Chapter 604: Defeated Again
Looking at the Praetorian Guard's genetic infantry surrounded by a tide of Japanese militia, the hearts of those who were watching the battle in the camp at that time couldn't help but sink.
They all almost thought that defeat was inevitable.
But once again, things went out of their way and didn't go as they thought.
The encircled Praetorian Guards were not only not defeated, but they formed a phalanx, and at the same time brought a lot of casualties to the Japanese people.
Such tactics opened their eyes and for the first time they felt an incomparable shock in their hearts.
In the Oriental concept of war, if a battle is defeated to such a point, then it is basically no different from defeat.
There is no army that can turn things around when it is surrounded.
It's simply unthinkable.
But now this fact is really happening in front of their eyes.
The shock it brought to them was incomparable.
Battles can be so big, tactics can be used like this, battle formations can be used like this.
Everything that was brought to everyone was very dumbfounded.
The 'Flower of Death' is still blooming, and with the opening of the 'Flower of Death', the militia has fallen in a large area in just five minutes.
A rough estimate puts it at about 1,000 people.
This is almost half of the entire militia corps of 2,500 people.
Such war damage is not insignificant.
When the military general in the back saw this scene, he was already shocked and didn't know how to describe it.
How did these foreigners on the other side fight this battle, and how could their combat effectiveness be so strong.
Takeda Akabei, who was the most famous in the Warring States period, didn't think he was so powerful.
It is no wonder that these foreigners dared to shell the commercial town of Osaka, because it turned out that they relied on their own military strength.
It was only now that the military general figured out the problem.
is not a raptor but a river, and Zhao Hongyu and the soldiers under his command are even a few points stronger than the raptors.
If it weren't for Zhao Hongyu leaving all the army in San Francisco. It is estimated that Zhao Hongyu even dared to directly attack the Edo side where the shogunate was located.
Now against the Osaka soldiers, it is simply a piece of cake.
Don't look at the ups and downs during the battle, it seems that Zhao Hongyu and they are constantly in danger, in fact, Zhao Hongyu is not worried about these things at all.
With the anti-heaven plug-in and cross-era weapons, if he can't even deal with the Japanese people who use cold weapons, then he, Zhao Hongyu, is still a fart in this time and space.
The militiamen no longer continued to charge at this moment, and they all looked extremely frightened, and their bodies trembled slightly with bamboo guns and looked at the enemy in the phalanx in front of them.
At this time, their battle losses had exceeded a thousand, which was completely beyond their capacity.
In such a case. Continuing to charge is no different from sending you to your death.
In front of and around the enemy's phalanx, a large blank space had taken shape at this time.
And in this boxy empty space, densely packed with seriously wounded people and corpses, these guys are the militiamen who have just been charging.
Moans, wails of pain, and cries for help burst through what should have been a quiet night sky.
"Rush me! Keep rushing for me! ”
The general who commanded the militia was furious to see that the lowly militiamen had stopped charging.
Therefore. He couldn't help but raise the whip in his hand in a rage, and slashed the heads and faces of the militiamen around him.
"Hurry up and keep charging! You guys. ”
But no matter how much he whipped and cursed viciously. These militias just don't continue to charge.
Because these foreigners are so powerful, after experiencing the charge just now, they have already felt it.
At the same time, it also paid a big price.
And even after paying more than a thousand lives. They didn't do anything to each other.
The enemy's phalanx was still impregnable, and there were no losses in a steady formation.
But many of his companions and brothers and friends in the same village can never go back.
In such a situation, knowing that the Tao is sent to death. And let them continue to charge, only fools can do it.
These militiamen, although they are not very good at brains, are not very smart.
But on the issue of life and death choice, they still got the hang of it.
On the other side, the 300 clothed slave cavalry had already eliminated all the 500 Japanese cavalry with scattered bullets.
At this time, they were already free to start a new offensive against the Japanese who had lost their cavalry ranks.
"Our team is surrounded over there, and we can't afford to die without help! And although those infantry don't have much experience, they are also experience, brothers kill with me! ”
Obama waved his saber and shouted before riding his horse.
Driven by him, the Baoyi slave cavalry, who were still excited, also rushed out of the sky after him.
