It is surprisingly similar, compared to the square Wanquan large array of the Shogunate's Eastern Army, Mao Jue's Western Army was also arranged into a square Wanquan Town, with 13,000 people in Maori Xiu, 29,000 people in Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and 10,000 ronin led by Fukushima Masakatsu to form the right army in Hengpu Mountain, and there were 8,000 Dongjiang reserve soldiers in the second column behind as the rear of the palace.

Kuroda Toshinaga's 26,000 troops, Nabeshima Konmatsu's 22,000 troops, and Asai Mitsusheng's 19,000 troops were used as the left army, and the left army was formed in the Doton Mountain generation, where 7,000 Dongjiang reservists pressed the formation.

The Chinese army is naturally Mao Jue himself, the ten regiments of Tieyi, the five regiments of Jeju Island and the Dongjiang Cavalry Team are deployed at the forefront as the vanguard, and the 20,000 people who are the most warlike in the Li family's North Korea, and about 10,000 ronin troops are thrown behind.

The thickness of the entire formation is less than half of the 300,000 troops of the shogunate, but the width is almost the same as that of the shogunate army.

It's just that as soon as the war started, more than 90,000 people in the front army of the Eastern Army were like hammers, and they smashed into Mao Jue's Zhongqian Army, which was only less than 20,000.

The animal husbandry of the Wa Kingdom is really primitive, there are no pigs, sheep, mules, donkeys, poultry, ducks and geese can rarely be seen except chickens, and there are only cattle and horses, and the number of livestock is still very small, and Akakijingi is one of the few cavalry.

They were all picked up from the corpse of Takeda Akabei, this cavalry constituted the trump card army of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa, and as soon as the battle began, these hundreds of meritorious cavalrymen wrapped in lacquer-red armor and wearing ghost masks rushed forward to Mao Jue's position.

Not to mention, this hideous ghost mask is really terrifying, hundreds of cavalry are rushing wildly, just like a galloping fire ghost, while running, he also holds the sword high and makes an oozing ghost scream, and Wen Meng, who is in the middle of the battle, is frightened.

"Damn, what the hell is this?"

The most popular and the most valued, as Wen Meng bared his teeth and shouted, the gun positions of several nearby regiments all moved in this direction, and the muzzles of the rows of Hessesen were also collectively circled here.

"Fa Ye!"

It was the slogan that I really didn't understand why the general was shouting like this, and suddenly the guns and cannons on the Ming army were loud, and all the streamers converged on the red-faced grimace cavalry.

The dense gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield, and for a few seconds, he fanned off the thick gunpowder smoke with his slap, coughing Wen Meng saw what was in front of him clearly, and couldn't help but grin again.

"So this thing will die too!"

This time, Mao Jue did not use grenade shotguns, but instead used the shotguns commonly used by the Ming army, and the Hongyi cannon fired iron and sand flat, and it could hit out a hundred meters, and with the musket, it simply beat those red-clothed ghost cavalry to pieces, leaving only a red stall in front of the battle.

It's just that before Wen Meng could grin, Sun Chun's sharp and angry voice had already sounded violently.

"Hurry up and charge! Fight back! What are you doing in a daze? ”

Behind those cavalry, countless iron gunners trotted out, and they also followed out of formation, and they hurriedly clung to Akakii's cavalry ranks, almost as soon as Akakiii retreated, they came up.

I have to admit that during the Wanli Korean War, the Ming Dynasty's guns were not as good as the Japanese people, and the Ming Dynasty and the Li Dynasty coalition army suffered enough in front of these iron cannons.

Puff ~ Puff ~ The bullet burst out with brilliant blood on the flesh, and a body fell to the ground one after another, and the originally neat Japanese iron gunners were suddenly beaten like jagged teeth, and the potholes were uneven, but the Dongjiang army also paid the price here, in the shogunate's iron artillery team, some of them were strengthened, and the caliber was even almost at the level of the tiger squat cannon, and the projectiles shot out could not be defended even if the Dongjiang cold forging armor pieces were fired.

