The Kumamoto Clan and Fukuoka Clan on the western front sent a commando team of 3,000 people, which was two preparations.
"The concentrated use of cannons is really powerful! It's like the earth is shattering." Hosokawa Tadora praised, this is the Shimazu family. Other daimyo simply don't have so many royal ships, so they can't gather so many cannons.
The Beihai Navy's position remained silent, without firing a single shot.
Suddenly, a whistle unique to the Northern Navy sounded in the trenches of the Sendai Army.
"Iron Cannon Team, follow me!"
No one said anything. For more than a month, the Northern Navy relied on its super combat power to make the ashigaru of the Sendai clan instinctively believe and obey.
The Tiepao Ashigaru held their matchlock guns and, under the leadership of a Sendai Domain samurai, quickly followed the traffic trench to the west side of the first trench. A platform has been dug out every one meter here, one meter high from the ground, and there are steps.
The Saga Domain commandos from the north also dispatched. They used a formation with spearmen in front, archery teams and iron artillery teams in the back, and cannons closely behind.
Nabeshima Harushige wants revenge for the battle of Nagasaki. Why did the Thor blast him back then? He was going to blast it back today. Before the war started, he threatened to the other three families: "I want to eat the flesh of that person named Zhao!"
The Shimazu family in the southwest pushed their cannons to a distance of one mile and began to bombard the trenches of the Northern Navy.
The iron artillery team was already in place, and the ashigaru stepped onto the platform and stood up. A samurai waved his military accessories and shouted loudly: "Everyone, step up! Aim at the enemy commando and shoot!"
The thin match ropes on the Ashigaru's muskets were already clamped, the powder caps were opened, and the triggers were pulled together. Smoke rose and gunshots shook the sky. There were several screams from the Kumamoto clan's spearmen who were walking at the front. If the matchlock gun can hit someone at a distance of two or three hundred steps, it is a victory. As for how many kills it can kill, it is hard to say.
After finishing shooting, the ashigaru turned around and got off the platform, and then followed the general of the iron artillery team to retreat.
Seeing that the reaction on the Beihai Navy's position was nothing more than this, the generals in the four vassal coalition forces were immediately relieved.
"What's the use of hiding in a ditch? If you don't form a formation in a battle, I think Tang Yi can do nothing without the support of a big ship."
A cannon without wheels cannot be said to be mobile. As the commandos of the Four Domains Alliance continued to approach, the distance between the front team and the artillery team continued to widen.
A long whistle sounded almost simultaneously on three sides, and the North Navy opened fire. Although the gunfire was sporadic, it was very accurate, and people in the commandos of the Four Domains kept falling.
A retainer of the Satsuma clan brandished his sword and shouted: "Go forward! Rush over and kill them!"
There are still two hundred steps left. As long as we work harder, we can break through the enemy. The cavalry in the rear has been dispatched, trying to outflank the left wing of the Northern Navy position. We must not give up at this time!
"Hey, it's really boring. Just finish the fight and go home early, that's it." Behind the Northern Navy position, Zhao Xin saw that the enemy's cavalry had been dispatched, so he put down his binoculars and said calmly to Wang Yuanfang beside him: "Let the artillery let's start."
Wang Yuanfang understood the meaning of Zhao Xin's words, then turned on the walkie-talkie and ordered loudly: "Start!"
The eight anti-aircraft guns had their camouflage nets removed and their muzzles leveled. Following the observer's order, one of the anti-aircraft guns was aimed at the Kumamoto Domain's artillery team.
There is a saying in another time and space called "anti-aircraft cannons to kill mosquitoes - overqualified for little use". The reason why Zhao Xin said it was boring was because fighting infantry with a masturbation weapon was not the same as fighting mosquitoes. Fortunately, there were quite a lot of "mosquitoes" here today.
There was a loud "bang" sound, and the Sendai army on the second line of defense was immediately startled.
The sound came from behind them. Many ashigaru stood on tiptoe and looked back. They noticed the eight big things before entering the trenches. The two long barrels looked murderous.
Don't bother if you are a little over 1.4 meters tall. The position of the anti-aircraft gun that fires is on the earthen platform 20 meters away behind them.
It is said that a lot of effort was put into building these platforms a few days ago. Not only did they have to compact the accumulated soil, but also a large number of large stones were picked up by the Mala people from the Ridang Mountain in the east and built on them. Finally, they were built again. It's not finished until a foot of soil has been tamped down.
boom! Flames mixed with soil exploded in the Kumamoto Domain artillery team, and twenty ashigaru in one artillery team disappeared from the observer's sight in an instant.
A test shot.
At this moment, Hosokawa Tadora, who was in the Kumamoto Domain's rear camp, was startled. As a result, before his men could report the damage, a sharp roar suddenly flashed across the sky, and another rumble came from the right wing of the rear formation fifty meters away. Splashing mud fell from the air into the formation, hitting Hosokawa Tadora's helmet with a rustling sound.
