Zhao Lie sat upright on the Andalusian horse.
He quietly observed the changes in the battle situation.
Up to now, everything on the battlefield was proceeding according to his expectations.
The artillery bombardment forced the Japanese to leave Yokohama Castle and the main camp, and they could only advance to engage the Polu army.
This ruined the plan of the shogunate army to fight in the city and was forced to win a decisive battle in the field.
Of course, the cavalry of the Polu Army has not yet been fully formed, that is, the real cavalry commander and the combat barracks can rush into the battle immediately, and the cavalry warfare of preparing the army is far from being formed.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Polu Army to attack the enemy with the Jiannuban cavalry, but facing the Japanese cavalry, the Polu Army's cavalry still had a lot to do.
Since all situations were developing in favor of the Polu army, and Li Lu, Han Jian, Guan Ming, and Wang Haizhou were in control, Zhao Lie could only be a spectator.
When the military generals at all levels announced that they had taken one hundred and fifty steps, a low trumpet sound came from behind and drifted far away.
"Tiger."
All the infantry roared and stood still under the general's order.
This loud roar also made the shogunate army on the opposite side jump.
It was because the Polu army had too many tricks, which made them extremely frightened.
Zhao Guang saw from the back that the gunman in front began to load the gun under the general's order.
He saw that the gunman skillfully loaded the projectiles into the gun tube and then pressed it with a stick.
Under the general's order, they all prepared their muskets on their shoulders towards the Japanese.
For a time, thousands of gunmen in front raised their guns almost at the same time.
The Japanese people on the opposite side immediately felt their scalps explode.
After all, they knew the power of iron cannons very well.
Those who were hit by the projectiles could not withstand it even if they were wearing iron armor, not to mention that more than half of the people here were wearing bamboo armor.
Once the projectile penetrates the armor, it will smash the person's internal organs to pieces, making it impossible to clean up.
They often bleed to death from pain or die from a high fever that does not subside after a few days.
But this thing is too expensive, many daimyo can't afford it, and the shogunate only has a few thousand, but now there are thousands of iron cannons in the first row of the Ming army opposite, and there are more iron cannons behind them.
For a time, almost all the Japanese samurai Ashigaru were frightened.
When Naotaka Ii saw these iron cannons, he was immediately horrified.
For the first time, he thought that he might lose this battle.
At this time, all hope lies in the three thousand iron gunners in front, if they can kill most of the Ming army's iron gunners.
When the pikemen at the back enter hand-to-hand combat, they have a chance to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
He immediately asked the escort to send orders to the forward iron artillery generals and ashigaru generals to defeat the Ming army's iron artillerymen.
In fact, this is a matter of fighting each other.
If the Ming army's iron gunners, who have the numerical advantage, are completely destroyed, then there will not be many iron gunners left in the shogunate army.
But at this time, Naotaka Ii had no time to worry.
If killing these iron gunners can lead to a victory for the shogunate army, he will not hesitate.
As long as the Ming army can be defeated, the aura of victory in the joint battle can also cover up the flaw of Ashikaga's losses.
I believe that the general will not blame him for this.
On the contrary, if he is defeated, everything will be over.
When the Japanese army passed the already marked boundary of 100 steps, a rapid sound of horns suddenly sounded from the Polu army formation.
The bosses all shouted and opened fire.
Bang bang bang, thousands of firecrackers were fired, and the fire flashed in the huge plume of smoke.
Thousands of projectiles roared straight towards the Japanese battle formation.
Puffing, the dull sound of flesh penetration kept ringing.
The bamboo armor was powerless against the firecracker projectiles, and was easily penetrated by the projectiles.
Then loud cries were heard in front of the Japanese formation, and the iron gunners and infantrymen in front were The archers fell in large numbers, falling to the ground in various grotesque postures like felled trees.
For a moment, shrill howls and the smell of blood filled the entire front of the formation.
The Japanese Ashigaru who were lucky enough not to be hit behind them gritted their teeth and quickened their pace and continued to move forward.
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Just like when they were under bombardment, they had to speed up their pace to get through.
At the same time, they were all surprised.
Iron cannons can only be fired at sixty steps.
If they are too far away, they will have no lethality and cannot break armor at all.
In front of me, Akito fires at a hundred steps and can break the armor.
What is going on?
Behind him, Hota Masamori's eyes widened in surprise, but no sound came out despite moving his mouth up and down.
Naotaka Ii, on the other hand, was livid.
Akito's iron cannon had a range of a hundred steps, which was terrifying, and his own iron cannon and infantry archer had to move forward forty steps before they could start to counterattack.
How many lives will it take to fill this?
But it was simply unimaginable to withdraw at this time.
If the Ming army, which was all cavalry, were to cover up and kill them from behind, the shogunate army would be able to retreat from here all the way to Edo, and not many people would be able to set foot in Edo Castle.
"Hotita Masamori, I order you to step forward immediately and urge the ashigaru to break into the enemy's position as soon as possible."
Naotaka Ii shouted ferociously to Hota Masamori.
"My subordinates take orders."
As the deputy general, Hota Masamori must of course obey Ii Naotaka's general orders.
At the same time, Hota Masamori, who is young and energetic and comes from a samurai family, does not believe in evil.
