Chongzhen Undergraduates

"That's right, our brothers are just being cannon fodder for Lai Heng, and we all recognize them today." Hao Yaoqi said, shaking his head vigorously.

Chapter 677: Burning Osaka [-]

After Li Guo and the others landed, they did not rush to march towards Osaka. Instead, they stayed in Wakayama for two full days, fed and drank enough, and regained their energy before slowly marching towards Osaka.

This was actually discussed earlier, because there are not many main forces that Zheng Chenggong can mobilize now, the navy can only land in Wakayama in batches, and then go back to organize the fleet, come back through the Kii Waterway, and jointly attack from both land and water. Osaka.

Such a delay of time has clearly given the opportunity for the Japanese army to deploy heavy troops to block them, so this battle will be a face-to-face fight between the Ming army and the Japanese army, the first main confrontation between the two sides.

On this day, the weather was sunny and cloudless. In Tianjiri Town, a small fishing village [-] miles southwest of Osaka, a large white cloud suddenly floated over from the sea.Immediately afterwards, a rumbling sound came from a distance, and the road seemed to be shaken by something.

The fishermen panicked to pack up their things, thinking it was another earthquake.I think it is because of the frequent earthquakes in Japan, so the houses in Japan are basically wooden houses and thatched houses, and there are even few earthen houses.This kind of wooden house is the most earthquake-proof, even if it collapses, it will not kill people.

Just when the fishermen ran out in a panic and came to the open space, a group of huge cavalry rushed over from a distance.

"Oh my god!" The Japanese had never seen such a big warhorse before, they thought it was some kind of monster coming, and the leather armor of the cavalryman, even his face was dark, it was too scary.

Zhu Youjian originally didn't want to equip the cavalry with armor, but thinking about the arrows of this era, he finally decided to wear a layer of leather armor for the cavalry, which is better than nothing, mainly because of the loss of defense.He also didn't expect to play heavy armored cavalry charge in this era. Although he was so fierce and bloody, the blood that flowed out was hot, and it was human life after all.

"Run!" People will definitely run away, especially the people at the bottom, when they see something they are afraid of, they must run for their lives.Whose life is life.

After all, the Ming army was not a Japanese devil, and they would not kill people indiscriminately, and they would not engage in the Sanguang policy, at least they would not attack such a fishing village.

When the Ming army marched into Osaka, the main force of Japan had already gathered around Osaka.Of course, the leader of the army is still Arisugawa Palace.At this time, Xingren Xingren was on the top floor of the castle tower, using a binoculars to look at the movement in the southwest direction.At present, the Japanese army has mobilized a full 10 troops, which is almost 8% of the troops that the royalists can mobilize, and they are all concentrated here.

"Yamamoto-kun, are your men ready to ambush?" Yukihito Arisugawa shook the knife in his hand vigorously. He was a little nervous. After all, there has been no royal family in Japan who has been lucky enough to lead so many troops for hundreds of years. fought.

"Hi! According to your order, my subordinates have already ambushed outside the city. As long as the Ming army comes to attack the city, I will use the flag as a banner to attack suddenly, and I will definitely kill the Ming army." Yamamoto Jiying raised his palm and said He made a slashing motion.

"Yoshi! Iida-kun, how about you?" Arisugawa Miya Yukito asked Iida Tadahiko.

"Hey! My men have sneaked into the fishing village on the shore. As long as Ming people dare to go ashore, my men will slap them." Iida Tadahiko asked very arrogantly.

"Yoshi! Matsuura-kun will join me in defending Osaka Castle." Xingren said.

The three great ministers of Xingren's family have all arrived, or in other words, the most powerful force of the Japanese imperial family in this era has gathered in Osaka.

"Come, come!" Xing Ren was still making the final arrangements, and a sentry with flags on his back hurriedly ran to the crowd, panting.

As soon as Xingren turned around, he immediately looked to the southwest, but his binoculars were too poor, and he could see from the mirror that there was a cloud of dust flying in the southwest, and then he couldn't see anything.However, on the sea off the coast of Osaka, the white sails that cannot be seen at a glance are quite clear.The sails of the warships of the Ming army were not generally large.On the main mast of the leading battleship, a flag of the Ming Dynasty fluttered high.However, there are no banners bearing the surnames of any generals.

"Strange, why is there no Zheng Sen's flag?" Xing Ren was taken aback.

"Maybe he didn't come, but he is also half Japanese." Matsuura Tatsuo explained.

Just when Matsuura Tatsuo said that Zheng Chenggong hadn't come, on the largest warship in the fleet, Zheng Chenggong was carefully observing the Japanese defense situation on the coast of Osaka with binoculars.

"Master Guoxing, aren't you afraid that the Japanese will say that you don't show respect?" Zhou Quanbin asked softly.

"My surname is Zheng, and I am the commander of Daming's navy. Today I represent Daming. Don't underestimate me." Zheng Chenggong said seriously.

Although Zheng Chenggong was also very reluctant to see Japan and Daming go to war, and although he also revealed a general information to the emperor, a war is a war.Zheng Chenggong did not sell any information or intelligence that should not be said.When Daming wants to start a war against someone, he will not say a word of no.

"Order the ships to aim at the target and fire." Zheng Chenggong shook his cloak, and the first order was issued immediately.

