Chapter Ninety-Eight
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
Ten cannons spit out tongues of fire together, although the Franc cannon was not good at a distance. But if you can't hit such a big wall, it's too much to say.
Solid cannonballs smashed into the city walls, causing the rubble to fly and the walls cracked. The soldiers at the head of the city were so frightened that they ran down the city, and the bombardment of this kind of cannonball would not take a few strokes before the city wall collapsed.
"Go down! Go down! Mori Hidemoto ordered hoarsely.
The other side has cannons, and it is useless how many people stand on the city wall at this time. It is better to go down to the city, wait for the wall to be blasted out of the gap, and lead people to plug the gap and prevent the enemy from entering the city.
He had only two thousand men under his command, and he must not be consumed on the city walls.
Hearing Mori Hidemoto's order, the soldiers ran down the wall as fast as they could.
When the first cannon sounded, Li Xiao was observing the opponent's military formation. He didn't have a telescope, he could only look at it visually. When he found out that the enemy had placed all the artillery on the left flank, he didn't understand why the enemy had placed the artillery in that hellish place.
The sound of the artillery "boom" and "boom" quickly reacted. The other party is going to attack Hagi Castle, as long as he attacks Hagi Castle. Maori Terugen will definitely return to the army to rescue, if he takes advantage of the chaos of the military formation, the whole army will attack. The Maori Huiyuan will be defeated, and maybe it will also affect its own army formation, and it will also be crushed by the defeated Maori army.
What a calculation!
I don't know who the other party's general is, but Li Xiao knows that this guy still has some strategy.
"Have you seen the other party's heavy armored cavalry, give me a bang!" Li Xiao pointed to the heavy armored cavalry who were about to charge into battle, and said to the gunners beside him.
Where the heavily armored cavalry were, mortars could not reach. But the bronze cannon is fine, loaded with flowering shells. After a little aiming, the bronze cannon roared.
The cannonball came out of the chamber with a whistle and exploded in the crowd of heavy cavalry.
More than a dozen heavily armored cavalrymen fell under their horses like dumplings.
"Big boss, Maori Huiyuan's whole army has moved." Li Xiao was about to inform Maori Huiyuan that he could get rid of the other party's cannon. Mori Terumoto had already ordered his entire army to move in the direction of Hagi Castle.
Hagi Castle is the last habitat of the Maori family, and Maori Terumoto's family is in it, and there is absolutely no room for any mistakes.
"Attack!" Almost at the same time that the Mori Terumoto army was shaken, Wakisaka Yasuharu also gave the order to charge. The two cannons just now exploded in the crowd of heavily armored cavalry, and at the same time, they also exploded in the heart of Wakisaka Yasuji.
These heavy cavalry have been trained since childhood. Death of a Wakisaka Anji will be distressed, not to mention that there are more than a dozen of them in this instant.
The opposing general is a battlefield genius, and he has already understood his intentions. As long as the heavy cavalry is defeated or severely damaged, it doesn't matter if the walls of Hagi Castle are blasted into a sieve. As long as he Wakisaka Yasuharu dared to enter the city, Mori Terumoto's army would copy his back road behind.
Instead of standing and being beaten, it is better to rush hard. If you retreat at this time, how can you face the people of Shigeharu Takenaka and Yoshiaki Kato when the hell goes back. Thinking of his bad attitude towards them, Wakisaka Yasuharu wanted to slap his mouth.
The heavily armored cavalrymen and horses were heavily armoured, and their charges were thunderous, and bows and crossbows were of little damage to them. This class was once the king of the battlefield, and it has been in the West for thousands of years.
"Mortar, five rounds of rapid fire. Put! Li Xiao estimated the distance and immediately ordered the mortar to fire.
Let the one hundred and ten war horses that have passed the lead, and the mortars will roar and smash to the ground. The barrage cut the heavy cavalry formation in half, and shrapnel and flames flew in the air. The smoke of transpiration obscures the sky!
No matter how thick the heavy armor is worn, no matter how high the martial arts are, how sophisticated the weapons are, they are all in vain. Scattered shrapnel as long as it hits the human body. The armor that looked so strong turned into pieces of paper!
"Calibrate the Yuan, twenty rapid fires." Li Xiao once again revised the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and this time the shells were fired more accurately.
The heavily armored knights who had rushed through the mortar fire network were a little confused, and they did not understand whether to continue the attack or organize a retreat.
Time did not allow them to continue to be confused, and the explosives bags weighing twenty-five pounds dropped by the trebuchet exploded one after another around them. At a distance of more than 1,000 meters, the strong explosion still made Li Xiao feel suffocated.
The sound of the explosion made the war horses behind him retreat one after another.
The knight in iron armor was blown up and flew more than ten meters high, dancing in the sky as a trapeze. A large number of knights fell to the ground, many of them with no scars on their bodies. But a large amount of blood gushed from their mouths and noses, and they were shocked to death.
Although the exterior is still intact, the internal organs have been shattered by the powerful blast shockwave.
"Onboard!" The one who was still alive picked up the cross gun and frantically assaulted Li Xiao's military formation. They know that staying here is a death. Rush forward, maybe there is still a way to live.
At least rush forward, and there is still a chance to exchange a life for a life.
"The Takeda cavalry back then, was it so strong?" After Li Xiao finished speaking, no one cared about him, and glanced back. I found that Man Gui was appeasing his war horse!
