On July 18, behind a small bush in the northern part of Nagusa County, Oku Shigemasa was staring at the Red Leaf Army slowly advancing in the distance. Although he was only 17 years old this year, he was a great sharpshooter in the community. Tsuda is right, and Tsuda is the true successor of father and son. Therefore, he can become an ashigaru general at such a young age.
Originally, with his seniority, he would not be able to take independent command. However, this time, according to the tactics decided by the leaders of each country at a meeting, the entire Kii country, except for the Zaga soldiers guarding the important city of Yanzhai, had to be organized. As a result, he launched a guerrilla war against the Red Leaf Army in the mountains and wilderness. Therefore, Oku Shigemasa was assigned to 20 combat soldiers because of his title of Ashigaru General (among the people of Kii Province, there is actually no strict distinction between combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. , it’s just that there are not enough weapons to distribute to everyone), and was ordered to go to Nagusa County to harass the Momiji Army.
Since the official road was too narrow and winding, the traffic capacity was extremely limited. The march plan formulated by the Red Leaf Army's staff still made full use of various mountain trails. Not far in front of Oku Shigemasa was a platoon of red leaf Army soldiers. , is coming along this small mountain road. Oku Shigemasa knows that there may be hundreds of groups of guerrillas like him lurking in the entire Nagusa County at the moment. But he does not know that he is the first among all the guerrillas. Those who came into contact with the Hongye Army were about to fire the first shot of the Battle of Kii.
"Ready." Oku Shigemasa lowered his voice and reminded the seven iron gunners in his team to load their ammunition and fire. Then, everyone held their breath and watched silently as the pair of soldiers came closer and closer, and the sound of neat footsteps became louder and louder. It became louder. When the long rifles of the Red Leaf Army were 50 meters away from the side of their bushes, Oku Shigemasa suddenly turned over and shouted at the same time: "Shoot!"
As he pulled the trigger, the seven iron gunners and six archers beside him also stood up and shot at the Hongye Army not far away. After a burst of gunfire and arrows, a burst of smoke rose from the bushes, and the 50-man Hongye Army One person in the platoon was also knocked down and one was injured.
"Enemy attack!" The Red Leaf Army reacted the moment the gunshots sounded. The commanding platoon leader immediately shouted in Chinese, "The gunshots are on the left! First class, second class, search the bushes on the left immediately. Cong!”
"Yes!" The two squads on the left side of the team, led by Ashigaru, immediately turned around and rushed towards the bushes with their spears pointed. Upon seeing this, Oku Shigemasa immediately led his men to retreat into the hills and forests behind them, taking advantage of the complex terrain. Get rid of the Red Leaf Army. The soldiers were all wearing simple cloth to facilitate marching in complex terrain. However, the hard equipment that the Red Leaf Army was usually proud of in the battle formation now became an obstacle, leaving the soldiers in the mountains and bushes. The movement between the two became a bit of a struggle, and the distance gradually widened.
After Oku Shigemasa opened a safe distance, he retreated to another bush. He quickly ordered his men to load the iron cannon, and fired another round at the Red Leaf Army chasing into the forest, killing two more people. Although the archers fought for a while, He retreated and fired almost non-stop, but failed to cause any damage to the well-armored Hongye Army. The Hongye Army wanted to pursue further, so Oku Shigemasa immediately asked others to swarm the stones and soil they had prepared in advance. The Hongye Army threw it, but it failed to cause any damage, but it also hindered their marching speed. Seeing that the iron cannon was about to complete another round of loading, on the mountain road
The platoon leader sitting at the command position could not sit still and ordered his men to stop the pursuit and return immediately.
"There's no point in fighting with those little thieves." The platoon leader Ming Dybei snorted disdainfully, "His Highness has emphasized many times in previous meetings. As long as the march is not affected, don't be delayed by the guerrillas of the Kii people.
Time, trapped in a battle in the mountains and forests."
However, after the platoon resumed its marching formation on the mountain road and advanced again, Oku Shigemasa and his men lingered over. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they took a small path and once again faced the platoon's inevitable fate.
An ambush lay down on the road. When the platoon passed by, another round of salvo was launched, and another person was shot. The platoon of Ming Dybei ignored Oku Shigemasa's troops and continued to march. However, after a while, they were attacked again.
once.
"Is it over yet?" This time, not only the platoon leader, but also many ashigaru in Mingbei's platoon were a little angry. Their platoon had done nothing yet, and inexplicably suffered 10% casualties, and they didn't even touch the enemy's hair.
arrive.
"Fuck, it's so annoying." The platoon leader swore and said viciously, "It's better to let them continue fighting like this in vain! When will this end? This has already interfered with our march."
"The first and second squads will follow me and attack from the front! The third and fourth squads will surround us from both sides, and the fifth squad will stay on guard on the official road!"
"Yes!" After receiving the order to attack, the soldiers who had been holding back their breath were excited and immediately rushed over from three directions. Oku Shigemasa did not expect that they would change formations so quickly and hurriedly led his troops to retreat.
