Volume 4: Hot! The whole world is a warring state Chapter 635: Hot and Cold Mixed Battle
It is not easy to transform medieval armies into modern ones. Even a professional like Rudolf, after 20 years of hard work, could only form 300,000 new troops in Spain. Even a half-baked pseudo-military enthusiast like Zhu Youdong, who started from forming the Henghai Guard, spent more than 20 years.
Therefore, for a country like Japan, which only began to receive modern military training two years ago, its army can only be similar in form compared to the standards of modern armies.
Such an army launched a night attack, although the enemy was only the Ottoman officers who had been trained for a year, but they were not very good. However, within 20 to 30 minutes after the night attack began, the Japanese officers completely forgot the various teachings of the Ming officers in training them, and instinctively began to rush forward and charge.
What's even more outrageous is that the middle and lower-level officers who commanded this army were almost all from the samurai class, and each of them was a so-called swordsman. Therefore, under the leadership of these officers, the Japanese soldiers did not change the magazine after firing five rounds of rifle bullets, but instead directly put on the bayonet and launched a bayonet charge!
This behavior was like a pillow falling on the ground for the three brothers, who were still essentially a medieval army. Then the three brothers also fired all the bullets in their guns, and then wielded cold weapons to chop up.
When the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army, which was not at an advantage in size and numbers, gradually showed signs of decline.
"Good opportunity!" His Royal Highness benefited a lot from Datar in terms of scientific knowledge and breadth of experience, but he was much better than Datar in military command. Seeing that his soldiers, after the initial panic, slowly began to counterattack under the organization of the Ottoman officers, and gradually gained the upper hand, he made a prompt decision and immediately transferred the troops from the rear of the camp. With the fresh troops and the large number of people, the Indian army's advantage was further expanded.
"Attack!" The samurai sword rolled up with a graceful amplitude and successfully ripped open the opponent's soldier who was only wearing a single piece of clothing. Honda Tadaki, who was in his thirties, finally found the long-lost sense of pleasure.
"Yoshi! As a samurai, you should fight with swords and guns. Cannons and cannon barrels are only used by cowards."
As a hereditary retainer of the Tokugawa family, the Honda family had a very miserable life after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Therefore, the Honda family invested heavily in this western expedition, not only sending the head of the family directly to the battlefield. Honda Tadaki also took the initiative to stand on the front line.
That night, after Toyotomi Tohide revealed the secret, the samurai of the entire Japanese army were all excited. When the night attack began, everyone was really brave and everyone was eager to be the first.
At the beginning, they did have the upper hand, and the confused three brothers were defeated step by step. But when the Ottoman officers stood up and organized effectively, and Aurangzeb made adjustments from the overall front, the Japanese army's decline could not be stopped.
"Master, please retreat quickly!"
"What nonsense! Right now is the time for us to demonstrate our bravery and take down Aurangzeb's head for the Emperor of the Celestial Empire...hiss~Nang Duoduo!"
Before he could finish his impassioned declaration, he was horrified to find that his company of more than 100 people, which was formed with Honda samurai as the core, had almost no members left.
Life is still very important. As the head of the family, if he died here, who would fight for the fiefdom for his family in the future? So when he woke up, he began to let his men get closer to him without hesitation, and then find a way to break out from behind!
However, the three brothers are a nation that is exporting a large amount of food even though there is famine in the country and people are dying of starvation. They are the worst epidemic in the world and they are provoking their powerful neighbors all day long. In short, they are a magical nation that feels that they have an advantage even when they are at a disadvantage. Now that the advantage is so obvious, how can they let them go easily? In an instant, hundreds of bayonets mixed with dozens of long guns stabbed at them. In an instant, this small group of Japanese troops was overwhelmed.
The demise of Honda's team was not an isolated case. On that night, the Japanese army launched a night attack at midnight, but they were outnumbered. By 1:40 a.m., the Indian army had completely gained the upper hand. They not only drove the Japanese out of their camp, but also pursued them relentlessly, closely following the Japanese army and trying to take over the Japanese camp.
"Hiss, Siguoyi~" The exquisite helmet inherited from Toyotomi Hideyoshi had fallen to who knows where, and the golden feathered ornaments were also discarded on the way of retreat because they were too obvious. The young Toyotomi Toyotomi was full of regret at this moment: it was all my fault for being so rude and leaking the news! As a result, the group of officers below strongly demanded a night attack - this is the traditional Japanese way of overthrowing the superiors!
