"Architecture Squadron, Attack!"

"Boom boom boom..."

Twelve Yunfei cannons fired one after another, and flew towards the enemy's left wing position with sparks.

Less than half a mile away, it was a piece of cake for Yunfei Cannon. The platoons fired their bullets without any effort, and all twelve shells fell into the enemy's formation.

As the explosion sounded, holes appeared in the Japanese army's array, and the surroundings were soldiers killed and injured by the bomb.

"Concentrate on attacking the enemy's left wing!"

Zhang Dahu ordered again that it would be better to cut off the enemy's enemy than to hurt the enemy's ten fingers. First, break the enemy's left wing, and then use this as a breakthrough to quickly break through the main formation and the right wing.

For a moment, all the shells and bullets flew towards the enemy's left wing, and casualties on the Japanese left wing rose rapidly.

"Third team, assault!"

After several rounds of shooting, the casualties of the left-wing enemy troops had exceeded 30%. Zhang Dahu saw that it was almost done and decided to give the enemy a final blow.

Immediately, the soldiers of the Third Battalion shot out the bullets from the barrel, then took out their swords and shouted toward the enemy's left-wing run.

Unlike the army's infantry battalions, the commandos are all wearing heavy armor. After all, they need to jump gangs and fight, and their physical fitness is better than that of the army. When the 600 soldiers of the Third Battalion rushed to the enemy's left wing formation, these enemy soldiers discovered in despair that the weapons in their hands were unable to effectively kill the enemy.

The iron cannon can penetrate the armor, but the loading speed is not enough. They originally planned to approach the commando's position and defeat the enemy through hand-to-hand combat, but they did not expect the enemy to rush forward.

But in hand-to-hand combat, they could not defeat them at all. In less than half a stick of incense, the 600 soldiers from the Third Battalion killed more than 300 enemy soldiers, and the seven or eight hundred soldiers on the left wing of the enemy immediately collapsed.

At this time, they had nearly half of their casualties. They could not shoot at the same time, but could not fight with the hand-to-hand combat. They had completely lost the courage to resist. If there weren't a warrior to press the formation, in fact, they would have collapsed the moment the third team rushed up.

After using a large squadron to directly defeat the Japanese left wing defense line, Zhang Dahu knew that the victory of the battle was decided.

The collapse of the left wing was just the beginning. The third battalion continued to pursue the victory and followed the defeated soldiers and rushed towards the central army. Sannosuke Horio tried to use the reserve team to block the third battalion's attack, but the effect was better than nothing.

Before fighting with the soldiers of the Third Battalion, they had to deal with the Izumo Army who retreated from the left wing. These frightened soldiers were just about escaping and ignoring their lives. The enemy chased them from the north and they instinctively fled to the south, completely ignoring the south where the central army was.

Moreover, some people have lost their minds. The reserve team is in front of them. They wave their weapons toward their friendly forces without hesitation, and the chaos further expands.

Horio Sannosuke also knew that he had no hope of turning the tables. He did not hesitate anymore and directly ordered his retreat.

So far, he has lost almost 1,500 troops, and the enemy's losses are estimated to be less than 200. Now that the left wing has collapsed, the central army has gradually been unable to hold on. Even if he does not retreat, he can only withstand one stick of incense or even half a stick of incense. At that time, he will not be able to retreat.

In this battle, the victory belonged to the Tiance Army.

There will be battles next, but it will no longer affect the overall situation. The enemy troops that have completely collapsed will no longer have hope of turning the tables.

Sure enough, after Horio Sannosuke ordered the retreat, the entire army was directly defeated, and even the right wing, which had a low casualty rate, joined the ranks of fleeing.

After killing the bullets in the gun chamber, the other two brigades picked up their swords and followed the third brigade's footsteps and rushed towards the retreating enemy.

Even the artillery squadron left a small number of men to guard the artillery, and the rest also charged.

In order to facilitate surrender, Zhang Dahu also specially asked the soldiers of the foreign legion to teach the soldiers of the commando to persuade surrender in the past few days, such as "Surrender and not kill", "Dissues the weapon to avoid death", "Catch the master general alive and gives him the title of official" and so on.

The soldiers pursued the fleeing enemy again and shouted these slogans, which was quite effective. When the enemy soldiers who were about to be caught, they could only put down their weapons and kneel on the ground and surrender, hoping to save their lives by using this.

The soldiers of the commando strictly followed the orders and did not attack them, leaving some of the men surrendered, while the rest continued to pursue their wives.

