On the sea, the large and small ships formed an encirclement to encircle Manabejima, and on the largest ship, Murakami Takeyoshi stood at the bow of the ship, turned his head to Iwata Xinghiro, the general of the 3,000 Great Internal Army with a pale face, and said, "Bizensuke, are you okay?!" ”

It's not that Iwata Xingguang has never been on a boat, but he didn't expect that the difference between the boat in the river and the boat in the sea would be so big, so that Iwata Xingguang, who thought he had been tested for a long time, was seasick, not to mention the three thousand internal troops under his command, they who were so faint that they didn't want to go into battle immediately, and it was quite good to be able to stand firm, listening to Murakami Takeyoshi's question, his already pale face didn't see anything wrong, and replied: "Yamato Mamoru, Wouldn't it be better if we were to go around Manabe Island and find an island close to Bichu to rest for a few days so that the soldiers could rehabilitate, so why delay the time on the tiny Manabe Island? ”

Murakami Takeyoshi pointed to the island in front of him and said: "Manabe Island is a good place, even if we leave some of our brothers to guard this place, we can be regarded as having a stronghold, and if there is a water battle with the water army of the Date family between the Kasaoka Islands, our hearts will be much more steady, and there are many people who need to rest for a while, if we are really close to Bei China, there is only one chance to raid, if our whereabouts are discovered, let the main force of Date on the side of the god return to Bei China, it will be useless." ”

Iwata Kohiro thinks that this is indeed the case, two or three hundred large and small ships appear outside Kojima-gun, and they will definitely be discovered by the Date army stationed in Kojima-gun, and the three thousand internal troops need to rest for a few days, once the main force of the Date army returns, the previous efforts will be wasted. And he said no more.

Murakami shouted at one of his men. A banner was raised. A small early ship galloped out of the middle of the fleet and headed for the castle on the edge of the cliff on the side of Manabejima, and stopped less than 100 meters away from the castle, the ship was adrift on the sea, and the general on the ship shouted: "Listen to the defenders of the city, surrender, otherwise the naval army of Noshima Murakami will attack the island and the jade will be burned." You should think carefully so that you don't regret it! ”

The soldiers in the city looked back at the island Yili. Dao Yili sneered slightly, compared the distance with his thumb, and finally shook his head, and said: "It's too far, the sea breeze is quite strong, and the bow and arrow and iron cannon can't shoot anything." Suddenly, he said to the captain of the ashigaru team, "Catapult, can you throw it?" ”

The captain shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't fight accurately." "Date Masaki started with catapults, and today, before the big cylinder was made, the catapult is still a sharp weapon for the Date family to siege and war, and there are ten simple catapults on Manabe Island.

The little leader of the waterman screamed for a long time. There was no movement in the city, and he reluctantly returned to the fleet to return to Murakami Buji. Murakami Bujichi didn't expect that the little Manabe Island would resist to the end. Turning back to Murakami, he solemnly asked, "Who is the defender on Manabe Island?" ”

Murakami shook his head solemnly, obviously he didn't know that since the loss of Manabe Island, he was like a kite that had lost clues, and he didn't know anything about the personnel arrangements on the island, maybe this was one of the reasons why Nojima Murakami and his party were hesitant.

Murakami Takeyoshi looked at the flags fluttering on Manabe Island, the flag of the Date family, which made him feel deeply disgusted, and he shouted loudly: "Go, let the first team attack, and let the Date people on the island take a good look at the strength of the Murakami samurai of Genji's noble race." ”

More than 20 Xiaozao rowed towards the shore from the middle of the fleet, and more than a dozen slightly smaller ships behind Xiaozao successively lowered the sailors and rowed towards the shore one after another. Seeing that the small ships landed one after another, he compared the distance with his thumb, looked at the sky, and said lightly: "Prepare the catapult, use the stone bullet, save some use!" ”

On the head of the city under the castle tower, there were ten simple catapults, each placed on a small platform, with a range of 100 zhang, and each of them was commanding a captain of the ashigaru, and when they saw the flag on the castle tower, they immediately waved the command flag in their hands and shouted loudly: "Stone bullet fire!" ”

Next to each catapult were five ashigaru rope pullers, who had already learned how to use catapults from the old men of the Date family, not to mention that the catapults were now lighter than usual, using wooden gears, and when they heard the order, they immediately cut off the ropes, "Boom! After the rope was cut, the wooden frame ejected by inertia, and stones the size of a human head flew out.

Everyone in the city and in the city looked at the stone projectiles fired by the ten catapults. The stone bullet crossed a beautiful arc and flew far away in the direction of Murakami's water army. With a bang, a stone bomb hit a small morning boat from afar, and the small morning was torn apart, and the sawdust flew sideways, and the sailors who were rowing on the small morning boat or the soldiers who were preparing to land saw that the stone bullet was about to hit, and they were already frightened and jumped off the small morning.

