Chapter Forty-Eight: Demon Law
If future generations asked Yamanaka what the most powerful thing he had done in his life, he would have said that the most powerful thing he had done in his life was to help the lord who had lost his family name.
But if he was asked in the future, he would say that he had fooled his subordinates with a cheering roar in battle, and the result was that the heavenly army really roared to earth.
Belch...... Maybe it should be said that the Celestial Army went to sea?
As the saying goes, it is better to come early than to come by chance, Chen Bazhi not only came by chance, but also early, he led his army to float on the sea for several days.
On the distant sea, Chen Bazhi has been staring at Tongshan Castle built by the sea with binoculars on the warship, and looking at the positions belonging to the Yamana Army outside Tongshan Castle.
In his position, because of the mountain range, he couldn't see the formation of the Nizi army, but he could see the necessary way for the Nizi army to retreat, and he had been waiting for the mountain to retreat - Wang Rulong on the other ship asserted in the strategic deployment that as long as the mountain was able to retreat without losing his forces, they would win the battle.
As for whether Yamanaka Xingsheng's army could win without retreating, Wang Rulong initially thought that the Nizi army might not be able to win unless the enemy army launched an attack in the morning.
There is a disadvantage of fighting in the mountains and woods, once the battle situation is unfavorable, the soldiers will not have too much heart to fight to the death, and the rout will be easier than the plains, because the mountains and forests are easy for the soldiers to hide, and when people know that they will not die if they run away and hide, they will not have the heart to fight to the death.
But this is mutual, our army is easy to collapse, and the enemy army is also defeated, although the Nizi army does not have an advantage in strength, but they coincidentally occupy the high ground and the sunny side, which is in line with the standard of the art of war, the enemy attacks in the morning, as long as the battle drags on until the afternoon, the strong attack will become very difficult for the enemy.
The reason is simple, because of the dazzling.
However, Chen Bazhi prefers that Yamanaka Xingsheng will withdraw his troops, so that the enemy army will be numerous and will inevitably pursue, and they will be empty when they pursue Tongshan City, and when the news of Tongshan City is broken reaches the west, the enemy pursuing the Nizi army will naturally be defeated and retreat.
Now, although the enemy is not strong compared to himself, he is full of energy and morale, and such an enemy is unwilling to fight against Chen Bazhi in his heart, so he should let them chase and beat the deer.
When they are comfortable fighting, they retreat, and the tired, weak and timid enemy is the best enemy.
However, at this time, both sides fought for an hour, seeing that it was almost noon, Yamanaka Shikasuke did not plan to retreat, and Chen Bazhi could not watch him be killed or defeated with great vitality, so he ordered the fleet to march to the coast of Tongshan City, and more than 20 lucky ships put down Li Rubai's infantry and Wang Rulong's army.
The Liuding battleship took five shark boats to form a horizontal formation on the coast, facing the southwest corner of the city, Chen Bazhi raised his right hand slightly from the side of the ship to cover his ears, and the flag officer on the ship lowered his war knife: "Starboard gun, release!" โ
Knock knock, knock knock!
The starboard guns on the double-deck bombarded out one after another, blasting out a cloud of gunpowder smoke on the side of the ship, followed by five shark ships also roaring under the order of the flag officer, dozens of Zhenshuo General shells swept through Erli in a blink of an eye, and bombarded the stone walls and wooden ramparts of Tongshan City, this distance was already difficult to hit accurately, and it was impossible to break through the city gate first, but fortunately, the city was big enough, and no shells missed after all.
A burst of artillery bombardment made Chen Bazhi lose all interest, waved his hand and said: "Don't bomb, it's rare to see a stone city, the position of the ship is not good, let's look at the army first." In fact, he was too lazy to take the cannon off the boat, waved his hand and said, "I really can't go down again, but ...... Let the defenders of the city watch their army being defeated, and they should open the city to surrender, right? โ
Not far from the shore, Wang Rulong's flag army quickly disembarked in turn, the first to get off the ship to run and arm, and then disembark the assembly formation, with the sound of the three-eyed gun used as a trumpet, the formation alternately forward, leaving 200 banner troops outside Tongshan City to guard the enemy in the city, and the remaining 700 people followed Wang Rulong all the way to carry the gun, each carrying a bundle of more than three feet of fine wooden sticks to move forward.
