open sea

Chapter 587
If future generations ask Yamanaka Yukimori what is the most powerful thing he has done in his life, in the past he would say that the most powerful thing he has done in this life is to help the master who lost his family name to rejuvenate his son.

But if he is asked in the future, he will say that he once used cheering and roaring to fool his subordinates in battle, and in the end he really roared down to the heavenly army.

Uh... Maybe it should be said that the sky army goes to sea?

As the saying goes, it’s better to come early than to come early. Chen Bazhi not only came by coincidence, but also came early. He led his army to float on the sea for several days.

On the distant sea, Chen Bazhi has been staring at Tongshan City built by the sea with binoculars on the warship, and looking at the positions belonging to the famous mountain army outside Tongshan City. Although he can't see the deployment of troops clearly, sometimes he can roughly see the enemy troops. Force changes.

In his position, because of the mountain range, he could not see the formation of the Nizi army, but he could see the only way the Nizi army must pass to retreat. He had been waiting for the mountain to retreat——Wang Rulong on another ship asserted in the strategic deployment In this battle, as long as Yamanaka Yukimori retreats without losing his troops, they will win.

As for whether Yamanaka Yukimori could win without retreating, Wang Rulong thought at the beginning that the Nizi Army might not win unless the enemy launched an attack in the morning.

There is a disadvantage of fighting in the mountains and forests. Once the battle situation is unfavorable, the soldiers will not have too much heart to fight to the death, and the rout will be easier than in the plains, because the mountains and forests are easy for the soldiers to hide. When people know that they will not die if they run and hide, they will not give birth. Heart of death.

But this is mutual. Our army is prone to defeat, and the enemy army is also defeated. Although the Nizi army does not have an advantage in terms of strength, they coincidentally occupy the high ground and the sunny side. This is in line with the standard of military law. To launch an attack, as long as the battle is delayed until the afternoon, the storm will become very difficult for the enemy.

The reason is very simple, because dazzling.

However, Chen Bazhi hoped that Yamanaka Xingsheng would retreat by himself, so that the enemy army would be so numerous that they would definitely pursue them. They would be empty after chasing Tongshan City. When the news of Tongshan City's breach spread to the west, the enemies chasing the Nizi army would naturally be defeated and retreat.

Now, although the enemy is not strong compared to himself, he is full of energy and morale. In Chen Bazhi's heart, he is unwilling to fight against such an enemy. He should let them chase and beat the deer.

When they are comfortable playing and retreat, the enemy who is tired, weak and timid is the best enemy.

But at this time, both sides fought for an hour. Seeing that it was almost noon, Shikasuke Yamanaka did not intend to retreat, and Chen Bazhi couldn't help but see him being beaten to death or severely injured, so he ordered the fleet to head to Tongshan. Marching on the coast of the city, more than [-] lucky boats put down Li Rubai's infantry and Wang Rulong's army.

The Liuding warship and five shark ships lined up on the coast facing the southwest corner of the city. Chen Bazhi slightly raised his right hand from the side of the ship to cover his ears.

Boom, boom, boom!

The cannons on the starboard side of the double-deck blasted out one by one, blasting a cloud of gunpowder smoke on the side of the ship, followed by five shark ships roaring under the order of the flag officer, and dozens of General Zhenshuo's shells flew across two miles in a blink of an eye, heavily bombarding the On top of the stone walls and wooden barriers of Tongshan City, it is difficult to hit accurately at this distance. It is impossible to blast through the city gate first, but fortunately, the city is big enough, and no shells missed after all.

A burst of artillery bombarded Chen Bazhi, who lost all interest, waved his hands and said: "Stop bombing, it's rare to see a stone city, and the position of the ship is not good, let's see the army first." I can’t go on, but... let the defenders in the city watch their own army be defeated, they should open the city and surrender, right?”

Not far from the shore, Wang Rulong's banner troops disembarked quickly one by one. Those who disembarked first rushed to deploy their defenses and then disembarked in an assembled formation. With the sound of the three-eyed blunderbuss used as trumpets, they moved forward alternately, leaving [-] banner troops behind. The enemy troops stayed behind in the defense city outside Tongshan City, the remaining [-] or so followed Wang Rulong carrying guns and cannons all the way, each of them carried carrying gear and tied a bundle of thin wooden sticks of more than three feet and went forward.

