Chapter 635: Mixed battle of hot and cold
It is not an easy task to transform the army of the Middle Ages into a modern army. A professional like Rudolf, after twenty years of hard training, could only form 300,000 new troops in Spain. Half-hearted pseudo-military enthusiasts like Zhu Youdong
, it took more than twenty years to form Henghaiwei.
Therefore, for a country like Japan that only began to receive modern military training a few years ago, its military is at best similar in appearance to the standards of a modern military.
And such an army launched a night attack, even though the opponent was only the third brother who had been trained by Ottoman officers for a year, and was actually not very good. However, only twenty or thirty minutes after the night attack started, the Japanese officers completely forgot about the Ming officers' training.
With their various teachings, they instinctively began to advance and charge onboard.
What's even more outrageous is that almost all the middle and lower-level officers who command this army are from the samurai class, and all of them are so-called masters of swordsmanship. Therefore, under the leadership of these officers, the Japanese soldiers completed five rounds of rifle shooting.
After firing the bullet, he did not change the magazine, but directly attached the bayonet and launched a hand-to-hand charge!
This kind of behavior, for the third brother, who is still essentially a medieval army, is really sleepy and meets the pillow. Then the third brother also shot all the bullets in the guns in his hands, and then used cold weapons to chop them up.
When the two sides fell into a hand-to-hand battle, the Japanese army, which was neither superior in size nor quantity, slowly showed its decline.
"Good opportunity!" His Royal Highness the Prince has benefited a lot from Datar in terms of scientific and technological knowledge and breadth of knowledge, but in terms of military command, he himself is much better than Datar. Seeing that our soldiers were slowly panicking after the initial panic,
Slowly, under the organization of the Ottoman officers, he began to counterattack, and gradually gained the advantage. He made a prompt decision and immediately mobilized the troops from the rear of the camp. With the new force and superior numbers, the Indian army's advantage was further expanded.
"Attack!" The katana rolled up gracefully and smoothly disemboweled a soldier in single clothes. Honda Tadaka, who was in his thirties, finally found the long-lost sense of pleasure.
"Yoshi! As a samurai, you should fight with swords and guns. All iron cannons and barrels are used by cowards."
As a descendant of the Tokugawa family, the Honda family lived in misery after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Therefore, during this Western Expedition, the Honda family spent a lot of money and directly let the head of the family go into battle. Honda Tadaka also took the initiative
The station is on the front line.
That night, after Toyotomi Tohide revealed his secret, all the samurai in the Japanese army were inexplicably excited. When the night attack began, everyone was really brave and everyone was vying for the first place.
At the beginning, they did have the advantage, and the three brothers who were beaten dizzy were retreating steadily. But when the Ottoman officers stood up and organized effectively, and Aurangzeb made adjustments from the overall perspective, the Japanese army declined.
I can't stop it no matter what.
"Master, please retreat quickly!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? At this moment, it is the time for us to show our bravery and take down Aurangzeb's head for the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty...hiss~ there are many pockets!"
Before he could finish his impassioned declaration, he discovered to his horror that there were not even a few people left in his company of more than a hundred people, which was formed with the Hondo samurai as the core.
Life is still very important. As the head of the family, if he is killed here, who will fight for the fief for his family in the future? So when he woke up, he started to ask his men to get closer to him as much as possible, and then tried to find a way to move back.
Breakout!
However, the third brother is a country where people are starving to death due to famine, but they still export a large amount of food. They are the world's number one in the internal epidemic situation, and they still provoke powerful neighbors all day long. In short, they are a magical nation that is at a disadvantage and still feels that it has an advantage. Now it is clear
With the advantage in front of them, how could they let them go so easily? In an instant, hundreds of bayonets mixed with dozens of spears were thrust towards them. This small group of Japanese soldiers was instantly overwhelmed.
The demise of the Honda team was not an isolated case. On this night, the Japanese army launched a night attack at 0:00 in the morning. However, the numerical disadvantage was too great. By 1:40 in the morning that night, the Indian army completely took advantage.
Not only did they drive the Japanese troops out of their camp, they also pursued them closely, trying to seize the opportunity to capture the Japanese camp.
"Hiss, Suguichi~" The exquisite helmet inherited from Toyotomi Hideyoshi has fallen to no one, and the golden Jinhaori was also abandoned on the way to retreat because the target was too obvious. At this moment, the young Toyotomi Hideyoshi
His face was full of remorse: It was all his fault, what was the leak? As a result, the group of officers below all strongly requested a night attack - this is the traditional Japanese way of defeating the superior!
