In that room, after wiping out the Five Island Navy, the punishment fleet slowly approached Jiangchuan City and anchored a hundred meters away from the dock, with no intention of docking.
The reason why we don¡¯t dock is because we don¡¯t know the water conditions and we are afraid of being stranded. Once such a large warship runs aground, it will be in big trouble.
¡°Furthermore, if you keep a safe distance and approach the shore too far, it¡¯s hard to guarantee that the Japanese will take a chance and cause some damage. The former officers and soldiers of the Qi Family Army have seen that Japanese bows and arrows are still very powerful. As long as the distance is more than 100 meters, neither their 'iron cannons' nor their bows and arrows can cause damage. The Coast Guard's Three Emperor Cannons and even the Folang Machine can easily cause damage to people and animals two hundred meters away. It's just so ineffective.
Wang Rulong folded his arms and looked indifferently at the frightened Japanese old, weak, women and children scattered in the villages and towns outside the city.
Jiangchuan City has limited space resources. In order to reduce the burden, only men can go in to defend the city. At most, some young and strong women will be admitted to cook for the defenders and serve as porters. The old, weak, women and children who were regarded as burdens could only flee to the mountains to hide and pray for the battle to end soon. Otherwise, they will all starve and freeze to death in the mountains.
In fact, he could order artillery fire to chase down these women and children, but since the battle is still going on, he has to save ammunition. Secondly, both Marshal Qi and Young Master Zhao strictly prohibited the indiscriminate killing of women and children, believing that it would dehumanize the army - an army of beasts would eventually turn against its master.
The young master is even worse than the commander-in-chief. The commander-in-chief never showed mercy to the Japanese pirates and the young men who joined the thieves, but the young master hoped to catch as many prisoners as possible, then declare them guilty and serve a lifetime of hard labor for the Jiangnan Group. Maybe this is the difference between a pure soldier and
He found that he could not define the young master at all. merchant? Strategist? the scientist? A man who wants to be the Pirate King?
Wang Rulong smiled bitterly and shook his head, forget it, don¡¯t think about it anymore, just follow the young master¡¯s footsteps.
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At this time, the suspension bridge in Jiangchuan City slowly rose, indicating that everyone who should enter the city had entered. Wang Rulong waved his hand and ordered the city gate to be destroyed first.
Jiangchuan City is three hundred meters away from the fleet. Hongxi's range is too short and Xuande's power is too weak. Yongle cannon is most suitable.
On the 203 ship facing Jiangchuan City, ten Yongle cannons on the starboard side fired a salvo, all hitting the stone wall of the city wall, but not a single shell hit the suspension bridge.
"Come again!" He crossed his arms and glared at these unsatisfactory things. "It's only three hundred meters, you can't hit it all and get a demerit!"
The gunners were all scared to death. Demerits are terrible. If you get demerits once, your promotion will be ruined. If you get demerits twice, you will be demoted. If you get demerits three times, you will have to get off the ship!
The second round of bombardment was all carefully aimed. No one dared to shoot indiscriminately, nor did they dare to launch a massive volley.
In fact, the guns are equipped with simple sights, and you can just aim at this distance. Just a shake of the deck would cause the muzzle to shake up and down. Although the amplitude is small, the cannonball can fly a few hundred meters away.
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This time they fired one after another, and the hit rate was indeed much better, with five out of ten shots hitting.
The Yongle cannon was so powerful that once a shell hit the suspension bridge, it smashed a big hole in the thick suspension bridge. After the five cannons came down, the suspension bridge fell into pieces and crashed into the water bank outside the citythat is, into the moat.
"Nani?" Ujiuchunyao on the castle tower was dumbfounded. Isn't the most important thing in the cage battle the battle for the city gate? The people of the Ming Dynasty blew up the suspension bridge, so how could they attack the city and swim across the water bank?
The ashigaru who were busy carrying the defensive equipment also stopped. Even a fool can see that the Ming Dynasty people are not planning to attack the city directly, so what is the use of adding a pile of rolling stones and wood?
"Could it be that they want to besiege us?" Ujiu Xuanya guessed: "Because there are too few troops, we have to take this strategy?"
"It's possible." The young family governor nodded and said to the elders: "Check the supplies and see how long we can last."
Before he finished speaking, he heard bursts of shrill sounds outside.
"They are going to release the firebirds and attack the city with fire!" Yujiuxuanya heard the two groups fighting and said: "The people of the Ming Dynasty used this kind of monster to burn down our warships!"
"Ah?" Yujiuchunyao looked outside, but couldn't help laughing. It turned out that none of the magical flying crows released by the Ming Dynasty could fly into the castle. Some hit the stone wall, and some fell into the water bank.
"Hahaha, what firebird? It's just a fake bird made of straw. It can't fly very high!" Chunyao's proud tail almost reached the sky.
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?None of the captains looked very good-looking. Shenhuo Feiyao was still too stupid to handle such a tall castle.
"Change the rockets!" The captains ordered in a deep voice. The Marines responsible for releasing the firearms quickly put all the fire crows into iron boxes in accordance with the safety regulations, carried them down to the deck, and carried back the oilcloth bags one by one. .
Opening the oilcloth bag, inside were rockets with arrows more than 5 feet long and attached with gunpowder tubes. This is also a long-range firearm equipped in large quantities by the Qi Jiajun, and the Japanese pirates are frightened by it.
The Marines placed the rocket on a special iron stand, aimed it in the direction of Jiangchuan City, and lit the fuse. Rockets roared and flew towards the city.
"Damn it, Congreve Rocket!" On the flagship, Mr. Zhao couldn't help shouting when he saw this scene, and slapped his eldest nephew's thigh hard.
