Chapter 329: Decisive Battle at Ridang Mountain (2)
The Kumamoto Clan and Fukuoka Clan on the western front sent a commando team of 3,000 people, which was two preparations.
"The concentrated use of cannons is really powerful! It's like the earth is shattering." Hosokawa Tadora praised, this is the Shimazu family, other daimyo simply don't have so many royal ships, so they can't gather so many cannons.
The Beihai Navy's position remained silent, not a single shot was fired.
Suddenly, a whistle unique to the Northern Navy sounded in the Sendai Army trenches.
"Iron artillery team, follow me!"
No one said anything. After more than a month, the Northern Navy relied on its super combat power to make the ashigaru of Sendai Domain instinctively believe and obey.
The Tiepao Ashigaru, holding their matchlock guns and led by a Sendai Domain warrior, quickly followed the traffic trench to the west side of the first trench. Here, a platform was dug every one meter, one meter high from the ground.
, and also built the steps.
The Saga Domain's commando force from the north also dispatched. They used a formation with spearmen in front, archery and iron artillery teams in the back, and artillery closely behind.
Nabeshima Harushige wants to take revenge for the battle of Nagasaki. Why did the Thor bombard him in the first place? He will bombard him back today. Before the war started, he threatened to the other three families: "I will eat the flesh of that Zhao!"
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The Shimazu family in the southwest pushed their artillery to a distance of one mile and began to bombard the trenches of the Northern Navy.
The iron artillery team was already in place, and the ashigaru stepped onto the platform and stood up. A samurai waved his military equipment and shouted loudly: "Everyone, step up! Aim at the enemy commando and shoot!"
The thin match ropes on the Ashigaru's muskets were already clamped, the powder caps were opened, and the triggers were pulled together. Smoke rose and the sound of gunshots was loud. The Kumamoto clan's gun team walking in the front let out several screams. The match ropes
If the gun can hit someone at a distance of two or three hundred paces, it is a victory. As for how many kills it can kill, it is hard to say.
After finishing shooting, the Ashigaru turned around and got off the platform, and then followed the general of the iron artillery team to retreat.
Seeing that the response from the Northern Navy position was nothing more than this, the generals in the four vassal coalition forces were immediately relieved.
"What's the use of hiding in a ditch? If you don't form a formation in a battle, I think Tang Yi can only do this without the support of a big ship."
A cannon without wheels cannot be said to be mobile. As the commandos of the four feudal alliances continued to approach, the distance between the front team and the artillery team continued to widen.
A long whistle sounded almost simultaneously on three sides of the position, and the Northern Navy opened fire. Although the gunshots were scattered, they were very accurate, and people in the commandos of the Four Domains continued to fall.
A retainer of the Satsuma clan brandished his sword and shouted: "Go forward! Rush over and kill them!"
There are still two hundred steps left. As long as we work harder, we can break through the enemy. The cavalry in the rear has already been dispatched, trying to outflank the left wing of the North Navy position. We must not give up at this time!
"Hey, it's really boring. Just finish the fight and go home early, that's it." Behind the Northern Navy position, Zhao Xin saw that the enemy's cavalry had been dispatched, so he put down his binoculars and said calmly to Wang Yuanfang beside him: "Let the artillery
let's start."
Wang Yuanfang understood the meaning of Zhao Xin's words, then turned on the walkie-talkie and ordered loudly: "Start!"
The eight anti-aircraft guns had their camouflage nets removed and their muzzles leveled. Following the observer's order, one of the anti-aircraft guns was aimed at the Kumamoto Domain's artillery team.
There is a saying in another time and space, which is called "Anti-aircraft guns fight mosquitoes - overkill for small use." The reason why Zhao Xin said it is boring is because using a weapon designed to fight aircraft to fight infantry is not the same as fighting mosquitoes. But fortunately, I came today."
There are a lot of mosquitoes.
There was a loud "bang" sound, and the Sendai army on the second line of defense was immediately startled.
The sound came from behind them. Many ashigaru stood on tiptoe and looked back. They noticed the eight big things before entering the trenches. The two long gun barrels looked murderous.
Don't bother if you are over 1.4 meters tall. The position of the anti-aircraft gun that fires is on the earthen platform 20 meters away behind them.
It is said that a lot of effort was put into building these platforms a few days ago. Not only did they have to compact the accumulated soil, but also a large number of large stones were carried by the Mala people from the Ridang Mountain in the east to build them on top. Finally, they
It's done after a foot of soil has been tamped down.
Boom! Flames mixed with soil exploded in the Kumamoto Domain artillery team, and twenty ashigaru in one artillery team disappeared from the observer's sight in an instant.
One test shot.
At this moment, Hosokawa Tadora, who was in the Kumamoto Domain's rear line, was startled. Before his subordinates could report the damage, a sharp roar suddenly flashed across the sky, and the right wing of the rear line fifty meters away struck again.
There was a rumble. The flying soil fell from the air into the formation, hitting Hosokawa Tadora's helmet with a rustling sound.
