Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 96: Take the general’s head among hundreds of troops!
In the darkness of night, arrows were flying at the south gate of Takeuchi Manor. The men and foot soldiers of the Lin family took cover from the buildings and approached while shooting arrows to harass.

Aman used a stick to tamp the gunpowder of the lead bullets, raised the cannon and fired a shot straight ahead. Suddenly a long flame flashed in the night, and with a loud bang, it turned into a white smoke dragon. Three lead bullets rolled in the air and flew over a distance of thirty or forty steps in an instant, easily tearing through the human body and making a big hole. The powerful cavity effect caused the wounded's blood to gush out, splashing more than ten feet.

After she fired the shot, she immediately retreated behind an overturned ox cart. Then seven or eight feather arrows either pierced the ox cart or flew over her head, adding a few more white hairs to the small position that was already full of feather arrows.

Yuanye was further back, observing the situation calmly, holding a pulley bow in his hand, and with the help of an aiming device, he named the enemies who dared to advance one by one. The carbon line used for modern fishing entertainment has completely turned into a murder weapon.

Behind him was the gate of Takeuchi Manor. There were seven or eight archers in the gate tower above the gate. They were in a commanding position, with great shooting range and protection advantages. They shot down sharp arrows one after another, causing continuous casualties to the Lin family.

The Lin family had a difficult time fighting. It was not easy to deploy their troops on the street. Yuanye had previously ordered his men to throw a lot of random debris onto the street, making it even more difficult to launch a charge in the dim environment. Otherwise, they might trip and roll in front of the enemy to be killed.

The two sides shot at each other for a while, and the Lin family's warriors felt that they were clearly not gaining an advantage. Although the death toll was not high, there were a lot of injured. They had to retreat temporarily and began to blow the conch to summon more people to come to their aid.

Yuanye shook his hands and looked around, and found that except for two or three people who were unlucky enough to be shot directly in the head and face, most of them were intact. After all, soft bows could hardly penetrate armor, and all his people were armored men, so they just consumed some physical strength.

Ah Qing did not participate in the shooting, she was rolling oil barrels. These barrels were the soybean oil used by the soldiers guarding the south gate of Takeuchi Village to light lamps and torches on a daily basis. She was following Yuanye's instructions to move these barrels down from the gatehouse above the village wall and hide them.

The street returned to silence. The Lin family's men retreated back into the shadows, and the people on Yuanye's side also shrank back.

A moment later, dozens of people led by a samurai on horseback arrived from a distance. Soon after, a rough voice came from behind the wall of a house: "Is that Lord Nohara Saburo?"

Ah Man turned around and glanced at Yuan Ye. Seeing him nod, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, "Fart if you have to!"

"My master said that you are not a retainer of the Oda family, so there is no need to be buried with the fool Oda! Now if you are willing to lay down your weapons, my master can promise to treat you with courtesy."

"Who is your adult?"

"This is Lord Hayashi Sadamasa (commonly known as Shichirojiro)."

Ah Man took a few steps back and came to Yuan Ye, saying softly, "He is Lin Xiuzhen's nephew. I heard that he is very good at martial arts."

Yuanye nodded slightly, and then glanced at the direction of Oru Kiyohei's house. Half the sky over there was already burning red, and the sound of fighting was almost gone. It seemed that the house was almost lost, and the people were very likely unable to escape. So he said to Aman: "We can give the South Gate to them, let them retreat, and swear not to pursue them."

Swearing might not be useful, but in the current situation, he could only bet that the enemy still cared about his reputation and would not keep biting him.

A-man immediately shouted the truth in a shrill voice, but there was no more sound from Lin Zhenzheng's side and the street returned to silence.

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"Sir, it's the Nohara family!" A low-ranking warrior behind the house asked, "What should we do now?"

According to him, it would be better to let them go. The Nohara family is well-armored, especially with a strong bow and an iron cannon, which doubles their power in such a narrow terrain. Just trying to rush over would cost nearly ten lives. If they were to kill them in close combat, it would be normal for another thirty or fifty people to die. It was not cost-effective.

