Kowloon wins

Chapter 470 Night Attack and Anti-Night Attack ([-])

"Attack!"

At the third quarter of the ugly hour, it was the darkest hour of the day. The sky, which was originally stark and moonless, was already dark, and the earth was dead silent, not even a sound of insects. Tokugawa Kazuki obviously didn't care about the suffocating and oppressive atmosphere. On the contrary, he enjoyed the depression and tension before the imminent war, but he stuck out his tongue and licked his shriveled lips ferociously. Waving his hand, he lowered his voice and gave a low drink.

Following Tokugawa Kazuki's order, the two thousand Japanese soldiers who had been preparing for dispatch for a long time spread like a tide towards the small hill where the Qing army was located. Apparently, the soles of all soldiers' shoes were wrapped in thick cotton cloth.

"beat!"

The distance of one mile is not far, even if the actions of the Japanese army were not so fast, it only took half a stick of incense. Just as he was about to charge wildly towards the Qing army camp on the hillside, he heard a sudden loud noise, which instantly shattered the silence of the night.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

On the mountainside, rows of muzzles that had already been aimed at the black holes below the mountain shot out gorgeous gun flames in an instant, shining one after another, and amidst the bursting gunshots, countless bullets gathered into a web of death , Harvesting the lives of the Japanese soldiers wantonly, in just a moment, before the Japanese vanguard could get up to speed, more than a hundred people were knocked down by the flying bullets, and the rest were in chaos.

"Rush, rush for me, go up the mountain and kill the Chinese dog!"

Tokugawa Kazuki did not walk in the vanguard of the army, but led the main force to walk in the middle of the formation. When he saw the gunfire on the mountainside, how could he not know that his sneak attack had already been calculated by the Qing army? , but he didn't intend to retreat just yet, but drew out the samurai sword hanging from his waist, and shouted the order of a decisive attack.

"Machine gunner, fire me!"

Akiyama, who was in charge of the formation on the left flank, saw that the Japanese army was advancing instead of retreating, and immediately fired at him. While firing with a gun, he roared and gave orders.

"Suddenly..."

With Qiushan's order, dozens of machine guns that had been silent at first started to show off their power, pouring a rain of bullets on the Japanese soldiers who were rushing madly, and the fierce firepower instantly covered most of the hillside. The Japanese soldiers rushing up the mountainside were like wheat cut down by a sickle, falling down one crop after another.

"Send a signal to let the right wing launch a strong attack immediately!"

At the camp of the Japanese Allied Forces, Honda Juntaro in armor didn't sit in the tent of the Chinese army, but stood at the gate of the camp. When he heard the gunshots from the left wing of the camp, he couldn't help but frown. He wrinkled, but he didn't show the slightest panic, after a little deliberation, he waved his hand and gave the order loudly.

"Hay!"

Honda Juntaro's order was obviously different from the planned plan, but the orderly who was accompanying him did not dare to ask more questions, so he hurriedly agreed loudly, and then raised his hand and threw a signal flare at into the air, but after hearing a muffled sound, a blood-red firework exploded brilliantly in the air.

"Attack, kill all the Chinese dogs!"

On the right wing of the Qing army, there are [-] allied forces under the command of the Kintian clan's daimyo, Shimono Moriji, in ambush. Seeing the signal bomb go off at his camp, Shimono Moriji's heart can't help but twitch. It's nothing else, just because according to the predetermined plan, the right-wing ambushes he led should wait for the Qing army to be attracted by the left-wing assault before suddenly rushing into the battlefield, so as to achieve a grand feat of overcoming the resistance of the Qing army in one fell swoop, but right now The gunshots from the left wing had just started, and it was obvious that it was not yet the time for the scheduled attack. Shimono Mori could not be free to commit the crime, but since the Central Military Department had issued an order, no matter how much doubt Shimo Mori had in his heart , that did not dare to disobey Juntaro Honda's order, but seeing him pull out the samurai sword from his waist, he slashed forward with a ferocious expression, roared and gave the order to attack.

"Suddenly..."

I don't know whether the Qing army was really attracted by the Japanese army's left-wing offensive. Shimono Moriji led his troops through the open area in front of the Qing army camp very smoothly, and killed them down the hillside without any surprises. After rushing up the hillside and running wildly for a while, it is enough to rush into the Qing army's camp from behind, but it's a pity that such a not-so-long distance is a dead end that will never end ——Just when Shimono Mori thought he had the chance to win, more than a dozen gun flames on the mountainside flashed incomparably brilliantly, and it was surprising that more than a dozen machine guns fired at the same time.

"Rush, rush for me, those who retreat will be killed without mercy!"

