Chapter 41 Chaos
Osaka Bay, in the words of the Warring States Period, was a sea battle that could control the situation in the world.
Gathering powerful soldiers and powerful generals from the pirates under Daimai of the West, they divided into four groups and launched an attack on the Oda navy guarding Kitsugawa.
In Long Junxiong's eyes, it was obviously a land battle that took place at sea.
Warships are small and strong cities. When the passerby collided, the ships fought with a large number of long spears with swords, and a long-range troops mixed with a small number of iron cannons and large bows quickly reaped the lives of the enemy and were also killed and injured by the enemy.
The huge shark boat slowly floated on the sea, as if it was incompatible with the adjacent battlefield, which had become a sea of fire. Takatsuki looked at the situation on the battlefield like a real general, and his mind was particularly calm. That is, under the classical feudal system of the Warring States Period in Japan, he could take stock of the situation so calmly. After all, outsiders are always calmer than insiders.
The Oda Navy had good military discipline. Even though the military was at a disadvantage, it had more courage than the four navy soldiers in the fight, and the number of iron cannons far exceeded that of the four navy soldiers. There were often several small early ships fighting to the death with big bows and iron cannons to suppress the Daguan ship, and then burned with fire.
The Murakami navy, which was attached to the Maori family in the past, was called the world's number one. They were like pottery jars, roasted jade played a crucial role in the water battle. Facing the boat's boards that looked like wooden city walls, throwing a few pots into the boat would leave the enemy with nowhere to escape. However, for this reason, the Murakami navy's offensive momentum was too fierce and rushed into the encirclement arranged by the Oda navy along the coast.
On the position of Kizukawaguchi, the longbow iron artillery team that had been ambushing for a long time launched an attack on the sea surface after they entered the range. The longbow team was waiting for an opportunity to launch, and the independently organized iron artillery team shone brightly at this moment, even attracting Takatsuki's gaze from behind.
The Oda navy at sea is not equipped with iron cannons. A small boat carrying twenty pirates may have eight archers on it, but there are only one or two iron cannons, and neither are independent formations. However, the iron cannons on the shore are different. More than three hundred iron cannons form a formation and fire volleys to the beach based on the dug trenches and wooden cranes.
At the same time, there was only one hundred people shooting. When the shooting was over, the iron cannon in his hand was handed behind him and then took another shot and continued shooting. Each of them had two loaders.
Moreover, there were several large iron cannons in their formation called Datong, which were fired even slower, but the shells weighed one or two. Each time they fired, they would bring a loud bang like a thunderbolt, and the small boats could penetrate the boards.
Seeing that the Murakami navy was attacked by sea and land, the Japanese pirates on the other side rushed out of the gap in the ship, surrounded the Oda army from the other direction, and divided the fleet to fight back with longbows and iron cannons to the shore. The Japanese pirates of Matsuura were the one with the most firearms among the four naval forces. As the Matsuura clan, which was close to the dumping place of the Nanyang Military Prefecture, they first traded with the Portuguese and Wangzhi, and a large number of firearms flowed into the Ming Dynasty.
As the Guangdong Dusi weapons were replaced, the past fuse bird guns and old-style muskets were also exported at high prices. The quality was naturally far inferior to the iron cannons built by Kyushu Island, but the size was large. These Japanese pirates from the past were able to get a firearm before the expedition. Although they did not expect any good things in their hands, they would at least give them the ability to fight back.
During the long period of learning to operate inferior firearms, the Japanese pirates of Matsuura created a special way to use firearms, which is to try their best to stretch their arms and keep the iron cannons and muskets away from their faces and bodies, which is called Matsuura Ryu Iron Cannon.
Through the prismatic shooting hole on the ship wall, a long and short gun was set up, and shot at the shore from more than a hundred steps. Although the accuracy was extremely low, it relied on a large number of firearms to suppress the gunman on the case for a while.
Relying on this moment of breathing, the Murakami Navy gathered its forces to fight with the Oda Navy that had been surrounded. Before the Takatoshi-ho's Central Army fleet arrived at the edge of the battlefield, the two sides burned more than ten large and small warships to each other.
The person who commanded the defense on the shore was Oda's general Sakuma Nobumoto. Seeing that the navy under his command were not defending well, his eyes kept looking at the twelve large ships floating on the sea in the distance. He knew very well that they were their real enemy. Compared with the twelve Ming ships, their warships were vulnerable in naval battles.
Even though he still had more than 200 warships in his hand lie in ambushing the river estuaries as ambushers, there was no large Anzhai among the more than 200 warships. The small boat was afraid that it would be smashed before the battle was met. No matter how many ships wanted to win the naval battle, it was a delusion.
"Let the teams get off the ship, set up a formation at Mutsukawaguchi, and order the teams of naval troops to retreat to the land. Our opponent is a pirate. We will inevitably land and take randomly, and lead them into the inland river, arrange a surround fleet between the two estuaries, and defeat them by land battle!"
The so-called random acquisition refers to the plunder and burning of the local area after victory. In any country and any era, it is a part of the war that is difficult to lack. In addition, there are people hunting, which is the slave market for buying and selling people.
In comparison, Oda Nobunaga, who was called cruel, had extraordinary human nature in these two aspects. Before Goro, he also took a lot of money. However, after Goro, he strictly restricted military discipline to the Gyeonggi area. He usually only sold Ikki for money. Of course, his cruelty was not in this regard at all.
Other daimyos are different. For example, Takeda Shingen, known as the God of War, has a mine at home, and someone else hunts a commoner for twenty or thirty yuan. In order not to let the slaves redeem themselves, he priced the slaves one or two cents of money. If he couldn't redeem himself, he put them in the mine. The man used it to mine and the woman used it to make people sleep.
Another military god, Kenshino Uesugi, was much better. Kasugayama Castle has a permanent slave market. It never raised the price of people like Shingen. It was sold at a fair price of 20 or 30 yuan. Occasionally, it was not a big deal.
In the era of life and death in military struggle, cruelty is the common nature of human beings. Of course, there is true benevolence and righteousness in the world, but those who truly value benevolence and righteousness die before others know their benevolence and righteousness. The only benevolence and righteousness that remains is great. Even if there is, it is different from benevolence and righteousness in later generations.
In the military struggle for justice in the era, being loyal to the emperor and serving the king is often a righteousness, and a monarch is a hero when he is in the battle.
The four thousand Oda Foo was led by their respective samurai and divided into fourteen teams. They were hidden according to the river. The warships on the sea also slowly contracted to the inland river under the command of land, gradually retracting the formation to the land. Takatoshi's plan failed, and the pirates under his command did not go beyond Sakuma Nobumo's expectations and pursued the land without hesitation.
However, what was different from Sakuma Nobumo's expectations was that he underestimated the pirates' enthusiasm for victory and burning, killing and looting. Small morning ships pushed across the shallows, and made a worrying loud noise with the friction between the boat and the gravel. Teams of pirates with disheveled armor rushed to the land. The captains shouted military orders, and the soldiers gathered together in a hurry. Some jumped off the warships and rushed straight to the hundreds of Oda troops stationed in Kizukawaguchi.
Some people are often Matsuura Japanese pirates. They stand on tilted boats, regardless of distance or situation, and stretch their arms and shoot randomly with iron cannons and bird guns.
On the sea, Long Junxiong knocked his head in distress: "Oh, it's messy!"
Chapter completed!