The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 712 The Last Chance Lost

When Tokugawa Hidetada arrived at this time, he didn't understand the critical situation, so he immediately ordered to stop the siege, and the whole army immediately switched from offensive to gesture.

In addition to sending a team of troops to monitor the Baekje Wangjing defenders, the rest of the troops were divided into three directions, corresponding to the Ming army attacking from three directions, and Tokugawa Hidetada led his troops to sit in the central army.

Because this kind of plan for being surrounded by the Ming army had never been made before, there was no excavation and construction of fortifications against the defensive formation on the Fusang Army's position.At this time, in a hurry, the soldiers could only order the soldiers to put the pointed horses in front of the formation, and at the same time dig the trenches desperately, and pile the excavated soil in front of them to form a low wall, which played a certain defensive role.

As for other traps and the like, there was no time to set them up. The Ming army swarmed from three directions. Although the speed was not fast, it was not slow, and they kept a stable posture and pressed towards the Fusang army.

Although Tokugawa Hidetada intends to take the initiative to attack, so as to break the encirclement situation of the Ming army, but when he thinks of Yoshino and Ueno Mori, who are still alive and dead, thousands of Fuso samurai, and the thousands of samurai he sent out to support him.

Tens of thousands of troops have been lost before the official start of the war. It can be seen that the Ming army came this time with the real main force.

Now he finally realized that all the Ming army's actions were based on suspicion, and their main force was lying in ambush behind him, waiting to give him a fatal blow at any time.

But it was obviously too late to understand at this time.

Thinking of this, he felt regret and pain in his heart, knowing that he definitely underestimated Daming this time.

Although Fusang is not the previous Fusang, Daming is not that Daming either.

If you take the initiative to fight at this time, it is tantamount to a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. It is better to use the terrain advantage to form a defensive formation, and there may be a turning point.

In fact, this attack is not really the main force, but the National Guard of the three divisions.

According to the establishment, each National Guard division has about 1 people. Even if some civilians are added to transport supplies, each division will not exceed 5000 people.

At this time, there were a total of 10 Fusang troops under the capital of Baekje.

If it is compared in terms of military strength, the Ming army is at an absolute disadvantage.Moreover, the combat experience of these National Guards is not rich. Except for officers and backbones, most of the soldiers are recruits.

From a strategic point of view, Ran Wu and the Liaodong theater did not take the 15 Fusang army seriously at all. The troops currently dispatched are all second-line troops, and they are typically outnumbered and outnumbered.

Their confidence in daring to do so is naturally based on the judgment and balance of the real combat effectiveness of the two sides.

Although the Fusang army is now equipped with a lot of firearms, their mainstream weapons are still cold weapons, and their combat methods still retain the old habit of fighting in close combat.

As we all know, the samurai swords cast by the Fuso people are very sharp, and they can often cut people with weapons in two, and they have a great advantage in melee combat.

When the Japanese pirates were rampant before, the Ming army was killed by the sharp samurai swords of the Japanese pirates, and their morale was completely lost. There was even an absurd phenomenon of a dozen Japanese pirates wielding knives to chase and kill thousands of Ming soldiers.

It wasn't until General Qi Jiguang invented the mandarin duck formation to restrain the Japanese pirates' long swords that he began to reverse the decline.

Coupled with the so-called samurai sword spirit advocated by the Fusang people, the Fusang army prefers to use hand-to-hand combat to defeat the enemy.

However, although the National Defense Army's army-building thinking also focuses on training and training soldiers to dare to fight hand-to-hand with bravery, hand-to-hand combat is only used when necessary. Generally, when it is not necessary, it emphasizes using superior weapons to eliminate the enemy from a long distance. When you fall into a breakdown, charge and fight again.

In Jiang Chuan's army-building thinking, people-oriented, soldiers are regarded as the most precious wealth of the army.Damaged weapons can be rebuilt, but if experienced soldiers are lost, they are really lost and cannot be regenerated.

This is very similar to the American troops of later generations. Before fighting, call for artillery support. No matter what the situation is, first use powerful and dense artillery to ravage the enemy's position.

Of course, this kind of combat thinking is also based on a strong defense industry system.

If it were someone else, it would definitely be impossible.But Jiang Chuan has the ability to do it with the support of the fortress base, which is unimaginable in Tokugawa Hidetada's view.

So this is also doomed to his ending must be a failure.

If Tokugawa Hidetada mobilizes the whole army at this time and takes the initiative to attack, if he meets the hand-to-hand combat that the Fuso army is good at, there is still a chance of victory.

After all, most of the training of these National Guard soldiers is shooting training. Not only is there a lack of training for fighting with cold weapons, but they are also unprepared in terms of fighting will and fighting psychology. Can't stand it.

After all, the firearms in their hands are not the automatic rifles or submachine guns of later generations, and they will not be of much use in hand-to-hand combat.

It's a pity that Tokugawa Hidetada had been frightened by the previous failure at this time, and he didn't have the courage to take the initiative to attack, so he lost his last chance to turn defeat into victory.

The three-way Ming army is still advancing in an orderly manner, as if they don't care about the Fusang army's frantic digging behavior.

In fact, they really don't care too much.

This simple fortification of earthworks will soon be destroyed under the projection of powerful artillery fire, and it is nothing more than wasting some shells.For the Wehrmacht, there are plenty of shells.

As long as it is not the kind of permanent or semi-permanent reinforced concrete fortifications of later generations, there is not much difference in the others.

Finally, the three Ming troops approaching slowly stopped a mile away from the main formation of the Fusang Army, and began to form slowly.

It is said that the formation is actually just a simple rifleman in front, artillery in the back, and cavalry guarding the two wings. There is nothing special about it.

The Fusang army also stopped excavating fortifications at this time, and all entered the position, concentrating on it.

The air suddenly became dignified and chilling, and everyone could feel the powerful chilling air filling the surrounding space.

Tokugawa Hidechu was staring nervously at the opposite Ming army position. He didn't understand why the Ming army stopped suddenly. Don't they plan to attack?

In his impression, the Ming army's infantry with huge shields should cover the archers behind and then slowly advance to the place where the arrows are in front of the enemy's line, and then the archers on both sides will come and go, first shooting each other with bows and arrows Disturb the opponent's position.

Then, when the opponent's position was unstable, the infantry stepped forward to fight, and the cavalry swept from the side.

But the situation in front of him made him unable to understand.

Does the Ming army want to shoot with muskets from a mile away?That's too funny, their muskets are not cannons, how could they shoot so far?

Is it to use cannons?But he didn't see the frightening red cannon from the binoculars.

Just when Tokugawa Hidetada was bewildered, there was a loud noise from the Ming army's position directly opposite, and a shell roared down from the sky, and landed more than ten meters away from the front of the Fusang Army's trench, blowing up a pile of soil debris , which drew a burst of ridicule from the Fusang soldiers hiding in the trenches.

They didn't know that this was the enemy's test firing, which was used to calibrate and adjust the firing angle of the artillery.

A moment later, dozens of loud noises rang out from behind the Ming army's position. Dozens of shells flew across the sky and precisely hit the trenches that the Fusang Army had just dug.

The mud splattered, the broken arms and limbs flew in the air along with the blood, and the battle officially began.

(End of this chapter)