The first to inflict casualties on the Ming army were the Japanese archers on the stone walls.

These archers were all grown up in the war, and their marksmanship was exquisite, and their tactics were also very skillful, and when they saw the Ming army wearing armor and shields, they shot at their feet, and the Ming army continued to scream and fall to the ground.

Seeing this, the Ming army in the rear hurriedly grabbed the wounded number while firing at the head of the city with firearms, bowl-mouth guns, and crossbows to suppress the Japanese archers.

For a time, under the wall, arrows and stones flew horizontally, and arrows from Japanese archers continued to fall down the stone wall, but they were very tenacious, and they kept withstanding the rain of bullets of the Ming army, and released arrows to the gap, trying to kill and injure the attacking Ming army as much as possible.

But the Ming army was even more tenacious and brave, they held shields, arrows, stepped on the rubble of the ruins, rushed up, and launched an attack on the Japanese archers at both ends of the stone wall.

The Japanese archers had no choice but to fight and retreat, and the attack on the gap came to an abrupt end, and the large forces of the Ming army took the opportunity to rush through the gap, and saw the Japanese soldiers all over the mountains, and they were already in battle.

The Japanese army was divided into distinct phalanxes and waving various military flags. During the pre-war training, the generals of the Ming army had studied the badges and banners of the main daimyo of Kyushu by surprise, and they could vaguely identify the Shaoji Army, the Great Friendship Army, the Shimazu Army, the Usuki Army, the Toji Army, the Matsuura Army, the Kikuchi Army, the Harada Army, and the Kodama Army...... The local tyrants of Kyushu gathered together and belonged to yes.

Not to mention anything else, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers stood in front of them, and the nearest striker was only a hundred steps away from them, and the sense of oppression was still very strong.

In the face of several times the enemy's strength, the Ming army did not panic in the slightest, and the vanguard formed a defensive line with shields to cover the continuous arrival of follow-up troops.

Seeing that the Ming army no longer stepped forward, the general of the Shao Er family, who served as the vanguard officer, waved a folding fan and commanded the elite troops of the Shao Er family to take the initiative to attack the Ming army, trying to wipe it out under the stone wall before its forces could be deployed.

Wearing a hat and a simple cuirass, the elite soldiers of the Shao Er family, armed with swords and spears, launched a pig attack towards the Ming army with a fierce momentum.

The soldiers of the Ming army responded calmly, first using firearms and bows and arrows to inflict a round of killings on the Japanese invaders, and then the front row of the Ming army used shields to resist the attack of the Japanese invaders, and the rear row of Ming troops frequently stabbed out Zhang Xu spears, constantly piercing the bodies of the Japanese soldiers.

However, the elite troops of the Shao Er family were not afraid of death, and their intensive charges also caused great pressure on the Ming army's defense line.

The shield of the Ming army was grabbed by the Japanese and pulled out desperately, and the soldiers of the Ming army hurriedly held the shield and pulled it back.

The Ming army was strong and did not lose, and one of the Japanese could not pull it at all, but it could not stand the large number of Japanese people, so two or three pounced on it and tore the shield apart together.

This flaw was quickly exploited by the other Japanese robbers, who stabbed the spear through the gap of the shield dodge, directly pierced the armor of the Ming army, and pierced into his body.

And those who were holding shields were also killed by the pikemen behind the Ming army.

After stabbing the spear-wielding pike in the heart, one of the pikemen let go of his spear and stepped forward to pick up the shields of his comrades and fill the gap in the line......

Every part of the defense line is fiercely contested. The shouts of killing in both languages were deafening, and at every moment, so many soldiers were killed.

The soldiers of the Ming army in the first line of defense, struggling to support the tea kung fu, suddenly saw many gourds flying overhead, falling in the Japanese formation, and actually exploded in all directions. The Japanese soldiers in the back row were blown to the ground one after another, and they were in chaos.

It was the Ming army behind him who finally captured both ends of the wall and began to throw 'gourd flying thunder' from the wall.

This is not a grenade from the old six cottages, but one of the many throwing firearms that have appeared since the late Tang Dynasty. The specific method is to dig out the seeds of the sun-dried gourd, then put gunpowder into it, and then stuff the neck of the gourd with velvet as a lead.

When fighting, first put the gourd in the net pocket, light the fuse, pick it up and throw it out, you can easily fly a hundred steps away, and the experienced thrower can also grasp the time to let it explode above the enemy's head, causing damage.

The sixth child just made a small suggestion after observing the demonstration of the gourd flying thunder, such as replacing the gourd shell with ceramic. For example, gunpowder is mixed with sharp crumbs such as lead and iron sheets......

The Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry tried it and found that although the power of the explosion had not changed, the lethality had increased tenfold? A flying thunderbolt exploded, and the enemy within five feet was riddled with holes, and instantly lost the ability to fight, even if he was wearing armor, he couldn't stop it.

And this method is simple and affordable, you can use coarse porcelain, and it is even cheaper than using a gourd. The most important thing is that the amount is large, and it is not easy to get 100,000 gourds, but to get 100,000 coarse porcelain jars, that is, to find a few small workshops to open a few kilns.

So now the gourd flying thunder produced by the Ming Army is the upgraded feeding type of the old sixth version.

I saw that in the sound of explosions one after another, one by one coarse porcelain jars exploded in the Japanese formation, although the explosion range was not large, but lead debris was splashed everywhere, and all the Japanese soldiers within the explosion range were blown into blood gourds.

His face was covered with debris, and he rolled wildly on the ground in pain.

How could the Japanese in this era have so many tricks in warfare? I hadn't seen this posture at all, thinking that the Ming army had used some kind of demon magic and evil arts, so frightened that they dodged and retreated, lest they be affected by the 'Flying Demon Pill' that kept falling.

Not to mention the Japanese, even the Japanese horses had never seen this posture, jumping and neighing in shock from the smoke of the explosion. The commanders on horseback tried desperately to whip to pacify, but to no avail.

The wall was clearly visible, and immediately ordered the thunderers to concentrate on attacking the enemy generals who were riding horses or wearing bright armor.

Now the Japanese generals suffered, and wherever they stood, they were bombed, and in another place, the explosion was still with them. Even ordinary soldiers found out and avoided them from afar, lest they be harmed.

Several Japanese generals, led back by frightened horses, left the battlefield screaming and swearing......

The chaotic effect caused by this gourd flying thunder is far greater than the killing effect caused.

"Kill the Japanese slaves and take revenge!" Seeing this, Wang Bi brandished his twin knives and roared.

"Kill the Japanese slaves and take revenge!" The soldiers roared in unison, taking the opportunity to wave their divisions forward, and the vanguard of the Young Second Army was the most severely damaged in the gourd flying thunder, and was also the most frightened, and they could not withstand the long-suppressed anger of the Ming army on the opposite side.

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, he directly took a dozen samurai and launched a decisive assault on the Ming army.

But desperately can't close the gap in strength, not to mention that the Ming army is also desperate. After a while, the warriors of Shao Er Lai Pi were all killed by the spears of the Ming army. He himself was wounded and captured......

Seeing that the officers were annihilated, the vanguard army of the Shao Er family completely lost the will to resist and rushed to flee in all directions.

It also dispersed the formation of the Toji Army and the Kikuchi Army that followed closely behind, and the Ming Army followed behind to cover the killing, directly defeating these two armies......

(End of chapter)