Chapter 118: Bullets and Bullets

Although the scene of more than 2,000 war horses galloping is not a big army in the Ming Kingdom, whether it is a horse grazing ground or an errand who is specially responsible for taking care of the war horses, the Ming Kingdom is not lacking. However, during the Warring States period in Japan, the samurai still maintained the habit of raising war horses privately, and the scarcity of war horses and pastures made it difficult to improve the quality and equipment rate of cavalry. Those who can equip war horses are often brave or noble, and these people are precisely the most essential part of an army. In history, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the army to invade Korea, it can be said that all the troops dispatched were elite standing reserves, but in the battle of Bihokan, Tachibana Muneshige, Kuroda Nagamasa and others had advantages in troops, terrain, and weather, and they still had no choice but to have only 3,000 troops Zha Daishou, Zu Chengxun and others, when Li Rusong led 2,000 troops to help and took over the command, Kobayakawa Takakei, Ukita Hideya and other main forces of more than 40,000 people also arrived on the battlefield. With an eight-fold superiority in strength, the Japanese army was still unable to defeat the Ming army, which had responded in a hurry. The Ming cavalry, which was only equipped with swords, still overwhelmed the elite of the Japanese army in the muddy paddy fields, which shows the huge gap between the cavalry of the two countries. Although Kobayakawa Takakei and others reported to the country that more than 50,000 Ming troops were eliminated in this battle, which was more than ten times that of the Ming army participating in the war, they began to passively avoid the war, and no longer had the courage to face the Ming army. In fact, the total number of troops entering the Ming Dynasty at that time was only more than 30,000, while the strength of the Japanese army was once approaching 200,000.

The cavalry command of the coalition army was also extremely chaotic, although they all had the idea of expelling Sasaki Nagahide, but they could not maintain tacit cooperation, and even the chaos of war horses colliding with each other occurred. By the time the coalition's 2,000 cavalry rushed over, Sasaki Nagahide had already flown away, leaving only a corpse on the ground. However, seeing Sasaki Nagahide retreating to Jiangmen Mountain, and seeing the children of his family who died tragically at the foot of Jiangmen Mountain, the coalition families agreed that Sasaki Nagahide had been defeated and should capture Jiangmen Mountain in one go.

Mizutani Masamura and Sugatani Masada finally survived the attack of the cavalry under Sasaki Nagahide, and when they were about to catch their breath, an order came from the rear to continue the general attack, which made both of them feel a little inexplicably uneasy in their hearts. Restless to uneasy, the order still has to be carried out, otherwise as a samurai who escapes from the battle when his own side has an advantage, even if he returns to the family, he will definitely be ordered by the lord to cut his stomach. Dragging their tired bodies, the two began to gather the defeated troops and prepare to launch an offensive.

And the two thousand cavalry team did not have their kind of trouble, they had only just come out and ran for a while from the beginning of the war to the present, Sasaki Nagahide retreated to Jiangmen Mountain, and they took the opportunity to capture this mountain and add color to their military name! Of course, there is still a slight possibility, if you win the head of Sasaki Nagahide, then you will instantly become famous all over the world! It's a temptation that's hard to resist.

Seeing the coalition cavalry bypassing the samurai ranks and rushing towards the foot of the mountain without slowing down, Sasaki Nagahide, who had just returned to the top of the mountain, showed a smile: "You're welcome, please enjoy it slowly!" ”

The coalition cavalry who rushed to the front could already see the panicked expression of the Tsukahara army, thinking that the spear in their hands was about to drink the enemy's blood, these cavalrymen became more and more excited, just when they were about to shout "kill", the war horse under the crotch suddenly paused, and the ground in the line of sight instantly approached a lot, and the cavalry in front of the charge were mostly wearing heavy armor, and under this fall, most of them fell to death on the spot. There were also dying people, who looked back with the last of their strength, only to find that the neat rows of spears were tied up like fences, and at this moment they were facing the cavalry at an angle of about thirty degrees to the ground......

It turned out that the Tsukahara army had already put down these spears, buried them shallowly in the ground, and waited until the enemy cavalry attacked, and then pulled them up suddenly, so as to achieve the effect of blocking the opponent's cavalry. The cavalry in the rear didn't know what was happening in front of them, and they couldn't brake in time, so they also crashed into it, and the scene suddenly became chaotic, and the huge impact force even broke all the spears placed side by side! For a moment, the neighing of war horses, the shouting and scolding of samurai, and the wails of the wounded rang out.

Seeing this scene in front of him, Mizutani Masamura and Sugatani Masadada's hearts suddenly lifted, and they were anxious to see that the cavalry gradually reorganized their ranks, and the Tsukahara army did not take advantage of the situation to attack, so they relaxed a little. The originally murderous coalition knights were interrupted like this, but they lost their indomitable momentum, but they were all battle-hardened people, and they retreated because of such a loss, and they couldn't afford to lose this person, in the final analysis, there were only more than 100 horsemen who were lost at once, and there was almost nothing in the cavalry of more than 2,000 people, and even Mao was not injured. However, it takes a lot of time to clean up these corpses, and the war waits for no one, not to mention, the Tsukahara army is already like a lost dog, and there is no reason for him and others to retreat. Without long hesitation, everyone dismounted, climbed over the corpse wall in front of them, and continued to charge towards Jiangmen Mountain.

Two thousand energetic coalition warriors launched an attack on Jiangmen Mountain, and the outcome of the battle seemed to be out of suspense, and many wealthy family governors finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down, but the sound of iron cannons that made their scalps tingle suddenly sounded at this time!

Mt. Shomon has almost been built into a field fortress by Sasaki Nagahide, and there are a large number of fences on the way up the mountain to hinder footsteps, which is relatively sparse at first, but the higher you go, the tighter the fence becomes. With the help of these fences, Nasu Hanheita ordered the Iron Artillery to launch round after round of volleys. The allied warriors who were attacking head-on were caught off guard by the sudden iron cannon attack, and they who had not experienced the iron cannon attack even heard the continuous thunder, and then felt that the strength of their whole body was drained, and although they were very unwilling, they could only fall weakly. The offensive is a setback!

At first, these valiant samurai tried to launch a decisive assault and kill the iron artillery in one go, but the barrier of the fence made it difficult for them to either make their way through the gap between the dense fences, which was only two people wide, or split a path with their swords and spears, but either way, it was a bloody dead end. Soon, the warriors could not bear such huge casualties and retreated. However, the way was blocked by the oncoming samurai Mizutani Masamura and Sugata Masada and others, and the samurai of their own people had no way to draw their swords rashly, and the two sides did not belong to each other, and the scene was even more chaotic.

At this moment, the Tsukahara Iron Artillery Team no longer used a salvo of round after round, but changed its position and launched free fire on Shomon Mountain, which was already full of people anyway, and even if he shot with his eyes closed, he would definitely be able to hit the enemy. The only requirement that Hanheita have for his iron artillery team is to shoot the most bullets in the shortest possible time! For a time, it was like rain under Jiangmen Mountain, and the deadly "rain" fell into the crowd, but it was splashed with pieces of blood, and many samurai were directly hit in the head, and they were killed without even wailing.

Seeing that the entire samurai team was about to collapse completely because they could not bear the casualties, Sasaki Nagahide pondered for a moment and ordered the other side: "Tell Nasu Hanheita to make the illusion that there is not enough ammunition!" ”