Chapter 74 After the War
After hearing the long-awaited signal, the katana team, who had been hiding at the foot of the mountain and enjoying good food and drink, dropped the canned food and starch sausage in their hands, impatiently pulled out their carefully maintained katana, and rushed towards Otomo Munemori who was guarded by more than a hundred hatamoto without hesitation, not caring at all that the other side had three times as many people as them.

As for why the Tachi Team is here, it is because Yan Xu will not let everyone be blocked in the city.

The easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Onimaruyama Castle is both the enemy's nightmare and a solid cage for his own side. Once inside, there is no way out as they are surrounded by the enemy. So he had people dig pits early on and let the sword team hide inside with sufficient supplies and wait until the critical moment to appear.

Obviously the time has come and the opportunity for the Tachi team to demonstrate their value is right in front of them.

No one can resist the temptation of beheading the general and seizing the flag, let alone the enemy general. This is even more true for the sword team who are originally wandering samurai. So even if the enemy is very strong and there are many of them, they are very likely to die, but they do not hesitate at all. The desire for honor has overcome everything, including the instinct to survive.

Facing enemies with an absolute numerical advantage, the Tachi Team also has their own confidence. Each of them wears sturdy and light fish scale armor, and holds a Tachi that can easily cut through pig bones. They have enough confidence to kill any enemy.

The aggressive sword team, which did little to conceal their presence, was soon discovered, but it was too late. The previous panic made the Otomo army lose vigilance of the surroundings, so when they discovered it, the distance between the two sides was only more than a hundred meters.

"Enemy attack!"

"Protect the General!"

"Escort the general back to camp!"

At this time, the evil consequences of Otomo Munemori's monopolization of power emerged. In order to prevent anyone from replacing him and to ensure that no one dared to question his authority, there was no deputies or even independent figures in the entire army.

Without a deputy and with all the samurai trapped on the mountain, the one hundred or so hatamoto were unable to play to their strengths, because they were just soldiers. They had no problem following orders and fighting, but it was extremely difficult for them to make decisions, because Otomo Munemori would never allow the hatamoto who were guarding him closely to have any brains. This led to some wanting to meet the enemy, some wanting to defend, and some wanting to bring the unconscious Otomo Munemori back to the camp.

The seven or eight ideas of more than a hundred people made them lose their last chance, because they had not reached a consensus until they faced the butcher knives of the Tachi team.

Japanese swordsmanship is about advancing, not retreating. Whoever retreats will die. The Otomo family's hatamoto, who lacked a backbone, had no place to use their strength and were defeated by the katana-wielding katana team. Even if they tried to send some people to cover the retreat and some people to escort Otomo Munemori back to the camp, it was useless because almost all the soldiers and samurai were still on the mountain and had not come down. What could they do if they returned to an empty camp?

Not to mention that the gates of Onimaruyama City are now wide open, and Teruwamaru is leading the elite ronin and many hatamoto to chase the retreating Otomo soldiers. Unless they can escape to the ship and set sail immediately, the fate is already doomed.

However, in the end, those loyal hatamoto still fought to the death to carry Otomo Munemori back to the camp like a dead pig.

The battle on the mountain was also over. Because there were too many dead people, the mountain road was blocked, making it impossible for Karakamaru to continue chasing. Hundreds of foot soldiers and a few samurai managed to escape from the battlefield and fled into the camp.

However, with the backbone unconscious and twenty tiger squat cannons placed outside ready to attack at any time, the Otomo army finally chose to surrender, because if they did not surrender they would die, and their death would be meaningless and extremely miserable.

There was no way out. The entire camp was filled with wounded soldiers, and the food was only enough to last for a few days. The most important thing was that the morale was completely gone. There was no point in resisting at all.

Faced with this situation, even the few remaining samurai lost their fighting spirit, and even called the firearms attack encountered on Onimaru Mountain a ghost sound, and a ghost who roared launched a massacre against the Otomo family. This outrageous rumor spread throughout the camp in a short time, and the remaining little morale was directly reduced to zero. At the same time, the survivors also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because they did not only lose to the unknown Moroboshi family, but also to ghosts and gods. Who would dare to laugh at them in this way?

After being psychologically comforted, the Otomo army reached a tacit understanding as a whole and did not intend to resist anymore. Moreover, in just a short while, ten more large guns appeared outside.

The trump card that originally belonged to the Otomo family has now been turned against them. How can they not despair?

However, Otomo Munemori was in a coma and no one in the camp could make a decision and take responsibility, so the process of Otomo's surrender was very interesting, just like a wonderful pantomime.

With the tacit consent of the samurai, the silent foot soldiers took the initiative to pile up their weapons in a conspicuous place, and then opened the camp gate without saying a word. No one spoke or resisted during the process. It felt like the door was opened, people lay down, and you come on, as if watching a Japanese housewife version of a short movie.

It was the first time that Yi Yujing encountered such a situation. She cautiously sent someone to test the situation, and then decisively ordered the soldiers to transport all the weapons, armor, and food in the camp.

Only then did Yi Yujing breathe a sigh of relief.

As the defending party, the Moroboshi family has the advantage of time, place and people, but if they were to attack, they might not be able to take it down successfully, so a peaceful resolution is best.

Although the Otomo family was very cooperative, Ichiha Shizuka still decided to give all the prisoners in the camp only two bowls of porridge every day to keep them alive, and ordered the Taro brothers to guard them strictly. After all, the number of prisoners was too large, and if there was any trouble, it would be a lot of trouble.

In the end, the battle ended with Yan Xu's victory, but the Zhuxing family also suffered heavy casualties.

The soldiers of the Otomo family are actually not weak. Even the foot soldiers are semi-professional, not to mention the samurai and hatamoto. Each of them is an elite with agility and rich combat experience. It can be said that the victory of the Moroboshi family was entirely due to Yan Xu's cheating.

Who could have thought that an unknown small force could build a solid mountain city in such a short time, who could have thought that well-trained soldiers could be recruited out of thin air, who could have thought that firearms could be used like this, who could have thought that they could encounter people spraying pesticides in ancient times, so it is normal that they cannot win.

However, hundreds of people were killed and thousands were captured in one battle, including enemy generals. This record, in the small and sparsely populated Japan, especially in the relatively remote Fukushima, is definitely a classic battle that will be passed down for hundreds of years.

The number of luck points that could be obtained was a bit abnormal, to the extent that Yan Xu was surprised that he was still staying in the castle tower.

In fact, the main reason for gaining luck points was that in this battle, the Moroboshi family broke the fragile balance between the Otomo family and the Mori family.

It concerns the unification of the secondary island and can also affect the competition for hegemony on the main island. Otherwise, it will directly gain more than ten thousand luck points.

(End of this chapter)