Chapter 195: Hand-to-hand combat
However, what Fujiwara Shisuke didn't expect at all was that the crossbowmen of the Tang people on the opposite side, as if they never knew tiredness, poured wave after wave of crossbow arrows into the charging Japanese army columns.
Everywhere the crossbow bolts went, countless lives were harvested, so that every row of the Japanese army was so difficult.
The fallen Japanese soldiers only had time to let out their first screams before they were trampled to death by their own people behind.
Seeing the pikemen troops with very heavy losses, still gritting their teeth, rushing forward bravely, and not retreating, Fujiwara Shisuke couldn't help touching his chin and nodding frequently, this is the iron army of His Majesty the Emperor!
Since the pikemen of the Japanese army followed Fujiwara Shisuke to the north to conquer Goryeo, Fujiwara Shisuke, as the general of the expedition to the north, has issued a strict order, and those who dare to escape from the battle must send someone to kill his entire family.
This was originally the military law of the Tang army, but it was learned and used by Fujiwara Shifu, and practice proved that whether it was fighting with the Koreans or fighting with the Tang army, this method of sitting together was indeed a good way to force people to fight hard.
Li Zhongyi put down the monocular in his hand and said with a faint smile: "To be able to let his subordinates go forward and follow one another like this, and rush up without fear of death, this Fujiwara Shifu is not a wasted person." ”
At this time, Yang Lie's eyes had already left the monoculars, and he smiled coldly: "Although everyone in the Japanese army has armor, but the infantry of the Japanese army rarely has a shield. ”
Li Zhongyi knew the basic situation of the Japanese army better than Yang Lie, and he nodded and said, "Since the pikemen have suffered more than a thousand casualties. The Japanese army still fought to the death and did not retreat, which shows that the Japanese people are determined. We must completely wipe out our army. ”
"Smack." With a bang, Yang Lie opened the folding fan in his hand, gently fanned the wind a few times, and sneered, "I want to see, is it the Japanese army that has more lives, or our crossbow arrows?" And. The archers are recuperating and haven't shot yet. ”
Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "The Japanese army is also difficult to ride a tiger now, once they retreat. The defeat of the collapse must be irretrievable. ”
In the era of cold weapons, the two armies faced each other in array, and neither side dared to take the risk and retreat, otherwise, they would face the danger of self-collapse.
"If I am the commander of the Japanese army. At this time, the sword and shield hand will definitely be ordered to come forward. Li Zhongyi's voice did not fall. From behind the pikemen of the Japanese army, a large group of Japanese warriors with shields rushed up.
These Japanese warriors raised their shields high and covered their bodies tightly under the shields.
......The change of tactics of the Japanese army was really effective, and the huge shield greatly reduced the casualties of the Japanese soldiers, and the pikemen of the Japanese army had been killed miserably, and the pikemen of the Japanese army flashed to both sides, so that the samurai who were holding a shield in one hand and wielding a sword in the other. took their place.
Li Zhongyi also changed formation, ordering the crossbowmen to retreat behind the sword and shield hands. Extended fire continued in order to interrupt the follow-up attack of the Japanese army.
The shield-wielding samurai of the Japanese army attacked slowly but surely, and soon the distance between the two armies was reduced to a distance of about one hundred and twenty meters.
At this moment, from behind the shield-wielding samurai of the Japanese army, a group of Japanese archers with Goryeo bows flashed out, and they struggled to launch a dense long-range counterattack against the Broken Army.
"Ah......" Although the sword and shield bearers of the Breaker Army had already raised their shields high, because the bows and arrows of the Japanese army were too dense, a series of screams immediately rang out in the ranks.
Fortunately, the Broken Army was already extremely well-trained, and the soldiers in the front row did not move at all, and the soldiers in the back row hurriedly lifted the cells who were hit by the arrows and transported them to the auxiliary soldiers in the back row.
The auxiliaries, who had been waiting for a long time, carried the wounded, sick, or brothers who had died in battle onto earthen bamboo stretchers and quickly moved to the rear.
Ma Guangda, who commanded the crossbow team, used the help of the monoculars to quickly appear the figure of the Japanese archers, and he gave an order, and without waiting for Li Zhongyi's order, he directly launched a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese archers.
"Ah......h
"Emperor, ......"
"Amaterasu Okami......
The Goryeo bow used by the archers of the Japanese army, a sudden attack can also cause some losses to the broken army, and if you really want to start an attack between the bows and crossbows, you will immediately have the upper hand, and in the blink of an eye, you will be shot down by the crossbowmen commanded by Ma Guangda.
The Japanese archers, who were only wearing light leather armor, lost hundreds of archers in just two faces, and they were so frightened that they no longer dared to take the lead.
"Yu Xiangshuai, nearly 100 of our army were slightly wounded, and 30 were killed in battle. Most of the brothers killed in the war were shot in the face. The lightly injured brothers, most of them are skin wounds, and the wounds are not deep, bandage them, and they can come back to continue the war. At this time, Li Zhongyi had already received a report of the casualties.
Li Zhongyi nodded, he thought to himself, since most of the soldiers' chests were double armor, they were either slightly injured or killed in battle, and there were almost no serious wounded.
In the next battle, each soldier must be prepared with the kind of helmet that can prevent arrows from Western knights, and Li Zhongyi secretly wrote down the lesson this time.
In Li Zhongyi's opinion, a helmet that can not only protect against arrows but not affect the vision too much is obviously much lighter than holding a heavy shield in his hand.
At this time, the Japanese army was nearer, and the first row of soldiers of the two armies was only about fifty meters apart.
