Chapter 21 Attacking the Kyushu Soldiers Wu Sangui Joins the War

It should be said that the Japanese played this trick very cleverly, they took advantage of the carelessness of the Yaogang naval army, and launched a surprise attack on the Yaogang warship, which also produced a certain effect. However, the gap between the two sides is too great. For the sake of concealment, the Japanese artillery was very scattered, and it was impossible to calibrate it in advance. The artillery, which was not very accurate in firing, still fired spherical shells, not to mention the accuracy, and it was impossible to fire in a unified manner, but when a cannon was heard, everyone shot together.

Despite this, the Japanese artillery density was very high, and a few shells hit the side of the steel-hulled warship and rolled into the water, and one or two shells fell on the deck of the Yaogang steel-hulled warship. Fortunately, the wooden-hulled ships were far away, otherwise the wooden boats would have choked on one shot. Mu Yi saw that the Japanese artillery on the shore was very scattered, hiding in the woods, and could not aim with the cannon, so he ordered the ship's 12 o'clock 7-caliber heavy machine gun to deal with the shore target, and the large-caliber heavy machine gun fired directly at the target, and quickly cleared the trees of the concealed artillery, and at the same time pressed down the artillery on the shore. Very few Japanese guns were able to fire three shells.

Just when the Japanese artillery on the shore pinned down the Yaogang naval warship, more than 10,000 Japanese launched a desperate charge, with some cavalry in front and infantry in the back. The Japanese generally fought on horseback by samurai, and the step down was called Jiaoashigaru, which means infantry. The Japanese guns that were not destroyed by the Japanese also opened fire "dong dong", and the attacking Japanese archers also fired bows and arrows far away at the positions of the defenders of Yaogang, and when the Japanese rushed into a hundred meters, the defenders' light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles opened fire at the same time. Mortars began to fire at the rear of the Japanese. The artillery of the warships on the sea covered the starting positions of the Japanese.

The rest of the Yaogang army is very familiar, the Japanese are brave and pile up a mountain of meat in front of the position, and if they want to scare the Yaogang people with this, it is a joke, and the Yaogang people have long been accustomed to such things.

This time, the Japanese organized more than 30,000 people to come, and used more than 10,000 people for the first attack, and they originally wanted to concentrate their forces to annihilate the Ming army at one time. But I didn't expect to encounter such a baptism of metal bullet rain. Their brave brothers fell in the way of the charge with thousands of them in this attack, and when they saw that Amaterasu had gone. The rear departure positions were covered by naval guns, and several thousand more people died. Kuroda Tadayuki, the daimyo of the Fukuoka Domain, who organized this counterattack, had learned the power of the firearms of the Yaogang army on Ikishima, but he had never encountered such fierce firepower.

Just as he was about to retreat to the interior of Kyushu, two more feudal lords came, and they brought another 20,000 horses, and they resolutely did not retreat. They believed that if the Ming army could not be repelled here, then there would be endless troubles. No matter how the Fukuoka daimyo Kuroda Tadayuki explained to them that the Ming army's firepower was too strong, our artillery in Hakata Bay to contain the Ming army's naval army was no longer effective, and it was absolutely impossible to fight hard. The two new daimyo contemptuously said to him: "If we can't defeat the Ming army, we will die here with the samurai, and we must not escape like cowards!" ”

Kuroda Tadashi was so angry in his heart, and said in his heart: "Lao Tzu is a person who has passed through the artillery fire of the Ming army, I advise you not to send you to death in vain, you don't appreciate it, and you laugh at me." All right! I'm not leaving, just see how you were cleaned up by the Ming army! ”

Tadayuki Kuroda handed over the command to the two daimyos and hid in a safe place to watch their jokes.

While organizing the team to prepare for a new attack, one of them also said: "This Kuroda Tadayuki has always been in the eyes of no one, as if no one is paying attention to him, but I didn't expect that it would be a coward to really fight!" What a shame on our Yamato people! ”

"Usually it's bluffing, whether it's a real hero or not, you can tell when you go to the battlefield," said another, "let's let him see what a real hero is!" ”

These two have never been hit by the Yaogang people, and they are a little arrogant because they don't know how powerful the opponent is, but they also saw that the Japanese had already suffered countless casualties in front, so they wanted to fight desperately this time, and organized a total of 20,000 people, divided into two groups to attack continuously, in fact, they wanted to use the sea of people to drown the opponent. They knew that no matter how many Ming troops there were, there were not many people who landed. They were also worried about the artillery fire of the kiln gangsters, so they ordered the samurai to rush forward as quickly as possible to stir up with their opponents, so that their artillery fire could not be helped.

In fact, there were not many real samurai in Japan, and many of the soldiers he organized were fishermen, farmers, and handicraftsmen, all of whom were improvized. Therefore, these daimyo did not attach much importance to the life and death of these people. At the beginning of the attack, the Japanese also pushed up all the large and small artillery that they could use, and organized many archers in the back to cover the cavalry and infantry in front of them for a group charge.

The Japanese were a bit of a brute force, and the attack began with a fierce charge from the cavalry, followed by pikemen and musketeers. The cavalry rushing in front was quickly dealt with by the light and heavy machine guns of the kiln gang, and the infantry who followed behind not only did not retreat, but still bravely charged forward in the face of a rain of bullets. But no matter how brave you are, you can't stand the blazing bullets. Piles of Japanese corpses piled up higher and higher. The cannons on the naval warships took the opportunity to fire ***. After the dense crowd is covered by ***, the fire people who are rolling and screaming all over the ground can't be saved, and all the people who go to save will soon become fire people like the rescued. That kind of tragedy made the fearless forward Japanese tremble.

