688 The Bloody Battle of Ni no Castle
Ryuma Sakamoto and Shintaro Nakaoka are known as the second generals of the sea and land among the inverted forces, Ryuma Sakamoto's sea aid club and Shintaro's land aid club are both very important forces in the inverted forces.
Among them, the Aid Association is also called the money bag of the inverted forces. In real history, Ryuma Sakamoto provided a large amount of financial support to the inverted faction through the southwest maritime trade and arms transactions.
Although Ryuma Sakamoto was good at doing business and the business of the Athletic Association made him very popular, he was not only good at doing business. Ryumajun's swordsman was mastered by Master Chiba from Edo Castle, who was a swordsman of Kitaki, and Ryumajun was also a master among the Japanese swordsmen at that time.
In this crazy cage battle, Ryuma Jun was the first to rush to the city. Since the war began, Ryuma Jun has been holding his anger in his heart. The eight-stage team in his ship was obviously for the sake of Japan, but the result was that everyone rolled their eyes. The entire inverted forces were hostile to themselves, and some even called them rebellious.
Longma Jun knew that if Xiao Letian had not supported him, he might have been excluded from the power of the fallen sect now, and even some people would have to lose their lives.
In order to prove that he was not rebellious, Ryuma Sakamoto was extremely crazy. He had two tai knives, one long and one short in his hand, two Colt revolvers were stuffed with cowhide arms around his waist, and blood was splashed on the top of the city with his pistols blowing.
"Ryumi-kun... Be careful behind him..." A Tai knife cut off the head of a sneak attacker, and Shintaro Nakaoka and Ryuma-kun breathed heavily back to back.
"Good example, Ryuma Jun, you have proved your loyalty with your blood. If others don't believe me, Shintaro, I believe in your loyalty..."
Ryuma's nose was sore and tears almost burst out from his eyes. "You guys... fight bloody battles, break through the city of Ichinoha..." Under his fierceness, the elites of the sea aid team and the land aid team began to expand the battle line from the breakthrough point. These Osaka Castle, which could not be captured for a long time, were finally broken into its strongest shell.
"Breakthrough...online, break through...online." The coalition forces on the battlefield were actually like, watching the Tokugawa family's flag recognition being thrown off the city wall, cheers were like a tide.
The coalition side was as powerful as a rainbow, while the Tokugawa side was trapped beasts and fighting. The Tokugawa army, which retreated to the city wall of II, reduced its defense area, and its firepower became more dense. The rain of bullets from foreign guns hit the city wall of III, and the stone chips were flying.
Soon, Ryuma Sakamoto's left shoulder was bitten by a bullet, and the blood could not be blocked with a handkerchief, but in this way, he was still running wildly on the city wall, encouraging the morale of the soldiers with his actions.
At this moment, the castles of Ichino Castle were knocked away, and Yuto Yama Prefecture rushed in with his main force, "Massacre, Massacre, Massacre." Yuto Yama Prefecture looked up and saw the injured Ryuma Sakamoto and Shintaro Nakaoka who was covered in blood.
"Yoxi... Thank you for your hard work. Commander-in-chief Saigo Takashi has seen your courage. You have already obtained the first merit in Yizi City. Please go back and rest."
"What." Shintaro Nakaoka was furious on the city wall. "Shameless, you actually robbed our credit so shamelessly..."
It was very rude to be recalled halfway from the battlefield that was about to win. Yutoto Yama Prefecture has challenged the bottom line of the samurai spirit.
Ryuma Sakamoto pulled his sleeves, "Shintaro should not be so irritable. Yama Prefecture Atsuto represents the interests of the Nagashu family. The commander-in-chief of this war was commanded by Takamori Saigo, the Shimazu family. The commander-in-chief of Saigo must consider the interests of the Nagashu family. This is politics, you don't understand..."
"It seems that Lord Xixiang is going to give the credit for breaking the Tianshou Pavilion to the Changzhou Vanguard..."
Shintaro Nakaoka didn't understand what politics was. He only knew that such behavior had caused him to be insulted, but the dignity of the commander-in-chief on the battlefield could not be challenged, and he had no other way except to curse people.
The soldiers of the Changzhou clan replaced the sea aid team and the land aid team to defend the city of Ichinobi. The musketeers began to shoot against Ninobi. The rain of bullets shot in mid-air, and the person who was hit was screaming endlessly.
The guards helped Ryuma Sakamoto walk to Takamoto Saigo. Ryuma Jun pushed the guard away and bowed to the commander-in-chief. "Fortunately, Ichino Castle Wall was finally taken down."
It was not until now that Saigo Takamoto had a good face to Ryuma Sakamoto "Well, thank you Ryuma for your hard work. Your name will be on the post-war merit book. Please go and rest now..."
Longma knew that he would not have any credit for the future, but he did not recognize the credit. After bowing deeply, Longma Jun returned to the back camp.
At this time, Yuto Yama County had already begun to charge towards Nino City with his own formation. The passages in the city were densely filled with soldiers, and the musketeers on the top of the city were desperately suppressing the enemy's firepower.
