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The first ten iron cannons in the first row on both sides of the Western phalanx fired a round of volley.
A burst of bluish black smoke from gunpowder filled the air.
After shooting, the iron cannons put down their guns immediately. No one went to see whether the shooting was successful or not. Without the slightest hesitation, they turned back and right, carried iron guns from the gap between columns, ran quickly to the last row, then stood in a good position and quickly filled and loaded ammunition.
The iron gun general Xiaofan Xiaoxian, who stood on the left side of the iron gun team, retreated to the second row of the iron gun foot light team, raised his Taidao and shouted, "raise your gun and aim!"
Similarly, in the right-wing iron artillery, there is also an iron artillery group head who is responsible for directing the right-wing iron artillery team to shoot.
Under the order of Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the second row of iron gun feet raised their guns without expression, then leveled the gun body and took a small step forward with their left foot to keep the balance of their body weight during shooting.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian's eyes flashed, then waved the Taidao down and shouted heavily, "shoot!"
There was another round of gunfire. The choking smell of gunsmoke here was stronger. The smoke just shot had not dispersed, and now it was superimposed.
The other side's densely standing bow foot light team was hit again by gunfire. Once again, they fell to the ground.
Li Xiao's iron gun is fully equipped with light equipment. Although the Guoyou barrel produced by Jinjiang Guoyou village has a range of 50, it can't penetrate the armor at this distance. Just now, at a distance of 30, two rounds of iron guns were fired together, and the power and hit rate of iron guns showed their effect.
At this time, the other side's bow foot light team had just entered the predetermined position of their own shooting. Affected by two iron gun volleys, although the casualties were small, many bow foot light movements seemed a little flustered.
Just as the bow foot light team of Saito army was preparing to shoot at Takeda military array.
The Takeda army supported 60 archers on both sides, and took the lead in raising their bows and firing in unison. The arrows from both sides were shot into the Saito army's Archer foot light queue, which lacked armor protection. Suddenly, blood flowed in each other's array.
Then, the iron artillery foot light team of the Central Committee of the Takeda army fired the third row and the fourth row.
The Saito army's bow and foot were lightly hit by the long-range weapon of Takeda army's bow and arrow and iron gun. The casualties were not small immediately.
Under the orders of the other general, the Saito troops reluctantly insisted on being in front of the battle, flustered and put two rounds of arrows, and immediately retreated without causing many casualties to the Takeda army.
This time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian's iron gun foot light performed very well, which greatly surprised others. Under the harassment of the other party's bow and arrow, the iron gun foot light team made normal tactical actions despite one or two casualties, and there was no panic during the last military drill.
Saito army didn't seem to have much expectations for its own bow foot light team before. After the bow foot light team retreated, the rear gun foot light array immediately put down its long guns and put out an impact formation.
Within 20 minutes of entering the square of Takeda army, the light gun foot team in front of Saito army launched a charge.
"Shoot an arrow!"
After shooting three rounds of arrows, the strength of the bow and foot light people around the Takeda army is slightly relaxed. Generally speaking, the bow and foot light can only quickly shoot seven or eight arrows in a row.
But Li Xiao's bow and foot are all professional soldiers. They are well-trained at ordinary times, so they can support up to ten arrows.
At this time, the bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fourth round of arrows, but the Saito family warriors in front of the charge were all dressed in goods, and their heads were also covered with iron rims, so their defense against bow and arrow shooting was relatively strong.
After a round of arrows, the casualties of Saito soldiers were very small. There were several brave warriors, with four or five arrows hanging on their feet, who still seemed to continue to charge as if nothing had happened.
Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this scene. At this time, the full armor of the Warring States period has been popularized on a large scale, replacing the large armor with complex workmanship. The foot light body of Saito family is a piece of goods for each person, and the penetration rate of large armor is low. Only rich warriors can afford to wear it, and most of them are ancestral armor, which has been used for generations.
Because of their popularity, the defense of warriors and foot lighters against bows and arrows has been greatly improved. For Japanese bow lighters without crossbow technology, their power on the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller.
The bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fifth round of arrows again, and 60 people shot in unison. This time, they just put down two or three people of the other party. Many warriors and feet, with one or two arrows hanging from their bodies, charged forward like no one else.
When many people thought Li Xiao was going to make the central gun light.
The roar of iron guns on the two wings of the Western array sounded, and the fifth row of iron gun foot light team fired a volley.
Li Xiao observed the effect of shooting. He saw that the fifth row of Volley only knocked down three people of the other foot light team, but among the three people, there was the warrior who was shot seven or eight arrows in succession and still charged forward boldly.
Look at the delicacy of the other party's armor. It should be a famous warrior in Saito army.
The armor of such a famous warrior was lighter than that of an ordinary warrior. After two rounds of bows and arrows, he hit seven or eight arrows and still maintained his normal charge.
However, such a brave man can't resist an iron gun.
Seeing the unwilling look in each other's eyes, Li Xiao immediately knelt down on his knees and fell to the ground. He was immediately submerged by the light crowd of Saito's family who rushed up from behind.
The vanguard of Saito army is light enough to have rushed to the distance, and Takeda army has only 15 positions.
As the opponent's foot light team gets closer and closer, and similarly for the iron gun, the closer the shooting is, the stronger the lethality of the iron gun and the higher the hit rate.
The sixth, seventh and eighth rows of iron cannons of the Western array fired continuously. The Saito warriors who charged in front were knocked down again.
Seeing that the iron artillery team of Takeda army had finished shooting, Saito niche in the rear was relieved. After all, he was killed alive by invisible bullets. For a warrior, he died too cowardly.
Many Samurai don't care about being asked for the first rank, because they died in a fair martial arts competition, but they are most afraid of such an unclear death.
