Chapter Seventy-Seven: Defending and Counterattacking
The castle was finally completed within the allotted time, but it didn't look so new, but it felt like it had been through a lot of life. Moreover, there were no soldiers stationed in the city, and the smell of blood was faintly permeated from the wood. The charred earth speaks of its pain. It took three days to build the castle, the first day of which the defense of Sumamata was completed, and the second day was the beginning of the scene that led to the castle.
"My lord, the fortifications are finished. The next step is to garrison the barracks! The building materials have just arrived. "A centurion reports to Tengjilang.
And he stared at the Inabayama Castle in the distance, it was already noon, and it was impossible for the people of Inabayama Castle not to notice it. Standing on the highest watchtower, Tengjiro looked at all the possible roads for the march, and made a series of plans in his heart.
Now there is no movement in the Wind Volcanic Forest, if they attack at this time, it will be a team of the Thunder Regiment.
Fortunately, when he set off, Guo Jia specially equipped him with a thousand bows and arrows and more than 300 iron cannons. Maybe these things will save his life at some point.
Mino received the news that he was in the air, and the furious Saito Yoshiryu wanted to vent all his anger on the new castle of Sumamata, so he issued an order to withdraw his troops, and soon Mino's main army was assembled at the foot of Mt. Inaba. The sun was shining, but no one felt the warmth it radiated, but Saito Yoshiryu's anger made them tremble.
"Bulldoze the Sumamata for me!" An enraged Saito Yoshiryu ordered troops to be dispatched despite the dissuasion of those around him.
Especially the Takenaka Hanbei, who has lived in seclusion, he doesn't want to see the fall of Mino and goes out of the mountain to plead with Yoshiryu to listen to his plan, but unfortunately it backfires, and some people are just stubborn!
"My lord, we don't know the movement of the Oda army that has entered the hinterland, and we are afraid that we will be able to transfer the tiger from the mountain in a rash manner!" Hanbei is right, now the Oda Army only has the Thunder Regiment stationed in Sumamata, and the rest of the Wind Volcano Forest is nowhere to be seen, once Mino's main force goes out to bulldoze Sumamata, it is simple, but what if the Oda Army suddenly attacks Inabayama Castle, which has no defense?
"Humph! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You're in cahoots with that bastard of the Oda family! Saito Yoshiryu looked at Takenaka Hanbei with annoyance, in the past, he was not a person who was close to the Owari faction, and he had been with Guo Jia for a while. Now that the three of Saito Michido are in Owari, this person must have bad thoughts!
"Someone! Catch him and put him in jail! "Saito Yoshiryu didn't agree with each other and asked his soldiers to catch the Takenaka half-guard!
"My son, my son is also kind, I ask you to be magnanimous!" With a pop, Shigegen Takenaka knelt down, he knew the physique of the half-guard, and if he was thrown into prison, his son would die there in a few days!
"Humph! Arrest him for me, too! "Saito Yoshiryu, who has always advocated force, looks down on this kind of strategist who uses tricks behind others' backs, and he has long planned to capture Hanbei and others, but unfortunately there is no suitable reason.
"Troops!" This time, no one dared to stop Saito Yoshiryu, and the mighty Mino army began to advance towards the nearby Sumamata.
"Report, Mino has sent troops!" What should come will always come, and it is inevitable that Mino will send troops to Sumamata, but what Teng Jilang didn't expect was that this day would come so quickly.
"How's the troop?" Teng Jilang hurriedly ran up to the watchtower and looked in the direction of Mino. He didn't need his subordinates to say that he knew that this battle might be more than lucky!
"A rough estimate of eleven thousand!" Tengjilang and his men said a number in unison. Obviously, it was extremely difficult for his 3,000 Thunder Regiment to withstand this 10,000 troops. What to do?
"My lord, a letter from Katsuya Shibata." At this time, a ninja appeared behind the two of them, holding a bamboo tube in his hand.
Teng Jilang took the bamboo tube given by the members of the Yin Troupe, opened it and took out the note inside, which read, "We have arrived at Inuyama Castle." Depart for Sumamata. The two sentences summed up everything, and Teng Jilang instantly knew what they were doing. It seems that Lord Guo Jia really wants to attack Inabashan!
"All the staff stopped what they were doing, picked up their equipment and waited for the enemy to attack." The soldiers under the tower were still building the castle, and they didn't see Mino's army, but when they heard Tengjiro's order, they instantly entered the battle mode. On the five-meter-high wall stood soldiers with iron cannons, and under the walls were infantry without bows and arrows, and beyond that, the rest of the troops with bows and arrows waiting for the fire to end the melee battle.
The ground trembled a little, and the sand seemed to be dancing? The roaring pace gradually became clear from a distance, and Mino's main force appeared in everyone's field of vision.
