Iron Dynasty

Makino Haruaki is leading the musket team to Mikila Castle.

Although the bombardment of the fleet just now caused casualties, these casualties were negligible to him, and as long as the Ryukyu Island was occupied, this is an unsinkable battleship. Compared to this, the loss of some battleships is nothing at all.

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

Because at that time the Dutch were still distinguished guests 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 was not too late, and occupying Ryukyu Island was still a brilliant plan.

Walking through the woods along the coast, when he saw Mikira Castle on a high mountain in the distance, he ordered his men to release a carrier pigeon.

The carrier pigeon was released and flew immediately to Mikila Castle, which was trained to carry messages to Mikila Castle.

At this time, Sakai in Mikila Castle was waiting for the news of Makino Haruaki. When he saw a white carrier pigeon falling, he was overjoyed.

Chunming Makino is here, now it's time for us to show the colors of the Dutch and the Great Yu Kingdom. Sakai shouted excitedly.

When the soldiers heard the words, they shouted excitedly, Fight! Fight!

In the frenzy, the soldiers in the castle quickly gathered to go outside the city gate, and more than 10,000 musketeers lined up outside the city gate, ready to fight.

Outside the bastion, Xiao Ming and Claire discovered the abnormality of the Japanese pirates. All the Japanese pirates in the castle flocked to the outside of the city, forming a neat line outside the city.

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

I'm sorry, it's true, we did train the Japanese people how to use firearms. Claire said apologetically.

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 reinforcements ashore, and now there are Japanese pirates coming out of the bastion. They are preparing to double-team us both internally and externally.

Sakai is a very cunning enemy. He has been waiting for reinforcements. Claire said, We can deal with the reinforcements that have come ashore. I wonder if Your Highness's army can deal with the Japanese pirates in the bastion? I doubt whether you will be able to defeat these vicious soldiers. pirate.

Count Claire, are you despising my army? Xiao Ming's heart lit up, he also knew whether Claire was deliberate or admonishing.

Sorry, it's not that I despise His Highness's army, it's just that according to Sakai's statement, Japanese pirates are often able to defeat the army of the Great Yu Kingdom, so I'm very worried, after all, no matter how the battle fails, we will all lose Ryukyu. Claire looked solemn, he started now Some regret the desperate gamble at the beginning, because the strength of the Japanese country is equally strong.

Still worry about yourself. Xiao Ming curled his lips. He can lose to anyone, but he can't lose to the Japanese pirates. Then he said, We will give you our backs.

After all, Xiao Ming immediately asked Lu Fei to gather his troops.

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

The battle was about to begin, and Luo Xin immediately took the artillery to find a high place to arrange artillery positions. After half an hour, the armies of both sides completed the assembly in front of the bastion, and the war was about to break out.

If the war with the barbarians was a war of hot weapons and cold weapons, this time Xiao Ming faced a war of hot weapons and hot weapons. Although the arquebuses used by Japanese pirates could not be taken lightly.

After all, arquebuses and flintlocks are just different ways of firing.

At this time, under the command of Lu Fei, the Qingzhou Army was also lined up in a row, with 200 soldiers as a command unit preparing to attack.

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

Xiao Ming looked in the direction of the sound of the cannon, and found that the Japanese pirates had removed the cannon from the castle and used it in the current attack.

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

As Claire said, these shells are very old, and they don't have much range and power.

Your Highness, do you want to fight back and destroy their artillery? Luo Xin asked.

The range of the field artillery is not far. I'm afraid there is no advantage at this distance. Wait until the distance is shortened before fighting. Their artillery is very clumsy, and they are not our opponents. Xiao Ming and Luo Xin stood together in the artillery position. From here, it is clear See everything on the battlefield.

Dong dong...

The drum sounded, and under the command of Lu Fei, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army also wanted to go to the formation of Japanese pirates.

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

Six-pounders shoot at Japanese soldiers, and twelve-pounders shoot at Japanese artillery. He gave the order when the distance between the two armies was only 300 meters.

In an instant, twelve six-pounder field guns began to shoot at the Japanese pirates. The black shells smashed into the dense Japanese pirate array, and the hit Japanese pirate array immediately fell down a row.

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

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming's brows furrowed. This is enough to show that the soldiers of the Japanese pirates are well-trained, but he is not worried, they have an advantage in weapons.

Compared with the old Japanese artillery, the shooting error of the field gun with the front sight was relatively small. The artillery that moved with the Japanese pirate array was directly smashed by the 12-pound field gun, and the gunner was also killed and injured heavily.

And the 6-pounder was not idle. The shells bounced on the ground and hit the Japanese pirates in the queue. The soldiers in the first row were directly broken by the shells, and fell to the ground groaning and shouting.

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

Although they were continuously bombarded, the Japanese pirates did not flinch. The troops on both sides got closer and closer. At 100 meters, Lu Fei ordered the soldiers to stop and shouted: Shoot!

At this time, the soldiers lifted the flintlock guns they were carrying, and a burst of flames and white smoke blew up.

Reload! Lu Fei shouted again.

After the first round of shooting, the Japanese pirates continued to move forward. At this time, Sakai's expression was a little gloomy. The arquebus that the Dutch gave them could only be fired at a distance of fifty meters, and he could only let the soldiers continue to advance to the shooting area. .