Chapter 193: The Fierce Battle IV
"Yaga! A group of useless rice buckets, I must tell the general when I go back, and devalue all these banner-book samurai who serve with high salaries!
No, I want them all to kill themselves! ā
Noguchi Yamamoto was obviously unclear by the rout of the cavalry, compared with those foot soldiers who were still fighting desperately with more than half of the casualties, and only lost about 3% of the cavalry team after the rout, it was simply a loss of the samurai's face!
Noguchi Yamamoto didn't care about the objective factors of the horses being frightened and the horses leading people away, he only saw his own cavalry team that had high hopes, and only under a few rounds of volleys from the Han Empire's artillery team, it collapsed and scattered and fled!
"Your Excellency Noguchi, the Han Empire's artillery is sharp, powerful and projectile far more powerful than our artillery, those war horses encountered this kind of scene for the first time, they were frightened and scattered and fled, and manpower could not avoid it......" Yamada Motoshi, the only one who can speak in front of Noguchi Yamamoto, tried to calm down the angry Noguchi commander, if the commander was filled with anger, how could this battle be fought?
Noguchi Yamamoto took a deep breath, suppressed the resentment in his heart, and said, "I was negligent, I didn't expect the artillery of the Han Empire to be so difficult, could it be said that the armaments of overseas countries have developed to such a point?" ā
The first idea of Noguchi Yamamoto, who calmed down, was that the weapons of overseas empires were so advanced that they were so advanced that they could hardly resist even by relying on bravery!
Of course, the premise is that the soldiers who use these weapons can't be too watery, and if ordinary soldiers are rushed by the group of Qimoto and the royal family who charge with katanas and muskets, they will basically be finished......
Melee combat is the most direct form of soldier's bravery!
Noguchi Yamamoto moved his gaze from the scattered cavalry to the frontal battlefield, where the soldiers of the Han Empire wearing black uniforms, the sound of bomb explosions sounded from time to time, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, the courage of these soldiers of the Han Empire was not inferior to the samurai cultivated by the Tokugawa family!
The difference is only that the hand-to-hand combat martial arts of the opposing soldiers are worse, and they can still be encouraged and supported by relying on the military formation, if they fight alone, a samurai can at least pick two Han Empire soldiers to death!
Well, Noguchi Yamamoto's estimate is based on the fact that the soldiers of the Han Empire did not shoot......
The artillery of the Han Empire, which had destroyed the Japanese cavalry, immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and opened fire on the rear of the Japanese samurai!
As soon as the cannon sounded, the blasting shells that continued to shoot into the crowd made the soldiers of the two sides evenly decided!
The rear team was bombed by the imperial artillery team and could not find the north, and the flesh mill in front naturally became weak, under the command of Mondora, the Indian soldiers regained their advantage little by little, and Noguchi Yamamoto saw that the opponent's artillery was powerful again, so he had no choice but to order the retreat, these samurai are the foundation of the Tokugawa family, if they are all exhausted, the Tokugawa family's dominant military strength will inevitably be greatly reduced!
In the farewell of the artillery fire, the Japanese crusading army, which left thousands of corpses, withdrew to their headquarters in embarrassment, not because Mondola did not want to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but because there were less than 500 troops around him who were still capable of fighting, and there was nothing he could do......
"Phew! I didn't expect these little dwarfs to work so hard, he's so hard, it's really hard to fight! ā
Mondora, who has been on the front line, naturally witnessed the majesty of the Japanese samurai's katana, and the Japanese samurai, who did not cooperate with each other much, were able to slash and kill the bayonet array of Indian soldiers without falling behind, and almost hurt each other with swords and swords, how could not surprise Mondora?
However, the Japanese crusading army, which crippled the main force of the Marine Corps, suffered much greater losses than Mondora!
The iron artillery has been completely abolished, and without replenishing troops and retraining, it will not be able to pull into the battlefield at all!
The archers are only a little stronger, and the combat effectiveness is not enough to be discounted!
The most important thing is that the losses of those loyal and brave royal family members and flag warriors, almost all of the casualties caused to the marines were achieved by these samurai, but on the contrary, these samurai who did not hesitate to die were not comfortable themselves, first endured a round of volleys, fell a large piece, and then were bombarded by artillery, and they were blown up I don't know how much, even if they didn't die, as a defeated retreating party, the wounded left on the battlefield and the unlucky ones who fainted in the past couldn't survive......
The ones who suffered the least losses were the ashigaru, because they didn't engage the enemy at all, and they collapsed......
The collapse doesn't look good, but the collapsed army, as long as it is not followed and chased, the casualties are actually very few, and the marines and artillery are busy slaughtering the Japanese samurai who rushed up, so naturally they let go of these ashigaru troops!
Noguchi Yamamoto counted a little, and found speechlessly that the samurai, who were the core of combat effectiveness, were less than 500 people left, and the total strength was about 3,000 people!
These 3,000 people are minus the logistics chores!
The casualties of those miscellaneous laborers, Noguchi Yamamoto disdains to count......
In fact, there were only about 1,000 orthodox samurai in the crusading army, and as a result, the casualties of ordinary soldiers and orthodox samurai were almost the same......
Yamada Motoshi, who had a worried face, reminded Noguchi Yamamoto: "Your Excellency Noguchi, the flags of the crusade team are the foundation of the general, if we lose too much, even if we win, we won't be able to please it!" ā
Noguchi Yamamoto sighed, "How can I not know? It's just that you've also seen those ordinary ashigaru combat power, how can we achieve victory if we don't rely on loyal and brave samurai charges? ā
"After this battle, the Han Empire's forces will inevitably suffer a great loss, and they will no longer be able to support a long enough front in the field, even if they line up in such a strange large horizontal line!
As long as the commander of the other side is not stupid, he will definitely retreat into Yokohama Town to hold on, once the other party is on the defensive, we don't have to worry about the Han Empire's initiative to attack and cause irreparable defeat, in this way, we can let those worthless ashigaru slowly wear down the opponent's ammunition morale, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Han Empire is extremely dependent on firearms, they come from overseas, and the logistics supply must be limited, as long as their ammunition is exhausted, relying on the loyalty of the samurai, a charge can drive them into the sea! ā
Yamada Motoshi once again turned out his previous tactics, if it weren't for Mondora's unexpected arrival with more than 1,000 people to confront the crusading army with more than 10,000 people, Noguchi Yamamoto would not have sent elite samurai to charge!
However, although the losses were large, there were still gains, at least, the Han Empire army, which had suffered a large loss of troops, could no longer face the enemy in the field!
One thousand against five thousand, and five hundred against three thousand, is not the same concept!
This is not a math problem, in the field, the smaller the number of people, the greater the disadvantage, and the lack of troops will make it impossible for the Marines to effectively cover the battlefield, so that the Japanese army can easily outflank in a roundabout! (To be continued.) Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½)