The samurai who ascended to the castle were only a few steps away from the place commanded by Yu Qiuping. The two sides occasionally turned their heads and looked at each other, full of astonishment and surprise. From the delicacy of Yu Qiuping's armor, the samurai immediately recognized that Yu Qiuping must be a big man. So he immediately drew a knife in his hand and rushed towards Yu Qiuping.

Yu Qiuping hurriedly pulled out the long knife from the scabbard, this knife was given to him by Sena Shijun when he gave him armor, and he had never used it. Before he could adjust his position, the warrior had already drawn his sword and was about to slash at him.

"Oops!" Yu Qiuping secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good. Suddenly, one of the samurai who was coming straight at him fell to the ground, and although Yu Qiuping didn't understand why this happened, he quickly raised his sword and slashed it hard at the back armor of the samurai. The blade sank into the armor, and the stickiness that soaked into the flesh made Yu Qiuping a little nauseous for a moment, and the samurai, who was not dead, struggled hard, blood continued to splash out along the wound, and Yu Qiuping, who had slashed people for the first time, almost vomited.

Suddenly, Nakahide Mizensaki, who was sitting next to him at some point, stabbed the man in the throat fiercely, and the samurai spat out a few mouthfuls of blood before he stopped moving. Only then did Yu Qiuping discover that under the right calf of the samurai, there was a foot pressed, and the owner of the foot was none other than Mimasaki Nakahide.

So this guy just sat down and tripped this samurai! Yu Qiupei smiled at Nakahide Gozensaki, who smugly expressed satisfaction with his nasty moves.

In these few moments, more and more samurai of the Sasa family and Ashigaru poured into the castle. "Archers! Retreat! Yu Qiuping hurriedly beckoned Charlie to retreat from the city wall with the archers, and commanded the ashigaru men to meet them in hand-to-hand combat. On both sides, Yoshioka Katsumasa and Ogawa Yudong were under less pressure, and a few people were also sent to support.

One of the five samurai who rushed to the city gate had already been killed by Akihei Rain and Nakahide Gozensaki. But the other four were unusually brave. Since most of the two armies were holding spears, it was very disadvantageous in close combat, but the katana was an excellent weapon for chaotic warfare, and those samurai were skilled in martial arts, and in a few rounds, five Imagawa family ashigaru were actually cut to the ground. They carved out a small space at the head of the city, and there was a steady stream of climbs up the city walls behind them.

Yu Qiuping and Mizenzaki Nakahide hurriedly approached the middle, and the two of them attacked a samurai with a katana, but the samurai was caught off guard and was slashed in the arm by Yu Qiuping, and immediately retreated back with blood. However, Sasa's family, who reacted, immediately launched a counterattack against Yu Qiuping and others, forcing Yu Qiuhei and Mizen Saki Nakashi to retreat. Behind him, the Imagawa family rushed to help, but they could only maintain a stalemate on the five-meter-wide wall, unable to tighten the gap to prevent the Sasa army from continuing to ascend the castle.

On the other side of the central city wall, the powerful Yoshioka Katsumasa wielded a sword and slashed indiscriminately, opening and closing without paying attention to the rules, but in this small space, the two samurai who were opposite him were defeated. The samurai who approached the battlement tried to fight Yoshioka Katsumasa, but he was directly shocked and staggered back, and a fierce man planted the wall. Another samurai was unable to support himself, and the ashigaru behind Yoshioka Katsumasa relied on Yoshioka Katsumasa's personal bravery to open up the situation and continuously compress the gap. The two samurai on Yu Qiuping's side saw that the rear was not good, one was distracted, and was slashed by Yu Qiuping.

"Fight back! Counterattack! Yoshioka Katsumasa roared angrily with a loud voice, and the Imagawa family on both sides was boiling with blood, and they were about to drive all the Sasa troops off the castle tower, when suddenly another rain of arrows struck, and several people were injured by arrows for a while, and Yu Qiuping himself was also shot with an arrow on the shoulder. The simple armor was of good quality and was not shot through. However, Mimasaki Nakahide's squad had unknowingly suffered nearly 30% casualties, and there were friendly troops on both sides, otherwise the troops might be at risk of collapsing at any time.

Yu Qiuping took the time to glance outside the city, and the forty or so Oda archers under the city gate were constantly shooting at the city, and the archers on the lookout were also constantly harvesting lives. Just now, their targets had always been the archers of the Imagawa family and the ashigaru who threw the wooden rolling stones, so Yu Qiuhei and these hand-to-hand ashigaru had not yet felt the threat of arrows. But as the first two people withdrew from the battlefield, the fire of the bow and arrow immediately beckoned towards Yu Qiuping and them. And the archery team of the Imagawa family has just retreated from the city wall at this moment. At the head of the castle, the Ashigaru of the Sasa family who landed in the castle was only about ten people, and they were all mixed with the Imagawa army, so they couldn't aim and shoot at all. However, the walls were narrow, and the only people who could engage in hand-to-hand combat were a few people standing in the front row, and a large number of people behind were pointlessly shot by arrows. After two rounds of shooting, nearly ten people had been hit by arrows, and more than a dozen people were bruised by feather arrows.

