0709 Collapse and retreat
When Liu Pei's musketeers saw that they had a good target, they accelerated their firing. Each shot can knock down a row of people like an onion skin! Just after the Iron Gun Ashigaru finished the second round of shooting, the command samurai of Iron Gun Ashigaru was surprised to find that he didn't have enough Iron Gun Ashigaru to line up in the third row! Because they were all killed in the confrontation just now!
The samurai who led the team also found out about this embarrassing situation, and he immediately stood up and shouted a loud order: "For the sake of this family! All Assault! ”
Just as he stood up and ordered loudly, Liu Pei squeezed out three words from between his teeth: "Change the shotgun!" ”
The gunners immediately carried out Liu Pei's order. The newly cleared gun was stuffed into a medicine bag, and then into a thin wooden barrel. All this was done in a very short time.
Just as the Japanese soldiers, led by the samurai, rushed over, the artillery fired! Shotguns from 25 guns flew densely past! In the short space between the two formations, it hit the dense crowd hard, creating countless blood springs!
The artillery was fired too close! A lot of shotguns still have the strength to hit the second person after passing through the first person! At this time, it was the Japanese soldiers charging again, and the crowd was at its densest. This creates the ideal condition for the destruction of shotguns!
For a time, the screams of the wounded and the dying cries even covered the shouts of the Japanese soldiers! Let the offensive of the Japanese soldiers stop! The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive involuntarily stopped and looked at the slaughterhouse in front of them with incredulous eyes!
There were corpses in front of them! Broken hands and feet, broken heads, flowing entrails! It's hell! Even some veterans of the war were frightened by this terrible sight! Although they have seen dead people, and they have killed people with their own hands, they have never seen such a thing as killing so many people in an instant like this!
Just as they were looking at the slaughterhouse in distraction, another 25 guns were fired! Nearly a thousand tiny projectiles once again swept across the battlefield. Let the Japanese soldiers in front of them fall a large piece again!
Two rounds of shrapnel went down, causing the death of more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers! And these two rounds of shotgun shooting are hitting the head of the surging crowd, completely crushing the crowd! The surging crowd turned into more than 1,000 dead corpses!
These bloody corpses frightened the living Japanese soldiers! It's not that these Japanese soldiers have never seen corpses and blood, but they have never seen corpses in this form. So much so that the action and shouts of their charge stopped! For a while, there was silence on the battlefield!
In the wars they had experienced before, it would take a long time for both sides to fight fiercely before they could cause more than 1,000 casualties. But today, right in front of their eyes, in just a few dozen breaths, these companions who had just been alive fell in a pool of blood! These corpses are a declaration of one thing, that is, there will be a world of death ahead!
At this moment's silence, a row of firearms rang out at the right time. Shoot down a large row of Japanese soldiers who are still immersed in surprise and fear!
This round of guns was the last straw that crushed the camel! The one who was hit fell softly, and the wounded fell screaming! Some of the frightened soldiers had already turned around and burrowed into the crowd and started to run away! The collapse of the front is at hand!
At this time, it shows the sophistication and experience of Masakatsu Horita! When he found out that his team had stopped without an order, he immediately understood what was going on! He immediately ordered the soldiers to blow the horn of retreat.
The soldiers heard the call to withdraw, and they ran back as if they had been pardoned. I can't even take care of the most basic formation. But the call to withdraw was good for these soldiers. Because Horita Masakatsu ordered the horn of retreat, these retreating soldiers were not considered to have fled, but to retreat.
If the army breaks and flees, it will be a great blow to the morale of the army! And although the retreat will also have an impact, it will not be as big as the rout! However, these people will not be able to use this battle. Because they will drag down the other soldiers, spread pessimism, and lower the morale of the whole team.
The entire battlefield fell silent, and both sides were licking their wounds. On Liu Pei's side, because the Japanese soldiers did not attack their front at all, all the casualties appeared under the opponent's two rounds of iron cannon fire, just over double digits! And there are seven or eight of them who have been treated by doctors, and there will be no hidden dangers after they recover from their injuries.
And the Japanese side is miserable! After 11 rounds of shelling and two rounds of shotgunning, more than 2,000 people were killed or wounded among the 8,000 people who came out of the battle! But because they were the retreating side, many of the wounded who still had hope of being rescued had to lie on the battlefield and wait to die like the seriously wounded. The morale of the Japanese soldiers dropped considerably.
Hao Yun, who was standing in the line, pouted, put down the firearm in his hand, and began to reload. and motioned for Hao Ping'an to follow suit.
This time, in order to attack the Wa State, Liu Pei has already transferred all the troops. Including the Taiwan Expeditionary Force and the men and horses left behind in Shandong were also mobilized. However, because the soldiers of the Shandong Garrison were too conspicuous, Liu Pei pulled the people into the field in the name of training, and then quietly got on the ship and transported them away.
As for the people who returned to the barracks, they were all old and weak tenants under Liu Pei. Liu Pei paid to hire a group of old and weak tenants to wear fat jackets, and drove into the barracks in a grand manner, and then closed the barracks. The whole barracks seemed normal to the outside world, but in reality, there were only 100 real soldiers in the barracks, except for a group of old people and half-grown children.
Hao Yun finished loading the ammunition and waited for a while, waiting for Hao Ping'an to finish loading the ammunition slowly, and then took out a piece of dried meat from his pocket and handed it to Hao Ping'an. Hao Ping'an took the jerky and stuffed it into his mouth tremblingly, and his face looked a little better.
Hao Ping'an has eaten well and lived well in the barracks for more than half a year, and he has grown quickly. It's almost time to catch up with Hao Yun. And he has been trained in the barracks, and he is already a qualified firecracker. Now he is standing shoulder to shoulder and good luck.
To be honest, Hao Ping'an was really a little scared this time! Don't look at Hao Ping'an, when he fought with pirates in the past, he dared to fight! But at that time, he thought that this was just a chaotic battle between two large villages. So he went to fight with a feeling of nonchalance.
But this time it's different! This was Hao Ping'an's first encounter with real war. The dense crowd of soldiers on the opposite side and the solemn atmosphere made Hao Ping'an, who had seen this kind of battle for the first time, tremble!
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