The Japanese are unreliable!

Matsuura Takanobu watched the situation outside the castle from the castle tower and asked his attendants over and over again where the Japanese samurai they had hired were.

Where else can it be, I ran away.

Seeing that the artillery was scattered throughout the city as if it were not aimed, it did not cause many casualties on them, but it was a great blow to morale, and even Matsuura Takanobu himself felt that there was no need to fight this battle again.

Isn't it the bear that surrendered to the dragon temple family with his own name?

Surrender is surrender, what's the big deal.

However, the movement of the war was far more complicated than he imagined, and Nabeshima Naoshige's direction could not be seen, but it could be seen from the three-story turret built on the mountain, and in the distant fields to the west, an army was slowly approaching the Ryuzoji army in what it thought was hidden.

Look at the past from the towering mountain castle and see it at a glance!

It was this army that could not see the family crest that made Matsuura Takanobu calm down, and he constantly conveyed the order to defend to the samurai under his command, and even after the Ninomaru gate was breached, he still ordered his subordinates to retreat to the Honmaru to defend it, and concentrated all the iron cannons, and used the 'Sasama' holes in the wall to give these enemy troops who invaded the family's territory a head-on blow.

"Master of the house, they are acting strangely, they are not here to save us."

"I know, but they are not allies of the Ryuzoji Temple, and their posture is to attack the Ryuzoji Temple."

Matsuura Takanobu was right, not long after the Nanban Drum smashed the city gate, the samurai of Ryuzoji Temple, who had entered the temple, fought with the Matsuura defenders who had not had time to retreat into Honmaru.

Matsuura Takanobu opened the wooden gate, and saw bursts of gunpowder smoke rising from the fields and woodlands, and several cannonballs dragged and screamed to bombard the city gate and the enemy formation.

At this time of crisis, Matsuura Takashi felt relieved, no matter who it was, at least they were here to attack the Ryuzoji family as they thought.

The biggest question that flashed through his mind was not who it was, but looking at the two shell landing points, wondering which one of the southern barbarian cylinders of this army wanted to bombard?

"Hit!"

"Forward!"

With the cheerful chanting of President Qi, Chen Bazhi drew out his sword and shouted, the suona sound was high-pitched in the formation of the flag army formed by the mandarin duck array, and the flag army crouching in the smoke got up one by one.

At this time, half of the troops of Longzao Temple had already entered the city, and many of the remaining were congested on the narrow bridge outside the city, and they were suddenly attacked by artillery fire from nowhere, which made their army feel very confused, and they did not know whether to attack the city or retreat outside the city.

Nabeshima Naoshige was also shocked by this attack, and the bad omen in his heart came true, but until this moment he still thought that it was the Shimazu family that attacked, thinking that the Sagara Aso clan had allied with the Shimazu army, so he was even more shocked when he thought about it, and his first reaction was to send a message to the head of Saga Castle to inform him of the news of Shimazu's attack.

Although he doesn't know how Shimazu got here, at this moment, the only ones who can attack Hirado unknowingly are the pirates of the Matsuura Party and the Shimazu family's navy, but the Matsuura Party does not have a large tube, especially not so many Nanban large tubes.

The samurai had just turned over and mounted their horses, and Naoshige Nabeshima had already commanded the left flank of the besieging army to form a formation to meet the enemy with the help of the castle town houses and roads, and the brigade relied on the houses to prepare to block the enemy, and the two iron cannon hundred-man teams lined up in front of the formation to prepare for the enemy's onslaught, and at the same time ordered the subordinates who had entered the city to withdraw as soon as possible.

"We must attack the city as soon as possible, rely on Kusano Castle to defend and wait for reinforcements, and now we have worked hard to withdraw from the city!"

In the face of the reproach of Bai Wu Xiankan, Nabeshima Naoshige was not angry, and said: "We are attacking Kusano City because of the two Nanban big tubes, and the enemy army has no less than fifteen volleys. ”

Bai Wuxian was dumbfounded by the question, the attack of the Nanban Cylinder on the city was too strong, no matter how strong the earth fortress and wooden city were, even if they attacked the city at this moment, what could they do?

