Chapter three hundred and ninety-four: the battle
"Woo~woo~"
On November 20, the 20th year of Wanli, when the sky was just bright, amidst the whistling of the shell bugle, three thousand Japanese sergeants carrying various colorful flags stood in Tachibana Munemo for ten consecutive hours.
Under the leadership of He Gaoqiao Zengtong, three military formations formed a "pin" shape and besieged the "Qi Family Army" stationed at Biti Pavilion.
"Third brother, these Japanese Japanese from the Tachibana family are in great formation. Why don't we let our artillery fire two rounds later to make a profit?"
Looking at the dense Japanese formation in the distance, Zhu Dingchen, Zhang Weixian, and Wu Changsheng, three artillerymen from Qianhu, came over shamelessly with smiles on their faces.
There is no other way, the Japanese Japanese's dense military formation is really suitable for the Habayashi Guards' Crouching Tiger Artillery.
"What are you going to do with a bang? What should we do if we scare away these pirates? Didn't you see that we even set the firing range of the fire gun at a hundred paces?"
After glancing at the three guys who had been thinking about setting off firecrackers all day long, Wang Bing immediately kicked them in annoyance.
You know, since the Habayashi Guards were equipped with flintlock rifled muskets, the firing distance has always been set at 150 steps.
But this time, in order to be able to hold off the Japanese, Wang Bing set the firing distance at the minimum distance of 100 steps stipulated before entering the court when the opponent had a musket.
You should know that although the effective shooting range of the Japanese matchlock gun is only twenty or thirty steps, if you are hit by it at a distance of a hundred steps, you will still be injured.
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"My lord, Brother Tachibana-kun only brought 3,000 soldiers to the vanguard. Isn't it too underestimated?"
Just when Wang Bing scolded Zhu Dingchen and the others who wanted to set off a cannon, on the Japanese side, a retainer of Kobayakawa Takakage looked towards the Ming army camp in the distance with some worry.
"Don't worry, Tachibana-kun's three thousand soldiers are worth his ten thousand!"
Different from the worries of this retainer, Kobayakawa Keitaka was full of confidence in the tall Tachibana Muneshige.
"Hey, I didn't expect there to be such a tall guy among the Japanese!"
Just when Kobayakawa Takakage's retainers were a little worried about Tachibana Muneshige's 3,000 soldiers, on the side of Bitokan, they saw from a distance the outstanding Tachibana Munesege in the center of the Japanese army, Qi Panzong and other Habayashi guards
The soldiers couldn't help but be surprised.
There is no way, in this era when the average height of Japanese men is only about 1.4 to 1.5 meters, and even 1.6 meters is rare, it is really surprising that a guy over 1.8 meters suddenly appears.
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"That should be Tachibana Munege!"
I remember seeing in a documentary called "Previous Life" that when someone inferred from Tachibana Muneshige's armor that he was at least 1.8 meters tall, Wang Bing still didn't believe it.
Unexpectedly, after seeing this guy in person, Wang Bing discovered that this guy's height was really much higher than that of the Japanese contemporaries.
"Tell brothers, don't shoot that tall man within a hundred steps!"
Wang Bing, who was afraid that guys like the Habayashi Guards would be happy to see him and kill Tachibana Muneshige from a very long distance, quickly issued an order to 'protect' Tachibana Muneshige.
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"The general manager of Japan? The supreme commander of the Ming army? Hahahaha!"
As the distance between the two sides continued to shorten, when the Tachibana Sect saw the huge flags fluttering in the wind in the Qingming army formation, they couldn't help laughing excitedly.
There was no other way. I originally thought that I would only have to deal with the Qi Jiajun this time, but I didn't expect that I would encounter the top commander of the Ming Army.
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
When the distance got closer again, after seeing Wang Bing who was wearing a silver helmet under the banner of the Ming Army, Tachibana Munege immediately recognized that that was the so-called Ming Army's "General Manager Beiwa"!
So, unable to bear it any longer, he was still two hundred steps away from the Ming army's position, and immediately issued the order to charge.
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!!!"
Following Tachibana Muneshige's order, the three thousand Tachibana family soldiers immediately let out a ghostly scream, and then accelerated their speed to surround the Habayashi Guards.
"Lao San, I think it's okay to hit the Japanese at fifty paces as long as he charges with his two short legs!"
Looking at the more than 3,000 Japanese Japanese who rushed towards them in the form of infantry, Li Zunzu curled his lips in disdain.
There was nothing I could do. I was used to fighting against the fast-charging Tatar cavalry, but now I was facing infantry charging into the formation. This speed was too slow in the eyes of the Habayashi Guards.
"No, you have to fire at a hundred steps! Don't forget that the Japanese also have fire blunderbuss. The distance of 100 steps is just too poor for matchlock blunderbuss, but it doesn't mean it can't hurt people!"
Wang Bing firmly shook his head at Yi Zunzu's suggestion. He did not want to unnecessarily increase the casualties of the Yulin Guards just to lure the enemy.
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"The entire army is ready for a three-stage salvo!"
Not long after, when he saw that the Japanese pirates on the opposite side, most of them carrying ferocious ghost faces, were about to enter a hundred steps away, Wang Bing raised the command flag in his hand high.
“Beep beep beep!”
Just when the three thousand Japanese pirates had just stepped into the distance of a hundred steps, with the wave of the command flag in Wang Bing's hand, sharp whistles sounded.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
Before the whistle fell, bursts of clear gunfire sounds like fried beans rang out on the Yulin Guards' position.
"Ugh!"
"Ah~"
As clouds of smoke rose from the Yulin Guards' position, the three Japanese formations that were chirping and charging quickly suddenly stopped at the same time, as if they had hit an invisible wall.
Then, the neatly arranged Japanese army was like peeling vegetable leaves, but the Japanese in the front row either wailed or fell down silently one by one.
"Kill the chicken! Speed up!"
After a round of three-shot blunderbuss, and calculating the time for the Ming army to reload their ammunition, Tachibana Munesege, who commanded the central army, himself rode forward on his horse and took the lead.
However, what Tachibana Muneshige didn't expect was that just when he activated his horses, the Ming army's muskets on the opposite side rang out again.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
"Herodus~"
In an instinctive reaction, Tachibana Sect Momo quickly reined in his horse and stopped at a safe distance a hundred steps away from the Habayashi Guards.
But what he didn't know was that what he thought was a safe distance was just a deliberate attempt by Yu Linwei to let him go under Wang Bing's care.
"Hiss! How can the Ming Dynasty's fire cannons maintain such high accuracy at such a distance?"
Seeing his subordinates rushing forward and falling to the ground almost neatly one after another, Tachibana Munemo was so surprised that his eyes almost dropped.
You know, let alone a hundred steps, even at a distance of fifty steps, it is impossible for one's own 'iron cannon' to achieve such accuracy. Not to mention, it can maintain such a high firing rate while maintaining such accuracy.
Chapter completed!