Bright Spring

"I will understand." Wan Liang nodded.He sat on his horse and watched from a distance.

Chapter 774

Whenever the Ming army went on a conquest, they often paid attention to justification and obedience.So Qianhu Wanliang took the lead with 300 people on foot and rode, and Chen Bing stood in front of Zong's stronghold; he also ordered people to tie documents to arrows and shoot them into the city with their godly arms.

Official documents are written in silk, written by officials of the Pedestrian Department, and copied for backup.

The article pointed out that the guardian of Tsushima Island has no morals, has long sheltered Japanese pirates, and committed illegal things.It is stated that since the Hongwu period, the Ming court has repeatedly submitted credentials to the Japanese shogunate to ban Japanese pirates, but the Japanese shogunate ignored them, or made false claims.This time, the officials and army of the Ming Dynasty "had no choice but to send troops to attack."

At the end of the official document, a suggestion was made, asking the Zong family to lead the army out of the city and surrender, in order to gain benefits: most of the warriors and Zhuang Ding in the city wall would be spared the death penalty, and after reporting to the court, they would guard the daimyo himself or be leniently dealt with.

However, Wan Liang led the crowd to sunbathe outside for a long time, but did not get any response.

The Korean monk said: "The poor monk heard that the Japanese were not like this before. They usually responded by sending out a warrior with superb martial arts skills. '. Later, the Yuan Dynasty sent troops to Japan, and shot to death the samurai who came out to challenge the Japanese army with one arrow. Since then, the Japanese |

Wan Liang and other generals felt very bored, and felt that most of the time for today's battle was wasted, and the ordnance was not ready yet.So Wan Liang ordered the army to return to the barracks, and decided to attack the city early in the morning.

It was rainy and windy that night, but fortunately the rain stopped in the middle of the night.The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, more than [-] members of the Ming army were dispatched.

After the rain, the road is muddy.When the crowd dragged more than a dozen Hanwang cannons and Hongwu cannons to the front of the city wall, it was already daylight.

The sun is not visible in the sky, and the West Mountain on which the city is backed is shrouded in white mist. Only the black shadows of buildings in the mist and the faint shape of mountains in the distance can be seen.Today's weather is obviously not as good as yesterday, but yesterday was wasted, Wan Liang was a little annoyed early in the morning.

The sergeants were busy firing guns.Originally, the South Department of the Defense Department had distributed a cannon meter and tools to the gunners, but this time they were completely useless; because the city was on a hillside, the simple cannon meter could not calculate the range of upward shooting.

"Bang!" From time to time in the white mist, there was a bang of firecrackers. It was the soldiers of the Ming army who were testing gunpowder.It rained last night and there was mist on the hillside this morning. Everyone was worried that the gunpowder would not ignite|explode due to moisture.However, upon hearing the sound, it seemed that the millet-shaped gunpowder used by Jingying could still be ignited.

There was a noise in the mist, mixed with the shouting and shouting of the generals, the infantry was rectifying the formation.

After an unknown amount of time, the sun finally came out above the mountains and forests on the east coast, but the sun was very weak through the fog.Wan Liang rode his horse and walked slowly on the hillside. He watched the fortress above for a while, and finally said: "Order the shelling."

The Ming army's position was not large, and the soldiers around Wan Liang shouted: "Wanqian household orders, prepare to fire!"

After a while, the horn of "Woo..." sounded.Suddenly, there was a loud "boom" at the foot of the hillside, and the flames spurted | the surrounding light suddenly lit up, and the light from the muzzle was more dazzling than the sun.

After a huge cannon fire, it stopped for a while, and then the cannon sound shook in pieces. The sound echoed on the west mountain, and the hillside seemed to be trembling too.

After the mud-filled wall was built with wood and hit by the Hanwang cannon, at least three gaps collapsed in an instant.An iron ball weighing more than a dozen catties and a rammed-earth city wall that is more than ten steps thick are useless, but hitting a wooden fence is very powerful. The fast iron ball directly overturned every fence, and the wood was also blown away. Bounced into the air.

