Although it is a little bit, the way of forbearance of the samurai in this year is still good, and after a rapid march for half a night, just after dawn, the Three Rivers Legion sounded the battle horn.

It is worthy of the old foundation of the Tokugawa family, the soldiers, the entire Mikawa Army is equipped with the strongest carcass armor in the Wa country, holding the sharpest katana, spears, and the whole army has 2,000 iron cannons, but in the Wa country, the popularity of cannons is really low, even for the siege of the city, this Itakura Shigemasa only brought five large cylinders, which is smaller than the large barrel that defended the Iki Island castle tower.

This thing doesn't even need to be called a cannon, it's almost the same as a musket, because this thing itself is an iron cannon that is magnified about four or five times, and the firing method is a bit similar to the gun in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, correspondingly, the city defense of the Wa Kingdom is more than a few meters high than the Ming Dynasty, and the city defense is really simple, just like the island city in front of you, which is a typical architectural form of the Wa Kingdom even Guo Ping Castle, which can really be called a city, only the main pill where the lords live on the hill, and the petals on the plain below are connected to the two no pills and three no maru, and the town and other buildings, these places are the real city functions, but many of them do not even have the city wall.

Just like the ninja city known as the world's fortified city, so that Ishida Sancheng more than 20,000 troops collapsed and sunk in the sand, there is almost no city wall, the city is strong in the geographical location, the whole city is located in a swamp on a small hillside, surrounded by muddy paddy fields and swamps, surrounded by moats There are only a few narrow intersections to walk, not to mention the 20,000 army, the 200,000 army can not be opened when it arrives there, and can only go up to grind a small team, just like Zhao Guoma Fujun Zhao Hao once said, the road is dangerous and narrow, such as two rats in the hole, the brave wins!

As a result, this battle made Kai Ji, who only had 500 samurai but overwhelmed the man, famous all over the world.

Compared to Ninja City, the city defense of Shimahara Castle is actually stronger, at least Ninomaru and Sannomaru and other places are also surrounded by a circle of wooden walls, but unfortunately the geographical location here is much flatter than Ninja City, there is no danger at all to block the enemy army approaching the city wall, which is also the reason why Itakura Shigesheng dares to pack a ticket to go down to the city in one day.

Although they have endured it for more than ten years, no one has a blood and anger in their hearts, but the vast majority of those who rebelled were indeed only peasants, and the shogunate army appeared too suddenly, as soon as the military horn came out, the castle suddenly became chaotic, seeing this scene, the overseer personally stepped forward Itakura Shigemasa couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"The blue sea team holds the ladder first! The Hatdou team was suppressed with iron cannons, and the samurai advanced without retreating! Those who dare to stand in the way will be killed, and before sunset today, I will take down the head of the traitor Amakusa Shizhen!"

Although this thing is said to be a young and ignorant young man, in fact, Itakura Shigemasa is not small at all, he is already in his forties at the time of this war, and the young one is just a reckless character.

And his rich experience in battle formations is also enough to qualify him for recklessness, when the Tokugawa family fought the last two battles of the Toyotomi family, the Osaka Winter Formation, and the Summer Formation, he participated in both the battles, and personally fought against Sanada Yukimura, who was known as the world's first soldier, and really overpowered the old Toyotomi Party.

On the wooden lawn at the head of the city, a group of Catholic people shot arrows downwards in a chaotic manner, and the range of the bow was actually only a few tens of meters long, under the spiritual pressure of the samurai wielding swords and guns and screaming, most of them fell in front of the samurai, even if a few unlucky people who were close to were shot, the injury was not serious.

I have to say what kind of soldiers, a few arrowed warriors actually fiercely pulled out the arrows on their bodies, waving bloody arrows and continuing to boast of bravery, in the provocation of the ghost fox and wolf howl, even Mao Jue felt panicked when he saw it, not to mention some peasants who had just thrown down their hoes, although there were priests who continued to appease on the side, but the rain of arrows that had no effect on the head of the city was still falling, shooting the open space under the city like a reed.

Here's why bows and arrows have been replaced by muskets in their primitive state! Pulling the bow is a hard work, a long-trained archer shoots more than a dozen arrows in a row, his arm is also sore, it is difficult to pull the bow again, and he needs to rest for a while before he can continue to fight, this is still a bow samurai, these peasants' patience is even worse, after shooting seven or eight arrows in a row, I saw Itakura Shigemashiro who was carrying a knife in person to Ninomaru suddenly snorted out of his nose.

"En~ah!"

The samurai swordsmen who were still screaming and provocative with swords and military fans just now suddenly got out of the way, and the iron gunners of the Hata Bean team with muskets rushed out of the way seven or eight meters away with a scream.

The deterrent effect brought by the muzzle of the black hole can be imagined, and under the horror, some of the people in the city actually turned around and ran, even if the rest shook their teeth and pulled their bows, they couldn't draw the round, and in the buzz of headless flies, those iron cannons opened fire.

