Ahead, the battle is gradually kicking off.

As the distance between the two armies closed, the light infantry running at the front was the first to stop, and they all got down on one knee, raised their rifles, and fired at the Japanese troops who were slowly advancing in the distance.

Bang - Bang -

A light infantryman took aim at the flag-bearer, he calmed his breath slightly, then pulled the trigger, and the projectile flew away, and after a few seconds, the targeted flag bearer did not fall, but a blood mist exploded on the chest of a ashigaru beside him, and he fell on his back.

The light infantry cursed in his heart, spat on the ground, hoping to dispel the bad luck of the mistake, while holding the rifle diagonally in front of him, he took out a paper cartridge from the ammunition pack on his waist, bit off one end, spit out the confetti in his mouth, poured a small amount of gunpowder into the rifle powder pool, stuffed the remaining paper cartridge into the barrel, compacted it through, and then raised the rifle again and aimed at the standard-bearer.

The poor standard-bearer had no idea that he had been targeted twice, he carried the heavy battle flag, and let out a battle cry with the ashigaru around him, in order to boost the morale of his own army, but a few seconds later, a small projectile flew in front of him, which was difficult to catch with the naked eye, and before the standard-bearer could react, he felt a pain in his abdomen, and his whole body instantly flowed towards the wound in his abdomen, his legs weakened, and he fell to the ground on his knees and fell to the ground with the flag.

Seeing this, there was a small commotion around Ashigaru, but soon one of Ashigaru stepped forward to pick up the fallen battle flag, take over the position of the standard-bearer, and lead the dense spear army forward.

As the distance between the two armies continued to get closer, the killing efficiency of the light infantry gradually increased, and the artillery erected on the hillside on the right side could also hit the crowd more accurately.

After the Japanese army got closer, the light infantry began to turn and retreat, and instead of continuing to shoot at the enemy in front of the line infantry formation, they followed the passage reserved in advance into the rear of the line and handed over the battlefield to the mainstay of the Xia army, the line infantry.

"Forward!"

The company commanders walked in the forefront, holding high the command knife, and the Xia soldiers in red uniforms followed closely, and they held their rifles in front of them, until they entered the range of the Type II rifle, and the company commanders finally ordered to stop advancing.

Immediately, the first row of line infantry brushed their rifles and raised their rifles, put the butts on their shoulders, and aimed at the Japanese soldiers who were slowly approaching in the distance, and the next second, only to hear the roars of the officers of each company, the soldiers in the front row pulled the trigger one after another, fireworks and projectiles erupted from the muzzle, and the row of projectiles flew quickly to the Japanese military formation on the opposite side, easily penetrating the armor on Ashigaru's body, and suddenly hundreds of Japanese Ashigaru fell screaming.

A young ashigaru soldier followed his fellow uncle closely, and after a series of crackling gunshots rang out in front of him, the skull of the uncle in front of him was suddenly opened by the projectile, and the flying blood and brains sprayed his face, and the young ashigaru was stunned in place and did not dare to move, his mind was blank, and great fear arose from the bottom of his heart.

Ashigaru beside him wouldn't give him a chance to breathe, and continued to drag him forward, young Ashigaru trembling his legs across the still convulsive corpse of his fellow countryman, and a smell of urine gradually wafted away, mixed with the strong smell of blood, disgusting.

No one cared about a low-level ashigaru peeing his pants, and the ashigaru were dragged forward to move forward, while the bowed ashigaru behind them began to stop, obeying the order to take an arrow from the quiver, put it on the longbow, and under the command of the ashigaru, set up the bow and lead the arrow, and threw a rain of arrows into the sky.

I saw a rain of black arrows rising from the rear of the Japanese army, cutting arcs in mid-air, falling into the line of the Xia army that was shooting, and suddenly hundreds of Xia soldiers fell from the arrows.

Under the blow of the rain of arrows, some soldiers were pierced by arrows in their necks, blood gushed out, and they could only slowly kneel to the ground while covering their wounds, some soldiers were hit by several arrows and died on the spot, and some soldiers did not die on the spot, lying on the ground and struggling in pain.

As Miyamoto Iori said, the Xia army was relatively weak in the fight against long-range strikes, and was easily killed by a large number of enemy long-range fire, but the Xia army did not appear chaotic because of the rain of arrows falling from the sky

Close to your own gun.

In order to reduce the casualties of being shot by the Xia army, General Ashigaru immediately ordered the gunashigaru to run up and charge the Xia army.

As the order was issued, the gunneru people held the gun in both hands, held the bamboo gun in front of them, and then charged at the Xia army in the shout, when they charged, there were also shells flying from time to time, smashing head-on into the crowd, knocking dozens of people to the ground, and the projectiles shot by the Xia army from the front also continued to kill the gun, and the ashigaru fell one after another.

