The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and they pressed forward in black, merging into a thunderous roar. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Countless flags fluttered, layer by layer of guns followed the flags, and the vast Qing army array pressed forward, although the colors of their armor were different, but the red tassels fluttering on the helmets were all fiery red.

The Japanese troops on the opposite side were approaching in formation, and their trumpets and drums carried a strange rhythm, melodious and melodious, like the sound of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The bamboo spears and bamboo knives of the forest, the family emblem and flags of various colors are covered like clouds, and the layers of gorgeous armor are painted with bright red lacquer even on the bamboo armor, and they are as gorgeous as cherry blossoms.

With the sound of the golden drum order, the two sides slowly approached.

It was a basin of the Kurume Domain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the sea on one side, and plains in the middle, making it an excellent place for the two sides to engage in field battles.

They continued to get closer, and the Qing State had been rebuilding slowly since the fall of the Wuzhenha Super Artillery Battalion, and they did not carry artillery on this expedition.

However, Japan can skillfully use all kinds of iron artillery tactics, but the use of artillery has always been backward, although there are a small number of "big cylinders" and "national collapse" in the country, but most of them are placed on the major famous cities. The Battle of Sekigahara, which can be written in the history books, only used three artillery pieces, and it was still a small cannon of the Buddha Wolf machine, so the Japanese army did not carry artillery in this array.

So they came to a stop when they came within a mile of each other.

The Qing army rode in a solemn formation, and on a hill, Duoduo took out the clairvoyant mirror that Dolgon had rewarded him and regarded as a treasure, and looked at the Japanese position opposite. Abatai beside him also has a clairvoyant mirror, but the rest of them, that is, the solid mountain Ezhen of each banner and Belle Beizi, have not been able to have such a militaristic weapon.

There was a commotion on the opposite side, and they seemed to be forming a crane wing formation, with archers and iron gunners at the front, and the left and right flanks composed of Zhu Bei forming the first hands. The second first, the observation of the formation has the wings of a crane, which can be described as both offensive and defensive.

They were on a hillside, and Duoduo saw some people who seemed to be the daimyo of the feudal lords, all wearing red, green, or purple armor, and they were very ornate. They also wore helmets with horns. Some of them still have masks on their faces, which are quite hideous and terrifying, and some have folding fans in their hands.

They rode on horses, surrounded by various lieutenant generals, military advisors, Youbi, military commissioners, military commanders, etc., but they didn't know which one was the chief general, or maybe it was the joint decision of the great names.

Then they were surrounded by brightly dressed elite warriors, all of whom carried large conspicuous balls, red or black, which Dodor knew was called the Nymous. It is made of bamboo and cloth, and in addition to decoration, it seems that it can be used to prevent stray arrows.

These people are also the so-called mother-clothed people, and there are equal parts of the black mother-clothed people, and the naked mother-clothed people, and if they ride horses, they are called horse-back people. They are the most elite guards of the major names, and they are not holding naginatas in their hands. It's the big sword. Some of them belong to the Samurai of Hagimoto.

Then there are many banners around the hillside, each holding a family crest and flag. Blowing in the wind. The Japanese army seems to be very good at using banners, each holding it in his hand and sticking it on his back, and the position there is a sea of flags, which is very flowery.

In addition to military flags, there are also various horse prints. There were strange things on the high poles, including flags, pieces of paper, hats, and fans. There were feathers, and Duoduo also saw a large lantern, which made him feel a strange feeling in his heart.

Finally, there is the legion reserve composed of a large ashigaru in each formation, a general of the squire, a gun general, an iron cannon general, a general of the ashigaru, a bow general, and the iron cannon group, the long-handled group, the bow group, and the horse team, which are densely gathered, and there are also messengers running back and forth between the various teams.

There were about 628 men in one team, and 25 men in a team, and they were basically fighting with the Kamashi and Kohata.

These ashigaru wore a hat and wore a sashigaru carcass, and their armor was simple, mostly made of bamboo or leather, with only a small amount of iron, but because Japanese armor likes to be painted, it is either red or black, and it looks very powerful.

Duoduo also saw some horsemen in the military formation, but it was obvious that the short Japanese horse was difficult to count as a war horse, and the Japanese "cavalry" at this time should be called horse infantry.

In fact, according to Duoduo's understanding of the Japanese cavalry during these times, although they would have a lot of "cavalry" when the army was moving, when it came to the real battle, except for the generals, they were absolutely not allowed to dismount, and the rest of the "cavalry" had to dismount and fight. Some of the mother-clothed warriors and flag-booked samurai can also be regarded as real cavalry.

Although the Qing cavalry also liked to dismount and fight, but only for tactical considerations, it was still okay to really charge the cavalry, which Japan didn't seem to have heard of the charge of ten thousand cavalry.

His eyes swept over those iron gunners, he knew the reputation of Japanese firearms, and the Ming Kingdom bird guns were originally introduced from Japan, especially their firearms were powerful.

At that time, when the Qing Dynasty was still Jianzhou Jurchen, Shen Zhongyi, the chief secretary of the Joseon Dynasty, sent an envoy to Jianzhou, and the chief Ma Chen asked Shen Zhongyi about the situation in Japan. The Jurchens were stunned.

This powerful bird gun is only the three-money ammunition bird gun in the Ming army, that is, the three-barreled iron cannon used by the Japanese iron gunners. According to their ammunition load, there were from one five-minute to fifty cylinders, and some samurai even used ten-barrel iron cannons.

The power of this iron cannon can penetrate hardwood half a foot thick at a distance of about twenty paces, and it can be said that there are few shield wagons that can prevent them from bombardment.

Fortunately, there were still few samurai who used ten-barreled iron cannons, and most of the iron gunners still used three-barreled iron cannons, and a small number of people used six-barreled iron cannons.

