Chapter 280: The Sword Points at Japan () to Defeat the Enemy
Faced with the situation of being severely hit and frustrated on all three fronts, the Japanese army retreated one after another. However, the Japanese army's generals and departments knew very well that they could not afford to lose the battle before them, and they must find ways to overcome the difficulties at hand.
However, in the face of objective reality, the Japanese army actually had no good solution. They could only rely on determination and will. So, Inoue's house and Nomura Yu directly led the Kuroda Army's Right Reserve Second Division into battle.
Motoji Goto and Issei Kuroda returned to the main formation. Nomura Yunao showed an encouraging smile and said: "You two have worked hard and gave us a chance to make a contribution. If the firepower of the Ming army has been exhausted by our visit, then we should
I’ll write down my first achievement for you two.”
Kuroda Kazunari could not appreciate the encouragement in these words. Instead, he felt full of sarcasm and ridicule. He replied with a stern face: "Nomura, please stop being sarcastic here. In my opinion, the Ming army has enough ammunition that it is almost unimaginable. The follow-up will be unimaginable."
I don’t know how much more troops there will be, but I’m afraid you won’t even be able to see the Ming army before you have to retreat!
Even if you can rush to the front of the Ming army and come back alive... Huh, don't forget to tell the lord and us how many people there are in this Ming army."
Seeing that he was ungrateful, Nomura Yu's face darkened, and he said indifferently: "Then I'll have to worry about it, but when I come back, I will have brought the enemy general's head to ask for credit, and His Highness's face will look terrible by then.
Don’t look ugly.”
Seeing that the two of them were almost quarreling, Inoue's house said dissatisfiedly: "Don't quarrel! We must be united in the battle, and we must not insult the name of the Kuroda family! We must go all out in every battle. If we can break the formation this time,
It is our wish, but we must not be careless. If we cannot capture Lotus Mountain, the Kuroda family will be ridiculed!"
Goto Motoji sighed: "Your Highness Youemon, the strength of the Ming army is no child's play. Every step we take is extremely difficult. The firepower of this Ming army is continuous, and it may not even be as powerful as the Ming army during the Battle of Hokutokan."
The firepower of the main force of the Liaodong Army is slightly weaker, which is really shocking.
I think this is most likely the main force of the Ming army in the battle, so please be careful. I will also give advice to the lord to see if another plan is needed. Finally, I wish you good military luck and a complete victory this time.
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After Inoue's house thanked him, he and Nomura Yu directly led the second squadron of the Ubei Division to attack.
After the Right Reserve Second Division entered the battle, they did not rush to launch an attack, but faced off on the spot. Inoue Nobosu dispatched another half of his troops as a special force, led by Nomura Yunao, to take a roundabout way and attack sideways to test the weakness and to distract the Ming army.
Attack again.
Nomura Yuzhi led the special forces to march, but after approaching, he was spotted by the lookout post of Ming Dynasty Yang Shanshan's department in the telescope. Yang Shanshan immediately led 600 soldiers to attack. Seeing that the march was exposed, Nomura Yuzhi simply accelerated the march, and then the two armies clashed.
Melee.
This time, because the Japanese army was sneaking up after all, the Ming army only had time to fire two rounds of volleys before they were approached and engaged. It has to be said that although the Japanese army was shorter overall, their close combat abilities were actually pretty good. Nomura Yunao had practiced martial arts since he was a child.
The martial arts elite even killed six or seven people in a row before meeting Yang Shanshan.
Fortunately, Yang Dengden is not easy to get along with. He is also a member of Jiubian Jiangmen. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child and has participated in many battles in recent years. He has good martial arts skills and battle experience.
The two fought against each other for more than ten rounds without a clear winner, but at this time, in terms of the overall strength of the two armies, the Ming army highlighted its equipment advantage - as a direct descendant of the Xuanda Ming army with high pragmatism, in the words of later generations,
The armor coverage rate reached 100%, which allowed the Ming army soldiers to withstand many non-lethal attacks from the Japanese army. They soon gained the upper hand and launched a counterattack.
