Chapter 396: Constant Anxiety
The men and horses on both sides kept approaching, like two rolling colliding torrents, and just when they were about to approach, the Ming army took the lead!
Boom Boom!
Two artillery divisions, as well as part of the artillery to which the infantry division belongs.
Gathered together, all the artillery used for replacement was taken out, and the Heavenly Tiger Army also gambled on most of the family funds under the command of Zhao Yunkai.
More than 450 guns can fire more than 1,000 shells in a minute, and all of them are blasting shells with a large amount of steel inside, which can cause great damage to the congregated infantry!
With such a large number of artillery, the scene of a salvo is stunning.
This kind of shock was even when the troops invested by both sides at the same time were approaching 200,000 people, and for a while people roared and neighed.
A large number of shells exploded in the advancing military formations of the Japanese Kingdom!
Stump limbs, severed arms!
Blood gushes out! Tokugawa Iemitsu felt like a standard-bearer now, or a bankrupt gambler who lost at a casino.
He watched expressionlessly as the army under his command continued to be concentrated by fragments wrapped in the shells of the Ming army, and shell craters appeared one after another.
Tokugawa Iemitsu said in a low voice, "Attack! Offensive! ”
He has no way out, the shogunate has no way out!
The clatter of shells, bullets, machine guns, death, wailing, and roaring all weave together into a symphony.
There were corpses everywhere, wounded and wailing soldiers everywhere.
On the frontal battlefield, the confrontation between cold weapons and hot weapons can actually be predestined very early, and there will hardly be too many waves.
ripples, maybe there will be.. But it will not affect the final result.
The speed of the shogunate's onslaught slowed down, and the torrent of metal made of steel and brass turned every shogunate soldier who dared to charge at the Ming army into a cold corpse.
The fighting power of the Ming army was fierce, and the thermal weapons were strong.
All of them made Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was commanding and watching the battle from a distance, gradually fall into an ice cave, and a military attache on the side looked hesitant, opened his mouth to dissuade and said: "Shogun.. Are we really going to fight here until the end? We probably have more than 30,000 dead and wounded.."
Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't speak, and it took a long time before he spoke: "I have sent people to see this plain a long time ago... Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment is beautiful, and it is not a bad thing to be our grave. ”
"But the general, the Ming army's strong ships and cannons are destined to be impossible for us to resist... The samurai in front of them could barely rush through, and the damage they could do was extremely limited. ”
"Then go and exchange your life!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu glanced coldly at the military attache beside him, then pulled out the long knife at his waist and clamped the Wakoku war horse under his crotch with his legs.
He roared angrily and said loudly: "Kill the enemy!" ”
Click.. Click!
"Damn it! Why is this machine gun jammed again! Xiao Li, quickly bring a new barrel for Lao Tzu, the shogunate army is about to rush over! ”
Machine gunner Ma Degui angrily slapped the new machine gun in his hand and said to another soldier in the machine gun squad on the side.
Xiao Li is his apprentice, and he has been since he joined the army.
Xiao Li did not hesitate at the master's request, turned around and prepared to go to the armory box not far away to get a new machine gun barrel for his master.
The high temperatures brought about by continuous shooting are no longer something that can be lowered with water.
The scrapping of the barrel is simply a normal thing on the battlefield at the moment, and due to the constant change of military formations... These machine gunners also have to shift the position of the machine gun from time to time, which will lead to some problems in the structure of the machine gun.
"Master.. Master, I brought you the barrel! ”
Ma Degui stretched out his right hand to the back according to the standard posture as he did during training on weekdays, waiting for Xiao Li to hand him the barrel.
This made it easier for him to put the new barrel on the machine gun at the first moment and continue firing.
More than ten seconds passed in a row, and Ma Degui just wanted to urge his apprentice to grind and chirp at such a critical time, but he hadn't handed the barrel to his hand yet.
Suddenly, his hand sank.
When the barrel arrived, Xiao Li took it..
Ma Degui just wanted to load the barrel of the gun into the machine gun, but he saw that the barrel was already red, and Ma Degui, who suddenly thought of something, turned his head and looked behind him.
Xiao Li was lying on the ground, with an arrow firmly stuck in his chest.
The place is the heart on the left.
Ma Degui's eyes were red, and he knew that his apprentice might never have a chance to stand up again.
Turning around, he twisted the crimson barrel and mounted it on the machine gun, and the cartridge case popped out instantly, and the flame of the muzzle flickered again!
The continuous bullets swept the shogunate army armed with long knives in front of the battle again, and Ma Degui roared and shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Shells flew sideways, and the main infantry lined up to shoot the enemy in a row, and the battle was even more tragic, although with the grenades in hand, they were able to provide a certain amount of individual firepower.
But even so, it also made the Ming army's army lose a lot under the fierce charge of the shogunate army.
Daming's new rifle can basically achieve a loading and firing rate of more than three rounds a minute, but despite this, the Tianhu Army still uses the method of sectional shooting.
This makes the rate of fire of the Great Tomorrow Tiger Army even faster.
"These shogunate troops, under the command of Tokugawa Iemitsu... It's already ready to die all here, let the artillery division not spare their hands! Speed up the frequency of bombing! ”
Zhao Yunkai said to the staff officer on the side.
"Yes! Your Excellency the Governor..."
Another officer of the Navy Division on the side said in disbelief: "My lord... If Tokugawa Iemitsu had broken up all his armies and scattered them into small towns in the countryside, one northern part of the Wa Kingdom alone would be enough for us to fight for three months, so why would we be so anxious about fighting a decisive battle. ”
Zhao Yunkai looked at the battlefield, and then said: "This truth, Tokugawa Iemitsu is not unclear, most of the military attaches and ministers of the shogunate know it... But they didn't stop it, I'm afraid they already sensed the inviolability of the situation! ”
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War is cruel, and this is true for everyone involved in the war, especially between swords and artillery!
On a plain that is not too big, in such a short period of time.
The two sides invested nearly 200,000 troops and gambled all their hole cards.
All this is undoubtedly reckless.
Undoubtedly irrational.
But when the situation on the battlefield is constantly changing, Zhao Yunkai knows... All of this is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and even more so to the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army.
They can have more people able to return to Daming, and that's enough.