Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Diego gritted his teeth and said.

"Sir Nomura, judging from the current situation, if we want to resist the Ming army's attack, according to the planned plan, it may be a good choice not to focus our defense on the city wall, but to engage in street fighting with them."

Diego could see clearly that the Ming army's biggest advantage over them now was its sharp artillery fire.

If they could use the layers of buildings in Kirishima Castle to withstand the Ming army's bombardment in street fighting, they could force the Ming army to fight with them in street fighting.

Then, this will be their only chance to win.

In the previous Battle of Ryukyu, the Satsuma clan soldiers failed to defeat the Ming army in street battles.

One is because the people of Ryukyu are clear-minded.

In other words, Ryukyu is the home court of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to fight in the street, the home field advantage is really important.

The second was the Battle of Ryukyu. The number of troops invested by the Satsuma Domain was really not that many.

A full attack was only a few thousand people, and most of them were ashigaru, not samurai.

When those Ashigaru faced the Ming army, they were almost defeated in one battle. Naturally, it was impossible to hold back the Ming army in street fighting.

The third reason is that the original Ryukyu Royal City was just an ordinary city and had not been fortified from beginning to end.

The current Kirishima Castle, and even Kagoshima Castle in the future, were specially reinforced by the Satsuma Domain to enable street fighting.

They had made preparations in advance to fight the Ming army in street fighting.

Naturally, the two sides are not at the same level.

Hearing this, Nomurazukaji gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, send an order to the entire army to prepare for a street battle with the Ming army..."

It is worth mentioning that Japanese cities and Chinese cities are actually different.

In addition to military functions, Chinese cities also have residential, trade, exchange and other attributes.

There are already the prototypes of future urban agglomerations.

However, Japanese castles are simply military fortresses.

The castle town area outside the city is the residential area.

Therefore, if the Japanese want to engage in street fighting, they cannot just defend the city, but must go forward to the castle town.

Of course, this is also a good thing to some extent.

Because if the enemy is put into the city for street fighting, then once the battle goes unfavorably, the morale of the army will collapse and the city will fall, it will be a matter of minutes.

But if it's a street fight outside the city, that's another story.

If they can't defeat them, they can still retreat to the city to rest and prepare for another fight.

It can be regarded as leaving a way out for myself.

To give an inappropriate example, Japanese cities are like command posts and logistics bases in street battles.

Having such a city would definitely be beneficial for the war to continue for a long time.

……

The situation in the war changed rapidly.

Groups of Japanese samurai and mercenaries each held weapons, opened the city gate, and arrived at the castle town outside Kirishima Castle.

Then they dispersed and prepared to fight in the city with the Ming army's siege troops.

It is worth mentioning that these Japanese samurai and mercenaries are almost all Ming-style equipment.

Musket, bayonet and grenade.

The only difference in equipment between them and the Ming army is that the Ming army has breastplates and helmets, but they don't.

Of course, their weapons and equipment cannot all be arms sold by Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty had previously conducted an arms trade with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the number of arms sold was actually not too large.

The transaction volume is almost equal to the total number of equipment of an organizer.

The United Kingdom and the Netherlands first sent a batch to Batavia and India, and then it was the turn of the Satsuma Domain.

After all, it’s actually not much.

A considerable part of the weapons currently equipped by mercenaries and Japanese samurai are imitations of their own.

Although there is a gap in performance with the Ming army's equipment, it is definitely no problem to make do with it.

Take grenades as an example. The grenades equipped by the Ming army are almost all pull-type grenades.

When using it, just pull the safety off and throw it away, which saves you the trouble of igniting it and greatly improves its practicality on the battlefield.

The grenades imitated by the Japanese and mercenaries still need to be manually ignited with an open flame.

Although it is not as convenient to use as the Ming army's pull-type grenades, and due to the difference in gunpowder between the two sides, the power of the explosion is even more different.

But in street fighting, both are equally deadly.

Because in street fighting, you don’t know where the enemy is, where he will fire a cold shot, or throw a grenade out of nowhere...

……

The charging Korean soldiers saw that the shelling in Kirishima Castle was muted by their own shelling, and their morale became more and more encouraging.

While raising his arms and shouting, he rushed forward.

There was a visible blush on everyone's face.

Greed and cruelty flashed in his eyes.

The reason why they are so excited is because Huang Changjun made a promise to these Korean soldiers as early as the beginning of the war.

They are the vanguard in this battle. If they can break the city, they are allowed to plunder Kirishima Castle for three days without sealing the sword for three days.

Whatever you grab counts!
To the poor and frightened Korean soldiers, such conditions were like putting a beautiful girl under the bed of an old bachelor who had been married for decades. The old bachelor's eyes instantly turned red.

He screamed and got on it!
I couldn't help it at all.

