"run!"

"Back to the camp!"

When this thought and voice appeared in the minds of the shogunate soldiers, suddenly the rumble of horse hooves came from behind them!

If you look down from the sky at this moment, you can see the 600 Ming army cavalry cruising on both sides of the battlefield launching a charge!

The horses in the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion are all more than five feet tall and weigh about 800 kilograms, and are selected and bred military horses.

When Ming troops, who were generally over five feet four inches tall, rode on semi-equipped military horses that were more than five feet tall, armed with weapons and wearing armor and stomachs, they rushed towards them, a feeling of suffocation like a wall instantly filled the air.

"Cavalry block!"

Tokugawa Tadachana tightened his grip and issued military orders in despair. In the face of his military orders, with the sound of wooden whistles, the cavalry on both wings of the shogunate army could only bite the bullet and rush forward.

It was supposed to be a collision between cavalry and cavalry. However, as the distance between the two parties continued to get closer and the Ming soldiers on horseback were not as tall as the Ming soldiers standing on the ground, the collision became a crushing situation.

"put!"

"Beep--"

"Pah, pah, pah—"

When the wooden whistle sounded, the front row of more than 600 cavalrymen raised their right-hand muskets and fired. More than a hundred bullets hit the charge route in less than 20 steps, directly destroying the shogunate cavalry in thin armor.

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The ponies all fell down, and the Japanese pirates fell off their horses one by one, and were harvested by the advancing Ming army using short-hand soldiers.

Like a hard-working farmer waving a sickle in autumn, successive shogunate cavalry fell.

In just one round of volley, the number of shogunate cavalry who fell under the muskets reached as many as a hundred. At this time, the Ming army took advantage of their tall horses and height and strength, swung the golden melon hammer in their hands, and slammed into the flank of the shogunate cavalry.

!

The four-foot-three-inch Japanese pony was knocked to the ground by the over-five-foot war horse. The gap was like the gap between the Tiger tank and the Japanese Betting tank during World War II.

After a charge, more than 800 shogunate cavalry were immediately submerged among the tall horses of the Ming army.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the so-called well-armed shogunate cavalry was completely defeated, and the price paid by the Ming army was only minor injuries to twenty-five people.

"What a joke!

!”

Seeing that the cavalry he was proud of was being dispatched by the Ming army's cavalry, Tokugawa Iemitsu in Kyoto City pulled out the katana at his waist and slashed the tree next to him.

When the Ming cavalry attacked as the final blow, the situation on the entire battlefield quickly became clear.

The Ming army's artillery positions, which were not threatening, continued to activate the Yanshan five-pound artillery, using explosive shells to harvest the shogunate's fleeing infantry.

With this method of bombardment, what use is the cavalry? There is no way they can get through!

Tokugawa Tadanagi, who was coerced into retreating, finally broke away from the defeated troops, but was already dragged to the front of the camp.

Fortunately, although the shogunate soldiers fled, the 800 cavalrymen blocked the Ming army cavalry, causing the infantry to return to the camp and begin to rely on the offensive to counterattack.

Tokugawa Tadanagi, who had no choice but to witness the annihilation of his horse, could only struggle to raise the katana in his hand: "For the glory of the shogunate! Onboard!"

"Boom!"

Just after the words "Long live" were shouted, the Ming army's position was filled with smoke, and a stone bullet hit directly, hitting Tokugawa Tadanagi in an instant, and blood and flesh flew everywhere...

Before the shogunate soldiers who relied on the fortifications and raised their iron cannons to counterattack could react, a steady stream of stone bullets hit the fortress and the head of Kyoto City.

Amidst the sound of "rumbling", six hundred stone bombs continued to pour, which overwhelmed the shogunate infantry hiding in the camp. The casualty rate of nearly 40% made these people almost completely collapse.

When the bombardment ended and the Ming army's infantrymen began to march forward, and when they approached the camp and started firing, the shogunate soldiers in the camp fell one after another.

The constant falling of their comrades caused some shogunate soldiers to collapse, instantly drop their weapons and kneel on the ground, while more shogunate infantry began to run towards Kyoto City behind.

The Ming army's cavalry pursued them on the battlefield, and their cavalry guns harvested the shogunate's infantry one after another.

From beginning to end, the gates of Kyoto were not opened, and the shogunate's infantry on the battlefield were captured and killed.

The corpses of the soldiers who died in battle dyed the entire battlefield land blood red...

When the war outside the city was about to end, as a supervisor of Yan Siqi's existence, Lu Jianxing led the military scribes to write the last line of today's battle report:

"At the end of the battle, our cavalry troops trampled the Japanese formations with four hooves, and harvested the Japanese leaders with blazing guns..."

On the wall of Kyoto, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned pale. The camp outside the city and the entire army of 7,000 shogunate soldiers were annihilated. It only took half an hour from start to finish.

In half an hour, the Ming army was able to completely annihilate the enemy army with three thousand against seven thousand, which forced him to recognize the reality.

It was just that it was too late to recognize the reality at this time. With the loss of the fortress outside the city, the Ming army's artillery moved forward one mile, and then launched a fierce bombardment on Kyoto City.

"Fixed shot loading, target Kyoto City, elevation angle 45, distance 200 steps, ready... release!"

"Bang bang bang——"

The sound of intensive artillery was heard, and the sound of "rumbling" stone bullets hitting the city head was also endless.

Although there are still more than 30,000 shogunate soldiers in Kyoto City, everyone knows that under the artillery of the Ming army, it is only a matter of time before Kyoto City falls.

