At least for now, the Goto clan and the Tachibana clan have the same formation, and the way they fight doesn't seem to be very different.

Soon, the Goto clan's army rushed to a distance of about two miles from the Tachibana family's formation.

Without Tachibana Michiyuki commanding, Tachibana Chiyo raised the folding fan in his hand high and ordered, "All the big guns are ready!" ”

The so-called big gun of the Tachibana family, in the words of the Ming Dynasty, is the Franc cannon, which is a small Franc machine.

The so-called Franc machine, in fact, is a kind of rear-mounted cannon, it has a front sight in front, a door in the back, can be aimed from the door hole, there is a gun carriage, can be rotated up and down, left and right. The abdomen is swollen, leaving a long mouth, the outside of the gun body is wrapped in wood, and the iron hoop is used to prevent explosion, and there are 5 sub-guns, which are loaded with ammunition in the sub-guns, and are placed in turn into the long mouth of the abdomen to fire. The sub-gun is a bit similar to the cannonball, but it is not the same, also known as the heart cannon, which is equivalent to the medicine chamber part of the artillery, it is a kind of slightly thinner than the mother barrel and another barrel, and together with the mother barrel form a double barrel.

This kind of artillery was originally extremely popular in the Ming Dynasty, when it was in Zhengde for more than ten years, hundreds of thousands of doors were built in a year, because of the popularity of the Ming Dynasty, many Fusang daimyo were purchased from the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Ming Dynasty destroyed all these firearms, and since then the bow and crossbow have been kings, but they are still widely used in Fusang.

Quite funny, the Ming Dynasty divided the Buddha Lang machine into three types: large, medium and small, with copper casting and iron casting. The large Franc fuselage is one zhang long and weighs six or seven hundred pounds. "Wu Bei Zhi" divides the imitation Franc machine into No. 5. No. 3 and No. 4 are lightweight. No. 3 is four or five feet long, each containing lead weighs 5 taels and 9 yuan, and the medicine is 6 taels. No. 4 is two or three feet long, each containing lead weighs 3 taels, and the medicine is 3 taels and a half. No. 1 and No. 2 are heavy-duty. No. 1 is a long ** ruler, each containing lead weighs 1 catty, and the medicine is 1 catty. No. 2 is six or seven feet long, each containing lead weighs 10 taels, and the medicine is 11 taels.

The 100 big guns of the Tachibana family are all the thickness of the bowl, more than five feet long, and they belong to the relatively large ones in the small sample Franc machine, and they are loaded with large lead weights weighing five taels and nine coins.

The firing range of this specification of the Furlong cannon, far more than the artillery in the early Ming Dynasty, the farthest can reach more than ten miles, that is, five or six thousand meters, the Ming notes once had 'a cannon out, erosion dozens of miles', although a little exaggerated, but its power can be seen. Of course, it was a top-level heavy artillery, and a big gun like this one could hit two miles away, and the best firing range was six or seven hundred meters.

Lian Zining had already understood these data, he was now on a slope with a wide field of vision, and when he saw the changes in the Tachibana family, he immediately guessed that the Tachibana family was going to use the big gun.

The strange thing is that knowing that the Tachibana family's big gun was about to be launched, the Goto clan did not dodge or dodge, and rushed forward in stride. It's just that the formation is slightly wider, and the distance between people is greater.

"How will these people from the Goto clan respond?" Lian Zining was a little puzzled in his heart.

It's already 700 meters away!

The folding fan in Tachibana's hand opened, pressed down heavily, and the order was quickly passed down.

The herald screamed like a big rooster, and the gunners behind the cart in front pushed the guns into the long mouth of their abdomen and lit the fuse. The fuse snorted, and finally burned to the end, and the soldiers of the Goto clan were still moving forward in silence.

Countless loud noises, Lian Zining, who was far away from four or five miles, heard it vividly, the whole ground seemed to tremble, and thick white smoke came out of the mouths of those big guns, and hundreds of lead weights weighing five taels and nine coins smashed heavily into the queue of the Wudao clan.

