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"They have obviously thought about how to deal with the artillery in advance..." When the leader of the Junling artillery preparation team saw the scattered lineup of the Uesugi Army's cavalry, he realized that this round of artillery bombardment would definitely have no good effect. The Uesugi Army's cavalry was still there.
As we get closer, the artillery team will not have a second chance to fire.
Just once.
The artillery crew leader took a deep breath and hesitated to give the order to fire. He wanted to bring the Uesugi army closer, and even closer, so that the shotgun fire could cause greater casualties. Anyway, it was only once.
The shooting opportunities are the same whether you shoot early or late.
"Sir, why don't you fire the artillery yet!" A member of the artillery team saw the fierce cavalry of the Uesugi Army getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but asked the team leader loudly.
"Count to five more!" the artillery crew leader gritted his teeth and loudly shouted:
"five four three two one!"
"Fire!"
The muzzles of the three three-pound cannons flashed with fire, and the barrage swept towards the Uesugi Army's cavalry. Due to the loose formation, even if the artillery team had been dragged to the extreme escape distance before firing, it still only brought more than twenty people.
The artillery crew members turned around and evacuated without saying a word after firing. The Uesugi Army's cavalry quickly raised their horses and galloped past the artillery position, chasing them straight. There were two
The artillery crew members accidentally slipped in the snow. This delay gave them no time to escape into the spear formation, and they were cut down to the ground by the Uesugi Army's cavalry. However, facing a row of sharp spears,
This group of Uesugi Army cavalry did not dodge or dodge, but continued to charge straight towards them.
"Not less..." Yu Qiu Shang frowned, put the katana back into the scabbard, took the spear from an iron gunner holding a short sword in the back row, and moved to the second row.
, "You actually want to charge into the spear formation..."
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, the Uesugi Army's cavalry had already crashed into the spear formation. Many horses were frightened by the light reflected from the sharp spear points, and they rose up in front of the formation. On their backs
The knights were like living targets, being poked into a hornet's nest by the pikemen's random shots. However, many horses still crashed in. Although their knights were all stabbed to death by random shots, the huge momentum of the horses hit them.
When many spearmen arrived in the front row, Junlingbei's spearmen's line was suddenly in a mess.
"The back row fills up the front row!" Yu Qiu Shang immediately ordered loudly, and the spearmen in the back row followed Yu Qiu Shang to fill the gap in the front row, stepping on the corpses of their companions and horses to welcome the next wave of impact.
In the past, when the cavalry charged into the pike formation, they relied on the powerful impact of the first row of cavalry to open the gap, thus giving the cavalry in the rear a chance to disrupt the battle line and completely defeat the pikemen. However, the Hongye Army's high combat effectiveness and extremely fast attack
The replenishment speed did not give Uesugi's army a chance to break through the gap in the battle line.
Just as Yu Qiu Shang took his position, another knight bumped towards his position. Yu Qiu Shang and the six surrounding spearmen fiercely thrust their spears at the knight and the dismounted horse, directly killing the man and the horse.
The horse poked several holes. However, the huge impact force came along the gun barrel. Yu Qiu Shang tried hard to resist, but the gun barrel in his hand was entangled in the horse's body, and was directly broken by the negative angle force.
Broken. He didn't stand firm and was knocked over in the snow. The spearman next to him was even more unlucky. He was directly knocked down by the bodies of the knight and the horse, and was knocked heavily to the ground.
He also brought down the other two spearmen behind him.
"Fix your seat!" Yu Qiu Shang stood up and wiped his mouth casually - the blood-red color made him realize that he might have been injured just now. He quickly picked up a spear scattered on the ground, and faced another enemy side by side with his companions again. An approaching knight.
The cavalry of the Uesugi Army almost forcibly exchanged the lives of knights and horses for spearmen. After several rounds of impact, the corpses of fallen people and horses before preparing for formation on the steep mountain were piled half as high as a person, forming a natural line. The "wall of corpses" prevented Uesugi's army from continuing to attack. Seeing this, Mizuto Atomic immediately asked the iron gunners to come forward and use the "wall of corpses" as a cover to shoot at Uesugi's army. Seeing that the pair of cavalrymen were not in a good mood, they immediately followed the "Wall of Corpses" "The banner with Chinese characters slowly moved towards the south.
"It's not easy..." The spearman who was fighting beside Yu Qiu Shang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, "I forced Uesugi Kenshin back..."
However, before he could finish these words, the relieved expression on his face instantly froze. Yu Qiu Shang was stunned for a moment and looked in the direction of his gaze - he saw another one in the northeast. A cavalry team of about 500 people came over in an arc! The three spear platoons at Yu Qiu Shang's side had suffered heavy losses at this moment, and they might not be able to withstand an attack by the 500 cavalrymen.
"Bring back all the companies that fought back!" Shui Atomjing sighed, and arranged for Yu Qiu Shang to pull back all the four companies that were sent by Junling Bei's First Company to fight back, forming a spear phalanx. The counterattack that had finally made progress was terminated. The two mixed Uesugi troops with about 1500 people of infantry and cavalry once again suppressed the second company of Junling Bei and the third company of Junling Bei, taking advantage of their numerical advantage to continuously kill those who were not good at it. The spearmen of the Red Leaf Army fighting in the snow.
