Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 345 Ending at Tsurumaru Castle

On the sea near Tsurumaru Castle, the Ming army's buildings and gunboats were already roaring continuously.

On the east wall of Tsurumaru Castle, the defenders of the Satsuma domain had disappeared.

The Shimadzu family was really bombarded to the point of collapse, and had to abandon the eastern city wall.

Taichang, on the other hand, scanned through the binoculars calmly, without any intention of ordering the shelling to stop.

Japanese pirates are very cunning, don't give them any chance!
After more than 25 rounds of bombardment by [-] Longya gunboats, the east wall of Tsurumaru Castle was finally bald.

The city wall is really bare, nothing is there, even the female wall on the back has been leveled.

Taichang scanned carefully with the binoculars, and then ordered calmly: "Order, order Cao Wenzhao to lead the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion on the chariot and the wolf-fang warship to board the pier, gather at the foot of the mountain, and prepare to attack the city. Yes Alright, send some Spike warships over here, and send them ten ladders over there."

The building boats and gunboats were still bombarding, but tens of thousands of infantry from the Shenwu Battalion had already swarmed up, boarded the pier, and formed a neat shield formation under Tsurumaru Castle.

In a short while, ten ladders were sent over, and the forty rounds of bombardment by 25 Longya warships ended quickly.

Seeing this, Taichang issued an order: "Order, order the Longya battleship to stop shelling, and order Cao Wenzhao to lead the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to rush up quickly."

"Kill!"

The violent roar of artillery had just stopped, and the sound of shouting and killing like a mountain roar and a tsunami sounded again.

Cao Wenzhao led his men and horses directly up the hillside more than [-] meters high, set up a ladder, and quickly climbed up the east wall of Tsurumaru City.

In fact, the city wall of Tsurumaru City is less than two feet high, and the two-foot-long ladder has grown a lot.

There may not be a two-foot-high city wall in the entire Dongpu.

Perhaps, you can consider building more ladders like this in advance and placing them directly on the Spike and Dragon Fang warships.

In this way, no matter where you rush to attack the city, you don't need to build ladders.

Anyway, Dongying is surrounded by water on all sides, so it is very convenient to transport the ladder.

At this time, the gates to the east of Tsurumaru Castle were all opened, and it was obvious that the Shenwu Battalion had completely occupied the east wall.

Seeing this, Taichang gave another order: "Order to transfer the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion on the Longya warship to the shore with the wolf-fang warship and the wheels, and the navy musketeers on the wolf-fang warship and the wheels also go up to help. Once the east side of Tsurumaru Castle is assembled, we will rush in and seize the castle."

He will not leave any chance to the Japanese pirates, he will rape as many people as he can.

Japanese pirates are typical people who don’t shed tears when they don’t see the coffin. If they don’t do it until they lie on the ground and can’t get up, they won’t be honest.

Shimadzu Iehisa did not shed tears when he saw the coffin. Although he was almost collapsed by the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, he did not give up resistance, let alone surrender.

He couldn't defend the east wall, but it was impossible for the Ming army's artillery to cover the entire Tsurumaru city.

He also wanted to take advantage of the familiar terrain in Tsurumaru City to fight the Ming army to the death.

It is true that the artillery of the Dongyang Navy cannot cover the entire Tsurumaru Castle, and the infantry of the Shenwu Battalion have not had time to equip artillery, but they still have muskets, and tens of thousands of musketeers from the Dongyang Navy have also disembarked to help.

The total strength of Cao Wenzhao's men has reached more than [-], and it is enough to flatten a small Tsurumaru City!

He directly ordered, ordering his infantry to form small mandarin duck formations, line up the shield wall, and lead the navy's musketeers to push them all the way from east to west, from the city wall to the inside of the city.

At this moment, the small Tsurumaru Castle became lively. I don't know how many warriors from the Shimadzu family suddenly rushed out from hidden houses, trying to sneak attack the advancing Ming army.

However, what greeted them was either dense musket bullets or a pile of long guns.

The short swords in their hands can't reach them at all!

As for the north and south walls, the defenders of the Satsuma domain also retreated in a row, and they had nothing to do with the shield walls advancing layer upon layer.

