Ono Ichiro led his deployment of thirty people, brandishing a samurai sword, and rushed forward. He swung it and slashed at him. Seeing that he could not squeeze in, the musketeers hurriedly used their matchlocks to block the samurai sword.
Ono is in his fifties this year. He has practiced this sword for forty years. He tilted his elbow and slashed diagonally along the musket.
One of the hands was cut off directly, and with a shrill scream, he fell down. The warrior behind rushed forward, instead of slashing, he stabbed directly. This was more efficient.
Yang Fan looked at it and nodded. These people are veterans and have rich experience in facing enemies. They know how to be flexible, adapt to local conditions, adapt to the times, and use martial arts flexibly according to the actual situation on the battlefield.
Three teams of more than a hundred people quickly killed the musketeers crowded in front of the door and rushed in.
The musket cannot be fired, so it is better to use a fire stick.
After these people fired the first shot, they immediately panicked when they saw the Japanese pirates rushing up.
In this era, the strength of the musketeers depended on discipline. The British lobster soldiers could line up face to face and shoot three times in a row, then charge with their bayonets raised.
These musketeers were very skilled in loading and firing, but their formation and courage were not good enough. When they saw the Japanese pirates coming up, they got into chaos. What the musketeers feared the most was chaos in the formation. As long as the team was in chaos, they would be killed by cold weapons.
When Ming Dynasty musketeers encountered Jiannu, the situation was generally ten times worse than here.
The blast rate of the musket remained high, the gunpowder was crudely made, and the shooting range was too close. It could not penetrate Jiannu's triple armor from 30 meters away. At this distance, Jiannu's bow and arrow almost hit the eye 78 times out of 10 times.
"Okay! Rush in." Taozi clenched her little fist delicately and waved forward.
This is the first time her soldiers have participated in a large-scale actual battle, and she is very concerned about every small victory of her side.
Yang Fan shook his head and smiled bitterly, where did he go? Li Mansion is the core stronghold of the Donglin Collective in the north, and it is so easy to fight there.
Sure enough, as soon as he rushed towards it, there was a sound of gunshots like exploding beans behind the door. The people who rushed in fell to the ground, and the rest rolled back and crawled out, hiding on both sides of the door.
"Ah! How could it be like this?" Taozi was dumbfounded.
"The commander over there didn't give it in vain. The door was crowded. The commander behind him directly distanced himself and organized a second wave of troops. Your people rushed in too quickly, without carefully observing before rushing in.
So I suffered a loss."
Taozi's distressed heart bled again. The battlefield turned out to be like this. As long as you make a mistake, it will give you feedback immediately. But she also understood that the experience on the battlefield was obtained in exchange for appointments.
Just like the moves of a warrior, they are all acquired by the lives of the seniors. Every move that is good is the result of hundreds of battles.
"Yang Jun, what should I do?" Taozi asked in a low voice, somewhat embarrassed.
"Put the shield soldiers in front, the repeating gun in the middle, and the pikemen in the back. Use the formation I taught you to rush in."
"I understand." Taozi was a little embarrassed. She usually studied hard and talked eloquently. But when she arrived on the battlefield, she became confused. It seemed that she couldn't remember anything, couldn't do anything, and didn't even know where to put her hands and feet.
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Then she issued an order in her native language.
Three phalanx squadrons rushed forward.
The shields used by these soldiers are aluminum alloy shields sold to them by Yang Fan.
The Japanese are too short. If they carry shields, they cannot wield samurai swords. They rely on agility and jumping to fight.
The aluminum alloy shields Yang Fan gave them were several times stronger than steel, but only weighed one-third. The protective area was large. Generally, a team was equipped with ten shield soldiers, ten fire gate gunners, and ten spear soldiers.
The spear is one of the five ancient Japanese weapons (samurai sword, bow and arrow, naginata, spear, and ribs). They don't call it a spear. The spear is called 鑓 (qiǎn) in Japan.
In the early days of Japan, there were no infantry groups fighting, and spears were mainly weapons of the Ezo people.
Before the Kamakura period, the main mode of combat was Ikkidō, in which samurai singled out each other or shot arrows at each other. Finally, they used tachi to fight hand-to-hand.
There is no concept of regiment operations or array operations.
After the Mongols unified China and established the Yuan Dynasty, they crossed the sea from Goryeo (now South Korea) in the northeast and invaded Japan twice to launch the Battle of Bunyong.
Most of the soldiers on the Mongolian side came ashore to fight with spears and spears, while the short Japanese only had weapons such as tachi and pheasant swords to resist them. Because they were too short, the handles were not long, and they suffered a big loss.
Most of their land is narrow, rugged, and mountainous, which is not suitable for large-scale samurai cavalry to carry out galloping operations.
The battle mode also gradually changed from the mounted shooting combat of mounted warriors to the infantry group combat. This is how the Japanese gun developed.
