Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Western Army is Defeated

The sound of dense firecrackers resounded in the Sekihara.

It would be wrong to say that the generals of the Western Army did not know about firearms.

It is not even right to say that the generals of the Western Army did not attach importance to firearms.

After all, in Hosokawa Katsumoto's collection, there are some firearms, and he even let his children learn to use them. He also knew the power of the firebolt.

But first of all, the power of a firebolt is not the same as the power of a firebolt array.

Secondly, the musket is a weapon that Japan cannot afford to use.

Under the industrial production of Shaofu, the Ming Dynasty has hit the cost price of firecrackers to about five taels each, although the use of more machines, more precise division of labor, and larger-scale production, this price will be lower.

But this price is something that Japan can't even think about.

The Ming Dynasty strictly forbade the export of firearms.

Even under the condition that the production capacity of the Shaofu is sufficient, the production rights of firearms in the previous health centers have been gradually withdrawn, and at least the health centers in the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and other inland health centers no longer have the right to produce firearms.

Only the frontier land, and the southwest Tusi lined with guards, there is also the right to produce firearms.

But even so, the production of these firearms refers more to gunpowder, or to improvised firearms, to firearms that are not easily transported, rather than to firearms.

Without him, the firecrackers in other places do not have the quality of Shaofu's firearms, even if they are built in Foshan.

In such a situation, the Japanese side could not sell the firecrackers at all, even if some businessmen who took risks to build firecrackers privately, the firecrackers they created were not as good as the quality of the Shaofu firecrackers, not to mention the price, it was not something that the Japanese could afford.

Fifty taels of one.

This price makes it impossible for the Japanese side to equip it on a large scale.

Large-scale purchases are tens of thousands of taels or hundreds of thousands of taels.

Although the Hosokawa family has ten countries, the so-called ten countries in Japan are not even as good as the ten counties in China, how much money can they have?

It's just that Hosokawa Katsumoto has already underestimated the power of the firecracker.

Under the three-stage blow, the brave Japanese soldiers, one after another, reached the ground, and then panic began to spread. After all, the Japanese upper class may know something about firearms. But the Japanese low-class soldiers had never heard of it.

For a while, many people shouted, "Devil." Devil. ”

Turn around and run.

Hosokawa Chengyuki, without saying a word, sent someone to execute him.

The veteran was rectifying the morale of the army and preparing to charge himself.

At this time, the fire stopped.

No, there was something wrong with the Ming army's firearms, but Sun Hong saw an opportunity to break the formation.

Maybe it's a matter of habit, many Ming generals deliberately used firearms as auxiliary tools, and the real lore was hand-to-hand combat.

This is also the time when many firearms have their own

The limitations of the all-day all-terrain can not be applied, and what can really do this is cold weapons.

But it is also the mindset of many generals of the Ming army.

And now Sun Hong is like this.

Sun Hong gave an order, and the Ming saber and shield soldiers rushed in from between the fire guns.

They used a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, plus a suit of armor, first used the shield frame to open the bamboo spear, and then rushed in, and the long knife was slashed at Nippon Ashigaru's body.

In fact, if there was no chaos in Japan, it would not be so easy when the Ming army broke the formation.

But today, when the heart of the army was shaken, and when the soldiers were close to each other, the Japanese weapons hit the Ming army, and as long as they were not injured above the vital points, the Ming army generally could not die.

After all, although a suit of armor is not heavy armor, it also protects a considerable part of their body. For a time, in the eyes of the Japanese, the Ming army seemed invulnerable.

If it is said that the rumbling sound of fire, the Japanese soldiers could not understand, but they fought so hard. The Japanese soldiers were understandable, and the last vestiges of their morale were defeated, even though the Japanese army collapsed.

The veteran Hosokawa Nariyuki couldn't save this army, but his eyes were full of anger and rushed up with his own guards against the flow of people, he wanted to prove his martial arts to the world.

It's just that he just fought with the Ming army and killed a person with a katana when he was stopped by a person. But I saw that this person was a head taller than the ordinary Ming army, and with a long knife in his hand, he cut Hosokawa Nariyuki's treasure knife and Hosokawa Nariyuki himself into two pieces.

