Chapter 198. The Ming Army and the Ming Army
I remember a joke in later generations, I was so ruthless that I even killed my teammates! Now Mao Jue has definitely reached this ruthlessness, even if the other party is also a Ming army, he will kill!
The development of the Ming Dynasty presents an English numeral M shape, the first peak of development is the rule of Renxuan after Yongle, experienced the bloodshed of the unification war, the cruelty of the Battle of Jingjing, the glory of the seven Western Oceans, the heroism of the five expeditions to the north of the desert, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty began to settle down, at that time, the politics were clear, the law was strict, and the landlords of the family were not as lawless as they are now.
The second prosperous era can be regarded as a dreamlike era in the early Wanli period, perhaps because of the economic turmoil in the Jiajing Longqing period, the relationship between the scholar class and the lower-class commoners was relatively relaxed, the social contradictions were not so acute, and the people could still live and work in peace and contentment.
But with the continuation of stability, the children of the families in the new area, the scholars in Jiangnan have become more and more unpopular, arrogant, politically selfish, party strife, lawlessness in the local area, and the life and death of the tenants and slaves on the annexed land, Qin Niang's experience is just a microcosm, and the social contradictions have been acute to the extreme.
Hopefully this time it will wake some people up!
Mao Jue's three-month vacation is completely over, and I hope Mao Wenlong will not detain him. Looking at the city of Hangzhou in May, it should be lush and full of rice on the outer plain, but at this time it was trampled by a pair of feet full of mess, a banner with clear characters like a flame flying red, swaying and waving, although the footsteps are very messy, but the crowd is thick and can not see the edge, since the fall of Hangzhou, gathered the army of officers and soldiers from all walks of life in the south of the Yangtze River, and finally swore in Haining, pressed to the bottom of Hangzhou City.
It's just that unlike the pirates who left after the fight, this time the pirates didn't seem to want to spit out the fat in their mouths at all, and actually put on a solid defensive formation.
Moreover, the Japanese did not choose to defend the city wall of Hangzhou, but pushed it out and set up a position in Dinglan Town, next to Qinglong Mountain under the city of Hangzhou.
A typical Jiangnan town, with green bricks and green tiles, narrow lanes, and a criss-crossing water network, pirates set up barricades between the lanes, archers hiding between the streets, and the complex terrain makes this battle difficult.
Although he is the leader of the pirates, deep down, Mao Jue actually hopes that the Ming army can win, after all, these people are his real allies, if Houjin launches a large-scale attack, Mao Jue still has to rely on these reinforcements to fight with him, they are stronger, and they will be safer.
"Tsk, there are a lot of people!"
The identity is too sensitive, Mao Jue still did not appear on the battlefield in person, but set up a field tent on Xiaoshan Mountain, more than ten miles away from the battlefield, and his small cannon-like telescope came in handy again, carrying the cannon barrel, he was patrolling the battle line back and forth.
The Ming army came with more people than he expected, almost 45,000 to 50,000, no wonder, the Ming army itself also knew that the Qi family army was dead, and the current Jiangnan military equipment was not as good as the early stage of the anti-Japanese war in the Jiajing period, and there were not several times as many people, so they did not dare to come to Hangzhou City to trouble the Japanese invaders. After all, the scale of this Japanese army has already caught up with the battle of Taizhou, and without several times the number of troops, the Ming army does not dare to respond to the battle at all.
It's just that most of the 50,000 people are infantry, and the cavalry is only more than 1,000, and the pitiful hanging under the large array is like a large plate of tofu cut out of a piece.
On the military array, the Ming army is more imposing, after all, the Japanese robbers, a group of amateur robbers composed of an army of rags and rags to their own body, recently robbed the city of Hangzhou, some of them also took the lead for a month, but they wore the silk gowns of the Ming people, how awkward and awkward, at a glance it is a local armed guerrilla.
In contrast, although the Ming army was poor and its armaments were sluggish, everyone still had a battle uniform, leather armor or paper armor hung on the chest and back, and a large tiger head shield in the front, which looked like a spirit, that is, the government army.
Qi Jiguang left something behind, on the shield, it was a dense wolf, and the forwards and infantry rushed to the front with tiger squatting cannons, setting up a series of small cannons, this formation is quite similar to Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation back then.
The entire army formation was several miles long, more than ten rows wide, with swords and guns, flags flying, and there was a kind of black cloud that wanted to destroy the city.
After all, it is a state of etiquette, and some nonsense still has to be talked about before the war, and in the Ming army's military formation, a clerk-like official rode a horse and ran to the front of the two armies, raising his voice and shouting loudly.
What he is shouting about is nothing more than some overseas thief, who has invaded my territory, and those who know each other will get out of here. The Japanese are also idle, and they actually sent a guy who looks like a monk, and he also spoke a lot of Japanese language.
That scene was simply a chicken and a duck talking, no one could understand whom, but fortunately, they all knew that this was a nonsense link, and after they finished speaking, they returned to their respective military formations.
