468.The Crusade to Japan (11)
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At dawn on the 16th day of September in the 3rd year of the reign of Kasenkatakesei (the 14th year of the reign of the Motogenroku), in the fields that had been harvested in the southern suburbs of Edo, two armies armed to the teeth were nervously confronting each other, and the banners of each SE rose and fell in the morning breeze that blew from time to time. br/>
As the sky gradually turned white, each other's ranks gradually appeared in each other's sight
Edo was built in Minami Musashi Province and was originally surrounded by a swamp, but after seven or eighty years of operation, it is no longer the desolate scene it once was, but the extremely flat land makes it impossible for both sides to take advantage of the geographical advantage."
Therefore, the two ** teams can only arrange their formations according to their own habits
In terms of the Ri army, there were a total of 30,000 shogunate troops participating in the service, of which the main force was a cavalry team composed of more than 2,700 people in the Shogunate banner, and the total number of banners under the shogunate's command was around 5,100 people, but not all of them lived in Edo, some of them were still in their hometowns for the autumn harvest, and some of the banners who gave the annual tribute to the big merchant houses did not have to return to the territory, but as the administrative officials of the shogunate, they were also distributed in various parts of the Tenryo and could not rush back to Edo to participate in the war, of course, as high-ranking samurai with more than 100 koku Zhixingdi, Qiben naturally has retainers around him, so there are more than three or four cavalry around, and there are one or two foot soldiers around each cavalry, so the actual cavalry team has a total of 8,000 troops, divided into five reserves, each of which is commanded by a senior Qiben who knows how to do ten thousand stones
In addition to the flag team, there are also eight thousand royal families directly under the shogunate, and these low-level warriors with a single character are divided into sixteen reserves, each with a large command of the shogunate's standing army, although not all of them have carcass, but the mixed formation of spears, swords, bows, arrows, iron cannons, and the yang division is also considered to be strict, and more importantly, these royal family members often train together in the daytime, whether they can fight I don't know, but at least it looks like an army
In addition to the descendants of the shogunate, there was also a mixed infantry and cavalry army under the banner of chaos in the military force participating in the war, that is, the feudal clan team composed of about 3,000 feudal clans composed of the various feudal clans who stayed in the Edo mansion, and the feudal clan was organized into six reserve teams with the mu of the large feudal lords and small feudal clans, and because the feudal clan represented the dignity of the daimyo, it was even more sophisticated than the flag team in terms of carcasses and other weapons and equipment
In addition to these regular and semi-regular armies of the shogunate, the rest are those who are fighting for their own future, but due to the failure of the anti-Deng 6, the size of the ronin team has dropped from the original nine teams to seven teams, and the shogunate in order to control the ronins more effectively, temporarily divided the seven teams into twenty teams, so it caused a lot of chaos, plus some of the defeated ronins were captured and killed by the shogunate because of spreading the news that the summer army was outstanding, so the morale of the ronin team is generally not high, But there are also some disappreciative ones who are gearing up to get their own merits
According to the pre-war military discussion, the RI army will be these 30,000 people in the crane wing formation, the main flag team and the clan team are in the two wings position, of which the left wing where the flag team is located is the strongest flag team is arranged on the inside of the flag team is the command of the eight thousand ashigaru and concentric, the inside of the clan team is more than 10,000 ronin, so that the strength of the two wings is roughly equal, but the combat power is far apart, obviously the shogunate is using the right wing meat shield to attract the attention of the Xia army, and then use the left wing of the strong army to solve the battle in one fell swoop
In terms of the Xia Army, there were almost 12,000 Xia troops participating in the battle, and the main forces were the 1st Division of the Longxiang Army and the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division of the Longxiang Army. 2mm) field artillery team, each brigade is equipped with a three-inch two-inch gun sentry, and the division has a regiment equipped with nine two-and-a-half-inch (78mm) field guns, this alone, with the establishment of one division and two brigades, the Xia Army's participating units should be equipped with nine two-and-a-half guns and thirty two-inch guns, but in fact, before the mobilization of the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army stationed in Korea to participate in the war, the Xia Army adjusted its artillery. Therefore, the Longxiang army actually carried eighteen two-and-a-half-inch guns and twenty-seven two-inch guns, plus when Xia Jun boarded the 6th, he dismantled and mobilized two two-inch light artillery crews from six letter ships and twelve armed merchant ships to participate in the battle, so the total number of artillery owned by the Xia army was as high as eighty-one, which can be said to be an astonishing density in this era
Of course, because the strength is far inferior to the opponent, Yang Bokang, the commander-in-chief of the 6th war, did not want to learn what kind of formation he put on like the bells and whistles, just a column of the simplest horizontal formation, but the gap between the horizontal formations of the regiment is densely packed with two-inch artillery posts, and on the outermost side of the two flanks is the white heavy armored regiment of the first and fourth divisions of the Longxiang Army, in order to prevent the attack of the cavalry of the Ri Army on the flank, but even if it is calculated with seventeen artillery posts and fifty-one artillery, the Xia army still has a large number of idle artillery, so, Yang Bokang commanded the 300 Xian Army and the 50th Ryukyu Army and a part of the Gongjian troops to temporarily build a number of low gun positions in the horizontal formation
At the end of the Yin Dynasty and the beginning of the Mao Dynasty, the war officially began, and the strong RI army attacked first, and the two-and-a-half-inch artillery behind the Xia army's front fired first, and the Xia army's two-and-a-half-inch artillery was equivalent to the twelve or thirteen-pounder cannons of the Taixi countries in terms of caliber, and its shape was imitated by Zheng Kezhang with wrought iron according to the style of the bronze Napoleonic cannon in his memory. The chaos caused is conceivable
"Bastard Ming Zhengzhi, I'm Zheng Kezang!" Although Matsudaira Dingzhi's main formation was located at the bottom of the Crane Wing Formation, it was already out of the Xia Army's two-and-a-half-inch artillery strike distance, but he saw the projectiles flying wantonly in the RI Army formation