This person is none other than Liu Chang.

Liu Chang is still a hundred households.

But this hundred households is not easy to get, everyone knows that they can make meritorious contributions here, if it weren't for Liu Chang finding the old brother who was by Wang Yue's side back then to get through the relationship, this hundred households position would not be his.

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As a fierce general who was very admired by Wang Yue back then, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the Japanese general in front of him at all.

But with the death of Hosokawa Nariyuki, Hosokawa Nariyuki's main camp completely collapsed.

In other words, in the face of the Western Army, the Ming Army did not let go, but attacked first, and in the snap of a finger, the Western Army was defeated for a while.

Sun Hong did not withdraw his troops at all, but the army continued to kill people in the depths of the Western Army.

Although the Western Army is numerous, it is densely packed with dozens of military formations. However, from the Chinese army, it only needs to break through a few military formations, which is the main formation of Hosokawa Katsumoto and Ashikaga Yoshishi.

Sun Hong made a good start. The two phalanxes behind him also engaged the phalanxes on both sides of the Japanese army.

Only then did Wang Ying feel that the Japanese were weaker than he thought.

He immediately increased his chips and immediately ordered Yamana Soquan, Persian Yoshilian, and Hatakeyama Yoshishi to lead their headquarters and follow the Ming army to attack.

Although Wang Ying compressed the number of the Eastern Army, the 20,000 people were indeed the elite of the Eastern Army.

At this moment, the battle of the army is in full swing.

The battle was at a climax as soon as it began.

Wang Ying is actually very risky in doing this.

Without him, the biggest problem for both sides is that the Western Army is too numerically superior. As a result, the Ming army did not endure the war. After all, human physical strength is limited.

The Western Army could take turns in battle, but the Ming Army was impossible.

Wang Ying estimated that it was only two or three hours.

Within two or three hours, that is, the period of time when the Ming army maintains its combat effectiveness, it will not work beyond this time.

But whether the Western Army can be defeated in two or three hours is still bottomless in Wang Ying's heart.

After all, there are too many Western soldiers, more than 100,000 people, even if it is more than 100,000 pigs, it is not a simple matter to kill. As long as the Western Army copes properly. There is not necessarily no chance of victory.

This is the reason why Wang Ying pressed almost all the chips in a big way.

He told himself in his heart that he would either find an opportunity to penetrate the Western Army with one blow, or see that the situation was stalemate, and he would prepare to withdraw his troops. With cavalry pressing the formation, it is still possible to retreat.

He had no other choice.

However, it is good to have this good start. After all, it is normal for such a big war to last for days, or even months, but the battle of Kyoto was not fought for three months.

As long as you hold on, it won't take long for reinforcements to arrive, and it will be much easier to fight the Western Army at that time.

It's just that Wang Ying didn't hope to collapse the Western Army with one blow, but things in the world are so surprising. than not logical.

Hosokawa Katsumoto saw in this formation that the army was almost fully engaged, and the vanguard of the Ming army was even deeper into the Western Army's military formation, and it had been reported from below, and there were three generals in the Hosokawa family, which had been taken.

The Ming army approached his home almost step by step.

For a while, this was the veteran's face extremely pale.

He could scarcely believe what was in front of him.

Although the Ashikaga shogunate still had some prestige in the previous decades, it did not mean that there was no war in Japan.

Hosokawa Katsumoto fought one battle after another, bringing the authority of the Hosokawa family in the shogunate to the extreme, and even won the Battle of Kyoto.

never thought that a meeting with the Ming army would be such a situation.

His heart was filled with anger and fear.

Anger is anger at the incompetence of the people below, but fear is fear that the Ming army is so strong in combat, how to clean up this situation in the future?

Hosokawa Katsumoto has not been worried more about the war so far.

Because of the limitation of the space for engagement, many troops of the Western Army have not yet gone into battle, and are just watching from the wall. Although the Ming army was elite, the number was too small.

Under the sufficient numerical advantage, Hosokawa Katsumoto did not think that he could be defeated, but he was worried that even if he defeated the Ming army today, he would deal with the Ming in the future.

In fact, this has always been Hosokawa Katsumoto's heart disease, but now it is just a little more serious.