Liu Ren said: "That's true! We didn't expect it, but it also shows that Huang Guojun is a talent. Report back to the commander-in-chief!"
While Huang Guojun was busy directing the soldiers to build artillery emplacements, Yoshihiro Shimazu, who was standing behind the railing, was so distressed that he could hardly breathe! Because those who rushed out just now were all samurai and elite ashigaru, they were the backbone of the defense of the castle tower! Without them, it is impossible to defend the castle tower, especially when the opponent is constantly bombarded by cannons!
After much deliberation, he had no choice, but he understood one thing, it was impossible to defend Tsurunomaru without killing those six artillery pieces. So he made a desperate move to organize the remaining ashigaru, and also mobilized some bows and arrows to form a commando team, preparing to destroy those artillery pieces under the cover of the archers!
The personnel formation was quickly completed. Before setting off, Shimazu Yoshihiro personally walked under the castle tower and loudly said to the soldiers: "Everyone, if you can't destroy those countries that collapsed, Tsurunomaru will not be able to defend it! So! The fate of my visit to the Shimazu family this time is up to you!"
After speaking, he bowed heavily to the soldiers. You must know that the Japanese country has a very strict sense of hierarchy. As a superior person, Shimazu Yoshihiro can bow and salute the soldiers. This is a great event! Therefore, the soldiers returned the salute one after another and expressed their determination to complete the mission. Each one of them was excited and expressed their willingness to devote their lives to the Shimadzu family!
Seeing that morale had risen, Shimazu Yoshihiro waved his hand and said, "Open the door and let's go!"
The door was quickly opened, and the Ashigaru shouted loudly and rushed down the stone road. The archers following them began to throw feather arrows after rushing out for more than twenty steps. At this distance, they could just throw the arrows to the gun emplacement.
As a result, as soon as the arrows were fired and before they landed, the Ming army began to retreat in embarrassment, not even caring about the six artillery pieces buried on the ground!
Seeing this situation, Guo Zhankui and Liu Ren, who were watching the battle at the foot of the mountain, were shocked! In particular, Guo Zhankui scolded him directly: "Damn it, as soon as I said he was a good man, he retreated from the battle!"
Liu Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Wait and see, don't draw conclusions now!"
Guo Zhankui said angrily: "What else are you looking at? You can't even look at it... huh?"
The reason why Guo Zhankui was so surprised was because the situation in front of him had changed! Because he could see that the soldiers who seemed to be retreating madly in the warehouse were actually completely busy and not chaotic! If the mountain road were not too narrow and many soldiers could only run down the mountain, it would be obvious that their formation was not chaotic at all! This is completely an organized and planned retreat!
Seeing this, Guo Zhankui, no matter how stupid he was, wanted to understand what was going on. He clapped his hands and said, "What a clever guy!"
They saw the way here, but the Japanese didn't! In their eyes, those Ming soldiers were frightened by the arrow rain just now, and now they were so frightened that they fled when they saw the thrown arrows, not even paying attention to the artillery!
So the Ashigaru couldn't help but speed up their pace, shouting even more courageously and rushing down! When the archery team saw the Ming army retreating from a distance, they felt that it was their own feathered arrows that contributed even more, so they worked harder to shoot out the feathered arrows!
The distance between the two walls was not far, and the Japanese soldiers charged from a high position, much faster than on the ground, so soon someone rushed to the cannon!
The ashigaru rushed over, threw away the spear, and pushed hard on the cannon. The back half of the cannon was buried in the soil, and coupled with its own weight, it didn't move at all! At this time, other Ashigaru people also arrived one after another. When they saw his appearance, someone immediately shouted: "Dig the soil! Dig the soil!"
So these Ashigaru people used their weapons to dig into the land around the cannon. Although the soil has been dug and is relatively soft, it is very laborious to dig without the tools at hand. But in their excitement, they didn't even see the Ming army standing still more than thirty steps away!
Although the terrain formation is uneven due to the mountainous terrain, some are high and some are low, it is definitely a horizontal formation that is conducive to shooting. Unsurprisingly, this uneven team soon fired its first salvo! Even when they fired their first volley, the excited Japanese soldiers didn't notice Ming Ming at all.
The army is already turning around and forming formation!
They were still digging the soil excitedly, and most of the cannon case had been exposed. If they were given a few more minutes, they would be able to push the cannon down the hillside!
But just when they were carried away with excitement, the Ming army's counterattack came! The hot lead bullets directly shot out a row of blood flowers in the dense crowd! At a distance of about 30 steps, it is a bit excessive to say that the bullets are perfect, but the hit rate of up to 80% is definitely a terrible blow to the Japanese!
Seeing the casualties of their companions, the remaining Japanese finally woke up. Some were on defense, some wanted to attack, and some were trying to hurry up and throw down the artillery. It was a complete mess!
At that time, the second row, third row and fourth row fired volleys one after another, knocking down the Japanese in a mess one after another! Then the Ming army soldiers came back with guns blazing again! The Japanese soldiers, who had lost more than half of their lives, began to resist in a panic.
Normally speaking, most of the Japanese soldiers are ashigaru with spears, and they have advantages in weapons. Moreover, they are condescending, so they should be able to easily gain a great advantage. But most of their soldiers had just fallen, and the remaining soldiers were cowardly before they fought! And when the opponent's densely packed bayonets came towards them, they could only retreat step by step, exhausted!
But they happened to be mixed up with each other again, and the archery team behind them could only stare, unable to intervene at all! After a short hand-to-hand battle with the censor, less than 20 of the more than 100 Japanese soldiers escaped, and the rest were either killed by fire blunderbuss or picked to death with bayonets! The archery team only fired two rounds of arrows to cover the remaining people's escape, and nothing else was accomplished!
When the battle was over, Huang Guojun commanded the soldiers to regain the artillery position again, and the six artillery pieces buried in the soil were intact. The only thing they needed to do was to re-bury the soil dug up by the Japanese, and then clean the gun barrels. .
Therefore, the last battle was basically a small plan by Huang Guojun to use artillery as bait to attract the opponent to attack, so as to eliminate the opponent's strength. The method is old-fashioned, but very effective. Now Shimazu Yoshihiro only has some iron gun ashigaru and archery teams left in his hands!
