Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Several dirt roads in the mountains converge into one place, where a memorial archway stands. Warriors in armor and riding horses ran across the archway, followed by a large number of light-footed soldiers running in groups. The dirt road was dusty, and there was a lot of battle. A general let out a long roar full of anger, and then all the troops shouted in unison: "Hey!" The shout echoed in the mountains and forests, and the echo continued for a long time.

Yang Gun looked at it and felt that before he saw it with his own eyes, he was a little prejudiced and despised the Japanese army. From the perspective of fighting morale alone, Yang Gun believes that the Japanese are more courageous than the Koreans!

There were people and horses coming to gather one after another on each road, and a general rode forward, dismounted first and then bowed and said loudly: "The last general Hideo Shinozuka pays homage to Ono-kun!"

Ono Koko rode on the horse with a dignified expression, and leaned forward: "You should move forward bravely, so as not to embarrass His Majesty the Emperor!"

Xiaozuka said generously: "The imperial court has finally dared to go to war against Xu Jun's bandits, and we will do our best to protect the country!"

Ono Koko nodded slightly.

Yang Gun stayed beside Ono Haogu. As a foreigner, he didn't say anything, but carefully observed the lineup of the Japanese army.

The Japanese soldiers are relatively short in stature. Except for the more formal armor of the samurai, the light foot equipment is simple, but they wear the same summer hat, and the armor is also similar. What interested Yang Dagon the most was the Japanese longbowmen. Long-range weapons were very important on the battlefield. They were equipped with a large number of longbows, which made Yang Dagon overestimate their combat power a lot.

Ono Haogu took the initiative to chat and said: "Sun Tzu's law of war, ten times to surround him. This time our troops will mobilize more than 5,000 troops! With the momentum of victory, we will besiege Xu Jun's fortress with all our strength!"

Yang Gun said: "I wish Mr. Ono a great victory."

...The Japanese army avoided the mountains and forests to the east, and approached Iwami Fort along the relatively flat part of the coast.

Xu Jun's scouts had discovered a large number of enemy activities early on, and there were only a few beacons rising from the mountains to the east. The drums and horns sounded in Iwami Fort, and the whole army entered a state of preparation for war. The tiger-shaped army flags embroidered on the hexagons of the earthen castle rose one after another, adding a lot of color to the gray earthen castle.

Zhang Jiankui, the highest military general here, and Zan Jurun, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, patrolled the defense again.

Almost all of the most sophisticated military equipment of the Great Xu Dynasty can be found here! The bunker is equipped with more than forty state-of-the-art copper field guns. Each solid part protrudes from the wall, and there are seven to eight cannons. The cannons weigh a thousand catties, revealing a ferocious metallic luster in the bunker fortifications.

In the infantry fortifications on the half-waist of the city wall, most of the infantry soldiers behind the female wall are elite soldiers of the Huben Army, wearing the standard plate leather armor and plate mail armor of the armor workshop. They are equipped with a full set of Xu Jun weapons, the main weapon is the latest matchlock gun, and there are also cherry guns, barrier knives, shuttle guns, bows and arrows, and hard crossbows.

Daxu fought countless times in the south and north, and from this he continued to equip the army with weapons, all of which were equipped with the defenders of this earthen castle.

There are three deep ditches around the bunker, which have been flooded (to prevent the enemy from using it as a cover). From a distance, it looks like three jade belts around the bunker, sparkling in the sun.

The last few scouts rode their horses and rushed into the castle from the drawbridge, which slowly rose. But at this time, the north face was heavily smoggy, and people and horses could be seen faintly. The one who should come finally came!

Zhang Jiankui and others came to the north wall, covered the sun with their palms, and carefully watched the movement in the distance.

The artillery on the Liuhuajiao on both sides has been loaded and is ready for battle. The soldiers inside the wall also prepared their matchlock guns early, and everyone was watching the scene in the distance.

The Japanese army stopped a mile away, and the troops spread out to both sides one after another, forming an arc-shaped circle to the north of the earth fortress.

"Huh?" Zhang Jiankui felt a little surprised.

He then said to Zan Jurun: "Usually in a confrontation, you will line up within hundreds of steps, and even close to a hundred steps need to shoot with bows and arrows. The Japanese army has never fought against me, how do you know the range of the artillery?"

Zan Jurun guessed, "Maybe the Liao people colluded with Japan."

The two of them were surprised when they saw most of the Japanese army slowly approaching... Zhang Jiankui smiled and said, "It seems we are worrying too much."

A large group of people was getting closer and closer, most of them were infantry, and they had already entered the range of Xu Jun's artillery. But there was no movement on the bunker, and Zhang Jiankui was still watching.

Not long after, I saw a cavalry galloping towards the north wall of the earth castle.

The man was wearing a sturdy coat, riding a short war horse, and holding a long weapon in his hand, standing still outside the outermost ditch, only a few dozen steps away from the wall!

"Ji Li wah..." The fellow stepped forward and began to yell.

Zhang Jiankui frowned and shouted, "Are you someone who understands bird language?"

After a while, a clerk ran over and hurriedly said: "He probably said that he is so-and-so, and he is a general under the imperial court counselor Ono Haogu. He was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to attack us thieves and invite your generals to go out for a competition..."

"Damn it!" Zhang Jiankui yelled, seeing that most of the Japanese army was within range of the artillery, he ordered, "Fire!"