Sitting on the ground, watching the guards beside him vomit blood, Wen Meng's eyes were red, and he suddenly opened the hanger on his chest, and the bullet the size of a pill was stuck in the middle of the cold-forged armor, but the huge impact hit his entire rib and broke his bones.

The two reservists hurriedly carried him and dragged him to the tent behind the formation, and slammed his fist on the sack that had leaked several holes, and Wen Meng pulled out his revolver again, and roared angrily while shooting at the opposite side continuously.

"Call Lao Tzu!"

Dense iron currents continued to erupt in front of the two armies.

The largest iron cannon battle in the history of the Wa Kingdom is said to be the battle of Ishiyama Honganji, Oda Nobunaga's battle against Ichijomune, but this one, the scale is definitely exceeded, there are 20,000 or 30,000 flintlock iron cannons in this formation, not to mention that the two wings of the Eastern Army and the Western Army also have iron gunners, for a time the entire battlefield was filled with gunsmoke and even had the feeling of the era of thermal weapons, just for a while, the battlefield casualties were about to catch up with more than 3,000 people in the Battle of Sekigahara, whether it was the Dongjiang pointed bullet or the shogunate's heavy pill bullet, it was fatal.

However, against the bombardment, it is still the Dongjiang River that has the advantage, who let them have experience in gunfights, piled up a half-man high sack breastwork, and the loading speed of the thirteen divisions that have been trained for a long time is far more than the Japanese iron gunners who carry a full twenty or thirty pounds of heavy iron cannons, just look at the battlefield, the Japanese people who have just filled the position poured out from behind, and they were immediately knocked down by stray bullets, in front of the Dongjiang Formation, row after row of gunfire is sprayed non-stop, especially often with a bang, a large piece of iron sand is sprayed down to cover the face, and the shogunate army is immediately beaten out of a gap.

"Yaga!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's mouth twitched a little angrily, and sitting on the improvised Chinese army, he turned around and looked around in annoyance, roaring.

"When will the shogunate cannon be delivered?"

In terms of heavy firepower, the shogunate army was completely pressed and beaten, listening to the sound of artillery fire one after another, the corners of Aoyama Yukinari's mouth were also twitching, just got the news, I haven't seen the Dongjiang fire gunner, stupidly led the Omi Hikone clan lord Ii Masadichi who led the Akaonii Ii to charge the formation, and the ancestral armor couldn't fight, and the general was immediately damaged as soon as the war started, not to mention the Ii army, and several other vanguard armies were demoralized.

It's just that unlike the generals who were in a hurry to wait for the cannon, Qingshan Xingcheng never thought of fighting the Dongjiang River with firearms, he simply knelt in front of the general's hall with a heavy military salute and bowed his head suddenly.

"His Royal Highness General, even if our army's big barrel arrives, the firepower is far from being the opponent of the Dongjiang Xiyang cannon, the Dongjiang is strong in firearms, our army is strong in bravery, and the iron cannon has been arrayed, these Ming people should be allowed to see the martial soul of our shogunate!"

He was stunned for a moment, and after a moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu stood up suddenly, and the golden military fan in his hand pressed forward, grinning as if he couldn't live, and roared with a heart-splitting roar.

"The forward army assaults and breaks through the defense line of Dongjiang Mao Jue!"

"Whoosh, step away!"

The military order was handed down, and the Japanese generals also put aside their nonsense, as if they wanted to spit out all the air in their lungs, waving their katanas forward, the Japanese did not have pure cavalry troops, even if there were cavalry, they were also a cavalry from a large group of infantry to march together, a bit like the tank tactics of later generations, the cavalry broke through the formation, and the infantry behind followed suit.

