Chapter 738 0733 [No Martial Ethics]

Whether it is defending the city or setting up camps to confront, you can't just defend it blindly, because morale will drop quickly.

So, Taira Tadamori went out to challenge according to the rules the day after the confrontation.

Before the Heian period and the early Heian period, due to the existence of foreign wars, Japan mainly fought in military formations. And there was a central army, soldiers needed to train formations regularly, and there were a large number of bows and crossbows, and long-range firepower determined combat effectiveness.

After the capital was moved to Heian-kyo, due to the long period of peace, the central army gradually disappeared.

The Japanese army only retained a small number of legionary armed forces in the northeast.

In the vast areas, it was mainly armed by the powerful families.

The scale of the war became smaller, and even the peasant soldiers were too lazy to recruit. It was often a horse-riding samurai who went out with his group of Langdang, and the scene was similar to a gang fight. The victory or defeat was often determined by a single duel, and "Ichiki Tao" became more and more popular.

If it was a battle of thousands of people, there was also a very strict process.

First of all, the samurai wearing large armor rode on horseback to shoot bows and arrows, and did not fight in close combat.

Then, the armored warriors sent out their own Langdang, that is, those foot warriors, to engage in a small-scale warrior melee.

Finally, the peasant soldiers on both sides rushed up and fought in a mess.

The armored warriors only fought with the armored warriors. They disdained to fight with ordinary warriors, and they were too lazy to even kill the peasant soldiers.

If you are a peasant soldier and dare to fight the armored warriors, then you will be punished for not following the martial ethics.

The gate of the Japanese camp was opened, and Taira Tadamori came out first in the armor, followed by a group of Langdang warriors. Behind them, there was another large group of armored warriors, riding horses with their own Langdang in formation.

Then came a large group of peasant soldiers, arranged in a messy formation to fight.

This kind of armor is not quite the same as the armor of the Japanese Warring States Period.

When it was designed, it had to follow the fighting habits of the armored warriors. It was mainly for the convenience of archery and sword drawing, and the defensiveness was all about anti-shooting and anti-slashing.

There were a lot of shortcomings, heavy and clumsy.

Wearing this thing, you can't even move much, you can only shoot arrows and draw your sword to chop, it's hard to do other complex movements.

Its biggest advantage is - bluffing!

The cooler the better, the more gorgeous the better, each part according to the user's preferences, even add a lot of decorations that have no practical use.

They are the first generation of sluts in Japanese armor.

At this moment, Taira Tadamori is wearing a large armor.

Two deer antlers stand on the helmet, and its length is about one-fifth of Taira Tadamori's height.

The shoulder armor is particularly wide and connected with copper sheets, and the golden light can blind dog eyes. In addition to enhancing defense, the biggest "function" of such a wide shoulder armor is to limit the flexibility of the user's movements.

The armor skirt is similar, wide and overlapping, and most equestrian movements are difficult for samurai to perform when wearing this thing.

It is clumsy and heavy, and it is difficult to get on the horse.

According to the fixed battle process, Taira Tadamori rode out on horseback wearing armor and went to the front of the Ming army to ask for a contest in archery.

The commander of the Ming army must be present. If someone else is sent, it means that they look down on Ping Zhongsheng.

Even if Zhu Xiaozhong comes on the field to compete, both sides can only draw bows and shoot at each other. Anyone who dares to rush over for close combat is unethical. Because the warriors in large armor are all of status, close combat is bound to result in casualties. Even if there are no casualties, it is ugly to accidentally fall off the horse.

Yuan Sheng whispered in his ear and explained the rules of the Japanese war.

Zhu Xiaozhong smiled and actually rode a horse to fight in person. But he used a compound bow, and Ping Zhongsheng had a single bow in his hand.

The commanders of both sides rushed out.

Behind Ping Zhongsheng, followed a group of Langdang infantry warriors.

Behind Zhu Xiaozhong, followed a group of flintlock musketeers.

After running more than 20 steps, Zhu Xiaozhong saw the Langdang warriors on the opposite side stop, and said to the musketeers behind him: "You plunder here!"