"Withdraw the troops first, arrange defenses, and withdraw when the enemy forces are strong." Nabeshima Naoshige said: "The most important thing is to keep the troops, and you don't care about the gains and losses of a city." ”

War is different in everyone's eyes, and in Chen Bazhi's eyes, war is a mental technique, so he chooses the most appropriate time, and just one blow can make the enemy's army confused. An enemy who does not have a military spirit is the best enemy.

Six hundred households of soldiers and horses lined up to move forward, said to be a line formation, in fact, it is a long snake formation to fight horizontally, six hundred households are all phalanxes, the big shield hand is in front of the round shield knife hand is beside it, followed by two spearmen and wolf soldiers, and finally there are three gunners and killers who protect them.

The sound was like a thunderbolt, and several artillery pieces fired in a salvo behind the 600 households, and the shells burst through the air with a terrible scream in front of the enemy's formation, causing no casualties, but it made the iron artillery team that was raising the iron cannon high and was about to shoot in a panic, and many people were frightened and fired the iron cannon in advance, and the two lines crackled into one piece, and the front line was also shaken.

By the time they formed a formation again, the six Ming army formations had been forced to 200 paces.

At this time, Naoshige Nabeshima also turned the direction of his two Nanban cylinders and blasted out against the enemy.

Rumble! Rumble!

Two Spanish naval guns roared one after another, and the ability to aim at the artillery was not so important at a distance of only 200 paces, and an iron cannonball was falling in the middle of the formation of a hundred households, smashing over the first two shieldmen and rolling between the wolf and spearmen, and then crossing several people.

There were more than a dozen casualties, and what was even more frightening was that the formation of this recruit Baihu was close to collapse, and Baihu and Xiaoqi shouted loudly to restrain their subordinates.

The other shell did not directly hit the battle formation, and fell more than thirty steps in front of the formation, and rolled down on the left side of the formation after a few bounces, even so, which slowed down the offensive of the hundred household team.

In just a moment, Naoshige Nabeshima seized the opportunity to ride his horse and shout through the iron artillery team, ordering them to fire the iron cannon to attack the enemy position, and at the same time ordered the spear to be assembled, he already saw that the enemy army was not many, it was worth hundreds, even outside the city, there was a force for a battle.

Chen Bazhi, who was blocked by the attack, was not worried, and raised his hand to have his subordinates waving flags in the forest, and in the blink of an eye, the artillery flag in the ambush received the attack signal, and several shells bombarded the enemy position, sweeping the spears and bows that were gathering in the towns under the castle, causing chaos in the rear of the enemy army.

Puff puff!

The iron cannon fired too early could not penetrate the large shield covered with iron at a distance of 100 paces, and even if a few lead iron bolts penetrated into the formation of the banner army, they were easily blocked by the cuirass.

The Luzon Banner Army, which was originally demoralized after being shelled, suddenly found that the enemy's bird guns could not kill them, and for a time the fighting spirit was great, but no one dared to take the lead in releasing the guns under the constraints of the flag officers - if they did not listen to the order to release the guns in advance, they would have their ears cut off.

Continue, continue to march silently in the sound of the drumming suona.

Chen Bazhi watched the enemy Ashigaru gather in the rear, and the two armies were nearly a hundred steps apart, and Zhang handed out an order: "Artillery bombardment, blowing and changing tone, flag army divided into formations, tiger squatting salvo bird gun round shooting!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the enemy's ashigaru squad advanced forward, they could already see the fluttering dragon flag, the shield men in the lead of the banner army suddenly separated, the whole formation became loose, and the three birdmen stepped forward alternately, sending a small number of neat rounds at them in the gap in the formation.

"Gun armor, put!"

In the loud order of the hundred households, dozens of bird guns were released from each phalanx, and a crisp and muffled sound sounded.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the ashigaru charge did not stop.