At the same time, the two squads of firecrackers roaming outside the phalanx also withdrew from the front line and moved to a position at the waist of the phalanx, constantly firing forward with their firecrackers to protect the flanks of the gun forest. At the same time, they are also ready for melee combat with bayonets!
The samurai and elite ashigaru who were close to the phalanx saw this strange change suddenly occurred in the phalanx on the opposite side, and they couldn't help but slow down! But then they mustered up their courage and charged forward roaring again! They think you have changed in thousands of ways, and I can just cut you off with one knife!
But things are not as simple as they imagined! The few warriors running at the front were preparing to find a gap in the gun forest. Just when they stretched out their knives and prepared to use the spear, the spear on the opposite side suddenly grew by more than two feet!
The warrior at the front was obviously very skilled in martial arts. When he saw two spears stabbing him, he knew that he had just exerted his strength and it was already too late to retreat, so instead he increased his strength on the ground and rushed forward, raising his sword. He fired a long gun in front of him!
This samurai is obviously not very good at dealing with this kind of fighting method, because the Japanese have a relatively strict hierarchical system. Even on the battlefield, they will follow the same-level fighting principle of samurai against samurai and ashigaru against ashigaru. Although it is not so strict now, But he has never encountered such a situation!
He thought he could deal with the spear in front of him, but he didn't understand at all that the entire forest of spears was one! So just as he cut open the two spears in front of him, two more spears stabbed from the right side! Although he had tried his best to twist his body, a spear still penetrated his chest directly!
His chest was pierced, and blood instantly filled his lungs. He didn't even scream, he just coughed up a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground! When he died, he regretted why his sword could not cut off the opponent's spear!
He didn't know that the spears Liu Haojia used for the soldiers were not the ordinary wooden guns used by Ashigaru. The wood of this kind of spear is not a whole piece of wood, because then there will definitely be defects. Long guns will have weaknesses. Therefore, all long guns are made of the best wood.
And there is a thin steel core wrapped in the middle! All the wood has been repeatedly soaked in tung oil, and all the connecting parts are wrapped with steel sheets, and the remaining parts are wrapped with thin iron wire. The cost of a long gun is definitely more than that of a good firecracker! So this is not something that a samurai sword can split at will!
As the first samurai fell, more people ran into the forest of guns! It can be said that none of the samurai who ran at the front were spared! The remaining people did not dare to step forward. They could only use their knives to flick their spears, trying to find an opportunity to rush into the forest of spears. The spearmen who had lost their length were the targets of the slaughter!
But those firecrackers covered by their spears weren't just standing there idle! The Fire Gun Soldiers and the Pike Soldiers basically complement each other. It doesn't necessarily have to be the Pike Soldiers covering the Fire Gun Soldiers. The Fire Gun Soldiers can also provide cover for the Pike Soldiers!
Just when the samurai and elite ashigaru were forced to stop by the spears and began to look for gaps in the spears, the firecrackers that had been leveled again finally fired! The sound of firecrackers that had been paused just now because the various phalanxes were reorganizing their formations appeared on the battlefield again, and they became one in an instant. All the phalanxes started shooting almost at the same time!
Wu'an Army's fire gun itself is a heavy fire gun, extremely powerful! And within a distance of about ten steps, there is no possibility of missing the target! So as soon as he gave the order, Huang Guojun stared at the front of the phalanx, wanting to see the effect of this salvo? After all, the people we usually fight in exercises are straw men, and this is his first time fighting a real person!
Just listen to the officer of the horizontal line yell: "Shoot!" After that, the fire gun activity immediately spewed out thick smoke! At the same time, the samurai group and the elite ashigaru who were huddled together jumped up and fell backwards one by one as if they were hit by a heavy hammer, knocking the people behind them back again and again!
What's even more frightening is that almost no one screamed when hit by this row of fire cannons! Except for a few people, all the remaining people were killed on the spot! Moreover, this row of firecrackers actually pushed their front back three or four steps!
After firing, the firecrackers stepped back and began to reload, while the soldiers behind them took a step forward, and under the command of the officer, leveled the firecrackers again, pointing at the panic-stricken samurai and the ashigaru! The two sides were only a few steps apart, even the faces on each other's faces
His expressions can be seen clearly!
The samurai and elite ashigaru looked panicked! They also know that it is unrealistic to dodge shooting at such a close distance. They just want to see which life is better and is not targeted! So they all subconsciously clenched the knives in their hands, waiting for their fate to be pronounced!
When the fire gun soldiers saw the prey in front of them, they all smiled ferociously! They stared into their opponent's eyes and pulled the trigger in their hands! Unsurprisingly, this round of volleys fired without any miss. The front of the position was covered with the corpses of samurai and elite ashigaru, and they were pushed back two steps again!
Seeing this situation, Huang Guojun was not satisfied again! He quickly ran to the back of the phalanx, and mobilized a row of soldiers at the edge of the phalanx at the rear to add to the front of the phalanx. Now the number of people in the front reached four rows, so that the fire rounds would shoot more smoothly and densely!
At this time, the front of the three phalanxes sent by Wu'an Army has become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! The samurai and elite ashigaru who rushed over were forced by their spears as soon as they approached, and their movements were bound to slow down. Then, under the combined blow of spears and fire guns, they almost fell down in rows!
And their outflanking attack from both wings was blocked by the five phalanxes at the rear with volleys, and they couldn't advance even an inch! And even so, those samurai and elite ashigaru still roared and rushed forward, trying to get some, even insignificant results!
But they were either pierced by spears or shot to the ground by muskets, and they didn't even get close to the spears raised by the soldiers in the front row! This is simply a highly efficient massacre!
At this moment, the cavalry on both sides galloped in with their swords raised! Although there were only a few hundred riders on the two wings combined, they were forced to come out with the momentum of thousands of troops!
But talking about cavalry coming to Japan is a joke! First of all, the Japanese country has rugged mountains and few plains, so the cavalry is not very useful at all. Therefore, although each family attaches great importance to cavalry, the main force of the army is still infantry. Just like the famous Chibei of the Takeda family, he didn't have many troops.
The second shortcoming of the Japanese cavalry is that they are not very tall. In addition, the island country does not have enough plains for the horses to gallop, so the horses are always not tall! To put it bluntly, in comparison, it is just one size bigger than a donkey in the Central Plains! But it does complement the Japanese’s short stature!
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