Chapter 306
As the saying goes, soldiers have no constant potential, and water has no constant shape.
In ordinary battles, the Ming Dynasty's army always fired with artillery, used bows and arrows or crossbows to shoot at medium and long distances, and only used hand-to-hand combat at close range.
But the problem is, Sun Kewang found that the equipment of the dwarf on the opposite side was too poor. There were some archers, but the number was very small, and they were all ordinary bamboo bows with light arrows. Such bows and arrows were basically useless for the steel armor of their decisive army. There is no lethality. What's more important is that the samurai are very arrogant these days. They don't even conduct basic tests and just attack directly.
Many people believe that the pig attack tactic was invented by the military god Nogi Nogi Nozomi during World War II. In fact, he used this tactic against the Tang army as early as the Tang Dynasty. However, he was beaten by Liu Rengui to the point where he did not dare to bare his teeth for thousands of years.
It's not that Sun Kewang has never fought against Xiaorili. When he was on Tsushima Island, he had experienced Xiaorili's trick. Therefore, he temporarily decided to throw a grenade first and then use a crossbow to defeat the troops.
"Grenade ready!"
"Three, two, one...throw it!"
Following Sun Kewang's order, hundreds of thousands of grenades were thrown at the swarming young warriors. Ning Haijun's grenades were different from those of later generations. Although they had the same wooden handle type, the delay was five to Between the eight, these hundreds and thousands of grenades were thrown into the Xiaori samurai formation, but they did not explode immediately.
A small-time warrior with a helmet and armor would not feel anything if he was hit. Even a small-time warrior without armor or helmet would only suffer a bloody head injury at most, and the impact would not be too great.
In fact, most of the grenades did not hit the little warriors. They looked at the smoking grenades and were full of doubts. What the hell is this? How can it hurt the enemy if thrown to the ground? They immediately knew how these damn things could harm the enemy.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
A series of airtight explosions suddenly sounded, overwhelming the screams of the little warriors. The warriors looked over in shock, and saw the fire between them and shrapnel flying across the sky.
For many days, the samurai were directly overturned by the blast wave. Those who were not overturned were also hit by shrapnel and steel balls flying at explosive speeds, and suppressed screams could be heard. Faced with the fragments and steel balls flying at explosive speeds, no matter how thick the armor is, it is useless. What's more, the armor coverage rate of the little Japanese warriors is not high. The little Japanese warriors who lined up in a dense queue to kill were cut into clumps by shrapnel like wheat. Cut him down, and let the dead and wounded rest on their heads!
Xiaori, who was blown away by a grenade, was immediately thrown into chaos. Before the Xiaori warrior could react, Sun Kewang shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
The soldier of the Death Battalion threw away the grenade, took up the crossbow and aimed at the chaotic little Japanese samurai and started firing.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
The whistling sound of crossbow arrows suddenly started, and the triangular arrowheads turned into dots of cold cold stars and flew towards the little warrior, who immediately screamed loudly! The arrows fired violently tore apart the thin bodies of the little warriors, entering from the front and out from the chest, bringing out a shower of blood. Some of the unlucky ones who were shot by more than a dozen arrows at the same time were even knocked off by the huge impact. He had to fly backwards with his feet off the ground!
The first wave of arrow rain has not yet ended, and the second wave of metal storm has risen again, and thousands of sharp arrows are shot out like the wind. The warriors who charged on the small day once again fell in large numbers, and many wounded fell to the ground and screamed. He was nailed directly to the ground by sharp arrows. He was completely dead and his body was still slightly convulsing.
In the early days, the protective equipment of samurai warriors was really poor. A pair of leather armors was regarded as luxury equipment, and bamboo armors were also so-so. Most people only had coarse cloth clothes. Such equipment could not stand up to the rain of arrows poured out by the desperate army. What's the difference between streaking?
What happened to Jiannu in Bali Bay was repeated for the Xiaori warriors, and the Xiaori samurai were even worse than Jiannu. The Jiannu army had white armor that could ignore Ning Haijun's crossbow arrows, and red armor with a layer of iron armor, which could cover a distance of more than a hundred steps. Can also defend. The most unlucky Jiannu still had a leather armor after all. They didn't even have this, they could only scream!
