Morale is something you can't see or touch, but it does exist! Especially for a veteran like Shimazu Yoshihisa, he can come to a clear conclusion just by taking a look or simply feeling it.
He knew he couldn't give the other party any more chances! Because the opponent's morale has changed from being scattered and impetuous at the beginning to becoming solid! If we repulse our own attacks a few more times, I'm afraid it will condense into shape! So he decided to try his best to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop!
After some adjustments, the Japanese formation finally stabilized. Liu Haojia saw this and said with a smile: "Shimazu Yoshihisa knew right that he didn't want to attack at the moment, so he actually adjusted his formation in front of the formation!"
Guo Zhankui said: "To put it bluntly, Shimazu Yoshihisa has fought more battles in his life than all of us here combined. It is certainly not difficult to see some things."
Liu Ren also said at this time: "It doesn't matter whether he sees through it or not, because our established plan is to play defensive counterattack, which is not beyond our plan at all."
Liu Haojia nodded and said: "That's right, that's why I tolerate him changing formation in front of me. But this is also because our soldiers lack battlefield experience. It will be fine just waiting until the grassroots officers grow up! By then, no one will dare to attack me. If the formation changes in front of you, just hit him directly!"
Guo Zhankui raised his hands and said, "This is natural! But Commander, this battle is not big. It is better to let your subordinates go to the front line."
Liu Ren also said: "Commander, my subordinates should also go to the front line."
Liu Haojia thought about it and said, "Okay. I brought you here this time because I want you to experience the battlefield intuitively. After all, Wu'an Army will still rely on the two of you in the future, so you can be your trainers!"
After the two received Liu Haojia's permission, they immediately rushed to the front line with their own soldiers. To be honest, the purpose of them going to the front line is more symbolic and to boost morale. After all, this is just a battle with a total of only close to 4,000 people from both sides, which is not enough to dig out the number of people for a drill!
As soon as the two of them entered the square formation on the front line, the Shimazu family's army began to officially activate. The spear ashigaru in front began to step forward slowly. They formed a relatively large horizontal formation, covering the samurai group and elite ashigaru behind.
As for the iron gun ashigaru and archery teams, they were placed later on the wings. At the very back there was a group of troops commanded by Hatamoto Samurai. According to Shimazu Yoshihisa's idea, the real winner will be the Samurai Group and the elite Ashigaru! They will be responsible for tearing apart the opponent's defense!
When the spear ashigaru approached one hundred and fifty steps, they began to trot under the command of the samurai. These Ashigaru all know their destiny, which is to sacrifice themselves to pave the way for those who come after them! But they still ran forward with their spears in hand without hesitation!
Each of them hopes that the firing rate of the opponent's iron cannon is as low as possible, so that they can rush in front of the opponent! But what they don't know is that their thoughts are simply extravagant hopes!
Because they still estimate the opponent's rate of fire based on the design time of their own iron cannon ashigaru, and the firecrackers used by the Wu'an Army are fired, and they also use fixed ammunition. The entire set of filling actions is significantly less than that of a musket using a match rope. Eleven actions!
Reducing eleven movements is equivalent to increasing the firing rate of the gun by nearly ten seconds! And under rotation shooting, these ten seconds will play a decisive role! In other words, the Iron Cannon Ashigaru that just defeated the opponent, Wu Anjun did not use full speed here at all!
Seeing the opponent start running, the officers of the Wu'an Army certainly knew what they were thinking, so once the Ashigaru entered the 150th step, they took the lead in firing the first round of fire!
Although the fire gun still has enough lethality at a distance of 150 steps, its accuracy is also greatly reduced! So the Ashigaru running in front could hear the lead bullets whizzing past their heads, and could also see the pillars of soil stirred up by the lead bullets hitting the ground, but there were not many casualties!
This gives them a false sense of security and makes them run at full speed! However, the distance of more than two hundred steps would take a modern athlete about thirty or forty seconds to run at full speed, and it would take at least close to a minute for the fully armed Ashigaru to run across it!
During this period of time, it is enough for the opposite fire gun to use up its six preloaded rounds of ammunition, and then reload it to fire four rounds! So these spear ashigaru must endure the storm
A baptism of lead bullets!
In the first round of shooting, less than ten people fell down with all the spear ashigaru! More than 20 people fell in the second round of shooting! By the third round of shooting, the number of casualties had doubled! And the casualties are still increasing almost exponentially!
However, the crazy Japanese soldiers still charged forward tenaciously. By the time they rushed to the front of the formation, their team had become sparse, and many places had even been penetrated by fire cannons. The entire front was already in a state of collapse. !
At this moment, the samurai group and the elite ashigaru who had been following them for a long time waved their swords, roared loudly, crossed the spear ashigaru, and rushed towards the Wuyasu military formation more than ten steps away! They firmly believe that as long as they rush in front of each other, their martial arts will come into play! In hand-to-hand combat, the Shimazu samurai are invincible! Read the book
Seeing that the samurai group and the elite ashigaru in front had already attacked, Shimazu Yoshihisa hurriedly waved the flag and ordered the collapsed spear ashigaru in front to retreat. At the same time, he also ordered the main force of the spear ashigaru behind to press forward, and he must cooperate with the samurai group and the elite ashigaru to tear the opponent's battle line apart! At the same time, he also ordered the cavalry on both sides to carry out side attacks! This time he was ready to finish his work in one battle!
Just when the samurai group and the elite Ashigaru were about to cross a dozen steps and start fighting, they discovered that the situation was different from what they thought!
Inside the phalanx, Huang Guojun shouted with almost all his strength: "The first row, bayonets on, resist the horses! The pikemen leveled their guns! The firecrackers in other directions returned to their original positions! Go back half, half!"
Hearing his shout, other junior officers on the phalanx immediately loudly conveyed his order. At this time, I saw the first row of firecrackers emptying their own firecrackers, then they immediately took out bayonets from their waists and stuck them on the mouths of the firecrackers. Then they knelt on one knee, held the firecrackers in front of them and raised them diagonally. , in an instant a circle of steel thorns suddenly appeared outside the square formation!
The fire rifle soldiers that were originally stacked into six rows on the front were quickly disbanded, and the extra soldiers returned to the other three edges of the phalanx. The long spears that were always upright at the four corners were also placed flat. Some of them were pointing forward, and some were pointing diagonally to the side. The dense forest of spears immediately covered the front of the phalanx!