For example, in the northern and Southern Dynasties, the great general of the Southern Dynasty, Shinda Yizhen, was shot in the middle of the eyebrow by a streamer and died. Such a disgraceful death method is called "dog death" in Japan, which means to die like a dog.
After seeing the terrible iron gun team of the Takeda army firing, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time for the other party to fill the bullets, so the gun foot light team of the Saito army must rush to the front of the Takeda army immediately in this gap, making the other party's iron gun ineffective.
The foot light of Saito army summoned up the courage to attack forward.
At this time, the other party was only eight or nine away from the wudian army square.
The auxiliary bow foot light team on the two wings of the Takeda army and the central iron artillery team fought hard and fired two rounds of arrows in a row.
Although these two rounds of arrows did not help at all, it seemed that they could not stop Saito's gun foot light team from charging forward, but they played a role in delaying the impact speed of the other party.
However, taking advantage of this gap, the first row of Takeda's iron gun foot light team had been loaded.
Due to the backward loading strategy, the reverse forward queue is adopted.
Therefore, the iron guns fired in the first row are light enough, and now they have retreated to the back of the original queue in the eighth row. Therefore, there is an empty distance of four or five. The front side is the home gun light enough array, which is absolutely safe.
At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian ordered the first row of loaded iron guns to be light enough to shoot.
When shooting at this safe distance, there is no need to move forward in the opposite direction. After the first row is fired, the second row moves forward and stands at the original firing position of the first row. As usual, the third row complements the position of the second row, and so on, while the first row complements the firing position of the eighth row.
At this time, Saito army has entered the maximum killing range of iron artillery, so the iron artillery foot light team of Takeda army just shoots with all its strength without any reservation.
The action of Li Xiao's iron artillery team was as fast and effective as that of the usual training. After the first row of shooting, the second row followed closely, followed by the third row and the fourth row.
Raise your gun, aim, shoot.
This series of drills were practiced countless times at ordinary times. When they were proficient, they almost didn't want to think about it, and subconsciously made it.
As long as they are loaded, they will come forward and fire together, so there is almost no time between shots. The time difference between the last iron gun volley and the next iron gun volley is almost only two to three seconds.
The roar of iron guns was almost non-stop, and the sound echoed continuously in the valley for a moment.
Under this new round of continuous iron gun attack, the foot light soldiers of Saito army rushed in front of the array were constantly knocked down by iron guns. Several warriors who bravely took the lead in the charge were killed by iron guns from close range of Takeda army.
After each round of gunfire, several foot light fell down. When foot light of Saito army saw the black muzzle in front of him, his legs became soft.
"How could it be that the Takeda army is equipped with an iron artillery team of hundreds of people? Otherwise, why can't their shooting stop?"
Such thoughts flashed through the minds of every Saito warrior who charged.
It was a bloody scene. Saito army's foot was light. In the process of charging, his whole body suddenly stopped moving, and then his body tilted aside, so a life disappeared.
He hasn't even waved a knife at the enemy who killed him.
Although his family is noble and his martial arts are outstanding, what about ten warriors who can block one block? The other's foot is light, and only one shot is enough to kill him.
Generally speaking, in the feudal era, if the army bears 10% of the casualties, the morale will drop madly, and the soldiers of the whole army will fall into the verge of collapse.
The best example is the joint battle of Guan yuan and the general battle of more than 100000 troops, with only 3000 people.
This is only the exception of Takeda army and Shangshan army led by Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin. In the fourth joint battle of Chuanzhong Island, both sides played an ultra-high casualty ratio of 60-70%.
In general, the bravest and most elite soldiers in the Army take the lead in the battle. Once these people are knocked down, the morale of the whole army will plummet.
Under the double attack of the iron gun and bow and arrow of the Takeda army, the gun foot light of the Saito army's front charge finally reached the critical point of collapse. The foot light of the Saito family saw the warrior adults in their army and their brave companions fall under each other's iron gun and bow and arrow.
Facing the black muzzle of the gun in front of them, the enemy who shot at themselves without expression or emotion finally raised an inexplicable sense of fear in their hearts.
The desire to survive quickly occupied the first place in my heart.
The first Saito family turned around and ran away from the front line of the charge. With the first, there was the second and the third. In an instant, the flight of more than a dozen, more than 20 and dozens began to appear.
The foot lighters who had been charging, seeing their companions retreat, naturally did not want to be fools at this time. They continued to rush forward. Everyone turned around and collapsed from the front line.
This was a complete rout, followed by the sound of iron artillery that Takeda army was still shooting.
Saito's family, who ran slower, was light enough. More than a dozen people died on the way to escape under the fire of bows, arrows and iron guns.
Seeing the defeat of the enemy, Shigang Yiyu's state of mind at the moment can hardly be described in words. The previous doubts about Li Xiao's western array no longer exist.
Shigang Yiyu was convinced by Li Xiao's heart and said, "Lord, do you want to let the gun and foot light pursuit?"
Li Xiao shook his head, pointed to the 500 troops of Shenbao family who had not yet moved and the horse riding team of Saito army with a whip, and said, "the enemy still has spare strength. Now the pursuit can only be a scuffle regardless of victory or defeat."
After Li Xiao finished, he turned his head and looked at Ben duozhengxin beside him.
And Ben duozhengxin, who is known as the first wise man of the Songping family, is also very restless at the moment. He is used to the fierce fighting of Sanhe warriors, but he has never seen Li Xiaojun's tactics like this.
With the central spear array and the men and horses on both wings still not deployed, the enemy's offensive was repulsed by just iron guns and light bows.
With such a powerful force, it seems that we can win the battlefield only by relying on iron guns, bows and arrows.
