Chapter 147: Battle of Makihara II

"Dig a trench at once..."

Liu Xiang shouted, and then immediately ordered with his rich combat experience: "The whole army dismounts and enters the trench to prepare for battle, and each regiment assembles in a company unit in accordance with the formation of defending against the enemy. ”

When Shimazu Tadharo arrived, he could clearly see that there were cavalry rushing into the formation of the Satsuma army, and at this moment a fierce melee had broken out between the two sides, and there was a large number of cavalry in front of him, and he immediately ordered: "Each team took the initiative to attack, surrounded the cavalry of the Ming people, narrowed the distance between them, and made it impossible for them to charge." ”

"Brigade seat, the Japanese army is rushing up." One of the regimental commanders in charge of the forward commanded shouted.

Liu Xiang fixed his eyes and saw that the nearest Satsuma army was less than three hundred steps away from the trench position on his side: "Listen well, this battle is the first battle after my Dingwu army became an army, and it is also the first hard battle of my third division, if you lose the face of the Hou Ye, how can you be worthy of the Hou Ye's painstaking cultivation of you, remember the words of our army, 'meet on a narrow road...'"

"The brave wins," shouted the whole army in unison.

Because they were surprise troops, they did not carry artillery, and it must have been a bit difficult to defend with muskets, but fortunately, the opponents were all cold weapons, and flintlock muskets could strike the enemy at a distance of 150 paces.

"Listen to each company, the brigade commander has an order, let the enemy enter 70 paces before shooting, if the enemy reacts, and then increase the maximum firing distance, and strive to completely block their pace at a distance of 150 paces."

"Yes..."

"One hundred and fifty paces away..."

"The enemy is a hundred paces away..."

"Eighty steps..."

"Raise your gun..."

Brush Brush Brush ...

The muzzle of the black hole is raised flatly, and the three-stage shooting is carried out according to two rows, and the firepower can completely suppress the opponent.

"Seventy steps..."

"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 samurai of the Satsuma clan were the first to rush in, and with them taking the lead, they could fully bring out the fighting power of the soldiers.

However, as the so-called gun shot the first bird, after the first wave of three-stage guns, the Satsuma army that entered the seventy paces all fell.

Shimazu Tadharo was stunned for a moment on his horse, then drew his sword and shouted, "Keep attacking..."

"Brigade seat, the enemy cavalry in the rear of the Japanese army is coming..."

Liu Xiang turned his horse's head, and saw that the cavalry of the company behind him who was originally responsible for containment was riding their horses, and behind them was the cavalry of the Satsuma army.

"Let your own men into battle, take out all the thunder canisters, and kill this cavalry first."

"Yes..."

'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...'

As the gunfire continued one after another, more and more Satsuma troops fell on the battlefield, and the muzzles of the forward companies had begun to turn red.

"Company commander, it's going to blow up..."

"Get the spare gun out..."

Lu Xiangsheng was killed, and then he remembered what he should do, so he asked the guards to open a way with muskets, and took advantage of the fact that those Satsuma troops did not react to raise the speed of the horses, ready to rush out at the first time.

Seeing that the generals of the Ming army seemed to be about to run, Shimazu Shigegui shouted regardless of his own casualties: "Surround it, they can't run, surround it..."

Sure enough, once the war horse in the crowd stopped, there was no way to accelerate at all, and if it did not break through the enemy formation at the first time, it could only become a live target for the opponent.

Lu Xiangsheng saw that he had no way to retreat, so he turned over and dismounted, and shouted loudly: "Dismount to resist the enemy and form a circle." ”

At this moment, there were less than eighty guards left around Lu Xiangsheng, and after hearing the order, he quickly dismounted and formed a circle around the war horse, and then fought with muskets.

Although the new flintlock pistol is sharp, the invincible musket finally shows a flaw at this moment, the flintlock pistol is a front-loading paper shell bullet, and every shot must be raised to reload, and it is this reloading gap that the Satsuma army rushed up at the cost of death.

At this moment, the battle damage came out.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately shouted: "Get on the bayonet and coordinate the attack." ”

The three-edged bayonet is thin and long, and the three-sided blade shows the difference between this bayonet, and the first battle can be traced back to Chen Cao's killing of the high-ranking generals of the Tartars with this knife.

The assassination technique of the bayonet is different from the knife, and the simple and effective assassination technique is like a father beating his son in the face of the bells and whistles, and the sword is long, but the flintlock pistol with the bayonet is longer, and it actually suppressed the offensive of the Satsuma army for a while.

The law of battle has become to defend with bayonets in the front, attack with muskets in the rear, and if the muskets are beaten red, immediately replace the muskets of the soldiers in front of them.

Shimazu Shigemami surrounded the Ming army, which had taken the initiative, and although he suffered heavy casualties, he was still ready to give them the final blow.

"Archers are ready to shoot them, regardless of their own casualties."

Although this method is effective, the maximum range of the bow and arrow made by the Wa Kingdom is the same as that of the Tartar's hard bow, which is only 50 paces, and the distance of 50 steps cannot directly kill the opponent, so they can only choose to throw it.