The lead was endowed with huge kinetic energy, and it burned red because of the extreme friction for a moment, and at this moment, dozens of soldiers in the front queue of the Goto clan were hit by the lead, and they were smashed in half on the spot, or a huge hole was opened in the front of the body. The severed limbs instantly became charred, the skeletal muscles and skin and internal organs were scorched, and there was not even a trace of blood, and the whole person didn't even scream, and the limbs flew into the sky.

The lead was still inexhaustible, and it was another two or three people who were stoned to death in a row, and then it fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the formation had spread out a little just now, otherwise the casualties would have been even heavier. In this round, the Goto clan had more than 100 casualties.

To Lian Zining's surprise, the formation of the Godao clan did not stop, next to those soldiers who died in battle, their robes were still silently charging forward, as if there were no dead people around, as if the cannon on the opposite side had not sounded.

At this time, there was some confusion in the ashigaru that followed behind those elites, but the cavalry who followed them shouted loudly, and killed more than a dozen people who wanted to escape, and immediately suppressed this momentum.

Lian Zining couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that the Goto clan's method of dealing with the Tachibana family's artillery was so simple, that is, to fill it with human lives!

But thinking about it, it is a relief, what can you do to deal with artillery except to fill it with human lives? The Godao clan and the Tachibana clan have been at war for so long, and they are all clear about each other's weaknesses, shortcomings, and strengths, and the method they found is the most effective. If you use human lives to fill it, although the casualties will be heavier, it can maintain the formation, that is, maintain the combat effectiveness, and overall, it is still very cost-effective.

As for the soldiers, death is death!

These Fusang soldiers, who have also seen many such scenes, are also numb, just moving forward, even if they are the next to die.

A lead was fired, and the hot and white smoke was withdrawn, and a new one was put in, and then the fuse was lit again, and it was fired, and there were many casualties.

This kind of big gun has five sub-guns, and no matter after launching, it has brought nearly a thousand casualties, but the formation of the Goto clan is still extremely thick, and at this time, the Goto clan is only two hundred meters away from the Tachibana family.

The artillerymen of the Tachibana family turned around and ran with a big gun, and ran to the back of the battle in a puff of smoke.

The cavalry of the Goto clan did not move, they knew that it would be useless to go out, and maybe they would be stuck by the superior cavalry of the Tachibana family, and then they would be divided and strangled.

Two hundred meters, one hundred and seventy meters, one hundred and fifty meters!

The Tachibana family's iron cannon raised the iron cannon in his hand.

Now, it's the stage for them to perform.

The iron cannon in their hands may be more accurate, the bird gun, the fat front copper cannon.

The lead bullets fired by this bird gun were less powerful than the Western arquebuses of the same era, but the range was much longer.

Generally speaking, it can reach about 100 meters, and the maximum range can even reach 300 meters, but obviously, this situation will occur, either because of the exaggerated records in the history books, or the range that has no deterrence. Just like the 38 big covers in later generations can shoot more than 2,000 meters away, but the effective range is only a few hundred meters.

When they were close to more than 100 meters away, the folding fan in Tachibana Chiyo's hand fell again, and the soldiers lit the fire rope, and in the sneering sound, the fire rope burned to the end.

Countless buckshots fell on the Goto clan in an instant, and the first row of the Goto clan immediately fell down in unison. The musket team of the Tachibana family was so large, so the intensity of each shot was outrageously high, and almost no one in the front row of the Goto clan was spared. However, the power of the bird gun is indeed smaller, and the pills worn by the soldiers in the front row are made of bamboo chips, leather armor mixed with iron wire, and the bullet surname is good, and it also has a good defense against lead bullets, so this first round of shooting only caused hundreds of casualties.

The corners of Goto Baiju's eyes, who were standing on the cart and commanding, shrank slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, but he still pursed his lips and pointed forward with the folding fan in his hand.

Although the Goto clan was fighting to the death with the Tachibana family in front, most of her attention was on Wu Yijun in the back. The only thing she relies on now is that these Ming people and the Tachibana family are not of the same mind!

