After the 2nd Division came ashore and set up a line formation, Chongzhen also came ashore surrounded by Zheng Zhilong, Jiang Tianyi and others, and even came to the front of the two armies' formations.
At this time, the shogunate army had sent about a thousand cavalry to launch a tentative attack.
Seeing the shogunate cavalry charging over on "big horses", Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude, Jiang Tianyi and others burst out laughing.
"Mr. Fujian, is this the Japanese knight you said is no worse than a Jian slave?"
Chongzhen laughed and said: "This is not a cavalry, at most it is a donkey cavalry."
"Donkey cavalry? The Holy Master hit the right note." Jiang Tianyi laughed and agreed.
The expression on Zheng Zhilong's face was a little embarrassed: "Your Majesty, you must not underestimate me."
While he was talking, the "donkey cavalry" of the shogunate army had already approached within a thousand steps.
Yan Yingyuan was not sure what the "donkey cavalry" of the shogunate army wanted to do, whether they wanted to charge directly into the formation by force, or whether they wanted to harass them with mounted fire, but this was not important to the Ming army.
After giving the order, the three mountain artillery regiments fired one after another.
Although these three mountain artillery regiments are still equipped with muzzle-loading cannons, no explosive ammunition, and the rate of fire is only one round per minute, as many as 81 2.5-inch caliber mountain cannons are still enough to cause fatal damage to the donkey cavalry of the shogunate army.
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With just one round of shelling, the donkey cavalry of the shogunate army was defeated, with only half casualties and most of them defeated.
One war horse was so panicked that it dragged the killed Japanese slave cavalry and fled to the front of the Ming army's infantry formation.
Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and Jiang Tianyi and others came up and found that the war horse was less than four feet tall.
Look at the shogunate cavalry who was dragged backwards by the war horse. He is only over 1.4 meters tall, and certainly less than 1.5 meters tall anyway. This is the real short stature, with short limbs and short torso.
Chongzhen couldn't help but feel happy when he saw this. It seemed that the rumors were indeed true.
The Japanese country before the Meiji Restoration was indeed a dwarf country, full of dwarves.
It’s no wonder that when merchants from the Ming Dynasty went to Japan before the Meiji period, the Japanese people would compete for their wives and guests.
The purpose of this is to save seeds and use Chinese genes to improve Japanese varieties!
Chongzhen couldn't help but tease Zheng Zhilong again: "Mr. Fujian, is this the Japanese warrior you call? Not inferior to the Japanese warrior who built slaves under the Eight Banners? Hahaha."
Zheng Zhilong said formally: "Your Majesty, the height of the Japanese warriors is a bit short, but they are extremely fierce in fighting. In the past, Japanese pirates invaded the Ming Dynasty's sea areas, and our soldiers of the Ming Navy suffered a lot."
It seems that the Japanese warriors left a deep impression on Zheng Zhilong.
"I believe this," Chongzhen said, "so we can't let them get close."
Yan Yingyuan said suddenly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Japanese slaves will not have a chance to get close to you."
What can give Yan Yingyuan such confidence is naturally the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming Army.
An obvious fact is that after the Battle of Baliqiao, the Ming Army's combat experience and confidence and morale have greatly improved, and it has a vague image of a king's division.
Even in close combat, Yan Yingyuan was confident that he could crush the opposing Japanese army.
Even if it were 20,000 versus 100,000 Japanese troops, Yan Yingyuan was confident of crushing them.
If the firepower is fully used, the 100,000 Japanese troops on the opposite side will not be enough to fill the gaps in the teeth.
This is also true. After the probing attack by the cavalry was defeated, the shogunate army sent a relatively tall warrior to challenge the Ming army in front of the formation. He even tried to fight the general, but Yan Yingyuan ignored him at all.
Immediately afterwards, the shogunate army sent thousands more infantry to attack the right wing of the 2nd Division's infantry array.
There was still no suspense about the final result. Thousands of shogunate infantry who went on the offensive again suffered heavy losses.
The two probing attacks suffered heavy losses. The shogunate army on the opposite side finally lost their composure and directly launched a general attack. The 100,000 shogunate army used samurai wearing various armors and holding samurai swords as the vanguard, and armed with spears or iron cannons (
The ashigaru (arquebuses) were in the center, and finally there were archers and cannons, and on the left and right flanks were thousands of "donkey cavalry".
It can be seen from this formation that the shogunate army is still essentially a cold weapon army.
The shogunate's understanding of muskets and artillery still remained at the level of battlefield auxiliaries.
The Ming Army's musketry infantry has long since evolved into the main battle arm, and has derived corresponding infantry formations and infantry tactics. The Ming Army's artillery has already made great strides in rapidly evolving towards the god of land warfare.
So the final result can be imagined. The shogunate army barely survived the artillery bombardment of the Ming army. However, after reaching a distance of fifty steps, the Ming army infantry only used three volleys to inflict heavy damage to the samurai of the shogunate army.
, nearly 10,000 warriors and retainers who were responsible for the important task were bloody massacre.
Immediately afterwards, more than 200 tiger squat cannons located in the rear of the 2nd Division fired at the same time. More than 100,000 pieces of lead fell overwhelmingly on the Japanese Ashigaru formation, causing tens of thousands of firepower in an instant.
Kill.
The Japanese slave "donkey cavalry" on the left and right wings were also blocked by the Ming Navy's naval guns.
The Ming army's principle of using firepower applied the principle of concentration of firepower from another world.
