Chapter 272 Barbed Wire
In the lord's mansion, Tokugawa Ieyasu knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Marquis! My subordinates have already conquered the subordinates of the Takenaka half of the guards. Toyotomi Hideyoshi is overpowering to lead a 70,000 army to attack. My subordinates are willing to fight him to death for the vanguard!"
After hearing this, Li Fan nodded and said, "The army of 70,000 was gathered in a short time, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi was also a little capable.
However, it is just more than 70,000 troops, and this marquis doesn’t need you to fight to the death. Your mission is to besiege Kyoto and you cannot let Houyang become the emperor in the city!"
"... Yes! Marquis!" Tokugawa Ieyasu originally wanted to show his own methods in front of Li Fan and use these newly acquired prisoners as resources for gaining power, but he was rejected by Li Fan.
Although the Jingbei Army had 5,000 troops to Jiegang, there were more than 3,000 cavalry with small braids, and there were thousands of soldiers on the ship, didn’t they need cannon fodder?
Li Fan ignored the Tokugawa family's thoughts and continued: "How about Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacking Jiegang? Is it true that Holyhou wishes?
Defend the Border Port as planned, block the enemy layer by layer, and finally fight to the decisive battle in the city!"
"Yes! Marquis!" The neat answer sounded in the city lord's mansion, and the Jingbei Army also acted quickly.
Thousands of people walked out of the Border Port and began to dig trenches at the Border Port. The three-foot-long shovel was digging rapidly, and several trenches had already taken shape in a short time.
"Zhong Lin! Why are you a soldier? I heard that your family has married a wife and is about to give birth to a baby for you. Why are you still following the Marquis to Japan?" Sheng Yong inserted the short shovel in his hand to the ground and turned to ask the man beside him.
Zhong Lin also stopped his hand and gasped, saying, "The Tartars went south to harm Erlong Fort, and hundreds of people in the village almost starved to death on the mountain.
If the Marquis had not sent reinforcements, the whole village would have died. In order not to let Erlong Fort be threatened again, I would rather destroy all the enemies and save them from coming to harm our hometown again!"
Sheng Yong raised his thumbs up and said, "Good! I'm not as great as you. I heard that the women in Japan are good enough and obedient, so I came to see them. Don't say anything..."
Listening to Sheng Yong's words, Zhong Lin smiled awkwardly, grabbed the short shovel on the ground and dug the soil hard.
Seeing this, Sheng Yong's eyes turned, he patted Zhong Lin's shoulder and said, "Brother! Your wife is not just a Japanese girl, right? Tell me about it to brothers!"
The others also surrounded him when they heard this, and the old man stretched his neck wanted to hear what Zhong Lin said.
"Ahem..., what's there to say? Nuergandusi has a Japanese girl landed in every year. You will know when you marry one!" Zhong Lin coughed for a while, and after saying that, he dug the soil hard.
"The people from the Kamikaze Legion are here!" Someone shouted, and Zhong Lin and Sheng Yong stopped the movements in their hands and turned their heads to see a group of soldiers wearing plate armor coming.
Unlike ordinary Jingbei Army, this group of people still covered their thick armor on hot days, and even their face armor was unwilling to lift them.
The team walked to Sheng Yong, bowed respectfully to the leader, lifted his face and said, "Masayoshi Matsukabata to greet the two commanders. Please take care of him for the first time when we meet!"
Sheng Yong patted the other party on the shoulder and said, "Okay! It will be the life and death robe in the future, don't be so polite. You are here just in time, help dig the trenches first!"
"Hi! Follow the instructions of the Lord!" Song Fang Masayoshi bowed and invited the soldiers to join the work of digging the trenches.
What surprised Zhong Lin was that these people from the Kamikaze Legion did not even take off their armor even when they dug the trenches. Sweat flowed down the armor on the ground, and no one said anything.
Zhong Lin came to Song Fang Zhengyi and asked curiously: "Song Fang! Are you not idle? Why don't you take off your plate armor?"
Masayoshi Matsukara lifted his armor and said with a smile: "The rules of the Kamikaze Legion are that as long as you get up early, you cannot leave your body, otherwise you will be engaged in military law!"
"Hiss!" Zhong Lin took a breath like a toothache. Whether he wanted to be so perverted was simply a tormenting military rule.
Masayoshi Matsukata said proudly: "Only those who have attended their own funerals like this can be considered the true Kamikaze Legion.
Those from the Second Legion thought that they could claim to be the Kanfeng Legion in a few small fights? What a joke!”
With the addition of the Kamikaze Legion, the trench excavation speed has accelerated a lot, and the excavation has been completed many in advance.
Sheng Yong asked someone to carry out the prepared things and said, "Zhong Lin! You have been in the Marquis's personal guard. Do you know how to do this thing?
I heard that this thin thing can block the impact of the cavalry, but I don’t know if it is true!”
"That's right! This is the barbed wire mesh that Maoshan has just built recently, and it was tinkered with by Mr. Xu Guangqi, a student of the Marquis. It just needs to be wrapped around the wooden stake..."
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The sun shines on the land outside the Border Port, and the Jingbei Army resting in the trenches were awakened by the sound of cannons "Room!"
Sheng Yong got up from the trench, grabbed the muskets beside him and shouted: "All up, the Japanese pirates have attacked!"
After shouting, he felt it was inappropriate and secretly looked at Song Fang Zhengyi, who was also alert. He only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the other party was not abnormal.
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Takenaka Banbingwei stared at several trenches outside Jiegang City and frowned. In his opinion, the Ming people would definitely gather all their troops and fight with them in a formation.
Unexpectedly, the other party actually set up a defense line and planned to defend the harbor to the death. Doesn’t the wise man know that the longer the delay, the more unfavorable it will be for them?
By then, hundreds of thousands of soldiers from all over Japan will gather in Kyoto, and even if the Ming people can fight, it will be difficult to win.
But he didn't plan to continue waiting. Every day in Japan, the Ming people were humiliating Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
This time, the half-man guard of the Takenaka was already cautious, for fear of being attacked like last time. As a result, after being on guard for a long time, Mingren did not move at all, making his caution a joke.
Seeing the simple defense line outside the Jiegang, Takenaka Half-Baiwei couldn't help but smile cruelly. His front army had 15,000 troops, and with so many troops, it only took one charge to fill these trenches.
"The warriors of the Great Japanese Kingdom! The people who attacked Kyoto and besieged the Emperor were there. For the sake of the Great Japanese Kingdom and His Majesty, they entered the Bible Port without leaving any chickens and dogs!"
"kill!"
With the order of the half-man guard at Takenaka, three thousand soldiers immediately broke away from their formation and rushed towards the defense line outside the Border Port.
Sheng Yong held a musket in his hand, aiming at the enemy getting closer and closer, and shouted loudly: "Stay calm! Stay calm!"
"Boom!" The artillery in the distance was the first to fire, clearing out a passage among the Japanese in charge. But the Japanese quickly filled the passage and approached the trenches.
"Fire!" When the Japanese entered a sixty-step range, Sheng Yong finally issued a shooting order. For a moment, gunfire sounds in the trenches and bullets hit the Japanese like rain.
Chapter completed!