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Chapter 1063 The death squad in front of the machine gun
"Kill!" Date Tadamune led the samurai death squad to attack Nagoya with artillery and muskets. From time to time, grenades exploded around them, and bullets from rear-loading rifles splashed gravel on the ground, which made their charge morale extremely high. pause.

There is a large gap in Nagoya Castle, which was blasted out by Mizuno Katsunari's concentrated artillery.When Nagoya Castle was built, the Tokugawa shogunate could not imagine the ferocity of the current firepower, and could not withstand the bombardment of dense artillery, and soon a gap appeared under the concentrated artillery bombardment.

"The machine gunner is in position, seal the gap! Your team assists the machine gunner to hold the gap!" Nelson commanded from a height.

Dozens of people from a naval squad built temporary fortifications near the gap, and the breech-loading muskets they used could hide behind the fortifications and shoot.

In addition to the naval squad armed with breech-loading muskets, two Gatling machine guns formed a crossfire at the gap in Nagoya.

The machine gunner looked nervously at the dust that filled the gap, and soon a shogunate samurai rushed in through the gap.

After a while, the samurai led by Date Zhongzong appeared, holding flintlock guns in their hands, and started shooting after entering the gap.

"Machine gunner!" The officer who deployed the defense at the gap saw the armored samurai coming in, and ordered the machine gunner.

Da da da!The machine gunner began to turn the handle quickly, and the Gatling machine gun fired metal bullets, sealing the gap to death!

The musketeers deployed in the gap formed a half-moon defensive line, and fired at the samurai rushing into the gap at the same time as the machine gunners.

Gunshots rang out everywhere, and the warriors who just thought they could break through the city wall suffered heavy casualties in the gunfire, and some warriors were shot to death from time to time!
Date Tadamune, who had plucked up his courage, joined the Death Squad, but he was so suppressed that he couldn't lift his head when he encountered the metal machine gun. He could only hide behind the stone wall of the gap and dared not rush into the gap.

"My lord, the enemy seems to have concentrated a large number of muskets to block the gap, and we cannot break in!" The warriors who acted with Date Tadamune also clung to the stone wall, not daring to continue to risk their lives.

Even if it is a death squad, it must be valuable to sacrifice, not to die meaninglessly.A storm of metal bullets calms their minds.They realized that if they continued to charge inside, they would die in vain.

"It's not a large number of muskets, but a secret weapon called a machine gun! I have seen the power of this secret weapon when I attacked Xiaoshan. I didn't expect that they had similar firearms in Nagoya. Could it be that the Kyushu Army has already advanced? At this point, all the troops are equipped with this kind of secret firearm.” Date Zhongzong and Lu Xiangsheng had tasted the taste of hand-cranked machine guns when they fought against each other, and were terrified of the power of machine guns.

"Their secret firearms have already controlled the gap. We can't break through the gap, so we should retreat for now..."

Date Tadamune and the samurai of the Death Squad were scared away by the machine guns and gave up the tactic of breaking into Nagoya through the gap.

Mizuno Katsunari did not blame Date Tadamune and others who had retreated.He knew that under the unknown blockade of machine guns, it would be difficult for Date Tadamune and others to break through the gap.

"I didn't expect Nagoya to deploy this kind of secret firearm. How many such powerful machine guns do they have?" Mizuno Katsunari pondered.

"They have such a sharp defensive weapon, what should we do?" Date Tadamune found out that the desperate charge was meaningless, and rarely felt real despair.

"Continue to bombard Nagoya and create as many gaps as possible. We divide our forces and advance at night, and we may be able to successfully break into Nagoya." Mizuno Katsunari said after a while of silence.

The battle in Nagoya continued, and Mizuno Katsunari tried his best to find a way to capture Nagoya as soon as possible. However, Nelson was also a famous general, and he had more advanced firearms and well-trained soldiers with a small number of people.

As time passed, the shogunate army had less and less food, and even ordinary soldiers felt something was wrong.

"Why is there so little food released today? We have run out of food for the waist soldiers, and the food distributed from above is only half of the usual, so there is no physical strength to fight." It is not just that the farmers who came from forced labor received less food. , Even the ration of the samurai is only half of the usual.

"Didn't you find that the food transport team from the rear hasn't arrived these days? Is there something wrong with our rear?"

"Based on my experience, it is very likely that the grain road in the rear was cut off and the grain warehouse was captured. It is very likely that there will be no grain in a few days."

In Tokugawa Iemitsu's army, samurai and peasant soldiers were whispering.

Tokugawa Iemitsu stood on the ruins of Tennoji Temple and looked at the smoke rising from the camps of the Allied Forces and the reinforcements of the Kyushu Army opposite.

"A peasant uprising broke out in Shikoku Island, and we are short of food. Fortunately, you brought food from Kyushu Island and the mainland, otherwise we will fall into a situation where our soldiers and food will be cut off."

"In the later period of the siege of Osaka Castle by the shogunate, our group of daimyos could only eat dried radishes to survive."

"Osaka Castle's artillery is not strong enough to face the shogunate. Fortunately, it is the cold winter that can barely block the attack of the shogunate. If it is midsummer, it is estimated that Osaka Castle has been destroyed before your reinforcements arrive."

Yamauchi Tadyoshi, Tachibana Soshige and other Nishikoku daimyo and Lu Xiangsheng and other Kyushu Army officers sat on the ground and talked about their tragic situation when Osaka Castle was besieged.

"It is time to end the civil war that has lasted for several years. With the advent of more and more powerful firearms, the scale of the war has increased, and the number of people killed and injured in each war has also increased. If it continues like this, it will become poorer and poorer everywhere. They are all peasant armies, how can they last?" Yamauchi Tadyoshi said.

He is the daimyo of Shikoku Island. The peasant uprising broke out in Shikoku Island, leaving only a few strongholds in his rear. He had no way to abandon the Osaka defense line and return to Shikoku Island to quell the rebellion.

"With the establishment of the new province, will us samurai really be abolished? Ordinary samurai may rebel if they hear the news." Some daimyos of the Western Kingdom understand that the shogunate army will surrender sooner or later, so they consider the rule after the civil war question.

According to the secret agreement between the Kyushu Army and the Fallen Allied Forces, after the establishment of the Dongying Province, it will be governed completely according to the model of the Chinese mainland, and the "deformed" products of the shogunate and the samurai group will be completely abolished.

"Rebellion, just suppress it when the time comes. Although your daimyo of the Western Kingdom will lose your privileges, we will compensate you for some intangible privileges and benefits. As a price, you have to help us appease the people everywhere and the warriors who suppressed the rebellion, and let them accept the Dongying Province. Establish this fact." Lu Xiangsheng said.

(End of this chapter)