The commanders of both sides continued to ride forward on horseback. When they reached a certain distance, Ping Zhongsheng bent his bow and drew his arrow, and Zhu Xiaozhong followed suit.

They shot arrows at each other, and two or three arrows hit, but they couldn't successfully penetrate the armor.

Although the Japanese armor is heavy and gorgeous, it has strong defense. The noble warriors are very careful about their lives.

Zhu Xiaozhong simply continued to charge forward on horseback. Ping Zhongsheng didn't want to lose face, so he approached and continued to shoot arrows.

The Japanese warriors who were watching the battle were amazed and felt the bravery of the two commanders. Usually, the armored warriors would not shoot at such a close distance. If you are not careful, you will really shoot to death.

"Swish"!

A chisel-headed armor-piercing arrow hit Ping Zhongsheng's chest with the greatest power at the best riding distance of twelve or thirteen steps while Zhu Xiaozhong was charging on horseback.

Ping Zhongsheng shot an ordinary arrow with a single bow and hit Zhu Xiaozhong as well, but... it couldn't penetrate the armor.

Ping Zhongsheng was horrified and quickly reined in his horse and turned to flee.

The Langdang warriors who were raiding for him came forward to support him, drawing their swords and holding their guns to block Zhu Xiaozhong who was chasing after them.

Next, it was time for the Langdang warriors to fight.

Zhu Xiaozhong was very disciplined and did not pursue them. Instead, he rode away from the musket shooting area and let the "musket Langdang" behind him take action.

A group of orphans adopted by Zhu Ming temporarily played the role of Langdang warriors and raised their flintlock rifles.

Ping Zhongsheng rode back and signaled other large-armored warriors to bring their own Langdang warriors forward. If the Langdang melee failed, these large-armored warriors would also go up and continue to fight with the "large-armored warriors" of the Ming army.

However, Ping Zhongsheng's Langdang warriors were charging on board with swords and guns raised.

Suddenly, there was a sound of "bang bang bang", and smoke rose from the enemy formation opposite.

More than a dozen Langdang warriors who were charging in front fell down without knowing what was going on. The others were still charging, not knowing what was happening.

The second row of flintlock warriors then pulled the trigger.

The third row of flintlock warriors...

After the three rounds of flintlock fire, there were only a few Langdang warriors still charging.

They finally realized something was wrong, and turned their heads to check, and found that all their teammates had fallen.

"Demons! It's a demon!"

The surviving Langdang warriors were so scared that they immediately turned around and charged in the opposite direction.

Those flintlock warriors were all monsters in their eyes, a group of cannibalistic demons that could spit fire and smoke!

Taira Tadamori and the other armored warriors, Langdang warriors, and the peasant soldiers who were pulled to raid the formation were all terrified when they saw this, and they couldn't understand the musket, a weapon they had never seen before.

"Beat the drum!"

"Kill!"

Dozens of Ming cavalry rushed out first, followed by a thousand armored soldiers, leaving a thousand armored soldiers as a reserve.

On the other side of the Japanese army, the first reaction of the armored warriors was to flee, and they quickly fled back to the camp with their party members.

Ping Zhongsheng also deployed troops on the mountains on both sides. He shouted: "Raise the flag, beat the drum, attack from three sides, and do not run away!"

Some armored warriors were willing to obey orders and take their party members to fight.

But more armored warriors accelerated their pace of escape, unwilling to fight with the enemy who was spewing fire and smoke.

These people who fled were mainly samurai groups that joined along the way. They were usually not under the control of Ping Zhongsheng, but because of the central order and the desire to rob treasures, they came to fight with the army.

Once an accident occurs, these guys will never fight desperately, but think about how to preserve their own strength.

The warriors and farmers on the mountains on both sides are much more heroic. Because they are coming from the side to encircle, not facing the Ming army head-on, they have an innate psychological advantage on the battlefield.

Zhu Xiaozhong has run back to the formation, standing in the valley with the reserve team, forming a formation to deal with the enemies coming from the mountains on both sides.

Dozens of musketeers were also lined up on both sides to load bullets.

