Pillars of the Wu family

() At about 300 pm on August [-]th, the sun in the sky has gradually slanted westward, and pieces of burning clouds hang from the top of the mountain. After less than an hour of preparation, simple wooden fences and bundles of bamboo tied with rattan The dead bamboo bundles were made. In order to contain the charge of the Miyoshi family on the mountain to the greatest extent, Yoshitoki Kira chose to set up a fence at a sharp turn [-] meters up the mountain road, so as to ensure that the angle formed outside the turn can be as large as possible. Maximize the effect of long-range attacks.

After a short wait, you can see a string of dots of fire gradually lighting up on the mountain. For medieval farmers who generally suffer from night blindness, the last twilight in the evening is not enough to clearly see the traces down the mountain road. The team formed a long snake formation and went down the mountain road repaired by the shogunate.

Carefully observe the long snake formation on the mountain, it seems that there is still a part of the army remaining on the mountain to contain the defenders, and a rough estimate can be measured that the army after the break on the mountain is at most 500 people. The ashigaru of the flag with the five nails of the ladder Ling, they rushed down the mountain by the impact of the hillside, and exchanged fire with the ashigaru of Kira's house behind the wooden fence.

In order to prevent one's own ashigaru from being blocked from retreating, there are not many ashigaru arranged in front of the wooden fence. It is also the best choice to add up to a hundred or so fully armed red warriors. Their responsibility is to slow down the speed of the miyoshi army going down the mountain , To gain time for the bow and arrow team behind them to retreat, they used the simple wooden fences that stretched down from the mountain layer upon layer to delay the attacks of Miyoshi's family time and time again.

As the Miyoshi Army launched a charge, the flames on the mountain lit up and more torches lit up, and the faint shouts of killing seemed to be the Hosokawa Army in Nakao Castle starting to attack. Yamamoto Tokiyuki said with a smile: "Hosokawa Jingzhaoden Really impatient, Yamashita started to fight back before the fight."

"It's good to be a step earlier, at least it can share the pressure of our family's attack." He also understands Hosokawa Harumoto's impatience. The autumn harvest just started and there is still a period of time before the new year's military rations are collected, so they are trapped on this high mountain. For more than a month, life must be very difficult.

The Hosokawa army was keenly aware of the abnormal movements at the foot of the mountain, and launched a counterattack immediately after the Miyoshi army withdrew. With this ability, Harumoto Hosokawa could not be called a military moron. It evolved into a typical two-headed annihilation battle.

The blocking army retreating while fighting on the mountain retreated into the main formation one after another after persisting for two quarters of an hour. Miyoshi's ashigaru had more than 200 people who died in the stagnant tactics, and their own losses were almost not too great. The Miyoshi army seemed aggrieved by the attack from bows and arrows. Their long-range troops were stuck in the rear and couldn't come up. The Miyoshi Army became even more restless.

"Master, look, the Miyoshi Army has already rushed down with roars." Yoshihiro Kira smiled. The purpose of preparing the wooden barrier to delay the morale of the Miyoshi Army is to damage the morale of the Miyoshi Army. We cannot give them a chance to calm down and think, otherwise his more than 3000 tired soldiers and Wouldn't it mean that the [-] army on the opposite side would suffer even greater losses if they were to consume it? If they didn't plan ahead, even if they won, they would still lose.

Kira's army set up a semi-circular geese formation on the flat ground at the exit of the mountain road, just covering all the enemies in their pockets and beating them hard. When the first group of people rushed out of the mountain road, they were greeted by the ruthless she of the archer team. Killing, screaming and falling corpses one by one, slowed down the follow-up troops.

"Don't stop! Go down!"

Someone shouted, and the Miyoshi family organized another round of offensive. This time, there were no less than 300 people rushing down. Yoshishi Kira immediately ordered the grenadier team to go out. Kato Koaki mustered all his strength for this, and he ordered the grenadiers to throw The bomb team took out the baked jade and lit it. He had also secretly tested the power before. This was the first time the new baked jade was used in actual combat, and he was looking forward to the actual effect.

