Chapter 227: The Battle for Shikoku Island: Calculated
The approach of the Hawkgar warship was indeed a bit cold-blooded, because in front of its ship there were not only Kozao and Sengoku ships of the Shogunate faction, but also Maori sailors. But this is war, and the necessary unscrupulous means are in order to reduce greater losses. Moreover, the Hawkgar Battleship's practice usually only scared the Shogun's side, and the members of the Maori Navy had already known that those Hawkgar crews would do this, so when the Hawkgar Battleship rushed over with all its might, the Maori soldiers tried to avoid it, as long as some unlucky guys were knocked into the water by the Hawkgar Battleship.
In less than a few minutes, the Hawkgar had carved out nearly 10 lanes large enough for the Hawker assault ships to pass through, and began throwing broadside battle ropes at their target, the Takaku Shogun's Atakaku warship. According to Sun Lin's request, they did not want to immediately kill the sailors of the Shoku faction on the Ataka ship, but they must fight him on the ship of Ataka and never let them return to the port defense line of the Ueno Castle Guard.
On the other side, under the surprise attack of nearly 10,000 Naga warriors, the coastal defense line of the Upper no Tenshu has shrunk to the area of roads and houses in front of the castle tower. Prior to this, the fire bomb trebuchets placed on the coastal defense line and had been pinned on by the Xiyi had all been reduced to a pile of fragments, and the brutal Naga warriors directly used the giant trident in their hands to smash them into wood on the way to the assault, but the situation on the coastal front did not improve.
The people stationed on the coastline before were all Ashigaru operating fire bomb trebuchets, and there was no force that belonged to the samurai level, and the number of these Ashigaru was not very many, and it was estimated that there should be only about a thousand people, and it was impossible to rely on that fortification to block the assault of nearly 10,000 Naga warriors, and the Takaku faction seemed to be aware of this, these fire bomb trebuchets built on the beach looked more like a decoy, because when the Naga warriors assaulted the port, they were immediately hit violently, It is not an exaggeration to say that he was ambushed.
Just when the Naga warriors rushed into the street, many small fire meteors suddenly flew out of the Ueno castle tower, flying towards the beach, its power was not great, the fire bombs fired were close to the size of the asphalt clay pots shot by the pitcher bow, and there was no explosive effect like the asphalt clay pots, but its number was extremely large, but the density was high, and the effective coverage cut off the retreat of the Naga warriors, and caused these Naga Second Foreign Legions, which were only wearing a layer of inlaid armor, to suffer serious casualties, At the end of his army, under the counterattack of the fire bomb trebuchet of the Zunmu faction, nearly 100 Naga warriors were coke due to their large bodies and were continuously hit by fire bullets with low crosshairs, and hundreds of Nagas were also burned to death and broken to varying degrees due to the fire bomb blows.
At the same time, many Saiyi samurai wearing kimonos and holding special katana suddenly burst out of the otherwise calm streets, all of which were special because the katana they used was much longer than ordinary katana, almost all of them were more than 3 feet long.
"Wild Taidao troops, is it ............... Damn it! Every time I think of it, the Date family, one of the few Xiyi families who are good at land warfare in the Shogunate faction, is also here! Looking at the Notai sword warriors with the family battle flag behind their backs, Sun Lin finally discovered the first problem he had missed in this war, that is, he once thought that since the Zunshoku faction wanted to counterattack, it should gather the families who had an Ataku ship and knew naval warfare, so Sun Lin didn't think that the Zunshoku faction would send the families who were good at land warfare in the Shoku faction such as Date, Takeda, and Belly, but the fact was that Sun Lin didn't expect the Zunshoku faction to really do this, I didn't expect that the Wild Taidao troops of the Date family actually had the ability to suppress the Naga troops.
Armed with 3 feet or more of the Wild Taisa, these Saiyi samurai have stronger attack power than the Scythe Samurai, and although their weak defense makes them easy to be flapped away by Naga warriors with giant tridents, they can always use a life for a life to pierce the Naga warrior's chest with the Tai Knife in their hands, although the Naga warrior is brutal and brutal, but not the kind of orcs who shout when they see the enemy: "Woo! In this case, the Naga warriors immediately changed their formation, forming a halberd wall in the form of a spear phalanx, in order to protect their own lives and at the same time use a slightly scattered formation to harvest the lives of the Wild Tai Sword samurai, although the effect is good, but the form of the assault before the sun does not set was stopped, at the same time, after the Ye Tai Sword troops, many scythes, sabers, spears and other samurai joined the battle, and the Naga warriors resisted at the entrance of the street, and Sun Lin also found, The Ueno castle tower, which originally seemed to be uninhabited, had been filled with samurai bows at this time, and there were already some Xiyi samurai archers who had reached the required angles and began to throw arrows at Naga warriors, due to the strong power of the samurai bows, many Naga warriors fell helplessly after several arrows in their bodies, and the Naga Legion had been faintly suppressed and sent back.
At this time, Sun Lin also found that he had been calculated, letting the Naga troops surprise the coast and rushing into the town, and blocking the beach with a rain of fire and bullets, and letting the Ye Taidao troops ambush these things have only one purpose, that is, to eliminate these Naga warriors. The reason why he comprehended was because Sun Lin suddenly sounded a question, that is, ordinary ashigaru, how could those peasants recruited from the countryside operate those fire bomb trebuchets, in other words, how could the Hojo family, as the only one in the Saiyi family who could make engineering weapons, allow ordinary ashigaru to operate their patents, isn't the Hojo family afraid not to learn how to make fire bomb trebuchets?
And the Xiyi people do not have the ability to disassemble the fire bomb trebuchet into the ship for transportation, and no one will use the Xiyi warship, which has a limited internal space, to transport the fire bomb trebuchet, which is a very cheap war weapon made of wood, and the information provided by Maori Yuan, the Hojo family is in the end of the battlefield, before the two sides start the war, let the craftsmen and carpenters in the army have the wood collected in the city, and make the fire bomb trebuchet at zero hour, so the problem comes, at present, from the perspective of the density of fire bombs, There must have been more than 50 fire bomb trebuchets in the castle tower, and the number of fire bomb trebuchets on the coastline was nearly 100 before, so could the Hojo family carpenters really make such a large number of fire bomb trebuchets in such a short period of time? The answer is definitely no.
So after thinking about it, Sun Lin found that there was only one truth, that is, the fire bomb trebuchets placed on the beach were very likely to be models, and they did not have the ability to fight, including those ashigaru were just bait used to attract Naga warriors into the net.
"Interesting, it seems that Fu Fu is also a commander who is good at strategy, but .......... I don't know if he has found out how the sea clan soldiers who never set the sun are only so little." Sun Lin muttered, and the corners of his mouth gradually showed a smile, because just as the Naga warriors were struggling, a lot of smoke suddenly rose from behind the Ueno castle tower.