I have never heard of such tactics before. Bendo Zhengxin deeply feels that he is more and more confused about his Lord.
At the same moment, the military equipment in Saito liki's hand has unconsciously fallen under the horse.
All the Saito family and Shenbao family generals around him were stunned.
Especially the riding warrior of Saito family, who just laughed at the formation of Takeda army, wanted to hit himself in the face at this moment.
Saito's family looked at the iron artillery foot light teams of the Takeda army, who were all pale. They fought back with such a fierce attack. What kind of tactics is this.
I've never seen or heard of it.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian gasped heavily and shouted at his iron gun feet: "all return to their positions and reload."
"Oh!"
The iron gun foot light team shouted in unison, and then stood on the two wings of the central gun foot light array again.
The iron cannons still repeated their usual training actions. They first stood the muzzle with their left hand and pushed and pulled up and down with an oak push rod to clean up the gunpowder residue in the barrel. Then take out the pellets from the small bag on the belt, fill the gun mouth with gunpowder and pellets, and then push the bullet bar to compact the pellets and gunpowder.
Finally, insert the fire rope wrapped around the left wrist into the fire hole.
This whole set of movements for filling bullets can be done by skilled people in 20 seconds, and can't be completed by unfamiliar people in one minute.
In the actual combat just now, the great lethality of the iron gun has been reflected, because in this era, the initial speed of the projectile fired by the iron gun is low. Once the projectile hits the human body, it will hardly cause penetrating damage, and it will enter the muscle tissue, and there is a certain chance to burst inside and cause heavy damage.
Many warriors hit by iron guns are light enough. Even if they are not directly hit by iron guns, they can temporarily lose their combat ability because of the non penetrating damage of bullets. They are not like arrows. After hitting four or five arrows, they still seem to charge without incident.
In the killing just now, nearly 100 Saito troops were killed under the iron guns and bows and arrows of Takeda family, and the casualties caused by iron guns were at least twice that of bows and arrows.
After the iron artillery team was reloaded, Li Xiao looked at the Saito army opposite, and his face showed a hint of irony.
"Come out!"
Under the command of Li Xiao, under the sun and moon double pattern flag, the 500 standing equipment moved again. The iron gun team carried the gun on the shoulder and the gun foot above the light team. The three long gun tips stood high.
"March!"
According to the command, the whole army moved forward slowly with neat steps.
In this way, the distance between the front and rear rows still maintains a considerable distance. The lines of the square array are not disordered. Looking from a distance, the surroundings are as neat as cutting with a knife.
This is the reason why Li Xiao has maintained such a tight formation through continuous queue training in recent two months.
Now Li Xiao's army is slowly advancing in the direction of Saito army like a huge wall.
The Saito family's generals have never seen such a beautiful military queue. Generally speaking, when the troops move forward, even the well-trained troops will be scattered. At this time, they can only keep the formation with the constraints of the generals of each team.
The advance of Takeda army is very strange. They shout a strange slogan (left and right). The whole army is like a person in action.
Even when the other side's foot is light, the leg taken by the step at the same time is on one side.
How they did this is beyond anyone's imagination and understanding.
At this time, the senior general of Shenbao family, Shidao, said: "we must not let Takeda army move forward again, otherwise we will lose this war without fighting."
"But if we can't break through under the iron gun of Takeda army, we have to die. After the war just now, many warriors in our family were killed." Saito niche waved his fist fiercely, obviously in resentment.
"No, no matter how fast the iron cannon of the Takeda army can shoot, it can't match the speed of the war horse. We first use the horse riding team to attack the iron cannon teams on both sides of the Takeda army, and then use the foot to gently press the attack. In this way, we can defeat the current Takeda army."
Terashima's position was set to speak like this, and Saito's army suddenly realized that yes, no matter how fast the fire is, can it be comparable to the war horse? (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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The first ten iron cannons in the first row on both sides of the Western phalanx fired a round of volley.
A burst of bluish black smoke from gunpowder filled the air.
After shooting, the iron cannons put down their guns immediately. No one went to see whether the shooting was successful or not. Without the slightest hesitation, they turned back and right, carried iron guns from the gap between columns, ran quickly to the last row, then stood in a good position and quickly filled and loaded ammunition.
The iron gun general Xiaofan Xiaoxian, who stood on the left side of the iron gun team, retreated to the second row of the iron gun foot light team, raised his Taidao and shouted, "raise your gun and aim!"
Similarly, in the right-wing iron artillery, there is also an iron artillery group head who is responsible for directing the right-wing iron artillery team to shoot.
Under the order of Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the second row of iron gun feet raised their guns without expression, then leveled the gun body and took a small step forward with their left foot to keep the balance of their body weight during shooting.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian's eyes flashed, then waved the Taidao down and shouted heavily, "shoot!"
There was another round of gunfire. The choking smell of gunsmoke here was stronger. The smoke just shot had not dispersed, and now it was superimposed.
The other side's densely standing bow foot light team was hit again by gunfire. Once again, they fell to the ground.
Li Xiao's iron gun is fully equipped with light equipment. Although the Guoyou barrel produced by Jinjiang Guoyou village has a range of 50, it can't penetrate the armor at this distance. Just now, at a distance of 30, two rounds of iron guns were fired together, and the power and hit rate of iron guns showed their effect.
At this time, the other side's bow foot light team had just entered the predetermined position of their own shooting. Affected by two iron gun volleys, although the casualties were small, many bow foot light movements seemed a little flustered.
Just as the bow foot light team of Saito army was preparing to shoot at Takeda military array.
