Chapter 10: Headless Arrows
They may be lamenting at this time that their surrender in front of the Kuroda army is quite timely. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info otherwise, with the strength of their own family, they can't even compare to the Yoshimi family, let alone the Kuroda family, which has tens of thousands of soldiers. If Qilin'er is unhappy because of his slow movements, it will be easy for the Kuroda family to destroy themselves.
And destroying the Yoshimi family is indeed Kuroda's idea, his idea is to stand up in front of them as those wealthy families and countrymen imagined just now, so that these wall grasses who are used to staggering will know the methods of the Kuroda family, and they also know that the Kuroda family is not easy to get along with.
In front of these people, destroy the Yoshimi family, a big cock that is a behemoth in their eyes, so that these little monkeys like newborn cubs can stay in the Kuroda family honestly and don't have other ideas easily.
Of course, it is not impossible for the Yoshimi family to shrink their heads and turtles, if they are really willing to accept the conditions of 5,000 stone to be transferred, so that Kuroda Vocational High School can easily get 45,000 stone of land for nothing. And in this case, the Kuroda family can also let these wealthy families see, even the Yoshimi family is honest, what reason do you have to be disobedient!
No matter what the final result is, anyway, in the end, the Kuroda family can get the goal of obtaining a large amount of ownerless land and deterring the people of Iwami and Boqi Kingdom, and it is absolutely impossible to lose the ending. And this is the reason why Kuroda Vocational High School has set such harsh conditions, because he has already calculated all possible scenarios, and this is the difference between him and others.
"In this case, I have already understood what Sanada-sama meant, so I will persuade the soldiers in the castle to surrender according to what Sanada-sama said. However, the time is only tonight, and those who go out of the city before tomorrow morning will be counted as taking the initiative to surrender and enjoy the treatment of being a pawn. If he still does not surrender after tomorrow morning, even if he surrenders later, he can only be counted as a prisoner. Quickly send this news into the city, and leave this matter to Sanada-sama to deal with! Matsui Shigetaka said.
"Hey!" Sanada Masayuki received the order.
Now the wealthy clan and the people of the country breathe a sigh of relief again, if the Kuroda family chooses to attack, they must be the cannon fodder who rushed up to consume the city defense of Hamada City. Now, no matter what, at least until the persuasion of this path is completely unsuccessful, they don't need to go up and fight hard.
Even after dawn, he really needs to be sent to death as cannon fodder, because the Kuroda family's persuasion of ordinary soldiers to surrender must be a crowd of escapees when the city is now completely besieged and there is no way out.
When the time comes, when the dawn officially launches an attack, they will face fewer enemies, and they may face much fewer casualties themselves, which is also what they are happy to see. Their family is small and small, so they can't afford too many casualties.
Soon, after Sanada Masayuki was ready, he told Matsui Shigetaka about his arrangements, and Matsui Shigetaka pulled out some of the soldiers to cooperate with Sanada Masayuki's plan. As a result, there was movement on the side of the Kuroda family's camp, and hundreds of wealthy families, national families, and Kuroda family's long-distance mixed teams came to the front of Hamada Castle.
"It looks like the Kuroda family is about to attack the city." One of the guards of the Yoshimi family shouted loudly, and the defenders of the Yoshimi family immediately prepared to defend the city.
Speaking of which, the prestige of the Kuroda family is so great that when the defenders of the Yoshimi family faced the Kuroda family, even if it was late at night, none of them dared to be lazy. Otherwise, even if the Kuroda family's soldiers get closer, it is estimated that it will be difficult to be discovered.
The defenders of the Yoshimi family are indeed very nervous, many of the soldiers are even trembling, some can't hold their weapons, and the soldiers of the Eight Thousand Kuroda family are outside! The last time Hamada Castle was surrounded by so many troops, it was when the Niko family came to attack before, and that time the Niko family also dispatched 8,000 soldiers.
However, at that time, the soldiers of the Yoshimi family, even if they lost to the Niko family in the first field battle, they were not afraid. Because they know that there is a Maori family behind them, and in the end, the Maori family will never abandon them.
And now they are a little desperate, because the news that the Maori family has surrendered to the Kuroda family has been spread by the Kuroda family for the first time, and they also know that they have no backup anymore.
Therefore, the footsteps of the Kuroda family's soldiers advancing now are like a hypnosis coming from the Asura Hell. It's just that this team of the Kuroda family is not moving fast, as if it is deliberately putting psychological pressure on the defenders of Hamada Castle, and every step is so heavy and neat. When they came to a position sixty paces outside the city, they stopped, formed two neat columns, and did not go any further.
"It's not good, it's the Kuroda family's crossbow." A soldier of the Yoshimi family, who had fought with the Maori family before and had seen the Kuroda family's strong crossbows, shouted, and immediately found a place to squat down by himself.
The morale of the Yoshimi family is actually not high now, and the slightest disturbance may cause these soldiers to collapse. Now someone is shouting loudly, although many people don't know how powerful the Kuroda family's crossbow ashigaru is, but since this companion is so surprised, it means that this Kuroda family's team should indeed be very powerful.
This veteran of the Yoshimi family found a place to squat down, and protect his appearance, was seen by the other defenders, and the others immediately followed suit, after all, the Kuroda family's strong crossbow is a famous weapon in the West, and many people still know it, even if they haven't really seen it, they know that it's not a fun thing.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Yoshimi family soldiers bowed their heads, it was convenient for the Kuroda family's crossbow to be light, and since there was no resistance on the city wall, it would be good for them to fire directly. And the bows of the hundreds of wealthy clans and countrymen who followed them closely behind could only take ten quick steps forward, shoot the arrows in their hands, and then quickly retreat backwards. Hundreds of headless arrows tied to the letters were shot into Hamada Castle.
A soldier of the Yoshimi family couldn't dodge and was shot in the chest by an arrow, and he thought he was dead, but after only a slight pain in his chest, he heard the sound of "dang".
He was about to scream because he was going to die, but he immediately touched his chest, and although it hurt a little, he was fine. When he looked to the ground again, it was a headless arrow!
No wonder he didn't die, but why did this Kuroda family shoot headless arrows! He instinctively felt that there was still something strange in the middle.