Kumamoto Castle is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, because it is surrounded by mountains, and the terrain is extremely complicated, even if you bring a large number of men and horses, you will not be able to use it, but it is easy to be attacked by defenders who are familiar with the terrain.

Fortunately, this is the territory of the Otomo clan, and Otomo Zonglin is quite familiar with this place, and he has only brought more than 10,000 people in total, just find a valley to station, and the camp of the army is impossible to disperse, and the defenders in the city have no chance to take advantage of.

However, such a fortified city surrounded by mountains is indeed difficult to overcome, without the help of iron artillery, let alone 10,000 horses, even if there are 20,000 or 30,000 horses, Otomo Zonglin will not lead the army to attack.

So, how did such a fortified city be attacked?

According to the suggestion of the captain sent by Wang Zhi, Otomo Sorin, all the iron cannons were erected on the hillside east of Kumamoto Castle, because it was less than a mile away from the walls of Kumamoto Castle, and the iron cannons could be mounted on the cannonballs.

Of course, Kikuchi Yoshitake knew that his nephew had led an army to fight, and he had even heard about Otomo Sorin's purchase of a batch of iron cannons, but he was still an old god and was not worried at all.

The iron cannon, he hadn't seen it, was indeed much more powerful than the bow, but the accuracy was extremely different.

If the two sides are fighting in the field, this iron cannon is indeed more terrifying, because once the two sides spread out the formation, it is at least a radius of a few miles, and the iron cannon does not need to be accurate at all, and it will be bombarded against the enemy, no matter where the shells fall, it can always hit so many unlucky ghosts, if the number of iron cannons is large, it will be even more terrifying, and hundreds of people can be killed in a random bombardment.

However, this siege battle is different, because the defenders of the city are all standing on the city wall, the target is small, and there is also the protection of arrow stacks or something, even if the cannonball hits over, it can't hit anyone, what is there to be afraid of?

Therefore, seeing his nephew busy outside the city, he didn't react at all, just kidding, just relying on this little man, he wanted to capture Kumamoto Castle, a fortified city in Kyushu, and his nephew was too naïve.

Outside the city, Otomo Zonglin prepared for two whole days, and finally built the siege equipment, and the iron cannons were all in place, and then, just wait to see the effect of the iron cannons.

The squad leader sent by Wang Zhi was really a bit of a brain, and he did not let the two hundred guns fire at once, but divided all the guns into five groups of forty guns each, and fired in turn.

In this way, there is basically no gap when the artillery is bombarded, because the five rounds of artillery come down, and the forty guns that fire in the first round are just loaded with ammunition, and so on, as long as the shells are enough, these two hundred iron cannons can also achieve the effect of forty standard tiger squat guns.

Kikuchi Yoshitake in the city was really startled when the cannon roared, this is a mountainous area, and the echoes are endless, forty cannons bombarded at once, and the sound was like ten thousand cannons firing in unison, and it never stopped for a long time.

However, fortunately, there were not many cannonballs that fell on the city wall, because this iron cannon did not have a crosshair, and there was no precise adjustment device, so to hit such a "small" target as the city wall, it would take at least four or five rounds of trial firing.

In the first round, forty cannonballs fell on the city wall, and as for the effect, it smashed an iron pot of boiling water, and smashed a pile of sandalwood that had been piled up, and the defenders of the city did not suffer any casualties at all.

When Kikuchi Yoshitake saw this situation, he almost didn't laugh out loud, the accuracy of this iron cannon is too outrageous!

However, he soon couldn't laugh, because the roar of the iron cannon was continuous, basically without stopping, and the landing point of the cannonball became more and more accurate, and after five rounds, the accuracy rate reached more than eighty.

This guy, dozens of shells smashed into the city wall non-stop, and the damage caused was a bit terrifying, the city defense facilities such as iron pots and sasswoods were basically smashed to pieces, scattered everywhere, although the soldiers defending the city had no casualties, but they were also so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads, and could only hide behind the arrow stacks and tremble.

Just kidding, once you poke your head out and are hit by a cannonball, it will be smashed to pieces, and there will be no rule of law.

At this time, if the Otomo clan's own army launched an attack, it would be troublesome, because no one on the city wall would dare to poke their heads out to stop it!

Kikuchi Yoshitake was still praying in his heart that Otomo Sorin would not take advantage of this time to attack, but Otomo Sorin had already waved his hand and asked several of his fierce generals to lead 5,000 men and horses to rush to the city wall.

At this moment, Kikuchi Yoshitake was really dumbfounded, because he had never expected this situation.

He didn't arrange 5,000 men and horses on the east wall, after all, there were less than 10,000 horses in the entire Kumamoto Castle, and all four walls had to be defended, how could he put most of the men and horses on one side, at this time there were less than 3,000 people on the east city wall, and all of them were so frightened that they hid under the arrow stacks and didn't dare to probe at all, how could this be good?

He originally thought that even if Otomo Zonglin attacked one city wall fiercely, he could still transfer people from the other three city walls to come over to support, but at this time, he was dumbfounded, and he couldn't give this order at all, because there were cannonballs falling on the eastern city wall all the time, and he couldn't avoid these cannonballs if he sent people from other city walls to support!

With his stunned effort, the Otomo clan's own army had already poured onto the city wall like a tide.

At this time, the roar of artillery stopped, but the defenders on the city wall still did not play any role, because there were really a lot of fierce generals under Otomo Sorin, and there was no one in Kumamoto Castle who was their opponent at all, and the defenders of Kumamoto Castle were originally also the army under the Otomo clan.

As a result, the defenders on the city wall basically made a slight appearance, resisted for a while, and when they saw that they couldn't do it, they surrendered one after another.

Kikuchi Yoshitake saw that the situation was not right, and was about to escape, but he never thought about it, but he was surrounded by several wealthy clans in Higo Province and his private regiments!

There is no way, at this time, the main army of the Otomo clan has entered the city, and they have to try their best to forgive their sins in order to obtain the forgiveness of Otomo Sorin, otherwise, the family business in their hands will be completely finished.

They just made eye contact, and then they all set their eyes on Kikuchi Yoshitake, if it wasn't for this guy's instigation, how could they have betrayed the Otomo clan!

As long as this guy is handed over to Otomo Sorin, presumably Otomo Sorin will forgive them.

I don't know who howled first, and then everyone rushed up, pressed Kikuchi Yoshitake to the ground, and tied it tightly.

As a result, Otomo Sorin easily won Kumamoto, the male city of Kyushu.

Although this battle did not last long, it shocked the entire Kyushu and even Toei, because the Otomo clan's own army was so powerful that it attacked Kumamoto, a fortified city with more than 10,000 men and horses, which was also garrisoned by almost 10,000 people, and actually fought down, and there were basically no casualties in this army.

This guy is simply the reincarnation of the god of war!

Soon, the name of the god of war of Otomo Zonglin spread throughout Dongying, and the more it spread, the more mysterious it became, and when it came to the back, the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan were even a little afraid, in the face of such a god of war, how could they resist it?

This thing seems a bit ridiculous, just by virtue of the iron cannon, he took a county seat, and he became the god of war, is there any mistake?

Make no mistake, because the strength of the princes of Dongying is not very strong, and if you can defeat thousands of people and horses in the battle, you will be a famous general, and if you can defeat tens of thousands of horses, then you will be the god of war.

Otomo Sorin's army defeated the tens of thousands of horses stationed in Xiongcheng Kumamoto, which was more than twice as difficult as the field battle, which can't be called the god of war, who else can be called the god of war?