The iron cannon of the Japanese people, even the Ming army changed color when they heard it in the battle of Bihoguan, and suffered heavy casualties, not to mention these peasants, just listen to the projectile flying by, and there was a large cluster of bullet holes on the wooden lawn of the heavy Guo wall of Shimahara Castle, and the people behind Shimahara fell backwards like dumplings.

"One team to collect! Second team on!"

Under the unpleasant order of Qiben, the samurai who let go of the iron cannon squatted down, and then the iron gunners in the rear team raised their guns again, and in the whistling lead bullets, hundreds of people fell, and under the continuous shooting, the firepower of the wall was actually suppressed in this way.

Taking advantage of this kung fu to get close to the range of ten meters, a group of sword warriors and ghosts began to charge with ladders in the howling of wolves, and there was a samurai hanging at the top of each ladder, and in a moment, the ladder was pressed to the wooden gun, and a group of people with a cross embroidered with white cloth on their heads were still there shouting and drawing their bows, and a black shadow blocked his head, and raised his head in horror, and the next second, the fear from his heart forced him to shout frantically.

Click~

The blade waved, the sound stopped abruptly with the head falling, carrying the human head, the samurai who rushed to the head of the city frantically slashed left and right, the cold shining katana almost slashed a human head, blood flew, the human head rolled down, and the Japanese samurai who came up the ladder below were still rolling like ants, and finally the chaos turned into a complete rout, and thousands of Shimahara were defeated, crying and fleeing to the city.

Poof, a knife stabbed into the stomach of a rebel, and the knife fell off with a whirlwind, and in the sound of clicking, in the eyes of the rebel's fear and despair, Itakura Shigemasa took off his head and shoulders, and the blood and internal organs were all over, and the beastly nature of this old devil was vividly stimulated, and he actually leaned over and jumped down from the wall more than three meters high, and cut three or four people in a row, holding a blood-dripping knife, and the old devil was crazy and shouted with his head raised.

Also like a pack of wolves, the blue sea warriors who landed in the city also howled bloodthirsty wolves and rushed forward.

In just one morning, Shimahara Castle Honmaru seemed to have fallen.

The gates of the city were unloaded alive, and a steady stream of samurai rushed in from there, killing the red-eyed samurai, men, women, and children, killing people on sight, and the corpses rushed to the streets, and the blood actually gathered into a small river, flowing endlessly.

Standing on the high place of the main pill and looking down, a Tai Chi seems to be clearly exposed at the bottom of the mountain, but it is completely different from the peace of Taoism, the larger white is devoured by madness, and the smaller black is fangs and claws, fierce forward, with the intention of killing everything.

"Tento! Matsumoto Knight defeated! The infidels are slaughtering the children of Heaven!"

Seeing this scene, dozens of elders dressed in white and wearing cross white cloths were already in a cold sweat, however, the one who was surrounded by them was actually only a teenager.

Although it is a child, this child is definitely different from the ordinary little children who pee He Mu, shouting and bleeding, even if these adults are sweaty with fear, but he actually always closes his eyes and calmly recites the scriptures, until the shouting is almost in front of him, and the Tiantong who has finished reciting a piece of the Bible slowly opened his eyes, stood up, and the wind blew his robe and flew elegantly.

"Suffering and bloodshed are the only way to prove the piety of our Lord, these brothers have ascended directly to Heaven in pain and fear, and they have been favored by the Father, and I envy them!"

It was a very melancholy sentence, and the eyes of the white-clothed Tiantong were clouded, looking at the shogunate army who had already killed the long bridge between Ninomaru and Honmaru, and a particularly powerful killing force appeared in his pupils.

"But it is time for the mad and rebellious heretics to go to hell for their crimes, Great Shepherd, order that the yellow and white things be released, and that their hearts be confused first!"

"Order!"

Yamashita Ninomaru is completely broken, in case the crowd is chased and killed in front of Honmaru Mountain Castle, on the narrow mountain road, carrying a human head in his left hand, Itakura Shigemasa is still frantically chasing and killing, this old devil's chest is stained with blood, and his face is full of blood like a ghost, seeing that the Honmaru Castle Gate is also in front of him, a hideous smile can't help but bloom on his old face.

But at this time, the pace of the chasing Japanese army was chaotic!

Boxes were opened on the hillside, and the gold and silver money that the Shimabara clan had turned over, the women's jewels and rouge, and the gorgeous silk cloth crackled and rolled down.

Gold and silver are huge for every army, even if Mao Jue's Tieyi Town, even if Mao Jue can't stop the scramble, so he can only drag the scramble behind, just like the Qi family's army mandarin duck array, each formation has a special knife hand, responsible for turning over the corpse after the battle, cutting off the enemy's ears as a credit record, which allows the soldiers to concentrate on fighting, not afraid of no merit in the back.

