"Bah! Bah! Bah..."
This is a real rain of bullets!
Standing among a group of dwarf warriors, Masayuki Hoshina, who stood out from the crowd, just stared blankly at the dense muzzle flashes that kept appearing on his left wing, and listened to the intensive gunshots that kept ringing out.
Masayuki Hoshina, who was also familiar with the use of iron cannons, had never thought that the fire gun soldiers could be arranged so densely, almost shoulder to shoulder! I never thought that the rate of fire of firecrackers could be so fast, almost twice as fast as Japanese shotgun soldiers! Renamed: I thought about how fast infantry could move...
On the battlefield, it is always fast to fight against slow!
Being fast is your combat power, while being slow is your fatal weakness!
Now they are taking the lives of the Japanese under Hoshina! Hoshina's two Senrenban were really unlucky and were completely caught off guard.
This change came so suddenly!
When the Ming army's artillery soldiers quickly circled to their left flank, before they even had time to report the situation to Baoshi, dense rain of lead bullets hit them.
At this time, the two thousand-man squadrons were facing the Ming army's large square formation, and not a single iron cannon was pointed at their left flank.
After these two rounds of intensive bullets, the two thousand-man Japanese soldiers had suffered heavy losses. Especially the iron artillerymen on the far left almost mopped up a large area. More than 200 corpses lay on the ground, and several more. Ten people screamed hoarsely.
"The twelfth and thirteenth chapters are coming...turn to the left, and then launch an assault!" Masayuki Yasukuni didn't actually understand what was going on, but he still made a considerable move immediately. A decisive decision - he was prepared to sacrifice two thousand-man squadrons to buy time for his main force to adjust its deployment.
Imagination is beautiful, but reality requires science!
Wearing armor and holding a spear, it is difficult to defeat the fusiliers who outnumber you... because the flexibility and maneuverability of the pikemen are not as good as those of the fusiliers. If you go slow, you will hit fast. How to get it?
As for the iron artillerymen who acted together with the Japanese pikemen, it was even worse. The rate of fire of the iron artillery was completely incomparable with that of the flintlock rifle.
And because the iron cannon is a matchlock gun, the matchlock will produce some sparks during the burning process, and when these sparks are scattered, they may ignite the powder pools of other musketeers' muskets. Therefore, the direct distance between the arquebusiers cannot be too small. In this way, the arquebusiers must maintain a certain distance between them, and the firepower density is of course far less than that of the flintlock muskets.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, in a firepower contest between a flintlock gun and a matchlock gun, the flintlock gun has a great chance of winning.
However, when Hoshina's order was conveyed to the two thousand soldiers, the Japanese army, which had already endured several rounds of bullets, still bravely launched an attack!
Amidst the shouts of "kill me", the sound of volleys of gunfire continued, knocking down the Japanese soldiers who were charging desperately, row by row.
But the remaining Japanese soldiers were still brave and fearless, shouting and continuing to attack!
However, the six 3-pound cannons were already in place at this time, and they began to fire cannonballs at the Japanese who were about to rush forward.
Of course, the shotshells of the 3-pound cannon cannot be compared with the shotshells of the 12-pound cannon, but it still became the "last" straw that crushed the two Japanese thousand-man squadrons.
"Baga! These useless guys..."
When Masayuki Hoshina saw that his two thousand-man squadrons were defeated by the enemy with muskets and cannons in such a short period of time, he immediately became furious. So I wanted to order the remaining eight thousand people to turn around together, reorganize the two large horizontal teams, and then go back to the battlefield.
But the Spanish square formation is not very flexible. How can it be so easy to change the formation? As a result, before the eight squadrons under Hoshina completed their left turn, the other two thousand-man squadrons on the left flank of the two large horizontal squadrons became living targets for the Ming army's fusiliers and artillery!
The performance of these two thousand-man squadrons was not much better than the previous two. Under the attack of intensive crossfire from the Ming army, these two squadrons also launched a life-threatening assault that was destined to be unsuccessful. . As a result, it quickly collapsed under the combined attack of cannon, flintlock muskets, and matchlocks (the matchlocks could still be advanced).