The bow and arrow can reach a maximum range of 100 paces when thrown, but the lethality is limited, and whether it can hit the enemy depends on the chance.

The flintlock pistol had a range of one hundred and fifty paces.

When the thrown arrows landed on the wide-brimmed round helmets of Lu Xiangsheng and others, the protective design of the Ming army was fully reflected at this moment.

Of course, only a few of the unlucky ones were hit by the drain, but it was not possible to inflict fatal injuries.

Lu Xiangsheng's embarrassing situation is all in Liu Xiang's eyes at the moment, and the situation on his side is not very good, the right side was attacked by Shimazu Tadago's army, if it were not for the trench and the advantage of numbers, I am afraid that it would not be able to stop the attack of 20,000 people.

The cavalry of the Satsuma army in the rear were quite afraid of muskets, and they all wandered one hundred and fifty paces away, apparently they seemed to know the specific firing distance of the Ming army's firearms.

Chirp...

There was a sharp thud, and two red flares rose in the sky.

Liu Xiang shouted: "Divide a battalion of troops and immediately go to support General Lu." ”

"Yes..."

Lu Xiangsheng really couldn't hold on, because his guards had already turned the spare flintlock pistol into the barrel, and even if it was cooled with the accompanying water bag, it was too late, so he had to send a distress signal as a last resort.

Shimazu Tadaro couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the signal flares rising in the noble array, they didn't know the meaning of these two flares, but they had heard the arrows used by the Ming people to order from the mouths of the veterans who had participated in the Battle of Wenlu that year, and this thing was bright red and rose to the sky, thinking that there must be an ambush.

So he shouted: "Shrink your forces, form a formation in all directions, the Ming army has reinforcements, hurry..."

It was Shimazu Tadaro's failed order that allowed Lu Xiangsheng to survive in the end, if he was smarter and divided half of his forces to help Shimazu Noble, I think Lu Xiangsheng would definitely die in Shimazu's main battle.

Burst...

The head of one of the Satsuma soldiers rose into the sky, and blood jumped all over the rest of the Satsuma army, and the Ming general with a big sword in front of them was too brave to move forward.

"Happy..."

Lu Xiangsheng let out a loud shout, and then slowly retreated into the defensive formation, Shimazu Shigegui's plan to rely on bows and arrows to shoot this small group of Ming troops had failed.

"My lord, it's better to vacate the encirclement and use bamboo guns to project, they only have armor on their chests and behind their chests, and dense bamboo guns will not be alive."

A retainer suggested next to him, and Shimazu Shigeki agreed, but then another older retainer immediately retorted: "By all means, if the encirclement is vacated, the Ming army can get on the horse and escape, and we can't stop it if the horse is brought up quickly." ”

There was reason on both sides, so Shimazu Shigeki didn't know what to do, so he asked, "In this case, how about getting reinforcements from Tadago-sama's side?" ”

All the retainers agreed, so they sent a herald to Shimazu Tadaro to ask for help.

"If I had been them, I would have protected them with a great shield, and if the spear came near, the defender would surely die."

Lu Xiangsheng took the opportunity to take a breath and commented on the command ability of the generals of the Satsuma Army rather sarcastically: "If we dare to vacate the encirclement, we can get on our horses and gallop wildly." ”

"General, support is coming."

A battalion of cavalry rushed madly, shooting as they ran, and the Satsuma army on the periphery of the encirclement was wrapped around Lu Xiangsheng's periphery like a quilt.

The cavalry rushed in, and those Satsuma troops did not dare to die, and when they were hit by the muskets, a large gap was revealed at once.

This is the case on the battlefield, the fighter plane is fleeting, if Shimazu Shigegui can be more decisive, Lu Xiangsheng will be lifeless.

A battalion of troops joined, and Shimazu's noble main camp suddenly became chaotic.

"All the departments of the banner oppress the formation, who dares to retreat, there is no forgiveness for killing, the samurai of this team, all press up, and the general of the Ming army must not be allowed to escape, reinforcements will arrive immediately."

After Shimazu made some arrangements, he immediately drew his long knife and mounted his war horse, ready to command from a high position.

After receiving the news, although Shimazu Tadaro contracted the oppression on Liu Xiang's side, he still decisively sent 3,000 people to quickly reinforce Shimazu Takagui.

"My lord, it seems that the people of the Ming Kingdom have no reinforcements."

Shimazu Tadaro was mentioned by his retainers, and then he reacted, as if the signal flare was only used by the Ming army in Shimazu's noble main formation to ask for help: "The Ming people are cunning, and they almost fell for them, and the order is to go down, Murakami's main team is under martial law Ming army array, if they attack, hold on to it, block them, and all the rest of the people will surround the past and destroy the Ming army on the side of the noble general first." ”

Obviously, Shimazu Tadaro understood that instead of dividing his forces to attack, it was better to concentrate his superior forces to eat part of the opponent first, and then turn his forces to deal with most of the enemy.

Nurhachi also chose this way in the defeat of Sarhu back then, but obviously, Shimazu Tadharo did not face the all-cold Ming army guard troops, but a powerful firearms force.