Two quarters of an hour later, Liu Guoxuan led the 2nd Marine Regiment to rush to the fort.

The granite fort withstood the bombardment of the Ming gun's guns and was still majestic, but the Japanese soldiers in the fortress were no longer human, and more than 1,000 corpses were lying on the ground.

Hidaka led the remaining hundreds of remnants, surrounded by Liu Guoxuan's second regiment, hiding in the fortress layer and refusing to surrender.

Liu Guoxuan was a murderous master, and without saying a word, he ordered to set fire to the inside and throw grenades, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers were burned to ashes along with the contents inside, along with the corpses of those Japanese soldiers who died in battle, and there were no bones left.

On the fortress, there was a crackling and popping sound, the granite walls were all roasted, the billowing smoke obscured the vision, and the Ming soldiers who occupied the fortress were stimulated by the smoke to tears.

Liu Guoxuan stroked the saber in his hand and looked at the sea of fire inside with interest, his face was flushed, and his skin was hot from the skyrocketing fire.

The air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh, which was very pungent, but Liu Guoxuan took a few greedy breaths, and even had an urge to taste roast meat.

The 2nd Marine Regiment planted the dragon flag on the fort, announcing their first victory in the battle.

As the core fortress was breached, and the main general Hitaka was cremated and ascended to heaven, the Japanese soldiers on the north and south batteries were all glazed, and there was no need for them to increase troops to the fortress.

And Shi Langbu, who was responsible for attacking the two forts, could only watch with regret as others made contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

The outcome of the battle on the battlefield was decided, and the few remaining Japanese soldiers could only lay down their weapons and obediently kneel down and surrender, and the Osaka Fort, which the Tokugawa shogunate spent a lot of money to build, was completely lost.

On the fortress, Zhu Chenggong closed his eyes happily, sniffing the smell of the enemy's charred corpses and listening to the enemy's dying wails.

"What a feast!"

Zhu Chenggong had already thought of the night banquet in the Forbidden City, the smell of delicious food wafting through the air, and the elegant sound of the piano in the court.

Suddenly, his fantasy was interrupted.

A soldier whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty the Emperor is here!" ”

Zhu Chenggong opened his eyes and looked at the sea, only to see the tall battleship Wanli coming under the escort of several warships.

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The magnificent horn sounded, and Zhu Cihong stepped on the Osaka Fort, and he could completely see from the battlefield scene how tragic the battle here had been not long ago.

Corpses were carried to the beach, both Japanese and Ming.

The Japanese soldiers were thrown into a large pit and burned to the ground.

The corpses of the soldiers of the Ming army were arranged in an orderly manner, and after being recognized by their comrades-in-arms, their names and troop affiliations were pasted.

Under the leadership of Zhu Cihong, the soldiers of the Ming army fired guns on the beach to pay tribute to their dead comrades.

Then, these martyrs were seriously carried onto the battleship by their comrades-in-arms and transported back to Daming for burial, accompanied by their relics.

The capture of Osaka's maritime gateway by the Ming army meant that the Japanese lost at least half, if not more, of the Battle of Osaka.

Now that the Ming Royal Navy had blockaded Osaka Bay and controlled the Yodogawa waterway, the Ming army on land had also formed a siege of Osaka, although their numbers were far smaller than the besieged Japanese army.

The Imperial Navy of the Ming Dynasty will move from the Osaka Fort and the Yodogawa Waterway to Osaka Castle, and launch a general attack on Osaka by noon tomorrow at the latest.

However, the Tokugawa shogunate also moved quickly, and when they learned that the Ming army was preparing to attack Osaka, they sent tens of thousands of horses from Kyoto to help, determined to hold Osaka.

Zhu Cihong was not worried, he believed that Xu Qingshan was enough to solve this inadequate Japanese army.

In terms of field warfare, the Ming army is not afraid of anyone, even if it is an enemy several times larger than our army!

What worries Zhu Cihong faintly is that many places in Japan have set off calls to resist the Ming Dynasty, and the number of troops in the shogunate is increasing wildly.

At that time, the Eight Banners Army fought against the daimyo of the Kyushu Island feudal domains in southwest Japan, and they mainly looted property and population, and did not occupy it directly, at most they established large battalions in one or two places to control those daimyos.

In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate at that time had a hostile attitude towards the Kyushu feudal domains, and was bent on weakening the strong feudal domains such as Nagasu and Satsuma, and did not send reinforcements, which led to the Kyushu feudal domains being quickly beaten one by one by the Eight Banners Army and having to submit to the Manchu Qing.

In this battle, the Ming army came to destroy the country, and the opponent was the entire Japan under the rule of the shogunate, which was ten times more difficult than the Eight Banners Army to attack Japan!

Since the Tomorrow War a few years ago, the Tokugawa shogunate has also been learning and improving, and it has deployed military forces for the Ming Dynasty.

When a nation reaches the moment of peril, it will burst out with great power, and even if it is not as equipped as its opponent, it will die to the end.

When the Yuan Dynasty crusaded against Japan, the Japanese broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, the Yuan army rushed to land on Shika Island, and the Japanese army in the battle for the beach, the Yuan army suffered heavy losses, was killed more than 1,000 people, and the commander Hong Chaqiu was almost killed by the son of the Japanese deputy commander Otomo Raita.

After a series of battles, the Yuan army, which was blown into the sky, had more than 100,000 horses, all of which were unfavorable in the war, and although there were many victories, they were unable to continue to advance, so they had to retreat to the sea and encountered a typhoon.

The Yuan Dynasty lost two expeditions to Japan and threw the blame to the typhoon, but in fact, the landing battle was unfavorable, and it encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army, coupled with the fragmented command of the commander, so it had to retreat to the seaside, and then suffered.

To put it bluntly, the Yuan army still can't defeat the outbreak of small Japan.

Japan in World War II was awesome, and the combat effectiveness of the army was quite strong, and it could throw off the national army a few streets in terms of equipment and soldier quality, so it issued a slogan of destroying China in three months.

However, Chang Kaishen used the so-called "five scum of war" level of the national army to fight 22 large-scale battles with the Japanese army, and carried it for several years after repeated defeats, and finally dragged it to victory.

Zhu Cihong never underestimated any enemy, nor did he look down on any strong enemy, and in one of the 80 slogans, he said, "strategically despise the enemy and tactically attach importance to the enemy."

On the afternoon of 16 August, Zhu Cihong arrived at the camp of the Ming army.

Osaka Castle is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the southern castle is flat, so the direction of the main attack of the Tianmu Army was chosen the southern castle.

Xu Qingshan was full of confidence in capturing Osaka City, after all, in the history of the Tianwu Army's conquest, more than a dozen cities had been captured.

In this regard, the Tianwu Army has quite a lot of experience.

On the one hand, according to the old tradition, the Ming army first issued an ultimatum to the Japanese troops defending the city to persuade them to surrender.

Not surprisingly, Sakai Tadashi ignored the ultimatum of the Ming army, and issued the order of "jade shattering" on the same day, in an attempt to "break the cauldron and sink the boat" The fine spirit fought to the death.

In view of the situation that the Japanese don't want to give face, Zhu Cihong had nothing to say, and ordered the army to march by sea tomorrow and launch a general attack!