Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 644 Guards vs. Japanese Samurai

At this time, after Nagasaki Castle was bombarded by the navy's ship-borne guns at sea, the city was in chaos.

Therefore, after a bang, the gate of Nagasaki Castle was blasted open, and the Sixth Army of the Guards Army and the Marine Corps of the Beiyang Fleet began to enter Nagasaki Castle one after another.

This is the first time that the Han army stepped into the territory of the Wa Kingdom.

However, for the current Ming army, they didn't feel so proud of it, because he didn't know how much disaster these Japanese people in shorts running around in front of them caused to China in another time and space.

But just after the Ming army entered Nagasaki City, Japanese reinforcements from the Wa Kingdom also appeared. This is a regular Japanese army from the Tokugawa shogunate. Its firearms and equipment were considered very advanced in the early seventeenth century. An army of ten thousand people.

The country of Wa has many mountains and few plains. Among them, Nagasaki Castle is the backing of the sea.

At this time, the Japanese army suddenly appeared on the mountain, in a condescending position, and once the Ming army entered Nagasaki City, it would be equivalent to entering the Japanese army's ambush circle.

Fortunately, Nagasaki City is not small, and the Japanese army's firearms are still in the matchlock era, not to mention the artillery, which is worse than that of the Ming Dynasty's Wanli period. Therefore, as long as the Ming army does not go up the mountain, it will not be ambushed by the Japanese army.

However, the only land transportation route from Nagasaki to Edo is on the mountain. If the Ming army wants to conquer the Japanese country all the way to Edo, it has to cross the Nagasaki mountain, enter the Honshu Island through the narrowest strait, and go along the road. Along the lines of Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Yokohama, they invaded the core area of ​​the Wa country.

Therefore, if Daming wants to destroy the Wa Kingdom, the Japanese army on the mountain must be eliminated.

And the Japanese army on the mountain had figured this out. As local fighters, they naturally knew that unless the Ming army only occupied Nagasaki, if they wanted to occupy the entire territory of Japan, they would have to cross mountains and rivers and enter their ambush circle.

Li Dingguo looked at the Japanese soldiers lined up in three formations on the hillside and holding matchlock guns, and he only ordered one sentence: "Bring up the mortars and disrupt the Japanese camp. , and then shoot the remnants of the enemy with a rifle, end the battle within an hour, and rush to Shimabara for dinner."

Therefore, the mortar artillerymen of the machine artillery battalion of the Ming Army came up with mortars, and aimed forty mortars at the area where the Japanese troops were relatively concentrated.

At this time, the Japanese army did not expect that the Ming army was already preparing to use the mortar's curved firing principle to drop shells on the steep mountain. At this time, they still stood on the high ground with a sense of security, very calm He quickly raised the matchlock gun, ready to shoot three consecutive shots at the Ming army.

"My lord, the Ming army has gathered here. It seems that they really want to go deep into the hinterland of my shogunate and occupy my Edo!"

At this time, a samurai came to Abe Tadaaki, the Tokugawa shogunate, and reported the general situation of Yamashita's Ming army.

Japan has been cut off from Ming Dynasty and even the whole world for decades. Abe Tadaaki doesn’t have a telescope, and he doesn’t know about military telescopes. Therefore, he only analyzed the report of his samurai at this time:

"The stupid Ming army must be immersed in the joy of occupying Nagasaki. They think that our Japanese country is really about to collapse, so they want to occupy more of our territory. Tell me to go on and get ready. When the Ming army comes up, We immediately launched an attack and caught him off guard!"

The Japanese shogunate, Abe Zhongqiu, spoke with a confident tone, as if he was quite confident about the current war.

However, just as he finished speaking, booming explosions sounded one after another in front of him and behind him, and Japanese soldiers wearing large armor and animal-shaped helmets exploded together with the cherry blossoms all over the mountain. Accompanied by the tumbling of mud.

"What's going on here? How could the Ming army's artillery fire hit the mountain?"

Abe Mid-Autumn said something in astonishment, and he felt a little regretful that his three-stage formation composed of [-] elite soldiers was disrupted in this way, while some wounded Japanese samurai were crying and howling in pain on the ground, and the other Japanese samurai hadn't recovered yet When they arrived, the infantry of the Ming army had already rushed up:

"Kill!"

As soon as Abe Zhongqiu saw the infantry of the Ming army rushing up with muskets, and because he was climbing up from the bottom, it seemed easy to be hit by himself, so he immediately drew his Japanese sword and said, "Here comes the assault!"

When Abe Mid-Autumn Festival yelled, the Japanese samurai, who symbolized loyalty and bravery, immediately pulled out his Japanese sword and rushed down the mountain, shouting "Assault here!"

Relatively speaking, Japanese samurai still like to fight with cold weapons in close combat on the battlefield, and even strive for the sharpness of cold weapons, but it is also because Japan in this era is a conservative and closed country, and they have not realized that firearms are more far-reaching the value of.

The martial arts of Japanese samurai are very high. These Japanese samurai wanderers once fought against the Nanjing city of Ming Dynasty with dozens of people, which is enough to show that the quality of individual soldiers in cold weapon combat is still very strong, and it is also enough to be called "brave". The two characters, at least now when the Ming army came to fight, they looked extremely brave, grinning their teeth, their messy hair looked primitive and rough, and the wide armor added a touch of cunning, but the stature was mainly short and thick, so it seemed Much like an ugly ghost.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be more disciplined. No matter whether it was an officer or a soldier, there was no obvious expression change on their faces, as if they were just a part of a machine, performing their tasks mechanically according to the instructions. When the Japanese samurai charged aggressively, he neither turned around and ran away in fear, nor rushed towards the Japanese samurai in the same frenzy, but only tightly held the Zhentianlei in his hand.

Tens of thousands of Japanese samurai are getting closer and closer. They hold the cold Japanese sword tightly in both hands, and their eyes are wide open, like a group of robbers descending the mountain.

But the Ming army first threw out the thunder, which spun in the air for a while, and then landed accurately in the camp of Japanese samurai densely packed with beasts like the mountain. The sound sounded, the whole earth trembled, and the Japanese samurai began to be blown up as if they were dancing.

The entire area in the middle of the hillside was full of thick smoke, the flames exploded, and people were blown to pieces like mud. After only a moment, tens of thousands of Japanese samurai lost more than half of their casualties, and the infantrymen of the Guards rushed forward: "Kill!" ah!"

But the Guards infantry sprint is different. Teams are divided into different tasks such as cover, sniper, and close combat, but the whole is advancing, running over like a chariot. Even if the Japanese samurai encountered by the army survived, they would hardly avoid the fate of being wiped out by such "chariots".

"Withdraw!" Abe Zhongqiu wanted to flee immediately with the remaining Japanese troops without thinking, but at this moment, Daming's mortars fired again.

(End of this chapter)