The wind was flying on the great plain, and the air was filled with a nervous atmosphere. The family emblem of the Tokugawa family, floating in the ocean of countless colorful flags, greeting the Ming army's Heavenly Dao Tai Chi flag opposite. A distance of six or seven miles, nearly 200,000 people from the two sides stood facing each other across the air.

With such a terrain and such a large army confrontation, there is naturally no secret to it. The so-called ambush and surprise attacks are completely useless. Both sides can only fight hard battles face to face!

The Japanese army had nearly 150,000 troops, which had already raised the mobilization power of the shogunate to the limit in a short period of time. It was the largest scale in recent decades. Among them, there were more than 20,000 cavalry alone, and the battle formations were densely packed with various family emblems and flags. The space around the area was covered by these soldiers, and the posture was extremely terrifying!

Li Zhe's side dispatched two divisions from Jiuzhou Island, including two Marine divisions of the North Sea Fleet and the East Sea Fleet, with a total of more than 40,000 people. Compared with the Japanese army on the opposite side, the battle formation was relatively sparse. On the front, which was seven or eight miles wide, several batches of attack waves were formed. The artillery cluster formed by more than 600 artillery types on the artillery position on the left, with a huge muzzle heading forward!

In the Japanese army, the young warriors had their expressions on their faces excited and nervous. They were not afraid of fear, but excited for the rare big scene in this life, and were pleased to be able to bring their short and humble life to the most intense bloom in this most violent and cruel game of mankind!

Football, General, Daming, everyone's lives have reached the strongest peak of their lives at this moment, just waiting for the hysterical release at that moment!

Is this the fate of a samurai? Tokugawa Iemitsu asked himself in his heart...

Since it was the national war, the procedures were slightly different. Before the war, there was a prelude of verbal warriors. Several dressed samurai stood up, like a singing paragraph pointing to where Li Zhe was here. Although people here didn't know it, the funny performance still made the tense atmosphere on the battlefield slightly soothing.

Then, Li Zhe was a little impatient. It was already time. Who had the time to fight with these people?

With a wave of his hand and a command, the sound of war drums sounded, and the Ma Chao army dispatched, and thousands of soldiers lined up into a miles-long scattered line and launched an attack directly towards the opposite side! The prelude to the army's attack!

A brief commotion occurred in the shogunate army opposite. Today, the situation on the battlefield was obviously that there were many Japanese people. Unexpectedly, the commander of the Ming Dynasty was so bold that the side that launched the attack first obviously had an active advantage! The bold and tough style of this was obvious!

Tokugawa Iemitsu and several old men stood on a hill bun behind the formation, looking at this situation, "The eldest son of the Central Army said it right. The Ming people really have a high opinion of themselves. We obviously have an absolute advantage in military strength, but the enemy turned a blind eye to them. Could it be that the difference in combat power between the two sides is really that big?" The eyes of a group of people couldn't help but focus on the hundreds of cold-shining big tubes in the left front of the Ming army's formation! It seems that this mystery is concentrated on this legendary artifact comparable to the power of the gods!

Because the cannon is too powerful in nature, it is naturally easy to attract the attention of people of this era. Even if Japan loses its intelligence collection, no one realizes that this is a comprehensive backwardness, but instead focuses the most important reasons on the cannon!

However, the cannons in Li Zhe's army would not disappoint them!

The two sides slowly approached the front line. After reaching a distance of several hundred meters, the artillery positions behind Li Zhejun began to fire. Half of the more than 800 artillery guns were fired, and once they were fired, their power was the first time even Li Zhejun saw it. The next side of the artillery array was shocked and the entire earth was shaking faintly.

The rain of bullets gushed out, and in just one round of shells, there were more than 400 flowering bullets. The result of firing on the enemy's dense positions was that thousands of casualties were killed and injured! The first formation of the enemy's army was only withstood two rounds of fire, and most of the casualties were killed and injured. When we were in contact with the Ma Chao Division, the troops were so weak that the Ma Chao Division almost rushed by directly!

The Ming people's Otsuki is indeed amazing! In the horror of Tokugawa Izumi, he had to order the cavalry to attack and attack the Ming people's artillery array.

