Just when Zhang Zhijie slowly marched towards the mountain with 3,000 soldiers, the people in the mountain city also discovered the army under the mountain. Three thousand soldiers and horses are not considered a large army in the Ming Dynasty, but they are already considered a large army in the Wa Kingdom!

After all, the total strength of the Bungo Kingdom is 4,000 people, and every time they resist Chikuzen's attack, they launch an army of 3,000 to fight with all their might! Therefore, although Tachibanayama Castle is the second largest castle in Bungo Province, there are only a few hundred samurai stationed there!

Therefore, 3,000 troops are definitely a large army for Tachibana Mountain Castle, and the samurai of Tachibana Mountain Castle at this time immediately panicked when they saw the overwhelming army all over the mountains.

At this time, the general was standing on the city wall and looked at the overwhelming army under the mountain with his mouth wide open, and there were several people in front of him, all of whom looked at the army all over the mountains below with very ugly faces.

One of the old men came back to his senses from surprise, turned around and slapped the general, and angrily reprimanded: "Baga! Is this what you call hundreds of Ming people? Are you blind? ”

The general felt very aggrieved, the people he saw on the dock were obviously hundreds, where did he think that so many people would suddenly appear? This is comparable to the strength of the entire Bungo Kingdom!

But the general didn't dare to refute, so he could only bow his head and say, "Hey! ”

At this moment, a middle-aged man beside him raised his finger and shook it, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, don't be angry, these Ming people are just a rabble." How can we compare to the noble samurai of our Tachibana family? ”

"It's like a pariahs versus a noble samurai, and the difference between them is not something that numbers can make up! Therefore, this Ming people have nothing to fear, our Tachibana Mountain City is an impenetrable fortress! ”

The old man nodded slowly and said, "Oh, what Your Excellency said is very reasonable, but how can you see it?" ”

The subordinate general laughed when he heard this: "Your Excellency, you can see that they are all rabble, even our miscellaneous soldiers are ten times stronger than them, not to mention the noble samurai of our Tachibana family!" ”

But the general, though he also wanted to believe what his general said, reminded him that this was not the case, for his head was already like a pig's head.

The old man nodded, but he was still a little uneasy, because the general took two hundred light samurai down the mountain, and he was the only one who came back, and his head turned into a pig's head.

So the old man turned his head and asked the general, "Baga, how is the combat power of the Ming people below?" How did you get beaten like this? How were those Ashigaru samurai captured? ”

Of course, the general will not say that he was slapped by someone, but only that he came out of the Ming people, and then returned to the city to report the news.

The general hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Your Excellency, these Ming people are bullying more and less, and they have no samurai spirit, and they actually attack secretly, which is very despicable!" I killed hundreds of people one after another, and seeing that there were more and more Ming people, I had no choice but to kill them and return to the city to report the news. Those ashigaru samurai were surrounded by several times the number of Akito, so they couldn't get out! ”

The old man nodded with satisfaction and said, "If you want the west, Saonei will kill her!" Ida-kun turned out to be the hero of our Tachibana family! ”

The middle-aged general also nodded and said, "Ida-kun shows the demeanor of our Tachibana samurai!" ”

The general bowed his head and said generously: "Your Excellency the old family and your Excellency the general have won the award, this is what the Tachibana samurai should do!" Nothing! ”

Although the general said very generously, the pig's head on his neck inevitably made this generous words a lot more discolored.

The middle-aged general smiled and said, "Your Excellency, you should rest assured now, right?" The samurai of our Tachibana family are brave and invincible, and Tachibana Mountain Castle is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, and these Ming people will inevitably return in vain! ”

The old man nodded when he heard this: "The city lord is sick in bed, and the defense of the city will have to ask His Excellency the general, as long as His Excellency the general can hold on for a few days, the family governor will definitely know about the war and the whole army will come!" ”

The general nodded and said, "Your Excellency, rest assured, you will defend the city to the death and serve the city lord!" ”

The warriors on the city wall were a little panicked at first, but after waiting for a long time, they still didn't see the army under the mountain climb up the mountain, and they slowly lost their panic.

They think that this group of Ming people under the mountain is here to be funny, they haven't climbed up the mountain for so long, these Ming people are such a waste! Not to mention the warriors, even the women can climb up.

Therefore, these warriors on the mountain no longer panicked, but began to chatter with their arms crossed, pointing at the army below and laughing.

Although Zhang Zhijie knew that the mountain was steep and it was not easy to transport the artillery up, he did not expect it to be so laborious. During this period, Chang Yun and the others repeatedly said that they didn't need to be so troublesome, and they rushed forward directly with their brothers, and they would soon be able to take this Lihua Mountain City.

But Zhang Zhijie still shook his head and refused, because although it was troublesome, it was still possible to transport these four guns, but it just took a lot of effort. It doesn't matter if you work hard, it's worth it to reduce the number of casualties.

Zhang Zhijie also guessed that the Japanese people in the mountain city must have seen this army all over the mountains, and they must be stepping up their guards. What Zhang Zhijie didn't know was that he was thinking too much, and now the warriors on the mountain city were chatting on the city wall, sneering and despising the Ming army under the mountain by the way.

If Zhang Zhijie knew, he would definitely laugh, waiting for the Japanese slaves, the frogs at the bottom of the well only know how to sit in the well and watch the sky, and after the army goes up, it will be the time for you to cry your father and call your mother.

Although the artillery was transported very slowly, it was finally transported after a lot of effort. So the gunners began to load the artillery fixedly, while the Japanese slaves on the city wall were still watching, pointing from time to time, not knowing what these Ming people were doing.

They really didn't know what the Ming army was doing, because the Portuguese had not yet arrived in the Wa country at this time, and the arquebuses had not yet been introduced to the Wa country, let alone artillery.

So these Japanese slaves of the Wa Kingdom just hugged their arms and laughed on the city wall, in their opinion, these Ming people are really stupid, obviously there are so many people who actually climbed the mountain slowly for half a day.

Now that I finally climbed up the mountain, I still didn't line up to attack the city, but surrounded by four big iron buckets and didn't know what I was doing, ha, what a fool!

Not only those warriors were laughing, but even the elders of the family who had been a little worried couldn't help but laugh when they saw this situation, pointing to the Ming army in the distance and laughing: "There is such a large army in the sky, and it is so wasteful, it is rare today!" ”

Hearing this, the general also smiled and said: "It's really a waste, not to mention defending the city, our samurai of the Tachibana family don't need to use the geographical advantage to have the confidence to beat them to the ground, throw away their armor!" ”

(End of chapter)