Chapter 495 54. Jiashan Wavered and Said It Was Bad

Although Amari Masatatsu died, the Amari reserve troops did not collapse. It was the foundation left by Amari Torayasu. There were many experienced veterans and samurai soldiers, many grassroots officers, and the army had relatively strong organizational strength. In order to retrieve the body and head of Amari Masatatsu, they were still fiercely resisting the attacks of the Minowa people.

On the contrary, the nearby teams heard that Amari Masatatsu had died in the battle and became disturbed. It was not easy to deal with such a loss of a general.

Kobayata was expecting the Minowa people to break the situation quickly. Takeda Harunobu was also quick. The movement of the Takeda army was basically completed, and the defeated soldiers were roughly gathered. The three-stage horizontal formation began to exert its power. If the front team collapsed, the back team would make up. As long as there were still people, it would be difficult to be broken through head-on.

After the gathering, Sanada Masaki advanced to the junction of the Amari and Yokota teams, like a strong shield, and finally blocked the powerful Minowa people and filled the gap.

Takeda Harunobu's younger brother Kawaguro Nobumi and Ichijo Nobunaga came up one after another and replaced the Ganli team that failed to snatch the body. Ganli team lost their spirits and was afraid that they would not be able to play much role in this battle.

"Dan Zheng! Dan Zheng! The Portuguese guns have arrived!" Aji, who went to urge the Nanman mercenaries, ran back to Kobayata's main camp excitedly.

"It's arrived? Where is it!" The big Portuguese guns weighing more than a thousand pounds were still heavy after all, especially on the muddy road after rain. It took more than 20 minutes to deliver them.

"The formation has not been set up yet. I am waiting for your instructions." Father William took over Kobayata's words. He rode his pony and swung in front of Kobayata.

Behind William, six big Portuguese guns finally appeared, as well as the gunner mercenaries and cult militiamen who guarded them.

Kobayata came in front of the group of people and asked Tatsuzo to pour out two hundred taels of chess gold, put them on a tray, and hold them in front of the mercenaries. (One more thing to say, some people misunderstood and thought that the chess piece was worth one tael of gold, but in fact, it was not. The real thing that has been handed down was one cent. One tael equals four cents.)

"This is the reward I promised you in the last round of battle. I will give it to you now. If you want more, are you willing to go up and defeat the enemy in front of me?"

Grabbing a handful of gold, it fell from his fingers like quicksand. The afternoon sun was not so bright, but it shone on the gold and reflected on people's faces, so gorgeous and dazzling. Xiao Pingtai was even sure that he heard several swallowing sounds.

Father William translated Xiao Pingtai's words to the group of mercenaries. When they heard that the two hundred taels of gold would be given to them now, if they were willing to go up and fight, they would also get a reward of two hundred taels of gold.

Dozens of mercenaries rushed to grab the gold and put it in their leather pockets, and then the officer glanced at them, and no one was unwilling to earn this gold.

Forty Spanish mercenaries readily agreed to join the war, and Kobayata took out tens of thousands of coins and distributed them to the believers' militia, asking them to follow the mercenaries into battle.

The Christian soldiers with the flag of Santiago, John the Carpenter and the statue of the Immaculate Conception were driven by Kobayata to attack Yokota Jurobei.

Like all regular troops, the Spanish mercenaries lined up in three rows under the whistle of the flag bearer in the center who held the flag and blew the whistle, and on both sides were the pikemen of the believers' militia.

They walked forward in strides to replace the troops of Imagawa Yoshichika who had been fighting for a while. The Yokota team also replaced a lot of reorganized Shinano people, including the previously defeated troops of Osuga Kyubei, and their strength was restored.

About twenty steps in front of the formation, the mercenaries knelt down in a row under the rhythmic whistle, and the two rows were staggered. Relying on their half-breastplates and cockscomb helmets, they didn't care about the arrows shot by the armored army, and let them crackle and shoot on the plate armor, which was useless.

Yokota Jurobei on the opposite side had never seen such a big peep show. More than forty tall southern barbarians with high noses, blue eyes and stature stood in front of him, which was extremely strange.

The loaded mercenaries didn't care what was on the opposite side. People who could travel thousands of miles from Spain to Japan to make a living, what kind of monsters and demons had they not seen? What's more, they were now thinking about the countless gold in Xiao Pingtai's pocket. That thing was so real.

The 20-meter volley was a good result for the lightly armored Japanese foot soldiers. Forty guns immediately knocked down ten people.

After three rounds of this, the Yokota army was screaming and howling, and the morale that had just been restored was weakened to the extreme again.

The mercenaries began to perform, throwing guns to the cult militia, taking out small steel shields and long swords, and with a sound of "Ulla", they charged at the Yokota team like wolves and tigers.

At this moment, the ancestors of the Conqueror Empire were possessed by divine power. Anyway, their plate armor would not be broken by the inferior swords and guns of the foot soldiers.

When our Volunteer Army was in the Li Dynasty, they would be stunned when they saw the American soldiers who were all black, not to mention the foot soldiers of the armored army who had been shot three times and were already panicked.

When they saw the mercenaries of another race rushing over, when the long sword pierced the body of the first foot soldier. No matter how Yokota Jurobei shouted, the soldiers shouted "The evil ghost is coming! The evil ghost is coming!" and turned around and ran away, which was impossible to stop.

"Good!"

The gap was finally opened!

"Father, place the cannon in front of the gap and prepare to shoot!"

The Portuguese gun is not a curved fire cannon. It is indeed impossible to use it when the two armies are mixed together. At this time, there should be two tiger squat cannons. Xiaoping lifted them up too early to clean the floor. It's a pity that there are no tiger squat cannons.

And even the largest 1,000-jin arquebus, when tested more than two years ago, only ten shots could knock down a hundred straw men at a distance of tens to three or four hundred meters in front.

In the first round, two thousand Suruga soldiers lined up tightly, only a hundred meters away, and were hit by thirty cannons, killing and wounding about two hundred people in total. This result was just average, not extraordinary.

It was the second round of volleys, which killed Ito Tomasa with concentrated fire, which was the biggest result.

But what Xiaoping wanted was that the arquebus could weaken the enemy, not only weakening his most heroic soldiers in the front row, but also weakening the morale of the A army, which was mainly composed of peasant soldiers.

If the morale is broken, let alone the A army, no army will be useful.

The cannons were set up, and there was no need to measure carefully. The gap was full of soldiers of the second and third sections of the Takeda army. The foot soldiers were lined up in a tight queue to maintain the front line.

Blowing the whistle to let all the mercenaries retreat, two of them were dragging a dead man. I don't know where they got it from, Japan uses heads as a reward for merit, but Xiao Pingtai asked them to retreat quickly, and they couldn't cut it off.

The two mercenaries asked Father William to translate and dragged the dead man to Xiao Pingtai. Aji went up to check the note in the helmet, which said Osuga Kyubei, and he was actually a samurai from Shinano.

Xiao Pingtai didn't intend to deceive these mercenaries, so he asked Chen San to open the money box, which contained thousands of taels of gold, which was originally used to reward military merits. He took out 30 taels of gold and gave it to the two mercenaries who were panting with blood all over their faces and hands. But their companions were envious and congratulated them.

Ignoring these mercenaries, under Xiao Pingtai's urging, the Portuguese guns were ready.

There was another earth-shaking, and the bullets hit the second and third sections of the gap in the Takeda army, frightening the Yamanouchi army that was still fighting, not to mention the A army that was hit by the shells.

Takeda Harunobu in the main camp secretly cried out in dismay!