After being approached, the Ming army temporarily responded to the attack and was able to launch a counterattack very quickly, which caught the Japanese army completely off guard. Although the fighting between the two sides was not long in fact, the Japanese army was already fighting hard. Nomura Yunao saw this and knew to continue fighting.
He was bound to be completely defeated, so he had no choice but to retreat with hatred.
On the other side, Inoue's house heard that the Rangers were fighting with the Ming army, and immediately ordered an attack on the Ming army's position. The artillery continued to drop iron bullets in the Japanese army's formation. At this time, the Japanese army discovered that the projectiles of the Ming army's artillery had not fired.
Bounce is a little better, but if those solid projectiles bounce, it will definitely cause a series of casualties.
Inoue Fang was strictly ordered not to retreat and moved forward desperately, but the firepower of the Ming army was too strong, making it difficult for Inoue Fang to advance. The infantry of the two armies once again formed a firefight, but under the suppression of the Ming army's artillery, the range of the Japanese iron cannon was difficult to reach
Effectively kill the Ming army with "full armor rate".
Although the Japanese army tried their best to avoid the shells, they still suffered a lot of casualties. In addition, not only did their armor penetration rate not match that of the Ming army, but the quality of their armor stomachs was also inferior, which made the casualties even more heavy.
This corresponds to one of Gao Pragmatic's views that he has always insisted on: war is fought for money, and if money is to be spent with better results, it needs to be technologically advanced. In fact, if Gao Pragmatic is given the advantage of the Ming Army,
Seeing it in person, he would feel that it was not particularly big, because this Ming army originally had cavalry dismounted to fight, and they wore cavalry armor.
In fact, this thing is not as good as the armor specially made for infantry. It can basically only protect the upper body, and the thickness is thinner than infantry armor because of the weight of the horse.
However, compared to the Japanese army, such armor is already difficult to deal with - don't think that ordinary Japanese soldiers hold the so-called "Japanese swords" that many people boast about in later generations. Many people's weapons are actually nothing more than
Iron-headed bamboo spears are of this grade.
One more thing, many Guangxi wolf soldiers who had just surrendered to Gao Pragmatic in the early years also used iron-headed bamboo spears for a long time, but their iron-headed bamboo spears were actually far more sophisticated than those of most Japanese troops.
The reason is not complicated. First, the "iron head" of their bamboo spears - that is, the spear tip - is supplied by Jinghua. It is of high quality and has considerable armor-breaking ability. Second, the main body of their bamboo spears is because the local area is rich in tung oil.
It has been extremely strengthened. If you can't deliberately find a very suitable angle to chop, even the Ming army's own Yan Ling Dao will continue to chop, and will only slide or bounce away.
Japan currently has very few resources other than gold and silver, so the Japanese army is far less particular about making bamboo spears. They can only choose better bamboo - which they are not short of - and just process it roughly.
thing.
In this way, the Japanese army's weapons and armor are inferior to those of humans. Although they no longer have to worry about being bombarded after a melee, their close combat ferocity can be brought into play, which is not inferior to that of the Ming army. However, it is a pity that the Ming army's height and strength advantages
If it is offset, then naturally the more you fight, the more passive you will be.
Inoue Nofusa was anxious, hoping that the Rangers could make a breakthrough, but at this moment, he saw that the Rangers were defeated and moved closer to him. Inoue Nofusa sighed deeply, knowing that there was no hope of a breakthrough, so he had to order the entire team to retreat first.
Then Naoyuki Kuroda and Nobuyuki Kiriyama led the Zuobei Second Division and were ordered to attack again. Before the battle, Nobuyuki Kiriyama drank the sake of death with the whole team.
