Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1860 The Sword Points at Japan ([-]) Almost Completely Annihilated
The combined cavalry of the Japanese First Army and Fifth Army had less than [-] horses, and they could only maintain about [-] sentry cavalry at ordinary times. Therefore, this large group of cavalry approaching quickly from the rear must not be our own cavalry, but only Ming cavalry!
Kato Kiyomasa now understood the meaning of the crazy Mingjin on the Hanyang City Tower. Obviously, Yoshihiro Shimadzu discovered the traces of the Ming cavalry, and judged that their target was the First Army that had already left the city to fight the Ming army's siege troops. I don't care about whether the First Army is suitable for retreat at this moment, just give a crazy warning first.

In just a split second, the inner garment under Kato Kiyomasa's armor was soaked in cold sweat, because according to the current battle situation, it was impossible for him to temporarily retreat and change formation, and this meant that when the Ming cavalry came from behind, his side was the general. The back is fully exposed.

If this is the case, the fate is self-evident-the several battles in the Renchen year have already fully proved that the Japanese army could not defeat the Ming army's armored cavalry at all in a frontal battle, let alone "meeting the enemy" from the back at this moment?
Retreating means at least three more rounds of volleys, and it is still uncertain whether the Ming army infantry will chase and kill them; if they do not withdraw, the Ming army cavalry will definitely mow the grass as soon as they arrive.

How to do?Kato Kiyomasa's previous war experience was completely invalid at this moment, and he stood there in a daze, as if he had temporarily lost his ability to think.

At this moment, the sound of ringing gold on the Hanyang City Tower stopped abruptly, and instead there were "creaking", "creaking" hinges, and the sound of iron cables being pulled.Then Kato Kiyomasa heard a low and loud noise: "Boom!"

He finally came back to his senses, turned his head, and found that the suspension bridge at the north gate of Hanyang was lowered, and the city gate behind the suspension bridge was also opened at the same time.

What's the situation?Kato Kiyomasa was taken aback, thinking something was wrong, is Yoshihiro Shimadzu planning to surrender?
However, he immediately realized something was wrong, because Shimadzu Yoshihiro charged out riding a Ming army horse that was obviously captured in the last war in full uniform, and behind him was a Shimadzu family samurai in armor.Of course, the most important thing is that they are all holding weapons, shouting: "Send っ pay け て!"

[Note: It roughly means "kill him" and "destroy him". In many Chinese film and television dramas, it is often inaccurately transliterated as "kill to give", but the actual pronunciation is more like "Ahigaigai", and the Roman pronunciation is : ya-ttsu ke te. ]
Ah... Yoshihiro Shimadzu went out instead of surrendering?
Kato Kiyomasa was at a loss again, thinking: What are you doing out here at this time!Is it not enough to kill me, you have to come out to die?Isn't Hanyang completely finished?

But time has not allowed Kato Kiyomasa to think too much, because Shimadzu Yoshihiro quickly rushed not far from him, raised his sword and shouted: "The main force of the Ming army's cavalry going south has arrived, and they are rapidly circling the city from the direction of the west gate. Incoming attack, Hanyang Cage City can't be done! His Highness Kato, don't hesitate any longer, quickly follow me to break through!"

Only then did Kiyomasa Kato know that Yoshihiro Shimadzu had come to rescue him from the siege.At this moment, no matter whether he agreed with Shimadzu Yoshihiro's decision to abandon Hanyang or not, the other party valued him so much, and he couldn't help feeling warm in his heart. He subconsciously replied, "Thank you, Your Highness, Shimadzu!"

With this shout, Kato Kiyomasa had nothing to hesitate, and immediately raised his famous weapon, the scythe, and shouted: "Bai Chuan's team moves closer to me, and we will break out with Shimadzu's team!"

