"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang..." The warning sound of bangs hitting the wooden board woke up the quiet morning. There was no panic and confusion when the warriors first arrived in the village. The young farmers holding bamboo guns ran to their respective defenses according to the different teams.
Position, under the leadership of the warriors, hide your figure.
The large group of bandits were fully armed, and as Kanbei expected, they all came from the west. This is the direction Shichiroji is responsible for defending. Since Hayashida Heihachi did not die at this time, he cooperated with Shichiroji and led the largest group.
Team peasants defend here.
Kikuchiyo is responsible for the direction of the small bridge in the east of the village. The terrain there is the most dangerous, so although there are many farmers under his command, most of them are old and weak. The North Mountain is the road left by Kanbei for bandits to attack, and it faces the greatest pressure.
Therefore, Jiuzang led the most elite farmers to defend this place; since the direction of the paddy field in the south of the village has become a vast marsh country, even the pond near the village is covered with densely packed half-sharpened bamboo spears.
It is absolutely impossible for bandits to wade through water to attack, not to mention that a musket is less effective than a wooden stick after being soaked in water. Even if it barely approaches the village, it will become a living target that cannot advance or retreat! Not to mention bows and arrows, spears, even if the villagers hold stones
Throwing a block can also annihilate the entire bandit army. Therefore, there are only three hard-working semi-large farmers here to keep an eye on this place. If there is a bandit coming to attack, they will immediately report the situation to the samurai.
Kanbei and Gorobei are centrally commanding, and Kazuyo Sorayama temporarily follows Kanbei and is on standby at any time. Katsushiro does not participate in direct battles for the time being, but serves as a scout, reporting intelligence from all places to Kanbei in a timely manner so that he can make decisions.
Make accurate judgments.
Once the fighting becomes tense on one side, Gorobei and Sorayama Kazuha immediately rush to support. Of course, in Kanbei's plan, it is almost impossible for the bandits to attack directly at the first time without having explored the battlefield.
Under such circumstances, ordering the entire army to charge would be tantamount to committing suicide. These bandits with muskets were once excellent warriors, and of course they would abide by basic common sense in war.
At this time, the bandits who occupied almost half of the hillside were helpless in the face of horse traps, antlers, horse traps, and strong wooden fences all over the ground.
Unless the war horses become Pegasus, they will never be able to overcome such a dense defense. The dismounted infantry battle is even more unacceptable to the bandits who are accustomed to cavalry charges to kill the rebels with overwhelming force. This is equivalent to voluntarily giving up on their own side.
The biggest advantage is to be completely plunged into brutal hand-to-hand combat.
It’s okay if there are only farmers on the other side, but can farmers alone create such a defense system that is obviously only available on the battlefield? Don’t be kidding me! In addition to yesterday’s sneak attack that caused heavy losses to the bandits, and the disappearance of the spies a few days ago,
Let the bandits know that there must be samurai in the village, and they must be high-level samurai to help!
If you look carefully, you will see that the rows of warriors with bamboo spears swinging constantly in the bunker behind the wooden fence must not disdain to use this weapon. They must be armed farmers.
But no matter how weak the peasants' martial arts are, under the leadership of powerful warriors, they are by no means an easy target to defeat.
The thought of dismounting and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with peasants that were several times the size of our own, as well as countless highly skilled warriors among them... not only the bandit leader, but even every ordinary bandit was quite resistant.
Therefore, the bandit leader, who was dressed in the best attire of the time and was escorted by three Hatamoto guards armed with muskets, hesitated. He issued a quite normal and even correct order that would wipe out all bandits in the future: postpone the attack.
Split the troops to investigate.
Katsushiro lay behind the bunker and carefully looked at the group of bandits. The long period of killing and sufficient nutrition made this group of bandits individually better than many poor and famous warriors.
Especially the arrogant momentum, not to mention that most of the peasants who had never seen such a battle were paralyzed on the ground, even the young samurai Lian Shengshiro was faintly trembling.
If the bandits choose to attack with all their strength at this time, even if they dismount and fight on foot, it is unknown whether the farmers stationed here will dare to stab the bamboo spears in their hands, and if they are assisted by muskets and bows... Katsushiro simply cannot imagine such a situation.
consequences of the situation.
