Chapter 9: Charge
"Roasting Arrows?"
Kobayakawa Keitaka could no longer sit in the Chinese army, he walked quickly to the high ground of the military formation, narrowed his slender eyes and tried his best to look at the place where the field was fighting.
The so-called baking is actually a clay pot grenade, because the Northern Song Dynasty Wujing always called this kind of weapon 'iron soldering cone', so it follows the name of baking, but this weapon is mostly used in water warfare and defending the city, and Kobayakawa Jingtaka has not seen it used in field battles.
And the range was too long, almost level with the longbow, Kobayakawa Keitaka was active in the Seto Inland Sea, and was extremely familiar with the weapons of the naval army, so there was no mistake of mistaking it for baking, which made him even more eager to wait for the defeated army to flee back to ask for clarification.
Jing Long, the real ruler of the Maori clan, was dressed in big armor and wore the mainstream of the last century, and his equipment was very old-fashioned, pointing to the battlefield with his arms crossed, and analyzing the situation to his generals, although the situation was not optimistic, his tone was very relaxed, and said: "Our army's defeat has been decided, and it has been hit by the enemy's firearms, and the formation is scattered and impacted, and there is only a desperate way for the enemy to be killed one by one. ”
"Is the enemy fighting with long and short weapons? The long soldier who blocked the battlefield was called the wolf sword, and I heard that it was made by the Ming Kingdom to restrain the pirate Ye Taidao. Kobayakawa Jingtaka tried his best to see clearly, but in vain after all, he pouted and said with pity: "The thief army is in strict formation, and then do the battle, if you still fire first, remember to restrain the foot, don't panic." ”
"You can let your subordinates disperse first, and then form a dense formation after the enemy's firearms are released, they can't bring too much of this kind of thing!"
"This battle will be a little difficult, but it will not hurt, I see that they are not strong enough, and the food and grass will not be sufficient, so they can not attack the city, and they are unwilling to retreat, and they dare not attack rashly." Jing Long didn't want to see how Kou Yu Chunliang was defeated, he walked back to the main formation and said: "The worst result, but three or two days to attack it for a while, we know that the thieves have firearms, iron cannons, and it is not easy to fight. ”
In Japan during the Warring States Period, it was difficult to find a person with an overall strategy, even if it was a relative overall strategy, after all, they had their own ideas for survival.
However, the Mori clan is one of the samurai families with the overall strategic soil, they have the most land, the most troops, and the daimyo who leads such a large family needs to take a holistic view.
Jinglong is not a daimyo, but he has power similar to that of a daimyo, he said: "It is difficult to win cleanly, just drag them here, drag them under this mountain blowing city, without the help of the Ming army, my brother can drive out the Nizi family within three months." ”
"That deer who does not give up, he must be begged to die."
Kobayakawa Keitaka's brother is Yoshikawa Motoharu, the number one fierce general of the Mori clan who has never lost a single battle in the battle, he is the one who destroyed the Niko family, and it is he who suppressed Yamanaka Kasuke to revive the Niko family, and he has never lost.
As for the victory or defeat of Kuchiha Harura, no one cares, the first general was sent to win in the past, but in the face of the Ming army that had never fought before, the vanguard was sent only to see the enemy's tactics, in order to gain an advantage in the subsequent engagement.
All the deployments of Kobayakawa Keitaka are the most correct and advantageous choices, except for one omission.
Regardless of whether he informed Harura Kuchiwa or not, before the battle, he had assigned Amano Mazuri, a fierce general who had resisted the offensive of the Otomo family several times in Nagato Province, to lead his troops to respond, and even if the situation was not a battle to the death, it would be a battle to the death.
In fact, no matter which country, normal battles are rarely fought to the death, and the purpose of the battle is never to rush to the end, one or two percent of the loss of combat strength is enough to disperse the formation, and the remaining troops are not organized when the formation is dispersed, and it will naturally become a rout.
Especially in Japan during the Warring States Period, the peasant soldiers Ashigaru rarely fought to the death, and those who could fight to the death were samurai, but the main family could not afford to die in battle for all the samurai who were the backbone, so there was room for war.
It's like the flag army killed hundreds of Chen Bazhi in battle, but if he suddenly kills hundreds of people in his artillery team, he can fight life and death with people regardless of it.
