Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Anlanke shouted at the top of his lungs.

Amid the shouts, the mercenary gunners quickly completed the loading work.

The waving of flags and prayers for God's blessing to achieve success sounded at the same time.

boom! Boom boom!

There were several roars in succession, and thick smoke rose from the top of Kirishima Castle.

Several artillery shells came out of the gun and shot towards the Ming army's artillery position outside the city.

Boom! Boom!
Several artillery shells landed on the Ming army's artillery position one after another. As the fuse burned out, explosions sounded immediately.

Clouds of gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, and clouds of fireworks exploded on the ground.

The fire from the shell's explosion ignited the gunpowder.

In an instant, an explosion occurred on the Ming army's artillery position outside Kirishima Castle.

Two artillery pieces were destroyed and turned into scrap metal. In an instant, the gunners were killed and wounded more than ten people.

When Huang Changjun saw this scene, his expression became obviously solemn, and then he spoke.

"grass!"

"How come the cannons in Kirishima Castle can shoot so far?"

"Withdraw, quickly, send an order to the front line and ask our artillery positions to withdraw immediately!"

Huang Changjun was at a loss when he saw that his artillery position was hit by the enemy's artillery.

But he immediately shouted at the top of his lungs to ask the artillery troops to retreat and withdraw from the enemy's shelling range to avoid further losses.

The reason for this situation is that when the Ming army arranged artillery positions before the war, they arranged them according to the artillery power possessed by the Satsuma Domain.

In other words, the Ming army's artillery positions were arranged outside the range of traditional smoothbore artillery.

However, the Ming army ignored that the enemies they had to face in this battle, in addition to the Satsuma clan, also included some Western mercenaries.

Those Western mercenaries are equipped with a certain number of rifled guns and explosive ammunition.

This also caused the Ming army's artillery position to be caught off guard.

There were a certain amount of casualties!
How should I put it, this matter is actually a cocoon on the part of Ming Dynasty.

Because a considerable part of the arms and weapons used by Western mercenaries were purchased by the Netherlands and Britain from the Ming Dynasty some time ago.

But this batch of arms was delivered not long after, and before it even had time to be shipped back to Europe from East Asia, news of the armistice between the Netherlands and Britain came from Europe.

Then, this batch of arms was not shipped again, but stayed in East Asia.

Except for the Netherlands and Britain, which left some to strengthen their military power in Batavia and India, most of the rest were equipped for mercenaries who aided Japan.

Well, they are serious about causing trouble for Ming Dynasty.

In other words, the arms sold by the Ming Dynasty before were now being fired at the Ming army from the opposite side.

This is quite ironic.

Of course, Ming Dynasty did not have any good intentions when selling arms.

He sold arms with the purpose of saving fire, but in the end the fire burned himself. Regarding such a fucking thing, Daming felt very complicated.

Huang Changjun's military order was issued, and the Ming Army's artillery positions began to retreat immediately.

They did not stop retreating until they were beyond the range of the foreign trade version of the rifled artillery.

Listening to the losses reported from the front line, Huang Changjun couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

Although the loss was not big, the face was tarnished.

But this time it’s no one else’s fault, it’s really all my fault.

If it hadn't been for his own support, the Ming army would have just arrived at Kirishima Castle, and they should not have been disgraced without firing a single shot.

However, after taking a deep breath and adjusting his emotions, Huang Changjun finally spoke.

"Pass the order, and according to the pre-war plan, let the Korean soldiers attack immediately and launch a tentative attack on Kirishima Castle."

"Let the observation balloon be watched by this admiral, mark all the enemy's artillery positions as soon as possible, and calculate the shooting points."

"Admiral, please unplug them all as soon as possible!"

After thinking about it, Huang Changjun decided to send his own cannon fodder to test the enemy's firepower.

As soon as the enemy's firepower points are exposed, the Ming army's artillery can pull them out one by one.

As for why North Korean soldiers were sent?

Needless to say?
To test the enemy's firepower arrangement, of course you have to use cannon fodder.

Is it possible that the Ming army's headquarters troops can be used as cannon fodder?
Huang Changjun is not stupid.

To put it bluntly, even the 10,000 Korean soldiers who accompanied the Ming army on the expedition were all wiped out.

After he returns to the court, the most he will receive is a reprimand from the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, but there may not even be actual punishment.