Seeing that the surrendered companions were really not killed, more and more defeated soldiers could not run away, so they stopped running and surrendered on their knees. If they could survive, few people were willing to die.

However, those samurai rarely choose to surrender. It is not because of the spirit of samurai, but because they can still run.

In the end, Horio Sannosuke fled back to Himeji Castle with less than 500 people.

During this period, the third brigade tried to follow the enemy's footsteps and entered the city, but unexpectedly, the hero Sannosuke Horio cut off his arm and closed the city gate after entering the city, put away the suspension bridge, completely ignoring the hundreds of soldiers behind who were about to escape to the city gate.

Zhang Dahu had no hope of taking Himeji Castle directly from the beginning, so he ordered the troops to gather together and start to repair them, and at the same time he treated the wounded and cleaned the battlefield.

Not long after, the brigade that attacked Nizicheng also sent back news that the Japanese army who were reinforced from the west had arrived at the west of Nizicheng. For safety reasons, they stopped their attack on Nizicheng and asked for instructions on what to do next.

In order to be on the safe side, Zhang Dahu ordered them to withdraw. After all, they did not capture the city, and they suffered some losses and consumed a lot of physical strength. It was still very dangerous to face almost ten times the enemy.

At this time, Sugihara Shigenaga, who was appointed by Oda Zisomong to reinforce Himeji Castle, was also in trouble.

When he learned that the enemy divided his troops to attack Nizicheng, he judged that the enemy's main force might have fought with reinforcements from Osaka. He decided to accelerate his advance, first defeating the Ming army attacking Nizicheng, and then rushing to the main battlefield, joining the reinforcements from the east to attack Nizicheng, and attacking the enemy from the east to eliminate the landing enemy, and then recovering some cities in the north.

But what I never expected was that Horio Sannosuke was so useless. He led 5,000 troops and the defenders of Himeji Castle, and fought against more than 2,000 enemy troops for less than an hour, and then he was defeated.

Moreover, according to the news from the defeated soldiers, they were defeated very quickly and had no power to fight back at all, and the enemy did not suffer much loss at all.

At this time, if he rushes forward, he will have to repeat the same mistake.

Although Nizicheng is only fifteen miles away from Himeji City, it will take at least an hour to get there. In addition, he has been rushing around before, and when he has been rushing over, he probably doesn’t have much energy anymore. Facing the Ming army, who has just won a big victory, he really has little chance of winning.

So, he chose to lead the army to Nizi City first to replenish his energy.

When Zhang Dahu learned that Sugihara Shigei had entered Nizi City, of course, Zhang Dahu would not lead the army to attack directly. It would be so hard to attack the city. And it was not too late now, even if he rushed over, the sun would set.

Since the enemy did not come, he was not in a hurry. Most of the enemy troops in Himeji City remained on this battlefield. Those who were left behind in the city and those who fled back were probably only a thousand people, so they had no courage to leave the city and fight again.

And he just needs to continue to block here and his goal will be achieved.

And he believed that Sugihara Shigezaka would definitely come back and take the initiative to attack. He had been blocking these eight days. Ota Zisen's 60,000 troops had not received supplies for eight days. It was impossible for them to bring too much food when they set off. I believe there is not much food in stock now.

Sure enough, early on the fourth day, Sugihara Shigeuna led his army out of the city.

Not only Sugihara Shigeuna himself could not sit still, but Oda Zisong could not wait. Seeing that there was not much food on hand, and there was no grain transport team coming for a long time, rumors gradually began to appear below, and the morale of the army was floating, and if you wait any longer, there might be trouble, so he could only urge Sugihara Shigeuna and let him open up the grain channel as soon as possible.

Sugihara Shigeon had no choice but to bite the bullet and go on. In order to ensure victory, he also brought Nizicheng's garrison. Except for leaving two hundred people for defense, the rest were set off with him.

As they left the city, the news was heard by Zhang Dahu. When Sugihara Shigeuna led more than 5,000 people to the west side of Himeji Castle, Zhang Dahu had already completed the combat preparations.

Needless to say, there is no need to say much about the rest. While blocking the road and opening the passage, no one can make the other party achieve his goal and can only speak through his fists.

Sugihara Shigeon was also fully prepared for this battle. He knew that the enemy's "iron cannon" was extremely sharp and the "Guo Demolition" was powerful, so he brought a lot of defensive equipment, such as shield cars and thick wooden shields.

At the beginning of the battle, it entered a white-hot stage. Sugihara Shigenaga learned from the defeat of Minosuke Horio and directly sent five hundred qiujiu, who had little protection, to charge towards the commando's array to attract firepower.