It was incomparably magnificent, such a mixed army of seventy or eighty thousand people crossed the array of iron gunners who were struggling to support and swarmed forward, rows of ammunition came over, and rows of warriors fell to the ground, but they couldn't stop this surging army no matter what, and almost rushed to more than 20 meters, Wen Meng, Da Dahai, Tian Tao, Kong Youde and other Dongjiang generals also roared out together.

"Get on the bayonet!"

In the exciting uproar, the snap bayonet that was taken down in order to be easy to reload was neatly put on the muzzle, and then, holding a flintlock pistol with a bayonet of almost two meters, the Dongjiang military formation, which was also missing a few gaps, was instantly lined up in several neat rows against the chest wall, and the nearly half-meter-long cold and shining bayonet was directly pushed out of the wall, and in the rapid breathing, the Japanese samurai who were running wildly came in an instant, and the bloody and murderous white-knuckle battle was also about to break out.

Swish~

Countless swords and soldiers ping-pong slammed together, the sound of metal even overpowered the shouts of people, in the two armies, there were rumbling explosions one after another, the Japanese people had cannon jade, Mao Jue also had grenades, on the frontal battlefield, the first layer of the breastwork was directly knocked down, the first few rows of sergeants were even intertwined in formation, the canine teeth were crossed together, the grenade hand behind and the opponent's cannon jade warrior gritted their teeth and threw each other, every explosion, always a dozen were roared.

It is said that strong ships and sharp cannons can't stop justice, but good equipment is really a direct withdrawal of combat effectiveness, relying on the factory and machine tools of assembly line operation, the cotton armor inlaid with cold forging armor pieces of the iron righteous soldiers has not been broken by one knife, two knives and three shots, but the bayonet stabbed in the chest of the Japanese warriors, and the people were wasted, although the bloody hand-to-hand combat was extremely fierce, the battlefield exchange rate still reached a terrifying one to ten, and the sharp artillery continued to spray iron and fire on the back of the heavy Japanese army.

At this time, human life is indeed the most worthless thing, but in comparison, the lives of the Japanese warriors are even less valuable, and under the fierce stabbing of the Dongjiang bayonet squad in groups of three, layers of corpses fell densely on the battlefield.

"Yaga!"

When the fierce battle was in full swing, another force came in handy, and from the two wings of Mao Jue's army array, groups of ronins wearing light armor and carrying katanas rushed out.

Frontal military confrontation, these people are scum, too lacking in the spirit of the legion and the ronin who cooperate with each other can't bear a charge at all, but the frontal battlefield is unfolding, picking up cheap from both wings, their family is an expert, and the wandering samurai who have no master have done a lot of work to rob the house and deceive them, and even if the flag of Tokugawa Iemitsu is not their opponent one-on-one, this shogunate army that was already fighting dizzily, a large group of ronins who held up their katana and chopped your dog's head came out coldly, and they were immediately cut down again.

Hmm~ A burst of knife light fell, and more than a dozen people were cut to the ground! Puff~ In the blood light, a samurai had just stabbed his bayonet with a knife, and then, another bayonet pierced his heart with great precision! Boom~ Sun Chun knocked down the flintlock machine with his own hands, and the roaring Hongyi cannon sprayed a large piece of iron sand, and it was also a large area of more than a dozen rear army shogunate soldiers covering their bloody faces, hands, and rolling on the ground in pain.

The field battle began at two o'clock in the afternoon and continued until about five o'clock in the afternoon, and with the sound of the retreat of the troops in the rear, the front army of the shogunate, which was on the verge of mental collapse, was almost like an amnesty, panting and ignoring it, and fled behind them.

The difference in physical fitness was also reflected at this time, after three hours of fierce fighting, many shogunate swords could not be lifted, but the Dongjiang army was still alive, although panting, but still full of fighting spirit, poofing a knife from behind the samurai who turned around and ran stabbed the heart cold, exhaled and opened the sound, one meter eight nine, like a bear like the iron general Kong Youde actually picked up the man alive, resisted on the shoulder.

