Chapter 146: The Battle of Muyuan

"General, a large number of Satsuma cavalry appeared in the direction from which our army came, and there were many of them."

Wow...

Lu Xiangsheng stood up, threw away the can in his hand and scolded: "I was followed and I didn't know it, the scout team should be punished, the order, the whole army got on the horse, and acted immediately..."

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

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

The cavalry team that rushed to Hatano was discovered, and the 400 cavalry in his hand was the entire cavalry strength of the Satsuma Domain, and he did not dare to bury it here.

And Lu Xiangsheng, who was quite militarily sensitive, also discovered this, so he ordered Liu Xiang: "Send a company of men and horses to entangle them, warn them not to take the initiative to attack, and the rest of the people will all march towards the city." ”

"Yes..."

At this moment, the main city of the Satsuma Domain was already in chaos, because the Ming army was found in Muyuan, so that the entire city was already under high martial law, and all the people around the city were moved to the city.

Shimazu Tadashi ordered the general Shimazu Shigeki to lead the only remaining 5,000 men and horses out of the city, preparing to eliminate the lone Ming army in Makihara, and sent people to Kagoshima Castle quickly to let Kayama Kudaka's son Kayama Kuji lead the 2,000 men and horses stationed in Kagoshima Castle to quickly come to the castle to support.

The distance between the main castle and Kagoshima Castle was only ten miles, and the maximum time for the troops to assemble was not more than two hours.

"The Ming people came alone, presumably bypassing Wu'er's army, their strength will not be too much, as long as they are delayed, and when the reinforcements arrive, we will give this group of arrogant Ming people a heavy blow."

After listening to Shimazu Tadashi's words, Shimazu Shigeki rode away quickly, and when he set up a position in Makihara, the forward scouts happened to report that a large number of cavalry were coming out of Makihara Mountain, and when they arrived at the main formation, it was no more than a stick of incense.

Shimazu Shigegui shook his fan, and ordered his soldiers to set up a horse rejection on the plain as soon as possible, put up a fence, scatter thistles, and arrange a tripping horse rope at the same time, preparing to deal a heavy blow to this group of brave Ming people at the exit of Demuyuan.

Shimazu Tadaro's troops also marched very fast, because it was related to the safety of the Shimazu clan's main castle, and arrived at Kagoshima Castle after a day and a night of rapid marching, the lord of the castle was originally Kayama Hisadaka, but at this moment the Kayama family has not received the news that the family governor Hisataka was killed in the Ryukyus, so Tadaro can only let Kudaka's eldest son Kuji come to arrange.

When Shimazu Tadaro had just ordered Kayama Hisataka to lead the defenders of Kagoshima Castle to the castle to stand by, the cavalry who came to the castle to give the order had already arrived, and Shimazu Tadaro, who had learned the news, did not dare to delay for a moment, so that Kayama Kuji would gather the army first, and he would set off in advance to Makihara to support Shimazu Taka, and Kayama Kuji said that he would go to Makihara quickly.

At this moment, if anyone sends a surprise army to attack the main castle of the Satsuma Domain, then the castle will completely collapse with only a few hundred people holding on.

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"Dismount, the vanguard company went forward, ready to fight."

Lu Xiangsheng calmly arranged, he could clearly see the horses that had been arranged not far from the plain, and he could see more clearly with the help of the Qianli Cylinder, the number of the other party was comparable to him, and there were cavalry behind him, thinking that his whereabouts had been exposed.

"General..."The scout came on a fast horse: "General Kaiyu, a large number of Satsuma troops have been found in the southeast. ”

"Are we surrounded?" Liu Xiang exclaimed, but his years of military career calmed him down: "General Lu, the situation is not right, we have just come out of the Muyuan Mountains, and the Japanese army is coming closely, it seems that we may be discovered when we set off." ”

Although Lu Xiangsheng is a civilian-turned-military general, he really has the demeanor of a handsome, and he did not panic at all, raised the Qianli Cylinder to observe the Satsuma Army position directly opposite again, and then put away the Qianli Tube: "Order, the rear team of soldiers immediately dismounted, dig trenches along our army's position, the left wing company is responsible for the safety of the rear wing, and must not take the initiative to attack without the order of this general;

Brigade Commander Liu, the Satsuma reinforcements that came to support from the right flank will be handed over to you, remember, you must not act rashly. ”

"General Lu, do you want to charge into battle?" Liu Xiang felt a little uneasy.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded, and waved the big knife in his hand, this knife is made of stainless steel in the workshop, and the weight alone is fifty-four catties, but don't look at Lu Xiangsheng is a scholar, the martial arts knife method passed down by this family makes this fifty-four pound big knife as light as a watermelon knife in his hand.

"Brigade Commander Liu, this formation will be handed over to you, Ben will lead a regiment of men and horses to charge the battle in person, if you see me trapped inside, remember, without the signal flare I sent, you must not go out of the formation, otherwise, military law will be engaged."

Liu Xiang took a deep breath: "Yes, the last general will listen to the order..."

