Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Declare My Intentions to Seize the Throne from the Start!

"Your Majesty ordered, start the bombardment!"

On the deck of the flagship shooting cabin, Lan Yu and others were watching the naval artillery officers. After loading the ammunition, they pushed the muzzle of the artillery gun out of the gun window and waited quietly for the order to fire. ↤↤↤↤↤↦↦↦↦↦

A funnel-shaped iron loudspeaker leading to the top deck suddenly sounded a sonorous command.

When the team officer in charge of the first-level shooting cabin heard the order, he immediately bent down, pointed his mouth at the funnel-shaped iron horn leading to the second-level shooting cabin, relayed it, and shouted repeatedly: "Your Majesty's order, start. Shelling!!”

While the team officer was delivering orders to the second level.

The artillery had fired the fuses.

Tsk tsk...

The sound of burning fuses sounded, and the faint smell of gunpowder instantly filled everyone's nostrils.

For military personnel who have fully popularized thermal weapons.

When the smell of gunpowder entered their nostrils, everyone's spirits were suddenly shaken.

The war factor sleeping in the body woke up instantly.

Bang bang bang...

At this moment, the dull sound of artillery fire that awakened the blood was heard.

Outside the gun window, in an instant, there was fire and thick smoke.

When the gunpowder burns, the projectile generates a powerful kinetic energy impact and roars out of the muzzle.

Hey!

A harsh sound sounded.

The gun carriage mounted on the slide rail dragged the gun and slammed backwards under the reaction force.

With a bang, it hit the blocking wall made of soil sacks behind.

"Load! Load!"

The team officer in charge was shouting loudly.

The three gunners in front of each cannon had already rushed out.

A gunner, holding a brush made of pig bristles, quickly cleaned the gunpowder residue in the hot barrel, and at the same time lowered the temperature of the gun to avoid reloading the gunpowder and igniting the gunpowder.

When the soldier responsible for cleaning the gun barrel retreated, another gunner quickly stuffed the gunpowder into the gun barrel with a gunpowder packed in a hard paper case.

The artilleryman holding the projectile rushed forward and stuffed the cannon into the barrel. The gunner responsible for cleaning the barrel still held the brush that had just been used to clean the barrel.

However, this time it was replaced with another end, and this end contained a dark rubber stopper.

Use a long, smooth wooden stick with a rubber plug attached to one end to push the projectile and gunpowder to the bottom of the barrel.

Then, the three gunners shouted "one two one", pushed the gun carriage mounted on the slide rail, and pushed the gun out of the gun window.

Bang bang bang...

Round after round of shelling sounded one after another.

After Lan Yu and others observed several rounds of artillery operations, they walked to the top deck together.

In the cabin.

Except for the lookout point where the team officer observed the effects of the bombardment.

It is difficult to see the spectacular sight of 1,500 artillery pieces in actual combat.

After watching the Yanfan navy's bombardment operations, they wanted to see the results of this skillful bombardment operation.

Zhu Xi asked as he walked: "President Yu, can the Imperial Navy warships be modified with this kind of slide rail? I found that if this kind of slide rail is used with an all-steel artillery car like Lao Si and the others, the results of the bombardment are unknown. , but the shelling speed is very fast!"

On the court side, there is a wooden fixed gun mount.

There is a lifting rope between the gun barrel and the top deck.

When a gun is fired, the barrel is hoisted with a rope and the barrel is pulled back at the same time, and then someone else loads the ammunition.

This method of bombardment was a method used by the navy of the fourth Yan vassal in the past.

The rate of fire is slower.

At the same time, each artillery requires at least five people to serve it.

The fourth-generation naval warship has been updated and added with slide rails. The number of people per cannon has been reduced to only three people who can operate it.

In fact, if it were not for the pursuit of speed of fire, this kind of slide-rail artillery would be better.

One person can operate it.

In a naval battle.

If there is a casualty, as long as one person survives, the team of three people can continue to fire, and the artillery will not be idle.

Everyone looked at Yu Tongyuan.

