Chapter 142: Where the Cherry Blossoms Bloom

Lu Xiangsheng was fortunate enough to be the general of the detour, and he took a brigade of soldiers and horses to make a detour from the left side of the Plains River, and according to the plan, he would go straight to the inner castle of Kagoshima, and he had only one mission, to attract the attention of the Satsuma clan as much as possible and reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield.

Even if Chen Cao is all firearms troops, if the opponent gathers 300,000 soldiers and horses like he did when he conquered Korea, he believes that with his current strength of 50,000 people, he may not be an opponent.

"The news I got from the Ryukan is that there are more than 10,000 people in our army this landing, and it is mainly to find trouble with the Satsuma Domain, and it has nothing to do with the shogunate."

Liao Yaowen rode on a war horse, walked beside Zhao Xin and said to Chen Cao.

"They like infighting, that's their problem, as long as the banner of the Toyotomi family is erected, hehe..."

Chen Cao laughed evilly, and then looked at the team behind him: "To be honest, so many war horses, that is walking money, our appearance is also walking gold and silver in the eyes of the opponent, I have heard that the Japanese country has been red for a long time." ”

Liao Yaowen replied: "What the Hou Ye said is that it's just that their financial resources can't support our war horses, and now even the strength of the Tokugawa Domain is only eight hundred cavalry. ”

Huang Degong, the backward head of the guard, said with a smile: "Lao Lou, not to mention these 5,000 people against the Tartars, this kind of cavalry overwhelmingly overwhelms it, it is like mowing grass." ”

Lou Xingye laughed and patted the Qi knife in his hand: "Lao Huang, you really underestimate the Japanese people, their warriors are not ordinary, you finally hugged the point, the warriors are not comparable to these Jiannu." ”

Huang Degong knew it in his heart, and when he was fighting against those sub-samurai in the Ryukyus, he could clearly feel that the combat effectiveness of these people was indeed not comparable to that of the sub-Jiannu in Liaodong: "I know this, after Lao Tzu killed their castle tower, a fire was burned for them." ”

"Newspaper...

Qi Yu Hou Ye, in front of him is the plain river. ”

"Newspaper...

Lord Qiqi, there is a Satsuma army arrayed in the plain river, and they placed the rejection of horses and thistles. ”

Chen Cao restrained the war horse, and then took out the Qianli tube to look, and sure enough, two miles away in the distance, a long fence and many horses were placed in the hinterland of the plain river, and many feudal soldiers with hats were running back and forth, seemingly in formation.

"Such an arrangement shall be attacked by artillery..."

Chen Cao felt that Sun Chuanting's personality had overlapped with history, and the origin of this battle was basically the same tone as Yuan Chonghuan, that is, focusing on artillery, perhaps by Sun Chengzong's rendering, if there were no artillery and muskets, he might not be so handy in fighting.

"Can you use a knife to kill chickens?"

Tang Kainian rode his horse to the side and arched his hand towards Chen Cao: "Master Hou, the last general will see that their men and horses are no more than five hundred, and the last general will personally lead the men and horses, and kill them and wipe them out." ”

The supply of artillery will be insufficient in the later stage, and those that can be saved in the early stage must be saved, and a city like theirs, which is not as good as Edo-Osaka, has serious walls, and attacking with artillery is simply a waste of shells.

"Get off the horse, follow the training drills, and push it over, our soldiers are overwhelming, don't care about them."

Tang Kainian clenched his fist towards Chen Cao: "Yes..."

Feng Zhongping, commander of the Second Brigade of the First Division, personally stepped forward with a battalion of men and horses, and next to him was Tang Kainian, a decisive commander who made him even more courageous after becoming the division commander.

"Division commander, hit it with a thunder can?" Feng Zhongping asked.

Tang Kainian couldn't help but hit the brim of his hat: "Bastard, don't you see that these people in front of you only have muskets and bows and arrows?" Hou Ye said, push it over, their fence and the horse rejection are useless;

Musket preparation..."

"Yes..."Feng Zhongping immediately straightened out, and then drew his knife and shouted: "Three-stage shooting, prepare..."

The Satsuma army behind the rejection saw that the opponent had approached, and was about to meet the enemy with muskets, but they were met head-on.

Under the attack of the all-firearms unit, after the first wave of the three-stage offensive ended, the Satsuma army after the rejection of the horse was not left.

The captain who led the team was shot indiscriminately and turned into a sieve.

Feng Zhongping, as the brigade commander, personally led the people forward, sent people to remove all the obstacles blocking the road, and then removed more than 100 Satsuma corpses.

There were more than 300 Satsuma troops behind the rejection, and none of them could stand on their feet, and the iron artillery team on which they relied on was killed without firing a single shot.

"Are they pirates from Tofan Island, or are they pirates from the Ryukyus?"

The farmer had just been recruited to guard, and the bamboo gun in his hand was a little difficult to hold.

Another teammate with a bamboo gun scolded: "Bastard, where are they pirates, they are the army of the Ming Kingdom..."

Tang Kainian and Feng Zhongping walked to the front together, and at this moment, the bows and arrows in the hands of the Satsuma army could not reach the killing distance of their shots, it was just a pile of useless rotten firewood.

