Chapter 196: The Fierce Battle VII
"Your Excellency Noguchi, the Han Empire's troops are less than three hundred people left, the artillery is also dumb, the Edo Banner and the Imperial Family sent by the Great General have arrived, and the number of our Noh warriors has exceeded two thousand, it's time to take Yokohama Town!"
Yamada Motoshi urged Noguchi Yamamoto. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Noguchi Yamamoto looked at the Yokohama town earthen wall with a melancholy face, and said, "Even if we drive the Han Empire's troops into the sea this time, can we really defeat the powerful American Empire?"
The reason why those soldiers of the Han Empire resisted so resolutely must have been ordered to die by their emperor, and they had a clear goal and honor, so they could fight until now and not retreat!
If the soldiers of the Han Empire were all at this level, our shogunate would be in danger of subversion, and even the entire country of Japan would not be able to escape this catastrophe......"
Yamada Motoshi replied in disbelief: "Probably not, what is there in our Japanese country that is worthy of the Han Empire's victory?" If they wanted silver mines and ports, they wouldn't have to waste so much effort......"
"In the twenty-one articles, there are not only silver mines and ports, the emperor of the Han Empire wants to be the emperor of his country that day! What is the difference between this and the annexation of Japan? ”
"Perhaps, this is just a means for the Han Empire to ask for a price to pay back......" Yamada Motoshi finished speaking, and he was not even sure about himself......
"Forget it, these things are a headache for the old Zhonghe general, we just need to do our duty and drive the Han Empire army into the sea, as for the future, let's talk about it, people always have to live, don't they?"
Yamada Motoshi looked at Noguchiyama's words, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he fell silent.
Soon, a small number of the more elite ashigaru were in front, and a large number of samurai and royal family members were behind, and the cavalry team was completely useless due to the terrain, so it could only be used as a rear army......
As for the shogunate's old-fashioned artillery, it was emptied by Mondora's artillery team long ago, which is why the artillery team lacked gunpowder!
"Sir, the little man is up again!"
"Brothers, get ready to fight!" After Mondora gave the order, he turned to look at Shimahito, who was following him, and asked solemnly, "Are you sure that those temporarily organized security forces are willing to fight for the empire?" ”
"Your Excellency, please rest assured, those people are all people who have been supported by the Shimaren family for generations, their fate has been tied to the Shimaren family, I have already done a good job of mobilization, these people know that after we are defeated, no one will want to survive!
They knew better what the Tokugawa shogunate did with traitors! ”
"Well, very good, Shimahito, you can follow me, most of the Shogunate crusades are attacking samurai this time, my people will retreat into Yokohama Town and start street battles with them in a while, when the time comes, it will be the moment when the security team will be powerful, you can rest assured, as long as you survive this wave, the imperial reinforcements will arrive!"
Mondora said that the reinforcements had arrived, but she had already cursed in her heart, according to the normal boat journey, it was time to arrive yesterday!
From the Hawaiian Islands to the town of Yokohama, Japan, there have already been a good route, and the days can be roughly calculated!
Of course, even in the calm Pacific Ocean, there are all sorts of surprises, and it is normal for the fleet to arrive a few days earlier or several days in the evening, but!
For Mondora, two days at night would have been fatal!
He didn't expect that there were so many desperate samurai in Japan, and in this wave of attacks, it was obvious that those raiding teams had received a large number of samurai reinforcements!
If it was ashigaru, Mondola was confident that he could repel with a bayonet charge as long as he fired a few volleys, but these samurai, none of them took their lives seriously, and it was difficult to entangle!
What Mondora didn't know was that the orthodox samurai of Japan not only had the spirit of the evil sect to quietly forget the bushido, but also effectively loyal to the land assigned to them!
Yes, the real Japanese samurai have fiefs, if these samurai die in battle for the lord, the samurai's family can inherit the fief, and the born male can also inherit the mantle of the samurai through martial arts!
Many Japanese samurai are hereditary, which is somewhat similar to Western knights!
Of course, low-level samurai are not as large as the Western knight fiefdoms, after all, Japan's territory is small, and the level of land divided into fiefs has also declined as a whole, but in the local area, it is enough to make civilians envious and jealous!
The reason why the Japanese samurai advocate seppuku suicide is mainly because of this loyal and brave approach, which will prevent their lord from reducing the samurai fief that did wrong things, as for the lord after the defeat, the samurai who belongs to him committed suicide by seppuku, that is better understood, after the defeat, the samurai fief of the losing side will naturally be confiscated, which is equivalent to stripping the samurai of all their family property, just holding an honorary title, there is a fart!
Unless this samurai doesn't care about his reputation and goes to work as a coolie to support himself, otherwise, it is better to commit suicide by seppuku!
Except for the samurai who were greedy for life and afraid of death, most Japanese samurai who regarded honor as everything would commit suicide after defeat!
Japanese samurai who did not hesitate to commit suicide, do you still need to talk about fighting?
Indian veterans are afraid of retribution and court-martials and generously die to the death, while Japanese samurai fight to the death because of honor and family property, with different purposes and reasons, but the willpower to fight is almost the same!
Mondola came to the front line, stood behind the earthen wall, and cried out loudly: "Brothers, get closer, listen to my orders, fire, the dwarf forwards are useless farmers, and a volley will crush them!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
"Ready~Aim~Fire!"
Mondora squinted and calculated the distance of the Japanese charge, and when he was close to a hundred paces, he shouted violently!
The distance of 100 steps is about 50 meters apart, which is a very good effective range of the flintlock pistol, of course, it will be better if it is closer, close to more than ten meters, basically the flintlock pistol hit rate can reach more than 90 percent......
However, Mondola doesn't need such a high hit rate, he only needs half the hit rate to be enough!
After the gunshots rang out, more than 100 people suddenly lay down!
How many people are there in the front row?
This is equivalent to emptying most of the front row!
Sure enough, the ashigaru, who had already developed a fear of flintlock pistols, couldn't help but slow down, and many people subconsciously turned back, and then were hacked to death by the Japanese samurai behind......
Immediately after, another round of guns hit!
I lay down and completely collapsed!
However, at this time, the Japanese samurai didn't need those meat shields, and they were not afraid of the remaining dozens of steps!
After the Japanese Ashigaru broke up, the Marine infantry did not fire again, but quietly waited for the Japanese samurai to approach! (To be continued.) )