The Ming army's bombardment went from day to night, and from night to day. Sixteen rounds of bombardment every hour made the shogunate soldiers in the city completely sleepless.

On the third day of the bombardment, gaps appeared in the Kyoto city wall, and large piles of stones building up the city wall collapsed. Tokugawa Iemitsu could only desperately have people repair it.

Six hundred six-pound guns appeared on one battlefield at the same time. This was an intensity of war that was almost unseen throughout Europe during the Thirty Years War.

Faced with such firepower, as time passed little by little, until the first day of February, the Kyoto city wall completely collapsed, leaving many gaps, and more than 3,000 shogunate soldiers in the city were killed.

"The whole army charges!"

"Dongdongdong——"

As more than ten gaps appeared in the city wall, Yan Siqi decisively issued a military order for the entire army to charge.

The beating of drums continued, and the Ming army shouted the slogan "Capture Hou Shuiwei alive" and marched toward Kyoto City.

The moat had long been cut off by the Ming army, and more than half a month of exposure to the sun had made the entire river dry and hard.

Groups of Ming troops rushed into Kyoto City and killed the low-profile shogunate soldiers who tried to block the gap.

Thirty thousand shogunate soldiers were defeated steadily by the offensive of tens of thousands of Ming troops, and they could only try to use iron cannons to stop the Ming troops on the streets of Kyoto.

They were divided into classic horizontal formations, with a total of thirty rows, each of about a hundred people.

The first row held up the iron cannon in their hands, first poured a little gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then poured some gunpowder into the muzzle.

Then the projectiles were inserted and the trigger was pressed. The trigger drove the connecting rod holding the match rope, and the smoldering match rope slowly lowered, igniting the medicine in the medicine pool like a chicken pecking at rice.

"boom……"

Different from the crisp gunfire of the Ming army, the sound of the muskets used by the shogunate soldiers was slightly dull.

Although this kind of matchlock gun imported from the West is worse than the bird musket, it is reflected in the fact that it is not easy to explode the chamber. Its power and range are still not as good as the Ming army's infantry musket, and the rate of fire is far worse.

But after all, the Ming army had just entered the main section of the road and was caught off guard, so thirty or fifty people fell in the direction of the Ming army!

“General on board!

!”

Seeing his side's iron artillery knocking down thirty or fifty Ming troops, Yin Da Zhengzong, who organized the street fighting, shouted excitedly, while the shogunate's iron artillery troops, who had been living a good life, continued to reload ammunition as if they had been beaten to death.

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"Why are they so happy?" Seeing that only thirty or fifty people from his side fell, and since they were more than sixty steps away, many of them could still move, Yan Siqi was confused by the brain circuits of this group of Japanese pirates.

The shogunate's iron cannon Ashigaru achieved certain results, but compared to the Ming Dynasty's results, which knocked down hundreds of people each time, they seemed a bit unbearable.

If war can be simplified into a mathematical problem, then anyone can get the answer to this war through the current casualty exchange ratio, that is, the shogunate soldiers will definitely lose.

When the infantry gunners of the Ming Army arrived at the main street, they began to form six horizontal teams under the command of Yan Siqi, each with a hundred men in a platoon pattern.

"put!"

"Bang...bang...bang——"

The continuous volleys of the Ming army began to counterattack, and the shogunate iron artillery ashigaru was harvested by the rifles. Unlike the shogunate iron artillery ashigaru who stood still, the Ming army's volleys were advancing almost every second.

As the distance between the two parties got closer and closer, every time the Ming army fired their guns, they could take away the lives of a row of hundreds of iron cannon ashigaru.

This scene was seen by the other generals of the shogunate. They knew it well, and naturally they would no longer place their hopes of victory on Tiepao Ashigaru. They blew the clarion call for a general attack.

"Onboard!"

When the Ming army's volley of guns was less than twenty steps away from the iron cannon, some shogunate soldiers hiding on the roof of the house began to shout long live and jumped down, trying to cause damage to the Ming army's infantry gunners.

At the same time, thousands of spear-bearing ashigaru hiding behind the iron gunners also launched a charge!

Their mission was very simple, that is, to rush into the Ming army's infantry musket formation, disrupt their formation, and the best thing would be to completely turn the battle into a hand-to-hand combat and defeat the opposing infantry musketeers.

There is no doubt that their task is difficult, but at this moment they have no retreat.

"Onboard! Onboard!"

Listening to the shouts coming from the mouths of the shogunate soldiers on the opposite side, Yan Siqi also knew in his heart that the shogunate's final blow was about to come.

It's a pity that in front of Bu Gun, everyone is equal...

"put!"

"Pah, pah, pah—"

Contrary to what Yin Da Zhengzong thought, when the shogunate soldiers on the roof jumped into the formation of the Ming army's riflemen, they were killed by the Ming army with swords without even a splash of water.

Gunslingers are not tigers that have lost their teeth. Before they became gunners, they were all elites on the Liaodong battlefield who could kill each other for a whole day with Jianlu.

Facing the shogunate soldiers who were four feet and five inches tall, they were as tall as adults in a kindergarten, killing the shogunate soldiers who fell into the formation one by one.

This group of shogunate soldiers did not cause any damage to the Ming army's formation, but instead came close and sent a batch of heads away.

The rifleman in the front row took over the rifle without being affected and started shooting. The shogunate's spear ashigaru, who thought he could win by getting close to the rifleman of the Ming army, was directly knocked down by the volley of guns.
To be continued...