The less a person needs, the greater his happiness, and the more a person desires, the less freedom he has.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

Compared with the desperate Uesugi army, the soldiers of the Mogami army did not care about the initiative to attack, and when they retreated south with the Uesugi army, they were well aware of the stark contrast between the burning and looting of the Uesugi army and the selfless relief of the Yan and Huang army.

If it weren't for the fact that their families were controlled by the Uesugi army in the name of protection, they would rather join forces with the Yanhuang army outside the city to annihilate the Uesugi army in the city, rather than join forces with the Uesugi army inside the city to deal with the Yanhuang army outside the city.

However, war has never been decided by the will of the people, and what can directly determine the outcome of a war is the difference in strength between the two armies and the superiority of their weapons and equipment; in these two crucial aspects, the Yan and Huang armies outside the city undoubtedly have a great advantage.

At the east gate of Hasedo Castle, the soldiers of the Uesugi and Mogami coalition forces did not immediately launch an attack on the Yanhuang army 500 meters away, but organized the queue step by step under the command of their respective ashigaru generals.

Watching the enemy soldiers who were about to attack him form a line in front of his eyes was a very painful thing for a barbarian general like Valc, but he couldn't take the initiative because the walls of Hasedo Castle were full of bows and arrows.

Also suffering are the 10,000 soldiers of the 3rd Lucy Legion on both wings, wearing leather armor and holding a round shield in their left hand and a long sword in their right hand, they already have the natural belligerent blood of barbarian warriors flowing in their bodies, and it is really difficult for them to let them wait like this.

The artillery gunners, who had already been loaded with ammunition, were not as eager as the barbarian warriors on either side, and their task was not to engage the enemy in close quarters, so it made no difference to them whether the enemy attacked as soon as the gates were opened, or whether they had formed a line and attacked again.

About half an hour later, the soldiers of the Uesugi and Mogami coalition forces, under the command of Daiki Ando, mobilized only 10,000 soldiers and launched a tentative attack on Valker's headquarters in three directions.

Daiki Ando was already a rough martial artist, so naturally he would not do anything to boost morale before the war; after giving the order to attack simply and directly, the 10,000 ashigaru divided into three parts ran and killed the front under the command of the three generals.

Looking at the extremely dense column of enemy troops in front of them, the 600 iron gunners in the first row, who did not even need to aim, raised the iron cannons in their hands; because the range of the iron guns was limited, the shooting of the iron gunners had to wait until the enemy troops rushed in front of them.

The short distance of 500 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, and 150 meters is only a matter of a moment for the charging soldiers; seeing the enemy troops enter the 100-meter range, the temporary commander of the first row of iron artillery and gunners suddenly shouted: "Shoot!"

"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"

As a burst of gunfire rang out, wisps of white gunpowder smoke rose from the sky above the iron artillery gunners, and the enemy soldiers they faced were like wheat that had been cut down, and they fell down one by one, either killed or wounded.

Before the stunned enemy could react, the 600 iron gunners who had finished shooting in the first row had already crouched down, and then the second row of iron gunners who had raised their iron cannons in their hands pulled the trigger under the orders of their temporary commander.

"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"

Another burst of gunfire rang out, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air became stronger, and the number of enemy soldiers who fell to the ground increased by nearly two hundred, but compared with the actual casualties caused by the two rounds of fire, the blow to the morale of the enemy was fatal to the fire of the iron gunners.

The selfish Ando Daiki made the soldiers of the Mogami Army rush to the front, followed by the soldiers of the Uesugi Army, which directly led to the fact that the morale of the Mogami Army was already low, and they suffered a head-on blow from the iron artillery gunners.

Before the 600 iron artillery and gunmen in the second platoon could crouch down, nearly half of the Mogami army in the middle collapsed; seeing the Mogami army in front of him turn around and run recklessly, the general of the Uesugi army in charge of the command directly drew his katana and cut down the two fastest routers to the ground: "Rush forward for me! Whoever dares to retreat will be killed immediately, and his family will be executed together!"

Since retreating is a dead end, and it will implicate your family in the city, it is better to turn around and rush forward, even if you die on the battlefield, so that your family will not be implicated;

The general of the Uesugi army, who had no trust in the Mogami army, did not believe in the Mogami soldiers who were forced to rush forward, and he transferred 100 soldiers from the Uesugi army, which was closely behind the Mogami army, and temporarily formed a team of warlords who specialized in slashing and killing the rout.

Seeing that the already crumbling enemy forces were once again within range of their own fire, the temporary commander of the third row of iron gunners immediately ordered to shoot, and then the first row of iron gunners who had reloaded their ammunition stood up again and pulled the trigger of the iron guns in their hands.

At a distance of about 100 meters, with the firing speed and reloading speed of the iron gunners, even if they used tactics such as three shots, they could only complete three to four rounds of salvos at most, but one collapse of the Mogami army allowed the iron gunners to complete an astonishing six rounds of salvos!

The 3,600 buckshots fired in six volleys cost the Mogami army, which was forced forward by the Uesugi army, 2,000 ashigaru, at least more than 1,200 ashigaru, and if it weren't for the fact that their families were controlled by the Uesugi army, they would have been defeated long ago.

Immediately after the six rounds of firing were over, the three rows of iron gunners began to retreat, for they had behind them the enemy troops with wooden thorns and fences, and the Mogami army, which could only go around from both sides of the horses and the fence, was confronted by two thousand barbarian warriors who were eager to fight.

Valker, who had three wings in his hands, in addition to deploying a wing on both flanks of the Chinese army where the iron artillery gunners were located, also deployed 2,000 soldiers in the Chinese army to protect the iron artillery gunners, and he himself only left 3,000 soldiers by his side.

The attack of less than 1,000 remnants of the Mogami army and 2,000 Uesugi troops was nothing more than a piece of fat to the 2,000 brave and skilled barbarian warriors;

The individual combat effectiveness of the barbarian warriors was far superior to that of the Uesugi and Mogami coalition armies, and then 5,000 well-equipped barbarian warriors fought against the 3,000 poorly equipped Uesugi and Mogami coalition armies, and the disparity in strength turned the battle between the two armies into a massacre without suspense.