The "Shirakawa Honteam" is the elite of Kato Kiyomasa's direct descendant, named after his residence in Higo Kingdom, Shirakawa near Kumamoto Castle.Kumamoto Castle was originally the residence of the local wealthy family for generations. It is located in the northern suburbs of the former Higo Government. Aboriginal "bear raids" on Aboriginal centers.

According to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's entrustment, Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi governor almost equally divided the Higo country, and the top priority of the two in Higo at that time was to rectify the territory.In addition to rectifying the castle town of Kumamoto, Kiyomasa also managed several rivers that had been infested for many years-the rivers are generally called Chuan in Japan.

There is a Shirakawa flowing southward next to Kumamoto Castle. In order to protect the castle town from floods, Kiyoshi Kato built a tall and strong embankment on the north bank of the Shirakawa.

In order to show off his achievements, after the embankment was completed, Kato Kiyomasa immediately renamed his most core direct military force "Shirakawa Preparatory Team". It's called "Baichuan's Team".

Similarly, the "Shimadzu main team" that Kato Kiyomasa was talking about at this time was also Shimadzu Yoshihiro's direct backup team. All are war veterans.

Even, they are not only "Shimadzu elites", but almost all come from Izumizu Castle, the city Yoshihiro Shimadzu once guarded for a long time. In fact, they are the direct descendants of Yoshihiro Shimadzu himself. There are currently nearly 2000 people in Hanyang.

Shirakawa's team and Shimadzu's team quickly assembled, with Shimadzu at the front and Shirakawa at the back, targeting the direction of Dongcheng.At this moment, Kato Kiyomasa already understood that it is impossible to win today, and the only thing he can do now is to keep the real core strength of the First Army and the Fifth Army.

Therefore, before he and Yoshihiro Shimadzu retreated to break through the siege, he also issued a very inhumane order: the rest of the First Army Corps all pressed forward and demanded to "completely defeat the Ming army in front of them!"

Of course he knows that this is an impossible task, but as the saying goes, he does not control soldiers, his intention is very obvious, that is to let these non-core troops hold down the infantry group of the Ming army in a deadly battle, so that they cannot divide their troops to hinder themselves and Yoshihiro Shimadzu's breakout.

Since the First Army was pressing forward with the Ming army's volley just now, it was already relatively far away from Kato Kiyomasa's position, so naturally they couldn't hear what Shimadzu Yoshihiro just said.

Therefore, after they got the order, although many people found that Yoshihiro Shimadzu had also joined the battle, they thought it was because Yoshihiro Shimadzu and Kiyomasa Kato concentrated their elites to detour and flank the Ming army, so not only did there not collapse, but their morale was high Get up, howl and launch a fierce attack, hoping to break through the Ming army's chariot first.

This sight sounds strange, but it's actually quite normal.Human vision is very limited, especially in crowded battlefields.Soldiers fighting fiercely ahead often can only perceive the battlefield near them, and it is impossible to understand the overall picture of the battlefield. They can only judge the current situation through military orders.

If the military order tells you to retreat, it probably means that the situation of the battle is unfavorable; if the military order tells you to stand firm, it is probably because the opponent launched a fierce attack; if the military order tells you to attack violently, it usually means that the opponent's defense line has been shaken.In short, unless the comrades around him die quickly one by one and there is no follow-up, even if the battle situation is a bit unfavorable, it is actually difficult for the frontline soldiers to detect it in time.

On the side of the Ming army, Qi Jin saw the performance of the Japanese army, first ordered to stop the shelling, and then laughed and said to Ma Gui: "Admiral Ma, Shimadzu Yoshihiro opened the city gate to fight, should we seize this opportunity? Seize the city gate first?"

Magui shook his head slightly, and said: "As long as Kato Kiyomasa and Shimadzu Yoshihiro leave, Hanyang City will already be in our army, and when the remaining enemies outside the city are wiped out, Hanyang City's campaign can be decided, and there is no need to waste troops Or disperse power."

