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    Seeing the genetic infantry of the Imperial Guard being surrounded by a tidal wave of Japanese militiamen, the hearts of those who were watching the battle in the camp could not help but sink.

    They all almost thought failure was inevitable.

    However, things once again exceeded their expectations and did not develop as they thought.

    Not only were the surrounded Imperial Guard members not defeated, they formed a phalanx, which also caused a lot of damage to the Japanese.

    Such tactics opened their eyes, and for the first time they felt extremely shocked in their hearts.

    You know, in the Eastern people's concept of war, if the battle reaches such a point, it is basically the same as failure.

    There is no army that can turn the tide in the face of being surrounded.

    This is simply unthinkable.

    But now this fact is actually happening in front of their eyes.

    The shock it brought them was unparalleled.

    The battle can be so big, the tactics can be used in this way, and the battle formation can be used in this way.

    Everything brought to everyone was very dumbfounding.

    The 'Flower of Death' was still blooming. As the 'Flower of Death' bloomed, a large number of militiamen had fallen in just five minutes.

    A rough estimate is that there are almost more than a thousand people.

    For a militia regiment of 2,500 people, this is almost half of the entire team.

    This kind of battle damage is not small.

    When the general behind saw this scene, he was so shocked that he didn't know how to describe it.

    How did the foreigners on the other side fight this battle? How could their fighting power be so strong?

    Takeda Akabi, who was the most famous in the Warring States Period, was not so powerful.

    No wonder these foreigners dared to bombard the commercial town of Osaka. It turned out that they relied on their own military strength.

    Only now did the general figure this out.

    As the saying goes, a dragon cannot cross a river, but Zhao Hongyu and his soldiers are even stronger than a dragon.

    If Zhao Hongyu hadn't left all the army forces in San Francisco, it is estimated that Zhao Hongyu would have even dared to directly attack the Edo side where the shogunate was located.

    Nowadays, dealing with Osaka soldiers is a piece of cake.

    Despite the ups and downs during the battle, it seemed that Zhao Hongyu and the others were constantly in danger. In fact, Zhao Hongyu was not worried about these things at all.

    With the incredible plug-ins and weapons that span the ages, if he can't even deal with the Japanese who use cold weapons, then Zhao Hongyu is still messing around in this time and space.

    The militiamen no longer continued to charge at this moment. Each of them looked at the enemies in the square formation in front of them with their bamboo spears trembling slightly, with extremely frightened expressions on their faces.

    At this time, their battle losses had exceeded a thousand people, which was completely beyond their ability to bear.

    In such a situation, there is actually no difference between continuing to charge and dying.

    At this time, a large blank area has been formed in front of and around the enemy's phalanx.

    And in this square empty area, there were densely packed piles of seriously injured people and corpses. These guys were all the militiamen who had been charging.

    Groans, painful wails, and calls for help continued to sound, piercing the supposedly peaceful night sky.

    "Push for me! Keep rushing for me!"

    The general who commanded the militiamen was furious when he saw that the lowly militiamen had stopped charging.

    Therefore, he couldn't help but angrily raised the riding crop in his hand and whipped the militiamen around him on their heads and faces.

    "Hurry up and keep charging! You guys."

    However, no matter how hard he beat or how viciously he cursed, these militiamen would not continue to charge.

    Because these foreigners are so powerful, after experiencing the charge just now, they have really felt it.

    At the same time, a considerable price was paid.

    And even after paying more than a thousand lives, they still didn't do anything to each other.

    The enemy's phalanx is still impregnable, and there is no loss in the stable formation there.

    But many of my companions and brothers and friends from the same village can never go back.

    In such a situation, only a fool can do it to let them continue charging when they know that they will die.

    Although these militiamen are not very smart, they are not very smart either.

    But when it comes to the choice of life and death, they are still enlightened.

    On the other side, the three hundred Baoyi slave cavalry had already used shotguns and muskets to eliminate all the five hundred Japanese cavalry.

    At this time, they were free to start a new round of offensive against the Japanese who had lost their cavalry team.

    "Our team is surrounded over there, we can't just ignore it! And although those infantrymen don't have much experience, they still have experience. Brothers, come with me and kill them!"

    Obama waved the saber in his hand, shouted loudly, and then galloped over.

    Under his leadership, the coated slave cavalry, who were still excited, also followed him and rushed out with howls.

    Three hundred cavalry is not a large number, but the weapons they use are terrible.