Lin Zhenzheng was about eighteen or nineteen years old. He was also wearing the "current equipment" and looked brave and courageous. He shook his head and said, "Prepare for the attack! The master has ordered that Nohara Saburo should be captured alive as much as possible. If that is not possible, the craftsmen around him should also be captured. The more the better. Try not to kill any of them."

This was an additional task. He originally thought that Yuanye would honestly defend his house and it would not be too difficult to complete. After all, local warriors generally regard their houses and fields as more important than their lives, and they would definitely defend them if they could. However, he did not expect that this wandering warrior from the Western Country would not play by the rules at all. He gave up his house and abandoned most of his belongings, even several boxes of copper coins, and ran to the South Gate with his entire family as soon as possible.

If they had not made careful preparations beforehand, to ensure that all of Oda Nobunaga's direct forces were blocked at Takeuchi Manor and eliminated, they would have divided sixty or seventy people to block the south gate as soon as the north gate was tricked open, and accidentally caught him, forcing him to flee frantically without showing his back. He might have disappeared along the lagoon by now, and the mission would have failed directly.

In short, today's surprise attack was both successful and not smooth. Too many unexpected things happened. Oru Kiyohei was obviously deeply indebted to his uncle and should have surrendered at the first persuasion. However, he turned his back on him and led his men to resist stubbornly in the house. Even after the outer wall of the house was breached, he refused to surrender and fought back desperately while retreating in the house. If Yuanye gets away, then there will be too many flaws today and it will be difficult to explain to the person in charge, that is, his uncle.

He has a high status in the Lin family, and his father led the surprise attack this time. Seeing that he had made the decision, the low-level warrior said no more and turned around to select the "commando team".

In this relatively narrow and complex terrain, the miscellaneous foot soldiers were basically useless, and it was impossible to defeat the enemy with feather arrows. It was still necessary to rely on the long swords of the lower-level samurai and senior Langdang to tear open the enemy's defense line. …………

Yuanye listened to the enemy's advice and then stopped moving, and he didn't care. It was impossible to ask him to hand over his weapons. It was easy to hand over the weapons, but it was difficult to get them back. If something unexpected happened, he would be at the mercy of others, and he would only regret it.

Rather than surrender and try to gain the kindness of the enemy, he felt it would be safer to rely on himself.

He took advantage of this time to quickly arrange defenses, especially for the barrels of soybean oil, and assigned someone to be in charge of them. If the situation was irreversible, he would set fire to the door and then take advantage of the chaos to get as many people as possible to escape.

Soon, Lin Zhenzheng launched an attack again. This time, it was the elite forces of the Lin family that came up. They were much stronger than the roving soldiers who had sneaked over before, and were more fully prepared. They fired a few rounds of fire arrows from a distance to light up the place first. Then, a large group of lightly armored warriors rushed out of the darkness, shouted, and used tables and other miscellaneous objects to block the feather arrows and cannons, and rushed towards the south gate quickly.

Aman also shouted and fired the first shot. The cannon spurted out flames and the lead bullets rushed out with powerful kinetic energy, knocking down two people instantly. Objects such as tables could not block the cannon lead bullets with strange trajectories, and sometimes even aggravated the pain of the injured before death.

The Lang gang also shot arrows at the enemies rushing towards them. After a hail of arrows, several people were immediately shot down.

The foot soldiers behind the Lin family immediately retaliated. Large feather arrows fell in arcs and hit various simple fortifications. A series of "chu chu" sounds were heard, like woodpeckers having a feast.

Yuanye continued to call out names, raised his hand and shot down the most aggressive low-level warrior, then subconsciously lowered his head, and a feather arrow shot at his helmet and bounced off, and he was like being hit on the head with a pillow, just shook slightly and then was fine, then reloaded the arrow to look for the second target, but his consciousness could not help but diverge for a moment, and he thought for a few tenths of a second about why the Japanese don't like to use shields.

Then, as he released the release device, his thoughts focused again, and only the enemy remained in front of him.

This time the enemy's attack was very determined. They could not be stopped by just a strong bow, an iron cannon and a dozen bamboo bows. In less than a minute, the enemy rushed to the simple fortifications. The two sides were separated by overturned ox carts, stacked bean bags and some messy furniture. In the face of life and death, under the stimulation of adrenaline, they began to howl and stab and kill frantically.

