open sea

Chapter 378
Japanese pirates are unreliable!

Matsuura Takanobu was watching the situation outside the city at the keep, and asked the attendants over and over again where the Japanese pirates and wild samurai hired by them were.

Where else can I run away.

Seeing that the artillery was scattered in the city as if it was not aimed, it did not cause many casualties to them, but it did a great blow to morale. Even Matsuura Takanobu himself felt that there was no need to continue this battle.

Isn't it just surrendering to the bear with his own name in the Longzhaosi family?
Surrender is surrender, no big deal.

However, the movement of the war is far more complicated than he imagined. Naoshima Naoshige's direction is invisible, but it can be seen clearly from the three-story scull built against the mountain. In the far west field, an army is thinking that Covertly and slowly approaching the Longzou Temple Army.

Looking at the past from the towering mountain city, you can see everything at a glance!
It was this army that couldn't see the family crest clearly that made Matsuura Takanobu calm down, and kept conveying orders to his samurai to stick to it. Even after the gate of Ninomaru was blasted, he still ordered his subordinates to retreat to Honomaru to defend, and concentrated All iron cannons must use the "narrow" perforations on the wall to give these enemy troops who invaded their own territory a head-on blow.

"Patriarch, they are acting strangely, they are not here to save us."

"I know, but they are not allies of Longzou Temple. Their posture is to attack Longzao Temple."

Matsuura Takanobu's judgment was correct. Not long after Nanman Datong shattered the city gate, the warriors of Ryuzoji Temple who filed in filed in and fought with the Matsuura defenders who had not had time to retreat into the Honmaru. array.

Matsuura Takanobu opened the wooden door, and saw bursts of gunpowder smoke rising from the fields and forests, and several shells bombarded the city gate and enemy positions with screams.

At this time of crisis, Matsuura Takashi relaxed his confidence. No matter who it was, at least they were indeed here to attack the Ryuzoji family as he thought.

The biggest question that flashed through his mind was not who came, but looking at the two shells falling, wondering where the army's Nanban big barrel wanted to bombard?
"Hit!"

"go ahead!"

Accompanied by President Qi's cheerful shout, Chen Bazhi drew out his front finger of the sword and shouted. The suona sounded loudly in the formation of mandarin duck formations, and the banner soldiers crouching in the gunpowder smoke all got up, and the banners of thousands of households were facing hundreds of thousands of people. The household flag stands up from the ground, next to a tall iron-headed wolf trap, the small flag officer holds the flag and marches forward, followed by the flag army behind him.

At this time, half of the troops of Longzuo Temple had already entered the city, and many of the remaining troops were congested on the narrow bridge outside the city. They were suddenly hit by artillery fire from nowhere, and they were confused. They didn't know whether to enter the city or retreat. Good outside the city.

Naoshima Naoshima was also shocked by this attack. The bad omen in his heart came true, but until now he still thought that it was the troops of the Shimadzu family who attacked, and thought that the Aso clan of Sagara had joined forces with Shimadzu. The heart was even more horrified, and the first reaction was to send someone to send a letter to the Patriarch of Zojia City, informing him of the news of Shimadzu's attack.

Although he doesn't know how Shimadzu got here, but at this moment, the only ones who can sneak into Hirado without anyone noticing are the pirates of the Matsuura Party and the naval forces of the Shimadzu family, but the Matsuura Party has no big tube, In particular, there are not so many Nanban big tubes.

The samurai had just got on their horses, and Naoshima Naoshima had commanded the left wing of the siege army to form a formation to meet the enemy with the help of the houses and roads in the castle town. Arrange a straight line to prepare for the enemy's impact, and at the same time order the subordinates who attacked the city to withdraw as soon as possible.

"We must attack the city as soon as possible, and rely on Kusano City to defend and wait for reinforcements. Now we have to withdraw from the previous hard work!"

