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Chapter 1131 In full swing (7000 in [-] [-] words)
"...This is Motonin and Hachisuka's Home Economics Department of Chosogabu of the Fifth Japanese Bandit Corps."

Someone reported loudly beside Wang Tong. Wang Tong looked at the large group of people rushing forward, and asked loudly on his horse:

"Is the artillery team ready?"

Immediately someone answered loudly:
"Reporting to Commander, the artillery array is ready to shoot!"

"All the artillery fired at the right flank of the Japanese pirates, firing six rounds!"

Wang Tong gave the order again, and he could hear the messengers yelling in agreement, and he went to the artillery team to deliver the order, and some people hurried to the cavalry brigade to deliver the order, and he could see that the cavalry took out cloth strips or cotton balls from their arms. Close the horse's ears.

The distance of [-] paces is actually not far away. In the vanguard of the Japanese pirates who rushed over in that brigade, there were more than a thousand cavalry. Accelerating slowly, the whole team is also accelerating, but because of the front horse team making end-line corrections, such a large team is still maintaining order.

It can be seen that this dark group is getting faster and faster, and the cavalry in front finally let go of their horses and began to rush towards the formation of the Ming army.

"Block your ears for me, or you will be deaf and don't care about your compensation!"

Mu En, the artillery team member, had already plugged his ears, so the voices he yelled were a little distorted, and most of the artillerymen couldn't hear them, because they had already blocked their ears.

A group of firing soldiers with red-hot iron tongs were looking at the red flag in Mu En's hand, while the rest of the artillerymen were making final corrections, and the red flag in Mu En's hand was always upright.

The vanguard of the Japanese pirates was getting closer and closer, almost [-] steps away from the Ming army's line. The red flag in Mu En's hand swung down and shouted loudly:
"fire!"

He couldn't even hear the order to fire the cannon, because the cannon had already roared and the ground began to shake. Although the ears were blocked in advance, and the horse team was far away from the artillery formation, the horses were still disturbed. Jumping around there, the cavalry were all in a hurry to subdue there.

Wang Tong pulled the reins vigorously, his horse was fine, and quickly settled down. Wang Tong wanted to see what kind of effect such shelling would have at this distance.

But at this moment when the world was shaking, he only saw the Japanese pirate cavalry in the front disappear all of a sudden, and then it was all dust, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

The firing of hundreds of cannons is the kind of high-quality cannons. This instant firing can be said to be the largest firepower output in this era.

Hundreds of high-speed artillery shells fell directly into the advancing Japanese pirate formation, and the front team of thousands of people was wiped out at this moment. Human life bounces back after landing, continuing to destroy flesh and blood.

Because it was too dense for so many artillery pieces in one direction, the shells collided with each other and changed directions, causing more casualties.

The solid cannonballs of this era can only shoot a line and cause damage on the running line, but so many cannons and so many lines constitute a surface, and within the scope of this surface, everyone is turned into Flesh and mud.

The reason why those cavalrymen disappeared was not that they disappeared out of thin air, they were just hit by shells, and their flesh and blood exploded in an instant
"Attack Japanese pirates within your range!!"

The messenger stumbled to Mu En. During such a launch, people could not stand still. After the first round of artillery fire, a large number of Japanese pirates had been wiped out. The next thing to do was to shoot with artillery As for the enemies at the far end, you can destroy as many as you can.

Mu En shouted loudly there. After the roar of the cannon, he was afraid that the people below would not hear his order, because everyone's ears are buzzing now.

The order was still conveyed, and the artillerymen immediately cleaned the barrel, loaded ammunition, and after roughly measuring the distance, they all took wooden wedges and nailed them to the gun mount below the artillery, and used wooden wedges to adjust the firing angle of the artillery. To achieve the purpose of adjusting the range.

They seem to be whipped by someone, because they are afraid that the enemy in front of them will rush to seize the cannon. In fact, there is no need to worry so much, because the follow-up Japanese pirates don’t know how to advance and retreat there. They have never seen such an attack. I was scared out of my wits.

"After loading, start firing after measuring the distance. You don't have to wait for orders. Each cannon fires for six rounds and then stands by!"

The generals under Muen kept conveying this order, and the artillery of the Huwei Army and the regiment artillery of each regiment were all concentrated in this position, from the smallest three-pound cannon to the largest twelve-pound cannon, they were lined up in order , and started firing one after another at this time.