Seeing the Indian army chasing after its own army and about to approach its own defense line, Toyotomi Tohide wanted to cry without tears: If the defense line is lost because of this, will the emperor of China reward Andhra? Not on Honshu Island.
Another cut would be kind!
Just when he fell into despair, he suddenly heard a deafening "full color" sound from behind him.
Fuguo's army rushed forward.
Moreover, not only did the Fuguo Army rush forward, but their artillery from further behind also began to fire: the Indian charging troops were quickly cut into two sections.
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After taking a breath, Toyotomi Tohide finally got rid of the entanglement of the three brothers for the time being. Then he did not return to his camp, but instead drove to the neighboring camp of Zhu Changxun under the protection of a group of personal guards.
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"His Royal Highness Prince Fu, thank you for your help."
"Your Highness Guan Bai, last year my country, Fuzhou, owed you a debt of gratitude. This is a clearing of things."
"There is no peace between the two countries. It is our country that owes you a great favor. Your Highness, what should we do now?"
"The artillery blocks the opponent's backup, and our soldiers still have to fight to the death. No matter whether it is cold weapons or hot weapons, they are all in close combat at this time, and there is absolutely no way to retreat. I have sent people to notify the friendly forces in the rear to be prepared.
,So, even if we all die here tonight, the frontal defense line will not be lost."
"Hey, I've learned a lesson!" He turned around and said to his guards with a cold face: "Go back quickly and give the order. Tonight, either we will kill the enemy troops to retreat, or we will all die here! This is what a samurai is.
Things to do.”
"Hi!"
As King Fu and Guan Bai made up their minds to fight to the death, the morale of the two armies rose sharply. On this night, in this battle that mainly used cold weapons, occasionally mixed with a few rifle shots or a shuttle of submachine gun bullets
.At three o'clock in the morning, the Indian army was finally pushed back slowly.
At 3:45, both sides were exhausted, and the intensity of the fighting on the battlefield dropped rapidly. As a last resort, Aurangzeb gave the order to withdraw his troops.
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"General Mao, this was the situation of the battle that night four days ago. In general, more than 5,000 people from our country, Japan, and Fujian were killed that night, and tens of thousands were lightly or seriously injured. The number of casualties of the Indian army is not very clear.
But our army collected more than 3,000 Indian corpses."
"Well...that's it. It's not easy for them to fight like this." Listening to the reports of Zheng Guotai and Sanada Yukimasa below, Mao Wenlong's face shook several times, but he finally endured it.
Not only does he have to endure it, even if Zhu Youdong is here, he also has to endure it: as a sect leader, he can only smile bitterly at this farce of using light weapons from the early 20th century to the level of a war in the 15th century.
He let it go gently: The vassal country has fought hand-to-hand for your cause, what else do you want from others?
"You two have been on the front line of defense for five days now. How are you doing? Can you still hold on? Do you need to replace them?"
"No need." The two yelled in unison, then looked at each other and smiled. Then Zheng Guotai said: "General, since the field battle that night, the enemy has not launched an attack for three days. So the pressure from the staff is not
Not big."
"Huh? It stopped for three days? What is Aurangzeb doing?"
What was Aurangzeb not prepared to do? The night battle that night actually dealt a heavy blow to him.
No matter how old and strong he is in the historical plane, no matter how much he has improved after getting Datar's memory, he is still a sixteen-year-old boy now. And young people are very emotionally unstable.
Stable. If you succeed, you will be happy. If you fail, your depressed mood will be completely exposed.
How could this happen? Since last year's raid, I have been training carefully in Andhra for more than half a year. Why is it that this time we have more soldiers and more adequate equipment, but the results are not as good as the last time?
These were the troops of the vassal states of Cathay, and they fought so tenaciously. Wouldn't it be great if they encountered the troops of the Cathayans themselves?
After this feeling arose, the depressed mood could no longer be driven away. Therefore, for three whole days, the Indian army did not launch an attack.
With our overall strength at an absolute disadvantage, and facing a rare local advantage, we actually stopped attacking for three days. Such a mistake is of course fatal.
On April 14th, the Indian army reorganized and prepared to attack again on the 15th. And late at night on that day, six troops from the Gui Kingdom (mainly Japanese soldiers) and the Tang and Zhou Kingdoms (mainly Siamese soldiers)
Chapter completed!