Chapter Seventy-Eight: Victory
The barrage composed of more than 2,000 scattered guns and three or four hundred fire guns pressed towards the densely charged Japanese robbers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe pirates ran into this barrage of death head-on, and countless people were beaten into a sieve.
Inoue Shiro did not personally participate in the charge. When he saw this scene at the foot of the mountain, his heart ached to death.
You must know that it took me more than ten years to gather this 10,000-strong headquarters army. But such a damned hillside allowed him to kill and wound two or three thousand people in half an hour.
Inoue Shishiro is by no means a reckless man. After being blown up by an iron-shelled flowering bomb just now, he was a little impulsive and ordered a collective charge. Now he has regained his composure.
Originally, he was just a general of the Satsuma Domain, but after he ran away from the Satsuma Domain, he started with dozens of samurai. Over the years, he has continued to loot the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to gather wealth, and then return to China to recruit more people and horses to rob more wealth. Through this snowballing method, he was able to gather an army of 10,000 men. The hardships of it, as long as he knew it.
Businessmen always say that the input and the return should be directly proportional. Two or three thousand people died on the hillside, but there was no mountain of gold or silver on the hillside. Originally, he led all the men and horses to land in order to teach the Ming people a lesson.
But now he couldn't tell who had taught whom.
Forget it, retreat. Let the remaining soldiers withdraw from this damn hillside!
Inoue Shiro finally gave the order to retreat! The Japanese on the hillside retreated like a tidal wave.
Although the southern side of the hill was defeated, there was still hope for Inoue Shishiro. In this fierce battle, the ammunition of the Flying Tiger Army's artillery and guns on the hillside seems to have been exhausted.
His lieutenant general was leading 5,000 soldiers to attack the infantry of the Ming army. The artillery and guns on the hillside were no longer a threat to the five thousand soldiers.
As long as they can defeat the frontal Ming infantry, they can take the Taizhou capital directly. If Taizhou Mansion can be captured, the death of two or three thousand people on the hillside is still valuable.
Outside the town of Beipo, the sword and axe positions of the right team of the Flying Tiger Army.
The two thousand right team of sword and axe men led by Yu Dayou have all formed the Eight Formations of the Iron Bucket King. Two hundred Tietong kings were in eight formations, waiting for the arrival of the pirates.
The short and fat lieutenant of Inoue Shiro is named Minoru Kurai. Minoru Kurai is different from his lord Inoue Shishang, this man is a real reckless man.
Minoru Aoi first ordered the Iron Artillery and Archery Corps to shoot at the Flying Tigers and suppress them.
The Eight Formations of the Iron Bucket King can have a thick shield wrapped in iron clothing! It's a great way to deal with the guns and arrows of the Wokos!
Yu Dayou ordered half of the shield to be erected to block the flying guns in front of him. He raised the remaining half of his shield above his head to stop the arrows that fell from the sky.
Seeing that the iron cannon and bows and arrows were not working, Kurai Minoru directly ordered the spear ashigaru and the infantry to attack.
Two thousand spears were light, and they first collided with the Flying Tiger Army's Eight Bucket Kings.
In the eight formations of the Iron Bucket King, a burst of javelins was thrown first. The spearmen were killed quite a few by the javelins.
Then the spears were greeted by maces full of barbs, then spears with needles through the gaps in their shields, and finally waist knives.
Minoru Kurai had never seen such a strange formation in front of him. All the Ming infantry were almost wrapped in shields. From time to time, a spear and a short knife stretched out from the shield. The spearmen couldn't attack the Ming army in the shield at all, but were killed one by one by the spears and short knives and maces stretched out by the Ming army in the shield.
Minoru Kurai scolded: "These stupid farmers of Hokkaido! Pass my orders, and the Ashigaru team will all disperse! Samurai of the infantry corps, charge! ”
The infantry of the Wako was the main force of this army, and all of them were samurai with excellent swordsmanship.
It's a pity that even if the knife skills are exquisite, it will be in vain to meet the eight formations of the Iron Bucket King.
Similar to the course of the Battle of Haicheng Harbor, the Japanese warriors soon discovered that the formation of the Flying Tiger Army was simply a millstone of death. The grinding disc moved slowly and pressed against them. Countless samurai of the Wako died under this grinding plate.
Although Minoru Kurai had a thousand musketeers and a thousand archers, it was like encountering an iron walnut, and there was nowhere to bite into it.
On the hillside to the south, although the twelve Furlong cannons had run out of ammunition, the Shenmu General still had enough solid iron ball shells. And the range of this cannon is amazing, Chen Di ordered the artillery to bombard the Japanese who attacked Yu Dayou head-on.
Maybe it's really God bless Daming, God bless the Flying Tiger Army, God bless him Chen Di. A cannonball cut through a blood groove in the Japanese formation, and hit Minoru Kurai impartially!
Minoru Kurai died instantly!
The main general died, and the eight formations of the Flying Tiger Army Iron Bucket King on the front crushed the Japanese bandits like a grinding plate, and the Japanese bandits were in chaos.
Inoue Shiro watched coldly from outside the battlefield, knowing that it was no longer possible to defeat the infantry of the Ming army, and it was even more hopeless to capture Taizhou. His desperation made people blow three war snails.
Three conchs of war, that is, the order for a total retreat!
"Chen Di! Flying Tigers! I'm going to spare your lives today! When I gather strength with Koizumi Turtle Kang and Dog Breeding Cattle Road and join forces, I will let you know how powerful I am! Inoue said to himself.
Chen Di told Yu Dayou in advance that if the Japanese retreated, they must not pursue.
The reason why Chen Di didn't let Yu Dayou pursue the Japanese was very simple. Once pursued, the formation of the Eight Formations of the Iron Bucket King will be chaotic. When the time comes, the archers and musketeers of the Woko will be able to attack the sword and axe men of the Flying Tigers.
Chen Di breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Japanese robbers retreating westward like a tide on the hillside.
In this battle, the firecrackers of the left team of the Flying Tiger Army on the uphill slope suffered more than 300 casualties. All the Furlong artillery guns and fire guns stored by the Flying Tiger Army were all consumed.
Chen Di led the remaining musketeers, gunners, and the left team of swordsmen and axes down the hillside to converge.
Tang Shunzhi said to Chen Di: "This time we have won another big victory. ”
Chen Di smiled bitterly: "Although it is a big victory, it is also a tragic victory!" I feel sorry for my more than 300 fallen musketeers! ”
Tang Shunzhi said to Yu Dayou: "Let your sword and axe hand clean up the battlefield and cut off the heads of the Japanese robbers!" ”
The axemen quickly cleaned up the battlefield. Tang Shunzhi sent people to count, and a total of more than 3,500 Japanese were killed in this battle.
"Three thousand five hundred heads of the Woko, it should be enough to pay tribute to my three hundred firearms. Hopefully they'll be able to keep their eyes peeled. Chen Di said.
Chen Di ordered the bodies of the dead firecrackers to be placed together.
Two thousand seven hundred men sang the military song of the Flying Tiger Army to these fallen comrades:
"Daming, restore my rivers and mountains!
Blood will not be shed, death will not be truce!
There is a Ming Dynasty in the east, such as the sun rising!
Ten years of national hatred, the sea is difficult to peace!
The world is in turmoil, how can Corning!
There are sharp warriors, who is competing for power! ”
The military song of the Flying Tigers resounded in the sky, and it sounded so tragic.