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer!" Tadao Sakai hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "Only the most sturdy person on the battlefield can laugh to the end. The enemy's troops have not yet been deployed, and they can still protect the array of large wings at any time. If our cavalry rushed up now, it is very likely that they will fall into the quagmire of infantry! Wait a little longer. The Ming people are so arrogant. As long as we hold on to the big formation, the Ming people's troops will definitely rush up. Then it will be time for our cavalry to harvest the results!"

Tokugawa thought for a while and nodded sternly: "It's still the teacher who is scheming! This move has greater confidence in the attack, and the results of the battle will be more brilliant. However, our army will have to bear fire for a longer time, and the price the warriors in the Kingdom of God will have to pay is greater!"

Sakai closed his eyes and gritted his teeth: "This battle is related to the existence of the Great Japanese Kingdom of God, and everyone is ruined by it! It is not even more so, not to mention this little body! If you can go to the battlefield this time, they should have the awareness of sacrificing their lives for the country!"

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With the cooperation of the artillery formation, Ma Chao's division continued to advance wildly! Like the roaring waves of the sea, attacking the enemy's central formation, and the Japanese army had to advance to the enemy.

At this moment, the Japanese had to bear a very sad result - their iron cannons were vulnerable in front of the enemy's iron cannons, and they were only beaten. There was a huge difference in firing rate and accuracy. The confuses and spearmen took small steps and rushed to a legion to launch a counterattack, but often before they reached their own range, they endured the firepower blow from the enemy. Before the firepower was launched, most of the casualties were hit and defeated!

The scattered soldiers formed by the Ma Chao division was as unshakable as a moving city. On the wide front, there was a continuous rain of bullets. A long tongue of flames was like a giant greedy anteater. The Japanese army filled in one legion after another. The iron artillery team, the squad team, and even the elite samurai team! They all had the same result of destruction! The speed of hot weapons devouring life is much more efficient than the face-to-face battle of cold weapons. The queue, which used to take half a day or even a day, was now broken in just over a dozen minutes. The Japanese army went all out, but could not stop the Ming people's musket formation on the opposite side, slowly but firmly pressing towards the formation. The Ming people's iron cannon is not easy to deal with than that big tube!

"General! General! The enemy's iron cannon is powerful, our foot light formation is slow and cannot attack! Tens of thousands of casualties have been killed and killed. Cavalry! Cavalry will attack!"

"Bag! It's absolutely impossible!" Tokugawa Iemitsu looked back and glared at him, swaying the squad, and no cavalry was dispatched! However, it made more legions of side formations surge out and surrounded him from the side, and with the sufficient manpower of the side, attempting to block the attack of the Ma Chao Division!

Li Zhe can see clearly here! A smile on the corner of his mouth!

Pang De Division and Zheng Zhi Tiger Division were dispatched in sequence, and dozens of battalion-level scattered soldiers unfolded, forming a huge arc-shaped encirclement along the front of more than ten miles on both sides, facing the opposite face! The battle finally entered the time of full development!

Countless muskets and cannons, deafening roars, together with the hysterical whistle and screaming charges of the warriors, blood, death, murder and glory, became the most resounding scene in the symphony in front of them!

On the front, the Ma Chao division is still the leader! After a bloody battle, the Ma Chao division has grown into the strongest army among the Dongjiang soldiers, with only a few thousand people. It is like a mainstay on the battlefield and is unbearable! It firmly grasps the initiative of the front and controls the front of the most square kilometers in the middle of the battlefield, and has always maintained huge pressure on the shogunate army!

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"No, I can't continue like this." The shogun's central army, even though Tokugawa Iemitsu had a deep personality, could not withstand this pressure. After an hour of the battle, the central army had suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and more than ten thousand people on both sides. The entire army suffered heavy losses, and the casualties had reached one-third! But the enemy's iron cannon array on the opposite side was not damaged, but instead it was getting closer and closer.

In addition to the front of the central army, the enemy has already started charging from the front of the battlefield. Dozens of similar large and small formations are also spitting out fire and surrounding them. This slow pressure like the pressure of Mount Tai almost makes people collapse! This is not the iron cannon formation, it is simply a fire wall that can spit out fire!

