The signal lifts off and the fighter planes have arrived. "Brothers, mount up!"

Tian Yunguang shouted and got on his horse first, and the more than 5,000 cavalrymen behind him immediately got on their horses from their resting state.

The cavalry does not have to be on horseback all the time. When a single horse is on the march, it is mostly on foot, and it will not mount the horse until the battle begins. When the battle begins, the cavalry will ride on horseback during the march, but the most important thing for the two horses is to maintain mobility during battle.

Therefore, it cannot consume too much horsepower.

For example, when the war began, Tian Yunguang and the cavalry gathered from various towns were here to wait for the opportunity to fight. At the same time, he fed the horses some bean cakes and beans, combed their hair, and hugged the horses' necks to calm the horses' emotions. This is what every cavalryman said.

The most basic literacy, but now as soon as the fighter plane appeared, more than 5,000 cavalrymen immediately got on their horses and drew their sabers from one side of the saddle.

The swords were all unsheathed. Under the sunlight, the cold light from the long and narrow blade of the saber brought a chilling chill.

Among the four towns, there are not many cavalry in the sixth town and the eighth town, but only two battalions each. The most important ones are the fifth town and the fourth town. These add up to more than 5,000 cavalry, which are in the hands of Zhao Yuqi.

The winning hand. "The Ming Army is Mighty, Charge!" "The Ming Army is Mighty!"

The knights roared low and followed Zhao Yuqi from the side. Like a sharp recurved saber, they plunged into the frontal battlefield and began to harvest lives!

Under the roar of more than 300 light and heavy general cannons, countless explosive shells plowed the entire frontal battlefield over and over again. Flames burst and smoke filled the battlefield. There were dense shell craters on the battlefield. These large and small charred black

In a shell crater that was still smoking, there were still some bodies that seemed to be burnt to charcoal.

The Flying Fire God Crow's investment, regardless of consumption, smashed the military formation on the battlefield in front of the shogunate into a sieve. Rockets were launched one after another under the impetus of gunpowder and then fell into the shogunate's military formation. Looking up, the sky was covered by the sky.

Fire meteor.

Helpless panic spread throughout the army, and the inevitable collapse of the shogunate army followed.

How many people did they die?

The 10,000 forward troops were dead, and the 30,000 troops on the two flanks seemed to have collapsed, while the frontal battlefield...

Looking around, there were either broken limbs or corpses or injured and wailing companions lying on the ground. How many people died? It was a failure, a complete failure.

The ashigaru and samurai of the shogunate army, even those high-ranking warriors, all understood this. They could no longer bear such heavy casualties. The large number of casualties in a very short period of time defeated these shogunate elites and interrupted them.

The backbone of the shogunate's samurai family!

Panic is spreading. Everyone has come back from the blood and passion of the war. Looking at the smoke and broken limbs on the battlefield, looking at the blood everywhere and listening to the mournful wails of their companions, they suddenly realize that war is not a romantic thing.

It’s not something worth bragging about, because war will kill people, especially the defeated side, who will die extremely miserably!

The earth began to tremble again. The land that had been plowed by the Ming army's artillery was a little soft. This time the ground trembled and caused countless pieces of soil and gravel to roll and jump on the ground. What is going on?!

The dazed shogunate army looked around blankly, until a dazzling cold light jumped out from the smoke, and a raised saber, with dazzling light and chill under the sun and smoke, one after another.

A Ming army cavalry jumped out of the smoke and occupied their field of vision.

How many cavalry did the Ming army have?!

The tremors on the ground became more intense, and all I could see were the cavalry of the Ming Army!

These cavalrymen wearing iron armor and tasseled helmets raised their sabers, and instantly collided with the chaotic shogunate army with an unrivaled attitude. In an instant, there was a splash of blood, various limbs were flying in the air, and a head was spinning and looking at

The world in front of him was turned upside down. He saw the saber of a Ming army swinging down. Under the speed, the sharp saber was as easy as cutting tofu.

Bi's harvest lost a head, but why does the fallen body look so familiar?

That seems to be my own body?

The head fell to the ground in confusion, and before it could recover, it was trampled into the dirt by a horse's hoof.

The shogunate army was defeated. The collapsed shogunate army began to run away desperately. They threw away their weapons and began to drag their burdens with them desperately in an attempt to speed up. They crawled and ran on their hands and feet, trying to escape from this place.

A hell.

That's right, in the eyes of these shogunate troops, this battlefield has turned into a terrifying hell, a hell that can swallow everything.