The Ming army lined up the shield wall and pushed all the way. If they rushed up, they would be pierced with spears, and if they didn't rush up, they would be smashed into a sieve by the dense musket bullets!
Facing this kind of shield advance, they really have nothing to do.

Not only are they short, their hands are short, and their weapons are also short, but their bows and arrows and guns can't hit the iron shields of the Ming army at all. What can they do?
They can only retreat steadily!
Shimadzu Jiajiu on the west wall looked at the Ming army advancing up and down the wall, with a look of despair on his face again.

The Ming army is really too powerful!

If they didn't go up the city wall, they might still have to fight. Now the people on the wall and under the city wall are densely packed with people. There are many more people than them. How can they fight?
It's not that the Shimadzu family can't get together more than 3 horses.

The problem is that they have to guard the three kingdoms of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga, and they also have to send people to suppress the newly occupied Ryukyu Kingdom, and they also have to send people to drive the thousands of large and small warships in the Navy!
In other words, their Shimadzu clan's troops were divided into five groups, and there was more than one Tsurumaru Castle in Satsuma, and people had to be guarded in other places.

Therefore, he could bring less than [-] people to guard Tsurumaru Castle.

Facing the well-equipped Ming army, which was three or four times as numerous as theirs, he was really desperate.

Even if he was unwilling to give up Tsurumaru Castle, he had to run away.

Otherwise, he and his infantry would all have to confess here.

No choice but to withdraw.

He hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth with a face full of unwillingness: "Send the order, open the west gate, everyone retreats quickly, and retreats to Satsuma River!"

As soon as he gave an order, the defenders of Satsuma and the samurai of the Shimadzu family ran away.

It's true that these guys have a little bushido spirit, but the bushido spirit also scores points.

If the feudal lord ordered to stick to it, there may be many people who really stick to it.

The problem is that the feudal lords have ordered to retreat at this moment, what kind of bushido spirit are they talking about, so hurry up and run away!
Seeing this, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help being taken aback.

Why did the Japanese pirates who were still crazy suddenly run away as if they had changed their gender?

Should he chase or not?
This is a problem.

He thought about it for a while, and then gave the order: "Order, occupy the four walls and all the main roads in the city, and pay attention to prevent Japanese pirates from sneaking in."

Immediately afterwards, he said to the guards beside him: "Hurry up and report to the emperor, Tsurumaru Castle has been captured, and the defenders of Satsuma Domain have escaped from the west gate."

Taichang couldn't help but feel relieved when he received the news.

Tsurumaru Castle was finally captured, and the Daming navy and infantry finally had a place to stay.

This is a good start, a good start to destroy Japan.

To be honest, this Tsurumaru castle is really good.

As long as it is repaired a little bit, and then a platform is dug out on the mountainside and the bottom of the mountain, and then built with a city wall, and then enough artillery is installed, this is a fortress that is almost impossible to conquer.

This Kagoshima Bay is an excellent harbor, not only large enough, but also close to Taicang Port.

As long as it is well constructed, this type is the best place to garrison troops and forward bases.

He was constantly scanning the terrain around Tsurumaru Castle with the gun barrel telescope, and one of Cao Wenzhao's personal guards hurried over on a cart, bowed his hands excitedly, and said, "Your Majesty, we found the Japanese pirates." treasuries and grain stores.”

Oh?
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help being surprised and said, "Is there a lot of money and food?"

The guard nodded repeatedly and said: "There is a lot of silver, the small ones estimate that there are at least four or five million taels, and there is also a lot of food, it is estimated that there are millions of shi."

It is rumored that Dongying is rich in silver, and it is true, there is so much silver in a small Tsurumaru city!
This feeling of stealing money is really cool!
Especially robbing Japanese pirates of money!

The reason why the Shimadzu family was hesitant to leave was because of the money and food. They also believed that Tsurumaru Castle was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was almost impossible to conquer it. Therefore, the silver that the Shimadzu family had robbed over the years Most of the accumulated food and food are stored in Tsurumaru City.

They can run, but the money and food cannot be taken away!
So he hesitated for a while in despair before ordering a retreat.

(End of this chapter)