Chapter 65: Night Attack
"Lord Suzuki, thousands of people from the two coalition forces of the Shinmi and Taji Divisions are coming, I don't know what your lord's instructions are?" The head of the Uyama family asked tentatively, wondering what kind of basis Suzuki Shigenari had to rely on to have the confidence to defeat the thousands of allied forces of the two families. The heads of the Yoshimura and Yamauchi families on the side of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info also immediately looked at Suzuki Shigenari and wanted to know what the answer was.
"Haha, the three adults don't need to worry, we just need to defend the city, and we have our own way to retreat from the enemy. As for the method, you will soon see the method of retreating. Suzuki Shigenari laughed and said, the three of them really couldn't hear a trace of nervousness in his voice, which was definitely not pretended. And since he said that there is a way to retreat from the enemy, there should really be a way!
When the two families of Shinmi and Taji attacked in formation, Suzuki Shigenari and more than 30 iron cannons were achigaru, all holding iron cannons, and loaded their ammunition early, "Everyone is ready, start shooting in the second stage at sixty paces." Suzuki shouted loudly.
"It seems that the Kuroda family is really a good method! It's just Suzuki-sama, what are they holding in their hands! The head of the Uyama family nodded when he saw Suzuki re-transform into their appearance, and at this time he was really relieved.
"The old man doesn't know, let's take a look first!" The head of the Yoshimura family said with some certainty.
"What Yoshimura-sama said is very true, let's take a look first." The head of the Yamauchi family said approvingly.
The small movements of these wealthy family heads did not escape Suzuki Shigenari's eyes and ears, but he didn't care at all, because he would soon see how powerful he was, and when the time came, you would dare to have any doubts about yourself, hum!
The coalition army approached Kurama City unhurriedly, because they had already seen that the number of defenders in the city was not large, so the non-commissioned officers of the coalition army were relatively relaxed, and they had already entered the position of about eighty steps into Kurama City with fairly neat steps.
Suzuki Shigenari and more than 30 of his subordinates in the city were already engrossed in their targets, but because of the second stage of shooting, only half of them could shoot first, but the preparations still had to be done first. In particular, some low-level samurai who are mixed in the crowd, with clothes and armor and weapons in their hands, are their key targets, and as for those middle and high-level samurai, they are still hiding behind and observing the situation! If the cannon fodder in front of them can successfully reach the city, they will participate in the battle!
"Shoot" At the moment when the enemy entered the firing range, Suzuki Shigesei shouted loudly, "Bang Bang Bang" The huge sound caused by more than ten iron cannons sounded at the head of the city, and at the same time, there was not a dense white smoke, and the sudden attack of Kurama Castle was accompanied by the fall of six or seven people on his side, and these six or seven people were all characters such as Ashigaru small heads, and the huge momentum made the miscellaneous soldiers of the Shinmi and Taji Coalition immediately confused.
Some timid peasant soldiers threw away their weapons at the first time, and ran back with their heads in their hands, as if they could pick up a life as long as their heads were still there. Some were bold and wanted to continue the attack on the city wall, so some moved forward, some retreated, and the coalition army was overwhelmed by their own people for a while.
The second round of iron cannon salvo from the Kuroda family soon followed, and more than ten gunshots rang out, and the coalition forces in the chaos did not have any rules at all, and five or six people fell, and the soldiers of the coalition army were even more panicked. For a peasant soldier who had never seen an iron cannon or even a shigaru and low-ranking samurai, a single iron cannon attack was enough to break people, and now it didn't take long for a second wave of attacks to appear. representative
"Damn, what's going on? Iron Cannon ...... That's an iron cannon, why is there an iron cannon in this small Kurama Castle, and there are so many of them, has the Kuroda family's financial resources reached such a point? "The head of the Shinmi clan, Shinmi Sadatsune, can be regarded as having seen the world, and at first glance he recognized the secret weapon that appeared on the castle, that is, the iron cannon, and saw that Kurama Castle had such a sharp weapon as an iron cannon, and stood up from the marching horse in surprise.
"Lord Shinmi, now is not the time to be surprised, order the whole army to press on!" Gao Cun, the head of the multi-governance department, said calmly.
"What Tajibe-sama said is right, everyone, all forward, there are those who escape without permission." After all, Shinmi Sadatsune is also the head of the family who has been in charge for a long time, and when he heard the words of Tajibu Takatsune, he immediately calmed down and ordered the whole army to press it.
But it's a pity that the coalition forces have been scared at this time, although Suzuki Shigenari is using a two-stage shot, but after all, it takes time to fill gunpowder, if you look closely, you can find that in fact, the interval between each shot still reaches more than half a minute, as long as the coalition forces really keep attacking the city wall, as long as someone can start to climb the city, these iron cannons with a small number of people are actually useless, and in the case that the Kuroda family basically does not have much combat power left, the result of the white-knuckle battle after is really hard to say.
But the premise of these assumptions is that there are people who dare not be afraid of death to storm the city wall, and they also need to be not afraid of death, and the most important thing is that there are no fewer such people. But people have the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, even if they know that there may not be many iron cannons of the Kuroda family, but who wants to be the one with a small probability of death and injury? You must know that even if you don't die under the iron cannon, but you are only injured, under the current medical means, you will not survive.
Although Shinmi Sadatsune very much wants to save the situation, but the coalition soldiers who no longer have any idea of fighting do not listen to the orders of the samurai at all, of course, in fact, the samurai are even more reluctant to go up to block the gun hole, the iron cannon does not matter whether you are a samurai or a miscellaneous soldier, it really shoots on the body, and it is also either dead or wounded, they are not stupid people.
"Collect the troops." Seeing the chaotic situation ahead, Shinmi Sadatsune could only order the troops to be withdrawn first, and then make plans after the soldiers had recovered a little morale. After the horn sounded, the soldiers of the coalition army breathed a sigh of relief that they could finally retreat, and it was really good to be alive.
As a result, the morale of the coalition forces had not yet recovered, and that night, Suzuki Shigeyuki boldly took more than 80 people from the Kuroda family and sneaked outside the coalition camp. (The Kuroda family's soldiers usually eat well, and from time to time there are wild boar meat to eat, especially offal, so the Kuroda family's soldiers rarely have night blindness.) (To be continued.) )