Three hundred cavalry isn't a lot, but it's a fuck to not be able to hold up the weapons they use.
The muzzle of the flare-shaped shotgun is definitely not to be underestimated in this era.
I don't dare to say it from a long distance, but there is no bullet within a hundred meters, and it is not a random blow.
The reason is very simple, after the shotgun is fired, the area covered by the scattered lead bullet is more than ten meters.
Although you can't kill anyone, it's definitely okay to hurt you.
If you're lucky, it's not impossible to get a face full of flowers or blind eyes.
This is the reason why the muzzle of the gun is made in the shape of a trumpet.
Moreover, these clothed slave cavalry learned a very obscene tactic from the Song Empire, that is, when engaging the enemy, it was never a face-to-face frontal cavalry hedge.
Instead, keep your distance from each other and use the fire gun in your hand to kill or injure the enemy.
On the contrary, the enemy has no way to deal with such obscene tactics.
The Eight Banners of Europe have been in army for a short time, only a year.
And it only experienced the battle that drove the British out of Virginia, but even so, the atrophied temperament of the Song Eight Banner cavalry has been cultivated.
Therefore. Whether it was against cavalry or infantry, these European cavalry of the Song Eight Banners would use such a distancing tactic to fight.
Isn't it, their 300 men against the 500 Japanese cavalry, using such tactics to successfully solve the other party, not to mention, but their own side did not lose a single one.
This is very powerful in the history of cold weapons warfare.
Now that the Japanese cavalry had been dealt with, they were freed up and began to focus on the militia.
Cavalry is inherently hostile to infantry, and it has a strong sense of suppression and prestige.
Plus Song Baqi's European coatings. Having learned the essence of the obscene tactics, it was easy to defeat the militia.
What's more, the militia have already lost almost half of their men after fighting the Janissary genetics.
Therefore, in the face of the Song Eight Banner Clothed Cavalry who were screaming and calling, the militia of the Japanese people could not be controlled at all and scattered, and like the ashigaru who were defeated in the previous battle, they could not stop and began to rout.
"Don't retreat!"
"You all go back for me, don't leave!"
The Japanese general couldn't stop shouting. But at such a time, how could it be that he could be stopped by a few shouts.
Obviously, this is not a very realistic thing.
That military general did not have the courage of Tanaka, and dared to swing his sword and slash a few routed soldiers.
But the problem is. Even after Tanaka's side chopped down more than a dozen routs, it didn't stop the rout of those routs.
And this military general is even worse than Tanaka.
He didn't even have the courage to wield a knife.
In this way, he watched the militia surrounding the enemy. Swiftly scattered like ants.
God knows how many remnants he can collect after the most reckless.
In short, the militia corps of more than 2,000 people is completely finished in this way.
These militiamen are not like Ashigaru. They don't look back after they break down, they just think about how they can get back home.
After those ashigaru men retreated, they also knew that the road had regrouped on the side of the main camp.
That's the difference between militia and professional soldiers.
There's no way around it.
"Damn, it was defeated so quickly, so that Lao Tzu didn't gain experience."
By the time Obama rushed over, the militiamen had retreated like a tidal wave.
So Obama spat hatefully on the ground and cursed in a low voice.
However, Obama did not rush to chase the enemy, but slowed down and slowly approached the Janissaries who formed the phalanx.
On the side of the Praetorian Guard, after discovering that the Japanese militia besieging them had retreated, they quickly reformed a five-stage shooting queue, and under the leadership of the general, they continued to slowly press towards the Japanese people's main formation.
Obama led the cavalry and flanked the infantry line.
Now, the situation on the battlefield has been reversed.
Although there is still a disadvantage on the part of the Song Empire in terms of numbers, this disadvantage is not very large.
At the same time, because the cavalry of the Japanese people was solved, all that was left of the Japanese people now was infantry.
On the contrary, it seems that there is still a cavalry advantage on the side of the Song Empire.
On the Japanese side, the ranks of the militia no longer need to be considered.
After the men were defeated, they burrowed into the jungle behind them without looking back, and disappeared into the night.
Now under the command of Ishida Aido, there is still a team of elite flag samurai, and there is an ashigaru team of less than 600 people. (To be continued......)