Chapter 888: Siege Overture

"Your Royal Highness, the minister has the trust of His Highness, my Maori family, my Maori family---" Maori Yuan knelt in front of Ouchi Yoshixing, his voice choked, and he couldn't stop crying.

"Alright." Ouchi Yoshiyuki said, "Like a word. The Maori family went down first to repair it. I don't have to play lately. ”

Mori was relieved, but his face was flushed, and he showed a look of shame, and said, "Your Highness, ----" It seems that he is very ashamed that he cannot serve the Ouchi clan.

Every politician is a good actor of the first class.

"Your Highness. The enemy army is preparing to storm the city. One shouted.

Ouchi Yoshixing didn't care about Maori, so he immediately went to the castle to look.

But I saw that the Yongjun musketeers lined up in the city, and they were coming here in a neat manner. And there are also spearmen, sword and shield bearers at the city gates, defending the city gates from afar, ready to resist a sudden attack at any time.

"Smack".

This was not one, but many voices were superimposed, and countless bullets instantly hit the city, knocking down all the soldiers standing on the city. But the accuracy of these muskets is just too touching.

More bullets hit the city, and for a time the smoke was rising and the dust was flying. also made Ouchi Yoshixing dusty him.

Ouchi Yoshixing said: "Go to the archers." ”

Immediately someone shouted: "Archers go to the city." ”

Heavy footsteps followed the steps up the back to the city.

Countless archers climbed to the top of the city.

The Japanese bow is particularly long, even a little longer than some Japanese tall.

This is because the Japanese lacked enough materials to make horn bows, and most of their longbows were made of bamboo, which was synthesized from different parts of the bamboo to form the current bow and arrow.

The Japanese bow is not weak, but the premise is that the whole bow can be pulled apart, because the Japanese bow is very long, when all half of the bow is shot, only half of the bow is used, and not many people use the full bow at all. After all, the height limit of the Japanese rarely allows them to draw their bows to the fullest.

As a result, Japanese bows are generally not as powerful as angular bows.

As soon as the archers reached the wall, they opened their bows and shot arrows, and the long arrows went down the city.

I have to say that no matter what kind of weapon is lethal, even if the Japanese bow is weak, it can still shoot people.

Although Zhu Houhuang prepared good armor for the Yongjun, such as iron armor, and brought a hat. In the face of a long arrow shot from a high place, just bow your head slightly, and the hat will block the long arrow shooting at your head.

However, the hat can also block all the long arrows, but it will only take a while.

More than a dozen have already been shot wounded.

Some people were shot in the arm, in the thigh.

The armor that Zhu Houhuang prepared for them was all used to protect the torso, firstly, if they wore armor on their arms and thighs, they would not be able to move, and secondly, it was a little troublesome to make.

Now there is a shortage of blacksmiths in Dongyong. Therefore, Shaofu uses a lot of water power, and for the armor on the torso, Zhu Houhuang's arrangement is actually just a large piece of iron, with holes and let the soldiers wear it themselves, but the armor on the arms and thighs cannot do this, and a large number of craftsmen are needed.

Zhu Houhuang had no choice but to omit this.

However, the rigorous training of Zhu Houhuang's army was not a joke, even in the rain of arrows, they still opened fire wholeheartedly, reloaded, fired, and reloaded.

There were also many losses on the city.

In contrast, the lethality of the bow and arrow is far less than that of the musket, even if an arrow hits, as long as it is not in the critical position, it can still live, but for the musket, it will kill anywhere.

Needless to say, even if you can't die for a while, you still have to die after a long time, and lead bullets are poisonous. And for this kind of injury, very few people can heal it, at least in Japan now, there are very few such doctors.

Hit on the limbs, and generally amputated.

Amputation is not a minor operation. At least for this era, if at least the arm is cut off, I am afraid that this person will die of excessive blood loss.

Of course, this is not known to Yoshiko Ouchi yet.

However, even so, Ouchi Yoshixing felt that he had suffered a loss in the exchange ratio.

