The flags of both sides were waving. Wang Wenyue's mixed brigade of the Honshu took the initiative to attack when the shogunate reinforcements gathered to 150,000 and approached the shogunate reinforcements.

The shogunate reinforcements obviously did not know the reason for the failure of Itakura Shigemasa before. The two sides encountered each other ten miles away from Edo. Once they encountered it, the shogunate reinforcements launched a fierce attack on the Mixed Brigade of the Honshu.

As a result, the tragedy happened.

Hundreds of siege cannons were placed in the muzzle and fired a gun at the rushing shogunate army. The lethality was much stronger than howitzers.

The shells break out and break out a bloody path, and then explode with a bang. Generally, as long as the fuse is shorter, it can explode at a height of more than one meter.

Some shells become jumpers during collisions, and some will explode on the ground. The killing effect is not very large, but some can bounce into the air and explode. Once such a situation occurs, shrapnel will pour on the heads of those soldiers like rain.

“Onboard…”

“Onboard…”

The roars of the warriors continued. Under such shelling, the warriors drew their swords, shouted "onboard" and launched a charge.

The Qing army did not have such courage, and Japanese Bushido was indeed crazy.

The howitzers behind also showed their power, but this could not stop the charge of the shogunate reinforcements. Although the artillery's lethality was huge, it could not cover the entire battlefield.

Under the leadership of those warriors, about 40,000 to 50,000 people shouted to launch a desperate charge against the mixed brigade of the state.

The musketeers in front were holding muskets and were ready.

"First row, prepare... to fire..." The commander yelled, and the first row of musketeers immediately stepped forward, placed the muzzle level, and pulled the trigger neatly.

The Japanese army charged five hundred meters away and suddenly fell down a large area like harvesting wheat. The shooting of 600 musketeers caused four or five hundred huge casualties to the Japanese army.

"Second row preparation..."

The second row of musketeers quickly stepped forward.

"Open fire!"

"Bang bang bang..." When the trigger was pulled, a rain of bullets hit him again, knocking down the Yu army.

These musketeers seemed very calm because the enemy was still far away from them, at a distance of 500 meters, and the opponent was an infantryman, which was enough for them to shoot many guns. At the same time, the opponent could not attack their weapons at such a long distance, so they were very safe.

Although the new musket is not that fast in firing rate, its power has been greatly improved, and it is most suitable for combating in such open terrain.

As musketeers continued to shoot and kill the Japanese army, the artillery specifically attacked those areas where the enemy was concentrated, and gradually extended the artillery to the original formation of the shogunate reinforcements that had not charged.

The 110,000 reinforcements of the shogunate were now observing the strength of the Ming army. When they saw the fierce firepower, they all looked bad.

These Ming army's muskets could attack them at five hundred meters away, and at the same time, the artillery could hit them at a thousand meters away. However, what they unexpectedly expected was that the Ming army's guns actually hit their original formation.

Their original formation was three miles away from the Ming army and a distance of one thousand five hundred meters. The Ming army's artillery bombarded one by one.

The 150 125mm howitzers and 10 200mm howitzers were all transferred to most of the shogunate reinforcements for uninterrupted bombing.

For a moment, the horses were overturned, and the horses that the commanders of the shogunate reinforcements were frightened and jumped around, throwing the people above them down, or turning around and running wildly.

Under the shell-off attack, the shogunate soldiers saw that the samurai leaders ran away and joined the fleeing queue. As soon as the head of the shogunate reinforcements retreated, more than 30,000 shogunate troops charging ahead had no follow-up support, and the Mixed Brigade Cavalry Battalion immediately launched a charge.

The sound of cannons stopped, and only half of the more than 30,000 shogunate troops that charged were left to death, and they were extremely scattered. The cavalry battalions kept slaughtering Japanese people on the positions like slaughtering pigs and dogs.

The Japanese finally couldn't hold on and ran away crying under the iron hooves, which accelerated their demise and left their backs to the enemy. This is the stupidest way to do it. This is in the Shandong Army's infantry regulations: exposing your back to the enemy will make you die faster.

In previous defeats, soldiers took this regulation as the most reasonable thing, because the enemy who turned around and fled was always the easiest to slaughter.

"Everyone moves forward!" Wang Wenyue shouted.

"Everyone moves forward..."

"Everyone moves forward..."

The mixed brigade of this state began to advance forward to resolve the unfinished battles behind the cavalry. After an hour, the battle ended and the cavalry battalion returned.

Under the pursuit of the cavalry battalion, only a few thousand Japanese people who launched the charge escaped.

At this time, a team of scouts rushed over, and one of them turned over and dismounted, and reported to Wang Wenyue: "Report to the brigade, the enemy's granary is placed a city called Guhe a hundred miles away."

"How about the city defense?" Wang Wenyue asked.

"There is only a three-meter-high low earth wall, and the number of defenders in the city is not yet known." The scout replied.

"Let the cavalry battalion bring rockets, pull up the siege cannons, and circumnavigate the enemy's rear to destroy their granaries." Wang Wenyue immediately ordered, "If the defenders are too strong, they should not attack them."

"yes."

...The cavalry battalion had not yet been repaired, so it pulled up twenty siege cannons to form a temporary cavalry cannon battalion, and at the same time brought more than three thousand rockets toward the ancient river city.

The Japanese army, which had retreated five miles in a row, was in a dilemma at this moment.

Although the Japanese warriors were crazy, they were not unlimited in such a battle with huge power disparity. The strength of the Ming army was beyond their imagination.

They have almost no chance of defeating fighting on such plains. When the ferocious artillery exploded, except for some warriors, most ordinary soldiers would collapse.

It's not safe within two thousand meters!

