open sea

Chapter 589
Outside Tongshan City, the coalition forces of various daimyos have issued orders to dismantle the troops besieging Nizi's house, and the main formation built with prefabricated wooden boards in Aishan has also begun to be dismantled.

Half an hour ago, Xiao Xing, who led the peasants and soldiers to clean up the formation, received an order to move the formation to a new position at the foot of the mountain near Tongshan City. Now they received a new order to put the formation on a cart.

There is no need for this formation.

The Yamana clan's Ashgaru fought with this sneak attacking Ming army outside the city in a close to single-handed situation. The battle ended with the complete annihilation of the Yamana army. As for the enemy's losses, they didn't know, and they didn't dare to think about it.

Looking at the enemy soldiers who were rescued by the Korean soldiers from a distance, every general had the same question in his heart.

How many enemies have we killed, and how many enemies can we kill?

twenty?thirty?
But paid close to three hundred deaths?

"General, my troops, can we get iron armor? We need iron armor, and with iron armor, we don't have to die anymore!"

"Hahaha, you have iron armor. Not only will I give you thirty sets of iron armor, but you are very brave and fight well. You can all join my army. From now on, your surname will be Li." Li Rubai looked at the The leader of the Jurchen, who cut off his shoulder and took out the arrow, dismounted happily and patted his arm, saying, "Call me Li Dai, Li Dai!"

The leader fell to the ground with his hands on his shoulders, bowed his head and shouted: "My subordinate Li Dai, I am very grateful!"

If he had iron armor, he would not have to suffer from this kind of arrow wounds. If he could become the heir of the Li family, a small tribe living in the cracks of Jianzhou could rely on a big tree, and all problems could be solved easily.

In Jianzhou, the surname Li is not the highest honor, but it can solve many problems.

"Okay, the battle is not over yet, and the enemy should attack later." Li Rubai got on his horse, lowered his head and asked condescendingly, "Can your men continue to fight?"

"Subordinates should serve with death!"

"Haha, you can't die, take your people to join the cavalry and join the battle at the end." Li Rubai was very happy to have a new servant, and waved his hand: "Go!"

When he walked to the front of the formation again, he asked Wang Rulong who was holding a binoculars: "General, isn't the enemy planning to attack?"

"It seems to be frightened. Many people come and go in and out around the small tent. I don't know what to talk about with their county magistrate. Let's hit them." Wang Rulong turned his head and said: "If you don't fight, you don't want to retreat. If you don’t retreat, hit them once, you should be able to hit them—can you hit them?”

Wang Rulong was not asking Li Rubai, but the artillerymen under him, asking: "It's about five or six miles away?"

"Back to the general, it is five and a half miles, within the range of General Dazhenshuo." The two artillerymen looked at each other, and at the same time took out a small tool to measure the distance. The leader said: "We want to pull it from the boat, but It is very difficult to hit the enemy's central camp."

General Dazhenshuo was talking about ten-jin cannons. Wang Rulong didn't have a hundred artillerymen under his command, but they did have them on board.

It was pulled by four small horses, and the movement was slow. They originally wanted to fight in the field when they disembarked. The distance used in the exercise code is [-] steps, which is far less than this distance.

In fact, even if it is a ten-pound cannon, it is usually not fired from four miles away in a battle. When the artillery is most powerful, it is a flat shot that makes the shells jump, and can plow dozens of steps in a dense army formation. Shooting at a high angle of elevation will only make the shells jump. Hitting directly on the ground is a waste of firepower in most cases.

However, the situation of being able to see the enemy's military account is different.

"Go, pull out the cannon."

Facing the Honjin at the same time, the General of the Oda Reinforcement Army was Hosokawa Fujitaka, who served the general and became Nobunaga. For him, the world was too ironic.

When he dispatched troops, he had not yet been surrendered by the Isshiki and other clans. Nobunaga originally asked him to lead the army with Akechi Hinata Mori Mitsuhide to attack Tango, but because of the Niko clan's invasion, the Yamana, Isshiki and other families quickly sent people to negotiate peace with Oda , and asked for reinforcements-these retainers were unwilling to negotiate peace with them.

After attacking Xiadan, the most likely to get these fiefs is to lead the army to pacify the generals here, and it is obviously not beneficial to fight as reinforcements.

But Oda Nobunaga insisted on agreeing to the peace request, and sent Hosokawa Fujitaka and Akechi Mitsuhide to lead the army to help.

At this time, in the main formation, many generals were shouting loudly, yelling and cursing abnormally, and even divided into two factions to quarrel with each other, accusing each other of having no courage-but in fact, they didn't know why they were angry.

"Anger cannot defeat the enemy. Don't many warriors fear when the enemy is strong?"

Hosokawa Fujitaka sat in the formation, pulled out the folded fan from his waist and clapped it in his palm, suddenly smiled and said: "In that case, we don't want to beat them."

A group of generals: "Huh?"

"Well, don't fight them. At this time, the enemy is facing the sea, and the big ship is docked by the sea. I heard that their big ship has a large cannon that can shoot a mile. They are setting up their formation there. Isn't it just to attack us with artillery? ?”

Hosokawa Fujitaka asked: "Then if we don't fight them, will they be willing to put down the low city they built and come to attack us? At least not today. The enemy's purpose is to snatch the fields. We trapped them in the Here, if the food and grass are exhausted in a few days, they will naturally retreat."

"Behind me, Hinata Mamoru-sama prepared abundant and delicious rice grains in Sakaimachi. We are only one day behind, and our troops will be supplied with grains tomorrow. Is there anything to be afraid of?"

As he said that, Hosokawa Fujitaka stood up, pointed to the sketch drawn on the table with a folding fan, and said, "Therefore, we must send troops to stop the Kasuke team and prevent him from advancing eastward. As for the Ming army, we only need to besiege them." Now, when Hyuga Mori-sama's reinforcements arrive, with 2000 soldiers, even the gods can't rely on [-] people to stop them!"

"Oh!" The military commanders exaggeratedly opened their mouths and exclaimed: "You are indeed an adult from the Hosokawa clan, the leader of the third rank!"

Hosokawa Fujitaka showed a reserved smile with some embarrassment.

At this moment, the sound of gunfire on the coast frightened the generals in the formation. Some people got up but were tripped by Maza and fell to the ground. When I came out of the battle, I collided with the envoy who came to report.

"what happened!"

"Report to my lords, the Ming army on the coast has set up a large cannon in front of the formation, firing at us in disorder, the sound of the artillery is loud!"

Hosokawa Fujitaka walked to the gate of the formation and asked eagerly, "How about the casualties?"

"There were no casualties. The iron bullets ranged from far to near. Most of them landed in the open space in front of the formation. Only one seemed to miss it. It flew near the main formation and smashed the wooden barrel where Master Hosokawa took a bath."

"Hahaha! The wooden bucket for bathing!"

The warriors roared with laughter, and when they heard that there were no casualties, even the owner of the bathtub, Hosokawa Fujitaka, let out a long sigh of relief. Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly stopped, frowned and murmured: "Why would the missed shells Fly so far?"

"Spread away! All the shots missed, only that one was hit!" Suddenly, Hosokawa Fujitaka realized something, opened his arms and waved to the generals in the formation and shouted: "The enemy's goal is this—— "

The shells screamed and arrived as expected.

(End of this chapter)