Text: Volume 12, Chapter 2, Section 15 Return to the Horse Gun (2)

On the battlefield, more than 7,000 soldiers of the A battalion of Tashan Town marched forward in formation, and the 5,000 Yetai swordsmen were on par with each other, and the horse-chopping knives in the hands of the soldiers continued to slash towards the Japanese soldiers under the cover of heavy spears, and dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the 5,000 Yetai swordsmen.

The strength of the soldiers of the first battalion also let these 5,000 Yetai sword heroes know that the Ming army in front of them cannot be defeated easily. And the Japanese general Naito Masari, who commanded the army in the Japanese formation, also frowned, and the strong combat power of the Ming army surprised him, and at the same time he was also pained by the casualties of his elite army.

"For the glory of the samurai! Defeat the Ming army! ”

In order to defeat the more than 7,000 Ming troops in front of him as soon as possible, Naito Masari ordered the whole army to storm and ordered the spear Ashigaru on the left to immediately assemble and participate in the battle and outflank the Ming army from the flank.

For a time, the situation of the soldiers of the A battalion in Tashan Town became very dangerous.

Not only that, but Ai Nengqi, the chief military officer of Tashan Town, who was commanding the operation in the large camp, also found that the main force of 40,000 Japanese troops who had been holding back the strength of the Ming army was also mobilizing its troops, and it seemed that they were preparing to come to the battle.

Ai Nengqi immediately snorted coldly: "Hmph! The Japanese deceive people too much! ”

After saying that, Ainengqi ordered the artillery battalion to immediately rush to the north of the camp and bombard the main force of 40,000 Japanese troops. At the same time, Ainengqi also mobilized the soldiers of the second battalion of Haixi Town to rush to the north of the main camp to assemble, and after the main force of the 40,000 Japanese troops was scattered by the artillery battalion, he ordered the soldiers of the second battalion to immediately go out and counterattack.

After making preparations for the main army of the Japanese army, Ainengqi ordered the officers and men of the C Battalion to regroup, and immediately attacked to receive the officers and men of the A Battalion and withdrew to the main camp first.

The reason why Ainengqi was ready to let the soldiers of Battalion A withdraw first was not because he was afraid of the Japanese army or felt that the soldiers of Battalion A could not withstand the thousands of elite Japanese troops, but because he did not want the soldiers under his command to suffer unnecessary casualties.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The war drums in the Ming army camp sounded, and 7,000 soldiers of the C battalion rushed out of the Ming army camp in formation, and the soldiers formed a huge horizontal formation and pressed towards the battlefield that was fighting fiercely ahead.

Almost as soon as the soldiers of the C Battalion rushed out of the camp, the Japanese general Naito Masari noticed it, so he immediately ordered the spears near the Ming army camp to go up and organize the soldiers of the C Battalion to approach the battlefield.

"Ready! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

With a fierce roar of firearms, more than 2,000 Japanese spears screamed and scattered, and under the fierce fire of more than 7,000 soldiers of the C Battalion, these Japanese spears equipped with bamboo armor did not have the slightest resistance, and fell under thousands of birds.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the C Battalion continued to advance in formation, and soon arrived at a position about 100 paces west of the battlefield.

The officers and men of the A Battalion, who were fighting with thousands of Japanese soldiers and swordsmen, also discovered the movements of the soldiers of the C Battalion, and the general of the A Battalion immediately ordered the whole army to slowly retreat and move closer to the position of the officers and men of the C Battalion.

And the Japanese general Naito Masari immediately led thousands of Notai sword heroes to follow closely, and never let the thousands of Ming troops in front of him retreat.

Suddenly, Naito Masanari found that the thousands of Ming troops in front of him suddenly accelerated the speed of retreat, and the thousands of Ming troops broke away from contact with more than 4,000 Notai sword heroes in a very short period of time, and then immediately dispersed in two ways towards the southeast and northeast sides of the battlefield.

"Keep up! Keep up! ”

Seeing such a well-trained retreat of the Ming army, Naito knew very well what this meant, only the most elite soldiers and horses would have such quality. The thousands of Ming troops in front of them suddenly dispersed when they retreated, they must have made way for the Ming army gunners who came to support!

Although the more than 4,000 Notai swordsmen led by Naito Masasari were strong in close combat, and they could kill the elite soldiers of Tashan Town, who had the advantage in strength, to constantly retreat, what would happen in the face of the extremely sharp iron cannon of the Ming army?

Although Naito Masanari saw the danger, he immediately led more than 4,000 Notai swordsmen to chase and kill, and never gave the Ming army's iron gunners any chance to open fire.

However, although the Japanese army moved quickly, it was still too late!

When the last group of soldiers of the A Battalion of Haixi Town withdrew from the battlefield, the Japanese army general Naito Masari and more than 4,000 Notai sword heroes saw more than 7,000 soldiers of the C Battalion of Haixi Town, who were only more than 30 steps away and had formed a huge horizontal formation. At this time, more than 7,000 soldiers of the C Battalion have been filled, and more than 7,000 jet-black bird guns are ready to be sent at any time!

"Squat in the front row! The middle row sinks! All the troops are ready! ”

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”

"Put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

With the roar of the general of the C Battalion, more than 7,000 of the C-Battalion Bird Men opened fire at the same time, instantly beating Naito Masari and more than 4,000 Notai Sword Heroes under his command thirty paces away to death. I saw that the dense lead swept over, like a huge death scythe, sweeping more than 4,000 Yetai swordsmen to most of them, and at least more than 2,000 Yetai swordsmen fell to the ground, and even the leading Japanese general Naito Masari also fell to the ground with several bullets in his body, and died on the spot!