Although he is very frustrated at the moment, he firmly believes that once he breaks the formation and fights hand-to-hand, The Ming army will collapse.
Hota Masamori gritted his teeth and raised his hand, and nearly a hundred of his guards rushed forward with him.
Bang bang bang, the gunmen in the second row of the Polu Army began to fire, and the whining sound of projectiles piercing the air was heard again.
Amidst these terrifying sounds, the scene just now was repeated again.
Almost a large group of Japanese iron gunners and crossbowmen fell to the ground and struggled for their lives.
The Japanese soldiers behind continued to rush forward, stepping on the dead or dying Ashigaru corpses.
They were about to reach sixty steps.
This was the distance from which they could fight back, so they ignored their comrades on the ground who were not dead yet. , if they delay for a while longer, they will be the ones who fall to the ground and die next time.
At this moment, another series of deep and rapid horn sounds came from the Ming army's formation, covering up all the sounds on the battlefield.
All the Japanese people's hearts sank, because they discovered that as long as this kind of noise is loud, , basically nothing good will happen, there will definitely be a blow coming.
Boom boom boom, dozens of six-pound cannons and nine-pound cannons that had not roared for a while roared at the same time, but this time what appeared were not black and red balls, but densely packed black shotguns.
These shotguns rushed dozens of steps away like lightning and rushed into the Japanese formation on the opposite side.
Immediately, many Japanese were hit and fell to the ground.
They let out miserable howls that were not human voices in the air.
Many of them were covered in wounds.
He was hit by several shotguns and his body was almost torn apart.
No amount of armor could stop such violent blows.
The first row of Japanese troops was almost completely wiped out, and there were Japanese Ashigaru and samurai who fell and rolled everywhere.
Sho Sasaki heard the explosion of Akito's artillery while walking quickly.
Of course, when he looked forward in surprise, he happened to see Kameda Yonejiro's head exploded in front of him.
The iron horn-shaped headband could not help at all.
Blocking the impact of the shotgun, the headband flew away, the red and white objects were also scattered in all directions, and Kameda Yonejiro's body fell backwards with a crash.
Several ashigaru around Kameda were also hit and fell out, and the place immediately became chaotic.
Seeing such a violent scene, Sasaki Xiang's stomach churned and he almost vomited.
This was the most horrifying scene he had ever seen.
At this time, the fire gunners in the third row fired again, taking advantage of the fire to attack the Japanese iron cannon Ashigaru and Yumashi Garou.
At this time, most of the iron gun ashigaru and bow ashigaru in the first few rows when they set off were injured, and they were no longer in formation, and they could be said to have lost all their edge.
The fist that Ii Naotaka had placed the greatest hope on was broken.
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Of course, at this time, the Japanese army formation also reached the sixty-step boundary.
The remaining iron cannon ashigaru and bow ashigaru finally began to counterattack.
Of course, the counterattack was messy, because the front row was killed.
There were too many people and they were unable to form a formation.
They could only disperse their attacks under the orders of the Ashigaru General.
The remaining iron gunners with less than 500 people and hundreds of bows and ashigaru attacked in a hurry.
The bang, bang, bang, and chaotic roar of iron cannons and the tinkling of arrows rang out alternately.
Projectiles and arrows rushed towards the Polu army. front.
The sound of heavy blows was exchanged, but this time the Polu Army soldiers were recruited.
More than a hundred Polu Army gunmen were knocked down by iron cannons.
Suddenly, the front line of the Polu Army was heard for the first time.
There were screams, hundreds of feather arrows fell from the sky, hitting the soldiers of the Polu army and there were bursts of iron sounds.
Wang Zheng stood behind the last row of gunmen, separated by two rows of soldiers, and watched helplessly as the two gunmen in front screamed and fell to the ground, clutching their chests and abdomen and struggling on the ground.
At the same time, he felt a hiss in his ears, a projectile passed through him, and a spearman behind him screamed and fell to the ground, covering his neck.
Wang Zheng broke out in a cold sweat.
He didn't want to die a useless death by being hit by a projectile.
He should at least kill a few Japanese slaves.
Zhao Guang watched with excitement as the Japanese in front were getting closer and closer, thinking that the opportunity to make military exploits had come.
He held the spear in his hand tightly and watched as the Japanese pirate took another ten steps closer.
Bang bang, the last row of gunmen fired under the command of the general.
The projectiles flew away in just over thirty steps, taking away the lives of hundreds of Kennu iron cannon ashigaru and bow ashigaru.
At this time The three thousand iron gunners and more than a thousand bow ashigaru in the front row were almost completely wiped out.
However, their injuries were not ineffective.
They successfully covered the gun ashigaru behind them and approached the place more than ten steps away from Akito.
However, they caused almost no casualties to the Ming army, which was also a major failure.
Wang Zheng, Luo Dong, Fang Yuanshan and others immediately shouted that the gun should be leveled after the last gunman left.
Under the loud shouts of various leaders, the spearmen raised their spears, and immediately a moving forest of spears appeared in front of the Japanese.
The Japanese brandished three spears and rushed towards Akito's formation, but they heard constant dull noises, mixed with the crisp sound of iron weapons colliding.
More than a thousand people from both sides began to collide and fight.
Suddenly, the boards of Han and Japanese were intertwined, and the shouts were loud.
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