Boom~Boom......

The 10 guns of the Marine Corps will shoot explosive shells one after another at the shogunate iron artillery who are advancing in formation, this kind of cheap arquebusier, which was directly sent by Noguchi Yamamoto as the first line of cannon fodder, seems to want to have a queue with the Marine soldiers to shoot?

It's a pity that the gap between the performance of Japan's old-fashioned artillery and the artillery of the Marine Corps is too great, and not long after the war began, Japan's old-fashioned artillery was blown up by Mondora's artillery with several rounds of concentrated fire......

Noguchi Yamamoto was reluctant to consume too many of his elite samurai, and the first wave only sent iron artillery and archers, and the range of bows and arrows was slightly longer than that of arquebuses, so the infantry phalanx of iron artillery in front of the archers and behind directly pressed over!

Even if these troops were only part of the Shogunate Raiders, they were slightly larger than Mondora's men!

As the distance approached within 100 yards, the Marine squad raised their muskets, and before the opposing iron artillery could enter the arquebus range, they fired a salvo of preemptive fire!

"Your Excellency Noguchi, the range of the Han Empire's musket is much higher than ours, and it is comparable to the range of our rifle!" Yamada Motoshi said slightly worriedly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Don't worry, it's never the archers and the iron cannons that decide the outcome of a war, only hand-to-hand combat is the key!

In hand-to-hand combat, the samurai of Hachimoto, who has a strong faith, will definitely let us win! ”

The layers of iron artillery were slaughtered in large numbers, and after the first team of iron artillery soldiers scribbled out the arquebuses in their hands, they retreated in embarrassment, and the scattered arquebuses that did not enter the effective range were fired, and not a single Marine soldier was killed......

However, the archers in the back threw fire, which made many of the marines in the first two platoons scream and lie to the ground!

The iron cannon became veritable cannon fodder, and it didn't play a role at all except for blocking the two rounds of Marine salvo......

Although the morale and sense of honor of the iron artillery people are much stronger than ordinary ashigaru, where have they ever seen such a powerful artillery and such a dense salvo of muskets?

The people around him who fell in pieces made these iron cannon soldiers whose sense of honor was not as good as that of the samurai completely collapse!

I don't know if I don't fight, I found out after a dozen that the firepower of the Han Empire's army was, and Noguchi Yamamoto saw it for the first time, and the iron cannons that were better used were defeated before they even reached the real enemy!

As the iron artillery crowd broke up, the archers behind lost their human shields and were soon exposed to shotgun fire and musket volleys from Marine artillery!

As the Marines approached with Xu Jin's shooting, the archers received the call to withdraw after nearly 30% of the casualties!

Mondola looked at the phalanx with a large number of people in the rear of the shogunate army, and did not recklessly give the order to bayonet assault, he understood that the advantage of his army was the firepower projection, and if it was hand-to-hand combat, it would be equivalent to greatly weakening his advantage!

Noguchi Yamamoto inquired about the losses of the first wave of attacks, his face was gloomy as if he could drip water, and in less than an hour of fighting, the iron artillery and archers left nearly a thousand corpses!

No wonder it was broken!

That's nearly 50 percent of casualties!

On the other side, the Han Empire army saw that the number of dead and wounded was less than a hundred......

This battle loss ratio is too hurtful!

The reason why the iron artillery and archers suffered so many casualties was not only the intensive shooting of muskets, the grenades that exploded in the dense crowd, and the fan-shaped shotguns, but it made the iron artillery and archers drink a good pot!

"It seems that we can't compete with the Han Empire's army in long-range firepower at all, and if we want to win, we can only rely on fearless charge!" Noguchi Yamamoto muttered to himself.

Subsequently, one after another, orders were issued, and a large number of ashigaru who served as miscellaneous servants were placed in the first row, followed by ashigaru in the regular army, compared to those scum who only served as miscellaneous servants and logistics transport team members, the ashigaru in the second platoon at least had more training and experience!

In the last row are the royal family led by the high-ranking flag and the lower-level flag samurai, almost all of them are wearing armor, and they are the real elite of the Tokugawa shogunate!

In the entire country of Japan, the flag samurai directly under the Tokugawa shogunate were only more than 5,000 flags.

Of course, those real flag warriors, each of them had a direct retainer who went to the battlefield with them!

The flag warrior is similar to the knights of medieval Europe, and the high flag is equivalent to the high title of medieval Europe!

This is also the foundation of the Japanese feudal system!

And the most influenced by the spirit of bushido are the samurai of the flag and the samurai of the imperial family!

Several high-ranking bannermen riding their own war horses, among the infantry samurai on the last line, constantly wandered and shouted, boosting morale, preaching the spirit of fearless bushido, and so on.

The spirit of bushido, a specialty of Japan, is much more perverted than the chivalry of the European Middle Ages, and these guys who have been brainwashed by bushido all day long really don't take their lives seriously, in a sense, the samurai are less afraid of death than the European knights of the Middle Ages, because they have a tradition of suicide......

As long as it is an orthodox samurai who has been defeated and captured (those who have become soldiers and are symbolically called samurai do not count!). If you don't commit suicide by disembowelment, even the enemy will despise them and see these surrendered samurai as scum that insults the spirit of bushido, and then ......

I can't live anyway......

The higher the status of the orthodox samurai, the more they attached importance to this, and the tradition of suicide became stronger......

This is in stark contrast to the redemption system of the aristocracy of the European powers!

Of course, at this time, Mondora only heard about the surface of bushido, and just regarded it as a kind of ideological propaganda for the ruler to maintain power, this kind of ideological education similar to militarism is really not too much in the Han Empire!

So......

"Huh? These dwarfs began to charge on foot, and sure enough, backwardness is backwardness, except for the use of iron weapons, and the formation of the charge is denser, not much different from the warriors of those tribes and natives, pass down the order, the artillery fires freely, the infantry fires at the maximum effective range, a hundred yards away, well, free fire! ”

Mondora ordered with a relaxed expression.

This kind of pure hand-to-hand combat unit charge, is undoubtedly the easiest for him, although free fire gives up the instantaneous mass destruction, but the efficiency of killing is undoubtedly higher, after all, the reloading speed between soldiers is fast and slow, salvo shot, the fast reloading soldier has to wait for the slow soldier not to say, the time for the officer to give the order collectively, will also make the frequency of shooting slightly reduced, therefore, if you want to simply pursue the number of shots per unit of time, or free fire is cost-effective!

Of course, the premise is that the opponent's cold-weapon soldiers are not robots, and they can withstand casualties and get close to hand-to-hand combat distance! (To be continued.) )