Chapter 149: The End of the Satsuma Domain

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Chen Cao rushed forward first, followed by Jinyi Wei, and then behind him were the Dingwu soldiers.

The strength of a whole division has arrived at the Muyuan battlefield at this moment, and Chen Cao is also running through the night, and finally caught up at a critical juncture, which is also thanks to the city defense of the Wa Kingdom.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, some of the main roads had to pass through the city, otherwise it was impossible to leave, but fortunately, all the official roads of the Satsuma Domain were built around the city, otherwise he would not have been able to come quickly.

Even more thankful for his wise and martial arts with so many war horses, although it is impossible for every Dingwu army to have war horses to ride, but 30,000 war horses are used as 20,000 people to ride, which is also quite a good mobile force.

"At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, all parts were scattered and surrounded the Satsuma army, and the guard regiment and I directly attacked their front."

After Chen Cao finished giving the order, he raised his whip and headed towards Shimazu Tadaro's position, although the number was small, but these new forces were under the attack of the group of muskets, Chen Cao thought that no one could stop their attack.

Shimazu's valuable iron artillery team was wiped out at the first time, so Shimazu Tadaro had to transfer all the iron artillery team as the core force to his front, preparing to use muskets to catch Chen Cao by surprise.

His iron artillery corps numbered 1,000 men, and was a force to be reckoned with.

Chen Cao saw the movements of the Satsuma army, and finally reined in the war horse after two hundred steps away from them, and looked at the fierce battle in the encirclement.

"Boya, you go and help direct the attack on the right flank."

After receiving Chen Cao's order, Sun Chuanting nodded and immediately rode away, Chen Cao looked at the front, and then ordered: "Dismount to meet the enemy." ”

So he took a flintlock pistol himself, rode his horse forward to a position of one hundred and fifty paces, and looked with great contempt at a Satsuma general in the distance who wore exaggerated footage.

The action of raising the gun was very coherent, after all, he was a professional, Chen Cao squinted one eye and aimed, and then aimed at a Satsuma sergeant in front of him.

'Bang...'

The gunshots rang out, and the hapless Satsuma army fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, although the distance was not enough to reach Shimazu Tadaro, but this way could completely break the opponent's will.

"Master Hou, the artillery is still behind, do you want to wait for a while?"

As a staff officer with the army, Xia Yunyi was very tired, and it was the first time in so many years that he had a high-intensity horseback attack.

Chen Cao shook his head, and then shouted: "Troops, prepare for battle." ”

The commander spoke, and the herald rode back and forth between the regiments and battalions to convey Chen Cao's orders.

"Master Hou has an order, the whole army is ready to fight..."

'Stomp Tride...'

The various formations were assembled in companies, marching forward in batches, and the noise of the sergeants could not be heard at all, except for the neighing of the horses.

This is a professionally trained army, not an ordinary soldier.

Shimazu Tadharo was shocked, the Ming army in front of him was not good, and if he wanted to defeat them today, he was afraid that he would have to pay a heavy price.

"I, the warriors of the Yamato Satsuma country, for the sake of the peace and contentment of my Satsuma people, and for the prosperity of my Satsuma country, today is the time for you to be loyal to the Satsuma country..."

"Phew..."

Tens of thousands of Satsuma troops shouted in unison.

The formation is very domineering, if the ordinary guards must be frightened when they see it, but it is not, the opponent is a soldier trained by military regulations and military law, with the untouchables and homeless people as the main body, they are the people abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, and the knowledge instilled is that if you want to glorify your ancestors and live as a man, you have to exchange your life.

So, don't look at the other party's domineering, but none of the Dingwu soldiers with flintlock pistols were stunned, and some even trembled excitedly, because he seemed to see that the opposite side was full of silver.

Tang Kainian rode his horse to Chen Cao's side, and after holding his fists, he stepped forward, drew his knife and shouted: "The whole army is ready, raise your gun..."

"Raise your gun..."

"The enemy is at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and after three volleys, advance fifty paces ..."

"Ready..."

"Put..."

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

"Ready..."

"Put..."

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

"Ready..."

"Put..."

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

The men and horses of the entire First Division except for the outflanking people, and now the people under Tang Kainian's command in the center are enough for the strength of a brigade, and the addition of new forces makes the battlefield seem to have been beaten with chicken blood, and the continuous and continuous gunfire has lifted the spirits of Liu Xiang and Lu Xiangsheng in the encirclement in the formation.

The sound of gunfire is death...

The iron artillery team in front of the Satsuma army did not panic after being shot, because they knew that it was unknown whether the lead bullet could hit them, and if they retreated, they could only be killed by the samurai who supervised the battle.

