Chapter 174: Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Who Is Under Heaven II

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Judging that the weather of the next day is the same as that of the Ming people, they may all be good weather forecasters, or they may all have rheumatism and cold legs.

Sakai Ieji oversaw the battle at the vanguard as the commander-in-chief, and his heaviest task was to be responsible for resisting the Toyotomi army head-on, and as the head of the four Tokugawa kings, it was time for him to take responsibility.

With a wave of the fan in his hand, 2,000 of the 25,000 men of Sakai's main team dispatched 2,000 iron artillery soldiers and trotted towards the fortifications at Taniguchi.

Directly in front of the tens of thousands of Toyotomi troops, there were also black-clothed sergeants in Yishui, wearing plate armor on their chests, carrying flintlock pistols one by one, and the commanders Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng rode their horses and stood in the center of the main formation, looking at the shogunate army that was marching towards them.

Seeing this, Liu Butang, commander of the Third Division, shouted: "The Seventh Brigade, the whole team is ready to meet the enemy." ”

The commander of the 7th Brigade, Jiang Danian, and the deputy brigade commander Jia Qianzhong rode their horses and led their own team forward, which was equivalent to 5,400 people of the strength of a guard station, and walked forward 30 steps in neat steps, and then lined up behind the fortifications to reorganize.

Jia Qianzhong's original name was Jia Jingzhong, and after Chen Cao knew it, he felt that this name was like a eunuch's name, so he made the decision to change Jia Jingzhong, who was born as a homeless person.

Jiang Danian was born in Zhejiang, and he was in this position today, thanks to himself, he was transferred to the Dingwu Army as a right guard officer, and he once shot three real Tartars with his own hands on the battlefield in Liaodong: "Lao Jia, you are in charge of the middle road, and I will go to the front." ”

Jiang Danian took the strength of nearly two regiments to move forward ten steps forward again, and then shouted the order: "The front army is reorganized, the military order is drilled, three-stage shooting, the regiment commanders and battalion commanders listen well, the enemy shoots at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces." ”

Sakai Ieji's 2,000 iron artillery team is equipped with the most advanced arquebuses made by the Japanese State, with a firing distance of 100 paces, and the power is amazing, and Jiang Danian naturally knows that their firearms are fine, and he will definitely not let his subordinates shoot at them between 100 paces, and it is the last word that this firearms must be crippled at a distance of 150 paces.

"The enemy is one hundred and eighty paces away..."

"Raise your gun..."

"The enemy is one hundred and sixty paces away..."

"Ready..."

Squeak squeak...

A sharp whistle sounded in Jiang Danian's mouth, and it was an order to attack.

"Put..."

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

Even the daimyo of Hizen Kuni, who had suffered in front of the flintlock pistol, and Hiraiwa Kinmori, who had abandoned the feudal domain, could not find a musket that could restrain his opponent from a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

Although Sakai Ieji received a reminder from Hiraiwa at the generals' meeting, he still maintained a consistent attitude towards the weak Ming Kingdom not having such a strong firepower.

Of course, his actions of underestimating the enemy made the two thousand iron artillery soldiers under his command suffer a lot.

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

In the face of the continuous output of firepower, the Japanese iron artillery team that had suffered from the distance fell to the ground one after another, and the sound of wailing and pain rose one after another on the battlefield.

Sakai Ieji frowned, this is the first time he has seen this kind of play in so many years, besides, the shogunate has not fought since the winter and summer battles in Osaka, and he has been resting for so many years, how can he still have the opportunity to train his troops: "The archers came forward to support." ”

Even the leather hard bow of the Tartar only has a shooting distance of a hundred paces, not to mention the Japanese country, a country with few resources, and the archers who rushed out were simply for Jiang Danian's military training.

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

Three rounds of fire, thousands of lead bullets sprayed out of the muzzle, and the 2,000 iron artillery soldiers were only less than 500 people left at the moment.

Sakai Ieji was furious when he saw this, a samurai should have the responsibility of a samurai, not to mention that the captain of the Iron Artillery Team is still his confidant and retainer, and the Sakai samurai are all old men who have served the Sakai family for many years: "Coward, come on, take Ogawa to the front of the battle and behead him to set an example." ”

He had to do this, how could there be such a coward who corrupted the spirit of the samurai under the command of this general general of the general attack, and it was really so, so that the generals behind him could see themselves.

"Pass the order, let the two teams of Honda and Ii on the left and right flanks support, and the whole army will attack..."

With a wave of the Sakai family's fan, he drew his knife and got on the horse: "Kill the past, kill the thief." ”

"Kill..."

The momentum was unusual, under the leadership of Sakai Ieji, the left and right teams of Honda Tadamasa and Ii Naotaka charged together, and the three teams together approached 70,000 people, killing Jiang Danian's side with a flood-like surge.

