Chapter 282: A Rare Proving Ground
In the cold weapon battlefield, what kind of scene is it when a dense formation of 100,000 people collapses in an instant?
It can only be said that at this moment, it is really as terrifying as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
The cries of countless people came together like a tsunami of mountains and mountains, and everyone was running frantically, not even knowing what was happening.
As long as you fall to the ground, you will never have a chance to get up, and the desperate wail before death makes people suspect that you are in hell!
At this moment, there is no difference in identity.
What daimyos, what samurai, what retainers, like countless peasant soldiers, were carried by the crowd and fled directionlessly!
Zhao Hengyi, who was watching the battle, was not even willing to let the soldiers of the A-word battalion and the B-shaped battalion pursue, such a chaotic scene, the two thousand Qiongzhou regiment training was sprinkled into it, just like sprinkling a handful of sesame seeds in a big pot of porridge, turning a few rolls, and you couldn't find it.
Zhang Can, who was on the verge of receiving the enemy, also discovered the chaos of the battlefield, and the sharp bamboo whistle sounded non-stop, short and urgent, urging all the soldiers to withdraw to the castle of Hirado.
There was no further pursuit, giving many of the Daimyo's coalition a chance to survive.
Those peasant soldiers have never been Zhao Hengyi's target, and they have never been the objects that need to be exterminated on the battlefield.
Each of these people represents a precious labor force, and in the land of the Japanese Kingdom, Zhao Hengyi's view remains unchanged, and the most precious and valuable thing is the people themselves.
Under the rule of the daimyo, these farmers are like weeds in the field, trampled on wantonly, in everyone's minds, including themselves, they all have the same idea, farmers, after cutting a stubble, they will always grow a new batch of their own.
It is said that people in troubled times are not as good as dogs, and today's Wa country is no worse than in troubled times, and they are most fortunate that they are on the island country, without strong foreign enemies raging, and they still care about population and long-term development behind closed doors.
If these guys were allowed to relocate to the land, with a strong enemy like the barbarians beside them, I am afraid that the country would have been wiped out long ago.
If the Great Yan Kingdom was expropriated and extorted, and there were various tax and silver as covers, then the daimyo of the Japanese Kingdom were even more outrageous, and they tied up the vast majority of the people in this country under their rule from the land rent alone.
As for the killing of the daimyo and generals, what will happen in the territory is no longer something that these peasant soldiers need to think about, and they can't think about it, there is only one thought left in everyone's heads, that is, to escape!
The loud roar, the huge fire that exploded in the crowd, and the smoke that rose into the air all made people instinctively frightened!
On the battlefield, it is not only hot weapons that cause casualties, but also trampling and indiscriminate attacks to escape, causing casualties far more than flying thunder cannons and firearms.
If I had to say that thermal weapons had the most commendable lethal record in this war, it would be the daimyo and generals who stood at the front of the coalition forces.
Whether these guys die or not will not have much impact on this battle, even if all the daimyo and samurai are alive, they will not be able to prevent the rout of their peasant soldiers, let alone gather the remnants and retreat in an orderly manner.
In the first round of attacks, they were accurately harvested by the firecrackers, and their results were reflected in the subsequent impact.
After this battle, the daimyo of the entire Kyushu will lose more than eighty percent!
In addition, the retainers and samurai brought by these daimyo to go out on the expedition also lost most of them.
It is impossible to predict how chaotic Kyushu Island will fall into in the future, and the theory of division of fields that Zhao Hengyi let Zhou Yonglin experiment with will lose the greatest constraint, and as it intensifies, even Zhao Hengyi, a modern person, cannot say where the entire Kyushu Island will go.
The current theory of field division is incomplete, and in fact, it can only be regarded as a layman's Zhao Hengyi's theory, and there will inevitably be all kinds of mistakes in actual operation.
And these mistakes, just discovered, need to bear huge losses.
Come up with ways to fix these flaws, keep experimenting, find them again, and fix them......
It is an extremely long and complex process, in which countless people will suffer.
This is the fundamental reason why Zhao Hengyi wants to experiment with the theory of division of land in the land of the Japanese state, in this ignorant world, the difference between races is infinitely magnified, and he can make his compatriots take fewer detours and suffer less, so they must find others to suffer for them!
This kind of law has existed for thousands of years, and it has long become the default rule of all ethnic groups, and Zhao Hengyi is just following the customs of the locals.
Zhang Can held the fire gun tightly in his hand, and the cold gun tube silently reminded him that everything he saw in front of him was real, not in a terrifying dream.
I never imagined that when an army of 100,000 people fled, it would be such an indescribable scene in front of me.
Zhang Can suddenly remembered the rumors he had heard in the border army.
Decades ago, the barbarians made a big move on the border, and the long-weakened border army resisted hard, as a result, the military grain and grass were somehow delayed in delivering to the front line, and the entire defense line collapsed in a very short time......
300,000 soldiers, driven by the barbarian iron cavalry, fled to the hinterland of the Great Yan Kingdom, like wild beasts in the mountains and forests, hunted by barbarians riding horses and carrying bows......
Accumulated white bones, stretching for hundreds of miles!
No one wants to resist, everyone only has the idea of running for their lives in their heads, even if they understand that two legs can't outrun the four legs of a war horse, they just continue to run numbly......
was caught up by the barbarian cavalry, and did not look back, blindly fleeing in the direction of home......
300,000 people were scattered on the stretching border, and less than 10,000 people fled back to the Great Yan Kingdom.
And in front of them, these people claim to be 200,000, squeezing out water, and 100,000 people also have them.
With such a wolf rushing to the pig, how many people can escape from this battlefield alive?
Having never seen the power of hot weapons, it is not surprising that the coalition forces are in a dense formation, and at the same time, in Zhao Hengyi's opinion, the rout of these people is not unusual.
It is crushing, and when the quality of soldiers and weapons are at the level of crushing, the number of people becomes no longer important.
These peasant soldiers did not have the courage to attack with projectiles and flying thunder cannons, which was also one of the peculiar modes of the war between the Japanese and the Japanese at this time.
In this era when the daimyo were numerous, there was little difference between the peasants and slaves in the territory, and it was extremely common to oppress and torture at will.
Moreover, wars or battles never disappeared from the land of the Wa Kingdom, and the daimyo fought against each other, and the peasants and soldiers were the best cannon fodder, but over the decades, the population increased instead of falling......
Therefore, in terms of defeat and escape, the peasants and soldiers have rich experience and background, and the casualties caused by the rout may be far lower than the expectations of Zhao Hengyi, the people of the Great Yan Kingdom.