Chapter Nine Eight The Battle of Guanyuan Part 2
The young warriors looked at each other, but they didn't dare to accept it. After a long time, one of them said, "The Chief Principal, the matter in the world is that the country is divided and the country is. Now the war is in full swing, and I don't know the outcome. How dare the villain be distracted, and how can the big things in the world be judged between the chess game?"
Ah Hai's face darkened. The music that he had finally found was disturbed by this hot-speaking man. In Ah Hai's eyes, the people who were close to him and called His Highness the people were just the son of a Japanese chief, or the second son who was not valued. He gave them a chance to get close to him. He was already a polite and polite person, so why should he make such a high profile here?
Just when he didn't know how to respond, Goto Kogoro appeared in front of everyone, and said in a loud voice, "The Chief Executive Officer was the envoy of the superior country, the deputy head of the Celestial Dynasty, with 100,000 strong troops in his hand, and with the support of the central country, even the Japanese people are not as good as the leader of a city and a country. We are just a samurai. Even if there is a Genji bloodline, it is just a mustard in front of the Chief Executive Officer. How dare you violate the verdict? The Chief Executive Officer declares that His Highness is comparable to that of a noble man in heaven. Only by crawling and serving can we be blessed, and how can we do anything more arrogant?"
After Goto Kogoro said this, the samurai knelt on the ground one by one, and took a bold look at Kogoro with contempt in his eyes, but the staff and generals around Ah Hai looked at him happily, smiling without saying a word.
"The villain made a mistake, please forgive me!" The warrior who had just spoken kowtowed and admitted his mistake.
Ah Hai narrowed his eyes and looked at the chess piece in his hand, asking, "Do you know how to play Go?"
"How dare you play chess with Your Highness with a humble body?" The samurai crawled even lower.
Ah Hai shrugged and asked, "Isn't anyone entertained with chess?"
Kogoro Goto knelt on the ground, "The villain understood a little bit and was willing to serve Your Highness."
The combat staff laughed, "Kogoro, you only have a territory of one hundred stones. The President decided that your bet is one thousand stones."
Kogoro Goto said, "The villain naturally has no gambling money, but what Your Highness said just now that his father and brother can reward him as gambling money. His father, Nobuma Goto, made three military achievements. His Highness ruled that he had already received a 250,000 shi of territory."
The combat consultant asked, "You use your adopted father's kindness as a bet. If you lose, you are afraid it's not as simple as spanking."
Goto was already sitting cross-legged in front of the chessboard and said seriously, "Flowers count cherry blossoms, people push samurai. If there is no splendor for a lifetime, how can you talk about blooming in this life? I, Goto Kogoro, was only an ant who endured humiliation and lived secretly for fifteen years. Now I am blessed by the gods and played chess with people in the world. How lucky I will be to lose in my life. If I lose, I should cut my stomach in front of Goto Hall. But if I dare not sit opposite me because of my timidity, how can I regard myself as a samurai?"
The truth that Goto Kogoro said is amazing, and it is also feared by the young samurai. It is true that they are the sons and nephews of the daimyos, but they are not inheritors. With their status, as long as those inheritors in Jeju are not dead, it is best to be close to the retainers. If a person with such a status loses a gambling battle, he will be punished heavily. Kogoro Gotoro has a lower origin, but he is a brave man, and is not afraid of wearing shoes at barefoot. This is the reason.
Akaido "Kogoro, you are so enlightened and are already the best among samurai. Come on, play chess with me. I like to use wealth and danger to seek people."
The chess between Ahai and Koto Goro went on for a long time. Koto was born in the grass, but there were also dragons and snakes among the grass. When Koto went on a stroll in Nagasaki, he served as a servant in the guild hall, serving the big merchants from the United States, and serving the chess game was even more popular, so he understood a little. Although Kotoro was not very skilled in chess, he used strange tricks frequently. Ahai's chess skills were average, and he actually lost two games in a row. The third game was adaptable. The two fought hard to solve, and the battlefield where heavy artillery roared and gunpowder was ignored by this person who was obsessed with the chess game.
On the battlefield, the shogunate life was not easy. In the morning, the "pig slam" operation of the horses returned to the crowd was defeated, losing two-fifths of the cavalry. Before the infantry formation was launched, it was defeated by the United States' brigade-level shooting. It was already afternoon.
In order to enhance the morale of the front line, Tokugawa Ietsugu wore the ancestral armor and raised the flag and appeared on the array. This armor, the flag and the man, just like Tokugawa Ietsugu Ietsugu who defeated the Western Army, then. Tokugawa Ietsugu came to the mound in front of the formation on a war horse. He climbed up to look up and saw that the big formation had been arranged. The gathered cavalry suppressed the formation. The army's spears were like forests, the flags were like fire, and the north and south were stretched. After receiving the order from Tokugawa Ietsugu, a blond, blue-eyed one-legged man commanded an eighteen-pound cannon and appeared on the selected artillery calm.
This is the assistance, gunners and heavy artillery secretly sent by the Dutch after Hezhong landed in Japan. Because Tokugawa Izunobu appeared in front of the formation, the entire array was cheering, and the sound was like a huge wave, showing its magnificent color.
