Chapter 477: Hand-to-hand combat
Zhao Lie sat on the Andalusian warhorse, he quietly observed the changes in the battle situation, and until now, everything on the battlefield was going according to his expectations. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The artillery bombardment forced the Japanese to leave Yokohama Castle and the main camp, and they could only fight with the Breaker Army, breaking the Shogunate's plan to fight against the castle and forcing them to win a decisive battle in the field.
Of course, the cavalry of the Broken Army has not yet been fully formed, that is, the real cavalry and the battalion can immediately rush into battle, and the cavalry battle of the reserve army is far from being formed.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Broken Army to besiege the enemy in all directions to the Jiannu-like iron cavalry, but in the face of the Japanese cavalry, the cavalry of the Broken Army still has a lot to do.
Since all the situation is developing in favor of the Broken Army, and Li Lu, Han Jian, Guan Ming, and Wang Haizhou are under the control, Zhao Lie is also a spectator.
When the generals at all levels reported one hundred and fifty steps, a low horn sound came from behind, wafting far away.
"Tiger." All the infantry roared and stood still under the command of the general.
This roar also jumped down the shogunate army on the opposite side, and it was really too many tricks for the captive army, which made them extremely frightened.
Zhao Guang saw behind him that the gunners in front of him began to load the guns under the orders of the generals, and he saw that the gunners skillfully loaded the projectiles into the guns, and then pressed them with a branch.
Under the orders of the generals, they all put their firearms on their shoulders and prepared for the Japanese people.
For a moment, the thousands of musketeers in front of them raised their muskets almost simultaneously.
The Japanese people on the opposite side immediately felt their scalps explode, after all, they knew too well the power of the iron cannon, and the person who was hit by the projectile could not resist it even if he was wearing iron armor. What's more, more than half of the people here are wearing bamboo armor.
Once the projectile breaks through the armor, it will stir up the internal organs of the person. There's no way to clean it up. He often dies of pain and bleeding, or dies of high fever after a few days.
But this thing is too expensive, many daimyo can't afford to use it, and the shogunate is only a few thousand, but now there are thousands of iron cannons in the first row of the Ming army on the opposite side, and there are more iron gunners in the back, which makes almost all the Japanese samurai ashiki frightened for a while.
When Naotaka Jing saw these iron cannons, he was terrified for the first time, and for the first time in his heart, the thought that he was afraid that he would lose this joint battle.
At this time, all hope was on the three thousand iron gunners in front. If they can defeat most of the iron gunners of the Ming army, and the pikemen behind them enter hand-to-hand combat, they will have a chance to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
He immediately asked the guards to order the forward iron artillery general and the ashigaru general to defeat the Ming army's iron gunners.
In fact, this is a question of mutual fighting, if the Ming army's iron gunners who are superior in numbers are lost, then the shogunate army's iron gunners will not be left much.
But at this time, Naotaka Ii didn't have time to worry, if fighting these iron gunners could give the shogunate army a big victory, he would not hesitate.
Only if the Ming army can be defeated, the aura of victory in the joint battle can also cover up the flaw of the loss of more Ashigaru, and I believe that the general will not blame him for this. On the contrary, if there is a big defeat, then everything is over.
When the brigade of the Japanese people crossed a hundred paces, the boundary that had already been marked. A hurried horn suddenly sounded from the large array of the Breaker Army.
Thousands of people are shouting and firing.
Bang bang bang, thousands of firebolts were fired, and the flames flashed in the large stream of smoke, and thousands of projectiles went straight to the battle formation of the Japanese people with a roar.
The fluffy and dull sound of entering the flesh continued to sound, and the bamboo armor was powerless against the fire gun projectile, and it was easy to be pierced by the projectile, and then a loud cry sounded in front of the Japanese army, and the iron gunners and foot archers in front of them fell in large numbers, and they fell to the ground in various strange postures like felled trees.
For a while, the terrible howl and bloody atmosphere filled the entire front of the formation, and the widows who were lucky enough not to be hit in the back gritted their teeth and accelerated their pace to move forward, just like when they were bombarded, they had to speed up the pace and force the past, and at the same time they were surprised in their hearts, the iron cannon was not sixty steps before it could be fired, it was too far away it would not be lethal, and it could not break the armor at all, and the Ming people in front of them could still break the armor after firing in a hundred steps, what is the situation.
Hotta Masamori in the back widened his eyes in surprise, but his mouth moved up and down but he couldn't make a sound.
And Jing Yi Naotaka is iron-faced, the range of the Ming people's iron cannon has reached 100 steps, which is too terrifying, and his own iron cannon man and archer have to move forward forty steps before they can start to counterattack, how many lives will be filled in.
However, it was unthinkable to withdraw at this time, and if the Ming army, which was all cavalry, was allowed to cover up from behind, the shogunate army would be defeated from here until Edo, and few people would be able to set foot on Edo Castle.
"Hotta Masamori, I order you to immediately step forward and urge Ashigaru to break through to the enemy as soon as possible." Naotaka Ii shouted fiercely at Masamori Hotta.
