Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 685 Kyushu Battle 9
In the first round of the Japanese attack, Lian Ming's chest... uh, before he even touched the parapet, he was beaten up. Hand grenades and crossbow arrows hit like a hailstorm, blocking all their room for display. The battle turned into a massacre, and finally the Japanese army retreated in embarrassment, a full 500 meters, counting the casualties, good guy, just the first attack, they discounted nearly 2000 people!

The heavy casualties are second to none. Anyway, there are so many families sharing the burden. After these casualties are shared among more than a dozen daimyos, it is not so eye-catching. That is the most unacceptable.Mao Li Yuanhui looked at the troops with heavy casualties, and he was so angry that he stared at Shimadzu Nushi, and said: "Shimadzu-kun, why didn't you tell us in advance that the Ming army had such sharp firearms, which caused the death and injury of our warriors?" Serious? Why!?"

Shimadzu said angrily, "Maori-kun, the warriors of our Shimadzu family have no fewer casualties than you!"

Mao Li Yuanhui pointed to several warriors injured by grenades, and said angrily, "You mean that I wronged you? So many warriors were blown to death by this despicable firearm without even touching the enemy's clothes. Disabled, shouldn’t you give everyone an explanation!?”

Seeing that these two were about to quarrel, Huashan Haogu quickly bowed to Mao Li Yuanhui and said, "General Mao Li, please calm down. It was the first time we fought against the Ming army, and we were killed by their artillery and crossbows without much fighting. Destroyed, the Ming army did not use all its capabilities in that battle, so we have never seen this kind of firearm, and there is a huge loophole in intelligence, this is our responsibility, I am very sorry!"

Mao Li Yuanhui snorted angrily, and reluctantly accepted Huashan Haogu's explanation.In fact, what Huashan Haogu said is very reasonable. The army of the Shimadzu family only fought an outpost battle with the Ming army. Naturally, the Ming army would not be so stupid as to suppress all their family assets in a small-scale outpost battle. There must still be some trump cards left - if the Allied Ming army is really so stupid, the Shimadzu family probably won't need to ask them for help. The strength of the Satsuma domain alone is enough to drive all the Ming army out of Hakata Bay and feed them fish.

Hosokawa Yukiji said: "Everyone, stop arguing. The most urgent thing is to quickly find a way to break through the Ming army's defense line. Kagoshima's water source is cut off, so it won't last long!" The bows and crossbows are extremely sharp, and our tens of thousands of troops are helpless with just such a simple line of defense. If they break through Kagoshima Castle and rely on the fortified city, it will be even more difficult to deal with!"

Motoki Mouri and Yukio Hosokawa lost their tempers in one word.The tenacity and ferocity of the Ming army were beyond their imagination, and they were helpless with just a parapet made of sand. If they were allowed to hide behind the thick city wall, it would be fine!

