Chapter 266: Lookouts
The Matsuura family's Hirado Castle was cleverly built, located on a high ground outside the port.
In the era of cold weapons, terrain could play a huge role in battle, and if an enemy came to attack Hirado Castle, it was necessary to attack from the back.
And the Matsuura family wanted to fight back, and when they opened the city gates, their own samurai and peasants could dive down from above.
The most ingenious thing is that the slope of this high ground is gentle, which allows you to maintain the advantage of occupying the heights without the steep slope not affecting the samurai's charge!
This is not the Great Swallow Country, and Hirado Castle is only where the Matsuura family lives, so it will not be necessary to build a castle on the dangerous terrain that is difficult for people and animals to walk, because it is not necessary, and it will cause inconvenience to life.
At the same time, Hirado Castle is a tall building, and the attic-like castle tower is clearly visible even from the pier, and standing on the castle tower is enough to take in the entire view of Hirado Port, and if the port changes, the people of Hirado Castle have enough time to react.
It is said that when the weather is clear, standing on the castle tower can not only see the white sails in Hirado Port, but also look out at Ichikatsu Island from afar.
The governor of the Matsuura family, also known as the man who spoke to Matsuura Mankatsu, and his mother, Mrs. Takeshoin, lived in the castle tower all the year round, and she loved to look at the beautiful scenery in the distance, and it was also a beautiful story near Hirado Port.
Today, a general from the Great Yan Kingdom who had never heard of Jinghai actually rudely provoked the Matsuura family, and dared to directly kill the samurai of the family on the dock, no matter what, he had to teach the other party a lesson!
Today's Great Yan Kingdom is no longer the Great Yan Kingdom of three hundred years ago, do you really think that the majesty of the Heavenly Empire still exists?
Relying on the geographical advantage, the samurai of the Matsuura family swooped down with a few ashigaru, and those people of the Great Yan Kingdom who killed the samurai of the Matsuura family turned out to be just some peasant soldiers wearing grass-green coarse cloth clothes!
These peasant soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom lined up in a neat line, holding iron rods in their hands, did they want to rely on this kind of thing to resist the samurai of the Matsuura family?
The distance between the two sides slowly narrowed, and the trotting samurai shouted, the speed of the dive suddenly increased, and the final sprint was coming!
Those peasant soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom on the opposite side were able to maintain their formation in the face of the charge of so many samurai, which was amazing!
As the incomprehensible sound of the order came from the ranks of those peasant soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom, a sharp whistle sounded, and then, the samurai of the Matsuura family saw a flash of fire suddenly burst out from the top of the iron rods held by those peasant soldiers!
The roar then sounded, and white smoke burst out in the ranks of those Great Yan Kingdom peasant soldiers!
"Second Brigade, raise your gun, shoot!"
"Three teams, raise your gun, shoot!"
With Zhang Can's sonorous and powerful order, the three queues of the soldiers of the A-shaped battalion took turns shooting, and the roar inspired by the fire bolt was endless, as if it would never stop!
The samurai dressed in colorful carcasses continued to fall on the way to charge, and some people were frightened by weapons they had never seen before, and wanted to turn around and run away, but after all, they couldn't match the speed of the projectiles activated by gunpowder, and they were shot in the back, facing Hirado Castle and dying in fear.
"Stop shooting!"
With Zhang Can's command, a short whistle sounded continuously, and the white-smoked Jiazi battalion stopped loading and firing, and at this time, the formation was still tight!
"Get on the bayonet and take twenty steps forward!"
Looking at the messy battlefield, the soldiers of the A-word battalion were somewhat confused, and mechanically marched slowly in a neat line according to the battalion commander's orders, but they were thinking in their minds, Zhang Daniu and Wu Ren's cowardice, bullish! The fire guns they brewed, the projectiles can shoot through the iron armor!
The shock brought by the strange enemy, with the fire gun fired again and again, was instantly smashed in front of the Qiongzhou group training!
When these soldiers walked up to the unexplained samurai of the Matsuura family, it dawned on them!
The gods Zhang Da Niu and Wu Ren are angry, these Japanese people are not wearing iron armor!
Bamboo strips, tung oil, pigments...... There are even feathers, this armor is what it looks like, I am afraid that my fingers can pierce it, no wonder a volley goes down, and these bastards will fall one by one!
Guys, you've been deceived!
I especially thought that these deflated calves were all infinitely powerful, and they could jump up and down in dozens of pounds of iron armor, but the result was deceitful!
The Jiazi Battalion, who didn't know what the carcass pill was, instantly felt cheated, and his anger rose wildly!
The people of Hirado Castle didn't know what to think, but the gates were quickly shut!
Want to play Siege Warfare? Hehe, naïve!
"If I add up the flying thunder cannons, I will bombard the tallest building!"
Looking at Hirado Castle with the city gate closed, Zhao Hengyi personally ordered, "Wang Erhu, you come to adjust the angle, a salvo, if the attic is still there, you can jump into the sea and swim back to the ship by yourself, and wipe the deck for three days!" ”
"Order!"
Wang Erhu put the fire gun on his back, and got to the flying thunder cannon with all his might, since this kid got married, he has a daughter-in-law who has opened a small stove, and his education level has risen gradually, and calculating the shooting angle of a flying thunder cannon has long been not a problem.
What's more, everyone in Qiongzhou knows that this bastard boy loves to play with flying thunder cannons the most, but the gunpowder is precious, and he can't afford to waste it on weekdays.
Now the owner personally ordered that although he couldn't personally hit all the ten flying thunder cannons, it was already a rare beauty to be able to adjust the angle one by one!
Wang Erhu muttered in his mouth, holding a small wooden stick in his hand and drawing twice on the ground from time to time, and finally, all ten flying thunder cannons were debugged.
At the sound of an order, a loud and shocking roar far louder than when the fire bolt was fired appeared on the territory of the Matsuura family!
Nine out of ten shots, the castle tower in Hirado Castle was wiped out in an instant!
Countless exclamations came from all directions, this, this, what just happened?
It's those people from the Great Yan Kingdom!
The thick iron pipes they got destroyed the castle tower of Hirado Castle!
This is a ghostly method!
Matsuura's family, it's over.
The merchants of the Great Yan Kingdom in the port, as well as the sailors of the maritime merchants of other countries, were all shocked by the power displayed by the flying thunder cannon.
Many people fell into a sluggishness, and there were also a very small number of people whose brains turned fast, or who originally had other thoughts, and they figured it out in an instant, no wonder the ten adults of the ghost side attacked Sanya Bay, and they would lose their troops and flee in the wilderness!
In the face of such ghostly means, even the Lord of the Ten Divisions of the Ghost Fang, who is known as the king of the East China Sea, is afraid that he will become vulnerable, right?
In Hirado Town, many vendors who watched the excitement couldn't help but cry in low voices, and it was the same guys who had delivered goods to Hirado Castle.
The castle tower turned into powder in an instant, so I'm afraid that Mrs. Takeshuin, who likes to look into the distance from the castle tower and has been living there, has also disappeared from this world, right?
That's a lady who thinks she is gentle and kind......