Chapter 1623: The Han Army Stands Still
Because the distance is so short, the almost flat-firing cannon does not need to be aimed at all, these projectiles almost miss, fiercely pierced into the enemy, the people in the front row were immediately pierced by countless projectiles, and some people were even directly bombarded and fluttered backwards and disintegrated in the air, blood beads and stumps burst out everywhere, like rain drifting away.
The tremendous power of the artillery bombardment finally made the impact of these shogunate troops stagnate, and at this time, the musketeers also began the second round of shooting, and in the dense gunfire, many people fell, and the rest of the people finally could not bear this terrible tragedy, howling and retreating, and this wave of charge was finally repulsed.
"The enemy army is a little brave, but unfortunately the tactics are still not good, how can we be so brutal before our army array?" Ma Tongji looked at this scene, and made a sentence that he didn't know whether it was a compliment or a derogatory remark, and then took advantage of this time to move out of the military formation with his battalion of men and horses, and moved towards the small mountain that was still burning with fire.
The direction in which they were moving happened to be the direction of the shogunate army rushing from Nagasaki Castle, so the two armies collided again on the road, and the gunfire rang out again. In the dark night, although the current Nagasaki Governor Zeng I Guyou personally led the team to supervise the battle and kill, no matter how hard they tried, the Han army on Ma Tongji's side remained immovable, and the front line was not chaotic, so they were repulsed without causing them much loss.
Ma Tongji took his first battalion to the place he designated, and then relined with his back to the still burning mountain forest. The burning forest gave them a clear enough view so that they could get rid of their scruples, and the musketeers began to aim and fire, continuing to deal new blows to the two shogunate armies that had already collapsed.
The defeat of the first wave of charges gave Naito Tadashige a great blow to the rear commander, he did not expect that the charge of more than a thousand people would be repulsed so easily, the discipline and ferocious firepower shown by the Han army made him frightened, although he had long known that the Han army was very strong, but he never thought that it would be so strong.
The defeated soldiers were so frightened by the heavy casualties that most of them fled in all directions, and only a small number were able to be pulled back into the formation. He hated those who had scattered and fled, but he couldn't do anything with them now.
It is true that the firepower of the Great Han cannot be fully exerted, but once it is dispersed, he does not want to completely collect the rout that has withdrawn.
"Your Excellency...... I'm really sorry......" At this time, in the midst of the uproar, I Guyou came to him, "I originally wanted to compete with these Han Kou head-on, but I didn't expect it...... As soon as he saw him, he was repulsed. ”
He led the troops in Nagasaki City to fight Ma Tongji's troops in person, but before the heavy artillery fire and solid military formation of the Han army, even if his Nagasaki army threatened the death of those who retreated, in the end, his soldiers could not resist retreating.
In the middle of the night, this retreat naturally brought chaos to the whole army, and the subordinates he brought out quickly collapsed nearly half, and he finally took the remaining half of the people to move to Naito Tadashige's side and join the old man.
"Han Ko...... It's really powerful, you can't be blamed for this, my side has also suffered a big loss. Naito replied through gritted teeth, looking at the distant firelight with a gaze full of hatred, "Do you have the courage to do it again?" This time, you simply bring the people here with you. ”
After understanding the meaning of Naito Tadashige's words, Zeng I Guyou's face suddenly froze.
This is going to be desperate, and it's going to be desperate with everyone.
However, he did not have any objections, and almost everyone knew that if they could not defeat these Han soldiers even at such a favorable time, then there would be no hope of resisting these Han troops.
"Subordinates listen to orders!" He didn't say anything else, he just responded.
"Okay, then let's get ready...... You drink saliva first and rest. Naito let out a long sigh.
It was getting late, the curtain of the night had turned everything around it into a blurred shadow, and the fire on the hill had slowly lightened as the combustibles had decreased.
Although he had repelled the first wave of the enemy's attack, Ma Tongji did not dare to slack off at all, still observing the movements around him, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to continue to maintain the formation and not to relax.
Under the cover of night, in order not to let his army be scattered, he changed his usual style, forbidding his subordinates to pursue, and just continued to stay where he was. At the same time, although there was silence on the surface of the surroundings now, his experience of fighting over the years had taught him that it was only the calm before the storm, and that the enemy would not stop there, and would continue to charge.
Sure enough, when it came to the early hours of the morning, under Ma Tongji's field of vision, Gu Ying's black shadow began to stir around. Because they were afraid of the power of artillery fire, they chose to attack the military formation on Ma Tongji's side, wanting to eat these people desperately first, even if they were all killed, they could be regarded as having completed their goal.
As the distance approached, loud shouts rang out from the shogunate army again, and the number of black shadows seemed to be even greater than before.
Ma Tongji immediately ordered his subordinates to start guarding, and then he also walked from the center of the array to the front.