"This group of people is clearly just a remnant of the army." Feng Zhongping glanced at the Satsuma army a hundred paces away.

Tang Kainian said: "Hou Ye said that the Japanese people have very few garrisons all year round, and once there is a war, the people around the city will be equipped with weapons, and this system is no different from the guard system of our dynasty...

Their combat effectiveness is said to be very low, and if the situation is unfavorable, these people will be the first to flee. ”

Feng Zhongping's eyelids jumped, and then he looked at these so-called 'military surpluses' with a slight mockery, thinking carefully that their behavior was no different from that of the guards.

"Each company prepares, shoots sequentially, and after the three-stage shooting, obey the sentinel and shoot freely..."

"Ready..."

"Put..."

"Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang..."

"Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang..."

"Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang..."

The gunfire was as dense as thunder on a sunny day, and the lead bullets fired were more like a torrential rain on the Satsuma troops.

The Sakura Castle army, which had been transferred from agriculture to soldiers, suffered such a blow that it could not resist at all, and after leaving behind the corpses of more than 200 comrades, it quickly turned around and fled.

As Chen Cao said, in the unfavorable situation of the battle, these Satsuma troops with the status of remnants of the army will be the first to escape, but the samurai of the Sakura Castle team who are in charge of suppressing the formation will not be able to suppress these soldiers who have lost their fighting spirit.

"Master Hou, our army won the first battle."

Of course, if he couldn't even win the battle with absolute superiority in firepower under Tang Kainian's personal command, then he had to consider whether Tang Kainian could be qualified for the post of commander of the first division.

"Let's go, let's go to the cherry blossom city and see if there are really cherry blossoms to see..."

Liao Yaowen didn't know the current affairs and said: "There are no cherry blossoms in this season. ”

was hit by Zhao Xinxin's scabbard on the side.

Even Hirata had never experienced such a retreat, and when he learned that less than 200 of the 500 Pioneers had returned from the castle tower, he felt that it was impossible to take the initiative again.

After all, even in the Warring States Period, 500 people were the troops mobilized by a daimyo of more than 10,000 koku, and even if Ishida Mitsunari, the lord of the daimyo city of nearly 200,000 koku, all the troops mobilized in the Battle of Sekigahara were only 4,000 people.

"Send someone to the city again to ask for help, recruit all the soldiers around the city into the city, and you must stick to the rescue of this team."

Hirata Masutaka was a little disappointed, and he didn't know if he would be able to hold out until Shimazu's army came to the rescue.

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"When Keichaga built the world to deploy martial arts, Kyushu took the longest time to conquer, and among them, the Shimazu family resisted the most fiercely,"

Hirata Zhaoichi, who had already taken refuge, felt that the lord from the Ming Dynasty was much more reliable than his previous lord: "When the Toyotomi family came to recruit, they only sent 1,500 people to participate in the battle of Sekigahara. ”

Chen Cao called Hirata Zhaoichi to ask about the internal situation of Sakura City: "Well, Ben Hou asked you, how many troops are there in this city?" ”

"The Hirata family is the retainer of Shimazu's genealogy, second only to the Kayama clan in status, and after the partition, he is the lord of Sakura Castle, with a height of 37,600 stones, more than 150 samurai in the city, and about 700 troops can be mobilized."

The reason why Hirata Zhaoichi is so clear is that he was also a middle-class samurai of the Shimazu family, and his status was not low.

Chen Cao looked at the castle tower towering from the cherry blossom city in the distance of the countryside, and then smashed his mouth: "After entering the city, one person will reward you with a beautiful Japanese national singer." ”

The people behind him were already holding back on the boat, and when they heard Chen Cao say this, which one was not gearing up, but Sun Chuanting frowned slightly: "Master Hou, this method is a little inappropriate?" ”

Chen Cao squinted at him: "Zhao Xin, you will let Master Sun come and observe tonight." ”

"Ahh

"I want to see if he can sit still like Megumi Yanagishita."

Zhao Xin smiled evilly: "The subordinates know." ”

"Master Hou is really insulting..."

Sun Chuanting was a little angry, how did he know that Chen Cao came up with a new idea: "Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao set up the Jiaofang Division, not only so that you literati and prostitutes could rely on..."

As soon as these words came out, Sun Chuanting's face turned blue and red at the moment.

"Instead, let the soldiers in the army be able to obey the command more effectively after venting their personal feelings//desires, and then expand the combat effectiveness of the soldiers infinitely."

"There are pros and cons to this move." Sun Chuanting retorted.

Chen Cao nodded, and then said seriously: "You are right, the soldiers may be able to strengthen the control of the army by doing this during the war, but if they do it in peaceful matters, it will only reduce the combat effectiveness and morale of the army, which is also the main reason why the official prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division cannot enter the military camp in the later period;

But you also have to think about it, I am not an ordinary person, this kind of practice can be implemented in the future, but I don't need to be a woman of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a criminal official's family;

I am afraid that you will be confused when I talk to you now, but I will talk to you in detail in the future. ”