The inner city wall is still relatively strong, so even if it encounters artillery fire, it does not collapse immediately, which is the advantage of the stone city wall, which is relatively strong and durable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But it was these seemingly inconspicuous shells that caused seven or eight casualties to the Shimazu family, although this is a casualty figure and not very large, but the psychological damage caused to your group is indeed irreparable.

Historically, when the Shimazu family besieged the Otomo family, they were defeated by the Otomo family's artillery attack. Because this weapon is already a powerful technological product ahead of this era, its powerful momentum, more terrifying energy than iron cannons, in the case that ignorant people have not been in contact with, it will naturally produce a sense of fear from the heart, and it is human nature to have fear.

The second round of artillery salvos of the Kuroda family followed, and after adjusting the firing range, more than a dozen shells were fired, and the interesting thing is that this time the same five shells landed on the castle wall, and only one of the other shells landed in the open space in front of the castle wall, and the other shells all fell in the castle, and even hit the castle tower of Honmaru with one shot.

At this time, Shimazu Yoshihiro made a quick decision and immediately ordered all the soldiers to retreat to the real Ninomaru defense in front of Honmaru.

What needs to be introduced here is the structure of the inner castle, which is a mountain castle built on a flat hill at the top, which is actually composed of the main maru, the two pills, and the three small pills attached to the two pills.

This pill is boxy, and there is not much to list here. And the place where Ninomaru is close to Otemon is actually a long and narrow street close to Honmaru, similar to the narrow streets of Urn Castle. And after this stretch of nearly 100 meters of road, passing through a gate is actually Ninomaru.

The soldiers of the Kuroda family had just prepared for the attack, but before they could take a step, they saw that the defenders of the Shimazu family had withdrawn from the city walls.

"Takenaka-sama's method really works, and it seems that now is the time to storm the inner city in one go." When Itetomo saw the situation on the castle wall, he immediately smiled and said to Shigeharu Takenaka.

As a result, he saw Shigeharu Takenaka looking at the city wall very seriously, and replied to him, "Your Excellency, the situation may not be so optimistic, you must know that there are still as many as six or seven hundred defenders in the city, even if it is two rounds of artillery attacks, it will only cause small casualties, and it will definitely not collapse because of this extent, so it may be too early to draw conclusions at this time." ”

"You're saying that the Shimazu family has other means."

"I don't know about this, but the inner city shouldn't be so easy to capture." Shigeharu Takenaka said.

"In this case, let's take this opportunity to send a team to go up and have a look first, and learn about the situation in the city by the way, if everything goes well, it will be too late for us to attack the city."

"What your lord said is wonderful." Shigeharu Takenaka nodded and said, because Ite's statement is indeed the safest way to deal with it at the moment.

Immediately, a group of 200 Kuroda families rushed into the city, but when they entered the city, they saw that they were not facing the scene in the city as they imagined, there were no closed houses, no enemy troops who looked at death as if they were at home, they were facing a 100-meter long road, and the end of the road was another gate.

At this moment, from their right, that is, in the direction of the inner castle Honmaru, there was a dense sound. This was the return of the Shimazu family's iron artillery team, and more than twenty people fell on the Kuroda family's side in an instant.

"Take the brothers and retreat." The young samurai of the Kuroda family, Miyake Ieyoshi, who led the team, shouted loudly.

The Kuroda family's temptation failed to cause any damage to the Shimazu family, and the Kuroda family's soldiers also snatched back all the bodies of their companions, leaving nothing behind.

And there is one thing that Miyake Ieyoshi doesn't know, because he is wearing the samurai armor of the Kuroda family, so he observes the situation, and before the Shimazu family fires, there are at least five iron cannons aimed at him. As a result, none of the five shots were hit, and I have to say that Miyake Ieyoshi's luck is really good, and it can even be said to be against the sky.

"This samurai of the Kuroda family is good!" Yoshihiro Shimazu said.

"It's just luck." A samurai of the Shimazu family said angrily.

"Luck is also a form of strength." Yoshihiro Shimazu said.

"The Shimazu family is really cunning!"

At the same time, in the mountain castle of Osumi Province, this is the foundation of the liver family.

The head of the Liver Fu family, Liver Fu Kaneliang, accompanied by Ryo Shigencho, Iji Chi Shigexing and others, was having a conversation in the castle tower of Takayama Yamajo Honmaru.

"What did you say the Kuroda family sent people here for?" Liver Fu Jian Liang asked, his face with two big words of bewilderment.

Liver Fu Liang is the second son of the sixteenth head of the liver Fu family, the younger brother of the seventeenth head of the liver Fu Liang and the eighteenth generation of the liver Fu family in Kyushu Osumi Country. In July of the second year of Yuangui (1571 AD), that is, a few days ago, his brother Liver Fu Liang died of illness at the age of thirty-seven.

"My lord, it's actually very simple." You said with some embarrassment.

"Simple, how is it so simple?" Liver Fu Jian Liang asked suspiciously.

"My lord doesn't know that the Yamamoto Takasan who came here from the Kuroda family this time is actually the chief diplomatic officer of the Kuroda family, and he is also known as the first person to mediate in the Western Kingdom," said Shigenaga Yuto.

"Is it the first person in the Western Country? In other words, this Yamamoto Takashi came to persuade him to surrender? Liver Fu Jian Liang asked.

"My lord, I think that the Kuroda family sent people here this time not just to persuade the family." Mei Beiguo said at this time.

"Oh! A master of tweaking is sent over, isn't it a twitch, then what is the purpose! ”

You and Mei Beiguo glanced at each other, their eyes were full of helplessness, this lord is really a bit muddy and can't support the wall! If this continues, sooner or later Osumi will fall into the hands of the Shimazu family.

They felt that if such a thing really happened, at least the Liver Fu family, who was the head of the Osumi country, would definitely suffer, and important ministers like Tsuyoshi Shigenaga and Mei Kitokunkan would not have much benefit even if they took refuge in the Shimazu family.

Rather than this, it seems to be a better choice to take this opportunity to go directly to the Kuroda family, after all, the size of the Kuroda family and the Shimazu family are both there, one is a daimyo, three million stones, and the other is a lord-level daimyo with less than 300,000 stones, and there is no comparison at all.