Chapter 16: The Melancholy War
Despite the various stabs of the new army, coupled with the ghost girl's indiscriminate welfare, Lorraine was really angry and angry for a while, and he didn't turn his back on the spot. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the end, he could only shrug his shoulders helplessly and continue to send them to death...... I mean, go hunt for glory for Nobunaga.
With such a big goal or temptation, this time the new army did not make any more jokes, and crossed the Sanhe River with a shout.
That team of archers originally wanted to repeat their old tricks, but unfortunately, the perverted spirit BUFF was blessed on the new army, completely ignoring the bows and arrows in the sky, and rushed to chop these fifty people into meat sauce in minutes.
Then a swarm of people rushed to the western city wall with ladders.
The courage is commendable, but unfortunately it is too reckless, and there is no waiting for the riflemen of the expeditionary force behind, that look is simply an ant siege, all by recklessness!
In the face of such an attack, of course, the defenders have to display eighteen sets of crafts, and there must be some rolling wood rough stones and gold juice boiling water, right?
Rough rolling wood does exist - except that the rolling wood looks like it was found in a thatched house, and the effect of smashing the slightly smelly wooden planks is almost the same.
Rough stones are not the same thing at all, according to Lorraine's understanding, at least a round stone that can roll up can be called a rough stone, right?
If the new army is not professional, then forget it, but I didn't expect the defenders to be very good, just take the pebbles as rough stones and throw them down, etc., according to the killing effect, it seems to be the same, although the efficiency is low.
As for the boiling water......
Perhaps seeing that the attack of the new army was so fierce, one of the defenders, in a hurry, took off his pants and aimed under the city wall and started - yes, it was very golden.
I saw a soldier of the defenders, holding a soup pot, and smashing it down with the water, causing one of the recruits to be seriously wounded and three to be burned—yes, it was boiling water.
"This is Dongying's offensive and defensive battle...... Miura, what do you think? ”
"My lord, I'm just a businessman, please don't be strong!!"
Miura is almost about to cry without tears, although he is indeed a translator, but the main position is whether the merchant is good or not, and there is such a complicated matter as a war, you generals don't come to ask the businessman!
However, as a layman, Miura didn't expect the soldiers under the command of the Misanjia to be like this--funny or waste wood?
Actually, whether it's the Dongying here or the footpot chicken (crane?) on the other side of the earth. The warring states were always full of funny elements.
While the person concerned certainly doesn't find it funny, the onlookers don't.
Miura suddenly thought of something, and looked at Lorraine with some uncertainty, "My lord, maybe I know the reason." ”
"Oh? Let's talk about it. "Lorraine didn't expect that this guy Miura was really insightful.
"Speaking of which, most of the armies of Nobunaga and Kenshin were drafted, which means that they were not professional soldiers."
"That's true, but so what?"
"Well, that means they bring their own weapons and equipment, and they usually have to do farm work...... In other words, they're all temporary! ”
"It's a temporary worker!"
Lorraine now understood that since they were all temporary workers, they would naturally not be as professional as those professional soldiers.
Moreover, although the new army is a new army trained in the style of the Brittan army, it is not yet Nobunaga's henchmen, and it is estimated that the unlucky people in the fortress are the same.
This side can barely be regarded as a contract worker with decent salary, and the defenders on the other side are at most temporary workers who have been tricked.
Since there were no reinforcements, and there was no order to defend them, and Nobunaga did not intend to kill them all, it would be easy to do.
A siege battle of Ishikawa Fortress lasted a whole day, and the details of the losses and the latest movements of the enemy army were delivered about two hours later.
The Forces nouvelles lost seventy-two men, one hundred and eight missing, two hundred and twenty-five wounded, and lost 400 cannons and swords.
On the side of the Eastern Expeditionary Force, three unlucky people were killed by stray bullets, and one person was lost in the river, and it is estimated that he will die.
These losses, compared to the fifteen,000 troops commanded by Lorraine, were insignificant, and they were insignificant, and from time to time sporadic remnants were found to return to the camp.
"In short, the process is tortuous, the result is beautiful, and the future cause is just!"
"You've said so, I can only believe you......"
Lorraine could only bow to Nobunaga's unreasonable self-confidence declaration, and once again asked for the new army to be retrained.
"I don't have time, Your Excellency." Nobunaga vetoed Lorraine's proposal and once again handed Lorraine the information.
"Relying on these people to fight, I really don't know what kind of chaos will be made."
"That's because you're not familiar with the Dongying people, don't worry, I'll show you the next battle, the real Dongying war mode."
"I'll just believe you......" Lorraine looked down at the information, "what's going on!" Uesugi Kenshin was approaching with a large army, and that Ridgway military advisor was ......"
"Yes, I didn't expect Li Qiwei to fight for Buddhism, and now we are in trouble."
Indeed, Buddhism is also a temple power, and they have their territory in every corner of Dongying, and they are absolutely rich, but there are independent monks and soldiers as a military force to protect the territory.
"In this way, we can't stay in Sanhechuan, and once they cut off the river, it will be dangerous."
"That's right, so our next step is to destroy the temples upstream...... Well, the name of the church in your country is really hard to remember. ”
"Then this time you have to remember, it's called the Mirror Water Sect, a very rich faction."
The location is important and there is money, and that's what Lorraine needs to know.
He has not made a fortune since he came to Toei, and he has not enjoyed robbing Edo looting, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force have complained a little.
Now, with the primary purpose of ensuring strategic security, we will solve the upstream Mirror Water Sect, and as for what tasks there are in the future, it will have to wait for Nobunaga's arrangement.
"That's right...... Is His Highness Nobunaga ready to give me this task? ”
"Do you call me Your Highness when you encounter a good mission?" Nobunaga teased Lorraine, "Indeed, I still have to lead a large army to face the female tiger, and the trouble of the temple can only be relied on by His Excellency the Admiral, and you are my mercenary anyway." ”
"Yes, I'll do my job well."
After the Ishikawa fortress was under the control of the Oda family, the border battle was at an advantage, but the Uesugi family had already brought people here, and a battle would break out at any time.
And Lorraine went upstream with five thousand expeditionary forces and one thousand new troops, and they only had a week to solve the trouble.
It's just that the monks and soldiers of the temple are not going to be killed, they are already under the command of a certain military advisor surnamed Li, preparing to attack the flank of Nobunaga's army.