Chapter 469: Outwitting Kamakura
Kamakura Castle, which faces Sagami Bay to the south, is more than 10 miles in circumference, and this fortified castle that stood here for hundreds of years was once the town seat of the famous Kamakura shogunate in Japanese history, and it is also a famous castle in the Japanese country. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Today, this mottled ancient city cannot be seen to be the heart of the Wa kingdom for hundreds of years, countless powerful figures have risen or weakened from here, and countless government decrees and generals have been issued and executed from here, and this place has been looked up to by the Wa people for hundreds of years.
Today, Kamakura Castle is the Shogunate's Heavenly Domain, but it is managed by the Tokugawa Iemitsu's elder Nakagawa Masakatsu, the lord of the Odawara Domain of the neighboring Sagami Province.
Of course, Inaba Masakatsu had died of illness a year ago, but now the same family has not changed, and it is still managed by a general named Hirata Aki sent by the Odawara Domain.
However, the shogunate had already begun to consider taking this place back to its own rule, after all, the lord of the Odawara domain was now Inaba Masakatsu's thirteen-year-old son, Inaba Shoji, and he was no longer capable of governing this place.
The western gate of Kamakura Castle, which has been in peace for a long time, was guarded by only 10 ashigaru guards, and it was not a prosperous area, unlike the castle town of Nanjo Castle, which was a bustling commercial store, and it was the official road that connected the town of Odawara Domain in the west.
Ten ashigaru stood lazily, and their heads had been sleepy in the ear room inside the castle gate for a long time, and guarding the gate in Kamakura was a matter of time.
At this time, a large puff of smoke and dust was raised in the west, which made these ashigaru spirits a lot, and they looked into the distance.
They didn't think of any hostility, they just wanted to see if someone from their own family had come.
There were dozens of people who came, and the leading fluttering was the family crest flag of the black shamrock Aoi, which was the family crest of the Tokugawa Shogun, but it was a little strange, these flags were a little faded and not majestic enough.
The horsemen on the galloping horses under the banner were also covered in the delicate armor of the Tokugawa family. The spear in his hand and the fine sword ribs on his waist all show that this is a flag samurai under the command of the general.
Ten ashigaru all hurriedly stood straight, after all, this is the shogun's cavalry, can't be lazy, now that the governor is newly mourned, it's not the time for Lord Masakatsu to be alive. You have to clamp your tail and be a man.
Come and ride through the drawbridge straight into the city gate, Ashigaru didn't even see the appearance of the people, these people are wearing the face armor of the ghost painting fox, but the figure is extremely burly, not the body shape of ordinary people.
A head of the head of the ashigaru was about to bow and ask, but one of the first people came forward with a spear in his hand, and immediately stabbed him to the ground, and the head of the head howled miserably and shouted loudly in the Japanese language, and his mouth was full of blood foam.
The others stared at everything in front of them dumbfounded. Although as a samurai has the right to kill the ashigaru, not to mention the shogunate flag samurai, but there has to be a reason for it, if you can't come up, you can't cut it down, no, where does this head provoke this samurai.
They all looked at the samurai in the lead blankly, and they had no intention of resisting at all, it was very common for this samurai to kill Ashigaru in the Wa Kingdom, and Ashigaru was this fate. The rules of the samurai class were very strict and could not be questioned.
But their hesitation cost them their lives.
The large group of horsemen who rushed in behind them assassinated them one by one with spears in their hands. Immediately the gates of the city wailed.
Hearing the chaos at the city gate, he rushed out with a few ashikami for some reason, and saw the samurai of the Tokugawa family who were killing people, and his first reaction was to immediately turn around and flee to the city, and reason with the samurai who was crazy about killing that was looking for death, and he had experience in this.
The problem is that he forgot that behind him was a war horse. Not his little short leg could escape.
The horse's hooves roared in the doorway, like a devil's talisman, and when he heard the samurai's war horse behind him, he couldn't hold back any longer, and he drew his sword and turned back to fight. Unfortunately, it was too late, and a spear stabbed at it, piercing it, and several other ashigaru also fell on the spot.
When a group of people entered the city, the nearby Japanese people fled in all directions, as the lowest people, they saw the samurai fighting, and they had always been able to hide, otherwise they would be implicated and killed.
When the first horse took off the face armor, Nan Yong's face was revealed, he made a gesture, and one of the guards immediately turned his horse's head and galloped outward, rushed out of the drawbridge, and galloped westward, waving a red flag as he ran.
Nan Yong wiped his sweat, this is not hot, nor tired, but nervous, whether he can take the gate of Kamakura in disguise this time is the key to whether he can successfully grasp the landing site.
At this time, there was a commotion in the city, chaotic footsteps came, and the main street leading to the east of the city gate was full of people, and the cold light of swords and guns flickered.
The ashigaru general of the Odawara Domain, Hirata Aki, headed for the west gate with less than 200 ashigaru, and he only knew it when he heard the alarm from the fleeing people.
He didn't think about any fighting, fighting with the flag samurai was won, and in the end, the general waved his hand lightly, and he was also wiped out, but he, as the general of the Ashigaru Domain of the Daimyo Odawara Domain, had to ask why he met with swords and guns, otherwise who would be willing to give him his life, and how would the team lead.