Li Rubai's miscellaneous soldiers also followed closely and disembarked.
Holding a helmet, a jurchen with a bulging coat under a messy iron armor and leather armor, with a hairstyle more fierce than that of a Japanese samurai, strutting across the sword and spear and holding the helmet in front of the head, followed by a lightly armed Korean soldier leading a sturdy war horse wearing armor and saddle bag with three eyes upside down and a hard bow and feather arrows.
The last group of Liaodong uncles with helmets and armor straddled the horses, with solid armaments from head to toe, each holding a waist knife with one hand, and not grasping the reins with the other hand, either lightly holding the long pole chain flail or carrying the gourd on his shoulder, or inverting the spear, eyebrow knife and other long soldiers, with an unbeatable look on his face, before the iron cavalry pointed to the distant enemy entrenched in the low mountain and talked and laughed. Follow the war horse that was dragged by the Korean soldiers and swayed forward.
Li Rubai also straddled the horse with bright armor, and was looking into the distance with a telescope, and there was a Jurchen Lux behind him holding a Li military flag with red characters on a white background, looking at the forest path at the end of the field and running out of a samurai, it seemed that he came to investigate because of the previous artillery roar, and saw the crowds of Ming troops here who were almost frightened and fell off their horses, and ran back in a panic.
Behind him, there was a loud laugh from the Jurchens and the old man of Liaodong, and the Korean soldiers just wanted to echo and laugh twice, when they saw Li Rubai turn his head and stare from left to right with his gaze - without saying a word, he forcibly stifled everyone's laughter.
After receiving the general's signal, the Jurchen warriors moved their muscles and bones to take out the bowstring from their bulging arms, and the old man of Liaodong gently picked up the chain flail, and those who felt that the weapons were not suitable were touched on the horseback, and they would pull out their war knives and carry the bones for a while, and some people pulled out a long ring whip with a hammer head from under the buttocks.
They no longer need someone to lead the horse, the war horse kicked to the back of the formation and paced to a more backward place, on the other side of Wang Rulong also led the flag army to this side, divided the troops Chen Bu two wings, a two-pound cannon by the way temporarily used as a tiger squat cannon carrier The artillery carriage was dragged by two small horses and slowly entered the formation, and the flag army pushing the rocket car and the small flag officers of each team were independent in front of the formation, and the army was ...... The military appearance is not solemn at all.
Behind the small flags on both wings, the flag army stepped forward in a row and tied down wooden sticks in front of the formation, mixed with clods of soil and shields to quickly build a low civil wall that was not so strong and might be shot through by lead, and then with Wang Rulong's order, each person opened the tent cloth and laid it in turn, this kind of cloth was produced in the Ming Dynasty Beijing Jizhen Junwei Dyeing Workshop, designed by the famous designer Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty.
It also has a stone pattern, which is very realistic.
But in a moment, the left and right wings were built a 'stone low wall' that could only block the direct shot of the bow and arrow, Wang Rulong clenched his fists and smiled, they had tested, the Japanese iron cannon penetration is not strong but the damage is great, unlike the Ming Gong in thirty steps sometimes penetrate a person and can shoot to the back, most of the time the iron cannon will not come out, of course, people will not live.
But with this wall, after penetrating the outermost wooden shield, although in terms of the system of different calibers, different projectiles, and different charges of various iron cannons, sometimes they can break through the wooden wall and injure the banner army behind them, but their armor is difficult to be penetrated again.
The whole army was formed with its back to the coast, and the right flank was valued over the leftโin fact, the left flank was also very important, and that side was still within the range of the ship's artillery, and seventy or eighty heavy artillery pieces were better than the number of troops deployed on a narrow battlefield.
Therefore, when the allied forces of Oda Yamana and other princes quickly came out of the forest to set up a formation, their generals and ashigaru looked like they had seen a ghost.
On the other side, I don't know what demon method was used to rush to the aid of the Ming army behind them, and I don't know what demon method was used, and I actually built two low cities!