Yu Tongyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Actually, I have already learned about this matter. According to Yu Jing, modification is better than building it directly. This flagship was originally modified, and the cost is almost as much as building a new Duke-class ship equipped with slide rails. Flagship equivalent.”

"On wooden decks, if a set of slide rails are installed alone, the wood cannot withstand the impact force caused by the reaction force of the gun carriage. In these decks, angle steel is installed in invisible places as support."

…

"It was precisely because of the high cost of modification that Yan Fan gave up the idea of ​​modifying the original warships. After modifying the flagship, the original warships were retired one after another and sold to maritime merchants one after another. At the same time, these new warships equipped with hybrid power and sliding rail gun carriages are being built one after another."

Everyone was silent again.

They all forgot how many times they were silent along the way.

At a time when civilian officials are clamoring to reduce military spending.

The cost of refitting is almost close to that of building an entirely new warship.

It is simply unrealistic to realize that the Ming army's military technology could closely follow that of the Yan vassal.

The technology is pretty good.

Relying on their good relationship with Zhu Laosi, the upper echelons of the military.

It is not a problem to purchase a complete set of gun carriages, slide rails, and power cabin machinery.

But a penny can stump a heroic man!

With the emergence of that kind of six-six steam engine.

When the imperial navy was gradually changing the power of sails to hybrid power.

I'm afraid that Yan Fan has already started to use steam power to replace hybrid power.

They did not hate Yan Fan because of his strength.

It’s just for myself that I feel uncomfortable because I clearly see the target and the person I’m chasing, but I can’t keep up.

As a soldier.

How can those bitter civil servants understand this kind of discomfort!

Lan Yu and others came to the deck with heavy hearts and walked to Zhu Di.

Watching Zhu Di holding a telescope, staring into the distance through the thick smoke generated by the shelling.

Everyone also raised their telescopes and adjusted the magnification of the telescopes to observe the defense line on the coast hundreds of meters away.

hiss!

A startled intake of breath sounded.

The coastline is shrouded in smoke and hazy.

The defense line that originally stood one person high and was built with corpses, earthen sacks, and stones has disappeared.

Behind the collapsed defenses.

Under the bombardment, the allied forces of the Japanese princes were like a group of panicked lambs, retreating hastily. Corpses were lying in a mess behind the defense line.

Zhu Di held up the telescope, observed, and solemnly ordered: "Instruct all ships, the warships press forward, extend the artillery attack to the rear of the coast, and order the engineers to quickly build pontoons under the cover of the warships to follow up!"

After Liu Sheng and Yu Jing saluted and accepted their orders, they turned around and left quickly.

Dozens of warships approached the coast on the Fukuoka side as the bombardment continued.

In the rear, small boats carried by warships were put down from the warships, and engineers took over immediately.

Row hard to get the boat close to the pontoon that has been built, then connect it end to end, and finally lay out prefabricated wooden boards of standard size.

On the coast on the Okayama side.

Those who had not boarded the ship last night were mixed into the cavalry, and in battalion units, they were already standing in formation in front of the attack positions on the pontoon bridges, waiting silently.

Behind the cavalry, there are infantry arrays that have been prepared.

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The other side.

"Array up!"

"Supervise the team!"

…

The allied forces of the princes that Queen Cang retreated disrupted the rear array.

Generals at all levels shouted desperately.

The princes' daimyo, headed by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, sat on horseback under the commander's flag behind the formation.

Looking at the panic and chaos in front of them.

His face was very embarrassed.

boom!

A projectile fell heavily about fifty steps to the left of Shuai Qi.

Several bodyguards responsible for the safety of the princes were instantly torn apart by projectiles.

The screams reached the ears, and the faces of many princes and famous people turned slightly pale.

Someone couldn't help but fearfully suggested, "General, now we are within the artillery range of the Yanfan navy, so retreat."

A cold light flashed in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's eyes.