The shogunate stared blankly at the currently irreversible battlefield. How could all this change so quickly?

It was clear that he had the advantage just now, and it was clearly a crushing situation of one hundred thousand against thirty thousand, how could he lose so quickly?!

Starting from the sudden collapse of the flank battlefield by the Ming army, the entire battlefield approached the shogunate and he realized that he couldn't understand. The terrifying artillery fire of the Ming army covering the entire battlefield, and the series of blows that suddenly erupted like a rain of fire at the end, Ming

The military's firearms gave the shogunate a sense of absurdity. In this war, it seemed that the Ming army had spent little effort, just like a cat playing with a mouse in its palm. It was so easy that it made people despair.

And the thousands of Ming Army cavalry who finally joined the battlefield completely destroyed the shogunate's last hope of a comeback. The thousands of Ming Army cavalry wearing tasseled helmets and iron armor were all tall and riding strong horses.

Sweeping across the battlefield like gods of war, the samurai of the shogunate army were unable to stop these tall cavalry.

Even the most elite Hatamoto samurai of the shogunate were ridiculously weak in front of these Ming army cavalry.

The so-called war horses of the shogunate, those short horses, looked like little donkeys in front of the Ming army's war horses; and the shogunate's Hatamoto samurai were not as tall as the Ming army cavalry, and the belly rolls on their bodies were not as strong as they imagined; their ancestral swords

The Ming Army's cavalry could not cut through the sophisticated iron armor weighing thirty-six kilograms, but the Ming Army's standard forged saber could easily cut through their belly rolls and chop off their limbs and heads.

Under the ebb and flow of the situation, the Ming army's cavalry swept away all the shogunate warriors who dared to resist like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves among the fleeing shogunate army. Those warriors in twos and threes who still had a little bit of courage and wanted to fight for their lives faced such a torrent of cavalry.

It's as ridiculous as hitting an egg against a stone.

Defeated, the shogunate army was completely defeated and routed to a devastating defeat.

The shogunate army, which was already in turmoil and was in turmoil, lost its fighting spirit and was soaked with cold blood and had its bones broken. They fled all over the mountains and plains. The Ming army cavalry drove these shogunate troops to consume their physical strength. Those who were exhausted and fell behind the large group collapsed.

The soldiers, as well as those who were forced to turn around and resist, were all chopped to pieces. This scene stimulated the defeated shogunate army to scramble even more to escape.

Zhao Yuqi watched this scene with satisfaction. When the Ming Dynasty cavalry was dispatched, it meant that the war was coming to an end.

In the past, the Ming army had no access to supplies, either in terms of armaments or food and wages, and was suppressed by the Jurchen cavalry and Mongolian cavalry for a period of time. However, with the succession of Jinshang, Prime Minister Zhang served as the chief assistant, founded a new army and established a strong army.

Since the establishment of the national policy of optimizing the military, the Ming army has had an adequate supply of military pay, food and grass, and its armaments have been replaced batch after batch. The latest high-quality armor and weapons have been widely supplied, and military teaching and professional training have been provided to cultivate the quality of the Ming army.

Nowadays, there are not only Han people in the Ming army, but also Mongolians on the grasslands, Jurchens from Liaodong, Tujia people from Guangxi, and chieftain soldiers from Sichuan and Guizhou...

The officers and soldiers of the new army combined the strengths of each family, and there emerged elite hunters capable of fighting in various complex terrains such as mountains and jungles, rangers specializing in reconnaissance and harassment, assault cavalry, etc.

At present, the Ming army cavalry first launched a group charge with sudden cavalry tactics, and used the unstoppable momentum of the mountain roar and tsunami to defeat the psychological defense line of the shogunate army with each saber, and completely beat the shogunate army, which was already in a state of collapse, and fled in panic.

; and then adopted the prairie ranger tactics, hanging the shogunate troops in a rout not far away, consuming their physical strength. Once they stopped, they would rush up to kill a wave or shoot a round of arrows, forcing them to stop.

If they don't continue to flee, let alone the hundreds of general cannons from the two heavy artillery battalions of the Ming Army are still extending their firepower.

Just like a pack of wolves hunting sheep, they drove and killed the shogunate troops all over the mountains and plains like sheep, destroying all the sanity of the shogunate troops, leaving them with only the idea of ​​​​escape and no thought of resistance.

Thanks to the mounted archery and advance techniques taught by the Mongols and Jurchens, the Ming cavalry is now very powerful.

