If I had to describe my current actions in one way, it would be – peeling apples.

Two thousand iron horsemen, like sharp knives, thin slices towards the edge of the fish.

The formation of the Shibata army, which had just been retracted, was still very loose, coupled with the flooding, the dampness of firearms, and the lack of archers, the field now became a unilateral crushing situation of pure cavalry against pure infantry.

But despite this, I will not choose to attack the main force of the place, but cut and scrape off the flesh of the other party piece by piece, so that they can pursue me angrily, but in the end I can only eat a stomach of ashes.

By the dawn of dawn, my 2,000 cavalry formed a sharp formation, and almost ransacked a thousand-man squad that had just been gathered. Their swords and spears were a joke against our three-eyed guns and hoplites.

A charge, hundreds of corpses on the ground, but what we consumed was just a ride off the horse. When the procession was over, the horseman lifted the reins, and the horse rose again, and he chased after him again!

At first, Shibata Katsuya wanted to surround me with superior forces, but after a few rounds, he saw that this was a completely one-sided harvest, and he immediately became calm.

He shouted and ordered, telling all the troops to gather quickly and form a huge circle formation to defend the attack, ready to fight a war of attrition with me.

But after all, they don't have a long-range attack means, so what's the use of forming a circle? I led the cavalry to quickly change the formation, from the sharp arrow formation to the long snake formation, and used the belly of the formation to face the nearest circle, and decisively chose to fire!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The severed three-eyed musket in my hand fired three shots in succession, insignificant in the sound of gunfire in my face. The circle on the opposite side immediately emptied, I don't know which one I hit, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the opposite formation is obviously messed up after the incompleteness, and that's what we're aiming for.

Seeing that we had finished firing and immediately began to reload on the spot, the commander of that team knew that waiting any longer was nothing more than waiting for a new round of harvest, but he did not dare to disobey Shibata Katsuie's military orders, and was in a dilemma for a while.

Looking at each other's expressions from afar, I was simply happy in my heart - the Japanese are very interesting, there is no shield hand in the march and battle, and the best and most admired is to attack against attack.

If I were facing Western infantry, with a half-human-high shield in the front row and a slight crouch in the back, even if the shield was not effective against bullets, our attack efficiency would be greatly reduced.

And now this is a completely one-sided massacre! I couldn't help but pout and sneer, you just let you take a shower when we release water upstream? Hmph, the discarding of your firearms for a while is my fundamental purpose!

However, I also have doubts in my heart, that is, in the face of absolute disadvantage, why didn't the other party retreat? What is this perseverance waiting for? Why buy time?

After we had finished three rounds of shooting, the answer appeared before my eyes - a neatly formed group of cavalry appeared under the hill about a kilometer away from me!

The blue and red helmets of the cavalry, if I guessed correctly, should be the cavalry headquarters belonging to the Shibata family.

It seems that the total number should not exceed three thousand, but it should be a complete formation, or all the cavalry of the Shibata Army.

Why are there only 3,000 cavalry in a troop of more than 100,000 people? Wouldn't that be too low?

History proves that not at all. Fifteen years earlier, in 1575, Takeda Shingen's heir, Katsuyori Takeda, had attacked the up-and-coming Oda Nobunaga, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu, a close ally of Nobunaga, causing a strong resentment among the pair.

The lesson was painful and bloody, and in the ensuing Battle of Changshi, Takeda Katsuyori commanded the powerful cavalry of the Takeda family, the bareback iron cavalry, which had terrified the Toei capital, to charge Oda Nobunaga, but was immediately attacked head-on by Nobunaga, the number one RMB player in the Toei Warring States!

Triple hit! With three iron cannon strikes, supplemented by a small number of cannons, and a certain amount of rejection of horses and trenches, Nobunaga completed the feat of 7,000 kills without damage in the Battle of Nagashi!

Takeda Katsuyori's bareback cavalry was wiped out, and his own prestige was greatly reduced, and he was finally betrayed by his retainers seven years later and had to be seppuku, and the Takeda family perished.

It can be said that the Battle of Changhua was a turning point in history, it was the first time that musketeers were used in battle on a large scale, and the result was a devastating blow to the traditional strong enemy, the cavalry.

This is a massacre of backward productive forces by advanced productive forces, and it is also an extermination of traditional concepts by new ideas and new thinking. Since then, the Eastern countries have reduced the number and strength of cavalry, and have greatly increased the number and strength of musketeers. In other words, this is already the prototype of the modern army, and Dongying took the lead in completing this.

Later generations will often ask, why was the Meiji Restoration of Dongying successful, but the Westernization Movement and the Wuxu Reform of the Qing Dynasty could not succeed? I think that ideologically is important, but what is more important is that Dongying's acceptance of new ideas and new thinking is not the same as that of the backward and closed Manchu Qing Dynasty, far more than the corrupt and conservative Manchu aristocracy.

From this point of view alone, in fact, during the Warring States Period and the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between each other was actually accumulating bit by bit, and everything that followed was just a qualitative change caused by both sides. And the people of Temujin, once called the "whip of God," are becoming more and more lonely.

Back on the battlefield in front of them, the 3,000 cavalry in front of them were fully equipped and full of morale, and at first glance they were a new force.

Looking at them, I couldn't help frowning secretly, our cavalry were all heavily armed iron cavalry, and they had no advantage in mobility against the light cavalry. If you are entangled by such a cavalry team, a simple exchange is not terrible, but if the opponent's firearms regain their strength and are surrounded and annihilated on all sides, it will be a catastrophe!