At this time, the battlefield changed again.The Japanese samurai who came out of Kagoshima City fought bravely regardless of the cost. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they also won the battle opportunity: after firing for a long time, the barrels of the Dutch muskets were already scorched, and their firepower was greatly reduced—— ——No way, the muskets of this era are just like this. No army can defeat the opponent by firing a volley of guns. In the end, the victory is determined by the charge of the blade.The Japanese samurai struggled to pile the corpses of men and horses into the trenches, trying to fill in several passages.Some daring samurai couldn't wait any longer. The panicked Dutch soldiers only heard a roar, and a Japanese samurai in black rushed over with a spear in his hand, leaped over the edge of the ditch, and jumped over the river. Half the trench.This samurai showed amazing jumping ability as soon as he made a shot, but he was not a gazelle after all. He only jumped more than half of the three-meter-wide ditch before his body began to fall under the action of gravity.The guy let out a deep roar, and thrust the barrel of the spear in his hand toward the bottom of the ditch, propping up his body. The barrel of the gun suddenly stretched into a bow shape, and then bounced straight. The warrior flipped in the air for two and a half weeks. Stunned, he jumped over the one-meter-high parapet, and landed firmly behind the parapet. Before his feet landed, the spear in his hand shot out like lightning, and hit the neck of a dumbfounded Dutch soldier, piercing the neck. The sharp momentum still persisted, and then pierced the throat of a Dutch soldier behind him, piercing the two soldiers into a string!
Several Dutch soldiers picked up their spears and charged at the dangerous Japanese samurai. The Japanese samurai shouted loudly and threw the spears vigorously, and with a puff, he put two Dutch soldiers together again. His thin figure followed He shot out with a long gun, unsheathed the long knife at his waist, rolled up a ball of knife light the size of a wheel, and shone it on a Dutch soldier as a hood, and cut the spear in the Dutch soldier's hand into two pieces like cutting sugarcane , took off one shoulder.A few Dutch soldiers behind were furious, their spears were raised and stabbed down fiercely, and the tip of the spear rolled past a Dutch soldier's crotch. Both feet were cut off at the ankle, and he fell to the ground and screamed!This Japanese samurai was really skilled in martial arts, and six or seven Dutch soldiers fell under his sword while the rabbit was rising and falling, and a breach in the defense line was inevitable.The Japanese samurai who had been red-eyed for a long time roared and rushed through the ditch filled with corpses, and climbed over the parapet. In the process, the Dutch stabbed with spears. Some guys with very high martial arts skills rolled past the spear shafts and fell among the Dutch. Their knives were like lightning, and they slashed and stabbed, setting off a bloody storm.More and more Japanese samurai leaped over the parapet and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Dutch soldiers. Behind the parapet, blood splashed and heads rolled around, like a slaughterhouse for Shura!
The sad thing about the Dutch army is that their muskets do not have bayonets—the bayonets in the true sense of Europe were not produced by the French until 1647, so the self-defense capabilities of those musketeers are quite weak. Once they are approached by Japanese samurai , is basically a dead end.What's even more tragic is that the number of musketeers accounted for [-]% of their total force, and they all imagined that they could defeat each other with fierce volleys of guns like they did against African natives and South American Indians.Now they have paid the price for their mistakes. The fierce Japanese samurai told them with bloody facts: it is a very terrible mistake to imagine relying on musketeers to win a battle without a bayonet!Of course they also have spearmen, but these spearmen are not from the regular army. Compared with the regular army, there is a big gap in discipline, courage and combat skills. Now they meet Japanese samurai who have been immersed in martial arts all their lives. , this gap is even more fatal, more and more Japanese samurai broke through the parapet, plunged into the middle of the musketeers, samurai swords flew, blood and flesh were thrown, like slaughtering dogs and sheep, the Dutch army was beaten back steadily!

Both Shimadzu Nushi and Mori Motoki could see clearly, they looked at each other and nodded each other.Shimadzu immediately stepped forward and shouted at the soldiers of the coalition army: "Don't be intimidated by a small defeat! Bring all the shield soldiers to the front, and press all the iron artillery teams to break their defenses and smash their defenses!" Courage, let their generals kneel before our horses and tremble, and let the corpses of their soldiers fill the battlefield! You are all the best warriors in Japan, and the soul of a heroic warrior is burning in your body, you were born You should go to fight, and the real brave should find their home on the battlefield, whether it is fame or shroud in horse leather! Attack! Drive them into the sea!"

"Ow——"

The Japanese samurai raised their swords and shouted in unison. More than 200 trumpeters blew the conch horn at the same time. A large number of shield platoon players held spears and large shields and marched forward in formation. The musketeers and longbowmen followed closely behind, and behind them were He is a Hatamoto samurai wearing leather armor and carrying a flag on his back.This time they didn't dare to be careless anymore, they all showed their special skills, and they were able to overwhelm more than 7000 people in one go!

Yang Menglong chuckled: "Is it coming for real?" He turned around and asked the gang of reform-through-labor prisoners: "Have you held any activities?"