Very powerful, sophisticated equipment, sufficient wages, abundant food, strict training... Those Jurchens who surrendered once patted their chests and said that today's Ming army cavalry can definitely be called invincible. Why is it so invincible? The Ming army is dissatisfied with ten thousand people.

Still invincible!

The shogunate saw his own army being driven away by the Ming army and fled for their lives. The shogunate's heart was bleeding. This was the most elite army of the shogunate!

It doesn't matter if the ashigaru dies, they can still be recruited. It's good to have the wandering samurai gone, so they can save money. However, the middle and high-level samurai are the elite of the shogunate, and the samurai nobles are the pillars of the shogunate. If they die, the shogunate will die.

I felt sorry for him for a long time, not to mention that the Hatamoto samurai was a die-hard loyalist to the Tokugawa family!

In this battle, the pillars and elites of the shogunate suffered heavy casualties. Countless military nobles died. The corpses of elite warriors were everywhere. Even the Hatamoto samurai who terrorized the world in the hands of the shogunate were damaged by the blades and artillery fire of the Ming army's cavalry.

Now that everything is over and a hundred thousand troops have been lost, can Edo Castle still be defended?

The shogunate was filled with despair. He had no face to live anymore. He slowly drew out his katana and looked at the remaining attendants beside him. The shogunate shouted sternly: "Charge, charge!"

Then the charge launched by the shogunate was like a small wave, which was capsized by a huge wave as soon as it made a splash.

Zhao Yuqi got up on her horse and gave the order: "Collect the prisoners and leave the battlefield cleansing to the prisoners. Order the Zhenliao and Zhenqi to arrive at Edo and prepare to bombard Edo City. The navy is ready to land to assist in the operation."

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The officers and soldiers of various associations began to accept prisoners, and the defeated soldiers of the Shogunate army knelt on the ground in large numbers and chose to surrender. They really could not run away and were frightened by the Ming army in the first battle.

Now that the Ming army accepts these prisoners and gives them a little sweetness, they will become the most loyal servants of the Ming army, because from the moment they surrender, there is no other choice waiting for them.

The shogunate general led an army of 100,000 to attack the Ming army. As a result, the entire army was defeated, and more than 50,000 shogunate troops were killed and disabled. The remaining shogunate troops fled across the mountains and plains, and most of them chose to surrender and became servant armies.

Now these surrendered shogunate troops have changed their flags. They are cleaning the battlefield, cleaning up corpses and weapons, and finding their former companions who are disabled. They are more ruthless than the Ming army. When they see the Ming army soldiers, they kneel down and bow their heads with a humble smile.

, as if not doing so is not enough to demonstrate their loyalty.

Zhao Yuqi looked at the shogunate troops on the battlefield who were as hard-working and hard-working as loyal dogs, with no warmth in her eyes: "These Japanese people are more ferocious than wolves. They can withstand our artillery and muskets and launch a desperate charge, even if half of them are killed or injured.

He does not flinch; but once his bones are broken, he is as loyal as a dog, treating our former enemies as his masters and begging for mercy, and he is even more merciless towards his own people."

"The Japanese people have now had their bones broken by us and turned into dogs, but they still have the ferocity of wolves hidden in their bones. We can use them, but we cannot trust them, and we can never trust them. Whoever believes in them will unlock them

The shackles around the neck, they will definitely eat the master."

The deputy general listened quietly to Zhao Yuqi's narration and recorded these in the notebook. Zhao Yuqi's evaluation of Japan will affect the cabinet's future attitude towards Japan. Obviously Zhao Yuqi did not have any arrogance because he defeated the shogunate army. The strong will defeat

The weak have nothing to be proud of. The powerful Ming army now has no opponent. If they can fight against a strong enemy, Zhao Yuqi may become somewhat interested.

In just two or three days, Edo Castle had already received many defeated troops. The news of the defeat of the shogunate army and the news of the Ming army's approach to the city spread throughout Edo Castle at the same time. The entire Edo instantly fell into mourning and panic.

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One hundred thousand shogunate troops were defeated. How many residents hung up white banners in their homes? Not to mention the samurai families and nobles, every family had white banners. Every family cried. The entire Edo City looked pale, with a trace of deathly silence.

Grief and panic spread throughout Edo Castle.

At this time, the shogunate army still had 70,000 soldiers and horses in Edo Castle. After taking over the fleeing soldiers, they barely managed to gather 80,000 troops. Although there were still many people in hand, the shogunate did not have the confidence to save Edo.

The senior officials in the shogunate began to persuade Tokugawa Iemitsu to leave Edo and seek refuge elsewhere.

"General, let's go quickly and leave the river.
To be continued...