But then the screams came and went, and the stone projectile pierced through the fragments of the ship's hull, killing several sailors in the vicinity, most of them shirtless, with sharp wooden thorns stuck in their faces, dripping with blood, and falling into the water.

He didn't die for a while, just stirred the splash miserably in the water, and after a while, he drank enough of the sea water and rumbled and became the only victim of this stone bullet, but fortunately, Murakami's navy relied on the sea to eat the sea, and they were all good hands in the sea, and they were able to swim towards the shore in shock.

There was a thunderous roar of joy on the head of the city, and Dao Yili slapped the city tower heavily, and shouted loudly: "Good fight, really fucking good fight, who beat him, add meat to him at night!" This stone bullet was accurate and ruthless, which played out the morale of the military spirit of the own side and dispelled the enemy's contempt for the enemy.

However, this round of stone throwing was the result, and the remaining nine stone bombs did not hit, and when they hit the sea, they caused a huge splash, startling the nearby small morning boat to row their oars away from the accident point, and the first round of attacks was like this.

"Reload, bloom!"

The captains of the catapults at the head of the castle were very dissatisfied with this achievement from afar, and loudly ordered the ashigaru to pull the ropes and arrange the catapults, and put the flowering bullets, of course, this flowering bullets were not the other flowering bullets, and they were filled with thirty or forty pebbles the size of a baby's fist in cloth bags, and they became the flowering bullets in their mouths.

Dao Yili shouted viciously: "Adjust the angle, aim at the harbor, and hit me hard!" "Manabe Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the only place you can land is a small harbor that is less than the size of a football field, and the rest of the island is mostly a few cliffs, and even if you can get ashore, you have to climb the wet cliffs, and you have to guard against the guard tower on the cliff, and ten catapults are aimed at this small harbor.

Ten catapults cut the ropes again, and ten black bags flew out, heading towards the harbor under the mountain, and more than 100 soldiers of the Murakami Navy who had just landed on the shore saw that they were flying down the stones again, and were busy watching the flight trajectory to dodge, and the team was chaotic for a while.

The bag was torn in the air, and the bag, which was not very reliable, was torn open by the stones inside, and when it flew to their heads, it fell like rain, and the soldiers who did not have any helmets screamed and rolled to the ground, killing and wounding nearly 20 people at once.

Shima Yili understands that this catapult is the first and second waves to exert its power to dispel the enemy's light enemy, once the enemy is cautious, the speed of the stone projectile after flying more than 100 zhang is not as good as at the beginning, and it cannot exert much lethality.

At this time, the catapult was more useful for frightening than hurting, but for Shima Ori on the castle tower, the effect of these two rounds of catapults was still significant, causing casualties among more than 20 Murakami sailors, and also damaging a small morning boat.

It also aroused the anger of Murakami's naval army, and also made the defenders on the island lose the passage to surrender to the enemy, so that they understood that once the city was broken, there was only one way to die, and they had the belief to stick to it, which was the intention of Shima Yili to use catapults.

Manabejima's provocative behavior, all the people of the Murakami Navy army outside the island screamed, they gritted their teeth, they never thought that the little Manabe Island would dare to resist to the end, this is death, they will definitely capture this damn island, and kill the Date army inside.

Murakami Takeshi obviously didn't expect that the little Manabe Island would resist to the end, just like Shima Ari's idea, which aroused his raging anger, and ordered loudly, and rushed out of more than 20 small morning boats, continuously transferring sailors from the Seki ship.

The hundreds of soldiers in the harbor have begun to prepare, holding all kinds of blades and rushing out of the city at the front of the harbor, and the follow-up small morning boat can't wait to dock and jump under the water, flowing into the water, and joining the siege team.

Faced with this ant-attached scene, Shima Yili was inadvertent, and gently ordered, and from the battlements of the city wall, thirteen iron cannons and more than 30 bows and arrows were poked out, aiming at the soldiers of the Murakami Navy who rushed up below, and shot fiercely. More than 20 iron cannons shot out fire and smoke, and screams were heard outside the city.

At this moment, the fierce war drums suddenly sounded from the Murakami's naval boats, and the soldiers under the city shouted in unison, they raised their flags, screamed and charged forward, completely ignoring the fire of iron cannons and the killing of bows and arrows, and wanted to rush to the top of the city.

Dao Yili smiled coldly: "The first row retreats, the second row shoots, and the third row prepares." He looked at the Murakami Navy who rushed up from the battlement, and muttered in a low voice: "A group of things that have not grown, and they want to scare anyone by screaming!" ”

The thirteen iron gunners of the first row, who were leaning against the battlements, retreated, and the iron gunners of the second row, who had been preparing for a long time, stood in the original position of the first row, once again sprayed a large amount of fire and smoke, and then retreated and let the iron gunners of the third row come forward to shoot.

In this way, for a while, the sound of iron cannon fire resounded in the sky. (To be continued......)