prosperous age

Chapter 85 Chapter 85
Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

The Chinese civilization, which claims to have a history of 5000 years, has always developed and grown in the baptism of war, and formed its own war thinking very early.

But at this time, because of coming from a long distance and not knowing the details, the Ming army fell into a disadvantage in the first confrontation with the Japanese pirates.

The first Japanese pirates that Anqingwei and Luzhouwei encountered were stabbing with those outrageously long spears. The spears in the hands of the Ming army gunmen had no parents, so naturally they were at a disadvantage. The formation was chaotic.

And at this moment, those Japanese pirates holding Japanese swords also quickly followed up to attack the shield hand, and the pikemen behind the shield hand began to be attacked by the archers in the Japanese pirate formation before they had time to support them.

These days, the real Japanese generally use such weapons. The Japanese sword is good for chopping, the long spear is for long-distance stabbing, and bamboo wood and bow are used for close-range flat shooting.

Whether it is the Ming army or the former dynasty, most of the use of bows and arrows is to concentrate the archers to form a face-to-face attack, and the bows and arrows at close range will only be used by generals and their soldiers.

And most of them are projectiles, pursuing long distances and not paying attention to the so-called aiming. The purpose is nothing more than trying to disrupt the opponent's formation before the battle, and even encounter opponents who are not determined enough to directly shoot down the opponent's impact.

The so-called ten thousand arrows are fired, and the words are not exaggerated. Before firearms were used in large quantities, strong bows and crossbows had always been an important factor in measuring a country's force.

Archers shoot a dozen or twenty arrows in the arrowhead to complete their work, and close combat is not their task.

The archers of the Japanese pirates, although holding bluffing longbows in their hands, are actually not strong in projectile performance. Because of the material, the bows in their hands are more flat shots at a distance of tens of meters.

When the Japanese pirates charged, the few projectiles were just to attract the Ming army archers to open their bows in advance and create chaos in the army formation. This is the time for these Japanese pirate archers to fight. They kept aiming at the more powerful Ming army. The soldiers just shot coldly, and the formation of the Ming army, which was in direct contact with the Japanese pirates, soon collapsed.

Those brave soldiers in the team were shot by Japanese pirate archers, either died on the spot or were seriously injured and unable to fight again, which dealt a greater blow to the low morale. Luzhou Wei's line began to retreat continuously.

The formation of the central army retreated, directly allowing the commanding positions of the guards standing behind the formation to inevitably retreat, and the distance between them and the two wings was widened. Clearance.

"Why is the banner of the guard retreating?"

Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng led their men who were about to join forces with Chuzhou Weihui, which was hundreds of meters away, to complete the encirclement of the Japanese pirates. Although there were still a group of Japanese pirates in the distance, they didn't care much about it at this time, but the encirclement But it started to move backwards. How can this be done?
"The Chinese army didn't hold up?"

Wei Meng said worriedly.

"I can only speed up and catch up."

Wu Zhankui hesitated for a moment and said.

"But those bowl-mouth guns can't keep up."

Thinking of Wei Guangde's suggestion, Wei Meng finally persuaded Wu Zhankui to pick out the bowl-mouth guns from Qianhusuo, and brought out the seven-door guns that looked good, but luck seemed to be better, and he didn't fight Japanese pirates at sea. Naturally, there has been no room for development.

At this moment, these bowl-mouth guns were not only useless, but also slowed down the movement speed of their Qianhu troops.

"not good."

Wu Zhankui turned his head and glanced at the heavy blunderbusses carried by the soldiers behind him, and inadvertently looked at the group of Japanese pirates in the distance. Joined that group.

There were only a few hundred Japanese pirates in the previous group, and now a small group of Japanese pirates has joined, and the number has reached less than 200 people. It's a little dangerous.

Before, I felt that as long as we surrounded the more vicious Japanese pirates in front, those in the back would be nothing to worry about, as long as they could join forces with the right-wing Chuzhou Guards.

But now, Nima, the entire formation has changed, and the Chinese army is constantly retreating, fearing that it will collapse at any time.

And if at this time, the encirclement has not been formed, and the right-wing Chuzhou guards have not joined together, no matter whether the remaining Japanese pirates attack the left army or the right army, the encirclement will be easily broken.

"Call the police to Commander of the Guards, and also report to the Qianhu Office of the rear army to let them leave the brigade and join us. The Japanese pirates behind are probably going to charge."

Seeing the crisis of the situation, Wu Zhankui immediately ordered the soldiers beside him to find the nearest rear army Qianhu Station Qianhu.

He has no right to command other Qianhu offices, so he can only express his worries at the moment, and he has no choice as to how the rear army Qianhu chooses.

"Wankou guns are set up on the spot, loaded with shotguns, the whole army breaks away from the brigade, and the whole team meets the enemy."

While Wu Zhankui asked someone to report to Commander Wei, he also reorganized his team to prepare for the possible impact of the Japanese pirates behind him.

And just as their entire team was completed, the two bands of Japanese pirates joined together and began to attack them.

Wu Zhankui glanced back, the troops of the Qianhu Office of the rear army were still retreating, the distance from them was getting farther and farther, and the speed of retreat seemed to be accelerating.

"Special."

Wu Zhankui cursed angrily in his heart, but there was nothing he could do, the team had already separated from the brigade, and if he wanted to retreat at this time, it would be a complete defeat.

Wei Meng has already run to the front at this moment, and has arranged for the Wankou Gun and Bird Gun players. This time, the strength of the two sides is close. There are more than 200 people on his side, and there are only more than 100 to less than 200 people on the other side. He still has the power to fight.

As long as this Japanese pirate army is defeated, the Japanese pirate brigade trapped in the siege will be able to fight again. Unless he can directly penetrate the Chinese army and break out of the encirclement, he will only be encircled and annihilated, even if he takes his life. The victory of this battle, the current Ming army can still accompany it.

For the generals of the Ming Dynasty at this time, what are the soldiers? That's it.

Those military households, dare not be ordered to report.

Human life, in the eyes of these generals, is really worthless, at least far less valuable than military merit.

Wei Meng in front had already lined up. After all, they had been practicing together all the time. The coordination between the two hundred households was so complete that there was no barrier at all, and it was easy to form an army formation.

After setting up the formation and seeing the Japanese pirates pressing up, Wei Meng naturally would not take the lead, but retreated to the back and stood with Wu Zhankui. As for the command, it was the personal soldiers and the general banners took over.

The general banner is responsible for controlling the soldiers below, and the personal soldiers directly convey their orders.

"One hundred steps to start continuous bombardment."

Wu Zhankui had already understood the tactics of this army. Seeing that Wei Meng had lined up the gunners in five rows, he quickly ordered.

(End of this chapter)