"Come on! Grandpa hasn't killed enough yet! ”

Blood dripping down, the samurai who did not die screamed miserably with long hands and feet, and even put a terrifying coat on the roaring Kong Youde, who was like a demon god, listening to his roar, those fleeing shogunate samurai were simply terrified, and there were even a few weak-legged ones who couldn't escape, so they simply knelt on the ground and kowtowed violently, followed Kong Youde, I don't know how many people also beat their weapons arrogantly.

The battle has not yet been decided, but there is no doubt that Dongjiang has the upper hand.

…………

The bloody day finally ended in the complete disengagement between the two sides, and when night fell, the campfires of the two armies were also burning in the formations, but the battlefield had not stopped, regardless of the tired soldiers and those satisfied ronins who were constantly picking and picking, cutting off the heads in exchange for military merits, and from time to time there were still wounded soldiers who did not die and let out screams of fear, listening to the hearts of the samurai of the Eastern Army camped on the other side of the Kizu River, which made people tremble with fear like ghosts.

The wounded soldiers who were dragged back also lay down in the tent, and one by one they let out a scream with bared teeth, and even brought hell to the world.

The iron sand shotgun is actually not lethal enough, and it often can't kill people after being beaten by a piece, but the consequences are often worse than being killed on the spot, the whole face is blurred with blood and flesh, several samurai screamed miserably and were tied to the bed, and those military doctors used small knives to remove these iron sand alive in the flesh, and the terrible screams even Qingshan Xingcheng who was passing by was frightened, accelerated his speed, and hurriedly made an appointment with this area.

At this time, every soldier in the Dongjiang River is humming a small tune in the cauldron and stirring the canned bamboo braised pork and canned fish in tomato sauce, and the dignified shogun, on the table is a small fish two fingers wide, a bowl of rice, a bowl of miso soup with clear sea vegetables, but that's all, Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't have the heart to eat, knocked on the chopsticks one by one, until Aoyama Yukinari came in, he stood up in a hurry.

"Aoyama Gong, how's it going?"

"Today's battle dead and seriously wounded, when the number is eight thousand, the minor injuries are really not countable, the Ii army was disabled, the Mito Matsudaira army was scattered, and tomorrow the forward army may have to be replaced!"

"What about the Dongjiang Army?"

"I don't know!"

The entire imperial tent suddenly fell silent, and in one day, one-thirtieth of the shogunate army was wiped out, and the heavy casualties were terrifying, and they were silent for a long time, and then the old middle Inaba Masakatsu asked.

"What about the Left Army and the Right Army?"

"Back to Inaba Gong, the left and right armies did not suffer many casualties, although there were also large-scale clashes with several rebels such as the Maori family and the Shimazu family, but only a few hundred people were killed."

"General, you can't fight like this anymore!"

Suddenly, Inaba Masakatsu came out of the table in pain and knelt down in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"General, the strongest in the Western Army is Dongjiang Mao Jue, just like Sanada Yukimura at the time of the Osaka Battle, no matter how hard it is, even if you win the shogunate, you will have to suffer a lot of casualties, there is not much left, it should be to change the direction of the main attack, the main Maori family or the Shimazu family, break one arm, Mao Jue will definitely be difficult to support alone."

"The old minister is courageous, and I implore the general to follow the original Ieyasu Gong's method of war, use the banner army as bait, and drag the Dongjiang army deep into the battle!"

This is about to change the formation, and the heart of Aoyama Yusei, who listened to it, beat violently like a drum, and Matsudaira Nobutsuna's words before leaving were still in his ears, don't practice this tactic!

But in the entire tent, dozens of daimyos, such as Matsudaira Hironobu and Date Tadamune, all nodded yes, and when the words came to their mouths, they were swallowed back by him raw.

After looking around left and right, Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded heavily.

"Then let's change the formation!"

(End of chapter)