I don’t know if Shimadzu Nushi, Mori Motoki and others will be vomited with anger when they hear this sentence. I dare say that the Ming army just brought down nearly 2000 of them in one breath just now to warm up! ?
Yuan Zongdi shouted: "The event is open! Just wait for those people to come up and die... Do you want to let the rocket launcher fire?"

Yang Menglong said: "No need, save the bazooka for the last time. To deal with them, you only need the array-breaking crossbow and grenades!"

Luo Laosan ran over and called, "Master Hou, something is wrong with Hong Yi, the parapet is about to fall!"

Yang Menglong turned his head and looked around, "Hey guys, more than 300 Japanese samurai have already crossed the parapet and rushed into the middle of the Dutch infantry formation, and they are killing them."The Dutch packed too many musketeers into the military formation, and the number of spearmen was seriously insufficient. They were unable to provide strong protection for the musketeers, and the situation was extremely passive.It should be said that the right stab tactics of the Dutch spearmen are still very effective. Many Japanese samurai with superior martial arts were stabbed down by the sharp right stab without any suspense. However, the Japanese used darts coated with tetrodotoxin and the equally sharp cross gun. In response to the Dutch, some warriors rolled into the middle of the spear formation close to the ground and slashed at the legs of the Dutch spearmen with their swords.These guys rolling around on the ground have always been a serious problem for European infantry phalanxes. From the Macedonian system to the Spanish infantry phalanx, the possibility of injured and fallen enemies getting back to their feet must be completely blocked, because a rotation is not enough. For a flexible infantry phalanx, these guys suddenly appearing from behind are really terrifying.Now the Dutch spearmen are encountering such trouble, with people constantly falling to the ground with leg injuries.However, compared with the musketeers, they were lucky. At least they could use their spears to fight the Japanese army to the death. The musketeers did not even have such a chance. After being approached by the Japanese samurai, their self-defense weapons were only All that was left was the gun butt and dagger. The consequences of using such weapons to fight against the highly skilled and ruthless Japanese samurai could be imagined.However, Yang Menglong is a very unsympathetic guy. The Dutchman was beaten until he cried for his father and mother. He just curled his lips and said: "If even a few hundred Japanese samurai can't be dealt with, they should die as soon as possible." Just ignore them and let them fight. How they fight is their business and has nothing to do with us."

Yuan Zongdi was a little worried: "It's not good, is it? After all, we are allies, and we should provide necessary support..."

Yang Menglong said: "None of them asked for help from us, what a fart we are to support! Stop talking nonsense and concentrate on fighting! Mortars, aim at the enemy's shield formation and smash me to death!"

The artillerymen responded cheerfully, ignoring the roar of the Japanese large Franco machine guns, adjusted the angle of the mortars, loaded the shells, and set the range to 200 meters, eight 120mm long barrel mortars fired at the same time!
White gunpowder smoke and light yellow flames rose from the trench, flashed past, and then, the shells rushed straight up, then folded, and smashed into the impeccable shield formation of the Japanese army like a stone.The shield array that was going to block the crossbow arrows encountered a high-explosive shell, and the result was that people turned their backs on their backs. With the roar of the violent explosion, the entire shield array was shattered, and the Japanese soldiers who were hit by the shrapnel spurted blood all over their bodies and fell to the ground Hissing and screaming, some of them didn't even have a chance to scream, their whole bodies were torn apart, and they died before they fell to the ground.The first shot smashed the entire shield into a mess. The artillerymen of the Ming army were unreasonable and relentless. They buried their heads in dull clothes and fought fiercely. There was a muffled sound in the trenches. Large groups of black and red fireballs, the Japanese army's flesh and blood flew everywhere!
What ghost cannon is this?
Faced with this kind of curved gun that can smash shells without showing up, the Japanese army was once again dumbfounded.

Yang Menglong said that I still have thirteen types of Pulan, you can enjoy it slowly!
(End of this chapter)