As time passed, the daylight shifted a little bit, and the color changed from white to yellow. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The battle on the battlefield also came to its most intense climax, and the roar of guns resounded through the sky, making everyone a little dazed and everything else seemed to lose its meaning.

The fields of the Tama River were covered in blood, and there were corpses, complete and mutilated, piled up and entangled in a horrific picture.

In the shogunate formation, the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu watched the battle ahead anxiously, and his hands were shaking unexpectedly. He did have reason to be uneasy, for since the two armies had begun to engage in battle in the afternoon, although the fighting had been fierce, it was very clear that the shogunate army under his command was losing the upper hand.

Obviously, the shogunate army he sent to fight was several times the strength of the opponent's attacking troops, but after engaging the Han army, these troops were defeated one by one, and dissipated like waves crashing on a reef, which could only serve some time to consume the enemy's time.

Right now, this huge red reef was moving towards them little by little, and although they had suffered some casualties before, they did not waver in the slightest, and continued to move forward without mercy. And just behind these red-clothed soldiers, the artillery of the Han army has been firing all the time, and the artillery fire is very fierce, bombarding his army, and also bringing terror and death to everyone.

Under the oppression of this group of Han soldiers, the front in the center of the shogunate army shrank back slightly, which also caused a little confusion in the entire army, and some troops on the flanks moved closer to the center in order to block the Han Kou's troops to defend the shogun.

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the Han army that was getting closer and closer to him with a pale face, but he didn't move, and there was no sign of retreating, he was now in the most important position of the shogunate army, and he must not move easily, otherwise it might give a devastating blow to the morale of his army.

Under his gaze, these big Han soldiers advanced in front of the main formation, and his naked eyes could almost see the clothes on the opposite soldiers. He picked up his binoculars and took a closer look at them, and saw that they were all just weapons held high, expressionless, as if they were unconscious killing machines.

And at this time, the big cylinders at the front of the formation are ready. These large barrels are very large caliber arquebuses, they vary in size, some are about several times the size of ordinary muskets, and the specialized gunner holds the tail of the barrel in his right hand, and raises the barrel horizontally with his left hand, aiming at the Han soldiers on the opposite side and preparing to fire. The volume is even larger, almost the length of a person, almost like a cannon, and it is reprinted on a special shelf, and a group of gunners stand behind these large barrels, and there are rice bags behind the brackets.

During the Warring States period, the form of warfare in Japan changed significantly because of the large influx of arquebuses, and muskets also won the love of almost all daimyos, and the Japanese themselves embarked on the road of imitating arquebuses, and these large barrels were carefully made by craftsmen in Japan, and the pursuit was power, and the caliber was made very large.

Right next to these barrels, the gunners carefully adjusted the firing angles of the cannons. These cannons were imported decades ago during Tokugawa Ieyasu's lifetime. During the Warring States period, Japan imported a large number of arquebuses, but did not pay enough attention to the import of cannons, so the cannons rarely played a role, and after Tokugawa Ieyasu ruled Japan, in order to eliminate the Toyotomi family, he began to import a large number of cannons from the Dutch and the British.

And these cannons did play a role in Tokugawa Ieyasu's extermination of Osaka.

However, after the destruction of Osaka, the Tokugawa shogunate began to generally believe that the world was all right, so it stopped importing weapons in large quantities and pursued a stable ruling system, so when it faced an even more vicious enemy twenty years later, the shogunate army had to rely on these artillery pieces to save itself.

When the Han army came to the front, the guns were ready to be fired.

With the command to "open fire", the crackling roar of guns began to suddenly resound across the ground, and the smoke instantly enveloped the entire position, and countless bullets and shells smashed towards the red reef with a sharp whistling when they broke through the air, hoping to inflict enough damage on them to force them to stop.

Dense artillery fire blasted through the smoke and directly at the Han army, forcing them to stop for a while. The musketeers began to line up, ready to return fire on the enemy, while the others stood still, awaiting the order to re-march.

Some people were shot, but they didn't say a word until another bullet knocked them to the ground and couldn't fight anymore, the whole phalanx stood in place, waiting for the order to advance in the raging artillery fire, watching the robes standing next to them fall one after another, their hearts were not afraid, but accumulated incomparable hatred, and they couldn't wait to rush up and fight the enemy, but they didn't get the order, they just stood there motionless, It's as if it's not gunshots and shells that hit the other side, but soft mud.

Ma Chonghao, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Japanese Army, was in the military formation at this time, watching his subordinates being counterattacked by the enemy. Although he knew that the closer the shogunate army came to the main battle, the more he would be counterattacked by the enemy, but the fierce counterattack artillery fire was a little unexpected to him.