Then a larger group of flames flashed, Wan Liang raised his head, and with his eyes, he saw a huge stone weighing dozens of kilograms, flying into the air.The mortar and stone bullets of the bronze-cast Hongwu Cannon fell into the city from the air, and there were heavy muffled noises and the sound of houses collapsing.

The number of artillery pieces of the Ming army was small, and the loading was slow, and the sound of the artillery was fired intermittently for several rounds.The sun gradually rose, but the sight on the hillside was not clearer because of it. The gunpowder smoke mixed with the remaining fog, and the sky and the earth were gray.

"Dong dong dong..." The drums of the Chinese army sounded, and dozens of infantry formed a horizontal line and slowly began to march upwards.The fences and walls on the hillside were in a mess and collapsed in many places.

When the troops approached tens of paces cautiously, the second team behind them also dispatched.

Suddenly there were a few strings of "papa" in front of him, and a soldier of the Ming army screamed, threw away his gun shield, covered his face with his hands and fell to the ground.The soldiers in the front row hurriedly raised their round shields to protect their vital points.After another sound of strings in front, the gunmen in the front row of the Ming army squatted on the ground amidst the shouts of the generals; a row of flames flickered behind them, and with the sound of "bang bang bang", sawdust on the fence flew up.

As the soldiers of the Ming army advanced for a certain distance, the musketeers aimed at the holes on the fence and fired a salvo. During this period, some people were injured by arrows from time to time, but the vanguard did not retreat.

The infantry marched within ten steps of the wall. First, the firecrackers fired a volley, and then a row of infantry behind lit the pig iron mines in their hands. Throw it into the wall.

After a while, there were loud explosions in the wall, mixed with people's screams.

A general of the Ming army waved his waist knife and shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill! Kill..." All the soldiers shouted one after another, rushing into a collapsed gap.

However, the fight did not happen as expected. The soldiers crossed the messy and dilapidated gap and found that there was no one inside.There are collapsed houses all around, debris in the dilapidated streets and alleys, and scattered corpses scattered on the ground.

A Japanese soldier who hadn't died was sitting against a wall, looking up at the sky blankly, crying incomprehensibly.Another soldier was running away in the alleyway up the mountain, but a moment later there was a "bang" sound, and the man fell to the ground in response.

As the North Korean interpreter said, there were still some fence-like walls in the walled city, but they were all destroyed by the shelling.Collapsed houses and fences blocked the mountain road, and the surroundings were like ruins.

The tallest "Honmaru" building in the city also collapsed in a corner from the stone bullets of the Hongwu Cannon.The soldiers of the forward team reloaded their guns and headed towards the big house. They searched for their way through the broken wood and mud debris.The soldiers looked around and paid attention to the surrounding situation.

At this moment, a few men with longbows suddenly appeared behind Yidao Remnant, and behind him was a man in armor and holding a fan.

The general of the Ming army shouted: "Get ready for the firecrackers! Spear and shield soldiers get out of the way."

"Swoosh..." After a few strings, a group of enemy soldiers rushed over from behind the ruins, shouting.There were about twenty of them, except for a man in armor with his hand on the handle of a knife at his waist, the others were all wearing bamboo hats and covered their bodies with what seemed to be bamboo pieces, shouting and running with spears in their hands.

The firecrackers around the Ming army aimed at the crowd. After a shout of "Let go", the sound of "bang bang bang bang" exploded around, and there was a scream from the opposite side, and many people fell to the ground.But some were not hit, still roaring and charging.

At this time, the man with the fan behind the broken wall reappeared. He gestured twice, and another group of enemy soldiers came out yelling to kill.

The general of the Ming army shouted: "Array, prepare for battle!"

The spear and shield soldiers quickly jumped to the front and shrunk their formation to form a relatively dense horizontal line.The gunners hurriedly began to reload.

Moments later, the ashigaru with spears rushed to the front of the formation first, and were stabbed|killed by the dense spear and shield soldiers.And the warrior in armor pulled out the Japanese sword with a "shua", and the spear and shield soldier in front stabbed him, but the fellow dodged like a loach.The samurai hissed and roared "Ah", turned his body half a circle, he was already close to the shield, raised the Japanese sword to the top of his head with both hands, and stabbed a heavy infantryman in the neck with one knife.

