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Volume 10 Chapter 5 Part 6

However, they were forced to engage the five thousand strong arquebus unit of the Saika clan who were previously waiting for them in full battle formation, and had just launched a fierce counterattack.

On this day, four and a half centuries after the invention of the arquebus. The world’s first large-scale battle between two arquebus-wielding units began on the flat plains of Osaka.

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Kyonya, the current head of Honbyo-ji’s Nyankoso religion as well as her followers who swore to defend the temple to the end witnessed the battle unfolding in front of them with their own eyes and were shocked beyond words at the sight and sound of the roaring gunfire of the two opposing sides.

Kyonya first saw Nobuna making her way through the river right under her nose from the vantage point of Honbyo-ji, and was subsequently unable to intervene in the fierce clash between Saika Magoichi and