Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 365 Massacre
On the pier at this time, the artillery scouts waved the flag again.

Not long after that, several more shells were fired.

This time, a shell fell directly into the Japanese army formation, and the solid shell jumped forward, killing and wounding several Japanese soldiers.

"retreat!"

Seeing such a situation, Huashan Jiugao was terrified and ordered to retreat immediately.

However, more than 2000 military formations assembled together do not mean that they can withdraw immediately. An orderly retreat can only lead to a rout.

In order to retreat in an orderly manner, at least a few minutes of buffer time are needed before these soldiers can leave their positions.

However, in less than a minute, there was only a burst of dense artillery sounding in the distance, and countless shells immediately flew towards Huashan Jiugao's army like meteors.

Most of these shells missed, and only a small part of the shells fell into the Japanese army formation.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom .

After these few shells fell into the army formation, in addition to killing many people by the kinetic energy of the shells, they also exploded one after another within a second or two after falling into the army formation.

With the explosion, Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties for a while.

In this round of shelling, at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers were killed or injured.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers finally had no way to maintain their formation, and ran back one after another.

For a time, the entire Japanese army was in chaos.

However, the shelling didn't stop, and countless shells were still fired at the fleeing Japanese soldiers as if they didn't want money.

Although most of the shells missed the enemy, the deterrence caused has frightened the Japanese soldiers.

When the fleet bombarded Kawayama Kugao's troops, more than 3000 musketeers had already logged in.

"Everyone listens to the order, the enemy has collapsed, it's a good time for us to pursue, go ahead."

Soon, the landing Musketeers left the pier and rushed towards the collapsed Japanese army 2000 meters away.

Although the Japanese soldiers were routed, they still fled very fast. The Royal Musketeers did not dare to break up in pursuit and could only watch the enemy run farther and farther away.

"Let's just run after them and don't give them time to assemble."

The commander of the Musketeers was a young man named Zheng Linchuan. He led [-] Musketeers to quickly follow the fleeing Japanese soldiers to prevent the Japanese from gathering.

However, after escaping for a certain distance, more than 2000 Japanese soldiers and horses quickly gathered together again under the organization of some Japanese samurai, and formed a new battle formation before the arrival of [-] Royal Musketeers.

"It seems that these Japanese soldiers are all elites. No wonder they were able to defeat the Ryukyu Kingdom."

Seeing that the defeated Japanese army was quickly stabilized and formed a battle formation, Zheng Linchuan couldn't help but admire.

However, facing the elite Japanese soldiers, Zheng Linchuan was not afraid. He led [-] Musketeers and slowly pressed them over.

The distance between the two sides gradually approached, and soon, the soldiers on both sides were within 150 meters. Many soldiers with good eyesight could see what the other side looked like.

Unlike the Royal Musketeers, except for some of the Japanese soldiers who were equipped with muskets, the others were all cold weapons. In addition, there was even a cavalry of hundreds of people.

The two armies faced each other, and the Japanese general Huashan Jiugao once again sent an envoy before the battle.

A Japanese samurai stepped out of the team on horseback, and then came to the front of the two sides.

"I am the warrior Kimuragami under the helmet of General Kawayama Hisataka..."

boom……

However, before the samurai could finish his words, bullets responded to him.

"First row, shoot!"

bang bang bang bang bang...

The next moment, three thousand musketeers attacked the Japanese army 150 meters away.

The long-barreled flintlock equipped by the Royal Musketeers has an accurate shooting distance of less than a hundred meters, but the maximum shooting distance exceeds two or three hundred meters. Therefore, Zheng Linchuan chose to start shooting at a distance of 300 meters. This distance is exactly The distance that the Japanese musketeers could not reach.

Historically, in European line tactics, the shooting distance of both sides increased as the range of the rifle increased.

At the most exaggerated moment, the soldiers on both sides started shooting at each other hundreds of meters away, and then walked while shooting, until they got closer and closer, and the lethality of the shots from both sides became more and more lethal, until the last one collapsed.

"Second row, fire forward."

Bang bang bang bang bang!
After the first row of soldiers finished shooting, the second row of musketeers immediately stepped forward and began to pull the trigger on the enemy more than 100 meters away.

"Third row, shoot forward..."

As the three thousand Musketeers started shooting, they immediately saw Japanese soldiers more than 100 meters away fell down one by one like they were cutting wheat.

Seeing the enemy's attack, hundreds of Japanese Musketeers also launched a round of attacks on the Ming Royal Musketeers.

However, they used old-fashioned matchlock guns, and the effective killing distance was less than 150 meters. Shooting at a distance of [-] meters only injured a small number of Royal Musketeers, and none of the soldiers died.

"First row, step forward and shoot..."

bang bang bang bang bang...

"Second row, step forward and shoot..."

bang bang bang bang bang...

In the formation of the Royal Musketeers, the command to shoot continues?Countless soldiers repeatedly stepped forward to shoot, then reloaded on the spot, and then stepped forward to shoot.

The Japanese army on the opposite side suffered heavy losses after several rounds of shooting.

After seeing countless comrades in the front row fell down like being mowed, the Japanese soldiers behind finally collapsed.

No matter how the officers yelled and cursed, everyone pretended not to hear them, and ran away quickly.

Even many military officers ran away in fright after seeing 600 people died in a short period of time.

Everyone has already seen that this is an army that is impossible to win, and the opposite side is like a god of death, ruthlessly harvesting the lives on their side.

Facing such an enemy, what should we continue to fight?

Just when the Japanese army collapsed, the city of Shuri was already in chaos.

After Kawayama Hisaka led his troops to rescue Naha Port, only two hundred soldiers were left in Shuri Castle to guard the Ryukyu Palace and the Ryukyu Royal Family.

Under such circumstances, the Ryukyu nobles who refused to accept the Japanese aggression took this opportunity to quickly contact each other, and then organized the Ryukyu people to attack the Japanese soldiers in the Ryukyu Palace.

Although the organized strength of the Ryukyu people is not comparable to the number of Japanese soldiers, they are superior in numbers.

Under such circumstances, the defense line composed of two hundred Japanese samurai lasted for less than half an hour before it was already crumbling.

"Mr. Inoue, I can't stand it anymore, what should I do?"

Seeing soldiers being besieged to death by the Ryukyu people, a samurai officer's eyes were tearing apart.

"Take the Ryukyu King's family and we will withdraw."

"Then you take the Ryukyu king's family first, and I will take the people to stand up for a while and then withdraw immediately."

(End of this chapter)