Zhengmu Shimao is not a reckless person, he immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, drank and ordered his subordinates to retreat, and withdrew from the Yongdao until he was about to reach the city gate.

When his troops retreated, Anzai and the others had already ordered the troops to set up their positions, and when the Ashigaru of the Shoki team retreated, the front row of the Anzai team, Ashigaru, immediately put away the wooden trees and let them retreat.

By the time the Hojo family's army caught up, the Ashikau of the Masaki team had already withdrawn into the Satomi family's military formation.

Hojo Tsusunari immediately ordered: "Keep going!" ”

The front row of the Hojo Army, carrying the ashigaru of the wooden tree, began to move slowly.

Anxi Shenggao hurriedly shouted: "Bow foot light, shoot arrows!" ”

With an order here, a group of bows and footlights were a rain of arrows against the Hojo Army, which was only a dozen paces away.

Most of the arrows hit the trees, and only a few of them went into the gaps between them.

Soon, the two armies took over, and the ashigari of both sides squeezed around with wooden poles, making a creaking sound.

Anxi Shenggao hurriedly shouted: "Raise the spear, stab it, and stab it from the top of the wooden canopy!" ”

The spear ashigaru who was behind the ashigaru carrying the wooden tree immediately raised their spears and stabbed at the Hojo ashigaru on the opposite side, but most of them were blocked by the small wooden tree.

Hojo Tsunari also ordered Ashigaru on his side to stretch out his spear to stab, but he was also blocked a lot.

In this way, the two armies were deadlocked, and for a time they were comparable.

Yoshinaga, who was watching from a distance, was a little worried, this siege of the city, one go, then decline, three and exhaustion, if this continues, the Satomi army and the Satake army will be repelled by Hojo Tsunari.

Yoshicho turned back to Satomi Yoshiyao and Satake Yoshiaki and said, "If the stalemate continues, the situation is not good for us, so I will lead the troops up first!" ”

Yoshicho drove his horse forward, and dozens of attendants behind him quickly followed, while Miki left a group of ashigaru guards to protect the bronze cannon, and the rest of Ashigaru held iron cannons and went with them.

And in the rear main formation, Uesugi Masatora saw Yoshicho personally leading the troops forward, and his heart was instantly pulled, and his eyes looked at Yoshinaga.

In the curtain, many Kanto people saw that Ogasawara Yoshinaga, who had only watched the battle from a distance and had not entered the army, moved.

As for Ogasawara Yoshinaga's impression, they only knew that those four strange weapons were very powerful, and they all felt scared.

Now that they see Ogasawara Yoshinaga abandoning this powerful weapon and leading his troops in melee combat, what kind of surprise or frighten will they have?

In the whole army, only Yoshicho rode slowly on his horse, and the attendants behind him were all wearing belly rolls, or large armor, or foot.

Some of them took out the wooden cannons to serve as the front row, and the rest of them took out the iron cannons behind their backs and began to fill the ammunition, although they were still on the move, but the steps of filling the ammunition were not bad and very steady.

Here are Yoshinaga's close attendants, also called Iron Cannon Samurai, all of whom are samurai who are good at using iron cannons, some of them were originally samurai, and some of them were raised from Iron Cannon Ashigaru.

Behind the close guards were the troops led by Miki Otsuki, also armed with muskets and now scrambling to fill them with ammunition.

Of course, Satomi Yoshiyao and Satake Yoshiaki are both human spirits, how could they turn a blind eye and just watch Yoshicho go to support.

Naturally, they could only pull out the formation and lead the pro-troops around them to support.

They are all slandering in their hearts, this Kanto matter, what are you Ogasawara Yoshicho anxious about? We've had a lot of deaths among our own men, so you don't have to worry about it.

Of course, Yoshicho is in a hurry, and he pushed the political tiger to crusade against Hojo for the sake of Shinano's unification cause, and there is absolutely no room for failure!

Because the defenders of the Hojo family fought hard with the Satomi family and the Satake family, they did not notice Yoshinaga's troops, which were less than three or five hundred people.

Soon, they were thirty paces outside the city.

Yoshicho stopped and said, "The whole team! ”

The guards moved quickly in small steps, and soon fell silent, while the queue was neat.

Miki hurriedly turned around and shouted to his subordinates: "Line up!" Stand neat! ”

When the Ogasawara army was in formation, Satomi Yoshiyao and Satake Yoshiaki came to Yoshinaga's side again.

Satomi Yoshiyao asked, "How is Ogasawara going to attack?" ”

Yichang pointed to the city tower and said: "There is a road at the city gate, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, we will start to attack from the city gate, so that we can attack the high ground on both sides of the road from above, so the defenders in the road can only retreat." ”

Yoshiaki Satake nodded and said, "But under his command, he has been attacking for several hours and has been repelled two or three times, what is the best way for Ogasawara to do it?" ”

Yoshicho nodded and said, "Satake Tsunerumoru, let your troops kneel down, rest for a while, and wait for my order to attack again." ”

Yoshiaki Satake just wanted to see how capable the Shinano Mamoru in front of him, who was valued by the Kanto Governor, and immediately let his troops retreat.

Just when Hojo's defenders thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, Yoshinaga waved the horsewhip in his hand and said, "Forward!" Get ready to shoot! ”

The guards in the front row advanced five paces before stopping, and Yoshinaga took out a short-haired bolt from the bag his mount was carrying and fired a shot at Odawara Castle.

"Shoot!"