Facing the accusation from the Hyakutake sage, Naoshima Naoshige was not angry, and said: "The reason why we captured Caoye Castle was because of the two Nanban gates. Just now, the enemy's army had no less than fifteen salvoes. Can you defend the earthen fortress?" Keep it?"

Bai Wuxian was left speechless by the question, Nanban Datong's attack on the city was too strong, no matter how strong the earth and wood city was, it was like paper, even if they invaded the city at this moment, so what?
"Withdraw the army first and set up defenses. If the enemy's army is strong, it will withdraw." Naomi Naoshima said: "The most important thing is to keep the army, and we don't care about the gains or losses of a city."

Everyone sees war differently. In Chen Bazhi's eyes, war is a trick of the mind, so he chooses the most appropriate time, and just one blow can disrupt the enemy's army.An enemy without military spirit is the best enemy.

Six hundred households marched forward in a line formation. It was said that it was a line formation, but in fact it was a long snake formation fighting horizontally. A spearman and a wolf soldier, and finally three gunmen and the killer who protected them.

The sound was like a thunderbolt, and several artillery salvos fired from behind the six hundred households. The shells pierced through the air and blasted in front of the enemy's formation with a terrifying scream. The team panicked, and many people were frightened and fired the iron cannons ahead of time. The two lines crackled together, and the front line was also shaken.

By the time they formed into formation again, the six square formations of the Ming army had already advanced to [-] paces.

At this time, Naoshima Naoshige also turned the direction of his two Nanban large cylinders, and blasted them directly at the enemy's formation.

boom!boom!
Two Spanish naval guns roared one after another, and the ability to aim the guns at a distance of only [-] paces was no longer that important. Between, and then walk across several people.

More than a dozen people were killed, and what was even more frightening was that the formation of hundreds of recruits was on the verge of collapse. Baihu and Xiaoqi yelled loudly to restrain their subordinates.

The other shell did not hit the battle formation directly, and fell more than 30 steps in front of the formation, bounced a few times and rolled to the left of the formation. Even so, it slowed down the forward offensive of the hundred-household team.

In just a moment, Naoshima Naoshige seized the opportunity to ride his horse and shouted to pass through the iron cannon team, ordering them to fire the iron cannon to attack the enemy's formation, and at the same time ordered the long spears to gather. There are hundreds of people, even if they are only outside the city, they have the power to fight.

Chen Bazhi, who was blocked from the offensive, was not worried. He raised his hand and his subordinates waved their flags towards the forest. In a blink of an eye, the cannon C-banner, which was ambushing in the forest, received the attack signal. Long spears and light bows caused chaos in the enemy's rear.

Puff puff!
The iron cannon fired prematurely could not penetrate the large iron-covered shield a hundred paces away. Even if a few lead and iron pierced into the banner formation, they were easily blocked by the breastplate.

The Luzon Banner Army, whose morale was low after being shelled, suddenly discovered that the enemy's blunderbusses could not kill them, and their fighting spirit was very strong for a while, but under the restraint of the flag officer, no one dared to take the lead in firing the blunderbuss—disobedience to the order If you fire the gun in advance, your ears will be cut off.

Continue, continue to march silently amidst the loud suona sound.

Chen Bazhi watched the enemy's ashigaru gathered in the rear, and the distance between the two armies was nearly a hundred paces. He opened his hands and ordered: "The artillery bombards, the drums change their tunes, the banner troops are divided into formations, the tiger squats and shoots the birds and guns in rounds!"

In the blink of an eye when the cannon sounded again, the enemy's Ashgaru squad moved forward. They could already see the flying Xianglong flag clearly. Step forward alternately, and shoot them a small but neat burst in the neutral position of the formation.

"Gunshoulders, let go!"

Amid the loud orders of the hundred households, dozens of blunderbusses were fired forward from each square, and there was a muffled crisp sound.

Amidst the smoke, the Ashgaru charge did not stop.

(End of this chapter)