Chapter Eighty-Three: Defending the City

"Naruto......" The piercing retreat call came from the iron horn in Sasa Naimasa's hand.

"Retreat?" No one else knew, but the soldiers of the Oda Army knew what the voice meant.

"Why did Master Guo Jia let us retreat?" The soldiers around were puzzled, but they had no choice but to obey Guo Jia's orders, and they had just woken up from the killing, and they also hurriedly found their comrades-in-arms and formed a small battle formation.

"Archers release arrows to suppress!" Guo Jia's retreat is not small, once it is reacted by Meinong's generals, of course they will chase after it.

The rain of arrows was released, which effectively suppressed the attacking soldiers from all sides, and the two regiments of Wind and Fire also woke up and retreated in an orderly manner when they heard the trumpet.

"They're retreating? Swift archers unleash arrows at the warbands to the north! "Saito Yoshiryu personally came to the battlefield, he saw some clues and immediately ordered.

"But there's still our army there!" A general is puzzled, isn't Saito Yoshiryu not afraid of hurting his own legion?

"Are you the leader or am I the leader! Shoot the arrows! Saito Yoshiryu looked coldly at the battle situation in the north.

In an instant, the sky full of stars in his formation shot towards the two groups of wind and fire, and even the soldiers of Mino were stunned, isn't the direction of this arrow our big camp! Arrows and bullets will not grow eyes to avoid friendly troops, the wind wheal with limited mobility is the first to taste the bitterness, the soldiers on the ground continue to entangle, the arrows in the sky continue to fall, and the soldiers are also slightly injured, but fortunately, the new armor that Guo Jia mass-produced for them greatly reduced their burden.

"Retreat!" Maeda Toshiya roared as hard as he could, but he didn't expect that Minong's group of people would not even let go of their own soldiers!

"Damn! Archers of the Lin regiment, I don't care how much reserve you have, if you don't want to see the death of your comrades-in-arms who get along day and night, shoot me with all your might! Guo Jia didn't understand what this general of Meinong thought, who taught this kind of battle of injuring the enemy by one thousand and losing eight hundred at that time!

The position of the Mino camp far exceeded the range of the Lin regiment, but the soldiers who heard Guo Jia's words immediately drew their bows with all their strength and released arrows at the archers who were shooting arrows at Minong. The rain of retaliatory arrows could barely do anything lethal, but the momentum frightened Mino's archers. You must know that there are many arrows in the sky that are shot at their eyes, which can be said to be fate or bad luck, and many unlucky eggs among Mino archers are shot in the eyes by this kind of stray arrow.

"I see them!" Zuo Zuo Chengzheng was able to become the head of the Lin regiment because of his good eyes, when he saw the shadows of the two regiments of wind and fire, Guo Jia picked up the telescope in his hand, indeed the two regiments were probably more than a thousand meters away from them, and the Mino army in front and south was only three hundred meters left.

"Damn! All archers stop both sides! They withdrew! Buy us time! "It's just that for a short while, if there is no fire machine to suppress the Meinong army, it will run in front of Guo Jia!

"Two more shots!" The two rounds that Sasa Narumasa said were that each soldier had more than ten arrows.

"The Iron Artillery Department is a hundred meters forward! When we advance, one round, the last round within 500 meters of wind and fire, retreat directly! "Guo Jiazema followed the advance of the Iron Artillery Department, and he needed to do everything possible to stop the advance of the soldiers in both directions. Now we can only rely on the Iron Cannon Department!

"My lord, it's raining!" Zuo Zuo Chengzheng hurriedly stopped Guo Jia.

"Huh? What's wrong with the rain? Guo Jia looked at Zuo Zuo Chengzheng suspiciously, and slapped his thigh at the moment, damn it! This is not modern! The iron cannon is still a traditional gunpowder lead, and when it rains, the rain will of course wet the lead, so the iron cannon department is basically wasted!

"Alas! I'll just say why Mino doesn't use iron cannons anymore! Guo Jia didn't wait for Zuo Zuo Chengzheng to explain and understand all this.

"That's it, listen to my orders, prepare for the first salvo!" Guo Jia turned his head, pointed to the frontal battle group in the east, and waved his hand, "Release!" "In an instant, the sky was full of arrows and arrows." This way! The salvo is not over yet, Guo Jia pointed his finger to the south!

In this way, this rain of arrows exchanged density for coverage, so that although he could block Minong's footsteps, he only had a second chance! "Go on!" Guo Jia didn't stop, because the wheal had already appeared in front of him, and the next thing was the ball of fire! Kilometers are not far away, as long as the speed is fast enough, of course they can rush back!

"Your Excellency!" Maeda Toshiya was about to report to Guo Jia when he interrupted him.

"Advanced City!" At this time, if the iron cannon can't be used, that's the best chance for the wheal, but Guo Jia doesn't want to startle the snake, he still wants to steal the high ground!

"Last round, keep putting!" This was the release of this rain of arrows, which ended this farcical battle. The evacuation of the Fire Regiment was the beginning of the entrenchment of Guo Jia's Inabayama Castle.

"They retreated? Hum! Just what the doctor ordered! Let's have a night raid tonight! Saito Yoshiryu had a sinister look on his face, and he wanted to use this battle to beat Guo Jia to the point where there was no place to turn over.

"Did the half-guards find it?" Thinking that his plan had something to do with this person who had an enmity with him, Yilong immediately became furious.

