Since Tokugawa Ieyasu had personally come to the front line, Xiao Ruxun did not intend to retreat. He slowly pulled out his sword. Xiao Ruxun also came to the front line. Seeing the Japanese army charging over, most of them were swordsmen and only a few were cannoneers. They seemed to be unafraid of death. He realized that the Ming Army could not show weakness, so he ordered the shieldbearers and gunmen to form a formation. He ordered Wang Hui to lead the artillery team forward to stop the enemy for a while to break their spirit.
Shell after shell exploded in the Japanese army's formation. The Japanese soldiers were thrown off their horses. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, corpses piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers. They suffered heavy losses. However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's flag was always raised and had never fallen or retreated. The bravery of the general and the king had given the soldiers great courage. As the saying went, if the soldiers were raging, the general would be raging as well. Tokugawa Ieyasu's bravery and unafraid of artillery was the greatest encouragement for the Japanese army.
Seeing that the dozens of cannons could not bring enough damage to the Japanese army, Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the fireworks to retreat and the shotguns to move forward. Less than five hundred meters away from the Japanese army, dozens of shotguns were fired. Gravel and lead flew everywhere, and it set off a bloody storm in the Japanese army's formation.
However, the flag did not retreat, and the Japanese army did not retreat. They were determined to fight a bloody battle with the Ming Army. They were not afraid at all and continued to move forward bravely. They stepped on the corpses of their comrades and stepped on the blood of their comrades to charge forward. This momentum moved Xiao Ruxun, but it only made the murderous intent in Xiao Ruxun's heart grow stronger.
"Firearms formation! Rise!! "
Xiao Ruxun waved the flag and the war drums behind him rumbled. The order was conveyed. Xiao Ruxun personally entered the firearms formation and commanded. The formation immediately moved forward, protecting the shotguns and cannoneers. The cannoneers sped up and retreated, leaving the battlefield to the firearms formation.
On the battlefield, Xiao Ruxun watched as a large number of Japanese soldiers charged forward. They were unafraid of death and had an indomitable attitude. He admired Tokugawa Ieyasu's commanding skills. However, this was not a reason for him to show mercy. It would only be a reason for him to kill. The Tokugawa army's reputation for being strong in the field was not undeserved. If such elite soldiers were not eliminated, they would become a huge threat to the Ming Army in Japan.
They had to be eliminated on the battlefield!
"Raise the guns!!!"
Wang Hui waved the flag and three thousand cannoneers immediately formed into a three-stage firing formation. They raised the guns in their hands and aimed at the Japanese soldiers who were charging madly and ignoring the preparations of the Ming Army. When the Japanese soldiers entered the firing range of the Ming Army cannoneers, Wang Hui waved the flag again. "Fire!!"
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
A thousand guns opened fire at the same time, a thousand lead bullets whistled through the air, hitting the charging Japanese soldiers until their bodies were covered with blood and they did not even look human. Many of them had their hands and feet broken and blood gushed out like a fountain.
However, the Japanese did not intend to use the cannons to fight back. This was because Kuroda Rusui knew very well that once they used the cannons to fight back, it would give the Ming Army time to use the cannons again. That would be a devastating blow to the Japanese. They had to use close combat to offset the Ming Army's advantage in firearms, even if they had to pay a heavy price for it.
For this, Tokugawa Ieyasu's heart was bleeding. The Tokugawa clan elites that he had painstakingly trained had died in the charge just now. Many of them were his old subordinates who had fought with him for more than ten years or even more than twenty years.
They had fought with Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and many other well-known figures. The strong soldiers that had been trained through blood and fire had died worthlessly in such a charge.
No, they were not worthless. Their deaths had brought hope to the Japanese army that they could defeat the Ming Army and escape.
Tokugawa Ieyasu knew very well that this was his last chance. He had to do this. The two teams behind him, Shenyuan Team and Sakai Team, were also his precious veterans. Now, these veterans were using their lives to buy time for them to escape. He could not waste the time that his veterans had bought for him. He could not stop even a step. He chose the most primitive, close combat. He would not hesitate at all.
However, this was meaningless to the Ming Army. It was good to use firearms to defeat the enemy from afar. However, when it came to close combat, the Ming Army was not afraid at all. It was not as if they had never fought the Japanese in close combat.
In the battle of Jade Hoof Hall, Wu Weizhong's 5,000 soldiers had resisted the siege of more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers for more than an hour. They did not let the Japanese army gain any advantage. It was a real fight. In the end, the Ming Army's reinforcements arrived and the Japanese army collapsed. The biggest contributor to the battle of Jade Hoof Hall was undoubtedly Wu Weizhong.
Now, Xiao Ruxun was going to show his third ability in addition to strategic planning. It was enough to convince the generals that he was strong and good at fighting!
In the face of the despair brought by the natural and man-made disasters at the end of the world, the current degree of despair in the Daming Dynasty was far from that time. People who had walked out of the confusion and despair of that era would not be afraid of this degree of despair.
The Japanese army had already rushed to a hundred meters in front of them. Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the infantry to retreat. The Shandong gunmen went forward with their spears. The Ming Army's formation immediately changed into a close combat formation. There were iron spikes on the impenetrable wall. One collision would cause the enemy's flesh to split open and they would doubt their life.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was not stupid. The one who rushed to the front was Ashigaru with his bamboo spear. From a distance of five or six meters, the bamboo spear stabbed towards the Ming Army's phalanx. At the same time, the Ming Army gunmen also stabbed the spear in their hands towards the Japanese gunmen who were charging towards them!
Stab! Pull it out! Stab! Pull it out! Stab! Pull it out! Stab! Pull it out! Stab again!
The repeated simple mechanical movements were indeed the only rule on the battlefield. The greatest lethality that the shining spear could cause came from such simple movements. The bravery of an individual was so insignificant on the battlefield where tens of thousands of people were fighting fiercely.
Even a peerless master with amazing martial arts would definitely not be able to face such a neat and fierce killing formation. The army would always be the representation of the strongest force. When it condensed into a force, it would be invincible.
The two armies began to fight head-on. From a distance, it looked like two large phalanxes had crashed into each other. The Japanese army in black and the Ming Army in red collided with each other. What burst out was not sparks but blood.
At the moment when the two armies collided, there was a large amount of blood. No one knew how many people died under the long spear in that instant. After that, the number continued to increase.
The Ming Army was well-trained, powerful, and experienced. The Japanese army was also well-trained, powerful, and experienced. The two armies were evenly matched and did not give way to each other. No one gave the other a chance. With a pair of big red eyes, they searched for the enemy's gap. Once they found one, they would stab it in. The people who were stabbed had no chance of survival. They would either be stabbed to death or be trampled to death by their comrades who caught up from behind.
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