Chapter 444: Battle of Iwaya (Part II)
The battlefield on the right was the battlefield where the Japanese offensive was most intense.
In order to break through the right flank of the Xia army, Ogasawara Nagaji took the lead and led the samurai troops to the right flank, and he also saw the "weakness" of the Xia army's lack of proficiency in close combat, so he immediately concentrated all the cavalry and ordered his trusted retainers to lead the cavalry to form several huge conical formations, intending to tear apart the Xia army's front with cavalry and open a hole for the samurai troops.
Ogasawara Nagaji's retainer Yasone Shigekei once fought during the Shimabara Rebellion, and he personally led the cavalry to kill the line infantry in a slightly exaggerated armor and two huge antler-like ornaments on his helmet.
Seeing the Japanese cavalry attacking, the Xia army quickly responded, the artillerymen on the hillside turned their guns and launched artillery bombardment at the same time as the Japanese cavalry approached, while the line infantry lined up against the hillside formed a small hollow phalanx with a company as a unit.
"Fire!"
Rumble –
Several artillery pieces roared together, and the huge recoil made the heavy artillery retreat a meter away, and the cannonballs flew at high speed towards the candidacing cavalry formation, falling head-on into the crowd, and immediately killed and injured dozens of horsemen.
Not only that, after killing several horsemen, the cannonball that continued to ricochelate forward with inertia could directly cut off the horse's hooves, causing the horse and the cavalry on its back to fall heavily to the ground, like dominoes, causing casualty and casualty.
"Enemy shelling, disperse!"
At the moment of being shelled, Angen Chongjing shouted loudly, ordering the cavalry to disperse and reduce the area affected by the shelling, although this did reduce the casualties under the shelling, but it still left a deep psychological shadow on the cavalry, especially the war horses under their crotch, the Japanese war horses were not as accustomed to the roar of artillery fire as the cavalry of the neighboring countries with a strip of water, they jogged while playing the uneasy trunk, shaking their heads, and the cavalry could only continue to comfort their companions under the crotch and let them gradually calm down.
"Increase your speed, charge!"
As the distance between the two armies narrowed, An Gen Chongjing finally ordered to increase the speed, as he gave the order, the cavalry that was still jogging immediately increased the speed, more than two thousand cavalry began to run, their speed became faster and faster, and while running, the loose formation began to gradually close, if you look down from the sky, you can see that the Japanese cavalry formed a number of huge cones.
"Charge! Crush them!"
An Gen Chongjing took the lead in shouting, his voice fell, and the cavalry behind him also let out a battle cry, although from time to time cannonballs fell from the sky and smashed into the ground and the running army, but it did not interrupt their running formation.
As the Japanese cavalry rushed into the range of the Type 2 rifle, the light infantry who were still outside the phalanx raised their guns and fired, and under their sniping, from time to time someone screamed and fell off their horses, and then was caught in the hooves of the horses, but those horses that lost their owners did not flee, but were carried by the cavalry and continued to run forward.
Seeing the Japanese army rushing at high speed, the light infantry outside the phalanx turned around and retreated, they fled directly into the phalanx, protected themselves with the phalanx of line infantry, and hurriedly loaded the rifle with ammunition after the situation was safe, and after the light infantry retreated, the line infantry facing the cavalry also raised their guns to shoot at the enemy under the order of the commander.
For a time, the gunfire on the right flank battlefield was endless, and more cavalry were shot and fell off their horses in the charge, and after the cavalry team rushed through this area, there were more miserable pieces of minced meat on the ground.
In this case, no matter what the identity is, and no matter what the armor on the body is, once you fall off the horse, you can only be trampled into flesh by the war horse.
"Kill!"
In the earth-shattering roar, the Japanese cavalry bravely collided head-on with the Xia army formation, and the Qiben cavalry who rushed to the front directly raised the cavalry spear in their hands at the moment of collision and threw it towards the Xia army.
After throwing out the cavalry spear, the Qiben cavalry quickly pulled out the katana at his waist and rushed head-on into the Xia army formation that was destroyed in formation, the samurai
The knife slashed hard, and a good human head flew up with the gushing blood.
Under the terrible impact of the Japanese cavalry, many phalanxes of the Xia army were instantly scattered, and the soldiers inside were either knocked down and knocked over, and then trampled to death under the horse's hooves, or were cut under the horse by various weapons.
After breaking up several Xia military formations, the Japanese army was immediately caught in the killing of the Xia army's projectiles fired from all directions, and the Xia soldiers angrily fired revenge bullets at the enemy, killing those who slaughtered their comrades, and the grenadiers even threw grenades directly, causing the grenades to explode in the crowded cavalry, creating a small area of no man's land.