The soldier of the Ming Dynasty didn't even yell out, so he fell down with his eyes wide open.The samurai took the opportunity to open a gap in the dense formation. He jumped forward and slashed at another spear and shield soldier.The gun and shield soldier's weapon was too long, and he couldn't fight back at the enemy in front of him at all; moreover, the warrior drew his sword very quickly, with a "bang-dang" sound of metal impact, the knife edge hit the iron helmet of the Ming army sergeant, and the blade fell from the sergeant's face. Slash across.The sergeant screamed loudly, blood splashing in the air.

"Cao you|Mother!" A firecracker soldier behind threw the firecracker, pulled out his waist knife, jumped towards the warrior, and stabbed it out.The samurai's slashing strength was getting old, so he retreated to one side and immediately bumped into a heavy infantry, and then the samurai screamed "ah"; the spear shield soldier next to him drew out his waist knife and stabbed the samurai Back|waist, also twisted the blade.The samurai raised his head and yelled, and the man also knelt on the ground.

Several Ming soldiers surrounded him angrily, spears and waist knives greeted the warriors one after another, almost chopping them into minced meat.

However, the place where the Japanese army launched the charge was very close, and the second group of enemy soldiers had already rushed there!They rushed in from the gap in the queue, and rushed straight to the depths.The Japanese infantry seemed to have no formation, they just wanted to fight.

All the Japanese soldiers yelled and terrified, but they did not retreat.An ashigaru hit the front of the heavy infantry, and was immediately pierced by the cherry gun. The bamboo hat on his head fell off, revealing the cloth-wrapped turban, and his face was distorted.He probably wanted to die with a Ming army sergeant, but the spear failed to pierce the breastplate of the Ming army sergeant on the opposite side, and his eyes stared at the pained face.

There was a sudden killing sound in the crowd, and the rapidly dancing knives and guns were like everyone shouting nervously.Some people even scuffled together, completely out of order.The general of the Ming army was also caught off guard. He never expected that the Japanese army with such poor equipment would not be defeated and escape in a fierce battle.

Chapter 775

The remnants of the enemy army finally retreated, and the few remaining ashigaru fled around the ruins.

The vanguard of the Ming army was also very chaotic. Some people took the opportunity to catch their breath. Before everyone had time to straighten out the queue, unexpectedly another group of Japanese soldiers rushed out beside the broken wall in front.Someone yelled: "Chicken house!" A group of short people began to charge, yelling frantically.

At this time, the sound of brass instruments sounded from behind, and someone shouted: "Wanqian household order, the vanguard retreats!"

"Retreat!" The general in the crowd shouted, and everyone immediately gave up fighting in formation and turned around and retreated.The two sergeants supporting the wounded soldier glanced at the firecrackers behind them, and hurriedly dragged the wounded soldier to avoid the pile of earth and rocks on the side.

The Japanese army swarmed in, and almost everyone was shouting fiercely.On the narrow road in this place and among the rugged civil ruins, 20 people suddenly rushed out of the raging battle.

Many people shouted "Father, ah". The soldiers of the Ming army didn't know what they meant, but it could be seen that the Japanese army was definitely not begging for mercy.The enemy army scrambled to be the first, and with Japanese swords and spears, they rushed straight to the reinforcements behind the Ming army.

The crowd of enemy soldiers is getting closer and closer, and they have rushed to within ten steps.

"Bang bang bang..." The Chunhan light guns lined up on the road and on the mound suddenly exploded intensively, and the flames of salvos flickered everywhere.

The shouting in the crowd of Japanese soldiers suddenly stopped a lot, replaced by screams of pain and panic, and many people fell to the ground.

After only a short while, the firecrackers of the second squadron of the Ming army came up and fired again with "bang bang bang".A Japanese samurai in armor knelt on the ground with one knee. At this time, a burst of blood flew straight to his chest. He shook all over and finally fell to the ground.The rest of the enemy stopped their advance and finally turned around and ran away.

Unexpectedly, a moment later, a Japanese|man waved a fan dozens of steps away and yelled again.