Chapter 831: Battle of Kobe Plains
Recently, news has spread all over the sky.
As soon as the seventh year of the Apocalypse comes, the news of victory ahead will fly like snowflakes.
In December last year, Zhang Pan led the Dunlai Navy Division to destroy the main fleet of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Battle of Nagasaki. In the first month of the year, the troops arrived at Edo, Kyoto, the Japanese-nu Kingdom, and met with the army of Spain, Britain, the Netherlands, and the Three Kingdoms.
After landing, the gap between the firearms and tactics between the Ming army and the shogunate army became more prominent.
Outside Kobe Castle, the last stronghold in Edo Castle, the shogunate army carried out its only resistance under the leadership of the general Ida Masamune under Tokugawa Iemitsu.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhang Pan led the Ming army to invincible all the way and entered Kobe City with unstoppable momentum.
As soon as the Ming army entered the city, they discovered that Kobe was an empty city.
Then there was a shout of killing from all directions, but it was Masamune Ida who gathered the elite main force of the entire shogunate, with more than 40,000 flag-makers, and made an ambush circle, waiting for the Ming army to be shortlisted.
Zhang Pan ordered the city to be captured and defended. At first, Qiuqiu did not commit any crime, but the Japanese people in Kobe City began to attack the Ming army and responded to the shogunate army.
The Ming army suffered casualties gradually increased, and most of them were sneak attacked by Japanese slaves in the city. Zhang Pan was furious and sent some troops to the streets to maintain order.
The Ming army suffered from internal and external attacks, showing its decline on the front battlefield for the first time.
Looking at the deputy general who came to report, Zhang Pan's face became increasingly ugly. He stood up and said, "Tell me my order, kill! Massacre the city!"
In extraordinary times, extraordinary means have to be used.
After Zhang Pan's order was issued, the Spanish army appeared in Hirano outside Kobe City. They used suicidal guns and heavy Fran machine cannons to gain an absolute advantage in the face of the suicide-style charge shogunate army.
The commander of the Spanish Invincible Armada shouted: "Shoot!"
"fire--!"
The smoke of gunpowder spread everywhere on the battlefield, and the shogunate army soon suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Spanish flanks, and the scattered flags fell down like harvesting wheat.
At the top of the city, the Ming army had installed the cannons in the Zhenwu and began to constantly suck the flames on the plain.
Compared with the coalition forces, the original firearms used by the shogunate army have almost no use, and the flagpole can only attack if it rushes to the front of the eyes.
Although the number of people was superior, the more than 800 Spanish musketeers on the flank were like rocks in the waves, unmoving.
There were more and more shogunate bodies in front of them, but the Spaniards did not suffer any casualties. At the same time, the Ming army in the city was also clearing out the Japanese people in Kobe City.
Countless Ming soldiers, holding steel knives, broke into the streets and alleys in Kobe City. They all looked fierce and fierce. They kicked open the door and rushed in to cause a burst of chaos.
"Catch them out!"
"The commander's military order, all the men who can carry the sword can be killed, and the woman will be shipped back to the Ming Dynasty!"
The Ming army had no crime before, but this did not arouse the support of the Japanese people. Since it has become a villain, Zhang Pan doesn't mind being a little more "evil".
What's more, given the current strict military rules of the Ming army, if they do not issue this order, they will only be passive in the city and constantly be attacked and suffer casualties.
Since they cannot be influenced, they can rely on the butcher knife to make them afraid.
After ordering, the Ming army began to search people from door to door in Kobe City. Any adult man who was killed when he saw him would not say anything more.
When the Japanese in the city were almost wiped out, the shogunate army led by Ida Masamune was also on the verge of collapse under the attack of the Ming and Spanish troops.
Zhang Pan then pulled out the Yan-winged sword, "All the soldiers, follow me out of the city to kill the enemy! Respond to Your Majesty, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty!"
"For the Ming Dynasty!"
Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Denlai Navy rushed out like a tide, fighting with the shogunate army head-on.
A Ming army first kicked over the shogunate flag book, then rushed forward, rode on the body of the Japanese warrior, and smashed the knife handle at his head.
After killing this man, he stood up and found the next target, roared and rushed up to fight with him, rolling together, his momentum was daunting.
This is the first time in his life that the commander of this Spanish army has seen a battle of this scale, with tens of thousands of people fighting each other, which is very rare in Europe.
"Associated with the Ming Empire is really the most wise decision that His Majesty has made since his crowning."
He sighed and the first lieutenant asked beside him, "Commander, the Ming army is about to defeat the shogunate army. Are we going to rush forward?"
The commander smiled, "No, we only have 800 people. Let's help the Ming army control the battlefield and hunt down deserters!"
The Spanish army put away the muskets and watched the close combat between the Ai army of Hirano and the Shogunate army, each of them looked like a mortal.
These Ming army and Japanese were all like madmen, waving swords and guns, slashing at people when they saw them, or holding them together, biting each other, and killing them with all their means.
There are almost no such battles in Europe.
Soon, the Ming army defeated the elite shogunate led by Masamune Ida head-on at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a cheer suddenly echoed through the sky in the middle of the battlefield.
The Spanish were all confused and looked puzzled. At this time, the commander looked over with a monocular telescope and smiled:
"It was a Ming general who cut off the head of Masato Ida. In their opinion, this was supreme military merit." Then he turned around and said:
"First mate, it seems that someone in the Ming Dynasty is about to become famous in a battle."
The first mate smiled, and he was a little envious.
On the battlefield, the Ming army began to hunt down the shogunate troops all over the mountains. Everyone was like killing crazy, killing people wildly, and then cutting off their heads.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Wan Sheng!"
The shogunate army plummeted and could no longer organize any effective resistance. Even their left guard general Masamune Masamune was defeated by a general on the battlefield.
The shogunate troops were defeated and fled, and then the coalition forces entered Kobe Castle.
In Kobe Castle now, the streets are full of Japanese debris and corpses everywhere, which is shocking to see.
The first mate widened his eyes, "Commander, it seems that the Ming army slaughtered this city. This is the first time they have carried out such a large-scale massacre overseas."
"I can understand Zhang that the Japanese are the most unfriendly nation in the world, and their nation should be erased on the map." When the commander spoke, he did not feel any sympathy for the corpses all over the ground.
The first mate nodded. They had experienced enough weird things in Japan during this period. I also heard that many imperial citizens had suffered inhuman abuse here in the past.
These are all their own faults.
After the Battle of Kobe, Masamune Ida was killed in battle, and 30,000 Ming troops and 800 Spanish coalition forces defeated the 40,000 elite shogunate flag-master who were the first to ambush.
A total of about 80,000 shogunate troops were defeated in this battle, and 40,000 Japanese males in Kobe City were killed by the Ming army.
Then, the coalition forces headed north from Kobe and surrounded Edo Castle, the Kyoto of the Japanese Kingdom.
The day after the coalition forces set up the camp, the Tokugawa shogunate sent Emperor Tokugawa Kazuko as representative to pray to the coalition forces for peace and willing to cede land and pay compensation.
Chapter completed!