Chapter 51: Culture

Ten pounds of iron bullets smashed into the enemy formation, like a calm lake and a boulder rippling.

Wang Rulong frowned with the binoculars, and muttered to himself suspiciously: "It seems to have hit the past, why didn't you react?" ”

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen samurai poured out of the enemy's main formation in the distance, followed by more than ten ashikazu rushing back, and then it seemed that someone was giving orders but it was not quite like it, it was more like there was some news coming out, and it was quickly transmitted to the ears of each soldier like locusts flying, and then the various departments seemed confused.

"Oh, it's the same as the real thing."

Wang Rulong pouted and put down the binoculars, casually inserted his hand into the leather mirror pocket on the waist of the breastplate, and looked at Li Rubai beside him with a chuckle.

Li Rubai held the reins in one hand and spun in place, and the horse under the seat kept digging the soil with his front hooves with an uneasy snort, he straightened his right hand and asked: "General, attack, the enemy's morale has been taken, the army's appearance has been disordered, and the artillery bombardment has worked!" ”

"Fake! It's all fake! ”

Wang Rulong's words were firm, his face was full of wisdom beads, he was very proud, and he tilted his head and said: "Wang can see clearly, that cannonball did hit the mourning hall where the Wakou county official was, but it will never cause such a consequence - Zhao Baihu, tell General Li why this is." ”

With the greeting of the prison tyrant, the artillery surnamed Zhao stepped forward, and after bowing his hand, he first pointed to the enemy formation and then hugged his fists and said: "The enemy army is in Gaotian formation, and its formation is five zhang higher than my formation, our artillery shoots at an elevation angle, and the cannonball hits a parabola, which is how it falls on the enemy formation, and it will be tamped on the ground instead of bouncing up to kill the enemy again, as we all know, the Lord will sit in the center of the formation instead of standing in front of the formation gate." ”

"Therefore, although this cannon is accurate, it only falls in front of the enemy's tent, that is, in the mission, it can only smash the attendants at the door, and it will not hurt the enemy's commander, let alone make the enemy's various units as chaotic as they are now."

Wang Rulong slowly bowed his head and praised: "It is worthy of graduating from the Navy Lecture Hall, go, the two heavy artillery continue to bombard the enemy camp, and the two-catty cannon and the tiger squat forward to lure the enemy - don't unload the cannon, they will attack you." ”

Li Rubai grabbed the reins, the mount was so startled that people stood up, and immediately the young general was so anxious that he raised his hand to scratch his head, but was stopped by the helmet, obviously he didn't understand those professional terms such as 'elevation angle' and 'parabola', but he still felt in his heart that it seemed to be very reasonable, but when he thought about it like this, he was originally angry and angry.

Generation generals, is it better for you to be a small hundred?

"A cannon is a cannon, no matter what the elevation angle object line, I don't understand those truths, but the enemy's invincible morale is true, even if Li is sitting in the tent and is killed by a weapon five miles away, he will be scared to withdraw from the camp, if Brother Wang doesn't enter the army." Li Rubai no longer reasoned with Wang Rulong, and he couldn't reason anyway, so he simply clamped the horse's belly and ran forward two steps, waved his sword and ordered to the left and right: "Advance to the enemy's right flank and seal the enemy's retreat!" ”

The formation of troops changed, the infantry archers located in the Chinese army followed the artillery team sent by Wang Rulong forward, and the three hundred Liaodong cavalry scattered several teams to advance slowly in a stacked formation, and in a blink of an eye, only Wang Rulong's left and right two banner armies were left in the rear formation.

At this time, Wang Rulong reacted to the taste - Li Rubai was right.

Why should they be obsessed with whether the enemy riot was caused by the death of the enemy's commander, as long as they show their invincible color, the attack will be more certain to win.

