Wanli Xinming

Chapter 289
The battle of Tachibana Castle in this time and space is a well-established battle—Usuki Castle is close to Tachibana Castle, and when Ling Yunyi and Shimadzu arrived with their troops on the third day of October, Otomo and the Maori coalition had already established themselves under Tachibana Castle. This array.

The great friend Zonglin placed the main formation of [-] horses against Tachibana Mountain. The right wing was [-] soldiers and horses of Tachibana Mountain City plus [-] friendly troops, totaling [-], and the left wing was [-] Maori soldiers and horses.Another [-] cavalry, [-] were placed behind the high ground occupied by the Maori army, and [-] were placed on the right flank.

The Shimadzu army was [-], and the Ming army was [-]. The strength of the two sides was [-] to [-].Because it was inconvenient to transport military horses by sea, Ling Yunyi only had a team of [-] horses, and they basically did not collect these horses at night.Shimadzu didn't have many cavalry, and they were in the early five-hundred-and-five-hundred-thousand-thousand-thousandth year -- [-] cavalry against [-] cavalry.

Ling Yunyi fought against the Japanese for the first time, and felt that the various battles he had trained in Nanyuan Military Academy were so useless.When he was marching all the way, out of caution, he sent night no-holds on the left and right sides, but he was not harassed along the way, which made him very unaccustomed.

After arriving at Tachibana Mountain, he thought he was going to face a battle to attack the mountain city, but the sentry reported that the other party had already set up a camp and waited for a decisive battle, and Ling Yunyi would not be able to fix it. The Japanese don't like watching "Sun Tzu" very much. The Art of War?Not so tactical?

Now that the other side has set up a battle, this side should also hold a military meeting to study how to arrange their troops.Ling Yunyi attached great importance to his family's first battle in Japan, so he led the Ming army staff and the Shimadzu army leaders to hold a pre-military meeting to study how to respond to the enemy.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Rusong, commander-in-chief of Ling Yunyi, said that we are an all-iron artillery unit, and we must design the formation around the tactics of iron artillery.Shimadzu retorted that the iron cannon was indeed powerful, but it could not resist the impact of the cavalry and the brave warriors, so they had to mix up—making the Ming staff look at each other in dismay.As a result, the meeting didn't last long, and the two of them almost got into a fight first.

Ling Yunyi's head hurt when he listened to the translator's back and forth, and finally made a final decision: "I can't talk about going together for a long time, or your Shimadzu family's entire army should be a reserve team. The [-] people on the opposite side are not enough for me. At dinner time."

These words are not very hurtful, but highly insulting. The Shimadzu family general Yingwa Jiuhu heard tears in his eyes. If it wasn't for Shimadzu Yoshihisa's stern eyes to stop him, he would have to scare Ling Yunyi with a cut-off in front of him. Not at once.

However, the two sides have already agreed that this march will be dominated by Ling Yunyi, and Shimazu Yoshihisa has no choice but to let his own general, Kamui Kamui, and the army guard the rear of the Ling Yunyi army as a reserve.Once Ling Yunyi is defeated, it will be decided by Kamui Kamui to run or fight.

Ijiin Zhonglang, an old and important official of the family, said in private that the only two hills on the battlefield have been occupied by the enemy in advance. Our army is on the flat ground, and it is easy to be defeated like a mountain - lord, you should return to the team, so as not to fall into the ground. in the army.

Shimazu Yoshihisa cried and sighed: "You are right, even if Ling Yunyi is defeated, the Ming army still has a large ship, navy and half of the main force. Forgive the friend and the Maori family who dare not do anything to him, I will be miserable. But Ling Yunyi has a very heart, and he must be worried that we will cheat him, and I have to be a hostage by his side. If I propose to go back to my army, he may have his own soldiers kill me directly."

Ijiin Zhonglang thought about it right, the so-called non-my race, their hearts must be different.The Ming army was a guest army, and was bought by the Shimadzu family before participating in the Kyushu War. Of course, they had to worry about being pitted against him by the Shimadzu family and the other two.In this case, no one is as persuasive as Shimadzu Yoshihisa himself.I had no choice but to ask my lord to take care of himself and act on a whim.

On the morning of October [-]th, Ling Yunyi started a show operation.In order to prevent being raided by the Allied forces of the Great Friends when the army was unfolding, Ling Yunyi quickly marched the three thousand former troops into the battlefield in six columns, and Shimadzu cavalry guarded back and forth.After entering the battlefield, Shimadzu saw the Ming army quickly spread to the left and right, forming a wide front - a total of three rows of Ming army.

