Chapter 1121: Yu She's First Battle Artillery Failed
The Japanese actually made a lot of preparations for war, such as digging trenches and walls everywhere around the road, especially in areas close to the coast, and the coastline of Kyushu Island is the focus of the focus.
At the same time, reinforcements will never take five days to arrive. It only takes one to two days for Matsuura, Imari, Takeo, and the small town around it. However, the troops in these cities are actually quite limited. Although Yingzhou Island is a huge place, it can accommodate more than 100 million people, and the low-density living method in ancient times shows that the tension on the map is quite strong.
Tens of millions of troops are distributed among hundreds of cities and castles across the island. In short, there are many tens of thousands of defenders in each city. Of course, there must be strategic strike forces, and these mobile strike forces cannot be too close to the border because they do not know the landing location of the Han army in advance.
Therefore, the mobile strike forces on Kyushu Island are divided into two parts: north and south, stationed in Hida in the north and Izo in the south, with a total of nearly 2.2 million mobile troops. Together with the troops stationed in various places, there are about five million main forces on the entire Kyushu Island.
Tangzin along the northern coast is considered a relatively important area for defense, but there are at least ten cities that also need to be guarded against. It is impossible for each city to have 100,000 troops. This time, Uesugi Yoshio led Maori Hiromoto to concentrate the mobile troops of several cities around Tangzin to attack the Han army landing in the north of Tangzin. In fact, they were reinforcements themselves.
Now the reinforcements are trapped in the fields that they have dug up. No matter how messy the road is, there must be a road. Otherwise, how can the Japanese troops be mobilized? As long as there is a road, the cavalry's speed will be much faster than the infantry, not to mention that in order to resist the tightly biting cavalry behind the butt, the Japanese's retreat speed cannot be too fast!
So these dozens of miles of journey became heartbroken roads, and Li Yuanzhi's cavalry had no other skills. He was particularly good at walking on mountain roads and bad roads. This was why Fang Zhiwen exchanged him with Zhao Yun. Li Yuanzhi's cavalry sometimes got on horseback and sometimes got off horse and walked, and tightly bit Uesugi Yoshino's troops from front and back left and right. When he retreated from the valley, Uesugi Yoshino was able to maintain a relatively good formation with the help of Maori Hiromoto. The number of troops was still nearly 70,000.
Seeing that the cavalry around him was only 20,000 to 30,000. Uesugi Yoshio once wanted to lure the enemy to pursue him, and then ambush and counter-encircle him. However, Li Yuanzhi was a veteran who had fought for more than ten years and was the best person in mountain guerrilla warfare. Maori Hui wanted to ambush Li Yuanzhi, but most of them were easily eaten by Li Yuanzhi, and then he even harshly gave the ambush, turned around and slipped away.
I wanted to build a camp on the spot and defend it. I was worried that the reinforcements of the Han army would be great, and I wanted to wait for the strategic strike force to arrive. It would take at least five days.
Under the strict requirements of the Army Base Camp, Uesugi Yoshio could only retreat to Tangjin as much as possible, wanting to withdraw Tangjin and rely on the city to hold on for five days.
However, by late at night, Uesugi Yoshio and Mori Hiro finally returned to Kawatsu Castle. At one point, the remaining soldiers were less than 10,000, and the equipment and supplies were completely lost. Fortunately, there were still 100,000 defenders and militias in the city. Although their combat power was not very good, they were soldiers at least, otherwise they would be too late to regret it!
Li Yuanzhi quickly smelled the weak smell of the defenders from the Japanese pirates who were indented into the city. On the one hand, Li Yuanzhi sent a letter back, and on the other hand, he wandered around Tangjin. He captured the indigenous people when he saw them, and killed them when he saw them. However, the people who were still stranded outside the city are actually quite limited.
The next day, Fang Zhiwen personally arrived at the city of Tangjin. On the one hand, he began to build a camp. On the other hand, he ordered Li Yuanzhi to expand the scope of activities until the surrounding cities, destroy all living people who could be seen, and try to completely isolate Tangjin from the surroundings.
Due to the blockade of Li Yuanzhi's troops, the post office in Tangjin was cut off, but the cities around Tangjin were still open, so a large number of players gathered around Tangjin, and reinforcements were also accelerating, and a major battle was about to begin.
On the third day, Yu Shemen completed the initial construction of the fortress and came to outside Tangjin City. He built a camp in the north of Tangjin City and began to prepare equipment.
That night, taking advantage of the night, the Han army began fortifications. At a distance of thousands of steps outside the city, huge shield chariots were filled with soil, and then advanced forward to a distance of four hundred steps. Under the protection of these shield chariots, they began to dig soil and build walls. Although the Japanese in the city knew what the Han army was doing, they could only watch because they could do nothing except bombard the city defense cannons for long-distance bombardment.
Although there are thousands of Japanese cavalry in the city, compared with the elite cavalry outside the city, these Japanese cavalry were embarrassed to appear. Besides, the cavalry could not use muskets on horseback, so they were all melee cavalry. When they faced the archers, wouldn’t that be a dish?
