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Text Section 266: Breaking the Formation

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.    On the battlefield filled with black smoke.  Pang Ning looked at the Changzhou clan queue in the northwest with his binoculars, his face a little nervous.

    1,500 sailors rushed to a distance of 100 steps and fired at Fukuoka Domain in the southeast for more than ten minutes.  At such distances, rifled guns are incredibly accurate.  If there is no interference from the enemy's fire, three or four shots from the rifled rifle will bring down one of them.  Facing the bravely approaching sailors, the Fukuoka Domain had to fight back with all its strength, organizing muskets to suppress the Nankai people's firepower.

    Taking advantage of this gap, Deng Aqi's cavalry dispersed into a long snake formation and circled toward the northwest of Fukuoka Domain one by one.  Against the sporadic musket fire, two thousand cavalry bravely crossed the valley from the cliff fifty steps in front of the enemy's formation.

    To the north is behind Fukuoka Domain, and no defensive facilities were built.

    Lu Ce¡¯s vanguard army was very well-equipped.  When the travelers first captured Hainan Island, they carried out a policy of confiscating the homes of the gentry and officials.  Regarding this policy, the Pioneer Army was the most resolute in executing it and copied a large amount of silver coins.  After the First World War in Guangxi, he first received military expenses from the Ming court, and later obtained stolen money from the beheading of surrendered bureaucrats and gentry.  All kinds of accumulations have made the vanguard army, which has always been small in number, very generous in military expenses.

    The Pioneer Army originally had only 5,000 people, but now it has expanded to only 10,000 people.  On average, military pay is only a few hundred thousand a year.  The weapons and ammunition were all provided by Shi Ban. Taking into account miscellaneous expenses for auxiliary troops and the purchase of grain and grass, 300,000 taels a year were enough for the vanguard army.  But after a trip to Guangxi, Lu Ce's income was over one million taels.

    Lu Ce is a simple man. Apart from leading his own vanguard army, he doesn't have much else to do.  Using the money on hand, he armed the vanguard to the teeth.  A rare war horse in the Ming army, every soldier in the vanguard army has one.  The most elite rifle gunner in the army even divided two horses into one man.  The mobility and impact of this unit were increased to the limit.

    Guangxi does not have large-scale animal husbandry. The purchase channels for these war horses were from the Mongols through Qin Mingtao and Kong Youde.  Compared with the low Japanese horses of the island nation, the Mongolian war horses of the vanguard army are simply giant beasts.

    Seeing the enemy¡¯s terrifying cavalry approaching behind him, Fukuoka Domain was extremely anxious.  They kept sending distress signals to the Changshu clan in the northwest, hoping that the Changshu clan could approach the Nanhai people's cavalry and prevent the Nanhai people from launching a charge.

    The cavalry had not yet completely assembled. Deng Aqi hesitated for a moment as he looked at the messengers who kept riding out of the Fukuoka Domain's position.

    Although King Nan made this inexplicable plan, he was betting that the Choshu clan would not join the war.  But Deng Aqi was well prepared. If Changzhou Fan made the slightest move, he would immediately retreat back to the city and up the mountain.

    The Choshu clan, two miles away, also had 5,000 troops, and the matchlock ratio was very high.  If these five thousand people suddenly rush to shoot, the Xiongzi Banner, which has no retreat, will be flanked, and there is even a risk of the entire army being annihilated.  The mission of Xiongziqi.  It is true that he came to support King Nan, but Deng Aqi was not willing to sacrifice himself on the Japanese island for King Nan.

    However, on the hill to the northwest, the Maori family of the Choshu Domain did not move at all.

    The elite troops of the Nanhai people were divided in roundabout ways, and until Deng Aqi set up a charge formation northwest of Fukuoka Domain, they did not make any rescue move.  All the cavalry passed through and lined up behind Deng Aqi.  The young man glanced at the Choshu Domain to the northwest with a bit of fun.  In the sea breeze, the five thousand vassal soldiers with flags fluttering seemed to have come to Ishimi Ginzan to watch the fun.

    Grinning, Deng Aqi loudly gave the order to charge.