As the flagban issued the general's order to the Dutch artillery commander, there were sounds of cannons coming from the turret. The gunners sweated heavily and shot 18-pound solid shells onto the opposite position of the anti-Shuo Army. More than 40 heavy artillery were used by the shogunate army, which were all the artillery on a Dutch main ship. After the fire broke out, the anti-Shuo Army's position was in a mess.
On Matsuo Mountain, the fences of the Daming Army and the small carts filled with soil were as fragile as human bodies. The carefully constructed fortifications were torn apart. After the thick infantry array after the continuous hits fortifications, the front line became chaotic. Shimazu Kokusa sent samurai to suppress the front line, and the front line was slightly suppressed. On the northern wing, the Tsubaki Mountain was a different scene.
At the beginning of the shelling, Kaharada Hitoe ordered his foreign Daming Army to retreat into the jungle to avoid serious damage under the shelling. The Kaharada Brigade, on the front line, was calm and stood firm in the fierce artillery fire. Most of these soldiers were veterans from various battlefields of Daxinganling, Sakhalin, Hokkien, North Korea, Liaodong and Shandong. They had sufficient experience in facing heavy artillery, and even more so. They retreated a little a hundred meters and arrived at the steeper slope, avoiding most of the damage caused by the bouncing of the shells.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Tokugawa Ietsunobu ordered an attack. In his opinion, the time was very suitable. Daming on Matsuo Mountain was approaching collapse, and the enemy on Triple Mountain was also retreating.
The Shogun Army's foot light formation was like a torrent, and soon fought with the Daimai Army on Matsuo Mountain. The Daimai Army and the Shogun Army had similar equipment and tactics. The rare number of old combs and fewer bronze Forou machines did not form effective barrage. In the end, the Fogun Army, holding a spear, fought together.
Unlike the spears that often appear on the classical battlefields of Europe, Japanese spears are not naturally used for assassination. The length of this composite spear made of bamboo, oak and other materials is mostly more than four meters, or even more than six meters. Once the length of the spear exceeds three meters, it is difficult to grasp the shaking of the spear tip. Assassination has no accurate head at all, and the greater function of the Japanese spear is to slap. Therefore, Japanese football players use the top defense method, such as the array hat.
However, whether it is a Japanese or Chinese or Western short spear, when the spearmen and spearmen form a formation, the tactical actions of stabbing each other are often unavailable due to instinctive defense, so pushing the spear has become the mainstream of the battlefield. The foot in the center is lightly holding the spear high, like two giraffes competing with their necks. The spears collide, push, and the sharp spear tip point towards the sky. The people behind them cannot join the battle group, but they slap behind them, hoping to create greater results. Some battle groups even turn around and cannot distinguish the enemy and us.
In the jungle of gun spears, warriors holding short soldiers and armoured armor are more lethal. Some people have already penetrated into the crowd, cut the calves of their feet with short swords and assassinated their lower abdomen. Every brave warrior is a life harvester on the battlefield. On Matsuo Mountain, the battle is in a striking situation and cannot determine the outcome. Only by filling in more lives can one gain the upper hand. Persistence in this battlefield is a rare and valuable quality.
However, in the northern wing of the Triangoyama, the situation was completely different. Kawaharada, Takasawa and Goto Miben have sufficient flintlock guns, especially the army of Kawaharada and Takasawa, who have been fighting in the Beiyang War Zone. They are very skillful in tactics, with company, battalion, battalion, and various levels of vertical shooting and volley shooting. Relying on simple horse-rejecting, the foot light formation cannot approach the core array for a long time.
Kawaharada Hiewe is also a good general. He is skilled in combat between infantry and artillery. The only thing he lacks is cavalry. The three-pitched cavalry totaling less than 1,500 cavalry, and with their daimyo, the cavalry is only 2,000, so Kawaharada Hiewe has always been reluctant to use this mobile infantry.
Under the command of Kawaharada Hiewe, the infantry array of three guns fired volleys in a square formation and approached the enemy at close range in a horizontal formation. When the distance was too close, they retreated a little under the cover of artillery and cavalry. In addition, the Daming army in the woods were dispatched to support each other, and the attack was very vivid.
The commander of the shogunate army was first POKO Masayuki, and then became Tokugawa Ietsuzu. After Tokugawa Ietsuzu took over the command, he asked the army to move forward, but he was not crazy yet. Seeing that the terrain of the Tricho Mountain could not be deployed to a large-scale army, Tokugawa Ietsuzu ordered a wave attack to maintain the intensity of the battlefield. Finally, the flintlock rifle of the infantry lined up online was overheated due to the high firing frequency.
Faced with the new new force, Kawaharada Hiewe was unwilling to let the elite infantry with three guns fight with less than 1.7 meters of bayonet and 4.8 meters of spear, so the Daimai Army was in front, and the pushing of the gun became the mainstream again. But this time, under the barrel of the Spear Forest, the samurai warriors encountered the biggest challenge in history - Garcia's mercenaries.
Chapter completed!