But even the children of the Mikawa Legion started by Tokugawa Ieyasu obviously had this precaution, and when they saw the glittering gold and silver falling, the lower-ranking samurai who had just fought bravely began to bend down and fight, and they became chaotic.

slashed two or three people in a row, but they didn't stop the chaos, and Itakura Shigemasa's long face was almost angry and turned into a pig's liver color.

But the catastrophe he faced had only just begun.

Jue was different from the chaotic peasants just now, more than a thousand people began to slowly emerge behind the crowd that had escaped from Ninomaru, and looking at their slow appearance with their knives, the face of Itakura Shigemasa, who was originally disdainful, changed.

With the intuition of a warrior, these people are by no means weak!

Before following the lord, many of the vassals of the Ma clan also believed in Catholicism, and Ma Zongchun's suppression and massacre made his hearts scattered, and when he turned to Hyuga, these retainers were not willing to follow him at all, and stayed in the local area.

"Yaga! Team Beans, Iron Gunners! Above! Those who dare to mess with the team will be executed on the spot!"

Feeling bad, the madman Itakura Shigemasa was so impatient to organize the team, and the dense sound of iron cannons could be regarded as leveling the shogunate army a little, but this effort, those white-clothed samurai who were slowly marching in line also stopped their pace, and at a position dozens of meters away from the shogunate soldiers, no one took off the big bow behind their backs, and the rockets emitting billowing black smoke pointed obliquely at the blue sky.

Standing in the Honmaru Castle Tower, the corners of the white-clothed tendon's mouth once again hooked up a cruel arc, and an empty voice came out of his mouth.

"Burn the world and clean the fire, rise!"

Itakura Shigemasa looked stunned, a thousand rockets dragged their black tails and landed in his own team, a few casualties were insignificant to him, but what made him unbelievable!

Behind!

Wooden bridge, Ninomaru's scattered houses, a wave of fire that rushed to the sky gathered like a devil with teeth and claws, on the bridge, the shogunate samurai ghost who was on fire cried wolf howl and rolled, and finally fell into the trench screaming, between the streets, the children of Mikawa, who were still frantically looting just now, also lost their armor, coughed and fled in all directions.

"It's so ruthless!"

After trembling for a long time, Itakura Shigemasa shouted this sentence with difficulty.

Fire attacks are not uncommon in military history, but even they don't let go, and the fire attack with the enemy is a difficult one, and it has long been expected that the Ichikura army is by no means the opponent of the shogunate's crusade against the team, and as soon as he took Shimabara Castle, Amakusa Shisada ordered to pile up all the grease and firewood of the four fields in the Ninomaru and Sannomaru, and he had long planned to use the fire to fight the victory.

In the streets, the members of the Cross who had set the fire themselves knelt on the ground, prayed loudly and painfully, and finally disappeared into the flames screaming under the flames, and the blood of the believers who had just been killed as bait slowly dried up.

On the hillside, under the leadership of the backbone of those retainers and samurai, thousands of soldiers wearing crosses on their heads frantically pounced down, facing the black smoke and flames that soared into the sky, on the castle tower, the white-clothed sky was dancing smartly and bewitchingly, listening to the terrible fighting sound in his ears, he suddenly raised his sword, and the shogunate general Itakura Shigemasa rushed into the crowd again.

"Withdraw!"

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Itakura Shigemasa's bravery is indeed enough to support his recklessness, even if he is under siege, with the remnants of the Mikawa samurai, he can actually kill a bloody way from the fire, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Mikawa Legion that has been trapped in the city for half a day re-emerged under the burning Shimahara Castle, but the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses when attacking in the morning, now there are more than 4,000 left, looking at the subordinates who burned their faces blackened, and then thinking about the Haikou he boasted about yesterday, Itakura Shigemasa is old tears.

Kneeling on the ground, the old devil simply ripped off his belt, exposed his belly, pulled out his ribs and leaned above his abdomen, and shouted with his head high.

"Itakura Shigemasa has the trust of the general to bear the heavy trust, and he has no shame to go back, and then apologize for his sins! Juro Suzuki, after I die, you will be the general, bring back the Mikawa Army!"

"General, don't!"

Seeing that Itakura Shigemasa was about to cut his belly with a knife, more than a dozen retainers knelt down in a panic, pulling and dissuading him in horror.

But just when Itakura Shigemasa was in despair, the real despair came again, and he grabbed his hand holding the rib insertion, and Suzuki Juro, who was ordered by him to be his successor, pointed frantically behind him.

"Look, General! Look!"

In the howling sea breeze, I don't know when there are thousands of ships of all sizes on the coastline, and there are thousands of boats of all sizes, including small mornings and flat sand boats, all of which look like Japanese boats, but the banner of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman, which hangs high on the boats, clearly conveys a message to Itakura Shigemasa.

Lao Tzu is not his own person!

"The !! of the Wakos"

Standing up with a blood-stained sword, Itakura Shigemasa roared unbelievably loudly.

At the head of Shimahara Castle, the white-clothed tendo stood on the head of the cave like a monster............

(End of chapter)