Chapter 228: Battle for Shikoku Island: Banzai Assault
Although he didn't expect the Zunmu Sect to use this tactic before, Sun Lin still kept a back hand for himself for the sake of insurance, that is, the Fishman Army.
Ueno Castle is a port city, but most of its surroundings are sea cliffs, which cannot be used by the enemy to land, and the only place that can land on the beach and attack the Ueno castle tower is Ueno Port and its surrounding beaches. And the Zunmu faction also calculated that even if there were Sea Clan warriors on the side where the sun never sets, they could only attack from the front, so they set up a pocket formation in Ueno Castle to ambush the Sea Clan warriors who did not set the sun, and missed the sharpest blade in the landing battle on the side where the sun never set.
However, the Zunmu faction has always ignored a fish-man warrior who participated in these naval battles, but his combat record is not obvious. Indeed, even if it's just an ordinary Xiyi sailor, as long as you are careful in battle, it is not impossible to kill a well-armed fish-man sword and shield warrior, and in addition to the fact that the fish-man warriors are only used as a surprise attack on those Xiyi warships in the Xiyi warships who use samurai bows to defend the ships at high places, or to attract the attention of the enemy so that the Naga warriors can easily smash an entrance that can be entered by the Naga warriors at the entrance of the ship and the Antaku ship, which makes most Xiyi sailors think that the fish-man warriors are just a kind of cannon fodder, Elite soldiers like this will not participate, and even if they do, it is useless.
But they ignored two points, the first point is that they ignored the climbing ability of the fish-man warriors, the fish-man warriors have gecko-like suction cups in the palms of their hands, so that the fish-man warriors can easily attach to the hull and cliffs, which is also the reason why when the fish-man warriors climb onto the Xiyi warship from the water, there will be no loss of personnel except for man-made, and similarly, this also allows the fish-man warriors to climb up from those cliffs and move to the rear of Ueno Castle very smoothly when the soldiers of the Zunmu faction are attracted by the frontal battlefield; As for the second point, it is that the Shogunate faction ignores the necessary conditions for the formation of cannon fodder, one is poor combat effectiveness, and the other is that they are numerous enough to effectively absorb the enemy's firepower.
Note: Fishman warriors have the ability to absorb and climb walls not only because they have suction cups in their palms, but also because fishmen can secrete a sticky object in the process of movement, which is commonly known as body fluids or sweat. It was the same substance that fish-people secreted from their epidermis. This liquid also has the effect of preventing the fish-people from getting sunburned and allowing the fish-people to move on land for a longer time, and in the same way, this liquid is very easy to be dried by the sun, or can no longer absorb ultraviolet rays and temperature, at this time the fish-people will lose their ability to climb, and similarly, if they do not replenish water at this time, it will not be long before they are dried into fish.
The Shogun's neglect of the Fish-Man forces eventually led to a fire in their back garden. Just as the Shogunate sent troops to complete the pocket formation, and all the samurai bow troops pressed to the side of Ueno Port, the fish-man troops had already used up the clay pots that had been prepared to fill the seawater, climbed to the first floor of the Ueno castle tower and lit the arrow tower and the city gate behind the Ueno castle tower with torches to make a signal to complete the mission, and the head of the Okara Fish-Man Sea Area Reconnaissance Group led thousands of fish-man sea scouts with double daggers and more than 30,000 fish-man sword and shield soldiers who climbed to the first floor of the castle tower and even the second floor of the castle tower one after another. Surprise the light troops of the pure ranged infantry. The firebomb trebuchet that had cut off Naga's retreat had stopped projectiles.
On the front line, without the threat of fire bombs and arrows, the morale of the Naga warriors immediately returned to a state of high fighting spirit, coupled with the fact that the number of the Date family's Notai Sword Force was sharply reduced to less than 300 people, a total of more than 7,000 Naga attacked inward again, and the pocket array formed by the Shogunate faction had been scarred by the sharp trident. Along the way, many spear and scythe warriors used their long-handled weapons to resist by borrowing the surrounding houses and alleys, but the effect was minimal, and even less effective than the suicidal counter-charges launched by the samurai.
The reason is very simple, because most of the Xiyi buildings are fragile wooden buildings, not three-story houses made of stone bricks and cement like the Sun Never Sets Empire, for the Naga warriors, their assault route is always judged by the shortest straight line between two points, so from a distance, the Naga warriors are like a miniature version of the road roller, crashing all the Xiyi buildings used on the way forward, and the spear arrays of those spear warriors and sickle warriors did not fall on the giant trident of Naga. Instead, it was crushed by the collapsed planks.
At this time, nearly 10 Hawk assault ships were finally moored in the Ueno Harbor, which was almost in ruins, and the reserve army of Naga warriors, who had high hopes from Sun Lin, finally got off the assault ship and rushed towards the Ueno Sky Guard, they were Sun Lin's sharpest daggers in this battle - the Changyi team.
"Assault! Assault! For the Lord of the Sun that never sets! ”
"Long live Sun Linmian!"
The terrifying momentum was that thousands of meters away, the soldiers of the Shogunate faction in the Ueno Castle Tower couldn't help but shudder when they saw the vague silhouette of the Shoji team, and these soldiers of the Shogunate faction who were shocked and exposed their flaws were immediately caught by the fish-man warriors beside them, and they were pierced through the body by short swords or long daggers and died.
Before the Changyi team rushed into the mountain castle tower, in this castle tower with a total of 4 layers of defense belts, about 40,000 fish-man warriors and the Naga warriors who poured in afterwards had opened all the roads from the 1st to the 3rd floor, and the samurai bow troops who were defending on the city wall before had to put down the samurai bow in their hands, and pulled out the katana sword that was slightly unfamiliar to them at their waist to meet the Naga and the fish-man short soldiers, and those who all retreated to the interior of the Ueno castle tower, most of them were half-crippled samurai troops of the Shogunate faction who had already fought in Naga's counterattack, At this time, he was hard guarding the road leading to the fourth floor of Ueno, and used his own flesh and blood to resist the fish-man and Naga warriors in front of the broken fourth-story castle gate.
However, when the Shoyi team entered the Ueno castle tower, the soldiers of the Shogunate faction in any area that the Shoji team passed through immediately collapsed, because those Ashigaru whose rank could only hover between the militia and the semi-professional troops could not resist the tyrannical aura of the 1001 members of the Shoyi team, and even the Naga warriors who were in the same camp next to them couldn't help frowning after seeing the Shoyoshi team.
"Hooray! For the sun never sets! For the sake of Sun Lin's crown! "In an instant, after a thousand members of the Shoji team launched a surprise attack on the samurai of the Shogunate faction who were stubbornly guarding the 3rd floor, all the samurai of the Shogunate faction on the 3rd floor were defeated.