Chapter 24 Minghai City
Someone finally took over the difficult task, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Oda Nobunaga ordered his retainers to gather the peasant soldiers and prepare to join Minamihai City in three days. On the way out of Tianshou Pavilion, I secretly laughed several times, which made Yagyu Soyan and Ishikawa Wuyoumon a little confused.
The Kudo family is now very rich, and they are all professional soldiers. They are all professional soldiers all day long, except for training and patrol, and there is nothing to gather. However, this month of patrolling in the Mogu territory has made me change my previous practices. The peasant soldiers are useless. They are almost doing things when fighting in the field and siege, and they are running behind the samurai. When winning in the field, they can chase the enemy and beat the water dogs. However, in the battle situation, they must be the ones who escape first. However, peasant soldiers are still useful in defense, and about two or three people can use it as a samurai.
Now that I have Mogu City, I have also decided to recruit some peasant soldiers during the war. I can't go to the empty city plan at home when fighting, and get hundreds of peasant soldiers to defend. This time I brought six hundred iron artillery teams, one hundred flag guards, fifty ninjas. The remaining one hundred flag guards, fifty ninjas, and the peasant soldiers recruited in the next few days, under the leadership of Sonyan Yayao.
I put on my armor under the tidying of Sakura and Xiaohan sisters. Before going out, I stared at Sakura quietly, suddenly reached out and pulled Sakura's body into her arms, and hugged her tightly, 'I will come back safely, the Kudo family has never failed.'
Sakura said quietly in my arms, 'I know.'
Next, I made a lot of confidence, opened the paper door in the house, shouted to the eight hundred soldiers who had assembled in the yard, 'From now on, let's show the power of our Kudo family in this world.'
The morale of the eight hundred soldiers was greatly boosted, holding up the iron cannon in their left hand and shouting, "Strength, strength, strength."
Before leaving, I specially asked Ishikawa Yuemon, "How is the research on the grenade?" I found that in addition to lethality, the smoke bomb used for ninjas has become the prototype of the current grenade. I specially asked Ishikawa Yuemon to study gunpowder weapons with lethality. However, due to the limited power of black gunpowder, the research and development has not been very smooth.
Ishikawa Yuemon looked puzzled, "This is still in the experiment. There is too much gunpowder, and the weight is too large. I will not say it far, but I will still hurt myself. However, the ** bag that the lord said has been made, and the ejector made by bamboo has also been made."
‘Okay, bring more bags and ejectors, and this time the attack on Minghai City depends on them.’ I have always believed that the siege of the city has the lowest level since ancient times. Besides, my family is all iron artillery, and I have always lacked interest in climbing the city walls.
When I saw the 30-pound bag that Ishikawa Yuemon brought out from the gunpowder warehouse, I felt relieved. It seemed that this bag could be blown to death by 10 or 8. However, I really don’t have hope for the ejector. It seems that such a heavy bag cannot be thrown far. Fortunately, the bag can be used in another way. I still remember the story of Dong Cunrui bombing the bunker.
Three days later, under the city of Naruto City, in order to further consume the defense power in the city, Oda Nobunaga, who had a 15,000 army, did not attack Naruto City from the beginning, but instead sent my 500 iron artillery team with a wide range of stunning hands to shoot with the archers on the city wall. In my opinion, this is also because the peasants had just assembled and had not trained, so I was afraid that the peasants who had no protection might be shot back by a burst of arrows as soon as they rushed up.
On the afternoon of the first day of encirclement of Minghai City, the archers on the city wall were not sure whether they were too much casualties or had no strength. In short, they ignored the provocations under the city and did not even dare to show their heads. Basically, when someone showed up, I had dozens of iron cannons under my command, and I was scared to death. There were only two thousand defenders in the city, and they suffered heavy losses on the first day. The casualties of the iron artillery fired at the city were much smaller, and only a few unlucky people were shot on the foot.
Oda Nobunaga, who was in charge of Danshigaki Village, saw the long-range attack power in the city with a telescope and was frightened. He picked up the banner and said, "Sasa family, feint attacking the East Gate. Shibata, Danwu, Kawaji, you three attacked the North Gate and must take it down in one fell swoop."
It seems that I have no credit for it. ‘Your Highness Nobunaga, I brought a lot of gunpowder this time, and now I don’t dare to go down the city wall? Look. Why not open a hole in the north gate and then attack, even if it can’t be blown up, it will scare them.’
Oda Nobunaga immediately agreed, 'Okay, wait for the ** to hit the city immediately regardless of success or not.'
Outside the north gate, each of the five ninjas lifted two bags and quickly crossed the moat with the help of wooden boards and quickly approached the city gate. After ten bags fell together, the last ninja who left ignited the fuse with a fire fold. After running a few steps, he did not step onto the wooden board. Instead, he plunged into the moat. With a loud noise like a mountain collapse and tsunami, the city gate and the north wall collapsed more than ten feet.
Oda Nobunaga and I saw with our own eyes that under the afterglow of the sunset, a small mushroom cloud outside the northern city wall soared into the air. The soldiers on both sides were stunned for a few seconds because of the loud explosion. Suddenly, the Oda family troops outside the north gate cheered and threw away the prepared ladders and rushed to the gap. The soldiers in the city reacted slowly, mainly because many people who were avoiding shooting under the battlements were buried because of the collapse of the city wall. It was not until the first wave of Oda family's foot light rushed into the gap that they reacted. More and more soldiers from the defensive side blocked, and the two sides fought fiercely here, and for a while, swords and guns were raised at the same time, and flesh and blood flew. However, the Oda family, which had the advantage of numbers and physical strength, did not give the other party much chance. As more and more foot lights entered the city, the defenders near the city wall showed a sharp drop in geometric numbers.
Apart from the outer walls of Naruto, there is only a second-level Tianshou left. In the Tianshou, the Imakawa family's hard-working members still refused to surrender when the situation was over, and used Tianshou as the stronghold to resist stubbornly. Of course, with Oda Nobunaga's temper, whether it surrendered or not, it would probably be a word of death.
The battle lasted until the evening, until Okabe Motoshinobu was seriously injured, and a raging fire was ignited in Tianshou Pavilion. The offensive and defensive battle in Minghai City came to an end. At this time, news from Longchuan Ichiyi came, and the enemy's reinforcements vanguard, Matsuhira Motoyashi, led 1,500 Sanhe people to Dagao Castle.
At the military meeting that night, Oda Nobunaga Shin-chan made a great contribution, 'Tomorrow we will use this momentum to take over the Imakawa family. Tomorrow we will have breakfast in Mikawa, lunch in Toe, and dinner in Suruga.'
Hungry, it seems that I have heard of this declaration somewhere. However, it is worth affirming that Oda Nobunaga gave me a light lunch every day in order to defeat Imakawa Yoshimoto.
Chapter completed!