They didn't seem to have anything else to do but shoot back.

However, the iron cannon in their hands could only fight a hundred paces, and their opponents ravaged them from a hundred and fifty paces away.

After three rounds of three-stage volleys, most of the casualties of the Satsuma Army iron artillery team in front of them were killed.

Shimazu Tadharo was shocked, he did not fight with the Dingwu army, and he didn't know the details of the other party, but these opponents came with the momentum of Mount Tai overwhelming, and they would not give them a way to live at all.

"Withstand... Resist... Flag teams, press up..."

In order to calm the morale of the army, Shimazu Tadaro even did not hesitate to press the retainer Samurai Banner main team that he had set up to live in, and this thousand people were his support as a direct retainer of the Shimazu family, and at this moment, for the overall situation of the Shimazu clan, he had to do his best.

"Fifty steps forward..."

'Step... Trample... Tread...'

The sound of neat and powerful steps was not loud, but the march of each company was very orderly and not chaotic at all, even under the rain of arrows thrown by the opponent.

This is the law of martial arts, and anyone who leaves the various companies and flees in a panic during the march of the firearms unit will surely die, and there is no emotion to talk about.

The company commanders and deputy company commanders of each company stood on the front side of each company, and the platoon commanders took the lead, and after stepping fifty steps, they stopped one after another, waiting for orders.

Chen Cao led the people to ride their horses slowly, and their march was also fifty steps.

The Satsuma soldiers tried to retreat next to each other, but the Samurai Warlords in the rear were already standing behind them, and if anyone dared to retreat indiscriminately, they would be waiting not only for muskets, but also for long knives.

"This time there are six rounds of salvos, and the whole army is ready..."

"Raise the gun..."

The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the Satsuma army a hundred steps away, and it could be seen that the Satsuma army had begun to panic with good eyes.

"Put..."

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

Lead bullets poured down on the Satsuma army like a storm, and the Satsuma army fell down layer by layer like the people harvesting wheat during the autumn harvest.

Because the distance is already within 100 paces, the lethality of the flintlock pistol is no longer that of a 150-step away slander enemy, but after being shot, it will quickly faint to death, and when the time comes, it will bleed to death.

A lucky shot can also save you from some unnecessary suffering.

After six rounds of three-stage firing, the Satsuma army had already suffered two thousand casualties, and it was impossible for anyone to hold out with such heavy casualties before the formation had launched any charge.

Chen Cao saw that the general situation had been decided, so he shouted: "Order, the whole army is free to shoot forward." ”

Tang Kainian turned his head and nodded, and then shouted: "The whole army listens to the order, and each company is in a squad and moves forward with free shooting..."

The Ming army began to charge, but even if they charged, more than a dozen people acted together, and the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at the Satsuma army with long knives and bamboo guns, as if to tell the opponent that your life has been pinched in our hands.

"The Ming army charged..."

The uneasy atmosphere spread throughout Shimazu Tadaro's main formation, and before Shimazu Tadaro could react, Song Che's encircling troops arrived at various positions, and the gunfire was loud, and more than 10,000 muskets rang out.

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

Before the forward banner Hondu team drew their knives to kill, the Satsuma army, after the surface formation was peeled off two layers, could no longer resist this psychological oppression offensive, and turned around and fled.

A group of people huddled together, charging is death, not charging is death, it is better to turn around and run away, maybe there is still a way to live.

The gunfire was like a cannon, crackling and crackling, and more and more Satsuma troops fell to the ground, and more and more people fled.

It's like a plague, once a soldier escapes on the battlefield, the rest of the people can't help but run with it.

Shimazu Tadaro shouted, but his series of arrangement measures did not work at all, and his henchmen pulled the reins of Shimazu Tadaro: "Lord, go quickly, quickly withdraw to the city." ”

Shimazu Tadaro had in his hands the troops of the whole Satsuma Domain, and he couldn't all die here, and the general situation was gone, and there was nothing to do, so he scolded a few words angrily, and ordered someone to report between Shimazu Shigeki and Hatano, and then rode his horse and fled.

Seeing this, Chen Cao drew his knife and shouted, "The whole army is attacking..."

Lu Xiangsheng's hands were a little numb, but when he saw the outermost Satsuma army began to flee, the whole person instantly came to the spirit, and he used himself as a bait to attract the main force of the Satsuma army in this battle, and successfully let the army surround him, which is already a great achievement: "Xiangtong, pass the order down, prepare to capture the prisoners." ”

"Yes..."

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