Chapter 147: The Conquest of the Japanese (10)

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The Marines and the Mawei Navy next to them continued to pour bullets on the rushing pirates, and the pirates who had already closed the distance also began to raise their guns and also began to shoot at the opposite side. At the same time, a rain of arrows flew through the sky, which was not much, but it was enough to bring damage to the warriors.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! ”

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! ”

Even the deafening sound of gunfire could not hide the sharp whistling of arrows.

"Poof! Burst! Burst! Burst! ”

"Poof! Burst! Burst! Burst! ”

The Marine soldiers at the front were caught off guard and fell to the ground with arrows. If you are unlucky, you will be shot directly in the vital point, in the neck, on the face, in the chest. And many more soldiers were shot in the arms and legs, and they were also incapacitated. The other Marines around the fallen soldiers were also startled, but they did not make any other moves, and continued to quickly reload their ammunition and shoot.

This round of arrow rain alone brought more than 100 casualties to the Marine soldiers, but these casualties did not make the soldiers timid, but fired more quickly.

"Fire!" The reloading speed of the Fur cannon is fast, nine guns, which can be fired non-stop, and can fire an average of three cannons per minute. Another large piece of small iron gall swept over, and the widows in the front row suddenly fell again.

The 20,000 soldiers of the navy had also dispersed to the flanks, but the Japanese did not seem to be stupid, and chose to attack directly south of the marines. The number of Japanese invaders was large, and Shimazu Mitsuhisatsu guò observed the battlefield shape shì. Soon the order was also issued to outflank the left and right.

In this way, the field of combat between the two armies was stretched horizontally. But there is still no change in the dense dù.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Although the Mawei naval warriors usually spend more time on the ship. But there are also no unfamiliar with muskets. On average, the Marines can fire five shots a minute, and the Navy soldiers are slightly worse, but they can also shoot up to four shots per minute.

The distance of more than 50 meters has become the death line of the Japanese pirates, and the Japanese can no longer rely on this distance. At this distance, the two sides also went crazy, and the Japanese in the front row, holding their iron cannons, fired at the opposite side with a bang. Because they are so slow to reload, they never have a chance to reload and fire a second time after firing once. It is absolutely impossible for them to reload while running, even Geng Jiajun can't do it. The firearms of this era were not the breech-loading rifled guns of later generations, and when loading ammunition, it was not just a matter of stuffing bullets into the magazine.

In a short period of time, the number of casualties at the front of the Japanese has exceeded 20,000, but they still have not been able to close the distance. A hundred Furlong cannons constantly swallowed the small iron galls, which fired at a speed no slower than the soldiers' muskets, and the number of small iron galls fired each time was not less than the bullets fired by the soldiers. There are constantly gaps in the formation of the pirates.

The middle and rear part of the Wako formation. The flowering shells fired from the sixty Hongyi cannons broke their hearts and bones. In less than twenty minutes, the Hongyi cannon fired ten times in succession. Six hundred flowering shells fell in the ranks of the Japanese invaders, and the empty space that appeared in the middle and rear was not much worse than the front. As soon as the flowering bullet exploded, the fragmented shrapnel and the small rusted iron pieces inside flew everywhere, and a dozen or so people around them would fall with it.

By this time the battle had been fought, Shimazu Mitsuhisa could no longer hold on. Although, for the top leaders on both sides, these lost lives are just a number, and no one will care about who is killed. Since it is a war, it will definitely kill people, and if you can't accept this, you can't appear on the battlefield as a commander. For a commander, a hard-hearted heart is a must. But in front of him, no matter how hard-hearted a person is, he can't stand it, and a feeling called fear emerges in Shimazu Mitsuhisa's heart.

Not only him, but all the Japanese on the battlefield couldn't help but feel this feeling. It was terrible, all around it were dead bodies and seriously wounded, and the sound of guns was even drowned out by the sound of the guns. These Japanese warriors who had never been on the battlefield were able to persist in charging for nearly twenty minutes, which was already very commendable.

In this era, if the army can suffer three casualties without breaking down, it can be regarded as an elite. However, it was basically a cold weapon battle, and a battle had to be fought for a long time. If the battle is fast, the whole cavalry will face the whole infantry, and the cavalry may scatter the infantry phalanx with a single charge, and then slaughter it at will. But infantry against infantry, when there are equal numbers, may fight until only half of the men remain. This cannot be generalized, but also depends on the suzhì of the respective armies.

There are many examples of outnumbered enemies and not retreating, but none of these situations apply to the present. A group of battlefield youngsters, although they are far more numerous than horsetail warriors, but their morale, equipment, and experience are too different. At this moment, more than half of the casualties of the Japanese invaders have been lost, and the death is even more miserable, and the Japanese invaders have collapsed from the bottom of their hearts.

