Chapter Twenty-Nine: On the Battle of the Siege
Dawn Xinyuan shouted: "All the crossbowmen on the city walls have gone down to the city, the crossbowmen on the arrow towers continue to shoot, the fork soldiers push the ladders, the sword and shield hands come forward, and the pikemen are behind, ready to meet the enemy." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"The crossbows on the city went down the city, the crossbows on the small oars continued to shoot freely, the peasants with forks stepped forward to overturn the ladder, the shield stepped forward, and the spears followed." Kotera translated the words of Ryūmei Nobugen into the island Chinese and gave orders to all the soldiers.
Dozens of peasant soldiers held a long fork, according to the content of the previous training, the front end of the fork was against the front end of the ladder, several people jointly held a long fork, and pushed the ladder forward, one by one the ladder fell down, and stood up again, and the peasants and soldiers who were busy after a while sweated profusely.
"The fork soldier retreats, down to the city."
"The peasant soldier with the fork goes down to the city to rest" After hearing the order, the peasant soldier with the fork quickly left the city wall under the leadership of a group leader, and handed over the city wall to the shield and spear.
The shield is a class of troops set up by Dawn Nobugen after he came to Kuroda's house and asked Kuroda to set it up. Holding a half-meter-high iron shield in his left hand and a light knife in his right hand, he wears bamboo armor and a hat on his head. The height of half a meter is just right for the short stature of the islanders, and in order not to add too much burden to the soldiers, these shields are made of lightweight, tough wood, cut into three centimeters thick and twenty centimeters wide, wide at the top and sharp at the bottom, covered with a layer of iron sheet half centimeter thick, and a small leather handle in the middle of the shield to make it easy to lift. After many tests, it was determined that the shield could withstand the attacks of ordinary spears and katanas, while the Maruki bow and longbow were largely undamaging to the shield. There are currently only more than a hundred shields of this kind, and most of them have been brought to Murozu Castle.
The knife used by Shield Ashigaru is not a katana, but an ordinary knife that is closer to those in **** martial arts novels. The reason why Dawn Xinyuan chose this kind of knife is also to reduce the burden of the ashigaru, and with Li Sanbao, a senior blacksmith of the Ming Kingdom, he easily created a light and sharp knife that meets the requirements of Dawn Xinyuan, with a knife length of only forty centimeters, which is extremely suitable for hand-to-hand combat, especially in the special combat terrain of narrow terrain such as defending the city or siege warfare. And the light blade will not affect the movement of the ashigaru.
The sword and shield soldiers stood at the front, acting as the meat shield of the Kuroda family, and the Kuroda family's hundred shields were selected by Dawn Shingen from the three thousand ashigaru, all of whom were warriors with superior strength and endurance.
After the head of the Ashigaru group of the Urakami family climbed to the head of the castle, he saw that there was only one Kuroda soldier holding a big black sign, and immediately jumped on the castle and slashed at the ashigaru who looked stupid. With a bang, his katana slashed at the big black sign, not only did he not smash the brand, but his own tiger mouth was shocked, and his hand was a little unable to hold the katana. Before he could react, the weapon that looked like a piece of iron on Ashigaru's right hand on the opposite side slashed at him. Can such a thin piece of iron kill? He himself felt a little doubtful.
But after a second, he knew the answer, not only sharp, but also killing. The huge knife wound on his body, which stretched from his upper left shoulder to his stomach, proved the lethality of the long iron sheet in his eyes, and he looked at the expressionless Ashigaru with an incredible expression, and fell backwards to the ground, and then was thrown off the city wall by the two peasant soldiers behind him.
Although Shield Ashigaru has a strong defensive ability, after all, there are only seventy or eighty people, and it is impossible to defend to all places, and many soldiers of the Urakami family immediately rushed to the head of the castle.
"All the Bayonets"
"All spears are lightly stabbed," Koji Zhigao shouted loudly immediately after the dawn letter decree.
After the order was given, the shield ashigaru used the shield to protect himself and stood still. Several Urakami's ashigaru saw that the shield ashigaru was standing still, they wanted to go up and sneak attack, but as soon as they took a step forward, the spear ashigaru standing behind the shield ashigaru saw the gap, and all of them stabbed forward, there was no need to aim at all, more than 20 Urakami ashigaru and peasant soldiers fell directly to the ground, and the shield ashigaru who was not dead would come forward to make up for it.
Slowly, the Kuroda family is shielded to block the attack of the Urakami family, and the spear is only stabbed according to the order, and finally the shield is light to make up for the sword. The soldiers of the Kuroda family are defending in an orderly manner, while the soldiers of the Urakami family are constantly walking up the city walls, but it is difficult to gain a foothold, and it will not take long to be driven off the city walls or killed directly.
A Urakami samurai goes up the castle wall, and he doesn't know how to open a gap, but if he doesn't do anything, he will die like the ashigaru and the peasant soldiers before him. He had already seen the spear behind Ashigaru flashing with a ghostly light, and he didn't have time to think about it, he directly slammed into a shield ashigaru in front of him with his body, and hit the big shield, so that this shield ashigaru was defenseless at all, and the two of them retreated together, and even with a few spears, Ashigaru could only retreat together, otherwise they might hurt their companions, and they didn't know what to do for a while. The spears on both sides were light and shot each person, stabbing the samurai to death.
The death of this samurai seems to have provided some inspiration for the Urakami army. After him, more than a dozen Urakami soldiers who were not afraid of death came out from behind, and they seemed to think that this was a solution, so they also formed a small battle team by themselves, and one person sacrificed his life to collide with the Kuroda family's shield ashigaru, and several people in the back rushed up, waiting for the opportunity to attack and kill the enemy, and it really caused a lot of casualties to the Kuroda family.
"Swordsmen, shields, and spearmen"
"Shield Ashigaru and Spear Ashigaru use a combined formation"
Seeing that more and more Urakami soldiers were climbing the city wall, and the situation was likely to continue to deteriorate, Dawn Xinyuan immediately began to adjust the arrangement. And I want to use this opportunity to test the results of my training. The so-called joint formation is that the two shields are at the front, the two spears are guarding both sides, the two spears are standing behind the shields, and the six people cooperate with each other to form a combat squad to ensure their local numerical superiority at all times.
A Urakami family's ashigaru wanted to concoct the same way, and raised his knife and crashed into the Kuroda family's shield ashigaru, but the shield ashigaru did not stand still, but took three steps back, the spear ashigaru on both sides was originally two steps behind the shield ashigaru, but now it is on par with Urakami's ashigaru, and the two spears behind the shield ashigaru also came to the front, four shots stabbed from three directions, Urakami ashigaru could not avoid it, and desperately blocked the two shots in front with a spear, but the attacks on both sides could not be avoided at all, after being shot, he shook twice and planted the city wall by himself.
A Urakami Ashigaru saw a Kuroda spear Ashigaru not far from him attacking one of his companions, and the door was wide open behind him, he felt that it was a good opportunity, and immediately prepared to raise his gun and sneak attack. But before his wall could get closer, a shield blocked his way, it was a Kuroda shield ashigaru, and the spear behind the shield ashigaru saw the opportunity and stabbed this Uragami ashigaru to death with one shot.
Originally, because of the fierce attack of death, the Urakami army had opened several gaps in the city wall, and hundreds of Urakami troops took advantage of this round of offensive to rush to the city. As soon as the dawn source ordered, as soon as the joint formation was used, the soldiers of the Kuroda family easily realized the local area with more and less through the cooperation of several people, and once again extinguished the strong ascension of the Urakami family.