"Four, four Thousand Persons...we were defeated so quickly!"
Hoshina Masayuki couldn't believe his eyes. The Ming army was too cruel!
I am afraid that Japan cannot defeat such an enemy and should not provoke it... But what should we do now?
Just when he was extremely shocked, a drumming sound came from his left side. This was the sound of marching drums. The Ming Army Musketeers, who had just defeated the four divisions of Baoshi, began to charge!
"The third and fourth divisions will attack the Ming army..." Yasukina Masayuki did not give up and gave orders to the other two divisions.
The two Japanese troops who received the order were really fierce. They ignored the lessons learned from the previous four divisions and rushed forward.
"Haha, it's really fierce, but it's useless!" Zhu Youjian immediately stood behind two rows of temporary fusiliers, surrounded by dozens of cavalry, and said to Heiwen Tao in a good mood, "Send the order. ..... Let the 7th and 8th regiments stop advancing, wait until the enemy is 20 steps closer, fire another round of volley, and then launch a bayonet charge!"
"I accept the decree!"
...
"Rumble..."
2,000 flintlock guns fired at the same time, which actually made the earth shake. At the same time, it also ended Masayuki Hoshina's last effort to reverse the defeat - his two thousand-man squadrons were defeated again!
"Retreat, retreat..." Masayuki Hoshina's face was pale and his voice was trembling, but he rarely made the right decision.
However, Baoke did not retreat directly to the north. Instead, he was forced to retreat westward by Zhu Youjian's more than 2,000 fusiliers. Not far after retreating, he ran into the furious Daishan!
Daishan's luck was better than that of Hoshina Masayuki. The 8,000 Manchurian soldiers commanded by his son Mandahai were not repelled by Wu Sangui, but were stalemate at the breach. Because Daishan continued to invest troops, the breach was greatly expanded. , nearly 20,000 people from both sides fought together.
So many guards and cavalry were dispatched, but none of them were able to capture a similar number, and the Ming army could only be considered an ordinary level. Could Daishan not be anxious?
What made him even more anxious was the defeat of Masayuki Hoshina!
Once Baoke is defeated, his left wing will be empty, and then the Ming army will have to eat his old man's dumplings!
"Lord Hoshina, you will not retreat without Benama's order...Do you understand?"
Daishan tried his best to speak a language that Baoke could understand.
Masayuki Hoshina still respects Daishan very much - he is the emperor!
"Your Majesty," Hoshina said loudly in Japanese, "Times have changed... The pure musketeers of the Ming army are too powerful. We can't stop them at all. If we don't retreat, the whole army will be annihilated... Your Majesty, please withdraw too. It will be too late if you don’t withdraw!”
"Should I evacuate too?" Daishan smiled bitterly, "Where to evacuate?"
Baoke was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that Daishan seemed to have nowhere to go!
However, he would not say much to Daishan. He just bowed his lower body to "Shang Huang Daishan" on horseback, and continued to run away with the Japanese soldiers. He then threw off Daishan's personal soldiers and became his army.
Baoke can run, but Daishan cannot. His son Mandahai is still fighting to the death with eight thousand people in front!
So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the 800 cavalrymen as if they were preparing to charge, to scare the Ming army who was chasing the Japanese.
At the same time, Man Dahai "discovered" "Zhu Youjian" in the golden helmet in the breach!
This "Zhu Youjian" looked quite powerful. He led a group of cavalry and wandered back and forth on the battlefield. If something was in danger, he would lead his people up to provide support.
And wherever he went, the nearby Ming army became a little high-spirited. It was obvious that this person was Zhu Youjian!
Mandahai already had two blunderbuss in hand, and dozens of white-armored soldiers. He just stared at that "Zhu Youjian".
At this time, the sky was already brightening, and Mandahai felt that his chance to turn things around had arrived!
