Whether it is holding the city or forming a camp to confront each other, you can't blindly defend it, because morale will drop quickly.

So, on the second day of the confrontation, Ping Zhongsheng went out to challenge according to the rules.

Before and during the Heian period, due to the existence of foreign wars, Japan mainly fought in military formations. Moreover, it has a central army, soldiers need to train their formations regularly, and there are also a large number of bows and crossbows, and long-range firepower determines combat effectiveness.

After moving the capital to Heianjing, due to the long period of peace, the central army gradually disappeared.

The Japanese army was only in the northeast, retaining a small number of regimental forces.

The vast area is dominated by the armed forces of the Hao clan.

The scale of the war became smaller, and even the peasant soldiers did not bother to call up. It was often a samurai on horseback who went out with a group of his Lang party, and the scene was not similar to that of the community fire. Often decided by heads-up, "one-on-one bargaining" is becoming more and more popular.

If it's a battle of thousands of people, there is also a very strict process.

First of all, samurai wearing large armor rode horses and shot bows and arrows, and did not fight in close combat.

Then, the Great Armored Samurai sent their own Lang Party, that is, those infantry warriors, to engage in small-scale samurai melees.

In the end, the peasants and soldiers on both sides rushed forward and fought each other in a chaotic manner.

The Great Armored Samurai only fought with the Great Armored Samurai, and they disdained to fight ordinary samurai, and they didn't even bother to cut down those peasant soldiers.

If you are a peasant soldier and dare to do something to a large armored warrior, then you will be punished for not speaking of martial virtues.

I saw that the gate of the Japanese army's camp was opened, and Ping Zhongsheng was the first to come out wearing big armor, followed by a group of Langdang warriors. Behind them, there was a large group of large armored warriors, riding horses and leading their respective Lang parties in formation.

Then came a large group of peasant soldiers, arranged in a chaotic formation.

This kind of large armor is not quite the same as the armor of the Warring States period in Japan.

When it was designed, it had to follow the combat habits of the Great Armored Samurai. It is mainly for the convenience of archery and knife drawing, and the defensive point is on anti-shooting and anti-chopping.

A whole bunch of cons, heavy and clumsy.

Wearing this thing, you can't even move a lot, you can only shoot arrows and draw knives and slash, and it's hard to make other complex movements.

Its biggest advantage is - bluffing!

The more the wind is pulled, the better and the more gorgeous the better, and each part is even added to the user's preferences with a lot of decorations that have no practical effect.

They are the first glamorous sluts in Japanese armor.

At this moment, Ping Zhongsheng was wearing a large armor.

Two antlers stand up on the helmet, the length of which is about one-fifth of Taira's height.

The shoulder armor is particularly wide, and it is connected with copper sheets, and the golden light can brighten the eyes of blind dogs. In addition to increasing defense, the biggest "function" of such a wide shoulder armor is to limit the user's flexibility in movement.

The armor skirt was similar, wide and overlapped, and it was difficult for the samurai to wear this thing, and most of the equestrian moves were difficult to make.

Clumsy and heavy, it is difficult to get on the horse.

According to the fixed battle process, Ping Zhong rode out on horseback with armor and went to the front of the Ming army to ask for a test of archery.

The commander of the Ming army must play, and if he sends someone else, he will look down on Ping Zhongsheng.

Even if Zhu Xiaozhong appeared in the competition, the two sides could only draw their bows and shoot at each other, and whoever dared to rush over in close combat would not talk about martial arts. Because the big armored warriors all have an identity, it is inevitable to be killed and injured in melee combat. Even if there are no casualties, it is ugly to accidentally fall from a horse.

Yuan Sheng muttered in his ear for a while, explaining the rules of the Japanese war.

Zhu Xiaozhong smiled, and actually rode a horse to fight in person. But he used a compound bow, and in his hand was a single bow.

Managers of both sides rushed out.

Behind Ping Zhongsheng, followed by a group of Lang Dang foot warriors.

Behind Zhu Xiaozhong was a group of flintlock musketeers.

After running for more than 20 steps, Zhu Xiaozhong saw the Langdang warrior on the opposite side stop, and also said to the musketeer behind him: "You are here to sweep the formation!" ”

The coaches of both sides continued to ride forward, and when they reached a certain distance, Ping Zhongsheng bent his bow and arrows, and Zhu Xiaozhong also followed with his bow and arrows.