"Your Excellency hasn't heard from me yet." After the general said in fear, he was exchanged for a slap from Yilong.

"Rice bucket, don't look for it yet!"

The night before, the Takenaka Hanbei used less than twenty people to sneak into the castle tower through the dark passage of the path of Inabayama Castle and kidnap Saito Yoshiryu. On the contrary, for the last bit of relationship between the master and servant, Saito Yoshiryu was left with this plan to bomb the city and attack it.

He also left a lot of holes in this plan. Saito Yoshiryu is still martial and self-serving, but he is not stupid to the extreme, knowing that he can't beat Guo Jia, of course he will use the strategy of the half-guard. This is one of them. Among them, the ambush here is the bombing of the city, and the sneak attack is the battle just now. Bombing the city? If a country's daimyo has blown up his own country, can he still have the hearts of the people? Of course not! This is the second one. The third is a benefit given to Guo Jia by the half-guards, because once Guo Jia calculates that his soldiers suffer heavy casualties, Saito Yoshiryu and the sneak attack will of course force Guo Jia into the Inaba Mountain Castle, and he who has seen Guo Jia's resourcefulness and understands Yilong's character of course knows how Guo Jia will fight against this foolish king!

Leaving Inabayama Castle, this is Guo Jia's fortress, as for how he uses it here, that's another matter. He didn't know the strength of the Oda army, but he knew the combat effectiveness of this group.

"Guo Jia! If you can take Mino down, then how about me assisting you! In the distance, a man stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at Inabayama Castle halfway up the mountain, shook his head, and rode towards Owari.

As if cooperating with Guo Jia, the Mino army did not continue the attack after they retreated, so that the Oda army got a lot of respite.

"My lord, all the people in the fire group have been rescued!" Hidetaka Kawajiri said weakly as he looked at the embarrassed crowd.

"Let's settle down first. All the wounded are assembled, and the medic is on your way! Guo Jia pinched his eyebrows with his fingers, he felt that he was very tired.

"Aren't we going to settle in the castle tower?" Hidetaka Kawajiri didn't understand, wouldn't it be better to defend the Inabayama Castle Tower at this time.

"Word says there's a secret passage here. Forget it. Let's set up camp in the city, and the residents have run away anyway. Guo Jia shook his head, and when he came back just now, he calmly analyzed what happened. There was only one thing he could be sure of was that the half-guard had really defected, and it was definitely not this person who was fighting him now!

It is a big taboo to pour all the troops out of the nest, and the half-guards will not make such a mistake. Indiscriminate shooting, regardless of the lives of friendly soldiers, this kind of thing half-guards can't do either. Then the one who can do such a thing is a rude, irritable, impulsive, self-righteous person! A series of labels reminded Guo Jia of an enemy, Saito Yoshiryu.

Yoshiryu Saito! You pay the price for doing this!

"Assign barracks places! Rest in the rear of the mountain group, take turns to rest system, thousands of people rotate in shifts, don't take off your armor during the period! The fire group and the forest group are in the middle, you have worked hard today, have a good rest. If there's a situation, get ready for battle! Wheals, you are ahead. In the same way, don't take a break in unison, it's also a rotation system! Guo Jia arranged the rest positions of the four regiments in detail, and then wiped his face with the rain in the sky.

He wanted to sober himself up, this should be a more difficult time, he needed to think more, and the more detailed the plan he arranged, the greater the chance of victory in this battle!

"Four generals here!" Guo Jia yelled at the army and beckoned Shibata to come over to discuss the follow-up.

"Let's report on the situation first. Wind Volcanic Forest Order! Guo Jia was very tired, so he took a few people to find a house and take shelter from the rain.

"The wheals lost one hundred and twenty-four and slightly injured three hundred and fifty-nine. Most of the seriously injured ones are gone. Maeda Toshiya sighed and looked at Guo Jia helplessly.

"The fire regiment, the invasion was like a fire, and the loss was 637 people, 80 people were slightly wounded, and 332 people were seriously injured." Shibata Katsuya didn't know where to vent his anger and smashed his fist on the tatami mat.

"There is no loss in the mountain group."

"The Lin Regiment Bow and Arrow Department has run out of ammunition, and the Iron Artillery Department has lost about a bag of gunpowder per person! There is no damage, but it is basically ineffective! Sasa Naimasa shrugged his shoulders, his forest regiment, as the only long-range combat group of the Oda Army, had almost no combat power after losing military resources, and what remained was nothing more than the last bag of gunpowder in the Iron Artillery Department.

"Thank you for your hard work. This time I was a little reckless. Guo Jia closed his eyes, and the heavy atmosphere in the room made him breathless.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have already ordered the Thunder Regiment to take the city, and now we are stationed here, not that we can't defeat Mino, because we have already assembled, and this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. All we're trying to do is stall! Guo Jia began to explain the situation.

"Oh, one more thing! When they withdrew to Mt. Inaba just now, the Mino army did not continue the attack, and I suspect that they are going to surprise us tonight. First of all, I want to say that there is a castle tower behind us, and there is the main gate in front of us. And I suspect that it is more likely that they will attack from the castle towers! Then Guo Jia told all his inferences and shared them with the group of generals to get involved.

In the end, they still made the same decision as Guo Jia, that is, there will be no more Meinong in the island country after this war!