Then, with shield chariots and shields as cover, the elite troops quickly approached the enemy's formation and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Since the enemy's firearms were sharp, he rushed forward so that the enemy's advantage could not be exerted.

However, what he didn't know was that the commando soldiers could not only shoot from afar, and their level of hand-to-hand combat was not bad. When they fought with Minosuke Horio a few days ago, the third brigade relied on hand-to-hand combat to break through the enemy's left wing and finally defeated the enemy.

As for why they are so versatile, they are all made of money. Kong Youde spent not a small amount of money on the navy. Take the commando as an example. The cost of a commando battalion is almost twice that of an infantry battalion in the army. If the money is spent, it will be spent on the right place, so it will naturally not be ineffective.

When the 500 cannon fodder sent by Sugihara Shigeun was almost dead, the elite troops behind finally rushed to the front of the Tiance Army.

The artillery fired the last round of volleys, and the other soldiers also fired the bullets in the barrel. The enemy had already rushed to the front. At this distance, the effect of the last round of attack was quite significant. From Zhang Dahu's perspective, it was initially estimated that at least 500 people fell.

The team of grenadiers also threw out the flowering bullets in their hands, and the effect was quite impressive. Nearly a hundred people fell down amid the explosion.

Then, each of them pulled out his swords from his waist and prepared to fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

Then, officers at all levels drew out their swords and shouted loudly, "Car with me!"

Although the casualties of the Tiance Army will increase a lot in this way of fighting, it is the most efficient way to defeat the enemy in the shortest time.

For Sugihara Shigeuna, he had never seen such a fighting style before, and he could not make a good response strategy.

At this time, more than 5,000 Japanese troops, and the five hundred cannon fodders were almost wiped out. Five or six hundred people were lost under the attack of artillery bombs, Tiance guns, and flowering bullets. The formation had already been chaotic and morale had dropped a lot.

When they saw the enemies in front of them all erratic and rushing up with weapons, some timid legs trembling.

The two sides quickly killed a group. Although the number of Tiance Army was not as large as that of the Japanese army, the Tiance Army had an absolute advantage in all other factors that determine the outcome.

First of all, after experiencing such large casualties, the morale is far inferior to that of the commando, and the protection is no longer the same level. Most of these footwear are only bamboo armor, and their training level is not as good as that of the commando, and their physical fitness is even worse.

With less than a stick of incense fighting, there was no complete Japanese battle formation on the battlefield. Instead, they were fleeing soldiers, corpses and wounded people all over the ground, and the Ming army who came over.

Sugihara Shigeuna looked at the defeated soldiers like a breaking dam, and the Ming army chasing them fiercely, and looked at the front with a dull look "Bad, defeated."

He never thought that the enemy, which seemed not so powerful, would have erupted so late and powerful strength during the battle. The entire battle process was less than an hour before he was defeated.

Looking at the fleeing soldiers in a panic, Sugihara Shigeuna was completely desperate.

I originally thought that Horio Sannosuke's failure was because he was too stupid and careless, and underestimated the enemy. I didn't expect that the enemy was really too powerful and they couldn't defeat it.

Now, he could think of the consequences of his defeat. The news of his failure to open up the logistics channel and encountering great defeat will inevitably be transmitted back by the defeated soldiers. In addition, there is not much surplus in the army, so the morale of the army will inevitably be disrupted and there is no way to continue fighting.

And as the culprit of the failure of this battle, he, Sugihara Shigeuna, would inevitably be unable to escape the fate of being beheaded.

Moreover, even if he survived by chance, as a daimyo who had no soldiers in his hands, could his fiefdom be preserved?

The Toyaka Basilica is not a big vassal. This time he fought hard to build an army of 1,500 people, and was ready to take advantage of the opportunity of this war to make military achievements and obtain a greater fief.

However, after this defeat, how many of his 1,500 men can be left?

When he was completely disappointed, he pulled out his samurai sword and stabbed him in the abdomen, but he was unable to kill him with one knife. The severe pain caused him to roll on the ground.

His suicide was so decisive that the warriors beside him did not react. Seeing him rolling on the ground in pain and constantly asking for help, the warriors beside him could only take out the sword and chop off his head according to his request.

Sugihara Gengnaga died. As a daimyo and a high-level samurai, he committed suicide by cutting off the samurai's caesarean section in order to avoid the shame of being captured.

However, his death had no effect on the battle situation. Except for a few loyal warriors who chose to follow his footsteps and "chasing their stomachs", the other ordinary soldiers did not pay attention to his life or death and continued to run for life.
Chapter completed!