Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

After cleaning up the battlefield, Wei Xiaobao ordered his troops to enter the city.

At this time, Shuri Castle was in chaos. The Chinese army attacked, and 500 cavalrymen were killed, 5,000 infantrymen were killed, and even General Tokugawa Kosato was killed...

The 100,000 Chinese troops are as powerful as heavenly soldiers and divine generals.

These true and false news have spread in Shuri Castle.

Most of the Ryukyu people migrated from China. When they heard the news, they were extremely happy. The hateful Japanese pirates were finally going to be driven away.

Moreover, the army from their motherland has arrived, and the Chinese people will never be bullied again.

When some are happy, others are sad. The Japanese in Shuri Castle were panicked. They also knew that the Japanese had committed rape, looting, murder, arson and all kinds of bad things in Shuri Castle. Once the Chinese army entered Shuri Castle, what awaited them would be the anger of the Ryukyu people and the butcher knives of the Chinese army.

These Japanese people hurriedly packed up their valuables and ran to the East Gate with their families. The east was the former base camp of the Japanese and the passage to Naha.

At this time, there were still some Japanese soldiers left in Shuri Castle. There were 100 soldiers at each of the west gate, south gate and east gate, and 200 soldiers left behind in the palace.

There were still more than a thousand Japanese ronin in the city. All of them had families with them. They had no time to play Bushido at this moment. They all went back to their homes, looked for their own mothers, and prepared to escape.

Among the remaining Japanese soldiers in various places, only the defenders at the East City Gate listened to the fleeing Japanese in a very serious manner.

The hundred or so soldiers at the city gates could not resist the 100,000-strong Chinese army. They would have been scared like rats crossing the street - they would have fled at the first sign of trouble.

Only two red cannons and five tiger-mounted cannons were left standing on the city wall.

As soon as Wei Xiaobao entered the city, he ordered the commander of the first battalion, Xiao You, to lead the first battalion to recapture the three city gates, while he led the second and third battalions and the special forces company to march towards the palace.

In the battle after entering the city, Wei Xiaobao ordered that white phosphorus grenades should not be used. If one is not careful, this thing can burn down the entire city. He also had to keep Shuri Castle as his base camp.

The West Gate is closest to the North Gate. The Japanese soldiers guarding the gate had previously heard fierce fighting at the North Gate, with explosions rising and falling. But now there is no movement and no one knows what the battle situation at the North Gate is like.

When he was about to send someone to inquire about the situation, 120 sword and shield soldiers armed with fine steel Tang swords had already rushed up from the ramp on the inner side of the city wall.

This time it was the company commander of the third company of the first battalion who complained, saying that they were not a sword and shield company, but a corpse-chopping company and a wasteland-collecting company.

In order to force Xiao You to agree to the battle at the city gate, they even formed a cable and sent the first and second companies of crossbowmen to support the rear.

Xiao You also wanted to know how effective the Sword and Shield Company would be after being equipped with the fine steel Tang swords.

Of course, if Wei Xiaobao knew about this, he would definitely scold him. Why would they have to fight with swords when they could attack from a distance? There would always be casualties in a fight with swords.

The Sword and Shield Company rushed up to the city wall and fought with the Japanese soldiers. Some of the Japanese soldiers were holding samurai swords, some were holding spears, and some were holding matchlock guns. However, since everyone was rushing in front of them, the matchlock guns could not be loaded with powder and bullets, so they could only be used as sticks.

When the sword and shield company's fine steel Tang swords collided with the Japanese soldiers' weapons, the Japanese samurai swords, spears and matchlock guns were immediately split into two.

Chop and chop again...only the knife handle and the gun grip were left. How could the game continue like this? The Japanese soldiers were so scared that they turned around and ran towards the city wall.

The Sword and Shield Company, which was filled with rage, would not let the Japanese soldier run away. They rushed forward and chopped him off from behind, splitting the Japanese soldier's body in half and killing him instantly. There was no need to kill him again afterwards.

