Chapter 603: The War of the Japanese 5
The Chinese cavalry did not directly attack the Oda army formation, after all, it was an army of tens of thousands of people, and no matter how strong the musketeers were, they were only two hundred.
Hashiba Hideyoshi even sent hundreds of cavalry to try to drive away the musketeers, but their mounts, which were not much bigger than Qingzhou donkeys, made them seem funny.
As soon as the cavalry of the two armies came into contact slightly, the Chinese army's first-generation hybrid horse and firing pistol immediately showed a crushing performance advantage.
While the Oda cavalry was still shouting to hedge against the Chinese army, the musketeers fired directly at the Oda cavalry with rifled rifles on their horses.
Shooting a moving enemy with a rifle on a bumpy horseback can be scary with a low hit rate, but the enemy is not fast enough and can still be useful if they are crowded together.
More than a dozen Oda cavalrymen were shot and overturned from their horses.
Immediately afterwards, the musketeers put away their carbines, replaced the revolver, and suppressed the fire of the head and face of the ping-pong squad.
At closer distances, the density of fire compensated for the lack of accuracy, and the Fuso were knocked down again before they could fight back.
The onslaught of the Oda cavalry became thin and thin, and the Chinese cavalry again pulled out a second revolver .......
This was too much, and the remaining Oda cavalry lost the determination to continue the fight and turned their horses to try to evacuate.
However, their pathetic mounts could not even do this, and whether they were turning or fleeing, they were almost two notches slower than the Chinese army.
As a result of this gap in mounts, the Chinese army easily caught up with the Fuso, beat them at close range, and then drew their sabers and calmly pursued them.
The arrogant musketeers pursued the enemy's rout, approaching less than fifty paces from the main camp of Oda's army.
The Oda army on the flank discharged two columns of pikemen, defended by guns, and there were people in the rear who shot arrows at the Chinese army, and the musketeers turned directly, and the two sides temporarily disengaged.
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On the frontal battlefield, the duel between the two Fuso armies continued, the two sides stabbed each other with spears across the bamboo bundle and shield cart, at this time the coalition side had a slight possession, because they had Huaxia, a big financier, and their arquebus equipment ratio and ammunition reserve were much better than those on the opposite side, and at this time, they could also snipe the opponent with muskets at close range while stabbing each other.
However, the Oda army has a psychological advantage over the coalition forces, and there are a lot more troops, and now there is still room for it to continue fighting.
On the flanks, a mere two hundred musketeers continued to circle around the large formation of the Oda army, and they ran a long way, detouring from the left flank of the Oda army to the rear.
Someone on the enemy side roared, and as a result, a large group of infantry turned to the direction of the musketeers again, and there were two rows of dense spear tips, and the Chinese army did not dare to attack, and continued to travel in circles.
Before the frontal Chinese infantry joined the battle, the two hundred musketeers had already circled the Oda army, and many Fuso people followed the musketeers' advance route to make a left turn and turn left again.
The musketeers stopped at reloading from the bow and arrow range of the right flank of the Oda army, and it was difficult to reload the breech guns and the revolver of this era on horseback, but no one dared to expel them, and the musketeers were able to calmly recover their long-range attack capabilities little by little.
After that, the Chinese cavalry turned their horses' heads and recircled the Oda army's main formation from the same way they came, and the Oda army also began to turn right and turn ......right again in earnest.
Directly ahead, the Chinese infantry joined the battle, and the riflemen, in place of the Fuso allies, stood on shield carts and fired at the enemy with their firing rifles.
In a position where the spear could reach the enemy, the bamboo bundle of the Oda army could not defend itself against the attack of the Mineer bullet at all, so much so that the Chinese army could even ignore the opponent's dodge and shoot directly at the enemy's defensive equipment.
The ferocious Minne bullet pierced through the bamboo bundles, carrying a large piece of debris to kill the Fusang people hiding behind them in pieces, and soon, the bunkers composed of those bamboo bundles were broken inch by inch, and the Fusang people were unable to rely on the numerical advantage to attack the shield car front supported by muskets, and lost their last cover, and were frantically killed by the Chinese army like a target.
More than 1,000 muskets continued to spit out tongues of fire, and arquebusiers from the Mori and Ryuzoji clans also joined in, and some archers fired at the unobstructed enemy, and the Oda army was in disarray.
At this moment, the only cavalry artillery company of the Chinese army rushed to the battlefield, and the black holes of the six six-pound guns stretched out from the gap in the shield cart, and before they could fire, the Oda army burst into screams.
Everyone retreated unconsciously, but it didn't make any sense, the Chinese army whistled, six artillery pieces and a thousand firing guns opened fire at the same time, and the lead bullets swept through the Oda army array like a storm, violently tearing open the fragile bodies of human beings, bringing out the fluffy blood mist.
The sound of guns was so earth-shattering that even the Oda soldiers who were following the musketeers from side to side were screaming in fright.
The Fusang army collapsed in an instant, and at this time, even the Fusang soldiers in the coalition army knew that the battle was decided.
The morale-boosting forces of the Mori and Ryuzoji clans swarmed out, and a group of samurai in armor brandished long knives to chase down the scattered Oda soldiers, followed by Ashigaru with spears and even iron cannons.
On the contrary, the Chinese army, which had delivered the earth-shattering blow, did not rush to attack - it didn't make much sense for them not to attack now anyway - and the rest of the work could be done well by leaving it to those monkey allies.
The Chinese cavalry, which had already circled back to the left flank of the Fuso army, saw that the entire array of the Oda army was shaking and collapsing, and they seized the opportunity to pour fire on the enemy, who had also turned twice, first with the carbines, followed by two rounds of dense revolver bullets.
After knocking a gap open, the musketeers drew their sabers again and drilled into the Oda array through the gap......
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On October 17, 30,000 troops of Huaxia, Mori, and Ryuzoji defeated 50,000 troops under Oda Nobunaga's Hashiba Hideyoshi.
The coalition forces killed nearly 10,000 of Oda's troops, captured more than 30,000, and the rest were scattered, and Hashiba Hideyoshi himself fled with only a few hundred men.
The coalition lost more than a thousand men themselves, almost entirely of them soldiers from Maori and Ryuzokuji Temple.
Of course, this loss was also very slight in the eyes of the two Fuso daimyos.
Now that the enemy's main forces in this direction have collapsed, the coalition forces naturally choose to continue their efforts.
After a two-day break, the coalition forces attacked Inaba, Mimasaka, and Bizen at the same time, and after only two days, the three places completely changed hands.
The coalition forces then attacked Harima and Danma, cutting off the Oda family's territory piece by piece like slicing tofu.
On the Shikoku side, Chomune's army attacked the enemy who was isolated at the corner of Awa, and the two sides engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle, and ten days later, Chomune's army eliminated the enemy and completely recovered the entire island of Shikoku.
In the direction of Sakai and Osaka, the Chinese navy launched several raids on the two ports, causing great confusion in the two commercial ports, and merchants and citizens continued to flee, but the Chinese army did not land, and it seemed that it was only a diversionary attack.
Encouraged by the local traditions, they rose up against Oda's rule.
Strategically, Oda Nobunaga has fallen behind in all respects.