Chapter 504, Ruthless Slaughter
"Knock~Knock~"
The dull sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and thousands of cavalry galloped rapidly on the vast Kanto Plain, galloping towards the Japanese army.
Rushing to the front was Wang Shouren, who was dressed in red, but he looked thin and weak, but he was like a veteran who had endured the battlefield, very calm, and there was no trace of turbulence and fear in his eyes.
"Boom~"
The artillery was still bombarding, the deafening sound of shelling resounded in the sky, the head was whistling cannonballs, the rumbling shelling and the sound of the cavalry's hooves were mixed together, forming a prelude to death, and all the Japanese people couldn't help but change their faces when they saw the cavalry rushing over the ground.
In this small island nation, no one has ever been able to assemble a cavalry of several thousand people since ancient times, and even when the shogunate was in full swing, it was absolutely impossible to have the luxury of forming such a cavalry.
Therefore, in the wars of the Japanese kingdom, there was never a cavalry impact, and they relied more on long spears to compare with each other whose spear was longer.
At this moment, in the face of the cavalry rushing over like a tide, like a typhoon, before the people arrived, a momentum like a mountain torrent had already oppressed, making people feel that it was difficult to breathe.
If there is no artillery bombardment, they can still play and maintain the formation, maybe they can still rely on the formation to resist one or two, but the terrible artillery disrupted the formation of the Japanese people, and everyone scattered to dodge, it was already like a plate of scattered sand, plus the unlucky ghost of Uesugi Shiken was killed by the cannonball, and the dragons were leaderless, and the chaos was incomparable.
"Kill~"
Wang Shouren, who was riding on a horse, looked at the Japanese people who were getting closer and closer, clenched the reins with his left hand, waved the sword in his hand slightly with his right hand, and then roared angrily.
"Kill~"
With Wang Shouren's roar, the cavalry who followed closely behind also roared, their voices loud and murderous.
"Poof~"
The speed of the cavalry impact was very fast, and soon Wang Shouren rushed in first, and with a slight wave of the sword in his hand, he instantly brought up an ugly head.
The same is true for the cavalry who followed, the treasure knife produced in Miyun Iron Factory, the treasure knife specially made for the cavalry, extremely sharp, you don't need to wield it, you only need to hold the treasure knife and rely on huge inertia to form a terrible lethality.
A cavalry is like a sharp blade, and wherever it passes, countless blood flowers are set off, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves and the wind sweeping the clouds.
Thousands of cavalry barely encountered any resistance, and in an extreme amount of time penetrated the entire army of Japanese people, and behind them were bloody roads.
Wang Shouren's body was full of blood, but it was all the blood of the enemy, his eyes were red, and he was in extreme excitement, and war was the most bloody place.
In the vast plain, the most suitable for cavalry combat, a detour, Wang Shouren led his cavalry to rush up again.
"Sand give~"
A Japanese warrior looked at everything around him, the mighty army disappeared, corpses were everywhere, blood gathered into pools of small pools of blood, and some of the surviving Japanese people had no fighting spirit, and fled on the vast plain like lost dogs.
The war was not fought, and the Ming army was too much of a bully.
First artillery, then cavalry, these are not familiar routines.
In the past, it shouldn't have been a light foot first to compare whose spear was longer, and then everyone to compare whose swordsmanship was better, and finally there was a big chaos.
But this time, it's not the familiar routine at all.
They were completely blindsided.
However, there are still some samurai who have a strong will to fight, and gather some people to wave their katana in their hands to defend their samurai honor.
Wang Shouren's eyes were resolute, and he had his eyes on a group of people early, and there were hundreds of people gathered here, and the samurai led by him seemed to be dressed very well, he should be a nobleman or something, and the armor on his body looked very imposing.
"Kill~"
With a roar, thousands of cavalry rushed up again, and the earth trembled.
"Sand give~"
Seeing Wang Shouren rushing to the front, a group of samurai rushed up one after another, the katana swords in their hands flashed coldly, and their eyes were resolute, all of them were samurai who had undergone strict training.
"Keng~"
Wang Shouren didn't care about fear, the long sword in his hand instantly attacked with a little cold glow, and the speed of the long sword was even faster than the speed of these Japanese warriors.
I saw that Wang Shouren's speed was not fast, his figure flashed, and several cold lights floated by, and several Japanese warriors who rushed to Wang Shouren all fell into a pool of blood.
