On July 15th, Li Dingguo lay on the side of a river valley, looking at the entrance of the valley in the distance.
Next to Li Dingguo lay countless soldiers from the Yizi Battalion. Each of these soldiers held a musket in hand, ready to charge at the enemy at any time.
If you can distinguish the camouflage of these soldiers and look at it from the air, you will find that these soldiers are actually setting up a pocket array.
The entire pocket formation surrounded the valley at the foot of the mountain. There were only a few hundred meters at the entrance of the valley where there were no soldiers...
Liu Wenxiu, the deputy commander of Yiziying, lay beside Li Dingguo and said: "Commander... no... commander, will the Japanese be fooled?"
Li Dingguo pondered for a moment and replied: "I will fall into the trap!"
"I invested 10,000 strong soldiers twenty miles in front to defeat them, and placed a thousand carts of baggage in the middle, allowing the defeated soldiers to pass by without caring about the baggage. No matter how you look at it, this is a situation of a thousand-mile rout.
. Not to mention the Japanese, even General Xiao Cao, who has experienced hundreds of battles, is here to be fooled by me."
When Liu Wenxiu heard Li Dingguo's words, he licked his lips excitedly and lowered his voice and said: "Okay! Commander, you have more tricks! Today we will defeat the Japanese samurai in one pot!"
Liu Wenxiu said: "We have killed the warriors in one pot, how will the king reward us?"
Li Dingguo thought for a while and said, "The king will probably equip us with rifles."
The Yizi Camp does not have rifles yet. Although they have two short muskets, the soldiers in the Yizi Camp are still very envious when they see the rifles of the Huben Army. After all, it is a weapon with a range of several hundred meters, and it cannot only hit twenty
, comparable to a thirty-meter handgun.
If they get the rifle, Yiziying will officially become an official army under Li Zhi. For the Yiziying soldiers who were born as bandits, that is the most precious thing.
When Liu Wenxiu heard Li Dingguo's words, he became excited and shouted loudly: "Beat, beat these Japanese to death."
When Li Dingguo saw Liu Wenxiu talking loudly, he frowned and looked at Liu Wenxiu.
Liu Wenxiu knew that he spoke too loudly and might expose the situation in the ambush circle to the Japanese whistle, so he quickly stopped talking. He slapped himself and lowered his voice and said: "Commander, I will go to the front to command the team blocking the entrance.
Already."
Li Dingguo waved his hand and let him go.
Liu Wenxiu burrowed all the way under the big tree and ran to the front of the river valley, where he found the five thousand road-blocking warriors under his command.
Holding unprecedented advanced equipment in their hands, these five thousand soldiers were very excited and showed no fear of war.
Liu Wenxiu smiled and lay down behind a big rock.
A quarter of an hour later, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps ahead.
By the small river in the middle of the river valley, ten thousand "broken soldiers" ran wildly and rushed into the narrow river valley. I don't know whether those broken soldiers were really defeated by the warriors or were acting realistically. In short, they were in a very embarrassed state. The flag had long been
Being thrown away, some people even threw away their forged knives and just ran away.
Behind the defeated troops, the ecstatic warriors held samurai swords and chased them crazily.
The defeated troops led their pursuers into the river valley.
The general of the Japanese is the famous general Nobuyuki Sanada, who is over 80 years old. Although this old man is famous in Japan, he is obviously too old to run away, and it is impossible to follow the large army to hunt down the defeated Yoshiji camp. In fact, Japan now
The samurai pursuers were in a leaderless situation. They only saw the opportunities in front of them but knew nothing about the dangers in the river valley.
Liu Wenxiu looked at the warriors rushing into the five-mile-long river valley and estimated the number of Japanese.
"Ten thousand people!"
"Twenty thousand people!"
"Thirty thousand people!"
"Thirty-five thousand people, they caught a big fish today!"
After all the warriors rushed into the river valley, a flare suddenly rose from Li Dingguo in front.
Then there was a "pop" gunshot.
The sound of gunfire echoed back and forth across the valley, making the warriors' faces turn pale in shock.
