Chapter 752: Worry
The Qing army fell more people, and the terrible screams sounded one after another, but at this time, under the pressure of the Han army in the rear, the shield car also quickly pushed thirty steps in front of the Japanese bamboo bundle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Then in the sharp sound of swans, the first row of nearly 1,000 Han army flag bearers snuggled behind the shield car and pulled the board machine, Duoduo saw a continuous thick white smoke burst, and then spread horizontally along hundreds of shield cars, and the smoke above the shield car was thick.
The ferocity of this volley was no worse than that of the Japanese iron gunners, and Duoduo saw that their bamboo bundles were broken into pieces, and some weak points were pierced, and the Japanese iron gunners hiding inside screamed and fell to the ground.
Twenty paces, the Han army bird gunners launched another volley, and there were more screams there, and Duoduo saw the bamboo bundle behind the continuous figure of the Japanese iron gunners falling to the ground.
Ten steps, there was another sharp swan sound, the fire in front of the shield car was connected, and the hoarse howls of many Japanese iron gunners sounded on the bamboo bundle. Under the heavy fire, some models of bamboo bundles were even shot and collapsed.
The Chinese army sounded a trumpet and a neat shout, and the archers of the flags behind the shield car stepped forward, and they used bows and arrows in their hands in the front row, squatting down with waist steps, and their footsteps were separated in a figure-eight shape, shooting directly at close range. In the back rows, arrows are pointed diagonally into the sky and projectiles are fired from a distance.
The vibration of the bowstrings rang out, and the arrows whistled like rain, covering the sky densely.
The Qing archers fired twenty rounds in one go, and the Japanese iron gunners behind the bamboo bundles suffered heavy casualties. The arrows shot by the Qing army were accurate and ruthless, and in such a close space, only ten paces away, the arrows they shot were almost uncommon.
Whether the Japanese iron gunners hid behind the bamboo bundle or on both sides of the bamboo bundle, as long as they appeared in the sight of those archers, they could not escape the fire of their arrows.
Their arrows are cunning and vicious. Constantly drilling through the holes in the bamboo bundles, the Japanese iron gunners who were hiding behind the bamboo bundles suffered one after another, they were either shot in the eye or in the face of the arrow, and the terrible screams were endless.
The Japanese archers also kept flashing arrows from both sides of the bamboo bundles, but they couldn't suppress the shots of the Qing archers.
The shouts of killing and the screams rang out. Sandwiched between the scattered firearms of the guns on both sides, the Qing archers in the back rows continued to shoot, which also caused confusion and casualties to the Japanese positions behind the bamboo bundles.
Seeing that the Japanese position was in chaos, the drumbeat of the Qing army sounded again, and the armored soldiers behind the archers of each banner began to advance. Armed with broadswords and shields, they did not hesitate to rush into the Japanese army's bamboo bunch position, and those Qing archers and Han flag bearers also followed up to cover and support.
"Won?"
Duoduo saw that the Japanese army was in chaos at the front, and the tide of Japanese iron gunners and archers were retreating to the rear, and his own armored soldiers were chasing after them and slashing and slaughtering.
However, at this time, the sound of trumpets and drums also sounded in the Japanese army's main formation. The two wings of their crane wing formation, the first hand preparation at the front of the two wings, began to move, and it seemed that the armored warriors who were attacking the middle from both sides, while the second advance preparation at both ends of their flanks was still moving.
"These Japanese warriors are still a little different."
Dodor thought to himself, and as he watched their formations move, the spearheads moved together, maintaining a rhythm, a sense of unity.
When they attack. It was also the gunners who lined up several rows, and then rushed up in rows. They consisted of twenty to thirty people in each row. When the front row came, the long bamboo knives and bamboo guns slapped in chaos, making the armored soldiers of their own side dizzy, and the back row took the opportunity to poke their armored soldiers to the ground one by one.