This was no longer the time to hide behind. Yuanye took the lead, relying on his height, long arms, great strength and excellent armor, and rushed to the front waving an iron stick. With one blow of the stick, he broke the legs of a low-ranking samurai who was jumping over an obstacle. Then Aqing rushed to his side, twisted his naginata and cut off the sharp sword of another enemy. With a flick of his hand, the enemy's throat spurted out a rain of blood, and he fell directly on the obstacle.

For a moment, the south gate became a new arena for wild beasts to fight. The howlings of the wounded and the cries of the dying could be heard one after another. People kept dying and falling down with serious injuries.

After a while, the Lin family failed to rush down the simple fortifications in one go, and failed to force Yuanye and others to retreat into the gate. Instead, they left a pile of corpses in front of the simple fortifications. Yuanye no longer cared about the battle situation, but just relied on the armor on his body to resist some scattered attacks, and swung the iron rod with all his strength to block a large front area.

This time, Ah Qing followed closely beside him. His long naginata was elusive, and the short and thin blade left afterimages. He tried his best to kill the enemies who wanted to attack Yuanye from the side. He did not say a word, and his cold little face was splashed with dirty blood, and even the white band on his head was stained red.

Aman was commanding from behind, shouting and gathering five or six men who had just thrown away their bows and rushed down the gate tower, and actually tried to fight back after gaining a foothold.

While she was giving orders, she was also firing her cannon, and then she would raise it and fire at the most crowded places. At such a close distance, after each loud bang, several enemies would scream in pain and fall over, which frightened the nearby enemies. They were unable to organize themselves to forcibly push down or climb over the obstacles, and instead, six or seven of Yuanye's gang climbed over the obstacles and began to chase and stab them. Two of them even began to stab the enemies in front of Yuanye from the side.

The Lin family members left seven or eight lives behind and rushed forward, but the stalemate lasted less than a minute before they were squeezed out again. It seemed that they would not be able to stand. But less than a minute was enough. Lin Zhenzheng, with a large number of Langgang foot soldiers behind him, rushed up and began to stand at the back and shout orders.

The addition of fresh troops immediately reversed the situation. A large number of spears stabbed randomly, instantly knocking down several Lang gang members on Yuanye's side, forcing them to retreat continuously, and then forcibly pushing down or climbing over obstacles, continuing to press forward step by step.

Someone fell down with screams at every step, and Yuanye became the main target. A short and stocky warrior from the Lin family also held an iron stick and was very experienced in battle. He forcibly overturned two of Nohara's gang members, then ducked to avoid Aqing's deadly naginata, and actually got to the side of Yuanye, swung the iron stick and hit him in the waist and abdomen.

Yuan Ye was stabbed by several spears from the front and could not stand. By the time he noticed it, it was too late. He was hit hard on the waist by a stick. He felt a piercing pain in his waist and ribs, and his mouth was instantly filled with salty and sweet. However, his ferocity was aroused. Without saying a word, he endured the severe pain and hit the short and stocky warrior with a stick, determined to take him with him even if he died.

The short and stocky warrior raised his stick to meet the attack, and both sides were knocked back by the huge recoil force. The short and stocky warrior steadied his feet and wanted to pounce again to grab the first credit, but his fierce eyes suddenly froze, as Qing's naginata had already stabbed into his neck from the side, and by the way, he used the force from him to turn around, pushing Yuanye to the back to block a katana that was coming at him.

However, the number of enemies was increasing and it was almost impossible to defend. But at this moment, the sudden roar of cannons and Lin Zhenzheng's screams came from behind the enemy, instantly making the battlefield quiet.

There was a cry of surprise, and everyone found that Lin Zhenzheng's face was smashed. Aman took advantage of this opportunity and jumped out of the pile of corpses with blood all over his face. He threw away the cannon and screamed "Lin Zhenzheng is dead", while suddenly smashing a cloud of white smoke to disrupt the vision. He took the opportunity to rush back with his head in his hands and his butt sticking out. In the end, he was only chopped twice on the back and rolled back spitting blood.

In war, you always need to rely on your brain. Only with brains can you take the head of a general among hundreds of troops!

(End of this chapter)