Man Gui used a telescope to look at the Japanese army formation outside the city, there were about 6,000 people in total, and the weapons were a small number of artillery, some soldiers were holding arquebuses, some were holding spears, Japanese knives, iron forks, and so on.

Man Gui lined up the two bureaus of the artillery battalion in front, placed an infantry bureau on each flank, and the others were used as reserves, and slowly moved forward.

When they were three hundred paces away from the enemy, the Japanese soldiers screamed and pounced. With a wave of his hand, the two infantry bureaus stepped forward and inserted next to and behind the artillerymen. The drummers struck hard, the artillery fired, and shells of various sizes whizzed down in the ranks of the Japanese troops.

Whether it is a smaller six-pound or nine-pound shell, or a larger one-two-pound and fifteen-pound shell, as long as it falls on a person, no, as long as it is rubbed on a person, it means that this person is hopeless. Cannonballs with powerful kinetic energy can quickly dent the parts that come into contact with the cannonballs, or separate from your limbs, and no matter how good a doctor is, there is no way to pull you back from the side of death.

At this time, there was only the sound of artillery, and the infantrymen's guns were still on their side, and they were not raised. After experiencing the baptism of shells, the morale of the Japanese army was still full, and they still rushed forward with shouts, not looking at their compatriots who were shot.

Man Gui nodded, I heard that the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain are the most powerful, and such an opponent is a bit interesting. He commanded, "Raise the gun." The herald next to him blew a bamboo whistle, and his voice was terrible, like the call of death.

The soldiers raised their guns and aimed them at the front, and Man Gui waited until the enemy was fifty paces away before giving the order to open fire. The bamboo whistle sounded again, and the sound of fire guns sounded almost at the same time, and the Japanese who rushed ahead fell in large numbers.

At this time, the commanders of the flag teams began to order a change of position, and those who had fired the guns took three steps back to apply the medicine, and the soldiers of the second and third rows stepped forward, the soldiers of the second row opened fire, and then retreated, and the soldiers of the third row opened fire, so that the positions were changed in an orderly manner, and the Japanese army was stopped thirty paces away.

The Japanese arquebuses were small in power and had a short range, so they could not cause effective damage to the guards at all, and at this time the battle was carried out, basically only the Japanese one-sided losses.

Seeing that it was not the way, Shimazu Tadashi turned around and shouted, and the whole team of more than 300 Japanese soldiers wearing plate armor began to rush forward. They were wearing the same Nanban carcasses that the Japanese had modified from Western plate armor.

The Nanban carcass is a full-body plate armor with a hideous face armor on the head, which is exactly the Japanese style. Ordinary firecrackers are relatively soft, and it is almost impossible to penetrate the iron armor when hit on the body, so they are really effective against firearms.

In fact, it should be better if you charge in a skirmish formation, because then the artillery will not be able to damage a group at once. However, the Japanese are indeed a strange people, in the original history, in the early days of World War II, the Japanese have always used a group charge in formation, and only later did they learn a lesson and change to a straggler charge.

Under the attack of artillery, the Nanban carcass lost about forty percent of their manpower, but as many as sixty percent of the Nanban carcasses still rushed through the area where the shells fell, shouting and rushing towards the Ming army.

The bullets of the musketeers could not hinder their progress, they had already rushed fifty paces away, and Mangui pulled his bow and shot an arrow, which could only penetrate the iron armor a little, and then stuck on it, and the sword in the hand of the samurai who was hit by the arrow moved, broke the shaft of the arrow, and continued to rush forward.

Man Gui put down his bow and arrows, picked up his broadsword and shouted, "Bayonet ready." With that, he jumped and stood in front of the formation.

The Guards infantry stopped firing and flattened the fire, and by this time Man Gui had already roared and rushed forward. The infantry followed Man Gui and also rushed towards the Nanban carcass in front.

It is true that the Nanban carcass can protect against soft lead bullets, but it is obviously impossible to resist hard bayonets. With a single sword, Man Gui cut off the right hand of a Nanban carcass with a Japanese sword, and then continued to slash towards the other. The crunched Nanban screamed, and then the bayonet of the Guards soldier behind him was thrust into the mask, like a crowing chicken whose throat had been cut, leaving only the gurgling sound of blood and low whimpering.

The soldiers were originally very afraid of this monster covered in iron, but when they saw Man Gui cut off an arm with a single sword, they were a little unsure if it was the reason why the general's strength was too great, and when they saw that other soldiers could easily pierce the enemy's armor, their confidence suddenly increased, and their fear of the enemy was gone.

Although the Nanban carcass is a modified plate armor, it is a plate armor after all, when it is tested in Japan, only the Japanese knife can break its defense, and the arquebus is completely ineffective, so Shimazu Tadashi regarded it as a treasure at the bottom of the box, ready to give the Ming army a surprise.

I don't want the steel used in the bayonets of the Ming army is no worse than the Japanese sword, and the structure of the bayonet makes it easier to pierce the Nanban carcass, which was originally able to defend against iron knives and iron guns, but now it encounters steel bayonets, then its defense will obviously be greatly reduced.

However, the fighting skills of the Japanese army do have their own uniqueness, and those who can wear the southern barbarian carcass are the elite of the Japanese army, and the Japanese knives in their hands are sharp, so they also caused certain losses to the Ming army.

More than 200 southern barbarian carcasses against more than 600 Ming troops, if the Ming army could not break the defense, then the result was of course the Japanese army won, but now the Ming army can break the defense, and the number is superior, the advantage of the Japanese army is that the Japanese sword is more suitable for hand-to-hand combat than the bayonet after all, and the fighting skills of the Japanese warriors are stronger than the Ming army, so the two sides are inseparable on the battlefield.

Man Gui had already killed three Nanban carcasses, and he himself was slashed by one Nanban carcass, and although he was protected by armor, he was still slightly injured. However, after he was wounded, he aroused his ferocity, and danced a large knife like a wind wheel, and slashed at the Japanese soldiers in front.

In front of the two armies, the rest of the men stopped firing shells and firearms, and now it was up to them to see the outcome of the hand-to-hand combat in the middle.

As the Ming army's understanding of it deepened, of course, the fighting advantage of the Japanese people would gradually decrease, so after about half an hour, the situation on the battlefield was already very clear, and there were probably more than 60 of the more than 200 Southern Barbarian carcasses left who could fight, while the 600 people of the Ming army still had more than 500 people who continued to fight.

Shimazu Tadashi sighed, it seems that there should be no hope of victory in the battle array, so he can only stick to the castle and wait for rescue.

At this time, there were only about 30 Nanban carcasses left in the field, and the soldiers in the Guards who could speak Japanese began to shout: "Lay down your arms and don't kill, surrender and don't kill." And the southern barbarians continued to fight in vain as if they had not heard.

At this time, the person who seemed to be a leader in the Nanban carcass shouted something, and the Nanban carcasses stopped, and the Ming army thought that they were going to surrender, so they stopped attacking.

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