After careful consideration, Yuki Abe decided to launch a counterattack.

Various intelligence indicates that "there will not be many Tiger Ben troops ashore." The total number of combatants is estimated to be about 5,000. The others "are all non-combatants. The 5,000 men were also divided into three groups to "assault in different directions." If you can drive all the tiger troops into the sea at this time" is also a great achievement.

Of course, it is not easy to do this. The Tiger Ben Army already controlled most of the Chang Mén and Zhou Defense Kingdoms, and already had enough strategic depth. Even if the Japanese army can defeat the Tiger Army, it will take some time to drive them all into the sea." But you have to try everything, don't you?

The question is, counterattack, in which direction exactly? Yuki Abe now has two options.

The first one, go to Iwami to fight back. Iwami Ginzan is in Iwami Province, and the Tiger Ben Army is trying to control Iwami Ginzan, and the Japanese army counterattacks here, which can ensure the safety of Iwami Ginzan. The importance of Iwami Ginzan to the shogunate is known to everyone as long as it is.

The second is to go west of Hiroshima and counterattack. Intelligence indicates that part of the Tiger Army "is marching towards Hiroshima." Their goal should be to seize the port of Hiroshima, so that more follow-up troops of the Tiger Ben Army can go ashore directly from Hiroshima. If the Toranoma took control of Hiroshima, there would be a steady stream of follow-up troops coming ashore from here.

After thinking about it, Yuki Abe finally decided to strike back to the western part of Hiroshima first. After all, Iwami Silver Mountain is fixed there, and the Tiger Ben Army can't take it away. Even if the Tiger Army temporarily controlled Iwami Ginzan, they could not organize workers to mine. In other words, Iwami Ginzan will have nothing to lose. When reinforcements from the shogunate army arrived, "I recaptured Iwami Ginzan and left." However, once Hiroshima falls, the situation will be much more dangerous.

"Out!"

"Goal! West of Hiroshima! ”

Abe Yuki held the samurai Xi and shouted loudly.

Under the orders of Yuki Abe, the team of eight flags "went west to attack." The rest of the flags remained near Hiroshima to prevent a possible landing of the Tiger Army, and to monitor the movements of Heiankyo. Yuki Abe authorized them to "clean up the royal family" if necessary. Obviously, this is a cold order.

The total strength of the eight banners is about 16,000 people. Mainly the iron cannon (musketeers), the red mothers (troops wearing red sè armor), and a small number of horse Hui (light cavalry). Of course, Ma Huizhong will not attack. They are the basic strength that Abe Yuki relies on, and they will not be dispatched until the last moment.

Two days after Abe's large army came out, he encountered the Tiger Army. What they encountered was the Weizi battalion of the Tiger Ben Army, and the commander was Zhou Yanyu. The spearheads on both sides were very vigilant, and they quickly appeared on each other. As a result, the progress of both sides quickly stopped.

Zhou Yanyu's aim "was to capture Hiroshima by land and force the Dutch visiting fleet stationed here to leave in disgrace." As soon as the Dutch fleet left the "follow-up landing force of the Tiger Army, it could go ashore directly here."

The follow-up landing force of the Tiger Ben Army was basically cavalry" or heavy troops. If you don't have a suitable port, it will add a lot of trouble. The port facilities at Shimonoseki Port are still far from being able to be used "after the initial renovation, and they are still far from being easy to use and efficient." It seems that the 20,000 Mongol cavalry under the command of Hasqiqige had to carry dozens of large ships just for the forage needed in the early stage of landing. It is not an easy task to unload all the forage from the transport ship and transfer it to the warehouse on the shore. Or, how to put it, landing operations are the most complicated mode of campaign.

"Line up!"

"Fight!"

Zhou Yanyu immediately issued an order.

"Line up!"

"Fight!"

On the other side, Yuki Abe also issued an order.

The armies of both sides fought in the most primitive way of fighting in formation. Compared with the two, on the Japanese side, the queue completely had an advantage. The Tigers' queue "occupies only a small open space. On the Japanese side, however, they occupied a large area of wilderness. The place where the two armies fought, the terrain was flat and the vision was wide" very conducive to the shè fire of muskets.