The Japanese pirate army who was hesitant to advance and retreat there immediately knew how to move. The shells roared from mid-air and fell into their queue. This time there was no such horror as Fang Cai. They became stumps and broken arms, but every time a shell landed, some people's whole body was shattered, and some fell directly to the ground. The shattered companions were lucky. Some people's arms, legs and feet were taken away by the shells, and the blood It spurted out wildly, and people screamed loudly on the ground. The screams quickly became quieter, and they died in pain.

The Japanese bandit team that came forward immediately collapsed. Everyone was running away in all directions, avoiding the falling shells. Not only were they disintegrating, but the formation behind them was in commotion. No one thought that the Ming army would have With such powerful firepower, the Japanese pirates once saw the artillery of the Li family in Liao Town under the city of Pyongyang. They thought it was an earth-shattering weapon. Only today did they know that compared with the present, it is just the light of fireflies compared to the sun and the moon. The difference is too far Too far away, it seems to be as powerful as ghosts and gods angry.

In the face of such a large firepower, whether you can win or not, you can no longer hope for any victory. More precisely, whether you can leave alive
The range of the six-pound cannon of the Ming army was already able to reach the front of the Japanese pirates' formation, and the nine-pound and twelve-pound cannon directly caused damage in the large formation of the Japanese pirates. They did not expect that the artillery of the Ming army could hit so far, even Some high-level warriors were unable to dodge in the formation and died directly.

Without a real fight with the enemy, they just died under the shelling, and the enemy was still far away from them. This kind of death in battle makes people discouraged and unwilling, but from another perspective, it also gives them An excuse to dodge and escape. Dodging this powerful firepower at this time is not timidity, but just to preserve the useful body.

The disintegration of the samurai made the Ashigaru even more flustered. They were already trembling and panicking in front of such an earth-shattering prestige. If no one supervised the battle, they would have knelt on the ground to pray for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas. The disintegration of the samurai made their The formation simply couldn't hold up.

Some people started to run away. The spears in their hands were too troublesome, so they threw them away. The flags were too conspicuous, so they had to throw them away quickly. Fleeing into the countryside like this, the angry North Korean villagers will kill them, but now no one cares about that much, they all want to escape from this battlefield, escape from this hell of iron, fire and flesh and blood.

The shells were still falling, and the warriors in the back row were ordered to hack and kill to stop the rout, but the heavy artillery kept adjusting the range, and even the warriors who supervised the battle were killed by the artillery, and the artillery weighing less than six catties had stopped firing. The rest of the heavy artillery was firing rhythmically, and the sound of the artillery was not continuous, but every time it roared, there were bound to be casualties, and they kept retreating, but the shells seemed to always catch up.

The left wing of the Japanese pirate formation was under the shelling from dense to sparse, from attacking to retreating, from orderly to chaotic, less and less formation, everyone is running away, everyone is chaotic, The ground is full of corpses and flesh and blood, and there are fallen horses and weapons everywhere, in a mess that doesn't look like it.

The last loud noise, when this sound sounded, the Japanese pirate formation was in chaos again, and everyone subconsciously evaded when they heard the loud noise.

Wang Tong wiped his face with his hands, and there was a lot of ashes on his hands. He could no longer see the situation of the Japanese pirates' camp on the opposite side, and the gunpowder smoke filled the air, completely covering and blocking his sight.

"Pass down my general order, with the Huwei Army's firearms cavalry as the lead, followed by the armored cavalry, followed by the Datong cavalry and Liaozhen cavalry, to attack the Japanese pirates, completely disrupt the Japanese pirate formation, and drive the Japanese pirates to our infantry position!"

The orderly agreed loudly, and hurried over to deliver the order, Wang Tong said loudly again:
"Sha Dongning, go and tell Li Hutou that the Japanese pirates who are scattered will rush to the infantry array of the Huwei army. The cavalry is the hammer, and the infantry is the anvil. Now the Japanese pirates are to be put on the anvil. Smash it into pieces with a hammer and tell him to be as immovable as a mountain!!"

Sha Dongning immediately agreed and led them away, but Wang Tong shouted again:
"Qianying, Xiaowu, Wu Hong, Wu Hai, Tan Yong, each of you go to contact the frontier soldiers, each of you is in charge of a town, meet with the general who leads the army, and come back to take orders after confirming, the rest of the frontier soldiers Pawn, come to the handsome flag to listen to my orders!"

