Chapter 566: A Long-Distance Raid Begins

When the Oda family began to fire fiercely at Iida Castle, Wang Tianxi, Maeda Keiji, Takenaka Hanbei, and the Oda family's 8,000 ghost army each held a bowl of porridge in their hands and poured it into their stomachs.

This will be the last time they will eat a meal from their hometown.

Wang Tianxie went out this time, without any food or supplies at all, and all the horses of the cavalry iron artillery team were hung with a large bag, a large bag of lead pellets, as well as two large knives and two wooden spears for each horse.

The 8,000 ghost army formed a 4,000 cavalry iron artillery team, each group had two horses, and they took turns to exchange horses with each other to ensure the speed of the march along the way.

This battle will be an extreme test of the endurance and endurance of the 8,000 ghost army, you must know that the bumps when people gallop on horseback are not ordinary.

Moreover, Iida Castle, the first stop of Wang Tianxie's expedition this time, needs to pass through the forest path of the Kiso Mountains. The mountain road will be more difficult for a horse riding team than on flat ground.

This is also why Wang Tianxie asked Maeda Toshiya to arrange a 48-pound large cylinder and a 24-pound medium cylinder on the hill outside Iwamura Castle, and used the attack power of the large cylinder to break through Iida Castle in one fell swoop.

In fact, if you don't use a heavy barrel, it is undoubtedly impossible to bombard Iida Castle across the Kiso Mountains. As for the bombardment of Oshima City, only the nine forty-eight-pound barrels could do it.

"Gentlemen! Target Iida Castle! The whole army is out of battle! When the bombardment of Maeda Toshiya lasted for half an hour, Wang Tianxi, who had been looking at Iida Castle in the distance, finally gave the order to go out of the battle and rushed into the Kiso Mountains first.

The iron hooves of 8,000 horses shook the mountain trails of the Kiso Mountains, and countless beasts were frightened by the violently shaking earth and fled into the deep mountains and forests.

Soon, the Kiso Mountains were located at the exit from one end of Shinano Province. It has already been displayed in front of Wang Tianxie. If you break out of the Kiso Mountains, you will arrive at the west side of Iida Castle.

Although the left and right sides are surrounded by cliffs and ancient trees, the exit of this mountain trail is lit up by Iida Castle in the distance, which is in flames.

Wang Tianxie didn't know at this time that Akiyama Nobuyo, who was the lord of Iida Castle, had been sent a bento by the Maeda Toshika's big tube, and he only knew that he kept shouting and urging the Oda family's ghost army following him. Charge ahead.

The ghost army of the Eight Thousand Oda Family led by Wang Tianxie "Boom! With a thud, he rushed out of the Kiso Mountains and rushed towards Iida Castle, which had been crumbling by artillery fire in the distance.

"Enemy attack! The ghost of the Oda family! The ghost of the Oda family is here! ”

Originally, the Iida Castle garrison ashigaru team was bombarded by the sudden bombardment and fled in all directions, but now when he saw Wang Tianxie rushing over with a large group of mounted iron artillery teams, he immediately let out a desperate wail.

"Bang!"

Wang Tianxie raised the "Ghost Fire" in his hand. Butterfly Maru" short iron cannon, slammed at a brightly dressed guard.

Wrapped in nether fire, the small skull with wings pounced on its target with joy, "Woo! He swallowed the guard's upper body into his stomach in one gulp.

The Oda family's ghost army's horseback iron artillery team, which followed Wang Tianxie, also began a fierce offensive.

At this point, it doesn't matter if it's a three-stage shot or a random salvo.

The crowd was like locusts crossing the border. Those who were close were stabbed with spears, slashed with large knives, and those who were far away were shot with iron cannons, and the castle of Iida suddenly became miserable.

Maeda Toshiya has stopped the bombardment of Iida Castle.

The roar of the nine-gate 48-pound cylinder and the 150-door 24-pound cylinder for nearly two hours had already bombarded Iida Castle with thousands of holes, and the damage was at least eighty percent or more. Coupled with the raging fire, Iida Castle looks very embarrassed.

The ashigaru team outside Iida Castle has been completely annihilated by the 8,000 ghost army, and as for the ashigaru team inside the castle...... Well. After two hours of burning, I was lucky to be able to escape the engulfment of the fire.

Wang Tianxi's Oda clan ghost army did not attack Iida Castle too much. Instead, they rushed into the small farmland next to Iida Castle.

Eight thousand horses circled back and forth on the ploughed land, and the ploughed land, which had just been ploughed in spring, was destroyed by the trampling of 32,000 iron hooves.

"Whole army! Target Oshima Castle! ”

After Wang Tianxie saw that Iida Castle had become like this, he no longer continued to destroy Iida Castle, and with a wave of his big hand, he pointed to Oshima Castle, which was located further upstream of the Tianlong River, and shouted.

The bombardment of Maeda's Toshiya has already sounded again. However, this time the shelling was much more sparse.

This was helpless, after all, if you bombarded Oshima Castle from the hills outside Iwamura Castle across the Kiso Mountains, only those nine-gate forty-eight-pound cylinders could do it.

