As the military order was conveyed, a group of sergeants in the Chinese army pushed eight oxen crossbows to the front, and nearly 280 oxen crossbow carts were spread out, like a crescent moon on the field.
Baihu Wei Duan and Sergeant Zhao Cha turned the twisting shaft of the Eight Bull Crossbow. The traction rope passed through the pulleys to pull a bow. The bowstring slowly moved to the traction buckle, and a thick crossbow gun was placed on the arrow path. , aiming at the enemy camp.
Wei Duan's eyes were full of fire. The Eight Ox Crossbow in front of him was no longer the traditional three-bow bed crossbow, but a highly simplified one-bow bed crossbow. Although this simplification weakened the killing power and distance, it also gave the bed The crossbow has better operability and maneuverability.
The traditional Eight Ox Crossbow requires more than twenty people. After adding pulleys and improvements, it still requires four or five people. After being streamlined, the Eight Ox Crossbow becomes a two-person weapon.
What makes Wei Duan most satisfied is that the Eight Ox Crossbow has legs.
The Craftsman Academy improved the base design of the Eight Ox Crossbow and designed it as a three-wheeled cart with one front wheel and two rear wheels. This design can be pushed directly by people. In emergencies, it can also be dragged behind the horse.
Although it has been streamlined, the lethality of the Eight Ox Crossbow cannot be underestimated. It can severely damage iron armor within three hundred steps, and it is still the best in the world within five hundred steps. The fly in the ointment is that although the Eight Ox Crossbow has been improved a lot, the time between each arrow is still a bit long. The fire gun has ten rounds, and the Eight Ox Crossbow may not be able to fire three rounds.
Wei Duan had heard people say that steam engines were so powerful that they could even propel ships. He once dreamed of installing a steam engine into the Eight Ox Crossbow, and even had the courage to write a letter to the Craftsman Academy.
It’s just that the Craftsman Academy ignored him at all and didn’t reply to his letter...
Later, Wei Duan heard someone say that the steam engine was very huge.
Big, not a bulky thing that can be lifted up and walked away, so I was so depressed that I felt humiliated.
To Wei Duan's surprise, his unrealistic idea was not thrown into the trash by the Craftsman Academy. Instead, it was taken seriously and included in the application ideas for miniaturizing steam engines.
Young Master Manzhen and Shimazu Motohisa waited, but did not see Nan Lai return, but saw the Ming army gradually closing the encirclement. Shimazu Motohisa asked the sergeant who escaped and found out that his younger brother Shimazu Hisatoyo did not come back. He might have been shot by the Ming Dynasty sergeant!
Shimazu Motohisa looked angrily in the direction of Sheng Yong's army and shouted at Young Master Manzhen: "I want to destroy the Ming army. Only in this way can the great revenge be avenged!"
Shao Er Manzhen looked at her side and saw that the sergeant was seriously injured.
They underestimated Imagawa Ryojun's strength. Even in a sudden attack, they still showed a strong will to fight. In addition, the Imagawa clan already had the advantage in manpower. The alliance between the two families only had 8,000 sergeants, but the Imagawa clan had 7,000 sergeants!
If it hadn't been for a night raid, if it hadn't been for catching the opponent off guard, Shaoer Manzhen couldn't believe how much his army would have survived.
The battle was won, but the losses were huge.
Young Master Manzhen lost a son, Shimazu Motohisa lost a nephew, and his younger brother was also killed by the Ming army. Of the eight thousand sergeants, more than two thousand were killed directly in battle, and more than a thousand were injured and lost their combat effectiveness. , has been damaged by more than half!
In this case, how to fight against the intact Ming army?
Young Master Manzhen was furious: "Da Ming, you guys don't keep your word!"
Credit?
Sheng Yong said, Daming is trustworthy, he has promised Nan Lai a thousand dollars, you can leave if you want, but you need to "
Leave Imagawa’s head and his head to the Ming Dynasty.”