There are still more than 100 steps away, and he has already seen that it is the flag samurai of the shogunate, yes, the armor and family crest are all the same, the problem is that one thing is too confusing, these people are very eye-catching, not only have they never seen it, but they also behave strangely, and they can't say it.
Then there are these samurai people and the war horses under the crotch are too tall, even the general's guards are not as tall and stout as this, and dozens of people came out here at once.
All kinds of weirdness made Hirata Aki stop, he looked carefully at the samurai in front of him, and for a moment he was suspicious, and his ashigaru also stopped with him to see what his boss meant.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard outside the castle, and it was rolling from the far west gate, and the roar of iron cannons from the north and south of the castle wall was heard in the distance.
Enemy, this is the enemy, no matter which daimyo dares to be so bold and make trouble or pirates enter the city, they are enemies anyway.
"It's the enemy, prepare for war." Hirata Akira pulled out his sword and yelled.
The ashigaru under his command also woke up like a dream, they hurriedly flattened their guns, or opened their bows and arrows, of course, because they were too hasty, they didn't have time to put on bamboo armor, and there was no protection at all, even Hirata Aki was also dressed in samurai clothes, and he didn't even bring the three guns he had handy, only the sword to protect himself.
These ashigaru people quickly approached these enemies, and when the two sides approached sixty steps, more than thirty ashigaru shot arrows, and the slightest sound echoed, and the arrows passed from the top of the long street.
Nan Yong and all the people used small iron shields to protect their chests and abdomen, but when they heard the sound of incessantly, there were one or two muffled snorts, and at the same time, there was the neighing of injured horses.
Of course, Nan Yong and his entourage couldn't let the Japanese slaves go unpunished, and aimed their short guns at the rushing Ashigaru.
Bang bang bang, more than 30 short guns roared, and the projectiles fell on Ashigaru's body in an instant, and the long street immediately screamed again and again, and many guns fell to the ground and rolled.
Nan Yong and the others immediately abandoned the short gun, and took the next one, without three breaths, the fire gun began to roar again, and then the third one, so less than ten breaths, three batches of fire guns roared.
The smoke cleared, and the more than 40 ashigaru people in the front row had fallen to the ground dead or were still struggling for their lives.
At this time, showing the tenacity of the Japanese people's ashikami, they gritted their teeth and rushed forward, only ten steps away from Nan Yong and them.
Nan Yong and the others finished firing the short guns, immediately discarded, and then pulled out the cavalry spear, under Nan Yong's order, more than 20 cavalry armor in front of him exhaled and threw the cavalry spear, and more than 20 cavalry spears trembled and flew to the ashigaru more than ten steps away.
A piercing scream came, and more than a dozen Ashigaru were brutally impaled through the body by the riding spear, and now they were struggling like fish pierced on the riding spear.
Then the second round of cavalry spears and the third round of cavalry spears came one after another, piercing dozens of ashigaru, and the long street became a ghost domain full of wailing.
Seventy or eighty ashigaru casualties in front of him exposed Hirata Aki in the middle of the line, and he and a few guards were almost at the forefront of the charge.
Hirata Aki is also worthy of being the Ashigaru general of the Odawara Domain, and even if the situation is extremely unfavorable, he is not afraid.
Wielding his sword, he rushed through the blood and corpses with his little short legs and a few guards.
Nan Yong gave an order, and all the soldiers urged their horses, and they drew their sabers and roared and rushed towards the Japanese people.
Hirata Aki roared and slashed at the war horse that appeared in front of him, but the cavalryman on the horse was tall and long-armed, and his body reached forward and waved his hand.
But with a click, Hirata's long knife was cut off, but fortunately, the saber's castration was exhausted, and it only cut Hirata's shoulder.
But Hirata's good fortune came to an end, as the warhorse, which was much taller than him, crashed directly into him, and he flew out as if he had been hit by a giant hammer.
Hirata Qiu spat out a mouthful of blood, and he was no longer able to stand up, so he could only look up at the sky and listen to the screams of his own soldiers around him.
Then he saw two huge hooves step down from the sky, and he roared in terror, but this could not stop the horses' hooves from violently crushing his chest, and he finally spurted blood and entrails, and fell into eternal darkness.
Dozens of cavalry armor rampaged through the long street like a tin can, slashing or dispersing the remaining sixty or seventy ashigaru, and in an instant, only the fallen ashigaru on the long street, Kamakura Castle was so easily taken down by the vanguard of the Broken Army.
There was a roar at the city gate, and a large number of cavalry rushed into the city gate, these were not the clothes of the shogunate banner, but the red and black armor and battle robes, and it was no wonder that the ashigaru in the northwest and southwest had to sound the iron cannon alarm.
"Lu Houcai, you immediately lead people to the south, be sure to control the dock, and then light the fireworks."
Nan Yong didn't say a word, and quickly spoke neatly.
Lu Houcai replied loudly, and rushed into the long street with his subordinates, and more than 100 horsemen rushed in behind him, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves shook the whole city. (To be continued.) )
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