Chapter 148: Battle of Makihara III

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head to look at the right, and sure enough, he found the scene of the Satsuma army rushing up, it seemed that the opponent had understood, and the strength of a battalion that rushed in was also trapped in place by the Satsuma army, which was so numerous, that they could only dismount and form a formation.

As a result, a strange scene was formed in the entire Muyuan battlefield, a circle within a circle, and an encirclement within a circle.

Liu Xiang saw that the Satsuma army, which was originally attacking them, suddenly turned its guns and headed towards Lu Xiangsheng, and immediately guessed that they must be concentrating their forces to attack Lu Xiangsheng, who was surrounded by the circle: "General Chuan Ben ordered the whole army to get on the horse and immediately go to rescue General Lu." ”

As soon as Liu Xiang moved, the 2,000 people of Murakami's team, who were originally ordered to be monitored by Shimazu Tadaro, reacted quickly, raised their legs and ran towards Shimazu's main formation, thinking that they were not fools and did not need to be ordered by human.

The intensity of the battle has reached a white-hot state, if it were not for the Dingwu Army but the establishment of the new army, plus the support of powerful firearms, on any part of the Weisho army, it would have collapsed and fled at this moment.

"General, there are more and more reinforcements from the enemy, what should I do?"

Lu Xiangsheng rode on a war horse because of the problem of vision, and observed the surrounding situation with a thousand miles of tubes, and the sound of the musket had covered his ears, causing him mild tinnitus.

As far as the eye can see, a large number of Satsuma troops are coming to the northeast, and it seems that the situation is not optimistic.

Shimazu Tadashi also received the news, Shimazu Tadashi, who was in the city, felt that the situation was not too good, and had urgently ordered martial law throughout the country, conscripted the people into the army, issued swords, guns, halberds and armor, and quickly rushed to Makihara after equipping, and Shimazu Tadashi had asked the 5,000 people left in the city to send 4,000 people to reinforce in order to prepare for the battle, after all, the Ming people should not be underestimated.

"My lord, reinforcements from the city have arrived."

Shimazu Tadaro was in high spirits after receiving the news of his retainers, so that the Satsuma army on the battlefield of Makihara alone was as high as 40,000 people, which was the largest number of troops sent by the Satsuma Domain and even the entire Wa Province after entering the Edo Shogunate.

Of course, this is in the eyes of outsiders, and from the perspective of the generals of the Satsuma Domain, they will definitely be recorded in history and become famous people in the history books in this battle.

After all, even the big fool of Owari Province had the ambition of the world to deploy martial arts back then.

"Raise your gun..."

"Put..."

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

"Raise your gun..."

"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..."

Lu Xiangsheng's pro-army has long run out of ammunition, and is already engaged in white-knuckle warfare at the moment, although it is a new army, their long-term training seems to be specially conducted for the purpose of conscription.

Because the tactical movements of the Satsuma army that they encountered were things that were carefully explained to them by the commanders of the regiments, battalions, and companies, so that they were able to deal with them calmly.

Even when conducting rare white-knuckle combat training, there was also Lou Xingye who brought a group of training subjects with long swords to conduct 'actual combat' training with them.

For this reason, although the firearm in the battle at the moment has no ammunition, he can still crush the opponent with a combination of spears and bayonets that are longer than the Japanese knives in white-knuckle combat.

In war, when one's own casualties reach one-third, the morale of the army will be weakened, and when the casualties reach two-thirds, the entire army will collapse, and the same is true of the Satsuma army.

They had already suffered heavy casualties at the moment when they faced the silver-white bayonets in front of them, and if they wanted to fight them, they had to use bamboo guns.

Realizing that something was wrong, Shimazu Shigeki immediately mobilized all the bamboo spearmen at the suggestion of his retainers and lined up in a long formation to fight to the death against the Ming army, who were armed with muskets and strange weapons.

"Bring the rest of the thunder canisters."

Lu Xiangsheng let out a loud shout, and with the addition of Shimazu Tadaro, he had realized at this moment that the battle situation was no longer the time to be controlled by him.

The only remaining thunder canisters were originally intended to be used to break through the encirclement, but on the plain of Muyuan, even Liu Xiang's entire army, which had just rushed in on horseback, had already been taken into the formation by the Satsuma Legion, and they could not break through this heavy encirclement even if they rushed left and right.

In such a situation, it would be needless to say that these thousands of men were all skilled cavalry, but the disadvantage was that they were just a group of ordinary soldiers who could ride horses, and it would be really difficult for them to charge with muskets with bayonets.

Because even Chen Cao's original intention was only to allow them to ride horses as a means of transportation, so as to reduce the weight of the soldiers.

The generals of the Satsuma army in the encirclement also seemed to see that this group of cavalry would not charge at all, so they were very bold to expand the encirclement, so they were exhausted, and finally gave them a fatal blow after they were sleepy.

"Archer, release the arrows..."

