Morale is something you can't see or touch, but it's there! Especially a battle-hardened veteran like Yoshihisa Shimazu can come to a clear conclusion just by looking at it or simply by feeling.

He knew he couldn't give the other person any more chances! Because the morale of the other party has become solidified from the initial scattered and impetuous! If you repel your own attack a few more times, I'm afraid it will condense and take shape! So he decided to do his best to break the other party in one fell swoop!

After some adjustments, the formation of the Japanese people finally stabilized. Seeing this, Liu Haojia said with a smile: "This Shimazu Yoshihisa is sure that he doesn't want to attack, so he actually adjusted the formation before the formation!"

Guo Zhankui said: "To put it mildly, Shimazu Yoshihisa has fought more battles in his life than all of us here combined, and it is certainly not difficult to see some things."

Liu Ren also said at this time: "It doesn't matter if he sees through it or not, because our established plan is to play defensive counterattacks, which is completely beyond our plan."

Liu Haojia nodded and said, "That's right, that's why Ben Hou tolerated him changing formations in front of Ben Hou. But this is also because our soldiers lack battlefield experience, and it would be good to wait until the grassroots officers grow up! When the time comes, if anyone dares to change the formation in front of Ben Hou, they will directly penetrate him!"

Guo Zhankui arched his hand and said, "This is nature! But Marshal, this battle is not big, so it's better to let your subordinates go to the front line."

Liu Ren also said, "Marshal, let your subordinates go to the front line too."

Liu Haojia thought about it and said, "Yes. I brought you here this time to let you intuitively feel the battlefield, after all, the Wu'an Army will rely on the two of you in the future, so you should train!"

After the two got Liu Haojia's permission, they immediately rushed to the front line with their own soldiers. To tell the truth, it was more symbolic and morale-boosting for them to go to the front, after all, it was just a battle in which the total number of men on both sides was close to four thousand, and it was not enough to keep up with the number of people who were digging for an exercise!

As soon as the two of them entered the phalanx on the front line, the Shimazu family's army began to officially activate. The spear in front of him slowly began to step forward. They formed a relatively large horizontal formation, covering the samurai regiment and the elite ashigaru behind them.

As for the iron cannon ashigaru and the archers, they were arranged at a later position on the two wings. At the back there was also a team commanded by a group of samurai flags. According to Shimazu Yoshihisa's idea, it will be the samurai and elite ashigaru who will really decide the victory! They will be responsible for tearing apart the opposing team's defenses!

When the spear ashigaru approached one hundred and fifty paces, they began to trot under the command of the samurai. These ashigaru know their fate, which is to sacrifice themselves to open the way for future generations! But they still ran forward with their spears in their hands without hesitation!

Each of them hoped in their hearts that the rate of fire of the other party's iron cannon was as low as possible, so that they could rush in front of each other! But what they don't know is that their ideas are simply extravagant hopes!

Because they still estimate the opponent's rate of fire according to the design time of their own iron cannon ashigaru, and the firearm used by the Wu'an army is fired, and it also uses fixed ammunition, and the whole set of reloading action is reduced by eleven actions compared to the smoothbore gun using the fire rope!

Reducing eleven actions is equivalent to increasing the rate of fire of the Musket by almost ten seconds! And under the round, these ten seconds will play a decisive role! In other words, the iron cannon that defeated the opponent just now was light, and the Wu Anjun didn't use full speed here at all!

Seeing that the other party was running, of course, the officers of the Wu'an Army also knew their thoughts, so once the ashigaru people entered the 150 steps, they took the lead in firing the first round of firecrackers!

At a distance of 150 paces, the firebolt is still lethal enough, but at the same time, its accuracy is greatly reduced! So Ashigaru, who was running in front, could hear the lead bullet whizzing over his head, and he could also see the lead bullet hitting the ground and stirring up the earthen pillar, but there were not many dead or injured!

This gives them a false sense of security, and they can run at full speed! However, the distance of more than 200 steps is about thirty or forty seconds for a modern athlete to run at full speed, and it takes at least a minute for a heavily armed ashigaru to run over!

During this time, enough of the opposing guns to drain the six rounds of pre-loaded ammo before reloading them for four rounds of fire! So these spears are bound to take on a storm

The baptism of buckshot!

In the first round of shooting, all the spears were light, and less than a dozen people fell here! More than two dozen people fell in the second round of shooting! By the time the third round of firing arrived, the number of dead and wounded would be doubled! And this death and injury is still growing almost multiplely!

However, the frenzied Japanese soldiers still stubbornly charged forward, and by the time they rushed to the front of the formation, their ranks had become sparse, and even many places had been pierced by firearms, and the entire front was already in a situation of collapse at the touch of a button!

At this moment, the samurai regiment and elite ashigaru, who had been gathering momentum for a long time after them, brandished their swords, roared loudly, and crossed the spear ashigaru, rushing towards the Wu'an military formation more than a dozen paces away! They firmly believe that as long as they rush in front of each other, their martial arts will work! And in hand-to-hand combat, the samurai of the Shimazu family are invincible! Look at the book

Seeing that the samurai regiment and the elite Ashigaru in front of him had already been killed, Shimazu Yoshihisa hurriedly waved the command flag and ordered the spear Ashigaru in front of him to retreat. At the same time, he also ordered the main force of the spear ashigaru behind him to press up, and he must cooperate with the samurai regiment and the elite ashigaru to tear apart the opponent's battle line! At the same time, he also ordered the cavalry on both sides to carry out a flank charge! This time he was ready to do it all!

Just as the samurai and elite Ashigaru were about to cross a distance of more than a dozen steps to start fighting, they found that the situation was not what they had imagined!

Inside the phalanx, Huang Guojun shouted loudly with almost all his strength: "Bayonets on the first row, refuse the horses!" Pikemen flat guns! Firecrackers from other directions return to their original positions! Go back half, half!"

Hearing his shout, the other rank-and-file officers in the phalanx immediately conveyed his order loudly. At this time, I saw that after the first row of firecrackers emptied their firearms, they immediately took out their bayonets from their waists and stuck them in the mouth of the firecrackers, and then they knelt on one knee, holding the firecrackers with both hands in front of them, and in an instant, a circle of steel thorns suddenly appeared around the phalanx!

The firecrackers that had been stacked in six rows quickly disbanded, and some of the extra soldiers returned to the other three edges of the phalanx. And the spears with the four corners that had been standing upright were also flattened, some only wanted to be forward, and some were pointed obliquely to the side, and the dense gun forest immediately covered the front of the phalanx!