Chapter 1620: Siege and Reinforcements
Seeing that the enemy was retreating and the formation had begun to loosen, the Han army also stopped the musket bombardment, rearranged into the phalanx just now, and then continued to advance under the order of the officer.
Their pace is still the same as before, not fast, but every step seems to have stepped on people's hearts, which is terrifying.
While walking forward and retreating, the speed of the Han army formation has not changed, but the speed of the feudal soldiers retreating is getting faster and faster, and soon, some people can't stand the pressure of the red fire on the opposite side and turn around and start to flee.
The samurai in the formation tried their best to stop at first, and even slashed several people who took the lead in escaping with their swords, but their efforts quickly lost their effect, and when the Han army was pressed over step by step, the fear of the Han army finally overpowered the fear of the samurai in the domain, and these people no longer had the will to resist, and ran back almost at the same time.
The sight of thousands of people fleeing backwards was terrifying, and the samurai had no way to suppress them now, and many of them were even dragged back and fled together.
"Bastard...... Bastard ......" Kuroda Tadayuki, the lord of the Fukuoka Domain who was watching the battle in the rear, was furious, and waved the rib sword in his hand and scolded, not knowing whether to scold himself for these feudal soldiers who were afraid of death or for scolding the Han army.
However, even he had no way to suppress these fleeing feudal soldiers, and he had to accept the fact that his own team was about to collapse after fighting the Great Han. Now that there are only a few hundred people left in his headquarters, where should he go?
"Lord Domain, let's leave here and go to Nagasaki, this place can't be defended anymore." The faithful elder approached him and said, "The matter has come to this, and it is of little point for us to fight with all our troops, but only to strike a stone with an egg." While we still have some troops, let's retreat quickly! Our forces are useless here, but we have them when we get to the old and middle-aged adults, and there are ...... My lord, think about it, if our feudal soldiers are all exhausted, how will we meet the old and middle adults at that time?! ”
Although he didn't say it explicitly, Kuroda Tadayuki immediately understood what the other party meant, anyway, it seems that it is going to be unbearable here, it is better to bring more subordinates to go, in front of the old and middle adults, if there are still troops, there will still be status, if the soldiers are all fought out now, how can the lonely people be put in the eyes of the old and middle adults at that time?
Besides, what's the point of staying here? He himself was afraid, afraid of the moving red wall opposite, and he found that he had no choice at all.
He made up his mind immediately, and then hurried his mount backwards.
"Let's go! Let's go! Following his order, the vassals around him also turned their horses and hurried backwards from the battlefield.
At this moment, Kuroda Tadashiyuki's heart suddenly had a glimmer of realization, and all the glory and glory accumulated by his family in the Warring States had been completely erased at this moment.
What should the generation of the Warring States period think when they see today's fiasco? After this thought flashed through him, he did not dare to think about it any longer, but only raised his horsewhip and hurried forward desperately.
The escape of the feudal lord became the last sign of the collapse of the feudal army, and everyone scrambled to flee, no longer having any will to resist, and a few even fell to their knees and begged for forgiveness from their enemies.
At this time, seeing that the enemy formation that had been reinforced from the opposite side had been routed, the Han army immediately changed its formation and restarted its charge, and the soldiers with spears rushed forward, ready to pursue the enemy - although they were far outnumbered by the enemy.
When they saw the red-clothed soldiers rushing over, the feudal soldiers who had already begun to run were even more panicked, they ran faster and faster, countless people bumped into each other because they were not paying attention, and then shouted and cursed each other, and some even lay on the ground because they were knocked down, and were stepped on by countless people, letting out a piercing moan.
The spearmen of the Great Han quickly rushed into their formation, and then pursued to the end of the enemy ranks, and those who were lying on the ground or unable to escape were killed, and the others had no intention of resisting at all, but ran desperately forward, fighting with their former comrades for a chance to escape.
On the high ground of the original position of the Han Dynasty, the senior officers of the Han army in Hakata Bay used binoculars to see the short assault of the Han army and the results it bringed.
"It's an easy win!" Wang Changguo couldn't help but sigh, "I really didn't expect the shogunate army behind the wall to be so unbeaten!" ”
Although he was originally very confident in the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, he always felt that the feudal soldiers on the opposite side should be able to make some resistance, after all, they had an advantage in numbers, but he did not expect that the Han army would break through the opponent's defense line so easily, and then turn the positional battle into a defeat battle.