Nanmu Zhengyi coldly snorted, "We can't retreat! Morale is already low now. Once we retreat, the coalition soldiers will think that we are going to retreat and advance, and morale will instantly fall to the bottom. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties in the Central Plains, during the Battle of Feishui, Fu Jian retreated thirty Don’t you know about the military cases in this article?”

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu turned his head and glanced at Kusunoki Masaki.

If there was no threat from Yan Fan, Nanmu Zhengyi would be his biggest opponent.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu coldly ordered, "It is passed on that the Yan clan is behind the scenes and instigating Ohno Goro to rebel against the group and murder the emperor's family!"

After the words fell, the soldiers rode away.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shook his horse's reins and headed straight to the front of the most dangerous formation.

Kusunoki Masaki and Hosokawa Kiyoshi looked at each other and followed forward without showing any signs of weakness.

Although the other princes were unwilling, no one wanted to act timid and cowardly at this time.

One hundred thousand allied troops of princes are watching!

At this time, he is timid and cowardly, and after defeating Yan Fan, he will not be qualified to participate in the struggle for hegemony.

The emperor's entire family was completely purged by their conspiracy.

Now, every prince is qualified to fight for the throne of the Emperor after the Yan Fan has been defeated and the Yan Fan has withdrawn!

"The real culprit who killed the emperor was Yan Fan!"

"The time has come to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Glory Jade Broken!"

"The soul returns to the nine-dan board to avenge His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Look, the general and his flag are at the front!"

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When Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's order was conveyed, during the bombardment, the demoralized and frightened coalition forces of the princes suddenly burst out with strong hatred.

Glory is shattered, fanatical, stubborn, extreme, and sounds like a beast.

One hundred thousand people screamed like beasts, which actually suppressed the sound of the cannon.

"Glory Jade Broken!"

"Be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"

…

The chaotic sound, the roar of the piercing shelling, reached Zhu Di's ears.

The corners of Zhu Di's lips raised slightly, a smile appeared, and he said to himself: "Isn't that right? This is like the Japanese people I know so well."

When everyone looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di added ventriloquist: 'In this way, I will kill to relieve my hatred. Kill the most extreme ones, and send a group of unstable ones to the subcontinent. Only then can this Japanese country disappear completely from history! ’

to this ethnic group.

Even in this era.

This ethnic group, like Sun Tzu, longs for the Central Plains and devoutly imitates the Central Plains.

It can come from Zeng Jin’s memories and emotions.

He has never been able to treat it with a peaceful mind.

At most, we can only treat ordinary Japanese people who have no hostility equally.

The warship quickly advanced near the coastline.

If you push forward further, you will sit on the beach.

One by one, under the sound of shelling, the warships began to turn to give way to the pontoon bridge behind them.

The engineers quickly extended and built the last section of the pontoon bridge.

Ta-ta-ta...

The sound of war horses trampling on wooden planks was heard.

The cavalry battalion was the first to rush onto the pontoon bridge.

The infantry followed.

The pontoon is not built directly onto the beach.

At the end of the pontoon, the soldiers held up firecrackers, jumped into the water almost knee-deep, and waded ashore.

Soon, Zhu Di led Liu Sheng and others to the array.

More than 20,000, nearly 30,000.

One hundred thousand princes allied forces on one side.

The two sides stood in formation about a thousand steps apart.

The artillery battalion is still on the north bank.

The pontoon bridge was too narrow and the artillery carriages could not cross the strait without being disassembled.

Simply, there are more powerful naval guns.

Infantry artillery is dispensable in this battle.

The sound of shelling began to subside.

Navy officers need to let the artillery cool down to prepare for the artillery bombardment when the army launches a charge.

In the formation of the allied forces of the princes, the vacancies of broken arms and limbs plowed out by the cannonballs took advantage of the brief lull in the bombardment, and the rear team filled up the front team and quickly 'healed'.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu turned his head and looked around at the coalition array of nearly 100,000 people behind him.

Every soldier's eyes sparkled with the determination to avenge the emperor and bring glory to pieces.