The rain of arrows roared wildly and continuously, and the death storm swept across the battlefield. Piles of people fell every second. The screams and splattered blood made the little warriors who were lucky enough not to be hit by arrows tremble in their hearts. His steps involuntarily hesitated.
Maeda Nagayong looked at him and shouted: "Don't stop! Speed up! If you stop here, you will only be used as a target. Shimazu family warriors, the time has come to prove your courage and loyalty. Charge..."
A sharp arrow pierced Maeda Changyong's chest, and a large section emerged from his back, sealing his words. However, his heroic words still inspired the courage of the young warriors. They faced the rain of arrows and rushed forward with their eyes closed, stepping on the bloody bodies of the dead and injured.
However, this wave of pig attacks quickly stopped because everyone was dead. Nearly half of the two thousand or so young warriors were killed by the grenades of the death camp. The three-round crossbows were all fired in front of the formation.
"That's it……"
Li Dingguo spat at the corpse of the young warrior, raised the horizontal sword in his hand, and pointed forward: "Kill..."
Shimazu Mitsuhisa did not expect Maeda Nagai to be able to repel the Ming army. He also used his trump card. The Shimazu family's more than 3,000 iron gunners were matchlocks and firecrackers. These firecrackers were purchased from the Dutch. Yes, it's also a front-loading musket, a crappy thing from decades ago.
To be fair, although these muskets sold by the Dutch are old guns, they are of decent quality and are slightly stronger than the inferior muskets in the hands of the Ming army. Of course, if you are willing to make them yourself, or use them from Guan Ning Army or Tianxiong Army The muskets equipped by such elite troops are far inferior.
Three thousand iron gunners lined up to follow up. Before they had time to join the battle, they immediately saw hundreds of thousands of men wearing heavy armor and waving swords made of stainless steel rushing towards them.
These days, iron gunners have no time to reload their bullets before they are shot through the front and back. Ning Haijun's spear was made of steel bars as the spine, with bamboo strips sandwiched outside, wrapped in linen, and painted with raw lacquer to make a fairly elastic barrel.
In order to prevent the spear from being pierced too deep and difficult to pull out, two crescent-shaped hooks are added to the end of the gun blade. This thing can prevent the spear from piercing too deep, and can also cut the enemy's calf to drag him down.
This weapon, which has been eliminated in the Ning Navy, has become a terrifying killing weapon in the hands of the soldiers of the death camp. These iron gunners, who had high hopes for Shimazu Mitsuhisa, were stabbed down by spears or slashed with horizontal knives without any suspense. fall.
The iron gunners, who were made with three thousand heavy gold, died tragically in the counterattack of the decisive army in a tortured way. However, it was not a tragic death, but they died quite skillfully...
Cheng Shijie looked at the death camp and couldn't help but say: "Damn it, this is too fierce!"
Sun Kewang led more than 10,000 reform-through-labor prisoners who were determined to die. He fired one round of grenades and three rounds of crossbows. He worked for more than 2,000 small days. In one hand-to-hand charge, he killed another 3,000 iron gunners.
However, Sun Kewang's men's hand-to-hand charge continued unabated. At this time, the tens of thousands of dwarfs who followed began to suffer misfortune again. The little warriors screamed in terror and hysteria, and various weapons were passed over desperately, attacking these dwarfs crazily. Death Battalion Soldiers.
Bamboo spears, cross spears, naginata, sickles, chain hammers wrapped around the handles of sickles... eighteen kinds of weapons were all used, knocking the breastplates, helmets, greaves, and shoulder armor of the death camp. The entire battlefield was like a blacksmith's shop, bustling with activity. As for the killing effect...
Very bad!
After all, Xiaoli is an island country. This is their luck and their misfortune. Fortunately, the ocean helped them block enemies from the mainland, allowing them to avoid foreign invasion for more than two thousand years, and they could live their lives behind closed doors. Unfortunately, the ocean made them isolated and had no way to live like themselves. If mainland countries interact with many countries and nations full of blood and wisdom, their development will naturally be very slow.
