On the gray right flank of the Ming army, the dust trampled by men and horses mixed with the damp fog of the morning. Three fires flashed one after the other, like lightning in the clouds.

Then the sound of "boom boom" came out, and almost a mile away in the Japanese army's array, a muffled sound sounded in a rice field, water splashed, and where the rice overturned, a shell sank deep into the mud.

In the snap of a finger, a cloud of smoke and dust rose in the open space between the Japanese troops. A pitch-black round iron ball rolled on the ground, and when people saw it, the iron ball was far away from where it had just landed.

Almost at the same time, suddenly there was a violent "crackling" sound in another place, and then the terrible screams stopped. The people nearby looked and watched, but they didn't see the shells, but the two rows of rejecting rifles in front of the battle had damaged a gap, and several bamboo and wood fences behind had also collapsed, and wood chips were knocked everywhere. Several archers died, and those who were not dead cried out loudly on the ground.

Because the fog did not dissipate in the morning, the vision was not very clear, and the Japanese soldiers could hardly see Mingkou at this time, and could only faintly hear the noise of people and horses nearly a mile away. Before the people of the Ming army could see it, there were tragic casualties of Japanese archers in front of them, and a terrifying atmosphere quickly appeared in the crowd of Japanese soldiers.

In the center of the rear of the military formation, a group of people guarded the Hosokawa clan. He sat on the bench with two knives and a fan on his body, and his expression seemed to be solemn.

In front of the battle, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the wandering Ming cavalry shouted something while chasing the Japanese horsemen. Those loose Ming army rangers may have come to see if the shells hit.

After a while, a fire flickered in the sky, and in an instant, the "boom" cannon sound rang out. Hail-like iron balls flew diagonally on the ground, and the crowd on all sides seemed to have exploded the camp, and the voices of people and horses were noisy.

The bow and arrow array in front of the Hosokawa army was like an arm, and the horses and guns were in shambles, and many people were turning around and retreating. The shells also fell into the infantry formations in the middle, and the crowd was scattered in many places, and the screams of terror and the moans of pain were almost like ghosts crying and howling.

After a short interval, the second round of shelling came again. The spear-wielding ashigaru ran around. Samurai on horseback wielded swords and shouted and cursed on all sides.

Then, the sound of the cannon finally died down for a long time. But the Japanese soldiers did not know when the shelling would come.

By this time, people had roughly understood the situation of the Ming Kou shells, and when they heard the sound of the cannonballs, the unlucky ones were already finished; So many people stared intently into the distance ahead, waiting to see the death-like horror of the fire. As for knowing in advance what Ming Kou could do to set off the cannon, no one seems to think about it, and maybe the only benefit is that he can be a little prepared before he dies.

After a long time, the fire flickered again. The shouting of the Hosokawa army suddenly became louder.

A Japanese soldier wearing a pointed bamboo hat bowed his head and grasping the wooden pole of a spear in his hand with his head bowed. He watched as his accomplices with cracked heads and bloody flesh not far away, and those nearby who had not been hit by the shells, were also frightened and fled in all directions. The soldier also tried to run, but the shell did not hit his team, and everyone was very panicked, but they did not dare to run without permission.

Soon when the "boom" like thunderous cannon sound came, the soldier felt the ground seem to tremble, and he didn't see it clearly, and in an instant he felt that a cannonball had landed nearby. Sure enough, a deafening shout followed, and the soldiers in the crowd didn't even understand where the shells had landed, and the people around them were in confusion, and the soldiers turned around without hesitation and began to run around.

"Bastard!" Suddenly, someone scolded angrily, "Don't run, line up!" ”

"Ah......h The chaotic crowd gradually stopped, and the people behind rushed up and suddenly became very crowded. Several samurai rode over, waving their long swords and continuing to shout, "Line up and go." ”

The sound of artillery had subsided, and the Japanese troops everywhere had begun to retreat to the north. Countless people are evacuating from the disastrous battle formations.

Finally, a man on horseback came to this side, "Hosokawa Guan ordered the troops to take refuge in the north. Counterattack standby, leave the team without permission and escape, slash! ”

The group of horses and horses walked more than a hundred steps, and then people saw countless horse repelling guns in the north, as well as arrow formations built of wooden stakes and hard bamboos. The depth of the Japanese army was very large, and after the retreat of the front army of the Hosokawa Division on its left flank, there were still positions behind it.

At this time, the sound of artillery in the distance to the south rang out again. The various units of the Japanese front army had long been separated, and most of the shells were bouncing in the open space, and occasionally the shells fell into the crowd, and it was inevitable that there would be a burst of screams.

By this time, the Japanese soldiers had barely seen the Ming army's brigade and began to retreat. Morale in the army is inevitably low, and the shadow of defeat has loomed over the people.

