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Chapter 289. Bushido and bayonet killing

It is surprisingly similar. Compared with the square Wanquan formation of the Eastern Shogunate Army, Mao Juexi Army also arranged a square Wanquan Town. Mori Xiu had 3000 people, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa had 9000 people, and Fukuoka had [-] people. Dao Zhengsheng led [-] ronin to form the right army at Hengpu Mountain, and the second column behind him had [-] Dongjiang reserve soldiers as the rear.

Kuroda Toshinaga's 2 army, Nabeshima Kinmatsu's [-] army, and Asai Mitsusheng's [-] army were the left army, and they formed the left army in Doton Hill. There are seven Qiandongjiang's reserve troops lined up.

The central army is naturally Mao Jue himself, ten regiments from Tieyi, five regiments from Jeju Island, and the Dongjiang Cavalry Team are at the forefront as vanguards. Lee's North Korea has 2 soldiers who are the best at fighting, and there are about 1 ronin The troops were left behind.

The thickness of the entire array is less than half that of the 30 army of the shogunate, but the width is almost the same as that of the shogunate army.

It's just that when the battle started, the more than 9 front troops of the Eastern Army were like a hammer, and they smashed hard at Mao Jue's middle front army, which was only less than [-]. .

The animal husbandry in Japan is very primitive. There are no pigs, sheep, mules, or donkeys. Except for chickens, ducks and geese are rarely seen in poultry. There are only cattle and horses as livestock, and the number is very small. Chigui Jingyi is one of the few cavalry.

They were all picked up from the corpse of Takeda Chibei. This cavalry formed the ace troop of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa. As soon as the battle started, these hundreds of meritorious cavalrymen wrapped in lacquer red armor and wearing ghost masks took the lead. He rushed forward to Mao Jue's position.

Not to mention, this ferocious ghost mask is really scary. Hundreds of cavalry are rushing crazily, like galloping fire ghosts. Wen Meng, who was in the middle of the fight, was terrified.

"Damn, what is this?"

The most attractive and the most valued, as Wen Meng grinned and yelled, the artillery positions of several nearby regiments all moved in this direction, and the rows of dark muzzles also collectively circled here.

"Fat Master!"

It was that slogan again that I really don't understand why the general wanted to shout like that. All of a sudden, the Ming army's army was full of guns and guns, and streams of light all gathered on the red grimacing cavalry.

The dense gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield, and for a few seconds, he slapped the dense gunpowder smoke away, coughed and Wen Meng finally saw his eyes clearly, but couldn't help grinning happily again.

"It turns out that this thing will die!"

This time, Mao Jue did not use shrapnel shells for the first time, but used shells commonly used by the Ming army. The red cannon fired iron sand flatly, and it could shoot a hundred meters away. Combined with muskets, it almost smashed those ghost cavalrymen in red. That's it, there is only a pool of red in front of the formation.

It's just that before Wen Meng grinned happily, Sun Chun's sharp and exasperated voice rang out suddenly.

"Hurry up and charge! Fight back! What are you doing in a daze?"

Behind the heavy soldiers, there are countless iron gunners trotting, and they also followed out. They hurriedly clung to Chigui Jingyi's cavalry team, almost as soon as Chigui Jingyi retreated, they took a risk come up.

I have to admit that during the Wanli Korean War, the firecrackers of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as the Japanese. The coalition forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Li Dynasty suffered a lot in front of these iron cannons. It also started to load in a panic, and the soldiers who were not shooting in the back row switched to the front row. Almost at the same time, the muzzles of both sides burst out with deathly iron fire.

Puff~Puff~The bullets burst out brilliant blood on the flesh, one after another the bodies fell to the ground one after another. There is also a price to pay here. Among the iron artillery team of the shogunate, some of them are strengthened. The caliber is even close to the level of the tiger squatting artillery.

Sitting down on the ground, seeing the guard next to him vomit blood, Wen Meng's eyes were red, and he slammed open the hanger on his chest. A bullet the size of a pill got stuck in the middle of the cold forged armor, a huge The force of the blow caused his entire ribs to sink in and he was broken.

The two reserve soldiers hurriedly picked him up and dragged him to the tent behind the formation. They slammed their fists on the sack with several holes missing. roared angrily.

"Call me!"

The dense iron flow continued to erupt in front of the two armies.