Li Zhongyi raised the monocular telescope in his hand, carefully observed the shield-wielding warrior of the Japanese army rushing in front, and then turned his head and asked Yang Lie: "According to the calculation of the Senate, how much body does it take to rush to kill three hundred zhang with a shield?" ”
Yang Lie arched his hands and said, "The Japanese army's thick shield is more than half thicker than the Goryeo shield we used to test, and according to the student's speculation, at least half of the body will be consumed." ”
"Well, let them rush over, our warriors must indeed undergo a test of blood and fire." Li Zhongyi looked at Yang Lie, who couldn't bear it, and said lightly, "An army that can only train and does not experience actual combat tests will never become an invincible army." The steel army that can't be dragged out. ”
"Bai Xing, you don't understand the truth that Ci is not in charge of the army, right?" Li Zhongyi before this battle. In fact, it is completely possible to take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army's sneak attack on the Goryeo Guangjun and take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill.
However, Li Zhongyi did not do this. Because, Li Zhongyi knows very well in his heart: In this era, the Japanese army, which is dominated by amateur peasant soldiers, is far from enough compared with the Khitan elite troops with hundreds of thousands of standing iron cavalry.
An army that attacks only by intelligence. It is impossible to win forever, and it must go through the brutal test of iron and blood in positional warfare. Only then can the Broken Army train an invincible and invincible steel army in actual combat.
The large army of the "onboard ......" Japanese army finally collided with the forward of the immovable Broken Army.
The samurai in the front row of the Japanese army decisively threw down their heavy shields. Wielding a sharp sword. Slash at the soldiers of the Broken Army who were close at hand.
The pikemen in the front row of the soldiers of the Broken Army neatly stabbed the first shot under the command of the officer's bamboo whistle.
"Yaga." A Japanese warrior couldn't dodge, and was hit by the spear of the Broken Army opposite him, a fatal shot as fast as lightning, and suddenly stabbed his heart, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground weakly, and his blood-red stomach fell all over the ground.
"Bastard!" Shiro Yokoyama, a high-ranking samurai of the Japanese army who is quite good in martial arts. Swiftly dodging the assassination of a spear, he slashed at the arm of a Broken Army soldier.
The Broken Soldier. The left arm holding the gun was immediately cut in two, and in an instant, the blood on the severed arm was like a spring, and it fell in a pool of blood.
The high-ranking samurai of the Japanese army kicked the seriously injured soldier of the Broken Army to the side. The Japanese soldiers who followed behind slashed down one after another, and immediately cut the soldier of the Broken Army into pulp.
However, to Yokoyama Shiro's surprise, the breakthrough he had just opened immediately appeared as a soldier of the Broken Army.
At the sound of the officer's order, the soldiers of the Broken Army fought to the death, and stabbed out the spear of revenge mechanically and neatly.
The tip of the spear overflowing with cold light, with lightning speed that was not as fast as the eyes and ears, suddenly pierced into the vital parts between the chests and abdomen of many Japanese warriors, and when it spun out, it brought a piece of flesh and blood flying sideways.
"Ah......" Yokoyama Shiro's side, in the blink of an eye, more than 200 long-trained Japanese samurai fell, even if he killed people like numb, he couldn't help but start to chill.
With the help of other samurai, Yokoyama Shiro quickly appeared with a target facing him sideways, and he did not hesitate to take a few steps forward and decisively slash.
Seeing that the soldier of the Broken Army was caught off guard and was about to die under the knife of Yokoyama Shiro, suddenly, from the Broken Army formation, a crossbow arrow flew out, wrapped in the deadly wind and thunder, and with a "poof", pierced into Yokoyama Shiro's eye socket.
"Yaga!" Yokoyama Shiro's last consciousness was fixed on the face of a young spearman, and his whole body trembled and fell to a pool of blood as if he had been struck by lightning.
The tragic hand-to-hand combat has entered a white-hot state, and the soldiers on both sides suffered astonishing casualties when they were in close combat.
At this time, the elite warriors of the Japanese army were terrified, and the soldiers of the Broken Army they faced were simply unkillable.
Every time the samurai of the Japanese army cut down a soldier of the Broken Army, they would be horrified to realize that at the place where the Broken Army soldier fell, there would always be another young figure holding a spear at the right time, endlessly.
Fujiwara Shisuke was surprised to feel that the once invincible samurai under his command seemed to be kicked on an iron plate, and although the samurai's attacks were overwhelming, it was always difficult to cross the thunder pond by half a step.
His Majesty the Emperor's samurai are undaunted by the attack of death, like stormy waves, and have the power to devour heaven and earth.
However, the great array of the Broken Army, like the majestic Mount Fuji, was allowed to be beaten by the evil waves, and it always stood still.
What kind of army is this? Fujiwara Shisuke's heart was faintly shrouded in a hint of ominous omen, could it be that the heroic samurai of the Emperor Xià, who galloped across the entire Goryeo Kingdom, was going to be defeated today?
Kobayakawa Jinqiu also saw the ferocious attack of the imperial samurai, and he was repeatedly frustrated, he stared at a pair of blood-red eyes, and said viciously: "Fujiwara-kun, let me lead the samurai to the death to cut down the level of the dog Han and split a bloody path, right?" ”
Fujiwara Shisuke looked at it with some surprise, Kobayakawa Jinqiu, who had always been regarded as a fool by him, Fujiwara Shisuke really didn't expect that the illegitimate brother of Emperor Murakami in front of him would have such blood bravery.
"His Royal Highness Kobayakawa, I wish you success." For the first time, Fujiwara Shisuke used the humble title of Kobayakawa Jinqiu to express his respect for the warriors of the land of the rising sun.
"His Majesty the Emperor's Death Warriors, come with me, board!" Kobayakawa Jin Qiuhuo pulled out the sword at his waist - "Oni no Maru", pointed straight at the majestic formation of the Broken Army, and galloped out. (To be continued!)
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