Hit or go? If it is fought, the result is unpredictable, and there is no problem with a surprise attack of 2,000 iron cavalry under my command, but it is not wise to attack head-on.

If you go...... I glanced back at the coastline in the distance, I left, what should Ye Sizhong do who hasn't shown his face yet? Do you leave him alone?

This guy, why hasn't he arrived yet!

I couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and said that I would evacuate at dawn, and the day should be out of the sea level, and I haven't seen his figure yet! Where the hell are you?

Just as he was anxiously hesitating, suddenly, a black line appeared on the flank hill of the blue-armored cavalry!

I immediately took out the binoculars from my waist and looked at the black line, but who was not Ye Sizhong's iron cavalry team?

Good guys, if you don't show up, you will occupy an absolutely advantageous terrain as soon as you appear!

In the field of vision of the telescope, I saw Ye Sizhong wave the war knife in his hand, and the two thousand iron cavalry immediately moved forward, like a fierce tiger in the mountains, and plunged straight into the flank of the blue-armored cavalry!

The turn of the cavalry was very slow, and the entire formation had to be turned around. If a single horse, a few or a small part of the war horse completes the turn, not only can it not have the effect of meeting the enemy, but it will completely disrupt its own formation, and it is better not to turn.

The commander of the enemy's cavalry team was also considered experienced, and after spotting our troops on the flank, he did not give the order to turn, but accelerated forward with the whole team!

This tactic is equivalent to a gecko's tail breaking, simply put, leaving the tail behind for the enemy to eat, but most of the front can accelerate to escape and complete the turn!

For the old-fashioned cavalry, there is nothing wrong with such a tactic, but for a new-style cavalry like the Guanning Iron Cavalry, it is childish and ridiculous to do so!

Ye Sizhong's subordinates raised their three-eyed guns on the way down the mountain, and there was a burst of fire at the tip of the cone of the enemy cavalry! The fierce attack immediately caused the formation of the blue-armored cavalry to be chaotic, and the descendants stepped on the predecessors, and the left neighbors collided with the right and the right in a large area, and the formation was completely chaotic for a while!

Ye Sizhong, who has been in battle for a long time, naturally will not let go of this opportunity, he took the lead and smashed into the three thousand enemy light cavalry with two thousand iron cavalry!

The outcome was predictable, but now I had to do something to meet him! I swept left and right, and when the Shibata Katsuya army saw that it had no effect to surround me, they turned their heads to defend Ye Sizhong!

They are closer, Ye Sizhong is actually surrounded on three sides in the general direction, even if he defeats this light cavalry, he can't escape the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy!

So I immediately gave the order that the whole army should charge with me!

As soon as my two thousand iron horsemen whistled, they rushed down the hill with me and crashed into the back of the enemy army two arrows southeast of Ye Sizhong's position!

The enemy thought that I only dared to cut and attack, and did not have the courage to attack the team, so they collectively turned around to surround Ye Sizhong, but unexpectedly, my sudden surprise attack completely disrupted their deployment, and the enemy was hurriedly turned around by the ashigaru team that I was targeting, but where could they withstand the impact of the iron cavalry?

Like a hot knife cutting through butter, we plunged into it without hindrance, and when the enemy scattered and fled, we quickly completed the gouging and opened a passage between the inside and the outside!

Ye Sizhong was also very wise, he did not choose to completely annihilate the enemy cavalry, but took advantage of the chaotic stall of the enemy's formation to make a strong charge, and soon penetrated the flank of the weak cavalry team, and fought with us in a flat open space!

Looking at Ye Sizhong, who was bloody but high-spirited, I laughed: "Brother, I still dare not come when you see the enemy army!" ”

Ye Sizhong was excited, and immediately laughed and responded: "Come on, come on!" I'll kill the enemy with you for another 300 rounds, and see who admits first!" ”

I'll go, this guy seems to have been here for too short, and he hasn't enjoyed it yet, and his courage is commendable, but ......

Before I could speak, a gunshot rang out not far away, and a projectile passed us with a whistling wind, and finally hit a cavalryman in the shoulder!

The cavalry leaned back and was almost about to fall off his horse, but was quickly pulled by the friendly troops next to him!

The enemy's firearms are beginning to recover! I was secretly terrified, if I didn't leave, I was afraid that I would never be able to leave!

So I shouted at Ye Sizhong: "By the sea! ”

With a wave of the boy's cut, the two thousand iron horsemen I led quickly started and rushed back towards the passage that had been opened when they came!

Ye Sizhong naturally understood what I meant, and he was just talking nonsense just now. Seeing that I was about to escape, he was naturally not far behind, and as soon as he gave the order, his cavalry team followed closely behind me and rushed towards the gap!

During the assault, we began to be attacked by sporadic arquebuses, and the soldiers were constantly wounded, but fortunately the iron armor was quite thick, and no one was killed. After more than ten breaths, we completely broke out of the encirclement, and the gunfire behind us began to intensify, and bursts of smoke rose from the ground before and after the fighting, which was terrifying!

Run! Run to the beach! That's our plan, and it's what we're trying to do.

The enemy's firearms have slowly recovered under the scorching sun, and we must get out of range of them before we do so.

The Shibata Katsuya army behind began to form a coup d'état, chasing after us with all their might! In their opinion, our two small cavalry have been forced into the seashore with no way out, and unless we can fly or swim, we will be captured or annihilated in the face of their fully recovered iron cannons!

However, will things really turn out this way?