Turning his head, he stared straight ahead at the array of thirty thousand Yan Fans.

A smile appeared on his lips.

Yan Fan is so confident!

Do you want to swallow up his 100,000 coalition troops armed with muskets with the few troops in front of you?

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This battle may result in heavy casualties.

But in the end, the winner must be their side!

At best, Yan Fan's military equipment is better.

But on their side, the spirit is stronger!

The hatred of the Emperor's clan being wiped out is enough to even the gap between weapons!

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu looked at the daimyo of the princes around him, "Everyone, if we lose this battle, we people will die without a burial place. Therefore, gentlemen, prepare to fight hard, we will rush in front of the soldiers!"

"Hi!"

…

The other side.

Zhu Di stood on horseback behind the cavalry and in front of the infantry.

Looking a thousand steps away, the dark wilderness is filled with the coalition of princes.

"kill!"

"Avenge the Emperor!"

"Jade Shattered Glory!"

…

The shouts started first.

I saw the princes and generals riding under the banner of a commander, riding on short war horses, taking the lead in charging forward with Japanese swords.

Tuolie stood in front of his brothers in the camp.

Staring at the 100,000-strong coalition of feudal lords charging towards them with fanaticism and hatred, they felt the constant pawing of their front hooves by the horses beneath them.

His eyes flashed with eagerness to try.

The hand holding the bow couldn't help but tighten.

In the mixed cavalry association, the standard equipment for other brothers is a cavalry gun and a cavalry sword.

He did not choose this standard configuration.

The fire gun could only be fired once, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

When the fire blunderbuss can shoot continuously at a faster rate than his bow, will he put down the bow and arrow in his hand.

"Why haven't you started yet?"

Tuo Lie couldn't wait any longer, murmured something in a low voice, and turned to look in the direction of Zhu Di behind him.

Like Tuo Lie, there were many cavalry and infantry generals who couldn't wait any longer and were keeping an eye on Zhu Di.

In Luzon these years, it was all small fights.

At best, use a bid.

With the exception of the brothers from the First Town who had a great time returning to Korea to help fight in the Northern Expedition, all the other brothers were looking forward to this kind of victory for hundreds of thousands of people.

When the two sides meet at seven or eight hundred paces.

Zhu Di noticed that his own formation was eager to try.

A smile appeared on the corners of his lips.

The tiger in the cage needs to be released.

Immediately ordered: "Send the order, Yan Fan army attacks!"

The soldiers beside him immediately got up from their horses, stood on their horses, and waved their flags.

Woo woo woo...

At the same time, the attack horn sounded.

"It finally begins!"

Tuo Lie smiled and whispered.

In front, the commander of the cavalry pointed his finger and shouted: "Cavalry, attack!"

"Cavalry, attack!"

Two thousand cavalrymen shouted at the same time.

The rumble of horse hooves sounded.

A black current rushed out first.

"Army! Attack!"

The general led by Liu Sheng drew his command sword, pointed it straight ahead, and shouted loudly.

"attack!"

The shouts of more than 20,000 people rose into the sky.

The sound of Yan Fan's military boots sounded.

The two dissatisfied people formed a town and formed five large horizontal lines.

In order, they followed the cavalry at a distance and trotted towards the coalition of princes.

There are two black currents, one big and one small.

Colliding towards each other.

In the strait, inside the gun windows of the warships lined up.

"Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!"

Bang bang bang...

Amid the excited orders, the sound of cannons rang out rapidly.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

The projectiles, as dense as raindrops, passed over the infantry and the rushing cavalry at extremely fast speeds, and smashed into the formation of the coalition of princes.

Plow out passages full of broken arms and limbs.

After three rounds of shelling.

The mixed cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the coalition of Japanese princes who were charging at the front.

The cavalry soldiers on horseback leaned down one after another, trying to hide their bodies behind the horses' heads as much as possible.

Both hands completely let go of the reins, holding a lance with a slightly shorter barrel.

Tuolie stepped on the stirrups with his feet, half-crouched on the horse's back, and kept shooting out arrows from the bow in his hand.