Even those twenty-four-pound mid-barrels. It is also because the problem of range does not work at all.

As early as when Maeda Toshiya bombarded Iida Castle, the deafening sound of cannon fire in the large and middle barrels had already caused panic in Oshima Castle.

As the lord of the castle, he stood on the top floor of the fifth level of the castle tower and saw Iida Castle in the distance falling into a sea of fire, with wood and stone chips constantly falling towards the Tenryu River, and large and large walls collapsing to the ground.

It's just that just as he was still preparing, the nine forty-eight-pound barrels of the Maeda Toshiya were already firing at him.

The luck of the Moroju Tiger Light is much better than that of his boss Akiyama Nobuyo.

Although he still couldn't escape the fate of the fall, at least he was not like his boss, who was hit by a forty-eight-pound cylinder as if Wang Tianxie had opened a game in his previous life, and was very lucky to be bombarded to death from a wall with a high-speed spinning lead ball.

When Wang Tianxian ploughed back and forth from left to right and from right to left in the only piece of cultivated land in Iida Castle, the bombardment of Maeda Toshiya had blasted four large holes in the top floor of the castle tower.

Large, large walls collapsed towards the Honmaru courtyard, smashing into the vicinity of the Murometsu Toramitsu, who was yelling at his own ashigaru team in the Honmaru courtyard and arranging defense matters.

"Nani? How can it be repaired! When did the Oda family have such a terrifying thing? Murozi looked up at the tall candlesticks on the top floor of the castle tower through the four large holes, and shivered all over his body.

Groove ...... Luckily, I ran out, and if I had continued to look at Iida Castle from the top observation deck, I would have been going to the Santu River just now!

In this troubled era of the Warring States, what can be done in two hours?

Toshiie Maeda said, "I can use a large tube or a medium tube to bomb Iida Castle into ruins." ”

Violent overage pseudo-Lori Oda Nobuko said: "I can bite a guy who makes me pregnant and can't go out to enjoy the pleasure of slashing, and bites it so that there are crescent marks all over my body." ”

The eight big snakes and little Lori raised their little fists and said, "We can eat eight roasted whole cows, sixteen roast chickens, and sixteen roast hares." ”

As for the main chamber of Oshima Castle, Huguang ...... This guy raised his head to the sky and wailed forty-five degrees: "I can't do anything except arrange the archery team and the ashigaru team for the final defense." ”

It's true that Toramitsu can't do anything, especially after the current Tian Li family started the bombardment of Oshima Castle.

One after another, huge lead balls smashed into the walls of the Oshima Castle Castle Tower.

This time, Maeda Toshiie divided the nine 48-pound cylinders into three groups, and each group of three guns carried out the so-called "three-stage shooting" shelling method.

Although even if the "three-stage shooting" method is used for shelling, the continuous firing ability of the large barrel can never be compared with that of the iron artillery.

Fortunately, even if the rhythm of the bombardment was not very frequent, it could not withstand the huge impact force generated by the high-speed rotation of the 48-pound shot put, and the entire castle tower of Oshima Castle quickly collapsed one by one.

The massive collapse of the castle tower instantly turned Honmaru and Ninomaru into ruins. Toramitsu Murosumi had to concentrate his defense on the outside of Sannomaru to meet the Oda army, which could arrive at any time.

Because the Kiso Mountains blocked the view, Maeda Toshiie's bombardment of the towering castle towers of Oshima Castle was stopped, and the bombardment of the nine-gate, 48-pound cylinders was stopped.

It's just that although the bombardment stopped, the sound of "clicking......clicking" iron hooves trampling the earth in the distance gradually reached the two ears of Huguang in the room.

However, he could not see the enemy at all at this time.

The houses in this Warring States period were all made of wood, and at most they were covered with a layer of white mud or gravel. It may seem sturdy, but in fact, it only takes a candle to start a raging fire.

In addition, today's moon little Lori is having a fever of 40 degrees, lying in the quilt and covering her head with an ice pack, and the little sister of the sun sits next to the little Lori futon and frequently wipes the sweat for the little Lori.

It is no exaggeration to say that tonight's night belongs to the real island city of Oshima City, which is shrouded in burning flames.

The light of the fire could only illuminate the area of Oshima Castle about fifty meters, and once it exceeded this range, the naked eye would only see darkness.

There were 2,000 people in the Ashigaru team, and there were more than 1,500 people left at this time, excluding the rubble that had been smashed down in the bombardment.

Under the command of Huguang Murozhu, these more than 1,500 people, all holding bows and arrows, lined up a three-row phalanx facing the direction of the lower reaches of the Tianlong River.

The earth finally shook, and the surface of the Tenryu River, which was adjacent to Oshima Castle, began to ripple with countless ripples. This means that the Oda family's horseback riding team is about to come to him.

"Whoosh ......"

Since there was only a visual distance of just over 50 meters, Huguang could only rely on his voice to judge, relying on his feeling of rolling on the battlefield for many years, before Wang Tianxie's Oda family ghost army did not show its figure at all, he waved his hand and launched a bow and arrow shooting.

In his senses, the Oda army at this moment should have entered the effective range of the bow and arrow...... Well, that's the case in theory. (To be continued......)