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Chapter 763 Tokugawa is just a chicken (third update, please subscribe)
When Saigo Takamori was going to Tokyo on a merchant ship to contribute the samurai books to the Ming emperor, the battle against Tokugawa Maocheng had reached its final juncture.

Nearly [-] Tokugawa troops withdrawn from Nagoya were blocked in the mountains between Tsu City and Nara. It is certain that Tokugawa Maocheng is not a brainless person. He commanded the troops into the mountains, not only avoiding being hit by heavy naval artillery Shelling, but also to maximize the use of mountain advantages to disintegrate the firepower advantage of the Ming army, and give full play to the military strength of the Tokugawa army.

It can be said that Tokugawa Maocheng's plan is perfect.

However, times have changed!

Sometimes the plan seems perfect, but because of the changes of the times, the so-called plan is likely to become a joke.

Almost when Tokugawa Maocheng commanded the army and tried to withdraw from the plains to the mountains, they were discovered by airships in the air.

Airship Troops.

As early as last year, Daming had dispatched sixteen airships. These airships were not many, but they were the only air force in East Asia in this era.

It can be said that for Japan, Daming spent all his money.

These hovering airship units are proof of that.

"As long as we enter the mountainous area, we can compete with the Ming people, and then strive for a decent peace agreement."

Tokugawa Maocheng never thought that he would have any chance of winning a war with Ming, he was just unwilling to be a "chicken".

Since you don't want to be a "chicken", then find a way to give it a go!

As long as they can win a beautiful battle, they can force Daming to negotiate with him!
If Tokugawa Shigeru had heard what Emperor Zhu said, he would definitely not have thought so—what does it mean that an empire cannot be challenged.

The essence is that not only will the empire not back down in the face of failure, but it will redouble its investment to preserve the dignity of the empire and let people in the world see that the empire will not tolerate any challengers or destroyers of order.

If he tried to force Da Ming to sit at the negotiating table by winning, then his wishful thinking must have been wrong from the beginning.

In the face of defeat, not only would it be impossible for Ming to hold peace talks with him, but he would also mobilize more troops.Completely and fundamentally erase them from this world.

Because only in this way can Xiaoxiao be deterred, and only in this way can others be in awe of the empire.

After all, the existence of the empire itself requires the awe of the outside world.Compared with others, the dignity of the empire is undoubtedly the most important thing.

But he obviously had no chance to understand this truth.

When Tokugawa Mojo was thinking this way, someone in the marching column looked up towards the sky.

"What it is?"

The people in the marching column looked up at the sky with some doubts.

Although airships entered the war in Europe a few years ago, the vast majority of Japanese people are extremely unfamiliar with it. Perhaps some of them have heard of airships, but they have never seen them.

In this way, these Tokugawa soldiers carrying old-fashioned rifles and pushing bronze front-loading guns looked northeast in the direction of the sound, and a dozen white shadows appeared in the sky. If you don’t look carefully, even Might take it for Yunnan.

Is... is it an airship?
It looks a bit like a white cloud.

Just when Tokugawa Shigeru thought of the flying machine invented by Ming that he had heard about, he saw countless black spots falling from those "white clouds".

"Chirp..."

The whistling sound of the bomb's tail pressing the air reminded Tokugawa Maocheng of the Westerners' description of airships.

"It's an airship!"

While yelling, Tokugawa Maocheng jumped off the tall western horse at once, and then rolled into a pit on the side of the road.

From the very beginning, Tokugawa Shigeru's march was destined to be a death march.

Sixteen airships carried out carpet bombing from the front of the marching column of the Tokugawa Army-this is a term coined by Ming's air force, and the bombs covered the ground like a carpet.

The dozens of tons of bombs dropped by the airship were not ordinary bombs, but cluster bombs. Those small bombs dropped from wooden boxes fell from the sky like raindrops. After exploding in the valley, millions of Fragments roared in the air, like a scythe mowing grass, and knocked down the Tokugawa army who hadn't reacted yet.

Lying in the pit on the side of the road, Tokugawa Shigeru could only hear the sound of continuous explosions like a string of guns. In the violent explosion, many people were swallowed by the smoke of the explosion. Did they not be blown into the sky? , was blown to pieces.

He saw the retainer Laozhong fell from his horse to the ground at some point, lying in the grass by the side of the road. The fragments of the bomb interrupted his artery, and blood sprayed from his neck like mist. His neck was twitching non-stop, and it didn't take long for him to stop the twitching.

"Boom! Boom!"