However, it was a tactic called "gun" in the Japanese state, and each platoon of 20 to 30 people besieged it side by side. Count the rows at a time. They slapped in the front row, stabbed in the back, and stabbed in turns in each row, like a large quilt splitting the surface.
No matter how brave your own soldiers are, they will besiege one or more people side by side in the face of the pikes. It's a bit of a rush. In the face of this kind of front-row shooting, back-row stabbing gun tactics, more and more people fell under their bamboo guns.
Watching them fight in formation, neatly and uniformly, with a forest of guns, it has a kind of flavor of the military formation of the Qin and Han dynasties in the ancient Central Plains.
Duoduo's mind floated to the Qi family army in the past, as well as the current Jingbian army and the new army of the Ming Kingdom, all of which emphasized the military formation, which was completely different from the kind of family army that fought alone.
The armor-clad men were able to swoop in, but they quickly changed their tactics after a long time of battle, and they drew their bows and arrows and shot at the ashigargunrs at close range. The archers of all banners followed suit, and arrows covered them like a rainstorm.
At this time, the Japanese iron gunners and archers were in a rout, and a small number of iron gunners and archers in the advance were unable to resist the Qing archers. Only the humble and unprotected Ashigaru gunners suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows, and they followed in the footsteps of the iron gunners in the front formation, and fled in the rear screaming.
The Qing armoured soldiers took the opportunity to rush forward, and they used the same tactics to defeat the two advance reserves on both flanks again, and the Japanese army could no longer hold it back, and they threw in the mother-clothed people, those very elite naginata samurai, and the flag warriors.
The Qing army immediately threw themselves into Bayala, and they were followed by nearly a thousand heavy horsemen, all heavily armoured, and then ......
Seeing that the coalition forces of the Southwest Domain on the opposite side retreated in a hurry under their own attacks, and finally formed a frenzy of escape, Duoduo had a smile on his face.
"Won ......"
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In the Battle of Kurume in August, the allied forces of the Southwest Domain were defeated, they suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the rest were pursued by the Qing cavalry, and they had no way to escape, so they had to surrender to Abatai and others. Duoduo and Abatai accepted their surrender and organized some of them into the Eight Banners Japanese Army.
After this great victory, Abatai could no longer suppress the desire of Duoduo and others to attack Nagasaki, and they invaded Nagasaki as victors with the surrendered Nagasu Domain, Saga Domain, Satsuma Domain, and other feudal domains, and only three days later, Nagasaki Castle and Castle Tower fell.
The allied forces plundered and plundered Nagasaki and Nagasaki for four whole days, plundering and ravaging as much as they wanted, whether it was an ordinary town-town residence or a wealthy Kamiya temple, whether it was a local flower street or a foreign merchant house, poor and rich, foreigners, they were all the targets of their plundering and captivity.
Although the surrendered feudal lords were Japanese, they did their best to vent their resentment against the shogunate on the soldiers and civilians of Nagasaki Castle during the robbery. They killed people and set fires, did all kinds of evil, and finally set a fire, reducing the whole of Nagasaki to ashes. The majestic castle tower burned for five days before it was extinguished.
Nagasaki is the only port city in Japan that was open to the outside world during the lockdown era, and it has a unique exotic atmosphere, and walking through the streets and alleys of Nagasaki, you can see traces of Western and Oriental influences everywhere. There are various Chinese houses, Dejima Orchid Pavilion, and a large number of Daming and Dutch shippers.
There is also a connection with Edo Yoshiwara. Kyoto Shimahara is also known as Japan's three major fireworks alleys of Maruyama Yunu Lane, where the flower street culture is extremely prosperous, there are hundreds of green buildings that have opened, and the number of wandering girls is as high as 1,000 people. There are also brothels here, Maruyama Town and Yoriai Town.
It also has a resident population of more than 60,000, which has recently increased to 100,000. Because the Qing army was raging in the Kyushu domains, but it never attacked Nagasaki, it was rumored that the Qing prisoners did not seem to dare to attack the shogunate's direct leadership, and the wealthy refugees fled one after another. Let the population of Nagasaki increase dramatically.
