But just when they were feeling lucky to be hiding behind the wall, the landing point of the Japanese archers on the opposite side changed and began to shift to the left and right! Because except for the severely injured people lying in the open space, all the others had dispersed. Shooting arrows into the gap would be a waste of arrows and energy, so the officer in charge decisively changed the target!
Just when the soldiers behind the wall were still rejoicing, arrows rained down from their heads again! Some of the feather arrows fell inside the wall, but almost half of the feather arrows fell outside the wall! These feather arrows caused quite a few casualties!
The soldiers didn't expect that the opponent had the ability to projectile, so when the arrow fell almost vertically from the sky, the wall couldn't stop it at all! Immediately, a soldier was shot in the neck and fell to the ground. A dozen others were shot in the shoulder, arm or thigh with arrows!
Huang Guojun was the first batch of troops ordered to attack, and he himself was outside the wall. He knew something was wrong when the first round of arrows fell and sprayed blood in the crowd! He immediately shouted loudly: "Spread out, spread out! Everyone behind you, get out! Take away all the wounded and corpses. Those standing close to the wall, don't move!"
The junior officer quickly passed on his order, and the soldiers who were leaning outside immediately withdrew along the mountain road, and some soldiers quickly followed with the wounded and dead bodies. During the whole process, he was shot three times by Japanese arrows before he was out of the range of the bow and arrow!
Seeing the Ming army retreating, the extremely excited Shimazu Yoshihiro leaned out from the railing and shouted an order: "Order the samurai to attack!"
The samurai and elite ashigaru who were already prepared immediately opened the door excitedly and rushed down! Their purpose is to destroy those artillery pieces! And destroying these cannons is easy, just push them along the hillside! The cannon will deform when it collides with the mountain, and there is absolutely no chance of firing again!
But just when they were twenty or thirty steps closer to the artillery, a group of people suddenly appeared from behind the wall! Before they could stand still, they fired a volley at the Japanese. Although it was very irregular, the three warriors running at the front were directly hit and fell backwards. Several people behind them were also injured and fell. land!
This group of Ming soldiers did not leave after firing the muskets. Instead, they squatted on the ground and took out a bayonet from their waists and stuck it on the mouth of the musket. Another group of people rushed over from behind the wall and stood behind them and fired a volley!
This time the volley was closer and more effective, knocking over seven people directly! If it weren't for the narrow mountain road, these Japanese soldiers could only rush down the mountain road and inadvertently form a column, otherwise there would be more casualties!
But they had reached this point and it was no longer possible to retreat. They could only roar and continue charging! The Ming army soldiers behind the wall seemed to be endless. They rushed out and fired muskets, and then squatted on the ground and stuck bayonets on the mouth of the muskets!
After the Ming army fired five rounds, the Japanese had killed and wounded more than thirty people! Finally, no Ming soldiers rushed out from behind the wall. This made the remaining Japanese breathe a sigh of relief and mustered up their strength to rush downwards with the help of the mountain! But those Ming army soldiers were already ready to counterattack. Under the command of their officers, they stood up and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers!
In close combat, the sword is no match for the bayonet-mounted gun! The first batch of Japanese were penetrated by bayonets extending from far away without any accident! These Japanese, who were full of the will to sacrifice, also tried to jam the opponent's bayonet with their own bodies, but the well-trained fire gun soldiers subconsciously left one person to hold on to the dying man, while the others drew out their bayonets and fought again!
The only ones who are evenly matched with the Fire Gun Soldiers are some of the Spear Ashigaru! The length of their weapons is slightly longer than that of muskets, but their numbers are too small, and they still hate it in the face of dense bayonet bushes! The dozens of Japanese who rushed out at this point were all wiped out! This included more than 30 scribes and more than 40 elite ashigaru, and now most of the core force guarding Tsurunomaru were killed!
Shimazu Yoshihiro also looked pale when he saw this scene, but he still ordered the archers to fire two rounds. And those fire gun soldiers quickly retreated behind the wall after killing all the opponents, without causing any damage at all!
When this round of offensive and defensive battle is over, both sides will suffer losses. After the Fire Soldiers withdrew to the wall, the officers began a preliminary inventory and found that the dead
More than 20 people were killed, more than 20 people were seriously injured and unable to fight, and more than 40 people were slightly injured.
This result made Liu Ren and Guo Zhankui burst into laughter! There were not so many casualties in a face-to-face fight, but the damage was so great on a wall!
But Liu Haojia is very angry! He knows that if a team really wants to mature, it needs constant beating, and in the process of beating, human life is the price! So he comforted the two people and said: "We have no experience in attacking castle towers, and it is inevitable that there will be some casualties in this situation. But it should not happen the second time the same problem occurs! Remember this time as an example! Okay, Let’s seize the time to reorganize our attack!”
Then Liu Haojia turned to his servant and said, "Remember, we still need a group of sword and shield soldiers in our team."
When he established the Wu'an Army, he based it on the early Western firearms forces, and the goal was also directed at the Spanish Grand Square. There was no place for sword and shield soldiers in the Spanish square, so he didn't set one up. But in actual combat, he truly discovered that sword and shield soldiers were also indispensable!
In the era of cold weapons in the West, there was naturally a demand for sword and shield soldiers, but when firearms appeared on the scene, the existence of sword and shield soldiers became more and more embarrassing! One of the most critical issues here is that street fighting was never fought in the early wars in the West!
When the two sides faced each other, they often fought in the wild. Since both sides were mercenaries, once one side failed, the personnel fled directly, and the city behind them was naturally within easy reach, so there was no need for street fighting.
But things are different here in the East. When the two sides are fighting, street fighting is also a common method of fighting, often from outside the city to the city! Therefore, sword and shield soldiers are of great use in street fighting, and this is one of the differences between the East and the West!
Liu Ren and Guo Zhankui collected a lot of shields and planks and sent them to the front line, only to find that Huang Guojun was organizing people to withdraw the artillery! Seeing this scene, Guo Zhankui was the first to react. He slapped his thigh and said, "We are so fucking stupid. We only think about finding something to block the arrows. We don't think that artillery can have a much farther range than bows and arrows. As long as we Why don’t you just retreat a little bit?”
