Chapter 97
The Wa people have a strange dance, or what can be called opera. Some people call it a puppet show, others say it's a ghost dance. Anyway, in Ai Husheng's mouth, three or four names appeared, and Li Xiao didn't remember much.
This thing is a simple stage, a play performed by three or two people with extremely simple props, completely instinctively. The soundtrack is also very simple, and the two weird-looking instruments are even dubbed. The actors on the stage began to perform well, and they seemed to be quite engaged.
Li Xiao felt that if he went to the afterlife, he would describe it like this. Eighty percent of buddies will think they are making a hairy film? This thing, even if it's a piece of wool in clothes!
Maori Terumen was very interested and personally played an invincible hero. The black samurai uniform is embroidered with the Maori family crest with gold thread. The appearance is similar, but the goosebumps are really difficult to reminiscent of the image of a big hero.
Holding a folding fan in your hand is even a weapon.
Li Xiao is not used to the things of the Japanese Kingdom, mainly because most of the things of the Japanese Kingdom are one size smaller. For example, the folding fan that Maori Huiyuan is holding now is more than one size smaller than the folding fan in the hand of the Ming scholar. The original function was greatly reduced, and it was almost reduced to an ornament.
The folding fan struck the hideous golem's face, and the golem rolled all over the ground like a ball.
"Good!" I don't know what I understand, Man Gui is "...... at the bottom!" The voice of Li Xiao was taken aback.
Li Xiao turned his head sideways and looked at Man Gui, very suspicious of the aesthetic taste of this product.
Mori Terugen nodded to Man Gui to show his respect for the Ming general. Today, Man Gui can be said to be out of the limelight, not only on the battlefield to cut people more fiercely. The Maori family took turns toasting him, but they couldn't put the guy down.
Just as Mori Terumoto nodded in greeting, a crossbow arrow silently slashed across his cheek. The puppet who had just stood up behind him didn't understand what was going on. An arrow hit the door of the head, and a powerful crossbow bolt pierced through the brain. The sharp arrow pierced out most of the back of the head, and the shattered skull and blood spurted out immediately.
"Enemy attack!" Maori Xiuyuan shouted, and the first one pounced. Blocking Mori Terumoto with his body, a group of samurai drew their katana swords one after another, surrounding Mori Terumoto. Those who were close to Maori Huiyuan didn't even know where to find two shields and covered Maori Huiyuan strongly.
Dinner and a shield?
Perverted!
At the same time that Maori Huiyuan was surrounded, a terrible scream sounded beside Li Xiao. A guy was clutching his wrists and howling, and the roast chicken was holding a short knife in his hand. There was a bloody hand on the ground, and that hand was holding a dagger tightly, and it fell at Li Xiao's feet.
"Keep ...... alive!" Li Xiao wanted to say that he would stay alive, but it was too late at this time. The hoofs and haggis poked out of the man's head at the same time, and the two daggers were already stuck into the ribs, one left and one right.
It's all from the third rib up, even if this guy is talented, his heart is in the wrong place.
To describe the movements of the three brothers in one word, that is fast. The movements of the three people were almost completed in the blink of an eye. Li Xiao's brain hasn't even had time to react decently!
"Holy!" Before Li Xiao could understand, Man Gui turned sideways and jumped up.
Tripe and elbow stood behind a Japanese woman with a dagger stuck in the back of her neck. On the temple, too, there is a dagger.
When Li Xiao looked over, the two guys were drawing daggers and wiping them on the twitching dead man.
Vicious! Ruthless enough!
A knife in the back of the neck severed the central nervous system, and any instructions given by the brain could no longer be carried out by the limbs. A knife in the temple directly pierced the cerebellum. Even if this guy can live, he is definitely a high paraplegic, plus a vegetative state.
This is all the knowledge that Li Xiao learned in the army fighting class, and most of the skills of one-move killing actually revolve around places like the brain and neck. As long as these two places are mortally attacked, people are basically destroyed.
The five little guys gathered around Li Xiao, looking around like eagles and falcons.
It was only at this time that Jiang Chaozong's idiot reacted. Beckoning the brothers of the guard company to surround Li Xiao, a bastard was still wearing the kimono of a Japanese woman.
"Upper!" Li Xiao pointed to the only commanding heights in this land. If someone shoots an arrow from a height, it can only be that place.
Li Xiao's hand pointed, and one hundred and ten firecrackers immediately pointed to the archway.
"Smack......!" "Smack......!" "Smack......!" "Smack......!" "Smack......!" ……!
