Sailing and Conquest

I'll tell you all, this land is round and we can sail forward without looking back, never worrying about losing our way home—wealth and homestead lie straight ahead.

Fear no powerful enem...

Chapter 195 Completely Wrong

Ren City is actually not very big. If it were in the Great Xia Dynasty, it would be about the size of a county town. Naturally, the city walls would not be very high, and you don't even need to lengthen the ladders to climb up the city walls.

"Quickly notify everyone to prepare meals. Everyone will have three meals a day. Have all the soldiers prepare." After arriving at the city wall and assessing the situation outside the city, Narita Ujigatsu immediately arranged for preparations for battle.

With a shout, everyone began to prepare, and many low-ranking foot soldiers even showed expressions of joy, thinking, "Finally, we can have three meals a day!"

Japanese people usually eat two meals a day, and the poor might only eat one. The Narita family was the first Japanese power to popularize three meals a day among its retainers. Of course, this only applied to samurai, armored soldiers, and retainers, but even that was a remarkable achievement. Other families' retainers all said the same thing about the Narita family: "The Narita family is so rich that they eat three meals a day."

Having spent his life in battle, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had long anticipated everything that Narita Ujō would do. Before breakfast was even ready, rows of ladders, accompanied by a large number of archers, surrounded them.

The ladder, though not a simple one, had no safety features whatsoever. The archer behind it was even more comical, a mere 1.5 meters tall hopping around with a bow over two meters long – it was truly hilarious.

But the soldiers of the Narita clan would never have thought of cola, and they knew all too well the power of the bow.

The Japanese bow, also known as the Fusang bow, is made from bamboo of varying toughness. Bamboo is far less resilient than materials like horn used in the Bactrian composite bow, forcing it to be extremely long. It is said to be the longest bow in the world, even longer than the famous English longbow. Before the Sengoku period, the iconic weapon of Fusang samurai was not the katana, but the Japanese bow. A good Japanese bow could pierce bamboo armor at a distance of sixty paces.

Sure enough, at a distance of about a hundred meters, the archers began to fire, and a fine rain of arrows covered the top of the city wall of Ryonin Castle. The Narita family soldiers on the city wall also began to exchange fire with the Toyotomi family archers. Casualties spread rapidly, and the smell of blood became thick.

Although the Toyotomi clan had surrounded the entire Oshi Castle, their attack was concentrated at the south gate. Elite samurai, clad in the No. 1 armor of the Daigun clan, confidently braved the arrows to climb the city walls. Unless they were unlucky enough to be hit in the joints, the No. 1 armor was more than enough to withstand ordinary arrows. Once on the top of the wall, facing the Narita clan's soldiers clad in full bamboo armor, it was bound to be a one-sided massacre.

But once they reached the top of the city wall, they realized they were wrong, terribly wrong. On the wall, there were at least three hundred to five hundred heavily armored soldiers like themselves, supported by spearmen, pressing towards them.

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