    A shotgun with a trumpet-shaped muzzle was extremely powerful in this era.?Don¡¯t underestimate it.

    I don¡¯t dare to say that from a long distance, but within a hundred meters, it¡¯s not just nonsense.

    The reason is simple. After the shotgun is fired, the scattered lead bullets cover a range of more than ten meters.

    Although it can't kill anyone, it can definitely injure someone.

    If you are lucky, it is not impossible to get a face full of flowers or be blinded.

    The reason why the muzzle of the gun is shaped like a trumpet is because of this.

    Moreover, these coated slave cavalry learned a very clumsy tactic from the Song Empire, that is, when fighting the enemy, it was never a face-to-face cavalry confrontation.

    Instead, he constantly keeps a distance from the opponent and uses the fire gun in his hand to kill or injure the enemy.

    On the contrary, the enemy has no way to deal with such cumbersome tactics.

    The European Eight Banners Guards only formed an army for a short period of time, only one year.

    And they only experienced the battle that drove the British out of Virginia, but even so, the atrophied temperament of the Song Eight Banners cavalry had been developed.

    Therefore, whether they are facing cavalry or infantry, these European Song and Eight Banners cavalry will use this distance-keeping tactic to fight.

    Isn't that right? Three hundred of them faced off against five hundred Japanese cavalry. They used this tactic to successfully defeat the other side, but not a single one of their own was lost.

    This is very powerful in the history of cold weapon warfare.

    Now that the Japanese cavalry had been dealt with, they had their hands free and began to focus on the militiamen.

    Cavalry has a natural psychological suppression and power over infantry.

    In addition, the European leaders of the Eight Banners of Song Dynasty have learned the essence of obscene tactics, so it is very easy to defeat those militiamen.

    Not to mention you, those militiamen have lost almost half of their people after fighting against the genetic people of the Imperial Guard.

    Therefore, when facing the coated cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Song Dynasty who were screaming to kill, the Japanese militiamen could not control themselves and dispersed in a rush. Like the ashigaru who were defeated in the previous battle, they could not stop them.  began to collapse.

    "No retreat!"

    "You all go back, don't retreat!"

    The Japanese general kept shouting loudly, but at a time like this, how could he possibly be able to stop it with just a few shouts?

    Obviously, this is unrealistic.

    That general didn't have the courage like Tanaka, who dared to chop down a few broken soldiers with his sword.

    But the problem is that even after Tanaka's side chopped down more than a dozen defeated soldiers, they still couldn't stop the retreat of those defeated soldiers.

    And this military commander is even worse than Tanaka.

    He didn't even have the courage to swing a knife.

    In this way, he watched helplessly as the militiamen surrounding the enemy scattered like ants.

    God knows how many remaining soldiers he will be able to gather in the end.

    In short, the militia regiment of more than 2,000 people was completely ruined if they were beaten like this.

    These militiamen are not like Ashigaru. After they collapse, they basically will not look back, but just think about how to return home.

    After the ashigaru retreated, they still knew how to regroup at the main formation.

    This is the difference between militiamen and professional soldiers.

    This is also something that can't be helped.

    "Damn it, it collapsed so quickly, I didn't get any experience."

    By the time Obama and the others rushed over on horseback, the militiamen had already retreated and dispersed like a tide.

    Therefore, Obama spat on the ground and cursed in a low voice.

    However, Obama and the others were not in a hurry to chase the enemy. Instead, they slowed down and slowly moved toward the Guardsmen who formed the phalanx.

    On the Imperial Guard's side, after discovering that the Japanese militiamen who besieged them had retreated, they quickly reorganized into a five-section formation, and under the leadership of the general, continued to slowly press toward the Japanese's main formation.

    Obama and the others led the cavalry and guarded the flanks of the infantry formation.

    Now, the situation on the battlefield has been reversed.

    Although the Song Empire still has a disadvantage in terms of numbers, this disadvantage is no longer very big.

    At the same time, because the Japanese cavalry was eliminated, all the Japanese remaining are infantry.

    On the contrary, it seems that the Song Empire still has the advantage of cavalry.

    As for the Japanese, there is no need to think about the militia team.

    After those guys retreated, they slipped into the jungle behind them and disappeared into the night without looking back.

    Now, under Ishida Aido, there is still a group of elite Hatamoto samurai and an Ashigaru team of less than 600 people.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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