.They retreated all the way and once again opened a certain distance, the Genlai gunners immediately seized the time to reload and light fire. However, this time the Mingdibei seemed to be prepared. After seeing that the Genlai gunners were ready to shoot,
During the movement, the four squad leaders immediately ordered: "Lie down!"
Before the gunfire rang out, the soldiers who were preparing all threw their spears to the side and lay down one by one on the ground covered by bushes and weeds. The iron gunner suddenly lost his target and fired randomly.
The bullets were fired close to the ground, but no one was hit. After the gunfire, with the sound of "stand up", the soldiers who were preparing to stand up immediately stood up and charged again.
"Nani?" Oku Shigemasa and the others were startled by this strange fighting method, and they forgot their movements for a moment. By the time they wanted to evacuate, the pikemen of Ming Dybei had already approached very close.
The operation performed by Ming Dybei just now was exactly what Yu Qiuping had practiced again and again in previous military exercises. It was known in advance that the more than 3,000 soldiers of the Kii people may have no less than the number of iron cannons of the Red Leaf Army.
Artillery. Therefore, how to conduct anti-iron artillery training is crucial. The Red Leaf Army has always had a firepower advantage in its combat effectiveness over the past many years—but this time the situation may be different.
However, this is not a problem for Yu Qiuping, a time traveler. Not to mention these matchlock guns, even in the hot weapon era of later generations, the most effective way to deal with gunfire is still that one move-lying down. During military exercises, he repeatedly
Let your subordinates practice lying down on the move to prepare for possible incoming gunfire.
According to Takenaka Shigeharu’s suggestion, if we really want to fight back against the attackers in the complex terrain on both sides of the road, unilateral
The pursuit may be futile, just blocking your companions behind you. If you want to fight back effectively, you must outflank. All commanders at the platoon level and above have practiced outflanking attacks many times, and now they are naturally comfortable in using them.
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However, people like Oku Shigemasa are local snakes after all. They have been to this area many times and are already familiar with the terrain in the mountains and forests. Oku Shigemasa immediately led his men and ran to a bush, and then quickly
Disappeared behind another forest. Narubei's pursuer was not familiar with the terrain. After rushing through the bushes, he did not pay attention to several large pits under his feet. He suddenly slipped and fell several times, and was thrown away by Oku Shigemasa again.
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Wearing heavy armor, they couldn't outrun the people in this mountain forest. As long as the people didn't want to attack and wanted to run, they had no choice. In desperation, the platoon leader had to order the troops to withdraw back to the mountain road, but Oku Shigemasa
It stalked them like a shadow again. Unwilling to endure any more casualties, the platoon leader Ming Dybei retreated to the main road from another road, giving up his plan to use this small road to ease traffic and advance quickly.
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Not only the unlucky platoon of Ming Dybei, but also the advancing troops on all the small roads of the Red Leaf Army encountered tireless guerrillas. One by one, the messengers were sent to the official road where Yu Qiuping was.
"Hehe, my place is no better than theirs." Yu Qiuping smiled bitterly and shook his head, listening to the sound of gunshots rang out again in a forest on the right side of the official road.
"Let the iron gunners of Ancheng faction suppress those annoying guys. The main force continues to march and don't be delayed." Yu Qiuping looked at the miscellaneous crowd in the distance with some annoyance - there were about 500 of them, basically all of them.
Iron gunners. They had no intention of fighting with the Yuqiu family, and they just kept shooting at the Hongye Army. As soon as the Hongye Army accelerated, they left quickly. Since they were also not fully clothed, they ran so fast that the Hongye Army couldn't catch up.
Go up - and the cavalry of the Red Leaf Army is still far behind because of the difficult mountain road and cannot be mobilized at all.
The constant harassment of iron cannons on both sides of the road, the soldiers who sometimes rushed out to attack the marching column, and the crowd of people who looked like brown candy in front of them slowed down the Red Leaf Army very slowly. And the Red Leaf Army was slowed down very slowly.
Troops that were diverted on various small roads also encountered trouble. Soon they would return to the main road, which would further aggravate the congestion on the road. The traffic volume on the road is not large to begin with, and food, grass and projectiles would not be transported by then.
Came up.
"Let's hold another evaluation meeting tonight. We need to discuss this damn situation." Yu Qiuping scratched his head and nodded towards Takenaka Shigeharu, who was thoughtfully on the side. "If this continues, we will continue to be confused.
If we can't reach Hecheng, we will run out of food."
That night, all the special forces sent by Yu Qiuping to the small road basically returned to the official road to camp. However, Yu Qiuping could not call all the officers for a meeting. Because even after nightfall, the people of Kii Country were still busy.
They were harassing Yu Qiuping's troops. They were working in vain, shooting here and there, and from time to time, people rushed out to steal the camp. It would be impossible not to send people to guard against it. Yu Qiuping also felt that if he couldn't think of any way to counter these
The guerrillas were so elusive in the forest that the troops couldn't even sleep at night.
Chapter completed!