During the successive explosions, the gunpowder barrel on an ammunition truck was also detonated. For a while, the flames were soaring into the sky and the fragments were scattered. The continuous explosion sound like firecrackers came from the flames, and the bullet warhead roared from the ammunition during the explosion. The car flew around.

In this lightning-like bombing, the entire valley pass was completely turned into a slaughterhouse, and the bombing from the air kept dropping cluster bombs.After the bomb box exploded in the air, countless small cylindrical bombs were thrown out. This kind of bomb weighs only [-] kilogram, has a killing radius of more than [-] meters, and can produce a large amount of fragments when it explodes.According to the experience of the Ming army in the Franco-Prussian War, this kind of bomb can effectively kill the enemy's vital forces. This time, in order to prevent the escape of the Tokugawa army, and of course to kill the army as much as possible, the floating troops used this bomb here. A weapon called "extremely inhumane" in Europe. Thousands of small bombs will blow up the flesh and blood of the Tokugawa army exposed in the wilderness.

The battlefield has completely turned into a slaughterhouse.

The carpet bombing ended quickly, just like a storm, coming quickly and going quickly, just after a round of bombing, those airships descended to the bottom and hovered over them again, looking into the sky Suddenly, a red muzzle flame flashed from the side of the airship, and a dense rain of bullets fell from the sky like raindrops.

Teams of Tokugawa troops who were fleeing to the trees on the roadside to avoid the bombing were knocked to the ground by the 30mm Gatling cannon on the airship. The shells shredded their bodies, and then exploded in the flesh and blood. The flying shrapnel and blood mist scattered around, the shrapnel broke people's flesh, bones, and arteries, and the blood of the people whose arteries were broken gushed out like a fountain, blooming beautiful red blood flowers in the wind.

Blood flowers are flying in the air.

When the bodies of the people hit by the shells were torn in two, only half of them were left. People were still screaming and crying.

If there is hell, this must be hell.

After about half an hour, the long bombardment ended, and the long and narrow valley had turned red, with piles of red corpses and fragments of red corpses everywhere, trees in the valley were burning, and some On the treetops, there are still minced meat, severed limbs, and internal organs such as intestines and lungs. In the air full of choking sulfur, there is a peculiar smell of corpses, which is a bit like the smell of stool.

But at this time, no one cared about the smell anymore, and there were still many soldiers wriggling, struggling, moaning, and crying among the lumps of flesh and blood.Some uninjured soldiers voluntarily dragged out these wounded soldiers and helped to bandage them for first aid.

Looking at the airship far away, Tokugawa Maocheng patted the dust on his body, stood up from the pit, and looked around, all he saw were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and people struggling in the sea of ​​blood.

"This, this is the airship..."

At this moment, there was a sudden scream of terror in the distance.

"Monster, monster..."

It was none other than Daming's armored troops, not many in number, just an armored battalion, twenty-three "Tiger" armored vehicles, and with the roar of engines, they walked along the valley at full speed toward the The Tokugawa army came to kill them.

They charged towards the Tokugawa army like fierce tigers. As soon as they met, the machine guns on the armored vehicles rang out. Amidst the rapid machine gunfire, those Japanese soldiers who escaped the bombing were overturned without even escaping in a hurry. on the ground.

Although many Japanese returned fire with their rifles, the bullets hit the steel plate of the armored vehicle, but only knocked off a layer of paint.

Those Japanese soldiers who tried to fight back were also beaten to pieces by the machine guns on the armored vehicles.In this valley that was originally like a slaughterhouse, there are splashes of flesh and blood everywhere. The combination of limbs shattered by machine guns and bombed meat makes the whole valley turn red.

The red blood pooled into a stream, flowing there like a brook.

For the Tokugawa troops who survived, there was no way to stop the advance of these armored vehicles other than watching the 'tiger armored vehicles' rolling towards them in horror.

Some desperate people even raised their samurai swords and slashed at the armored vehicles, and then they were knocked to the ground. Their bodies were crushed into a pulp under the crushing of solid rubber wheels.

Looking helplessly at the approaching armored vehicles, Tokugawa Maocheng's eyes were full of despair. This despair was not because he saw loyal and brave warriors falling under the guns of the armored vehicles, but because he saw the power, this kind of despair. The power is irresistible.

Is this... the power of Daming?
This kind of power is really not something humans can resist!Hey, really.

Since you can't resist, then so be it.

Just when this thought came to his mind, he felt as if something had hit his chest. At that moment, he felt a little hot inside his body, and then his whole body seemed to be emptied by something. In the same way, the person fell down limply...

(End of this chapter)