Just when the Japanese army at the head of the city was about to collapse and run away, Sakai Tadashi, the second bar, came again, he stopped a Japanese soldier who retreated in panic, and directly raised his sword and killed the other party.

Then, Sakai Tadashi carried two small knives in his hand, slashed all the way along the city wall, from beginning to end, and slashed the retreating Japanese soldiers one by one, without even blinking his eyes.

He shouted angrily as he slashed: "Whoever retreats, will be executed on the spot!" ”

The retreating Japanese soldiers watched this scene in horror and unnaturally stopped their heavy steps.

Sakai Tadashi held two blood-stained knives in his hands, and said loudly word by word: "Swear to kill Mingkou, defend Osaka, and protect the shogunate!" ”

However, it seemed that no one shouted slogans along with him, and now there was no excitement at all, and the soldiers just looked at him blankly, a little overwhelmed.

After all, the Ming army's attack became more and more fierce, and the scene of the Ming warships on the Yodo River firing concentrated cannons on the city wall was too terrifying, and they belonged to the position of advancing and retreating for two years.

Sakai Tadashi's heart was cold all of a sudden, and his morale was gone, could Osaka still hold on?

He gritted his teeth and attacked the Ming soldiers who had climbed the city wall with a small sword.

Perhaps it was his actions that moved his subordinates, and the Japanese began to regain their strength, taking up arms and continuing to fight.

Sakai Tadashi suddenly realized that the infectious power of taking the lead is so great, no wonder the ancient name likes to take the lead......

"Broken jade! Jade shattered! ”

Sakai Tadashi shouted loudly, and the Japanese soldiers were also enthusiastic when they heard it, chanting "jade shattering" in unison, vowing to fight with the Ming army to the end.

To the north of Osaka Castle, on the wide Yodo River, 50,000 Japanese troops from the north bank stood on the bank of the river, listening to the sound of guns and cannons coming from Osaka Castle.

The person in charge of reinforcements was the old middle Abe Tadaaki, who was anxious at this time, but he was helpless, because the Yodo River to Osaka was blocked by the Ming army!

The Japanese army forcibly crossed the river many times, but all of them were frantically shot by the Ming army.

Their muskets fired at a fast rate and fired almost non-stop, inflicting huge casualties on the Japanese who crossed the river, with the result that the boat floated over and all the people on it died.

Looking at the Ming army formation with a sequence formation on the other side, Abe Tadaaki had a deep sense of powerlessness, and could only watch the Ming army attack Osaka.

......

In the morning, there was a fierce battle for the southern castle of Osaka.

The Ming army continued to climb the city, and was constantly repulsed by the Japanese army.

There are 50,000 Japanese troops in the city, even if it is 50,000 pigs, as long as they are coordinated and orderly, they can slowly arch the Ming army.

On the walls of the southern city, the corpses were piled up higher than the battlements, and there were both Ming and Japanese soldiers, but the Japanese army accounted for most of them.

Many of them were killed by the grenades thrown by the Ming soldiers who landed in the city.

It was only now that the Japanese army realized how terrible the fighting power of the Ming army was, they were not afraid of death, their blood-stained faces made people's hearts palpitate, and the resistance of the Japanese army gradually weakened.

Some Japanese soldiers with a poor mentality, because they couldn't bear the pressure of this fear, directly took the initiative to jump off the city wall and commit suicide, fulfilling their "jade shattering".

At three o'clock in the afternoon, at this unlucky hour, two deafening loud noises were heard, and the ground shook and the smoke and dust filled the southern part of Osaka Castle.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the south gate of Osaka Castle and the city wall south of it collapsed in several places, and a Ming army broke into the city from the gap under the cover of artillery fire.

At the moment when the smoke and dust were raised, Sakai Tadashi had already realized that the situation was not good.

Seeing that the Ming army was frantically rushing to the gap, Sakai Tadashi shouted hoarsely and ordered the Japanese army to go forward to block the gap.

But it was too late, and the Ming soldiers who rushed to the front had already approached the city wall, lit grenades as they ran, and threw them into the gap with all their might.

There were several more explosions, and the Japanese soldiers who had just blocked the gap were instantly killed by rotten wounds, and when the rest of the people saw it, they immediately "hula", and they all ran away, and even the dogs couldn't catch up.

The Ming troops who landed in the city threw grenades all morning, which had already made the Japanese soldiers suffer from explosion phobia, and as soon as they heard the explosion, their hearts were frightened, their whole bodies trembled, and no one dared to move forward.

Now let alone throwing grenades, even if the Ming army throws a firecracker, it can intimidate a large number of Japanese soldiers.