Kiriyama Nobuyuki was both encouraging and threatening, and said loudly: "Go out today, and if you win, you will not fight back! Your bravery will move the gods and will be remembered by the world! The living will enjoy the glory of this life, and the family of the deceased will be protected by His Highness Taige. After reincarnation, he will
For the sake of daimyo, samurai! If anyone is afraid, he will be regarded as a deserter and will be executed immediately! Parents, wives and children will also be punished by sitting together!"
After Kiriyama Nobuyuki gave the order, the entire team expressed their willingness to fight to the end - I don’t know whether it was true or not.
However, even so, the battle situation was still disappointing. Kuroda Naoyuki tried to force a breakthrough three times in a row and almost rushed to the front of the formation, but he already suffered two wounds. He was rescued by Kiriyama Nobuyuki, and the Zuobei 2nd Division was almost completely destroyed.
Upon seeing this, Kuroda Nagamasa sighed: "I see that the firepower of the Ming army is so intensive and repeated. I really don't know how many troops are here. They stand still and just use firearms to kill our troops. Such a battle situation is really a shame for our Kuroda family."
In my opinion, all the firearms of the Ming army should be concentrated at the front of their position. If I can fight hard to capture that place and use the firearms for my own use, even if they have tens of thousands of people, I will be in an invincible position."
Muli Youxin had a sad look on his face and said: "It is still unknown how strong the Ming army is. Just looking at the momentum, it seems that there is a large army in the battle, but I always feel that something is wrong. It is difficult to judge whether it is a conspiracy to suspect the soldiers..."
Kuroda Nagamasa reminded himself to be resolute, so he shook his head and ordered: "No matter what, we must capture this place. Even if the Ming army is several times more powerful than me, seizing the Ming army's firearms can turn the tide of the war.
To retaliate against others in the same way will definitely make their livers and gallbladders split apart! His Highness Xiuyuan will arrive soon, and my father will arrive soon after. Victory will eventually belong to our army! As for now, the reality of this Ming army will be let down.
Let me reveal that the winner of this battle can only be our Kuroda Army!"
Therefore, Kuroda Nagamasa led his own army of three thousand and launched an all-out attack. Perhaps because his lord was in charge, the morale of Kuroda's army soared. They went forward one after another and charged at the risk of death. Kuroda Nagamasa ordered his army to abandon defense and move forward at full speed, regardless of the life or death of others.
, must not be slow and fearful, and order the iron artillery team to be within 70 steps of the Ming army before firing under cover.
The Ming army still responded step by step, with artillery and bows and arrows as usual, but this time they could not completely stop the Japanese advance. Ming general Niu Boying ordered a musket formation to meet the enemy, with one hundred and twenty musketeers forming three rows to shoot alternately, while also
Twenty people were left as a reserve in case there were losses on the front line and there would be no one to replace them.
In addition to muskets, the Ming army also launched a variety of rockets such as Shenji arrow chariots. Rocket firearms were one of the few "old weapons" retained by the Ming army after the high-pragmatic military reform. Not only were most of the types
retained, and even increased research and development efforts, greatly increasing the rewards for the research and development of new rocket weapons.
Of course, in addition to rocket-type weapons, many "thunder"-type firearms were retained in the Ming army's firearms after the military reform, but generally speaking, they were of two types: landmines and sea mines.
Throwing "mine" weapons, except for grenades, those that require the use of equipment to throw have been temporarily shelved due to some technical reasons.
In fact, this is mainly because Gao Pragmatic believes that "long-range bombing" should be the job of artillery and rockets, and if these two weapons can achieve the "bombing" effect, they need professional artillery shells such as "explosive bombs" instead of engaging in
A catapult throws the mines out to explode - with the development of science and technology, the accuracy of the catapult is not much different from that of artillery, but the gap will be too big in the future. Not to mention the catapult itself is too large and too maneuverable.
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Due to these reasons, at this time, there were bursts of fire between the positions, stray bullets were fired, and artillery fired continuously. The Japanese army fought very hard. However, it was not without good news. They found that maybe due to many rounds of consumption, the Ming army's firepower had become obvious.
