In addition to the bannermen, Ujitaka was also surrounded by military advisors, seals, drums, pharmacists and other personnel, as well as Yamashita Omiyaji, the first-level high priest in the shrine. He was wearing a white embroidered shirt and was as pure as a god.
admirable.
In this case, it would be Iato Ujitaka who would replace the head of the family, Ujinobu, as the general-in-chief of the entire Yingzhou Army and be responsible for commanding the Hojo Army.
Seeing Yamashita Omiyaji, Matsuda Kenhide immediately looked for Kumamoto Kazuma, and saw Gonomiyaji next to Inomata Kuniken. Gonomiyaji seemed to sense Kumamoto's gaze, and suddenly turned around
Pointing to him the armor on Inomata Kuniken's body, Matsuda Kenhide suddenly remembered what he said to himself yesterday:
"You have to live to see the prosperous world that is coming to Yingzhou!"
Matsuda waited for the Ashigaru to help him put on his ancestral armor. While putting it on, he looked toward the sea, waiting for the Ming army to land.
It is a taboo to form a formation with your back against the water, but Matsuda Kenhide believes that this rule does not apply to the Ming army, because the Ming army has a powerful fleet behind it, and the battleships are densely covered with "God's Eye" gun windows. Anyone who has seen it can't encourage it.
Have the courage to attack the battleship.
At this moment, on the seaside that he could not see, more than a dozen Ming warships docked at some unknown time. In addition to the warships full of cannons, there were also several flat-top cargo ships. Each ship was pulling fishing nets on the side of the ship.
It was crawling with Ming army soldiers.
These Ming troops descended from the fishing nets to wind speed boats, and were pulled to the beach by the wind speed boats. They quickly came ashore through long wooden boards and lined up on the shore.
A flat-top container ship approached the coast amid the fleet, and the ship's rocker placed large wooden boxes one by one on the wind speed boats swarming next to it. After each wind speed boat loaded three large wooden boxes, it immediately sailed to the beach.
.
When they were still one or two feet away from the shore, these wind speed boats could not reach them. The monks on the boat opened the wooden box, and the horse in the box immediately started to jump into the water from the bow, waded through the last section of shallow water, and landed on the coast.
In an instant, the beach was filled with splashes of water splashed by the four iron legs of the stray horse.
Thirty stray horses landed on the shore, each with a small cannon on its back. The sergeants of each artillery team waiting on the shore immediately stepped forward, claimed them according to their numbers, and led them to the designated position. Not long after, thirty guns
Fu Xiaopao divided into three teams and prepared behind the military formation.
After unloading the Fu Xiaopao, sixty riders teamed up in pairs and boarded the flowing horses. These riders were all elite riders from nine sides among the three thousand battalions of the expedition. One person held a shield in front for defense, and the other person stood behind.
Attack with spears and act as the cavalry of the Ming army.
After the wooden ox and the flowing horse were equipped in the army, they were mainly used for transporting baggage. However, Chen Shandao fell in love with its ability to travel and move quickly at a glance, and used a wooden ox and a flowing horse to test the bombardment effect of the fixed-loading cannon.
.It is a pity that the structural strength of wooden ox and stray horse cannot support the recoil force of Fu artillery shelling. The stray horse can barely fire three shots before falling apart. The wooden cow is slightly better, but can only support seven or eight.
It's just a cannon, so I can only regret giving it up.
Zhao Ran also sent a new development project to Junshan Military Industry to develop a wooden cow and a flowing horse strong enough to support the firing of Fu Xiaocannon.
Unable to use wooden cows and flowing horses as mobile gun mounts for the time being, Chen Shandao came up with a new way to use the flowing horses as a cavalry, and planned to see the effect in actual combat this time.
The appearance of Ryuma immediately caused a commotion in the Yingzhou army. Matsuda Kenhide himself was so open-mouthed that he couldn't close his mouth. The Ashigaru around him couldn't help but start talking:
"What is this? Is it a horse?"
"It seems like a bamboo horse?"
"No, it will reflect light, Iron Horse!"
"How can an iron horse walk?"
"But it's an iron horse!"
Some priests also asked each other: "What kind of Taoism is this?"
"Maybe puppetry?"
"Has anyone seen it? How should I respond?"
Ashigaru General Inomata Kuninori began to suppress them, waving his whip and whipping in the queue, and finally silenced the discussion.
Ujitaka, the general of the Hojo Army Corps, sent a priest to the main formation and announced in front of the army that this was a puppet mechanism of the Ming army. It was like a catapult with a divine curse added on it. There was nothing to be alarmed about. Such an explanation is the only way to explain it.
The fear and panic of the soldiers were suppressed.
At 15:00, the Ming army finally set up their formation and set up a half-moon arc formation. There were two battalions of thousands of people on each side on the left and right sides, one row of swords and shields, two rows of spears, and the central formation was divided into left and right guards.
Two thousand each, for a total of six thousand.
In addition, on the left and right fronts of the formation, soil was quickly piled up and fixed with earth talismans to build an earth fortress nearly ten feet high. On the left side of the high base, a team of small talisman cannons were pushed up to deal with the Hojo family's five-color army; on the right
The high base pushed up two teams of Fu Xiaopao to deal with the main reinforcements from Kyoto.
The appearance of Fu Xiaopao on the high platform immediately caused another change in the Yingzhou army formation, especially the Hojo Army. They suffered a lot under the power of this "Eye of God" Fu Cannon, and almost everyone suffered a hair loss.
numb.
At six o'clock in the morning, with the sound of Fu artillery, the second phase of the Battle of Odawara officially kicked off. Later generations of Yingzhou people also called this battle the Battle of Kanto.
When the fu cannon fired, there was a buzz in the Yingzhou military formation. This was when the gods began to cast spells. Huge vines quickly broke out of the ground and spread in front of the military formation, opening a hard forest wall.
, like a giant net, caught the flying artillery shells. However, the artillery shells were very fast, and the interception effect of the vines was limited. Some of the artillery shells still broke out of the vine forest wall, and rushed into the Yingzhou army formation without using up their remaining momentum.
, several passages were plowed out in an instant, filled with blood and stumps.
The priests continued to sing, dancing gracefully like butterflies in the singing. In their graceful dance, groups of wild boars sprang out from among the vines at some point, each with a thick body and sharp tusks, along the
Tian Long rushed towards the Ming army's formation.
The Ming army's crossbowmen fired a flurry of crossbow arrows from the rear, knocking over all the wild boars at the forefront. After that, more wild boars came up, their eyes were red, and they howled and charged non-stop.
Following the military orders from the commanders of each battalion, the battle array magic weapons in the Ming army's formation began to exert their power, spraying fire talismans towards the front, launching magic crossbows, and Master Jindan and Master Huangguan kneaded the talismans and burned them in front of the two army formations.
Build a wall of fire, erect a wall of ice, and grow vines to block it.
Matsuda Kenhide saw his priest summoning two mountain ghosts more than three feet tall, holding maces, and stood up unsteadily. Knowing that he was preparing to attack, he quickly called his two flag troops to get ready. Sure enough,
, Inomata Kuniken issued a military order, the blue and black flags were waved, the four flag corps sword and shield bearers were in front, and the four flag corps bamboo spearmen were behind. More than two thousand people began to move forward, following two huge mountains.