"The main battleship of the Ming army is definitely not a joke. A battleship has 23 cannons on one side alone. This is not the strongest flagship. The flames from the muzzle alone make Xingren who is far away in Osaka City Feeling trembling, Xingren's body squatted down with every cannon fire.

"What kind of cannon is this? Why is it so powerful?" Xingren's teeth chattered, and his words trembled.

"This Zheng Sen is so ruthless. This cannon is too powerful. You can see that the bottom of my feet is moving." Matsuura Tatsuo felt the ground shaking under his feet.

With naval guns firing across the shore, one can imagine what kind of a miserable situation it would be for Japan, which has no power to fight back.You can also imagine that during the Songhu War, the Chinese army guarded Songjiang with flesh and blood, what a tragic scene it was.Moreover, the Japanese naval guns at that time were much larger than the current Ming naval guns, and a single shot could kill a squad or even a company.

The sound of "booming" continued, and the shells kept flying over the beach, concentrating on the ground and exploding.I saw many Japanese houses with simple wooden houses, many of which were already slowly catching fire.However, because this is the seaside, these dwellings are low and damp, most of the fires did not burn, and were quickly extinguished by the Japanese.

The army on the fleet did not start to land on the beach, mainly because the army on the shore had not sent a signal.Zheng Chenggong didn't go into the specific battle plan of Li Guo and others, but he was very surprised why the field army didn't even fire a cannon for a long time. Could something happen?

Chapter 678: Burning Osaka Five

Osaka used to be the vice capital of the imperial family. In 1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle on the land of the old Ishiyama Honganji Temple, taking Osaka as the central city of his rule.Due to geographical reasons, there are still many slopes around Osaka in the seventeenth century, and Osaka Castle is not as big as later generations.

As soon as Li Guo led the army into the outskirts of Osaka, a group of men dressed in Japanese civilian clothes came towards them.

"Thank you, Commander Li!" A middle-sized man took off the bamboo hat on his head, revealing his true face.

"If you don't see Chen Jinnan in your life, it's useless to call him a hero! I'm Li Guo, but I haven't seen you, Chen Jinnan, for several years." Li Guo smiled heartily.

"Commander Li canceled me, the real hero is the one who kills the enemy on the battlefield." Chen Jinnan quickly waved his hand in denial.

"Hey! You, Chen Jinnan, are a real hero for being able to stay alone in the Wa country for three years and make a mess of it. I, Li Guo, admire you."

The Chen Jinnan in front of him looked like a Japanese no matter how he looked, if Li Guo hadn't met Chen Jinnan, he would really have treated him like a Japanese.

Since Chen Jinnan succeeded in assassinating the Japanese Emperor three years ago, he and the backbone of his Tiandihui have been lurking in the country of Japan.While secretly developing power, while collecting information about the Wa country.It can be said that the civil strife in the Wa country in the past few years also owed some credit to the Tiandihui.

"How many people do you have now?" Li Guo was not polite, because before leaving, Zhu Youjian had confessed that Wa Kingdom itself had a force of its own.

"A full [-] young and strong, all brought here." Chen Jinnan pointed behind him, a hill and forest, but no one could be seen.

"They are all Japanese?" Li Guo asked.

"They were all taken in the Northeast, and half of them were smuggled to Vladivostok." Chen Jinnan knew what Li Guo was worried about.

In Zhu Youjian's words, there will be traitors among the Han people, and the Japanese people are not monolithic, and now the Ming Dynasty is powerful.Every year, many Japanese people smuggle to Haishengwei, the purpose is not to go to Daming to live a good life.

"Okay, let your people help us build the camp first. This time we brought a lot of supplies, and we need to build a bigger camp." Li Guo said.

"Shouldn't you attack the city directly?" Chen Jinnan glanced at the rumbling gunfire from the navy in the distance and asked.

"No hurry! Let the navy fight first, our task is to take our time." Li Guo was very calm.

Osaka was right in front of us, but the army moved forward slowly as if they were on an outing, without any sense of urgency for the war. This made both Chen Jinnan and Zheng Chenggong, who had already sensed the war, feel puzzled.

With the participation of [-] laborers, the construction of the Ming army camp was very fast, and the scale was indeed not small.In just two hours, a huge camp was erected in the southern suburbs of Osaka Castle.The appalling scale was half the size of Osaka Castle.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Xingren felt a little bad and asked, "How about the casualties of Iida Army's subordinates?"

Matsuura Tatsuo replied: "Not yet, the artillery of the Ming army stopped before dark, and they must be checking the casualties."

The naval bombardment lasted for a long time, and the visible targets on the west coast of Osaka Castle had already been blown to pieces.In this battle, the Japanese army was bombarded to death without even seeing the Ming army.

"His Royal Highness, Lord Yamamoto sent someone to ask you, should they withdraw to the city first?" Matsuura Tatsuo hesitated for a long time, and finally choked out a word.

"Nani, hasn't Yamamoto-kun joined the battle yet?" Xingren was in a daze. He had been concerned about the war in the west all day, and almost forgot about Yamamoto Jiying and the Japanese army ambushing in the southern suburbs.

"Yes. The Ming army in the south has not attacked. They have already set up camp and have dinner." When Matsuura Tatsuo said dinner, his throat was a little saliva, and he also wanted to eat dinner.

"Baga, there is no rice ball if there is no record. Let Shan Benjiying go to attack the camp while I am here, and I will wait for him to return in victory." Xingren is not aimless. The Ming army has just arrived, and the camp is also newly established. , is still well planned.