Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 838

This is also the reason why Heian-kyo was built here. It is not difficult to divide hundreds of thousands of soldiers into seven formations.

Then, under the command of the Japanese pirate general, seven formations of more than 50,000 troops rushed towards the navy's gun formation.

Looking at the formation of the Japanese pirate army, Lan Yu couldn't help but frown, because this formation was quite unfavorable to him.

Just as Lan Yu frowned in thought, his general spoke up:

"General, the Japanese pirate army is divided into seven formations. This approach will be very disadvantageous to our gun formation!"

"The more intense our three-stage attack firepower is, the greater its power will be. However, the Japanese pirates' formation is deliberately forcing us."

"If we split our forces, we won't have enough firepower to stop their attack. If we don't split our forces, once they get close, the consequences will be..."

The general was about to say something else, but Lan Yu suddenly raised his hand and interrupted him.

"We need to buy time and wait for Marquis Changle. Pass on my order to divide the troops into six formations to deal with the attack of the Japanese pirates."

"Remember, the targets are the three arrays on the left and the three arrays on the right. Let him come to the one in the middle!"

Six arrays? The middle one?

When the general heard Lan Yu's order, he was stunned. He couldn't understand Lan Yu's intention for a moment, so he immediately asked.

"General, how should we deal with the formation in the middle?"

"How should we respond? Humph, this time His Majesty has sent us some shrapnel. Use the red cannons and the shrapnel to bombard them!"

Only then did the general finally understand why Lan Yu placed the array in the middle over here.

Shrapnel shells are explosive shells. Once they explode, broken iron sheets will be blown everywhere.

Although it is impossible to kill Japanese pirates in other formations on a large scale, it can still cause some impact.

So after Lan Yu gave the order, the general immediately asked the flag bearer to convey the order.

As the flag signal was passed, the navy quickly formed six gun formations, and the Japanese pirate happened to be within the attack range.

Bang bang bang bang...!

A series of gunshots were heard from the front line. As the smoke filled the air, a large number of Japanese pirates were hit by Minié bullets and fell on the battlefield.

But even so, these Japanese pirate soldiers did not stop and continued to charge towards the navy.

But at this moment, bursts of artillery fire suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and five shells were fired from the red cannon.

As the shells flew into the Japanese pirates' formation, even more explosive explosions echoed across the battlefield.

Boom boom boom boom!

The exploding flames and flying iron sheets and iron chips caused considerable casualties among the Japanese pirates.

After all, these Japanese pirate soldiers were newly recruited, and when they were suddenly attacked by fire, chaos immediately broke out in their formation.

Seeing their companions being blown to pieces not far away, the uninjured soldiers all panicked.

Some wanted to turn around and run away, while others were afraid of the supervisory team and had to continue charging, resulting in chaos in the formation.

It has to be said that the red cannon is very powerful. It was able to hold back the seventh formation with just one salvo.

But this is a battlefield, and local advantages do not mean victory. In fact, the navy’s situation is extremely difficult.

Because the Japanese pirates found a way to control the rifled flintlock rifle!

In fact, it cannot be said to be restraint, it can only be said to be waste that can be used.

While all eyes on the battlefield were focused on those cannons, the Japanese pirates were paying attention to the navy's firearms.

As for the Japanese pirates, only the lower-level officials didn't know about the fire gun, but the higher-ups basically knew about it.

They may not have understood rifled flintlocks, but they knew that the methods of attack of muskets were not much different.

The only difference is that they can hit farther, or are larger in size, and cause greater power.