In fact, she is not wrong to think like this, if Lian Zining is really here to reap the benefits, it is the best choice to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, before the Tachibana family and the Goto clan come to a dog's brain, they will definitely not interfere, just wait for the two families to fight to the death and then pick up the cheap. But she didn't know what Lian Zining's purpose was, and if she knew, she wouldn't have thought so.

At this time, without the command of any commander, the soldiers in the first row of the Tachibana family who finished shooting crouched down in unison and began to reload their ammunition, and then the soldiers in the second row began to shoot.

The tactics of the three-stage attack have been invented as early as the Sengoku period, and the legend was first invented by Hideyoshi Hashiba, but this legend is obviously somewhat distorted, but it is certain that the three-stage strike tactics have long been popularized in the Tachibana family.

However, the results of the second round of shooting were much smaller, because the elites of the Goto clan who rushed in front had already lifted the corpses around them one after another and blocked them in front of them, and most of the lead bullets hit the corpses, making a muffled popping sound, but it had no effect on the living people behind.

Lian Zining nodded slightly, this method of the Godao clan is also very effective, although it is suspected of desecrating the corpse of the robe, but it is very practical after all.

Then the second row crouched, the third stood up, and again shot!

At this time, the soldiers of the Goto clan had already rushed to less than thirty meters!

The soldiers in the first row stood up again, and only had time to fire one shot, and then the five thousand iron artillery men in the first three rows turned around and ran to the two wings. They ran to the rear of the formation from the space left between the flanked cavalry and the ashigaru, and then reloaded their ammunition. Of course, if nothing else, the five thousand iron artillery plus the hundreds of soldiers who controlled the big guns before, this battle would be useless.

However, their previous shooting also caused casualties among the previous 2,000 people of the Goto clan, which can be regarded as effective.

Now the army of the Goto clan is twenty meters away, and they have paid heavy casualties, and finally rushed here, in front of them, there are those lowly ashigaru!

The elite samurai of the Goto clan could even clearly see the panicked faces of the ashigaru on the other side, and the bamboo spears in their hands trembled slightly, and they could see that they were extremely nervous.

Suppressed, pressed and beaten to death, the tension, fear, anger and other negative emotions of watching the people around them continue to die all burst out in an instant, they were wearing a spur, with a hideous smile on their faces with grimace masks, a pair of eyes with a killing and crazy light in them, a whimpering strange cry came out of their mouths, and one accelerated, rushing towards the opposite side.

At this time, the ashigaru of the Tachibana family, under the command of the officers, took off the bamboo bows on their backs, opened their bows and arrows, and threw them into the sky.

The reason why you shoot at such a close distance is because the range of a bamboo bow is only so far - it is not easy to make a qualified bow and arrow in this era, and it takes a lot of procedures and a long time to be qualified. And these bamboo bows in Fusang are basically homemade by the peasants, and the nobles don't have so much money to equip them with weapons. Basically, the bamboo strip is bent, and then tied with hemp rope, and the animal tendon is a little more particular, so it is done. The bow and arrow made in this way, its surname can be imagined, and the range can reach 30 meters is already very good.

The cloud-like feather arrows fell, but they didn't cause much damage to the elites of the Goto clan, they were covered in pills, and their whole body was protected from leaks, and their defense was good. The bamboo bows of the ashigaru are weak and weak, and they mainly rely on the gravity after the upward projectile to kill. But the problem is also here, the amount of iron produced in Fuso is very small, and the smelting technology is not very high, for them, forging arrow clusters can be done, but it must not be popularized.

Therefore, the lethality of these arrows is also very limited.

A round of arrow rain only caused the death of more than a dozen Goto elites.

And at this time, the elite of the Goto clan and the Ashigaru of the Tachibana family were already close at hand.

A relaxed smile appeared on Goto Baiju's face, and she knew that her chances of victory were already three points higher.