Among the Nine Frontiers, Gansu, Jizhen, and Liaozhen did not send frontier soldiers and infantry, that is to say, each of them formed a team of five, and there were 500 people directly under Wang Tong's side.

I went here too, and Wang Tong shouted loudly again:
"Wu Er, go and tell Ma Sanbiao, first use the cavalry with firearms to open up the enemy, use the cavalry with iron armor to crush the enemy, and then it will be the matter of the cavalry brothers!!"

Wu Er yelled, and went too. The cavalry of the brigade here has begun to move forward slowly. The cavalry division in the front is a cavalry with firearms wearing helmets and breastplates. go ahead.

Over there, Mu En and Zhang Wu are urging the artillerymen to pack up the artillery shells and tools as much as possible so that the cavalry can pass. The battlefield is huge, but the artillery array occupies a lot of space. It would be too time-consuming and efficient for the cavalry to make a detour. , directly passed through the artillery position.

"We have already defeated them, you are going to clean up the rest!"

The cavalry passed by on horseback, the artillery standing there laughed and joked, and the cavalry on the horse did not show weakness, and shouted:

"You stand here and fire, and others will be fine if they hide away. We still have to rely on us to ride over to be completely defeated!!"

The gunpowder smoke gradually faded, even though it was still floating in the air, you could already see the situation on the opposite side, the Japanese pirates were still in chaos, as expected, the leading cavalry general waved his arms around the horse and shouted loudly , The cavalry holding firearms all urged their horses forward, and slowly became a horizontal formation, and the rest of the cavalry did the same. After they came out of the artillery formation, they began to form a formation, slowly changing.

The speed of the firearms cavalry was not too fast, and the cavalry behind them pressed their horses slower to gradually increase the distance. The firearms cavalry was getting closer and closer to the enemy's formation, and they couldn't run too fast, because The ground is full of dead bodies, and the horses have to avoid getting off their feet.

The cessation of the shelling did not calm down the Japanese pirates' formation much. They were still in a panic, but seeing the opponent's cavalry slowly appearing from the gunpowder smoke, the samurai and ashigaru still let out heart-piercing screams. They have never seen the power of this weapon before, but they know what it means for cavalry or armored cavalry to appear.

"Pick up the spear, don't run around!!" "Running around will kill you, but you may survive if you resist hard!!"

There were such screams everywhere in the queue, and the formation was barely organized, and the firearms cavalry began to move. After all, they only started trotting about fifty steps away from the front of the Japanese pirate formation.

To be precise, this is not an impact, it is just the horses moving forward quickly. The samurai and ashigaru on the Japanese pirates side are completely sure to stop this kind of advance. This kind of knowledge gave them courage and began to shout Raise your arms and meet.

But when the distance was about [-] steps, the cavalry rushing to the front held the short-fired guns flat and pulled the trigger forward. At this distance, there was a dense crowd on the opposite side, and there were no misses. Japanese pirates responded in front of them. Falling to the ground, the cavalry on the horse swayed, but pulled the reins, turned the horse, put the firecracker into the leather bag on the side of the saddle, and then drew out the saber.

The gun cavalry in the front row all did this. After the entire row finished shooting, they turned their horses to the two sides, and the ones behind followed.

This is almost equivalent to a salvo of firearms at close range. Although the number of firearms cavalry is only a few hundred, after a few rounds, the formation of Japanese pirates facing them has begun to become chaotic, making the firearms cavalry behind them bigger and bigger. Turning and shooting in the space, finally, the firearms cavalry finished shooting, and the front row of the formation maintained in front of them also collapsed.

The task of the firearms cavalry was completed, and they were divided into two teams. The armored cavalry behind them began to move forward. The distance between the armored cavalry and the firearms cavalry was hundreds of steps. When they started driving, they were wearing armor, their mounts were covered with felt leather armor, and they held spears in their hands. Now the first row was completely flat, and they rushed over quickly.

The shooting from the short-fire guns has already caused them to collapse. Seeing such an impact again, the Japanese infantry can no longer hold on. There is no long-range weapon to deal with such heavy cavalry, they can only rely on the swords and guns in the middle to resist, there are too many casualties, they no longer have such a firm belief, they just want to dodge and hide.

The already loose formation of the Japanese pirates was like butter cut by a red-hot knife. They separated directly and dodged to the sides. However, even if the Japanese pirates' army of 11 people suffered such a large loss in the front, the total number of Japanese pirates was still in the middle. There, there were all people in the back, although there was commotion, but they still managed to survive, there was not much room for them to escape and disperse.

