Li Dingguo looked around for a while and nodded, "There are still masters in Japan."

The deputy general was secretly shocked and said, "Sir, do you think anyone will be sentenced to my Ming Dynasty and surrender to the Japanese?"

Li Ding Guodao "No, if there were any, it would have been found by the Jinyiwei and the Military Intelligence Department long ago. This city should be related to Luo Yangxing."

The deputy general showed murderous intent, and was angry for a while, and said, "Sir, why are the MIIS so precious to us, and he refused to give us all the information?"

Li Ding Guodao "should be the commander-in-chief, so there is no need to ask too much. If you have a careful observation, draw a topographic map, you will have a cannon tomorrow."

The cannons are currently the most advanced in the world, mainly because of their long range and great ammunition. One thousand cannons are enough to put the fortress of Guanmen Strait in the sea of ​​fire!

"Yes!" The deputy general took the order.

Li Dingguo did not hide his actions, so he naturally had received news from the Shumen Strait.

Shigemasa Itankura was not dealt with and is still in charge of the defense of the south bank of the Strait.

A retainer was giving back and said coldly, "Dian, Li Dingguo is camping ten miles away, with only five thousand people. Should we deal with him first?"

Hiromasa Itankura looked cold and had been frightened recently. Listening to the words of his retainers, he said indifferently, "Do you think the Ming Dynasty would really let five thousand people and one thousand cannons come to the strait with swagger? Are you stupid, or am I stupid?"

The retainer bowed his head and said, "The villain knows his mistake!"

Ichikura Shigemasa's face was gloomy and said, "There must be an ambush in the secret. We don't move. Have the defenses everywhere adjusted?"

The retainers immediately said, "It has been adjusted. Now the city is high and the walls are thick and there is enough food and grass. Even if there were 100,000 troops in the Ming Dynasty, it would not be possible to break through it for a year or two!"

Ichikura Shigemasa looked at him coldly and said, "On the sea?"

The retainers said, "Western artillery were installed on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, especially in narrow places. The distance advantage of the Ming Dynasty artillery was not there, so they could not control the strait..."

The expression on Hiromasa Itakura's face was gentle, and he said, "Izumo, is there any news now?"

"No, there is no news over Izumao." said the retainer.

Hiromasa Itakura frowned. It was Aoyama Tadatsushi who saved him. He knew very well, but now losing Aoyama Tadatsushi's command made him very uneasy.

Early the next morning, Li Dingguo selected two high places, and heavy cannons were transported up, and boxes of ammunition were also being transported continuously.

This process took a lot of time, but Li Dingguo just went so blatantly, even doing it without being arrogant or impatient.

On the top of the city wall, Shigemasa Itankura was holding a telescope, his heart was furious, his face embarrassed, and said, "Can our artillery hit them?"

A retainer said, "Our cannot be, the range of Western artillery artillery is half lower than that of Ming Dynasty artillery artillery, and the power of gunpowder is much worse."

Shigemasa Onakura exhaled heavily from his nostrils, his eyes full of anger, and he said, "Are there any other discoveries?"

The retainers said, "There are dense forests everywhere, and there are abnormal movements in the dense forests. There are one place we have confirmed to have ambush. There are also estimated that there are also people in other places, and the number of people may be 20,000."

Hiromasa Itankura sneered and said, "As expected, what are your countermeasures for the Ming Dynasty cannon?"

The retainer looked embarrassed and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."

This is the first time that Japan has encountered this long-distance attack method. Unless they have equal firearms, there is no way to fight back. What's more, the other party has set up ambush outside and waited for them to leave the city.

Shigemasa Itakura knew this, and asked about it just to shirk responsibility. He snorted expressionlessly and turned around and fell down.

Not long after he went downstairs, Li Dingguo issued an order and fired a thousand cannons at the fortress in Guanmen Strait.

A thousand shells were flying in the sky, rapidly expanding from small and dense black dots, and they hit the city.

Boom boom boom boom

What if the shells were thinking about it, the huge fortress was like an earthquake, trembling violently, and the deafening explosion sounded like thunder, resounding throughout the world.

"fire!"

"fire!"

"fire!"

The flag soldiers waved the flag and shouted loudly, and the gunners quickly filled the shells, ignited, cooled, and repeated constantly.

The shells fell into the city like raindrops, hurried and densely, quickly.

Huge explosions came one after another, and amid the terrible explosion, thick smoke was like fog and dust was like sand, covering the entire Guanmen Strait Fortress.

Even Shigemasa's array house in Orchidura would occasionally fall shells nearby, and the explosion would tremble as if it was about to fall.

I don’t know when the air was, and the fires in the city were burning constantly. The summer was already hot, and the city now was like a huge steamer.

The smoke and dust rolled in the steamer, and the fire was everywhere, and countless screams were heard, drowned in the explosion.

The huge fortress seemed to have no safe place, and I don’t know how many people shouted and were frightened.

These shogunate samurai inside the pass did not know the power of the Ming Dynasty artillery, and despite being prepared, they were still frightened.

Even some daimyos ran to Hiromasa Itakura and shouted wildly. This is so terrible. What else can resist such a "magic weapon"?

Shigemasa Itankura looked at the smoke filled the city, the blood everywhere, and the painful screams hidden under the sound of cannons, and his face looked quite ugly.

"Dian, why don't I take people to destroy their cannon formation!" a retainer said unbearably.

Ichikura Shigemasa said decisively, "No one is allowed to leave the city!"

The Ming people's purpose is very simple, which is to capture the Guanmen Strait and cut off the support of their own island to Jiuguo Island. There are ambushes outside, and if the door is opened, it will be a trap!

A group of people were extremely unwilling to give up, but there was no effective way to deal with it, and they all looked angry and hatred.

Not long after, a warrior came over and said, "Dian, the Ming people's navy has appeared, they seem to be entering the strait!"

Shigemasa Itakura's face changed, his eyes were filled with joy. He climbed a watchtower regardless of danger and looked at the sea with a telescope.

Although it was very vague, I still saw a fleet slowly walking towards this place.

Shigemasa Itankura showed murderous intent and said, "Send to prepare everywhere and wait until their fleet arrives in the encirclement before attacking!"

"yes!"

The warriors left quickly, and the other famous people also had an excited murderous intent. They could not do anything to the cannons outside the pass. If they destroyed the Ming navy, it would be a great achievement!

They were staring at the sea in the fire of artillery.

Outside the Guanmen Strait, Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to wander nearby, but did not approach, and kept observing.

The deputy general beside him said, "Sir, this strait is quieter than before."

Zheng Zhilong could hear the meaning, put down the telescope, and said, "Li Dingguo is bombarding over there, and it's still so quiet here. Obviously, he has arranged his pockets and is waiting for us to get into it."

The deputy general said, "Sir, what should we do?"

Zheng Zhilong put down his telescope and said, "Get close, don't go in, act like you want to go in, and try to delay time."

The deputy general immediately understood that this was to delay time, and to test it out, and to see what traps Hiromasa Itanukura arranged!

The fleet approached the strait, wandering back and forth, never entering.
Chapter completed!