In a short period of time, although the Japanese cavalry killed and wounded many infantry, they also paid a lot of casualties in the subsequent battle, but the Japanese cavalry was not ready to fall into hand-to-hand combat with the Xia infantry.
After the words fell, he led the cavalry that could still obey him and rushed to the hillside, but before the Japanese cavalry could rush out of a distance, a group of cavalry in red robes came from the side, and the group of cavalry was the Xia cavalry who were ambushed behind the hillside - the Xia Cossack cavalry decisively raised their carbines before engaging the enemy, and fired a volley at the Japanese cavalry who intended to climb the hillside, and then the Cossack cavalry put down their carbines, drew their sabers, and roared and crashed into the Japanese cavalry.
The Japanese cavalry were first killed by a volley of carbines before the engagement, and then they were caught up in a fierce melee battle by the Cossack cavalry, who wielded sharp sabers and engaged Japanese cavalry armed with samurai swords and mounted spears.
As we all know, the samurai sword used by the Japanese army is too sharp, so the shape is slender and sharp, which is not conducive to long-term chopping, and the saber used by the Xia army is of better quality than the Japanese army.
Dressed in strangely shaped armor, Angen Chongjing became the target of the Xia army's fire, he faced the Xia cavalry that surrounded him, he could only swing his knife and resist hard, but after his knife and a Cossack cavalry slashed each other, only to hear a sonorous sound, the katana was actually directly cut apart, a blade flew out, Angen Chongjing's face was stunned, and he suddenly noticed that it was not good, he just wanted to turn the horse's head and escape, and killed a cavalryman from the side and rear, and raised his hand to cut off his head.
The death of Angen Shigekei plunged this part of the Japanese cavalry into chaos, and the cavalry began to fight separately as if they had lost their backbone, and just as they were about to retreat, the battlefield under the hillside sounded a Japanese battle cry, and it turned out that the samurai infantry unit led by Ogasawara Nagaji himself arrived in time, and the samurai in iron armor raised their katana swords and shouted and rushed towards the Xia infantry.
The Xia army had just been thrown into confusion by the Japanese cavalry, and could not reorganize the line to defend against the enemy, so they could only use the company as a unit to shoot at the onrushing Japanese samurai.
But then, they rushed to the latter in the face of the Xia army's shots, and engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the Xia army's infantry, Ogasawara Nagaji personally went into battle to kill the enemy, he swung his knife and cut off the arm of a line infantry holding a rifle, and then the blade turned and struggled to cut off the opponent's head, which fell to the ground, and his face still had a dazed look before death.
The Japanese samurai did not disappoint the feudal lords and daimyos, and under the frantic attack of the Japanese samurai, the Xia infantry, which was almost fighting separately, had to retreat one after another, and the entire right flank also declined.
"Retreat to the hillside and take advantage of the terrain!"
In the melee, the company commanders shouted to the surrounding soldiers and personally led the team to fight and retreat to the hillside, intending to use the terrain of the hillside to reorganize the defensive line, but the Japanese samurai did not
There was a rush to attack, but relying on force to forcibly rescue the cavalry team that was deeply encircled, and less than half of the 2,000 cavalry originally put into the attack were left in such a short period of time, and the huge casualties and the death of Angen Chongjing made them not have the courage to continue fighting and began to withdraw from the battlefield.
Taking advantage of the Japanese samurai to meet the cavalry, the defeated Xia army also began to regroup, they occupied the terrain on the hillside and hurriedly loaded ammunition, and the artillerymen on the hillside also spontaneously replaced solid shells with shotguns, and pushed the guns forward, pointing the muzzle downwards at the Japanese troops below.
Just after the Japanese army launched another attack, the artillery lit the fuse and bombarded the Japanese army formation with shotguns, although the distance was not too close, but the dense barrage shot was still able to kill and injure a large number of Japanese soldiers, those Japanese samurai were immediately killed by the shotgun hundreds of people, the army was unstable, the Xia infantry reorganized on the hillside and the Xia cavalry who ended the battle in the distance accurately seized this opportunity and launched a counterattack against the Japanese army.
"Attack! Avenge the robes!"
Bang bang bang –
Accompanied by bursts of gunfire, the line infantry roared and charged at the Japanese army below after firing the bullets in the barrel, and the Japanese army had not yet come out of the shelling that had just been killed and wounded by a large number of shotguns, and then they were shot again, and were forced to fall into a white-knuckle battle with the Xia army again, and the Xia army Cossack cavalry also roared into the battlefield at this time.
They raised their sabers and roared head-on into the Japanese samurai's formation, knocking down all the samurai in front of them, and getting caught up in the horses' hooves.
As for that Ogasawara Nagaji, he knew that his costume was special than that of ordinary samurai, and in order to avoid becoming the target of the Xia army, he decisively took off the special helmet on his head and threw it on the ground, and rushed out on a war horse in a hurry.