Chapter 1302: Spear Quilt Confrontation and Yabusame

"O Great Bodhisattva Hachiman! This...is this an Ezo people?!"

"Impossible! With such a tall figure, such sonorous heavy armor, such fearless momentum, and such a tight formation...how could he be a warrior of the Ezo people?!"

"Buddha! Look, look at the port of that village! There are really three big ships, as big as Guanzhou, and even slender than Guanzhou!..."

"Hiss! Could it be that some martial artist really intervened? But this strange appearance doesn't look like Kazuto at all. Instead, it looks like... the Shantaru people across the sea?..."

In Kazuto's military formation, veteran Kudo Shigeyasu frowned and stared at the Ezo village hundreds of meters away. The villages in Hannuma were built on a flat seashore, with only a crude wooden wall in front of them, which was completely inferior to the Katsuyama Pavilion built on top of the terrain. Similarly, the village's defense is also very weak. There is no wall on the back side near the sea, only a fence, which can be easily penetrated into the village. Although this Ezo village is not small in scale, it is full of loopholes and is not suitable for hiding inside.

Therefore, the "Ezo Army" chose the main force to go out of the stronghold to attack, relying on the stronghold wall behind them to form an array. The archers stood on the walls and roofs of the fortress, condescendingly supporting the archers. Kudo Shigeyasu had encountered this strategy of fighting against the Ezo people more than once before when he fought against the Uchiura clan.

"Generally speaking, the archers of the Ezo people are pretty good at shooting, and the yew bows they use can pose a considerable threat to the warriors of Tōmaru. However, the tribal warriors they face head-on have poor equipment, morale, and discipline. They are often vulnerable to a single blow, and can barely resist for a moment at most... But as long as the armored samurai spearmen charge bravely, they can quickly kill the Ezo people in front. After defeating the archers three or two times, they can be chased by the cavalry. This time…”

Veteran Kudo Shigeyasu looked solemn as he stared at the more than a hundred armored spear warriors arrayed under the opposite wall. The opponent was wearing heavy armor, with his back against the wall, a "gun quilt" formed in front, and the two flanks covered by Ezo skirmishers. There was almost no blind spot for defense! Although those shiny golden spear points are obviously ancient and expensive bronze weapons, these weapons are still deadly weapons in the hands of elite warriors! And what made him feel even more threatened and incredible was...

"Each of them is actually wearing bronze body pills, and their morale is so high! This fearless momentum to face the enemy, this confidence in fighting head-on, you can tell at a glance that they are experienced soldiers! Where did they come from? It can’t be from Ezo!…”

"Well, the strange-shaped long shuttle boat, the ancient and expensive bronze equipment, and the faces of many Shantar people... Are they Jurchen pirates? The Jurchen Shantar tribe coming south from Huatai?..."

"Ah, Jurchen pirates?! Mr. Kudo, are you talking about the swordsman in the temple mural? But that kind of ancient legend has always been a story used to scare children..."

"No, Young Master Oyizaki. That is not a legend, it is a cruel war that really happened. Those East China Sea girls are really powerful warriors and shooters. Only the martial arts who are good at fighting can fight against them! And the rise of our martial arts is also at the right time. It started from that war..."

Veteran Kudo Shigeyasu shook his head, as if facing a formidable enemy. The surrounding Uyizaki retainers also lost their previous relaxed attitude and became serious. The appearance of these more than one hundred armored "Shan Tao" brought them much more pressure than the eight or nine hundred Ezo warriors, and even more than the Nanbu clan's elite samurai retainers. To defeat such an enemy, you have to really sacrifice your life! What's more, the opponent has formed a formation, relying on the stronghold wall, and is waiting for them with the support of bows and arrows behind them!

"This kind of tightly defended rifle cover must not allow our samurai to charge head-on! Such heavy casualties will be unbearable for our family. The direct samurai of the Oyizaki clan must not suffer too many casualties on the Ezo people. ...We have to find a way to let the Ezo warriors of the Ishikari tribe entangle and test from both wings to see if they can disrupt the opponent's formation!"

Veteran Kudo Shigeyasu took over the battlefield command and quickly mobilized the army. He first asked his warriors to step back dozens of steps, find a slightly higher place, and list the "gun quilts" for the same defense. Then, the gun formations of both sides faced each other, and neither of them took the initiative to attack. The Ainu tribe skirmishers on both wings, at his request, continued to fight in small groups, advancing and retreating, leaving blood and corpses in the barnyard fields and wilderness.