Weakened, this may be a sign of the Ming army's insufficient inventory of gunpowder and projectiles.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding. There are two main reasons for the weakening of the Ming army's firepower: first, the artillery has fired so many rounds, the barrel has overheated, and the firing speed must be reduced; second, the Ming army's rocket weapons do not have automatic loading machines.
After firing, you need to load them one by one. After shooting the ones that were loaded earlier, you have to load them while shooting.
At this time, the Kuroda Army's main force was within a hundred steps of the Ming Army. Seeing this, Kuroda Nagamasa ordered the iron artillery formation to fire, and at the same time sent a message to each division to launch a general attack.
Seeing the critical situation, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, Jie Sheng, also ordered the entire army to attack. At the same time, he ordered the firearms troops not to interrupt shooting. Niu Boying was worried that if the firearms were not interrupted, it would inevitably hurt his own side. Jie Sheng said: "We need to do it first at the moment.
Hold the line of defense, so it is said to be an attack, but the number of people who can attack is only 600. The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered. We must inflict maximum casualties on the enemy as much as possible. At the same time, it also shows that the main force of the army is here at all times! No need to worry, you are here
Stay in command while Yang Shanshan and I attack to meet the enemy."
The Kuroda Army has launched an all-out general offensive, and the front line has been engaged with the Ming Army. The Ming Army's white pole soldiers have formed a formation to fight against the enemy. These white pole soldiers are worthy of being a famous force in history, especially when fighting and defending in such mountainous and hilly landforms.
The battle was almost one against five.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The two sides fell into a battle, and for a while there was a stalemate. The members of the Kuroda family rushed into the battlefield one after another. The Kuroda family's powerful general Muzato Tomonobu brandished the famous gun "Japan" which was one foot long.
"Hao" (that's really his name) rushed from left to right and attacked right and left, unstoppable, and finally met Mingjiang Jiesheng.
Jie Sheng raised his sword to fight. The two of them each showed off their skills and exchanged for twenty rounds. Jie Sheng gradually found it difficult to block the offensive of Muli Yuxin. In addition, his spear "Japanese" was inch longer and stronger. Jie Sheng's curved weapon in the hands of the Mongolian general
It was very difficult to use the knife, and he was finally stabbed by it and knocked to the ground.
Muzato Tomonobu was overjoyed, and was about to take advantage of the situation to pursue and assassinate him, but was suddenly shot in the right shoulder and leg by a stray soldier. He had no choice but to retreat to his own formation. Kuroda Nagamasa once again inspired his fighting spirit, howling to kill, and the Japanese army became even more murderous.
At the critical juncture, a cavalry force from each side of Kuroda's army came to attack them. Their momentum was swift and powerful, their military appearance was magnificent, and they sent up billows of dust and smoke that shocked the world.
Ming general Pogui led Li Penqiao, and Liu Yujie led nearly two thousand fine cavalry to attack. Unlike the Ming army guarding the defense line just now, many of which were dismounted cavalry, this sudden Ming army cavalry was "professional"
People do professional things."
After the Ming cavalry rushed in from both sides of Kuroda, Kuroda's army was immediately scattered and scattered, and the casualties doubled. Kuroda Nagamasa's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "This is the main force! The Ming army uses this team as bait and is waiting for work.
, strengthened the surprise attack of the special forces, and finally it became a pincer attack. It was a mistake, they were using the woodpecker tactics of Takeda Shingen's military adviser Yamamoto Kansuke!"
Of course, the Ming army didn't know what Woodpecker was. This move was actually used frequently in the Ming army's battles. It was just a typical use of "using the right combination to win with the unexpected".
Kuroda Nagamasa saw that his army had been defeated, and he hastily ordered the entire army to retreat and flee to the rear, intending to meet up with Mouri Hidemoto first. At the same time, he was also faintly worried. The Ming army was actually so prepared in a place like Lotus Mountain, so what would happen to his father?
Didn't the "surprise attack" that the adults expected to have failed before it even started?
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