Among the eastern countries, the Japanese army was the first to be westernized. Japan was the first to accept muskets and other weapons provided by Western powers. The Tokugawa shogunate army was deeply influenced by the Portuguese, and some of the shogunate troops "were even trained directly by Portuguese military instructors." And the army tactics of the Portuguese army "had a considerable part, again learned from the Spaniards." The jīng Hua in this is the famous Spanish Grand Phalanx.

Under the orders of Abe Yuki, the Japanese army of more than 10,000 people "lined up in a dozen large phalanxes." The spearmen were in front, and the musketeers were in the back. These phalanxes, covering each other, "moved slowly" in the direction of the Tiger Army. The black oppressive phalanx turned the face of the field into a dark red sè, which really caused a lot of pressure on the Tiger Army.

"Stomp, stomp!"

"Stalp and stride!"

"Stomp, stomp!"

The sound of the Japanese soldier walking to the ground was "neat and orderly.

Even as an adversary, Zhou Yanyu had to admit that the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Japanese army were still quite disciplined. When it comes to obedience, the day himself is really a must. Even if you tell him to die, he will not hesitate to step forward. From the clairvoyant mirror, Zhou Yanyu could clearly see that those Japanese soldiers had numb expressions, "their eyes were dull, and they only knew how to move forward mechanically."

"Fire at the longest distance!"

"Self-striking!"

Zhou Yan Yuxun's decision.

There are only such a few people in the Weizi battalion, and it is impossible to fight a phalanx with the Japanese army. If the Japanese army was allowed to enter the range of their muskets, more than a dozen phalanxes, and the guns were released together, and all the men and horses of his battalion would be reimbursed. Only by the shè attack, as much as possible to kill and wound the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese approached, they quickly retreated, widened the distance, and then continued to attack. They continued until the Japanese suffered heavy casualties and could not continue the attack.

At this moment, Zhou Yanyu is most worried that the Japanese army does not want these phalanxes to "rush up like a swarm." There were too many Japanese troops, and the battle area was so flat that it was impossible to stop so many Japanese troops from rushing forward with the shè attack of the tiger commander. Subconsciously, "Zhou Yanyu is ready to retreat."

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Before the words fell, the gunners of the Tiger Army "couldn't wait to shoot."

At this time, the advance of the Japanese phalanx was still at least 200 meters away from the Tiger Army. The various flags and patterns on them that the Japanese army are flying cannot be distinguished clearly for the time being. But "on a flat field, such a distance, it doesn't look very far." In the crosshair of the Tiger Ben Mirror, the Japanese soldier figure I saw was "as big as a watermelon."

"Fire so early......"

"There's nothing remarkable about the Tiger Army......

Abe Yuki said silently in his heart, inadvertently with a little contempt.

He vividly remembered that when he first joined the army, the Portuguese instructor used to say that muskets could only fire at sixty yards (about 5o meters). This would also have a hit rate of about 30 percent. If you can tolerate firing within thirty yards, it will be even better, and the hit rate will increase to more than eighty percent. If it is more than a hundred yards, "it is equivalent to going to the moon in the sky", and the projectile has no idea where to fly. Now, at least two hundred yards away, the Tiger Army unleashed their muskets and simply struck at the sun.

The flag around Abe Yuki also looked a little disdainful. Their original nervous mood was gradually released. It seems that "there is nothing remarkable about the Tiger Army." The previous information "is only exaggerated." What can you hit if you shoot at such a distance? Is it to intimidate the "day" himself without a musket?

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

However, "everything in front of me was beyond the expectations of Yuki Abe and Akimoto.

The screams kept coming, "completely interrupting their thoughts." They were stunned to see that the Japanese soldiers in the front row of the phalanx "were falling one after another." If one or two people fell, maybe they wouldn't be surprised. But "it is clear that the number of people who fell" is quite large. The phalanx that rushed to the front, the two rows of soldiers in front, almost all fell.

The farthest range of the Minnie gun, over 900 meters, and at a distance of 500 meters, has lethality. The current shè strike distance is about 200 meters, and Mini's bullet hitting the Japanese soldier will naturally cause fatal damage. The rudimentary armor on the Japanese army could not stop the attack of Minnie bullets at all. As long as you are hit, it is the consequence of either death or injury.