"It's been expected for a long time, how can these Japanese shogunate troops be the opponents of our Han elite? With a little impact, they won't be able to stop it. Tuanzheng Bi Su replied with a smile, and he didn't take the telescope in his hand. Therefore, Zhao Shuai's previous deployment was still a little conservative, and we were obviously able to defeat them in both ways. ”
"How are the regiments going to fight now?" Wang Changguo asked in a low voice.
"Of course, if we continue to pursue and completely defeat them, can we still give them a chance to breathe and regroup to bring trouble to our army?" Bi Su replied without hesitation, "We should chase it down now, defeat all this enemy army, and prepare for the next battle." ”
"However, this is different from Zhao Shuai's previous deployment?" Wang Changguo was still a little hesitant. "Besides, if there are too few troops here, I'm afraid it won't be good."
"Zhao Shuai's deployment is just a general strategy, and it can't limit us all, as the head of the regiment, as the supreme commander here, he already has the power to reformulate the strategy according to local conditions, how can he stick to the rules and wait for the fighter to be delayed? If it weren't for our temptation today, how could we have directly defeated these shogunate troops in one fell swoop? Bi Su disagreed, "As for this, don't worry about the Senate, you have also seen the strength of the shogunate army, I really don't dare to compliment, as long as we can leave a few hundred people here, and there are gunboats to help, it is not a problem to hold this place at all, they should be worried about our soldiers all day long, how can they worry about them coming to attack us?" We are here, even if we ********, forgive them and dare not come! ”
Wang Changguo thought silently for a while, and indeed felt that he was reasonable. The most important thing is that he, like Bi Su, wants to make the Liaodong Army make more contributions, even if it is to undertake certain additional tasks.
"It's better not to let the officers and soldiers go too far, otherwise if Zhao Shuai is called, we can also gather and send reinforcements to them." Finally, he whispered.
Of course, Bi Su understood the other party's hint, so he bowed his head happily. "That's natural, how can we make it difficult for Zhao Shuai? The pursuing soldiers will be restrained, ready to retreat at any time, and will never miss a major event! ”
If he didn't get reinforcements, he was going to let the soldiers sweep around.
"Alright, let's do it." Wang Changguo no longer insisted on his own opinion, "I only hope that our officers and soldiers can continue to advance bravely, beat them to cry wolf, and give Zhao Shuai and Chen Dashuai a long face." ”
After the two highest-ranking commanders reached a tacit understanding, Bi Su immediately called his herald over, and then told each other the opinions that the two of them had just discussed.
"Hurry up, go and tell them, don't stop, and then go bold and rush to the death, and scatter their souls for me! If you don't hear my order, you can't withdraw your troops, and you must not let this group of feudal troops regroup and cause trouble to Zhao Shuai's side again! ”
"Yes!" The herald saluted immediately, then turned and left the high ground, mounted his horse with several other heralds, and quickly charged towards the Han army in the distance.
After the officers received the order to pursue, the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, who had already fought Xingzi, cheered almost simultaneously, and then they immediately adjusted their own adjustments and continued to pursue the feudal soldiers who had been scattered in all directions.
"It's a pity that the cavalry hasn't been transferred up now......" Bi Su, who watched his soldiers go all the way to pursue the feudal soldiers, suddenly sighed, "Otherwise, we can mow the grass along the way, and it will save us a lot of trouble." ”
"That's what the regiment is saying, but sooner or later there will be a time for the cavalry to mow the grass, right? Hahahaha. Wang Changguo laughed.
While the Han army in Hakata Bay had forced a breakthrough through the Fukuoka domain and had defeated the resistance, the Han army in Nagasaki had landed on the outskirts of Nagasaki Castle early in the morning, and with the help of naval fire, it dispersed the raid of the shogunate army and sent thousands of troops to it.
Like the deployment of Hakata Bay, the troops ashore today are also from the same regiment, they are all troops under the Ma Tongji Ma Regiment, and the current Japanese army is temporarily organized into the third regiment.
Ma Tongji is still very young, although his skin is a little dark because of the perennial war, but he is capable and strong, with sharp and angular facial features, and is considered one of the beautiful men in the army.
And because he is the eldest son of the prince, he has always been relied on and trusted by the peak, plus he himself is also angry, and he has made continuous contributions in his career in the past few years, and was soon promoted to the position of Tuanzheng. Since he was a child, he has naturally developed an arrogant spirit, and under the leadership of such a regiment, his regiment also thinks that he is extremely superior, fighting all the way from the north to the south, and has never met an opponent, and is the elite of the first class of the country.
Nagasaki was the main direction of attack of the Han army this time, and the first group to invest in Nagasaki was their regiment, and they all cheered at this, feeling that this was a recognition of themselves from above, and they wanted to play a majestic role in front of the friendly army and Zhao Shuai.
