The shogunate army outside Shimahara Castle did not know that Amakusa Shiro had joined the camp of Takawa Yuhuang. Zheng Zhilong was planning to destroy the 120,000 army in one fell swoop. Matsuhira Nobuzu heard that a powerful pirate passed by the waters near Himemaki Kingdom. He was not worried that this pirate would be detrimental to him at all. He had never heard that pirates dared to attack the shogunate army. Moreover, he was the main army of 120,000 shogunate. Unless the pirates wanted to die, they would definitely not dare to flirt with his tiger beard.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong didn't want to seek death. Even if he landed on the shore, he might not be able to fight the 120,000 shogunate army. However, this time he came to secretly assist, not to attack the main force, so he did not send troops to attack the large camp of the shogunate army, but instead sent people to urge Hong Xu and Gan Hui to quickly integrate the new army and prepare to attack forward and backward, and to destroy the main force of the Tokugawa Shogunate in one fell swoop.

Now Yuhuang Takawa has summoned nearly 40,000 troops. If they are all new recruits, they may not be able to form combat power after half a year of training. However, these 40,000 troops are not new recruits. Among them, the army of Matsuura family accounts for 10,000, and Hong Xu and Gan Hui have more than 20,000 pirates who have experienced many battles. There are less than 6,000 real new recruits. Most of them are wandering samurai, who have certain combat experience, so they practice very quickly.

The main weapons of the army under the Takawa clan were samurai swords, bird guns and earth cannons. These were the weapons used by Zheng Zhilong before more than 100,000 pirates were incorporated into the Ming Navy. Now most of the people have become officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Navy, and their weapons have naturally been replaced with flintlock guns and howitzers standard in the Ming Dynasty. These bird guns and earth cannons were left to Hong Xu, Gan Hui and Shi Daxuan. It turned out that the weapons of more than 100,000 people were naturally more than enough to equip 40,000 people, so now the army under the Takawa clan has a bird gun and a samurai sword.

As for the earth cannons, they are not equipped with wheels, so it is too troublesome to lift them up. They are basically placed on the walls of each city to defend the city. If you are going to attack the city, you can consider bringing some. However, this time they are not going to attack the city, so they don’t care about the earth cannons for now. Just practice the most basic firearms and three-stage shooting.

After about a month of training, the Takawa new army had basically been trained. The volleyball was neatly launched, and the three-stage shooting was also well-trained. It was enough to deal with the shogunate army that mainly used cold weapons.

At this time, the morale of the shogunate army had been extremely low. Nearly a year of consumption had consumed all the savings of the Tokugawa Shogunate, ensuring the supply of food and grass was getting increasingly difficult, and the salary had been owed for two months. In addition, the weather was getting colder, and the dilapidated tent could not stop the whistling cold wind. More and more people in the army were catching a cold. If they could not conquer Shimahara Castle before the New Year, the 120,000 army would probably not be able to hold on to retreat actively.

Did they attack Shimoshimahara Castle? Needless to ask, they would definitely not be able to capture it. If they could capture it, they would have captured it long ago. The rebels in the city were equipped with Dutch clamps and hundreds of cannons. If the cannons were not too bulky and were inconvenient to move, they would probably have rushed out of the city to attack them.

The shogunate army has not launched an attack on Shimahara Castle for nearly half a year. Matsuhira Nobutsu's main tactic is to waste. He also thought it was a pirate who secretly supported the rebel army in the city. No matter how powerful the pirates were, can they be as powerful as the shogunate general? The civilians and rebel army in the city had a total of more than 100,000, so he didn't believe that a pirate could have more money than the Tokugawa Shogunate. Of course, if he knew that the Ming Dynasty was supporting the rebel army later, he would have led his army to run away long ago. Just kidding, the Ming Dynasty is not ordinary rich now, let alone 100,000 people, even one million or ten million, they can raise them.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawning, and a few cannons suddenly came from the direction of Shimahara Castle. Matsuhira Nobuzuo was shocked to sit up from the tatami. However, he immediately lay down again. The rebel army did too much such things, and often set off firecrackers in the middle of the night to harass them. There was no fixed number of firecrackers. Sometimes they could finish the firecrackers. Sometimes they could do it all night, just like a lunatic, with the purpose of quarrels that they could not rest well.

The entire shogunate army had long been accustomed to this kind of harassment, so after a few shots were released, the shogunate army camp was not moving at all. Except for the people standing guard staring at Shimahara Castle, everyone else continued to sleep. Anyway, they couldn't hit the camp. If they liked to play, they would naturally stop after they had enough fun.

In order to avoid the artillery fire of the rebel army, the shogunate camp was five miles north of Shimahara Castle. The artillery of the rebel army could be fired at most two or three miles away, so they were not worried that the shells would fall into the camp.

However, they did not pay attention to the direction of the shells. In fact, the shells were not shot from Shimahara Castle, but from the sea outside Shimahara Castle. At this time, the fifty super battleships of the Nanyang Navy were lined up on the sea outside Shimahara Castle, loading shells and preparing to bombard the shogunate camp. The few cannons just now were the first battleship in front to test the shooting range.

Standing on the first battleship, the commander of the Nanyang Navy Admiral Zheng Zhihu. He held up a telescope, carefully observed the landing point of the shells, and then loudly ordered: "All warships have it. The first layer of naval gun is raised five degrees, the second layer of naval gun is raised two degrees, and the third layer of naval gun is lowered three degrees."

The messenger behind him immediately climbed up the mast quickly and lit a flag to notify other warships. The other messenger ran to a trumpet-shaped soundtrack and repeated his orders loudly.

