Chapter 167: From the Sea II

Ando Naoji is indeed old, but the old guy of the Wa Kingdom and the seventy and eighty cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty are estimated to be about the same, and this old guy has been the old man of the imperial family for a lifetime, and he has been a few in the bodyguard industry for 20 years, and the first thing he does after retirement is to play with women.

Don't look at Naoji Ando is seventy years old, but his body is very good, and the women who sleep every night are young women, and even the youngest son is now three years old.

The defense of Tail Mountain City is not as detailed as the secret agent's report, according to the pseudo 'Tuntian' practice of serving the people during the war, the actual strength of the Tail Mountain City at this moment is less than 1,000 people, all of them are in the military camps on the periphery of the mountain city, which is also a standing force, of course, there are less than 500 people actually on duty among the 1,000 people, and the remaining half are cultivated in the villages around the Tail Mountain City.

Ando Hongji, as the eldest son, the next governor of the Ando family of Oyama Castle, has already led a full 8,000 feudal soldiers in Oyama to follow Tokugawa Hidetada's westward expedition, besides, Oyama Castle is in Edo, and this belongs to the hinterland of Musashi Province, and the surrounding area is full of fiefs of the daimyo of each clan, who has the ability to dare to sneak attack Edo?

Oyama Castle is the first major fortress.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of Naoji Ando, the remnants of the Warring States period...

"Master Hou, three miles ahead is Weishan City..."

The importance of Weishan City is noncommittal, the people of Jinyiwei have infiltrated this area, and the secret agents who received the news and came to answer immediately reported all the specific situations of Weishan City to Chen Cao.

Chen Cao was on the war horse, talking to Song Che, and Zhao Xin and Liao Yaowen next to him each opened it with a map.

"The spies have made it very clear, the city is full of five hundred defenders, and then add five hundred to him, these people are in Ando Village, and by the time they pick up their weapons and rush to help in the battle, Oyama Castle has already been broken, so, Shixiu, speed up, break through Edo as soon as possible, and then return to the division, it is still necessary to be on the safe side, in case the Toyotomi clan loses, we will become dumplings."

Even in the old fiefdom of the Gosan family, the Oyama Domain had only more than 100 cavalry, and when the soldiers of the Yamashiro Maqi clan saw a large number of cavalry appearing on the official plain in the distance, they were also wondering which daimyo would come from Edo Port.

"How many cavalry does the Daimyo of Northland Mutsu have?"

One of the feudal soldiers turned his head to look at the man beside him.

"How do I know, right now, Lord Taige's westward expedition against the rebels, the sailors have just set off, they may be reinforcements from the north, go tell the captain and let them decide."

When Naoji Ando received the news, the vanguard company of Tang Kainian's first division had already rushed into Oyama Castle, because the soldiers on duty had never seen so many cavalry at all.

Just as the soldiers were curious to meet and ask, the guns rang out...

"What's the matter?"

After a while, the frightened voice of his son Heiji Ando came from outside the door: "Father, the enemy army has entered the city, please quickly retreat into the castle tower to command the battle." ”

Is this still worth it?

"What are you eating, you don't know when the enemy comes?"

Heiji Ando then hurriedly bowed his head and said, "The enemy... Enemy... It's all cavalry, and iron cannons... We are not opponents..."

"What? All cavalry? And iron cannons? Naoji Ando tried to calm himself down, but at this moment, the gunfire in the entire Oyama Castle had completely masked the noise, and he couldn't calm down...

"Quick... Go and ask Edo for help, and tell the Shogun that there is an enemy army..."Naoji Ando still has one thing that he hasn't figured out until now, that is, who is this enemy army?

"Quick, hurry to the castle tower..."

Ando Heiji looked at the way his father ran towards the castle tower wearing only a crotch cloth, and finally stood up and followed behind his father under the cover of the beauty holding his clothes.

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

Under the cluster charge of 500 people, there is no need for a regiment to enter at all, that is, the vanguard company is already engaged in the tactic of lining up and shooting at the moment, although the opponent's scattered iron gunners can shoot two black guns to injure the Dingwu army, but what greets them is the consequence of being beaten into a sieve by lead bullets.

The battle ended quickly, and when Chen Cao stepped into the inner city of Oyama City with his sword, Song Che greeted him: "Naoji Ando should be in the castle tower, how about attacking it?" ”

Chen Cao looked up at the castle tower a hundred meters away, and then said, "Save ammunition, let Ning Guoxing give them a cannon, and give this castle tower to Ando Naoji as a coffin." ”

Chen Cao bypassed the main hall, and when he just passed by the room where Naoji Ando had slept before, the beautiful woman from before had already put on her coat and rushed out, and she crashed into Chen Cao's arms without paying attention..

