Iron Dynasty

Makino Haruaki is leading the musket team to Mitchra Castle. Tian Lai

Although the shelling of the fleet just now caused casualties, these casualties were insignificant to him. As long as the main island of Ryukyu is occupied, this is an unsinkable warship. In contrast, the loss of some warships is nothing at all.

Many years ago, he suggested that Yamada Nobunaga should occupy Ryukyu Island, use Ryukyu Island as a base to control the coastal routes of Great Yu, and at the same time looting the coastal cities of Great Yu, but his suggestion was rejected.

Because the Dutch was still a distinguished guest in the eyes of Yamada Nobunaga, but now everything has changed, and the Dutch betrayal at this time also proved that he was right at the time.

But for him, it is not too late, and occupying Ryukyu Island is still a brilliant plan.

Walking through the woods along the coast, when he saw Mitchra Castle on the mountain from a distance, he ordered his men to release a homing pigeon.

The carrier pigeon was released and immediately flew to Mitchra Castle. This carrier pigeon has been trained to convey news to Mitchra Castle.

At this time, Sakai in Mitchra Castle was waiting for news from Haruaki Makino. He was ecstatic when he saw a white homing pigeon fall.

"Makino Chunming is here, now it's time for us to show the Dutch and the colors of the country." Sakai exclaimed excitedly.

A group of soldiers yelled in excitement when they heard the words, "Fight! Fight!"

In the frenzy, the soldiers in the castle quickly gathered to the outside of the city gate, and more than ten thousand musketeers lined up outside the city gate to prepare for battle.

Outside the bastion, Xiao Ming and Claire discovered the anomaly of the Japanese pirates. All the Japanese pirates in the castle swarmed outside the city and lined up in a neat horizontal line outside the city.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming asked: "Don't tell me that you Dutch have trained Japanese pirates to fight with matchlock guns."

"I'm sorry, it is true. We did train the Japanese people how to use firearms." Claire said very sorry.

Xiao Ming really had the urge to hack Claire to death. In contemporary times, Japan is also supported by the West in this way.

But now is not the time to worry about these things, Xiao Ming said: "The Japanese pirates have come ashore with reinforcements, and now there are Japanese pirates coming out of the bastion, they are preparing to double-team us inside and outside."

"Sakai is a very cunning enemy. He has been waiting for reinforcements." Claire said, "We can deal with the reinforcements that come ashore. I wonder if your Royal Highness's army can deal with the Japanese pirates in the bastion? I doubt whether you can defeat these fierce ones. pirate."

"Earl Claire, are you scorning my army?" Xiao Ming's heart was upset, and he knew whether Claire was deliberate or admonishing.

"Sorry, it's not that I despise Your Highness's army. It's just that according to Sakai, Japanese pirates can often defeat the army of the Great Yu Kingdom, so I am worried. After all, we will lose Ryukyu if the battle fails." Claire looked solemn and he started now Some regretted the desperate bet, because the strength of the country is equally strong.

"Still worry about yourself." Xiao Ming curled his lips. You can lose to anyone, but you can't lose to the Japanese pirates. Then he said, "Our back will be yours."

After all, Xiao Ming immediately asked Lu Fei to gather the army.

The Japanese pirates gathered outside the bastion, and Xiao Ming's army was scattered because of the encirclement, and now they also needed to gather. At this time, both sides were racing against time to complete preparations.

As soon as the war was about to begin, Luo Xin immediately led the artillery to find a high place to set up an artillery position. Half an hour later, the armies of both sides had assembled in front of the bastion, and the war was about to start.

If the war with the barbarians is a war of hot weapons and cold weapons, this time Xiao Ming is facing a war of hot weapons and hot weapons. Although the Japanese pirates used matchlocks, they still cannot be underestimated.

After all, matchlock and flintlock are just different ways of firing.

At this time, under the command of Lu Fei, the Qingzhou Army also formed a horizontal formation, preparing to attack with two hundred soldiers as a command unit.

"His Royal Highness, the Japanese pirates have moved here." After the army was assembled, the Japanese pirates' array began to advance towards Xiao Ming, and at the same time the sound of artillery came from the direction of the Japanese pirates.

Xiao Ming looked in the direction of the sound of the artillery. He found that the Japanese pirates had unloaded the artillery from the castle and used it in the current attack.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was about 700 meters, and the artillery shells weakened a lot after the flight. These shells almost rolled over from the ground and could not cause much casualties.

As Claire said, these shells are very old, and their range and power are not great.

"His Royal Highness, do you want to fight back to destroy their artillery?" Luo Xin asked.

"The range of field artillery is not far. I'm afraid there is no advantage at this distance. We can fight after the distance is close. Their artillery is very clumsy and not our opponent." Xiao Ming and Luo Xin stood together in the artillery position. To see everything on the battlefield.

"Boom..."

With the sound of the drums, under the command of Lu Fei, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army also wanted to walk with the Japanese pirates. The soldiers arranged in a tight formation and advanced without hurries.

As the two sides got closer and closer, the artillery of the two sides began to fire at each other.

"The six-pounder gun fired at the Japanese soldiers, and the twelve-pounder gun fired at the Japanese artillery." When the distance between the two armies was only 300 meters, he gave the order.

In an instant, twelve six-pound field guns began to shoot at the Japanese pirates, and the black shells smashed into the dense array of Japanese pirates, and the hitting array of Japanese pirates suddenly fell to the next row.

However, after the array was blasted out of the gap, the Japanese soldiers immediately filled the gap.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming frowned. This is enough to show that the Japanese soldiers are well-trained~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but he is not worried. They have an advantage in weapons.

Compared with the old Japanese artillery, the shooting error of the field artillery with the front sight was relatively small. The artillery moving with the Japanese pirate array was directly smashed into the gun frame under the bombardment of the 12-pound field artillery, and the gunner suffered heavy casualties.

The six-pounder guns were not idle either. The shells bounced on the ground and hit the Japanese pirates in the queue. The soldiers in the first row were hit by the shells and broke their hands and feet, and fell to the ground groaning and shouting.

Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters.

Although the Japanese pirates continued to be shelled, the Japanese pirates did not back down. The armies of both sides got closer and closer. At 100 meters, Lu Fei ordered the soldiers to stop and shouted, "Shoot!"

At this time, the soldiers raised the flintlocks they were carrying, and a burst of flames and white smoke gasped, and the Japanese pirate army on the opposite side immediately fell.

"Reload!" Lu Fei shouted again.

After accepting the first round of shooting, the Japanese pirates continued to move forward. At this time, Sakai's expression was a little gloomy. The matchlock gun given to them by the Dutch could only be fired at a distance of 50 meters. He could only let the soldiers continue to the shooting area. .