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Volume 8 Chapter 7 Part 1

Chapter 7 : Shooting Star

When Goemon returned to Yoshiharu’s side, it was already midnight.

The huge operation to surround Miki castle had totally cut off all connections Miki Castle had to the outside world. The design that Kanbei thought of had also surpassed any common sense of Japanese sieging methods known thus far.

One of the key reasons behind it was the countless amount of watchtowers. Soldiers in those watch towers could use the telescopes imported from the west in order to observe any movements in Miki Castle at any given moment

The other key reason is the combination of fences and deep ditches dug all around the castle.

Putting the newest cannons that were also imported from the west by Imai Sokyu in huge mobile towers allowed the Sagara Corps to have a huge impact on the defensive structures of Miki Castle from a high atlitude.

Such never-before-seen mobile towers could be made