So what? Imagawa Ryotoshi is your commander-in-chief, and Shao Er and Shimazu are also Imagawa Ryotoshi's generals. In that case, the head must be kept.
Whether you will become imps without your brains is not something that Ming needs to consider. What Ming needs to do is to clean up the imps together with you.
"Do it!"
Sheng Yong couldn't hear Younger Manzhen's roar, and with a wave of his hand, the arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbow flew out!
Unlike bows and arrows, the Eight Ox Crossbow does not shoot in the sky, does not rely on a large elevation angle, and does not need to wait for the bow and arrow to fall and accelerate. Instead, it aims and shoots straight. This thing is powerful enough that it is enough to fly directly.
Nearly two hundred thick crossbow arrows flew out and passed through the vast open space in the middle. The coldness of death suddenly descended on the Japanese camp.
"kill!"
Shocking shouts of killing came from the west and north at the same time. A large number of Ming troops began to charge. When they were a hundred steps away, bows and arrows began to cover them, and the Ming fire gunners also stood in three queues and aimed at the Japanese troops.
The fire suddenly appeared and became a twinkling star in the night.
The lead flies across, looking for warm flesh and blood.
Young Master Manzhen and Shimazu Motohisa looked pale, and their thick spears and arrows pierced through three or five sergeants, like a giant python that swallowed people, greedily eating the lives of the sergeants!
The dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, covering the stars!
The weird thing that shone with light seemed to be spitting out snakes, causing the sergeant to stagger to the ground a hundred steps away.
Fight back!
Fight back!
Young Master Manzhen shouted sternly, but the Japanese used longbows, which were powerful weapons for killing enemies at close range and could not threaten enemies hundreds of steps away!
Rush over and fight in close combat!
Shimazu Motohisa commanded the army
The soldiers fought, but the soldiers rushed towards them one after another, and fell to the ground one after another.
The Ming Dynasty's fire gunmen were calm and unhurried. Although it was a three-line battle, only the first two lines actually took action. The third line of fire gunmen just held the fire cannons and did not take action.
With several iterations of the fire gun, the fire gun only needs to be replaced with lead and gunpowder to achieve continuous firing. There is no need to install gunpowder fuses, ignition and other operations. In addition, the gunpowder has been packaged in small batches, and only the gunpowder needs to be poured into the powder. In the chamber, just stuff the lead and paper into the barrel.
The speed is fast, and the two-line combat can completely kill the impact of the military formation that is not dense.
The reason why the third line is retained is to deal with the dense military formation, and as a supplement. When the gunmen of the first and second lines are injured and fail to fire successfully, the third line can "make up for it" and take action to deal with the enemy.
Shimazu Motohisa didn't know the fire gun at all, and he didn't know how the Ming army killed his own army. The thing that sprayed fire was extremely mysterious and could kill people from a long distance away!
Seeing another group of soldiers being destroyed, Shimazu Motohisa finally woke up from his hatred. The gap between the Japanese army and the Ming army was not just a little bit!
Within fifty steps, there is still hope for the Japanese army.
Fifty steps away, the world is completely dominated by the Ming army!
They didn't rush in to fight at all, they just killed from a distance, using bows and arrows, and mysterious firearms!
Run!
There is no hope of victory. The Ming army is advancing steadily, trying to surround them like a tide.
Young Master Manzada and Shimazu Motohisa were afraid and prepared to retreat eastward.
Sheng Yong was keenly aware of the signs of the Japanese army's retreat, and ordered the army to speed up the encirclement. At the same time, he sent an order to Chu Zhi in the north to divide his troops.
Block the Japanese army's retreat route.
The arrangement of war is not fixed and needs to be adjusted at any time according to the war situation.
Previously, Chu Zhi was arranged to stay in the north, leaving a front line of Japanese troops to flee eastward, forcing them to enter Turtle City and annihilate the entire army.
But now the situation is different.