However, if he dares to destroy the more than 10,000 Ming troops under his command, then he will at least be dismissed from office when he returns to the court.

Even the title will be cut off!

The status of cannon fodder and elites cannot be compared.

Huang Changjun can still distinguish between priorities.

Seeing this, Fujiwara Tsune on the side asked.

"Sir Admiral, our enemy's firepower seems to be very fierce this time."

"Are you sure you can defeat the enemy?"

The Tokugawa shogunate also expected the Ming army to help them deal with foreign daimyo such as the Choshu clan and Aki clan after defeating the Satsuma clan.

I don't want to see the Ming army suddenly marching under Kirishima Castle and the battle situation becomes stalemate.

Huang Changjun heard this, turned his head and glanced at Fujiwara Tsune, nodded slightly and said.

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem."

"Just by listening to the sound, I can tell the type of artillery used by those rebels, as well as its range and power."

"This time we suffered a loss because our army was not prepared. As long as we, the Ming Dynasty, are ready, we can pull them out in a matter of minutes."

As a veteran, Huang Changjun still has this level of ability.

Of course, the reason why he is so confident is also related to the fact that the artillery sold by the Ming Army to Britain and the Netherlands are foreign trade versions, not the Ming Army's own versions.

The foreign trade version, to put it bluntly, is the monkey version.

Although on the surface it looks no different from the version used by the Ming army, there are subtle differences due to the processing technology and the materials used to cast the cannon.

The foreign trade version of artillery is generally lower than the Ming army's own version in terms of range, accuracy, and service life.

Normally you can't tell the difference, but when they really face each other on the battlefield, the difference will be clear at a glance.

Hearing Huang Changjun's confident answer, Fujiwara Tsune was relieved.

……

On the battlefield, the situation changed rapidly.

The Ming army's artillery quickly retreated and rearranged its artillery positions, which caused the originally high morale of the Satsuma clan soldiers and British, Dutch and Spanish mercenaries at the city head to drop again.

Because, as the Ming army's artillery positions retreated, their shelling began to become in vain, and it was difficult to achieve results.

The shells fired by their artillery could not reach the Ming army's artillery positions at all.

Just as they were preparing to attack, soon, a trumpet sounded outside the city.

One by one, Korean soldiers held muskets and bayonets, and strode towards Kirishima Castle.

Although these Korean soldiers were cannon fodder, Ming Dynasty's arms production capacity would not allow them to go to the battlefield with swords and spears.

After all, North Korea is now under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, not the previous vassal state, and the food and appearance always need to look better.

To sum it up simply, you can treat North Koreans as cannon fodder in your heart, but you must say they are your beloved relatives, friends, brothers and sisters.

Facing Wuyang Wuyang's "Ming Army" rushing up, Nomura Tsukasa immediately ordered the garrison of Kirishima Castle to meet the enemy. boom! Boom boom!

Amidst the deafening roar, Kirishima Castle's city defense artillery continued to roar.

As the smoke filled the air, artillery shells were fired at the charging North Korean soldiers.

Unlike the previous use of explosive shells when dealing with the Ming army's artillery positions, Anlanke and the others used solid shells and shotgun shells this time.

boom! Boom boom!

The smoke of gunpowder continued to spread, and rounds of solid bullets or densely packed shotshells flew randomly on the battlefield.

The solid cannonball landed and continued to roll forward.

Every time a cannonball hit the ground, it would throw up clouds of sand.

The solid artillery shells kept bouncing off the ground, bouncing off the ground again, and shot toward the array of Korean soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, the solid artillery shells passed by the array, and wherever they passed, stumps of limbs and broken arms were flying, and the smell of blood was overwhelming.

Screams and wails sounded immediately.

"Axiba..."

"Damn it, help, help!"

"..."

After several rounds of shelling, the array of Korean soldiers was obviously in chaos.

Thick clouds of shotgun shells fell from the sky, and the soldiers in the front row fell to the ground.

A grape-sized shotgun flew and hit a Korean soldier.

In an instant, the North Korean soldier's head was hit by a shotgun and exploded with a loud bang.

Blood mixed with brain matter was sprayed everywhere, and the person died on the spot.

When Cui Sizhu saw this scene, his whole body was so frightened that he froze in place and did not dare to move.

The roar of artillery that he heard in his ears gradually turned into tinnitus. Although he held the musket tighter and tighter, the pace of the charge gradually slowed down visibly to the naked eye.