Li Rubai's miscellaneous soldiers also disembarked immediately.

Holding a helmet and bulging jackets under messy iron armor and leather armor, the Jurchen had a hair style more fierce than that of a Japanese samurai on her head. She strode forward with a knife and a spear holding her helmet, followed by Korean soldiers who were lightly armed with bows and bows. A mighty horse with a three-eyed blunderbuss hanging upside down in its saddlebags and a hard bow and arrows stuffed in its pouches.

The last group of Liaodong uncles with helmets and armours, sat astride their horses, armed from head to toe, each holding a waist knife with one hand, and not holding the reins with the other hand, either lightly swung the long pole of the flail or carried the gourd on his shoulders , or long soldiers with spears upside down, eyebrow sharp knives, etc., with an arrogant look on their faces, and the cavalry pointed and pointed at the enemy troops in the distance who were entrenched in the short hills, chatting and laughing happily.Following the horses drawn by the North Korean soldiers, they marched forward with a flicker.

Li Rubai also straddles his horse and is clearly armored. He is looking into the distance with a binoculars. Ming came to investigate, and when he saw the hordes of Ming soldiers here, he almost fell off his horse in fright, and ran back in a panic.

Behind him came the unabashed laughter of the Jurchen and the Liaodong master. Just as the North Korean soldiers wanted to join in the laughter, Li Rubai turned his head and stared from left to right with stern eyes—without saying a word, abruptly Everyone choked back their laughter.

After being signaled by the general, the Jurchen warrior stretched his muscles and bones and took out the bowstring from his swollen arms. The Liaodong master lightly swung the flail, and those who felt that the weapon was not suitable for their hands fumbled on the horse's back, drawing out their swords and holding them for a while. Gu Duo, and someone pulled out a pair of long ring whips with hammer heads from under their buttocks.

They no longer need someone to lead the horses. The horses kicked to the rear of the formation and walked to a place further back. On the other side, Wang Rulong also led the banner army to move closer to this side, dividing the troops into two wings, and one frame carried two catties. By the way, the cannon cart temporarily serving as the vehicle for the tiger crouching cannon was dragged slowly into the formation by two little Japanese horses. The flag army pushing the rocket cart and the small flag officers of each team stood alone in front of the formation. The military appearance...the military appearance Not serious at all.

Behind the small flags on the two wings, the flag soldiers stepped forward row by row and planted wooden sticks in front of the formation, mixed with clods of soil and shields to quickly build a low wall of earth and wood that was not so strong and might be shot through by lead, and then followed Wang Rulong Under the order, everyone pulls out the tent cloth one by one and spreads it one by one. This kind of cloth was produced in the Junwei Dyeing Workshop of Jizhen, Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, and was designed by Qi Jiguang, a famous designer of the Ming Dynasty.

It also has a stone pattern, which is very realistic.

But after a while, the left and right wings built a "stone low wall" that could only block direct bows and arrows. Wang Rulong clenched his fists and smiled. They have tested that the Japanese iron cannons are not strong in penetrating power but have great damage, unlike Ming blunderbusses. At thirty paces, sometimes it can shoot through a person and shoot back. Most of the time, the iron cannon can't come out after hitting it. Of course, people can't survive.

But with this wall, after penetrating the outermost wooden shield, although various iron cannons with different calibers, different projectiles, and different charge formats are used, they can sometimes penetrate the wooden wall and injure the banner troops behind. , but their armor is difficult to penetrate again.

The entire army is backed up to the coast to form a battle formation, using a formation that emphasizes the right wing and despises the left wing—in fact, the left wing also attaches great importance to it, and that side is still within the range of the ship cannon. The troops are all good.

Therefore, when Oda Yamana and other princes' allied forces rushed out of the forest to form a formation, their general and ashigaru looked like they had seen a ghost.

The Ming army on the other side used some kind of magic method to help them, and the Ming army used some kind of magic method to build two low cities!
(End of this chapter)