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Chapter 212 Bloody Battle of Three Hundred Cannons in Pyongyang (1)

In the entire city of Pyongyang, the total strength of the Japanese army is about 5000, plus the 2 Korean new army, totaling more than 3000.Finally, according to the deployment of Chief Konishi, among the guards of Pyongyang City, the Japanese army guarded the northwest of the city with heavy troops.Qixingmen, Xiaoximen, Tongtongmen and other places are guarded by more than [-] Japanese soldiers, equipped with a large number of muskets, bows and arrows.

On the east side of the city, President Xiaoxi judged that the Ming army would not attack, so he did not deploy many troops.Finally, in the Nanlumen and Hantanmen in the south of the city, there are 5000 new Korean troops guarding them.The rest are led by President Xiaonishi himself as the reserve team for each branch.

After the arrangement, President Xiaonishi's self-confidence returned. According to the information he obtained, the Ming army's muskets were far less powerful than the Japanese army's muskets. With some firecrackers, bows and arrows, he wanted to attack a fortified city like Pyongyang. In the end, they can only look at the city and sigh.Of course, this is the case where the Japanese army ignored the artillery of the Ming army as a whole.President Xiaoxi believes in himself, as long as he stands firm and fights steadily, and waits for help, the final victory will definitely belong to him.

The eighth day of the first month of the 21st year of Wanli.

In the morning, the weather was still cold, but inside and outside Pyongyang, the tense atmosphere before the war had long been shrouded.At this time, the Ming army had come out of the camp in a whole team, all neatly dressed, and densely packed outside the city.

Most of the more than [-] people who aided the dynasty were cavalry from Liaodong Town, Xuanfu Town, and Datong Town. According to the situation of the army in the Ming Dynasty, the cavalry were all in armor.Among the cavalry in each town, whether they were soldiers or officers, all of them wore eight-petal caps, iron pointed helmets, and chain-linked iron armor. Everyone had a mighty appearance.Moreover, they have been fighting the Mongols for many years, and they are selected from various towns, so it can be said that they are all brave men.

Especially the Liaodong iron cavalry in Liaodong Town has a strange feature, that is, the cavalry all hold firearms-three-eyed guns.Three-eyed blunderbuss, made of fine iron, has three blunderbuss tubes, which are bundled and welded together. When shooting, they can be fired continuously. Within [-] steps, the firepower is powerful.Because the barrel of the three-eye gun is short and the chamber is large, there is little danger of the chamber exploding.After three consecutive rounds of shooting immediately, few of the enemies on the opposite side survived.

Even if the enemy is not defeated, although everyone in the Liaodong cavalry is equipped with a waist knife, it seems that they rarely use it.Because their three-eyed guns are equipped with long wooden handles, making the whole gun up to two meters long.After shooting, they swung the three-eyed blunderbuss, which could be used as maces. Whoever was hit by them would lose half their lives if they didn't die.The only disadvantage is that the three-eyed blunderbuss can't shoot as far as the step bow, and in rainy weather, it can only be used as a pure mace.However, quite a few of the Liaodong cavalry were equipped with bows and arrows.

After Huang Laifu saw it, he was very impressed, and thought that he could try to do the same when he went back.

In addition, the Zhejiang soldiers led by Weizhong, dressed in red mandarin duck battle jackets, holding wolf whisks, spears, bird guns, rattan cards, long cards and other weapons, stood in the queue, which was also very eye-catching.There are also [-] rattan soldiers from Fujian, each with a nearly two-meter-high rattan shield in their left hand. This kind of rattan shield is made of special materials, which can completely block any firecrackers' shots, but they are afraid of the bombardment of artillery.They hold long knives in their right hands, and ten wide-mouthed throwing knives pinned to their waists. Looking from a distance, they are covered by dense layers of rattan shields, like a castle of rattan shields.

There is also an army from Wuzhaibao, Shanxi Town, also leading horses. The generals are all in armor, lined up neatly and solemnly, with banners flying like clouds fluttering in the wind.It shows a generally strong sense of chilling.

All kinds of messengers and patrol flags came and went, and all kinds of orders from Li Rusong, the admiral of the Chinese army, were passed on from time to time, and the formations were full of tension.However, apart from the nervousness before the war, the soldiers of the Ming army in each formation still had a clear sense of excitement on their faces.

Because the admiral had already issued an order yesterday that the first person to climb the city in this battle will be rewarded with 5000 taels of silver. 5000 taels is not a small sum, and it naturally made the generals very excited, and everyone wanted to be brave.Although the admiral emphasized yesterday that this battle can only move forward and not stop to fight for the head of the Japanese, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment.But with these rewards, that's enough.

At the position of the central army, Li Rusong carefully observed the movement on the top of the city.On it, there are all kinds of Japanese army flags waving in the wind, embroidered with various eye-catching military emblems, you can see the dense bamboo spears over there, and all kinds of Japanese iron gunners holding firecrackers, just like looking at the enemy. The Ming army under the city.

"It seems that the Japanese are ready, there will be a fierce battle later!" Li Rusong thought to himself.

At this time, Chief Xiaoxi was supervising the battle at various gates in the west of the city. Sure enough, according to his arrangement last night, the main attack direction of the Tang army was here. This relieved Chief Xiaoxi that his busy work all night was not in vain.

