Ono Ichiro, with his deployment of thirty people, rushed to the front waving his samurai sword, swung it and slashed at it. Seeing that he couldn't squeeze in, the musketeer hurriedly used his matchlock to block the samurai sword.
Ono is in his fifties this year. He has practiced this sword for forty years. He tilted his elbow and slashed diagonally along the musket.
One of his hands was cut off directly, and he fell down with a shrill scream. The warrior behind rushed forward, instead of slashing, he stabbed directly. This is more efficient.
Yang Fan looked at it and nodded. These people are veterans and have rich experience in facing enemies. They know how to adapt to local conditions and the time, and use martial arts flexibly according to the actual situation on the battlefield.
Three teams of more than a hundred people quickly hacked to death the musketeers crowded in front of the door and rushed in.
The musket cannot be fired, so it is better to use a fire stick.
After these people fired the first shot, they immediately panicked when they saw the Japanese pirates rushing up.
In this era, the strength of the musketeers depended on discipline. The British lobster soldiers could line up face to face and shoot three times in a row, then charge with their bayonets raised.
These musketeers were very skilled in loading and firing, but their formation and courage were not good enough. When they saw the Japanese pirates coming up, they got into chaos. What the musketeers fear most is chaos. As long as the team is in chaos, they will be killed by cold weapons.
When Ming musketeers encountered Jiannu, the situation was generally ten times worse than here.
The explosion rate of the musket remained high, the gunpowder was shoddy, and the shooting range was too close. It could not penetrate Jiannu's triple armor from thirty meters away. At this distance, Jiannu's bow and arrow almost hit the eye 80 times out of 10 times.
"Okay! Rush in." Taozi clenched her little fists delicately and waved forward.
This is the first time her soldiers have participated in a large-scale actual battle, and she is very concerned about every small victory of her side.
Yang Fan shook his head and smiled bitterly, where did he go? Li Mansion is the core stronghold of the Donglin Group in the north, and it is so easy to fight.
Sure enough, as soon as they rushed in, there was a gunshot like exploding beans behind the door. The people who rushed in fell to the ground, and the rest rolled back and crawled out, hiding on both sides of the door.
"Ah! How could it be like this?" Taozi was dumbfounded.
"The commander over there didn't give it in vain. The door was crowded. The commander behind him directly distanced himself and organized a second wave of troops. Your people rushed in too fast and didn't observe carefully before rushing in. So I suffered a loss."
Taozi's distressed heart bleeds again. The battlefield turns out to be like this. As long as you make a mistake, it will give you feedback immediately. But she also understands that battlefield experience comes in exchange for appointments.
Just like the moves of a warrior, they were all acquired with the lives of the seniors. Every move that is good is the result of hundreds of battles.
"Yang Jun, what should I do?" Taozi asked in a low voice, somewhat embarrassed.
"Put the shield soldiers in front, the repeating gun in the middle, and the pikemen in the back. Use the formation I taught you to rush in."
"I understand." Taozi was a little embarrassed. She usually studied hard and talked eloquently. But when she arrived on the battlefield, she became confused. It seemed that she couldn't remember anything, couldn't know anything, and didn't even know where to put her hands and feet. .
Then she issued an order in her native language.
Three phalanx squadrons rushed forward.
The shields used by these soldiers were aluminum alloy shields sold to them by Yang Fan.
The Japanese were too short. If they were carrying shields, they would not be able to wield samurai swords. They relied on agility and jumping to fight.
The aluminum alloy shields Yang Fan gave them were several times stronger than steel, but only one-third of the weight. The protective area is large. Generally, a squad is equipped with ten shield soldiers, ten fire gate gunners, and ten spear soldiers.
The spear is one of the five ancient Japanese weapons (samurai sword, bow and arrow, naginata, spear, and ribs). They don't call this thing a gun, it's called a gun in Japan (qiǎn).
In the early days of Japan, there were no infantry groups fighting, and spears were mainly weapons of the Ezo people.
Before the Kamakura period, the main mode of combat was Ikkidō, in which samurai singled out each other or shot arrows at each other. In the end, he used Tai Dao to fight hand to hand.
There is no concept of corps operations or array operations.
After Mongolia unified China and established the Yuan Dynasty, it crossed the sea from Goryeo (now South Korea) in the northeast and invaded Japan twice to launch the Battle of Bunyong.
Most of the soldiers on the Mongolian side came ashore to fight with spears and spears, while the short Japanese had only weapons such as tachi and pheasant swords to resist them. Because they were too short, the handles were not long, and they suffered a big loss.
Most of their land is narrow, rugged and mountainous, unsuitable for large-scale samurai cavalry to carry out galloping operations.
The battle mode also gradually changed from the mounted archery combat of mounted warriors to the infantry group combat. The Japanese gun developed from this.
Yang Fan designed the hollow square formation for Taozi, and the spears still used their 鑓 and Jumonji spears. After all, at this time, they have been using their own weapons for more than three hundred years, and the weapons are still best used if they are familiar with them.