The first team broke up, and there was still a distance from the rear team, but this distance could not dispel the charge of the heavy cavalry at all, but provided them with a target.

Everyone yelled, some for their own encouragement, and some for fear and panic. The armored cavalry rushed in, and each spear penetrated more than one enemy's body. The collision of the horses also caused casualties, and then the armored cavalry drew out. The big axes and long knives began to slash vigorously, and they wanted to make as much damage as possible to the hole they made.

The Datong cavalry, the Liaozhen cavalry, and the firearm cavalry who drew their sabers also arrived. The light cavalry tactics of the Ming Bianzhen, before approaching the densely packed enemy, it is necessary to shoot arrows from the sky, and kill the enemy as much as possible before close hand-to-hand combat. , in order to shoot more enemies with bows and arrows, the formation of the cavalry was stretched as long as possible. Looking at it from afar, they had the momentum to envelop the formation of Japanese pirates. With a whistle, the rain of arrows poured out, and the samurai and ashigaru were terrified. Looking up at the sky, he saw dense arrows whizzing down like a rainstorm.

Screaming, breaking up, before these could be completed, the cavalry had already charged into their ranks with their knives drawn, hacking and killing, this was already a massacre.

The entire huge formation of Japanese pirates has begun to be shaken under this unilateral attack, and the trend of disintegration began to appear. The Huwei Army, Datong cavalry, and Liaozhen cavalry continued to charge and kill, gradually forming a diagonal line. Penetrate the enemy's formation, and then turn to drive away the enemy's infantry, while the firearms cavalry maintains the connection between the armored cavalry and the cavalry behind them, so that they will not go deep alone.

"Qiu Ying, Xiao Wu, lead the infantry of the frontier army you contacted, follow our cavalry and oppress and drive away the Japanese pirates, Wu Hong, Wu Hai, Tan Yong, the three of you lead the infantry to the edge of the left wing of our army, cooperate with Sun Xin Gather and annihilate the Japanese invaders, and when completed, spread out on the spot to encircle the enemy army!"

Wang Tong gave orders loudly there, and everyone who heard the order agreed loudly, and hurriedly rode out into battle.

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From the moment the artillery of the Ming army began to roar, the expressions of several Japanese pirate regiment commanders changed from cautious to desperate. They stared blankly at the battlefield. Hundreds of thousands of people died on the battlefield, and the seemingly organized and orderly team gradually became chaotic, collapsed and disappeared.

The power of the firearms of the Ming army was so great that the Japanese pirates’ previous fantasies and extravagant hopes disappeared. They had never seen such an attack like a tsunami or an earthquake. They also felt the collapse of the sky on the battlefield. They The ground trembled everywhere.

They thought that the Liao Town cavalry they saw was an incredibly powerful cavalry, but they didn't expect that the cavalry they saw today was even stronger than what they saw before.

The originally distinct troops are in chaos, and the colors of the flags that symbolize the various families and troops are mixed together, and you feel dizzy when you look at it from a high place. The entire array of the Japanese pirate army looks like a pot of boiling porridge , into a mess.

Outside this chaos, the cavalry of the Ming army were constantly charging, and some positions had already been pierced by the opponent's heavy cavalry. The light cavalry expanded this section and began to attack.

The samurai and the ashigaru have become like headless chickens, not knowing what to do, not knowing where to go, although the individual is flustered and desperate, at a loss, but the overall situation can be seen clearly, the cavalry of the Ming army is going around The brigade of Japanese pirates was driving towards the infantry of the Ming army who were waiting in formation.

It can be seen that several infantry phalanxes of the Ming army have already been lined up. The firecrackers and spearmen are arranged in layers, and there are not so strict infantry cruising. The cavalry was in a mess, and they were not far from being broken.

"Mr. Takahashi Takashi died in battle!!" "Mr. Tachibana Muneshige died in battle!!" "Mr. Ikoma Ikoma died in battle!!" "Mr. Kurishima was seriously injured!!" "Mr. Katsutaka Toda."

The names of Japanese military generals were reported one by one, and many of them couldn't even pass on the biography. They and the people around them had all died in battle.

"How to do how to do!"

Ukita Hideka, who was wearing gorgeous armor, was extremely pale, and his whole body was trembling like chaff. No one despised this kind of cowardly bastard. , a Banner samurai ran over quickly. When he arrived at Takakage Kobayakawa, he wanted to report in a low voice. Seeing his lord's expression, he raised his voice and said:
"Master Shimadzu led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield!"

