Chapter 329: Slaughter
"Let the soldiers speed up a little faster!"
The shogunate elder Sakai Tadashi was a little worried, and shouted to several daimyo on the side, "The enemy will not wait for us to arrive before launching a general attack, we must rush to the east exit of the Grand Canyon as soon as possible and launch a flanking attack on the Daming Expeditionary Army!" ”
He took his core general, Diga Masakatsu, and commanded the 300,000 Kwanti Group Army, and yesterday afternoon, he had already entered the Grand Canyon in the Upper Plains.
Previously, he received frequent urgent reports from Tokugawa Iemitsu, and he knew that the decisive battle between the two sides had begun yesterday afternoon, but his own side was slightly disadvantaged.
After learning the news, the shogunate elder Sakai Tadashi issued a strict order, and the whole army began to march rapidly, and it was necessary to rush to the battlefield before the two sides divided the victory and defeat, and flank the Ming expeditionary force.
For the armament of the Ming Expeditionary Force, Sakai Tadashi knew very well that it was a sharp weapon that exceeded his own armament.
In the frontal battle between the two sides, the Wa Kingdom will definitely fall into disadvantage.
Only by quickly forming a situation of flanking and encirclement, and taking advantage of the favorable time and place in Uenohara, can the shogunate army have enough chances of victory to destroy the enemy in this canyon.
Sakai Tadashi never thought that the shogunate army would fail.
Not to mention the general and Doi Toshikatsu, they are both wise and decisive people, even the 500,000 Kwantung coalition army is enough for the Ming Expeditionary Force to have a headache.
It's just that since after dusk today, I don't know what's going on, I suddenly lost contact with the Kwantung Army, and there was no more news from the battlefield.
Although Sakai Tadashi was a little restless, his confidence did not change, and he just kept urging the army to hurry.
In any case, it was imperative for the Kansai army to reach the eastern exit of this Grand Canyon as soon as possible.
Time was fleeting, and this morning, just after three o'clock, the 300,000 shogunate army had approached the eastern exit of the canyon after a night of rapid marching.
The speed of his actions exceeded Zhu Youxiao's expectations.
Originally, Zhu Youxiao and several generals thought that the Kansai army of the Wa Kingdom would need to be at least close to noon before they could cross the Grand Canyon and reach the east exit of the canyon.
It can be seen from this that today's Wa State is indeed a terrible opponent who has endured hardships and has military orders.
"Sakai-sama, something doesn't seem quite right ahead!"
A group of scouts who came out quickly returned and reported, "At the exit of the canyon, there is silence, except for the empty camp of our shogunate, and there is no human figure in sight, whether it is friend or foe. ”
Sakai Tadashi was suddenly a little confused, "The Shogun and Doi Toshikatsu are doing this, what are they doing?" Where have all the people gone? ”
"Even those Ming expeditionary forces are nowhere to be seen, didn't they fly away with wings?"
Can this kind of bizarre thing happen when the two sides have a decisive battle with more than a million armies?
Rao is Sakai Tadashi has made all kinds of preparations in order to deal with the unexpected situation, and he is also confused by this incredible situation!
As for saying that the battle between the two sides is over, Sakai Tadashi will never believe it.
Even all the soldiers of the 300,000 Kansai Cluster Army are the same.
The Kwantung Group Army led by the Shogun had a much more combat effectiveness than the Kansai Army, and with a large number of people, it could not be said that it was not not powerful.
How could it be possible that the war would have ended in less than a day and a night?
During this period, there must have been some great changes!
The biggest possibility is that the soldiers of the Ming Expeditionary Force desperately rushed out of the encirclement, and the heads of the shogunate hurriedly led the whole army to pursue.
It makes sense, and that's what everyone thinks.
"Well, continue to investigate, after a day and a night of driving, the soldiers are already very tired and hungry, pass on my military order, and immediately bury the pot to cook."
Sakai Tadashi thought for a moment, and immediately ordered, "The whole army will rest for half an hour, and then set off to find the enemy for a decisive battle, I don't believe it, so many people, will they still be able to fly?" ”
As soon as his words fell, something happened suddenly!
"Knock knock!" ……
"Kill!"
"Kill the pirates!"
"Kill all these wits! His Majesty the Emperor said that only the dead Japanese are good Japanese robbers! ”……
With the sound of war drums that shook the sky, the sound of shouting and killing sounded from both sides of the Grand Canyon, as well as from the front and back of the Kansai army.
In an instant, in front of and behind the 300,000 Kansai army, left, right, and right, dense figures appeared in an instant.
These people, all dressed in black clothes and black armor, armed to the teeth.
Although the number was only half of that of the Kansai Group Army of the Wa Kingdom, their equipment and morale were ...... and so on, and the overall situation is far beyond the Kansai army of the Japanese State.
All this is because when Mao Shi first arrived, Huang Jianjie hurriedly came, and he received urgent messages from scouts and MIA personnel with battle chickens.
The news of the imminent arrival of the Japanese army was immediately reported by him to Colonel Zhu You, as well as to the commanders of the two Royal Navy fleets.