One by one, the wounded were carried down from the city, and after a burst of quick arrows from the archers at the head of the city, the speed of the arrows slowed down.

Had to slow down.

Because archery is also a force job, no one can shoot hundreds or thousands of arrows in one sitting.

But muskets were not needed.

It's just that the frequency of musket fire is also reduced.

Without him, there was no one who dared to show his head on the city, and if he fired a volley, it would be too wasteful, so he changed it to three or five muskets to shoot together, and to see who showed up, he would gather fire to hit somewhere.

Gunpowder also costs money.

Zhu Houhuang saw that there were fewer and fewer bows and arrows at the head of the city, and there were fewer people even outcropping, and most of the more than a dozen artillery pieces were in place. Zhu Houhuang also ordered a retreat, no longer making senseless entanglements with them.

The guns were fixed to the mound of earth, nailed to the ground with huge iron nails, and then the gun carriage was fastened to the iron nails with iron chains, and there was a margin.

Otherwise, the recoil of the artillery will be able to pull up the entire iron nail, but I don't know where it will hit, and I can't say that it will kill anyone.

This iron nail, or even an iron pillar, is not used to lock the artillery, but to lock the direction of the artillery's retreat. Otherwise, as soon as the cannon is fired, the gun truck will run wildly, and you may kill someone.

The gun carriage with artillery recoil does not weigh a few thousand catties, and it is about the same, who does it hit, isn't it a death?

Zhu Houhuang raised his head to see that it was not too early, and ordered: "Rest in batches and eat." ”

Yongjun was eating slowly.

A large amount of food was brought over from the rear camp, and since the logistical supplies came from North Korea, everyone could only eat steamed buns and kimchi.

Many veterans find it the most uncomfortable meal they've had since joining the military.

When marching and fighting, Zhu Houhuang has always led by example, and he also eats what the soldiers eat. But in the face of the national treasure of Korea in later generations, he really has no appetite.

Zhu Houhuang never thought of the supplies he got from North Korea, that is, these things, so he could only sigh and say secretly: "After all, it is a war, and some of them are good to eat." ”

But he had already ordered a batch of canned meat to be sent to the queen.

Just when Zhu Houhuang was eating, Maoli Yuan in the city was not in the mood to eat.

"Oops, oops." Moans rang out one after another.

Maori looked at a monk nervously.

The monk's beard was already gray, he opened the gunshot wound wrapped in a person, looked at the bloody wound, hesitated for a while, and said, "Take the knife." ”

A palm-long dagger was placed in the monk's hand, and the monk told the wounded man to hold down, and he gently cut the wound open.

When the wound was cut, the wounded man screamed as if he had killed a pig. Then it turned into a muffled snort, it turned out that they were afraid that the wounded man would bite his tongue, so he bit the monk's medical bag, that is, the thing that pads his wrist when checking the pulse.

It took a while for the monk to sweat profusely and remove a lead bullet from the wound.

Maori Yuan immediately said, "Master, how is he?" ”

"Amitabha." The monk said: "Lao Gu has done his best, such injuries are rare in Japan, but they are common in the Ming Dynasty, every Zhongtongzi, must first take out the son, and then bandage it, but even so, there will be a vicious disease, whether they can survive or not, it depends on their lives." ”

This monk is a monk of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know how to live in Japan, so he settled in Nagasaki. He has a specialty in medical skills, and was forced to stay as a military doctor.

What he said, Maori Yuan still believed.

It's just that in this way, Maori Yuan's heart sank, because dozens of people who could escape back were shot. They are all wailing here, and according to this monk, the chances of them surviving are probably not high.

These are all soldiers of the Maori family, and what worries Maori Yuan even more is that in the battle outside the city, they hardly brought a little loss to the other party.

The soldiers of the Maori family, I don't dare to say how strong they are, but they are also confident that they are not inferior to the army of the Ouchi clan, and they are all fighting like this, so what ability does the Ouchi clan have to compete with King Yong?