In the front row were the resurrected cavalry, two or three thousand troops were very different from before, and they seemed to have lost confidence after the Great War three years earlier. Then there was a legion of shield-armed hoplites, their armor shining with a metallic sheen that looked as hard as if it mimicked the defenses of a mountain regiment. Then there are Mino's lightly armed infantry, all of them with wooden plate armor and spears and katanas at their waists, which are a bit like learning the characteristics of fire regiments. Moreover, this unit has the largest number of troops, accounting for almost half of Minong's troops. Finally, there were Mino's archers, about 2,000 men.
"Brothers! Get ready! Teng Jilang held a command fan in his hand and waited for the arrival of the enemy with peace of mind.
The louder and louder pace shook people's hearts, can't the enemy come to reinforcements? It was obvious that Teng Jilang was now waiting for the arrival of the four regiments of the Wind Volcanic Forest.
"Attack it halfway!" Tengjiro held a telescope in his hand and watched as the soldiers of Mino were pushing to cross the river, and raised the fan in his hand, while the soldiers in the city drew their bows and arrows to the sky.
"Shoot the arrows!" The crossing of the river by 10,000 people created a chaotic march for them, and this was the opportunity for Teng Jilang to take advantage of!
In front of Minong's army lay this small river, and if they crossed it, they would need to run water, and this river would just reach their knees. For the sake of military merit, they have lost the quality of an army, and pushing and shoving into the river is also the moment to bury their lives!
Thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows and flew towards the soldiers crossing the river, and the sound of swishing through the air continued to resound in the castle of Sumamata, and wave after wave of arrows rained like locusts flying into the wheat field, gnawing at the enemy's life, and in an instant, the river that divided Mino and Owari was stained red with blood, and the roars and screams resounded in the midst of Mino's army, as if they were about to tear the sky apart.
"Iron cannon ready!" The generals who led the troops in the battle were not fools, the archers in the back row had not yet come into range, and the infantry had to change their tactics as soon as they fell in the river. Let's find a way to make the role of the Oda Army's archers smaller!
"Cavalry! Above! "After three years of resurrection, the first battle of the Mino cavalry turned out to be the Oda army again.
Avenge? Snow shame? The cavalry team is full of veterans, and of course they know what hurts their vitality, and this time is no exception. Their bodies were still exposed under Owari's iron cannons, and it was impossible not to be afraid, and if there was a choice, this group would rather run for their lives and bear the infamy of deserters than fight against this strange weapon again!
It's a pity that there is any way to make the commander of his family change his mind? Of course it didn't work, Minong's cavalry team could only fight hard. Fortunately, this time the number of iron cannons was not large.
"Open the cannon, shoot the horse!" The strongest place for cavalry is the war horse under their crotch, which moves like the wind and thunder. Taking away the lives of others between entering and exiting is the characteristic of cavalry, but their weakness is also the war horse that gives them honor, and if a cavalry falls from a horse on the battlefield, the consequence is only a dead end.
Tengjiro had a very clever plan, there were probably a lot of horses in front of the castle, and the sharpened wooden stakes were blocking the advance of the cavalry, and until then it was up to the soldiers defending the castle to stop how much.
"Archers release arrows!" Teng Jilang did not change the position of the archers, and still blocked the follow-up infantry.
With the sound of a round of gunfire, bullets with fire flew towards the horses of the cavalry team, and the iron cannon was a hole card, which was Guo Jia's hole card against all armies. It was so powerful, with a round of bullets vented, more than a hundred cavalry fell, this scene became dominoes, the first group of people fell, they hindered the advance of those behind, or crossed or fell The formation of the cavalry marching was instantly disrupted.
But the battle seems to be going well, but don't forget, how many people can be stopped by a thousand bows and arrows, three hundred iron cannons! The corpses in the river formed a bridge, and the followers did not have to drip, they had the ability to block the incoming arrows, and a salvo of three hundred iron cannons created a vacuum on the offensive on the city wall. Even if they disrupted their pace, they would not be able to take advantage of the victory and pursue, but it would only be time for the cavalry to recuperate.
"Shoot the arrows!" This time, the order is not Tengjiro's, but Mino's commander, and Minamata Castle is within their range!
Seeing the arrows and thunder regiments speeding in the distance, they were not afraid, and took up the weapons and shields in their hands to form a defensive measure, and they wrapped these things so tightly that there was no gap for the arrows to enter.
"Good work!" Suddenly, Teng Jilang seemed to hear someone's sigh, he thought he was going to die, and wanted to look back at Owari's appearance, it didn't matter if he turned around, he almost didn't make himself happy, and when the four colors of blue, red, black and green appeared in his eyes, he wanted to cry excitedly.
Oda Army's Wind Volcanic Forest reinforcements have arrived! It's only a mile or two from Sumamata.
"Hahahaha, look at what you are fighting with us!" The confident Tengjilang ordered the city gates to be opened to meet the enemy.
Vaguely, some of the soldiers saw the clue, and they also showed the same smile as Tengjilang. The defensive battle is about to change! Minono! You've messed with someone you shouldn't have messed with!
"Open the gates, let's go out of the city to meet the enemy!" Tengjiro drew his katana, which represented the beginning of the final battle.
"Little ones! Our number is! ”
"Thunder!"