Therefore, as soon as they landed on the shore, they wanted to advance directly inland, but it was only because Zhao Song gave a death order that they were allowed to wait honestly for a morning at the landing site to enrich the troops at the landing site.
In order to avoid confusion in command, Zhao Song did not go ashore, but stayed on the Songshan to continue to command the navy and army, and the landing force finally put Ma Tongji's regiment almost on the front line after a morning of enrichment, and occupied a large area of coast.
The surrounding shogunate forces had been dispersed, and a small fort had been captured by them.
Moreover, thanks to the efforts of the transport ships and the soldiers on the shore, a number of cannons of various shapes were also transported to the shore, further enriching the strength of the landing force.
Originally, Zhao Song and Ma Tongji had hoped that a shogunate army would rush in from Nagasaki or inland to engage them, but when they landed, there was no movement on either side except for sporadic harassment, as if nothing had happened.
Such an eerie silence slightly disappointed Zhao Song, who stood at the bow of the ship, and had been observing the movements of the landing troops and Nagasaki Castle with a telescope, frowning unconsciously.
After last night's shelling and fire, the port of Nagasaki is now completely unchanged from its original appearance, and the coastal houses have been basically destroyed, and the buildings of the Japanese, Western, and even Han styles, as well as the walls that the inhabitants have accumulated for decades, have been bombarded under heavy artillery fire and have been buried in the flames of war without discrimination. As far as the eye can see, there are ruins everywhere, and the fire once spread to the city, and it has not yet been extinguished. If Zhou Pu was on this ship, he would have been extremely shocked by the current appearance of Nagasaki Port.
The ruins that had been shot out by the shells, some of which were still on fire, rose into the sky with blue or black smoke, making the sky gray and the temperature seemed to drop a lot.
Standing at the bow of the ship, Zhao Song's nose could always smell the scorching smell coming from Nagasaki Port from the wind, this disgusting smell was uncomfortable for ordinary people, but Zhao Song didn't seem to be aware of it.
"Zhao Shuai, the enemy army is not moving, what should we do next?" Li Huanghe, the second regiment of the provisional Japanese army next to him, asked in a low voice.
Like Ma Tongji, he is also one of the new talents in the Han army, and he is also the eldest son of the prince and the person who will inherit the title in the future, so he has always won the trust and reuse of Shangfeng. However, compared with Ma Tongji, his personality is much more introverted, he is more humble and gentle, rarely quarrels with others, and his popularity in the army is better than that of Ma Tongji.
It was precisely because of his temper that Zhao Song thought that he was more aware of the overall situation, so he handed over the task of going ashore to attack Ma Tongji first, so as not to cause contradictions between the various troops and make the internal military unstable. According to the report of the senator arranged by Zhao Song in the Second Regiment, in the Second Regiment, some officers were dissatisfied with Zhao Song's "neglect" of their regiment, and collectively asked Li Huanghe to ask Zhao Song to fight with Zhao Song and exert pressure in order to let the Second Regiment play a more important role - and these requests were directly rejected by Li Huanghe, who said that Zhao Shuai was already under great pressure and could not make trouble for him anymore. And he wants everyone to believe in Zhao Shuai, and he will never wronged everyone.
Li Huanghe's statement deepened Zhao Song's appreciation for him even more, so he was much more pleasant to Li Huanghe this time, of course, the most important class and respect in the army, and Zhao Song would never relax the distinction between the upper and lower classes.
"It's a good thing that the enemy is scared." Zhao Song replied calmly, without showing any anxiety in his heart, "They don't dare to move, this is also convenient for us to expand and march, what a good thing!" Li Tuanzheng, you let your troops prepare too, and I will transfer you in the afternoon. ”
Seeing that the enemy army could not play any new tricks, Zhao Song was also relieved, so he was ready to transfer the regiment he had left in his hands to transfer over - of course, because of the limited capacity of the Han fleet, there was only half a regiment in Li Huanghe now, and the remaining troops were still waiting to land in Busan.
"Good! Thank you Zhao Shuai! Li Huanghe was overjoyed immediately after the accident, "My subordinates will go and inform their subordinates to prepare." ”
"As for the troops who have already landed, let them march inland to the north, but don't enter Nagasaki City, and cut off Nagasaki City from the outside world first." Zhao Song continued to add the order, "After you go ashore, advance westward, and be sure to drive out the shogunate troops gathered around Nagasaki and leave Nagasaki isolated, understand?" ”
"Order!" Li Huanghe held his head high and took the order.