Mortar test firing.
"What kind of weapon can hit so far!" The Fukuoka feudal lord suddenly panicked.
Hosokawa Tadora ordered: "Quickly send someone to check!"
After a while, a more violent roar suddenly came from the sky, and the roar of the falling shells made many people look up.
What's going on? The people behind the four feudal alliances thought.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Before Hosokawa Tadora had time to react, a burst of flames suddenly burst out from the Fukuoka Domain's formation, and a shock wave accompanied by a heat wave hit him, immediately throwing him backwards from his horse.
In front of the two armies' formations, as eight anti-aircraft guns opened fire, the artillery teams of the Four Domains Allied Forces soon suffered heavy casualties. The bronze replicas of the Folan machine were blown up by clusters of flames and rolled and jumped in the air, which were used to make gun mounts.
After the wood splintered and splashed, it became the best helper of the North Navy, harvesting the lives of nearby Ashigaru.
In the trench, the Northern Navy troops huddled on the earthen platform finally opened fire. Countless bullets poured out from rifles and light machine guns. Many of the commandos sent by each vassal fell down in the field. The four vassal coalition forces
The commando team was like a wheat field harvested by a huge scythe, and patches of soldiers fell down.
"Presumably next year the land on the Kokubu Plain will be more fertile because of the blood of these people." Date Murachang murmured.
The cavalry teams sent by the Saga Domain and the Satsuma Domain to outflank and attack looked back and saw the smoke rising one after another in the formation, and they immediately panicked. When more than 2,000 people from the two armies were at a loss, rumbling explosions began to occur in the ranks.
Roaring rages.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The cavalrymen and horses in the center of the explosion were all blown to pieces. The horses were shocked and panicked, and the cavalry teams were in chaos.
The long queue scattered like a flock of chickens being driven away.
Shimazu Shigehao, who walked out of the formation to check the situation, was completely stunned. No matter how loud Komatsu Kiyoka shouted, he didn't hear him. At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind - how could this happen!
This is not a battle, but a unilateral massacre.
Haruyuki Kuroda, who wore the Kuroda family's "Ichinotani-shaped pocket" on his head, finally understood how the Northern Navy captured a foreign mountain castle in one day.
(Ichinotani-shaped Kabuto, the armor of Kuroda Nagamasa. It looks like a big silver plate standing on top of the head, plated with silver foil.)
"Retreat! This battle is lost!"
As soon as Kuroda Haruyuki finished speaking, a cannonball fell in front of him. In the rising fire and splashing soil, Kuroda Haruyuki and the five black shells he was wearing were blown away in all directions.
The Kumamoto clan is going to have an heir again, so let's choose a son from the Hitotsubashi family to adopt...
Not only the four vassal coalition forces, Date Village Tsune and Tamura Murakusa who walked out of the Ridang Mountain Headquarters were excited at first and cheered loudly after seeing the bombardment of the Northern Navy. However, after a while, cold sweat began to break out on their backs.
This scene was something they would never forget. Forty thousand chickens could not be killed so quickly.
(Don’t doubt the chicken metaphor. In the Edo period, neither pigs nor sheep were raised.)
Nabeshima Harushige of the Saga Domain had no time to think about revenge. He was injured again and had a broken leg. Several feudal lords of the Nabeshima family and the Ryuzoji family held the head of the family headless.
He ran north without thinking.
The impact point of the anti-aircraft artillery began to extend towards the rear formation of the four-power coalition forces. Those civilians recruited from the countryside had never seen this. They were all frightened as if they had been cast on a restraining spell. Many people simply lay on the ground with their buttocks raised and tried to
Avoid it this way.
Wang Yuanfang put down the telescope and said to Zhao Xinda: "It's time to charge."
Zhao Xin nodded and immediately issued the order.
Rapid whistles began to ring through the trenches of the Northern Navy again, the light machine guns stopped firing, and the position was like boiling water. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches one after another and began the final "harvesting".
Monk Zhou shouted loudly to his subordinates: "Keep your eyes open! Don't spare any of those wearing strange ancient helmets! Don't let them live!"
"Don't worry!" the platoon leader said and rushed out in a flash.
"Charge! Kill!"
Seeing that the Northern Navy had begun to charge, Date Muratsune immediately gave the order to the Sendai Domain troops: "Assault!"
The Conch whined, and the Sendai clan's men and horses also walked out of the trenches one after another. However, by the time they launched the charge, the Northern Navy had already run several hundred meters away.
Shimazu Shigehao gradually came to his senses, and he shouted to his deputy Komatsu Kiyoka: "Take out all the gold!"
The commander-in-chief gave the order, and Komatsu Qingxiang, who was in charge of the inkstone box and cash box, showed all the gold coins in the box. Shimazu Shigehao got off his horse, pointed to the gold coins wrapped in mulberry paper in the box and said to the surrounding soldiers: "Shimazu
The family has been defeated, so you don’t have to die in battle with me, just divide all this gold and silver and use it as a means of transportation to escape!”