"No, you can't be attacked by bows and arrows in vain on the walls of the West City." Yu Qiuping withdrew from the front line slightly, gasping for breath in the back row, and quickly calculating the response plan in his heart, "We have few people and can't withstand consumption, so it's too much of a loss." ”

"How on earth can I avoid being shot by these archers?" Yu Qiuping glanced at the archers who were about to shoot under the city wall, "Now on the city wall, whoever has more people will suffer!" Because only the people in the front are in the fight, and the people in the back are going to be shot while watching. It's a great aim! With few Oda families, our archers can't shoot! Now we're being beaten by more and less! ”

"There it is!" Yu Qiuping suddenly thought of a way to deal with it, "Then it would be nice to let the people of the Oda family have more on the city wall!" Isn't it just that we are fighting more and fighting less! Leaving the walls of the West City, their archers will not be able to cover their shooting! ”

The position is dead, the man is alive. If a position is no longer able to give the defender a field or exchange advantage, then why defend it? Hurry up and give it up!

Retreat, to a better position, to form a local advantage!

"Quick! Fast! Yu Qiuping suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, "The Imagawa army on the west city listened to the order and all withdrew from the west city wall!" ”

"Victory! I've taught you over there! Defend the southwest corner of the wall! Yu Qiuping shouted at Yoshioka Katsumasa, who was separated, "Zhongxiu! Take your men down the stairs and defend around the lower end of the stairs! Plug them up on the walls! Yu Qiuping turned to Mimaezaki Nakahide again, and ordered. Mimasaki Nakahide immediately tore his voice and asked all the original Nishijo guards who had been separated to go down the castle, and before following him down the stairs on the north side, Yuakihei instructed Ogawa Yuto to guard the northeast corner of the castle wall and not let the Oda army attack the northern castle wall. The Imagawa army, which retreated like a tide, made the Oda archers unable to aim at all, and the feathered arrows fired in a hurry did not cause many casualties.

When Yuqiuping retreated to the castle, Amano Keitoku had already led the reserves in the castle tower to the staircase under the castle, and received the troops of the broken Mizenzaki Nakahide, and together they built a defensive line around the staircase to hinder the attack of Sasa's army.

"Thompson! Take your men to the castle tower! Yu Qiuping shouted to the archers on the edge of the castle tower!

"Prepare to fight back!" Yu Qiuping saw that more and more Zuo Zuo troops on the city wall began to pursue, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

Because of the retreat of the Imagawa army, the ascent of the Sasa army in the west castle became unimpeded, and soon, almost all the soldiers of the Sasa army climbed the narrow city walls, and there was a crowding around several ladders. The archers outside the lookout and the west city lost their shooting targets for a while, and they looked at each other in a daze.

"What? Is this a win? Sasa Masaji, who was supervising the battle below, saw that the Imagawa army actually gave up the city wall of the West Castle like this, "Is the morale so low!" Only fought for a while and then retreated? ”

Sasa Masaji was a little incredulous, so he also climbed a cloud ladder, intending to personally command the city wall of the West Castle. And behind him, the soldiers of the Mori family are also ready to start climbing the city.

However, Sasa's ascent to the castle was not smooth, and the team in front of him was unable to move anyway. After grinding for a long time, he finally squeezed into the city wall. The sight in front of him surprised him. Originally, I thought that the Imagawa family had given up resistance, and the next step should be the pursuit of the defeated army by their own army.

However, he found that his troops were blocked on the walls of Xicheng and were in a dilemma.

The corner where the western city wall and the north and south walls are connected is very narrow, and it is difficult to deploy troops. The Imagawa army had about forty men in each of the southern and northern castles defending the corners, and it was difficult for the Sasa army to storm the southern and northern castle walls anyway. And those who tried to kill down the stairs of the West Castle and then enter the castle tower in the castle were stopped by the team of Yasunari Fukushima and Nakahide Mimaezaki gathered in front of the stairs. Someone tried to jump straight down the stairs, but was immediately stabbed into a sieve by the Imagawa family who was waiting for him underneath. The two armies were in the middle of the stairs, stabbing each other with spears from a distance.

What's even more deadly is that both the west castle wall and the two stairs under the city wall, one south and one north, are all exposed to the view of the Imagawa family's archers on the third floor of the castle tower at this moment. They were firing non-stop, and with each salvo, five or six people were fired. The dilemma that the Imagawa army faced just now is now his turn to Sasa Masaji.

Sasa Masaji watched his subordinates fall one by one, but he couldn't open the situation for a long time, and he couldn't help but lose his eyes. Behind him, the Sen family has already begun to ascend the city, and if they want to retreat from the west city, they will definitely be blocked and pay more casualties.

