My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 483 New Battle of Tsushima Island

bang bang bang-

On the coastline, thirty iron cannons fired at the side of the ship. The sound that erupted reached its peak in an instant. Thirty iron bullets flew high in the sky, across a long arc, and passed over the rushing crowds and beaches below. .

Then, he swooped down and slammed into the crowd. The Japanese who was hit first was smashed to pieces with his head and shoulders. The flying pieces of flesh and bones hung on the surrounding Japanese soldiers like a rain curtain. face.

In this world, the power of iron cannons is not great, and there is no devastating blow. However, the terrifying effect of iron bullets hitting people is frightening and has a huge deterrent effect.

This point was already reflected when they attacked the Wu Kingdom. However, this time, the iron bullets hit the crowd and the blood wave caused did not frighten the Japanese who formed the formation.

At this time, the two thousand Japanese who came first looked fanatical. Even though they were short in stature, they were not afraid of the Xia soldiers rushing towards the beach. They were ordinary Japanese recruited, wearing simple clothes and hats. Armed with bamboo spears, they are also often referred to as the Ashigaru team. They practice daily to defend and maintain their formation under attack.

Bamboo spears were raised "squeaking" downwards, forming a forest of spears. At the same time, another arching team quickly stepped forward, kneeling on both sides of the Qingzu team in two rows, and stretched out toward the coast. Bow action.

The bows and arrows they hold are called Fu Bamboo Bows. Most of the trees in the archipelago are used to build boats. In order to save wood, green bamboo is used as a supplement. The bows are made of Cochin wood, which is common on the islands, and a layer of bamboo is attached to the outside of the bow body, hence the name. For Fuzhu.

The bamboo slices above are generally dried, and the bamboo slices and wood are bonded together with glue. The glue is extracted from animal skins and fish offal, and the bonding effect is very good.

However, the bow string is much worse. In the past three years, Su Chen adopted a ban on Japanese islands. He could only obtain very few cattle, sheep and other items. He could only rely on trade with some island countries in the south, but the quantity was not large, so in Japan The archers on the island are precious, but the range of their bows cannot be underestimated.

Thousands of people were running, and thousands of arrows were shooting into the sky. This kind of long bow used by infantry has a heavy bow and a long range. The Japanese army formation in front was instantly covered with dense arrows.

The shouts were overwhelming. On the opposite side was a Japanese position of two thousand people, divided into two square formations. Although the iron bullets and arrows did not suppress the opponent's morale, as a veteran Xia army, they were even more fierce against such an enemy.

At this time, the voices of the two thousand Japanese soldiers were noisy, and all kinds of Japanese language came and went. Looking at the Xia army that was equally enthusiastic and excited, each team of Light Foot Heads shouted and yelled. At this moment, Light Foot General Daxiong Chaoxiu was on the way to help, At the moment, they can only hold back the Xia people who landed.

On the opposite side, one of the elite troops of the Xia Kingdom was an old army. Each Tang Army soldier had a shield on his body. They often practiced using different weapons. When the arrow rain came over, the Tang Army soldiers ran out of an S shape and held their shields in their hands. Hold a leather shield over your head, or find shelter on a nearby rock.

"kill"

Mixed in among them were archers who had replaced their guns with crossbows, throwing arrows into the sky as they walked, suppressing the opponent's array.

"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow!"

In an instant, the soldiers of the Tang army, whether they were rushing onto the beach or running through the water, were shouting. While shouting, they held their shields and exerted their strength, and then formed a small formation. Cheng Yaojin and Li Xuanba rushed to the coast. While running wildly, teams suddenly gathered together, and the sound of footsteps was as angry as a tide in an instant, trampling the ground along the long line.

The Qingzu Xiaotou in the Japanese array, even though they were fanatical, looked at this scene with wide eyes in disbelief. They were ferocious, but seeing such a well-trained Xia army, they had no idea what the battle would be like after the contact. Somewhat frightened.

In front of the running array, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who turned into infantry shields pressed against the shields and faced the arrows that were fired at them. They kept moving forward, covering the comrades who turned into spearmen behind them. In an instant, they turned into a shield formation and a forest of spears. .

The ashigaru head shouted for the infantry team to raise their shields to protect their companions.

Looking at the troops and horses of the Xia Kingdom pushing in, they found that the opponent's number was about 20,000, which was ten times more than his own. It stands to reason that the effect of the arrows shot would be great. However, only sparse blood splashed in the advancing crowd. .

Thick crowds of people were running around, forming formations nearby. Then, Cheng Yaojin jumped out of the cabin, brandishing his axe: "Japanese, your Grandpa Cheng is here!"

When the Xia soldiers rushed over in dense numbers on the beach, their arrows flew away from their strings, flying into the sky like a rain of locust arrows, and flew away in a black mass.

