Chapter 168: Barbed Wire
The content of the conversation between Yang Guang and Takenaka Hanbei was placed in front of Oda Nobunaga early the next morning, and the most important task of the Oda family ninja lurking in Nagashima Port was to monitor Yang Guang's sales of Goho guns. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a businessman, Yang Guang of course pursues profits, and Oda Nobunaga is not strong enough to make Yang Guang obediently surrender, or rich enough to buy all of Yang Guang's Wufeng guns, so sooner or later, there will be other daimyo who will realize the power of Wufeng guns and find Yang Guang to buy them with a lot of money.
Seeing that Yang Guang didn't say a word about the Wufeng Gong, and that half-soldier guard also honestly went home, Oda Nobunaga finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was really a little worried about how he would face such a result if Yang Guang sold the Wufeng Gong to the Saito family.
It is definitely not possible to turn his face, Yang Guang can leave Nagashima to go to other parts of Japan to do business again, but Oda Nobunaga cannot lose Yang Guang's supply of Wufeng guns, he once secretly ordered his subordinates to find skilled craftsmen to copy Wufeng guns, but there was no way to get the seamless steel pipes at all, and the imitation work directly failed in the first step.
If you don't turn your face, Yang Guang's behavior will cause the Oda family's army to suffer huge losses, judging from the actual combat experience of the Sumamata castle, the firearm of the Goho Gun is better at defense than attack, and the Oda family's strategy for a long time in the future is expansion, Oda Nobunaga does not want his samurai to attack the fortress equipped with the Goho gun.
Fortunately, Yang Guang was still very measured, and he did not sell the Wufeng gun to the Saito family, which made Oda Nobunaga's mood very good, so much so that he noticed the Ming cuisine mentioned in the information, and according to the description, it was actually fragrant for ten miles and even the ninjas hiding outside smelled it, which made him feel quite curious, so he couldn't help but ask: "What is the name of this thing?" ”
Half a day later, Oda Nobunaga received a letter from Shigehide Suzuki himself, and when he learned that Yang Guang had found a solution to the defects of the five peaks, he immediately laughed, and couldn't wait for his subordinates to get ready, he had to go to Nagashima Port in the shortest possible time.
At noon on the third day of Takenaka's departure, Oda Nobunaga led 500 escorts to Nagashima Port, including 150 iron gunners who had survived the Battle of Sumamata.
As a landowner, Yang Guang naturally had to entertain Oda Nobunaga and his subordinates, and the dishes he used were undoubtedly luncheon meat and potato stews. Looking at the fragrant dishes placed in front of him, Oda Nobunaga opened his mouth and asked, "Is this the dish you served to Takenaka Hanbei?" ”
"Yes and no." Yang Guang had long known that Oda Nobunaga had arranged for eyes and ears in Nagashima Port, otherwise he could have directly sold the Goho Gun, instead of suggesting that Takenaka Hanbei was looking for someone to act as a third party to trade, and now when he heard Oda Nobunaga say this, he replied: "The raw materials are still those raw materials, but the chef is not the chef!" ”
"Hahahaha!" Oda Nobunaga laughed out loud after hearing this, he thought that he heard the implicit meaning of Yang Guang's words, the same ingredients made by different chefs have different tastes, and it is obvious that Oda Nobunaga must be the chef with better cooking skills.
After lunch, Oda Nobunaga was led by Yang Guang to a deserted beach about a kilometer outside the harbor of Nagashima, with few obstacles, except for a few large wooden boxes not far away, and dozens of thick wooden stakes piled on the ground.
"Huh?" Sasa Narumasa, a retainer who followed Oda Nobunaga, was quite surprised, and couldn't help but cry out, because the place Yang Guang chose was too similar to the environment on the side of Sumamata.
Sasa Naruma's father and elder brother held the castle in the attack of Imagawa Yoshimasa and did not retreat, and finally died in the line of duty, so Oda Nobunaga trusted him very much, and handed over the 300-man iron artillery unit equipped with the Goho gun to Sasa Narumasa to command.
Not long ago, Sasa Narumasa was ordered to command the iron artillery unit to snipe the Saito family's army, although there were thousands of ashigaru infantry around him to help defend at that time, and also repelled the Saito family's many attacks, buying time for the engineering team behind to build the city, but in the end the enemy's cavalry broke into the position and routed the soldiers with the Goho guns.
After this battle, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng has been thinking about how to solve such a situation, when he learned that Yang Guang claimed to have found a way, his heart has been very curious, but after coming here, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng was even more confused, could it be that those few big wooden boxes and some wooden stakes can solve this problem?
Yang Guang said hello and asked a few sailors who were guarding the wooden box to open the box, revealing the rolled up barbed wire, which was woven from the thickness of the little thumb, and had spikes on it to prevent people from climbing and climbing over.
"This is what Zhao Jun said?" Oda Nobunaga walked over and took a closer look at it with some strangeness, and then thought of the wooden stake next to him, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said loudly: "I understand, erecting them with wooden stakes can block the enemy's advance." ”
"Yes!" Yang Guang replied with a smile, thinking of this method is very simple, but to make a suitable wire, weaving a metal mesh requires a certain industrial foundation. Don't look at this kind of ordinary barbed wire fence in modern time and space, it is only 8 yuan per square meter, and it is still a proper black technology product in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
Under Yang Guang's simple guidance, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng called dozens of subordinates and asked them to put down the Wufeng Gong and try to erect the wooden stakes and barbed wire, don't look at these people are the first time to contact this kind of thing, but the principle and operation are very simple, that is, half an hour of work, a barbed wire blockade line more than half a person high and more than ten meters long appeared on the beach.
After getting Yang Guang's permission, Sasa Narimasa pulled out his katana and slashed it at the barbed wire, I don't know if it was because of his great strength or because the saber was very sharp, he actually cut two wires the thickness of his little thumb, and then the katana was caught in the barbed wire.
Sasa Seimasa pulled out the katana with some effort, and slashed and chopped for a while, that is, he barely broke a gap more than ten centimeters long in the barbed wire, and the cut wires were as sharp as they were, coupled with the spikes on the wire, there was still no way to climb over from here.
"If we can set up two or three of these blockades, with a few more ashigaru infantry in the middle of each one, so that the iron gunners can fire safely from behind, even the enemy's cavalry will not be able to approach easily. Oda Nobunaga said with a happy face: "Zhao Jun, I am very satisfied with this result, I want all of these things you have brought!" (To be continued.) )