What made Duoduo even more reassured was that with the many great names, the iron gunners in their entire military array were estimated to be only more than 2,000, which was not as many as the bird-gunners on the other side. After all, firearms are not something that a small prince can afford to play with, and their famous Oda Nobunaga has only 3,000 iron gunners, and he can threaten the whole of Japan.

Moreover, it has been too long since the Japanese state was peaceful, more than 40 years have passed since the Battle of Sekigahara, and now the military equipment of the various feudal domains has been deposed, and the shogunate has continued to suppress the southwestern feudal domains.

At this point, they were able to muster two thousand iron gunners, which had surprised Dodor.

What made Duoduo frown was that he seemed to know that there were a large number of firearms and archers here, and they were not small, and a large number of bamboo bundles and infantry were prepared in the Japanese position.

They are skilled and powerful in the use of iron cannon tactics, so in order to prevent bullets, they have developed bamboo bundles, which are bulletproof weapons. Tie together old bamboos with toughness and elasticity. Bundled more than a foot thick and lined up in columns, you can effectively stop the impact of the projectile.

Dodor experimented, and it seems that the bulletproof effect is no worse than that of his own carefully crafted shield car.

If a hole is dug in the bamboo bundle, the gunner can hide in it and shoot.

It's the same with the bush, where the hardwood is several inches thick. The height of a person can effectively protect the arrows, and the archers can also use it to cover the arrows.

In particular, the Japanese army came prepared this time, not only the formation was covered with ordinary bamboo bundles and walking sticks, but also prepared a large number of model bamboo bundles in front of the array, and the model walking bundles were not only convenient to push and move, but also there were holes in the middle, and the soldiers did not matter whether they were archery and shooting. You can hide inside.

Duoduo frowned slightly, the two flanks of the Japanese army were the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, and it was difficult for their cavalry to attack from the flanks, so they could only break through from the middle. In that case, you will have to face the bamboo bundle of the model of the Japanese people, and the model will be a big casualty.

Fortunately, he also has a sharp firearm hand, and for protection. A large number of excellent shield cars were prepared, and they rushed in from in front of them!

Come to think of it. Duoduo looked at Abatai beside him.

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In the fierce war drums, the Qing army stepped on the drum to advance, they layered up, like a wall, in the front of the Han army flag bird gunner, and then the flag archers. Then there are the men in armor with the banners. They marched in order, shields layered and spears stacked on top of each other. The farther back they went, the more dense the spears became, shining brilliantly in the sun.

Pre-war mobilization also began on the Japanese side. "Hey, hey, huhu" was endless, the Qing army continued to advance, they kept neat battle columns, weapons like a forest, marching armor pieces sounded together, dense flags fluttering like a tide.

Some Bayala rode behind, and at the front of the procession were hundreds of well-made shield wagons propelled by North Korean followers, with thick guards, covered with cowhide and quilts, to protect against bullets. There were dozens of Mongolian soldiers from the outer domains running through the shield cart, and they ran until the Japanese model bamboo bundle, more than 100 steps in front of the model, but there was no movement at all.

The Mongol soldiers of the outer domains came closer and began to use their bows to throw arrows to lure their gunners into firing. But it was still quiet, with occasional snorting and groaning, and then it was suppressed by the stern shouting, and most of the arrows thrown by the Mongol soldiers were blocked by the bamboo bundles and infantry in the Japanese formation.

The Mongol soldiers of the outer domains ran closer, rushing fifty paces in front of the Japanese formation, or even closer, but their firearms remained silent. However, there was a melodious sound of commands behind some of the steps, and the sound was quite rhythmic, as if singing, and then I saw some huge bows appearing from the side of the steps.

The Japanese archers spread their bamboo bows, which were taller than their men, and pulled them until the full moon, then loosened their bowstrings.

The whistling sound of the arrows was very fierce, and the arrows weighing more than two or three taels shot at a rapid pace, and the middle one immediately fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, and even the horses were neighed and fell down by the arrows.

In the collapse of the bowstring, from time to time the Mongolian cavalry was shot to the ground, most of them were dressed in light armor, how could they stop this very sharp Japanese bow at close range? Soon these Mongol soldiers of the outer domain roared and instigated the horses to retreat.

Duoduo moved the clairvoyant mirror, these daimyo coalition forces are not simple.

However, at this time, the shield cart of the Qing army had already pushed into the front of the Japanese army a hundred paces, and the sound of orders was one after another, and those archers retreated, and the black-pressed fire pipes poked out of the mouths of those bamboo bundles.

All the Qing troops bowed their bodies and tried their best to use the shield cart to cover themselves, and the Koreans who pushed the cart also lowered their heads as much as possible, pushing the shield cart forward with both hands.

One hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps, suddenly a golden drum sound came from the Japanese army's main formation, and then I heard the sound of the gun, and a fierce fire light came out from the mouth of each bamboo bundle, and then thick white smoke spread, enveloping the bamboo bundle space of hundreds of planes in front of the Japanese army.

Duoduo had a feeling of fright, such a powerful firearm, it seemed that in terms of power, it would not be much worse than the Jingbian army he had experienced.

He saw some vehicles stopped, apparently some North Korean followers with carts were shot, but fortunately, the shield carts were well-made, and the Eight Banners soldiers and archers who followed behind tried their best to use the vehicles to cover themselves, even if some people were unlucky enough to be shot, but the casualties were obviously not large.

Sixty paces, another burst of guns, fire and smoke on the side of the bamboo bundle together, this row of guns seems to be more people on the side of the Qing army, some shield carts have also been pierced, probably the kind of six-barreled iron cannon.

Fifty paces, a more violent sound of guns erupted from the Japanese side, and the space of the Japanese army's bamboo bundle was completely covered by smoke. (To be continued.) )