Then there was a crackling sound, and countless arrows hit the upturned wooden shield densely, nailing it like a hedgehog. But in the two thousand Ashigaru team, the number of infantry was the same as that of the archers. The number was smaller. In the first round of arrow rain, there were hundreds of casualties, and countless blood spattered in the crowd.

Among the Tang troops gathered in formation, generals and commanders at all levels were shouting: "Tear these monkeys to pieces!"

Boom boom boom!

The sound of dense footsteps spread, Li Xuanba rushed onto the beach, his voice sounded like thunder: "Gather the formation!" After a breath, his shouts rose again: "Destroy the enemy!"

The moment the rain of arrows fell, some people screamed and fell to the ground, rolling in the sea holding the part where the arrow was hit. The companions passing by quickly formed a team of several people to cover the others and drag the injured person to a safe place.

As soon as the arrow rain passed, the soldiers of the Tang Army, who were not in any formation, took out the long bows they carried on their backs, and bent their bows and set arrows to fight back.

Suddenly I remembered that this was Xia's regular army.

And more Xia soldiers, relying on their experienced defense and familiarity with the military formations, easily blocked or dodged the incoming arrows.

At this moment, the Japanese soldiers up and down were clenching their teeth unconsciously, and the straw sandals on their feet were firmly pressed against the ground.

Ten times their own strength, they were still regular soldiers of the Xia Kingdom. They had robbed some merchant ships in the past, but they felt that the people outside were nothing more than this.

But now when they meet head-on on the battlefield, it's a completely different feeling.

The Japanese soldiers in the ashigaru array kept yelling in Japanese: "Jade is broken!"

next moment.

In front of the formation, the attacking Xia army rushed directly into the front line!

"kill!"

The Tang Army's infantry shields, numbering 3,000 people in the first row, made a vigorous step as they approached. All their strength was concentrated on the shields. With a bang, they collided with the Japanese wooden shields on the opposite side, knocking over the people on the opposite side. In an instant, the comrades on the left and right followed closely.

The shields collided together, like the sound of the tide hitting the rocks.

The shouts of fighting rang out at this moment. The Japanese soldiers at the front were stabbing wildly with bamboo spears, while the Tang soldiers on the opposite side fought back with sharper spears. The Tang soldiers at the front tried their best to protect themselves with shields. At the same time as he was critical, he kept bending down, kicking on the ground, putting back his shield, and then striking out.

"Left and left wings, come in and eat this Japanese soldier!" Cheng Yaojin is a veteran on the battlefield, and there are twenty thousand against two thousand. How can he be timid? If word spreads that he, the founding general of the Tang Dynasty, is not embarrassed!

The horn sounded as the phalanx advancing behind them sounded.

Hearing the trumpet sound of the order, the two teams of 3,000 people rushing behind quickly made adjustments under the command of the governor's cavalry and the school lieutenant, and quickly outflanked the front line from behind.

"Get out of the way -" Li Xuanba, who was leading the charge this time, took big strides and rushed into the battlefield. He directly used his body to push away the men in front of him who were blocking the way. He held a pair of drums, urns and golden hammers in front of his chest and ran forward. Advance.

The moment he rushed to the front line and squeezed away the infantry shield of a Tang army soldier, the shield of the Japanese soldier in front was knocked away with a bang. The Japanese soldier behind the shield was also pushed away and hit the Japanese soldier holding a bamboo spear behind.

Li Xuanba stabbed a bamboo spear and scratched white marks on his iron armor and helmet. He roared almost madly. In the roar of "Ah!", he swung the drum, urn and golden hammer. With a bang of the hammer, the gun body made of green bamboo was directly smashed into bamboo strips. The Japanese soldier was also knocked into the air, and half of his head was a bloody mess.

"Follow me!"

At the sight of blood, Li Xuanba's whole body trembled with excitement. He looked at the Japanese who was not even up to his chest. He was fierce and rough, his eyes were bloody, and he opened his mouth and exhaled streaks of white air.

Then the second hammer suddenly swung horizontally, and the terrifying force brought with it the strong wind. The more than ten Japanese who came around flew in one direction, and their heads exploded in an instant, with red, white, and sticky flesh and blood on their scalps. , hair flying around.

Behind him, countless soldiers of the Tang Army rushed towards the gap. After entering the crowd, Bu Dun joined the front line with great experience, slashing with his blade while defending with his shield.

The spearmen in the rear changed their weapons from time to time, either repeating their crossbows or switching out their blades, following Li Xuanba and constantly tearing apart the Japanese array.

"Follow me!"

Li Xuanba rushed at the front and hit the shield on top with a hammer. There was a loud bang and sawdust flew away. He took a step closer and hit the opponent's short figure with another hammer. The Japanese man's head, body, and flesh were all broken into pieces. Bones flew everywhere, and the whole person became shorter again.

