Chapter 1016: The Siege of Kyoto Castle

Dashan Yan, after several consecutive impacts, could not break through the defense of the Chinese cavalry, and could only watch one of his cavalry being gnawed away by the opponent!

However, Dashan Yan is not stupid, as long as the opponent eats that cavalry, turn his head, he will attack him again, and no one will be able to run at that time, even if he stays here, he will not be able to complete the task that Okubo Ritsu gave him to ambush the opponent, the lesser of two evils, run, now take advantage of the Chinese cavalry's full encirclement and suppression and have no time to take care of it, run immediately, otherwise, more than 1,000 people will all be explained here!

"Retreat, retreat!"

Oyama had to give the order to retreat and began to retreat to the other side. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The successive fierce battles, the horror of the Japanese army being killed, completely left an indelible shadow for a lifetime, in his lifetime, he will never fight with the Chinese army again, it is too powerful, these people are too brutal!

Not only the cavalry wing, but also the main force of the Japanese infantry behind were also tightly bitten by the KPA and chased outside the city of Kyoto in one go!

At this time, Emperor Meiji had already received the report of the Oyama Iwa cavalry, and he had already turned pale with fright, and he couldn't say anything.

Forty or fifty thousand troops, in just such a short period of time, the Chinese army was wiped out......

Emperor Meiji was at a loss, and the British Minister Moyes beside him also changed his face greatly, he didn't expect that the Japanese army was so vulnerable, tens of thousands of people, under the attack of a division, the army was defeated like a mountain, and it couldn't withstand the opponent's attack at all!

"Mr. Moyes, this, this ......"

Emperor Meiji doesn't know what to say now, the current Emperor Meiji is only a teenager, where has he ever seen such an embarrassing situation, the enemy army is approaching the city, and in an instant, it may be in danger of overturning!

"Your Majesty, for the sake of today, we can only defend Kyoto City, now that our Empire's Asian Fleet has arrived at Wakasa Bay, we can land immediately, from Wakasa Bay to Kyoto City, it is only a hundred miles away, and it will take only one day to arrive, what we have to do is to support it no matter what, as long as we hold on until the arrival of the Imperial Army, then we will be safe!"

Moyes snapped.

Defending Kyoto Castle?

Now don't say that Emperor Zhi has no confidence, even Moyes doesn't have much confidence, since the Chinese Imperial Army began to attack, there has not been a city that can hold out for the next day under the attack of others, the fastest only took more than three hours!

"Spread the decree, calling on all the soldiers and civilians in the city to immediately prepare for the battle, and resist the attack of the Chinese army no matter what!"

Emperor Meiji doesn't have any way to resist it now, I hope I can resist it!

Outside the city, Gao Qi led a division of troops, all of which had arrived at the city of Kyoto, and the army of Okubo Ritsu was now combined, and the rest were either killed in battle, or seriously wounded and captured, and tens of thousands of troops were lost in one day!

came to the city of Kyoto, Gao Qi didn't say a word, and directly ordered the whole army to plunge into the war, attack, attack, attack! Be sure to take the castle of Kyoto before the British arrive!

Nearly 100 artillery pieces launched a fierce bombardment of Kyoto City at the same time, and one shell after another hit the ancient city wall of Kyoto City, and successively fell on the head of the city, blowing up Kyoto City into a miasma, and groups of Japanese soldiers and civilians climbed to the top of the city and began to defend their Emperor Majesty!

The entire Kyoto Castle has a population of no less than 300,000, and there are tens of thousands of young people alone, plus the original defenders and the defeated army of Okubo Ritsu, there are almost 100,000 people, and the entire castle is full of dense Japanese!

However, no matter how many sheep there are, they can't stand a tiger rushing in, the current Chinese People's Army is the tiger, the Japanese military and civilians combined, have no more than 20,000 rifles, and they are all old rifles, the rest of the soldiers and civilians don't even have rifles, and even some Japanese can only pick up kitchen knives to the head of Kyoto City, how can such a defense battle be won?

The KPA's shells hit the city head, and almost every time the shell exploded, the Japanese would fly from the ground into the air, and the dense crowd made them have nowhere to hide!

On top of Kyoto Castle, there are more than ten artillery pieces in the entire eastern city, and these artillery pieces can still fire a few shells at first, but under the siege of the artillery regiment, in less than half an hour, all of them will be reimbursed, and it is impossible to effectively block the attack of the People's Army.

Nearly 100 artillery pieces attacked with all their might on the east side of Kyoto City, attacking a little, not to mention the brick city wall, even the reinforced concrete city wall could not resist such a high intensity of artillery attack, just two or three hours, the city wall collapsed under the bombardment of two or three thousand shells, and there was a huge gap in the city wall of Kyoto City, above the city head, hundreds of people fell down from the city head, and the casualties were heavy, and it was unbearable!

Gao Qi watched from a distance, the city wall had exploded, and next, it was the charge of the infantry!

"Order, all three heavy machine gun battalions will press on me, advance towards Kyoto City, until it is five hundred meters away from the city wall, launch a close attack, order the Fifth Brigade to press all on it, launch a fierce attack, I will attack Kyoto City before dark!"

Gao Qi gave the order fiercely.

Three heavy machine gun battalions, hundreds of Green guns, slowly pushed forward, in one breath rushed to less than 500 meters away from the city wall, began a fierce strafing fire, bullets rained down, fierce heavy machine gun bullets hit the city wall, the city wall exposed rows of bullet holes, above the city head, the Japanese army was like dumplings, one by one fell from the city head, directly into a meat pie, no matter how many people under the heavy machine gun fire, it will be difficult to escape!

More than 5,000 people from a brigade of the Fifth Brigade began to charge towards the city, and with an angry roar, they began a frenzied offensive!

Okubo Ritsu frantically organized the army and the people to fight back, but everything was in vain, it could only be in vain, no matter how many sheep there were, it was impossible to bite the tiger, the momentum of the people's army had completely killed the red eyes, the rifle in his hand was ringing fatally, and after only two charges, he had already rushed under the city wall and rushed to Kyoto City from the gap!

A company of sharp soldiers occupied the gap, attacked on the spot, through the ruins and broken walls, resisted the counterattack of the Japanese army and civilians, and behind, groups of KPA soldiers poured in, and the destruction of Kyoto City has become inevitable!

(To be continued.) )