Chapter 917 Bloody Battle in the Valley

"Kill!"

Just as the Japanese cavalry rushed towards the oblique bayonet, the Marines in the front row roared, blocked the butt of the gun with their right feet, and pressed the Qin-style rifle in their hands to the ground.

This will ensure that the cavalry will not knock them down with their guns.

At this moment, Pan Chang's pupils shrank slightly.

However, his heart was calm, thinking that the battle was settled.

At the moment when the Japanese cavalry charged in large numbers, he was a little worried.

After all, they had never faced cavalry head-on.

Moreover, the front row of these Japanese cavalry all rode tall Beidi war horses.

The most important thing for cavalry is the war horse, which will determine the impact of the cavalry.

But after all the cavalry in the front row died, he felt relieved.

Because the remaining cavalry rode on the short-legged horses of Japan.

The height of this war horse is about the same as the donkey of Dasong.

In addition, the Japanese are shorter than the Dasong people.

They suddenly changed from facing a situation where the man and the horse were two meters tall to a situation where the man and the horse were one meter sixty-seven.

"Hiss..."

As he was thinking, the Japanese cavalry ran into the bayonet.

The sharp bayonet instantly pierced into the body of the Japanese warhorse, causing the warhorse to scream.

Then the dwarf horse stopped rushing forward in pain, but raised its front hooves high.

Warhorses are living creatures after all, and even the most strictly trained warhorses will instinctively avoid life threats.

And because the dwarf horses did not have strong impact, the Marines in the front row successfully resisted the impact of this part of the cavalry.

Other cavalry took the opportunity to raise their bayonets and knocked off the Japanese soldiers on the warhorses.

The cavalry that attacked the hollow square was quickly annihilated.

The Japanese cavalry that detoured to the side faced the muzzles of the Marines.

Amid the bursts of gunfire, eight or nine hundred cavalry fell one by one.

There were also timid cavalry who were directly scared and fled out of the valley.

"Disperse the Free Society to shoot." The Japanese cavalry was defeated, and the generals did not relax their vigilance and immediately shouted.

The hollow square immediately turned into a large horizontal column.

Three rows on the east side, three rows on the west side.

They also presented three rows of soldiers aiming at the Japanese infantry who were marching.

When they were fighting with the cavalry, these Japanese infantry had been marching.

At this time, they were less than 200 meters away.

Compared with the cavalry, the number of Japanese infantry was obviously much larger.

If they were allowed to enter the range of the flintlock rifle, they would still be quite dangerous.

Fortunately, the Japanese infantry did not march very smoothly.

The corpses of cavalry and war horses made it impossible for them to maintain a uniform formation.

And they were obviously obsessed with the line formation, and the Japanese generals kept asking the soldiers to adjust their positions to maintain the formation.

This slowed down their progress again.

"Bang bang bang..."

The Marines obviously did not want to give them time to march leisurely.

After dispersing, the soldiers took various shooting postures.

Standing, kneeling on one knee, lying down, and touching the ridges to cover themselves.

Unlike facing cavalry, they did not want to be approached by Japanese infantry and fired a volley.

Disperse, because of the accuracy of Qin-style rifles, it does not affect their ability to shoot enemy soldiers, and they can also avoid being lined up and shot.

The dense gunfire sounded, and the Japanese infantry died heavily in an instant.

Their dense formation is a target for the Marines.

The soldiers don't even need to aim, they just need to shoot into the crowd.

At this time, the embarrassment of the line formation facing the skirmish line is reflected.

If they disperse, with the accuracy of the flintlock rifle, there is basically no lethality.

Concentrate and suffer serious losses.

The Japanese infantry generals were also dumbfounded.

They have never seen such a way of fighting.

Before, the soldiers of the King of Yan at least stood to load.

How can the soldiers of the King of Yan lie on the ground to load this time?

But the battlefield does not allow them to think deeply, the soldiers of the King of Yan are shooting at them crazily.

The marching Japanese soldiers kept falling down.

Soon, the ground was covered with layers of corpses.

The short distance of 200 meters is simply an insurmountable obstacle for the Japanese soldiers.

Behind the Japanese soldiers, Jiu Guijing was watching the battlefield.

The fall of the cavalry made him pale, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

Now, the infantry's attack was obviously seriously hindered, which made him terrified.

The belief that he would win just now collapsed in an instant.

Only fear remained in his heart.

This Yan Wang army was beyond his cognition.

How could they fight with them in such a free posture.

The most important thing is that through the telescope, the muskets of these soldiers seemed different from the previous muskets, and were several times more terrifying than the previous muskets.

"What should I do? What should I do?" Jiu Guijing's mind was blank.

Watanabe An gave him the important task of blocking the Yan Wang's troops.

If the mission failed, Shirakawa City could not be defended.

If Shirakawa City could not be defended, General Watanabe An would not be able to escape this disaster.

After that, Yamada Haruno's way would also suffer failure.

This means that their southern part will be completely defeated.

Chaotic thoughts repeatedly emerged in his mind.

Jiu Guijing finally issued an order, "All charge, direct hand-to-hand combat!"

He was fed up with the slow line march.

After the order was passed down, the Japanese soldiers no longer cared about the formation and rushed forward in a swarm.

Pan Chang was protected in the middle by the soldiers and kept observing the battlefield.

Realizing the change in Japanese tactics, he sneered.

Immediately issued an order to gather the soldiers and form a tight formation.

This is the best way to deal with a disorganized army.

After receiving the order from Pan Chang, the Marine Corps general ordered the soldiers to shoot and assemble at the same time.

Since the Qin-style rifle does not require a complicated way to load, the soldiers can easily complete this action.

At the same time, the Marines are all tactical people. As soon as other soldiers move, they know what Pan Chang's order is.

So, the soldiers quickly regrouped.

The bullets fired from the dense formation are denser and more deadly.

The Japanese soldiers who rushed over fell on the way of the charge at an astonishing speed, and then the replacement Japanese soldiers continued to rush up.

This tug of war lasted for a quarter of an hour.

The bodies of the Japanese soldiers gradually piled up into a hill thirty meters in front of the Marines.

Blood flowed in the rice fields like a stream.

Seeing that their companions were getting fewer and fewer, the Yan Wang soldiers were like a steel wall, unbreakable.

It seemed that the critical point of morale collapse had been reached.

As a Japanese soldier left the battlefield and ran out of the valley.

The Japanese soldiers finally collapsed completely. They fled in all directions like a herd of deer chased by a tiger.

"Come back! Come back!" Jiu Guijing looked at the Japanese soldiers who had completely lost their morale due to fear in horror.

He shouted loudly, but no soldier paid attention to him.

In shock and anger, he jumped off his horse and drew out his Japanese sword to chop the fleeing soldiers.

But even so, he still couldn't stop the collapse.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his eyebrows.

Then he slowly fell down.

At a distance of 100 meters from him, Pan Chang threw the Qin-style rifle to the soldier beside him.

After noticing this crazy Japanese general, he rushed forward under the protection of his personal guards and shot him to death.

With a hum, Pan Chang looked at Shirakawa City and said, "It's time to understand the war on the eastern front. Brothers, it's time to capture Watanabe alive."