Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1098
The offensive on Kurokawa Castle started again after lunch, and the heavy artillery exploded with amazing power, tearing open the gap repaired by Demaru again like a catastrophe!

The Yellow Dragon Banner, which symbolizes the Army Department of the Kyushu Army, is in the front. Groups of soldiers quickly advance towards one of the gaps. The warriors on both sides push carts to resist the muskets, bows and arrows shot down from the stone wall, and keep approaching the stone wall. The arquebus in his hand shoots at the enemies behind the wooden wall on the stone wall.

"Our Second Corps has not had the opportunity to go out for a long time. For the glory of our infantry brigade, seize the enemy's position!" A lieutenant pulled out a command knife like a embroidered spring knife, and personally boosted the morale of the stormtroopers.

The infantry, with bayonets in hand, cleared the obstacles along the way and rushed into and out of the pill across the gap.The samurai hurriedly gathered towards the gap from all directions of the main pill, trying to drive out the soldiers of the Kyushu Army who came in.

They were greeted by well-trained Kyushu Army infantry with bayonets!
The sharp bayonet flashed a cold light, pushed aside the oncoming samurai sword, and pierced a samurai's body!

The soldiers of the Kyushu Army who broke into Demaru formed a bayonet formation and rushed forward!

"Split two teams and charge into the city." The lieutenant saw clearly the terrain of the Marunouchi street, and quickly deployed his troops to occupy the surrounding streets.

The battle in Demaruchi turned into a fierce hand-to-hand battle due to the close distance. Soldiers of the Kyushu Army with bayonets and samurai from Mutsu and Yugo countries fought at close range.However, the Kyushu Army soldiers who rushed in from behind loaded their bullets and waited for an opportunity to shoot.

The soldiers of the Kyushu Army lined up side by side as far as possible to form a dense charge formation, which was like a broken bamboo!Once the soldiers of the Kyushu Army entered into their melee in close combat with them, several people would stand back to back against the samurai swords and spears from the opposite side.

A samurai just wanted to cut the bayonet that was coming towards the opposite side, but he stretched out another bayonet from an unknown angle, stabbed him, and pulled out the blade of the bayonet that was stained with blood.

"The pikemen stepped forward to stop them!" The samurai leader saw that the samurai sword was defeated by the soldiers of the Kyushu Army who were similar to the pike formation, so he thought that one inch was longer and one inch stronger. Only pikemen in the cold weapon era could restrain the high morale of the bayonet phalanx.

Surrounded by warriors in a hurry and panic, the leader of the warriors managed to piece together a phalanx of spears composed of hundreds of people, urging the phalanx of spears to use the narrow streets to organize the offensive of bayonet soldiers.

Boom!When the samurai was approaching with a long gun lightly, the soldiers of the Kyushu Army, who saw the situation was not good, finished reloading their bullets in the back row. On average, each person carried more than 30 rounds of paper shell bullets. become faster.The sound of musket fire from the back row made the pikemen phalanx on the opposite side fall down a group of people!

"Ah!!" The part of the spear with less psychological resistance could not bear such casualties and began to collapse.

The small streets of Izumaru were soon stained red with blood, and the defenders defending Izumaru began to collapse after sacrificing dozens of people. They retreated towards Ninomaru and entered the second city wall.

Dongying's defense system is also divided into inner and outer cities, but in many cases it is not a square city structure, but relies on local mountain dangers and rivers to form an interlocking defense system. The core of the road stone wall and city wall is the castle tower surrounded by a moat or set on a mountain.The five-story castle tower of Kurokawa Castle can look out for approaching enemies.

However, no matter how well-designed the defense system was, it was aimed at the siege tactics that lacked artillery at that time.After the arrival of the heavy artillery, the defense line of Kurokawa City was gradually broken through!
On the first day, after more than half a day of shelling and charging with bare blades, the new government army captured Demaru, the outermost area of ​​Kurokawa Castle.

The next day, the new government army continued to concentrate its artillery on the Ninomaru of Kurokawa Castle. Ninomaru was declared to have fallen that day. The samurai group could only continue to retreat to the castle tower in the center of the city after hastily leaving hundreds of corpses.

On the third day, the new government troops approached the castle tower of Kurokawa Castle, and the artillery could effectively bombard the castle tower.

However, there is not much benefit in bombarding the castle tower. The real target is the city wall made of stones that is several feet high and the defenders inside.

In order to avoid a situation of isolation and helplessness, in addition to Hoshina Masaoyuki, Kato Akishiro and others leading some elites to guard the castle tower, the samurai groups in the north and south of the city also built two formations to form an angle with the castle tower of Kurokawa Castle, relieving the new government. The pressure of the army on the castle tower.

Faced with the opponent's defensive posture, Zhang Yuan planned to break through the two formations around the castle tower first, and then go back to conquer the tower.

The two sides began a fierce battle that lasted for several days in the valley terrain where Kurokawa Castle was located, during which thousands of samurai were seriously injured or died.

The most casualties on the side of the new government army were not the infantry supported from the mainland, but the red scarf warriors who surrendered and the Edo samurai of the shogunate.

The outbreak of this war caused a large number of warriors to participate in the battle, and the heavy casualties of the warriors weakened the influence of their class in disguise.

Dongying Shikoku Island, Nelson and Yamauchi Tadyoshi are suppressing the local peasant uprising.Although the number of peasants who revolted on Shikoku Island reached an astonishing 10, many peasants brought their families with them, but the number of real strong men was small. Nelson and Tadyoshi Yamauchi faced more pressure than those led by Zhang Yuan and Shimadzu It is much easier for the new government army to attack the Northeast Samurai Group.

The peasant uprising in Shikoku Island broke out because the daimyo of Shikoku Island gathered heavy troops to fight against the shogunate in Osaka Castle, and transported the grain stored in Shikoku Island to Osaka Castle, so that Shikoku Island, which was suddenly hit by a natural disaster, had no food reserves. As a result, a group of people starved to death people.Farmers without food had to rise up.

Yamauchi Tadyoshi, who served as the commander-in-chief of Shikoku Island, quickly summoned the retainers of the Yamauchi family and the daimyo of Shikoku Island, and gathered 1 samurai on Shikoku Island who were willing to accept the management of the new government.With the help of the Zhili Fleet and troop carriers led by Nelson, the warriors of Shikoku Island led by Tadyoshi Yamauchi descended from the sky like divine soldiers. They won five consecutive battles, defeated several peasant armies, and drove the remaining refugees to the narrow and long stretches on both sides of the Yoshino River. Tokushima Plain.

"I didn't expect that my Yamauchi family would be able to command the Shikoku region." Yamauchi Tadyoshi was full of spirits. He was riding a war horse, still wearing armor.Because of the order of the Kyushu Army, the Shikoku Island daimyo had to obey the order of his commander-in-chief of the Shikoku Island.

Behind him were two hundred cavalry and thousands of light feet, and opposite them were tens of thousands of peasants who were besieged and at a loss. To be precise, they were refugees who rose up.

"Destroy the enemy in front of us and establish a new order!" Yamauchi Tadyoshi waved his military fan forward, and two hundred cavalry passed by his side, waving their spears in a whistling manner.

Thousands of light feet followed up.Tadyoshi Yamauchi didn't even need to think about tactics in the face of unorganized refugees!

(End of this chapter)