The first samurai in the first row shouted, and rows and rows of iron cannons fired one after another, hitting the walls of Odawara Castle, and many Hojo Ashigaru, who were going to watch the play, were hit, screaming in the end, or dying directly.

This frightened Hojo's defenders to hide immediately, and there were also bowsuffiges intent to counterattack, but they were not systematic.

The iron artillery force, which was less than three or five hundred people, caused a lot of noise, and Satomi, Satake and others, who were not used to the sound of iron cannons, were stunned, and their mounts were restless, almost causing the collapse of the military formation.

Fortunately, artillery has already appeared before, and the appearance of iron cannons only surprised everyone for a while.

Everyone watched the Ogasawara Army's iron cannon shooting performance, and the defenders who had already fought were hiding after continuous shooting.

By the time each person had fired five shots, the wooden buildings on the city wall had been shattered, and only the stone walls were still solid, but they were also pitted.

Only then did Yoshicho turn around and say to Yoshiaki Satake behind him: "Tsuneru Mamoru, your troops can attack." ”

Yoshiaki Satake paused: "I understand!" ”

He turned back to his retainers Iwaki Kintaka, Oda Masa, and Edo Tadamichi and said, "Please, you must take the castle tower." ”

Iwashiro Shigetaka was the first to pause and said: "Ha, the old minister understands!" The rest of the people also took a stand.

The first to attack was Edo Tadamitsu, who was a rare warrior under Yoshiaki Satake.

The Mito Edo clan had just established an alliance with Satake during the Yoshitsu period, but when they saw Satake's young lord ascending the throne, the head of Edo, Tajima Moritakamichi, immediately tore up the peace treaty and launched hostilities against Satake.

As a result, Yoshiaki's reaction probably made Tadamichi deeply regret his eyesight, and in the fifteenth year of Astrono, Satake Yoshiaki united with his mother clan, Oda Castle Oda Politics, and launched a flanking attack on Mito, capturing Irino Castle in one fell swoop, and then defeated the Edo army at Tomura.

Edo Tadamichi was also a fierce general, and struggled to maintain the front, and the two sides began a five-year tug-of-war, and under Yoshiaki's continued pressure, Edo Tadamichi finally succumbed.

In June of the 20th year of Tenmon (1551), a peace treaty was reached, and Satake returned the seized Edo clan's territory, but the Mito Edo clan was subordinate to Satake Yoshiaki's military gate until it was later destroyed by Yoshishige and Yoshinobu.

Although Edo Tadamichi had just surrendered to Yoshiaki for a short time, he did not disobey Yoshiaki's orders.

Edo Tadamichi led the troops forward, and as a general, he knew what to do to attack the city, but now many steps could be omitted, and it was directly an ant attached to the wall.

At this time, the defenders of the Hojo family dared to come forward and deal with the Satake army who climbed the wall.

After Edo Tadamichi launched a fierce attack, Iwaki Shigetaka and Oda Masashi also urged their troops to attack the castle.

Although the defenders have been hit by iron cannons, their combat effectiveness is still very strong.

Yoshicho frowned and said, "These defenders are really tenacious. ”

Satomi Yoshiyao nodded and said, "Ogasawara Tsuki, this is the military strength of Hojo Clan's Dihuang Hachiman, Hojo Kamisuke. ”

Yoshicho nodded, indicating that he knew, and he felt that only by killing Hojo Tsusunari could he attack it.

Yoshicho turned around and asked, "Where is Hojo Tsusunari now?" On the city walls or at the gates? ”

Satomi Yoshiyao hurriedly asked the people around him, and then someone mentioned that Hojo Tsusunari was guarding the city gate.

As soon as Yoshicho heard this, he said to Satomi Yoshiyao: "Capture the thief and capture the king first, we need to kill Hojo Tsusunari to achieve victory."

Satomi Anfang, let your troops withdraw, and let our army fight against Hojo Tsunari's Huang Bei. ”

Satomi Yoshiyao immediately notified Anzai Moritaka, who was blocking the door, to withdraw his troops.

As soon as the Anzai team retreated, Yoshicho immediately urged his subordinates to go up to the top position.

And when Hojo Tsusunari saw that Satomi was withdrawing his army, he thought that the Satomi army was exhausted, and it was a good time to pursue the enemy army.

Hojo Tsusunari immediately shouted: "Kill it, we will win!" ”

The ashigaru in the front row rushed out of the city gate one after another, chasing the retreating Satomi army.

But they had only run a few paces away when they saw another force waiting, and they saw that these men were strangely equipped, and they did not pay attention, but continued to shout and pursue the enemy.

Yoshicho saw that the Hojo Army rushed out as if he was desperate, and immediately ordered, "Shoot!" ”

"Bang ......"

After a gunshot, Ashigaru rushed out of the Yongdaokou and suffered more than a dozen casualties at once.

Hojo Tsunari, who was about to rush out of the city gate, immediately stopped, and he was almost killed, so frightened that he didn't dare to take a step forward.

Hojo Tsusunari hurriedly shouted: "Don't go out, retreat!" ”

He was in the city gate, and asked his subordinates to take out the wooden canopy and prepare to block it here.

In the distance, Tamu Mototsuna saw that Hojo Tsusunari had recaptured the city gate, and hurriedly said to Hojo Shiyasu: "Now, the city gate is too late to repair, but the city gate cannot be ignored.

Lord, it is better to build a wooden fence at the city gate and block the city gate with a wooden fence. ”

When Hojo Shiyasu heard this, he thought it was a good idea, and immediately asked his subordinates to inform Hojo Tsunari.