Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 865 No Suspense
With a few howls that did not sound like human voices, the surviving subway gunners threw away their iron cannons in unison, and began to turn and run crazily. The ground that had long been soaked in blood became extremely slippery, and many people slipped and fell to the ground , or tripped over the corpses on the ground, but still stumbling, rolling and crawling to continue running.

The scene that just happened was like a nightmare in the hearts of these survivors.

The iron cannons they are usually proud of have no chance to fire at all. Those comrades who were talking and laughing together yesterday turned into cold corpses in an instant. This is something that living iron gunners have never seen or heard. of.

The Ming army on the opposite side is simply a group of devils in hell. What they use is not a human weapon at all, it is the death talisman of the king of hell.

The 3000 iron gunners who were already about a hundred steps away from the front line were also stunned, because the order from the upper peak had not yet been issued, and the [-] people could not enter or retreat all of a sudden. Most of the Iron Gunners had pale faces, their eyes were wandering around, and the morale of the army was obviously depressed.

The power displayed by the firearms of the Ming army has surpassed the cognition of everyone in the shogunate army.

First, there was the shocking artillery, which directly defeated the pikemen on the two wings, and then there was the firecracker with super long range, high accuracy, and amazing lethality. How else to fight?
Before the survivors of the first group of iron gunners could run far, the piercing sound of horns sounded again in the direction of the Ming army's blunderbuss array, followed by continuous explosions, as the smoke rose, a round of bullets rained again. Once, it attacked the second iron gunner of the shogunate army at a distance of nearly 300 meters.

For the Minie gun with a maximum range of nearly 400 meters, the distance of 300 meters is also within the effective killing range. The phalanx of several iron gunners standing still is like a human target, and it feels comfortable to shoot. It made the gunners of the Ming army more enthusiastic, the change of formation and the change of bullets became smoother, and the shooting speed was also significantly accelerated. Even the dull sound of the guns seemed to be more crisp and melodious.

"The gunners fired three more rounds, and then the cavalry charged!

After the cavalry rushed into the formation, the Chinese army moved forward to hide and kill, and the two wings responded! "

Seeing that the Ming army had gained absolute superiority in the left, middle and right routes, Li Dingguo calmly ordered after putting down his binoculars.

Because the sound of the guns was too dense, the sound of the trumpets could no longer penetrate the sound curtain. After listening to the order, one flag bearer raised the triangular red flag in his hand and waved it several times towards the artillery array on both wings. The other flag bearer held a black square flag high. , waving at the cavalry on standby at the rear of the right wing, the guerrilla cavalry on standby roared excitedly, and six hundred well-dressed cavalry shifted their saddles, took their stools and got on their horses one after another.

The Beihai Fleet originally had no cavalry, and all soldiers were infantry. These six hundred cavalry were divided from the one thousand cavalry guarding Zhu Cihong.

Originally, according to Zhu Cihong's intention, all these thousand cavalry could go to battle, but Zhang Qingyuan insisted on leaving some to protect the prince's safety. Zhu Cihong couldn't beat him, and finally adopted this compromise strategy.

After receiving the order, the gunners on the two wings immediately raised the muzzle angle too high, and began to bombard the second shogunate spearmen who were also hesitant. After the formation, the mount was urged to jog forward, ready to pick up the speed of the horse when it was about [-] steps away from the enemy, and then charged.

"Zhang Qing, pass on the order to order the remaining cavalry to attack from the left wing!"

In just less than a quarter of an hour, the officers and soldiers had an overall advantage. Zhu Cihong, who was watching the formation from the building car, decisively ordered the four hundred cavalry around to join the Dao Chong formation.

Zhang Qingyuan was about to open his mouth to dissuade him, but the outcome of the battle in front of him was already very clear. The shogunate army, which had no long-range fire threat or close-up possibility, could no longer pose any threat to his own side. Then I was in vain to be a good person.

So he hurriedly saluted the prince and got out of the carriage, and gave an order to the guard Mr. Qian who was standing beside him. The Mr. Qian who was scratching his head anxiously received the order and yelled loudly. Four hundred cavalry mounted their horses one after another. Under the leadership of Mr. Qian, he galloped towards the left wing of the official army.

Under the super-long-distance bombardment of the Ming army's firecrackers in the middle, the helpless Shogunate army's second iron gunners repeated the tragedy of the first formation. Fortunately, Song Heiichiro, who had already reacted, decisively issued an order to retreat. , the second round of iron gunners retreated after losing more than a thousand people.

Before the leaders of the shogunate army came up with a countermeasure, amidst the rumble of cannons, the large array of pikemen on the two wings was once again crushed by the continuous flying bullets. Due to the lack of understanding of the three-dimensional strike of the Ming army, Song Hei Ichiro and other shogunate generals seemed to have lost their minds, and couldn't think of a good solution for a while.

In desperation, Song Hei Ichiro, who had lost the blood on his face, could only order the entire army to retreat, first separate from the Ming army, reorganize the formation, and then arrange how to withdraw from the battlefield.

From the time when the Ming army began shelling the spearmen on the two wings of the shogunate army, to the long-distance bombardment with the extremely sharp firecrackers in the middle, and then to the second round of offensive by the Ming army, this quarter of an hour was like a nightmare for the shogunate army.

But what they didn't expect was that this nightmare had just begun.

Behind the smoke of gunpowder guns and projectiles, two cavalry equipped with full armor and horse armor were rapidly approaching the shogunate army from the left and right wings under the cover of the sound of rumbling guns.

From the beginning of the battle with the Ming army to the present, without posing any threat to the Ming army at all, the shogunate army has lost more than 5000 people, but the Ming army has no casualties.

Although the current battlefield is open and flat, when the two armies are fighting, it is very difficult for one side to retreat calmly. Chase down and it would be a rout.

Especially in such a situation where one side suffered a disastrous defeat, it would take a lot of time for more than 3 shogunate troops to retreat safely.

This is more than 3 people, and they are still under the fierce bombardment of the opponent's guns.

Think about the scene of a school with thousands of students holding a sports meeting in later generations. Without any interference, it would take a lot of time just to enter the stadium, let alone a battlefield with tens of thousands of people.

When the two-winged iron cavalry of the Ming army suddenly emerged from the smoke, the shogunate army's defeat was hard to stop. The leader of the shogunate army and the Tokugawa shogunate, Yosong Heiichiro, did not even have time to commit seppuku. .

On the third day after the end of this battle, the Crown Prince Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty received Ikeda Huizheng and other leaders of the fallen alliance in the big tent.

After several days of rest and preparations, the coalition army composed of the remaining troops of Kyushu Island and the captives as the forerunner, and the [-] Ming army as the rear team began to march eastward. The army will cross the Kanmon Strait and land in Honshu, Japan. After conquering the entire territory of Japan .

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　　Looking at the points, I am still [-] points away from reaching the fifth level this year. Is there any wealthy reader who will reward the leader, help me to the fifth level, and I will not be able to count on silver. . . .

　　
　
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