In fact, just as she thought, the elite of the Goto clan pounced like a wolf and a tiger into those ashigaru, and fiercely commanded the knife in his hand. These ashigaru people are only equipped with simple bamboo guns, and they are naturally unwilling to die, wielding bamboo guns to fight back and assassinate, but the bamboo spears are stabbed on the pills, which is completely useless, and can only bring a little shock to the people inside. And the ashigaru people can't stop the opponent's attack at all, these elites of the Godao clan are perennial battles, the skills honed on the battlefield, and the personal combat effectiveness is not inferior to the border army veterans of the Ming Dynasty.

They let out a burst of crazy roars from their mouths, and they jumped forward, constantly waving knives and swinging knives, and they were covered in blood, like devils.

Lian Zining's face was solemn, the combat effectiveness of these Fusang elites should not be underestimated. If it comes to individual combat effectiveness, they are stronger than the soldiers of the Wu Yi Army, even if they are the veterans of the 1,000th household, after all, the Wu Yi Army has only fought two battles since it was formed, and these Fusang elites have only experienced more than ten battles.

Fortunately, there is no one in Fuso who has this ability and strength to give them a cluster effect. And their way of fighting alone is not very suitable for group combat, so they can only show their strengths in chaotic battles.

If the Ashigaru of the Tachibana family formed a spear phalanx like the Wu Yi Army, even if they were holding bamboo spears in their hands, it would not be easy to provoke, and if the elite of the Goto clan wanted to break through, they would have to peel off their skin. But no, so a big defeat is inevitable.

It's just a short time of half a cup of tea, and the Ashigaru of the Tachibana family has already suffered more than a thousand casualties, and the elite of the Goto clan is still breaking through to the premise, seeing that if it goes on like this, the Tachibana family will be defeated.

If it weren't for the elite samurai of the Tachibana family as the overseer team who continued to kill deserters in the back, I am afraid that the Tachibana family would have collapsed by now.

And at this time, the cavalry on both wings of the Tachibana family moved.

The five thousand cavalry on the two wings of the Tachibana family slowly retreated, retreating dozens of steps back, and then the horses slowly accelerated, they outflanked from the two wings, turned a semicircular big bend, and killed the two wings of the Goto clan's army!

In front of them, the elite of the Goto clan had bypassed, and in front of them, there were those ashigaru people with meager combat effectiveness.

Although Fuso's cavalry horses were the size of donkeys, and despite their slow speed, poor explosiveness, and small size, they were cavalry after all. It is a cavalry with absolute superiority and lethality over infantry!

As long as they are killed into the Ashigaru team of the Goto clan, the entire Goto clan will also face collapse.

Both sides invariably regard the largest number of each other, but also the most vulnerable Ashigaru as a weakness to strike, as a breakthrough point.

Goto Hakuju seemed to have expected this a long time ago, and the cavalry of the Goto clan, who had been guarding the two wings without moving, greeted the cavalry of the Tachibana family.

This is a routine used by both sides, and every time there is a battle, it is almost the same process, and the commanders on both sides are very familiar.

The Tachibana family's ashigaru can't stop the elite foot soldiers of the Goto clan, but the cavalry of the Godao clan can only resist for a moment and a half in the face of the cavalry of the Tachibana family, which has an absolute advantage.

In fact, that's how they used to fight.

But now it is different, with Wu Yijun.

Lian Zining smiled slightly, the Godao clan and the Tachibana family were entangled, no matter who withdrew first on both sides, it was a big defeat and loss, at this time, it was time for Wu Yijun to go out. The Fuso people are the most snobbish, and they must always show their strength so that they can be convinced, fearful, and dare not have any bad intentions.

"All members of the Wu Yi Army, forward!"

With Lian Zining's order, Wu Yijun moved, and all the soldiers marched forward with neat steps.

Their strides seemed to be in a rhythm, and the earth trembled.

Seeing the movement here, Goto Baiju frustrated a mouthful of silver teeth, clenched his fists tightly, slammed on the wheels, and screamed: "Damn! These damn Ming people! ”

(To be continued)