This attack lasted for a long time, and the two daimyo who commanded in the back were also burned by ***, and no one gave the order to retreat, those Japanese were very disciplined, and there was no order to retreat, knowing that they were going to die, they had to rush forward. The cadres on the kiln gang position constantly reminded the soldiers not to be soft. In the face of the Japanese rushing over like a tide, the kiln gang people did not interrupt and changed the barrel of the gun that was red. At this time, the bulky water-cooled heavy machine gun is most effective. The mortar operators had to stop for a while, because the barrels were already hot.

The charge ended with the fall of most of the more than 20,000 men who took part in the attack.

The Japanese in the back had a nervous breakdown when they saw this situation, and someone took the lead, and many people followed, and they fled in a swarm.

The two daimyos were jumped on their bodies by a *** incendiary that fell nearby. One was a broken leg and he threw it down with his hand, but his hand followed. The ground was burned, and the samurai around him tried desperately to save him, and he was also injured a lot. As a result, the daimyo was carried away by the samurai and died on the road shortly after, and another daimyo jumped on a little incendiary agent, and the samurai next to him decisively slashed off one of his hands with a sword, which was considered to save his life.

Mu Yi and the others used the method of luring the enemy to attack more than 30,000 Japan, and this method could no longer be used.

Mu Yi and the others slowly transported the cavalry and infantry to Kyushu Island, he knew that Japan had a high population density, and there were more than two million people on this Kyushu Island. The Japanese are very brave, especially when they are facing the life and death of the entire nation, and they will be extremely desperate. If you want to defeat them completely, you have to work a lot hard, and you have to kill a lot of people.

Mu Yi, who boarded Kyushu, said to Zheng Zhilong: "You must know that if we landed in Kyushu so soon, we shouldn't have damaged the dock here so badly!" ”

"Huh! At this time and then, we were right to destroy at the beginning, and we are right to protect now. Zheng Zhilong said.

"Why do you think Kyushu is your own now?"

"Why not?" Zheng Zhilong said seriously, "Commander Mu, you still don't fully understand Kyushu, this is really a good place. ”

"Why don't there be good people in a good place?" Mu Yi said disapprerovingly, "You still want us to get rid of them!" ”

"There's no way, there are a lot of Japanese here, and if we don't kill them, we can't deal with them. There are just too many of them. Zheng Zhilong said.

"Thinking about the murder, I hope that Wu Sangui and them will come over quickly, it is estimated that their soldiers will be very interested in killing people!" Mu Yi said.

"Yes! I'm hoping they come soon. Zheng Zhilong said, "We can't drag on Kyushu for too long, the big head is still on Honshu Island!" ”

Mu Yi looked at the map and said to Zheng Zhilong: "Lao Zheng, I don't think this is the case, we will concentrate our forces and carry out a sweep in the south of the line between Fukuoka and Saga, and complete one piece and one piece." ”

"Kill them all?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Those who do not accept will be killed," Mu Yi said, "and those who obey will be taken prisoners, and they will be sent away as soon as possible, we have no manpower to take care of them." Sending them back allows them to participate in labor. We have to build a lot of railways and roads, and we need a lot of labor. After everything is dealt with, we will solve the affairs of women and children and the elderly. In short, to solve them once and for all. ”

Just when they were studying the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese, the staff officer sent a telegram, Mu Yi glanced at it, and handed it to Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong took the telegram and glanced at it, and said happily: "This person just doesn't talk about it." Wu Sangui, isn't this coming? ”

It turned out that the two ships from Yaogang went to Shanhaiguan to relieve Wu Sangui, and when they passed through Liaodong, they also brought more than a dozen delta wings over. These dozen delta wings were reserved for Liaodong to clear the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for them. However, the Manchus were completely defeated, and Emperor Fulin also surrendered completely, so no one made trouble for the Manchus anymore. Liaodong is now very stable. In order to take care of Mu Yi and their landing operations, the Yaogang Command Center asked these dozen delta wings to follow Wu Sangui and their ship to Japan together.

Wu Sangui felt very depressed because he didn't follow Zhou Yuji and their northern expedition. Suddenly received a telegram from Yaogang to him, asking him if he was willing to lead troops to Japan, Wu Sangui almost didn't jump up, and immediately replied to the telegram that he was very willing.

Yaogang also informed him that Li Yan would rush to Shanhaiguan immediately to discuss specific matters.

After receiving the telegram from Li Yan, Wu Sangui couldn't sleep. He admired this all-round talent Li Yan and Li Gongzi very much, and they were already friends who had nothing to say.

Li Yan arrived at Shanhaiguan, but Wu Sangui was very happy. Because Li Yan came with a long convoy of cars. Li Yan told Wu Sangui that this was part of the supplies given to them. Large quantities of goods were to be brought to them by ship.

Li Yan brought muskets and ammunition, as well as some of the costumes of the officers and soldiers. Wu Sangui understood that his army had not been reorganized, and it was impossible to issue them weapons such as automatic rifles. Wu Sangui knew that the firepower of a weapon like an automatic rifle was too powerful and must be handed over to a reliable army.

The officers and soldiers are more interested in clothing, and they know that as long as they wear the military uniform of the kiln, it is not only beautiful and majestic, it means that they are really the soldiers of the kiln. Li Yan understood them very well, so although he didn't bring much this time, he insisted on bringing as many clothes as possible.

When Li Yan explained the new adaptation plan to Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui happily turned around on the ground, and said to Li Yan: "Li Gongzi! That's just great, otherwise I'd be scared to death! ”

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.