In the hollow square formation that Yang Fan designed for Taozi, the spears still used their 鑓 and 十文字guns. After all, at this time, they had been using their own weapons for more than 300 years, and the weapons they were familiar with were the best.
There is a big difference between Japanese guns and Chinese guns, mainly in the way of installation. The early Chinese long guns, such as beryllium, gallium, etc., had a nail-like structure at the head and tail, which was inserted into the wooden handle, while the Chinese guns were
Covered with wooden handle.
This is the famous difference between the collar and the suit. The wooden handle of the collar is oval and can be chopped, similar to the handle of an axe. The handle of the suit is basically round and can only be stabbed.
After three squadrons and three hundred people rushed in, the samurai from before also rushed in behind.
Yang Fan and others followed and entered the second courtyard from the main entrance.
As Li's servant fired his second shot, smoke filled the inside.
This time, the aluminum alloy shield blocked the musket. After a crackling sound, the servants discovered that the opponent's shield was made of who knows what material it was made of. It looked very big, but those short people used it with no difficulty at all, and it completely blocked it.
There was no lead bullet, not even a dent.
The servants immediately panicked. The three-level formation suddenly became a little confused. Some people wanted to retreat, but were blocked by the leaders, and there was a sudden confusion.
Immediately, the fire gate spearmen behind the shield soldiers of the religious group opened fire.
The nine-shot fire door gun purchased from Yang Fan was sequentially ignited by the fuse on the side of the barrel.
Within thirty meters, this kind of continuous fire door gun has great advantages. Although it is not suitable for long distances, it is very useful for street fighting.
Its fierce bursts of firepower are enough to knock the opponent off their feet.
Bang bang bang!
The musketeer of the Order here shot the barrel empty with nine consecutive rounds.
After a dense barrage of lead bullets, the servants and musketeers were actually wearing armor. They were wearing hoods, which were similar to knee-length vests. The front placket had buttons from top to bottom. It was made of two layers of cotton clips.
Cloth armor with a layer of iron.
The arms and legs were unprotected to facilitate the use of muskets and marching.
Although they all wore armor, the distance was too close, only about 20 meters. Moreover, the fixed ammunition sold by Yang Fan included steel ball bullets.
Generally, when loading ammunition, every two rounds are fired, and the third round is a steel ball bullet to increase the armor-piercing lethality.
After all, the Japanese shogunate army also wore armor. Although only the breastplate was made of iron, some high-ranking samurai and generals used Western-style plate breastplates similar to plate armor.
With the fierce firing of the continuous muskets, the musketeers were directly blinded. They had never seen such fierce firepower. They hit them face to face, exceeding the firepower of the same number of people by nine times. Completely
overwhelmed them.
At the same time, there is a large watchtower in the backyard, built with huge city bricks, Sanhe soil and glutinous rice juice. This watchtower is four stories high, and the top is equivalent to a five-story high. On the parapet at the top, there are groups of
The musketeers were running up.
A man in his fifties who looked like a member of the Communist Party of China was anxiously talking with several generals.
"Sir, the entire mansion is surrounded. It is estimated that more than 3,000 people are here."
"Who are these people and where do they come from," Li Qiutong asked with a trembling voice. Now he is the most senior person in the Li family, the eldest son of Li Sancai, and the current patriarch.
"Sir, I think they are Japanese pirates in their attire. I got news last night that Tianjin has been occupied by Japanese pirates. Everything is in chaos over there. I didn't expect these Japanese pirates to arrive in the suburbs of the capital so quickly."
"Japanese pirates, what should we do?" Li Qiutong was almost scared to death. Japanese pirates, these are not ordinary gangsters. These people kill without blinking an eye. They are simply evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
"Master, we can't hesitate any longer. We can't hold the front any longer. We must immediately evacuate all the family members into the watchtower, withdraw all the servants back, and concentrate on defending the watchtower. Get the Lumi Gun and Turtle Dove Gun. Now the gunfire sounds.
Come, the whole town will know that we have more than 800 men hidden in the shop, and more than a thousand militiamen from the countryside will come."
Li Qiutong said hesitantly: "What to do with the bank? The bank is not under the watchtower. If they find the bank, how will we communicate with the people in the court?"
"The location of the bank is very secret, and the silver is cast into 400 kilograms of silver lumps, commonly known as ghosts. It's not easy for them to find it, and even if they find it, they won't be able to take it away for a while. It's more important to keep the family papers first."
Another family general also echoed: "As long as we persist for one day, there will be five guards in Tongzhou and twelve regiments in the capital, and reinforcements will soon arrive."
Li Qiutong gritted his teeth and made up his mind, saying: "Immediately evacuate all the family documents into the watchtower, open the warehouse, take out all the Lumi guns and turtle dove guns we have hidden in our possession, and fight with them. By the way, we will sell the ones we plan to sell to foreigners."
The tiger crouching cannons and Folan cannons were also brought out. However, there are enough gunpowder tubes. Give me a hard blow, and tell me to go down and kill a Japanese pirate, and I will reward you with ten taels of silver."