Amidst the sudden sound of gunfire, the vanguard of the Japanese army who charged nearly a hundred fastest was smashed into a sieve on the spot, and the momentum of the wild charge of the Japanese army was immediately stopped. His eyes were red, and he roared again and again to drive the soldiers to launch a fierce charge. Even if the soldiers were knocked down wave after wave by the bullets of the Qing army, they would never back down just like that.

"The gunmen stepped forward and suppressed the firepower of the Chinese, and the crossbowmen followed up and shot for me!"

On the left-wing battlefield, the Japanese vanguard who launched the charge had no casualties. More than two hundred Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground by the powerful firepower of the Qing army. Seeing this, Tokugawa was overjoyed and lost his composure. He gritted his teeth and sent the most elite gunmen and archers in his domain to the front, trying to Fight against the Qing army with firepower.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The Japanese army also had firearms, and the musketeers used old-fashioned matchlock guns, which were thick and long and filled with black gunpowder. As for the bullets, they were made of many small steel balls. The power was not small, similar to the shotguns of later generations. It’s just that it’s troublesome to load, and the shooting speed is also slow. You have to use a matchlock to ignite the wire on the gun, and you have to keep the gun body stable when shooting. Obviously, in such a fierce exchange of fire, the Japanese army’s The role of the blunderbuss is not too great. Before the Japanese blunderbuss could stand up, most of them were wiped out by the fierce firepower of the Qing army. It's just that the Japanese were always ruthless. Although there were heavy casualties, there were still more than [-] people A Japanese musketeer successfully fired the matchlock gun, but after hearing a muffled sound, countless small steel balls covered the Qing army's position like a torrential rain.

"Machine gunner, kill those Japanese slaves with guns for me!"

The arquebus guns were close but not far away. At this time, the distance between the two sides was about [-] steps, and they were already at the edge of the effective coverage of the arquebus guns. When many small steel balls flew to the trenches of the Qing army, their power was already limited. However, this rain of bullets still injured more than [-] soldiers of the Qing army in front of them. In an instant, there was a scream of misery from the mountainside, and the intensive firepower of the Qing army was also caused by this. Luan, upon seeing this, Akiyama became angry, kicked the machine gunner beside him, and shouted angrily.

"Suddenly..."

Being kicked by Akiyama, the machine gunner didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly tilted the muzzle of the gun, aiming at the place where the arquebus was fired before, and swept across the Japanese gunners who were too late to withdraw. Most of them were shot.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Although the Japanese musketeers were almost completely wiped out by the fierce firepower of the Qing army, they managed to win precious time and space for the following Japanese archers. More than a hundred feathered arrows whizzed through the night sky, and fell densely like locusts towards the place where the trenches of the Qing army were.

Casualties inevitably appeared. More than [-] officers and soldiers of the Qing army who couldn't escape were shot like hedgehogs by random arrows on the spot. , No matter how difficult it is for the barrage to block the wild rush of the Japanese soldiers.

"Throw a grenade!"

As soon as the gunshots in the middle of the battlefield suddenly weakened, Akiyama immediately judged that it was difficult to stop the Japanese soldiers' charging footsteps.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Following Akiyama's order, the soldiers of the Qing army on both sides of the battlefield immediately took off the long-handled grenades inserted in the belts around their waists, pulled the strings, and threw them down the mountain in disorder. Groups of flames exploded in the charging queue, and shrapnel flew in all directions, blowing up the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard, crying and howling.

The left-wing Tokugawa Kazuki's charge failed, and the right-wing Shimono Moriji also failed to gain the slightest advantage in the hands of the Qing army. The casualties were heavy, but the two Japanese troops were violent and never followed suit. Unrelentingly launched a wave after wave of charges against the Qing army's position, relying on the fanatical blood that is not afraid of death, he insisted on approaching the Qing army's position step by step against the hail of guns and bullets from the Qing army.

"Draw the knife and drive the Japanese dog down the mountain!"

Seeing that he could not suppress the Japanese army's charge, Akiyama became impatient. If the Japanese army rushed into the position, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army in the trenches would be at a geographical disadvantage, and the consequences would not be fun. Akiyama didn't dare to take such a risk, so he gave a shout, led his troops out of the trench, and rushed into the charging queue of the Japanese army like a tiger descending the mountain, and the brutal hand-to-hand combat began!

"Everyone on the horse, follow me!"

After the battle started for a while, Hong Qing, who had already led his troops quietly lurking in a small wood two miles to the east of the battlefield, finally gave the order to attack, and led 350 riders out of the small woods, but they did not Instead of heading towards the location of the battlefield, he went straight to the camp of the Japanese Allied Forces not far from the city. Amidst the sound of horseshoes rumbling violently, a huge murderous aura suddenly rose up and rushed straight to the sky...

(End of this chapter)