Pooh!

Looking at Shuai Qi, who had slowed down after getting closer and deliberately hidden himself in the center of the array, he spat out water.

These Japanese princes have so much courage?

Boost the morale of the soldiers at the bottom and hide in a safe place.

Why should I win against my uncle?

How often has my uncle always taken the lead in a battle?

Now we are in the rear, rushing forward with our infantry brothers!

Bang bang bang...

When they entered the seventieth step, the 'little land ding' who was at the front of the allied forces of the princes could not help but start running and firing.

The moment the volley sound sounded, Tuo Lie climbed on the horse with a sneer on his lips.

Bang bang bang...

The sound of projectiles impacting was heard.

The war horse was in pain, and its speed obviously slowed down slightly.

Tuo Lie's legs suddenly clamped down on the horse's belly, urging the horse to do so.

As long as it is not extremely unlucky and a projectile hits the eye of a war horse, even a long-barreled musket cannot cause fatal damage to the horse fifty steps away.

The canvas black armor they wore on their cavalry auxiliary war horses was not just to show off their power.

This is the military uniform of a war horse.

In addition to unification, it also gives the enemy greater oppression during the rush.

In the middle of this double-layered canvas black armor, there is a net woven with fine iron wires with very small and dense holes.

There was this layer of barbed wire, and two layers of canvas.

Even if a long-barreled fire blunderbuss penetrates this layer of net fifty steps away, it will not cause fatal damage on the spot to a war horse with thick skin and hard bones.

Not just war horses.

At this moment, inside his military uniform, he was wearing a piece of barbed wire armor wrapped in a double layer of canvas on his chest.

Compared with the armor of war horses, their armor has more than a dozen layers of silk inside.

The protective properties of this kind of armor are not much weaker than the previous silk paper armor.

But the flexibility is better than before.

In war, soldiers have fewer physical restrictions.

The reason why this new armor can be replaced is due to the production of steel.

Steel has good ductility and good toughness.

When someone in Yan Fan invented the technology of using steel to pull iron wire, the wire became thinner and thinner, and the new type of armor they now use came into being.

Many children in Yanfan like to use this kind of wire to trap rabbits.

Bang bang bang...

The dense and crisp sound of gunfire suddenly came to mind.

Tuo Lie knew it from the sound of the gun. He rushed within fifty steps and the brothers behind him began to fire.

Each gun has its own unique sound.

Even if it's the same gun.

The difference between the well-made ones and the different sounds.

For the same rifle, there are subtle differences in the firing sound of the Ming Dynasty rifle and the Yanfan steel rifle.

He could judge the sound of Yan Fan's guns with his eyes closed.

"Yan Fan Cavalry, attack!"

Tuo Lie stood up suddenly, pulled out the long and sharp cavalry sword, and roared.

With a mark, two thousand cavalry rushed into the gap where the allied forces of the princes collapsed instantly after the volley of fire.

The Japanese soldiers of the allied forces of the princes raised their guns in panic when the cavalry rushed towards them.

The warrior marked by the cavalry waved his saber, and blood flew everywhere he passed.

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The cavalry standard disrupted the entire array of the Japanese princes' coalition.

at the same time.

Three miles to the rear.

Zhou Lang, who landed in the rear and sneaked in secret, finally arrived with two targets and four thousand cavalry.

"Yan Fan Cavalry, attack!"

Zhou Lang pulled out his saber directly.

The lances are not ready to be used.

From a distance, he saw the cavalry mark remaining beside the prince, digging into the formation.

At this time, there is no need for rifle fire.

All he had to do was rush in from behind the Japanese allied forces as quickly as possible, cooperate with the cavalry markings in front of them, and continuously charge forward to defeat the formation of the Japanese allied forces.

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On the flagship deck.

Naval gunfire has ceased completely.

The smoke has completely dissipated.

Lan Yu and others, holding telescopes, could clearly see the battlefield several miles away.