The Takeda army supported 60 archers on both sides, and took the lead in raising their bows and firing in unison. The arrows from both sides were shot into the Saito army's Archer foot light queue, which lacked armor protection. Suddenly, blood flowed in each other's array.
Then, the iron artillery foot light team of the Central Committee of the Takeda army fired the third row and the fourth row.
The Saito army's bow and foot were lightly hit by the long-range weapon of Takeda army's bow and arrow and iron gun. The casualties were not small immediately.
Under the orders of the other general, the Saito troops reluctantly insisted on being in front of the battle, flustered and put two rounds of arrows, and immediately retreated without causing many casualties to the Takeda army.
This time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian's iron gun foot light performed very well, which greatly surprised others. Under the harassment of the other party's bow and arrow, the iron gun foot light team made normal tactical actions despite one or two casualties, and there was no panic during the last military drill.
Saito army didn't seem to have much expectations for its own bow foot light team before. After the bow foot light team retreated, the rear gun foot light array immediately put down its long guns and put out an impact formation.
Within 20 minutes of entering the square of Takeda army, the light gun foot team in front of Saito army launched a charge.
"Shoot an arrow!"
After shooting three rounds of arrows, the strength of the bow and foot light people around the Takeda army is slightly relaxed. Generally speaking, the bow and foot light can only quickly shoot seven or eight arrows in a row.
But Li Xiao's bow and foot are all professional soldiers. They are well-trained at ordinary times, so they can support up to ten arrows.
At this time, the bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fourth round of arrows, but the Saito family warriors in front of the charge were all dressed in goods, and their heads were also covered with iron rims, so their defense against bow and arrow shooting was relatively strong.
After a round of arrows, the casualties of Saito soldiers were very small. There were several brave warriors, with four or five arrows hanging on their feet, who still seemed to continue to charge as if nothing had happened.
Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this scene. At this time, the full armor of the Warring States period has been popularized on a large scale, replacing the large armor with complex workmanship. The foot light body of Saito family is a piece of goods for each person, and the penetration rate of large armor is low. Only rich warriors can afford to wear it, and most of them are ancestral armor, which has been used for generations.
Because of their popularity, the defense of warriors and foot lighters against bows and arrows has been greatly improved. For Japanese bow lighters without crossbow technology, their power on the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller.
The bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fifth round of arrows again, and 60 people shot in unison. This time, they just put down two or three people of the other party. Many warriors and feet, with one or two arrows hanging from their bodies, charged forward like no one else.
When many people thought Li Xiao was going to make the central gun light.
The roar of iron guns on the two wings of the Western array sounded, and the fifth row of iron gun foot light team fired a volley.
Li Xiao observed the effect of shooting. He saw that the fifth row of Volley only knocked down three people of the other foot light team, but among the three people, there was the warrior who was shot seven or eight arrows in succession and still charged forward boldly.
Look at the delicacy of the other party's armor. It should be a famous warrior in Saito army.
The armor of such a famous warrior was lighter than that of an ordinary warrior. After two rounds of bows and arrows, he hit seven or eight arrows and still maintained his normal charge.
However, such a brave man can't resist an iron gun.
Seeing the unwilling look in each other's eyes, Li Xiao immediately knelt down on his knees and fell to the ground. He was immediately submerged by the light crowd of Saito's family who rushed up from behind.
The vanguard of Saito army is light enough to have rushed to the distance, and Takeda army has only 15 positions.
As the opponent's foot light team gets closer and closer, and similarly for the iron gun, the closer the shooting is, the stronger the lethality of the iron gun and the higher the hit rate.
The sixth, seventh and eighth rows of iron cannons of the Western array fired continuously. The Saito warriors who charged in front were knocked down again.
Seeing that the iron artillery team of Takeda army had finished shooting, Saito niche in the rear was relieved. After all, he was killed alive by invisible bullets. For a warrior, he died too cowardly.
Many Samurai don't care about being asked for the first rank, because they died in a fair martial arts competition, but they are most afraid of such an unclear death.
For example, in the northern and Southern Dynasties, the great general of the Southern Dynasty, Shinda Yizhen, was shot in the middle of the eyebrow by a streamer and died. Such a disgraceful death method is called "dog death" in Japan, which means to die like a dog.
After seeing the terrible iron gun team of the Takeda army firing, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time for the other party to fill the bullets, so the gun foot light team of the Saito army must rush to the front of the Takeda army immediately in this gap, making the other party's iron gun ineffective.
The foot light of Saito army summoned up the courage to attack forward.
At this time, the other party was only eight or nine away from the wudian army square.
The auxiliary bow foot light team on the two wings of the Takeda army and the central iron artillery team fought hard and fired two rounds of arrows in a row.
Although these two rounds of arrows did not help at all, it seemed that they could not stop Saito's gun foot light team from charging forward, but they played a role in delaying the impact speed of the other party.
However, taking advantage of this gap, the first row of Takeda's iron gun foot light team had been loaded.
Due to the backward loading strategy, the reverse forward queue is adopted.
Therefore, the iron guns fired in the first row are light enough, and now they have retreated to the back of the original queue in the eighth row. Therefore, there is an empty distance of four or five. The front side is the home gun light enough array, which is absolutely safe.
At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian ordered the first row of loaded iron guns to be light enough to shoot.
When shooting at this safe distance, there is no need to move forward in the opposite direction. After the first row is fired, the second row moves forward and stands at the original firing position of the first row. As usual, the third row complements the position of the second row, and so on, while the first row complements the firing position of the eighth row.
At this time, Saito army has entered the maximum killing range of iron artillery, so the iron artillery foot light team of Takeda army just shoots with all its strength without any reservation.
The action of Li Xiao's iron artillery team was as fast and effective as that of the usual training. After the first row of shooting, the second row followed closely, followed by the third row and the fourth row.