The first company of Junling Bei formed a formation, preparing to face the impact of 500 cavalry sweeping across. To everyone's surprise, the cavalry did not turn around, but faced the side of the entire "pin" square formation to the west. Before Junling Bei could react to what they were going to do, 500 cavalrymen once again circled out of the snow and fog in the northeast, heading straight for Junling Bei's first company to kill. At this time, the team had circled around a large area. A circle of 500 cavalry also appeared in the south of Junling Bei, launching a pincer attack on the first company of Junling Bei from the north and the south! The first company now only had a total of more than 200 long gunmen left, and it instantly fell into an unprecedented crisis.
With a solemn expression on his face, Mizu Atomjing took the flag from the flag bearer without saying a word and began to wave the flag himself. He asked Junlingbei's second and third companies to mobilize people from their already stretched defense lines to support the formation. Ikemoto Musashi and Ii Naomasa desperately waved their flags to indicate that it was already difficult to maintain the front here, but the situation of the main formation was even more critical. In desperation, Ikemoto Musashi and Ii Naomasa each deployed two platoons to support the main formation, in order to allow them to support the main formation. The two platoons were able to leave smoothly, but they were forced to readjust the formation and position of the phalanx, and the Uesugi Army took advantage of the situation and compressed a lot of positions.
At this moment, the original group of more than 400 Echigo cavalrymen flying the flag with the word "bi" came back and rushed towards the gaps between the three "mouths" in the square formation with the word "pin". The third company of Junling Bei was The two moving platoons were located just to the south. They were caught off guard and hurriedly formed a formation to fight. The Uesugi Army's cavalry smashed the weak line into pieces.
At the same time, Yu Qiu Shang was leading two platoons of reinforcements sent by Naomasa Ii to urgently resist the impact of the cavalry from the north and the south. Since the place where they were arraying was only on the ground, there was no condescending height difference for the iron gunners to wave.
The gunners didn't even have a chance to fire, so they could only let the pikemen resist the cavalry. These 1,000 Uesugi Army cavalry were as fierce as the 500 people before, attacking the defense of the more than 300 pikemen of the Junling Preparatory Formation round after round. One
Another spearman fell, but there were fewer and fewer people able to make up the front.
At this moment, Yu Qiu Shang was holding a blood-stained spear and fighting on the front line. After he and his companions stabbed to death an incoming Echigo cavalry again at the cost of two casualties, Yu Qiu Shang could no longer make up for it.
People on the front lines.
"Have the reinforcements from the third company not arrived yet?" Yu Qiu Shang shouted anxiously.
"They were also overwhelmed and couldn't come!" Morita Yoshio laughed dryly and wiped the blood on his neck, "That's the only people around us."
Before he finished speaking, another round of new cavalry attacks came. The shouting Echigo cavalry crashed into the thin spear array as if they were desperate for their lives. Yu Qiu Shang struggled to stab the spear in his hand into the chest of the cavalry.
Kaori then swung sideways, and the general dodged the horse. But at the same time, the knight also swung his sword with all his strength, slashing the ashigaru on Yu Qiu Shang's left and knocking him over in the snow.
The bodies of two people and one horse rolled towards the back of the formation, leaving a mess in the snow.
"Back off! Shorten the front!" Seeing the dwindling number of people and the inability to maintain the original square formation, Yu Qiu Shang had to order the retreat. However, the Uesugi Army's cavalry obviously didn't want to give them a chance to retreat and immediately pounced on them again.
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At the critical moment, a troop stepped up to the front line, temporarily turning the defense line of Junling Bei's First Company from danger. Yu Qiu Shang turned around and saw that the only iron artillery platoon that was originally on standby beside Shui Atomjing had already
He rushed forward with a spear in hand, and then managed to withstand it.
Yu Qiu Shang's Adam's apple squirmed violently, trying to adjust his breathing and prepare for the next wave of impact. The Uesugi Army suffered heavy casualties in the previous attacks. As long as he persisted like this... he could wait for reinforcements.
He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. However, the breath he took deeply froze and did not come out.
In the snow and fog in the northeast, another group of Echigo cavalry, numbering close to a thousand, was seen stepping out. In the formation, there was also a military flag with the word "" in it.
"Five hundred, one thousand five, one thousand five, five hundred, five hundred, one thousand..." Yu Qiu Shang moved his stiff fingers numbly. The blood clots on them made the joints less flexible. He was already calculating.
The number of Uesugi troops appearing on the battlefield is "a total of 5,500 soldiers... The total number of Uesugi troops is probably no more than 10,000. Are more than half of them here... Uesugi Kenshin himself is also here... What about the other units?"
What exactly happened? Why was there no movement? Was it completely wiped out... How is that possible?"
"Young Master." Morita Yaxiang took a breath when he saw this. After his expression changed, he already had an idea in his heart. He patted Yu Qiu Shang's back gently with his hand, "The situation is no longer controllable.
, Young Master is a daughter of a noble family, so I hope you can make plans in advance."
"I don't have any plans." Yu Qiu Shang replied without hesitation, "I am the commander of the first company of Junling Bei, and I am doing my duty, that's all."
Chapter completed!