From the moment the first warrior rushed out of the forest, the soldiers of the Tiger Army started shooting.
At this time, the enemy was very close to the Tiger Army. On the edge of the mountain forest to the east, the Japanese samurai who rushed out were only a hundred meters away from the front row of soldiers.
Jiang Chong's two thousand rifles were arranged on the outermost periphery, with three layers arranged on each side. The soldiers in the first layer lay on the ground and shot, the soldiers in the second layer squatted and fired, and the soldiers in the third layer stood and shot. This way
Arrange to maximize the firing density across the width of the unit’s battlefield.
In order to avoid killing the same enemy repeatedly, the three rows of soldiers tried to stagger the shooting time. After the lying soldier finished shooting, the squatting soldier behind him fired, and then the standing soldier behind him fired.
At a distance of one hundred meters, the enemy's target in the crosshairs was very large, and the shooters of the Tiger Army had almost no miss.
"Pap-pap-pap-pap" gunshots rang out, and the smell of saltpeter suddenly enveloped the river valley. The samurai who had just rushed out of the forest suddenly burst out with blood. The samurai swords they held high hung down weakly, and the samurai who was shot
They rolled down from the mountain forest higher than the valley and fell into the farmland in the valley.
The warriors at the back rushed forward one after another, not even looking at the corpses on the ground, and continued to charge forward.
The second row of riflemen opened fire.
Amidst the crackling gunfire, the warriors fell to the ground like puppets whose strings were suddenly cut off, and rolled on the hillside.
But the warriors behind were not afraid and continued to charge without hesitation.
For the Japanese samurai, this charge was no ordinary war, but a decisive battle that determined whether they could survive.
Samurai were Japan's ruling class, serving as local officials, military officers, and even feudal lords. They either received salaries from their lords to serve in public offices and helped the lords rule the place, or they directly owned their own territories and collected rent from the farmers on the territories.
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The descendants of samurai are also samurai and rule the country of Japan from generation to generation.
It was they who defeated the white Ainu people with samurai swords, grabbed the land of Japan for the yellow "Japanese nation", and created Japan, an ever-expanding country.
However, the appearance of Li Zhi broke this ancient rule. Li Zhi wanted to abolish vassal vassals and establish counties in Japan, and rule the land with exiled officials. This was tantamount to cutting off all the financial resources of the samurai, leaving them bankrupt, destitute, and starved to death.
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A trapped animal can overturn a car, let alone a samurai who has been immersed in the way of the samurai since childhood?
Even if they die like falling cherry blossoms, these samurai will resist to the end.
The samurai were like a swarm of unconscious bees, desperately jumping over the corpses in the front row, waving their samurai swords and charging in the direction of the Tiger Army.
Then the third row of soldiers opened fire.
At such a close distance, the gunmen of the Tiger Army would hardly miss. The scene was like a group of irrational elk charging at the hunters who were slaughtering them. There was no other result except being shot one by one.
What was under attack at this time was the east and west sides of the phalanx. The three rows of riflemen on both sides fired a round, killing hundreds of the frontmost warriors.
Finally, all three rows of rifles of the Ming people were finished.
The warriors suddenly howled excitedly, their voices full of excitement.
In the concept of samurai, the rate of fire of rifles is very slow. Even the most advanced Mini rifle of the Tokugawa family takes twenty breaths to fire a bullet.
Twenty breaths are enough for the warriors to rush forward across the distance of one hundred meters.
At this critical moment, the eyes of the warriors turned blood red in an instant. Howls resounded throughout the valley in an instant, and more warriors rushed out of the forest, rushing towards the Tiger Army as if they were crazy.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"Kill the Ming people!"
Of course, the river valley is not a flat sports ground, and it is impossible for samurai to run as fast as later generations of athletes. The rocks and sloping terrain on the outskirts of the mountain forest, the undulating fields on both sides of the river valley, and the farmland with soft soil all limit the charging speed of Japanese samurai.
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The charging speed of the warriors was only about four meters per second.
However, even at this speed, the samurai can rush into the formation of the Tiger Army within twenty seconds and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
When it comes to the use of swords, I am afraid that the Tiger Army is far inferior to the Japanese samurai who have practiced swordsmanship since childhood. As long as they enter hand-to-hand combat, tens of thousands of samurai will definitely tear the Tiger Army into pieces.
However, what these Japanese samurai did not understand was that what was pointed at them was a breech-loading rifle. Almost within three seconds after the third row finished firing, the soldiers in the first row had already completed loading.
At this time, the Japanese samurai had just jumped over the corpse in front of them and only advanced ten meters.
"Papa pa pa"
The fatal rifle sounded again, like the death knell sounded by the devil.
The warriors in the front row stared at the rifles of the Tiger Army in stunned silence, wondering what was happening. Why did the iron gunners of the Ming Dynasty complete reloading in just five or six breaths? This is simply impossible.
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On the chests of the warriors, blood flowers bloomed like cherry blossoms in April.
This is impossible!
The samurai looked at the bullet holes in their bodies in surprise, showing expressions of disbelief. Then they lost control in the severe pain and fell to the ground.
They were very reluctant to die because it took thirty seconds to fire a matchlock and twenty seconds to load a flintlock gun. No matter how you calculated it, they all had enough time to rush forward and kill the only one who could fire a shot.
of Tang Dynasty!
The breech-loading rifle changed the battlefield situation like cheating. Originally, they could easily rush into the Huben army's formation if they launched a desperate charge from a distance of 100 meters.
Shock, unspeakable shock hit the hearts of all the warriors in the valley.
This is the devil's weapon.
This weapon will not only destroy the Japanese country, but also end the era of samurai.
However, while the warriors were shocked for a second or two, the soldiers of the Third Regiment of the Trap Division were still shooting.
The soldiers in the second row opened the gun, loaded the paper shell bullets, closed the bolt, and installed a primer on the fire door. The entire loading process only took five or six seconds, and then the well-trained soldiers picked up the rifle.
Fire bullets at the samurai dozens of meters away.
The distance was only more than ninety meters, and the hit rate was extremely high. It was a one-sided massacre.
Like toppled dominoes, the warriors in the front row fell one by one. The cone-shaped bullets caused incurable wounds in their bodies. They twitched and rolled in the fields and rice fields, and then slowly disappeared.
The corpse of the soul.
Then came the third row shooting.
Only three seconds after the third row finished firing, the first row lying on the ground fired again.
This was a high-efficiency massacre unprecedented in human history.
The short distance of one hundred meters, which seemed to be covered in the blink of an eye, turned out to be a chasm that the warriors could not cross. The number of casualties changed from a few hundred to more than a thousand, and then quickly turned into thousands. The warriors'
The corpses were spread on the rice fields in the river valley like dense pebbles on the river beach, and blood was flowing out.
The proud samurai sword fell everywhere and was stuck in the rice fields, losing all its glory.
Even the desperate samurai turned pale with fear from such a war.
It was obvious that the Japanese samurai captured the tiger soldiers who could not escape in the valley. It was obvious that they only needed to rush out of the forest for a hundred meters to enter hand-to-hand combat. Why did the scene become like this?
These are the most skilled samurai, all military aristocrats who have practiced martial arts since childhood. In hand-to-hand combat, a samurai can face four or five ashigaru soldiers without losing. But now, these samurai are like the cheapest
Like cannon fodder, they fell in this small river valley.
Even such sacrifices may not make it possible.
The weapons of the Ming people were too terrifying.