When the flaming clay pots flew towards the crowd in the mountain path, the thunder exploded suddenly, and the violent explosion was accompanied by the pottery fragments shooting everywhere, tearing several people in the center of the explosion to pieces on the spot, and then the unlucky The people around them were killed by the high temperature blast and fragments from the gunpowder explosion in an instant.

Of course, the people who were killed on the spot were not the worst, but those who were farther away from the center of the explosion were even more miserable. The armor was burning, because he added fuel to these gunpowder pots, poured various animal and vegetable fats into it, and the flames that popped out of the explosion were just drops of simple kerosene, falling on these armors was simply the best combustion aid agent, and then one by one the firemen struggled and wailed and were burned to death.

Some of these people were lucky enough not to be killed or burnt to death on the spot, but the fragments of pottery pots that followed made their flesh and blood blurred, and they all wailed and rolled on the ground. Fading can still feel the intensity of their pain.

Such a tragic battle shocked all the ashigaru of the Miyoshi army. They had never seen such a powerful gunpowder weapon. They all retreated to the mountain while crying like crazy, shouting like crazy: "The evil spirit is coming! Yasha Come! Everyone run away!"

The group hadn't gone far before being chased back by the army coming from the mountain. Several warriors shouted to stop with their blood-stained katanas, but when they found out that they had run away, they immediately beheaded them in public. These warriors would not listen to them This group of people believe in one sentence, if you dare to retreat, I will dare to kill, shouting the obscure Shikoku accent, forcibly driving the Miyoshi army down the hillside, and then there is no more, these people are not flesh and blood who were bombed Flying horizontally is like being turned into a corpse in seconds by a bow, arrow and iron cannon.

"Baked jade, the secret weapon of the Mishima navy, it seems that the Miyoshi family has never seen his power." Yoshitomo Yoshitomo said with a smile.

"The Miyoshi family should have seen roasted jade." Tokiyuki Yamamoto said, "The old minister has seen roasted fire arrows when he was wandering in the West Country."

"Oh? The roasted arrows of the Mishima Navy? How powerful is it?" Yoshitomo Kira asked with great interest.

"The baked jade that I have seen is not so powerful. It is just a clay pot that can explode. It can destroy the opponent's ship at sea and set it on fire. It is not clear whether it can kill people, but It is definitely not as strong as the one made by the owner of the museum. The power of this new type of roasted jade is too strong, and Miyoshi’s family probably hasn’t realized that this is roasted jade.” Tokiyuki Yamamoto explained.

"The master craftsman means that the gunpowder formula I improved is too powerful, scaring them?" Kirayoshi nodded thoughtfully. In addition to income, only the Nanman culture that entered Kyushu a few years ago spread. The high-grade gunpowder formula is a secret no matter in the Ming Dynasty or the Nanman, and it is impossible to master it.

Japan is still using inferior black gunpowder, so the power of baked jade is not good, and the difficulty of storing gunpowder at sea will greatly reduce the power of baked jade. The granular gunpowder he made does not have this problem, and the existing invention The two ratios of gunpowder and explosives are the result of later experiments, and they have incomparable advantages over the most basic black powder.

This blocking battle lasted only half an hour before it was declared over. It was almost a one-sided siege without any injuries. The fool also knew that the fight would be fruitless. Leaving nearly [-] corpses behind, they fled up the mountain, but this was a mountain road with no other access. The road leading to Kyoto was blocked by Kira Yoshitoshi, and Nakao Castle at the end of the mountain road captured [-] troops Miyoshi Changyi's eight thousand troops are in good shape, let alone this group of remnants and defeated generals.

They were doomed to die. When the army on the mountain came down, Yoshitoki Kira also attacked from the bottom up at the same time. This group of defeated soldiers had nowhere to escape, and Miyoshi Changyi decisively declared his surrender.