Datong's voice was like thunder, and Ling Yunyi had already raised his hand to plug his ears. Next to him, Shimazu Yoshihisa opened his mouth wide, but his ears were not deafened.
He pointed to the cannons that had been fired and asked: "Can these big guns hit this far?"
Ling Yunyi had received many confidentiality trainings and didn't want to talk to him about the Ming army's technical secrets. He just nodded and said with a smile: "If the friendly forces don't retreat now, they will attack me."
Shimazu asked again blankly: "Don't you call a formation before going into battle, or do a tour to boost morale?"
Just when Ling Yunyi was about to answer, the Ming army's artillery fired another salvo, so he chose to cover his ears. When the sound of artillery stopped, he glanced at Shimazu with a strange look and said, "Are you tired of the two armies racing back and forth in front of the formation?"
Shimazu Yoshihisa rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer. Mu stood aside blankly, watching the Ming army's big cannon launch round after round.
After five salvoes, the Ming army's artillery ceased firing, and the artillerymen poured water on the barrels to cool them. Because his own big cannon could not hit the Ming army, Dayou Zonglin, whose military morale was shaken by four hundred shells, did not put in the effort. He had already waved the military flag and commanded the two cavalry wings to charge into the formation. At this time, the sword was pointed forward, the drums and conchs were beating loudly, the center army and the left and right wings came out at the same time, and all the large square formations approached the Ming army.
The cavalry rushed down from the hills on both sides and rushed straight to the two ends of the I-shaped formation of the Ming army. The distance of five miles is suitable for the cavalry to charge into the formation. The jogging in the first section can make the horses excited. In the last mile, the horse can speed up. Just point the lance in your hand at the Ming army and wear the candied haws. The Ming army is also considered to be too strong, and they refuse even before the formation. There were no horses, let alone spearmen to restrain the cavalry.
If these cavalrymen could have gone to observe the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided army against the Mongolian cavalry around the fifth year of Wanli, they would still be able to understand the tactics at that time - the Ming army carried spears at that time, and there were iron hooks near the handshakes to facilitate musketry. The soldier stood the spear upright and placed the musket on the hook to aim.
However, it is already the twelfth year of Wanli, and Japan in this time and space will experience the first dimensionality reduction blow.
Facing the galloping cavalry, the squatting cannons at both ends of the formation first fired a hail of bullets, and then the musketeers turned in six rounds, drawing an insurmountable chasm seventy steps away!
It was like the reappearance of the Saihanba military exercise, except that the objects were changed from horses to real cavalry. Kahei Yoshihiro, the general of the Otomo family, was wearing heavy armor. With good luck, he rushed within 70 paces, but within five seconds another volley of bullets knocked him off his horse.
It was a maroon horse with a lot of intelligence. It knew that there was no way forward. After a long neigh, it rushed out from behind during the barrage, and ran out of the range of the Ming army's bullets.
Yoshihiro Kahei, who landed on the ground, bowed forward and took a few steps in the direction of the Ming army. His mouth was filled with red blood-colored foam, which made him speechless. The flag on his back was dancing in the autumn wind, and then he Following the next row of gunshots was its owner, who fell headlong to the ground.
Seeing that the cavalry was about to be wiped out, Otomo Zonglin issued orders to make the cavalry move left and right to withdraw. But the speed has already increased. The high-speed cavalry will either pass through the transparent military formation or face death in the barrage. Most of the cavalry have no third way to go. Only a few in the back row can turn their horses' heads and head towards the battlefield. Escape.
In response to the allied forces' pressure, the Ming army's artillery roared again after a period of cooling. This time, it fired explosive shells - there was a small hole in the projectile body with a fuse inserted. When fired, the fuse is ignited by the gunpowder gases in the chamber. After being fired, the fuse continues to burn until it burns out and ignites the gunpowder inside, causing an explosion.
Although after many improvements, only 80% of Ming Dynasty's explosive bombs could explode, and the power of the explosives was not comparable to that of later generations. However, for the entire Japanese army at this time, this power was more than enough.
Accompanied by the explosion of flowering artillery shells in the formation of the Dayou Army, the Ming army's "Ling" banner pointed in front, the drums were beating, and the small drums in the military column were accompanied by the sound of the small drums. The Ming army marched neatly towards the Dayou Army. go ahead.
Shimazu Yoshihisa, who was standing next to Ling Yunyi, was still dumbfounded and couldn't say anything. He also had an iron artillery team, which was quite large - more than 800 people. But compared with the Ming army, his own iron artillery team would be completely wiped out in a single encounter. He was now extremely convinced of this.
What's the point of learning the art of war with this type of warfare? The war is won by coincidence and by surprise. This kind of firepower output leaves no room for military tactics between battle formations. Shimazu Yoshihisa's cheek muscles twitched, and he looked sympathetically towards his right wing - offering his last mercy to the famous Kyushu military art master Tachibana Michizuki.