"The duck gives it to...the city slaughter...the city slaughter." Thousands of soldiers roared like wild animals, and the whole city was shaking.
General Tokugawa in Tianshou Pavilion sneered and looked down, "It's really a hell of killing. I know you are going to avenge two hundred years ago, so okay, I'll give you one..."
With the general's order, more than a dozen bricks were suddenly pushed away from the city wall of II, and two Gatling machine guns were pushed out. The machine gunners who had been training for more than half a year cooperated, one shaking the crank at a constant speed, and the other began to install ammunition links.
The copper sound sounded, and two flames began to wave in the dense crowd. The soldiers who were shot were beaten to death and blood bloomed in their chests.
"It's Gatlin... it's Gatlin made in the United States... retreat quickly." Ryuma Sakamoto once saw the new Gatlin machine gun drill in Ryukyu, and the firepower was simply not something that flesh and blood could resist.
"Damn it, there must be real European military experts behind the Tokugawa family. Now few people in Asia know that there is such a weapon, and this kind of Gatlin has great flaws. Unless it is used by veterans, it will not work at all..."
Ryuma Sakamoto was right. The first generation Gatlin used the hand-crank loading mode, while manual loading required extremely uniform speed, otherwise it would get stuck.
But humans are not machines. People will easily kill themselves in a chaotic battlefield. It will be very difficult to get a constant speed at that time, so Gatlin's failure rate on the battlefield is very high, which is also a very important factor in the later replacement of Gatlin by Maxim.
Obviously, the Tokugawa family knew about Gatlin's defect, so they made a bold attempt to target this defect. The Tokugawa family actually used three people to control the heavy machine gun.
One person controls the direction of the muzzle, and one person loads the bullet, while the third person is actually a deaf and a blind man. He has been training in the past six months to shake the crank at a constant speed.
This is really a genius creativity. Deaf and blind people will never be disturbed by the atmosphere on the battlefield. Sure enough, the crank was shaken at an extremely uniform speed. The heavy machine gun fired for ten minutes, but it was not stuck at all.
The angry eyes of Youpeng in Shanxian were shattered. He watched the bullets plow out the blanks of death in the crowd. The strong bloody smell stimulated him and burst into dizziness.
"Sir, the front cannot hold back... The enemy's firepower is too fierce, and we can't get close to the city wall of II. Do you think you should retreat first and think of a solution..."
"Baga." Shan County Youtuo roared with a roar, slashing at the captain of Football in front of him with a knife, and then his head was different from his body and head. "You dare to disrupt our morale."
The killing shocked the people present. Yama Prefecture Aritomo pointed at Osaka Castle Gakuen and shouted, "It was this group of rebellious imperial banners that ruined the emperor, it was this group of bastard Prince Renwa-Miang who fainted, and it was them that made our Western Army look unfair..."
"Two hundred years ago, our Western Kingdom was defeated by the Eastern Kingdom Daime again and again, including Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu... Will we let them bully each other for two hundred years in the future?"
"The luck accumulated over two hundred years has finally found a breakthrough opportunity. If it fails, where can we go to another two hundred years... The whole army obeys the order and attacks."
The samurai in the Changshu clan had a pride that was different from ordinary people. The hundreds of years of suppressed history inspired their blood courage. At that time, hundreds of samurai formed the suicide squad.
"Where are the dead soldiers of the Choshu family, and where are the loyal ministers of the Maori family?" Every roar was exchanged for a response.
"The dead soldiers of the Changshu family are here, and the loyal ministers of the Maori family are here." Groups of samurai joined the Death Squad.
This time they were quite smart. They tied double-thick door panels with straw ropes, and then a dozen people stared at such earth shields and began to slowly move inside.
Every step, soldiers would sprinkle soil on it. After the earth tank rushed into the Yizhi City Gate, twenty centimeters of soil had accumulated on the door panel.
The power of the first generation of Gatlin gunpowder is actually only a little more than a rifle. There is no way to deal with this double-layer thickened shield. The Japanese's cleverness on the battlefield is really worthy of praise.
The bullet hit the soil, and the warriors below squeezed together and shouted trumpets and advanced in a unified rhythm. "Hoha...ha, huh...ha." Only some unlucky guys on the edge did not shoot their legs and feet and lay down on the ground.
"Everyone, work hard... the city gate is close." At this time, a rumbling sound was heard, and hot oil rolled down from the head, making the warriors around scream, and then the torch was thrown down and the flames soared into the sky from the shield.
"Accelerate, accelerate... just use this fire to burn the city gate." The dead soldiers shouted and ran wildly. They endured the scorching flames and poked the wooden shield at the gate of Nino City with a bang.
The warriors all carried a large amount of tinder bags and threw them into the fire with a crackling sound. Soon the gate of the city of II began to burn.
The flames licked the wooden door and emitted thick smoke. The soldiers of the Changzhou vassal cheered excitedly, but the dead soldiers paid a huge price and were almost wiped out under the crossfire of the two heavy machine guns.
Chapter completed!