Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 587 Teppanyaki

Originally, the shogunate army planned today, and the entire battle process was constantly advancing. Who knew that the first stop when I went out was full of bumps, even if the land mines planted by the Eighth Route Army on the mountain roads were blown up during the later Anti-Japanese War. Shoutout, let alone the shogunate army who have never seen landmines in this era. The dense minefields overturned most of the forward army. The first shot in Kanto broke his leg on the spot. Sheng's grandson will probably have to use a gun as a crutch for the rest of his life.

Almost more than 300 people were killed and [-] were injured. The warriors who advanced like a tide retreated like a tide. Because the armies were too eager to advance, the third army that suddenly stopped was still the first and fifth behind. Jun bumped his ass, Matsudaira Tadaki had to quickly order the rear army to stop!
The chaos lasted for about 10 minutes, and the densely packed samurai army had just restored order. Looking at the two huge "lettuce", Matsudaira Zhonghui cursed a dozen or so words angrily, and just waved his hands to summon the officers to discuss countermeasures .

Since there was no way to get through, we had to make a detour. About ten minutes later, the Japanese army crowded at the foot of Rilun Mountain separated into two teams, and carefully walked around Rilun Mountain and Longhe Mountain.

To this, the four divisions guarding the two mountains seemed to have no reaction. Just as Matsudaira Tadaki thought he had a plan, the familiar roar suddenly sounded again, and this time, the snipers ambushing in the nearby mountains also opened fire. The gun was carefully crafted at a hundred taels, and the rifled gun with the pointed cone Minie bullet had a range of two to 300 meters. It easily killed a dozen panic-stricken Japanese warriors.

The samurai were not really afraid of death, so they were knocked down by more than 30 people after being beaten so passively, and the two crusade teams of 500 people also retreated back to the front line in despair.

After much tossing and turning, it was already noon in the day, and the shogunate army that had set out aggressively had to sit down disheveledly. The samurai took out the rice balls in their arms and served them with salted radish and dried fish, while the officers opened fire. Each bamboo tube, later called American canned food, is now a real canned food from Ming Dynasty. In the interlacing of cups and plates, the vigor of the morning when the troops were dispatched disappeared.

Matsudaira Tadaki couldn't solve this matter, and in the end, His Excellency Shogun and his elders had to work. Just after lunch, His Excellency Tokugawa Iemitsu, Sakai Tadakatsu and other seniors arrived at the front line together.

"General, Ming Kou planted a fire escape technique underground, and my Eastern Kingdom warriors suffered heavy casualties. I hope the general will show you!"

A small landmine stumped 20 Japanese soldiers, but after all, he came from a wealthy family. Tokugawa Iemitsu had not experienced the bloody warring states of his grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu and his father Tokugawa Hidetada. The year before he was born It happened to be the end of the Azuchi-Momoyama era. Although he was talented, he was a son of a high school compound after all. Looking at the battlefield less than a few hundred meters away, Your Excellency the General blurted out.

"It's just such a small place, if it is trampled clean by someone, it will be done!"

What Tokugawa Iemitsu said was correct. If you don't charge intensively and attack in a scattered manner, in such a place, the cost of 500 people can easily eliminate all the mines.

The problem is that human beings are not machines, and doing so would be too disrespectful of human life. As soon as Tokugawa Iemitsu finished speaking, Lao Zhong Sakai Tadakatsu has already pulled his sleeves hard twice, and immediately looked around fiercely. The waiters next to him were all the bannermen of the Tokugawa family, and these waiters hurriedly lowered their eyebrows, expressing that they didn't hear anything, so as not to be silenced.

The general does not take human life seriously, and if it is spread, it will lose people's hearts, especially when the Ming bandits from Ming Dynasty claim to dismiss the general and return the emperor, but seeing Tokugawa Iemitsu's annoyed look, Sakai Tadakatsu He folded his sleeves and bowed quickly.

"My lord general, it hurts people's lives so cheaply, it damages the morale and the general's military luck. It's better to use horses to trample the underground fire escape. It happens that Lord Date of Sendai has a lot of cavalry teams, so it's good to borrow [-] horses from him to trample! "

Although the Japanese horses are short and pitiful, there are not horses everywhere in the Japanese country. The main horse producing area is located in the northeast of the Japanese country. The cavalry is very famous. Now it is the Tokugawa shogunate. Most of the army and horses in the world are controlled by the Tokugawa family, but the horses of the Date family are still one of the threats.

It is also unlucky for the Date family. The shogunate stipulates that half of the foreign daimyo in the world must be enshrined in the Edo court. Every April, this year happens to be the Date family. The famous horse-riding iron cannon entourage of the Doida family could not escape.

Horses are even more delicate than humans these days. It is said that Date Zongzhong, the daimyo from Sendai, brought the horse here with tears in his eyes.