After firing several arrows at each other, two or three arrows hit, but they couldn't successfully break through the armor.

Don't look at the Japanese armor is bulky and gorgeous, but the defense is really strong, and the noble samurai are very desperate.

Zhu Xiaozhong simply continued to ride forward, Ping Zhongsheng did not want to lose face, and also approached to continue archery.

The Japanese samurai who were watching the battle exclaimed and sighed at the bravery of the two commanders. Usually, the big armored samurai shoot at each other, but they are not so close, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will really shoot people to death.

"Whew"!

An armor-piercing arrow with a chisel head, between Zhu Xiaozhong's horseback charge, hit Ping Zhongsheng's chest with the greatest power at the best riding distance of twelve or thirteen steps.

The ordinary arrow shot by Ping Zhongsheng with a single bow also hit Zhu Xiaozhong, but it ...... Unable to pierce armor.

Ping Zhong was shocked, and hurriedly reined in his horse and turned to escape.

The Lang Dang warriors who swept the battle for him stepped forward one after another to respond, drawing swords and guns to block Zhu Xiaozhong, who was chasing after him.

Next, it was time for the Lang Party samurai to scramble.

Zhu Xiaozhong was very well-behaved, and he didn't pursue again, but rode away from the musket shooting surface and let the "musketeers party" behind him shoot.

A group of orphans adopted by Zhu Ming made temporary cameos as Langdang warriors, and they all raised their flintlock pistols in their hands.

Ping Zhongsheng rode back, motioned to the other large armored samurai, and stepped forward with their respective Langdang samurai. If the Lang Party fails in the melee, these big armored warriors will also go up and continue to fight with the "big armored warriors" of the Ming army.

But it was said that the Lang Dang samurai of Ping Zhongsheng was charging with a knife and a gun.

Suddenly, there was a sound of "bang, bang, bang", and smoke rose from the enemy formation on the opposite side.

More than a dozen Lang Dang warriors who were charging forward fell in confusion, and the others were still charging, not knowing what was happening.

The second row of flintlock gunners then pulled the trigger.

Third row flintlock musketeers......

After the three rounds of the flintlock pistol, there were only a few Lang Dang samurai who were still charging.

They finally realized that something was wrong, and they turned their heads to check one after another, and found that their teammates had all fallen.

"Demons! It's a demon! ”

The surviving Lang samurai were so frightened that they immediately turned around and turned into a reverse charge.

Those flintlock musketeers, in their eyes, are all youkai, a bunch of cannibal demons who breathe fire and smoke!

Taira Tadamori and the rest of the Great Armored Samurai, Lang Dang Samurai, and the peasant soldiers who had been dragged in to raid the formation were all terrified when they saw this, unable to understand the musket, a weapon that had never been seen before.

"Drumming!"

"Kill!"

Dozens of Ming cavalry took the lead in rushing out, and then a thousand armor soldiers followed the charge, leaving a thousand armor soldiers as a reserve.

On the side of the Japanese army, the first reaction of the armored samurai was to flee, and they quickly fled back to the camp with their Lang party.

Ping Zhongsheng also arranged troops on the mountains on both sides, and he shouted: "Raise the flag, beat the drum, strike on three sides, and do not escape!" ”

Some of the Great Armored Samurai were willing to obey orders and take their own Lang Party to engage in battle.

But more of the Armored Samurai hastened their flight, unwilling to engage an enemy who breathes fire and smoke.

These escapees were mainly samurai regiments that joined along the way. They usually do not belong to the management of Ping Zhongsheng, but because of the orders of the central government, they want to rob the treasure, so they come to fight with the army.

In the event of an accident, these guys will never work hard, but think about how to preserve their strength.

The samurai and peasant soldiers on the mountains on both sides were much more heroic. Because they are killing from the side, not dealing with the Ming army head-on, they have an innate battlefield psychological advantage.

Zhu Xiaozhong had already rushed back to the formation, standing in the valley with the reserves, forming a formation to deal with the enemy killed by the mountains on both sides.

Dozens of musketeers, also lined up on both sides to reload.

