On the mountain road in the Kita-Satsuma Kunimane region of Southern Kyushu, Ijiin Tadaro and the others were fleeing in a wolf, and behind them were the chasing soldiers of the Luo family coalition that was killing the sky.

While running wildly, Ijiin Tadaro regretted it on the other hand, although he had prepared for defeat before, but he didn't expect to be defeated so quickly today. Now he no longer cares about his life and death, but is worried about the main force of the Shimazu family led by the young lord Shimazu Yoshihisa, who is coming from behind. Once the main force is attacked by these routs who have completely lost their courage, it is very likely that they will cause an even greater rout. In this way, the danger he caused to the Shimazu family will be even greater.

"I hope the young master's army hasn't arrived yet!" Thinking of this, Ijiin Tadaro couldn't help but pray in his heart. Just afraid that something would appear, just as he rode his war horse around a small bend, he saw a group of troops lined up in a neat camp in front of him blocking the mountain road. Ijiin Zhonglang looked at it and saw that it was really his own army, and it was obvious that the young master had arrived.

"Be careful......" Seeing this, Ijiin Tadaro immediately opened his throat and began to warn.

And at this moment, a loud sound of "tom tom tom tom ......" instantly drowned out the warning sound of Ijiin Tadaro. With the sound of loud noises, in the mountains and forests on both sides of the mountain road, puffs of white smoke also rose at the same time, which suddenly filled the entire mountain with smoke. Ijiin Tadaro was stunned by the sudden appearance, and he didn't even notice that the war horse under his crotch suddenly stopped and continued to run away because he was frightened.

Not only was Ijiin Tadaro frightened, but even the Shimazu family members such as Shimazu Tadanaga and Kayama Tadasuke behind Ijiin Tadaro were also frightened. They stopped. Some even fell directly to the ground.

As for the Luo family's coalition army, which was still frantically chasing and killing the Shimazu family's rout, it suffered a sudden blow at this time. Most of the people fell to the ground screaming before they could understand what was going on. The original shouting and killing sound in the entire mountain road suddenly turned into a miserable scream. The Luo family's coalition army, which was originally a chaser, suddenly became a slaughtered person at this time.

"Free Fire!"

At this time, Shimazu Yoshihisa, who was on a hill east of the mountain road, looked at the white smoke that filled the entire mountain and had to order helplessly. Previously, after receiving the rout of his own side's vanguard in the attack on the camp of the Luo family's coalition army, he was also worried that the main force of the Shimazu family led by him would be scattered by the fleeing Shimazu family's vanguard army, but under the inspiration, he temporarily arranged for a total of more than 800 iron gunners to occupy favorable shooting positions on both sides of the mountain road, and then prepared to meet the pursuing Luo family coalition army.

Iron gunners of more than 800 people. Among them, 500 people are the first iron artillery team of the Shimazu family built by the Shimazu family during this time, and the remaining 300 people are all Ming pirates hired by the Shimazu family at a great cost. In fact, this money was not unjustly spent, compared to their own iron gunners, these Ming pirates fought more bravely and cruelly, and the accuracy of the iron cannons was more accurate, and the danger to the enemy was even greater. In the previous battles in Northern Satsuma Province and Nishi-Osumi Province and other places, these hired Ming pirates played a great role.

At this time, with the order of Yoshihisa Shimazu to fire freely. More than 800 iron cannons, which had been arranged on both sides of the mountain road with favorable terrain, opened fierce fire on the pursuers of the Luo family's coalition forces in the mountain road. "Tom tom, tom ......"

The sound of gunfire was deafening. In the blink of an eye, the noisy battlefield became silent. The Iron Cannon Team used a new type of iron cannon made with the technical support of the Ming pirates, coupled with the strict training of the Shimazu family and the precise skills of the Ming pirates, so in an instant, more than 800 muskets shot a bloody graveyard on the mountain road.

After a while, this round of shooting finally ended, and the smoke of gunpowder in the mountains gradually dispersed to the west, and in the mountain road, only the war horses without owners were left screaming, and there were few people left alive. The earth-shattering shouts of killing had disappeared without a trace.

"Iron ...... Iron cannon? Yoshiko Shiga, who was lying among the piles of corpses, was muttering to himself in amazement. At this time, his right arm had been pierced by a bullet, and a large amount of blood was flowing from the penetrating wound. Previously, it was he who led the cavalry to sneak attack the Shimazu family's defenders on Irischao Mountain behind the Shimazu family's first hand formation, and Shiga Yoshiko himself killed the opponent's main general (that is, Shimazu's Kawakami Suhisa) with an arrow, so that he was able to carry out a sneak attack on the Shimazu family's army that was attacking the camp of the Luo family's coalition army in the rear. When the Shimazu family fled first, he led his subordinates to chase after the Shimazu family's rout, and he was about to create a big victory, but how did he encounter the attack of the opponent's iron cannon here?

For the power of the iron cannon, Shiga Yoshiko is very clear, he had already learned the power of the iron cannon from the hands of the Luo family when he was a retainer of the Otomo family, and since joining the Luo family, he is even more powerful of the iron cannon. In fact, the seventh standing team of the land where he is also has 200 iron cannons on standing, but because these standing forces have just been established and are still training and adapting, this time the young master Luo Zhi Huiliang did not bring them from the border station of the Southern Higo Kingdom.

It's just that now I didn't expect that the Shimazu family actually brought iron cannons, and judging from the sound of the voice, the other party also participated in the battle with at least more than 500 iron cannons. Such a large-scale iron cannon, and the other party also occupies the geography, and his side is in the middle of the mountain road, so he can only be shot. Thinking of this, Shiga Yoshijin only had fear in his heart, and he even forgot about the constant pain in his arm.