The Satsuma archers began a long projectile, and the Satsuma troops, who were close to the encirclement, retreated, vacated their positions, and the arrows flew in unison, and the casualties began to increase.

"Ignition..."

"Throw..."

Nearly 100 canisters flew out from all directions, and some of the unknown Satsuma soldiers even picked up the canisters, but the deflagrating medicine line on the canisters made them know that this thing must be the same as the artillery, and it exploded just as they were about to get out of their hands.

The Satsuma army holding the thunder tank was immediately blown to pieces, and the small stones and iron beads in it scattered after the thunder tank exploded, and all the surrounding Satsuma troops were affected, with countless casualties.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but be amazed, the popularity of this kind of thing is equivalent to carrying a large number of artillery, and it is more convenient than artillery.

"Stand back... Backwards..."

The panicked Satsuma army was blown up and lost its soul, and had forgotten what it was supposed to do.

Shimazu Shigegui on the left line came to the side of the soldiers who wanted to escape, and after slashing and killing four people in succession, he calmed the hearts of the army, and he couldn't help shouting: "The Ming army is already at the end of the crossbow, listen to my order, surround and kill, a Ming soldier has a thousand dollars for the head." ”

One thousand yuan is not a small amount in the Japanese country, and even the salary of the captain of the hundred is only five hundred yuan.

With the stimulus of the bounty, those samurai took the lead in the first step, holding long knives and taking small steps to take the lead in the charge, and the Satsuma army behind them rushed from all directions as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Liu Xiang and Lu Xiangsheng were divided into two places, and Liu Xiang relied on the hard strength of 4,000 men to resist with muskets, and the Satsuma army that fought those who died for their dreams could not move every time they rushed to a position only five steps away from their musket position.

Compared with Lu Xiangsheng, even if a battalion of troops joins in, he is still unable to move an inch at this moment, and he is under the greatest pressure, because he is commanding in the center, and Shimazu Shigegui and Shimazu Tadaro both feel that this person should be the main general of this Ming army, as long as he is taken, this battle will definitely end.

For this, the price paid by Lu Xiangsheng's side is a bit big.

His younger brother Lu Xiangtong had been following him as the commander of the pro-army, and when he saw this, he shouted: "Big brother, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out if you go on like this, if we open a way for you to go out, let's go and join the Hou Ye first." ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head righteously: "Thanks to the new appointment of the Hou Ye, I was given a partial division, but it is also an important task, and now that I am trapped here, how to escape with the face, don't say anything." ”

Tragedy...

Lu Xiangsheng was obviously guilty of the impulsive nature of a scholar, he forgot what Chen Cao said and didn't care about gains and losses, so he was ready to die for the country.

At this moment, a green light suddenly rose in their southeast direction, and three in succession.

The corners of Lu Xiangsheng's mouth rose, and Lu Xiangtong, who followed his eyes, also became excited.

Liu Xiang also noticed the green light in the southeast direction, although he couldn't hear the sound, but he understood what the three green signal flares meant.

Regulation of signal flares for the Dingwu Army: red represents military, green represents support; One red flare represents the attack, two represent reinforcements in the army, three represent the retreat of the whole army, four represent the great victory of the whole army, and if five signal flares are raised, it means that the main general will not retreat and is ready to fight to the death;

One green flare means reinforcements, two represent waiting for reinforcements on the spot, and three signals indicate that reinforcements will arrive soon. Four rounds indicate that reinforcements cannot be raised, and if five green flares are raised, reinforcements are in distress.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Raise five signal flares." ”

Lu Xiangtong nodded excitedly, then took out a somewhat long signal canister from his horse, and lit the medicine line directly.

With a dull salute, five red flares rose from the white sky.

Although Liu Xiang knew the ins and outs of the matter, many soldiers did not notice the signal flare of the southeast wind, and a sad atmosphere was born one by one.

But after all, they were fighting on foreign tribes, and they all knew that even if they escaped, they would not escape death, so they all regarded death as home, and were ready to kill one more Satsuma army to cushion themselves, so as not to be lonely and lonely on the Huangquan Road.

"Kill..."

"Kill..."

Shimazu Shigeki didn't know what was going on with the Ming army, and actually took the initiative to let go of the defensive position and engage in a white-knuckle battle with them, although their actions made them not understand what was going on, but it was right in their arms.

Samurai have never been afraid to fight alone.

A smug smile appeared on the corner of Shimazu Tadaro's mouth, after the end of this battle, even if the Shimazu family did not reward him, he would definitely be rewarded by the shogun after reporting to the shogunate, and maybe the official position could be promoted to another level.

However, even as he sat on his horse, he felt a different tremor of the earth.

Hatano ran with cavalry on horseback, his face was terrified, and he shouted: "My lord, it's not a good thing, the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming, a lot of cavalry, a lot." ”

Shimazu Tadaro was like cold water poured all over his body, cold from head to toe, and when he looked southeast along the hand between Hatano, a black patch suddenly appeared on the horizon, dyeing everything as far as the eye could see was black.

"It's... This... Could it be..."