Chapter 225: Battle for Shikoku Island: Sortie
On the morning of April 28, the Royal Victory was on deck.............
"Your Majesty, the army has all been assembled, just wait for your order, our army can besiege Ueno Castle." A heavily armed swordsman wearing light plate armor came to the Royal Victory in a small boat, and after seeing Sun Lin and Leo being taken out of the deck, he immediately trotted forward and knelt down on one knee and said, and a Maori samurai who came with him, who also learned the same, put the katana in his hand in front of and behind him, and said to Sun Lin: "The great lord of the sun never sets, the 1,000 samurai of the Changyi team have been assembled on your assault ship, and are waiting for your dispatch at any time. ”
"Are you the captain of the Changyi team? Very good! You must remember that your Changyi team plays a very important role in this war, and if you fail, it is very likely to lead to the defeat of our army in this war. The reason why I gave you the task of assaulting the Ueno Castle Tower to you is not to send you to death, but because in our army, only you Shoyi team can complete this task, now tell me, do you have the confidence to complete my mission? Sun Lin first walked up to the Xiyi warrior and helped him up, and said with a serious face.
"Rest assured, Lord of the Sun Never Sets! The lives of all 1,001 members of our Shoyi Brigade are yours, and we will kill everyone in the Ueno Castle Tower before we do our best. ”
"Very good, then you go down and prepare first, and I will personally watch the performance of your Changyi team in a while." After seeing the samurai of the Changyi team leave, Sun Lin motioned for the other heavily armed swordsman to get up and asked him, "How is it, we are rushing towards the Kamino Castle Keeper with great fanfare, have all the soldiers of the Shogunate Sect been transferred to the Upper Castle Guard?" ”
"As you expected, a total of 5,000 samurai and 10,000 ashigaru have arrived at the Ueno castle tower and are stationed near the castle tower, and there are currently no more than 4,000 garrisons in the three castles of Hizen, Higo and Gangpu, and the enemy ninja must have believed the smoke bombs released by the Mori family, thinking that all the fleets and the navy of the Mori family have gathered outside Ueno Castle, and we have put nearly 10,000 Naga warriors in the eyes of those Shogunates, They were now fully convinced that the Sun Never Sets Empire had come to capture the Honnoji Temple after the Castle Tower. ”
"Hmph, a bunch of conceited fools, it's time to pour a basin of cold water on them, so what happened to my 30,000 army."
"They have arrived at the designated position and hidden, as soon as the time comes, they will launch an attack on Hizen, Higo and Gangpushan City at the same time, although they are all transports, but the defense of our transport ships can be compared with Xiyi's Guan ships, as long as the fleet rushes into the port and land, with those folding scorpion crossbows and canister bows, they will definitely be able to take it."
"Very well, then you can go down." After sending away the second non-commissioned officer who had come up to include the battle situation in front, Sun Lin, who realized that it was almost time to attack, immediately boarded the deck, and at this time, everyone surrounded the Maori Marine, who was the deputy commander of the Maori Navy, after seeing the Royal Victory begin to raise its sails and move forward, they all raised the sails or began to beat the special war drums of the Xiyi people to encourage the Xiyi sailors who were rowing with oars, perhaps due to the distance, the time when all the ships present began to move was not the same, but the same thing was, The targets of these hundreds of ships were Ueno Castle in the shadow of the looming island of Shikoku.
On the other hand, after discovering that the sails of the Sunset Fleet were gradually emerging from the horizon, the Saii sailors, ashigaru, and samurai in Ueno Castle also began to board the ships, but although these people were boarding the ships, they did not immediately leave the port to engage the Sunset Fleet, but slowly moved to the vicinity of the harbor to widen the distance between the ships.
In response to this situation, Sun Lin immediately used a wooden telescope to observe the port of Ueno Castle and its nearby beaches, and it didn't take long for Sun Lin to find the problem. In the clutter of the beach, a number of wooden war machines were slowly assembled in Saiyi Ashigaru's hands, and they looked similar in appearance to the counterweight trebuchet, but they were less than half the size of the counterweight trebuchet.
"It turned out to be Hojo's fire bomb trebuchet." Sun Lin muttered with a solemn face: "There is also the banner of the Hojo family on the war machine, and the flags of the Hojo family and the Nagazong department are also planted near the castle tower, it seems that the family guarding Ueno Castle should be the soldiers of the two families of Hojo and Nagazong.......... it's a bad trouble, the family that is best at samurai archery and the family who is best at defending and attacking the city are united, and the Ueno castle tower immediately became a hard bone, it seems that they are going to break the lion's teeth." ”
"Your Majesty." Leo trotted to Sun Lin's side and said: "Just now, Mao Li Yuan came over with the flag, saying that the Hojo family and the Nagasune family guarding the Ueno castle tower on the other side are the Hojo family and the Nagamune family, and the fire arrows and fire bullet rain formed by the two families are all made of wood and move very slowly. ”
"Well................ inform them that since the Hojo family has joined, the Maori Navy will cancel the previous plan and instead use all the tactics of broadside combat to confront the Nakaku Navy, and their previous mission will be replaced by the Hawker Augmentation Class A battleship." Sun Lin pondered for a while and then said: "Leo, you go and tell the fish-man herald on the Victory ship, and ask him to tell Karaka, the commander of the Naga Second Foreign Legion, that the previous battle plan has been cancelled temporarily, and I want them to clean up all the soldiers of the Xizun Shogunate on the shore before the Hawk assault ship sends the warriors of the Changyi team to the shore, remember, I want his Naga soldiers to do nothing!" Just go! ”
"Yes!" After letting Leo leave, Sun Lin stood in place and thought for a while, thinking that the previous plan was still not satisfactory to him, and immediately handed it over: "Herald!" Where's the herald? ”
"Your Majesty, you called me?"
"Go! Tell Ocala! His fish-man sea reconnaissance team and the fish-man sword and shield warriors have a job to do, and they are told to immediately carry out the back plan, and I will see smoke behind the Ueno castle tower within 5 hours! ”
Legion Name: Changyi Team
Class: Light Infantry
Number of people: 1000
Features: Good at naval combat, scare enemy soldiers, excellent morale, excellent physique, incredibly powerful charge, vulnerable to ranged damage.
Stunt: Viva Charge
Attack: 25
Defense: 8
Charge Power: 8
Class Profile: The brutal and bloodthirsty Changyi team can be said to be one of the most outstanding troops in the expansion of the Sun Never Setting Empire, and the enemy troops are improved into one of the most outstanding troops for their own use, and the participants in the preparation of the Changyi team are all Xiyi warriors who have practiced bushido for many years, they not only have a fierce heart that is not afraid of death, but also completely obey the head of the lord who never sets the sun, and the Changyi team is also the only way for the Xiyi samurai to become the emperor's guard and even the emperor's attendant guard. Putting these aside, the Zhangyi team is also a class of troops that exerts the samurai sword force to the extreme, and the katana they are equipped with are all made by the most outstanding craftsmen in the Quartermaster Department, and its power is simply as sharp as clay, no matter how heavy the armor the enemy wears, the samurai of the Changyi team can immediately find a flaw and cut off the opponent's head, or directly cut off their body and armor, so the Changyi team is also known as the heavy infantry nemesis. Perhaps the only drawback of the Changyi is that they only wear a layer of finely crafted cotton armor, which makes them extremely resistant to any long-range weapons, and of course, this also allows the Changyi to rush into the enemy column and set off a rain of blood before the enemy can shoot arrows at them.