"I'll go~" Sanjiu
"Lord Wang's martial arts are also terrifying."
"Cow~"
The cavalry that followed behind were all dumbfounded, who would have thought that this weak Hanlin would have such a strong side and such a high level of martial arts, which is a bit incredible.
The samurai of the Wa Kingdom were by no means vain, their katana swords were very fast and very sharp, but they seemed to be vulnerable in front of Wang Shouren, and they fell in an instant.
"Knock~Knock~"
The killing continued, and the formation that was scattered by the cavalry did not have any resistance at all, and in the face of the impact of the cavalry, it was torn apart in the blink of an eye, and the rest was harvesting.
Relentless harvesting, like a machine.
Under the leadership of Wang Shouren, wave after wave, just like the combine harvester of later generations, where the cavalry passed, all the Japanese people fell, and after several washes, the original mighty army of 10,000 people was killed.
"Whew~"
Wang Shouren slowly reduced his speed and gently touched his war horse, and the war horse quickly stopped very well-behaved.
I took out the binoculars and looked at the battlefield in front of me, it was a mess, corpses were all over the field, blood was flowing like a river, and there were some sporadic fleeing widows around, but it was difficult to escape the pursuit of the cavalry.
"Huh~"
Wang Shouren gently shook the blood stains on the sword in his hand, and slowly returned it to the scabbard, with a smile on his face.
There was no doubt that the battle was won, and it was won very easily.
The artillery attack coupled with the impact of the cavalry easily destroyed the army formed by the Uesugi family, without a trace of waves and suspense.
"Liu Jin has always emphasized the power of artillery, and now it seems that it is absolutely correct, in the face of such a dense and saturated artillery attack, even the most powerful army will collapse, after all, people are mortal flesh."
"Future wars will be the world of firearms, and cold weapons will sooner or later withdraw from the stage of history."
Wang Shouren is summing up, summing up this battle.
To be able to defeat the Japanese so easily, he attributed the greatest credit to those hundreds of artillery, and such a dense artillery attack directly destroyed the formation of the Japanese people, which greatly facilitated the impact of the cavalry.
If there is no artillery to destroy the formation of the Japanese people, if the cavalry rushes directly, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, you must know that the Japanese people have very long spears, plus these powerful Japanese samurai.
Wang Shouren saw the power of artillery and the horror of muskets, and he also very sure that the future war would be a war of firearms.
Perhaps in the future, there will never again be such close battles, all about artillery against artillery, between muskets and muskets.
The fighting continues, it's just that the rest is sporadic fighting.
The cavalry was still chasing and killing the fleeing Japanese people, and the musketeers and infantry who were slowly rushing up behind were idly looking to clean up the battlefield.
The Japanese people who did not die gave a knife to make up for friendship and end their suffering, and the valuable things naturally had to be collected, and the injured Ming army was quickly carried to the treatment, and the sacrificed Ming army was to be collected, and then sparked, and the ashes of the dead people still had to be brought back to the Ming Dynasty.
"Open Map~"
Wang Shouren didn't care about these things, and commanded the people around him.
Soon, someone opened the map of the Wa Kingdom, Wang Shouren looked at the map, and soon his eyes were locked on Tokyo.
"Pass the order down and quickly clean up the battlefield~"
"Tokyo is less than 30 miles away, and we spent the night in Tokyo today."
Wang Shouren said very confidently.
Tokyo is the core of the Kanto region, and it is also the core of the Uesugi family, this battle eliminated the main force of the Uesugi family, and the remaining strength, Wang Shouren did not pay attention to it at all.
He wants to uproot the Uesugi family, and this Tokyo capital is naturally going to attack it, and none of the people of the Uesugi family can let go, so that the entire Wa people can see that there is only one fate for daring to provoke the Ming Dynasty, and that is to exterminate the clan.
Soon, with Wang Shouren's order, the cavalry on the battlefield began to gallop towards Tokyo.
Of course, there is nothing to do in the wilderness, but Tokyo is a big city, and if you lay down here, their good days will come.
The capital of Higo Country has made many people rich overnight, and once the Tokyo Metropolitan City is breached, there will be silver in it, and some will be beauties from the Wa Kingdom, and all of this has been tacitly approved by Liu Jin from the beginning.
They came to take revenge on the Japanese country, how cool they were, how comfortable they operated, as for everything else, they are not those literati who only shout benevolence, righteousness and morality, so they will not care about those things.