"Victory...... Victory! Just when Shiga Yoshiko was still afraid, on the side of the Shimazu family's army, Shinna Tadayao raised the spear in his hand and shouted.

"Ahh Victory, this is our victory, the victory of the Shimazu samurai. "The rest of the Shimazu family's soldiers, who did not participate in the battle just now, only watched from the sidelines, and were ready to accept the orders of the young master at any time to attack, came to their senses at this time. They cheered mercilessly.

It's no wonder they have a table xiàn. After all, the reputation of the Luo family's victorious army before really put too much pressure on the Shimazu family. When you find that you are about to face a giant in battle, as long as you are a normal person, you will have some fear in your heart. Now the Shimazu family has solved the seemingly powerful Luo family's army in front of everyone's eyes without much effort (in fact, most of the pursuing army is the army of the wealthy families of Northern Satsuma, but the proportion of the Luo family's army is very small). From this moment on, the myth of the invincibility of the Luo family's army was shattered in their minds, and everyone would no longer have a sense of fear when facing the Luo family's army.

And Shimazu Yoshihisa couldn't help but be happy in his heart after seeing such a scene. That's what he wants. Previously, he also knew that his decision to forcibly ask to meet the Luo family's coalition was objected to by many retainers, if it weren't for his father's prestige and the ability he had shown earlier, so that everyone would not dare to speak out even if they disagreed, otherwise his decision to take the initiative to attack would definitely be resisted. Now his gamble has finally ushered in the dawn of victory, which means that his position as the heir to the family will be more secure, and some of his decisions will be more cooperatively implemented.

Just as the Shimazu family was cheering, the soldiers and horses of the Luo family alliance on the mountain road had been completely beaten down at this time, and everyone who was lucky not to be shot looked dazed and overwhelmed, and Shiga Yoshiko knew that he had to stand up and regroup his camp at this time. Otherwise, as long as the Shimazu family's iron artillery team in the mountains and forests on both sides of the mountain road shoots again, then these people will all stay here. He knows. He must take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy has just finished shooting and is still replenishing ammunition and preparing to shoot again, and command these people who have been beaten and frightened to evacuate this place is almost like a shooting range for them, as long as they can withdraw to the large battalion, then there is still a glimmer of hope for victory in this battle today.

However, although he did not die in battle at this time, he only felt that he was about to die as the blood continued to flow from his arm. With this in mind, he staggered and fought, and then opened his throat and shouted, "Everyone, ......"

With a "bang", the sound of the gun was deafening, and Shiga Yoshikin, who was shot, immediately fell to the ground again. This time it wasn't him who threw himself down, but because he was hit in the forehead, his helmet was shaken off, his hair was messed up, and blood gushed out of his unkempt hair.

"Huh...... Heh," Shiga said helplessly, "It seems that I really want to stay here today." But you can't fall so quickly, you have to make them retreat, retreat! ”

"Humph!" Thinking of this, Shiga Yoshimi snorted, held on to his sword, and tried to stand up again. At this point, he found that his vision was already blurry, and to others, with a large amount of blood flowing from his forehead, he looked like a red-haired ghost.

"Bang!" Shiga Yoshikin's cousin Xiàn attracted the attention of everyone in the Shimazu family, and Tanejima Mezuki, a sharpshooter in the Iron Artillery Team, immediately aimed at Shiga Yoshikin, and gave Shiga Yoshiki a fatal blow to the neck. This time, after Shiga Yoshiko fell, he could no longer stand up, and even rolled his eyes and collapsed in a pool of blood. But Shiga Yoshikin's heart still murmured, "Retreat...... Retreat ......"

"Your Excellency!" At this time, some of the nearby subordinates finally found out about Shiga's situation and immediately surrounded him.

"Plank!" Seeing that Shiga Yoshiqin was injured, I don't know who screamed. But in such a battlefield, where is the plank?

"Huh!" Yoshiko Shiga opened his mouth and tried to say the order to retreat, but found that no matter how he opened his mouth, there was no other sound in his throat except for the sound of gasping before death. The blood on his face blurred his vision, and although he had his eyes open, he couldn't see anything, only the face of the lord and the good government still appeared clearly in front of him.

"Lord, I'm sorry!" He cried out with sorrow in his heart. Fifty years of life, just halfway through, Shiga Yoshiko is already standing in front of the ghost gate at this time. Although everyone has a death, once they really face death, infinite sadness, infinite remorse, and infinite attachment suddenly come to mind.

Immediately afterwards, Shiga Yoshikini remembered his old mother. Yes, Mother, this is the person Yoshiko Shiga wanted to see in the last moments of his life. He also has an old mother at home. But his old mother, like many widows of the Warring States, was a strong and competitive female middle school husband. If she knew that Shiga Yoshiko was scared at a temporary moment, she would undoubtedly swallow her tears and reprimand: "He is not my son." So without will. ”

"Mother, Mother......"

When the men who gathered around noticed that Shiga Yoshikin's breathing was getting harder and harder, someone immediately shouted, "Plank! There's a plank there! Bastard! Plank! ”

These shouts of his subordinates, at this time, Shiga Yoshiko could not hear them clearly. It's just that at this time, a voice came to his ears very clearly:

"Assemble, assemble, attack, crush the enemy!"

"Bastard, damn it!" These were the last words in Shiga's heart when he took his last breath.

(Thanks to "Li Xiaoyixin, Lumiya" for the reward.) Today's first shift, and there will be another shift later. (To be continued......)