open sea

Chapter 590 Culture
Ten catties of iron bullets smashed into the enemy's formation, making ripples like flying boulders in a calm lake.

Wang Rulong frowned with the binoculars in hand, and muttered to himself in doubt: "It seems to have been hit, why didn't there be any response?"

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen warriors rushed out from the enemy's main formation in the distance, followed by more than a dozen light feet rushing back, and then it seemed that someone was giving orders, but it didn't look like it, more like some news came out, like locusts flying Generally speaking, it was quickly passed to the ears of every soldier, and then the various departments appeared chaotic.

"Oh, just like the real thing."

Wang Rulong put down the binoculars with his mouth curled up, and casually inserted them into the leather mirror pocket on the waist of the breastplate, and looked at Li Rubai beside him with a chuckle.

Li Rubai held the reins in one hand and spun around on the spot, while the steed under his seat kept digging the ground with its front hooves snorting uncomfortably. He straightened his right sword and asked, "General, let's attack, the enemy's morale has been taken away, and their army's appearance has been lost." Chaos, the shelling worked!"

"Fake! It's all fake!"

Wang Rulong spoke resolutely, his face was full of wisdom pearls, he was very proud, and said with a tilt of his head: "Wang can see clearly that the shell did hit the mourning hall where the Japanese pirate county magistrate is, but it is absolutely impossible to cause such consequences— — Zhao Baihu, tell General Li why this is."

Greeted by the prison bully, hundreds of artillerymen surnamed Zhao stepped forward. After bowing their hands and saluting, they first pointed at the enemy's formation and then clasped their fists and said: "The enemy's formation is set up in Gaotian, and its formation is five feet higher than our formation. My cannon shoots at an elevation angle. Playing a parabola, that is, falling on the enemy line like this, will ram the ground instead of bouncing up to kill the enemy again. As we all know, the master will sit in the center of the formation instead of standing in front of the formation."

"Thus, although the cannon is accurate, it only landed in front of the tent of the enemy's army. Even if it hits, it can only kill the attendant at the door, and cannot hurt the enemy's general, let alone make the enemy's troops in chaos like they are now."

Wang Rulong nodded slowly, and praised: "As expected of graduating from the Navy Lecture Hall, let's go, the two heavy artillery continue to bombard the enemy's camp, the two-pound artillery and the tiger squat go out to lure the enemy - don't unload the artillery, they will attack Yours."

Li Rubai reined in the reins, and his mount stood up in shock. Immediately, the young general raised his hand anxiously to scratch his head, but was stopped by his helmet. He obviously couldn't understand the technical terms like 'elevation angle' and 'parabola'. But I still feel in my heart that what I said seems to make sense, but when I think about it this way, I am not angry at first, and I have nowhere to vent my anger.

A general from generation to generation is not as good as a small hundred household like you?
"A cannon is a cannon. It doesn't matter what the elevation angle is. I don't understand those reasons, but it is true that the enemy's morale is invincible. Even if Li was sitting in the tent and was killed by a weapon five miles away, he would be scared to withdraw from the camp. It’s fine if Brother Wang doesn’t enter the army.” Li Rubai no longer reasoned with Wang Rulong, anyway he couldn’t reason with it, so he just clamped his horse’s belly and ran forward two steps, swiping his sword to the left and right, and said: “Advance to the enemy’s right flank, seal The way of the enemy's retreat!"

The formation changed, and the infantry archers in the central army followed the artillery team sent forward by Wang Rulong. Banner Army.

At this time, Wang Rulong realized the taste - Li Rubai was right.

Why should they be obsessed with whether the enemy's riots were caused by the death of the enemy's chief general? As long as they show invincibility, the attack will be more sure of victory.

But Wang Rulong was not angry, he smiled at the left and right flag officers: "Chen Shuai always said that he is an educated man, we are, have suffered the loss of being educated? Entering the army, rushing forward to face each other, we can't just teach the Jurchen soldiers to be brave and gain military exploits .”

They are good at calculating, and know the trajectory of shells so well that they forget to deduce what it means to an army that a shell falls into the enemy's camp.

The two ten-pound cannons at the back of the formation opened fire again, falling into the range not far from the enemy's main formation. Compared with the previous one, in Wang Rulong's eyes, this shelling was more powerful than before. Almost at the same time as the shelling, the entire enemy line was turbulent to the east ——It doesn't really have much to do with artillery, if there is, it's just because the enemy is scared.

People have heard that the Ming army had a big iron cannon that sounded like thunder, and the naval battle of Osaka Bay relied on this kind of big iron cannon on board to defeat the Oda clan's navy.

But no one has seen it. Oda, Yamana, Isshiki, and Yagi, several daimyos have gathered tens of thousands of troops here, but none of the tens of thousands of people have seen artillery bombardment. The imagination of artillery in their minds is still there. On a relatively large matchlock gun, it is impossible to imagine what it would be like for a ten-jin shell to fly more than a thousand steps in the air and land on the top of the head.

Now they saw it, and they were afraid too.

What made them even more frightened was that the Nizi Army, which was originally deployed in the west of the short hills, had already cut into their line from the flanks, and attacked them amidst the turmoil of news that the general of the Oda Army had been killed.

No one can stop it at this time.

They didn't even know whether Nizi's family came out in full force or a partial team, there was no way to find out.

It wasn't Xingsheng in the mountains who came, he was still gathering troops three miles away, but it was a brave general who led the detour earlier, leading [-] warriors from his own family and more than [-] footlights through the forest, and dozens of wild warriors were gathered on the way to form a group. The Youshi team, with a strength of only five hundred, seized the opportunity at this time to meet the scattered enemy troops from the forest and rush straight to the gap.

To the ears of the Oda coalition army, the sound of the cannon is a song of death-chasing souls, but to the ears of the Nizi family warriors, it is undoubtedly as pleasant as fairy music. The light main force kills scattered and defeats.

On the other side of the line was the [-] troops of the Isshishi Clan who fought as reinforcements. Seeing that the main general, Fujitaka Hosokawa, was hit by a shell and was beaten to blood, he immediately retreated from the main line to stabilize his position. He wanted to withdraw but was worried that the Oda Clan would blame him in the future. The order to retreat was given a little late, and in just that moment, his army collided with Li Rubai who was attacking the flank.

Korean sandalwood archers suppressed the retreating Isshiki army with a rain of arrows at a distance of 150 steps. The brave and fierce Jurchen heavy archers stepped forward from the center, driving the enemy to the left and right wings, and then made way for them to pass through the Jurchen archers' line Only then did the adjourned Liaodong iron cavalry rush up from behind the enemy army-the Liaodong cavalry is invincible against the defeated army.

The real troublesome enemy is the Chinese army, Oda Clan Ashgaru. They have the iron cannon team that Oda Nobunaga is proud of. There are [-] iron cannons mixed with archers and gunmen in eight teams. Even if the main general is killed, they still have the ability to reverse The ability of the situation, the soldiers are the same soldiers, but Oda Nobunaga's invincible record gave them extraordinary morale. They endured two rounds of two-pound artillery bombardment and still maintained a stable line. , and even subtly suppressed Wang Rulong by virtue of his military superiority.

Until the distance between the two sides was close enough, all the guns in Wang Rulong's department launched a volley, and the two completely different shooting techniques clashed head-on, and it was no longer the musketeer who decided the victory or defeat of the battle.

It was the gunner under Wang Rulong's command who borrowed the enemy's iron cannon longbow and placed the tiger squatting cannon after being suppressed by a salvo.

The cannonballs spewed out, and there was no suspense in this battle.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)