    Two thousand Mongolian horses formed a terrifying long square and started running.

    With the whip waving, the cavalrymen ran faster and faster.

    Like a black steel behemoth, the elite vanguard cavalry rushed towards the Japanese.

    The Japanese musketeers did not fire backwards.  Under the sharp edge of two thousand cavalry, the muskets with extremely low hit rate did not have the courage to fight against them.  If the cavalry charges up, the musketeers are completely unable to parry, and they can only stand behind the pikemen.

    In the Fukuoka Domain's queue, three thousand Ashigaru formed to block the north.  According to the Japanese war experience, the Sanjian gun is the best weapon to deal with cavalry charges.  As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong. The spear, which is as long as the bodies of three adults, was moved to the north and protected the entire queue.  Such a dense and orderly formation of spears would be difficult for the cavalry in the cold weapon era to break through head-on.

    However, among the cavalry led by Deng Aqi.  There are one thousand armed with rifled muskets from the South China Sea.

    "Shoot!"

    The rifled guns of the Nanhai people on horseback fired at the Japanese spear array.  Eighty steps away, a thousand rifled gunners on horseback aimed at the Japanese gun formation. The bullet rain was like a devastating rainstorm, falling on the Japanese vassal soldiers who had just entered the era of hot weapons.

    The dense forest of spears collapsed.

    AgainThe Japanese allied forces on the ground began to retreat back, and more than 10,000 feudal soldiers were divided into two teams.  Katsuyama Domain and Satsuma Domain continued to attack Pang Ning from the front. The remaining 7,000 domain soldiers dispersed into a long snake. They climbed up the mountain from the path on the steep wall, trying to bypass a nearby steep slope and cut to the west side of Pang Ning.  On the hill.

    Deng Aqi¡¯s cavalry has ended the battle and is heading this way.

    In the battle just now, more than a hundred cavalry and more than a hundred riflemen were lost. The losses in defeating the Fukuoka Domain were not large.  At this time, there were still 5,000 people around Pang Ning.  The reinforcements suddenly made Pang Ning's firepower several times stronger, and the Katsuyama clan that had just been trying so hard to attack was no longer able to attack.

    After only two rounds, they couldn¡¯t stand it anymore.  After leaving hundreds of corpses behind, the Katsuyama clan retreated to a hill a little further away in embarrassment, holding on to the danger.

    Deng Aqi rode up to Pang Ning and jumped off the horse excitedly.

    This is a young man who has been educated as an officer since he was a child. Yesterday, he was still slandering King Nan's poor battle plan.  Today, Pang Ning's accurate judgment of the situation in each feudal town has given him a little more respect for Wuhan.  If he hadn't concluded that the Changzhou clan would not take action, Deng Aqi would not have been willing to go around to the north despite the bullets.

    "King Nan, this charge is so exciting! You are so amazing. The five thousand Japanese pirates over there never moved."

    Pang Ning heard Deng Aqi¡¯s praise, but did not reply.  His attention was attracted by the sounds coming from the side of Fairy Mountain, where Date Masamune's main attack direction was. Qin Mingtao's pressure was obviously several times greater than here.  Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, Pang Ning suddenly heard the sound of killing rising into the sky.

    Pang Ning's face turned pale and she clenched her fists.

    "Damn! If something happens to Qin Mingtao, I will demolish the Ida family's ancestral grave!"

    Changzhou Fan still stood on the sidelines and watched as 7,000 vassal soldiers detoured behind Pang Ning, while those blocking Pang Ning's front were 5,000 Japanese vassal soldiers.  Pang Ning grabbed Deng Aqi's collar and shouted loudly,

    "Katsuyama clan in front, you rush up and take it down for me!"

    Deng Aqi swallowed his saliva, looked at the steep hillside, and said nothing.  He is an officer who loves soldiers, and naturally he is not willing to use his precious cavalry to collide with such a defense.  But Pang Ning's terrifying appearance did not allow him to refuse.

    A loud shout from the front helped him out.

    "Your Highness, an old Japanese man ran over on horseback from the Japanese pirate Satsuma clan. He seemed to have something to say."

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