Chapter 8: Yamabuki
Wang Rulong is still righteous, Chen Bazhi gave such a despicable order to a warrior without a red face and a heartbeat, but Wang Rulong can't.
Wang Rulong had to say something, and after he received the order, he sent a banner army who knew Japanese language to the front of the battle and told the other party loudly that he would use 600 people to fight it out with all of them.
As the first general, Kou Yu Chunliang was blinded, and he rode a pony and lifted the tassel gun in his hand and did not put it down, Wang Rulong's words turned around several times in his mind before he reacted - it was not the meaning of daring to ride.
If you don't dare to take the lead, you won't dare, and you won't laugh at you, why are you so majestic, and you still use 600 people to compete with them?
The first to be a general is the meaning of a pioneer general, and the literal translation is Chinese as a brave captain who cuts people, and the meaning of the position is very clear.
Seeing that the enemy army in the distance was divided into six squads and attacked side by side, Kouyu Harura was not afraid, and raised the tassel gun and shouted: "Kouyu team, forward!" ”
Behind him, 700 ashigaru slowly advanced under the leadership of various samurai, and these ashigaru from the Kuchiwa area of Chigun, Iwami Province, were still relatively afraid of the Ming army, because they were close to the battlefield and were drafted early, and almost heard from the mouths of the farmers who fled in the countryside that the Niko family was in a state of defeat to capture Izumo Province.
The whole process is that this has fallen, that has fallen, and there is no place to stop the strength of the Nizi clan, which is far more terrifying than knowing the process.
However, when they saw the Ming army in front of them from hundreds of paces, they were a little more relaxed, a variety of strange weapons made the military formation look a little messy, in addition to the messy weapons, there was a heavy envy in the eyes of the ashigaru of the mouth feathers - their opponents were wearing thick cotton jackets!
It's not sackcloth, it's not cotton clothes, it's cotton jackets, my God!
The padded jackets of the Ming army made the morale of the mouth feather team great, even if the coldest time of the year is over, kill them and snatch them back, you can wear them next year!
The pace of the ashigaru was brisk due to the presence of the padded jackets, and in the eyes of Kobayakawa Keitaka on the mountain behind and Chen Bachi on the observation tower, the pace of the Kuchiyu team's advance was almost two percent faster than controlled, almost the same as the speed before the decisive charge.
However, the speed of the Ming army on the other side slowed down under Wang Rulong's order, and finally stopped when there were still four or five hundred steps away, forming a semicircle with a large array of mandarin ducks, protecting the bird gun hand in the middle, and a row of big players tied down the long card, and a wolf spear on the card.
In the middle of the formation, Wang Rulong shouted to boost morale, shouted to the surrounding banner troops about the enemy's expected attack, and said: "The Japanese archers will be the first to release arrows a hundred steps away, you are strong in armor, don't be afraid of arrows!" ”
Bragging is bragging, Wang Rulong is still very honest and makes people squat around the round shield hand, so it is just a strong momentum, "All the guns must not be released early, wait for the enemy to enter thirty steps, twenty steps is the best, the flag officer listens to Wang's order to release the guns, and those who release early are killed!" ”
"General, the tiger squat cannon is nailed!"
Six tiger squatting cannons, nailed to the feet of the big players, next to them also stood a small flag quiver and a flag army with a waist plug palm thunder, these flag troops recruited in Luzon were very obedient under Chen Bazhi's drills, and they were extremely familiar with the military orders of each small flag and a hundred households, and they were waiting for the order without saying a word.
"The tiger squatted into the loose cylinder, waited for fifty steps before the enemy, the small flag and arrow were ready, and the enemy army was about to enter a hundred steps!"
"Yes! Little flag arrows ready! ”
"Little Flag Arrow Ready!"
With Wang Rulong's order, the wolf's spear was erected, the small flag arrows were set up on the big cards, and the six small flag archers held torches high, ready to release arrows at the enemy.
Harura Kuchiwa rode his horse alongside Ashigaru on the left side of the formation, and he mentally estimated the exact position to enter seventy or eighty.
'Ma' is a unit of length in the Warring States period, one is one meter six, one step close to the Ming Dynasty, and the position calculated by Kuchiwa Harura is 100 meters to 120 meters, at this distance, his archers can well cover the spear foot light rush to the enemy formation.
"Archers, put!"
Almost at the same time that Kuchiwa Harura found the exact position and ordered his subordinates to stop, a string of screams suddenly came out in front of the Ming army, and his ashigaru entered the range of the Ming army's small flag arrows at the same time, and the six small flag arrows shrivelled towards the ashigaru team.
The first round of rockets has just exploded above the head in front of me, and the second round of rockets has been released from the front of the mandarin duck formation.
Although the name is Xiaoqi Arrow, Chen Bazhi's baggage force is not so strong in the war far from the mainland, it is impossible for a hundred households to bring ten small flag arrows, and the follow-up baggage transport ship is already under great pressure to fill with grain, and it is very reluctant for him to prepare two for a general flag before the battle begins.
Even so, the twelve small flag arrows that exploded in front of and left and right still caused great trouble to the Ashigaru team, especially after Haruyo Kuchiba's mount pony was so frightened that he rushed into his own archery team.
But the small flag and arrow are still beneficial, and the smoke of gunpowder explodes in the sky, so that the Ashigaru team does not know how many casualties they have, and they are afraid of the smoke with their heads covered.
The chaos caused by the small flag and arrow caused some of Ashigaru to be injured by the rocket scatter, some of them retreated and retreated, and only more than 100 of them rushed out of the gunsmoke.
Wang Rulong was reluctant to let go of the tiger squatting cannon, so he simply waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army obeys the order and advances fifty steps!" ”
The big player lifted the big shield, and the battle array moved forward with neat steps, and the arrows shot over more than ten banner troops, and immediately three military doctors were divided into three military doctors to disarm and remove the arrows on the spot and bandage them, and the trend of the formation was unabated towards the enemy.
Wang Rulong also realized just now that it was very wise for the enemy to send the first attacking troops, and they watched the battle from a distance, because the advantage of the Ming army was that the Maori clan knew nothing about them.
Now that they already know that the Ming army has rockets, they will take more precautions in the future, and Wang Rulong doesn't want the other party to know that he has a tiger squat cannon.
Seeing more Ashigaru rushing back into the gradually dissipating gunpowder smoke under the urging, Kuchiyu Haruro, who was holding the tassel gun in one hand and the handle of the small knife at his waist in the other, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the enemy formation did not make further long-range means such as releasing arrows or crossbows, which made his heart back in his stomach.
There was always a mention of the crossbow in the Central Plains in the ancient books, which made him very worried about it before the battle with the Ming army, but now it seems that the thief has thrown away that powerful weapon in the previous wars, and there is nothing to be afraid of without a bow and crossbow, and there is nothing to be afraid of that kind of smoking thing.
"As long as they can fight, how can they be opponents?"
Seeing that the enemy's formation was becoming more and more scattered and getting closer and closer, Wang Rulong clenched the hilt of the knife in his hand in the formation, measured the distance between each other getting closer and closer with his eyes, and finally when the enemy army entered thirty steps but did not enter twenty steps, he shouted: "Bird team, release!" ”
The general flag of the birds, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately waved the command flag, and the bird guns pointed at the sky with a pole pointed forward, and did not aim carefully, and put it in the face of the rushing enemy, followed by the second row of gunners.
In the blink of an eye, a round of shooting was completed, and the formation was full of gunsmoke, Wang Rulong listened to the approaching footsteps, and ordered: "Get off the wolf and engage in battle!" ”