The principle of concentration of firepower is to pour the most intensive firepower on the enemy in the shortest time to cause maximum casualties, thereby psychologically shaking or even disintegrating the enemy's will to fight.
Needless to say, the result is that the principle of concentration of firepower has been proven by countless combat examples.
As a result, the shogunate soldiers collapsed. After leaving behind nearly 10,000 corpses and wounded, nearly 100,000 shogunate soldiers turned around and ran away. No matter how intimidating the supervising team was, it was of no use.
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As the commander-in-chief of the shogunate army, Tokugawa Yoshinao was almost scared to death.
After the Battle of Osaka, Tokugawa Yoshinao fled back to Edo without stopping to report to his eldest nephew.
After listening to the report of his uncle Tokugawa Yoshinao, Tokugawa Iemitsu was also a little confused. The Great Tomorrow Soldiers came to Osaka? Didn't it mean that a group of businessmen in Osaka were rioting? Why did the Great Tomorrow Soldiers suddenly attack?
Although he had been a general for 26 years, Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little panicked when he suddenly faced such a change, because this was completely different from the attack by the red barbarians.
The attack of red barbarians is nothing more than a disease of mustard moss.
Dozens or even hundreds of red barbarians could not do anything to the shogunate.
But the threat from the sky soldiers is completely different.
It is entirely possible for the Great Tomorrow Soldiers to subvert the rule of the shogunate.
Tokugawa Iemitsu still underestimated Chongzhen's ambition. Chongzhen not only wanted to overthrow the shogunate rule, but also wanted to move more than tens of millions of Japanese people from the entire Japanese country to the Ming Dynasty to work as slaves, and the land they freed up would be distributed to those with meritorious services. soldiers, and then brought slaves from other continents to engage in agricultural production, and then formed plantations.
In the future Ming Dynasty, the industrial positioning of Wadao is mining, agriculture, fishery and wood processing. From now on, it will only be responsible for providing minerals, rice, furniture and various seafood to eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River.
Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't know this, so he hurriedly summoned the elders, senior ministers, senior ministers and ministers to discuss the matter.
Laozhong, if you are sent in years, you will be entrusted. Omatsuke is an official of the shogunate. It is held by daimyo or hatamoto. The number of personnel is between three and five people. These dozen people plus the general are the core of the shogunate.
After listening to Tokugawa Yoshinao's explanation, more than a dozen ministers were a little confused.
Obviously, no one expected that the Ming Dynasty would actually send troops to attack the Japanese country.
Finally, a mature and prudent old man said: "Your Majesty General, the most important thing now is to find out the reason why the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack Japan. Is it because of the Ming Dynasty merchants in Osaka Castle? Or is it because of Hideyoshi Hashiba's previous invasion of North Korea? Or is it because of something else? Did the Japanese rogues harass and kill the Ming Dynasty waters earlier?"
"Only when we understand the cause can we prescribe the right medicine."
"If it is because the Ming Dynasty merchants in Osaka were treated unfairly, the shogunate can apologize and provide adequate compensation. If it is because of Hashiba Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, then the Toyotomi clan has been destroyed by the Tokugawa clan, and the Ming court will There is no reason to attack again, and if it was due to the rogue attack earlier, then a certain amount of compensation will be given..."
However, before he finished speaking, a young and energetic Zheng Zhi said angrily: "Compensation, compensation, compensation. Besides compensation or acknowledgment as a gift, don't you have any other ideas?"
"Although the Ming Dynasty is powerful, there is still an ocean between the Ming Dynasty and Japan."
"The Great Mongolia back then was even more powerful than the Ming Dynasty, so it couldn't help Japan?"
After a pause, Fengxing said to Tokugawa Iemitsu: "Your Excellency, General, the Ming Dynasty coming across the ocean to conquer Japan will not last long, so we will just waste it with them. Although the Ming army's firearms are sharp, as long as they don't In a head-to-head confrontation with them, no matter how sharp the firearms are, it will be useless. If it lasts for three to five months, the Ming army will naturally run out of food and retreat."
"Childish!" the old man scolded him rudely, "Do you know how many ships the Ming Dynasty used?"
Tokugawa Yoshinao then said: "The exact number is unknown, but according to the most conservative estimate, the Ming Dynasty navy also had 500 large ships. It cannot be ruled out that more large ships will cross the sea and come to Japan in the future."
Good guy, more than 200 ships directly turned into 500 ships.
However, it is also a routine operation for a defeated general.
After all, only by exaggerating the enemy can one's own failure appear excusable.
Lao Zhong then said: "One large ship of the Ming Navy can carry hundreds of dan of grain, and five hundred large ships can carry hundreds of thousands of dan of grain. However, the number of the Ming Dynasty's army is only tens of thousands.
How long do you think it can last? Is it possible to leave such a huge Ming army to cause chaos in the Kinki Plain? What if the Ming army captures Kyoto and kidnaps the emperor?"
The person who spoke just now was speechless because he had not considered this.
Lao Zhong then said to Tokugawa Iemitsu: "Your Excellency, General, it is best to make peace with the Ming Dynasty."
"That's what Horita-senpai said." Tokugawa Iemitsu said happily, "Then I'd like you to go to Osaka."
"Gah?" Horita Masamori was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Can someone else go?"
"Senior Horita, please don't refuse." Tokugawa Iemitsu said sincerely, "After all, you are one of the few wise men in Kanto and even Japan. Only a wise man like you can shoulder such an important task. Please."
After saying that, Tokugawa Iemitsu stood up from his knees on the tatami and bowed to Horita Masamori.