For the Ming army, the current task is to hold on to the territory it has occupied.
Therefore, Yang Guangkui ordered Yang Guanggao to lead 4,000 people to live in Ajiugen to assist Zhou Yuji's troops, while Zhao led Jiao to lead 5,000 people to live in Kagoshima City.
Qi Zuoguo and Zheng Zhilong led the navy to station at Sakurajima in Kagoshima Bay, and Zhang Qianfang stationed at Zengjima, waiting for the Japanese attack.
On the seventh day of November in the third year of Tianqi, it was sunny.
The Japanese army finally assembled and, under the personal command of Tokugawa Iemitsu, directly attacked Kagoshima Castle.
The base camp of the Japanese army was in Kirishima.
Tokugawa Iemitsu had already asked the samurai who had fought against the Ming army before and knew that the Ming army had powerful firearms, so he led 35,000 people and rushed towards Kagoshima City without dividing the troops.
On the fifth day of November, Wu Mengming had already sent information to Akune and Kagoshima Castle.
After receiving the information, the two landowners couldn't believe it.
What kind of strategy was this?
Aren't they afraid that Akune's Ming army would steal their retreat?
Wu Mengming seemed to know that they would not believe it, so he repeatedly emphasized that it was absolutely reliable news and that he must think of countermeasures as soon as possible.
Yang Guanggao and Zhou Yuji discussed it and decided to trust Wu Mengming's intelligence because they knew that it was difficult to understand the Japanese army's madness sometimes.
So Zhou Yuji led 2,000 people to guard Akogen, while Yang Guanggao led 6,000 people to rescue Kagoshima City.
Yang Guanggao hesitated, should he intercept the Japanese army halfway, or go into Kagoshima City to help defend the city?
Zhou Yuji thought it was best to go to Kagoshima to defend the city.
If he intercepted the Japanese army halfway, he was afraid that 6,000 people would not be a match for the Japanese army.
So on the afternoon of the sixth day of November, Yang Guanggao led people into Kagoshima City.
The entire Kagoshima Castle has more than 15,000 soldiers, not counting the large number of sailors stationed in Sakurajima, which is across the water from Kagoshima Castle.
The Japanese army took the land route, because the most powerful Satsuma navy in Japan suffered losses at the hands of the Ming army last time.
Of course, Tokugawa Iemitsu would not give any more lives to the Ming army, so he chose to attack directly from the coast of Kirishima.
Kagoshima Castle.
At noon on the seventh day of the lunar month, all Japanese troops gathered in front of the northern city wall.
More than 30,000 people is a very scary figure.
They are all crowded with people.
Mangui has concentrated most of its artillery and infantry in the north.
Yang Guanggao is responsible for patrolling the other three city walls to prevent Japanese sneak attacks.
Just after noon, the well-fed Japanese army began to attack.
They carried simple ladders, and the soldiers at the back used matchlocks and bows to cover them, while the soldiers in the front shouted and rushed forward carrying the ladders.
The cover of the Japanese army had almost no effect on the Guards, because bullets or arrows from far away could not reach the city top.
Even if they did, the damage to the Guards wearing iron armor would be slightly negligible.
The artillery of the Guards was unleashing artillery fire to their heart's content.
Against dense enemy troops, artillery had a natural advantage over firecrackers.
A single artillery shell would only stop after injuring three, five or even ten people, and as long as Injuries can basically be said to be hopeless.
When the enemy was five hundred steps away, the large-caliber artillery had already started roaring.
These shells weighing more than 12 kilograms could cause a lot of damage to the Japanese army.
Then the small-caliber artillery also participated.
For a while, the shells were flying randomly, and the Japanese army He screamed and fell to the ground, but continued to rush forward.
A rough estimate is that the shells injured at least one-fifth of the Japanese troops, but the remaining Japanese troops did not care and continued to rush 150 steps away.
At this time, the firecrackers began to fire.
These firecrackers used new long bullets and could shoot up to two hundred steps.
However, taking into account accuracy, the order to fire was still given at a distance of 150 steps.
There are a total of three thousand new fire guns, and this time all were brought to Japan for actual combat testing.
There are more than two thousand in Kagoshima City.
Although it is only an improvement on the bullet, the power is nearly doubled compared to the original flintlock gun, the bullet is easier to load, and the rate of fire is also increased by about one-third.
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Taken together, the new firecrackers can be considered to be more than twice as lethal as the original ones.
Even so, because there were too many Japanese troops, if a man fell, he would be immediately replaced by new soldiers, so a large number of Japanese troops rushed to the city wall, set up ladders and began to climb the city.
Mangui had already prepared a large number of scratching hooks.
There were multiple branches in front of the scratching hook.
He placed it against the top of the ladder.
Several soldiers shouted at the same time and pushed the ladder out of the city wall.
The Japanese soldiers on the ladder fell to the ground and only made a few sounds.
Hum.
Zhang Xinchen found that if he pushed backward, he would have to use a lot of force, but if he pushed to the side, he would use less force, and he could hit the ladder next to him, so he ordered: "Just push to the side."
The soldiers used scratching hooks to push the ladder a little away from the city wall, and then threw it to the side.
Then one ladder suppressed the other, knocking down the people on both ladders.
If you are lucky, it may also affect the third or even fourth ladder.
For a while, the Japanese ladder tilted all the way, and the Japanese soldiers fell down like dumplings.
Even so, some Japanese soldiers climbed to the top of the ladder.
When they were overjoyed and wanted to climb up the city wall, several bayonets were inserted into his head or body at the same time.
His life left him immediately, and he finally fell like a stone.
He came down and took down the Japanese soldiers behind him.
Although the number of Japanese troops far exceeded that of the Ming army, after the baptism of artillery, the combing of firecrackers, and the attack of scratching hooks, the number of Japanese troops who could climb up was very small.
Such attacks could not pose a threat to the Guards at all.
The Japanese army cannot climb up with more than 30,000 people at once.
As long as they attack in batches, they will not be able to break through the Ming army's defense line.
But Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't care at all.
When he thought about it, a pile of more than 30,000 people could kill the Ming army.
The Japanese were indeed brave, although they did not seem to fight with their own ideas.
They followed the orders from above and only knew how to charge forward.
The deaths and screams of their companions did not seem to affect their determination to charge.
The frequency of Ming army artillery fire is gradually decreasing, because although the weather is cold, the barrels will still heat up, and the fire blunderbuss has no effect, but people will always be tired.
The number of Japanese soldiers climbing up the city wall is slowly increasing.
Up, the Ming army finally suffered casualties.
Except for the new guns that continued to fire, the other infantrymen used bayonets to fight off the enemy.
On the narrow city wall, the Ming army could always form a short-term local attack with more troops and fewer enemies, so the entire situation could be said to be under the control of the Ming army.
Mangui ordered the infantry on other walls to quickly move to the north to replace the tired and panting infantry of the Guards.
It's just that the place is narrow and the rotation is not smooth, so it can't be completed at the moment.
As a result, the soldiers inside were exhausted to death, but the soldiers outside could not rush in, so they could only shoot outside with firecrackers
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