Raise your gun, aim, shoot.
This series of drills were practiced countless times at ordinary times. When they were proficient, they almost didn't want to think about it, and subconsciously made it.
As long as they are loaded, they will come forward and fire together, so there is almost no time between shots. The time difference between the last iron gun volley and the next iron gun volley is almost only two to three seconds.
The roar of iron guns was almost non-stop, and the sound echoed continuously in the valley for a moment.
Under this new round of continuous iron gun attack, the foot light soldiers of Saito army rushed in front of the array were constantly knocked down by iron guns. Several warriors who bravely took the lead in the charge were killed by iron guns from close range of Takeda army.
After each round of gunfire, several foot light fell down. When foot light of Saito army saw the black muzzle in front of him, his legs became soft.
"How could it be that the Takeda army is equipped with an iron artillery team of hundreds of people? Otherwise, why can't their shooting stop?"
Such thoughts flashed through the minds of every Saito warrior who charged.
It was a bloody scene. Saito army's foot was light. In the process of charging, his whole body suddenly stopped moving, and then his body tilted aside, so a life disappeared.
He hasn't even waved a knife at the enemy who killed him.
Although his family is noble and his martial arts are outstanding, what about ten warriors who can block one block? The other's foot is light, and only one shot is enough to kill him.
Generally speaking, in the feudal era, if the army bears 10% of the casualties, the morale will drop madly, and the soldiers of the whole army will fall into the verge of collapse.
The best example is the joint battle of Guan yuan and the general battle of more than 100000 troops, with only 3000 people.
This is only the exception of Takeda army and Shangshan army led by Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin. In the fourth joint battle of Chuanzhong Island, both sides played an ultra-high casualty ratio of 60-70%.
In general, the bravest and most elite soldiers in the Army take the lead in the battle. Once these people are knocked down, the morale of the whole army will plummet.
Under the double attack of the iron gun and bow and arrow of the Takeda army, the gun foot light of the Saito army's front charge finally reached the critical point of collapse. The foot light of the Saito family saw the warrior adults in their army and their brave companions fall under each other's iron gun and bow and arrow.
Facing the black muzzle of the gun in front of them, the enemy who shot at themselves without expression or emotion finally raised an inexplicable sense of fear in their hearts.
The desire to survive quickly occupied the first place in my heart.
The first Saito family turned around and ran away from the front line of the charge. With the first, there was the second and the third. In an instant, the flight of more than a dozen, more than 20 and dozens began to appear.
The foot lighters who had been charging, seeing their companions retreat, naturally did not want to be fools at this time. They continued to rush forward. Everyone turned around and collapsed from the front line.
This was a complete rout, followed by the sound of iron artillery that Takeda army was still shooting.
Saito's family, who ran slower, was light enough. More than a dozen people died on the way to escape under the fire of bows, arrows and iron guns.
Seeing the defeat of the enemy, Shigang Yiyu's state of mind at the moment can hardly be described in words. The previous doubts about Li Xiao's western array no longer exist.
Shigang Yiyu was convinced by Li Xiao's heart and said, "Lord, do you want to let the gun and foot light pursuit?"
Li Xiao shook his head, pointed to the 500 troops of Shenbao family who had not yet moved and the horse riding team of Saito army with a whip, and said, "the enemy still has spare strength. Now the pursuit can only be a scuffle regardless of victory or defeat."
After Li Xiao finished, he turned his head and looked at Ben duozhengxin beside him.
And Ben duozhengxin, who is known as the first wise man of the Songping family, is also very restless at the moment. He is used to the fierce fighting of Sanhe warriors, but he has never seen Li Xiaojun's tactics like this.
With the central spear array and the men and horses on both wings still not deployed, the enemy's offensive was repulsed by just iron guns and light bows.
With such a powerful force, it seems that we can win the battlefield only by relying on iron guns, bows and arrows.
I have never heard of such tactics before. Bendo Zhengxin deeply feels that he is more and more confused about his Lord.
At the same moment, the military equipment in Saito liki's hand has unconsciously fallen under the horse.
All the Saito family and Shenbao family generals around him were stunned.
Especially the riding warrior of Saito family, who just laughed at the formation of Takeda army, wanted to hit himself in the face at this moment.
Saito's family looked at the iron artillery foot light teams of the Takeda army, who were all pale. They fought back with such a fierce attack. What kind of tactics is this.
I've never seen or heard of it.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian gasped heavily and shouted at his iron gun feet: "all return to their positions and reload."
"Oh!"
The iron gun foot light team shouted in unison, and then stood on the two wings of the central gun foot light array again.
The iron cannons still repeated their usual training actions. They first stood the muzzle with their left hand and pushed and pulled up and down with an oak push rod to clean up the gunpowder residue in the barrel. Then take out the pellets from the small bag on the belt, fill the gun mouth with gunpowder and pellets, and then push the bullet bar to compact the pellets and gunpowder.
Finally, insert the fire rope wrapped around the left wrist into the fire hole.
This whole set of movements for filling bullets can be done by skilled people in 20 seconds, and can't be completed by unfamiliar people in one minute.
In the actual combat just now, the great lethality of the iron gun has been reflected, because in this era, the initial speed of the projectile fired by the iron gun is low. Once the projectile hits the human body, it will hardly cause penetrating damage, and it will enter the muscle tissue, and there is a certain chance to burst inside and cause heavy damage.
Many warriors hit by iron guns are light enough. Even if they are not directly hit by iron guns, they can temporarily lose their combat ability because of the non penetrating damage of bullets. They are not like arrows. After hitting four or five arrows, they still seem to charge without incident.