More than 200 pygmy horses had torches attached to their tails, and they were driven into battle while screaming in horror. This scene happened a bit too suddenly. Scarface, who had just returned from the front line, had not had time to react. Already galloping to the front of the formation, the sound of explosions roared again in front of Rilun Mountain and Longhe Mountain.

This time, it was the blood and flesh of the war horses that splashed, and the wombats that jumped and broke their legs wailed and fell on the battlefield. The fertilized wombats galloped even more crazily, and more than 40 wombats ran into the beggar alive. The living army's position kicked down a large area of ​​the Ming army with thumping and screaming.

Seeing that a large area was trampled clean, Matsudaira Tadaki, who had been delayed all morning, waved his samurai sword excitedly forward again.

"For the shogunate, for the glory, charge!"

Seeing that the minefields of the Qihuo army were broken, the morale of the warriors was ignited again. This time, almost the whole army was on top, and more than 2 Kwantung children of the third army roared and rushed up the mountain road. In the way of fighting, thousands of Japanese samurai suddenly pulled up the big Japanese bow, and the arrow more than one meter long fell on the mountain like a heavy rain. , The iron gunners of the shogunate also roared and fired arquebus guns, and stones and soil clods splashed on the trenches made by lead pellets.

However, this rainstorm-like offensive caused little damage to the Ming army. Why did the British longbow, which is similar to the Japanese bow, withdraw from the stage of history?It is because with the upgrade of the plate armor and the more and more advanced smelting technology, the damage caused by the longbow to the armored knight has become smaller and smaller.

Not to mention that the trench blocked a large area, but the cold-forged steel lining inside the Fanyang hat worn by the beggar army could defuse most of the remaining long arrows that shot into the trench, and a few unlucky ghosts were shot by the arrows. The arrow shot to the shoulder, and under the attack of the arrow rain, only one unlucky guy was stabbed in the neck by a long arrow and died on the spot.

As for the iron cannon, the reason for the angle did not pose a threat to the soldiers of the beggar army squatting in the trench for the time being.

However, the rain of arrows and the roaring iron cannon still gave great encouragement to the Japanese warriors charging forward. Although one or two undischarged landmines exploded and killed some people, they still did not stop their frenzy of charging. In particular, the Ming army shrank their heads in the trenches like cowards, without showing their heads at all.

This situation continued until the warriors reached the nearest trench 30 meters away. The begging army soldiers, whose heads were pressed down by the captains of the gangs, were finally given the order to release them.

"Fire!"

In an instant, almost everyone in the two divisions guarding the front stood up, and six thousand flintlock guns with dark muzzles appeared in front of the fanatical Japanese warriors, and then crackled like fried beans. There was a loud roar, and a puff of white smoke rose from the entire mountain.

The battlefield immediately became quiet for nearly half a minute.

Until the American Civil War, the accuracy of front-loading muskets was still very poor. From 80 meters away, if you hit three or four shots with ten shots, you are already a sharpshooter. War is constantly evolving, and this combat mode must adapt to the main weapons of an era. The army uses intensive firepower to make up for the low accuracy.

However, this accuracy can also be improved as the distance increases. Song Qingshu's memory, there was a battle between Britain and France. The British army survived three rounds of shooting as the French army was approaching. More than 200 people fell and did not fight back. , Finally, when the French army was close to a distance of about 30 meters, the British commander ordered a salvo, and more than 400 French troops fell on the spot, and the French directly collapsed.

The right to choose the battlefield this time belongs to the Ming army. Before the war, Song Qingshu also told Scarface about it. Anyway, there is a trench blocking it. Scarface is still a general from the cold weapon era. chant!After taking over the command, he immediately ordered to copy it. As a result, this round really had a miraculous effect.

With a round of volleys, the [-] or so warriors who charged intensively were knocked down on the spot. The forward attackers seemed to be wiped out like leeks, and the survivors were scattered, standing out from the crowd. The visual effect was so shocking that the warriors of the Kanto Third Army were stunned for more than ten seconds.

Immediately, just like the French did back then, the Japanese samurai also collapsed immediately.

On this day, the shogunate never launched another attack. Before sunset, the 20 Japanese samurai who came over aggressively retreated back in despair. They didn't even dare to collect the corpses left on the battlefield. It is estimated that the terrible output of the army in the era of anger will leave a strong shadow in the hearts of these warriors for decades.

However, these guys learned to be smarter after all, leaving about [-] cavalry troops stationed on the spot, watching the battlefield, and not allowing the Ming army to dig pits and plant mines here.

"Damn it, if the commander-in-chief didn't allow it, I really want to mess with them!"

Watching the two thousand shogunate samurai tremblingly huddled at the foot of the mountain, the scarred face that was itching in his heart muttered to himself while holding the binoculars.

(End of this chapter)