Originally, the Shimazu family had more cavalry, but now they are not here in Kagoshima. The cavalry that Shimazu Yoshihisa can use is only these more than a hundred cavalry. However, in his opinion, a frontal attack by the army was enough to defeat the opponent. Using these cavalry was just the icing on the cake, but the facts soon shocked him!
The target chosen by the cavalry commander was also quite clear, which were two infantry phalanxes without spears. His idea is very simple. If the opponent does not have a weapon that can restrain cavalry, such as spears, then they will be easily dispersed! When the time comes, they will drive the broken troops toward the sailors and pirates in the middle, and the entire battlefield will be in chaos!
Some of these rebels will definitely flee to the seaside, while others will definitely flee to the phalanx in front to seek shelter. When the time comes, let go of those who fled to the seaside, and drive the other defeated troops to attack the opponent's phalanx. Maybe the cavalry will take the lead in this battle! ap.
But the dream is beautiful, and the reality is very skinny! Because the Marines on both sides were also strictly trained soldiers, it was just that they were sent to the ship. So they are first and foremost a marine, but they just belong to the navy.
They were already very angry when they were pushed to both sides. Now that they found two groups of monkeys charging towards them on donkeys, they naturally refused to let them go! The commanders of the two phalanxes unanimously ordered the soldiers in the front row to assume a posture of resisting the horse, and then added soldiers from the other three directions to the front, followed by a volley of fire cannons!
Compared with the infantry, the cavalry has a larger area and is easier to be hit, so they were hit by lead bullets as soon as they entered 150 steps! If there were more cavalry, they might be able to rush to the front of the formation, but their number was too small. The two teams together only had more than a hundred people, and separately they only had fifty or sixty people per team!
Under the intensive attack of fire cannons, these cavalrymen either injured their horses and threw the knights away, or the knights were shot and fell off their horses. The two phalanxes used six and seven rounds of volleys respectively to wipe out the cavalry in front of them. null!
The nearest cavalryman is more than ten steps away from the square formation! The cavalryman was thrown to the ground by his injured horse. As soon as he stood up in a daze and prepared to charge, he was hit in the chest by four lead bullets and fell down! At this point, both teams of cavalry were completely wiped out!
When the shooting stopped, only a few ownerless horses were left wandering on the battlefield! The rest are either motionless dead bodies or wounded people struggling to their death! Naturally, the soldiers of the Marine Corps would not miss this opportunity. The officer immediately sent a team of people to go forward and kill the dying cavalry one by one. They also captured all the horses that could be captured. This was Liu Haojia's first victory after landing. Lots of loot!
In this way, the two cavalry groups were finished even before the samurai group and the elite ashigaru! Seeing that the Japanese cavalry were wiped out, Liu Haojia finally felt relieved. He raised the telescope and looked ahead, and the result was even more satisfying!
The soldiers on the front line have already suited up and started to perform steadily. And he was even more satisfied with the performance of the officers! In his telescope, he saw an officer taking a soldier out of the queue, and then kicking and beating him to rush to the baggage vehicle in the center of the phalanx to replace the gun.
It seemed that the soldier was so excited that he didn't even know that there was something wrong with his gun, and he was still repeating the loading and shooting process until he was discovered by his officer. This shows that the grassroots officers of the Wu'an Army have enough ability to withstand pressure, and now they still have the ability to take into account whether the soldiers in the phalanx can use their guns well. At the same time, it also shows that his officers are growing rapidly.
Liu Haojia is satisfied here, but things are different with Shimazu Yoshihisa! At this time, he no longer cared about being as stable as Mount Tai. He stood up, waved his military equipment and shouted loudly: "Quickly order them to withdraw! Order the troops behind to stop and hold down the position!"
It's no wonder he's crazy, because among any daimyo, the samurai group and the elite ashigaru are the backbone of an army! If they suffer too many casualties, the army's combat capability will plummet!
However, I have to say that Shimazu Yoshihisa is still very experienced, and the loss of soldiers did not mess up his mind. He smashed down a series of supplementary orders!
First, he ordered all the samurai and elite ashigaru to retreat, and then the second order was to ask the ashigaru behind them to stop their formation, and ordered them to defend it no matter what.
live! At the same time, the iron cannon ashigaru and archery teams on both wings were ordered to move closer to the center. At the same time, the ashigaru who were the first to withdraw were ordered to regroup as the final line of defense.
As his orders continued to be issued, the sound of drums and trumpets did not stop. The warriors around him rushed forward on their horses to convey the orders. Under the horse seal, there was no trace of the previous solemnity.
Shimazu Yoshihisa did manage to stay calm and respond appropriately, but the situation now is completely different from just now! He also subconsciously felt that he succeeded in changing formations in front of the opponent last time, and he should succeed this time, but Liu Haojia did not intend to give him another chance, but directly ordered all the formations to press forward!
After receiving the order, the four phalanxes in the front row started first, and then the five phalanxes in the back followed. Those high-erected spears really looked like slowly moving woods to Shimazu Yoshihisa's eyes, but it's unclear whether he thought of the famous "Fenglin Volcano" at this moment!
When advancing, the officers of each formation did not let the soldiers in the front row retract their bayonets, and those soldiers became the scavengers of the entire square formation. They were walking at the front, and when they saw the Japanese soldier who was still struggling and wailing, they gave him a quick stab! Therefore, wherever the square arrays passed by, there was immediately no sound! Even if there were injured soldiers who struggled to escape, they could not move faster than the soldiers of Wu'an Army. After being caught up, they would be killed with one blow!
The phalanx continued to move forward slowly, and soon approached the Japanese team, and adjusting the formation was not something that could be completed in a short time. Therefore, when the Wu'an army approached the Japanese a hundred steps away, their formation had just begun to look roughly like one.
And Wu Anjun showed off their superb skills here! As they were marching, the phalanx was disassembled into two horizontal formations. The two ends of the line were still spearmen holding their spears high, but the line of gunmen in the middle became longer and thicker, with four rows of people!
As soon as he got within a hundred steps, Huang Guojun shouted: "Stand up!"
Since he was the most central formation, when they stopped, the other six side-by-side formations also stopped. Just as the line stopped, Huang Guojun shouted again: "Shoot!"