Qi Jin chuckled, and said, "In that case, can my artillery battalion shell the rear of the Japanese army in front of me? To tell you the truth, the admiral, this fake war is too boring, and the brothers are very itchy...Besides, we have gunpowder guns this time. Sufficient, and there is no need to consider the shortage of military supplies after the capture of Hanyang."

After hearing this, Ma Gui took a look at the situation on the battlefield, and saw that the remaining 4000 Japanese troops were pressing forward as hard as possible, and the formation was not too thick, so he couldn't help asking: "Will you accidentally injure friendly troops?"

Qi Jin patted his chest and said: "Although the Japanese army lineup has been compressed a lot, it still has a width of one mile in front and back. Let's try to fire as far back as possible so as not to accidentally injure friendly troops." Yes, "But if the Japanese army goes further, the shelling will stop after one or two rounds at most."

However, Ma Gui had a new idea at this time, and said to Qi Jin: "No, if you don't fire at the frontal Japanese army, they will be a turtle in the jar when the cavalry arrives at the battlefield. There is no need for shelling. Look over there..."

He pointed at the two teams of Shimadzu and Shirakawa who were about to flee towards Dongcheng, and said, "Did you see that? Now Shimadzu is leading the way, and Kato is following behind. You let the artillery battalion face Kato Kiyomasa's ass." Just a bang—first beat Kato Kiyomasa into a frightened bird, wait a while for the cavalry to clean up the four or five thousand Japanese pirates that were sold, and then go after Kato Kiyomasa will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

"The last general has an order!" Qi Jin saw that the Paoying finally had a chance to fight hard, and it didn't matter who he was hitting or not, so he immediately took the order and conveyed it to the Paoying.Soon the artillery battalion quickly turned the muzzle, adjusted the shooting angle, and began to fire at the back of Kato Kiyomasa's Shirakawa team.

Since it is now beating the dog in the water, and the opponent is fleeing from the battlefield, the artillery battalion does not engage in any salvo anymore, and each artillery group outputs crazily according to its own ability.This time is different, the range is limited after all, so it will be more enjoyable to fire one more shot!
The biggest feature of the entire battlefield now is the race for time: the Shimadzu and Shirakawa reserve teams raced to escape the battlefield, the rest of the First Legion raced to execute the "destroy the Ming army in front of them", the Qi Jin Pao Battalion raced for time to fire one more shot to gain military exploits, and The cavalry of the Ming army who were outside the field but affected the overall situation also rushed back to complete the pincer attack.

Although cavalrymen are highly mobile, they generally cannot run all the way. Li Rumei is better than Li Rusong because of his unique personality as a sharpshooter: he is extremely calm when he should be calm, and he will never cause bad things because of impatience.

Therefore, when he heard the gunfire ahead, he still maintained a running speed that did not hurt the horse, and when he heard the incomprehensible shouts of the Japanese army, he suddenly raised his sword and shouted: "Clamp the horse's belly and speed up!" !"

The Liaodong Cavalry and the Xuanda Cavalry, the two main cavalry forces of the Ming Army's Southern Expedition, are currently led by Li Rumei. Although these two cavalry have somewhat different combat styles, they are both highly trained.In fact, as long as Li Rumei increased the speed of the horse herself, they didn't even need to say this order. They could judge by themselves and adjust the speed accordingly.

It didn't take long for the cavalry of the Ming army to speed up, and the battlefield had already appeared in front of their eyes.Li Rumei took a quick look at the overall situation, and kept in mind the direction in which the Shimadzu and Shirakawa reserve teams were leaving the battlefield. Then she pointed her saber at the rest of the Japanese First Army Corps, and shouted: "The enemy's back is facing our army, which is to defeat the enemy." Great opportunity, brothers—follow me to break through!"

Under Li Rumei's urging, the war horse under his crotch suddenly rushed forward and began to run wildly. The cavalry around and behind him also accelerated abruptly in tacit understanding. The half-armored cavalry of the Ming army with a total of nearly [-] finally showed their most ferocious faces, as if The flood that opens the gate is generally raging and sweeping.

