Chapter One Thousand Three Hundred and Three: Confrontation with Gun Quilts and Flowing Dysprosium Horses
"O Great Bodhisattva Hachiman! This...is this a native of Ezo?!"
"Impossible! How could such a tall figure, such sonorous heavy armor, such fearless momentum, and such a tight formation 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 longer than Guanzhou!..."
"Hiss! Could it be that some martial artist really intervened? But this strange appearance doesn't look like Kazuto at all, but instead 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 Hannuma tribe's village was built on a flat seaside, with only a crude wooden wall in front of it, which was completely inferior to
The Katsuyamakan built on the terrain. Similarly, the village's defense is also very weak. There is no wall on the back side near the sea. There is only a fence, which can be easily bypassed to break into the village. Although the scale of such an Ezo village is small,
It's small, but full of loopholes, so it's 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 used the stronghold wall and roof to support archery from a high position. This strategy of fighting against the Ezo people was used by Kudo Shigeyasu before when he attacked Uchiura
When we were in the clan, we encountered him more than once.
"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 from the front. After defeating the archers again and again, the cavalry can slash and chase them. But.
This time…”
Veteran Kudo Shigeyasu looked solemn, staring at the more than a hundred armored spear samurai arrayed under the opposite wall. The opponent was wearing heavy armor, leaning against the wall behind, and formed a "gun quilt" in front, with two wings.
The covering Ezo skirmishers had almost no blind spots for defense! Although those shining golden spear points were obviously ancient and expensive bronze weapons, these weapons were still deadly weapons in the hands of elite samurai! And even more
What made him feel threatened and incredible was...
"Each of them is actually wearing bronze body pills, and their morale is so high! This fearless momentum of facing the enemy, this confidence of fighting head-on, you can tell at a glance that they are experienced soldiers! Where did they come from?
It can’t be Ezo people!…”
"Hmm...the strange-shaped long shuttle boat, the ancient and expensive bronze equipment, and the faces of many Shantar people...could they be 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 actually happened. Those East China Sea girls are really powerful warriors and shooters. Only the warriors who are good at fighting can fight against them! And the rise of our warriors is also happening right now.
It started from that war..."
The veteran Kudo Shigeyasu shook his head, as if facing a formidable enemy. The surrounding Oyezaki retainers also lost their previous relaxed attitude and became serious. As soon as more than a hundred armored "Shan Tao" appeared,
The pressure brought to them far exceeds the eight or nine hundred Ezo warriors, and even exceeds the elite samurai retainers of the Nanbu clan. To defeat such an enemy, one has to really sacrifice one's life! What's more, the other party also has
They formed a formation, relying on the stronghold wall, with bows and arrows behind them to support them, waiting for 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, first 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 military. He first asked his samurai to retreat dozens of steps, find a slightly higher place, and list the "gun quilts" for the same defense. Then, both sides
The spear formations faced each other, and no one 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 behind in the barnyard fields and wilderness,
Down with blood and corpses.
"This is Kazuto's samurai team? They are not tall, but they look very powerful and have a tight formation. They are all equipped with iron spears, and half of them are wearing gray and black armor, probably iron armor. Many of them have body armor around their waists.
The weapons used for hand-to-hand combat are different from the hatchets of the kingdom, but the swords common to Japanese... There are also some people who 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 in charge of command..."
"Hiss! 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 the ten warriors on horseback and the two generals on horseback are also a big force.
Trouble! His Majesty once said that warriors on horseback are best at attacking from behind, and they are very dangerous obsidian blades..."
On the wall of the village, "Big Chief" Zuvalo is holding a long tube, closing one eye and looking at the mouth of the tube with the other eye. This is the long ship that was supported last year and brought thousands of miles from the kingdom.
The "divine eye telescope" is one of the amazing "magic weapons" created by His Majesty himself.
The key raw material of this magical weapon is a natural transparent top-grade gemstone, which is almost twenty times the price of gold. The raw material of the gemstone requires a long process of polishing and modification by craftsmen, assembly and debugging by divine priests, and finally the blessing of the Lord God.
It has the magical effect of suddenly magnifying the scenery hundreds of meters away into the eyes. It is said that in the entire Lake Kingdom, there are only a dozen of these "divine eye magic weapons". His Majesty specially approved two of them and sent them to the West Sea.
Exploring the front line. Unfortunately, one of the galleys disappeared in the storm and sank into the endless deep sea of the Far North. Only this one and only one was delivered to Zuvallo's hands...
"Strange! These Kazuto samurai teams came all the way here, but not only did they not attack, but they set up a defensive gun formation? What were they thinking, and were they afraid of losing their core headquarters?...Huh? That
The general riding on the big horse is the opponent's general? He looks young, but how can he be so steady in fighting..."
Zuvalo also frowned and looked at it with the Divine Eye Magic Artifact for a long time. He could even clearly see the ferocious expressions of the warriors on the opposite side. The opponent was obviously not a good person, and the warriors were very powerful, but they just held back.
Instead of taking action, the Ishikari tribes on both sides continued to attack and entangle.
"The situation on both wings...Beiyu clan versus Ishikari clan, 600 versus 400, the advantage is...huh? Evenly matched?..."
Zuwaro touched his nose and turned the divine eye magic weapon to the two wings. The three to four hundred Ishikari tribesmen on the two wings roared and fought together with the five or six hundred warriors from the Hannum and Hanbin tribes in the north. Enemies on both sides met.
, was extremely jealous. However, the Ishikari clan’s proportion of iron weapons, the number of leather armors they equipped, and their offensive morale were significantly higher than those of the Beiyu clan. They actually suppressed the Beiyu clan’s warriors who left the city, and killed them until they were close to the wall, and then were killed.
The sharp arrows on the wall knocked down six or seven people in a row before showing signs of retreating and collapsing.
Until a team of about ten Ishikari warriors, red-eyed with bloodshed, bumped into the kingdom's spear formation in front of them. As a result, the spears stabbed and swung, piercing the chest and abdomen of the tribal warriors, hitting the head wearing a bear helmet... only
Within a short time, a dozen Ishikari warriors were all dead in front of the battle, including a tribal chief with a bear helmet! The attacking Ishikari tribe then broke out into a panic shout, and then collapsed to both sides.
"Ancestor! The power of the black bear's guardian! Chief Big Bear died in battle!...The brave Chief Big Bear was actually stabbed to death with a spear by those strange Beiyu tribesmen!..."
The veteran Kudo Shigeyasu did not tell the so-called allies of the Ishikari tribe about the speculations of the "Santaru people". 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 from the Hoyu clan.
It was the Beiyu tribes who had always been suppressed and beaten by them. The reason why the chief died in battle was that Kazuto, who had always been able to fight, just stood in formation this time and did not contribute at all!…
Soon, two chiefs of the Ishikari tribe hurried over to urge Kazuto's allies to dispatch. They brought with them all the elite warriors of the tribe, but in this short time, thirty or forty people were killed or injured! If Kazuto had
If they don't take action, they won't fight...
After a while, Kazuto's spear formation finally slowly moved out and started to move forward with their spears raised. Ten warriors on horseback also stepped forward with their bows in hand and began to run around the formation. The horses they were riding were very short.
However, they are only 1.34 meters tall and are not suitable for charging into formations. They can only be used to chase and kill defeated enemies. Their main use on the battlefield is the riding and archery of the Dysprosium Horses. These warriors of the Dysprosium Horses shoot arrows while surrounding them.
, while letting out a scary shout! And behind them, they all carried exaggerated and bright mother's clothes, like moving giant bears, intimidating the powerful enemies from nowhere!