Chapter 341: The Last Samurai
Sado Island.
"It's finally out!"
Lu Zhiyu said with relief.
In his telescope, there was a field of colorful banners, and in these banners you could even see a number of galloping cavalry, carrying large bags of different colors behind them......
Well, people call it mother's clothes.
He had actually landed a month earlier, but after tentative contact on the beachhead, the Japanese troops stationed on Sado Island immediately abandoned the field battle and retreated to a newly built fort in the mountains. They knew that the opponent this time could be called an invincible opponent all over the world over the years, and the Japanese army, which was still in most of the cold weapons, faced the advantage of the Ming army's firearms, and it was very unwise to fight in the field. Fifty years ago, they couldn't defeat the Ming army in the field, and the Japanese army at this time was not those veterans of a hundred battles trained in the Warring States Period.
In fact, their poor performance in the Battle of Shimabara more than ten years ago has already proved the end of the strongest era of the ancient Japanese army.
This time it wasn't the parishioners.
This is a pure cold weapon, and the Ming Marines can fight all over the Mongolian coalition army in field battles.
The wise choice of the Japanese army also brought a lot of trouble to Lu Zhiyu, he took a brigade to land in total, and the in-depth attack would lengthen the logistics line, and the Japanese army's large corps was indeed not good in field combat, but it was still possible to use the terrain advantage to attack the logistics team. In this case, he rashly attacked in depth, and in the case that the troops were not enough to maintain the logistics line, once the logistics were cut off, it was easy to encounter defeat, after all, the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in numbers. Therefore, Lu Zhiyu did not attack in depth, but stopped at the port to repair the fortress, anyway, the Japanese army was crushed at sea, and it was impossible to provide support for Sado Island, since this is the case, the two sides will be consumed here! The transport ship that sailed from the port of Busan via Oki Island was coming on the current, and his mission was to interrupt this second leg of the Tokugawa family's economy. As long as he is here, this leg will be broken, in fact, Sado Island can no longer transport a bag of golden sand, as for whether it is an attack on the gold mine or not, it is still in the mountains to the north, where there are also a large number of miners.
But he only needs to be here to trap the latter, after all, the latter's food must also be transported from the island.
As for the people who built his port......
"Oki-kun, thanks to you! I have already asked the prison country to play for you, and Zheng Dutong also asked for your knighthood, and after I take Sado Island, I'm afraid I will have to call you Oki Uncle again! ”
Lu Zhiyu patted the shoulder of a Japanese warrior with a helmet and armor next to him and said.
"That is, as a minister, it is the duty of a minister to serve the country, and he does not dare to ask for credit with this."
The samurai bowed his head and said solemnly.
This is the owner of Oki Island, who was originally subordinated to Matsudaira Naomasa, the lord of the Matsue domain, and surrendered directly when the Ming army attacked Oki Island, and was subsequently appointed as the guardian of Oki. Of course, Daming does not have this kind of official position, so his final official position in Daming depends on his performance in the war. Therefore, his performance was also quite positive, not only armed all the young men on Oki Island to follow the Ming army, but also sent his cronies as guides to lead the Ming army to raid the coast, and by the way, he also drank some soup himself, and now he personally led his subordinates to build a simple fortress.
Of course, it's not them who fix it.
Instead, they supervised the Ming army's capture of the Unu Xiu from the coast, and the Ming army engineers transferred from Pusan were in charge of working as engineers, and they were overseers, and then using the Unu as coolies, and a fortress like the one on Oki Island was rapidly rising on Sado Island.
Then the Japanese army finally had no choice but to go out of the mountains and forests to fight the Ming army in the field.
Otherwise, they will starve to death in the mountains.
"It's Nagai Naomasa!"
Oki-kun said as he looked at the banner of the Japanese army with a telescope.
"Can you fight?"
Lu Zhixi said curiously.
"Of the Tokugawa genealogy daimyos, only a few are still alive who participated in the Battle of Sekigahara."
Oki-kun said.
"Then let's see what famous generals you have cultivated in this so-called battle to determine the world!"
Lu Zhixi said.
"Mortar fire, give them a greeting first!"
He went on to say.
On the artillery position behind them, the Ming army's iconic 20-pound mortar immediately erupted flames, and with the whistling of the shells, the flames of the explosion of the flowering shells exploded in the Japanese army advancing in formation. But the latter was not disturbed too much, after all, this thing was currently more intimidating than killing, and under the command of Nagai Naomasa, a veteran of the Battle of Sekigahara, the elite of the Tokugawa shogunate moved forward silently.
As for their artillery......
Their field artillery only has a Franz machine, and this kind of national collapse should not be taken out as a joke.
The 10,000 Japanese troops in the barren grass moved forward silently, and in front of them were shields, not shield carts, but large wooden board shields, all depicted with patterns. Behind the plank shield are spears, or spears, and there are also long-handled knives, or also naginatas, and then there are crossbowmen, archers, but there are not many of them, more of them are iron gunners, that is, arquebusiers. All of them had flags behind them, which looked distinctly colored and easily recognizable, and together with the bright mother's clothes of the small number of cavalry on both wings, they formed a colorful color, which looked like a sea of flowers on the grass in the clear sunlight.