"Is this Kazuto's samurai team? They are not tall, but they look very powerful and have a tight formation. They are all equipped with iron guns, and half of them wear gray and black armor, probably iron armor. Many of them have body-guards around their waists. The weapons used for hand-to-hand combat are different from the hatchets of the kingdom, but swords common to Japanese people... Some people carry small flags on their backs, which are the same as the feathers of samurai captains. At first glance, they are the low-level commanders responsible for command..."

"Hey! With this kind of strict organization and this kind of iron equipment, we may be able to defeat the opponent, but the casualties will not be small! And those ten warriors on horseback and two generals on horseback are also a big trouble! His Majesty once said that warriors on horseback are best at attacking from behind and are very dangerous obsidian blades."

On the wall of the village, "Big Chief" Zuvalo was holding a long tube, closing one eye and looking at the mouth of the tube with the other eye. This is the longship that was supported last year. It traveled thousands of miles from the kingdom to bring the "divine eye telescope". It is one of the amazing "magical tools" created by His Majesty himself and inspired by the gods!

The key raw material of this magic weapon is natural transparent top-grade gemstone, which is almost twenty times more expensive than gold. The gemstone raw material needs a long time of polishing and modification by craftsmen, assembly and debugging by divine priests, and finally the blessing of the main god, before it can have the magical effect of suddenly magnifying the scenery hundreds of meters away to the front. It is said that there are only a dozen of this kind of "divine eye magic weapon" in the entire Lake Kingdom. His Majesty specially approved two and sent them to the exploration front of the West Sea. Unfortunately, one of them sank into the endless deep sea of ​​the Far North along with the paddle boat that disappeared in the storm. Only this one was delivered to Zuvaro...

"Strange! These Japanese warriors came all the way here, but instead of attacking, they set up a defensive gun formation? What are they thinking? Are they afraid of losing their core headquarters? Hmm? The general on the big horse is the opponent's main general? He looks young, how can he fight so steadily..."

Zuvaro also frowned and used the magic weapon of the divine eye to watch for a long time. He could even see the fierce expressions of the warriors on the opposite side. The opponent was obviously not a good person. The warriors were also very powerful, but they just held back and did not take action, instead letting the Ishikari tribes on both sides rush and entangle.

"The situation on the two wings... The Beiyu clan versus the Ishikari clan, 600 to 400, the advantage is... Hmm? Equally matched?..."

Zuvaro touched his nose and turned the magic weapon of the divine eye to the two wings. The three or four hundred Ishikari tribesmen on both wings roared and fought together with the five or six hundred warriors of the Beiyu Hanzawa and Hanbin tribes. The two enemies met and were particularly jealous. However, the proportion of ironware, the number of leather armors equipped, and the offensive morale of the Ishikari clan were obviously higher than those of the Beiyu clan. They actually pressed the Beiyu warriors who were leaving the city and killed them all the way to the position close to the village wall. Then they were shot down by the sharp arrows on the wall, and then they showed a slight sign of retreat and disintegration.

Until a team of more than ten Ishikari warriors, who were bloodthirsty, ran headfirst into the Kingdom spear formation in front, and the long spears stabbed and swung, piercing into the chest and abdomen of the tribal warriors, hitting the heads wearing bear helmets... In just a moment, more than a dozen Ishikari warriors died in front of the formation, including a tribal chief wearing a bear helmet! The attacking Ishikari tribe then burst into a panic shout, and then disintegrated to both sides.

"Ancestors! The guardian power of the black bear! Chief Big Bear died! The brave Chief Big Bear was stabbed to death by the strange Beiyu tribe with a spear!..."

The veteran Kudo Shigeyasu did not tell the so-called Ishikari allies about the "Yamatar" speculation. Therefore, even if a chief died in front of the spear formation, the Ishikari tribes still believed that the enemies in front of them were all Beiyu clans, the Beiyu tribes that had always been suppressed by them. And the reason why the chief died in battle was that the always good fighters, the Japanese, just stood in formation this time and did not put in any effort at all! ...

Soon, two great chiefs of the Ishikari tribe hurried over and urged the Japanese allies to go out. They brought all the elite warriors of the tribe, but they had suffered casualties of thirty or forty people in just a short while! If the Japanese did not take action again, they would not fight...

After a while, the Japanese spear formation finally moved out slowly, holding their spears and began to move forward. And ten horseback warriors also stepped forward with horse bows and began to run around the army formation. The horses they rode were very short, only about 1.34 meters long, and were not suitable for charging into battle, but only for chasing and killing the fleeing enemy. Their main use on the battlefield was horseback archery. These warriors on horseback shot arrows in circles while shouting frighteningly! Behind them, they all carried exaggerated and brightly colored mother's clothes, like a moving giant bear, intimidating the powerful Shan Tatar enemy who came from nowhere!