Chapter 11: The Kuroda Family's Big Gadget
At this moment, from the rear of the Shimazu family's army, there was a huge shouting of killing, and I saw two armies covering up and killing one on the left and one on the right. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It stands to reason that if it is an ambush, of course, it is necessary to rush out as soon as the enemy army reaches the ambush area, so that it is easy to crush the enemy army when its morale is low.
It's just that Shigeharu Takenaka didn't do it this time, because the Shimazu year he faced was also a figure who knew the soldiers, and it was too simple to fool him.
Shigeharu Takenaka and Mamoru Ando ordered the two thousand-strong men to ambush on a road that Shimazu had to pass through for a long time, but try to stay away from the road to avoid being discovered by the Shimazu family.
In addition, use a thousand-man team to lure the enemy, but not deliberately lose, but try to maintain a stalemate, and after the stalemate is reached, the thousand-man team in ambush behind will all stand out, form an encirclement of Shimazu's army, and kill his soldiers to the maximum.
Shimazu Suhisa saw that the big thing was not good, and immediately took his army to the direction of Osumi Province to the east.
The Kuroda family lost nearly 100 people in this battle and killed more than 50 people of the Shimazu family. As the side that surrounded and used stratagems, it is unbelievable that the Kuroda family still suffered such a big loss, but even Mamoru Ando sighed, this Shimazu is really difficult to deal with for a long time!
Among the reinforcements faced by the Kuroda family, except for Shimazu who only lost one-tenth of his men and horses in a decisive manner, the other roads were all heavy losses.
Especially the Shimazu Yoshitora of the Izumi family, when he came to the rescue with 300 people, he happened to face the people of the previous Bigo country led by the Kuroda family's Hanabo Masayuki, among which Araki Murashige, Takeuchi Hisakatsu, Shimizu Soji and other fierce generals took turns to fight, plus the absolute superiority of 2,000 troops, the army of the Izumi family was instantly disrupted.
Shimazu Yoshitora is not only the head of the Shimazu family, he also has an identity, he is the general of the Shimazu family's navy. He is the son of the previous head of the family, Shimazu Minoruhisa, and when his father rebelled against Shimazu Takahisa, he unexpectedly stood on the opposite side of his father, so he gained the trust of the Shimazu family, which had been usurped.
It's just that because of this rebellion, the Izumi Shimazu family was also divided into two divisions, and they attacked each other in the battle, and suffered heavy casualties. At that time, after the counterinsurgency, almost every family wore filial piety, every household cried and mourned, and there was no one in ten young and middle-aged people.
It is precisely for this reason that the Shimazu family handed over the family's naval army to Shimazu Yoshitora under the ruling of Shimazu Takahisa, firstly to help him recover the strength of the Izumi family as soon as possible, and secondly, because the Izumi family is the commander of the Shimazu family's naval army.
Among Shimazu Yoshitoka's 300 soldiers, the navy accounted for more than half, so when facing the elite of the Kuroda family, the combat effectiveness was really a little unmatched.
Under the command of Masayuki Hanabo, the Kuroda family side resolved the battle in less than half an hour, and Shimazu Yoshitora only led more than 30 people to break out of the siege, and he himself suffered a serious knife wound on his left hand.
Even though the other two Kuroda families only sent a team of several hundred people, they still had an absolute numerical advantage, and with samurai like Hoi Ida Minoru and Shimizu Sonori in charge, they easily defeated the reinforcements of the Ijiin family and the Irito family, which only had 100 people.
When the sun rose the next day, the Kuroda family's brigade finally dispatched and once again drained the water in the inner castle.
"My lord, it seems that the Kuroda family is about to attack the city again." Sadama Arikawa said.
"Hmmm! The order goes down, everyone cheers up, as long as we can defend the city until the lord returns, we will definitely be able to defeat the Kuroda army. Yoshihiro Shimazu said loudly.
"Hey! I immediately went to give the order. ”
After Arikawa Sadama left, Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was standing in Honmaru and watching everything outside, muttered to himself in a low voice: "The Kuroda family is, it seems that you are finally going to show your secret weapon, right?" Just let me see if there are any other means you haven't used, right? ”
At this time, Shimazu saw that a large passage slowly parted in the middle of the Kuroda family's team, and more than a dozen black things were pushed out, and he tried his best to look at it, but he didn't know what it was.
However, when these things were pushed out, Shimazu Yoshihiro already had a bad premonition, and the Kuroda family was willing to spend two days preparing this thing, which means that this thing is indeed not simple, at least it is much better than people coming to attack the city.
Yoshihiro Shimazu looked in the direction of the Kuroda family just to figure out what this thing was. If this thing was really beyond his understanding, he felt that it was likely that the inner city would really be out of order this time.
The soldiers of the Shimazu family are still nervously preparing to defend the city, some of them are carrying stones and rolling logs, and some are wiping their own weapons, and they all feel that they will definitely be able to defeat the Kuroda family this time.
This big thing of the Kuroda family was finally pushed to the front of the entire military formation, and he was finally able to see his appearance clearly, and he felt that this thing was black, and there was a large cannon barrel, which seemed to be an oversized version of the iron cannon.
This is very clear to the people of the Shimazu family, because many of them are users of iron cannons, so they are no strangers to iron ore.
And now that the Kuroda family has launched this secret weapon, it turned out to be a super-large iron cannon, and they don't think it will be a weapon with such a powerful power like an iron cannon! If that's the case, then it's a big deal.
"Boom, boom, boom" More than a dozen shelling sounds sounded, more than a dozen projectiles whistled out, the fire was everywhere, the smoke was filled, and they flew directly in the direction of the inner city wall, and the defenders at the head of the city had not yet figured out what was going on, and the shells had already fallen on their heads.
Among the dozen or so shells, five or six smashed directly on the city, three on the open space outside the city, and six or seven on the houses or open spaces inside the city.
These are the secret weapons of the Kuroda family, these cannons are all dismantled from the Kuroda family's fortune boats, and the operators of these cannons are all skilled soldiers of the Ming Navy Army.
In fact, in the past two days, not only were the artillery dismantled, these Ming soldiers had already made various landmarks around the city, so they were able to hit the city wall so accurately, you must know that even if the hit rate is less than 30%, it is a very good result for the artillery of this era.