The rest of the Japanese army also woke up from the crazy attack at this time, and found the Ming army cavalry behind them.These people attacked the Ming army's solid car formation just now, not only failed to cross the thunder, but caused heavy losses to themselves, leaving at least six to seven hundred corpses in front of the car formation.

Compared with the modern army, the feudal army is much worse in terms of wound-bearing ability. The Japanese army is obviously a typical feudal army. On the contrary, today's Ming army—especially the Ming army that aided the dynasty, has some early modern armies on many levels. The characteristics of the Japanese army, coupled with reasonable tactics and weapon systems, caused the Japanese army to pay huge casualties in this battle just now, but caused little damage to the Ming army.

Under such circumstances, Kato Kiyomasa himself had already left the battlefield, and the remaining Japanese army suddenly found that not only had their attack failed, but they were also attacked by the opponent's cavalry from the rear, their morale naturally plummeted, and even collapsed instantly.

When the iron cavalry of the Ming army led by Li Rumei rushed behind the Japanese army, the feeling was that the Japanese army had lost its last courage, and all formations and tactics were all abandoned, and each of them could no longer care about others. They only hated that their parents had lost two children While running around aimlessly, he tried his best to throw away the heavy objects on his body—whether it was bamboo armor or iron cannon, whether it was a hood or a sword, as long as it affected his escape speed, he would throw away all of them.

Wu Weizhong and Mao Guoqi looked enviously at Li Rumei leading the cavalry on a rampage to harvest lives, but they had to order to stop shooting to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops.However, this is not the first time they have encountered such a situation. Although envy is inevitable, they can still resist the urge to attack and cut off the head. Instead, they ordered the wounded to be sent to the military doctor for treatment, and at the same time ordered their subordinates to clean up the battlefield preparation.

Li Rumei's charge didn't just rely on his superiority to charge indiscriminately. He led his men to the center to directly kill through the Japanese line, then the Liaodong cavalry headed east, and the Xuanda cavalry headed west, sweeping the remaining Japanese troops in two directions.

Although the defeated Japanese army threw away their helmets and armor and ran wildly, it was impossible to beat galloping horses in sprinting, and they were soon slaughtered by nearly half. All of them made surrender gestures in unison, either raising their hands high, or squatting down with their heads in their hands.

On the other side, Qi Jin's artillery battalion has already fired at Kato Kiyomasa Shirakawa's ass for about two rounds. It is difficult to count how many casualties have been caused, but at least the two reserve teams were shocked to speed up and flee. ran out of the battlefield range.

At this time, the remnants of the First Legion had only a few scattered remnants of the enemy. Ma Gui ordered the blowing of the trumpet and the flag, and ordered Li Rumei to give up the work of taking prisoners one by one, and instead pursue the two escaped reserve teams.After receiving the order, Li Rumei immediately gathered the cavalry and turned to pursue eastward, while Wu Weizhong and Mao Guoqi were ordered to take over the cavalry to capture the Japanese army and clean up the battlefield.

So far, in addition to Shirakawa's team, which still basically maintains its establishment, the Japanese First Army has more than 5000 people and more than 700 people have died in battle, and almost all of the rest have been captured.

In particular, when Kato Kiyoshi gave them the flag of the First Army when he ordered them to "defeat the Ming army in person", now the flag has also been seized, so the First Army can be said to have been wiped out.

The only thing that remains suspenseful is only one point: can Kato Kiyomasa himself and his Shirakawa team escape? ——
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PS: I fell asleep while coding last night. I was woken up by my wife to go to sleep in the middle of the night. I didn’t wake up until after [-] o’clock in the morning to finish coding this chapter. It’s embarrassing.This chapter is a supplement to yesterday's, and today's will be counted separately.

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