Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 751

Although the Japanese army is very tenacious, their firearms are still different from those of the Ming army.

In the era of hot weapons, the generation gap in firearms cannot be changed because of their tenacity.

"Bang bang bang..."

The Ming army's rifled guns and Daming guns began to show their power, and a large number of Japanese were knocked down in an instant.

In particular, the lethality of the Daming Gun made the Japanese even more frightened.

"Puff puff……"

A round of salvo consisted of hundreds of bullets, which penetrated into the body of the Japanese army almost instantly, and immediately picked up clouds of blood mist.

Now some people finally feel that it is not easy to earn these ten silver dollars, and if they do not do it, they will die.

So they gradually retreated quietly, and the Japanese army's defensive position was shaken accordingly.

Sakai Zhongqing raised his knife and slashed, shouting angrily while chopping:

"Anyone who retreats will be executed on the spot!"

The supervisor team behind immediately raised their samurai swords, and anyone who dared to retreat would be killed immediately.

The retreating Japanese soldiers watched this scene in horror, and stopped their heavy steps unnaturally.

Sakai Tadakiyo held two blood-stained samurai swords and said loudly:
"Swear to kill the Ming bandits, defend Osaka, and protect the shogunate!"

However, there seemed to be no one shouting slogans along with him. There was no excitement at all, and the soldiers just looked at him blankly, a little at a loss.

After all, the Ming army's attack became more and more fierce. The scene where the Ming army warships on the Yodo River fired at the city wall was too scary. They belonged to the position of advancing and retreating for two years.

Tadaki Sakai's heart suddenly turned cold, and his morale was gone. Can Osaka hold on?
He gritted his teeth and rushed forward with his samurai sword in hand.

"All active soldiers, follow me!"

Perhaps his actions touched his subordinates, and the Japanese army began to reinvigorate, taking up weapons and continuing to fight.

Sakai Tadaki suddenly realized that the contagious power of leading by example is so great, no wonder the famous generals like to lead by example.
"Jade Broken! Jade Broken!"

Sakai Tadaki yelled loudly, and the Japanese soldiers were all excited when they heard it. They shouted "Jade Broken" in unison, vowing to fight the Ming army to the end.

However, compared with the Ming Dynasty rifles and guns, the morale they boosted up again caused greater casualties, and the more they rushed, the more they died.

On the north side of Osaka Castle, on the wide Yodo River, the [-] Japanese troops rushing to the north bank just stood on the bank of the river, listening to the sound of guns and artillery from Osaka Castle.

The person in charge of the reinforcements was Kobayashi Koichi, a side member of the shogunate, who was second only to the elders, old middlemen, and the Gao family in the official position of the shogunate.

At this time, he was very anxious, but he was helpless, because the Yodo River leading to Osaka was blocked by the Ming army fleet!

The Japanese army forcibly crossed the river many times, all of which were shot wildly by the Ming army.

The muskets of the Ming army fired very fast, almost non-stop shooting, coupled with the invincible lethality of the Daming guns, caused huge casualties to the Japanese troops crossing the river.

As a result, the boat drifted past, and all the people on it died.

Seeing that there were more and more reinforcements, the Ming warship bombarded them directly from the naval guns.

With so many reinforcements, the shells were almost never missed. Fifteen warships and nearly a thousand naval guns fired in turn, causing the reinforcements to lose more than half of the Japanese troops very quickly.

There is nowhere to be more, and there is nowhere to hide, so I can only run away desperately.

However, the range of the naval gun was more than two kilometers. When they escaped from the range of the naval gun and counted the number of people, they found that there were only more than 5000 people.

Xiao Lin Guangyi, who was on the side of the shogunate, was also wounded in several places by shrapnel. If he hadn't been protected by his subordinates and ran fast, he would have been blasted to pieces by shells.

He sighed:
"It seems that the shogunate is in danger. Is that Japan being swallowed up by Daming like this?"

"Rumble..."

Before he could finish his sentence, another explosion occurred around him, followed by intensive gunshots.