The gunshots rang out, and three people who had been beaten into a hornet's nest immediately fell from the archway.
The scene was in chaos, and Li Xiao and Man Gui were immediately surrounded by servants to keep their distance from the Japanese people. The roast chicken suddenly snatched Jiang Chaozong's short-barreled firearm and fired a shot at the ground.
A scream then flew up, but I didn't expect that there were people hiding underground. A few firecrackers sprayed into the pit, and there was no movement inside. Anyway, under the ground, it is convenient for the people of Maori Huiyuan to bury it for a while.
"Smack!" A gunshot rang out, and one of the guards next to Li Xiao was shot and fell to the ground.
The elbow rolled under a tree like a ball, and the dagger in his hand shot out. One guy screamed and fell off the tree, before he could struggle. was beaten into a sieve by a random shot!
Li Xiao was carried into the camp, surrounded by Ming officers and soldiers. That's a sigh of relief!
Over there, Mori Terumoto was also sent back to Hagi Castle by his retainers and samurai.
After a while, both sides sent their armies to conduct a carpet search of the site where the party had just been held!
"Chief Officer, these are the ninjas of the Iga family. You're not hurt! "As soon as I sat down, before I had time to catch my breath, Mori Hidetada arrived.
It seems that this product is to send Daddy to Hagi Castle and come directly.
"Bear with it?" Li Xiao's eyes widened, this kind of legendary character actually appeared in front of him. I was also killed by several of my own men!
"Yes! We Japanese ninjas have a long history and have many genres. The most famous of these are the Iga Ninja and the Kaga Ninja.
Kaga ninjas have been hard to find in recent years, but Tokugawa Ieyasu's men have recruited Iga ninjas. The Chief Commander was frightened! ”
"It's okay! I'm fine! Li Xiao was very glad that he had received these strangely named brothers at Penglai Wharf.
Just the Japanese ninja beside him, the dagger was almost stabbed into his heart. With the medical conditions of these years, taking such a knife is basically invalid.
It seems that those ninjas also came prepared, and it is likely that they have been lurking in the Maori family for a long time. That's where it's Maori Teruyuan, and here's it's on yourself.
Mr. Man Gui is also honored to be on the assassination list because of his outstanding performance today.
On this night, there was a lot of noise around Li Xiao's military tent.
Roast chicken, elbows, hooves, tripe, and haggis are five brothers, nesting in Li Xiao's tent and not going out. Jiang Chaozong's eyes widened like a mouse, and he held the short-barreled firearm that Li Xiao had eliminated in his hand. The killers under his command also widened their eyes and searched for anything that could be moved.
The entire tent was full of rumors, and Man Gui had already ordered that as soon as he got close to Li Xiao's tent, he would be killed immediately. The soldiers looked murderous with their guns, not only did people dare not approach, but it was estimated that even the ghosts did not dare to go over.
Hagi Castle also tossed all night, and I don't know how many people were killed. Anyway, the next morning, there were a lot of human heads hanging on the walls of Hagi Castle.
The sun finally rose over the horizon, and Li Xiao opened his eyes. Seeing that the five brothers were huddled together and sleeping, I heard Li Xiao get up. Only the haggis opened their eyes and took a look, and the other guys didn't move.
Li Xiao was very suspicious that it was these boys who killed the ninja last night.
When I went out, I saw Li Xiu standing at the door of the tent with dewy eyes, his eyes red like a rabbit.
"Second brother, you don't need to stay here. You also had a busy day yesterday, hurry up and go back to rest. Li Xiao patted Li Xiu's shoulder.
"Big brother! I can't sleep when you're here, and I'm standing in my heart to guard you. ”
"Go back to the boat and get some good sleep. Today the sea should be peaceful, yesterday the naval battle Ezo Shinyouemon said, the ship with the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman that you killed is the boat of the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka. If the Nine Ghosts Jialong died, the Japanese wouldn't dare to come to the Nagato Inland Sea to do anything again. ”
"If you really want to kill the Nine Ghosts Jialong, why don't I follow my eldest brother on land today?"
"You'd better go back to the ship, and I'll do the business on land. Yesterday they laid some mines in front of the battle, and today they will be better off attacking again. "Regarding the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Kou, Li Xiao now knows in his heart.
The main types of troops of the Japanese are arquebusiers, cavalry, and infantry. The weapons of the cavalry and infantry were mainly spears, cross spears, katanas.
Arquebusiers were overwhelmed by mortar and trebuchets because of their range. His own Mini rifle also has a longer range than an arquebus, and it is accurate.
