232 The Ming Army's Bloody Battle of the Tokugawa Army (Middle)
Xiao Ruxun watched the battle situation fall into a stalemate, and the Japanese army who was in a hurry to retreat obviously fell into madness, such a madness was not conducive to attacking the Ming army, and the Ming army did not need to lose too much here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
So he immediately ordered the soldiers who retreated to the rear of the large array to form a formation, and then threw a shot at the sky at an elevation angle to strike at the Japanese army behind the large array.
The gunners immediately formed a formation according to Xiao Ruxun's order, raised their guns, and shot at the sky at an elevation angle of 45 degrees, and fired a volley of bang, and the lead bullets set off a bloody storm in the rear of the Japanese army.
A personal soldier who was only a few meters away from Tokugawa Ieyasu was shot through the throat and killed directly, and the corners of Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes twitched.
But before their iron gunners completed the formation, the second and third rounds of projectile shooting of the Ming army came, and the formation that had just been formed was scattered, and the iron gunners died on the ground, Kuroda was furious, and he was in a hurry, and ordered the iron gunners to disperse, shoot freely at the sky, do not get together, and do not give the Ming army a chance to catch them all.
This strategy has achieved certain results, the Japanese army began to counterattack, and there are constantly soldiers in the Ming army who are injured and killed by lead bullets falling from the sky, Xiao Ruxun coldly looked at the soldiers who died in his battle, and observed the battle situation in the rear with a clairvoyant mirror.
He only has 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, and the Japanese army here is obviously more than 10,000, while Luo Shangzhi has more than 20,000 Ming troops, and the number of Japanese troops over there is obviously below the Ming army.
But the Japanese army was unexpectedly brave and good at fighting, Li Rusong and Liu Ling, the two tiger generals, failed to take away their wave of left and right attacks, and Luo Qianjin's frontal assault did not take them away in a wave, but was dragged into a struggle by them.
There are not many people in this Japanese army, at most 10,000 people, but the combat effectiveness is surprisingly strong, and the soldiers are also extremely fierce, as if they have collectively fought chicken blood, they are very excited, Li Rusong's Jurchen soldiers and Liu Wei's multinational troops are stunned that they have not taken any advantage, and Luo Shangzhi's elite and warlike southern soldiers and mandarin duck formation troops are also making slow progress.
But after all, the number of this Japanese army was small, and it was attacked by the Ming army on three sides, and it was slowly unable to support it, and finally, the complete formation was scattered by the Ming army, and the three Ming troops quickly cut and besieged, and cut the Japanese army into three small pieces, which were attacked separately.
Luo Shangzhi was the first to complete the task and ate the Japanese army he was responsible for, and soon, Li Rusong and Liu Wei also made breakthroughs, and only a few more than 1,000 people were left in this Japanese army, which was still resisting stubbornly and would soon be destroyed.
Xiao Ruxun's battle situation there was also very tense, the Japanese army did not want to die of the assault, actually broke through the first iron shield defense line of the Ming army, Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the Ming army to form a second iron shield defense line, the army re-formed and rushed up, and the Japanese army attacked, but once the Japanese army's lead bullet just hit the Ming army's shield soldiers, there will soon be Japanese swords and needles rushed into the Ming army's formation, waving a knife to cut, often can kill and injure several Ming soldiers.
For this reason, Xiao Ruxun sent the Ningxia pro-soldier guards around him, and sent the most courageous general Zhao Hu to hold a long-pole sword, and led the pro-soldier guards to see a Japanese swordsman rushing in and go up to cut it, and absolutely did not let them destroy the Ming army's large array, this countermeasure was effective, the Japanese army's offensive was a setback, and the Ming gunners took the opportunity to counterattack, pushing the battle line back fiercely, and recovering the previous front little by little.
Tokugawa Ieyasu and Kuroda Rushui saw that the battle was stalemate, and it was estimated that the Japanese army blocking the rear might not be able to support it, in case the Japanese army in the rear was completely annihilated, and the Ming army killed them together, they would definitely be surrounded and annihilated here.
In order to avoid such an ending, they must be killed, Kuroda Rusui looked at Tokugawa Ieyasu and hurriedly said, "We must kill it!" Lord, please personally lead the charge to boost morale, let the soldiers kill as soon as possible, no matter what, at least ensure that you can lead the team to kill! ”
Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded, and decided to personally charge with the strongest fighting retainer guards to boost morale, Kuroda Rushui accompanied him with a big gun, his strength was also very high, and he was not afraid to fight on the battlefield, but it was a bit risky to fight on the battlefield, as a military advisor, he didn't often go to the battlefield, but at this time, he had no choice, the battle situation was dangerous, Xiao Ruxun was cunning, and they had to take the risk of charging.
Xiao Ruxun saw the movement of the Japanese marshal flag in the center of the large array, and realized that Tokugawa Ieyasu and Kuroda Rusui were planning to charge, if this wave of attack could not be stopped, the iron shield defense line of the Ming army would be more dangerous, Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the three hundred soldiers in his own guard to rush to the front line, and ordered them to aim at the direction of the movement of the Japanese marshal flag.
Facts have proved that this containment is very effective, Tokugawa Ieyasu's charging momentum is a setback, when the lead bullet fell, Tokugawa Ieyasu was not aware of it, and was still charging, but was thrown off the war horse by a retainer, Tokugawa Ieyasu was about to scold angrily, but found that the retainer pounced on himself, and his back had been blown up by seven or eight lead bullets, and he was just lucky not to be hit.
His war horse was hit and died on the ground, Kuroda Rushui followed, luckily dodged this round of shooting, and when he saw the guards around Tokugawa Ieyasu killed and wounded, he knew that this Ming army was shooting according to the direction of movement of the handsome flag, and it happened to hit the Tokugawa Ieyasu guards who rushed to the front line of the battlefield, fortunately Tokugawa Ieyasu was fine, otherwise Kuroda Rusui could have committed suicide by seppuku, Tokugawa Ieyasu died, what else was this war going on?
"Lord!" Kuroda Rusui hurriedly turned over and dismounted and helped Tokugawa Ieyasu up: "Are you okay?!" ”
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked frightened, trembling all over, and it took a while to calm down, gritting his teeth and pointing in the direction of the Ming army marshal flag in the distance, and said angrily: "Give me a fight back!" Shoot me back! They can fight and we can fight too! Fight back!! ”
Kuroda Rushui hurriedly dissuaded: "The distance is too far!" What we can't hit, it's useless, they shoot us according to our banner, our target is too big, it's too close to the front line, lord, retreat immediately, otherwise there will be ......"
"Lord, be careful!!"
Before Kuroda finished speaking, the voices of several retainers rang out!