Chapter 13: The Gift of the Horse Thieves

After several days of investigation by the ninjas under Ishikawa Wuyoumon, he finally found the nest of horse thieves hidden in a valley in Kisogawa. It was only six miles away from Nishikawa Village. I was furious when I heard this and spat, "These horse thieves have no professional ethics at all, and they only eat grass beside the nest."

Ke'er just hid a dog-tail grass in her mouth and said evilly, "Why run around the mountain if there is grass by the nest? I think that's what the horse thief thinks."

I looked at everyone and sought opinions from Nobuka Uchizumi, and asked, "Teacher, what do you think?"

‘Lord, we have more than fifty people now. Even if we fight one-on-one with these horse thieves, we will be invincible. Just let it go.’

I nodded. Each of my foot lights is basically arranged according to the training volume of modern troops, and weapons are in an absolute leading position in this era. Other daimyos are not as crazy as me, and each foot light is equipped with an iron cannon. As for what to do in close combat, I have solved this problem. The appearance of bayonets was when a French soldier inserted a wooden spear into the iron gun as a spear, and I realized this in advance. In addition to the iron cannon, each foot light is also equipped with a four-foot-long fir-pole iron spear. In this way, when the enemy rushed up, he inserted the spear into the iron cannon chamber, and a six-foot-long horse-rejected spear was formed. As for why the length of the horse-rejected rifle is, I believe that under the nine-stage strike style, infantry basically have no chance to rush up.

Note: The nine-stage method is to divide the iron cannon team into nine rows evenly. Each time, each shooting, kneeling down, the second row is half upright, and the third row is upright. At the same time, the gun is fired to form a dense rain of bullets to hit the enemy. The first three rows of shooting are completed and then reload, and the nine rows of people shoot in a cycle.

There are only two exits in the valley, and the path to exit the valley is guarded by Nobuzumi Uchizumi with six people. It is enough to guard this path that can only accommodate two people walking side by side with a sword saint and six iron cannons.

Our large team of more than 40 people, led by a ninja, hugged and sneaked among the grass and bushes, and finally touched the edge of the horse thief's nest. The ninja pointed to the shadows on the two commanding heights and said, "Lord, this is the horse thief's post. The east is the horse thief's residence, and the west is the warehouse and stable. There is usually no one in the warehouse and stable."

I gestured a few movements with my left hand to signal everyone to hide. I whispered to the personal soldiers behind, "Prepare two iron cannons for me and load the ammunition."

I picked up the iron cannon and glanced. The cliff sentry was about 150 yards away from me. It was almost the limit shooting distance of the iron cannon. You should know that the maximum range of the iron cannon in this era is 200 yards. If the lead ball is outside 200 yards, you don’t have to worry about being injured even if you hit the body.

Two gunshots with almost no pause suddenly broke the tranquility in the valley. The silent? The red and white colors on the watchtower formed a strange and gorgeous picture. Forty-five squads lightly lined up in nine rows along the road and blocked the way out of the front of the valley. After seeing the iron artillery team successfully blocking the intersection, I breathed a sigh of relief and finally completed the siege of horse thieves and successfully separated the horse thieves from the war horses. Without horses, the success rate of horse thieves' escape would be greatly reduced.

‘Don’t be anxious, just like you did on the shooting range. There are just a group of targets who can shout.’ While boosting morale, I held a loaded iron cannon and was prepared for an unexpected situation. Looking at Katsumashima, Keiji Maeda, commanded the iron cannon in three rows and one group to fire the panicked horse thieves in the nest. Fumigoro Katsurachi, Yuyu Yoshi, Ishikawa Wuemon and three ninja guards who were specifically responsible for loading me with their bodies. They blocked the gaps around me.

For a moment, gunfire and shouting loudly, but not long after, the dozen horse thieves who were rushing over were beaten into honeycomb coal, the shouting sound became weaker. I don’t know whether the leader of the horse thief was killed or ran away while charging. The remaining horse thieves fell into chaos without commanding the gunshots. The horse thief on the opposite side was about one hundred yards away from us. At such a distance, only three or four people could be knocked down at one volley. But no one could withstand such endless rounds of uninterrupted shooting.

In the end, the remaining dozen horse thieves lay on the ground and surrendered. After receiving the order, Zu Qing rushed up to tie up the people and came to see me. (When the iron cannon was fired, the muzzle was basically unable to hit the person lying on the ground due to recoil.)

Seeing that I was going to interrogate the prisoner, Ishikawa Wuyoumon made a folding chair and sat for me. I nodded and shouted to the dozen horse thieves below, "You damn horse thieves have harmed you thirteen villages this year who can't afford annual offerings, and they deserve ten thousand deaths. I'll drag it out and die."

A red-faced horse thief in his thirties tried to stand up toughly and shouted, "The eagle fell on the ground and was bitten to death by ants. Unfortunately, I can't die in the hands of a hero."

At this time, I was taking the kettle from a personal soldier and drinking the spring water, and when I heard this mouthful, I sprayed it out. 'You really think you are a character, that so-and-so, give him a weapon. Yanagi, go and kill him.'

The red-faced horse thief took the Japanese sword handed over by his personal soldiers and waved it twice. Suddenly shouted loudly and quickly jumped towards Yayoi Sonyan.

Sonyan Yasuo looked solemn, holding the Japanese sword in both hands. He jumped slightly to the front of the left in a flash, and the Japanese sword slashed from bottom to top at the red-faced horse thief. When the red-faced horse thief's sword was half a foot away from Sonyan Yasuo, his body slowly fell down. Then he looked at the body of the red-faced horse thief's body being split from his right rib to his left armpit by Sonyan Yasuo. The blood was sprayed out after he fell to the ground.

I took the lead in applauding and applauding. Such a wonderful shot is hard to capture. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring a small camera when I came.

The remaining horse thieves saw that there were samurai with high martial arts skills here and they also had the idea of ​​fighting back. In the end, these captured horse thieves were used as targets for novices to practice killing. Yushima Katsumoto, Keer-Tsai and a few slashes who had never killed anyone with their own hands.

Ishikawa Yuemon took ninjas to conduct a carpet-style search of the horse thief's nest. The spoils included 62 war horses, 300 stones of rice, 37 Japanese knives, more than 100 long and short wooden guns, forty wooden mast bows, 800 inferior arrows, and seven sets of armor. Various gold coins, silver coins, copper coins and jewelry were equivalent to 3,000 guan. The 28 people of Hua Girl.

After reading the list, I jumped up and looked at more than twenty messy flower girls. I found that Ishikawa Yuemon gave me a little bit of my wife's foot. Most of the war took away the lives of the elderly, young, women and children. In the homes of young and strong Japanese women, I could use a large animal at home. The village said that the price of a wife has increased from three tracts of rice before the Yingren Rebellion to five tracts of rice. Moreover, with the frequent wars in various places recently, the price has risen.

The trend. Unfortunately, it is not a stock. Otherwise, you should buy more and wait until the big rises before selling. The longer the woman is left, the faster the depreciation is worth it. Don’t you see that when Oda Nobunaga’s wife Guidie was thirteen years old, it was rumored that Mino’s number one beauty was still Mino’s first beauty, but when she was 17 years old, she changed to Wushen Girl. Otherwise, His Highness Dao San would not marry Guidie to a big fool. As a result, Dao San bought a reorganized and listed stock with a desperate mentality. It turns out that Sai Weng lost his horse, which is a blessing.
Chapter completed!