Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 46

With an order, more than forty cannons poured out towards the position of Zunwang’s army, and the artillery positions of the entire training team were suddenly filled with smoke, filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke.

Jiang Chuan Yingmin has learned that the Zunwang army has no more than 90 cannons in total, and it is mainly concentrated in the troops of Fukui soldiers. Because Fukui soldiers have long been stationed in Kyoto with two or three thousand people, they do not need logistics transfer or anything, and the equipment is the most neat.

The rest of the troops, including the Changzhou soldiers who came in a hurry, were all light troops and rushed forward. The infantry came to Kyoto with guns and necessary ammunition. Some troops even arrived in Kyoto yesterday. There is no logistics, and naturally there is no such thing as carrying cannons.

That is to say, the Changzhou soldiers with convenient railways brought more than twenty cannons. The remaining fifty or so cannons were arranged in front of the Fukui soldiers, and about ten guns were arranged in front of the Hiroshima soldiers and the Tsuwa field soldiers.

To fire the artillery first is to use my artillery more and the enemy’s artillery less!

I have exposed the position of the artillery on my side. The enemy will definitely try to use artillery to knock out our artillery, so as to prevent the soldiers from encountering violent artillery fire on the way forward.

Therefore, after three rounds of artillery shelling, Jiang Chuan Yingmin ordered the artillery to continue shelling Fukui soldiers, and at the same time nervously looked for the position of the opposite artillery.

Unsurprisingly, Hashimoto Zuochi, who also received modern military education in the United Kingdom, also fought to destroy the artillery of the Chuanxiu team first, and then the infantry three-on-one, directly pressing the idea of ​​winning.

Matsudaira Keiyong will fight a fart, and he must listen to Hashimoto’s arrangement. When the Chuanxi team fired first, Hashimoto Zuochi ordered the artillery to adjust Zhu Yuan and prepare to bombard the Chuanxi team’s artillery positions.

Looking at the scene, the number of artillery on both sides seems to be similar. After all, Jiang Chuan Yingmin only ordered forty cannons to fire, which made Hashimoto Zuochi miscalculate. He thought that it might be because of the inconvenience of moving the cannons, and the 2nd Osaka Division, which rushed from Osaka to Fushimi-cho, did not bring all the cannons with him.

“Aim at the enemy formation, open!”

I am an Echizen man, born in the bitter cold northern land, and I am not a weakling!

Hashimoto Zuochi, who was in front of the garrison, immediately ordered the Fukui artillery to open fire, and more than fifty cannons blasted directly at the training team’s position.

Seeing that Fukui soldiers fired, he immediately knocked down several artillerymen of the Chuanxi team, and overturned a cannon, but Jiang Chuan Yingmin was not angry at all, but just shouted “Just in time!”.

The messenger cavalry around him immediately rushed to the left and right, passing on the generals. The hundred cannons arranged on this side all turned to the positions where the Fukui artillery was shelled, and all the Fukui artillery must be misfired!

“Very diligent, serve the general!” Jiang Chuan Yingmin loudly encouraged the soldiers under his command.

A fierce artillery battle immediately unfolded between the two armies. When the shells of hundreds of cannons fell into his own formation, Hashimoto Zuochi secretly cried out badly. The information is unclear, and the number of artillery troops in the training team was misestimated.

But he didn’t show any expression on his face, he just fought back. The artillery battle has already begun, and adjusting the position is not an easy task. Instead of shifting positions, keep fighting. Since there are so many cannons in front of the Chuanxi team and they are concentrated in one place, the artillery firepower in other places is weak, and they can try to launch infantry attacks.

Seven hundred soldiers from Hiroshima and Tsuwa on the right flank of the Fukui soldiers were ordered to launch a tentative attack on the training team.

The Tsuwano domain was the first to jump back, and it was impossible for him to be accommodated in the shogunate again. The soldiers from Hiroshima came all the way from the feudal lord, and there was no way out. In this case, the military heart is available, why not drive forward.

Of course, 700 people are too few, I am afraid it is difficult to break through the front of the training team. Hashimoto Zuochi immediately dispatched five hundred Fukui soldiers, merged into the attacking phalanx, and began to march.

Tsuwa Ye Xiaofan, the quality of the soldiers is very poor, although the morale is high, but the ranks are not neat. The Hiroshima soldiers on the side, who claim to have left the feudal lord, are actually the elite of the feudal feudal lord. One by one, wearing pointed helmets and carrying Mini rifles on their shoulders, marched neatly towards the training team.

“Just in time!”

With a cannon in his hand and a defender, Jiang Chuan Yingmin is very confident. On the side facing the Hiroshima soldiers, more than 20 cannons were also arranged, and a mere 1,000 people launched an attack. In front of more than 20 cannons, what was it?

However, Jiang Chuan Yingmin ordered the artillerymen here not to press down, and replaced them with grenades. They only waited for the enemy to enter a distance of three or four hundred meters, and when they were close to the enemy, they released them. If you don’t bombard him with a piece of armor, you will lose the face of his father Jiangchuan Damingshen.

The army of 1,200 kings stepped into the battlefield. The first 500 meters was comfortable. There was only the whistling of the cannon in the distance, and there were no other sounds. It even made some soldiers have a certain illusion, why is the war so light these days?

Even Hashimoto Zuochi, who was in command of the overall situation of the Fushimi battlefield, thought he was doing the right thing. The artillery of the Chuanxi team was dragged by his own artillery. Perhaps the high morale Zunwang army could directly attack the side of the Chuanxi team.

“boom…”

When it was 400 meters away from the enemy, a cannon of the training team suddenly sounded to test the shooting distance. The strange single cannon made the 1,200 kings who attacked inexplicably inexplicable. But soon the officers’ shouts made the soldiers forget about these inexplicable things, and they began to concentrate and prepare to take on the enemy.

Three hundred meters!

Twenty-two Napoleon cannons released terrifying anger, and the grenade that covered the sky and the ground tore apart the front of Zun Wang’s army on the spot. Almost in an instant, all the rows fell to the ground like the grass under the autumn wind. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Before they could react, more than a thousand people in the training team guarding this side flattened the Dreiser striker in their hands and fired the gun, filled in copper shell bullets, and started a “harvest” in a sense. Perhaps this kind of harvest can only be understood by Pickett, the Confederate commander on the Gettysburg battlefield in the American Civil War.

The Napoleon cannon fires two rounds a minute, and the Dreiser striker fires seven rounds a minute.

With a mere 1,200 soldiers, who would have thought that they would face such terrifying firepower, many people had not recovered from the first grenade explosion, and found their arms, thighs, and even below their chest and abdomen, A bright red, and even disappeared inexplicably.

The rapid and “unbelievable” rain of bullets lasted about four to five minutes. When the order to stop firing came from the Chuanxi formation, the entire Zunwang Army in front of him could not see any soldier standing still.

All the soldiers of the King’s Army, dead or wounded, only a few “perfect people” dared to crawl on the wasteland, their minds went blank, they lost all thinking, and they just kept shaking and weeping.

Even the most hard-hearted commander could hardly accept such a horrific loss. 14692/10656872