They have not faced the powerful cavalry groups that have come and gone, so they have not been able to develop powerful bows and crossbows with ultra-long range; they have not faced the heavy infantry who are covered in armor and are invulnerable. Failure to develop more effective armor-breaking weapons;
They have never tried a crisis in which the enemy's army marches south in large numbers and the entire nation's life hangs on a thread, so they have no way of figuring out an effective mobilization mechanism. Once a foreign enemy invades, they themselves may be in chaos before the war begins.
I don’t want to talk about rubbish like bamboo guns. Their samurai swords blow and break hair, which is very scary. The question is, which one is designed to break armor? Let them cut the cow's thigh bone with a knife, and the knife will probably be useless!
In a word, the weapons that Xiaorijun had spent thousands of years exploring and developing completely lost their former effectiveness when faced with the fierce death camps.
This is an unfair battle. If I fight for a long time against the soldiers of the death camp, I won't lose a hair on them. With just one casual blow, they will either die or be maimed.
Unfair, so unfair!
What makes Xiaori even more frightened is that for the sake of their own achievements, these Death Battalion soldiers cut off the heads of Xiaori soldiers while they were killing them, and then hung their bloody heads on their waists and continued to charge.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Death Battalion, these little days are too few. Each of them needs an average of five or six levels of beheading before they can be freed. If they move a little slower, there will be no heads to reduce their sentences.
In order to reduce their sentences, these reform-through-labor prisoners charged with their heads hanging. This scene was too scary for the young samurai.
The little samurai are very crazy and are not afraid of death, but the problem is that the guy in their hands is too incompetent. Not to mention the little samurai is scared by this scene, even Shimazu Mitsuhisa is trembling with fear.
A term appeared inexplicably in his eyes: "Tiger and Wolf Qin Army."
In the past, they always thought that the Han people were cowardly and insensitive. They had long lost the martial and bellicose tradition of the Han and Tang Dynasties and were no longer worthy of respect. But now they discovered that wolves will always be wolves! Maybe the edges of that nation will be worn away by ordinary life, and maybe that nation will be abolished by some genius rulers with all kinds of incredible and bizarre policies. But for more than two thousand years, the blood of conquest has been in the veins of this nation. It flows in it, and once it is awakened, the end of the surrounding countries and nations will come.
A small tribe that came down from the Loess Plateau finally conquered the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast, the snowy North Korea, the swampy and dense forests of Hunan and Hubei, the thousands of miles of mountains in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the Hetao Plain. At its most powerful They even planted their war flag in the Caspian Sea and have stood firm for two thousand years. How can such a nation be considered weak and not warlike?
If they are not warlike or bloodthirsty, how can the Han become the largest ethnic group in the world? If you are not warlike or bloodthirsty, where did such a vast territory come from? Is it delivered with phone credit?
From the moment they were forced to leave their hometown by the overflowing Yellow River and embarked on a journey of unknown life and death, the blood of conquest has been burning in the blood vessels of our ancient ancestors, and it has not been cut off for thousands of years. Every dynasty is based on The opening of new territories kicked off. Even the Song Dynasty, which was considered relatively weak, frantically snatched living space from surrounding ethnic groups, which is why the achievements of the opening of the Hehuang border were achieved.
However, unlike Europe's predatory conquests that conquered other countries and took everything on that land as their own, China's conquest went straight to the other country's land, that is, to conquer that land. Come down and turn it into your own land. As for the people on that land...
Either disappeared completely, or were forced to move to more desolate and barren land to struggle for survival. When the bloodthirsty wolf discovers that this seemingly desolate and barren land can also grow crops, they will have to face it. The same road, the same road, perish, or migrate!
There were tens of thousands of small warriors, tens of thousands of them, about the same number as the Ming army. But the problem was that they were defeated by the Ming army before they could hold out for even half an hour.
