Chapter 283: Blockade of the Port
It is not too unusual to fight a war between two powerful daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, and each dispatch tens of thousands of people.
Two characters like village chiefs and township chiefs beat each other, and it sounds extremely bluffing to dispatch so many people, but in fact, after a fight, the two sides together may only kill about a dozen people.
This is not a joke, but the norm in the current battle scene of the Wa Kingdom.
Almost all of the armies dispatched by the daimyo were made up of peasant soldiers, and the so-called soldiers were farmers who had just put down their hoes and picked up bamboo guns.
Although these farmers of the Japanese kingdom have been used to being oppressed, and have even developed a submissive character, it does not mean that they are fools.
Battles between daimyo were usually led by samurai, with both sides meeting and charging, and if one of the samurai was defeated, a rout ensued.
The peasants and soldiers who spend most of their time acting as the atmosphere group of waving flags and shouting have already developed the ability to turn around and flee when they see that the limelight is not right, anyway, this kind of field battle between the two armies usually takes place between two territories, and it is the most basic operation to go out to fight in the morning and run home before noon.
In such cases, it is not surprising that the conquests between the daimyo often lasted for decades or even generations, and the so-called feud formed.
The only thing that really needs to show strength and can be called a tough battle is siege warfare.
The daimyo of the Wa Kingdom themselves also knew in their hearts what kind of war was in the day, so in their art of war, the most advocated was siege warfare, after all, this thing still has some technical content, and some more people will die.
And the formation of a coalition army to besiege Hirado Castle with 100,000 people, although it was also a big scene in terms of numbers alone, it was not enough to move these daimyos.
After all, everyone fights with each other on weekdays, and they can mobilize tens of millions of people, dozens of daimyo to join forces, and the coalition army of 100,000 is already because the peasant soldiers are too difficult to manage, and the peasant soldiers who fled home without permission along the way are combined, I am afraid that the number of coalition troops will be several times the number!
The flying thunder cannons and firecrackers used in the Qiongzhou regimental training, not to mention ordinary peasant soldiers, even those daimyo and samurai did not have this knowledge and expectation.
So when the 100,000 allied forces were defeated, the daimyo and samurai who had escaped the harvest of the fire guns were also confused!
Why did things turn out to be like this?
100,000 people attacked Hirado Castle, which was only garrisoned by 2,000 people, and it was a field battle in which the other side took the initiative to go out of the city, so why was it we who were defeated?
What about 100,000 people, even if everyone spits a mouthful of spit, I'm afraid they can spray each other's 2,000 people to death, right?
As the rout continued, the Qiongzhou regimental training finally launched a pursuit, or it was more appropriate to clean up the battlefield.
The deserters scattered all over the mountains fled in all directions, and when they looked down from the sky, they saw that the ground was full of people.
As the dense formation spreads out, there are fewer stampedes and mutual attacks, and all the Armor Battalion needs to do is to screen out those who have identity from among these deserters.
The special customs of the Wa Kingdom make those guys with identity like fireflies in the dark night among the deserters, they can't hide it, and they are extremely conspicuous!
Ragged clothes, only armed with a bamboo gun, no need to ask, it must be a temporary conscription of farmers, these people can not be killed indiscriminately, and there is no value of captivity, according to the explanation of the Hou Ye, let them leave on their own.
Those guys who are dressed in bright and dazzling carcasses and equipped with long knives must be samurai, such people can just shoot them with guns, according to Hou Ye, most of these glamorous samurai are poor ghosts, even if they are caught, because it is difficult to fry out oil and water, but because they eat too much, they will waste food and can't keep it.
As for those guys who are still wearing gorgeous Japanese costumes on the battlefield, and even riding short horses, these are the key targets of everyone's pursuit!
The Wa Kingdom did not produce war horses, and the horses were usually short, and the horses that could be ridden were worth a lot of money, and the ones who could afford to ride horses were either daimyo whose territory was large enough and wealthy enough, or they were the heirs or important people of these daimyos.
The capture of such a captive is not in vain for the brothers to pursue.
It's just that Zhao Hengyi still has too little understanding of the national conditions of the Japanese State, and the instructions given are inevitably biased.
For example, those guys dressed in gorgeous carcass pills are very likely to be some kind of down-and-out daimyo, but the general direction is correct, there is not even a pair of ancestral armor at home, and those poor ghost samurai rely on bamboo carcass balls to fool people, even if it is a daimyo, it is conceivable what the hell his family and territory are poor.
Because these daimyo and samurai took the initiative to gather in front of the coalition army, they were accurately harvested by the fire guns practiced by the Qiongzhou regiment, but it was precisely because of this that they avoided the most dangerous period at the beginning of the coalition rout.
In front of the rout like a bombing camp, don't say that you are a daimyo, you are not good even if you are the emperor, if you are lucky, you can leave a small life, and if you are unlucky, you will be trampled to the ground and turned into a puddle of meat!
And most of these daimyo and other dignified people who survived were still lamenting that they were in the scene of the Abi Hell, and they were captured by the soldiers of the armor battalion.
The pursuit did not last long, and there must have been fish among the daimyo who slipped through the net, but the overall situation had been decided, and the daimyo of the entire Kyushu Island had lost more than seventy percent of the battle because of this battle that they could not understand!
At the same time, there were also a large number of samurai and retainers, and it was foreseeable that the entire island of Kyushu would be in a state of chaos for a long time to come.
This battle of Hirado Castle refreshed the concept of war among the Japanese people.
In the past, even if 20,000 people fought each other, there was a high probability that there would only be dozens of casualties, but in this battle of Hirado Castle, the daimyo of Kyushu dispatched 100,000 allied troops, and the number of dead and wounded on the battlefield must have exceeded 10,000!
This kind of record has exceeded the understanding of the Japanese people, as the fleeing people spread around, this record will be exaggerated several times, with the terrifying impression formed by the flying thunder cannon and the firecracker, Zhao Hengyi's name of killing the god will inevitably resound throughout the Japanese country!
The peasant households in Hirado Port, who had taken refuge in front of the station, were organized by Zhou Yonglin, and the peasant associations, which had been disintegrated, began to operate again and began to clean up the battlefield.
Compared to the flamboyant carcass that adorned the samurai's poor ghost, the long knives they held were often of good quality, and the money they collected and sold to the merchants was enough to pay for the battle.
As a result, a so-called heirloom armor can be removed from the corpse, which is also the fate of being sold directly, for the Qiongzhou group training that has mastered the refining of tungsten steel, these so-called heirloom famous tools are not worth mentioning.
The people who left the B battalion to supervise the peasant union cleaned up the battlefield, and the A battalion boarded the sea ships moored on the pier without stopping, and even the flying thunder cannons were all moved to the boats.
Cho Hyung-yi wants to blockade the port of Hirado, and no sea ships that withdraw from the port before the outbreak of the battle will be allowed to enter!