In the killing just now, nearly 100 Saito troops were killed under the iron guns and bows and arrows of Takeda family, and the casualties caused by iron guns were at least twice that of bows and arrows.
After the iron artillery team was reloaded, Li Xiao looked at the Saito army opposite, and his face showed a hint of irony.
"Come out!"
Under the command of Li Xiao, under the sun and moon double pattern flag, the 500 standing equipment moved again. The iron gun team carried the gun on the shoulder and the gun foot above the light team. The three long gun tips stood high.
"March!"
According to the command, the whole army moved forward slowly with neat steps.
In this way, the distance between the front and rear rows still maintains a considerable distance. The lines of the square array are not disordered. Looking from a distance, the surroundings are as neat as cutting with a knife.
This is the reason why Li Xiao has maintained such a tight formation through continuous queue training in recent two months.
Now Li Xiao's army is slowly advancing in the direction of Saito army like a huge wall.
The Saito family's generals have never seen such a beautiful military queue. Generally speaking, when the troops move forward, even the well-trained troops will be scattered. At this time, they can only keep the formation with the constraints of the generals of each team.
The advance of Takeda army is very strange. They shout a strange slogan (left and right). The whole army is like a person in action.
Even when the other side's foot is light, the leg taken by the step at the same time is on one side.
How they did this is beyond anyone's imagination and understanding.
At this time, the senior general of Shenbao family, Shidao, said: "we must not let Takeda army move forward again, otherwise we will lose this war without fighting."
"But if we can't break through under the iron gun of Takeda army, we have to die. After the war just now, many warriors in our family were killed." Saito niche waved his fist fiercely, obviously in resentment.
"No, no matter how fast the iron cannon of the Takeda army can shoot, it can't match the speed of the war horse. We first use the horse riding team to attack the iron cannon teams on both sides of the Takeda army, and then use the foot to gently press the attack. In this way, we can defeat the current Takeda army."
Terashima's position was set to speak like this, and Saito's army suddenly realized that yes, no matter how fast the fire is, can it be comparable to the war horse? (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
The first ten iron cannons in the first row on both sides of the Western phalanx fired a round of volley.A burst of bluish black smoke from gunpowder filled the air.After shooting, the iron cannons put down their guns immediately. No one went to see whether the shooting was successful or not. Without the slightest hesitation, they turned back and right, carried iron guns from the gap between columns, ran quickly to the last row, then stood in a good position and quickly filled and loaded ammunition.The iron gun general Xiaofan Xiaoxian, who stood on the left side of the iron gun team, retreated to the second row of the iron gun foot light team, raised his Taidao and shouted, "raise your gun and aim!"Similarly, in the right-wing iron artillery, there is also an iron artillery group head who is responsible for directing the right-wing iron artillery team to shoot.Under the order of Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the second row of iron gun feet raised their guns without expression, then leveled the gun body and took a small step forward with their left foot to keep the balance of their body weight during shooting.Xiaofan Xiaoxian's eyes flashed, then waved the Taidao down and shouted heavily, "shoot!"There was another round of gunfire. The choking smell of gunsmoke here was stronger. The smoke just shot had not dispersed, and now it was superimposed.The other side's densely standing bow foot light team was hit again by gunfire. Once again, they fell to the ground.Li Xiao's iron gun is fully equipped with light equipment. Although the Guoyou barrel produced by Jinjiang Guoyou village has a range of 50, it can't penetrate the armor at this distance. Just now, at a distance of 30, two rounds of iron guns were fired together, and the power and hit rate of iron guns showed their effect.At this time, the other side's bow foot light team had just entered the predetermined position of their own shooting. Affected by two iron gun volleys, although the casualties were small, many bow foot light movements seemed a little flustered.Just as the bow foot light team of Saito army was preparing to shoot at Takeda military array.The Takeda army supported 60 archers on both sides, and took the lead in raising their bows and firing in unison. The arrows from both sides were shot into the Saito army's Archer foot light queue, which lacked armor protection. Suddenly, blood flowed in each other's array.Then, the iron artillery foot light team of the Central Committee of the Takeda army fired the third row and the fourth row.The Saito army's bow and foot were lightly hit by the long-range weapon of Takeda army's bow and arrow and iron gun. The casualties were not small immediately.Under the orders of the other general, the Saito troops reluctantly insisted on being in front of the battle, flustered and put two rounds of arrows, and immediately retreated without causing many casualties to the Takeda army.This time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian's iron gun foot light performed very well, which greatly surprised others. Under the harassment of the other party's bow and arrow, the iron gun foot light team made normal tactical actions despite one or two casualties, and there was no panic during the last military drill.Saito army didn't seem to have much expectations for its own bow foot light team before. After the bow foot light team retreated, the rear gun foot light array immediately put down its long guns and put out an impact formation.Within 20 minutes of entering the square of Takeda army, the light gun foot team in front of Saito army launched a charge."Shoot an arrow!"After shooting three rounds of arrows, the strength of the bow and foot light people around the Takeda army is slightly relaxed. Generally speaking, the bow and foot light can only quickly shoot seven or eight arrows in a row.But Li Xiao's bow and foot are all professional soldiers. They are well-trained at ordinary times, so they can support up to ten arrows.At this time, the bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fourth round of arrows, but the Saito family warriors in front of the charge were all dressed in goods, and their heads were also covered with iron rims, so their defense against bow and arrow shooting was relatively strong.After a round of arrows, the casualties of Saito soldiers were very small. There were several brave warriors, with four or five arrows hanging on their feet, who still seemed to continue to charge as if nothing had happened.Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this scene. At this time, the full armor of the Warring States period has been popularized on a large scale, replacing the large armor with complex workmanship. The foot light body of Saito family is a piece of goods for each person, and the penetration rate of large armor is low. Only rich warriors can afford to wear it, and most of them are ancestral armor, which has been used for generations.Because of their popularity, the defense of warriors and foot lighters against bows and arrows has been greatly improved. For Japanese bow lighters without crossbow technology, their power on the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller.The bows and feet of the Takeda army shot the fifth round of arrows again, and 60 people shot in unison. This time, they just put down two or three people of the other party. Many warriors and feet, with one or two arrows hanging from their bodies, charged forward like no one else.When many people thought Li Xiao was going to make the central gun light.The roar of iron guns on the two wings of the Western array sounded, and the fifth row of iron gun foot light team fired a volley.Li Xiao observed the effect of shooting. He saw that the fifth row of Volley only knocked down three people of the other foot light team, but among the three people, there was the warrior who was shot seven or eight arrows in succession and still charged forward boldly.Look at the delicacy of the other party's armor. It should be a famous warrior in Saito army.The armor of such a famous warrior was lighter than that of an ordinary warrior. After two rounds of bows and arrows, he hit seven or eight arrows and still maintained his normal charge.However, such a brave man can't resist an iron gun.Seeing the unwilling look in each other's eyes, Li Xiao immediately knelt down on his knees and fell to the ground. He was immediately submerged by the light crowd of Saito's family who rushed up from behind.The vanguard of Saito army is light enough to have rushed to the distance, and Takeda army has only 15 positions.As the opponent's foot light team gets closer and closer, and similarly for the iron gun, the closer the shooting is, the stronger the lethality of the iron gun and the higher the hit rate.The sixth, seventh and eighth rows of iron cannons of the Western array fired continuously. The Saito warriors who charged in front were knocked down again.Seeing that the iron artillery team of Takeda army had finished shooting, Saito niche in the rear was relieved. After all, he was killed alive by invisible bullets. For a warrior, he died too cowardly.Many Samurai don't care about being asked for the first rank, because they died in a fair martial arts competition, but they are most afraid of such an unclear death.For example, in the northern and Southern Dynasties, the great general of the Southern Dynasty, Shinda Yizhen, was shot in the middle of the eyebrow by a streamer and died. Such a disgraceful death method is called "dog death" in Japan, which means to die like a dog.After seeing the terrible iron gun team of the Takeda army firing, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time for the other party to fill the bullets, so the gun foot light team of the Saito army must rush to the front of the Takeda army immediately in this gap, making the other party's iron gun ineffective.The foot light of Saito army summoned up the courage to attack forward.At this time, the other party was only eight or nine away from the wudian army square.The auxiliary bow foot light team on the two wings of the Takeda army and the central iron artillery team fought hard and fired two rounds of arrows in a row.Although these two rounds of arrows did not help at all, it seemed that they could not stop Saito's gun foot light team from charging forward, but they played a role in delaying the impact speed of the other party.However, taking advantage of this gap, the first row of Takeda's iron gun foot light team had been loaded.Due to the backward loading strategy, the reverse forward queue is adopted.Therefore, the iron guns fired in the first row are light enough, and now they have retreated to the back of the original queue in the eighth row. Therefore, there is an empty distance of four or five. The front side is the home gun light enough array, which is absolutely safe.At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian ordered the first row of loaded iron guns to be light enough to shoot.When shooting at this safe distance, there is no need to move forward in the opposite direction. After the first row is fired, the second row moves forward and stands at the original firing position of the first row. As usual, the third row complements the position of the second row, and so on, while the first row complements the firing position of the eighth row.At this time, Saito army has entered the maximum killing range of iron artillery, so the iron artillery foot light team of Takeda army just shoots with all its strength without any reservation.The action of Li Xiao's iron artillery team was as fast and effective as that of the usual training. After the first row of shooting, the second row followed closely, followed by the third row and the fourth row.Raise your gun, aim, shoot.This series of drills were practiced countless times at ordinary times. When they were proficient, they almost didn't want to think about it, and subconsciously made it.As long as they are loaded, they will come forward and fire together, so there is almost no time between shots. The time difference between the last iron gun volley and the next iron gun volley is almost only two to three seconds.The roar of iron guns was almost non-stop, and the sound echoed continuously in the valley for a moment.Under this new round of continuous iron gun attack, the foot light soldiers of Saito army rushed in front of the array were constantly knocked down by iron guns. Several warriors who bravely took the lead in the charge were killed by iron guns from close range of Takeda army.After each round of gunfire, several foot light fell down. When foot light of Saito army saw the black muzzle in front of him, his legs became soft."How could it be that the Takeda army is equipped with an iron artillery team of hundreds of people? Otherwise, why can't their shooting stop?"Such thoughts flashed through the minds of every Saito warrior who charged.It was a bloody scene. Saito army's foot was light. In the process of charging, his whole body suddenly stopped moving, and then his body tilted aside, so a life disappeared.He hasn't even waved a knife at the enemy who killed him.Although his family is noble and his martial arts are outstanding, what about ten warriors who can block one block? The other's foot is light, and only one shot is enough to kill him.Generally speaking, in the feudal era, if the army bears 10% of the casualties, the morale will drop madly, and the soldiers of the whole army will fall into the verge of collapse.The best example is the joint battle of Guan yuan and the general battle of more than 100000 troops, with only 3000 people.This is only the exception of Takeda army and Shangshan army led by Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin. In the fourth joint battle of Chuanzhong Island, both sides played an ultra-high casualty ratio of 60-70%.In