The commanders on all levels were now pressing their ears to the sound tubes everywhere. As soon as the orders were called, they immediately commanded the artillery to start adjusting the angle, and soon all the angles of the artillery were adjusted.

Zheng Zhihu roughly estimated the time and immediately ordered loudly: "All warships were in a single and tight formation along the coast, lifting half a sail and advancing at low speed. They were horizontally level with the enemy camp and then firing immediately, and then firing quickly and firing ten rounds of rapid fire."

As the messenger and the flags were waving, fifty battleships began to advance slowly. Zheng Zhihu had the most advanced telescopes in his hand to see what was five or six miles away in the dawn. The sentries of the shogunate army did not have telescopes in his hand. It was not until the warships approached the camp two miles away that the sentry standing guard discovered the fleet at the sea. The shrill shouts recalled the shogunate army's camp: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack at sea."

It was too late at this time. It took time to put on clothes and equipment. The soldiers in the military tent had already entered the shooting position before they were worn. The flagship that was leading the "Boom Boom Boom" opened fire. Fifty shells flew to the shogunate camp, and more than ten or dozens of kilograms of shells hit the broken military tent. The result was imagined. The shogunate camp was plowed out of blood troughs, and countless screams sounded.

This was just the beginning. The 120,000 army had a battalion of four or five miles. After Zheng Zhihu's flagship released the first round of artillery shells, he did not stop moving forward, but moved slowly at a uniform speed. A round of artillery shells were released every minute. More and more warships behind him entered the shooting position. The roar of artillery became increasingly dense. Countless shells flew towards the shogunate camp. The entire camp almost became a purgatory on earth, with residual limbs everywhere, and blood flowed. The military tent was smashed with holes, and countless people screamed and rolled on the ground, which was terrible.

Fifty super battleships, with 2,500 artillery guns on one side, and 10 rapid-fire rounds of 25,000 artillery shells. Zheng Zhihu asked them to load solid bullets. Unless they did not hit people, they could plow a blood tank of more than ten meters long in the crowd. If they hit a densely popped up in the crowd, a shell of a Type 518 howitzer can cause at least dozens of casualties. The tragedy of the shogunate camp can be imagined.

If they were in the city, they would basically not cause much casualties. No matter how powerful the shells were, they would not be able to penetrate the city wall. They would be fine as long as they hid behind the city wall and did not show their heads. However, they were the siege and could only camp in the wild. What was so great that they did not camp far away from the coast in order to avoid convenience, so they were in a tragedy.

Since the Ming army battleship was equipped with a mother-of-child howitzer, the loading speed was amazing, it didn't take too long to fire the ten rounds of rapid fire, and it ended in less than half an hour. Zheng Zhihu stood at the stern of the flagship and observed the shelling effect with a telescope. When he saw the tragic situation of the enemy camp, he couldn't help but feel unbearable. This was simply a massacre! He wanted to turn around and do another round, but seeing this result, he shook his head and sighed, and ordered lowly: "Send a signal flare to inform Hong Xu, Gan Hui and Shiro Amakura to start the attack."

As soon as he finished speaking, a messenger behind immediately took out a huge rocket launcher from the wooden box next to him, raised his hands flat at the sky, and another messenger took out a fire note from inside and ignited the fuse. Soon, the huge rocket launcher rushed into the sky, and with a "bang", a ball of fireworks burst out.

"Run..., kill..." The sound of shouts of killing sounds came out more than ten miles north of Shimahara Castle. The 50,000 rebels and 40,000 Tagawa Army rushed to the shogunate camp at the same time.

There was no fierce resistance as imagined. There were only a few roars of earth cannons and a few sparse sounds of bird guns from the camp, but more were shrill screams. A sudden rain of artillery shells had crippled the entire shogunate army. Although only 20,000 to 30,000 people were killed directly, no less than 50,000 or 60,000 were seriously injured and 40,000 were scared. There was no intention to resist. If such artillery bombardment came again, most of them would be smashed into meat paste. Who would dare to resist!

Their chief general, Matsuhira Nobuzuo, was simply smashed by a shell and his stomach was broken. He was killed! The 120,000 shogunate army was inexplicably destroyed. The rebels and Takawa troops who rushed into the camp were almost scared by the tragic situation in the camp. Many people vomited, and they were also afraid: "You must not go against the Ming Dynasty in the future. The shells as big as watermelon are like rain. Who can stop them!"

Zheng Zhilong was also shocked after receiving the battle report. He had never done such a naked massacre of the Ming Dynasty. He did not expect that the intensive bombardment of 2,500 artillery guns would cause such consequences. It was exposed, and it was revealed. You could think with a little bit of mind that this was definitely done by the Ming Navy, and no pirate could have so many artillery.

He thought for a while and quickly ordered: "Hurry up and block the news. All participants dare to leak the news and kill them without mercy. In addition, quickly clean up the shogunate camp and fill it up. All the bodies were transported to Amacao Island for burial. All the shells fired were retrieved. All the prisoners were escorted to Liaodong for strict supervision. Before taking down Japan, you must not leak the news!"

After his order, he created a huge mystery. The 120,000 shogunate army disappeared strangely. The place where they camped became a flat land, flat, as if no large army had ever been stationed at all.

Where did the 120,000 troops go? It is not realistic to ask the enemy. Even if they know, they will not say it. Tokugawa Ie-gun could only send people to search everywhere like crazy. However, after searching for several months, he couldn't even find a single hair.

It was not until many years later that the Ming Dynasty relaxed its supervision and a veteran fled back from Liaodong that everyone knew that all this was done by the Ming Navy, but the overall situation was decided at that time, so what could it be if you know it!
Chapter completed!