In the frontal direction, the Japanese army was already in disarray. A handful of large armored samurai who tried to meet the battle, summoned peasant soldiers with the Lang Party. But the peasant soldiers were being attacked by the fleeing samurai, and the already chaotic formation was even more chaotic by the fleeing samurai.

The Ming cavalry took the lead in approaching, and all fired armor-piercing arrows.

Moreover, he was too lazy to care about the clumsy Armored Samurai with extremely high defensive power, and specifically shot at those Langdang samurai who had weaker defensive power.

When you're done, you sweep away, then draw your bow and shoot at another target.

A thousand Ming armor soldiers, trotting forward.

Their enemies were a group of large armored samurai and Langdang samurai who were in a chaotic formation.

The samurai who fought bravely against the chaotic formation, fought the minority with the majority, and fought bravely could not resist it in an instant.

Especially those big armored samurai, they had never encountered such a scene. Usually, they all fought with samurai of equal status, and at most they encountered the siege of the Lang Party samurai, and it was impossible for them to be overwhelmed by the tide of soldiers. Even when they encounter enemy peasants, they don't bother to do it, and they will defile their katana.

At this moment, they were surrounded and killed by a group of Ming soldiers.

These Ming soldiers did not talk about martial virtues, and actually besieged the noble armored warriors as lowly soldiers.

It's a collapse of etiquette!

Du Lile collapsed, what are you fighting for? The armoured warriors were so frightened that they rode their horses and fled.

As soon as they fled, the Lang Dang samurai under their command followed.

The peasants and soldiers in the rear were even more reluctant to work hard, and rushed to the gate of the camp with their brains.

Countless people died by trampling in front of the gate of the wall, and even the wall was broken, and the archers guarding the village could only shoot arrows indiscriminately, and then shoot an arrow and run away.

The enemy troops who rushed down the ridges on both sides were fired at by flintlock pistols from a long distance.

Unfortunately, there were too few musketeers, which only frightened some of the enemy troops. More large armored samurai, with Langdang samurai and peasant soldiers, charged over with lifeless bags.

The reason why they were so brave was because the Ming army had only a thousand reserves, and their own strength was several times that of the Ming army.

The flintlock musketeers have withdrawn into battle, and the Ming armorers are arrayed to fight.

The chaotic enemy troops rushed up, and the number seemed to be numerous. But the Ming army, which was heavily arrayed, occupied a local advantage in strength, harvesting the lives of the enemy like a killing machine.

The Japanese army two or three hundred years ago also knew how to fight in formation, and was heavily equipped with bows and crossbows.

Now it has completely degenerated, the military formation is almost not practiced, the crossbow has been gradually eliminated, and only the single bow still exists on the battlefield.

They had to wait a few more decades, and after the Battle of Genpei, they suddenly realized that something was wrong and learned from the scale of the war.

When the time comes, the armor will be improved one after another, and the tactics of battle will be improved one after another, and it will finally become a decent army.

And in that Yuanping battle, the protagonists of both sides are the descendants of Yuan Weiyi and Ping Zhongsheng.

Thousands of Japanese troops besieged 1,000 Ming armor soldiers, and the more they fought, the more panicked they became.

Suddenly, someone discovered that another thousand Ming armor soldiers had already pursued and defeated the routs into the camp, and the frontal battlefield seemed to be a complete rout of the Japanese army.

"Run away, the Tang people are all demons!"

More and more Japanese soldiers besieging the Ming army reserves turned around and fled. And ran directly into the mountains, not daring to go back to their camp.

Ping Zhongsheng rode all the way wildly, and his Langdang samurai were too far ahead, and they were all killed at this time.

Behind him was an overwhelming rout, and the Ming cavalry intercepted everywhere, trying to force as many peasants as possible to surrender.

Until this time, Ping Zhongsheng didn't understand what was going on.

He didn't think about today's decisive battle at all, but just followed the fixed war process, engaged in a large armored samurai shooting, and engaged in a melee between the Lang Party samurai, and did not even plan to invest in the peasant troops.

He also thought about delaying the time like this, dragging it to Yuan Weiyi and leading his troops to block the enemy's retreat, and besiege the Ming army in the valley on all sides.

With this kind of tactical thinking, Taira Tadashi was already regarded as a super-first-class military strategist in Japan at this time.

(End of chapter)