Near a large army moving north, a samurai asked the horseback general: "The end of the world may have come, and when the kingdom is destroyed, what will happen to you?" ”

The general said: "A farmer is still a farmer, and a 'waiter' is still a waiter?" ”

The footsteps of the Ming army were heard in the distance to the south, and the frequency of the sound of "click-click...... was very fast, and the Ming infantry was running in small steps, pursuing in columns. When the Japanese soldiers looked back, they could already see surging figures and iron helmets.

On the land to the southeast, there was a black crowd of men and horses, which seemed to be the cavalry of the Ming army, but those horsemen were leading the horses and walking slowly in the distance.

Soon another herald from the Hosokawa clan came on horseback, and those heralds waved their flags and shouted: "The front battalion of the left flank stops retreating north and counterattacks south!" ”

A Japanese general looked back at the ranks and saw that all the troops were a little loose, so he stopped a general who was riding a horse in this direction and asked, "Why did the governor give such a military order?" ”

The general who gave the order said: "The left-wing Mingkou will not continue to pursue the Hosokawa army. Because the Ming Kou in the middle has already begun to attack, the Spo army in the middle will be attacked from both sides! When the Ming Kou infantry stepped forward, there would be no more shelling. The rise and fall of the country, in this battle! ”

"Onboard!" In the distance, a large crowd of people shouted frantically at the instigation of whom.

And on the northern position, reinforcements from the Hosokawa Army also lined up. Near the position of the left flank (east) front camp abandoned by the Japanese army, more and more men and horses moved in the center of the DPRK.

The Ming infantry column was huge on the plain, but the total strength of the west was probably only a few thousand. The Japanese generals saw the scale clearly, and new hopes were rekindled.

There was a village between the two armies, and a hundred-household team of the Ming army was running in columns. The team had just approached when suddenly some Japanese archers appeared from behind several earthen walls. The archer stepped out of the corner and immediately drew his bow and aimed at the Ming army.

The sound of "crackling" strings sounded, and immediately the Ming military gunners called, and the two who were hit by the arrow squatted down.

Dozens of paces away, the Ming army was in a row, and they quickly changed their formation and formed a horizontal formation. At this time, the Japanese archers had just come up to twist their bows and arrows, and suddenly there was a burst of "bang ......", and the Japanese archers trembled all over, screaming and falling to the ground. But other archers stood up again, taking advantage of the gap between the Ming army's change of team, and quickly pulled their bows and aimed at the arrows.

At this moment, there was a shout of killing from the flank of the village, and a group of Ming army spearmen and shieldmen rushed up from behind. The two samurai outside the house drew their swords, brandished them and shouted, and greeted them with a few ashigaru. However, the heavy infantry of the Ming army had shields and armor, and their ranks shrank into a dense formation slightly, and soon stabbed the rushing Japanese troops to death.

Some of the archers ran out of the village, but not far away there was a flash of fire, and several archers fell to the ground screaming.

The Japanese troops surging southward on the land had obviously been discovered by the Ming army. In the distance, the Ming army was gathering in a queue and forming a phalanx.

Countless Japanese infantry and cavalry were still approaching from all over the battlefield, and the shouts were undulating, and many people were shouting "Long live His Majesty the Emperor." There are many flags in the Japanese army, in addition to the family crests of the Hosokawa clan and other families, there are also some flags with Chinese characters and figurative characters. And the army from the Kamakura family is a different banner.

At this moment, the cavalry of the Ming army in the southeast mounted one after another. From the sky came the rough and vigorous sound of the horn, and the reckless blowing, like the cry of an evil spirit peeking out of the ground; The sound of the trumpet was so terrifying, probably because of the sound of horses' hooves that followed, and the roaring sound of horses' hooves was overwhelming, as if there was an earthquake.

The horses of the Ming army ran faster and faster, rushing towards the left flank of the Japanese army in multiple columns, as if they were like a flood of black pressure. Even if two thousand cavalry galloped, the scene seemed to cover the sky and the sun.

The Japanese soldiers here watched the rushing horses, and many of them turned pale and trembled.

The Japanese troops on the battlefield on the east side had the front battalion of the left flank that counterattacked after retreating, and the men and horses reinforced by the rear battalion, and the number was extremely large. However, they did not form a whole large array, because the landform of this plain was not single, with paddy fields, houses, crop fields, and ponds; For a large army to move in such a place, it is impossible to maintain a large phalanx.

The cavalry of the Ming army was suddenly dispatched, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to organize an overall formation for the time being. However, no one can say whether Hosokawa Manmoto's recent decision-making is wrong; No matter how you decide on the battlefield, there will be different dangers.

For the sake of today's plan, we can only fight our own!

"The king of Han is our king......" The cavalry columns everywhere shouted in Chinese, and immediately began to accelerate, and groups of horsemen swarmed away. In the midst of the dust, the tall black shadows that rose and fell were like rolling steel, and the momentum was unstoppable. That kind of speed of movement is not something that infantry manpower can do.