The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 387

[Chapter 382 Iron Cannon]

Rows of bamboo rafts were pulled into the river, and in a short while, with the concerted efforts of 20,000 troops, more than 5,000 bamboo rafts suddenly appeared on the wide river.

Each bamboo raft is loaded with more than 20 dojo soldiers. In addition to the ordinary first-order ashigaru and some cannon fodder, there is also a samurai leading it as the commander of this bamboo raft.

The coalition army on the opposite side suddenly saw the dense bamboo rafts on the river, covering a small half of the river surface. They had never seen such a large-scale and large coalition force.

The entire Qianqu River is not wide, about 100 meters wide. This is the widest river surface in the entire river, and the narrow one is only more than 30 meters.

And the bamboo rafts laid by the army of the dojo covered half of the river at once. When the number reached a terrifying level, they were densely stacked together, and the shock was difficult to add.

Therefore, many people are afraid of the coalition forces whose level of elites is not high and the will to fight is not strong.

There was a riot in the originally untidy army formation, and there was a buzz of discussion.

“Give me quiet, quiet, you pariahs.”

Armed with katana swords and dressed in samurai uniforms, the allied warriors were constantly wandering in the army, staring badly at those conscripted pariahs who were full of fear and were constantly whispering.

Under their intimidation, out of their natural fear of the samurai masters, these pariahs who were forcibly recruited to fight for the coalition army couldn’t help but keep silent and dare not speak again.

As the army of the dojo continued to catch up with the bamboo rafts, some of the bamboo rafts in the front row had already started to swim, and soon they reached the center of the river, and they could reach the other side of the river in almost a few minutes.

This speed could not help but shocked the coalition forces, and their commander Yoshiki Murakami couldn’t help but urged them in unison.

“Quick, quick, archery team, shoot me arrows.”

Without Murakami Yoshiki’s orders, the low-level samurai under the coalition forces were already urging their soldiers to start resisting.

Following the urging of these samurai masters, the archers could not help but stretched their humble bamboo bows, mounted their extremely rough arrows, and began to aim at the army present on the river, and then kept shooting out.

The archers of the coalition belonged to different camps, and they were not strict with each other. At the same time, each bow and arrow formation consisted of dozens of people, or hundreds of people, according to the urging of their leaders, and shot arrows crossed each other.

This kind of shooting is extremely chaotic, and it cannot maximize the most powerful attack method of the archer, that is, launching a wave of arrows in a dense number, so as to strike the enemy in a large scale and in an area.

Although the sparse bows and arrows were powerful, they caused great trouble to the army of the dojo who were crossing the river, and many people fell directly into the river and were submerged.

But with the addition of more bamboo rafts, this attack, the weak witness became more and more powerless, and it became difficult to stop the coalition troops from crossing the river.

“Iron Cannons, give it to me.”

Seeing the weak blocking of the archers under his command, Murakami Yoshiki couldn’t help but grit his teeth fiercely, hating these useless archers in his heart.

He swears secretly in his heart that he must rectify in the future, or simply abolish these useless troops.

But now is not the time to talk about this, Murakami Yoshiki couldn’t help but look at himself, which is extremely expected, and is also an extremely elite iron artillery team in the coalition.

To put it bluntly, these iron cannons are simple arquebuses, and they are also extremely crude and primitive ones.

The effective range is about 30 meters to 50 meters, and there is no guarantee for the accurate head.

And this iron gun also has a very fatal flaw, that is, the reloading is very slow, often only one or two minutes can be loaded, and there are often incidents of misfires.

And the iron cannon can’t be used in rainy weather, otherwise it is very easy to get wet.

But although these iron cannons have various defects, it cannot be denied that the power of these iron cannons is extremely powerful.

As long as he is hit by an iron cannon, even if he is a powerful warrior, it is a fatal result.

Moreover, the wound caused by the iron cannon is huge, and a single shot can make a bowl-sized wound, dripping with blood, and the surrounding flesh will burst open, which is basically difficult to heal.

Moreover, the iron gun still has some infections. If it is not treated in time, it will soon suffer from tetanus and other diseases, and then die in pain.

The number of these iron artillery teams is not large. Even if the entire coalition is clenched together, it will add up to about 2,000 people, but this is already an extremely powerful force.

After the iron artillery team of two thousand people joined the battlefield, they soon formed a queue one by one.

Three rows are formed.

This is the classic three-shot.

In the long Warring States period of the Japanese state, this classic shooting formation has long been explored, and it has been carried forward very quickly, and has been accepted by the nobles of various countries.

More than 2,000 people form three arrays, and each row can be distributed about seven or eight hundred people.

The seven or eight hundred people in the first row quickly raised their iron guns and aimed at the army of the dojo that rushed over.

Bang bang bang.

As the black smoke filled the air, a thunder-like sound sounded, so that the entire noisy battlefield was covered by the thunder.

On the other side, the army of the dojo, who had already crossed most of the river and was about to reach the river bank, could clearly see the happy expression on the face of the coalition army on the opposite side.

But before they could be happy, a cannon shot destroyed them.

Countless blood splashed, and with the sound of the cannon, more than a hundred strong and healthy soldiers fell to the ground, and the blood was stained red.

Then the soldiers in the next row stepped forward with another bang, and the army in front of them kept falling, and the line of defense that could not be maintained also became stable.

“As expected of the iron artillery team with high hopes, it has caused such a great effect just after its appearance. It seems that this line of defense can be stabilized for a long time.”

However, they ignored the determination of the army on the opposite side to seize the river.

Even if the Iron Cannons came on the field, the dojo army lost more than 2,000 people in a short period of time, but with the pressure of their coach, more of the army was on the scene.

Under the attack regardless of loss, even though the Iron Leopards continued to exert their enormous power, they could not resist the seemingly endless offensive of the dojo location.

There are many people in the iron cannon team, but there are more people in the dojo address, and their bullets cannot stop their flesh and blood.

Finally, when half of the iron cannons of the iron cannon team were scrapped.

That is, when the first batch of coalition troops set foot on the river bank, the coalition army’s blocking across the river was completely announced.

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