Chapter 488 47. Five Rounds to Defeat the Suruga Tribe

Six thousand-jin heavy mother-and-child chain Portuguese cannons are of course nothing in the neighboring Da Meng, but in the East Country, it is a top-level killer that can destroy the world and be invincible.

One more thing to say, whether it is the Takeda army or the Hojo army, there is a complete chain of contempt within. (Takeda) Kai headquarters - Shinano clan - Suruga clan, (Hojo) Sagami Izu Fudai clan - Musashi's nominal Gokae Gomakai - So, No, Kam, Tsuyoshi, Fang and other state Sakukura clan cannon fodder countrymen.

So now in front of Xiao Pingtai are our old acquaintances Suruga clan Okabe Masatsuna and Katsurayama Ujimoto, two teams of about 2,000 people, fighting the hardest battle and suffering the greatest losses.

Too many samurai died in Okehazama of the Suruga clan, and their combat effectiveness declined a lot, but after Takeda Yoshinobu entered the country with his son, a large number of second and third sons of Kai samurai families were stuffed into the Suruga clan, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the Suruga clan.

Even due to Takeda Harunobu's successive victories, the morale of the Suruga army has been improved to a certain extent.

But what's the use of higher morale?

Okabe Masanaga naturally knew that the Fujiwara Tanjo iron cannon on the opposite side was sharp, and he would always drive the iron cannon troops as the first move in every battle, with two or three hundred iron cannons going back and forth. After a few rounds of volleys, the rubbish team was directly disbanded, and the better ones were just struggling to resist.

But now across the Tone River, can the iron cannon shoot a hundred meters? It should be able to hit, but the lead bullets have flown to where, let alone hitting people, the sound may not be scary. So he was not afraid at all. Although the iron cannon is sharp, it must be able to hit people.

But it was strange that Kobayata actually pushed a lot of carts to the river beach and piled up soil on the river beach to form a platform, as if there was something.

Before he could figure out why, hundreds of lead bullets hit his face, overwhelming and life-threatening.

The Suruga people lined up on the river bank only heard a series of terrifying loud noises, and then they met their fate of death.

In just two minutes, the south bank of the Tone River seemed to have been plowed over, and thirty rounds of gunfire struck like thunder. There was no one standing, and the fluttering flags disappeared.

The troops on the left and right sides of the Yamauchi Army on the north bank were originally watching how Kobayata defeated the enemy, but in the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the entire south bank of the Tone River was clean.

The most surprised person was of course Kamiizumi Hidatsuna. This "sword saint" originally thought that even among thousands of troops, he could still fight ten times and retreat unscathed. Until he saw Kobayata's Portuguese cannon, his firm state of mind was actually shaken a little.

The Takeda army on the south bank was naturally not dead. When the second cannon sounded, when the bravest samurai and servants in the first row were killed, the whole team loosened up. When the third cannon came, the miscellaneous soldiers in the back row had already begun to retreat backwards.

By the end of the five rounds of artillery fire, those who were not afraid of death had all been killed, and those who were afraid of death had already run away. There was not even a wailing on the ground, and those who had the strength to wail had to run away even if they rolled and crawled.

"Oh no! It's a big gun!"

Hearing the sound, Takeda Harunobu's first reaction was that he was in trouble!

When the big gun was fired, it was like thunder. A dozen lead bullets were fired at a time, which could hit a row of people.

"Are there dozens of big guns? Impossible! The Tone River is at least thirty rooms wide, and the big guns can't hit it!" Takeda Nobuyuki also reacted.

"Hurry up and send someone to the river bank to investigate the situation!" Takeda Harunobu immediately sent a centipede.

But he didn't need to send anyone at all, the Suruga people retreated backwards with ghosts howling. A team of 2,000 people was shot dead in two minutes. Anyway, in this day and age, being shot means death, and being injured is also considered death.

Katsurayama Ujimoto was the most wronged. He looked around with his hands on his back. He was taken special care of and was shot at least dozens of times. The scene was too shabby to watch. There was no way to get his head back, so he had to let him go.

Okabe Masatsuna was lucky. A hatamoto stood in front of him and saved his life. He scared an old lady into hiding, and she fell to the ground with a squat. Two family members carried him on the left and right and ran back without looking back.

As for the horse flag? The hatamoto were taken special care of in the first round of bombardment, and none of them survived. Naturally, all the horse flags were killed.

"Gotate-sama Gotate-sama (Okabe Masatsuna's lord is Imagawa Hikogoro, so he can't be called lord), there is a big iron cannon on the other side, with a very fast firing speed, a breath of fire, hundreds of bullets in a row, and the sound is endless."

Although he was beaten badly, Okabe Masatsuna was still a qualified general. He knelt on the ground and reported to Takeda Harunobu.

"I'm afraid Fujiwara Danjo has come up with a new cannon, which is more powerful and has a longer range." Takeda Nobuharu looked at Takeda Harunobu.

"I'm afraid we can't defend the river bank. Send someone to inform the Hojo immediately that our army will retreat a little later."

"Your Highness, it's hard to explain if we retreat without fighting." Yamamoto Kansuke knew that Takeda Harunobu didn't want to lose his men, but he still reminded him.

"Then what do you say, Kansuke?"

"The cannon can only hit 20 to 30 houses. Now the new cannon of Danjo on the other side can hit about 70 to 80 houses. We will line up outside the 100 houses. If Danjo crosses the river and the two armies get mixed up, he won't be able to shoot."

"Yes." Takeda Nobuharu expressed his support first.

Then, the commander-in-chief Hara Masatane, Takeda Yoshinobu, and the old man of the pen-head family, Ito Toramachi, all said that this was safer. Although Kobayata's cannon shocked them, they still didn't understand the true meaning of "times have changed" and thought that Kobayata had only this way.

Here we can praise the Takeda army. They have been keeping up with the times. As long as they think others' things are good, they will learn quickly and have no shame in imitating others. As long as they can become stronger, they can pretend to be grandsons to learn.

They learned the cavalry of the Uesugi army, and they also learned the concentrated use of iron cannons of the Yamanouchi army. Of course, the Takeda army knew that the Yamanouchi army had large iron cannons (big cannons), and there were many of them, while the Takeda family only had a few.

So the 2,000 people of the Suruga tribe were defeated and scattered, and the Takeda army was not surprised at all. Hearing the explosion, the generals of the Takeda army in the formation knew that Fujiwara Danzheng must have pulled dozens of big cannons over.

The first reaction was: Fujiwara Danzheng is really rich. He fired a big cannon worth hundreds of Yongle coins, and he actually used it to deal with the weak chickens of the Suruga tribe!

The second reaction was: The Suruga tribe is really weak. It was just a few dozen rounds of big cannons. When we were in Kawanakajima, we saw the hundreds of guns of Yamanouchi Yulin and Fujiwara Danzheng firing at the same time.

So when the Shinano and Kai troops advanced to the sound of drums from the main camp, the first thought of the Takeda generals was to obey orders, and the second thought was to send the bravest soldiers carrying bamboo bundles and wooden shields to the front row to block the bullets from the cannon.

They certainly didn't know that even if they stood a hundred kan away, they were still within Kobayata's effective killing range.