Is there an ambush?
But it was too late to think about it now.
On the hills on both sides of the river valley, the 50,000 Yizi Battalion rushed out from behind the rocks and trees. These soldiers with former gangster backgrounds were wearing fine armor and holding two-handed blunderbuss, like tigers descending from the mountain, and they rushed towards the 35,000 warriors down the mountain.
past.
The 10,000 people who were "fleeing in embarrassment" in front also blocked the exit of the valley. They formed a dense square formation and stood guard on a gentle slope.
Only then did the warriors realize that they had been ambushed. They turned to look at the way they came, only to see that the entrance to the valley had also been blocked by Yizi Camp.
There is no way back.
The eyes of the warriors turned blood red in an instant, and they raised their swords and slashed at the Ming soldiers who were rushing over.
However, the soldiers of Yizi Camp did not engage in hand-to-hand combat with them.
"Pap-pap-pap-pap!"
In the flash of fire, the soldiers of the Yizi Camp raised their blunderbuss and opened fire on the warriors.
The handgun produced by Li Zhi is a short-barreled front-loading rifle. After several improvements, the handgun now uses a mercury fulminate primer. Before use, put the propellant and bullets into the handgun, and put the primer in the gun.
on the door, and then block the bullet with a ball of scrap newspaper to enter the ready-to-shoot state.
This ready-to-fire state can be maintained for a long time. If there are no big bumps, the loaded gun can be fired at any time within a day.
With a shot from his hand cannon, the warriors in the river valley fell down like mahjong tiles.
The soldiers of the Yizi Camp, relying on their fine armor, often bullied the samurai until they were more than twenty meters away before shooting. The hit rate at such a short distance was very impressive. The samurai had never seen handguns, but they had seen the ones from the Yizi Camp.
The soldiers rushed forward to shoot, but did not dodge. They faced each other with their swords drawn, resulting in even greater casualties.
After the soldiers of the Yizi Battalion finished shooting a blunderbuss, they threw the shot blunderbuss on the ground, then handed the blunderbuss in their left hand to their right hand and fired fiercely again at the enemy more than ten meters away.
The warriors screamed and twitched, and fell one by one under the muzzles of the muskets.
The soldier in front finished firing two shots, then drew his forged sword and stood guard on the hillside. The soldier from Yiziying behind grabbed two muskets and rushed forward, passed the soldier in front, and continued to charge and shoot at the samurai's abdomen.
The not-wide river valley was filled with sparks from musket fire, and the crackling sound of gunfire dominated the battlefield.
There are some warriors holding bows and arrows, but the soldiers of the Yizi camp are wearing fine chain armor. In fact, there is a layer of leather armor underneath these chain armors, which is very thick overall. The effect of shooting bows and arrows on such armor is
It's not good. At most it can penetrate into the muscles, but it can't kill the soldiers of Yizi Camp.
The damage caused by the handgun is straightforward, one shot per shot.
The brave Japanese samurai could only rush forward with their samurai swords raised. Most of them were killed by handguns before they could rush forward. A few rushed to the front row and chopped with the soldiers of Yizi Camp. But even
In hand-to-hand combat, there is still a distance between the two combatants. The soldiers from the Yizi Battalion who rush from behind often kill the Japanese samurai in hand-to-hand combat with one shot.
The gorgeous "worldly equipment" on the body of a samurai can defend against bows and arrows, but it has no effect on muskets.
Between 40,000 and 50,000 people wielding blunderbuss attacked 35,000 Japanese samurai, causing shocking casualties.
I don't know how many people were killed, but the Japanese samurai finally understood that they were no match for the hot weapons here.
Under the shouts of several middle-aged generals, the surviving Japanese samurai concentrated their efforts on the hill to the east of the river valley and charged to kill them.
There were only about 20,000 Japanese warriors left. They found that the hill to the east was the weakest point of Yizi Camp and rushed to the top of that hill.
Liu Wenxiu saw the Japanese rushing up the hill and laughed loudly: "The Japanese pirates have fallen into the trap again. The hilltop is a cage specially designed for them by the commander."