He suddenly understood the reason for all this reversal. Just now in Xicheng, it was 240 people from the Oda family who beat more than 100 people from the Imagawa family, so naturally the Oda family had the advantage. And after the Imagawa army released his troops to the city, at this moment it was more than 200 people from the Imagawa family who beat him with less than 100 troops.

"Where's my samurai!" Sasa Masaji is angry, as one of the seven guns of Kodozaka, he naturally has a fierce spirit. He shouted, and several skilled and well-armed samurai around him immediately gathered around him. "Follow me! Rush to the castle tower! Expand our positions! So that the troops behind can continue to ascend the city! ”

Or simply kill the enemy in front of you. He said to himself in his heart. In this way, the city gate can be controlled, and Mori Kecheng's troops can enter the city.

With that, he drew his katana from its scabbard. Shouting and rushing out, he pushed away his own family standing in the way on the stairs and plunged headlong into the Imagawa army. Several samurai behind him immediately followed in groups. The Imagawa army was caught off guard, and many people were slashed and killed at once, and the defense line was torn open a shallow opening, and the Sasa family Ashigaru immediately began to follow. The morale of Mimaezaki Nakahide's squad suddenly fell to the bottom, and the ashigaru men retreated one after another, had no intention of resisting, and after suffering a heavy setback, they had no choice but to collapse, discarded the bamboo spear in their hands, and fled towards the friendly forces on the side of the castle tower.

Seeing that things were not good, Yasunari Fukushima and Nakahide Gozenezaki drew their swords in their hands, and the two of them besieged Sasa Masaji to barely block his advance, but the other samurai became more and more courageous, slashing and killing the Imagawa family with a spear. On the side, Fukushima Yasunari's troops hurried to meet the defeated Mizenzaki Nakahide's troops, and at the same time plugged the gap to prevent the Sasa family on both sides from killing and controlling the castle gate. However, only Fukushima Yasunari's troops were left alone, and they were gradually unable to resist.

"Thompson! Kill him! Yu Qiuping saw that Sasa Masaji was rushing too fiercely, and in a hurry, he shouted directly in front of the two armies.

Before he finished speaking, the sound of loose strings was already heard in the castle tower overhead.

"Within 50 steps, you will never miss!" With Charlie's low roar, the sharp feather arrow shot straight into Sasa Masaji's throat, and Sasa Masaji, who was charging, fell directly backwards by this powerful momentum, and the blood spurting out of his mouth was almost a man high. After struggling on the ground a few times, he reluctantly died with his eyes open.

Seeing the death of the head of the house, the samurai beside him instantly broke down emotionally, howled like madness and threw themselves at the body of the head of the house, and were about to drag the body back. Fukushima Yasunari and Mizenzaki Nakahide caught up with one person and one sword, and the two samurai who had not been able to attack for a long time just now were killed. The morale of the Sasa family, supported by the bravery of the head of the family, completely collapsed, and after fighting hard for most of the hour, they had already suffered nearly 30% casualties, and the samurai who were in charge of commanding and supervising the battle were all on the front line, and no one could restrain the behavior of the ashigaru. The ashigaru, who had been shot with bows and arrows in vain, could no longer bear it, and threw down their bamboo spears and fled out of the castle one after another, crowding each other, and many people were squeezed down the stairs and walls. The samurai who wanted to protect the head of the family were also killed by the Imagawa army.

"Ministries! Turn to Counterattack! Yu Qiuping raised his arms and shouted, and the three squads that could still fight all began to counterattack the Zuo Zuo army in front of him, and the Zuo Zuo army, who fled in a hurry, was chased and assassinated many people all the way, crowded on the edge of several cloud ladders, you fight for me, push your companions away and want to go down the cloud ladder by yourself, but no one is willing to turn back to fight.

Mori Kecheng and Takigawa Kazuki didn't expect that the Sasa army, which had been smooth sailing just now, would suffer a crushing defeat after attacking the city wall, and hurriedly commanded the archers to shoot arrows at the head of the city to cover their evacuation.

"Don't chase! Don't catch up with the West Side! Go up and be a target! Yuakihei sharply stopped the pursuit of Ogawa Yudong and Yoshioka Katsumasa, "Stay on your walls!" Just let the archers shoot and you're good to go! ”

"But my lord! It's a big deal if we rush up and get shot a few people, but how many dozen people can be hacked to death! Yoshioka Katsumasa was so anxious that his face was flushed, and he yelled at Yu Qiuping in the center of the city, "Let's chase after us!"

"No way!" Yu Qiuping rode his horse to the south wall, craned his neck and shouted, "We are not outnumbered! Can't stand the drain! Anyway, this force collapsed and could not attack again for a few days, so there was no need to sacrifice the lives of the brothers for them! I'm going to take as many people back to Junfu as I can!" ”

Yu Qiuping's words made Yoshioka Shengzheng suddenly realize. The Imagawa army then gave up the pursuit, and only the archers continued to shoot at the fleeing Sasa.

At the second minute of Shin, all Oda troops withdrew from the city walls, and the second attack was declared a failure.