The officers and men of the Daming Expeditionary Force have now undergone frequent and extensive combat experience and have become a well-trained iron army.
Everyone acted urgently, very quickly and in an orderly manner.
Under the leadership and command of the generals, it only took less than an hour to enter the valley mouth of the Grand Canyon, lay a net of heaven and earth, and wait for the Japanese army to send it to the door.
"Sasuke Murata! What's going on? And what about our Kwantung army? What about the Shogun? ”
When Sakai Tadashi saw this sudden scene, he was so frightened that he almost fell to the snow with the sword in his hand, and shouted at Sasuke Murata, the captain of the vanguard army who was in charge of opening the way ahead.
"Your Excellency Sakai, we have carried out a detailed investigation! It's just that since this hour, after the reconnaissance team came back and reported the situation, they haven't had time to set off! ”
Sasuke Murata, the commander of the vanguard of the Kansai United Army, also looked incredulous. 5599
This section of the valley mouth area was fully reconnoitred by various scout teams an hour ago, and there was nothing unusual at that time.
How is it possible that the enemy's 150,000-strong army, in the middle of an hour, suddenly set out to surround it, and eliminate the traces and hide it?
It's a big fallacy.
It stands to reason that under normal circumstances, it is simply not possible.
However, today's Daming Expeditionary Force is able to accomplish things that ordinary people can't do.
Especially after the whole army rested in the middle of the night, everyone had already recovered to their peak state, and their fighting spirit was bursting.
With the iron-clad discipline of the soldiers of the Ming New Army, it is not difficult to accomplish all this.
"Kill!"
"None of them will be left!"
Zhu Youxiao stood on top of a cliff, looked at the Japanese soldiers who were already in chaos below, and gave a slaughter order.
"Fire!"
"All artillery positions, open fire at once!" ……
"Boom!"
"Boom!" ……
The first to be powerful was more than 100 Shenwei General Cannons.
Now the last Armageddon, the remaining shells, there is no longer any need to keep them.
It was just right to throw them all on the head of the Kansai Group Army of the Wa Kingdom, and the soldiers after that could also go into battle lightly.
The remaining flowering shells can be shelled for about ten rounds in a row.
One after another, the flowering bombs densely fell into the crowd of the Kansai army of the Japanese Kingdom, and exploded in an instant, stirring up blood-colored waves.
A large number of Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombing.
A thick blood mist immediately spread in this long and narrow valley.
A quarter of an hour later, the ten rounds of bombardment were over, and the scene became terrible!
The place where the soldiers of the Wa Kingdom gathered in that section was full of corpses and wounded of the soldiers of the Kansai Army of the Wa Kingdom.
Even on the snow, there were dense large pits.
In those big pits, the blood that flowed into them almost filled the holes!
In this kind of unavoidable and unavoidable terrain, the effect of the bombing is unprecedentedly good.
After ten rounds of bombardment by more than 100 Shenwei guns, more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers died on the spot, and the number of wounded soldiers was close to 100,000!
"Woo!" ……
As soon as the bombing ended, the war drums were sounding again, and the soldiers of the Ming Expeditionary Force raised their crossbows in unison and began to attack the surviving soldiers of the Japanese Invaders!
With hundreds of thousands of repeating crossbows and ten rounds of fire, it's terrifying just to think about it!
The crossbow arrows that rained down on the heads of the Japanese soldiers enveloped almost all the surviving Japanese soldiers in a moment.
"Woo!" ……
Wave after wave of arrow rain lasted for a long time before it stopped.
At this time, on the battlefield that was almost covered with crossbow arrows, there were not many Japanese pirates still gasping.
"Command! Each department, in units of 1,000 people, immediately and comprehensively cleaned up the battlefield! I don't want to see any of the Japanese soldiers alive! ”
Zhong Jixiang was in high spirits, and his face was flushed with excitement, and he gave an eerie order to comprehensively clean up the battlefield.
"Kill!" ……
With the shouts of killing, the soldiers of the Ming Expeditionary Army, like tigers descending from the mountain, rushed into a messy battlefield after a while.
They raised their swords and guns at the same time, and the crossbows exploded, and the few survivors of the Japanese soldiers suddenly fell in pieces like leeks that had been harvested.
The outcome of this one-sided battle was undoubted.
Tired, cold, and hungry, the remnants of the Japanese were defeated and perished at a rapid pace.
An hour later, the battle was almost over.
In this long and narrow valley, the corpses of the soldiers of the Japanese Kansai army were piled up for miles, and the blood flowed and gathered into small streams, which were slowly frozen by ice and snow.
The scene is wonderful, beautiful, and tragic.
In this national war, in less than two days, the 150,000 soldiers of the Ming Expeditionary Army defeated the Japanese shogunate army in Uenohara.
The shogunate army, which numbered about 800,000, was completely crushed and killed.
More than ninety percent of the Japanese soldiers were wiped out, and very few escaped.
The shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, the elder Sakai Tadayo, the old Naka Doi Toshikatsu and other absolute leaders of the Japanese kingdom were all killed in battle.
After this battle, most of the elite of the Wa Kingdom were exhausted, and there was no room to turn over, and the outcome was already doomed.