The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood mixed in the air, turning into a pungent stench.

"Charge, keep charging, don't stop!"

However, before Cui Sizhu could paddle for too long, an officer's shout came from behind him.

His commander kicked Cui Sizhu on the buttocks, causing Cui Sizhu to stumble and fall to the ground.

Then he opened his mouth and roared.

"What to do? What to do?"

"If you dare to hesitate on the battlefield again, be careful with your head."

Cui Sizhu fell to the ground and took a deep breath. He was afraid that the officer supervising the battle was going to chop him, so he hurriedly tried to get up from the ground.

But he had just climbed halfway when he saw a cannonball coming from a distance.

With a bang, the shell hit his commander.

In an instant, blood and flesh spattered, and the officer's upper body was smashed into pulp by the shell.

All that was left was two legs that were still twitching!

Cui Sizhu was stunned by the scene in front of him.

One second he was still a living person, and the next second he had only two legs left, and his head felt as if it was going to explode.

"what……"

Cui Sizhu subconsciously let out a scream, threw away the musket in his hand, turned around and wanted to run away.

But just as he turned around, he heard a crisp sound.

Another officer supervising the battle aimed at his head and pulled the trigger.

After the smoke dissipated, Cui Sizhu fell on the battlefield, his whole body completely lifeless.

When God gave him his last thought, if God could give him a chance to regret, then Cui Sizhu would rather stay in North Korea and farm the land for a wealthy man for the rest of his life than follow the Ming Dynasty's heavenly soldiers to fight in Japan.

He regretted it!

……

On the battlefield, as the Korean soldiers launched a charge.

Kirishima Castle's city defense artillery fired to block the attack. Immediately, the positions of the city defense artillery were exposed to the eyes of the observation balloons floating in the sky.

After completing the observation, the observation balloon immediately reported the shooting of Kirishima Castle's city defense artillery to the Chinese army.

Immediately, the artillery positions set up by the Ming army outside Kirishima City also began to unleash their firepower.

Boom! Boom!
Amidst the deafening shelling, the artillery positions that had been silent for a long time began to release their firepower.

Gun smoke puffs out from the muzzle!

Cannonballs flew across the battlefield and fell towards the head of Kirishima Castle.

Boom! Boom!
Rumble!
The bomb hit the ground, setting off a burst of smoke and dust. The air waves swept around along with the fragments, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

At the top of Kirishima Castle, several gun emplacements were pulled out by the Ming army's artillery fire.

"Kill!"

"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"

"..."

The somewhat sluggish Korean soldiers who had been suppressed by Kirishima Castle's city defense artillery saw this scene of their own heavy artillery showing off their power, and their morale charge was restored.

Continue to fight towards Kirishima Castle!
……

Anlanke stood next to an artillery piece and personally directed the gunners to load it.

"Hurry up!"

"Hurry up boys, and for God's sake, get rid of all the energy you put into women's bellies."

"That's it, put that damn cannonball into the barrel, otherwise, I will stuff it into your butts..."

"The muzzle is five degrees too high, move ten degrees to the left, hurry up, move fast!"

"point……"

Anlanke cursed loudly while calculating and adjusting the shooting elements of the artillery.

However, he did not wait for him to give the order to light the fire.

I saw a flash of fire, smoke and dust filling the air, and the next moment the roar of an explosion sounded.

A cannon next to him exploded, and the exploding cannon ignited a powder barrel nearby. In the roar of the explosion, Anlanke and several gunners were all reduced to flying ash.

No bones left!

The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and gunpowder smoke.

This time the bombing and suicide caused the atmosphere in Kirishima Castle to stagnate for a while.

Regardless of whether it was Diego or Tsukasa Nomura, the moment they received the news, they both had the urge to curse.

If you don't blow up the chamber sooner or later, but you blow it up at this time, aren't you just kidding them?
Nomura Tsukaji took the nickname around him, found Diego, and asked.

"Mr. Diego, the Ming army's artillery firepower is too strong, and our army is invincible."

"In addition, Anlanke was killed by a bomb blast, and things are even more troublesome. What should we do next?"

When Diego heard this, he also looked ugly.

Because, judging from the current situation, he is indeed somewhat helpless.

But as a veteran with rich war experience, he will not give up easily. (End of chapter)