Upon hearing the news that the Ming army began to advance, Ukita Hidea finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the Ming army was willing to come and bite the bait, it would definitely become the spoils of the Japanese army, because Xiao Ruxun wanted to break his head and never expected that the Japanese army had prepared a double-layer ambush tactic, which means they had two ambush troops.

A group of ambushers had to wait for Wu Weizhong to come and dispatch, while the second wave of ambushers had to wait for the Ming army to arrive and then attack in one fell swoop. At that time, the Ming army's artillery dared not use, and could only fight. The Japanese army's combat effectiveness was not inferior to the Ming army. What lost to the Ming army was only firepower. As long as the Ming army's firepower could not be effective, it would be the victory of the Japanese army.

In individual combat, the Japanese soldiers who experienced the baptism of the Warring States Period were indeed not afraid of the Ming army, and the Ming army was naturally not afraid of the Japanese army. However, the tactical competition of the commander was enough to minimize the influence of the combat effectiveness of the individual soldiers.

Ukita Hidea knew that Xiao Ruxun was strong and good at fighting, but he not only had his own brain, but also an elder group composed of seven elders. Eight brains were used to deal with one brain, which made him Xiao Ruxun break his head and never thought that the main force of the Japanese army was divided into two parts to attack. Two ambushes were enough to disrupt his morale. As long as the melee battle was successful, it would be a victory for Japan! Even if the losses were more than the Ming army, it didn't matter!

Wu Weizhong led the 5,000 Ming army to advance into the ambush circle set up by the Japanese pirates without fear. When he could see Xiaomaruyama and Wangkexian from afar, in order to act more realistically, Wu Weizhong decisively ordered shelling the mountainsides on both sides, and seemed to suspect that the Japanese pirates had ambushed. After one round of artillery attack, Wu Weizhong saw a team of horses coming from the direction of Xiaomaruyama.

"Formation!! Gunner bombardment!!"

Wu Weizhong immediately ordered.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!

The cannons spit out flames of anger, and sparks exploded in the Japanese cavalry. Suddenly, a large number of cavalry were overturned to the ground. Behind the cavalry were a large number of iron cannoners. Wu Weizhong immediately ordered the gunmen to prepare for firing.

"Rise the gun! Let it go!"

With hundreds of gunshots, the few cavalry left by the Japanese pirates were shot down and dropped off their horses. Another round of volleys, the hundreds of cavalry fell on the battlefield, and they didn't even find the formation of the Ming army. However, they bought time for the iron gunners later. These iron gunners entered the range and were busy launching the first and second rounds of combos. Wu Weizhong had already ordered the shield to close and block the round of the round of attacks. Then he pulled out the hole. Twenty artillery fired continuously, exploding the iron gun array on the opposite side to scatter.

The Japanese pirates retreated while continuing to fire their guns. Wu Weizhong knew that the time was coming, so he ordered the merging of shields and chariots while ordering the entire army to advance, preparing to take the initiative to step into the Japanese ambush circle.

The retreating Japanese troops retreated near Komaruyama and stopped retreating. Instead, they formed a formation to shoot the Ming army, regardless of whether they could really attack the Ming army. Then someone carried several huge large iron cannons, one carrying them on his shoulders, and the other standing behind. He sniffed the fire and pulled the trigger, and immediately pierced the Ming army's large shield through several large holes.

Several shield soldiers were affected and injured, and Wu Weizhong seemed to be prepared. With an order, the black gun pointed at the Japanese pirates, and instantly completed another round of volleys. The Japanese pirates on the opposite side were blown up. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ming army's gunmen began to fight back.

The Japanese pirates suffered for a while and continued to retreat. They stopped moving as they retreated. They stopped at the foot of the mountain. Then suddenly a large number of Japanese pirates appeared from the foot of the mountain, pushing devices like shield chariots similar to the Ming army. Some people carried bunches of things like tied up bamboo poles, and stood in front of the formation. The iron gunners quickly retreated into these defensive measures and hid behind them to fight back at the Ming army. The Ming army hid behind the shield and shot the Japanese pirates, but they seemed to be unable to penetrate the strange-shaped bamboo bundle.

"General, what is that?"

An officer was surprised to see the defensive tools used by the Japanese pirates: "Is that a bunch of bamboo poles?"

"It should be the defensive equipment used by the Japanese pirates that are similar to our army's large shields and shield chariots. Ordinary bird guns cannot be defeated. It is estimated that artillery fired with solid bullets to be defeated. The Japanese pirates don't know that I have solid bullets. I will fight back when their ambush all rises, and they will severely slaughter their spirits!"

Wu Weizhong ordered.

