A dozen fast boats broke through the undulating waves and landed on the beach in the southern part of Xuanjie Island with a roar.
The fast boat was filled with fully armed North Korean Ming army grenadiers. The morale of these Korean Ming troops was extremely high. Before the ship even came to a complete stop, they were already screaming and jumping off. The leading leader of the Korean Ming Army was Kim Seong-kai, who had made a contribution in the Goyangdong battle in the Battle of Seoul that day.
Because of Goyangdong's military exploits, he was given the opportunity to undergo short-term training at the military academy after the war in Seoul, and was later promoted to the rank of chief. Now I am very lucky to have this opportunity to be the first to land on Xuanjie Island... If I succeed in this battle, my official career will be prosperous!
I saw him putting a flying saucer helmet on his head, then holding a saber, looking like a madman, shouting "Kill the Japanese! Kill the Japanese!" and rushed towards the beach in the cold sea water. The Korean soldiers under his command also rumbled down, and each one of them had a ferocious look. It was obvious at a glance that they were about to start a killing spree.
Of course, what Koreans hate most in this era are Japanese pirates!
Although the Manchu Qing ravaged Korea even more severely, Zhu Heji actually destroyed Korea. However, North Korea regards the Manchus, who ravaged them severely, as their second enemy, and Japan, a neighboring country that ravaged them seventy or eighty years ago, as their number one enemy. At the same time, they regard Zhu Heji, who really destroyed North Korea, as their number one enemy. The most respected father. No one in the North Korean province would say anything wrong about Zhu Heji. Everyone regarded the removal of the vassal state of North Korea as a gift from heaven! They also regarded Ri On-hee, who personally dedicated the royal power of Joseon to Zhu Heji, as a saint...
"Kill the Japanese pirates. All Japanese pirates deserve to die... Found the Japanese pirates! Line up, quickly line up, two horizontal lines!"
Jin Chengkai, who had been ruthless against Japanese pirates since he was a child, and when he grew up, regarded Japanese pirates as Chao Chao, no, the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Not long after he rushed to the beach, he had already discovered the evil Japanese pirates.
These Japanese pirates rushed out of a small forest near the dock of Xuankai Island - that small forest and the nearby dock were just blasted by the rocket team, and now there are still flames coming out. I don't know what was hit. On fire? Those Japanese pirates Ashigaru had lined up in that forest before. I don't know if it was considered an ambush? But they must have been discovered by the assault boat that was covering the landing of Jin Chengkai and others. As a result, they were bombarded. Now that they saw the Ming army landing, they rushed up in disorder, which was really brave. There were also a few guys holding samurai swords who must have been officers. Seeing the people rushing around like that, they knew it was not going to work. They were shouting "Wow wow wow!" probably because they wanted their ashigaru to quickly form a team. Hearing the shouts of these officers, the Japanese Ashigaru carrying shotguns and spears were considered obedient and quickly turned around to start forming the team. . It looked like there was some structure, but in front of the 200 Heavenly Soldiers led by Jin Chengkai, they were completely vulnerable.
While the Japanese pirates were busy lining up, the two hundred Korean grenadiers under Jin Chengkai had already formed a slender two-row shooting formation - because Japan did not have an organized cavalry unit, they planned to enter the Japanese battlefield. The infantry leaders under the five Korean Ming Army towns have all abolished the formation of pikemen and replaced them with all flintlocks.
Soon, about two hundred grenadiers formed two rows to maximize their firepower. All flintlocks had sleeved bayonets inserted.
Seeing that his men had finished lining up, Jin Chengkai raised a telescope and began to observe the Japanese array in front.
The Japanese army numbered about four to five hundred, most of them pikemen, forming a square formation. Among them, there were forty or fifty musketeers, and they formed a very loose three-row formation in front of the square formation. Jin Chengkai knew that this was the three-stage attack that the Japanese musketeers were best at.
It was a very powerful tactic before flintlock muskets became popular, but now that flintlock muskets can be formed into dense formations and fired, three-stage and four-stage strikes are simply vulnerable!
"Beat the drums and march!"
