The wooden walls on the stone walls were destroyed by heavy artillery, and even the stone walls were cracked due to artillery.

The heavy artillery battalion roared continuously, and it stopped from morning to noon. The twelve heavy artillery and field artillery carried by the infantry brigade successively bombarded the stone walls of Kurokawa Castle, firing out hundreds of shells.

Although the hit rate of smoothbore artillery is not as good as that of later artillery, it is still facing a large number of shells hitting the city walls.

At noon, the heavy artillery that scared the warrior group finally stopped temporarily because the two sides had to truce the battle to set up a stove to cook.

Boke Zhengzhi's face was covered with dust, some were sand and dust caused by the splash of shells, and some were covered in dust to avoid shells.

"Awesome artillery..." Bao Ke Zhengzhi slapped the sand and dust on the armor with lingering fear. After confirming that the other party's heavy artillery really stopped firing, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Repair the gap quickly and don't give them a chance to break in!" Damei, who defended the defensive maru, commanded the samurai to repair the gap in the wooden wall after the intensive shelling.

The warriors carried stones and wooden boards to block the gap. They couldn't help feeling heartbroken when they saw the broken wooden walls at the gap.

"With the fierceness of the opponent's artillery, we can't hold on!" A samurai whose cheek was scratched by broken wood was covered in blood, and she almost cried to the head of his family in a crying voice.

The thousands of defenders who were baptized by artillery were somewhat solemn. Under the attack of heavy artillery, even their confidence in resistance was destroyed. The stone walls and wooden walls of the silence were broken and some collapsed. The silence, which was originally expected to be held for at least a few days, seemed in danger. The possibility of falling may depend on when the Kyushu army launched a strong attack.

"Don't worry, everyone has two or three or three or three ore, and Tianshou Pavilion after we fall. Even if we lose, we will make them bleeding! We are all warriors who have been through many battles. In order to maintain our status and dignity, we must fight with our backs!" Akira Kato, the lord of Kurokawa Castle, heard the sound of artillery sounds at the place where we came to motivate our morale and inspire everyone to fight hard.

"Defeat the abominable Chinese people! They have no right to abolish our samurai status. Western Daming helps the Chinese people to abuse them. They are traitors. We must stick to the last pure land of our samurai!"

"Go to Edo Castle and take back everything that belongs to us!"

Some retainers and samurai around Kato Akira also appealed on the front line.

However, their motivation did not make the thousand defenders who had given out the Maru had much better feelings. The defenders were scared by heavy artillery. They could only stay behind the stone walls and wooden walls in vain and be shot by artillery without any power to fight back.

"I see that everyone has lost their courage. If they don't come up with a counterattack as soon as possible, the morale of the army will soon collapse. Look at the movement caused by their heavy artillery, I will hide in the tunnel of the outskirts to avoid shells." Bo Ke Zhengzhi walked over with his helmet, his hair was covered with dust.

"Change all the artillery we can collect to strengthen our defense against Izumaru. Unfortunately, most of the new artillery and imitation artillery purchased by the shogunate are concentrated in Edo Castle. After Edo Castle was captured by the new government, it became their stronghold. The number of artillery here is really limited..." Akira Kato said helplessly.

It’s not that he didn’t want to mobilize a large number of artillery to fight back against the new government army, but that he couldn’t concentrate as many artillery as the new government army! The new Japanese cannons are mainly in two places, the Shimazu family and the Tokugawa family. Both of them are buying overseas artillery while secretly imitating them themselves. Other places are still using small artillery from the Warring States Period. Some artillery is only more powerful than a coercion gun, and has a certain lethality to people, but has no deterrent power of heavy artillery!

Representative figures of the samurai group such as Kato Akira and Masayuki Boko were troubled by how to deal with the threat of heavy artillery to the Masamu, while the new government army opposite them was making a stove to eat.

The soldiers from the heavy artillery battalion who came to reinforce were rarely assigned to rice balls with miso. These rice balls were kneaded by the leader before the war started in the early morning to prevent sudden continuous battles and unable to cook on the stove. At this time, each soldier will receive his own portion.

In addition to this kind of rice ball, iron pots were piled up, with vegetable leaves, soybeans, potatoes, red dates, and even a little bacon and wild game being poured into boiling water.

The leader threw a small piece of salt into the hot water, and the fragrance spread everywhere, causing almost all the warriors who defected to the new government army to activate their index fingers.

This kind of stew is not uncommon in the army, but the rich ingredients are used to surprise these samurai. This is not a stew for small groups of nobles, but a stew for nearly 10,000 soldiers, as well as a richer vegetable and starch. For the samurai in the Edo who only watched the show but did not participate in the battle in the morning, the stew in the army was more hearty than their usual meal.

"In addition to military expenditure, many of these foods are provided by Chinese merchants who are doing business here, which are supported by the army. However, our soldiers' food is good, and we can eat meat several times a month." said the leader who knew why the food standards would be improved.

"The food is much better than ours. The grain transport team actually brought so many types of food. It would be a happy thing to be able to eat hot grains when entering the army." The middle and upper samurai in the new government army were fine, but the lower samurai was very envious of the food of the soldiers of the Kyushu Army.

They held wooden bowls and couldn't wait to stand in front of the stew pot. When the vegetables in the iron pot were cooked, they floated on the water of boiling water. They urged the soldiers to scoop more pieces of meat from the soup for them.

In particular, many Edo samurai were regarded as a coolie by the Chinese Association to clean up the area affected by the Edo Castle fire, which made them not have enough food for a while. After suddenly seeing the rich food, they were overjoyed.

"After eating, you will have to work hard to move forward. In front of you is Kurokawa Castle. After our artillery collapses the city wall, we will launch a charge. At that time, you will provide fire cover and make meritorious service." The people from the Infantry Brigade asked the Edo Samurai to arrange it on both sides of the fire breakout.

According to the offensive concept, the more disciplined Kyushu soldiers will take the lead in breaking through the gap, and the Edo samurai on both sides will be responsible for using muskets to suppress the defenders in other sections of the city wall.
Chapter completed!