Chapter 172: The Siege of the Oda Army (I)

Fujido Takatora looked at the burning sky in front of him, and after a few breaths, he sat down with Fushiwa Akijiro and others. After Burning Sky sat down in Fujido Takatora, he patted Fushiwa Akijiro, and then said to the three of Suzuki Heavy Industries: "You guys think first, I'll go see Right Ichisuke!" With that, he got up and walked to the other side of the camp.

Naturally, Fushiwa Akijiro followed closely behind the Burning Sky and followed the Burning Sky towards the other side of the camp. On the way, Burning Sky whispered to Fushiwa Akijiro and asked, "Akijiro, how is the right Ichisuke?" ”

After listening to the words of the burning sky, Fuyu Mingjiro sighed and said to the burning sky in a low voice: "Lord, the right one helps this is a heart knot, if the heart knot is not untied in time, I am afraid that in the future, the right one can only go to the temple to be a scholarly monk!" ”

After listening to Fushiwa Mingjiro's words, Burning Sky was stunned for a moment, and then asked Fushiba Mingjiro, "Is it so serious?" What is the situation of Ichisuke right now? Tell me the truth! ”

Hearing this, Fushiwa Mingjiro whispered to the burning sky: "Right Ichisuke is unwilling to pick up the naginata knife in his hand now, and even the sword that the lord rewarded him with at his waist has to be removed!" After listening to Fushiwa Mingjiro's words, Burning Sky stopped, stood in place and thought for a while, and then said to Fushiwa Mingjiro: "Mingjiro, now I am afraid that it will be counterproductive for me to go to see him, these days you have to enlighten the right one to help, the right one help will please you!" ”

After patting Fushiwa Akijiro on the shoulder, Kinakora turned and returned. Fushiwa Akijiro stood on the road, watching the distant burning sky gradually engulf in the night, sighed, and then walked in the direction where Ichisuke was right.

The next day, early in the morning, the Takenaka half-guards raised more than 4,000 troops and marched around Fuchu Castle into the land of the Hokuetchizen Plain.

Standing outside the main camp to guard the burning of Shibata Katsuie's main camp, looking at the Takenaka half-guards in the distance, he was still guessing in his heart what kind of strategy the Takenaka half-guards would use to capture Fuchu Castle within three days. Similarly, Shibata Katsuie and Niwa Nagahide also looked at the Takenaka Hanbei in the distance, and all kinds of looks on their faces gathered together, so wonderful!

Then Niwa Nagahide personally went into battle and began another round of offensive against Fuchu Castle. However, Fuchu Castle's abundance of arrows and ammunition made Niwa Nagahide suffer as well, and after a wave of offensive was over, Niwa Nagahide retreated from the front line of the battlefield in disgrace.

Standing outside the main formation, the burning sky already felt that the morale raised by his previous efforts to break through the first three cities of South Vietnam was gradually declining. Burning Sky thought that he should go and admonish Shibata Katsuie, so Burning Sky entered the main camp shortly after Niwa Nagahide entered the main camp.

At this time, Shibata Katsuya looked at the map in front of him with red eyes, and Niwa Nagahide on the side also looked like he was looking long. Seeing that the two of them were a little stunned, Burning Sky whispered to the two: "Shibata-sama, Niwa-sama, I think that I might as well stop the offensive against Fuchu Castle now and wait for the results of Takenaka-sama in three days!" ”

After Shibata Katsuya heard the words of the Burning Sky, he looked up at the Burning Sky with bloodshot eyes and said, "I can't let the Takenaka Hanbei humiliate me, I must attack Fuchu Castle with the current strength of more than 6,000 troops before the deadline of his so-called strategy!" Gorou left, go and pull the peasant soldiers up too! ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky immediately spoke: "Lord Shibata, these peasant soldiers have no combat power, and forcibly let them attack the city, I am afraid that it will backfire!" ”

After listening to Burning Sky's words, Shibata Katsuya got up and yelled at Burning Sky: "Get out, I don't need you to teach me yet!" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky hesitated for a few breaths, looked at the close attendants of the Shibata Katsuya who had already come up around him, bowed his head and bowed to the Shibata Katsuya and walked out of the main formation. Burning Space, who walked out of the main camp with his back to Shibata Katsuya, obviously heard the sound of the table being overturned, and Burning Sky walked straight to the outside of the main camp he was guarding without looking back. The samurai and ashigaru outside the main camp watched Burning Sky walk out of the main camp under the rebuke of Shibata Katsuie, and they didn't know what happened to Shibata-sama for a while.