After feeling that the three-stage attack of the Japanese pirates was not powerful, Jin Chengkai immediately gave the order to advance.
"Dong dong dong dong", the two drummers immediately beat the drums, creating a rhythm of fast walking. As the drums sounded, the Korean Ming soldiers who had already become veterans of the battlefield first stood still, and then After Jin Chengkai pointed his saber forward, he stepped forward with neat steps and a neat sound.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
Not far after these Korean Ming troops walked out, the Japanese musketeers on the opposite side started shooting - they only had forty or fifty musketeers, divided into three rows, with more than a dozen muskets in each row... This The firepower is really nothing to mention. Not to mention compared with the current Ming army, even compared with the Qing army before the rise of the new Ming Dynasty, it is not enough. At that time, the proportion of musketeers in the Qing army's infantry soldiers could usually reach 30 to 40%!
Moreover, the Qing army also had strong cavalry and impressive artillery (the Eight Banners soldiers had very strong artillery, but the Green Camp soldiers were not)... In other words, even before the rise of Zhu Heji, the Tokugawa shogunate ruled In fact, the Japanese samurai army under the Qing Dynasty could not defeat the Qing army, let alone the current Ming army.
Although the individual qualities of those Japanese military soldiers were acceptable, they were relatively brave, and their literacy rate was quite high... their equipment and tactics were completely inferior.
By the way, the marksmanship of those samurai musketeers was really not very good. Their first and second volleys all missed. The third volley managed to hit a Korean Ming army without killing them. , it just hit the man's arm, and after rescuing him, he was a hero again.
After discovering that the Japanese pirates' marksmanship was poor, these Korean Ming soldiers who fought against Japan became even more courageous. They did not stop firing. They just carried flintlock guns and walked briskly and neatly. With such speed, against the sparse bullets coming from the opposite side, he quickly approached the Japanese pirates in front of him.
And these Japanese pirates don't know what these Ming soldiers who just take beatings without fighting back want to do? Therefore, they had no intention of retreating. Instead, when the Ming army approached thirty or forty steps in front of their formation, they simply stopped the three-stage attack that could not kill a few people, withdrew the musketeers, and killed those who numbered less than four hundred. The pikemen pushed forward.
These spearmen formed a large square formation, and as a trumpet sounded, they began to rush toward the Ming army with their spears raised.
Seeing this scene, Jin Chengkai knew that he had won... It turned out that those Japanese pirates who killed without blinking an eye only existed in the stories of grandparents!
Thinking of this, Jin Chengkai calmly and loudly ordered: "Stop..."
"Wow..."
With the sound of neat footsteps, all the more than two hundred Korean Ming Army grenadiers stopped advancing, stood upright, and maintained a very tight formation.
"Gun level!"
Jin Chengkai gave another order.
More than two hundred flintlock muskets were all leveled by the grenadiers, with their bayoneted muzzles pointing straight ahead, but no one fired. Everyone just watched calmly and calmly as the howling Japanese pirate Ashigaru with a long spear rushed towards them.
Jin Chengkai raised his saber high and measured the distance in his mind. When the Japanese pirate at the front was less than twenty steps away from him, he suddenly waved his saber and shouted at the same time: "Fight!" "
"boom......"
Although there were only two hundred muskets firing in volley, there was still the sound of artillery bombardment, and the dense rain of two hundred lead bullets at a distance of twenty steps was no less powerful than the shot shells fired by several six-pound cannons. . Almost all the Japanese pirates with spears and ashigaru in the first few rows were knocked to the ground, and there was a burst of hoarse screams in front of the Japanese army. The surviving Japanese pirates were also frightened by the scene in front of them. They all stopped moving forward subconsciously and just stood there blankly.
"Grenade!"
Jin Chengkai did not order the grenadiers to reload, but asked them to throw a round of grenades... A close-range salvo plus a round of sugar grenades, the Japanese pirate ashigaru troops in front of him were almost the same. It collapsed!
Japanese pirates... nothing more than that!
And Ming Kou will soon become their Ming father!
Chapter 683 Why is this Ming Kou? This is clearly Dad Ming! (Please vote for me, please recommend me)