This was still the case when he had used up most of his strength.

Looking at the inhuman Japanese who were smashed, and the Japanese who were originally fanatical but became timid, this thought flashed through his mind.

Sure enough, it’s cool to be a strong general...

"Come on! Kill more for me! Kill!" Li Xuanba's body was covered with minced meat and blood, like a demon standing among the corpses, holding two hammers and letting out a roar that came from the most brutal part of his heart.

Bang bang bang!

The 6,000 Tang troops that circled the left and right wings spread like a furious wave toward both sides of the Japanese array, passing through. The three hundred archers on both sides of the Japanese soldiers were the first to suffer. They were directly killed and trampled by the Tang troops who were armed to the teeth. Their corpses headed towards the Ashigaru main formation and joined Li Xuanba who had entered the middle of the opponent's formation.

"Didn't you say that the Japanese are very powerful? Why are they so inexperienced?"

Cheng Yaojin held a big ax and galloped his horse two feet among the guards. He looked at the battlefield ahead and reined in his horse. Thinking of Qin Qiong's strategy of encircling the point for reinforcements, he hurriedly called for his cavalry.

"Go and notify General Li quickly, restrain yourself, don't fight too hard!"

He was afraid that Li Xuanba would become murderous and get out of control. After directly punching through the Japanese soldiers, he rushed towards the harbor without stopping.

After all, Tsushima is so big, more than 170 miles away, which is not enough to fight a few games.

"Yes!"

The corners of Ling Qi's mouth twitched, but he still accepted the order on horseback, and then galloped out, rushing towards the battlefield ahead, waving the command flag as he ran, to notify the governor cavalry over there, or the order soldiers to tell Li Xuan Tyrant.

In the formation at this time, just as Cheng Yaojin expected, Li Xuanba, who was crazy about killing, could not think about any other strategies and led his soldiers in a crushing attack.

The cut-up formation of Japanese soldiers seemed to have been crushed by thousands of cavalry. The formation was in disarray. It was basically impossible to win until now, except for those Japanese soldiers who were still shouting "Jade Broken". Qing Xiaotou and the remaining hundreds of ashigaru have already thought of surrendering.

After all, they were just fishermen and farmers who were recruited. Once the enthusiasm was over, when faced with the choice of life and death, they still knew how to choose.

When the tide continued to push forward and killed the Japanese array, the only remaining people in the wilderness knelt directly on the ground, raised their bamboo spears above their heads, or threw them to the ground, shouting in Japanese language: "I surrender!"

However, no one could understand or even pay attention to their begging for surrender.

After all, before, the emperor ordered not to leave an inch of grass behind!

The charging Tang army struck at the Japanese soldier kneeling on the ground and chopped him over. Then he stepped over the body and continued to charge forward, spreading towards the island called Tsushima.

In the distance, Daxiong Chaoxiu, who had received the news that the Tang army was about to land here, led 10,000 light feet, 3,000 infantry, 500 archers, and war ninja that Xia had never seen before, and they had already appeared twenty miles away. As they were coming here, before this considerable number of Japanese soldiers and horses arrived, Li Xuanba and the Tang army had already wiped out two thousand Japanese and rushed towards them.

Da Xiong Chao Xiu, who was on his way, was speechless for a long time when he heard the battle report ahead. He faced the generals, samurai, and war ninja who gathered around him.

"You can't face the enemy head-on." After a moment of silence, he murmured.

Facing the Xia Kingdom's regular troops, they cut down two thousand people without even using an hour... He had said arrogant words in front of Shangshan Jianxin before, and now he really wanted to take it back.

"Return to the port immediately and send someone to inform the lord!"

Knowing that he would die, Daxiong Chaoxiu wisely chose a more advantageous tactic. With the fortifications built there, he might be able to block the Xia people's momentum.

Just as he immediately turned around and returned to the harbor, Li Xuanba, who was advancing crazily twenty miles southeast of him, led 10,000 Tang troops on foot through the wilderness, uprooting sentry towers and earthen buildings along the way one by one. The progress was rapid. amazing.

When the outpost near the Japanese military camp saw the beacon fire, they immediately sent out small teams to reinforce them. They were subsequently defeated. Those with horses fled in panic. The defense line of the Japanese outpost stationed in the wilderness was constantly advancing against the Tang army. Contraction downward and backward.

When Qin Qiong's military order came over, Cheng Yaojin personally rode to the front to calm Li Xuanba down.

The speed of advancement also gradually slowed down.

At the same time, on the sea northeast of Tsushima Island, the Japanese fleet saw the beacon fire and the letter asking for help, and was rushing to the island.

(End of this chapter)