Under the order of Zhao Song's assault on the central front, he and most of his subordinates discharged several large phalanxes to press the enemy, Ma Chonghao had long wanted to make a great contribution in this battle, and the success of the first battle strengthened his mind, so he took on this arduous task without hesitation, and even felt happy about it.

However, at this moment, watching one of his subordinates fall under the bombardment of the enemy, Ma Chonghao was extremely angry, his eyes widened, as if they were about to crack, he roared next to his subordinates, to make sure that his army's military formation did not waver in any way, and at the same time urged the musketeers to prepare as soon as possible with the highest volume.

The cannons behind him were roaring incessantly, but these own cannons didn't help him much, as they were concentrating their fire on the enemy's left flank and had already caused confusion. Ma Chonghao, the victory of the left wing, has no way of knowing now, he only knows that he must not have any mistakes here, let alone ...... There is absolutely no retreat.

"Fire!" After the musketeers were ready, Ma Chonghao immediately gave the order.

The choking smoke rose from the Han army's military formation again, and the dense projectiles mixed with the revenge of the soldiers roared towards the shogunate army, and also made many shogunate soldiers fall to the ground, and the guns and cannons kept resounding in the smoky battlefield, and everything seemed to be shrouded in a vague world.

Ma Chonghao picked up the telescope and wanted to observe the situation on the other side, but he could only see a blurred figure mixed with gray and black on the opposite side, and he couldn't see anything clearly, while the projectiles and cannonballs were scurrying around each other in the smoke, as if they were demons that suddenly emerged from the void, taking away the young lives on both sides.

The anxiety in Ma Chonghao's heart is getting stronger and stronger, there are a large number of guns on the opposite side, although the archery skills are not good, but the number and firepower make up for this shortcoming, and although this side has excellent muskets and musketeers, but in such a confrontation will inevitably fall into the disadvantage, if you keep standing here to bombard, it is obvious that you will always suffer.

The opposite side has been smoky, and it is impossible to see the specific deployment of troops, but I think there will be no shortage of troops around the shogun.

Can you retreat?

No, absolutely not, Zhao Shuai gave an order, and His Majesty also placed so much expectation on himself, how could he retreat.

He gritted his teeth with a fierce heartbeat, and then his hand reached for the saber on his body, gripping the handle tightly.

Even if the husband dies, he has to die as he deserves!

"Rush! Rush forward! He simply drew his saber and shouted to the officers next to him, "Follow me!" ”

Just as he was shouting hoarsely, a cannonball whizzed by, passed by Ma Chonghao, and then smashed into the flag-bearer carrying the military flag beside him, cutting off half of the young man's head.

The splatters of brains and blood spilled into the air, and some of the white mucus stained Ma Chonghao's body, the pungent smell of blood and an indescribable smell made him almost nauseous, but instead of the slightest fear in his heart, the hatred and anger rose even more.

His eyes widened, his face almost contorted into a hideous look, and then he simply threw away the saber in his hand and picked up the flag in the hands of the fallen standard-bearer.

"Follow me!" With this roar, Ma Chonghao ignored the oncoming bullets and walked towards the opposite side almost frantically, while his guards also roared almost at the same time, followed behind their regimental commander, and rushed forward regardless of it, and their charge also led the entire regiment, almost everyone shouted, and then rushed forward with their weapons, rushing towards the opposite side with the anger that had been accumulated for a long time.

The smoky shogunate army did not immediately discover the movement of the Han army, so when the red torrent loomed in the smoke, when the roars of the Han officers and soldiers reached their ears, even Tokugawa Iemitsu's heart trembled.

His own artillery fire is sharp enough, this is almost all the artillery fire that the shogunate army can collect, originally according to Tokugawa Iemitsu's judgment, it is impossible for any army to resist such artillery fire, he originally planned to collapse the opponent's formation, repel the enemy army and then launch a pursuit, but he did not expect that the other party not only did not rout, but has been forcibly withstanding the artillery fire with flesh and blood, and even launched a counterattack directly!

Are these Han Kou still human...... A thought flashed through Tokugawa Iemitsu's mind.

However, he had no time to think about it now, and there could be no mistake in the place where he was now, not only for his own safety, but also for the safety of the entire army.

Looking at the red-clothed man who was roaring and ignoring the artillery fire, Tokugawa Iemitsu unexpectedly bit his lip and bleed, he didn't believe that with several times the number of troops, he still couldn't stop the enemy's attack.

"Assault of the whole army!" He shouted orders to his side, preparing for a decisive battle with the Han Kou to defeat this enemy army.

Under the orders of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogunate army, which had already been preparing for action, began to attack the enemy forces on the opposite side, and a terrible hand-to-hand combat began again.

The terrain between the two armies was a little rough, which was the former farmland of the past, but these ravines did not hinder or weaken the battle in the slightest, and every fold of the ground was under the scramble of swords and guns, and almost every inch was fighting, from one farmland to another, from one grove to another, and even in the sparse villages, there were people everywhere screaming and fighting.

