Dragon Sea Empire

Chapter 56 Guarding the Mountain

This time the attack was launched by 100 ronin warriors from Nihoncho, Manila, and 200 ordinary Japanese with bamboo spears, Japanese swords and even daggers. The rest of the ronin warriors only had bamboo armor.The equipment of the rest of the Japanese is very messy, even inferior to the mob composed of farmers in Japan---Ashigaru miscellaneous soldiers.At this time, the "Ashigaru" were not a key part of the army in the Japanese civil war, and their treatment and equipment conditions were very poor. However, these Japanese who are entering the Dalun Mountain Pass are even more unsightly, and their morale is even worse. Chinese fighters in the early days of the Chinese Uprising.

The Japanese team entered the mouth of the valley in confusion, with two sergeants from the Spanish army behind them.The leader of the ronin, Machime Ogawaemon of Nihonmachi, was in the front row, walking forward carefully with his waist bowed, holding a shield in his left hand and a Japanese sword in his right.In fact, he also just became the leader of Nihoncho. When his predecessor was performing the task of beheading hundreds of Chinese businessmen by the Pasig River, he was attacked by the musketeers and pirate gangs commanded by Yin Feng. Bullet kills.

Ogawaemon reluctantly became a machime, and then just wanted to make a fortune in Balian, but the Chinese people burned the Chinese area of ​​Balian and themselves to white ground.The failure to make a fortune and the loss of many people's lives was enough to make the Japanese frustrated; but the Spaniards still forced Nihonmachi to send out people to chase down the Chinese insurgents.

The temporarily recruited Japanese troops rushed for 3 days in a row, and only arrived at the mountain pass this morning. Ogawaemon was called into the tent by Captain Biragón of the Spanish army before he could catch his breath.

Although the four four-pound copper guns of the Spanish army had been transported to the camp, the terrain of the mountain pass was narrow, and how to use artillery fire to cover the infantry attack was a problem.Captain Biragorn didn't have time to wait until he had considered the method of using artillery fire before attacking, so he forced Ogawaemon to lead an attack immediately.His consideration was to consume the ammunition of the men who defended the mountain first, and then rely on the superiority of firepower and troops to capture the mountain pass.The previous several attacks have proved that the physiological man guarding the mountain pass is an army, an army that has combat effectiveness and knows how to fight.In terms of weapons and equipment, although there are not many physiological human musketeers, in the narrow terrain of the valley, it is enough to block the entire valley with firepower.

Now Captain Biragon and other Spanish officers can confirm that the musketeers in the mountain pass should be the team of musketeers that has always been mysterious.

Right now, most of the Japanese team has poured into the mountain pass, but there is no movement behind the parapet on the hillside in the distance.

Ogawaemon was a little hesitant, but the other ronin samurai around him still walked straight forward.However, the further they walked, the stronger the smell of blood, and there were more and more corpses all over the ground.The Spaniards were too busy, so they only told the Japanese that there were more than 200 Chinese in the valley, but did not tell them at all: the guarding of the mountain pass was a Chinese army with matchlock guns—the Japanese call it Tie Pao, and the Chinese call it Bird Gun—and Has simple field fortifications.

Now, the Japanese have reached the middle of the valley, only 100 steps away from the parapet fortification.In the valley as far as the eye can see, there are corpses of native soldiers lying everywhere, and in some places the corpses are stacked on top of each other, half a person's height.Countless flies lingered on the bloody corpses everywhere, and flew on the red liquid formed by the blood.Now is the time when the sun is at its strongest at noon, and all the Japanese who entered the valley were blocked by a strong bloody smell and couldn't breathe.The horrors in hell were nothing more than this, and those carefree and experienced ronin also bent down, their faces were heavy, and their steps hesitated.All the Japanese felt that something was wrong, and that the Spaniards were thrusting upon them what appeared to be a mission to hell.

A wooden fence stood in front, about fifty paces from the parapet fortifications on the hillside.There are piles of half-person-high corpses here, and the corpses of many native soldiers are hung on the wooden fence.And go further until the hillside, the mountain road within 50 steps is clean, and there is no corpse.

Ogawaemon suddenly shuddered, and his heart tightened suddenly: Could it be that no one can rush to the parapet after so many native soldiers died?

Behind the hillside parapet, there was still no movement.

Ogawaemon stopped in front of the fence, looked left and right, and ordered: "Nakata-kun, take someone to push this fence aside."

Nakata was a thin and small ronin samurai, and he ordered dozens of Japanese to clean up the corpses in front of and behind the fence.

Xiaochuan has been staring at the motionless hillside, wiping the sweat from his head nervously.At this moment, due to the obstruction of corpses all over 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 resounded through the valley, everyone stopped moving and looked around nervously.

In front of the parapet fortifications, a tall Chinese man appeared on the four-legged car that had been dismantled, holding a musket and shouting something loudly.

All the Japanese were completely unaware of what could be done when Yin Feng suddenly appeared. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one thought that they could shoot this man with an arrow.Ogawaemon asked the people around him: "Who understood what he was talking about?"

