"Chapter Seventy-Two: Forcing Date to Surrender"
The intellect is higher than the heart, and the mind is more reliable than the feelings.
Gorky (former Soviet proletarian writer, founder of socialist realist literature)
After the iron artillery gunners formed a formation under the escort of the young sword warriors and monks, Andong Jiazhong, who was still in charge of the Chinese army, ordered one of the generals beside him: "Miyamoto-kun, go and give the order, after the whole army shoots five rounds, let the iron artillery gunners temporarily retreat a hundred meters and wait for the military order." ”
"Hey!" Miyamoto, dressed in the armor of a general, rode his horse and galloped forward after receiving the order.
Miyamoto, whose own strength was equal to that of a high-ranking samurai, came to the middle of the encirclement formed by the iron gunners and shouted in his loudest voice: "All the iron gunners obey the order, shoot the first round, and prepare!"
With a loud noise, the iron cannon gunners who had been carrying the iron cannon on their shoulders raised the iron cannon in their hands that had already been filled with flames, and aimed the muzzle of the iron cannon at the seemingly quiet mountain forest.
"Shoot!"
"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"
Obviously, Miyamoto's order was given in an instant, but the sound of gunfire was so uneven, which invisibly weakened the deterrent effect of the iron cannon salvo, but the fire from the muzzle of the gun and the rising gunpowder smoke at the moment of shooting were still shocking.
With the trees in the mountains and forests as a natural barrier, the unlucky Date soldiers who were shot can be described as very few, and even so, the miserable screams of those unlucky ghosts still made the frightened Date soldiers involuntarily retreat a little distance.
Goto Nobuyasu watched the soldiers around him retreat dozens of meters in unison, but he did not say anything to stop them, because in his opinion, his own soldiers took the initiative to withdraw far beyond the range of the enemy, which was a normal move and there was nothing wrong with it.
"Reload gunpowder!"
"Second round of shooting, get ready!"
"Shoot!"
"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"
Miyamoto, who commanded the artillery gunners to shoot at the forest, had no interest in getting to know what the howling enemy troops were doing in the forest, and all he needed to do was complete the task given to him by the Lord.
"Reload gunpowder!"
"Third round of shooting, ready!" ......
Miyamoto deliberately slowed down the gunpowder for ten seconds to reload each restart of the gunner's shot, and Miyamoto deliberately slowed it down for ten seconds to maintain the consistency of the shot, and so on and so forth, and in less than two minutes the five rounds of the gunner's firing mission were completed.
After two minutes of terrible suffering for the Date Army, the enemy troops who were shooting blindly around their hiding place finally retreated, which relieved the frightened Date Army officers and soldiers, but their nightmare was far from over.
The 6,000 iron gunners retreated 100 meters unhurriedly under the command of Miyamoto, while the young sword warriors and monks who had been guarding the iron gunners did not take a step back.
Armed only with spears as weapons, these spears stuck their spears in the soft grass beside them, and then took the various short bows they had put together on their backs in their hands, and began to prepare their own shots.
Could it be that the commander of the Yan and Huang armies would be so irrational as to expect these patchwork makeshift archers to play any role? Goto Nobuyasu, who was full of doubts, could not understand what the Yan and Huang armies outside the mountains and forests were trying to do, until 6,000 rockets appeared in front of his eyes.
The mountains and forests in early spring may not be as easy to catch fire as the mountains and forests in late autumn, but once there is an open flame spreading, the mountains and forests in any season may not be able to escape the end of being burned down;
As it turned out, Anton didn't have any high hopes for the archers who made temporary cameos from the spear ashigaru, what really made him have high hopes was the 30,000 urgently processed rockets, which were one of the important tools to force the enemy army down!
"All archers obey the order, shoot the first round, get ready!"
"Shoot!"
"Whoosh......"
Miyamoto, who had just commanded the gunners to shoot, came to direct the archers to shoot again, and at the moment when his order to shoot was given, 6,000 flaming arrows quickly enveloped the woods like a galloping cloud of fire.
Unlike the rain and dew in the early morning, the morning sun has already evaporated most of the moisture in the mountain forest, and the dampness left on the grass and tree trunks obviously cannot affect the burning of dry leaves, especially those half-wet and half-dry branches and dead leaf bushes, which can easily suffocate to death in the fire!
Even if 100 rockets could light an open flame, 6,000 rockets fired in each salvo would be enough to ignite at least 60 open flames in the mountains and forests, and 300 open flames ignited by five salvos would be an unbearable blow to the Date army, which lacked water.
Because of the limited raw materials in his hands, Anton was loyal to the full calculation of 30,000 rockets; although this move is not the most important link in the entire forced landing plan, but it is also an extremely important link, but how can the world be as good as it should be?
The road to the infinite sky has never been exclusive to any one force, and the favor of the goddess of luck will never belong to only one person; there are definitely more than 300 open flames lit by 30,000 rockets in the mountains and forests.
But before Anton Ietada had time to rejoice, the layers of dark clouds that suddenly drifted in the sky had already covered the rising sun that had been hanging high in the sky for a minute, and feeling the sparse raindrops falling in the sky, Anton Iezhong could only sigh at the good luck of the Date army.
In stark contrast to Anton Ietada's helpless exclamation, the officers and men of the Date Army in the mountains and forests were ecstatic, and listening to the sound of 'board load (long live) from the mountains and forests, the faces of Anton Ietada and Yubu Yushin showed disdain at the same time.
A sudden spring rain may save the soldiers of the Date Army from the threat of burning mountains and forests, but it cannot fundamentally change the disadvantage of the Date Army, unless there is not a spring rain in the sky that can extinguish the fire, but food that can fill the stomach!
The 120,000 troops of the four legions of the Yanhuang family, each meal needs to consume an astronomical amount of food, if it weren't for Bai Feng bringing a large amount of food from Rome City, the Yanhuang family's grain storage alone would not be able to supply so many soldiers for a long time.
Burying pots and cooking is the task of each regiment's subordinate wings and subordinate men, but this lunch of the Yanhuang Army at noon today is a bit unusual, because the men of each wing who should have buried pots in the barracks to cook came to the forefront of the army with their stoves!
Letting the men cook at the forefront of the battle was a shocking move by Anto Ietada and Yubu Yushin, but with the spear ashigaru who had picked up the spear again, and the samurai and monks who were busy cooking were in the way, there was no mental pressure on the men who were busy cooking.
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