In fact, Cheng Shijie was a little surprised. He thought that the biggest role of these reform-through-labor prisoners was to confront the young warriors on the tidal flats. From Cheng Shijie to Li Zhixiang, the sailors on all the warships of the Ning Haijun Navy were already ready to provide support. , any naval gun, including rocket launchers, is ready to go.
Turns out it's not needed anymore.
The old Shaanxi thieves who came to Zhang Xianzhong's old department were best at driving the defeated troops to occupy the opponent's city. Regardless of whether Shimazu Mitsuhisa was willing or not, he must admit that he had no chance in this battle.
"Your Excellency, I suggest that the army abandon Kagoshima Castle and retreat first!"
Shimazu Mitsuyoshi roared: "Baga! Although we lost for a while, we only lost less than 10,000 soldiers. I still have 30,000 people. Just abandon the city like this? Impossible!"
Beixiang Zhonghu said: "Your Excellency, the Ming army only sent out a vanguard force, and it overwhelmed our troops twice their size in an instant. The strength is too disparity. If we fight hard, this battle can be won." If we win, the Shimazu family will also be severely injured!"
Speaking of this, Kitago Tadora lowered his voice and said: "Your Excellency, the invasion of the Ming Dynasty is a matter of life and death for the entire life. There is no reason for the Shimazu family to face this terrible opponent alone!"
Shimazu Mitsuhisa's expression was gloomy and he bit his lip and remained silent.
He has now been awakened by the Ming army. Even if he wants to use all his troops to fight to the death with the Ming army, even if he dies, he must die vigorously and like a real warrior!
Although he claims to still have more than 30,000 troops, in fact, most of these 30,000 people are farmers, and there are more than 5,000 real samurai. After fighting off more than 5,000 elite samurai, does the Satsuma Domain still exist? Does the Shimadzu family still exist?
All glory will be wiped out! Besides, resisting the invasion of the Ming Dynasty is a matter for the entire Xiaotian family. There is no reason for the Shimazu family to sacrifice so tragically for the benefit of the entire Xiaotian family!
"retreat!"
In fact, at this time, even if he didn't want to retreat, there was nothing he could do. The soldiers of the Death Army caught up with Xiaori's defeated troops and rushed into Lu'er City. The city could no longer be defended.
I originally thought that there would be a fierce battle to be fought in the city, but I knew that when they were on Tsushima Island, they also broke into Tsushima City easily, but the problem was that the fight in the city was very fierce. If it weren't for the support of grenades, crossbows, and artillery, I don't know how long it would take to capture Tsushima City.
However, in Lu'er City, Xiaori's resistance was not fierce, and then they saw groups of Xiaorizu hurriedly retreating.
"Why did Xiaoli withdraw?"
"Who knows?"
Li Dingguo said: "Do you want to chase..."
"No!"
Sun Kewang said: "Clear Lu'er City as quickly as possible and welcome the commander into the city!"
"What a pity, those are thousands of heads!"
Sun Ke looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Do you know how many people there are in my childhood?"
"have no idea!"
"Didn't you read the information?"
Sun Kewang hated the iron and said: "There are more than 12 million people in my childhood, don't you have enough heads to divide it?"
Li Dingguo: "There are still many people in the city, so kill everyone inside!"
Sun Kewang said: "You still want to fight, there is not only one city here, there are many villages and towns around it, you go and fight!"
"good!"
"Let me remind you in advance, don't stretch out your hand if you dare not, otherwise, I won't be able to protect you!"
After Sun Kewang joined Ning Haijun, he soon discovered that there were many factions within Ning Haijun, which seemed to be divided according to their place of origin. For example, Shen Boyun brought the Chongming Shen family's Shachuan Gang to join Ning Haijun. Now there is the Chongming faction in Ning Haijun, and of course there are Zheng's faction.
Before Sun Kewang came, there were many people from Shaanxi and Shanxi in Liaodong. But the problem was that the Shaanxi faction did not have a leader yet, and Sun Kewang was eyeing this position. He wanted to be the leader of the Shaanxi faction.
Cheng Shijie gave him this opportunity. He pulled out two-thirds of Zhang Xianzhong's elite Shaanxi old battalion troops in one breath, just to use this opportunity to twist the Shaanxi faction into one rope.