"What do you mean by 'carrying a beautiful woman'?" the eldest nephew asked, grinning.
"It's okay, I said Sanskrit, which means this rocket is very powerful." Mr. Zhao said to his eldest nephew, and then he thought of the prototype of the famous Congreve rocket. Isn't it a rocket invented by the Song Dynasty?
Although the Ming Dynasty¡¯s rockets are obviously not as fierce as the Congreve rockets of the early 19th century, they are not comparable to the Japanese stuff that wraps the arrowheads in oilcloth, lights them and shoots them out with a big bow, which cannot fly dozens of meters.
This is propelled by gunpowder, and its aerodynamic shape is much stronger than that of the Divine Fire Flying Crow. In such a short distance, the Daming Rocket can easily cross the stone wall. Although most of the rockets flew to nowhere, only a small part could fall into the city, but it was enough to cause a fire!
Who made Japan like building houses with wood so much? Although the outside of the castle is well protected from fire, the inside is full of wooden castle houses, and there are piles of grain and grass everywhere all of which have just been rushed in from outside the city.
After a while, thick black smoke began to rise in Jiangchuan City. Now the city lord no longer cares about the new things outside the city. He is fanning himself and shouting to put out the fire quickly.
Seeing the fire in the city, the Marines became energetic. Now they could finally feel proud and proud, opening the eyes of those scornful gunners. They kept up their efforts and continued to release rockets. The sound of whizzing through the air continued. More and more rockets flew into Jiangchuan City, causing fires everywhere.
Many rockets landed in villages and towns outside the city. The Japanese wooden houses were even more easily set on fire and turned into a sea of ????fire in an instant.
Seeing how arrogant the ¡®useless boat passengers¡¯ were, the gunners were naturally not to be outdone. They raised the muzzle of their guns and bombarded Jiangchuan City with red-hot bombs.
Since Chu Liuxiang stole the limelight with his red-hot bomb, the gunners' fear of this "braised iron pellet" has been greatly reduced. In addition, stoves and iron tongs have been improved and become safer. More and more gunners are beginning to choose to use this killer weapon to attack.
The iron sheet stove responsible for heating the iron pellets has begun to be in short supply.
??The red-hot iron bullets were launched one after another, directly smashing the castle tower and roofs in the city, falling into the buildings, causing fires everywhere.
In the end, I don¡¯t know whether it was a rocket or a red fire bomb that ignited the barn in the city. The fire shot into the sky and could no longer be extinguished. It was another season when the weather was dry and the westerly wind was strong. The fire spread quickly and the entire Jiangchuan City turned into a big fire basin.
In the light of the fire, thick smoke and ashes rolled into the sky and drifted eastward
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Jiangchuan City has turned into a purgatory on earth, with people covered in fire screaming and screaming everywhere. The rest of the people were so frightened that they dared not stay in the city. They quickly escaped through the only city gate, and then stopped abruptly.
The suspension bridge is broken, how to cross the river?
Some people shouted loudly, raised white flags and knelt down to surrender.
But orders have been issued before the war. This is a battle to establish prestige. Kill chickens to scare monkeys and take no prisoners!
So, the 203 naval gun facing the city gate opened fire mercilessly, and several shells hit the Japanese pirates who rushed out, directly hitting them with sugar-coated haws. Killed a dozen people with one shot!
The Japanese pirates either waited inside the city to be burned to death, or they rushed to the city gate and were shot to death. Their desperate cries reached the ears of the coast guards even above the roar of the cannons.
But no one will pity them.
Since the Jiajing Japanese Rebellion, these Japanese navy pirates have frequently invaded the Ming Dynasty. They have invaded everything from Liaodong to Fujian. Especially in the Jiangnan area where the Japanese rebellion was the most serious, almost every household had someone die at the hands of the Japanese pirates. In the past twenty years, he has committed countless crimes of burning, killing, raping, humiliating and looting! To pity them is a betrayal of our ancestors and an accomplice to sin!
In the end, the entire Jiangchuan City collapsed in the raging fire. The head of the Uku family, Uku Junyao, his brother Uku Xuanya and more than a dozen family elders collectively performed a disembowelment in the castle tower, once again perfectly interpreting the spirit of Bushido.
How painful it is to be burned to death, how easy it is to commit suicide, just cut it with a fan, it¡¯s painless, you don¡¯t even feel a bit, it¡¯s over in one go
In the end, there were more than 2,000 people in the city, and only a hundred lucky people escaped. They escaped the gunfire, swam across the water bank, and stumbled away into the mountains.
Wang Rulong did not order the pursuit, so let them serve as voluntary propagandists and spread the power of the Ming Dynasty Coast Guard throughout the entire Kyushu!
Starting today, the Five Island Navy, which has suffered heavy blood debts, will be wiped out. The Yujiu family, one of the Japanese pirates' backstage members, has been eliminated! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The elders of the family collectively performed a disembowelment in the castle tower, once again perfectly interpreting the spirit of Bushido.
How painful it is to be burned to death, how easy it is to commit suicide, just cut it with a fan, it¡¯s painless, you don¡¯t even feel a bit, it¡¯s over in one go
In the end, there were more than 2,000 people in the city, and only a hundred lucky people escaped. They escaped the gunfire, swam across the water bank, and stumbled away into the mountains.
Wang Rulong did not order the pursuit, so let them serve as voluntary propagandists and spread the power of the Ming Dynasty Coast Guard throughout the entire Kyushu!
Starting today, the Five Island Navy, which has suffered heavy blood debts, will be wiped out. The Yujiu family, one of the Japanese pirates' backstage members, has been eliminated! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com