Even if the other party can't even touch the corner of his clothes, how can he talk about defeating the other party? What's more, the other party has cavalry, and only some of their senior personnel have horses.

Two voices appeared within the reinforcements, one side was determined to fight, and the other side believed that peace talks should be made with the Ming people.

Just when the two sides were quarreling, the cavalry battalion, under the cover of scouts and reconnaissance, circled the flanks of the Japanese army and went straight to the Guhe River. They killed people along the way to avoid revealing their whereabouts.

The Cavalry Battalion rested for one night halfway, set off again the next day, and arrived outside the ancient river city in the early morning of the third day.

Outside the ancient river city was a three-meter-high rammed earth wall, which made the soldiers in the cavalry battalion laugh. Even the city defense of any county in the Ming Dynasty was much stronger than this.

However, the Ming Dynasty was an alien in this era. A stranger who built a city wall and a Great Wall never stopped for more than 200 years. There were fortifications everywhere in the provinces and places of the Ming Dynasty, so Japan naturally could not match it.

The Japanese in the city suddenly saw a group of cavalry coming, and were all at a loss.

The cavalry battalion set up artillery and rockets directly outside the city, and began to bomb the small city.

The rockets roared in, and immediately sparked a fire in the ancient river, which was full of wooden buildings. Twenty siege cannons were placed five hundred meters away and bombarded the three-meter-high low earth wall. After a few guns went down, they leveled the low earth wall for a long time.

The defenders in the city were blown away, and thousands of Japanese troops had no choice but to face such professional war machines.

The cavalry battalion that exploded the low earth wall did not rush into the Gu River, but continued to launch rockets outside the city. Fires were everywhere in the city. With the continuous launch of rockets, the fires in the city became more and more prosperous, and it was no longer something that people could put out.

The cavalry battalion was guarding outside the city, observing the raging fire inside the city.

"Battery Commander, it's still burning there for so long, and it's a burnt smell of rice. It must be the Japanese granary."

"Yeah! Yes, stop launching rockets." Seeing that the target had been ignited, the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion ordered to stop launching rockets into the city.

Rockets are expensive things, meaningless destruction, waste and massacre are not allowed.

The fire burned for nearly half a day before the flames in the granary gradually subsided. It is estimated that at least more than 100,000 stones of grain were burned. The cavalry battalion destroyed the granary in the city before leaving.

At the same time, Wang Wenyue blocked the three gates of Edo again. Tokugawa Iemitsu watched the battle on the city wall, and his face turned dead.

The reinforcements were defeated!

Although it was not a big defeat, under the strong force of the Ming army, there was obviously no possibility of victory.

"Stop out." Tokugawa Iemitsu immediately decided to leave Edo. Under the premise that reinforcements failed, Edo had become very dangerous and could be conquered by the Ming army with artillery at any time. Then he would be finished.

Moreover, the Ming army had superior artillery and the city walls could not stop their pace, but they surrounded and did not attack. They were obviously waiting for reinforcements. Once the Ming army's reinforcements arrived, he would not even have a chance to run.

In order to break through the Ming army's siege, Tokugawa Iemitsu formulated a strategy to break through on three sides.

On the evening of July 19th, Tokugawa Iemitsu mobilized 50,000 troops in Edo Castle and began to break through.

The Japanese army first rushed out of the West Gate. Shogunate samurai shouted onboard and led ordinary soldiers to launch a desperate charge. These samurai, as the most senior retainers of the Tokugawa Shogunate, became even more crazy.

Wang Wenyue set up more than a dozen cannons in three gates. As soon as the Japanese army rushed out, the cannons shot one after another.

The Xicheng Gate suddenly became a bloody road. The shells broke through the Japanese army, and then exploded with a bang, and rows of Japanese troops fell at the city gate.

The musketeers behind him kept firing, and the Ximen Japanese army could not break through such a siege. The waves of charge were repelled.

At the same time, the same situation happened at the North Gate. The North City Gate suddenly opened and the Japanese army rushed out like crazy.

Also blocked by the mixed brigade.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was watching the battle situation with the light of the Ming army at the top of the city. Seeing that the breakout between the Ximen and the North Gate could not mobilize the Ming army, I was extremely anxious.

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu decisively changed its strategy and transferred the troops from the West Gate and the East Gate to the North Gate, focusing all on the North Gate to break through.

All 70,000 troops were concentrated at the North Gate.

Teams of samurai held high and each controlled the soldiers.

A team of thousands of Japanese troops rushed out of the city gate and immediately heard the onboard shouts drowned in the rumbling sound of cannons. Under such a powerful weapon of war, anyone would feel helpless.

"Ozawa, come on!"

"Hayi!" Toyohara Ozawa pulled out the samurai sword and shouted: "Onboard..."

Then he took the lead to rush out of the city gate, and saw that there were corpses on the road outside the city gate, and the ground was filled with blood. As soon as Fengyuan Ozawa rushed out, he immediately saw a light rushing. With a loud bang, he felt a shock on his body and immediately lost consciousness... There was no suspense. Under the shooting of artillery and muskets, the thousand Japanese troops were wiped out again, but the Japanese troops in the city were endless. As soon as the front fell, the back rushed out.

"Company Commander, no, the barrel is crooked." At this time, an artillery soldier from the north gate shouted, and the barrel of the bronze cannon they were operating was almost deformed.

"Change gunshots."

"yes."

Soon the artillery behind pushed up and replaced the dozen bronze cannons that had been firing for half an hour.

The service life of ordinary bronze cannons is more than 300 rounds, but as long as they shoot for half an hour, they will definitely be scrapped, and the barrel will be severely deformed while it is boiling.
To be continued...