0712 Artillery accelerated
In addition, they also know that they are nothing more than cannon fodder used to lure artillery, and the soldiers are naturally not in a good mood! So every time they are subjected to a round of shelling, their morale will inevitably drop a little.
By the time they were halfway through, the line had inevitably become dense. Naturally, casualties have increased. But they had barely run a few steps. Suddenly, I felt that the other party's cannon sound seemed to become dense. And it's no longer the same as before, and it's no longer as much a salvo as it used to be. Rather, there is a nuance of before and after.
This situation stopped in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers, as if there were countless cannons that kept firing! And they became even more frightened! Especially when I saw that the cannonballs flying from the sky were like never-ending raindrops, constantly falling into my ranks, the morale was even lowered!
Especially after the artillery accelerated the rate of fire, they suddenly felt a huge pressure! Because the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom could see people dying around them every moment and hear the screams of dying, they were very afraid that they would be the next to die!
Now, the Japanese army at the forefront is no longer advancing with the desire to fight, but by inertia. Every time a shell hits the ground, every scream is a blow to them! But they still mustered up the last of their courage and roared wildly and began to run!
The Japanese army soon approached the range of the shotguns, and the gunners immediately replaced their shells, replacing all the spherical shells with shotguns. As soon as the artillery fired, even the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom who were rushing wildly felt the difference.
Because the sound of solid shells and shotguns is the same, but the sound is different when they fly through the air. Solid shells tend to fly silently through the air, while dense shotguns do "buzz" like a swarm of wasps rushing towards them.
So when the Japanese soldiers who were enduring the shelling heard the sound and looked up, they saw countless small black dots smashing down in the air! Every little dot is a tiny iron ball, and when it hits the body, it is a fountain of blood gushing out! Hit on the head, and the whole head will shatter! If it hits the joint, even the limb will be broken!
This round of shotgunning
Go down and let the whole crowd go forward! It's like an invisible wall that appears out of thin air, and a crowd of people suddenly crashes into it! When the crowd paused for a moment and began to surge again, the second round of shotguns flew over with a "buzzing" sound, stopping the crowd again!
Now the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom are even more afraid! Because the corpses on the ground had not been removed at this time, they were lying there in all directions. This time, the people who fell did not fall in vain, but filled in the blank parts in the middle of the previous batch of corpses, forming a land mixed with corpses and blood!
The samurai who were still alive stood up and shouted loudly, trying to maintain their morale. But the fear in the eyes of the soldiers could no longer be hidden! But they pushed on with their fears.
But the sound of artillery became dense, so dense that they couldn't hear it! Because by this time the gunners had resumed firing at full speed, and now the artillery was firing 4 times more densely than just now! The continuous shrapnel continues to knock the tide back of the crowd! But the crowd stretched forward in other parts! It's like a wrestle!
Taking advantage of the numerical superiority, the Japanese army forcibly advanced the front line to the firing range of the firearms, but the other side did not shoot! At this time, the soldiers at the front were only more than 100 meters away from Liu Pei's position, and it seemed that they could win the victory with a little more effort! This gave a glimmer of brilliance in the eyes of the soldiers in front!
Just when the Japanese soldiers felt hopeful, the sound of gunfire sounded at the right time! The guns that shot neatly shot down all the people who ran at the front, and turned them into corpses on the way!
After three rounds of firearms, the shotgun arrived as scheduled, and the advancing crowd was forced backwards! In fact, it was not the Japanese soldiers who were retreating, but because the soldiers in front were all knocked down by the shotguns, causing a visual illusion!
In just four rounds of shotguns, coupled with the firing of firearms, the Japanese strikers have lost more than 3,000 people! Such a huge loss was difficult for any team to bear at that time! So these Japanese soldiers finally collapsed!
They desperately want to escape from this flesh slaughterhouse. It's okay to flee to the left and right, perhaps
There is still a way to live, but it would be too stupid to run away, they are destined to die here!
Because the main phalanx of the second formation, under the cover of the forward troops, has entered the range of artillery fire and is approaching places outside the range of the firearms! And they are so close that they have not yet received a single blow! Not to mention the neat formation, and the morale is high! Even the most ordinary Japanese soldiers already feel that victory is in sight! They felt that as long as they rushed into the enemy's positions, victory would be theirs!
Moreover, as a direct subordinate unit of the Tokugawa family, they naturally had a condescending attitude towards the other daimyo armies. Seeing the army in front of them break up, this is a sign of incompetence in their eyes!
In addition, the fleeing soldiers did block their way forward, so the second array of Japanese soldiers did not hesitate to raise their swords and guns in their hands, and slashed and stabbed all the fleeing Japanese soldiers to death!
The screams of the fleeing soldiers woke up the dizzy soldiers! They recalled the discipline of the army: defeated soldiers could not directly storm their own positions, otherwise they would be killed on the spot!
The soldiers, who came to their senses, immediately changed direction and fled to both sides. Only the soldiers, driven mad by fear, still ran to the second formation, trying to pray for the protection of their comrades! But they will be greeted with cold swords and guns!
After dispersing the rout, the second formation also began to accelerate. However, Liu Pei's artillery also adjusted the angle in time. Fifty shotguns shattered in the air, and fifteen hundred tiny projectiles shot into the crowd, disgusted with a rain of blood, causing a small commotion!
After withstanding the blow, they realized that the shelling of the other side was so terrifying! Seeing the bodies of his comrades-in-arms around him being pierced, blood gushing like a spring, limbs broken by projectiles flying in all directions, and terrible screams were ringing in his ears, every soldier's face showed a look of fear.
But they are worthy of the Tokugawa family's elite soldiers guarding Edo! This round of shelling did not affect their mood, but made their eyes red, and they rushed forward with a roar and acceleration! Especially those whose armor was stained red by the blood of their companions, one by one, they were like ghosts!