"Boom! Puff~"
A dull sound splashed the soil and scattered everywhere, but this thing was actually not lethal. Especially in front of the soft earth wall, these solid iron balls lost their due role. It would be useless if they were shooting further away, because the Han army dug long traffic trenches on the ground, and the people transporting supplies back and forth were moving in the traffic trenches.
Overnight, tens of thousands of Han troops built more than six kilometers of earth bases in the north of Tangjin City, set up a large number of trenchers behind the earth base, and began to throw huge rocks on the city wall. Unlike the Chinese players who were hiding behind the earth base and having fun, the Japanese on the city wall were in trouble because they were completely exposed to the attack of the trenchers!
However, the Japanese were indeed tenacious and suffered heavy casualties immediately, but the cannons on the city wall did not stop overnight.
A player sticks out his head from behind the earthen turret, takes big eyes props and looks at the landing point of the trencher, and then turns around and says loudly:
"The first group shot across the board!"
"The second group hits!"
"The first group lowers the shooting angle one, the third group increases the shooting angle one, and takes turns to volley!"
"I said, why don't you use fireballs to bounce? I've prepared a lot!"
"I don't know, maybe the live ammunition effect is better!"
"There must be a lot of gunpowder when firing on the city wall. As long as the fireball is ignited, it will definitely have a good effect! I don't know who is commanding this, I'm so stupid!"
"Haha, I heard that it is a genius Guo Jia, are you smarter than others!"
"Tsk, Guo Jia doesn't understand the properties of gunpowder, okay!"
"Not necessarily, Guo Jia burned down in Busan Port in one fell swoop. I understand. He is waiting for those fire dragons. He must copy the bombing tactics of Busan Port!"
"Isn't this bullying? The Japanese seem to have no air defense facilities, right?"
"Yes, giant crossbows, but the number is rare. These guys have not realized the power of the flying dragon bombing. I guess we will take advantage of this first battle, so it's hard to say what will happen in the future!"
"hehe"
"Why are you giggling?"
"Haha, think about it, what are the characteristics of the architecture of the island country?"
"Damn it! This is going to burn the whole city! Guo Jia also has the wind direction skill, no, I want to go to the south of the city to take on the strangulation mission!"
"Come on, there will be no more when you go. Last night to this morning, sea boats were constantly transporting, and more than 300,000 players have landed! There are only 100,000 defenders in the city, plus the indigenous people, and there are 300,000 people up to the sky, one for each person is just right!"
"Grass! Well, I'll throw the fireball hard to burn Tangjin until the night!"
That's right, Guo Jia's plan is very strict and cautious. The bombing plan that could have been carried out during the day was delayed until the evening. Because there were lights in the city walls and in the city, the dragons would not be unable to find the target. Attacking at night not only reduced the possibility of the dragons being discovered and attacked, but also increased the suddenness of the battle and reduced the enemy's reaction efficiency.
After nightfall, groups of flying dragons soared from the camp and flew to the top of the city with oil barrels, and then threw down the wooden barrels filled with tinder oil in the middle and high altitude. At the same time, the catapult, which had already shot through dragon flies during the day, neatly shot out the fireballs all over the sky. At this moment, it was beautiful and spectacular!
‘Boom! Boom! Boom~’
The continuous explosions sounded, including the explosion flames of the oil barrels bursting and the violent fireballs of gunpowder explosions. In the fire, you can see the bombed artillery barrels, broken stones, broken limbs and broken arms, and even the entire person.
The player responsible for observing the school shooting shouted excitedly, while recording this shocking scene in the video.
‘Huh!~’
A strong north suddenly hung from behind, blew the battle flags and flicked!
“Extended Shooting!!”
"Photography angle plus two, barrage Xu Jin!"
"Quick, fast! Speed up the launch speed, I'm going to burn Tang Jin!"
With the strong cheers of the north, the violent fire spread rapidly into the city, and instantly formed an irresistible sea of fire and spread all the way to the south!
"Old Master Uesugi, let's open the South City Gate. We are soldiers and should be loyal to the Emperor, but these people are innocent!"
"Haga! Do you want them to surrender to the enemy? They are the emperor's people, so they should naturally be loyal to the emperor! Could it be that Mori-kun also wants to leave the city?"
"This is absolutely true, I just don't want to see the people in the city turn into ashes!"
"This is their destiny and also the glory of being the prince's people! Maori Jun!"
"Hi!"
Mao Rikyu felt sorry for all these strange people. Of course, they could say these beautiful words shamelessly. The war was initiated by them. How many of the indigenous people support the war with the powerful Han army? However, the responsibility for the war requires these ordinary people to bear it. This is really
However, the one who made the decision now is not Maori Hiro, but Yui Uesugi Yoshio. Maori Hiro looked up at the fire getting bigger and bigger, and his face was stiff.
Chapter completed!