Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

On the south bank of the Changshan River between Tongxiang and Haining, the Daming Shenji Battalion adopts a three-stage attack mode and is fighting against the Japanese invaders it encounters. And the three-stage attack of the Ming Dynasty was founded as early as the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381), when the general Mu Ying pacified the south (Yunnan).

Specifically, a group of three people fired at the front of the group, then retreated to the rear of the line to concentrate on reloading, and the second soldier stepped forward to fire. Three people alternate reloading and firing, tripling the efficiency of arquebuses that would otherwise take a minute or more to shoot at a time!

It's a pity that after a burst of green smoke, the scene that should have been shot didn't appear. The soldiers froze, the military advisor Kamiko Masaharu froze, and even Hosokawa Terumoto froze. "Squib." This thought came to everyone's minds, but a squib like this, which accounts for almost 85% of the scale, even the previous firecracks could not be inferior to this extent, let alone a more sophisticated bird gun.

"Nima! Zhao Wenhua, you pit me! Hosokawa Terumoto reacted first, and in the face of the rushing Japanese robbers, Hosokawa Terugen immediately decided: "The back team becomes the front team!" One row becomes two columns! Retreat in order! Escapees! Chop! ”

Worthy of being the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, even if there was an emergency, even in the face of the vicious Japanese robbers, they still followed the order, passed the only two pontoon bridges behind them in an orderly manner, and retreated to the north bank.

At this time, Hosokawa Huiyuan's eyes were already red, both angry and unwilling to let the elite be damaged here, and in a hurry, he pulled Zhao Youjie, the commander of the Shenji Battalion next to him, tore off his hat, and shouted urgently at the tip of his hat: "Master!" Cut it here! ”

Hidetsuna Kamizumi stepped forward with a knife and slashed gorgeously to cut a round hole in the top of the helmet. Hosokawa Terumoto held a hat helmet, stepped in front of the formation, mouth-to-mouth, and shouted hard at the Japanese who ran over: "There is a trap here, don't come here!" Stop the pursuit! ”

The Wako on the other side was visibly stunned when he heard the loud voice, and saw a child dressed as a standard Japanese samurai on the other side, alerting them in standard Japanese to the trap. Seeing that the Ming army was retreating without any disorder, thinking that the shot just now seemed to have no lethality at all, they stopped and looked around in confusion, wanting to see a clue.

"What's going on up ahead? Why not attack? A man dressed as a Japanese general scolded.

Hosokawa Teruyuan looked at the person dressed as a general, very similar to the portrait of Xu Hai himself provided by Wang Zhi, and hurriedly interrupted his later order: "It's Xu Hai on the other side?" ”

"It's Uncle Ben, who are you?" Xu Hai pushed away the surrounding widows and came out to talk.

"Wang Zhi asked me to give you a message. If you surrender to the imperial court, you will be guaranteed a bright future and return to your hometown with honor. If you don't come to your senses, you will be crushed and stinking for thousands of years. ”

"What? Did even the old shipowners surrender? Xu Hai showed a panicked expression, he had lived in Satsuma for a long time, and he was not very well-informed, but he came to plunder once a year as usual. But this time he went to sea, he obviously felt that something was unusual, first of all, the native pirates along the coast were almost gone; Secondly, in this landing, the originally undefended place became stronger than an iron barrel, and the resistance was also very tenacious, and the attack failed many times; Especially in the past few days, I learned that Daming had issued a pirate policy, and it is said that there were countless surrenderers, and before he could understand the situation in depth, he heard the heavy news that Wang Zhi had also surrendered today. In the face of the cruel reality, Xu Hai finally realized that he seemed to have fallen into a trap, and he was ready to retreat.

Looking at the stagnant Japanese in front of him, Hosokawa Terumoto's plan to delay the army had been achieved, and with the last wave of soldiers withdrawing from the south bank. The soldiers on the north shore immediately erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and in their eyes, Hosokawa Terumoto, as the commander-in-chief, stepped forward in the moment of danger and drank back the murderous Japanese robbers, which was no less than Zhang Fei on the Dangyang Bridge.

At this time, the upstream and downstream shouted at the same time, and it was Hu Zongxian and Yu Dayou who led the troops to arrive. The original plan was that Hosokawa Teruyuan led his troops to defend against the water and lure the Japanese to attack, Yu Dayou from the downstream, Hu Zongxian from the upstream to lead troops to encircle, and Wang's straightforward and obedient navy to hold the coastline in an attempt to annihilate the Japanese in one fell swoop. However, due to the tactical defeat on Hosokawa Teruyuan's side, the battle situation has changed, and Xu Hai is also cunning like a fox, sensing that the situation is not good, he has already taken advantage of the unfinished situation of the siege to lead his troops to flee south.

Not to mention Hosokawa Teruyuan's greetings with Hu Zongxian and Yu Dayou's joint army, just saying that Hosokawa Teruyuan returned to the camp and immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the firearm failure. Bian Dang, the quartermaster of the Shenji Battalion, was dismissed and taken down and sent to Hosokawa Teruyuan.

“pia！” A big mouth, "Say! Who told you to put lime into gunpowder? Zhao Youjie roared angrily, not to mention that he had fought a wretched battle, and even his hat was cut off, so he was angry when he thought about it, and rewarded the quartermaster with a few mouths.

"Wronged, wronged. I don't dare to adulterate it by borrowing a few dares from my subordinates. Bian Yan's cheeks were swollen with paste, and he explained with a sad face: "Besides, this gunpowder is a standard equipment, and it is all distributed from above, and the subordinates have also checked it, so ~ so." In the end, I couldn't come up with a reason.

“pia!pia!““ So you don't say it! So you don't say it! "Oops! Oops! Spare your life! ”

Hosokawa Teruyuan looked at Zhao Youjie below and began to continue beating Bian Dang, but he didn't stop it. The firearms and ammunition of the Ming Dynasty were actually quite mature, and the lead bullets and gunpowder were stored in small cylinders similar to the shape of bullets in later generations according to the dose, and the corresponding standard equipment was the cartridge belt, similar to the waist binding explosive bag in later generations, and then the cylinder was placed in the leather pocket of the waist one by one, which was convenient to use.

Therefore, the distribution of equipment in the Ming Dynasty was extremely standardized, with guns and guns in boxes, ammunition in boxes, neatly classified, and soldiers only needed to receive equipment and immediately put into battle.

And when this quartermaster inspected the equipment, he must have opened the box and roughly checked the ammunition in the top layers, and the adulterated ones below were not found at all, which was also a dereliction of duty.

However, what Hosokawa Teruyuan is thinking about now is how to take the opportunity to bring down the huge corrupt Yan Song, and the most bad thing is to bring down the big corrupt official Zhao Wenhua.

"Come on, first put Bian Tong in prison, and after the victory of this official, report to the court and then send it according to the law."

"Subordinates obey!" The commander Zhao Youjie waved his hand, and the two guards who came up dragged Bian Dang down, and he was still shouting: "My lord, spare my life!" The subordinates have been wronged! ”