But up to this point, all the bandits' actions had been accurately predicted by Kanbei. With the information being unequal and the enemy commander being extremely clever, the bandits' fate was almost doomed. Katsushiro didn't bother to sigh and mentioned
He ran towards the center of the village, where the Kanbingwei command post was.
Kanbei held the map and sat cross-legged on the ground, thinking carefully. It was still the map he drew on the rough cloth when he first entered the village, but it not only improved a lot of the village's terrain, but also neatly marked 30 points on the far right side of the map.
Circle, this is the number of bandits estimated by Kanbei.
Katsushiro rushed to Kanbei and reported: "There are thirty bandits in total, ten heading north and thirteen heading south!" "Where are the muskets?" "Three in total."
Kanbei pondered for a moment, then said to Gorobei and Katsushiro: "Go to the south, be careful with the muskets." Gorobei nodded and stood up, slightly adjusted the big bow he was carrying on his back, and led Katsushiro and a group of farmers towards
Running towards the paddy fields south of the village.
Although the bandits were riding horses, they were still running around the village. When Gorobei and the others arrived, the bandits happened to rein in the horses. Facing such a large area of paddy field, the bandits on horseback were at a loss. The leader
Although the order was to explore rather than attack, the raids on the villages would be blocked one after another!
After wandering for a long time, I haven't even seen the enemy yet, except for the four people who attacked the stronghold last time.
Thinking of this, the bandits were frightened: in just a quarter of an hour, 11 of their companions were killed, 8 of them with a single blow. Some experienced companions judged from the wounds that at least two of the attackers were swordsman-level masters. Damn it.
! How can they not practice martial arts but help those peasants, who are as lowly as pigs and dogs, deal with us!
Fortunately, the muskets are reliable. One of the four people who came to attack should have been killed. I hope he is one of the two most powerful people. I hope there are only these few samurai in the village...
Seeing the bandit spinning around on the horse, Gorobei and Katsushiro couldn't help but smile at each other. However, after a moment of hesitation, the leading bandit signaled one of the thin and agile bandits to jump off the horse and walked to the water's edge with a bamboo branch in his hand.
Start measuring the depth of the pool.
Seeing that half of the one-meter-long bamboo was already submerged, the bandits' expressions suddenly turned ugly. The west of the village was blocked, and the south of the village was also blocked. Is it so difficult to capture the village on horseback from all sides? This unlucky bandit was because of
Paying too much attention to the depth of the water, he slipped and fell into the water, causing the other bandits who were in a bad mood to mock and curse.
Gorobei slowly took off the large bow on his back. The large bow, which was more than 2 meters long, was made of two layers of tough bamboo pieces sandwiching vertically arranged bamboo bodies.
The inner bamboo slices are made from three-year-old bamboo grown on the shady mountainside, and the outer bamboo slices are made from the same four-year-old bamboo to ensure flexibility, elasticity, and strength, and the length of the bamboo joints must be consistent.
After harvesting bamboo, it must be naturally dried in the shade for three years. After being dissected into bamboo pieces, it needs to be carefully baked for at least half a year. During this period, it also needs to go through complicated and unusual processes such as slicing, splicing, grinding, splinting, shaping, and closing boards.
It takes eight years to make a finished big bow. Of course, its power cannot be underestimated. Usually, the longest range can reach 200 meters.
Moreover, not only is the big bow itself extremely expensive, whether in ancient China or Japan, the cost of training a qualified archer was second only to cavalry and heavy armored infantry, so every archer can be called an elite warrior.
Even during the Kamakura period, bows and arrows were once a symbol of the samurai, and were not gradually replaced by katana swords until later periods. However, until the Warring States Period when muskets gradually became popular, bows and arrows were still the main weapons on the battlefield, and they were also the weapons that caused the largest number of enemy deaths.
You can see its power.
At this time, the bandit was nearly a hundred steps away from Gorobei. Gorobei drew his bow string inch by inch, and the arrow was always aimed at the bandit who was struggling in the water. The bandit was about to land, and the moment he stabilized his figure,
A long arrow hit the bandit's chest. The bandit shook a few times, fell to the ground and died.
The leading bandit was frightened, shouted "Retreat" in a panic, and ran away in panic. He didn't even bother to clean up the corpse of the bandit on the ground, for fear that he would become the next target of the archers in the distance.