The woman knelt down in horror to make amends, where could Chen Cao understand what she did, turned her head to look at Zhao Xin who was following behind her, but she didn't see Liao Yaowen, presumably she was arresting someone to move the wealth of Weishan City as instructed.

"Master Hou, my subordinates don't understand..."

"Dress her up..."

Zhao Xin smiled slyly: "My subordinates understand..."

The battle of Oyama Castle ended quickly, and Huang Degong, who was in charge of stopping the reinforcements from Ando Village on the periphery, killed the feudal soldiers who were going to support Oyama Castle like a chicken and fled, and gained a lot of benefits.

'Boom...'

The Shenwu cannon sounded muffled, and Ning Guoxing, who was becoming more and more skilled in artillery, hit the castle tower of Oyama Castle with one shot this time, and with the help of a precious flower bomb, the spire eaves of the castle tower fell into the city with fire and dust, even if someone survived, it was a serious injury.

Of course, what Chen Cao didn't know was that Naoji Ando, who was surrounded in the castle tower, had committed suicide by seppuku, and his sons were originally preparing to surrender, but they didn't know that a cannonball hit.

"Gather the army, leave a company of men to take all the captured prisoners onto the warship, and take all the women over the age of fifteen in the city of Oyama with them."

"Yes..."

After Chen Cao finished his order, he hurriedly turned over and got on his horse, this is still ten miles away from Edo Castle, and Oyama Castle is a transit zone between Edo Castle and Edo Port, the sound of siege and artillery will definitely alarm the surrounding towns, if the other party reports back, it will definitely expose Chen Cao's plan.

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The construction of Edo Castle began after Ieyasu was divided by Hideyoshi, and its predecessor was still run by the Hojo clan of Musashi Province, Ieyasu expanded it as the capital city later, and its city defense was built in accordance with the Ming Nanjing City, not only has a wide city wall, horse road, horse exit, arrow tower, etc., should be the layout of the Ming city, and there is an urn castle tower in the four gates, and even a moat around the city.

The only thing that made Chen Cao feel relieved was that because of the national strength and national conditions, the city wall was the same as the city wall of the Korean State, it was not high, and the height of the four gates in the front of the arrow tower and the urn city tower was less than five meters, and the surrounding city wall was less than four meters.

If it is the city wall of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, the arrow tower of Zhengyangmen is 12 meters high, and the height of the surrounding city wall is about 8 meters.

"It looks like it's still exposed..."

Chen Cao sighed, because he had clearly seen from the Qianli tube that the city gate in the direction of the west gate facing them had been closed, the drawbridge had been raised, and the city wall was full of flags, and the crowds were crowded.

"Let people throw away the banner of the Ando family and order someone to erect the military flag of my Ming Dynasty."

Chen Cao's royal order banner is written on the "Ming Ding Wuhou", and the second Da Xuan is written on the big book "General Soldier Ding Wujun Chen" six big characters, since it has been discovered by the opponent, then simply let the opponent understand who is coming to attack them.

Fortunately, the Japanese people at this time were still very thorough in their study and research of Ming Dynasty culture, otherwise they might not even be able to recognize these words.

Tokugawa Iemitsu raised his head suddenly: "What? Ming army? ”

Ishikawa Shukazu, who stayed behind, did not follow Tokugawa Hidetada on his westward expedition, because he needed Ishikawa Shuwa's ability to coordinate the transportation of military rations in Japan.

"That's right, my lord, it's the Ming army..."Ishikawa Shuhe's voice even trembled a little.

Tokugawa Iemitsu almost couldn't sit still and muttered, "How did they come?" As soon as the sailors set off, they came, could it be that all of my Japanese sailors were wiped out? ”

"They're supposed to have come by sea," Ishikawa said.

"From the sea?" Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little reluctant to believe that the person who came was Ming Jun: "Can you see clearly?" ”

"The guards are letting the ministers go in person, it is indeed the Ming army, and their banners are written with the words 'Da Ming Ding Wu Hou' and 'General Soldier Ding Wu Jun Chen', there is absolutely no mistake, no daimyo in Japan can afford to raise twenty or thirty thousand cavalry."

"What? Twenty or thirty thousand cavalry? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't sit still anymore, this is okay, the opponent actually has 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry, this is placed in the Wa Kingdom, that is the absolute strength of the king of Japan...

I only heard Tokugawa Iemitsu tremble and said, "Quick... Fast... Quickly send someone to let the surrounding relatives stay behind and quickly send troops to support Edo, and..."Tokugawa Iemitsu's hands trembled uncontrollably, and his mouth was about to turn against him: "Send someone to chase after my father and tell him about the situation here... Quick..."

"Yes..."