Liu Wenxiu understood Sun Kewang's thoughts and said, "Then I'll go too, and I'll leave Lu'er City to you!"
As Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu dispersed their troops and attacked, the villages and towns around Lu'er City were like locusts passing through.
"Commander, fortunately, we have fulfilled our mission and captured Lu'er City!"
Cheng Shijie naturally knew that Kagoshima City was the Kagoshima City of later generations, the seat of the county office of Kagoshima Prefecture, and the political, economic, and cultural center of Kagoshima Prefecture. During the Edo period, the sixth generation of the Shimazu family moved their residence to the current Kao Castle. At that time, the Shimazu clan was the second largest feudal lord in Japan, in charge of the Satsuma, Osumi and Hyuga kingdoms. It can be said that Kaoji Castle was the political center of the Minami Kyushu region during the Edo period.
Cheng Shijie looked at the almost complete Luer City and said, "Did you not burn down Luer City this time?"
"No!"
"How about the seizure?"
"this……"
Sun Kewang said: "The general just drove out all the more than 12,000 people in the city. Now the city is empty. Please come, commander-in-chief!"
Sun Kewang is also a smart man. Although there are advantages to just plundering homes and making money, the problem is that he is not a direct descendant of Cheng Shijie, so he cannot take advantage of some advantages.
Cheng Shijie patted Sun Kewang on the shoulder and said: "Hope, I can rest assured that you are doing your job. I am going to the city tomorrow. You have to work hard today to sort out the seizures!"
Night enveloped the earth, and the smell of blood on the battlefield lingered for a long time. The soldiers who had survived the bloody battle cleared the corpses aside, lit a fire and started cooking. It was impossible to get any decent meals on the battlefield. The Ning navy officers cooked pots of fragrant rice with the rice they snatched from the Xiaoli people. Every ten soldiers gathered around a can of pickled cabbage and fat meat. Grilled rice.
The sour sauerkraut whets their appetites, and the large chunks of fat meat provide their bodies with sufficient heat. Pulling the crossbow and shooting for a long time consumes a lot of physical strength, and the arms are even more sore. If they don't eat some High-fat foods really can't replenish your energy.
Of course, the considerate old chef would not forget to get everyone some after-dinner drinks. After boiling the water, they took out pieces of dry cheese as hard as rocks and threw them into the pot, then added sugar, tea leaves and a small amount of of salt and cook pots of thick tea soup for everyone to enjoy.
This drink is fragrant and delicious. It not only helps digestion, but also allows people to quickly restore their physical strength. It has become an indispensable daily drink for Ning Haijun.
Cheng Shijie looked at the carts and carts of silver that had been moved from Luer City, as well as boxes of exquisite porcelain, fine silk, raw silk, and precious wood.
Although the specific value of this property was not calculated, it was a good sign. At least it allowed Cheng Shijie to see the money back. He was really afraid that he would lose money in this attack on Xiaoli.
The Shimazu family, as the second lord of the feudal lord in their childhood, is now the 18th generation. The real 18th generation, Mitsuhisa Shimazu is the 18th generation lord, but he is the second generation lord of the Kyushu clan.
If the Shimazu family is regarded as a powerful family in the Central Plains Dynasty, the Shimazu family belongs to the Tang Dynasty, a powerful family with seven sects and five surnames. They are all rich and powerful.
Cheng Shijie ate the rice produced in his childhood and felt that it tasted quite good. Although it was a little less, it was more than enough to feed 50,000 people for the time being.
After a busy day, the Ming army happily held lunch boxes filled with fluffy rice, gathered around the army pots that were stewed on the fire, picked up their favorite dishes, and devoured them with great pleasure!
Cheng Shijie was eating when the sound of horse hoofbeats sounded. A dozen young warriors were riding fast horses from a distance with white flags. The flags in their hands were waving, indicating that they were military envoys and wanted to see the Ming army generals. . After receiving the report, Cheng Shijie continued to slurp without raising his head: "Let them wait first!"
(End of chapter)