In the front direction, the Japanese army was already in chaos. A few armored warriors who tried to fight, led the Lang party to call on the peasant soldiers. But the peasant soldiers were being attacked by the fleeing warriors, and the already messy formation was even more chaotic by the fleeing warriors.

The Ming cavalry rushed in first and fired armor-piercing arrows.

Moreover, they were too lazy to care about the clumsy armored warriors with extremely high defense, and specifically shot at the Lang party warriors with weaker defense.

After shooting, they swept away and drew their bows to shoot at another target.

A thousand Ming armored soldiers lined up and trotted forward.

Their enemies were a group of armored warriors and Lang party warriors with chaotic formations.

With a strict formation against a chaotic formation, with the majority against the minority, the warriors who fought bravely could not resist in an instant.

Especially those armored warriors, who had never encountered such a scene. Usually they fought with warriors of equal status, and at most they were besieged by Langdang warriors, and it was impossible for them to be overwhelmed by the tide of soldiers. Even when they encountered enemy peasant soldiers, they were too lazy to fight, as it would tarnish their samurai swords.

At this moment, they were surrounded and killed by a group of Ming soldiers.

These Ming soldiers had no martial ethics, and they actually besieged the noble Daqi warriors with lowly status as soldiers.

It was simply a collapse of etiquette and music!

If etiquette and music collapsed, why fight for life? The Daqi warriors were so scared that they rode their horses and fled.

As soon as they fled, the Langdang warriors under their command followed them.

The peasant soldiers in the rear were even more unwilling to fight, and they all rushed back to the gate of the camp.

Countless people were trampled to death in front of the gate, and even the wall of the camp was washed away. The archers guarding the camp could only shoot arrows randomly, and then they shot an arrow and ran away.

The enemy troops rushing down the mountains on both sides were shot by flintlock rifles from a long distance.

Unfortunately, there were too few musketeers, and only some of the enemy troops were scared. More warriors in armor, with Langdang warriors and peasant soldiers, charged forward desperately.

The reason why they were so brave was that the Ming army had only 1,000 reserve troops, while their own troops were several times that of the Ming army.

The flintlock musketeers had withdrawn to the formation, and the Ming soldiers fought in formation.

The chaotic enemy army rushed up, and the number seemed large. However, the Ming army, which was in a strict formation, had a local advantage in troops and harvested the lives of the enemy like a killing machine.

The Japanese army two or three hundred years ago also knew how to fight in formations, and was equipped with bows and crossbows in large quantities.

Now it has completely degenerated, the military formation is almost not practiced, and the crossbows are gradually eliminated, leaving only single bows on the battlefield.

They have to wait for a few more decades, and after experiencing the Genpei War, they suddenly realized that something was wrong and learned lessons from the war that expanded in scale.

By then, they will gradually improve their armor and tactics, and finally become a decent army.

And the protagonists of the Genpei War were the descendants of Minamoto no Tameyoshi and Taira no Tadamori.

Thousands of Japanese troops besieged a thousand Ming soldiers, and they became more and more panicked as they fought for a long time.

Suddenly, someone discovered that another thousand Ming soldiers had chased the defeated soldiers and attacked the camp. It seemed that the Japanese army was completely defeated on the front battlefield.

"Run away, the Tang people are all demons!"

More and more Japanese soldiers who besieged the Ming army's reserve turned around and fled. And they ran directly into the mountains, not daring to return to their camp.

Ping Zhongsheng rode his horse all the way, and his Langdang warriors were too far ahead, and they were all killed in the battle.

Behind him were the overwhelming defeated soldiers, and the Ming cavalry intercepted them everywhere, trying to force more peasant soldiers to surrender.

Until this time, Ping Zhongsheng didn't understand how he was defeated.

He had not thought about the decisive battle today. He just followed the fixed war process, and had some archery between the armored warriors and some melee between the Lang party warriors. He did not even plan to deploy the peasant soldiers.

He was still thinking about delaying time until Minamoto Tameyoshi led his troops to block the enemy's retreat and trapped the Ming army in the valley and besieged it from all sides.

With such tactical thinking, Taira Tadamori was already a top-notch military strategist in Japan at that time.