Mortar test firing.
"What kind of weapon can hit so far!" The Kumamoto clan suddenly became panicked.
Hosokawa Tadora ordered: "Go and send someone to check!"
After a while, a more violent roar suddenly came from the sky, and the roar of the falling shells made many people look up.
what happened? This is what the people behind the four feudal alliances thought.
boom! boom! boom!
Before Hosokawa Tadora could react, a burst of flames suddenly burst out from the Kumamoto clan's formation, and a shock wave accompanied by a heat wave hit him, immediately throwing him backwards from the horse.
In front of the two armies' formations, as eight anti-aircraft guns opened fire, the artillery teams of the four feudal alliances soon suffered heavy casualties. Those bronze-imitation Franc machines were blown up by clusters of flames and rolled and jumped in the air. The wood used to make the gun mounts became the best helper of the North Navy after being shattered and splashed, harvesting the lives of nearby Ashigaru.
In the trench, the Northern Navy troops huddled on the earthen platform finally opened fire. Countless bullets poured out from rifles and light machine guns. Many of the commandos sent by each vassal fell down in the field. The four vassal coalition forces The commando team was like a wheat field harvested by a huge scythe, and patches of soldiers fell down.
"Presumably next year the land on the Kokubu Plain will be more fertile because of the blood of these people." Date Mur often murmured.
The Saga clan and the Satsuma clan sent out cavalry teams to outflank and attack. When they looked back and saw the smoke rising one after another in their formation, they immediately panicked. When more than 2,000 people from the two armies were at a loss, rumbling explosions began to roar and wreak havoc among the teams.
The cavalrymen and horses in the center of the explosion were all blown to pieces. The horses were in panic, and the cavalry teams were in chaos. The long formation of two people in a row was scattered like a flock of chickens being driven away.
Shimazu Shigehao, who left the formation and was riding on his horse, was completely stunned. No matter how he shouted from the side, it was as if he didn't hear him. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind - how could this happen!
This was not a battle, but a one-sided massacre.
Haruyuki Kuroda, who wore the Kuroda family's "Ichinotani-shaped pocket" on his head, finally understood how the Northern Navy captured a foreign mountain castle in one day.
(Ichinotani Kabuto, the armor of Kuroda Nagamasa. It looks like there is a big silver plate standing on top of the head, plated with silver foil.)
"Retreat! This battle is lost!"
As soon as Kuroda Haruyuki finished speaking, a cannonball fell in front of him. Amidst the rising fire and splashing mud, Haruyuki Kuroda and the five black body parts he was wearing were blown away in all directions.
The Kumamoto clan is going to have an heir again, so let's choose a son from the Hitotsubashi family to adopt...
Not only the four vassal coalition forces, Date Village Tsune and Tamura Murakusa who walked out of the Ridang Mountain headquarters were full of excitement and cheered loudly after seeing the bombardment of the Northern Navy, but after a while, cold sweat began to break out on their backs.
This scene was something they would never forget. Forty thousand chickens could not be killed so quickly.
(Don’t doubt the chicken metaphor. In the Edo period, neither pigs nor sheep were raised.)
Nabeshima Harushige of the Saga Domain no longer had time to think about revenge. This man was injured again and directly broke a calf. Several feudal lords of the Nabeshima family and the Ryuzoji family held the head of the family and ran northward without a clue.
The impact point of the anti-aircraft artillery began to extend towards the rear formation of the four vassal coalition forces. Those civilians recruited from the countryside had never seen this. They were all frightened as if they had been cast down. Many people simply lay on the ground with their buttocks raised, trying to avoid this way.
Wang Yuanfang put down the telescope and said to Zhao Xin: "It's time to charge."
Zhao Xin nodded and immediately issued the order.
Rapid whistles began to ring through the trenches of the Northern Navy again, the light machine guns stopped firing, and the position was like boiling water. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches one after another and began the final "harvesting".
Monk Zhou shouted loudly to his subordinates: "Keep your eyes open! Don't spare any of those wearing strange ancient helmets! Don't let them live!"
"Don't worry!" the platoon leader said and rushed out in a blink of an eye.
"Charge! Kill!"
Seeing that the Northern Navy had begun to charge, Date Muratsune immediately gave the order to the Sendai Domain troops: "Assault!"
The Conch whined, and the Sendai clan's men and horses also walked out of the trenches one after another. However, by the time they launched the charge, the Northern Navy had already run several hundred meters away.
Shimazu Shigehao gradually came to his senses, and he shouted to his deputy Komatsu Kiyoka: "Take out all the gold!"
The boss gave the order, and Komatsu Qingxiang, who was in charge of the inkstone box and cash box, showed all the gold coins in the box. Shigehao Shimazu dismounted, pointed to the gold coins wrapped in mulberry paper in the box and said to the soldiers around him: "The Shimazu family has been defeated. You don't have to die with me in the battle. Share all these gold and silver and use them as a means of escape." !”