"Fire!" Just when the new round of attack of the shogunate army was about to rush to the front of Ma Tongji's side, the army formation on the other side had also completed a new round of artillery fire, and then began to shell the shogunate army rushing towards them.
"Fire!" The military formation on Ma Tongji's side also opened fire after him, and for a while, the projectiles of guns and shells began to fly sideways in front of the military formation again, taking away an unknown number of lives again.
This time, however, the shogunate did not retreat, and as if they did not care about their own lives, they rushed towards the formation with a frenzied howl.
"Tuanzheng, the enemy is menacing, we should be careful to deal with it!" Seeing such a momentum of the enemy army, the senator officer carefully said next to Ma Tongji.
"They're just shouting, do they need to be afraid?" Ma Tongji sneered, then pulled out the knife from the scabbard, and shouted at the officers and soldiers on his side while waving the saber, "Everyone listen to me!" The enemy army is nothing more than a battle of trapped beasts, they want to come and send them to their deaths, and we can't ask for it! Kill! ”
"Kill!" The officers and soldiers who could be heard around shouted almost at the same time, and the soldiers at the edge of the queue immediately followed suit, and the shouts of killing were shocking for a while. This is both to cheer yourself up and to put endless pressure on the enemy.
In the intermittent artillery fire, Zeng I Guyou led the soldiers to risk the danger and forcibly rushed towards the Han army's formation, and it was impossible to maintain the formation and discipline in the night, but he didn't plan to maintain it now, all he thought about was to use his own people to die for Japan and take away the lives of more Han soldiers.
There were people falling around him, but he and the others didn't care about it, and kept screaming and howling in the direction of the fire, and the darkness gave them extra courage to see the miserable situation of the people next to them.
With a sharp howl, they finally crashed into the Great Han's military formation. Although the people in the front row were immediately stabbed to death by the pikemen, the people in the back rushed up by stepping on the corpses of the predecessors, and then waved their weapons to kill the soldiers of the Han Dynasty.
The chaos caused by their rush and killing inevitably caused some wavering in the Han army's formation, the front line began to shrink back slightly, and the fallen soldiers also made more gaps in the front. After all, the shogunate army had an advantage in numbers, and it was always able to take the initiative in such a dark night situation.
Ma Tongji has been observing the situation in front of him, because the fire is getting smaller and smaller, so he can't really see it, but he has seen the shaking that has begun in front of him, he is not panicked, just pouted slightly, and then strode directly up with his guards.
"Forge ahead! Also, musketeer, put down the musket and follow me with a knife!! As he walked, he swung forward with his saber pinned to his waist.
"Yes!" The officers and soldiers next to him responded one after another, and then picked up their weapons and rushed to the front. Even the musketeer drew his saber from his waist and charged forward with his commander.
Because of the slow loading speed of muskets and the gap in the rhythm of shooting, the Han army always equipped musketeers with melee weapons, and ordinary musketeers had to practice with other soldiers.
Under the leadership of Ma Tongji, this large group of people pressed the dazzling red military uniforms in the past, which looked so eye-catching even in the dark night.
In the dark night, what he was most afraid of was the accidental injury of his own people, so Ma Tongji simply chose to abandon the musket and fight directly with the other party - Ma Tongji took these soldiers to fight for several years, and he had no doubt about the combat quality and courage of his soldiers. They had experienced such chaotic battles in the southwest before, and they already had a lot of experience in dealing with them, although compared to the local remnant forces and mountain barbarians, these shogunate soldiers were more crazy, but for them, it was not that they didn't know how to deal with it.
Soon the large group rushed out of it and collided with the shogunate soldiers in the front line again.
Compared to the shogunate soldiers who shouted loudly, they were much more silent, and everyone had a calm face and held the weapon in their hands, as if there was no fluctuation. The sound of fighting and the clatter of blades suddenly drowned out all the sounds around him, and he became the master of the world.
However, although the two sides had already begun to fight, the Han army maintained a reluctant front in the dark night, and they formed groups in groups in the dark night, and then fought with the shogunate soldiers with skillful combat skills and a combination of swords and guns.
The Han army chose the color of the military uniform as bright red, which was to take into account the convenience of the officers and soldiers to recognize their comrades-in-arms in order to maintain the formation, in this dim environment now, this arrangement did produce the expected effect, the Han army looked at the red logo interspersed with each other, because they were very calm, so there were very few accidental injuries.
This was not the case with the shogunate, who were dressed in gray and black clothes, which were blended into the background at night, and were completely unrecognizable. It didn't matter too much when they were charging together, but it became a big weakness when they were fighting, and the shogunate soldiers crowded around in the dark, sometimes even causing accidental injuries when swinging their swords, adding more casualties to themselves for no apparent reason.