The one hundred and twenty sword and shield soldiers killed the one hundred or so Japanese devils one by one in a short time.

In this battle, no one from the Sword and Shield Company died, but there were three minor injuries and one serious injury. This was the first time that the Tiandi Army suffered casualties during its capture of Shuri Castle.

Although Xiao You was shocked by the powerful combat capability of the Sword and Shield Company, Wei Xiaobao demanded zero casualties in each battalion before the battle.

Xiao You couldn't help but regret it. He was determined not to let the Sword and Shield Company fight with swords at the other two city gates. If there was a death, he would not be able to take the responsibility.

Xiao You then left a platoon of soldiers to guard the East Gate and marched towards the South Gate.

On the way to the South Gate, the captain of the Sword and Shield Company, who wanted to talk to the battalion commander, saw a line of Japanese carriages and horses fleeing towards the East Gate. The third captain became angry when he saw the Japanese ronin mixed in the fleeing team, and he chased the Japanese ronin and killed them all the way.

The Japanese ronin are easy to recognize, they all have samurai swords on their waists.

Although there were many ronin in Shuri Castle, they were scattered in their respective escape teams at this time. They were not gathered together and had no lethality.

The sword and shield soldiers charged towards the west gate, leaving corpses of Japanese soldiers and ronin on the ground. The fleeing Japanese immigrants knelt on both sides of the road in fear, not daring to run away anymore.

Xiao You was also speechless about the Sword and Shield Company that was charging ahead towards the west gate, and he quickly called on the first company to catch up with the Sword and Shield Company to prevent them from rushing to the west city gate and fighting with the Japanese soldiers with swords.

Xiao You ordered the second company to stay and guard the escaped Japanese and their horses, carriages and supplies together, waiting for the leader to deal with them.

Besides, the Sword and Shield Company rushed all the way to the East City Gate, and saw that the gate was wide open and there was no one on the city wall. They guessed that the Japanese soldiers had already fled.

So, the Sword and Shield Company closed the city gate and, together with the next company that followed, waited for Xiao You's arrival.

Fighting their way from the West Gate to the East Gate, Xiao You looked at the Third Company Captain who had led the troops astray and wanted to curse him, but he thought that all the Japs at the East Gate had already run away, and it would be a pity if time was delayed any longer and the Japs at the South Gate also ran away.

So, they left a squad to guard the west gate, and sent someone to notify the second company to escort the Japanese and supplies to the east gate, and guard the east gate while watching over the Japanese.

After Xiao You completed the arrangements, he led the first and third companies and marched quickly towards the south city gate.

At this time, the South Gate was closed, and about a hundred Japanese soldiers were waiting on the city wall.

The Japanese soldiers at the South Gate were not as panicked as those at the East Gate. At this time, they were not quite sure about the current battle situation, and they also knew whether the enemy troops attacking the city from the North Gate had been eliminated by General Tokugawa.

They were still standing on the city walls, ready for battle, with archers drawing their bows and musketeers loading their bullets.

However, as usual, these Japanese soldiers all stood on the city wall facing outside the city, paying close attention to the movements outside the city.

When Xiao You led the first and third companies to the east city gate, in order to avoid casualties, he sent a scout wearing a Japanese leather helmet to quietly climb up the city wall and get a clear picture of the situation above.

After Xiao You figured out the situation of the Japanese on the city wall, he broke up the 1st and 3rd companies and divided them into two teams, with each team consisting of half crossbowmen and half sword and shield soldiers.

The sword and shield soldiers stood with shields in front, and the crossbow soldiers were behind, one defending and the other attacking.

The two teams quietly moved forward from the troop transport ramps on both sides of the city gate tower.

When they reached the intersection of the road and the city wall passage, they were discovered by Japanese soldiers.

"Enemy attack!" a Japanese soldier shouted.

Before the crossbowmen in the rear team arrived, they heard a burst of musket fire.