"Come on, Commander-in-Chief!" All the soldiers around him knelt down.
"Let's go!" Shimazu Shigehao roared loudly, leaned over and took a bag of gold coins and handed it to a feudal lord.
The North Korean navy's shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, and the mortars and anti-aircraft guns stopped firing. The Kumamoto, Fukuoka, and Saga tribes all rolled up their flags and abandoned their formations, and began a great rout.
There are really not many people who can compete with the Northern Navy these days, so the Shimazu family in the southwest became a lone army, and thousands of people were surrounded by a thousand people. Intensive rain of bullets rang out from all directions, and the Shimazu family's troops had completely collapsed.
Looking at the approaching Northern Navy, a Shimazu clan servant raised his spear and shouted: "Everyone, who is willing to die in battle with me to repay the Shimazu family's great kindness over the past three hundred years?!"
"I!"
"And I!"
"Count me in."
Shimazu Shigehao burst into tears. If God gives him another chance to choose, he will definitely let Date Shigemura live well.
"Come to the Chief Guard, we'll cover you and fight your way out!"
Shimazu Shigehao sighed, glanced at the soldiers around him and said: "Although those with ambitions will be defeated ten times, they can still achieve their ambitions in the last battle. But facing such a powerful enemy, it is really beyond human power!"
The Satsuma warriors were desperate, but most of them still stayed where they were. The mountains and rivers are poor, the livelihood is difficult, and now only the face of the samurai is left. In this case, then fight to the death and seek dignity!
The hundred or so people around Shimazu Shigehao decided to make the final charge. They jumped on their horses, chose the northeast direction, and began to advance on horseback. Some of the dispersed remaining soldiers turned around and held guns, and followed the feudal soldiers to advance together.
These men were more suicidal than warriors.
Seeing that the Northern Navy was not far away, a Satsuma clan warrior wearing full uniform and wearing a demon mask rode forward and shouted: "I am a retainer of the Shimazu family. Come into the courtyard Mingya. Who dares to fight with me?" Duel!"
The only answer he received was the sound of gunfire.
"boom!"
Seeing the samurai in gorgeous military uniform fall from his horse, the soldier from the Northern Navy who fired the gun said with disdain: "Crazy!"
At this time, a platoon of Bei Haijun also followed up. Without saying a word, they fired directly at the horseback samurai who rushed over. Those gorgeous armors that can withstand bows and arrows are like paper in front of bullets.
Occasionally, a few long arrows were shot from the crowd, knocking two Northern Marines to the ground. The angry companions rushed up with bayonets and gave them a violent beating.
"Don't hit the horse! Keep it!"
Not far behind, several Sendai clan cavalry ran over and shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Northern Navy.
A soldier from Henan turned his head and asked, "What does Guisun call him?"
No one paid attention, leaving two people to look after the wounded, while the others rushed towards the place surrounded by a blue curtain.
Shimazu Shigehao, who looked decadent, was sitting on the horse, with his servant next to him.
"Back then, Okuno Tomochi's lord (Shimazu Yoshihisa) defeated the Otomo clan in the Battle of Ogawa, and then severely damaged the Ryuzoji clan in the Battle of Okita Bataru. Only then did our Shimazu clan become the 'Shou of Sanshu'. The road is in tatters, and it’s already been two hundred years in the blink of an eye!”
As soon as he finished speaking, several soldiers from the Northern Navy walked in. Shimazu Shigehao's side servant held a knife in front of his master and glared at him.
Shimazu Shigehao smiled and said: "The great head is here, who dares to come and get it?"
"Third brother, what did he say?"
"How the hell do I understand that? I've learned the phrase '両手で头をEmbrace' these days."
The servant holding the knife was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, what is the rule of holding your head with both hands?
Several soldiers were hesitating whether to kill the two enemies in front of them or not. There was a sound of footsteps behind him, and several Sendai clan warriors wearing armor came over.
They first bowed slightly to several Northern Navy soldiers, and when they saw Shimazu Shigehao sitting upright in the formation, they all had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"Are you going to Mr. Chief Shou in person?"
"It's me!"
Several Sendai clan warriors suddenly became happy.
Shimazu Shigehao didn't want to be a prisoner, so he suddenly shouted in a deep voice: "emon!"
Niinaemon, the side servant, suddenly twisted around and swung his sword. The sharp blade flashed past, and a head with white beard and hair fell to the ground.
A Sendai Domain samurai saw Youemon suddenly walking toward him with a sword, and quickly stopped him loudly: "No!"
"Bang! Bang!"
In the headquarters of Ridang Mountain, Wang Yuanfang, who was in contact with the front-line troops, walked up to Zhao Xin and whispered: "Guess who we caught?"
"Shigego Shimazu?"
"There is no news about Shimazu Shigego. It's the daimyo of the Saga Domain. I heard that you injured him in Nagasaki before?"
"Oh! It's him." Zhao Xin remembered.
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