Play the harp to the cow! This rammer doesn't know what Takeda cavalry is and what is called a three-stage attack.
But it's very simple, just let someone teach him a lesson.
There are not many heavy armored cavalry left, almost more than two hundred horses. The rest were either stopped outside the fire net, or when they tried to rush over, the mortars were torn to pieces.
In order to increase the impact force, more than 200 armored cavalry attacked forward in a straight formation. The sun shone on the sharp spear tip, giving off a cold glow.
What lovely people! At this time, I did not forget to give full play to the impact of the heavy cavalry. Unfortunately, they were opposite hundreds of Mini rifles armed with dummy rounds.
The armor that can resist bows, arrows, and axes is like a piece of paper in front of a dummy bullet. Hundreds of rifles spewed out scorching bullets and slammed into them!
Blood and fragments of armor splattered everywhere, and horses and men neighed in pain.
The last guy fell about a hundred meters in front of Li Xiao, and one of his legs and arm was broken. The horse was killed, and he crawled on the ground with one of his remaining arms.
The climb was very difficult, leaving shocking blood marks behind him.
But he continued to crawl until he finally stood still. To his death, he still held a katana in his hand.
"Mortars stop firing!" The barrage shooting led to the consumption of ammunition that was too great, and Li Xiao had to order to stop firing.
Wakisaka Yasuharu looked at the battlefield in pain, and the last blood of the Takeda cavalry still died in the hands of firearms. The battlefield is even more miserable than the destruction of the Takeda cavalry back then!
Broken corpses, scattered on the bloody battlefield. That's his most backbone, and Wakisaka Yasuji knows. From today onwards, he is no longer a powerful name in the Wa State. The last bloodline of the Takeda family will also be reduced to a poor person to be slaughtered.
"Rush! Rush! Rush to that gap one more time, and the samurai's blood will not be shed in vain. Anji Wakisaka roared hoarsely. The katana in his hand was drawn from its scabbard, and several attendants served on the horses.
This time, Wakisaka Yasuharu wants to organize the whole army to charge, and since he can't live noblely, it's better to die honorably. There are still 19,000 men and horses under his command, fight once! Fight again!
Either the Ming army was destroyed, or he fell on the way to the charge.
"Stop!" A voice sounded in the back, and Asaharu Wakisaka's wolf-like eyes glared back. Whoever dares to stop him from attacking now will cut it first.
The katana swung up, but he couldn't cut it.
The person who came was actually Tokugawa Ieyasu, followed by a large number of elite samurai. In front of Tokugawa Ieyasu, his subordinates were like quails.
"Go and stop the Maori people!" Tokugawa Ieyasu coldly ordered.
Mori Terumen was organizing his men and horses to attack the position of the Franco's machine guns. But Tokugawa Ieyasu is eyeball, as long as he kills those ten cannons. Even if it was a loss of 2,000 people, Maori Huiyuan decided to fight.
"My lord! Mr. Li said that he could deal with those cannons, so you don't have to fight hard. "Mori Terumoto was about to order the whole army to attack, when suddenly Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon, who was sent to Li Xiao's army, rode over on horseback.
"Jiang Zuojun, there is no joke in the army." Mori Terumoto glared at Ezuo Shinyouemon and shouted.
"Look, lord of the domain!" Ezo Shinyouemon pointed to the position of the Tokugawa Army's Furoro machine gun.
When Mori Terumoto turned his head, he heard a loud explosion. Large piles of dirt were blown up, like black ceremonial flowers. When Li Xiao looked at him again, the gunners of the two bronze cannons were nervously clearing and loading.
That thing can hit that far!
Maori Terumen was shocked beyond words, and yesterday he saw that kind of cannon could hit far away. But Maori Terumen never dreamed that he could hit so far. This is seriously beyond his imagination!
"Go back! Help the Ming army hold their ground! "Mori Terumoto gave the order to return to the army.
At the same time, he looked at Li Xiao's equipment greedily, if it wasn't for the front of the two armies. He even had the idea of taking advantage of the chaos to kill the Ming army and rob them of their equipment.
But now it is the period of unity, and there is also a Tokugawa Ieyasu on the other side. Mori Terumoto is a person who understands, and this can only be cheaper for Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Maybe after defeating Tokugawa Ieyasu, find a chance to ......!
Maori Teruyuan squinted his eyes and calculated!
The situation on the battlefield was already very clear, and the Tokugawa army was constantly retreating. Having learned the lesson of yesterday, their retreat was very rigorous.
Seeing a large area of swaying back flags in the distance, Li Xiao refused Man Gui's request to pursue. Without the cover of artillery fire, Man Gui would be trapped in a sea of infantry.
At the same time as Tokugawa Ieyasu retreated, a large number of warships suddenly appeared on the sea. It looks like there are hundreds of them!
Yesterday just defeated the Kumano naval army, could it be that Tokugawa Ieyasu sent more ships today?
"My lord, there are a lot of ships." There are shadows of sails on the sea, and those ships are actually only the vanguard. Further afield, on the sea, it is not known how many warships there were.
"Nani!" Mori Terumoto looked in horror in the direction of Nagato Port.
The warships kept honking their horns, and they rushed into Nagato Harbor as if no one was around. Under the command of Li Xiu, the Maori family and the Ming navy set anchor one after another and met the fleet in the distance.
Li Xiao just glanced at the fleet in the distance, didn't pay much attention to it, and just stared at the retreating Tokugawa army.