Now, seeing that the enemy's artillery fire has been suppressed to silence, and the city is about to be broken, how can these Korean soldiers not be excited. Kill the enemy, destroy the city, rob money, rob food, rob women!

The Korean soldiers roared and rushed into the castle town, but before they could react, gunshots and bows and arrows rang out frequently from the buildings on all sides of the road.

collapse! Bang bang!

Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

In an instant, the Korean soldiers who rushed into the castle town fell in large numbers.

Seeing this scene, the momentum of the North Korean soldiers who were originally in high spirits suddenly stagnated.

The next moment, grenades with black smoke were thrown out from the buildings on both sides of the road and landed among the crowd.

The explosion sounded, and at the moment when the Korean soldiers were knocked upside down, short and powerful Japanese samurai wielded swords and fought out of the buildings on both sides of the road.

Coming towards the Korean soldiers!

"Kill the cock!"

"Onboard!"

"For Satsuma Domain, long live the domain lord!"

"..."

In an instant, the two sides strangled each other.

A bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

People kept falling to the ground, screaming and wailing.

Gunfire rang out sparsely, but compared with the Satsuma clan soldiers and mercenaries who were hiding in the building and shooting black guns, the Korean soldiers' counterattack seemed weak.

They were basically just messing around.

Many times, they didn't even see anyone and just randomly aimed and fired in the direction where the gunfire came from.

One can imagine the outcome of the battle.

Soon, the Korean soldiers who rushed into the castle town of Kirishima Castle suffered heavy losses. They had to retreat due to heavy casualties.

Slowly evacuated the castle town!

But those Japanese samurai still felt that the killing was not enough. A group of sword-wielding samurai rushed out of the castle town, howling strangely, and chasing the retreating Korean soldiers with swords.

When Huang Changjun saw this, his face twitched and he felt his face was dull.

However, under the pleading of the North Korean general on the side, he still ordered his own cavalry to attack and retreat in response to the broken troops.

The flag was waved, and there was a rumble of horse hooves on the battlefield.

A cavalry team of about 500 people jumped out of the formation, swept an arc around the battlefield, and killed the Japanese samurai who were chasing the defeated Ming army.

The sound of horse hooves almost echoed throughout the battlefield.

The sound of a monster weighing nearly half a ton galloping on the battlefield with a tall horse and a knight on the horse was quite terrifying.

These Ming army cavalry were like a sharp blade that was bound to see blood when it was unsheathed, charging towards the flanks of the Japanese samurai.

charge!

Or charge!

The iron hooves from the land of China are charging at the land of Japan wantonly and openly.

In the blink of an eye, they filled the flanks of the Japanese samurai who were chasing the defeated Korean soldiers.

The sharp lance, supported by the charge speed of the war horse, could easily smash those short Japanese samurai into candied haws.

The war horses galloped over and could even knock those Japanese samurai away.

This is the case with Shuren Kawashima.

He was originally howling and chasing the defeated troops of the Ming army, and his face was filled with the excitement of getting revenge.

The katana in his hand was stained with blood, which made him even more excited.

But just when he was in the heat of pursuit, accompanied by a rumble of horse hooves, a group of Ming cavalry galloped over from the flanks of the battlefield.

These cavalrymen were obviously not many in number, only a few hundred at most, but when they charged, their momentum seemed to be overwhelming.

In the blink of an eye, their team was wiped out.

He watched helplessly as Watanabe-kun and Inoue-kun were stabbed into candied haws by lances.

He watched helplessly as Takeda-kun was split in half from the shoulder by the sharp saber, and blood mixed with internal organs spurted out from the cavity.

A Ming army cavalry came straight towards him!

Shuto Kawashima tried his best to throw himself to the side, avoiding the lance that stabbed his chest.

But just as he got up from the ground, another Ming army cavalry came straight towards him.

There was a bang, but Shuren Kawashima was unable to dodge this time. He was hit by the galloping horse and was knocked away.

Like a rag bag, it flew for more than ten meters and fell heavily to the ground.

He was knocked down so hard that he lost his breath!
……

On the other side, Fujiwara Tsune stood next to Huang Changjun, looking at the spectacular scene of the Ming army's heavy cavalry charge on the battlefield, and felt his mind swaying.

Seeing the scene of the cavalry running and driving and defeating hundreds of samurai, Fujiwara Tsuneo felt that the shelling of the Ming army had given him a greater shock.

Although Japan in this era also had cavalry.

But in this era, Japan had not yet had time to introduce Western horse breeds and breed them, so the famous Oriental horse was not born.

Most Japanese war horses are less than one meter tall at the shoulder.

Today's Japanese cavalry, in the eyes of outsiders, are nothing more than monkeys riding dogs, more funny than mighty.

There is really no way to compare with the Ming Dynasty's cavalry.

At this moment, Fujiwara Tsune had the idea of ​​​​introducing horse breeds from the Ming Dynasty to improve the Japanese cavalry... (End of this chapter)