After a round of dense and orderly gunfire, the Japanese pirates in front fell down in large numbers like wheat being cut.
Some died on the spot, some were seriously injured and dying, and their miserable screams and angry cries resounded through the sky.
Of course, inevitably, a few unlucky Ming soldiers were shot. After all, bullets have no eyes and cannot distinguish who are the Japanese pirates and who are their own people.
Although Zhu Ping'an shouted in Chinese before opening fire, giving the soldiers about 2 seconds to react, and although Hu Zongxian also made timely judgments and loudly ordered the soldiers to lie down, there were still many Ming soldiers who did not react, or because they were fighting fiercely with the Japanese pirates, they did not lie on the ground immediately.
Fortunately, the Ming army had Japanese pirates blocking in front, and the Japanese pirates became the Ming army's human shield, so that not many Ming army soldiers were hit by bullets, only three or four unlucky guys, and none of them were fatal.
Relatively speaking, the losses of the Japanese pirates were much more severe, with at least forty or fifty of them falling to the ground.
Direct reduction of one third of the staff.
Yukiji Nakamura was lucky. When the gunfire sounded, he was at the front line killing the Ming army's personal guards and was behind the range. There was also a Japanese pirate behind him who blocked the bullet for him, so he survived this round of gunfire.
Although Nakamura Koji escaped unscathed, he was so angry when he saw the 40 or 50 Japanese pirates lying dead and screaming that he could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Veins popped out on his face like earthworms. He gritted his teeth and roared angrily, "Bakayalo! Despicable, cunning, insidious and shameless Ming army, die!"
He led 168 Japanese pirates to attack the central army camp, killing and setting fire, and killed their way through the central army, blocking the Ming army's imperial envoy in this small space. During this period, there were many battles, but the Japanese pirates under his command only lost eight or nine people.
However, the group of insidious, despicable, shameless, immoral and mean Ming troops behind us who launched sneak attacks killed forty or fifty of our brothers in the blink of an eye, directly causing our army to lose as much as one third of its troops!
Nakamura Yukiji was angry not only because one third of his men were killed, but also because one third of them had died. Ming reinforcements were coming again, and his plan to capture and kill the Ming imperial envoy, snatch the imperial edict, and disrupt the sea sacrifice failed!
The plan to become famous and rise to prominence has failed!
How to stop him from getting angry!
At this moment, he wished he could eat this group of insidious and cunning Ming army alive to relieve his hatred!
"The iron cannon is slow to reload ammunition. It will take at least thirty breaths for the next round of firing. Take this opportunity to rush over and kill all of this group of despicable, shameless, insidious and cunning Ming troops! Make them pay with their blood and lives!"
Although Nakamura Yukiji was burning with rage, he did not let his anger consume his reason. The first thing he thought of was the defect of the iron cannon (the Japanese called fire guns iron cannons), which was that it was slow to load ammunition and took a long time. Now that the insidious Ming reinforcements had fired once, it would take at least thirty breaths to reload the ammunition again.
Now the Ming reinforcements we are seeing are only ten meters away. Instead of thirty breaths, it will take only five or six breaths for us to reach them.
I believe that as long as we rush in front of them, we can tear them apart! The advantage is mine!
So Nakamura Yukiji decisively swung his Japanese sword and shouted orders to the surviving Japanese pirates under his command.
"Dead!"
About a hundred Japanese pirates, led by Nakamura Yukiji, rushed angrily towards Zhu Pingan and others.
Seeing the Japanese pirates rushing over, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but laugh. He was worried that they would be desperate and rush to kill the surviving central army. If the two armies were to fight in a melee, it would be difficult to open fire. Now that the Japanese pirates are rushing over, it is exactly what he wants.
"Change guns and keep firing!" Zhu Ping'an gave the order immediately.
Then, Nakamura Yukiji, who was charging, looked at the insidious Ming army in front of him in despair. He threw the muskets in their hands that had been fired once on the ground, took out another musket from his waist, and aimed at his own side in the charge again.
Nakamura Yukiji's head suddenly buzzed. How insidious and shameless! He actually carried two cannons with him! The damn Ming Dynasty was too rich to be equipped with so many cannons!
When the Japanese pirates saw the Zhejiang army throwing and replacing muskets skillfully, their faces suddenly turned gray and their pupils enlarged rapidly.
Before they could have any extra thoughts, they saw balls of fire exploding in the night, accompanied by dense and orderly gunshots of "bang bang bang".
Puff puff puff...
The dull sound of lead bullets hitting the body was heard, balls of blood exploded, and screams were heard incessantly.
The Japanese pirates who were charging once again fell in large numbers like wheat being cut. Due to the close distance, the power and accuracy of the muskets were even greater than the previous round. This time, as many as sixty or seventy Japanese pirates fell.
It's like the place has been cleared.
More than half of the one hundred Japanese pirates who charged fell down, and there were only less than forty left standing on the scene.
This time, good luck did not affect Gu Nakamura Yukiji. He rushed to the front in a rage and eager for revenge. He was shot at least three times. He screamed and fell to the ground, dying with his eyes open.
He had practiced martial arts for more than ten years before he had a chance to display them because he was killed by a few lead bullets.
The forty or so surviving Japanese pirates were also stunned by the two rounds of musket fire from the Zhejiang Army. They stood there in a daze, as if they had frozen.
On the one hand, their leader, Yukiji Nakamura, was dead, and there was no one to give them orders, so they had no command.
On the other hand, the firepower of the Zhejiang Army was too fierce, and it shocked them too much. They knew the power of the iron cannon, which could penetrate armor, but the lethality was just so-so. A sharpshooter could only kill one person with one shot. In their own country, iron cannon had not been used on such a large scale. At most, they could organize a row of iron cannon foot soldiers. After one round of gunfire, the opponents would only fall down sporadically. But the Ming people used iron cannons like they did, with three rows, one row squatting, one row bending over, and one row standing. After one round of gunfire, their own side would die in large numbers like wheat being cut. The lethality was beyond their acceptance.
There were 160 people, but after two rounds of gunfire, only about 40 of them were left, not enough for the Ming people to fire another round of musket fire.
It is true that the Japanese pirates are ferocious, but they are also flesh and blood. Faced with such horrific killing power, their morale is crumbling.
At this moment, the last straw that broke the camel's back appeared. The Zhejiang Army appeared fifty meters behind them.
Zhu Ping'an led 108 Zhejiang soldiers who changed into the Japanese pirates' night clothes and went ahead, while the rest of the Zhejiang soldiers followed secretly 50 meters behind.
After the first round of gunfire, the Zhejiang troops quickly followed Zhu Ping'an's orders to provide support. After the second round of gunfire, the Zhejiang troops also arrived.
The morale of the surviving Japanese pirates was already shaky, and when they saw hundreds of Zhejiang soldiers rushing out, each holding a musket, they could no longer hold back. They didn't even have the courage to fight to the death, and turned around and ran back.
But no matter how fast you run, can you outrun a bullet? !
The fleeing Japanese pirates became sitting ducks.
Bang Bang Bang
After another round of gunfire, there was no Japanese pirate left standing on the ground.