mangui summoned the generals above the director to discuss the method of attack.
The generals had two opinions: one was to besiege the city and bring reinforcements, and let the inner city run out of food; the other was to attack the city gate, open a passage and then attack.
But no one suggested that the ants should attack the city.
Man Gui said: "The plan formulated by the staff is to attack the city with artillery.
Now it seems that this is the only way.
First break the city gate, and then attack from the city gate.
As for the method of siege and reinforcements, I'm afraid it won't be very useful. , where their vassal government is located, there must be plenty of food, and we can’t besiege the city even with a small number of people.”
Of course, the attack on the city was not possible today, so they sent people to buy food.
The Guards buried pots to make rice and pitched tents in preparation for attacking the city tomorrow.
Mangui led people to personally patrol the camp and ordered the soldiers not to disarm and sleep.
After the sentry arrangements were made, they entered the camp to rest.
At about three o'clock in the evening of Yinshi, the sound of an enemy attack came from outside the camp.
Mangui jumped up, picked up the knife and rushed outside the tent.
Sure enough, the Satsuma Domain dispatched many warriors to conduct a night attack.
Fortunately, the sentry did not doze off and discovered the enemy's movements in time.
When Mangui arrived, the Japanese army had just arrived next to the camp, and the soldiers were already ready with guns in hand.
The commander issued an order: "Fire."
The crackling sound of firecrackers was heard, and screams were heard outside the camp.
It is not easy to take advantage of hijacking a camp when the opponent is prepared, not to mention that the Ming army's firearms can reach far.
At this time, the sound of artillery also sounded, causing more and louder screams.
But there were still Japanese soldiers who broke through the short wall and jumped in.
After they came in, they did not fight with the Ming army at all.
Instead, they rushed directly to the tents in the camp.
Then sparks appeared from their bodies and quickly set the tents on fire. , if they were not dead by this time, they rushed to another tent.
This was very tragic.
Although the Ming army quickly repelled the enemies outside and killed the death squads who jumped in, at least 40% of the Ming army's tents were still burned.
Looking at the messy camp, Mangui further affirmed that the Japanese nation is indeed a strange nation.
They carried gunpowder on their bodies and poured kerosene on their clothes.
They set themselves on fire to burn down the Ming army's camps, and they themselves were beaten to death or burned to death.
How could they ignore others and even their own lives to do such a thing?
That's it.
Man Gui suddenly shuddered, remembering another sentence Zhu Youxiao had said to him: "We must beat them until they are afraid when they see us, otherwise they may become our biggest enemies in the future."
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The emperor is really clear-sighted, These Japanese are really terrible.
But Mangui thought again, fortunately we have a wise emperor, and fortunately we have weapons and equipment that far exceed theirs.
For the sake of Ming Dynasty and the emperor, we can ignore our own life and death.
Therefore, victory must be ours in the end, and only ours.
Can be ours.
He ordered the tents to be repaired urgently, and those that could not be repaired to be squeezed in first.
He called the messenger and asked him to return to Kushikino and notify the navy to enter Kagoshima Bay to help the infantry attack the city.
The next morning, after breakfast, the Guards began to attack the city.
Large-caliber twelve-pound cannons and fifteen-pound cannons aimed at the gate and started shooting.
Kagoshima's artillery didn't have enough range, so they could only watch the shells pouring at the city gate and nearby.
The fifteen-pound cannon had no effect against the stone city wall, but it was still very useful against the city gate.
Soon a hole was broken in the city gate, but the stone exposed inside made Man Gui's joy disappear.
Shimazu Tadahashi was indeed ruthless.
After failing to rob the camp, he immediately blocked his city gates with stones.
Now Mangui had no choice.
The only weakness was blocked by the Japanese, so they could only attack forcefully.
Mangui chose a spot about thirty steps away from the gate and ordered all the fifteen-pound cannons to bombard this spot.
The shells fell near that point as if they were free, and the stones were scattered everywhere.
Mangui didn't believe that the city wall could not be broken by hitting only one point, but an hour passed and the artillery battalion commander counted that more than 300 shells had been fired, and the point was only lowered by about a foot.
The artillery battalion commander asked carefully: "General, do you want to give them a break?"
There were only ten fifteen-pound cannons in total.
Although they stopped from time to time to let the barrels cool down, the barrels were already a little overheated.
Mangui waved his hand downward vigorously and said: "Cool the temperature outside with water, and let me continue to hit that point."
Then he turned to the infantry battalion commander and said: "The first battalion is ready, I think you may be needed soon. ” Although the first battalion commander felt that it would be useless to fight until tomorrow, he quickly ran to his soldiers and began to organize the team and mobilize before the battle.
The artillerymen held wet cloths and covered the outside of the barrel to cool down.
Mangui stepped forward and said, "Get the shells ready.
I'll try firing one too."
The artillerymen loaded the gunpowder shells and then handed the torch to Mangui.
On hand.
At this time, the other guns stopped and watched General Manchu test the guns.
Mangui brought the torch close to the priming charge, and with a loud bang, the shell flew out and hit the city wall.
The artillery battalion commander looked at the obviously low shot and said softly that it was a pity.
But at this time, there was a louder roar, and the entire city wall fell down, leaving a gap about twenty steps wide.
The Ming army was stunned, but the artillery battalion commander had the quick wit and shouted loudly: "General Manchu is mighty, and there are gods to help him."
Only then did the soldiers react, and they also shouted: "General Manchu is mighty!"
Man Gui himself was dumbfounded, never expecting that his random shot would have such an effect.
He originally thought of using artillery shells to make a small opening, and then using infantry to rush in.
However, the opening is now so big that the Japanese cannot block it even if they want to, so they are not in a hurry to let the infantry rush in
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