So far in the joint battle, the Ming army has suffered zero casualties. Dayou Zonglin's phalanx has been in disarray, with more than 15% casualties, and the cavalry has been almost completely wiped out.
After cleaning up his feelings, Shimazu Yoshihisa began to wonder why Otomo Sorin's troops had not collapsed. It wasn't until the Ming army began to advance that he figured out that because the two sides were too far apart, although the friendly army suffered a large number of casualties caused by the big cannon, it had not yet faced the dense curtain of bullets.
Otomo Zonglin's last resort was to send out his own iron artillery team. A thousand-man phalanx came forward, ran close to the Ming army and fired a round of bullets - only one round, causing fifteen Ming army people to be shot. Immediately afterwards, the Ming army's almost continuous attacks quickly defeated Otomo Zonglin's iron artillery team.
In fact, when it comes to rapid firing of iron cannons, the Otomo iron artillery team trained by Tachibana Michyuki is more advanced than the Oda army. Daoxue once conducted research on the complicated movements of iron cannons before firing, and invented the "zao" method of mixing ammunition and projectiles to a sufficient amount for one shot and then putting them into special bamboo tubes, and backed up many mixed bamboo tubes. They are then connected in a string with straw ropes and hung on the shoulders. When used, one round of gunpowder and projectiles are poured in together, which greatly increases the shooting speed by omitting the shooting step.
The Oda family later learned the three-stage round attack method under the guidance of the Portuguese. This technique was soon learned by others, and the well-trained iron artillery team of the Otomo family was still stronger than the Oda family.
However, compared with the "line-up shooting method with artillery coordination" that the Ming army had already practiced proficiently, the entire Japanese iron artillery army still had a gap in tactics. Moreover, there are even greater gaps in the construction of firearms armies such as the quality of muskets and ammunition, the severity of training, and so on.
I saw the Ming army approaching in a straight line, and each standing round was extremely neat. The hit rate was more than ten times higher than that of the Otomo Iron Artillery Team in the musket era. Before the two rounds were completed, the soldiers of the Dayo Iron Artillery Corps could no longer withstand this "nose-to-nose" queuing and shooting style, and turned around and fled.
The iron artillery team retreated, and Dayou Zonglin's entire army was shaken. Before the Ming army could reach within the firing range of its Wanli 14 type, sheep were already herding on the opposite side of the battlefield. All the Otomo family troops turned back and ran towards Tachibana Mountain Castle, which was their only hope of survival.
Kobayakawa Takakage ordered the entire army to turn right when they were halfway through the march and left the battlefield. At this time, he lowered his various flags and ran faster and faster. The rear army had begun to scatter.
Seeing this, Shimazu Yoshihisa swallowed his saliva and said: "My army is idle and idle. Can we pursue it?"
Ling Yunyi laughed and said: "That's best, I'll let the children rest - each of us can take half of the spoils."
Shimazu Yoshihisa's face turned red and he shouted: "We pick up ready-made goods and still want trophies? They all belong to you, Commander!"
After saying that, he rode back to the main formation, ordered his army to divide into two teams, and followed Kobayakawa Takakage and Otomo to chop melons and vegetables.
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Because of the timely rescue by the military medical team, three of the fifteen shot soldiers died - the Ming army fought a crushing war with almost zero casualties in Kyushu, Japan. This war accelerated mankind into the age of firearms and left a mark in the world's military history.
The "Battle of Tachibana Castle" started from the first artillery shell fired by the Ming army. It only took half an hour. Otomo Sorin and the Maori coalition forces were defeated across the board, with countless casualties. Yoshihisa Shimazu, who followed behind and picked up Shimazu, also made countless gains, so that later generations of Japanese derided him as "Shimazu the Thief".
More than ten important ministers and generals including Manda Kanmi under Otomo Sorin's command were all killed in the battle, and their heads were taken by the generals of the thief Shimazu. In order to protect Otomo Sorin, Tachibana Michyuki fought to the death with Ue Kakukane of the Shimadzu family. In the end, he was beheaded by Ue Kakukane due to lack of physical strength. Otomo Zonglin endured the severe pain in his heart and fled back to Tachibanayama Castle. He raised the city gate and tried to resist.
After the Ling Yunyi and Shimazu coalition forces cleaned up the battlefield, they picked up all the solid shells and asked the craftsmen accompanying them to polish them smooth again. The army approached Tachibanayama Castle in a hurry, and the eighty large barrels still took turns speaking, letting everyone understand that the city fell in an instant.
On October 7th, the main gate of Tachibanayama Castle was shattered by artillery, and the wall above the gate also collapsed in large areas. Otomo Sorin fell into complete despair. At a time when nothing could be done, Tachibana Michyuki's daughter, Tachibana Genchiyo, volunteered to go to the Ming army camp to meet with Ling Yunyi and beg him to find a way out for the friend's family - after all, for the Ming Dynasty, there was no point in driving away the friend. , as long as Dayou can hand over heavyweight heads and make Ling Yunyi accountable for the Ningbo chaos.