"promise!"

Wu Weizhong noticed that as the Ming army continued to deepen, it had entered a dead place where there were mountains and rivers in front and peaks on both sides without a way out. Wu Weizhong knew that the Japanese ambush was about to appear, and immediately ordered the gunner to replace the cannons and aim at the four sides. Once the Japanese ambush appeared and were protected by the shield formation, the shield formation would be removed and fired immediately.

The order had just been implemented. With a few cannons, a shocking shouts of killing sounds sounded, and a large number of Japanese pirates emerged from all directions from all directions. As Wu Weizhong expected, how could Japanese pirates have been practicing firearms for a long time, so how could they not know the defense method? They must have their own defense method, but the Ming army did not know, and planned to catch the Ming army off guard.

A large number of things similar to the Ming army's large shields and shield chariots appeared on the battlefield. A large number of Japanese pirates held long swords, strange spears and iron cannons, followed by the large shield and shield chariots, shaking flags and shouting and charging forward. For a moment, they were thunderous. If a new army was scared by such a formation, they would definitely be so scared by this formation. And this Zhejiang army would naturally not be affected. Even so, they were shocked by this formation.

"Move the shield! Fire the cannon!!!"

The shield soldiers were prepared and immediately obeyed the order. The formation suddenly gave up fifty holes from all directions, and the gunners were prepared. The fifty cannons immediately pushed out, "Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom" volley, and the solid bullets hit the Japanese pirates' big shield and shield chariot. The Japanese pirates saw a nightmare that they would never forget in their next life - most of the big shield and shield chariot were destroyed, and a large number of Japanese pirates were affected by solid bullets. There were many people with broken arms, legs and hands.

"Change the flower bullet! Change the sub-gun! Fire the cannon!!"

After two rounds of solid bullets, the Japanese pirate shield formation, which had been destroyed by most of the wooden shields, could no longer protect the infantry. Wu Weizhong made a quick decision to order the replacement of the flowering bullet.

A large number of Japanese pirates were caught off guard by solid bullets. Before they could reach the shooting range, they were blown up by the flowering bullets. However, the number of Japanese pirates was beyond imagination. Although the cannons were fierce, they could not stop the Japanese pirates from continuing to move forward. So after the second round of flowering bullets, Wu Weizhong saw that there was no time, and immediately ordered the shield formation to merge. The gunner found a gap to launch cannons, and the gunmen began to shoot from all directions.

One round of volleys, two rounds of volleys, and lead bullets flew across all directions. A large number of Japanese pirates died tragically. It was not until the Japanese pirate iron gunners lined up and started shooting that the Ming army gunners retreated into the formation to avoid shooting. The gunmen shot through the large shields, and the Japanese pirate iron gunners also hid behind the remaining bamboo bundles and fought back. From time to time, lead bullets flew in through the gap between the shields, and could kill the Ming army in the formation.

After all, there were few iron cannons in the hands of the Ming army. The crossbowman then shot fiercely and killed some of the feet that were charging against the bamboo bundle. After that, the sword and shield soldiers were ready to kill, and the gunmen also placed their spears in the gap between the shields, waiting for the Japanese pirates to approach.

The Japanese pirates rushed forward with a strange spear. The Ming soldiers realized that this was not an iron spear at all, but a bamboo spear. They were quite strange, but they didn't have time to express their strangeness. The spear suddenly rushed out of the shield formation and stabbed in a silence. The Japanese pirates who had no time to react were so heartbroken. The other Japanese pirates stopped quickly, but countless guns were extended, and there were scattering volleys, and countless people died.

With the Ming army's shield formation as the core, meat grinders were formed around it, blood was flowing all over the ground, and corpses were piled up like mountains. The Japanese pirates pushed away the corpses of their companions and rushed desperately. They held the bamboo gun in their hand and slammed the Ming army's shield formation. No matter whether they could find the right place, they would hit the clock. As they stumbled in, they stumbled in, and then they could feel the bamboo gun entering the flesh. When they pulled it out, they saw the blood on the gun head, they knew that the Ming army was stabbed to death in the formation.

Wu Weizhong noticed that after the Japanese pirates suffered a great loss, some people found that this method was indeed useful, so they let the Japanese pirates learn from the Ming army. Some people held bamboo bundles in front, hid behind and stabbed hard, and stabbed against the Ming army to see who could stab whom. At such a close distance, this made the Ming army, which was less than the Japanese army, suffer a bit of a loss, because the number of Japanese pirates was far greater than that of the Ming army, and the Ming army had only 1,500 gunmen, and they could not load enough ammunition, which was obviously at a disadvantage.
Chapter completed!