But there was an exception in Japan during the Warring States period, that is, Oda Nobunaga, who was known as the Demon King, and he fought to the death.
The most difficult problem in front of Kouyu Chunliang is that Dalong is currently not several times the number of troops, and it is not that he can retreat if he wants to.
Usually there is room for battle, but that is just usual, and the order that General Wang received this time was that none of the seven or eight hundred people would be left to die.
"Shoot small flags and arrows at the enemy's flanks!"
The soldiers followed the order, and between the banners were unfurled, two small flag arrows on the left and right sides exploded behind the enemy's two flanks, blowing up most of the Ashigaru who had just wanted to retreat back into the formation.
For the ashigaru who have broken up the battle and become accustomed to fleeing, there is nothing to be afraid of failing to fight against an invincible enemy, what is terrible is not being allowed to run!
"The two hundred households on both wings will leave the bird guns, lead the troops to feint to the left and right, and the enemy will chase and release small flags and arrows, and force them to me!"
"All the bird-screws retreated, led by their respective general banners, and formed a phalanx thirty paces to the left and right behind my formation!"
"Don't dare to fight me? If you don't fight, you have to fight! ”
In order to leave behind this group of enemy troops who had lost their formation before engagement, Wang Rulong was exhausted, and he even ordered the bird gun team to avoid the enemy's command center when they released their guns, that is, Kouyu Chunliang, who was dragging his knife and running in the formation.
There was no engagement at all, his wolf soldiers were tired, the enemy did not dare to come forward to engage in battle, and a few small flag arrows blew up the enemy formation, which he did not expect, these Japanese soldiers who looked like regular troops were obviously unable to catch up with the organized Japanese pirates, and were far inferior to the Japanese pirates.
Regardless of whether the pirates or the pirates are still the pirates, they all have completed the separation of soldiers and peasants by natural choice, and their heads are pinned to their waists, and if they don't fight hard, they will die, and the peasants and soldiers are different.
Just as Zhang Yongshou's guards could not defeat the miners, even if the peasant soldiers who did not work or train were armed with weapons, their combat power would not be much higher.
Ashigaru, who was beaten and confused by the small flag arrow, was finally boosted by Kuchiwa Harura, and then was scattered by the bird's gun, and back and forth you could see a general wearing a big bag and wearing an imperial armor running around in the formation, and wherever he went, Ashigaru was driven to rush over in a small formation, waiting for him to go away, and then retreated.
As early as following Qi Jiguang during the period of the Ping Wa, Wang Rulong summed up a set of chaotic battle formations to recognize the ability of the Japanese generals, there are Han Japanese generals who affirm that the Han people are generals, and there are no Han generals to see which of the Japanese generals' armor color is the most conspicuous, and it is certain that the main general did not run.
Kuchiyu Harura was anxious in his eyes, he still didn't understand what the formation of the Ming army was, he only knew that the powerful iron artillery team was protected in the center, and every time he wanted to touch the first ashigaru, he would be scattered by several volleys.
The clay man still has three points of fire, if an iron cannon wounds him, he retreats is powerful enough, and as soon as the iron cannon is released on the opposite side, he will die twenty or thirty of his own ashigaru, but he is active in front of the battle like the possession of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman to avoid all the lead.
It's not that he doesn't have a chance to escape, but he can't run away like this!
There was no wound on his body, not even a drop of blood, and he could still fight less than 300 people with the wounds of the dead and wounded, and he didn't know how many enemy troops didn't even have a chance to meet in close combat except for shooting arrows.
It's really insulting to retreat like this!
The anxious Kouyu Haruyo saw it, and he gathered the lower-ranking samurai in the formation and shouted: "The thief didn't plan to let me go back alive, today I only have this life to be loyal to my lord Maori, please use the Notai sword to entrust your life to me, and rush into the enemy formation with me before I die!" ”
"All the ashigaru teams, we have decided to die, the enemy has not left us a way to live, all those who have courage should die with us!"
More than a dozen five-foot long knives were distributed to the hands of various samurai, Kuchiha Harura took the lead in holding the knife, a group of samurai stood in a row with knives, and the inspired Ashigaru behind him also formed a line of dozens of people, accompanied by a few shouts of Kuchiha Harura, each shouting the name of his family, dancing a five-foot long knife and rushing towards the mandarin duck array!