Chapter 346: The Siege of Junfu City

However, it is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu commanded three formations of troops to attack the castle for five days, and the Takeda army in the city was exhausted, and chose to surrender to the Oritoku coalition army under the persuasion of the envoy. Sabei performed well in this battle, taking the lead in attacking Sannomaru Castle, and made a great contribution to the recovery of Shipcastle by the Oritoku coalition army.

Oda Nobutada, on the other hand, gathered a large army to advance all the way, and within three days, he successively conquered several fortresses defending Sunfu Castle, and finally approached Sunfu Castle.

In the face of the besieging Oda Nobutada's army, Takeda Katsuyori had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, and even took the initiative to abandon the municipalities on the outskirts of Sunpu Castle. The once economically and culturally prosperous town of Sunfu was devastated by the Oritoku coalition army, and only ruins remained.

After learning that Tokugawa Ieyasu had captured the castle, Oda Nobunaga immediately wrote a letter requesting Oda Nobunaga to transfer the Tokugawa Ieyasu army from the castle.

After receiving the letter, Oda Nobunaga not only did not agree to Oda Nobutada's request, but even took the first group directly to Sunfu Castle and directly took over Oda Nobutada's army, and at the same time ordered the Tokugawa Ieyasu army to guard the castle and be careful of the invasion of the Suruga navy.

Within a few days, the Suruga Navy launched three attacks, but each time Tokugawa Ieyasu was easily repulsed. Seeing that the Boat-Bearing Castle was difficult to capture after a few days of trouble, the Suruga Navy sailed away from the Boat-holding Castle.

Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately reported it to Oda Nobunaga, and Oda Nobunaga replied: Wait with peace of mind!

After Sabei learned about this from Tokugawa Ieyasu, he immediately appeased Tokugawa Ieyasu, and there was a Kumano navy guarding the area around Tooe Mikawa, and if the Suruga navy wanted to replicate the previous actions, it would undoubtedly be self-defeating.

The days of waiting for news were undoubtedly the most painful time for Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Sabei took advantage of the repair of the castle to inspect and praise the sacrifice team that had made great achievements during the siege. At the same time, Sabei summoned the humerus to analyze the current battle situation and speculate on the enemy's next move.

Oda Nobunaga's side began to capture Sunfu Castle on the second day of the siege, and the daily battle was very fierce, and although the Oritoku coalition army had the help of stone and fire arrows, the damage to Sunfu Castle was quite limited. The siege began to heat up on the first day, and after three days of fierce fighting between the two armies, the Oritoku coalition still did not fully occupy Shinomaru in Sunfu Castle. And the two sides have already paid thousands of sacrifices in the battle for Yotsunomaru.

On the fourth day of the siege, the Oda army directly attacked the Takeda army that resisted stubbornly in the Shinomaru with baked jade, and some people even used the baked jade to attack the Takeda bow team and iron artillery team that kept shooting on Sannomaru, and for a time the Sannomaru and Shinomaru of Sunfu Castle were blown up beyond recognition by the baked jade and stone fire arrows, and there were broken planks and fluttering wood chips everywhere.

The red-eyed Oritoku coalition even fired at the Takeda Iron Artillery Team that lined up with Sannomaru in the Shinomaru line. The entire city of Junfu was like purgatory, and in addition to the blood that was so thick that it had seeped into the ground, there were corpses and stumps and severed arms of the two armies.

Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Katsuyori are both gritting their teeth and persisting to see who can make it to the end.

However, the Hojo army seemed to be shaken by the bloody battles and staggering casualties, and Oda Nobunaga continued to send ninjas to the city to spread the news of the defeat of the Hojo Army's eastern front against Satakeri Satomi and the dispatch of Uesugi Kennobu to Ueno, and the Hojo generals began to have other ideas.

Although the battle at Sunpu Castle was tight, Oda Nobunaga did not order the Tokugawa Ieyasu army to assemble, but wrote several letters asking Tokugawa Ieyasu to hold the castle and be careful of the invasion of the Suruga naval army.

Sabei sensed a different meaning from Oda Nobunaga's letters, could it be that Oda Nobunaga didn't want Tokugawa Ieyasu to get involved in the country of Suruga, but the country was far away, how should this enclave Oda Nobunaga deal with, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a fool, in the face of such a situation, would he ignore it?

Just when Sabei was full of doubts, the Suruga Naval Army, which had disappeared for a while, suddenly launched an invasion of the Boat-holding Castle, and the intensity of the invasion was much greater than the previous ones, and even the Suruga Naval Army also used baked jade, igniting the wooden walls of the Boat-holding Castle of Sannomaru. However, Tokugawa Ieyasu was comparable to the Suruga Naval Army, and after a little rectification, Tokugawa Ieyasu directly sent his three fierce generals and Sabei to attack the Suruga Naval Army.

In the face of the fierce attacks of Honda Tadatsutsu, Kamihara Yasumasa and Watanabe Moritsuna, the Suruga naval forces began to break up not long after the engagement, and Sabei saw the opportunity to personally lead a thousand men to pursue the scattered Suruga naval army, and the Suruga naval army that had been evacuated in a hurry fled into Suruga Bay by boat after leaving behind a corpse.

A few days later, Sabei, who was looking at Suruga Bay in the distance from Boate Castle, suddenly found several black smoke, and after reporting to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the whole city of Shipe Castle went into alert, but it didn't take long for Oda Nobunaga to send people to mobilize Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sabei two formations, and ordered Takenaka to lead half of the army to garrison Shipun Castle to assist the Kumano Navy.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sabei led their troops to the castle of Sunfu, Sabei looked around and saw the devastated castle swaying with the roar of iron cannons and stone fire. The main camp was surrounded by the heads of the Takeda Army and the Hojo Army offered by the samurai of the Oritoku Alliance, but it was clear that there were far more Oda samurai and ashigaru who were killed at Sunfu Castle.

Oda Nobunaga received a visit from Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sabei in this formation, and the father and son of Oda Nobunaga and Nobutada in this formation looked a little bad, perhaps because of the huge casualties and small results of the siege, which made the father and son quite dissatisfied.

After the visit, Sabei immediately received the task conveyed by Oda Nobunaga to block the way for the Hojo Army to flee east. Tokugawa Ieyasu took over the siege mission and began cutting down trees to make siege necessities.

After receiving the task, Sabei was a little emotional, but he didn't expect the Hojo Army, which had arrived far away, to choose to turn his back on his allies under such fierce confrontation.

However, the war was like this, and after a brief period of emotion, Sabei immediately led the army around Sunpu Castle and set up an ambush on the road leading to Izu and Sagami from Sunpu Castle.

Before Sabei was ready to leave, Oda Nobutada approached Sabei and first informed Sabei of the recent situation in the domain. The Takeda army really did not simply defend Sunfu Castle, Ishiyama Honganji once again called on the believers in the Oda domain to launch a fight, Izumi and Yamato broke out again against Oda's rule, and the Tamba Hatano clan also took the opportunity to invade Yamashiro Province and Wakasa Province.

As for the information on the Uesugi clan and the Satake clan, it was difficult to deliver the information in a timely manner due to the tense war.

Hearing this, Sabei nodded, and then bowed his head and said to Oda Nobutada: "Young master, after the withdrawal of the Hojo Army, the Takeda Army's morale will inevitably be turbulent, and this battle must be won steadily. ”