Chapter 915: Clues

"Oda Yamazawa, Mori Arikatsu, you two bastards!"

The moment the war broke out, he was at a disadvantage, and Watanabe An cursed. Read

He didn't expect that in order to use the four northern vassals to deal with him, the King of Yan even sold them artillery.

Before that, he only had the news that the other party had obtained muskets.

At this moment, in his sight, the soldiers on the city wall were full of fear.

Facing the flying shells, they could only squat under the parapets to hide.

The artillerymen had no way to deal with the coalition artillery outside the range, and could only worry.

The bombardment was round after round, as if it would never stop.

The shells like raindrops kept hitting the city wall.

They could even feel the tremor of the city wall when the shells hit.

The parapets were constantly shattered by shells, and the rocks fell and hit the soldiers below, causing shrill screams.

"Hold on, you must hold on." Watanabe An said this to the soldiers, and it seemed to be said to himself.

Jiu Guizhi has already set out and is setting up an ambush.

As long as this most powerful cavalry general in Japan defeats the Yan Wang army.

The situation on the battlefield will immediately reverse.

He was thinking, suddenly a general shouted, "Their soldiers are approaching."

Watanabe An was startled and immediately showed his head and looked down at the city wall.

It turned out that thousands of allied soldiers were coming to Baihe City in a loose formation.

These soldiers walked and stopped, and seemed to be in a place suitable for shelter on the battlefield.

He was no stranger to this tactic.

It was the skirmisher tactics of the Yan Wang army.

These walkers would be distributed everywhere outside the city and shoot at the soldiers who exposed their bodies on the city wall.

At the same time, the artillery could not do anything to them.

After they were all in place, the opponent would probably launch a charge under the cover of these skirmishers.

"Damn, you four bastards are really lucky. The Yan Wang army gave you everything, but in the end history will prove that in front of the Westerners, the Yan Wang is nothing..." Watanabe An gritted his teeth and said.

At this moment, a cannonball flew straight to where he was, interrupting his mumbling.

Watanabe An was frightened and sweating, and instinctively lay on the ground.

The cannonball hit the parapet above him, and the parapet collapsed and fell.

He instinctively turned over again, and the parapet fell beside him.

"General, it's too dangerous here. Please go down and leave it to us." Ogawa Tora said.

In this battle, all the core members of their shogunate were dispatched.

Kukii was responsible for attacking the Yan Wang army, while he was responsible for guarding Shirakawa Castle with Watanabe An.

At the same time, Konishi Masataka and Shimazu Nagaki followed Yamada Haruno to resist Hojo Kawakawa Kei and Ono Town.

Watanabe An wanted to push Ogawa Tora away, but thinking that the most important thing was to wait for the news of Kukii, he went down the city wall.

"Bang bang bang..."

Just after he went down the city wall, gunshots were heard outside the city.

Soldiers who exposed their bodies to observe on the city wall were shot from time to time.

But the siege he expected did not come.

The coalition forces continued to bombard Shirakawa Castle as if they wanted to knock down the city wall.

From afternoon to evening, and from evening to the next morning.

Just then.

After landing in Edo, the 20,000 marines led by Pan Chang entered the valley northwest of Edo.

This valley is very long, with mountains on both sides, but the width varies.

Some places are as wide as 20 to 30 miles, and some places are only two or three miles wide.

"General, the front is Yaban. This section of the valley is very narrow, only three miles wide. After Yaban, another 50 miles is Shirakawa Castle." The general in charge of reconnaissance returned and reported to Pan Chang.

Pan Chang nodded when he heard this.

This time, in order to complete the encirclement of Shirakawa Castle as soon as possible.

He chose to travel light.

In addition to carrying Qin-style rifles and grenades, he only carried some dry food.

"Divide into six teams to pass through, the three teams on the east side will deal with the eastern forest, and the three teams on the west side will be responsible for the western forest." Pan Chang ordered.

As a general, the most basic quality is to be prepared for an ambush when passing through a place suitable for an ambush.

But this time, even if the opponent has an ambush, he will still continue to move forward.

Because he is confident that he can deal with any ambush.

Moreover, they passed through the middle of the valley, more than a mile away from the forests on both sides.

This is enough for them to respond.

Moreover, if the Marines equipped with Qin-style rifles and grenades cannot even deal with the Japanese ambush soldiers holding old-fashioned muskets.

They might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes.

But to be on the safe side, he still ordered the team responsible for exploration in front to feel the situation of the forests on both sides.

The reconnaissance team received the order and went to the Yaban Valley.

Their arrival immediately made Jiuguijing, who was ambushing in the forest, nervous.

In order not to be discovered, they all hid on the back of the mountain, and their horses' mouths were tied.

A team of soldiers entered the forest, and the Japanese soldiers even lay on the ground, not daring to move.

The Marines responsible for reconnaissance searched along the forest.

A soldier suddenly guessed a soft object.

Lifting his foot, he pulled his flag chief and signaled him.

"Horse manure." The flag chief recognized it at a glance.

In the Marine Corps, they are responsible for reconnaissance, and he has learned a lot of reconnaissance skills in the military academy.

Can find the trick from the clues.

"Don't show any abnormality." The flag chief warned the soldier.

Then he continued to observe and found that a lot of grass had been trampled and branches and leaves were broken.

Some trees still had horse hair hanging on them, which was obviously rubbed off.

After learning this, they did not continue to go to the ridge, but immediately returned to the army and told Pan Chang the news.