"Subordinates receive orders." Hotta Masamori, as a deputy general, of course, has to obey the orders of Naotaka Ii, and at the same time, Hotta Masamori, who was born in a young and vigorous samurai family, does not believe in evil, although he is very aggrieved at the moment, but he firmly believes that once the formation is broken, the Ming army will collapse.
Hotta Masamori gritted his teeth and raised his hand, and nearly a hundred of his guards rushed forward with him.
Bang bang
In the midst of these terrifying sounds, the scene was repeated again, and almost a large group of Japanese iron gunners and crossbowmen fell to the ground and struggled for their lives.
The Japanese soldiers behind continued to rush forward on the dead or dying corpses of Ashigaru, and they were about to reach sixty paces, a distance at which they could fight back, so they ignored their comrades who were not dead on the ground, and if they delayed a little longer, they would be the ones who would fall to the ground and die.
At this moment, there were bursts of low and rapid horn sounds in the large array of the Ming army, which overshadowed all the sounds on the battlefield, and all the Japanese hearts sank, because they found that as long as this kind of noise was loud, there would be basically nothing good, and there would definitely be a blow.
Boom, boom, boom, dozens of six-pounder guns and nine-pounder guns that had not been roaring for a while were roaring at the same time, but this time instead of black and red balls, they appeared black and dense scattered bullets.
These scattered bullets rushed into the opposite Japanese formation like lightning at a distance of dozens of paces, and immediately many Japanese people were hit and fell, and they let out a miserable howl in the air that was not a human voice, and many of them were hit by several scattered bullets in one body, almost tearing their bodies apart, and no armor could stop this violent blow.
The first row of the Wajin was almost completely wiped out, and it was full of fallen and tumbling Wajin Ashigaru and samurai.
Sho Sasaki heard the explosion of the Akito cannon while walking briskly, and of course when he looked forward in surprise, he happened to see the head of Mijiro Kameda in front of him bursting open, and the iron horn-shaped head pocket could not stop the blow of the scattered bullets at all.
A few ashigaru around Kameda were also hit and flew out, and there was chaos here.
Sho Sasaki saw such a violent scene churning in his stomach and almost threw up, this is the most terrifying scene he has ever seen, there is no one.
At this time, the firecrackers of the third row fired again, and took advantage of the fire to rob the Japanese people's iron cannons and bows.
At this time, most of the casualties of the iron cannon and bow foot light in the first few rows were killed and wounded, and they were no longer in formation, and it can be said that the edge was lost.
The fist that Naotaka Ii pinned his hopes on was broken, and of course, at this time, the Japanese army formation had also reached the boundary of sixty paces, and the remaining iron cannon Ashigaru and Bow Ashigaru finally began to counterattack, of course, the counterattack was messy, because there were too many people killed in the front row, and it was no longer a formation, and it could only be dispersed under the order of the Ashigaru general.
There were less than 500 iron gunners and hundreds of bows and blows in a hurry, and the thump of iron cannons and the sound of arrows staggered, and the projectiles and feathered arrows rushed towards the line of the captive army.
The sound of Pengpeng's heavy object strike was exchanged, but this time the soldiers of the Broken Army were recruited, and more than 100 Broken Arms Gunners were bombarded by the iron cannon and fell to the ground, and for a while, the front of the Broken Army for the first time came from a miserable scream, and hundreds of feather arrows fell from the sky, hitting the soldiers of the Broken Army and there was a burst of iron beating.
Wang Zheng stood behind the last row of firecrackers, just separated by two rows of soldiers, watching the two firecrackers in front of him scream and fall down, clutching his chest and abdomen and struggling on the ground.
At the same time he felt a hissing in his ear, and a projectile passed through him, and a spearman behind him screamed and fell to the ground clutching his neck.
Wang Zheng broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't want to be hit by a projectile and die like this, at least it was enough to kill and injure a few Japanese slaves.
Zhao Guang watched with excitement as the Japanese people in front of him got closer and closer, and the opportunity to make meritorious contributions in his heart came.
He clenched the spear in his hand tightly, and watched as the wolf ran closer for more than ten steps.
Bang bang, the last row of gunners fired under the order of the general, and the projectiles flew away in just more than 30 steps, taking the lives of hundreds of Jiannu iron gunners and bowsagashi, and at this time, the three thousand iron gunners and more than 1,000 bows and shots in the front row were almost wiped out.
However, their injuries were not useless, and they successfully covered the guns behind them to get closer to the Ming people more than ten paces, but they caused almost no casualties to the Ming army, which was also a big failure.
Wang Zheng, Luo Dong, Fang Yuanshan and the others immediately shouted flat guns and flat guns after the last firecrackers walked through and left.
Under the loud shouts of the thousands of generals, the pikemen raised their spears, and immediately a moving forest of spears appeared in front of the Japanese people.
The Japanese rushed towards the Akito's large array with three spears, but listened to the dull sound of fluffy puffs, mixed with the crisp sound of iron colliding.
More than 1,000 people on both sides began to collide and fight, and when the Chinese language and the board of the language were intertwined, the shouting shook the sky, since the battle of Wenlu Qingchang, after more than 30 years, the Ming people and people began another big battle, later generations of China called it Taizu Zhengyu, and the Japanese people called it Yokohama battle. (To be continued.) )
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