It turned out that Zhu Cilang led the Little Tigers and the Ming Xie Army to block their way after clearing the shells on the fort.

The Japanese army had been bombarded by the Ming Dynasty long ago, and the battlefield turned into a one-sided massacre...

Reinforcements also arrived from several other sects, but they were all defeated by the Ming Navy.

When the reinforcements from the south saw the collapse of Osaka Castle, they turned around and ran without daring to show their faces.

Looking at the Ming army formation on the battleship on the other side, Kobayashi Koichi felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and could only watch helplessly as the Ming army attacked Osaka.

There were 10,000 million+ Japanese troops in the city, and more than half of them were killed or injured in the continuous bombing.

There are corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere in Nancheng, some are complete and some are incomplete.

Many of them were killed in pieces by grenades thrown by soldiers of the Ming army.

Only now did the Japanese army realize how terrifying the fighting power of the Ming army was, and the Japanese army's desire to resist gradually weakened.

The Ming army entered the city and threw grenades in the middle of the morning, which had already caused the Japanese army to suffer from explosion phobia.

As soon as they heard the explosion, they were startled and trembling all over, and no one dared to move forward.

Let alone throwing grenades now, even if the Ming army threw firecrackers, it could frighten a large number of Japanese soldiers.

The living Japanese soldiers can only flee in all directions, no matter how Sakai Zhongqing yells, it will have no effect.

Soon, gunshots, explosions, and shouts of killing resounded on all the streets in Osaka City.

The weapons used by the Ming army have far exceeded the Japanese's understanding of war in this era, which caused a great psychological shock to them and completely lost their will to resist.

Sakai Zhongqing saw that Nancheng had been lost and the Fukuo position had basically been lost, so he immediately sent an order to withdraw.

On the way to retreat, naturally more people wanted to run away. The first ones were ordinary soldiers, followed by samurai.

In the end, even the generals of the Japanese army fled outside the city one after another, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops were defeated.

A large number of residents in the city fled to the north of the city to avoid the Ming army's shelling and Ming army brigade. They crowded the streets with the retreating skirmishers, and the order in the city began to fall into chaos.

The battle in Osaka City soon turned into the pursuit and suppression of the defeated army by the Ming army.

Sakai Zhongqing had no choice but to flee to the castle tower, and soon hid in the castle tower.

He said to the close samurai who followed closely behind:
"Go out and don't disturb me."

"Your Excellency, the Ming army has entered the city, and they may attack the castle tower at any time."

"I said, don't disturb me!"

Sakai Tadaki roughly interrupted the samurai's words, and walked into the war room without looking back.

In the empty war room, Sakai Tadaki was in a sad mood, he knew that his fate had come to an end.

In the battle of Osaka, the two armies fought regularly. They outnumbered the enemy several times and were still in a defensive position, but they lost miserably. Even if they escaped by chance, the shogunate no longer existed.

Now that he has become a sinner in Japan, Sakai Zhongqing feels that he needs to apologize with death.

He looked up and let out a long sigh, but saw a portrait of Emperor Guangming hanging in the east of the war room.

In the portrait, the 17-year-old emperor is dressed in a black kimono, holds a sword in his hand, and has clear eyes.

Sakai Tadakiyo laughed at himself. As the son of a god and the father of his subjects, the emperor should have enjoyed supreme honor and unquestionable prestige.

However, their Emperor, His Majesty, is a new puppet of the shogunate, and even this portrait is a shape that the shogunate asked the emperor to pose specially.

The purpose is to allow all Japanese subjects and troops to unite and fight against Ming Dynasty together.

"The shogunate emptied the emperor. This is the status quo in Japan. Who is my loyalty to?"

Tadaki Sakai is in a complicated mood. He used to be a royalist in his heart, but in reality, he now controls the Tokugawa shogunate.

Perhaps only death can make oneself stop bowing to reality, gain freedom, and redeem the sin of betrayal
(End of this chapter)