general, the bravest and most elite soldiers in the Army take the lead in the battle. Once these people are knocked down, the morale of the whole army will plummet.Under the double attack of the iron gun and bow and arrow of the Takeda army, the gun foot light of the Saito army's front charge finally reached the critical point of collapse. The foot light of the Saito family saw the warrior adults in their army and their brave companions fall under each other's iron gun and bow and arrow.Facing the black muzzle of the gun in front of them, the enemy who shot at themselves without expression or emotion finally raised an inexplicable sense of fear in their hearts.The desire to survive quickly occupied the first place in my heart.The first Saito family turned around and ran away from the front line of the charge. With the first, there was the second and the third. In an instant, the flight of more than a dozen, more than 20 and dozens began to appear.The foot lighters who had been charging, seeing their companions retreat, naturally did not want to be fools at this time. They continued to rush forward. Everyone turned around and collapsed from the front line.This was a complete rout, followed by the sound of iron artillery that Takeda army was still shooting.Saito's family, who ran slower, was light enough. More than a dozen people died on the way to escape under the fire of bows, arrows and iron guns.Seeing the defeat of the enemy, Shigang Yiyu's state of mind at the moment can hardly be described in words. The previous doubts about Li Xiao's western array no longer exist.Shigang Yiyu was convinced by Li Xiao's heart and said, "Lord, do you want to let the gun and foot light pursuit?"Li Xiao shook his head, pointed to the 500 troops of Shenbao family who had not yet moved and the horse riding team of Saito army with a whip, and said, "the enemy still has spare strength. Now the pursuit can only be a scuffle regardless of victory or defeat."After Li Xiao finished, he turned his head and looked at Ben duozhengxin beside him.And Ben duozhengxin, who is known as the first wise man of the Songping family, is also very restless at the moment. He is used to the fierce fighting of Sanhe warriors, but he has never seen Li Xiaojun's tactics like this.With the central spear array and the men and horses on both wings still not deployed, the enemy's offensive was repulsed by just iron guns and light bows.With such a powerful force, it seems that we can win the battlefield only by relying on iron guns, bows and arrows.I have never heard of such tactics before. Bendo Zhengxin deeply feels that he is more and more confused about his Lord.At the same moment, the military equipment in Saito liki's hand has unconsciously fallen under the horse.All the Saito family and Shenbao family generals around him were stunned.Especially the riding warrior of Saito family, who just laughed at the formation of Takeda army, wanted to hit himself in the face at this moment.Saito's family looked at the iron artillery foot light teams of the Takeda army, who were all pale. They fought back with such a fierce attack. What kind of tactics is this.I've never seen or heard of it.Xiaofan Xiaoxian gasped heavily and shouted at his iron gun feet: "all return to their positions and reload.""Oh!"The iron gun foot light team shouted in unison, and then stood on the two wings of the central gun foot light array again.The iron cannons still repeated their usual training actions. They first stood the muzzle with their left hand and pushed and pulled up and down with an oak push rod to clean up the gunpowder residue in the barrel. Then take out the pellets from the small bag on the belt, fill the gun mouth with gunpowder and pellets, and then push the bullet bar to compact the pellets and gunpowder.Finally, insert the fire rope wrapped around the left wrist into the fire hole.This whole set of movements for filling bullets can be done by skilled people in 20 seconds, and can't be completed by unfamiliar people in one minute.In the actual combat just now, the great lethality of the iron gun has been reflected, because in this era, the initial speed of the projectile fired by the iron gun is low. Once the projectile hits the human body, it will hardly cause penetrating damage, and it will enter the muscle tissue, and there is a certain chance to burst inside and cause heavy damage.Many warriors hit by iron guns are light enough. Even if they are not directly hit by iron guns, they can temporarily lose their combat ability because of the non penetrating damage of bullets. They are not like arrows. After hitting four or five arrows, they still seem to charge without incident.In the killing just now, nearly 100 Saito troops were killed under the iron guns and bows and arrows of Takeda family, and the casualties caused by iron guns were at least twice that of bows and arrows.After the iron artillery team was reloaded, Li Xiao looked at the Saito army opposite, and his face showed a hint of irony."Come out!"Under the command of Li Xiao, under the sun and moon double pattern flag, the 500 standing equipment moved again. The iron gun team carried the gun on the shoulder and the gun foot above the light team. The three long gun tips stood high."March!"According to the command, the whole army moved forward slowly with neat steps.In this way, the distance between the front and rear rows still maintains a considerable distance. The lines of the square array are not disordered. Looking from a distance, the surroundings are as neat as cutting with a knife.This is the reason why Li Xiao has maintained such a tight formation through continuous queue training in recent two months.Now Li Xiao's army is slowly advancing in the direction of Saito army like a huge wall.The Saito family's generals have never seen such a beautiful military queue. Generally speaking, when the troops move forward, even the well-trained troops will be scattered. At this time, they can only keep the formation with the constraints of the generals of each team.The advance of Takeda army is very strange. They shout a strange slogan left and right. The whole army is like a person in action.Even when the other side's foot is light, the leg taken by the step at the same time is on one side.How they did this is beyond anyone's imagination and understanding.At this time, the senior general of Shenbao family, Shidao, said: "we must not let Takeda army move forward again, otherwise we will lose this war without fighting.""But if we can't break through under the iron gun of Takeda army, we have to die. After the war just now, many warriors in our family were killed." Saito niche waved his fist fiercely, obviously in resentment."No, no matter how fast the iron cannon of the Takeda army can shoot, it can't match the speed of the war horse. We first use the horse riding team to attack the iron cannon teams on both sides of the Takeda army, and then use the foot to gently press the attack. In this way, we can defeat the current Takeda army."Terashima's position was set to speak like this, and Saito's army suddenly realized that yes, no matter how fast the fire is, can it be comparable to the war horse? to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.