Shimazu Shigeki didn't know that Shimazu Tadharo's army had arrived, so he only put on a posture of holding on to the mouth of Muhara, they didn't have a thousand miles in their hands, and they couldn't see what was going on the other side at all, but he could clearly feel the tremor of the earth.

As soon as he opened the mask on his face, he stood up anxiously with a fan in his hand and asked the soldiers around him: "The enemy has attacked?" ”

"My lord, the enemy cavalry is coming..."

"Iron Artillery Corps ready."

Shimazu made a big arrangement, and even if the opponent had a large number of cavalry, he was still confident that he would be able to defeat the cavalry in the first round.

After all, when Hideyoshi conquered Kyushu, the 1,300 cavalry did not break up the Satsuma army when they rushed into battle, not to mention that this time is different from the past.

Lu Xiangsheng rushed to the front of the horse, seeing that he was about to arrive at the front of the rejection of the horse, he suddenly scattered with the two wings of the team, he was not a fool, let alone a reckless man, he wanted to make full use of the strengths of the Dingwu Army to fight, although the Dingwu Army had equestrian training during training, but did not teach the skills of rushing into battle, that is to say, the Dingwu Army would only ride horses, and it was impossible for them to fight like Tartars on horseback.

Shimazu Shigegui was about to give an order, but was stopped by the sudden change of the Ming army, it seems that the Ming people are not stupid, knowing that the front is too dangerous, ready to attack from both flanks.

However, the prepared Shimazu Shigeki had already divided the two flanks with 2,000 soldiers each, and these Ming troops had less than 2,000 men at best, and if they wanted to break through the well-prepared main formation, they would have to pay a heavy price.

"Bows and spears are ready, and the iron artillery team is scattered to defend."

Ordered, those Satsuma troops raised their guns and arrows one by one, ready to surprise their Ming army one hundred and fifty paces away.

However...

Lu Xiangsheng grabbed the reins about 150 steps away from the main formation of the Satsuma army, raised his knife and shouted: "All companies, shoot freely..."

'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...'

At that time, the gunfire was loud, and those Satsuma soldiers who were ready to resist foreign invasion behind the fence fell to the ground one after another, and those who were lucky died directly, and those who were unlucky were beaten by lead bullets.

"Iron artillery, return fire..."

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

The Satsuma Army's iron artillery team resolutely began to fire back, but this choice was equivalent to a decisive charge in the same place.

Of course, the decisive charge will certainly fail, but the given Wu army has also caused a lot of blows, under the fire of muskets from both sides, the Ding Wu army has fallen dozens of people one after another, and the empty war horses can show that their master has fallen to the ground.

However, in the end, it was still the Dingwu army that won the suppression of muskets, and the firing speed of their flintlock pistols was not comparable to that of the Satsuma army with old-fashioned arquebuses, and after two waves of fire, the iron artillery team of the Satsuma army could no longer launch a third attack.

Shimazu Shigeki was stunned to find that even a field battle could not prompt the enemy's cavalry to take the initiative, so he drew his sword and shouted, "Front, attack..."

Since he couldn't hit the other party by holding on to the spot, he could only choose to take the initiative and engage in a white-knuckle battle with them after getting close to their war horses, and the reason why he did this was also because he clearly saw that although the Ming army was holding muskets, they didn't seem to be equipped with war knives, that is, once they could get close to their war horses, they had no other weapons except to hit them with muskets.

In this way, in front of the Satsuma army, which has an absolute samurai spirit, it is as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.

Lu Xiangsheng saw that the fence directly opposite was opened by the Satsuma army, and instantly rushed out of nearly 2,000 people to kill him, and immediately became murderous, and immediately shouted: "The personal soldiers of this team will go out with the general, and the rest of the soldiers will dismount and fight back according to the queue training." ”

"Yes..."

More than 100 Dingwu soldiers who were familiar with cavalry responded to the sound, then turned around and ran behind them, and then after opening up the distance, they instigated Lu Xiangsheng, who was the first horse to follow, to rise.

Lu Xiangsheng's war horse ran extremely fast, and when he approached the first Satsuma army in front of him, the big knife in his hand had already rounded his head and slashed towards the unlucky Satsuma army.

Seeing this, the Satsuma army also made the last struggle before dying, raised the bamboo spear to block the blow, like a mantis arm as a car, the first Satsuma army was cut by a large knife straight from the collarbone position, blood gushed and then fell to the ground and died.

Lu Xiangsheng took more than 100 people to enter the main formation of the Satsuma army as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Liu Xiang saw that Lu Xiangsheng had already rushed into the enemy's array, and the musket queue behind him was still shooting at the outermost periphery, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, if Lu Xiangsheng had something, he would not be able to escape the blame.

"Brigade commander, the enemy is coming..."

With the scout's shouting, Liu Xiang looked to the southeast, and saw that the large group of Satsuma troops under the black pressure was running towards him, and immediately raised the Qianli Cylinder to observe carefully, and only after a long time did he say in a somewhat frightened tone: "The number of enemy troops is at least more than 10,000 people..."