As long as the enemy dares to attack, let go of the vanguard. The mortars would create a wall of fire and shrapnel in the path of the follow-up troops, and anyone who tried to pass through it would be torn to shreds.
Yesterday it was agreed with the Maori family that their wings would be defended by them. Behind him, there were 500 Mongolian cavalry led by Man Gui. These highly mobile cavalry can quickly support any point on the battlefield. Today's land warfare can be described as foolproof.
"Okay, big brother! I'll go back to the ship, and I'll transfer the cannon for you. Today, I guess the Japanese won't dare to come from the sea again, and you need that cannon more than I do. I've got so many trebuchets here. Yesterday's naval battle, the improved shells worked very well. ”
"Okay! The artillery was transferred, and there were two cannons, and the other general's general estimated that he would not be able to run away again. Li Xiao was still thinking about Kato Kiyomasa's escape.
If there were two cannons at that time, Li Xiao was eighty percent sure that Kato Kiyomasa would have been killed in front of the two armies.
After Li Xiu went back, the navy worked hard to dismantle the bronze cannon. Maori Terumen sent eight oxen to pull the cart, and finally got the cannon to the position before the battle began.
Yasuharu Wakisaka stood in front of the two armies, and he had already seen the defeat of the Iga ninja last night. On the walls of Hagi Castle, there are many human heads. Mori Terumoto, dressed in his exaggerated armor, sat high on the high ground and looked at him from afar.
Holding a telescope bought from the red-haired man in his hand, Wakisaka Yasuharu carefully observed the opponent's military formation.
On the left and right flanks were the samurai of the Mori family, and there were a lot of them. A conservative estimate is also more than 6,000!
The ones in the middle are the Ming army, and these Ming soldiers are dressed very strangely. There was not a single piece of armor on his body, and the yellow-green military uniform was very similar to the background of the woods. If you don't look closely, you really can't tell the difference.
Wakisaka Yasuharu fought against the Ming army in Korea, and these people seem to be different from the previous Ming army. During the first battle of the Blue Hoof Pavilion, the Liaodong cavalry relied on heavy armor and slashed endlessly. The heavy armor of the chief soldier Li Rusong is difficult to shoot through the arquebus at a long distance.
Why don't these Ming troops wear armor today? Their yellow-green military uniforms, let alone bullets, I'm afraid they can't even resist their bows and arrows.
"Matsumoto-kun, those Ming soldiers were also dressed like this yesterday?" Wakisaka Yasuharu asked suspiciously about a samurai who had escaped yesterday.
"It was the same yesterday, but yesterday the Mori family was all in Hagi Castle. After we were scattered by the Ming army, their cavalry came out of Hagi Castle. ”
"All the people of the Maori family have come out of Hagi Castle?" Wakisaka Yasuji's eyes lit up, and after picking up the binoculars and looking at Hagijo, he reluctantly put it down.
At that moment, Yasuharu Wakisaka wondered if he was going to attack Hagi Castle first. After mobilizing the enemy's formation, they relied on their numerical superiority to attack the enemy's scattered formation.
But after taking a look, Wakisaka Yasuharu gave up.
Although Hagi Castle's defense is weak, it can't be attacked in a moment. The defenders on the city wall also looked like one or two thousand. As for how much is still in it, only Maori Huiyuan knows.
If you don't attack Hagi Castle, the enemy will attack your flank. At that time, I was afraid that I would be the second Kato Kiyomasa.
"My lord! The ten Franc cannons sent to us by the Tokugawa shogun have arrived! ”
"Great!" As soon as Wakisaka Yasuharu heard that there was a cannon to help, he immediately came to his senses.
Artillery was rare in the Warring States period, mainly because it was too heavy and quite inconvenient to carry on the march. Before your cannon reached the place, they ran away. With this thing, it caused the army to march slowly and disjointedly. Later, everyone simply did not use it, unless there was a siege battle, the cannon would be lifted out to bombard the city wall.
"Pull the cannon to the front of Hagi Castle and bombard the walls of Hagi Castle. I want to see if Maori Huiyuan wants his own nest!
As long as his army dares to move, return to Hagi City. Our cavalry will press on it, and it will be time to see what he does. "Wakisaka Yasuharu was very confident in his cavalry, and the cavalry under his command was once the second only heavy cavalry to the cavalry of the Takeda family.
Once the opponent's formation is confused, the heavy cavalry can pierce the enemy's formation like a sword.