Everyone was furious. The Shimadzu family was almost the last daimyo in Kyushu who surrendered to Tokugawa Ieyasu. They always had their own thoughts, but they didn't expect that at such a critical moment, they would run away so disregarding the overall situation.

Just as Kobayakawa Takakage was about to speak, Mori Hidemoto walked up to him and whispered:

"Master Kobayakawa, we still have time to leave! If we can return to Japan, there is still a lot to do in the West Country!"

Kobayakawa turned out to be one of the pillars of the Mori family. Mori Hidemoto was Mori Terumoto's adopted son, and the two parties had a close relationship. Hearing this, Kobayakawa Takakage pondered for a while, then looked at the battlefield, shook his head and said in a miserable voice:

"With the current situation, we can't go away, Xiuyuan, do you think that the purpose of this Ming bandit is to ask for help from North Korea?"

After saying this, Takakage Kobayakawa seemed to have made up his mind, turned his head and whispered to Hidemoto Mouri:
"You take the bannermen and go first. They are all cavalry. You can go. You may find a ship to transport you to the southern tip of North Korea. When you return to Japan, don't make any moves against the Taige. Wait for the Ming Kou's movements before you think about it. !"

He said it in a low voice, and in fact, many people around heard it. Everyone has different camps. If you say this on weekdays, everyone will attack you. But now you can’t care about it. Ukita Hide’s family seems to be It was like being woken up, and there was a stack of banners urging myself:
"Go and prepare the horse, go and prepare the horse"

There are already a few legion commanders who have sent people down to gather their own soldiers and horses regardless, and asked Banner and attendants to prepare horses. Since it is a losing situation, it is better to leave first. The Daming Navy has blocked the sea route from North Korea to Japan. , The army cannot cross the sea, but if there are few people, it may not be impossible.

This time, the daimyos in the Western Kingdom suffered heavy losses, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s own losses were equally huge. The situation in the Wa Kingdom is about to change. If they can go back, they may be able to reap greater benefits. The problem now is how to bring them back from the battlefield. Take more of your own soldiers and horses, so that you have a greater chance of escaping.

Orders were issued one after another, some of which could not be conveyed at all, and some of which were conveyed but could not be implemented, but some soldiers and horses behind the brigade still retreated.

This kind of action made the entire formation collapse even more, and it was easier for the Ming cavalry to intersperse among them, and the situation on the battlefield was moving towards the direction Wang Tong wanted more and more quickly.

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"Fire!!"

Six infantry regiments, nearly [-] firecrackers began to shoot, gunpowder smoke and dust filled the battlefield again, gunshots rang out, and people fell down constantly. The Japanese soldiers knew that the infantry array close to the Ming army would be destroyed. In the end, however, the Ming cavalry over there was roaring and oppressing, and they had no choice but to ram into the Ming army's firecracker array.

At the maximum range, the firecrackers started shooting, and in the distance were Japanese pirates running around. They shot calmly, reloaded their ammunition, and then fired again.

Pieces of Japanese pirates fell down, but there were too many Japanese pirates, and they continued to rush towards this side. The firecrackers began to retreat, retreating to the gap between the spear formations, and getting ready to shoot.

The gunfire soldiers were moved by the Japanese pirates, but the array of spearmen was unshakable. The Japanese pirates kept dying before the spears. The infantry also began to slowly spread out.

There were few people surrounded by many people, and the Ming army actually opened a huge pocket on this battlefield, packed in far more Japanese pirates than their own, and began to encircle and suppress.

"Commander, the encirclement has begun, and almost ten thousand soldiers are fleeing south!"

There was another news from the watch tower, Wang Tong's serious and prudent application finally relaxed, and he said there:
"Sha Dongning, you lead the cavalry of the merchant group and the commander's personal guards to pursue. You don't want to annihilate, just kill and drive the enemy as far as possible. They have nowhere to escape on this Korean island!"

Sha Dongning bowed immediately and said in a low voice:

"The subordinates take the order, and the subordinates first congratulate the commander, this battle is a big victory, and the Japanese pirates are wiped out!"

"It's not a complete victory, there are still tens of thousands of heads waiting to be chopped off, it won't be too late to say these words, go after them first!"

Wang Tong smiled and waved his hands. Wang Tong's personal guards cheered loudly. They rode out into battle and followed Sha Dongning. Cheers are not far away.
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