Ma Tongji commanded Ruoding in the battle, and has been leading his direct sergeants to the most dangerous and stressful area, because there is a regiment charging ahead, so every time he goes to a place, the people there will be vigorous, and the reinforcements of the troops together counterattack and kill, bringing heavy damage to the enemy, and he himself also participated in the fight, and even killed two enemy soldiers with a knife.
After a long period of fighting, the momentum of the shogunate soldiers had been greatly exhausted, the shouting voice was getting quieter and quieter, and there were no new reinforcements rushing behind him.
"The enemy has no more stamina! Cheer up, let's kill me! Ma Tongji shouted.
Then, he drew his saber, and then slammed it diagonally to the right, and the sharp saber immediately left a long, deep scratch on the neck and abdomen of the shogunate soldier next to him, and the blood burst out almost at the same moment, and then there was a scream, and a man fell to the ground with his neck crooked.
The blood that burst out splashed on his body, making his face stained with a lot of blood, and the pungent smell of blood poured into his nose, this smell would make people who were not used to it nauseous and immediately put away the knife. And just as he was putting away his sword, the two shogunate soldiers next to him also waved the sword and nagina in their hands and slashed at him.
Ma Tongji couldn't restrain his body for a while, seeing that the two blades had swept in front of him, the strong wind that came to his face seemed to blow on his face first.
"Boom!" The sound of gold and iron clashing suddenly sounded, and then a trace of sparks flew from the place where the blades met, and the two slashed blades were forcibly blocked by the soldiers on the flanks next to Ma Tongji with spears. Before they could stab again, Ma Tongji raised his knife again and swept it towards the opposite side fiercely.
With a terrible scream, a severed arm that was tightly holding the sword fell to the ground, and there were a lot more blood marks on Ma Tongji's body.
The shogunate soldiers next to them were also splashed with blood, and the strong smell of blood woke them up from their madness, and several people stopped their steps and weapons, and stood in place, looking at the Han soldiers who rushed towards them. In the blur, these big Han soldiers dressed in red and covered in blood, coupled with the fire behind them, looked like demons who had come out of hell.
The courage that is forced to muster up, after exhaustion, almost immediately turns into bottomless fear.
"Wow!" Suddenly, some people could no longer withstand this kind of pressure, or threw down their weapons, or directly ran behind with their knives, even faster than they had just rushed over.
Under the resolute resistance of Ma Tongji and others, the shogunate soldiers who rushed into the Han army suffered huge casualties, and the front became firm again. Because of the fierce oppression of the lord and the religious beliefs, except for a few samurai, most of the recruited ashigaru and peasant soldiers did not eat meat since childhood, because they were very thin, and they could not compare with the well-fed Han officers and soldiers in terms of strength.
The only thing they can rely on is the chaos brought by the night, once they fight desperately in the night and there is no way to defeat the Han army on the opposite side, their courage has been lost, and the death of the robe can not arouse their hatred but only bring fear.
At first, only a few people escaped, but soon more and more people scattered, just thinking about leaving this bloody battlefield at night, and did not even want to withdraw to return to their own team to recuperate.
"Don't run! Don't run! "Zeng and I Guyou, who led the team, drank a lot several times, wanting to collect these defeated soldiers.
Because of the charge and killing just now, his body was covered with blood and dust, and he could no longer see his original appearance, only his eyes were still shining in the night.
When he led the team to rush into the military formation, he originally thought that the sacrifices of himself and his subordinates would finally pay off, but he didn't expect that after the Han army was impacted, it would be so tenacious in the dark night, blocking the impact of his subordinates again and again.
He wanted to continue fighting, but no matter how he blocked and coerced, and even drew his knife to slash and kill the deserters, more and more people in front of the battle still fled, and he couldn't hold back the position.
"Why haven't you brought reinforcements yet?" His eyes flushed with anger, and he shouted at the sky.
According to the original plan, because the frontal was limited, it had to be attacked in batches. So he led the team to charge first, as long as the results were caused, the old Naito Tadashige took the rest of the people to rush up along the original road, reinforce himself, and expand the results by the way, but he has been fighting for so long, but there have been no reinforcements behind him, which makes him very annoyed.
More and more people retreated and fled, and the army in red was pushing towards him at a slow pace. He didn't care about these deserters anymore, he picked up the knife and wanted to rush forward, wanting to die with these hateful Han Kou.
But the person next to him grabbed him. "Your Excellency! Now that the Han Kou is strong, let's not hit the stone with an egg, let's retreat first! Fight with them in the future! ”
"How can I have a chance to fight hard in the future!"
Where would I listen to their words? He struggled desperately and wanted to rush over, but the people next to him stopped persuading him, and held him hostage and retreated.
In this way, the Han army once again repelled the attack of the shogunate army, and this night will be a nightmare for many people.
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