The shogunate army has never moved, and it seems that it is looking for a flaw in the Ming army.

However, the Ming army on the opposite side moved!

Xu Qingshan shouted: "Order, the Tianwu Army advances!" ”

The banner of the Chinese army was waving, and the shouting orders of the officers of various departments immediately rose one after another.

"Guns!"

The sound of "bang" sounded neatly, and the soldiers of the Tianwu Army held their weapons on their shoulders in a uniform manner, holding their hands tightly, and immediately a neat bayonet appeared towards the sky.

"Forge ahead!"

The horn of the attack sounded, and with the sound of war drums, the array of the Tianwu Army began to move slowly, like a wall.

Under the family crest of the Hikone Domain, Naotaka Ii held his beloved binoculars and carefully observed the formation of the Ming army.

In the shot, under the gloomy sky, the musket phalanx of the Ming army is strict and powerful, they advance in an orderly manner in flags and drums, and their bayonets are like a moving forest of guns, constantly flashing in the sunlight.

The neat bright red color of the Tianwu Army conveys a strong visual stimulation on the earthy yellow earth, and the momentum of shouting and advancing shows an irresistible feeling.

Naotaka Jing suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart, and years of fighting sharpened his firm will, he glanced at the three daimyo next to him, and said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, our army is several times larger than the enemy, and it can be easily broken!" ”

Matsudaira Tsunaka, the lord of the Songjiang Domain, responded: "Yes, our army occupies the right time and place, and His Excellency Jing Yi personally commands, so we should crush them with absolute strength!" ”

The other two daimyo also nodded in agreement, Naotaka Ii was a veteran of the four dynasties of the shogunate, and even the first generation of the head of the family, Tokugawa Ieyasu, often praised him, with him, what is there to worry about?

Finally, Naotaka Ii also gave the order to attack.

In a kind of trumpet and drum rhythm similar to the sound of the Han and Tang dynasties, the shogunate army is forced in formation, and under the various family coats of arms, the armor of the Japanese soldiers is different, but it is basically gorgeous.

Whether it is the Hikone Domain, the Matsue Domain, or the Takamatsu Domain, they are all the fat domains in the shogunate, and the other three daimyo have two surnames Matsudaira, which is the main family of the Tokugawa clan (Tokugawa Ieyasu was originally surnamed Matsudaira), a proper pro-feudal daimyo, and the weapons and equipment can be poor?

At the sound of the golden drum order, the two sides slowly approached, and the shogunate army opened the way with bamboo bundles and walking poles.

These two things, the effect is equivalent to a shield and a shield car, it is a Japanese bulletproof weapon, don't look at this thing is tied together with bamboo, its toughness and elasticity are quite good, and the one-foot-thick bamboo bundles are lined up in a row, which can effectively prevent the impact of the projectile.

In the passionate drums of war, the Tianwu army stepped on the drum to advance, and they advanced layer upon layer, like a wall.

Amid the shouts of applause, the musket array came to an abrupt halt, and the musketeers in the front row began to fire a volley of guns.

The Ming army occupied a great advantage in the range of muskets, and began to release guns a hundred steps away, and a stream of fierce fire spewed out, and the gunshots rang out, and then the thick white smoke quickly spread, shrouding the front of the Ming army.

This array of guns did not seem to have much effect, and there were not many fallen people in the shogunate army, only part of the bamboo bundles were pierced and the Japanese soldiers behind were shot.

Xu Qingshan frowned and said: "These Japanese really came prepared, no wonder they dared to go out of the city to fight, it's a bit interesting!" ”

Having said that, he did not take this Japanese army to heart, and immediately waved the flag and transferred the light artillery battalion to the two flanks of the musket array.

The light artillery battalion, a new formation in the Tianwu Army, consisted of grenadiers, and each brigade was coordinated with a scale of 400 men.

With an order, 400 light gunners crossed out of the Ming army array, and in groups of two, spread 200 grenadiers on both flanks.

The Ming grenadier is a new product, the breath-holding is not very good, and the firing range is about 200 meters, and even so, it is longer than the range of the shogunate's armament gun.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang......"

The low and crisp sound of cannon shots continued to sound, and small cannonballs in the shape of vertebrae fell from the sky and fell into the array of the shogunate army, and suddenly exploded and blossomed, and the bamboo bundles in front of the formation were completely covered with smoke.

The shells of the grenadiers were small, and the power of the explosion was about the same as that of a grenade, but the 200 grenadiers of the light artillery battalion were divided into three groups and bombarded the shogunate army in turn, and the effect was quite good.

This thing has a parabolic trajectory, specifically against this kind of enemy hiding behind cover, and a single shell flies into the dense array of the shogunate army, and can take over at least three or four small Japans.

After three rounds of shelling, although the shogunate army suffered only more than 1,000 casualties, their position was disrupted, and even the bulletproof bamboo bundles and bushes in front were blown all over the ground.

Subsequently, a more violent sound of platoon erupted in the military formation of the Tianwu Army, and without cover, the soldiers of the Shogunate Army behind completely became the live targets of the Tianwu Army.

No one can stand such a situation.

Naotaka Ii, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, immediately gave the order to send his Red Reserve Army out and attack from the flanks.

According to his established tactics, the defeat of the Ming army's formation was an important guarantee for the success of the shogunate army's operations.

This time, the Ming army did not have large-scale artillery and cavalry operations, and the Red Reserve Army could take advantage of the speed of the cavalry to continuously compress the Ming army's front.

The shogunate could then take advantage of their numerical superiority and gain the upper hand on the battlefield.

"The Red Reserve Army has been dispatched!"

On the two wings of the shogunate army, the soldiers immediately cheered when they saw a red army with mixed horses and steps changing formations.

At the same time, in the array of the Ming army, dozens of daimyo who observed the same surprise on their faces, they were obviously impressed by this army in red armor and red armor.

The Red Reserve Army, known as the strongest cavalry corps during the Warring States period of Japan, is an invincible Kai powerhouse!

A hundred years ago, Nagao Jinghu and Murakami Yoshikiyo led 8,000 soldiers to surround Uchiyama Castle, and Iitomi Huchang only used 800 red reserve troops to firmly defend Uchiyama Castle, truly one as ten!

Since then, the Red Reserve Army, which was fully clothed in red armor, has swept through the enemy's army like a fireball on the battlefield, making the enemy fearful, and even Tokugawa Ieyasu has suffered the loss of the Red Reserve Army and was almost killed.

Of course, that was the glory of the Takeda Red Army, and the Red Army of the Jing Yi family was completely in the cottage after the destruction of the Takeda family.

However, Ii Naotaka's father, Ii Naomasa, has a true biography of Itomi Humasa (it is said that they are related), and whether it is the army structure or tactics, it is basically copied from the Takeda Red Army.

Similar to the Takeda Red Army, the Ii family's Red Army was a mixed cavalry force with only 1,000 men, of which only 20% were cavalry, and the rest were ashigaru (mainly because the Hikone clan could not afford to raise a full cavalry, and a much larger Red Army).

The main attack methods commonly used by the Red Reserve Army were: Ashigaru entangled the enemy head-on, and the cavalry rode from the flanks to surprise the enemy formation.

Now, Ii Naotaka's Red Reserve Army also adopted this century-old routine against the Tianwu Army, and their cavalry followed dozens of well-made shield carts propelled by Ashigaru, and when they got close to the Tianwu Army, they began to throw arrows with their riding bows.