Seeing the Indian army chasing their army relentlessly and approaching their defense line, Toyotomi Toshihide was in tears: If they lose their defense line, will the emperor of China still reward Andhra? Not cutting another knife on Honshu Island would be a generous move!
Just when he was in despair, he suddenly heard a deafening "Manse" sound from behind him.
The Fuguo army rushed forward.
Moreover, not only did the Fuguo Army rush forward, but their artillery also began firing from further behind: the Indian Army's charging troops were quickly cut in two.
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After taking a breath, Toyotomi Tohide finally got rid of the entanglement of the three brothers. Then he did not return to his own camp, but drove to the neighboring camp of Zhu Changxun under the escort of a group of personal guards.
"Your Highness Prince Fu, thank you for your rescue."
"Your Majesty, last year my country of Fuku owed your country a favor, and now we are even now."
"It's not that we are even, it's that our country owes you a favor. Your Highness, what should we do now?"
"The artillery will block the enemy's reinforcements, but our soldiers must still fight desperately, whether it's cold weapons or hot weapons, it's a close fight now, and we must not retreat. I have already sent people to notify the friendly forces in the rear to be prepared, so even if we all die here tonight, the front line of defense will not be lost."
"Hey, I've learned your lesson!" Turning around, he said to his guards with a gloomy face, "Go back and pass the message. Tonight, either we kill the enemy and force them to retreat, or we all die in battle here! This is what a warrior should do."
"Hi Yi!"
As Prince Fuku and Guanbai made up their minds to fight to the death, the morale of the two armies rose sharply. That night, in this battle dominated by cold weapons, with occasional rifle shots or a burst of submachine gun bullets, at three o'clock in the morning, the Indian army was finally slowly pushed back.
At 3:45, both sides were exhausted and the intensity of the fighting on the battlefield decreased rapidly. As a last resort, Aurangzeb ordered the troops to withdraw.
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"General Mao, this is what happened on that night four days ago. In general, more than 5,000 Japanese and Fuzhou soldiers were killed that night, and tens of thousands were wounded. The number of Indian casualties is not clear, but our army has collected more than 3,000 Indian corpses."
"Well... never mind. It's not easy for them to fight like this." Listening to the reports from Zheng Guotai and Sanada Yukimasa, Mao Wenlong's face trembled several times, but he finally endured it.
Not only did he have to endure it, even if Zhu Youdong was here, he would have to endure it as well: as the suzerain, he could only smile bitterly and let it go lightly in the face of this farce in which light weapons from the early twentieth century were used to fight a war at the level of the fifteenth century: the vassal states have fought hand-to-hand for your sake, what else do you want from them?
"You two have been on the front line for five days now. How are you doing? Can you still hold on? Do you need replacements?"
"No need." The two shouted in unison, then smiled at each other. Then Zheng Guotai said: "General, since the field battle that night, the enemy has not launched an attack for three consecutive days. So the pressure on the department is not great."
"Huh? It stopped for three days? What is Aurangzeb trying to do?"
Aurangzeb was not planning to do anything, as the night battle that night had dealt him a heavy blow.
No matter how old and strong he was in the original historical plane, and no matter how much he improved after obtaining Datar's memory, he was still a 16-year-old boy. And young people's emotions were very unstable. When they succeeded, they showed their joy on their faces. When they failed, their depressed emotions would be completely exposed.
How could this happen? I have been training my troops in Andhra Pradesh for more than half a year since the raid last year. How come this time we have more soldiers and more equipment, but the results we achieved are not as good as last time?
These were troops from the vassal states of Zhendan, and they fought so tenaciously. If they ran into Zhendan’s own troops, wouldn’t it be the same?
Once this feeling came into being, the depressed mood could no longer be driven away. Therefore, for three whole days, the Indian army did not launch an attack.
When our side was at an absolute disadvantage in overall strength and faced with a rare local advantage, we actually did not attack for three days. Such a mistake was, of course, fatal.
On April 14, the Indian army reorganized and prepared to attack again on April 15. Late at night on that day, six divisions of Gui (mainly Japanese soldiers) and Tang and Zhou (mainly Siamese soldiers) finally managed to avoid the scouts sent by Aurangzeb and arrived at a place only 30 miles away from the Indian base camp after a long detour.