After a while, the military musicians in the fort beat the big drum. Then there was a loud "boom", white smoke billowed from the castle, and the flames flickered, and then the huge roar of "boom boom..." suddenly shook the sky and the earth.

The entire bunker was filled with white smoke, and the shining gunpowder light was like lightning in the clouds!

The iron ball roared away from the air. The Japanese military general's mount by the ditch screamed and ran wildly in fright, and the fellow on the horse was even more stunned, stunned by the deafening noise.

At this time, "Crackling..." There was a burst of explosion. The fellow screamed, his body trembled, blood splashed on his torso, and he and his horse fell together by the ditch.

The infantry array of the Japanese army in the distance is still in a dense formation, and the artillery has been prepared to adjust the height, and the shells flew straight into the crowd!

The swift and ruthless iron ball bounced among the crowd, and then rolled on the ground. In an instant, the crowd was in chaos, and the terrified shouts suddenly became noisy.

"Bang!" An iron ball slammed into a warrior riding a horse, even the armor all over his body couldn't save him, he was knocked off the horse and flew, blood spurted out from the seven orifices and flew into the air.

The large group of Japanese troops have not yet come to their senses. "Boom boom boom..." Immediately there was another dense sound coming from a distance, and even the artillery from other directions of the castle opened fire towards the north!

Countless people were hit by a bolt from the blue, and in an instant, the situation on the battlefield changed suddenly! The military flags in the Japanese camp also fell, and the surviving warriors couldn't control their horses and ran around. The crowd even threw away their helmets and armor. This kind of situation made people panic and become chaotic in an instant.

Someone else yelled to retreat, and the Japanese army collapsed in less than a stick of incense.

The rebellious soldiers ran a long way on the dry land, and because no pursuers came up, they gradually stopped fleeing. All of them were still in shock, gasping for breath.

"What's wrong?" Someone asked loudly.

The main general Ono Haogu reined in his horse, also dumbfounded. He has never fought such a battle! Just before he was ready to start, he was directly defeated by Thunderbolt. At this time, he hadn't even seen what the enemy army looked like!

At this time, Yang Gun's voice said: "I have already reminded Ono-kun to be wary of artillery, but you don't believe me."

Kono Ono was stunned there, and after a while, he said angrily: "It's too rude! The general originally respected the state of etiquette in the Central Plains, but they shot directly | I challenged the general to death!"

Yang Gun said helplessly: "On the battlefield, there are still rules and etiquette? This kind of situation is obviously directly shot into the end of a hornet's nest."

He glanced back, and said: "Mr. Xiaoye, don't worry. Xu Jun has such a big fortress, with hundreds of people at most, that he is powerless to pursue. Mr. Xiaoye quickly pack up his troops and fight again."

Koko Ono had no other choice, he had to accept the facts before him, and he was defeated if he realized it!

After a while, many Japanese troops fled lightly, and their troops were chaotic, and their morale was low... Ono Koko felt that at least today there was no way to fight anymore, so he had to withdraw his troops to Omori first, and then make further calculations.

Ono Haogu gradually calmed down from the strange battle formation he had never seen before, and gradually paid more attention to Yang Dagon. Before this battle, although Ono Haogu did not reject Yang Dagon, he did have a lot of reservations and doubts; but at this time, he gradually felt that Yang Dagon was really not talking about it!

Back in Dasen, Yang Gun couldn't help saying: "Fortunately, your country is isolated in the East China Sea, and it is difficult for Xu Jun to move his army eastward for a while. If the main force of Xu Jun and the main force of the Japanese army were to fight in a decisive battle today, Jun Ono's troops would probably lose more than half of his troops, and the country would be destroyed in the first battle."

Ono Haogu was stunned: "General Yang's words are probably alarmist."

Yang Gun said indifferently: "Mr. Ono should have heard about the Battle of Pingxia. More than 100,000 members of the Khitan Party fought against 40,000 Xu Jun's Imperial Army. In the first battle, there were almost no casualties, and the Xiazhou regime was destroyed. It has now become the Pingxia province of Xu State."

Ono Koko was worried for a while: "When did the Central Plains become so powerful?"

Yang Gun said: "The former five dynasties fought in chaos. After Zhou Dynasty general Guo Shao established the Xu Kingdom, the Central Plains became stronger and stronger, and fought all over the country. There is no country that has not suffered defeat in front of Xu Jun. Most countries have already perished."

Kono Ono pondered and said: "Those things have already been heard, but today's battle is really shocking..."

Yang Gun said calmly: "The matter has come to this, Ono-kun can no longer change his political views."

Ono Haogu shook his head and said: "Of course the general will not change. No matter how strong Xu Jun is, there are only a few hundred people!"

He observed the soldiers around him, all of them were downcast, many of them were in disarray, and many wounded soldiers were helped into the Omori Walled City; they were defeated in the first battle, no general could boost their morale, and neither could Kono Ono. This scene seems to have gone through a fierce battle...Who would believe it, but in the blink of an eye!

Kono Ono frowned and said: "Before this, I had some underestimates of the enemy, but I must not give up on this matter. I will immediately write a letter, requesting the imperial court to increase its troops, and Iwami Fort will be wiped out!"

Yang Gun put his hands on his chest: "As long as Ono-kun can use it, I will do my best to fight side by side with the Japanese warriors."