The attackers this time were 100 ronin samurai from the Japanese town of Manila, and 200 ordinary Japanese armed with bamboo spears, Japanese swords and even daggers. Their costumes were really pitiful: only the leading Japanese ronin who believed in Christianity were protected by armor.
The rest of the ronin samurai only had bamboo armor. The equipment of the rest of the Japanese was very messy, even worse than the Ashigaru soldiers, a ragtag group of farmers in Japan. At this time, the "Ashigaru" were not an army in Japan's civil war.
The key components, treatment and equipment conditions are very poor, but the Japanese who are entering the Dalun Mountain Pass are even more unsightly, and their morale is even worse than that of the Chinese soldiers in the early stages of this Chinese uprising.
The Japanese team entered the valley entrance in chaos, with two Spanish army sergeants supervising the formation at the back. The leader of the ronin, Ogawaemon, the mayor of Nihonmachi, was in the front row, hunched over and walking forward cautiously, with his left hand
Holding a shield and holding a Japanese sword in his right hand. He actually just became the leader of Nihon Town. When his predecessor was performing the task of beheading hundreds of Chinese businessmen by the Pasig River, he was attacked by the musketeers and pirates commanded by Yin Feng.
During the gang's surprise attack, he was immediately killed by musket bullets.
Ogawaemon reluctantly became the mayor, and just wanted to make a fortune in Balian, but the Chinese burned the Chinese district of Balian and themselves to ashes. He failed to make a fortune and even borrowed a lot of money.
The loss of lives was enough to make the Japanese frustrated; but the Spaniards also forced the Japanese towns to send people to hunt down the Chinese rebels.
The temporarily recruited Japanese troops traveled for three consecutive days and arrived at the mountain pass this morning. Before Ogawaemon could even take a breath, he was called to the tent by Captain Piragón of the Spanish army.
Although the Spanish army's four four-pound bronze cannons have been transported to the camp, the terrain of the mountain pass is narrow, and how to use artillery fire to cover the infantry attack is a problem. Captain Billagon did not have time to wait for the method of using artillery fire to be considered before attacking.
He forced Ogawaemon to lead an attack immediately. His consideration was to first consume the ammunition of the physiological men guarding the mountain, and then rely on firepower and troop superiority to capture the mountain pass. The previous attacks have proved that the physiological men guarding the mountain pass are a strong force.
An army, an army that has combat effectiveness and knows how to fight. In terms of weapons and equipment, although the number of physiological musketeers is not large, in the narrow terrain of the valley, it is enough to block the entire valley with firepower.
Now Captain Billagon and other Spanish officers have been able to determine that the musketeers in the mountain pass should be the team of musketeers that has always been shrouded in mystery.
At present, most of the Japanese troops have poured into the mountain pass, but there is no movement behind the parapet of the hillside in the distance.
Ogawaemon was a little hesitant, but the other ronin warriors around him still walked forward carelessly. However, the further they walked, the stronger the smell of blood became, and there were more and more corpses on the ground. The Spaniards were too busy.
, only told the Japanese that there were more than 200 Chinese in the valley, but did not tell them at all: the mountain pass was guarded by a Chinese army with matchlock guns - called iron guns by the Japanese and bird guns by the Chinese - and had simple field fortifications.
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Now, the Japanese have reached the middle of the valley, only 100 steps away from the parapet fortifications. The valley as far as the eye can see is filled with corpses of indigenous soldiers. In some places, the corpses are piled up in layers as high as half a person. Countless flies are lingering around.
Flying over the bloody corpses everywhere, flying on the red liquid formed by blood. Now is the time when the sun is the strongest at noon, and all the Japanese who enter the valley are choked by the smell of blood that makes them unable to breathe. Hell.
The miserable scene inside was nothing more than that. The careless and battle-experienced rogues also bent down, their faces heavy and their steps hesitant. All the Japanese felt that something was wrong, and what the Spaniards had forced on them seemed to be
A mission to hell.
A wooden fence blocks the front, about 50 steps away from the parapet fortifications on the hillside. There are piles of corpses half a man high, and the corpses of many indigenous soldiers are hung on the wooden fence. And further up the hillside, within 50 steps
The mountain road was clean and there was not a single body.
Ogawaemon suddenly shuddered, and his heart suddenly tightened: Could it be that even with so many native soldiers dead, no one could rush to the parapet?
Behind the parapet on the hillside, there was still no movement.
Ogawaemon stopped in front of the fence, looked around, and ordered: "Nakata-kun, take someone to push this fence aside."
Nakata was a thin and small ronin samurai. He ordered dozens of Japanese to clean up the corpses in front and behind the fence.
Ogawa had been staring at the motionless hillside, nervously wiping the sweat from his head. At this moment, due to the obstruction of corpses on the ground, the Japanese team was scattered in the valley, completely becoming a sparse mob - although,
They were originally a mob.
Suddenly, the long sound of the Conch sounded throughout the valley, and everyone stopped moving and looked around nervously.
In front of the parapet fortifications, a tall Chinese man appeared on the dismantled four-wheel truck, holding a musket and shouting something loudly.
When Yin Feng suddenly appeared, all the Japanese were completely unaware of what could be done. Everyone looked at each other, and no one thought that they could shoot an arrow at this man. Ogawaemon asked the people around him: "Who understands him?"
What are you talking about?"
