Chapter 281: Crushing
The daimyo claimed to be a coalition of 200,000 people, and their backward means of coordination made their recruited peasant soldiers constantly flee during the march.
And the daimyo who found that the peasant soldiers under his command had escaped were also extremely skillful in dealing with it, that is, they continued to recruit on the spot, and they didn't care who was the farmer in their territory, and when they saw it, they pulled into the team and issued a bamboo gun, and the identity of the other party instantly changed to a small soldier!
Such an outrageous mode of operation is accustomed to everyone in the Japanese country.
There was even a daimyo whose territory was far away from Hirado Castle, and when the army he led rushed to Hirado Castle, the peasant soldiers under his command were almost changed!
These loosely gathered coalition forces, said to be a rabble, can be regarded as lifting them.
According to the eyes of the veterans of the Qiongzhou regimental training, the so-called 200,000 coalition troops are not comparable in strength compared to the local guards of the Great Yan Kingdom!
Even if there were no samurai raised by those daimyos, this so-called 200,000 allied army might not be able to defeat those local officials and troops like Hanako in the Great Yan Kingdom.
The Qiongzhou regimental training, which was originally overwhelmed by the overwhelming momentum of the daimyos, and was somewhat uneasy, instantly formulated the operational concept of saving ammunition after seeing the so-called coalition forces again!
After all, whether it is a projectile gunpowder or a gunpowder package for a flying thunder cannon, it needs to be transported from Sanya Bay by sea ship.
Before the supply line was completely unblocked, the projectile gunpowder and gunpowder packs were used a little less, and the Qiongzhou regiment practiced the habit of top-down, never pinning their hopes on outsiders.
Even if the Tang family's fleet is extremely familiar with the route to and from the Japanese Kingdom, these people in the Qiongzhou regiment training are still stubbornly insisting on their own ideas, and they will definitely not let themselves fall into a situation where there is no ammunition to use until the last moment!
The mode of warfare that the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom were familiar with was siege warfare, and whether their so-called castle was just a village made of wood in the eyes of the Qiongzhou regimental training, or a rare and serious castle like Hirado Castle, everyone was keen to siege the castle in battle.
So much so that everyone has formed a mindset, and occasionally a certain ghost and clever person abandons the siege battle and chooses to ambush on the route of the opponent's march, which can be touted everywhere by people like a clever military god!
In the face of the loose marching posture of the coalition forces of the daimyo, even if Zhao Hengyi and his Qiongzhou regiment were scornful of the enemy's combat quality, they did not choose the method of ambush halfway.
It is really a halfway ambush tactic for Zhao Hengyi and his Qiongzhou team to lose money, to break up the so-called coalition forces in advance, resulting in a stalemate situation in which you chase after me, which is not a good choice for the Qiongzhou regiment training of only about 2,000 people in the Japanese country.
Give the coalition time to let them really gather all the horses together, and then defeat them in one go, let everyone remember the great fear brought by the fire guns and flying thunder cannons, and let everyone who has seen this battle preach the invincibility and might of the Qiongzhou regimental training, which is the goal of the whole battle!
The coalition army, which claims to have 200,000 troops, had about 100,000 people when they arrived at Hirado Castle, which was already a remarkable sight in the place where the Japanese kingdom was full of daimyos.
As soon as the chaotic camp was settled, the famous daimyo gathered together, thinking that they were majestic, and they were ready to use the crowd tactics to completely submerge Hirado Castle, and a dull roar came from the sky!
In this era, even if you have heard countless descriptions of the Flying Thunder Cannon, you can't imagine the tremendous power that this hot weapon, which can be called a big killer, can burst out on a dense cold weapon battlefield!
The gunners, who had plenty of time to calculate the landing point of the gunpowder pack, evenly scattered the targets bombarded by the ten flying thunder cannons in the formation of the coalition forces, and with just one salvo, they didn't know how many people would be sent to Bliss!
The uniform distribution makes the lethality released by the gunpowder pack, which has undergone several improvements, almost achieve the most perfect utilization efficiency!
Every time the gunpowder bag hits, there will be countless people who fall to the ground like wheat cut by a sickle!
At the center of the explosion, the limbs of the unlucky ghosts who were in the middle of the gunpowder bag were torn apart and scattered into the sky, and even the people who knew them best could not piece these stumps and severed arms together.
And the Japanese people who are a little far away from the explosion point will be crossed by the terrifying shock wave, and they will directly bleed from the seven orifices, and their death is unknown!
In the eyes of those peasants and soldiers who were temporarily conscripted together, the Flying Thunder Cannon was an unfathomable means comparable to that of ghosts and gods!
With just one salvo, the coalition forces of nearly 100,000 people were in chaos!
And the A and B battalions, which had been waiting for a long time, lined up in a neat queue like a silent statue in the sharp bamboo whistle, slowly approaching the coalition forces all over the mountains!
The roar of the firearms continued to explode, and the Qiongzhou regiment that entered the firing range practiced using the weapons in their hands without scruples to harvest the army that the daimyo had put together.
In order to show their strength and show the determination of the Daimyo of Kyushu, those daimyo who took the initiative to gather in front of the coalition army formation became the first spoils of war harvested by the firecrackers!
The fire bolt and the flying thunder cannon attack almost at the same time, and the two sides are superimposed, showing the crushing advantage of hot weapons on the cold weapon battlefield to the fullest!
The coalition forces that gathered together like an ant colony immediately fled in all directions with the momentum of a tsunami of mountains, lakes and tsunamis!
Even many of the fleeing peasants had no idea what was happening, and after hearing the roar like thunder, they saw from a distance that their army seemed to have been attacked by the gods, and the flames and smoke that exploded were bursting into flames, symbolizing the scythe of death!
Then, the people standing in front began to turn their heads and flee for their lives, the peasants cried and shouted for their mothers, running for their lives without purpose, they had been simply and rudely arranged into a dense formation, and if they wanted to escape at this time, these peasants would be horrified to find that they were all people in front of and behind, and they were all panicked deserters who were going downhill like themselves!
The stampede appeared uncontrollably, behind him was the sound of fire guns still ringing, and the ears were full of shouts of crying and fleeing, under the group effect, no one could stop this rout!
Countless people were pushed to the ground, and then trampled into the dirt by the big soles of their companions......
Some people threw away everything they could in the process of escaping, and bamboo guns and all kinds of rudimentary weapons were scattered all over the place, becoming traps that prevented their companions from escaping.
Some people even aimed their weapons at their companions who were blocking their escape route, and at this moment, anyone who hindered their escape from this hellish battlefield was their enemy!