The largest battle of iron cannons in the history of Japan is said to be the battle of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and the battle between Oda Nobunaga and Ichikozong, but this time, the scale is definitely exceeded. There are 3000 to [-] flintlock iron cannons in this battle , not to mention that the two wings of the Eastern Army and the Western Army also have iron gunners. For a while, the entire battlefield was filled with gunpowder and even felt a bit like the era of hot weapons. People, no matter whether the Dongjiang pointed bullet or the heavy pellet bullet of the shogunate, it is fatal to hit it.

However, Dongjiang has the upper hand in the battle. Who gave them experience in gun battles? They piled up half a person's high sack breast wall, and the reloading speed of the thirteen well-trained divisions is far faster than carrying a full [-] to [-] catties. The Japanese iron gunners of the iron cannons looked at the battlefield, and the Japanese who had just filled their positions came out from behind and were immediately knocked down by stray bullets. In front of the Dongjiang formation, row after row of gunfire kept spraying, especially often With a bang, a large piece of iron sand was sprayed down, and the shogunate army was immediately punched.

"idiot!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's mouth twitched with anger. Sitting on the improvised middle army, he turned around and looked around angrily, growling.

"When will the shogunate cannons be delivered!"

In terms of heavy firepower, the shogunate army was completely suppressed and beaten. Hearing the sound of artillery fire one after another, the corners of Aoyama Kounari's mouth twitched. Masamichi Ii, the feudal lord of the Omi Hikone Domain who was charging into the battle, was directly smashed by the artillery. The ancestral armor could not be put together. As soon as the battle started, the general was immediately damaged. Not to mention the Ii army, the morale of the other vanguards was low. .

It's just that unlike the general who was anxiously waiting for the cannon, Aoyama Xingcheng didn't even think about fighting Dongjiang with firearms at all. He simply knelt in front of the general's hall with a heavy military salute, and suddenly bowed his head.

"His Royal Highness, even if our army's big barrels arrive, the firepower is far from the opponent of Dongjiang's Western cannons. Dongjiang is strong in firearms, and our army is strong in bravery. The iron cannons have passed. Let these people experience the martial arts of our shogunate." Soul!"

He was stunned for a moment, and after a while, Tokugawa Iemitsu stood up abruptly, pressed forward the golden military fan in his hand, grinned his teeth as if he couldn't live, and roared hissingly.

"The Vanguard attack, break through Dongjiang Mao Jue's line of defense!"

"Swoo Lai, step away!"

When the military order was passed down, the Japanese generals put aside their mustaches, as if they wanted to spit out all the air in their lungs, and waved their samurai swords forward. The Japanese did not have pure cavalry troops. The infantry marched together under the retinue, a bit like the tank tactics of later generations. The cavalry broke through the formation, and the infantry behind followed.

Incomparably spectacular, a total of 8 to 20 people of this kind of mixed army swarmed forward over the struggling formation of iron gunners. Rows of ammunition came, and rows of samurai fell to the ground, but they couldn't stop them no matter what. The turbulent army rushed to more than [-] meters, Wen Meng, Pang Pang Hai, Tian Tao, Kong Youde and other Dongjiang generals also roared out together.

"On the bayonet!"

Amidst the exciting clattering sound, the snap-on bayonet that was removed for easy loading was neatly put on the muzzle of the gun, and then, holding the two-meter-long bayonet and flintlock gun, the Dongjiang army formation, which was originally missing a few gaps, leaned against the gun. The parapets were lined up in neat rows in an instant, and the gleaming bayonet nearly half a meter long protruded directly out of the wall. In the rapid breathing, the sprinting Japanese samurai arrived in no time, and the bloody and brutal hand-to-hand combat was on the verge of breaking out.

sigh~

Countless swords and soldiers slammed into each other, and the sound of metal even overwhelmed the shouts of people. In the two armies, rumbling explosions erupted one after another. The Japanese had cannon fire jade, and Mao Jue also had grenades. A layer of parapet was knocked down directly, and the sergeants in the front rows were even intertwined in formation, their canine teeth crossed each other, and the grenade hand behind and the opponent's cannonball warrior gritted their teeth and threw each other. Every explosion sounded, always It was a dozen that were set off with a bang.

It is said that strong ships and sharp guns cannot stop justice, but good equipment is a direct cash withdrawal of combat effectiveness. Relying on the factories and machine tools operating on the assembly line, the cotton armor inlaid with cold-forged armor pieces inside the Tie Yi soldiers can be hit with one knife, two knives and three guns. It didn't break, but the bayonet stabbed the Japanese warrior in the chest, and he was useless. Although the bloody hand-to-hand combat was extremely fierce, the exchange rate of the battlefield still reached a terrifying one to ten, and the sharp artillery kept shooting at the heavy Iron and fire were sprayed on the back of the Japanese army.