Now it's served in a pot.
Even the Nagasaki Commissioner, which managed administration and overseas trade, was burned to the ground.
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The fall of Nagasaki shook the whole of Japan, and the shogunate could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb and turn a blind eye, especially the Qing army then crossed Shimonoseki and entered the island of Honshu, and under the guidance of the Nagasu domain, they marched to Kyoto and Edo by land.
The shogunate finally acted, but the way they acted was somewhat unexpected by Duoduo and the others.
September of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. A huge fleet sailed towards Japan, led by seven or eight European-style brigs and three-masted galleons. There are more than 100 fortune ships and Guangzhou ships of different sizes, all of which are hung with the big flag of Zheng characters on them.
In addition, there were several European warships in the fleet with the Orange flag, the blue cross flag on a white background, the St. George cross flag, and the purple lion flag, forming a very large fleet.
They sailed on the sparkling sea, cleaving the waves. Keep moving forward.
It is Zheng Zhilong and the joint crusade army formed by the countries of Europe!
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"Zheng Zhilong sent troops?"
Wang Dou was a little regretful when he got the information, he already understood the process of the matter, after all, the Qing State was a small border country, and he didn't understand the world form, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had provoked people who shouldn't be messed with this time.
Zheng is not worth mentioning on land. But it was a behemoth at sea, and at this time the southeast coast was a piece of land, and even the Dutch and Spaniards did not dare to compete with it.
They also have great interests in Japan, and they make a profit of more than 10 million taels of silver every year by selling the sea pass flag at a high price. This time, the Qing army plundered Nagasaki and captured all the residents and merchants, which not only cut off Zheng Zhilong's financial routes, but also cut off the financial routes of Western countries, after all, Nagasaki was the only foreign trade port of Japan at this time.
If the Qing army has the ability, it would be fine, but their navy is not worth mentioning.
Most of the Korean ships they used on their expedition to Japan this time, and if the Daming Navy Division did not intervene, they could have dealt with it calmly, after all, the Japanese Navy was not worth mentioning.
But the Zheng clan made a move, and they also formed a joint fleet with European countries.
This is also inevitable, Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch have too much interest in Japan, and the rest of the countries are very eager for the Japanese market, and pay a certain price in the shogunate, such as allowing them to trade, or opening a few more ports, it is normal for all parties to join forces.
Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the shogunate, tended to lock down the country after taking power, and in addition to the Ming and Dutch, the British, Spaniards, and Portuguese were slowly expelled from the Japanese market.
Wang Dou guessed that Dolgon would soon stop his attack in Japan, and then reach some compromise with the shogunate, and finally withdraw his troops from Japan.
After all, even if the coalition forces of various countries are added, in fact, the shogunate still can't stop the Qing army's attack on land, and they can't afford to let Zheng Zhilong and others live on the beach for a long time to patrol and guard, and their pride will not allow them to let foreign fleets live in Japan for a long time.
Tokugawa Iemitsu was known for his wariness of foreigners, and most of the immediate losses were due to the southwestern feudal domains that were hostile to him, and it was not necessary to say that the shogunate hated the Qing state, so the final agreement should be that the Qing army should withdraw from Japan and promise not to attack again, and the matter should be stopped.
Wang Dou will wait and see how things will go, but after Dolgon collected troops from Japan, he will put his energy back to the Ming Dynasty, which is not a good thing.
The plague matter has also come to an end, and judging from the information obtained so far, the losses in Jingshi and other places are very large, especially the losses in Beijing, and Hong Chengchou seems to be seriously ill.
There is also Shaanxi, the thieves are attacking and opening the seal, and Sun Chuanting has become more and more unable to resist the pressure of the court, and it seems that he is about to be released.
Will he still be defeated like history?
The autumn rain fell again, first the rain, and then slowly formed a rain curtain.
Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, and the torrential rain constantly hitting the eaves, Wang Dou slowly felt a trace of worry in his heart. (To be continued.) )