After Niwa Nagahide rested for a while, Niwa Nagahide once again pressed the sword on his waist and walked out of the main formation. Then more than 3,000 peasants and soldiers (minfu) were driven by 2,000 samurai and ashigaru to approach Fuchu Castle tremblingly, and for a time Fuchu Castle was full of gunfire, like ten thousand thunderbolts rushing by. The peasants who were at the forefront of the battle formation pushed forward in fear with rudimentary planks in their hands and projectiles pouring down from Fuchu Castle.

The thin planks could hardly withstand the impact of the projectile after taking a closer step, and the peasant soldiers in the front row were hit by iron cannons on the torso in the push from the rear, and after a few steps, they found that they had lost the momentum to move forward and fell to the ground with a "poof". The peasant soldiers behind took advantage of the iron cannon loading on Fuzhong City and rushed towards Fuzhong City with shouts. Looking at the trench that appeared in front of them, the peasants in front were pushed into the trench covered with thorns by the peasants in the rear before they stopped.

Before the samurai and ashigaru behind the peasant soldiers could catch up, countless gunshots rang out again from Fuchu Castle. The peasants, who had managed to stop in front of the trench, were finally filled into the trench under a round of iron cannons and bows and arrows from the defenders of Fuzhong City.

Seeing that the trench had been filled in with a path that could be passed by samurai and ashigaru, Niwa Nagahide said to the Kamo Kenhide army behind him, "Prepare to charge!" Immediately, after the sound of the iron cannons in Fuchu Castle had softened, Niwa Nagahide let out a loud roar, and countless samurai and ashigaru ran past the desperate peasant soldiers.

The defenders on Fuchu Castle obviously didn't expect the Oda army to suddenly attack, and they were suddenly a little in a hurry, and many Ashigaru who were originally loaded with iron cannons subconsciously put down the iron cannons and pulled out the knives on their waists.

Looking at the burning of Niwa Nagahide, who broke through the gate of Fuchu Castle in one go, he heard the roar of Shibata Katsuie in the main formation, and then Shibata Katsuie walked out of the main camp and commanded the 15,000 troops who were still on standby to attack Fuchu Castle. However, after Niwa Nagahide attacked Sannomaru in Fuchu Castle, he fought with the defenders of the castle. With the 1,500 troops sent by Shibata Katsu joining the offensive, the numerical disadvantage of the defenders of Fuchu Castle became even more obvious, and after some tugging, the Oda army succeeded in forcing the defenders of Fuchu Castle into Ninomaru.

As it got late, Shibata Katsuie also gave the order to retreat, and before retreating, the Oda army burned down the castle gate and destroyed the defenses of Sannomaru, so that the defenders of Fuchu Castle could not use Sannomaru as a barrier to stop the Oda army's attack.

On the second day after the departure of the Takenaka Hanbei, Shibata Katsuie commanded his troops to launch a new offensive against Fuchu Castle in the early morning. Shibata Katsuya directly asked Niwa Nagahide to lead an army of 3,500 men to attack this time, and allocated all the iron artillery and bow teams to Niwa Nagahide, leaving less than 2,000 people outside the camp to wait for orders.

With the support of iron cannons and bows and arrows, Niwa Nagahide was even more emboldened, and while suppressing the iron cannons and bows of Ninomaru with the iron cannon team and bow team, he commanded Ashigaru to storm the gate of Ninomaru and the castle walls of Ninomaru for rock climbing. A difficult siege battle began, and both sides tried their best, and for a while arrows roared and swords and spears roared in Fuzhong City.