The Han army rushed to kill without any scruples, constantly waving their weapons at the enemy troops on the opposite side, even in such a melee, they still formed a small formation according to the usual strict training, and then relied on the strength of the robe to fight with the rushing enemy troops until they occupied a small area and cleared the enemy troops on the opposite side.

There was a shocking slaughter in every place, and the muskets of the Han army finally exerted their power in this large area, relying on higher accuracy and better training, the bombardment of these Han musketeers brought additional casualties to the enemy, and with the advance of the pikemen, Ma Chonghao held the flag of his regiment, and without fear led his own guards to rush and kill in the enemy's army, they were all red-eyed, only thinking about crushing the enemy.

Just as Ma Chonghao rushed forward with the military flag, he suddenly felt a hot pain in his right shoulder, he looked over his shoulder, and found that a projectile had made a huge wound on his right shoulder, and blood was flowing non-stop at this time, I don't know how long it had been flowing.

This kind of intense pain did not make Ma Chonghao feel any fear, years of fighting had already made him accustomed to all kinds of casualties, and even made him look down on life and death, but he gritted his teeth and continued to lead his subordinates to rush forward to kill.

However, despite their bravery and excellent training, the enemy was far outnumbered, so they could only repel the enemy army step by step, but immediately the shogunate army began to continue to counterattack, and these Kwantung samurai howled and rushed forward with swords and sabers, and fought together again and again, and were repulsed again and again, on the green field, on the earthy yellow road, the wind stirred up gusts of dust, and the thick clouds of smoke made the sky dark, and I don't know how many people's souls were rising into the sky with the smoke.

In the stalemate of the war, people died every moment, but the rest of the people were unaware, and they had been fighting without hesitation, as if no one could suppress anyone, but the shogunate army that was several times larger could only hold on to the Han officers and soldiers who were far less than them, which in itself already illustrated a very dangerous situation - because the Han army could still be reinforced, although they were far fewer than the shogunate army, but now the Han army has not yet invested all its troops on the battlefield.

Just when Ma Chonghao was frantically rushing to kill with his subordinates, he suddenly remembered a familiar sound of horns in his rear, which made Ma Chonghao regain some consciousness a little, and then he looked back and found that a large group of officers and soldiers in red clothes were rushing towards him.

Zhao Shuai sent troops to reinforce him! Ma Chonghao was overjoyed in his heart, he turned his head back to look at his subordinates, and then handed the military flag to the guards next to him, and took a saber from someone else. His body was already covered in blood, but

"Kill!" He shouted again, and then returned to fighting the shogunate soldiers with a hundredfold passion.

"Kill!" At the same moment, Li Huanghe, the commander of the second regiment, also shouted out to his subordinates.

Li Huanghe has always been watching the fierce battle experienced by Ma Chonghao and his troops in front, he is not only worried about the other party, but also envious that he can take on such an important task, he has been asking to reinforce Ma Chonghao, but Zhao Song did not order him to attack along the bloody road that Ma Chonghao rushed through, to give the shogunate army the biggest blow - and put the third regiment under his command. , which is also the time when Zhao Song and Tokugawa Iemitsu finally made a bet.

Under the frightened gaze of the shogunate army, another large group of soldiers in red clothes rushed over from the rear to join the battlefield, but in order to pursue speed, they did not initially discharge a strict formation, but rushed to the front with a scattered formation, and even so, they still brought enough pressure to the shogunate army, this Han army of thousands of people, like a heavy weight in the balance, so that the situation suddenly tilted to the side of the Han army.

The shogunate army, which was still fighting with the Han army just now, was slowly repulsed, and their courage and morale that were originally aroused were slowly exhausted in the battle just now, and at this time, the Han army did not mean to stop, not only the new talents who came up with reinforcements, but even the Han officers and soldiers who were originally exhausted in the battle also followed Ma Chonghao's military flag and continued to charge forward, they rushed forward unstoppably, although from time to time someone fell in the artillery fire, But it was about to approach the enemy's artillery position.

And at this moment, there was a new tremor on the left flank of the front, which had been trembling under artillery fire, and a large group of cavalry galloped along the field covered with grass and stumps and blood, and swept away quickly towards the ranks of the shogunate army, and the horses' hooves trampled the dead and the dying men, which made the scene even more terrible, and some of the poor wounded soldiers lost their hands and feet and even their chins, but their moans were not heeded, and the whizzing horses trampled their chests into the hollow, and then angry shouts, curses, The groans of pain and despair mingled with the neighing of horses filled the battlefield, and the cavalry was completely unaware, just forming a tight formation and sweeping away at great speed! (To be continued.) )