Wanli Xinming

Chapter 290 Rolling
Datong's speech sounded like thunder, and Ling Yunyi raised his hand to plug his ears.Shimazu Yoshihisa on the side opened his mouth wide, but he didn't deaf his ears.

Pointing to the cannons that were already firing, he asked, "Does this barrel go this far?"

Ling Yunyi had received confidential training many times, and he didn't want to talk to him about the technical secrets of the Ming army. He just nodded and said with a smile, "If the Great Friendship Army doesn't retreat, it will come to attack me."

Shimadzu asked dumbly again, "Aren't you going to call the battle before the battle, or do you have a parade to boost morale?"

Ling Yunyi was about to answer, but the Ming army's artillery fired another salvo, so he chose to cover his ears.When the gunfire stopped, he glanced at Shimadzu with strange eyes, and said, "The two armies are running back and forth in front of the formation, are you tired of living?"

Shimadzu Yoshihisa rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer.Mu Dazedly stood aside, watching the Ming army's big barrels launch round after round.

After five salvos, the Ming artillery ceased fire, and artillerymen poured water on the barrels to cool them.Because his own big barrel could not hit the Ming army, Zonglin, the great friend of the army who was hit by [-] shells, didn't bother.He had already waved the flag and commanded the cavalry on both wings to rush into the formation. At this time, the front of the sword was pointing, the snare drum and snails were making a great effort, the middle army and the left and right wings came out, and the major phalanxes approached the Ming army together.

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 is just right for the cavalry to rush into the formation. The first jog can excite the horses, and the last mile can speed up the horses. Just point the spear in the hand of the Ming army and wear the candied haws. There are no horses, let alone spearmen to restrain cavalry.

If these cavalrymen can watch the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided army against the Mongolian cavalry around the fifth year of Wanli, they can still understand the tactics at that time - the Ming army carried spears at that time, and there are iron hooks near the handshake, which is convenient for muskets The soldier erected his spear and aimed his musket on the hook.

However, it has been the 12th year of Wanli, and Japan in this time and space will experience the first dimensionality reduction blow.

In the face of the cavalry coming from the gallop, the tiger squat guns arrayed at both ends of the big formation first fired a shower of bullets, and then the musketeers turned in six rounds, drawing an insurmountable moat seventy paces away!
Just like the recurrence of the Saihanba military exercise, the target was changed from horses to genuine cavalry.Otomo's tiger general, Yoshihiro Kabei, was wearing heavy armor. Fortunately, he rushed within seventy steps, but in less than five seconds, another row of bullets knocked him off his horse.

It was a jujube red horse. It was quite spiritual. Knowing that it could not walk ahead, it sprinted out in the interval of the barrage after a long neigh, and ran out of the coverage of Ming army bullets.

The grounded Yoshihiro Kabei bowed forward and took a few steps in the direction of the Ming army. The blood-colored foam in his mouth made him unable to say a word. The flag on his back was hunting and dancing in the autumn wind. It fell to the ground following its owner in the next row of gunfire.

The great friend Zonglin saw that the cavalry was about to be destroyed, and he issued orders to let the cavalry move left and right to withdraw.But the speed has soared. The high-speed cavalry will either wear through the transparent army formation or meet death in the barrage. Most cavalry have no third way to go, only a few in the back row can turn their horses and head towards the battlefield. flee.

In response to the pressure of the Great Friends Army, after a period of cooling down, the Ming army's artillery roared again. This time, the bomb was fired - there was a small hole in the projectile body, and a fuse was inserted.During firing, the fuse is ignited by the gunpowder gas in the chamber.After being shot, the fuse continues to burn until it burns out and ignites the internal gunpowder to cause an explosion.

Although after many improvements, only [-]% of Daming's flowering bombs can explode, and the power of explosives is not comparable to that of later generations, but for the entire Japanese army at this time, this power is more than enough.

Accompanied by the explosion of the cannonballs in the Great Friendship Army's formation, the Ming Army's central army pointed in front of the banner with the character "Ling", the big drum thumped, accompanied by the sound of small drums in the army column, and the Ming Army marched neatly towards the Great Friendship Army. go ahead.

Shimadzu Yoshihisa who was standing beside Ling Yunyi was still dumbfounded, unable to say anything.He also has an iron cannon team, which is quite a number-more than 800 people.But compared with the Ming army, his own Iron Cannon team will surely lose all their bones in a face-to-face encounter. He is now very sure of this.

What's the use of this method of warfare?The war is won by coincidence and odd victory.With this kind of firepower output, there is no room for tactics between battle formations.Shimadzu Yoshihisa's cheek muscles twitched, and he looked sympathetically towards his right wing - offering his last sympathy to Tachibana Doyuki, a famous master of the art of war in Kyushu.

Up to now, the Ming army has had zero casualties, and the phalanx of the great friend Zonglin has been scattered, with more than half of the casualties, and the cavalry is almost wiped out.