Sun Chuanting clearly saw that the other party had launched a general attack, so he shouted: "Order, the forward team of the Seventh Brigade retreats, and the whole army is in formation, ready to carry out the military order, and the three-stage non-stop rotation fire..."

Jiang Danian didn't dare to hold it up at all, the opponent was nearly 70,000 people rushing in, and his whole brigade was only more than 5,000 people, how could he resist? So he obeyed the order to shrink his forces and retreat to the main line of defense of the front army.

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

"The Seventh Brigade, the whole army raises guns..."

"Eighth Brigade, all guns raised..."

"The Ninth Brigade, the whole army raises guns..."

"The enemy is two hundred and thirty paces away..."

The accurate range and lethal killing distance of the flintlock pistol is only one hundred and fifty steps, and in fact, it can hit the farthest two hundred and thirty steps, but after more than one hundred and seventy steps, the lethality of the flintlock pistol is very small, and it will cause at most slight injuries to those Japanese soldiers who are slightly armed with carcass, and it will only enter the flesh after penetrating the carcass, but within one hundred and fifty steps, even if it is Mingguang armor, it still makes a hole.

And now that the opponent has started to attack with all his might, Sun Chuanting naturally does not dare to waste ammunition, he has to wait for the opponent's impact distance to enter a safe distance after eighty steps, and then focus on killing and injuring the opponent.

However...

'Knock knock...'

There was a sudden muffled sound in the sky, Sun Chuanting was shocked, the Shenwu cannon on his side had not yet ignited, this sound was too familiar...

"Be careful..."

"The Japanese army has artillery..."

After a shout, more than a dozen black dots flew in the sky, needless to say, it was a real bullet...

After the cannonballs flew into the air, Jiang Danian's corporal fell down in a large area, and the wail rang out.

Sun Chuanting was frightened, and immediately looked at the artillery captain behind him: "Open the cannon and suppress them." ”

The true biography of Ning Guoxing, the captain of the artillery team, immediately stood on the war horse and looked forward with a thousand-mile tube: "The enemy's gun position is two miles away, the muzzle of the gun is raised by thirty, and the fire shell is ready to be loaded..."

"Zhuyuan is loaded..."

"Ignition..."

'Knock knock...'

The five Jimmu cannons spewed out five open flower shells and flew towards the shogunate artillery array behind Sakai Ieji's main camp, believing that under the blow of a wave of open flower shells, the opponent's artillery array would be able to cause a big mess.

"The enemy is one hundred and fifty paces away..."

"My lord, it's blown up..."

Inside the Qianli tube, Sun Chuanting also saw the fire of the explosion in the distance, and then it was because of the explosion of the fire bomb that ignited the gunpowder on the gun position of the shogunate army, forming a secondary explosion.

Tokugawa Hidetada came to Kamiyagawa with a total of ten cannons, all of which were purchased from the Dutch in Taiwan, and the only heavy armament of the shogunate.

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

Squeak squeak...

Sharp whistles came and went in the fortifications of the officers and men of the 3rd Division.

"Ready... put..."

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

Under the three-stage shooting, after the first stage of fire, the Japanese army that was in the front of the impact was peeled down like cutting wheat, and then after the second and third stages of fire, they fell down three layers, and in front of such a heavy formation, after the first wave of three-stage shooting, the Japanese army had already suffered 3,000 casualties.

"The enemy is fifty paces away..."

Although he killed and injured many opponents, Sakai Ieji still gave the order to continue the attack, and in his opinion, as long as they rushed in front of their opponents, their muskets were not as good as burning sticks.

This idea comes from the common idea of the Ming army's firearms troops during the Wenlu War and the Jiajing War.

However...

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

The sound of violent fire, although the workshop improved the gunpowder with the intervention of Chen Cao, but under such a high-intensity attack, the smoke on the battlefield was still very large, and it could not be dispersed for a while.

"Let them take it down..."

Tokugawa Hidetada was observing the situation on the battlefield from beginning to end with a thousand barrels, and the troops of 70,000 people, before they could hit the opponent's military formation, had now lost most of them, and there were no less than 20,000 corpses lying on the battlefield, and there were so many wounded people who ran back to their own formation, falling to the ground and wailing.

The strength of the four Tokugawa kings is the loyal arm strength of the Tokugawa family, how can it be consumed like this?

Sakai Ieji's eyes were bloodshot, he really couldn't imagine that the firearms of the Ming people were so powerful, if it continued like this, even if their people died cleanly, they might not be able to touch the edge of the opponent's position, how could this be good.

The battle calmed down a little, there were too many dead people in front, no less than 20,000 people died on top of each other, and the corpses were spread within a distance of fifty to eighty paces in front of the Dingwu army's position.

And in the wave of attacks just now, all the officers and men of the Third Division each fired six rounds of lead bullets, which was nearly 70,000 rounds of lead bullets.

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