At that time, Chinese, especially dialects such as Hokkien and Cantonese, were the common business languages ​​in East Asia, and many Japanese could understand them.At that moment, a ronin samurai translated to Xiao Chuan in a low voice: "The man said that he demanded that we surrender immediately, otherwise we will be killed, and no one will be left..."

"What! Bage!" Ogawaemon cursed angrily, raised the Japanese sword in his hand, and shouted: "Masters, I can't lose the face of the Japanese samurai, go!"

He had just finished yelling this sentence, "Swoosh!" "Plop" more than a dozen arrows fell from the sky, all of which were aimed at Ogawa Youemon: He raised his sword and shouted just now, which just exposed his commander's identity. Magaro on the top of the cliff decisively fired the arrow, and all 15 members of the archery team let go of the bowstring. The target of the arrow was Ogawa-kun.Poor Ogawaemon was shot in the head and back by 8 arrows in the northern pass of Mt. Dairon just a few days after he took over as Machime. An arrow protruded from his throat, and he fell forward without saying a word, spitting blood.

Surrounded by ronalds, they turned pale with fright and stepped aside one after another. Looking up, a group of Chinese archers had already released their second round of arrows on a cliff more than 50 meters high.

"Boom!" Yin Feng on the cart raised his gun to aim, and fired the first shot. The target was the ronin warrior Nakata who directed everyone to push the fence.The bullet whizzed away and hit the right shoulder of Nakata, who was in a daze. He yelled and fell to his knees in front of the fence.

Yin Feng shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's only fifty steps, this still can't kill him, you need to practice more!"

Following Yin Feng's shot, all the members of the Musketeers stood up and began to sweep the entire valley with continuous bullets.The archers on the cliff also kept shooting the Japanese team from above.

The already demoralized and exhausted Japanese fell into chaos. Some were looking for a place to hide from the rain of arrows and bullets, some turned around and fled for their lives outside the mountain pass, and some lay on the ground and waited for death.All the ronin standing in front of the fence were knocked down by bullets after a few rounds of shooting, and the Japanese warriors didn't even have a chance to charge.

At the same time that the Musketeers began to shoot, the soldiers of the Spears under the command of Coutere climbed over the parapet, climbed up the pit, and began to move forward along the foot of the mountain.After firing a few rounds, the Musketeers ceased firing and also began to attack over the parapet.The bow and arrow team on the cliff turned their shooting direction to the mountain pass to intercept the Japanese trying to escape from the mountain pass.

When the musketeers stopped shooting, the spear team quickly crossed the 50-step open space, passed the wooden fence that the Japanese had pushed aside, and began to line up on the mountain road; the impatient soldiers rushed up to assassinate the Japanese regardless of the formation.Because of the arrows constantly shooting from above their heads, the Japanese tried their best to squeeze to the foot of the mountain on the left, thinking that they could hide in the dead angle of bow and arrow shooting.The Chinese spear team poked their buttocks and drove them to the foot of the mountain on the left.The bamboo spears that Yin Feng asked to make were much longer than those of the Japanese, and the Spanish spears were also longer than those of the Japanese. The dense spears of the Chinese could stab the Japanese to death, but the Japanese Japanese swords and bamboo spears could not fight back at all. .

Some ronin fought back desperately, cutting off the head of the enemy's bamboo spear with a single blow. The problem is that the bamboo branch is cut off, but it is only a short section, and it can still stab people to death.So the ronin was then stabbed to death with three bamboo spears.

The Japanese who had no fighting spirit were completely passive and beaten. Some of them were quick enough to shoot through the arrows above their heads, escaped from the mountain pass, and fled desperately without everything.

There are also many Japanese who were shot to death near the mountain pass. Some Japanese archers also want to fight back. The problem is that the cliff is 50 meters high, which has already exceeded the height of the walls of many cities in Japan. The arrows they shot reached this place. The altitude is already exhausted and basically useless.

At this time, the Japanese have not yet become the militaristic lunatics of later generations during World War II, and no one wants to die in vain.

The spear team was addicted to assassination, and the conch sounded again. The Chinese of the spear team retreated reluctantly, and retreated to the cliff on the right. Suddenly, they saw the musketeers lined up on the mountain road in a neat line, and the muzzles of the black muskets were facing them.

A Japanese man jumped out and yelled in Chinese, "Stop fighting, we surrender!"

"Boom!" This guy was killed by Yin Feng on the spot with his favorite revolver pistol.Yin Feng has long since lost his sense of killing, especially dealing with Japanese pirates. He has personally killed quite a few Japanese pirates at sea in the past few years.

With the sound of his gun, the Musketeers also began to shoot, and the bullets flew across the cliffs, sweeping away all the Japanese who could still move.

When the two rows of musketeers exchanged positions and fired bursts, although it was only a few seconds, some Japanese seized the time and shouted: "We surrender, stop fighting!"

Their answer was relentless bullets.Yin Feng sneered and said to himself: "Didn't you just ask you to surrender? Who made you unwilling. You can't blame me for this, you asked for it yourself."

The last more than 100 Japanese were shot dead almost without resistance.Of the 300 Japanese who entered the mountain pass, only about 100 were able to escape.

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