After cleaning up his feelings, Shimazu Yoshihisa began to wonder why the troops of the great friend Zonglin hadn't collapsed.It was not until the Ming army began to advance that he realized that, because the two sides were too far apart, although the Great Friendship Army suffered a large number of casualties caused by the large barrel, it has not yet faced the dense curtain of bullets.

Otomo Zonglin's last effort was to send out his own iron artillery team, a phalanx of 1000 people went out, ran close to the Ming army and fired a round of bullets-only one round, causing 15 Ming soldiers to be shot.Immediately afterwards, the Ming army quickly defeated Otomo Zonglin's iron artillery team with almost no interval rounds.

In fact, when it comes to the rapid firing of iron cannons, the Otomo family iron artillery team trained by Tachibana Doyuki is more advanced than the Oda Army.Daoxue once did research on the complicated movements of the iron gun before firing, and invented the method of "zao 込", which is to mix the ammunition and projectiles for one shot, and then put them into a special bamboo tube, and back up many mixed bamboo tubes. It is then linked with straw ropes and hung on the shoulders. When using it, a shot of gunpowder and projectiles are poured together, and the shooting step is omitted and the shooting speed is greatly increased.

Under the guidance of the Portuguese, the Oda family later learned the three-stage round attack method, which was soon learned by others, and the strength of the well-trained Otomo family iron artillery team was still higher than that of the Oda family.

However, compared with the well-practiced "line-up shooting and rotation method with artillery coordination", the entire Japanese iron artillery army still has a generational difference in tactics.Moreover, there is a bigger gap in the construction of firearms, the quality of muskets and ammunition, the severity of training, and many other firearms.

I saw that the Ming army was approaching with a straight line, and every time the standing round shot was extremely neat, the hit rate was ten times higher than that of the Otomo iron artillery team in the era of muskets.Before the two rounds were finished, the soldiers of the Otomo Iron Artillery Team could no longer bear this "nose-tip-to-nose" style of lining up and shooting, and turned around and fled.

The iron artillery team retreated, and the entire army of the great friend Zonglin was shaken. Before the brigade of the Ming army came within the range of their own Wanli XIV, the sheep had already been herded on the opposite side of the battlefield.All the Otomo's troops turned back and ran towards Tachibana Mountain City, where they had their only hope of surviving.

When the whole army was halfway through, Takashi Kobayakawa ordered the group to turn right and left the battlefield. At this time, he lowered his various flags and ran faster and faster, and the rear army had begun to disperse.

Seeing this, Shimazu Yoshihisa swallowed and said, "My army is also idle, can I pursue it?"

Ling Yunyi laughed and said: "That's the best, I'll let the children rest - we'll be half the spoils."

Shimadzu Yoshihisa blushed and shouted, "Let's pick up ready-made loot? It's all yours!"

After he finished speaking, he ran back to the main formation on horseback, directed his army to divide into two teams, and followed Kobayakawa Takashi and Ohyoujun to chop melons and vegetables.

Because of the timely assistance of the military medical team, all fifteen shot soldiers died and three of them died. The Ming army fought a crushing war with almost zero casualties in Kyushu, Japan.This war accelerated mankind to the age of firearms, and left a deep impression on the military history of the world.

The "Battle of Tachibana City" started from the first shell of the Ming army. It only took half an hour. The Great Friends Zonglin and the Maori coalition had been defeated across the board, and the casualties were not counted.Yoshihisa Shimadzu has also made countless achievements after picking up leaks, so that the Japanese in later generations mocked him as "the thief Shimadzu".

More than ten important officials and generals including Wan Tian Jianshi under the command of the Great Friends Zonglin were all killed in the battle, and their heads were taken by the generals of the thief Shimadzu.In order to protect the great friend Zonglin, Tachibana Doxue fought to the death with the Shimadzu family Kagei Kamui, and finally was beheaded by Kagei Kaneki due to lack of physical strength.The great friend Zonglin held back the pain in his heart and fled back to Tachibana Mountain City, raising the city gate to resist.

After Ling Yunyi and the Shimadzu allied forces cleaned the battlefield, they picked up all the solid shells and let the artisans with the army polish them smooth again.The army approached Tachibana Mountain City calmly, and the [-]-door large tube still took turns to speak, so that everyone understood that the city's fall was in the blink of an eye.

On October [-]th, the main gate of Lihuashan City was smashed by artillery, and the wall above the gate also collapsed in a large area, and the great friend Zonglin fell into complete despair.When he was at a loss, Tachibana Chiyo, the daughter of Tachibana Daoxue, took the initiative to invite Ying, and was going to the Ming army camp to meet Ling Yunyi and beg him to enlarge his friend's family. , as long as the big friend can hand over the heavyweight head, so that Ling Yunyi can explain the Ningbo chaos.

(End of this chapter)