On the top of the city, Xingchang Xiaoxi wore a front peach-shaped helmet and thick armor, just staring intently at the Tang army below the city.Beside him stood a few Japanese generals wearing heavy and luxurious red and green armor.These gorgeous armors are covered on their bodies, which are generally less than 1.6 meters tall, which is quite comical.

In addition to these generals, behind them, there are many banner followers, iron cannons, black-clothed mothers, red-clothed mothers and others.Except for these people, ordinary Japanese soldiers wearing conical hats were densely packed on the top of the city.

Banner is considered a senior samurai, each equipped with a sharp samurai sword, but these people, not everyone can afford iron armor and horses and harnesses.Japan is still too poor. Even a daimyo with tens of thousands of stones can usually only support a few hundred miscellaneous soldiers. No daimyo will issue good armor to the samurai miscellaneous soldiers under him.

President Konishi was not bad. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's confidant, the First Army Corps he led was the elite of the Japanese invaders, with the best equipment. Among the high-level warriors, most of them were equipped with iron armor.Ordinary samurai, there are also some bow sets, iron cannon ashigaru, and some ashigaru (leather + iron armor), or leather armor and paper.As for ordinary Japanese soldiers, of course they don't have any armor.

As for the formation of the Japanese army at this time, it is generally divided into preparation teams.One is prepared for 620 eight people.Among them, there are about 50 cavalry, 390 infantry, and 230 eight non-combatants.How many teams are there for each other?Each team has about 25 people, including 1 commander, 2 cavalrymen, 8 pikemen, 5 archers, 4 iron artillerymen, 5 people holding sickles (for military service) and small flag holders (standard bearers).

However, their so-called cavalry are people who ride on horseback to the battlefield, and they are limited to the female guards, the banner, and the messengers and generals.When it is time to go to battle, on the battlefield, except for the general who is absolutely not allowed to dismount, the rest of the cavalry must dismount to fight.In fact, the cavalry of the Japanese army at this time were basically infantry on horseback.

Finally, there were very few shield players in the Japanese army at this time. That was because the bows of the Japanese army were famous soft bows, which were not very powerful and had no threatening long-range weapons, so there was no need to use shields to block arrows.In addition, because the Japanese like to fight hand-to-hand and advocate the idea of ​​attack, the Japanese army rarely uses shields.At this time, in the First Army of Chief Xiaoxi, there was not a single shield player.

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"Attack!"

At the hour of the hour, the sky was bright, Li Rusong waved his hand, and immediately a vicious battle that will be remembered in history began.

The trumpet gun sounded, and with the commotion in the position of the Chinese army, the heavy tanks of the Ming army were pushed out.In the chariot, there is a cannon with multiple iron hoops equipped with iron claws, iron trips, etc. to fix the cannon body.These cannons all weighed hundreds of catties and were two meters long. They were named the General's Frangji heavy artillery, which could fire lead bullets weighing seven catties.

This kind of power, replaced by Western artillery, can be regarded as a seven-pound gun. However, looking at the modern history of Westerners, there has never been a history of using more than 100 seven-pounder guns at the same time. There were two howitzers and three six-pounders.A regiment of 4 men has only sixty six-pound cannons in the artillery column.Their field cannons also appeared later.

Soon, more than 100 heavy-duty chariots from the Ming army were pushed out. In addition, more than 200 medium-sized chariots were also pushed out one after another. .

The wheels of the side-car tanks are high at the front and low at the rear, and the cannons can be fired directly on the tanks. After the gunners are in formation and see the flag of the Chinese army's position ordering to fire, they rush to reload.The Frang machine artillery in the Ming army is different from the artillery of later generations, and they are all equipped with rear-loaded guns.Before the battle, the gunpowder is loaded with lead bullets, iron sand, stones, gunpowder and other materials.After one shot is fired, another sub-gun is replaced.Such fast loading, the speed is comparable to the howitzers of later generations.
Generally speaking, the Frang machine artillery of the Ming army is equipped with four to five sub-guns, so that the firepower of the cannon bombardment can be maintained at all times.It was a tragedy to be bombarded by hundreds of these cannons.Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages, and the breech of the Franc machine artillery is equipped with sub-guns.The firing speed has been increased, but the distance has been sacrificed. The general heavy Frangler artillery can only shoot one mile away, and the light and medium Frangler artillery can hit closer.

However, Huang Laifu believes that as long as he does not fight against Westerners in the future, the opponents in front of him, whether they are Mongols, Manchurians, or Japanese, have enough French artillery to deal with them.In fact, if it weren't for the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty, so that there was no money available in the late Wanli period, and all the guns and weapons were lost, the Manchus would have no chance to rise.

At this time, the generals of the Japanese army on the top of the city, from Xiao Nishixingchang to ordinary soldiers, looked stupidly at the busy Ming army below the city, not understanding what the Ming army was doing.

No wonder they, although the Japanese firearms are slightly better than the Ming army, but they have never seen any cannons.Because of the Japanese culture at that time, wheel transportation was prohibited, and artillery could not be moved in the field, so they did not understand the power of artillery.There were only forty cannons called Ishihaya by the Japanese army until the Second Korean War, but few people knew how to use them.

Therefore, they watched helplessly as the gunners of the Ming army outside the city calmly arranged, and then more than 300 French machine guns fired at the city...

Afterwards, the Korean state recorded this: "All the cannons outside the city were fired at once, and the sound was like the sky moving, and the Russians spent their lights to candle the sky... The cannons of the heavenly soldiers were like the sky falling apart, and all the offenders were burnt to death!"

(End of this chapter)