However, Wang Rulong was not angry, he smiled at the left and right flag officials: "Chen Shuai always said that he is a cultural person, we are, we have suffered a loss of culture?" When marching into the army, you should not only teach the Jurchen soldiers to achieve combat exploits. ”

They are so calculating that they know the ballistics of shells so well that they forget to deduce what it means for an army to fall into the enemy's tent.

After the battle, the two ten-pound guns opened fire again, falling into a range not far from the enemy's main formation, compared to before, in Wang Rulong's eyes, this shelling was more powerful than before, almost at the same time as the shelling, the enemy's entire front was turbulent to the east - this has nothing to do with artillery, even if there is, it is only because the enemy is frightened.

People have heard that the Ming army had a large iron cannon that sounded like thunder, and the Battle of Osaka Bay relied on this large iron cannon on the ship to defeat the Oda naval army.

But no one has ever seen it, Oda, Yamana, Isshiki, Yagi, several daimyo gathered tens of thousands of troops here, but none of these tens of thousands of people have seen artillery bombardment, and their imagination of artillery in their minds is still stuck on a relatively large arquebor, and they can't imagine what it is like to have ten catties of cannonballs flying more than a thousand steps in the air and falling overhead.

Now they see it and are scared.

What frightened them even more was that the Nizi Army, which had been stationed in the low mountains to the west, had already cut into their line from the flanks and attacked them in the turmoil of the news that the general of the Oda Army had been killed.

No one can stop you at this time.

They didn't even know if the Nizi family was out of the nest or a sideline, and there was no way to figure it out.

It was not the good fortune in the mountains that came, he also gathered men and horses three miles away, but it was a brave general who led the team to detour before, leading seventeen warriors of his own family, more than 400 foot light through the forest, and on the way also gathered dozens of wild warriors composed of a ranger team, the strength was still 500, but at this time, he seized the opportunity to meet the enemy army from the forest and scattered to break through the gap.

The sound of the cannon in the ears of the Oda coalition army is a requiem for life, but in the samurai of the Niko family to listen to it is not as beautiful as a fairy music, the more the battle becomes, the more courageous it becomes, only more than 400 people will be the coalition army to the west of the mountain master more than ten teams of the main force of the light to kill and crush.

At the other end of the front was the 1,800 troops of the Isshiki clan, which was sent out as reinforcements, and seeing that the main general Hosokawa Fujitaka was hit by a cannonball, his flesh and blood were blurred, and he immediately retreated from the main camp to stabilize the position, and wanted to withdraw but was worried that the Oda clan would be blamed in the future, so the order to retreat was given a little late, and it was just a moment of work to let his army collide with Li Rubai, who was attacking the flank.

The Korean Tan archers suppressed the retreating Isshiki army with a rain of arrows at a distance of 150 paces, and the brave and ferocious Jurchen heavy archers advanced from the center, drove the enemy to the left and right flanks, and then made way for it to pass through the line of Jurchen archers, and the Liaodong iron cavalry that was behind was killed from behind the enemy army - to deal with the rout, the Liaodong cavalry was invincible.

The really tricky enemy is the Chinese army, Oda Clan Ashigaru, they have Oda Nobunaga's proud iron artillery team, a full 500 iron cannons and archers mixed into eight teams, even if the main general is killed, they still have the ability to turn the situation, the soldiers are the same soldiers, but Oda Nobunaga's invincible record in the world gave them extraordinary morale, and they still maintained a stable position after two rounds of two-pound artillery bombardment, and fired at Wang Rulong's banner army with an iron cannon longbow, and even faintly suppressed Wang Rulong by virtue of their strength advantage.

Until the distance between the two sides was close enough, all the birds of Wang Rulong's department launched a salvo, and the two completely different rotation techniques clashed head-on, and it was no longer the musketeers who decided the victory or defeat of the battle.

It was the gunner under Wang Rulong's command who borrowed the enemy's iron cannon longbow and was suppressed by a salvo and placed the tiger squat cannon.

The artillery scattered and there was no suspense in this battle.