The initial war arrangement was to deal with the 15,000-strong army of Imagawa Ryotoshi, the second son Mansada, and Shimazu Motohisa. However, Imakawa Ryotoshi's men were slaughtered, and the second son Mansada and Shimazu Motohisa's troops were also lost. heavy.
In this case, there is no need to let go of Young Master Manzada and Shimazu Motohisa, and eating them in one bite is the most appropriate arrangement.
After Chu Zhi received the order, he arranged for his deputy Lu Li to lead a thousand men to attack and seize the main road three miles east of the camp!
When Lu Li arrived, the remaining soldiers of Shao Er Manzhen and Shimazu Motohisa were less than 200 steps away. Lu Li was a fierce man and did not intend to stand firm at all. Instead, he chose to attack and killed them with 800 people. .
There were strong enemies in front of them and pursuers behind them. The second son, Manzada and Shimazu Motohisa, had no intention of fighting and wanted to flee north, but they encountered Chu Zhi's main force again.
The long arrows he fired kept falling into the side of the second young man Mansada and Shimazu Motohisa. The originally elite warriors had no power to fight back at this time and were killed one by one.
Half an hour later, there were only more than 200 people left with Shao Er Manzhen and Shimazu Motohisa, and they were forced to the river, unable to advance or retreat.
The Ming army stopped attacking.
Young Master Manzhen was filled with despair at this time, Shimazu Motohisa's face was covered with blood, and a piece of flesh was missing from his cheek.
"Jingzhi, go talk to the Ming army and ask them to let us leave."
Young Master Manzhen looked at the monk soldiers aside.
Monk Jingzhi handed the long sword to Shao Er Manzhen and raised it
He slowly walked out with his hands and shouted in Chinese: "I want to see your general."
Sheng Yong yawned, ordered someone to come over, and then looked at Supervisor Sheng: "Urge Zhao Cheng and others to hurry up. If they run away, I will be embarrassed."
Supervisor Sheng agreed and left the camp.
When Jingzhi arrived at the big tent, Sheng Yong asked him to wait because of his stomachache. He returned to the big tent only a quarter of an hour later, looked at Jingzhi and smiled and said, "You can leave now."
Jingzhi, who didn't understand, was pushed away.
Sheng Yong issued the military order and said coldly: "No one will be spared."
The order was given and the arrows flew.
Shao Er Manzhen and Shimazu Motohisa saw the Ming army's posture, gritted their teeth and jumped directly into the Daning River. The samurai and monk soldiers who had no time to jump were shot and killed.
The water level of the river was gentle, and the young men Manzada and Shimazu Motohisa could swim again, and were about to run to the other side. Unexpectedly, a group of Ming soldiers suddenly appeared on the other side. These Ming soldiers were holding a strange long-handled thing in their hands, and then threw it away. Come over.
There are a lot of them and they are quite dense.
Seeing something flying towards her, Shao Er Manzhen dived directly into the water. She turned around and saw an iron guy slowly landing beside her. She stretched out her hand to grab it out of curiosity, full of doubts.
boom!
The calm river surface was suddenly torn apart by a powerful force, causing water jets to rise one after another!
The river suddenly turned red.
Corpses were floating on the water, and there were several seriously injured Japanese, screaming in despair. Some Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the grenades had their heads popping up at a loss. One of them was Shimazu Motohisa.
The sergeants wearing life jackets jumped into the water one by one, captured the small number of Japanese soldiers to the shore, and salvaged the corpses one by one.
Come up.
Sheng Yong was furious when he couldn't find his second wife, Manzhen, and ordered the sergeant to go into the water and continue searching. The explosion occurred underwater, and the killing radius of the grenade was only one step away. It was impossible for anyone to dive deep to avoid harm and escape.
When the Ming army blocked the upper and lower reaches and prepared for a large-scale search, Shimazu Motohisa pointed out a corpse: "The shameless one is Shao Er Manzhen..."