I don't know if it was the order of the general army of Zhejiang or the governor of Zhejiang, the huge army formation that originally came from the whole flowed like mercury, first of all, the tiger squat artillery team, more than 150 small cannons were first held by hundreds of people and rushed forward, straight to the front of Dinglan Town more than 300 meters down, and then, one after another, a burst of cannon roars roared in front of the town.
Don't look at the tiger squat cannon is small, it is also a cannon! Pill-sized shells fell overwhelmingly in Dinglan Town, and in the sound of a bang, the cyan bricks crackled and shattered into countless pieces and fell down, and the board of the cast wall was made transparent, and there was a splash of wooden thorns, and the wall tilted in an instant, and in a short time, the originally neat Jiangnan town was bombed with thousands of holes.
However, this scene is fierce, but Mao Jue shook his head, which also bullied and bullied the lack of cavalry and artillery.
And the power of the tiger squat cannon is still too small, this burst of shelling looks fierce, in fact, it also messes up the roof, and the lethality of the robbers hidden in it is not too great, if this is the Hongyi cannon, I am afraid that a street will collapse, even if it is a six-pounder eagle cannon, it can be crumbling, it seems that it is still imminent to upgrade the tiger squat cannon.
Thinking about it, the bombardment stopped for four or five minutes, and then the Ming army with the tiger card finally began to charge, there should be more than a hundred squads that broke away from the big team like that, and rushed straight to the street of Dinglan Town, but seeing this scene, Mao Jue didn't want to see it, put the telescope aside, sat on the chair, and pulled the wine he brought over and poured it out.
On the battlefield, the battle situation is still going on, along the three streets of Dinglan Town, these mandarin duck formation squads are impatient to kill in, but the formation configuration is good, but the training is not at all, these Ming troops are not even aware of the concept of seizing the commanding heights, and they are running straight to the Japanese barricades that are more than ten meters behind.
Indeed, this barricade is a weak point, and there are only three or four Japanese in each barricade holding their swords and screaming around, but the water is impermanent, and the soldiers have no shape! In the shout of surprise, the houses on both sides of the collapsed houses suddenly appeared densely packed with musketeers, many pirates in the East China Sea while doing business at sea, while looting, the amount of artillery equipment is small, but the muskets are sufficient, the kind of Japanese heavy iron cannons, the caliber is twice as wide as the Ming army's bird guns, without waiting for the lack of training of the Ming army musketeers to react, the sound of gunfire behind them has smashed on the back of these Ming soldiers, spurting blood, a full hundred and ten people and horses directly lying on the ground.
The street is tic-tac-toe, without waiting for the Ming army tiger wolf spearmen in front of the kill, the corner of the street is in the roar of the dense army of pirates, Jiangnan anti-Japanese bamboo guns, but was photographed by the Japanese wolf is three meters long, but the bamboo pole is more than five meters long, just a long section on the Ming army tiger card, these farmers are too lacking in training, physical strength is not as good as these dwarfs, actually frustrated staggered, immediately raised the long knife of the ronin, pirate ghosts screamed and rushed into the formation, if the Qi family army is in, Even if they fought desperately and exchanged their lives for their lives, they would beat out the Japanese who broke through, but these southern troops did not have the will to fight at all.
This is where the defeat begins.
Standing outside the formation, seeing the officers and soldiers of the three streets throwing away their armor and abandoning their armor, crying and fleeing, the extended officers and soldiers were obviously in a hurry, and the typical civilian command, regardless of whether they were their own people or not their own people, was a burst of intensive tiger squat artillery bombardment, and in the smoke in the sky, some Japanese soldiers were indeed killed and wounded, but the casualties of the retreating officers and soldiers were probably greater, and under the roar of artillery fire, the remnants of hundreds of people retreated to the main formation in embarrassment as if they had lost their souls.
It was still a typical civilian command, and instead of summing up the experience, the first wave of fiascos beheaded more than a dozen deserters who took the lead in retreating, and then the second attack echelon of more than 2,000 people once again shouted and attacked the walled city.
Seeing this scene, Mao Jue didn't even have the interest to sit there and stay, and even the huge sea that picked up the telescope with great interest, Mao Jue shook his head directly, it was too stupid!
Looking up at the sky, it was still early, and yawned, Mao Jue simply waved his hand, and asked the soldiers to roll things and stuff them on the horse jacket, and went home, this battle is really not interesting!
More than 100 horsemen rushed down the trail of Xiaoshan, opposite the Qiantang River, the huge roar and the screams of the rout were messily transmitted, and the corpses lay at the mouth of the alley, dozens of widows, the fake devil warriors of the Han people held their swords high, their eyes were round, and they shouted and roared excitedly. But in the face of them, the officers and soldiers were left with heart-rending cries and fled, and none of them dared to turn back.
The armaments of the Ming Dynasty were slack, festering, and the warriors of the Southern Army who followed Zhu Yuanzhang and dared to fight to the death with Meng Yuan's iron cavalry could no longer see the slightest outline. Please Baidu "Throw Book Network" Thank you for your support!