Such a style of fighting, just an iron cannon is enough to sweep all the formations, and it has never appeared in the history of the Japanese. Such suppression and such unstoppable momentum. Tokugawa Ie-gun's ideas except for the attack of the cavalry army, was tried. It was useless and could not stop the enemy's slow and little by little formation. It was already a deformation that squeezed the central army's array, and the collapse of the army could occur at any time!

At this moment, everyone saw that the enemy's rear formation began to change, and the big tube position moved forward, as if they wanted to move back to the closer enemy shooting. When the troops' formation was changed, there was a chaotic wave and the pressure of artillery fire suddenly became much smaller. When Tokugawa Iemitsu was ecstatic, he finally waited.

"Quick! That's now! Order the cavalry to attack!"

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The strong wind blew, and the smoke filled the air. From the thick smoke that almost covered the entire battlefield, the sound of the earth roared, and the Japanese cavalry began to charge!

More than 20,000 cavalry, dense charge array, was as thick as a deadly hammer. In the blink of an eye, they broke through the battalion-level scattered soldiers of two Li Zhejun, threw the messy formation behind and headed straight for Li Zhe's central army! Facts prove that in this era, the line formed by high-fire rifles alone could not stop the impact of large-scale cavalry!

The Japanese army was almost jumping up in ecstasy, and almost everyone's eyes were looking up. Looking at the situation here, it only blocked the smoke of the battlefield and blocked most of the people's eyes! Everyone could only hear the sound of horse hooves rumbling like thunder, constantly heading towards the center of the enemy opposite!

"Haha, it's finally here!" Li Zhe smiled, as if he had a sudden sigh of relief, and gave the last order for today's battle.

The entire army's reserve team, Geng Zhongming's division of the North Sea Fleet Marine, strides forward and begins to set up formations along the edge of artillery battles. Everyone makes final preparations and is waiting for the enemy's charge!

The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and finally got closer!

"Open fire!"

Geng Zhongming gave an order!

Tens of thousands of guns were fired at the front line, and the projectiles spewed out, forming a deadly shock wave to meet the Japanese cavalry! Among them, a loud continuous musket gun sound was the most eye-catching. I saw that there were fifty groups of baggage soldiers in two groups, lined up in the array line. In front of each group, there was a gun rack like a small cannon. On the gun rack, the barrel of a bulky gun like a cannon was tied together. When firing, the soldiers swayed the wheel under the gun rack, and let the six barrels on the gun rack constantly spin and spray out the flame tongue! Sweeping everything on the opposite side

Hand-cranked Gatling!

The most primitive machine gun! But it is also the predecessor of the famous Vulcan machine cannon in later generations! Although there are many problems in practical application, it is still a terrifying battlefield killing weapon in this era!

The model developed by Li Zhejun in the Three Kingdoms has a caliber of fifteen millimeters and a maximum firing rate of 1,000 rounds in minutes. Even in normal times, the standard firing rate is more than 500 rounds. At this time, the cavalry used to deal with the Japanese can be said to be really useful!

At this time, the fifty Gatling groups on the position were like fifty tyrannary hundreds of meters long sickles, constantly cutting back and forth in the dense array of Japanese cavalry, forming a deadly steel storm! Each bullet hit a series of broken tendons, causing a large-scale casualties to the shogunate cavalry. The cavalry charge forward was cut off layer by layer, and the short charge distance of hundreds of meters was like a road to death, and it seemed that it would never rush to the place!

The Japanese cavalry corps were ripped into huge holes in Gatlin like a balloon. The scale continued to shrink at a speed of sight. The corpses of the vanguards continued to accumulate on the charge road and quickly formed small hills, which significantly slowed down the speed of the horses' charge! It was getting slower and slower! Blood flowed everywhere and the corpses were everywhere. The valiant valiant charge became useless in the face of the power of modern steel!

Ah! The cavalry formation came with the desperate cry of warriors! At the last and most critical moment, Gatlin's appearance buried all hope!

The morale of the Japanese army finally collapsed!

After the artillery array was moved, the roar sounded again. The heavy rain-like artillery shells exploded in the cavalry array, turning the cavalry like dolls struggling in the tsunami, one by one, churning in the air. The center of the cavalry array was blown out by artillery fire to create a large area of ​​blank areas.

"Escape! Escape!"
Chapter completed!