"Mom! I'm not fighting, I'm running! I don't know who was the first to voice his heart, and a crying shout instantly resonated with other Japanese criminals. A small number of Japanese invaders first took the lead in scattering and fleeing, and then more and more people joined the group, and then the whole group began to turn around and run in the direction of Kagoshima Castle, as if they could run to the castle or run to their homes to find safety.

"Master, let's run! We are defeated! If you don't run away, you won't have a chance! Shimazu Akihisa, Shimazu Mitsuhisa's brother-in-law, saw that he was still in a daze, and shouted at him anxiously.

"Nope! I'm not defeated, fight back, fight back for me! "Shimazu Mitsuhisa can't accept such an ending at all, how can this be? It's the Shimabara melee thirty years ago, and he won easily. But now it's all gone, this battle is lost, and one of his own qiē is gone, and it can also be said that none of the Shimazu family is gone.

"Head of the house!" Shimazu Akihisa wanted to continue to persuade him, but Shimazu Mitsuhisa ignored him at all.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa rode his war horse and galloped slowly forward, shouting loudly: "Counterattack!" You are all good samurai, give me a counterattack! ”

Just as he ignored Shimazu Akihisa, the scattered and fleeing Japanese warriors ignored him at all, and still fled quickly towards the rear. Shimazu Mitsuhisa angrily pulled out his command knife, kept slashing, and with a few smacks, he killed several Japanese warriors, but just like that, it still didn't stop them from escaping. The rumbling of cannons and explosions was heard in my ears again, and the speed of the pirates fled even faster!

"Good!" Up to now, even Geng Jingzhong and Wang Zhenbang, who were standing in the rear, had also discovered the collapse of the Japanese from the telescope, and several people applauded loudly.

When Zeng Yangxing saw that the Japanese had just begun to turn around, he could hardly suppress the joy in his heart, and continued to issue orders loudly: "The enemy army has been defeated, and the whole army is pursuing!" ”

The 5,000 soldiers of the Marine Corps in the front army, except for the artillery battalion, which still stayed in place and opened fire, the other 3,000 soldiers all threw off their footsteps and quickly followed behind the Japanese army to cover up and kill. Looking at the entire battlefield, there is one place that attracts the most attention. The 4,000 troops from the Ryukyu Kingdom were running faster than the Marines, and most of them, who had been in the left rear, rushed to the front of the Marines in just a short time.

In the big battle just now, the artillery and muskets of the Marine Corps gave them a great shock, and it was simply a massacre. Half of the 55,000 people in the Satsuma Domain fell, and the Geng family army fell at most a thousand. One to twenty-seven, such a ratio can only be found in history books, but it is unprecedented in reality. At this moment, the Japanese have broken down and fled in all directions, which is a good time to pursue and kill. If they want to face the Japanese invaders, they don't have the courage and the strength; But at this moment, the widow is already a lost dog, if he doesn't kill at this time, when will he wait?

The soldiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom showed unprecedented bravery, and as the large army followed closely behind the Japanese Korko, they released arrows as they ran, and the Ryukyu, who had been running a little slower, suddenly fell under the rain of arrows. More than 26,000 soldiers pursued and killed with the momentum of great victory, and although there were still 26,700 Japanese soldiers, they were all heartbroken and had no heart to resist. In a short period of time, only corpses remained of the original battlefield. The armies of both sides slowly moved away in the direction of Kagoshima Castle. However, one is to escape, and the other is to pursue.

When the situation of the entire battlefield was slowly and clearly displayed in front of everyone's eyes, everyone was shocked, including Geng Jingzhong, Wang Zhenbang, and Tang Zhi, their eyes widened in surprise, and they looked at the extremely shocking scene in front of them in disbelief, this is their record in less than half an hour just now?

On the small wilderness south of Kagoshima Castle, there were corpses all over the place, and there was almost no open space, and at a distance of more than a hundred meters from them, the corpses were even more layered, and looking at the rear, there were still endless corpses, among which there were about 2,000 corpses of war horses, and the whole battlefield was extremely quiet, except for the occasional sorrowful cry of war horses.

After coming back to his senses, Geng Jingzhong chuckled and said, "Today I finally know what a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood is!" This battle will surely go down in history like yesterday's naval battle, and all the soldiers of the Ryukyus will become famous in history! ”

"This is all the credit of the Son, if it wasn't for the Son of the World to bring them out, how could they have followed the opportunity to establish such a feat!" Tang Zhi swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva deeply, and said to Geng Jingzhong in admiration. Until now, his heart was still beating violently, and he couldn't calm down for a long time. This battle was far more shocking than yesterday's naval battle, and the corpses in this place made his stomach churn and he wanted to gag, but he couldn't help it.

While they were talking, the medical team at the end was not idle, carrying the stretcher to the wounded soldier quickly, first carrying a simple wound bandage, and then immediately carrying the stretcher, ready to be transferred to the battleship, handed over to the military doctor for treatment. (To be continued......)