Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

A thundering dragon roar sounded.

In the open space outside Izumo, Ashikaga Takauji's army turned into a mess.

The general under Ashikaga Takauji's eyes were red, and he was still trying to keep his soldiers in formation, but as soon as his screams came out, they were swallowed up by the roar of dragon artillery, and it had no effect at all.

A feeling of powerlessness came over me.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the Japanese army's formation was overwhelmed.

It's not that Xu Da doesn't want to continue the bombardment, but the number of artillery shells is limited, and most of the artillery is fixed on the warship.

This kind of mobile artillery is bulky and inconvenient to carry.

Therefore, the army did not bring more artillery shells, and the same reason was true.

After using it, you have to go back to the port to replenish it. With Xu Da's temperament, he will definitely keep some as backup instead of using it all at once.

Standing on the top of the tallest building in the city, Xu Da used a telescope to look at the situation outside the city. Seeing that the fire was almost ready, he asked the signal soldiers to give the order to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

While the Ming Dynasty's military flag was waving, the war drums were beating!

Its sound is like thunder!

Perfectly replaced the previous artillery sound.

The Ming army was like a tiger emerging from its cage.

pouring out of the city.

The musketeers at the forefront, acting as sharp knives, took advantage of the Japanese army's formation to be disrupted and began to fire.

At the same time as the sound of muskets sounded, Japanese soldiers were shot and fell to the ground one after another.

"What is this?!"

"Oh my God, do people from Ming Dynasty know magic?"

The two sides were obviously separated by nearly 200 meters, but the comrades beside them fell one after another. Anyone who saw this would collapse.

In the eyes of these Japanese soldiers, the Ming army on the opposite side was a group of devils who knew magic.

A panic immediately spread among the Japanese army.

"Defend with a shield!"

"Defend with a shield!"

The Japanese general sat on a tall horse and roared loudly.

Only then did the soldiers react and raised their shields.

"Fight back with bows and arrows!"

The Japanese army finally began to organize its first counterattack.

The archers began to fight back.

However, the range of their bows and arrows was too short to pose any threat to the Ming soldiers.

Before they could reach the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the arrows in the air lost their strength and fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing this scene, the Japanese general was filled with anger.

He recognized that the weapons used by the Ming army opposite were the legendary firearms.

For them, this kind of firearm only exists in literary records.

It was used when the Yuan army invaded Japan more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, the Yuan army of 10 people easily defeated the [-] Japanese army with the help of firearms. Unfortunately, they were ultimately defeated by a typhoon.

This was the first time the Japanese saw the power of firearms.

At that time, this fear had already penetrated deeply into the souls of the Japanese.

After that, the Japanese tried every means to understand and learn China's gunpowder and firearms manufacturing technology through Goryeo.

After the Yuan Dynasty authorities learned of this situation, they ordered all coastal areas to strictly prevent the secret techniques of gunpowder and firearms manufacturing from being taught to the Japanese, and banned the extraction of saltpeter along the coast. Due to the blockade of the Yuan Dynasty, the Japanese tried many times on their own, but in the end they all failed and could only give up.

The firearm matter gradually fell into the dust and no one mentioned it again. Only those Japanese pirates who went to plunder the coast of the Ming Dynasty in recent years and were lucky enough to meet the navy of the Ming Dynasty knew about the existence of firearms.

According to documentary records available for later generations, the Japanese really came into contact with gunpowder and firearms in 1466, during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, when Ryukyu people brought Ming Dynasty firecrackers into Japan.

Japan had just begun to understand gunpowder and firearms and began to develop them on a small scale.

Then there was the Tanegashima Iron Cannon incident.

When the dusty memory was awakened at this time, it also awakened the fear deep in the soul of this Japanese general.

How could the bows and arrows in their hands compare to the muskets in the hands of the Ming army!

The difference between the two is as big as the difference between clouds and mud, like the difference between the glow of fireflies and the bright moon.

They cannot attack the Ming army, but the Ming army can easily take their lives. This is caused by the serious asymmetry of the weapons. No matter how good their archery skills are, it will not help.

The distance was far, and you might be able to save your life by relying on a shield, but if you wanted the archers to be effective and pose a threat to the Ming army, you had to close the distance.

At the distance where their archers can function, the shields in their hands are no different from paper.

In other words, it is now a dead end!

Seeing that more and more soldiers under his command were dying, the general under Ashikaga Takauji's eyes turned red, his teeth were broken, and he shouted loudly: "Retreat! Retreat!"

The two sides haven't even faced off yet.

The Japanese army had been defeated.

On the Ming side, relying on artillery and Hongwu rifles, they were defeated directly.

Seeing that the Japanese army was defeated and retreating, Xu Da waved his hand.

The signal soldiers around him began to change the signal flags in their hands and began to wave to convey the message.

After the front army received the news, the musketeers withdrew to both sides, and an elite cavalry unit began to charge at the defeated Japanese army and expand the Warring States period.

The number of cavalry is limited. After all, war horses also need to be transported across the sea by warships.

However, these nearly a thousand cavalrymen are all the best among the best. They are not from the navy, but directly from Xu Da's former command, the Northern Frontier Army.

Under the bloody sunset.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to clean up the battlefield outside Izumo City.

In this time and space, China and Japan had their first large-scale confrontation, which ended in a complete victory for the Ming Dynasty.

More than [-] enemies were killed, but the casualties on Daming's side were only double digits, and no one died!

There are many reasons for this disparity in results.

The Yuan Dynasty relied on the power of firearms to defeat [-] and [-].

Now Xu Da and the others are thirty thousand against thirty thousand!

Secondly, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were more than a hundred times more powerful than those of the Yuan Dynasty.

Whether it is the innovation of gunpowder or the reform of firearms.

Then because of military telescopes, the two sides are not at the same level in obtaining intelligence information.

Japan was directly beaten first.

Being controlled by the team, he jumped greatly, followed by violent output.

With the blessing of so many comprehensive factors, Ming Dynasty won a complete victory.

But Xu Da, who had just won a victory, did not show much excitement and joy on his face.

He glanced in the direction of Iwami Ginzan with a serious expression.

Now that the silver veins have been exposed, today's Japanese army is just the first wave.

After that, there will definitely be a steady stream of Japanese forces coming over smelling the fishy smell.

Like white sharks on the sea, smelling blood and coming around.

They can repel one wave, two waves, three waves... can they also repel hundreds of waves, or thousands of waves?

Not to mention whether people can hold on, first of all, firearms and ammunition must not hold up. (End of chapter)