The loud voice of the big speaker was like thunder, and Ling Yunyi had already raised his hand to block his ears. Next to him, Shimazu Yoshihisa opened his mouth wide, but it did not deafen his ears.
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 round, so he chose to cover his ears. When the sound of the artillery stopped, he looked at Shimazu with a strange look and said: "The two armies are racing back and forth in front of the formation. It's so boring."
Already?"
Shimazu Yoshihisa rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer the question. He stood aside blankly, watching the Ming army's big cannon launch round after round.
After five rounds of volleys, the Ming army's artillery ceased firing, and the artillerymen poured water on the barrels to cool them. Since their own barrels could not hit the Ming army, Dayou Zonglin, whose military morale was shaken by 400 rounds of artillery shells, did not waste any effort.
He had already waved the military flag and directed the cavalry on both 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 went straight to the two ends of the I-shaped formation of the Ming army. The distance of five miles was just suitable for the cavalry to rush into the formation. The jogging in the first section could make the horses excited. In the last mile, the horses accelerated, and the lances in their hands were aimed at them.
The quasi-Ming army can just wear sugar-coated haws on a stick - the Ming army is considered too large, and they don't even have horses to resist in front of the formation, 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 handshake 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 replaced by real cavalry instead of horses. Otomo Kahei Yoshihiro Kahei was wearing heavy armor, and with good luck, he rushed within 70 steps, but it took less than five seconds.
Zhong fired another volley of bullets, knocking him off his horse.
It was a maroon horse with a lot of intelligence. It knew that there was no way forward, and after a long neigh, it rushed out of the barrage and ran out of the range of the Ming army's bullets.
Yoshihiro Kahei landed on the ground and took a few steps forward with his waist bent in the direction of the Ming army. His mouth was full of red blood-colored foam, which made him speechless. The flag on his back was dancing in the autumn wind, and then he
Amidst the next row of gunshots, its owner fell to the ground.
Seeing that the cavalry was about to be wiped out, Otomo Sorin issued orders to make the cavalry move left and right to withdraw. But the speed had already increased. The high-speed cavalry either passed through the transparent military formation or met death in the barrage. Most of the cavalry
There was no third way to go, and only a few people in the back row could turn their horses' heads and flee toward the battlefield.
In response to the all-encompassing pressure of the friendly forces, after a period of cooling down, the Ming army's artillery roared again. This time, the bombs were fired - there was a small hole in the projectile body with a fuse inserted. When firing, the fuse
It is ignited by the gunpowder gas in the chamber. After being ejected, the fuse continues to burn until it burns out and ignites the gunpowder inside to cause 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 big 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 could not say anything. He also had an iron artillery team with a large number of people - more than 800 people. But compared with the Ming army, his own iron artillery team
One face-to-face encounter would result in no bones left, he was extremely sure of this now.
What's the point of studying the art of war? A war is won by coincidence and by surprise. With this kind of firepower output, there is no room for war tactics between battle formations. The muscles in Shimazu Yoshihisa's cheeks twitched and he looked sympathetically towards his right wing.
——To offer his last words of mercy to the famous Kyushu art of war master Tachibana Michyuki.
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 was not until the Ming army began to advance that he figured out that because the two sides were too far apart, although Otomo's army suffered a large number of casualties caused by Otomo,
But until now, I have not 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 out, ran close to the Ming army, and fired a round of bullets - only one round, causing fifteen people in the Ming army to be shot. Then it was clear that
The army's nearly continuous attacks quickly defeated Otomo Sorin'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. Michizuki once studied the complicated movements of iron cannons before firing and invented the method of mixing ammunition and projectiles.
The "Morning" method is to put the dose of one shot into a special bamboo tube. Back up many mixed bamboo tubes and connect them with straw ropes to form a string and hang them on your shoulders. When using, one shot is poured together.
Using gunpowder and projectiles, the shooting step is omitted and the shooting speed is greatly increased.
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 has already practiced proficiently, the entire Japanese iron artillery army still has differences in tactics. Moreover, there are many differences in the quality of muskets and ammunition, the severity of training, etc.
There is a larger gap in the construction of firearms armies.
I saw the Ming army approaching in a straight line, each standing round firing incomparably, and the hit rate was more than ten times higher than that of the Dayo Iron Artillery Corps in the musket era. Before two rounds were completed, the soldiers of the Dayo Iron Artillery Corps could no longer withstand this
A "nose-to-nose" queuing and shooting style, then turn around and run away.
The iron artillery team retreated back, and Dayou Zonglin's entire army was shaken. Before the Ming army could reach within the firing range of its Wanli Type 14, sheep were already herding on the opposite side of the battlefield. All Dayou's troops turned back and headed towards
They ran to Tachibanayama Castle, which was their only hope of survival.
When the entire army was halfway through the march, Kobayakawa Takakage ordered the entire army to turn right and leave the battlefield. At this time, he lowered all his 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.
.......
Because of the timely rescue by the military medical team, all fifteen shot soldiers died and three of them died - the Ming army fought a crushing war with nearly zero casualties in Kyushu, Japan. This war accelerated mankind into the age of firearms, and
It left a profound mark in the history of world military affairs.
The "Battle of Tachibana Castle" started from the first shell fired by the Ming army. It only took half an hour. Otomo Sorin and the Maori allied forces were defeated across the board, with no casualties. Shimazu Yoshihisa, who followed behind, also made countless gains, so that later generations
The Japanese mocked him as "The Thief Shimazu".
More than ten important ministers and generals including Manda Kanmi, one of Otomo Sorin's subordinates, were killed in the battle, and their heads were taken by the thief Shimazu's generals. In order to protect Otomo Sorin, Tachibana Michyuki fought to the death with the Shimadzu family Kakukane Ue.
Due to lack of physical strength, he was beheaded by Kakukan Kamei. Otomo Sorin endured the severe pain in his heart and fled back to Tachibanayama Castle. He raised the city gate and tried to resist.
After the coalition forces of Ling Yunyi and Shimazu cleaned up the battlefield, they picked up all the solid cannonballs and asked the craftsmen accompanying the army to polish them smooth again. The army approached Tachibanayama Castle in a hurry, and the eighty large cannons still took turns to speak, 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. When he was helpless, Tachibana Michizuki's daughter Tachibana Chiyo
He took the initiative to ask for help and prepared to go to the Ming army camp to meet with Ling Yunyi and beg him to give his friend a way out - after all, for the Ming Dynasty, it was meaningless to kill all his friends. As long as Dayou could hand over heavyweight heads, Ling Yunyi could be saved.
Just give an explanation for the Ningbo Rebellion.