"Come on, Commander-in-Chief!" All the soldiers around him knelt down.
"Hurry up!" Shimazu Shigehao roared loudly, leaned over and took a bag of gold coins and handed it into the hand of a feudal lord.
The North Navy's killing cry was getting closer and closer, and the mortars and anti-aircraft guns stopped firing. The Kumamoto, Fukuoka, and Saga troops all rolled up their flags and abandoned their formations, and began a great rout.
There are really not many people who can compete with the North Navy these days, so the Shimazu family in the southwest became a lone army. Thousands of people were surrounded by a thousand people. Intense rain of bullets sounded from all directions, Shimadzu
The family's army has completely collapsed.
Looking at the approaching Northern Navy, a Shimazu clan servant raised his spear and shouted: "Everyone, who is willing to die in battle with me to repay the Shimazu family's great kindness over the past two hundred years?!"
"I!"
"And I!"
"Count me in."
Shimazu Shigehao burst into tears. If God gave him another chance to choose, he would definitely let Date Shigemura live well.
"Come to the Chief Guard, we'll cover you and fight your way out!"
Shimazu Shigehao sighed, glanced at the soldiers around him and said: "Although a person with ambition can be defeated ten times, he can still achieve his ambition in the last battle. But facing such a powerful enemy, it is really beyond human power!"
The Satsuma samurai are desperate, but most of them still stay where they are. The mountains and rivers are poor, the livelihood is difficult, and now only the face of the samurai is left. In this case, then fight to the death and seek dignity!
The hundred or so people around Shimazu Shigehao decided to make the final charge. They jumped on their horses, chose the northeast direction, and began to advance on horseback. Some of the dispersed remaining soldiers turned around and held guns, and followed the feudal soldiers to advance together.
These people are more suicidal than warriors.
Seeing that the Northern Navy was not far away, a Satsuma clan warrior wearing full uniform and wearing a demon mask rode forward and shouted: "I am a retainer of the Shimazu family. Come into the courtyard Mingya. Who dares to fight with me?"
Duel!"
The only answer he received was the sound of gunfire.
"boom!"
Seeing the samurai in gorgeous military uniform fall from his horse, the soldier of the Northern Navy who fired the gun said with disdain: "Sick!"
At this time, a platoon of Bei Haijun also followed up. Without saying a word, they fired directly at the horseback warriors who rushed over. Those gorgeous armors that could withstand bows and arrows were like paper in front of bullets.
Occasionally, a few long arrows were shot from the crowd, knocking two Northern Marines to the ground. Their angry companions rushed up with bayonets and gave them a violent beating.
"Don't hit the horse! Keep it!"
Not far behind, several Sendai clan cavalry ran over and shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Northern Navy.
A soldier from Henan turned his head and asked, "What did Guisun call him?"
No one paid attention, leaving two people to look after the wounded, while the others rushed towards the place surrounded by a blue curtain.
The dejected Shigehao Shimazu sat on the horse, with his servant next to him.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Back then, the great king Totochi Mikoto (Shimazu Yoshihisa) defeated the Otomo clan in the Battle of Ogawa, and then severely damaged the Ryuzoji clan in the Battle of Okita Bata, Ishima
The Jin clan has just become the 'Guardian of the Three Prefectures', and the roads are in tatters, and it has already been two hundred years in the blink of an eye!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several soldiers from the Northern Navy walked in. Shimazu Shigehao's side servant held a knife in front of his master, glaring at each other angrily.
Shimazu Shigehao smiled and said: "The great head is here, who dares to come and get it?"
"Third brother, what did he say?"
"How the hell do I understand that? I've just learned the phrase '両手で头をEmbrace' these days."
The servant holding the knife was stunned and thought, what is the rule of holding your head with both hands?
Several soldiers were hesitating whether to kill or not kill the two enemies in front of them. There was a sound of footsteps behind them, and several Sendai clan warriors wearing helmets came over.
They first bowed slightly to several Northern Navy soldiers, and when they saw Shimazu Shigego sitting upright in the formation, they all had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"Are you in person, Mr. Chief Shou?"
"It's me!"
Several Sendai clan warriors suddenly beamed with joy.
Shimazu Shigehao didn't want to be a prisoner, so he suddenly shouted in a deep voice: "emon!"
Niinaemon, the side servant, suddenly twisted around and swung his sword. The sharp blade flashed past, and a head with white beard and hair fell to the ground.
A Sendai clan samurai saw Youemon suddenly walking towards him with a sword, and quickly stopped him loudly: "No!"
"Bang! Bang!"
In the headquarters of Ridang Mountain, Wang Yuanfang, who was in contact with the front-line troops, walked up to Zhao Xin and whispered: "Guess who we caught?"
"Shigego Shimazu?"
"There is no news about Shimazu Shigego. It's the daimyo of the Saga Domain. I heard that you injured him in Nagasaki before?"