Chapter 348: Destroy the Samurai
The Tokugawa family's new army had already set off for a day and a night, and without at least a day's effort, they could not return to the aid at all, so the Japanese Independence Coalition had to send tens of thousands of volunteers as a new force to launch a counter-charge to try to seize their own positions!
At this time, the artillery of the invading army of the Han State has not yet completed the forward movement of the position, and in the case of the main force of the Han State losing artillery support, it should be able to save some, even if it can play a humiliating exchange ratio of a few to 1, the Japanese daimyo samurai also feel that it is a big profit, after all, those volunteers are just cannon fodder for Japanese civilians who are forcibly pulled, and they are not even equipped with many firearms!
It's a pity that the European military observers who want to use a group of rabble, who have no faith, no fighting spirit, and are greedy for life and fear of death to attack the tight queue and shoot tactics, stay in the Japanese Independence Coalition Army, and only have the right to observe and have no command rights, have already begun to prepare to run away......
The Han Empire does not have a tradition of preferential treatment of white people, once caught by Han soldiers, they don't know how to die!
In fact, European observers also tactfully reminded those daimyo samurai, but if they didn't take the position, when the Han invading army arranged the forward artillery position to fight, the main force of the Japanese Independence Coalition Army without a defensive position would not be able to bear it!
The Tokugawa New Army, which is now the most combat-ready, is no longer here!
Rather than being slaughtered by the superior firepower of the Han State at that time, it is better to fight now!
As for the retreat......
The Japanese daimyo could not have imagined what would become of so many Japanese volunteers who retreated under the oppression of the invading Han army!
As soon as the Han commander sent a symbolic cavalry in pursuit, tons of deserters would be born from the Japanese volunteers......
The most terrifying thing is that the Japanese Independence Coalition Army, which has no fighting spirit, is likely to turn from retreat to rout!
Their discipline is just so poor......
The usual tactical retreat in the eyes of the commanders of the European standing armies was absolutely unacceptable to the Japanese, because the Japanese daimyo knew very well that their army was completely forcible and could not be regarded as a complete and sound army at all!
The Han army came too fast, and they didn't give these Japanese daimyos much time to rectify and train the Japanese cannon fodder that was forcibly pulled!
In order to maintain the low morale of the army, the Japanese daimyo must retain enough samurai warlords to suppress the formation, and they must also maintain the offensive posture, or at least make an offensive appearance!
In this way, the 40,000 or 50,000 cannon fodder of the Japanese volunteers, under the continuous three-stage salvo, naturally collapsed......
Under the bayonet charge of the infantry of the Han line, tens of thousands of Japanese volunteers were captured!
However, the Japanese daimyo are not worried, they have people anyway!
Another wave of 40,000 or 50,000 volunteers rushed up......
There was time for the Han artillery to move forward, and the Japanese daimyo had to seize the time to attack!
Facts have proved that the Japanese daimyos' approach is not meaningless, due to the large number of people in the Japanese volunteers' charging procession, which is very thick, and there are no powerful shrapnel falling in, they can still stick to the side of the Han line infantry and cause some casualties to them!
At least, it looks better than not touching the Han army formation before......
In this way, three waves of volunteers in a row, 1450,000 people were destroyed one after another, and the artillery of the Han State finally completed the advance of the position!
At first, under the attack of the Han army, more than 100,000 volunteers on the position collapsed, and later the counteroffensive collapsed 1450,000 volunteers, plus the detachment that was separated a few days ago was defeated, and in just a few days, the Japanese independent coalition army could still pull the army on the battlefield, and there were only more than 100,000 people left......
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However, the main part of the volunteers are reluctant Japanese civilians, and in the rout, how many of these Japanese pariahs who have lost the shackles of the samurai uncle can be willing to be collected by Shangguan and continue to be cannon fodder?
Even if there is such a group of Japanese civilians with bad brains who bump into the side of the samurai uncle, it is unknown how much combat power they can have left after seeing the strength of the Han army......
Unconsciously, Wang Qiming didn't know that he had defeated nearly 300,000 Japanese volunteers, but this did not prevent him from commanding the well-trained battlefield veterans of the Han Kingdom to quickly complete the layout of the offensive front and launch a new round of attack!
There are too many Japanese troops, even if it is from this end of the Japanese military camp to that end, it will take a long, long time, and after Wang Qiming takes the position, he will naturally still fight!
It's still standard firepower coverage, and this time the Japanese Volunteers collapsed faster and more completely!
Wang Qiming simply and directly pressed the whole army, and the cavalry drove the rout and outflanked the enemy to prevent the Japanese from escaping in formation!
The army under Wang Qiming's command belonged to the boat, so the number of cavalry was very small, only a few hundred, and it was naturally not good to use it to attack the Japanese army, but it was enough to drive away the rout and supervise the chaos!
The battle lasted for a whole day, except for the initial counteroffensive, the Japanese Independence Coalition Army was in a state of beating, and the huge Japanese army was knocked into pieces by the elite infantry and artillery of the Han State, and ate them bite by bite!
When less than one percent of the volunteers of the Japanese Independence Coalition Army were consumed, the Japanese daimyo finally gave up the idea of waiting for the Tokugawa New Army, and retreated in the direction of Kyoto overnight with the army of samurai at all!
As for those Japanese volunteers, they were naturally left behind as queens......
This palace army lived up to expectations, and after meeting the Han army, it was justified and dispersed......
In order to eliminate the huge Japanese independence coalition army as much as possible, Wang Qiming divided the troops into more than ten columns to scatter to 'capture prisoners'!
Wang Qiming only led less than 10,000 elites to follow behind the remnants of the main force of the Japanese samurai!
When the sun rose here, the Japanese daimyo were delighted to find that there were less than 10,000 pursuers behind them, and they were all lightly armed troops, only a few small-caliber cavalry guns followed!
There are still more than 30,000 Japanese daimyo left, and they decisively turn around and plan to make a comeback, because these more than 30,000 people are all real samurai masters!
Also the backbone of the Independence Army!
The combat effectiveness is very different from the cannon fodder of the volunteers!
It's a pity that the ideal is very plump and the reality is very backbone.
When these samurai masters followed the example of the Han army and lined up in a large horizontal line to meet them, the outcome of the battle was already predictable, but the European observers had long been scattered in the retreat and could not see this scene......
On this day, the 30,000 samurai uncles were completely defeated by the elite of the Han Kingdom, who were less than 10,000 people, with a classic queue of three salvos at close range!