At this time, human life is indeed the least valuable thing, but in comparison, the lives of Japanese warriors are even more worthless. Under the fierce stabbing of the Dongjiang bayonet team in a group of three, layers of corpses fell densely on the ground. on the battlefield.

"idiot!"

While the fierce battle was in full swing, another force came in handy. From the two wings of Mao Jue's formation, groups of ronin wearing light armor and carrying samurai swords rushed out.

Frontal army confrontation, these people are scum, the ronin who lack the spirit of the legion and cooperate with each other can't hold a charge at all, but the frontal battlefield unfolds, and they are experts in picking up bargains from the two wings. They have done a lot, one-on-one, even Tokugawa Iemitsu's banner is probably not their opponent, this shogunate army who was already fighting in a daze, a large group of samurai swords came out of nowhere and chopped your dog's head high The ronin was cut down again immediately.

Shua~ a burst of knife light fell, and more than a dozen people were chopped to the ground! Puff~ In the blood light, a warrior just opened the bayonet that was stabbing himself with a knife, and then another bayonet pierced into his heart with incomparable precision !Boom~ Sun Chun knocked down the flintlock with his own hands, and the roaring Hongyi cannon sprayed out a large piece of iron sand, which was also a large piece of a dozen rear army shogunate soldiers covering their bloody faces and hands, lying in pain Rolling all over the ground.

The field battle started at two o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until about five o'clock in the afternoon. With the sound of retreating troops from the rear, the Shogunate vanguard, whose spirit was on the verge of collapse, simply fled behind, panting and ignoring them, as if they were being pardoned. When it came, it was like a high tide, and when it went back, it was like an ebb tide, and corpses like fish, shrimp and scallops were thrown all over the ground.

The difference in physical fitness was also reflected at this time. After three hours of fierce fighting, many shogunate weapons could no longer lift their swords, but the Dongjiang Army was still alive and well. Although they were panting, they were still full of fighting spirit. From behind, he stabbed a warrior who turned around and ran away, and exhaled loudly. Kong Youde, a 1.8-meter-nine-meter-long bear, picked up the man alive and held him on his shoulder.

"Come on! Grandpa hasn't killed enough yet!"

Blood was dripping down, and the undead warriors screamed and grew limbs, and the roaring Kong Youde was covered with a terrifying coat like a demon god. Listening to his roar, the fleeing shogunate warriors were heartbroken. , There were still a few weak-legged people who couldn't escape, they just knelt down on the ground and kowtowed violently, followed Kong Youde, and I don't know how many people also arrogantly beat their weapons.

This battle has not yet been decided, but there is no doubt that Dongjiang has the upper hand.

The bloody day finally came to an end when the two sides completely broke contact. As night fell, campfires were lit up in the formations of the two armies, but the battlefield has not stopped. Picking and picking, cutting off the heads to exchange for military merits, from time to time there are horrified screams from wounded soldiers who are still alive. Listening to the hearts of the soldiers of the Eastern Army camped on the other side of the Kizu River, it makes people tremble like ghosts crying.

When they were dragged back, the wounded soldiers were lying all over the tent, screaming and screaming, as if they had brought hell to the human world.

Iron sand shotguns are actually not enough lethality. They often can't kill people after being hit, but the consequences are often worse than being beaten to death on the spot. The whole face is bloody and bloody. Those military doctors used a knife to remove the iron sand from the flesh, screaming so shrillly that even the passer-by Aoyama Xingcheng was terrified, so he speeded up and hurried past this area.

Taking turns to eat, the Japanese and Dongjiang are really one heaven and one underground. At this time, every soldier in Dongjiang is humming a little tune and stirring the canned braised pork in bamboo tubes and canned fish in tomato sauce in the cauldron. It's just a small fish two fingers wide, a bowl of rice, a bowl of miso soup with clear sea vegetables, but that's all, Iemitsu Tokugawa didn't feel like eating it, he tapped his chopsticks until Yukinari Aoyama came in , he stood up hastily.

"Mr. Qingshan, how are you?"

"Today's battle deaths and serious injuries should be in the number of [-]. Minor injuries are too many to count. Jing Yi's army was disabled, Mito Matsudaira's army collapsed, and the forward army may have to be replaced tomorrow!"

"Where's the Dongjiang Army?"