Ashigaru head held a katana, and shouted orders to their subordinates to charge forward, a ashigaru head saw with his own eyes, the ashigaru who was running in the front kept being shot and fell under the volley of the Xia army, a ashigaru was shot by an oncoming projectile while running, and the blood quickly gushed out, he covered his wound in pain to stop the blood from spurting out, but the blood still continued to flow outward, and his whole person fell to the ground with inertia, still struggling to reach out and climb forward, muttering something in his mouth, and blood kept gushing out of his mouth, After struggling for dozens of seconds, he tilted his head and lay on the ground without moving.

This kind of person who was shot by a rifle projectile is relatively lucky, at least they still keep the whole corpse, and from time to time on the battlefield, you can see the shells falling into the crowd, directly cutting off the head of the head of Ashigaru, the body of Ashigaru who lost his head is still running forward with inertia, and the blood is like a fountain from the gap in the neck spurting out several meters high, and after running for several steps, the body finally lost its support and fell to the ground.

The headless corpses gushing with blood undoubtedly left a great psychological shadow on the hearts of many people, so many of Ashigaru's hearts began to shake more and more, but when they looked at the ashgaru generals and ashigaru heads wielding katana swords, they immediately dispelled the idea of escaping, and could only continue to charge.

However, as they rushed into a distance of fifty paces, the situation was reversed in an instant, and the Xia army withstood the rain of arrows that continued to fall from the sky, and fired a denser and more fierce salvo at Ashigaru, no army in this world could withstand such a close-range salvo.

I saw a row of dazzling fires suddenly explode in front of the Xia army's line, and the Japanese troops in the charge fell like ears of rice after autumn, and Ashigaru's will to fight finally collapsed, and they no longer ran forward, but screamed, turned and retreated, and even threw the bulky bamboo gun directly on the ground, so that they could run faster.

After the ashigaru team was defeated, the line infantry immediately launched a counter-charge, the Xia soldiers held up their rifles equipped with bayonets, shouted and strode after the fleeing Japanese soldiers, they stepped over the scattered Japanese corpses, ignoring the wounded soldiers who were not dead and wailing in pain, and soon caught up with the short Japanese soldiers, stabbed their bayonets from their fragile backs, and directly stabbed them in the heart.

At the same time as the rout of the Chinese Japanese army, the Japanese troops on both flanks were also engaged in fierce battles with the Xia army, and on the left side of the battlefield, the iron artillery team led by Tachibana Tadashige was firing at the Xia army on the left flank.

Although the Japanese army was equipped with arquebuses called iron cannons, their momentum in mutual fire was not inferior to that of the Xia army armed with flintlock pistols, and the Japanese army continued to vent its dense firepower to the Xia army with three shots, and the Xia army was not to be outdone, and each volley fired by each row could take away a hundred soldiers on the opposite side.

The battle mode of the two sides is completely authentic queue shooting, you fight one round, I shoot one round, and they shoot each other happily, and the entire left-wing battlefield is almost everywhere with gunpowder smoke after burning, and the gunfire continues, and the faces of the soldiers of the two armies are about to be blackened by the gunpowder smoke, and every breath of air they breathe inhale into their lungs is also choking gunsmoke.

In order to open up the situation, the third infantry standard staff general sitting on the left flank battlefield decided to stop firing with the Japanese army, he took the lead, led his subordinates to take the initiative to advance to the Japanese army, the Japanese iron artillery team saw that the Xia army actually stopped shooting, naturally ecstatic, took the opportunity to continue to export to the Xia army, and shot many Xia soldiers.

The continuous sound of gunfire could not drown the rhythmic drumbeat of the drummers of the Xia army, and the soldiers struggled to advance against the rain of bullets from the iron artillery team, until they advanced the battle line to a distance of less than thirty paces from the Japanese iron artillery team, and they finally stopped.

After stopping, the third standard staff general raised his command knife and slashed down into the void in front of him, and the first row of Xia soldiers quickly filled the vacant position, then raised his rifle and opened fire on the Japanese army thirty paces away.

Bang bang bang –

At this distance, they could even see the hideous faces and complex expressions on the faces of the Japanese soldiers, but after pulling the trigger, the gunpowder smoke erupted along with the projectiles, blocking their view, and the projectiles fired also accurately killed a large number of iron cannons.

At such a close distance, the line infantry can shoot at the target almost without aiming, after the first row of soldiers finished shooting, the last two rows of soldiers almost blindly shot in the smoke of gunpowder by instinct, after the Xia army fired three rounds of volleys in succession, many corpses had fallen in front of the Japanese front, and its battle line was crumbling, the Japanese iron artillery team had never encountered such tactics, and the army's heart was violently shaken, and for a time they even forgot to shoot.

The Xia army will not give them the opportunity to continue to shoot wantonly, the third standard staff general raised the command knife again, and ordered to charge the Japanese army to start a white-knuckle battle, the line infantry immediately raised their rifles, roared and rushed towards the Japanese army, the Japanese army hurriedly pulled out their sabers to meet the battle, but was soon drowned in the wave of the Xia army's charge, Tachibana Tadashige abandoned the infantry in the melee and led the mother clothes to break out, and the Japanese right flank immediately collapsed.