The mixed cavalry association took the mark as a unit and ran rampant in the chaotic array of Japanese princes' coalition forces.

Whenever a Japanese general tries to organize his troops, he will be overwhelmed by the cavalry as soon as possible.

Periphery.

Zhu Di and Liu Sheng led the Yan army to surround them.

Faced with the Japanese soldiers who were in chaos under the attack of the Mixed Cavalry Association, and even threw away their muskets in panic, the Yanfan army was divided into battalions, either one battalion or several battalions.

After surrounding a group of Japanese soldiers.

Take the lead in volleying.

Then they inserted their bayonets and began to work in groups of three or five, using the military bayonet technique pioneered by Yan Fan to kill Japanese soldiers one by one in the chaotic battlefield.

The spirit of the Japanese soldiers is also surprising.

In the chaos, shouts of "Jade Broken Glory" and "Revenge for His Majesty the Emperor" kept coming and going!

Many Japanese soldiers, as if committing suicide, rushed towards the stabbing team in groups of three to five people. Before they could get close, they were pierced by several blunderbuss swords that were thrust out at the same time.

There were many Japanese soldiers committing suicide attacks like this.

Zhu Ming frowned slightly, "I didn't know this ethnic group before, but I didn't expect it to be so crazy. If it were us in the Central Plains, more than half of the casualties would be over half, and they would have been dispersed long ago, right? But look at these Japanese soldiers, they obviously wanted to die, but they even committed suicide. attack……"

"The Japanese Emperor Wanshi system has lasted for thousands of years and has had a great impact on this ethnic group." Zhu 㭎 said while holding up the telescope to observe: "I now understand why Lao Si planned to completely defeat this coalition of princes before the war. Later, they supported the princes' families and went to the subcontinent. If Japanese people like this, who were deeply influenced by the Japanese emperor, stayed, it would be a disaster after all."

Zhu Rui said and smiled.

The fourth child is letting this group of scourges cause harm to others.

He always felt that the fourth child had a more profound purpose in doing this.

…

The war lasted from sunrise to sunset in the evening.

"Jade is glorious! Long live the Emperor!"

The last Japanese soldier standing, holding a samurai sword, shouted and rushed towards Zhu Di.

Zhu Di took the loaded flintlock gun from Xu Zengshou's hand.

Raise the gun and pull the trigger.

boom!

In one breath, the crisp sound of gunfire rang out.

The Japanese soldier suddenly stopped charging, and a bloody hole appeared on his forehead.

Under the rays of the setting sun.

The body slowly slid down.

Plop!

He knelt on his knees, holding the katana in both hands on the ground.

Kneel to Zhu Di.

Behind him, a blood-red sun gradually disappeared into the horizon.

The battlefield was quiet.

In this battle, except for some Japanese soldiers who escaped, almost all the 100,000 princes' coalition forces fell on this vast wilderness.

later generations.

Some Japanese people who migrated to the subcontinent and finally went to the Western Regions called this battle: the Battle of Sunset.

However, at that time, these Japanese people no longer recognized themselves as He tribe or Japanese people.

The Yanfan textbooks, as well as the assimilated Japanese people, called this battle: the battle of innovation!

No matter how future generations name this battle.

Later generations of historians all agreed that this battle was the starting point for Yan Fan's military boots to be resounding throughout the world.

It is also the beginning of the whole world changing from day to day, and the country changing color.

…

Lan Yu and others approached from a distance on horseback.

Lan Yu turned to ask Mu Ying, "How many days did it take from the time we landed in Japan to the end of this war?"

"Five days!" Mu Ying replied solemnly, looking at the backs of Yanfan soldiers surrounding Zhu Di on the battlefield filled with corpses.

Five days!

He knew that Lan Yu must also know that it only took five days.

The reason why I ask.

It's because of shock!

Many people in the court were probably still hoping that the fourth child would lose the war.

But Yan Fan's navy and army had already won the victory over Dingding Japan in just five days!

I wonder how big a shock it will cause if it is reported back to the DPRK?

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