After receiving such news, Honganji Temple, which was located in the Ishiyama Imperial Palace, was greatly enraged. He gave him 10,000 people, but he couldn't help Suita Castle, which was guarded by 400 people.

However, when he heard that half of the Kuroda family's side was made up of iron cannons and crossbows, Honganji Xianru was also a little silent, and it was really surprising that two hundred elite long-range soldiers were able to reach a hit rate of more than 30 percent.

Even Satsuo Suzuki, who has the title of Saga Sunichi of this generation, shook his head, he himself can guarantee a relatively high hit rate, but the Kuroda family is two hundred people, and he can guarantee such a hit rate, at least his own Saga people can't do it.

Suita Castle is bound to win this Honganji Temple, mainly because half of the land of Settsu Province behind Suita Castle is too tempting, so Honganji Castle is like gritting his teeth and once again sent 2,000 monks led by Shimoma Teruru, Sanmaru sect members, and 1,000 Zaga people led by Suzuki Sata. Among the Zaga crowd were 400 iron gunners, and the rest were ordinary miscellaneous soldiers.

In fact, the distance from Ishiyama Gobo to Suita Castle was not far, but because it was separated by the Yodo River and its tributaries, it took the army more than half a day to reach the outside of Suita Castle, and it merged with the Shimoma Mayori army, and the number of troops reached 33,000.

After the Honganji army repaired for a night, Satsuo Suzuki's team marched to Suita Castle.

Standing on Suita Castle, the Kuroda family's samurai Suzuki Shigenari suddenly widened his eyes when he saw the opposite flag.

"Suzuki-sama, what's wrong with you?" Hijikata asked.

"On the other side are the people of the Zaga crowd." Suzuki said through gritted teeth.

"Is it an adult's ......?"

"That's right, I'm from the Saga people myself, but now the Saga people are my enemies, and I never dreamed that I finally had the opportunity to defeat the Saga people with my own hands, hahaha......" Suzuki Shigetari looked a little crazy.

Suzuki Shigetei, this person is a cousin of the Suzuki family of Kii Province Saga Zhong, and Suzuki Satafu is a cousin, and he is Suzuki Shigehide's cousin. He believed in the Rinzai sect since he was a child, and because he was dissatisfied with his family's joining the Ichijo sect, he led some people who did not agree with the Ichijo sect to form a new iron cannon mercenary group and serve as mercenaries in various countries.

It happened that after Suzuki Shigenari came to the western country, he caught up with the Urakami family's second Harima country raider, and was hired by Otawara for a long time as a force to fight against the Kuroda family remotely. As a result, the Urakami family was defeated by the Kuroda family, and Suzuki Shigenari joined the Kuroda family and found a career for himself and his subordinates.

If you just say that, you may still think it's nothing, but if you tell you that because of Suzuki Shigenari's departure, Suzuki Satsuo directly attacked the village where Suzuki Shigenari was before, and killed all his family, I don't know that Suzuki Shigenari's reason for hating Suzuki Satsuo is not sufficient.

But in fact, the reason why Suzuki Satsuo attacked Suzuki Shigenari's village back then was also at the request of Honganji, and he had to do it as a last resort in order to show his loyalty, but how to say that it was he Suzuki Sataro who carried out the action, not Honganji, so this hatred Suzuki Shigetsuni was completely counted on the head of the Suzuki family.

For the grievances between him and the Suzuki family, Hijikata Suizo didn't know, but he knew that he could make Suzuki re-become a character who usually laughs, and gritted his teeth like now, there must be an unsolvable hatred, and it was a deep hatred in the sea of blood, since this was the case, he didn't ask any more.

The Kuroda family's iron cannon has a maximum range of 120 paces and an effective range of 80 paces, which can basically guarantee a relatively high hit rate within 60 steps. This has a lot to do with the fact that when the Kuroda family improved the iron cannon with reference to the Ming Dynasty, the quality and stability of the iron cannon were improved, which is why Kuroda Vocational High School gave the craftsman a relatively high status, and there was also a favorable treatment. And the range of the Kuroda family's hand crossbow is even farther than that of the iron cannon because of the new spring machine.

The iron cannons of the Saga people are all traditional crude iron cannons, and their maximum range can only be up to 80 paces, and 60 steps is the actual maximum range, which means that in terms of effective distance alone, there is a distance difference of 20 steps between the iron cannons of the Saga clan and the iron cannons of the Kuroda family.

What does this 20-step gap mean? Of the five hundred iron cannons of the Shimazu family before, they had already fought with the Kuroda family's iron artillery team once, and it was because of the distance of twenty steps that the Shimazu family's iron artillery team was defeated, and at the same time, it also directly led to the failure of the Shimazu family's fishing and no ambush tactics during the battle of Takachiho Mountain at that time.

This time it was a distance of twenty paces again, and when the 1,000-strong team of the Saga people began to advance, Satsuo Suzuki honestly didn't have much confidence, because the opponent's two hundred long-range soldiers, because the opponent had already had a bit of a hit rate against the sky.

When Saga-sen's team was two hundred paces away from Suita Castle, Shigenari Suzuki ordered the enemy to start firing when they were eighty paces, focusing on the opposing gunners.

When the enemy was within eighty paces, the Kuroda family's iron artillery team began to fire. "Bang bang bang" A series of gunshots rang out, and twenty people fell in an instant. Hearing this familiar voice, Sata Suzuki felt a sigh in his heart. At a distance of eighty paces, a distance of nearly eighty steps, twenty of his own subordinates fell, and only one hundred people should have been attacked, with a hit rate of twenty percent.

Before he could react, "whoosh", another hundred crossbows flew over, and the Zaga crowd fell again twenty people.

"Everybody pick up the pace." Satsuo Suzuki shouted.

At this time, the sixth sense generated by his long-term use of the iron cannon immediately reacted, and after his heart jumped, he immediately squatted down. "Bang" a projectile just grazed his scalp, the hair on his head was shaved off a little bit, his eyes widened, and the hair just floated right in front of his eyes.

He looked up at the head of Suita Castle, where there was indeed a man watching him with an iron cannon, Satsuo Suzuki was good at using iron cannons, his eyesight was very good, and he could clearly see the appearance of that person even from a long distance. This person has really been seen for a long time, but he has lived with him for a long time, and even if he hasn't seen him for a long time, he can recognize it at a glance.

After all, he is a member of his own family, although it has been almost twenty years since that incident, he has not changed much, but he has become a little older, after all, he is also in his forties. [.]