Only a thick shield can block the killing of Mini bullets. However, the Japanese army was seriously short of shields. Probably out of the bushido jīng god considerations, the Japanese army was rarely equipped with shields. At the same time, "when using muskets and spears, it is not possible to equip a large number of shields." On the side of the Tiger Ben Army, thousands of Mini bullets roared away, and as long as one percent of the Mini bullets hit the target, the casualties caused were already considerable.

The screaming Japanese soldiers fell one after another. The dry field suddenly had many corpses or wounded of Japanese soldiers. The blood continued to flow, staining the hard land with wetness. A large number of scattered weapons also created a certain obstacle to the advance of the formation.

However, the phalanx of the Japanese army did not disperse 1uan. One by one, the phalanx is still slowly advancing. As far as combat discipline is concerned, "the discipline of the Japanese army is not much different from that of the Tartars." The more inferior the Japanese army, "the more rigid it is." Without orders from above, they must not disperse.

Such rigid actions are exactly what the Tiger Army needs. Such a phalanx is exactly the Tiger Bentong, the best shè target! The soldiers of the Weizi battalion are all seizing every second, desperately trying to get the Minnie bullet in their hands out. In the crackling gunfire, rows of Japanese soldiers "fell under the guns of the Tiger Ben Army."

"What's going on?"

Yuki Abe was a little dumbfounded.

Why is the fire rifle of the Tiger Ben Army so lethal?

At a distance of two hundred yards, so many Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded?

The flags around Abe Yuki, you look at me, I look at you, all of them are full of astonishment. Later, this stunned turned into horror. Some flags even subconsciously took a few steps back, as if they were a little farther away from the Tiger Army, and the chance of being hit was a little smaller. Obviously, the muskets used by the Tiger Ben Army were much more powerful than they expected.

In fact, when they were on Sado Island, the Japanese army had already seen the power of the Tiger Ben Mirror. It's just that, at that time, the Tiger Army had the artillery of the fleet, or it was supported by the army's field artillery, or it was a powerful flying thunder cannon or a mine. The existence of these high-power weapons completely conceals the power of the Tiger Bentong. When he was racking his brains to analyze these high-powered weapons, he ignored the most basic muskets.

However, in the battle in front of them, neither side used artillery, and the power of the muskets was immediately demonstrated. Not only is it shown, but it also looks very abrupt. Obviously, a musket with such a great power and such a distance was something that the Japanese army could not fight. Unless it is, the Dahang (artillery) that will be transported later can reach the battlefield as soon as possible.

"Stop Entering"

Abe Yuki face sèyīn Shen cloth order.

The muskets of the Tiger Army are so powerful," Abe Yuki didn't want his troops to die too much. In fact, "If Abe Yuki gives the order, don't queue up, and rush up in a swarm, the Tiger Army will definitely not be able to support it." Zhou Yanyu was ready to retreat. But "Abe Yuki never thought about this, rushing forward in a swarm, this is not like a war, but like a group of stragglers." The Portuguese instructors were the most disgusted by such actions. This is also unforgivable for Yuki Abe, who claims to be half a god of war. Who has ever seen a god of war fight like a rabbit? This is only the case in the event of defeat. Besides, it will be difficult to "rush up" and want to regroup back.

Yuki Abe's idea is that since he can't fight back, he will defend. After the rear lock and (arrow artillery) are transported, the attack continues. Before the arrival of the unification, he should not make unnecessary sacrifices. He believed that with the power of the Great Unification, he could still expel the Tiger Ben Army away. No matter how powerful the musket is, it can't be much stronger, right?

"Woooooo

The sound of the retreating trumpets soon sounded.

The various phalanxes of the Japanese army immediately retreated in an orderly manner.

"How?"

"Quitting the fight so soon?"

Zhou Yanyu held the clairvoyant mirror and said quietly frowning.

The Japanese army retreated so quickly, and the Tiger Army hadn't gotten over it yet. The shè attack just now is estimated to have killed one or two thousand Japanese soldiers. The results are not bad. If not too far, at a distance of a hundred meters, the lethal effect is at least doubled. However, since the Japanese army retreated, the Tiger Army also took the opportunity to stop.

With the strength of one battalion of his own, it is too difficult to attack the opponent who is ten times his own strength. The Tiger Ben is used for defense, which is good, but if it is used for offense, it is actually very slow.

He understood what Yuki Kishibe was waiting for. In fact, Zhou Yanyu is also waiting. Waiting for the arrival of Li Yang's artillery battalion.