Genshin Impact: The Journey Begins with a Battle

On the battlefield, the sound of shouting and killing continued.

The two armies had not yet officially clashed, but countless people were trembling with fear, and their blood was boiling.

The commander of the coalition forces was also a strong man who inherited the practice of the Tang Dynasty generals. His own blood and qi power could be comparable to that of high-level monsters. His eyes could clearly see the iron rod in the hands of the opposing soldiers.

"Is the Hojo clan crazy? They actually let the arquebus unit charge. What power can that broken thing have?"

The power of the matchlock gun at this time could only scare small thieves. It was not good enough. Only after several decades when advanced Western gun technology was introduced and copied by Japan, its power was praised.

The commander of the coalition forces was also disdainful of this, but he did not despise it. After all, most of the foot soldiers of the coalition forces on his side were the lowest-level infantry. They usually did labor work and became foot soldiers in wartime. Their psychological quality was extremely poor and they could easily rout if they were not careful.

The commander of the coalition forces waved his command fan to the general beside him, and the general immediately picked up the long-prepared flag and waved it.

""Cavalry! Attack!"

With the generals' loud shouts and waving flags, the elite troops of the shogunate immediately revealed a wide passage, and more than 300 cavalrymen rushed out.

With the roar of the cavalry, some of the coalition soldiers who were gathering were frightened and pale. They could even clearly feel the ground shaking under their feet.

Because the more than 300 soldiers in front of them were all wearing armor, holding extremely long spears, and marching in neat rows, people had the illusion that thousands of troops were approaching them.

"Kill!"

With the cavalry officer's shout, more than 300 allied cavalrymen threw their reins and rushed towards the iron cannon troops. They did not use a dispersed attack formation at all. After all, the lance foot soldiers and archers who posed a threat to them were still far away.

""Arm your troops, form a line!"

The general of the iron cannon unit saw the coalition cavalry charging fiercely, and hurriedly waved his flag and shouted loudly. The seemingly chaotic formation of the troops formed a neat line within half a minute. The coalition cavalry rushed forward, but the iron cannon formation remained unmoved and maintained the proper line until the two sides were 150 meters apart.

""Raise your guns! Shoot!" the general of the Iron Cannon ordered loudly, and the soldiers pulled the triggers one after another, firing lead bullets one after another, and continuously firing in three-stage shooting.

"Bang Bang Bang……"

Thick white smoke gushed out, and after a short flight, the lead bullets penetrated the armor of the cavalry with difficulty, drilled into the flesh, and spurted out hot blood, causing heavy casualties for a while.

Due to the density of the cavalry formation, it was impossible to adjust the formation in a short time, and they could only collide head to tail, forming a tragic horse disaster scene.

If Yang Lei, the time traveler, was here, he would definitely say, General Lei Dian, you have no martial ethics, using the three-stage cross-fire method of flintlock rifles to beat the cold weapon army at this time.

It is much more excessive than the big fool Oda decades later, at least the opponent still uses matchlock guns. The commander of the coalition forces was furious, and his ace cavalrymen had lost four-fifths of their troops in just a few minutes, and only dozens of people fled back in embarrassment. This is one of his trump cards that can easily deter the strength of other coalition forces.

Although only more than 200 people were lost, the morale of the small coalition forces was severely affected. They had not even made a formal contact yet, and they had already lost most of their cavalry. How could they fight?

At this moment, the iron cannon troops had also returned to the marching state, but they had become the second echelon, protected by the long-lance foot soldiers behind them, and advanced towards the coalition forces in an orderly manner.

Originally, according to General Lei Dian's order, the iron cannon troops should get close to the enemy's foot soldiers and carry out long-range fire attacks to make the enemy troops collapse and witness the power of the muskets. Unexpectedly, they were overtaken by the cavalry team for the first time, and could only temporarily change the battle formation.

The commander of the coalition forces quickly regained his sanity and hurriedly analyzed the current situation. He re-analyzed the iron cannon troops in front of him, trying to analyze some weaknesses.

He quickly analyzed that the iron cannon troops needed enough ammunition, but the previous rounds of alternating firing had obviously used a lot of gunpowder. Didn't that mean that the opponent was almost out of shooting ability?

"He gave orders that the enemy's iron artillery unit had little gunpowder left and should maintain their formation, and asked the supervisory team to maintain the formation of the daimyo's miscellaneous soldiers."

The commander of the coalition army had a fierce look in his eyes. If he could not maintain the overall order, what awaited him would be the fierce attack of the Hojo family army and the counterattack of the defeated army.

The commander of the coalition army guessed correctly. At this time, the iron cannon troops were just as he imagined. Most of the ammunition had been consumed. At that time, they were facing highly mobile cavalry, so naturally they used as much firepower as they could.

But he ignored the threat of the army's greatest firepower at this time - the archers.

A hundred meters apart, they confronted each other, and bursts of muskets were fired. The iron cannon troops' positions rang out, and soldiers in the coalition fell one after another.

Thousands of teams holding new longbows also formed neat squares behind them and prepared until the iron cannon troops used up their ammunition and retreated.

The long spear foot soldiers slowly pushed forward, and the archers behind them fired a dense rain of arrows.

The coalition army, which had lost more than 2,000 people in the main force With the support of the military supervisors, they managed to maintain their formation and ensure that the enemy would not be shattered in a very short time.

However, the longbows with an effective range of forty to fifty meters, which were far stronger than those of this era, became their new source of fear.

You have to know that they were just some foot soldiers wearing cloth clothes, and those foot soldiers with excellent armor were transferred to the front army to ensure that there would not be a one-sided situation in the confrontation between foot soldiers.

Large groups of soldiers fell under the rain of arrows, and the archers of the coalition forces could only shoot a few weak arrows to hit the foot soldiers in half armor, leaving slight scratches because their range was much shorter than that of the enemy.

The coalition forces finally collapsed completely under the enemy's terrifying long-range attack, and only the troops belonging to the shogunate, with only a few thousand people left, were still struggling to hold on.

Miserable wails came one after another, and in just over ten minutes, the scum of the shogunate coalition ran back all over the mountains and plains.

"Stop them, stop them quickly!"

"Don't run, get back in line, get back in line……"

At this moment, the shogunate generals were still trying to reorganize the defense and save the defeat, but it was too late. These peasants, who were obviously pulled over by daimyos from all over the place to make up the numbers, could not be effectively organized at all.