There is a big difference between Japanese guns and Chinese guns, mainly in the way of installation. The early Chinese long guns, such as beryllium, gallium, etc., had a nail-like structure at the head and tail, which was inserted into the wooden handle, while Chinese guns were sleeved on the wooden handle.
This is the famous distinction between collars and suits. The wooden handle of the collar is oval and can be chopped, similar to the handle of an axe. The handles of the suit are basically round and can only be stabbed.
After three squadrons and three hundred people rushed in, the samurai from before also rushed in behind.
Yang Fan and others followed and entered the second courtyard from the main entrance.
With the second shot from Li Mansion's servant, the inside was filled with smoke.
This time the aluminum alloy shield blocked the musket. After a crackling sound, the servants discovered that the opponent's shield was made of unknown material. It looked very big, but those short people used it with no difficulty, and it completely blocked the lead bullets without even denting.
The servants suddenly panicked. The three-column formation suddenly became a little confused. Some people wanted to retreat, but were blocked by the leaders, and there was a sudden confusion.
Immediately, the Fire Gate Lancers behind the shield soldiers on the Order's side opened fire.
The nine-shot fire door gun purchased from Yang Fan was sequentially ignited by the fuse on the side of the barrel.
Within thirty meters, this kind of continuous fire door gun has great advantages. Although it's not good for long distances, it's very useful for street fighting.
Its fierce bursts of firepower are enough to knock the opponent off their feet.
Bang bang bang!
The musketeer of the Order here shot the barrel empty with nine consecutive rounds.
After a dense barrage of lead bullets, it turned out that the servants and musketeers also wore armor. They wore hoods, which were similar to knee-length vests with buttons from top to bottom on the front. It is a cloth armor made of two layers of cotton sheets sandwiched between a layer of iron sheets.
The arms and legs were unprotected to facilitate the use of muskets and marching.
Although they were all wearing armor, the distance was too close, only about twenty meters. Moreover, the fixed ammunition sold by Yang Fan included steel ball bullets.
Generally, when loading ammunition, every second shot is fired, and the third shot is a steel ball bullet, which is used to increase the armor-piercing lethality.
After all, the Japanese shogunate army also wore armor. Although only the breastplate was made of iron, some high-ranking warriors and generals used Western-style plate breastplates similar to plate armor.
With the fierce firing of the continuous muskets, the musketeers were directly blinded. They had never seen such fierce firepower before, and the firepower was nine times greater than that of the same number of people. Completely overwhelmed them.
At the same time, there is a large watchtower in the backyard, built with huge city bricks, Sanhe soil and glutinous rice juice. This watchtower is four stories high and the top is equivalent to five stories high. On the parapet at the top, groups of musketeers were hurriedly running up.
A man in his fifties who looked like a member of the Communist Party of China was anxiously talking with several generals.
"Sir, the entire mansion is surrounded. It is estimated that more than 3,000 people are here."
"Who are these people and where do they come from," Li Qiutong asked with a trembling voice. Now he is the highest-ranking person in the Li family, the eldest son of Li Sancai, and the current patriarch.
"Master, it looks like they are Japanese pirates. Last night I got news that Tianjin has been occupied by Japanese pirates. Everything is in chaos over there. I didn't expect these Japanese pirates to come to the suburbs of the capital so quickly."
"Japanese pirates, what should we do?" Li Qiutong was almost scared to death. Japanese pirates, these are not ordinary gangsters. These people kill without blinking an eye. They are simply evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
"Master, we can't hesitate any longer. We can't hold the front any longer. We must immediately evacuate all the family members into the watchtower, evacuate all the servants back, and concentrate on defending the watchtower. Get on the Lumi Gun and Turtle Dove Gun. Now when the gunshots sound, Come, the whole town will know that we have more than 800 men hidden in the shop, and more than a thousand militiamen from the countryside will come."
Li Qiutong said hesitantly: "What to do with the bank? The bank is not under the watchtower. If they find the bank, how will we tell the people in the court?"
"The location of the bank is very secret, and the silver is cast into four hundred kilograms of silver lumps, commonly known as ghosts. It's not easy for them to find it, and even if they find it, they won't be able to take it away for a while. It's more important to keep the family papers first."
Another general also echoed: "As long as we persist for one day, there will be five guards in Tongzhou and twelve regiments in the capital. Reinforcements will soon come."
Li Qiutong gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and said: "Immediately evacuate all the family documents into the watchtower, open the warehouse, take out all the Lumi guns and turtle dove guns we have hidden in our possession, and fight with them. By the way, we will sell the ones we plan to sell to foreigners." The tiger crouching cannons and Fo Lang machine guns were also brought out. However, the gunpowder tubes are enough. Hit me hard and tell me to go down and kill a Japanese pirate. I will reward you with ten taels of silver."