Shimazu Yoshihisa was stunned, can this imperial envoy really fight?The whole iron artillery army can't line up like this, can't he not be able to line up?If you think about it, you have never seen the Ming army unfold, except for the occasional encounter with a larger Zhaibao and fired two cannons along the way. Is this the navy who will not play when they go ashore?
Ling Yunyi was relieved to see that the other party did not send cavalry to raid when he entered the battlefield. Only then did the army enter the battlefield with all kinds of gun carts and gunpowder covered with red tarpaulins, and orderly lined up behind the Ming army in the front row.

In the end, the 1000 Ming troops formed a long snake and I-shaped formation facing Dayou's main formation—a total of six rows of horizontal formations, each with [-] people, and each row was about ten feet apart.

At both ends of the serpent, there are six rows of columns, protecting the serpent's body.Behind the long snake, there are artillery carts with eighty cannons, which are also lined up, with a small array of squares surrounding each cannon.

The remaining about [-] soldiers were in reserve behind, but these soldiers formed a phalanx, with the command center of Lord Ling Yunyi's imperial envoy guarding the center.

Although it has entered late autumn, Yoshihisa Shimadzu couldn't finish wiping off the sweat on his head.He carefully observed the formation of the Ming army: every 20 people had a flag-raising person, and every 50 people had a drummer with a small drum on his waist. In addition to an iron cannon, the rest of the people also had some small cannons placed in the middle of the queue.

The general flags, generals, and generals in the queue can be distinguished from their clothes, but all of them have no armor, and there are no horses and caltrops to protect against cavalry.This is too ridiculous, the Iron Cannons are definitely not used like this!Well, there are indeed many large barrels in the Ming army, but what do you mean by putting them in the back? Do you want to shoot at the back of our army in front?

After scrutinizing this indistinct left and right formation for a long time, Shimadzu Yoshihisa finally determined that Ling Yunyi was a fool.He asked cautiously from the side: "Sir, what are you going to do with my [-] troops?"

Ling Yunyi glanced at him and said with a smile: "It's alright, the most dangerous time has passed. I didn't want to fight this kind of battle where the other side chooses the battlefield, but I can't lose the good opportunity to mix them up - just stay. Just watch it by my side, after our army is deployed, they will have no chance, and they will definitely not be able to use you today."

Shimadzu Yoshihisa continued to wipe off his sweat, thinking to himself, "Can you not sigh at the old man?"

During the formation of the Ming army, the opposite friends Zonglin and Takashi Kobayakawa were also observing the opponent's array.Even though the two sides are five miles apart, they can see clearly through the telescopes - to put it aside, the telescope produced by Daming is now almost one Japanese daimyo.

Seeing the Ming army posing in a formation they had never seen before, Xiaobayachuan and the great friend Zonglin also looked at each other.Holding a folding fan, Xiaobayakawa pointed at the formation of the Ming army and said, "What does the other party mean by placing the big barrel behind the army, afraid of our army's cavalry raiding?"

The great friend Zonglin said: "It must be the case. The Ming army is like a long snake. Do you use cavalry to charge? This army is closely connected, and if one fluctuates, the whole army is bound to be in chaos. If the cavalry makes a contribution, it can be taken lightly."

Takashi Kobayakawa stood under the seal of the cross of Christ Jesus by the great friend Zonglin, frowned and said first: "The Ming army is the whole army's iron gun. Maybe this is the suitable formation for the iron gun."

Seeing his great friend Zonglin in deep thought, Xiaobayakawa Takashi thought for a while and said, "I'll go back to our army's main formation first. You can issue orders in this battle. Our army will not have the heart to preserve its strength."

Otomo Zonglin bowed and thanked, Xiaobayakawa Takashi returned to his main formation with a few cavalry, and ordered the troops: "Otomo's family wants to use cavalry to charge first - we will wait and see the situation, if the Ming army counterattacks fiercely, the first priority is to preserve strength !"

Before the words fell, there was a loud bang. It turned out that before the cavalry of Dayou's family attacked, the Ming army Datong, who was ready to speak, spoke first!
Xiaobayakawa was taken aback, and quickly looked towards Otomo's main formation in the middle. He saw that a shell from the Ming army landed a mile in front of Otomo's formation, bounced on the ground, and finally stopped.

Xiaobayakawa breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out that the Ming army's large canisters can launch over their own military formation, which shocked me - fortunately, it is not far, otherwise our large canisters will not be able to hit them."

However, God was destined to make Xiaobayachuan Longjing a salty sauce mouth, or the voice did not fall, and there was another bang, another burst of white smoke rose from the Ming army's large tube formation, and a cannonball rushed straight into Dayou's main formation, directly hitting a flesh and blood alley. Come!

Takashi Kobayakawa almost squeezed the telescope with force in his hands.Immediately afterwards, a scene that made his scalp tingle appeared: behind the Ming army formation, it was like a continuous thunderstorm, and the eighty doors made speeches in turn. With the naked eye, a large number of black spots went straight to the Great Friends formation!

(End of this chapter)