In the infantry, the generals on horseback are even more abrupt, they are all wearing brightly colored and even brightly colored armor, and these armor shapes are all full of brains......
The age of cold weapons should be useful.
After all, such an exaggerated outfit can greatly increase the prestige.
Especially if the body is not enough.
It is said that these are generally about 1.5 meters, more than 1.6 meters belong to the big men, and more than 1.7 meters are giants, and they can indeed only rely on their heads to show their prestige, otherwise they will not be able to make enemies outside their country feel coerced in any case.
"This is not the same level as Jiannu! At this time, the North Korean army can beat violently! ”
Lu Zhixi said speechlessly.
It is said that the Korean army has made great progress, and it has begun to become a Spanish phalanx, mainly because Li Liang cannot afford to buy more arquebuses.
"Nine-pound cannon solid bullet!"
He then said.
Solid shells from the twelve-pounder field gun were fired at once.
Two powerful cannonballs hit, with fragments of shields, severed limbs and arms, and splattered flesh and blood instantly penetrated the four small phalanxes of the Japanese army as if they had crashed into a wheat field, and each shell caused more than twenty casualties, one of which even bounced on the ground and gained three broken legs in the third phalanx.
The Japanese army immediately showed confusion.
"Keep firing, four and a half pounds of solid shells join the fire!"
Lu Zhixi said with satisfaction.
The standard Gustav line of the Marine Brigade was joined by a four-and-a-half-pound cannon in front of the column, and although these battalion artillery pieces were not as powerful as the nine-pound guns, it was still no problem to penetrate ten or eight guns in one piece. The effect of solid shells on this kind of cold weapon dense phalanx is extremely ideal, even more than mortar shells.
The shells that pierced through with the continuous splash of flesh and blood caused confusion in the Japanese army.
The generals shouted desperately.
However, fortunately, the elite of these Tokugawa families still had discipline, and they still maintained the formation to the maximum extent, and the small phalanxes with intervals continued to move forward under the cover of shields. Then the corpses that are constantly left behind under the blows of flowering bullets and solid bullets show that their strength is constantly weakening, just like the blood loss bar that comes with the game. Fortunately, in this era when artillery could cut off the battlefield, the rate of fire determined that the number of casualties of artillery shells was limited, especially for a large army of 10,000 people, such casualties could be tolerated.
Then they began to move into real combat distances.
"Change the shotgun!"
Lu Zhiyu shouted.
All field guns were reloaded.
The shrapnel that rained like a storm caused the Japanese casualties to increase dramatically, and the generals rode on their horses and roared with their swords, using their accumulated threats to force the Japanese army to start accelerating the charge, but then they were unlucky. Because the rifled guns of the hunters in the foxholes in front of the Ming army were aimed at them, and as the flames erupted from the grass, the Japanese generals on horseback continued to fall from their horses with their exaggerated helmets.
The rout has finally begun.
But there are also brave warriors.
In particular, the most loyal samurai of the Tokugawa family wielded their swords and braved the artillery fire desperately to attack the infantry formation of the Ming army. The hunters and battalion artillery accompanied their approach, discarding their positions and artillery as fast as they could, and fled back into the infantry formation.
The samurai marched forward bravely.
"They're still heroic, and they're quite ancient!"
Lu Zhixi said appreciatively.
Oki-kun accompanies the smiling face on the side, and then is proud of his right choice.
Hundreds of samurai rushed to the Ming formation, and they crashed into the two salients of the Ming army like a pack of crazy hungry wolves. When they were less than eight feet away, the arquebusiers on either side of the two spear phalanx pulled the trigger, and the samurai fell in pieces. The arquebusier, having finished shooting, quickly reloaded after retreating to the spear phalanx as fast as possible. The Japanese warriors avoided the dense forest of spears in front of them by stepping on the corpses of their companions, and swung their swords at the arquebusiers behind them, as they were accustomed to, but the volley from a distance of twenty meters caused most of them to fall. However, the living ones were still charging frantically, and the second-line arquebusiers also retreated behind the spearmen as fast as they could. The samurai immediately turned to attack the arquebusiers who flanked them, but the spears of the front and rear spear phalanx blocked them from both directions, and the arquebusiers finished reloading as they swung their swords and slashed desperately at the spears that seemed to overwhelm them.
"Their time has come to an end!"
Lu Zhiyu looked at the Japanese warriors who had fallen in the arquebus and sighed.
At the same time, on the battlefield, the Japanese army was routed on all fronts.
"The cavalry attacked, the infantry chased and killed, and chased as far as you could!"
He did not hesitate to give the order.
"Kill, kill the enemy for the country!"
Oki-kun also drew his sword and roared.
The cavalry on both flanks of the Ming army attacked, all the spear phalanxes forward, all the arquebusiers loaded with bayonets, and the huge formation crushed the defeated Japanese army......