The Ming commandos took advantage of the situation to occupy the gap, quickly put the grenadiers they carried on the ground, and kept stuffing shells into it, killing the shogunate troops who were hiding near the gap.

This thing is very easy to carry, easy to operate, it is really the best choice for attacking the city and smashing the wall, the commando team carried this thing, and it was a solid addiction.

The assault team soon entered Osaka Castle and continued to expand into the city, and then the Ming army brigade also followed into the city one after another.

Soon, gunshots, explosions, and shouts of murder rang out in the streets of Osaka Castle.

The weapons used by the Ming army were far beyond the Japanese understanding of war in this era, causing a great psychological shock to them, and they completely lost the will to resist.

Sakai Tadakiyo saw that the southern castle had been lost and that the recovering position had been basically lost, so he immediately withdrew.

On the way to retreat, naturally some people wanted to run away, the first to run away were ordinary soldiers, then samurai, and finally even the Japanese generals fled outside the city, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops were defeated.

A large number of residents in the city fled to the north of the city to avoid the shelling of the Ming army and the Ming army brigade, and they crowded the streets with the retreating stragglers, and the order in the city began to fall into chaos.

The battle at Osaka Castle soon turned into a Ming army's pursuit and clearance of the defeated army.

Sakai Tadashi's legs and feet were good, and he quickly hid in the castle tower.

He said to the personal samurai who followed closely behind, "You go out, don't disturb me." ”

"Your Excellency, the Ming army has entered the city, and they may attack the castle tower at any time......."

"I said, don't bother me!"

Sakai Tadashi rudely interrupted the samurai's words and walked into the war room without looking back.

In the empty war room, Sakai Tadakiyo was in a gloomy mood, and he knew that his fate was over.

In the first battle of Osaka, the two armies fought regularly, they were several times the enemy, and they were still in a defensive position, but they lost very badly, even if they escaped by luck, the shogunate would not forgive themselves!

As a sinner in Japan, Sakai Tadashi felt the need to die to apologize.

He looked up and let out a long sigh, only to see a portrait of Emperor Gosai hanging directly east of the war room.

In the portrait, the seventeen-year-old Emperor Yoshihito is dressed in a black kimono, with a sword in his hand and a clear gaze.

Sakai Tadakiyo laughed at himself, as the son of the god and the father of his subjects, the emperor should have enjoyed supreme honor and unquestionable prestige.

However, their Emperor His Majesty is a new puppet of the shogunate, and even this portrait is a special pose made by the shogunate for the emperor.

In order to allow all the subjects and armies of Japan to unite and fight against the Ming Kingdom together!

"The shogunate has set up the emperor, this is the current state of Japan, to whom is my loyalty?"

Sakai Tadashiyo has mixed feelings, he is a royalist at heart, but in reality, he is working for the Tokugawa shogunate.

After a long time, Sakai Tadakiyo faced the portrait of Emperor Yoshihito Gosai, knelt on his knees, and muttered, "Your Majesty the Emperor......"

After saying that, he untied the heavy armor stained with blood, revealing his chest and abdomen, and then picked up the same bloodstained sword and aimed it at his abdomen.

Perhaps only death can stop bowing to reality, gain freedom, and atone for the sin of betrayal......

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the battle in Osaka Castle was basically over, and the Ming army was in complete control of the situation in the city.

The battle outside the castle continued, and a large number of Japanese troops fled from the castle, and seeing a large number of Ming troops outside the northern castle (responsible for blocking the shogunate reinforcements), they fled to the west of Osaka Castle.

Seeing this scene, Li Yu was extremely excited, don't send the heads to the door in vain!

He left most of his men and horses to continue to keep an eye on the Japanese troops on the north bank, and personally led 2,000 men and horses to chase and kill the fleeing Japanese army.

The Japanese army from the west of the city to the Dianchuan, abandoned horses, armor tens of thousands, panicked rout army to avoid the Ming army to chase and kill, the river water dead many, floating corpses on the water floating, many like geese.

The 70,000 troops stationed in Osaka first ambushed the Ming army outside Osaka Castle, killed thousands, surrendered thousands, and supported 10,000 people in the Osaka Fort, and died in battle.

The remaining 50,000 defenders were almost slaughtered in the Battle of Osaka, and less than 10,000 surrendered on the ground.

That night, when a group of Ming troops stormed the castle tower, they found the body of Sakai Tadakiyo who had committed suicide by disembowelment.

On the castle tower, the moonlight was like water, but not a single Japanese soldier shed tears for him, and not even the dying wounded soldier let out a dying moan.......