"Kill the soldiers! Come on! ”

The general of the A battalion, who was reorganizing the army, saw that more than 20,000 Japanese troops were already in chaos, and that a Japanese general who looked like a general was also directly killed on the spot by the officers of the C battalion, so he seized the fighter plane and led the officers and men of the A battalion, who had not yet completely reorganized the formation, to launch a fierce attack.

More than 6,000 soldiers of the A battalion roared and rushed forward again, driving more than 20,000 defeated Japanese troops to chase and kill, and rushed towards the north of the Ming army camp.

And Ainengqi, who was watching the battle in the big camp, was also very excited, constantly yelling and ordering the soldiers of Battalion A to launch a counterattack, and at the same time ordering the soldiers of Battalion C to immediately withdraw to the battalion and rush to the north of the battalion to support.

Just when more than 6,000 soldiers of the A Battalion rushed all the way and rushed to the north of the Ming army camp by stepping on the corpses of the Japanese army, suddenly there was a fierce roar of artillery from the north.

More than 6,000 officers and men of the A Battalion immediately cheered when they heard the sound, and the Japanese troops in front of them were even more energetic. The general of the A battalion led more than 6,000 soldiers under his command to rush forward to kill, and waited until he could see the billowing smoke from the artillery bombardment in front of him, and then stopped the pursuit, and then led more than 6,000 soldiers of the A battalion to withdraw to the Ming army camp.

To the north of the Ming army's camp, the 30 Great Buddha Lang machine guns, 40 Huzun guns, and 40 divine machine guns of the Haixi Town Artillery Battalion took turns to fight the main force of 40,000 Japanese troops less than a mile away.

When the enemy is equipped with a large number of artillery, your own soldiers and horses must keep a certain safe distance from the enemy, which is basically a common sense among the Ming army.

And the Japanese army also understands this truth, but the so-called national collapse equipped by the Japanese army is some small-caliber iron cannons, which are equivalent to the small cannons such as the Ming army's armament, the firing range is more than 200 steps away, and there are almost no artillery that can hit a mile away in the Japanese army!

Therefore, the Japanese army commander Sakai Tadaji directly deployed the 40,000 troops under his command at a distance of only one mile north of the Ming army camp, and in the blink of an eye, it was violently bombarded by dozens of artillery pieces of the Haixi Town Artillery Battalion, and the 40,000 army suddenly collapsed!

"All retreat! Fall back! ”

The Japanese army's commander, Tadaji Sakai, was remorseful at this time, he never expected that the tens of thousands of Ming troops who had been pursuing these days were pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, and the Ming army's combat power was so strong and equipped with so many powerful national collapses, it was impossible to win such a battle!

In fact, the 40,000 Japanese troops under Sakai Tadaji were also equipped with more than 20 Japanese national collapses, and when the 40,000 troops were bombarded by the Ming army, these more than 20 Japanese national collapses also fought back.

However, the more than 20 guns equipped by the Japanese army could not be compared with the dozens of artillery pieces equipped by the Haixi Town Artillery Battalion in terms of range, accuracy, and power. Not long after the Japanese army collapsed and opened fire, it was hit by the 40 Da Folang machine guns of the Tashan Town Artillery Battalion, and it turned into scrap copper and rotten iron in an instant.

After the fierce attack on the artillery camp in Haixi Town, Sakai Tadaji immediately led more than 30,000 remnants of the Japanese army to retreat to the north, and together with more than 10,000 defeated Japanese soldiers who fled from the east of the Ming army camp, they fled to the north.

Seeing this, Ai Nengqi was not in a hurry to catch up, but ordered the 40,000 soldiers in Tashan Town to hurry up and rest, after all, the soldiers had been fighting fiercely with the 70,000 Japanese army for most of the day.

And when the Japanese army commander Sakai Tadaji fled, he learned that the general Naito Masari, known as the "No. 1 strong bow in Tokaido", had been killed by the Ming army's musketeers, and his heart was even more frightened, and he led the rout to flee for more than two hours before stopping to rest and recuperate.

The Japanese army commander Sakai Tadaji hastily counted it, and was surprised to find that there were only more than 40,000 soldiers left under his command, and he was killed by the Ming army 30,000 soldiers and horses in the first battle! And the casualties of the Ming army are estimated to be less than one-tenth of their own!

"It seems that the Ming army is still strong, and the plan to cut off the Ming army's rear road cannot be realized! I must lead the rest of the big Japanese boys back to the south of Korea as soon as possible, and let Korea fend for itself! ”

Sakai Tadaji looked at the south very resentfully, and secretly said in his heart: "When I go back this time, I will definitely report to Lord Taiko that I will build more national collapses and iron cannons, and one day my strong Japanese army will definitely be able to make a comeback!" ”

Just when the Japanese commander Tadaji Sakai was secretly ruthless, the more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers scattered around to recover their strength were startled by a roar, and looked east in the dimming light, and the eyes of almost all the Japanese soldiers were full of horror and fear.

Suddenly, under the gaze of all the Japanese troops, Zhao Shen, the general of Tashan Town, and Gao Yunfeng, the general of Liaonan Town, led more than 15,000 iron cavalry soldiers under their command, and the iron cavalry soldiers formed a huge goose-shaped cavalry formation and launched a charge towards the Japanese army without formation.

"Soldiers! Come on! ”

"Kill the Wokos! Kill! ”

Zhao Shen, the general of Tashan Town, and Gao Yunfeng, the general of Liaonan Town, both roared loudly, and more than 15,000 iron cavalry soldiers also roared one after another, and the iron cavalry army ran wildly on the plain.

Sakai Tadaji, the commander of the Japanese army, looked at the more than 15,000 Ming iron cavalry troops who were getting closer and closer, and suddenly let out a wail: "Formation! ”