At that time, Chinese, especially Hokkien, Cantonese and other dialects, were the common commercial languages in East Asia, and many Japanese people could understand them. At that moment, a ronin warrior quietly translated to Ogawa: "That person said, we are required to surrender immediately, otherwise we will be killed."
Kill without mercy, leave no one alive..."
"What! Eighth!" Ogawaemon cursed angrily, raised his Japanese sword, and shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, we can't lose the face of the Japanese samurai, charge!"
He just finished shouting this sentence, "Whoosh!" "Plop!" More than ten arrows fell from the sky, all aimed at Ogawaemon: He just raised his sword and shouted, which just exposed his identity as the commander. On the left
Magaro on the top of the cliff fired his arrow decisively, and the 15 members of the archery team released their bow strings at the same time. The target of the arrow was Ogawa-kun, the head of the Japanese town. Poor Ogawaemon took over as the head of the town just a few days ago.
He was shot in the head and back by eight arrows at the North Pass of Dalun Mountain. An arrow protruded from his throat. He vomited blood and fell forward without saying a word.
The surrounding robbers were shocked and turned to both sides. They looked up and saw that on a cliff more than 50 meters high, a group of Chinese archers had already released a second round of arrows.
"Bang!" Yin Feng on the cart took aim with his gun and fired the first shot. The target was the ronin warrior Nakata who ordered everyone to push the fence. The bullet whizzed away and hit Nakata who was in a daze on the right shoulder. He yelled
, his body tilted and he knelt down in front of the fence.
Yin Feng shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly: "There are only fifty steps. You can't kill him yet. You need to practice more!"
Following Yin Feng's shot, all the members of the musketry team stood up and began to sweep the entire valley with a continuous barrage of bullets. The archers on the cliff also continued to shoot at the Japanese team from above.
The already demoralized and exhausted Japanese were completely in chaos. Some were looking for a place to hide from the hail of arrows and bullets, some turned around and fled out of the mountain pass, and some lay on the ground holding their heads and waiting to die. All standing
The ronin in front of the fence were all knocked down by bullets after a few rounds of shooting, and the Japanese warriors did not even have a chance to launch a charge.
While the musketeers started shooting, the soldiers of the musketeers, under the command of Coutre, climbed over the parapet, climbed up the pit, and began to move forward along the foot of the mountain. After firing several rounds of bullets, the musketeers stopped shooting.
They also began to climb over the parapet and attack. The archery team on the cliff turned their shooting direction to the mountain pass to intercept the Japanese who were trying to escape from the mountain pass.
When the musketeers stopped shooting, the pike team quickly passed through the open space 50 paces away, passed the wooden fence that the Japanese had pushed open, and began to line up on the mountain road; the impatient soldiers had already ignored the formation and rushed forward to assassinate the Japanese. Because
With arrows constantly shooting from above their heads, the Japanese tried their best to squeeze towards the foot of the mountain on the left, hoping to hide in the blind spot where bows and arrows could shoot. The Chinese spear team poked their butts and drove them towards the foot of the mountain on the left.
The bamboo spear Yin Feng asked to make was much longer than the Japanese. The Spanish spear was also longer than the Japanese bamboo spear. The Chinese's dense spears could kill the Japanese, but the Japanese Japanese swords and bamboo spears could not do it at all.
fight back.
A ronin fought back desperately and chopped off the head of the enemy's bamboo spear with one knife. The problem was that the bamboo branch was cut off at one end, but it was just a short length, and could still be stabbed to death. So the ronin was killed by three bamboo spears.
Stabbed to death.
The Japanese, who had no fighting spirit, were completely in a passive state of being beaten. Some of the quick legs and feet had already escaped the arrows fired above their heads, and escaped from the mountain pass, abandoning everything and running away.
Many Japanese were shot to death by arrows near the mountain pass. Some Japanese archers also wanted to fight back. The problem is that the cliff is 50 meters high, which has long exceeded the height of many city walls in Japan. The arrows they shot reached this
The altitude has become exhausted and is basically useless.
At this time, the Japanese had not yet become the militaristic lunatics they would become during World War II, and no one wanted to die in vain.
The spear team was addicted to assassinating, and the conch horn sounded again. The Chinese people in the spear team reluctantly retreated to the cliff on the right. The more than 100 Japanese who survived fell to the ground and stood up, at a loss.
Suddenly, they saw the musketeers lined up in a neat queue on the mountain road, with the muzzles of the muskets pointed directly at them in the dark hole.
A Japanese jumped out and shouted in Chinese sternly: "Stop fighting, we surrender!"
"Bang!" This guy was killed on the spot by Yin Feng with his favorite revolver. Yin Feng had long lost his sense of killing, especially when dealing with Japanese pirates. In the past few years, he had killed many Japanese pirates at sea with his own hands.
Already.
Following the sound of his gun, the musketeers also began to fire, bullets flying across the cliffs, mopping up any Japanese who could still move.
When the two rows of musketeers exchanged positions and fired rounds, even though it was only a few seconds, some Japanese still took the time to shout: "We surrender, stop fighting!"
They were answered with ruthless bullets. Yin Feng sneered and said to himself: "Didn't I ask you to surrender just now? Who made you unwilling? You can't blame me for this, you asked for it."
The last 100 or so Japanese were shot to death almost without any resistance. Of the 300 Japanese who entered the mountain pass, only about 100 were able to escape.