The cold wind was bleak, the moon and the stars were scarce, and the eight flag guards were quietly hiding behind the horse horse, the iron cannon in their hands slowly stretched out from the narrow room (perforation), and the muzzle of the cannon was silently pointed at the forward samurai more than 100 meters away, and a shicho from the Honmaru requisition walked back and forth behind the horse with a torch, ready to light the fuse of the iron cannon for them. On the opposite side of Maruma, the 180-strong Ono Army was also silent, and the generals led by the military commander kept sending envoys to the rear to ask for instructions on when to attack.

The so-called Mazumi is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese urn city, but under normal circumstances, Mazue is built in front of the tiger's mouth, which is considered the second line of defense, and the tiger's mouth is a kind of fortification directly in front of the Otemon, the purpose is also to delay the enemy's advance into the Otemen.

The Honmaru's Made, which is called "Maruma De" because of its semi-circular shape, is placed at the entrance of the bridge leading to the tiger's mouth, and can play a role in the role of a man who is a master and a man who cannot be opened. It was precisely for this reason that Gumune sent eight samurai to garrison here, and in contrast, only four people were left to guard the Tiger Pass and Otemon, and in his opinion, if Ma De was breached, the enemy army would be able to cross the Uchihao and approach the Tiger Pass, and it would be almost impossible to keep the enemy out of the gate at this time.

Osamu Ohno wanted to personally invite Maeda Toshicho into the city, but he still had illusions about persuading Muneho to surrender, so he had to go to Maeda's house by his second brother Ono Jibo, while he temporarily served as the commander-in-chief, responsible for capturing Honmaru and forcing Yodohime to hand over Hideyori.

As the commander-in-chief, he should have sat firmly in the formation and commanded the whole army, but Ono Zhichang disagreed, went straight to the front of the formation, and shouted at the flag guard stables not far away: "I am Ohno Repair Liangzhi, dare to invite the county lord Ma Tou (the stable is the Tang name of the main horse head) to come out and see it." ”

After about five minutes, Maruma De, who had been silent for a long time, finally heard a voice: "The stable-sama can't pull away, please repair and go into the city alone." ”

"Alone in town? Hmph, when I'm a fool to rule, I can't do it. Osamu Ono summoned a samurai to him, whispered him, and then asked him to go to Honmaru in his place.

"To repair the recurrence of the foot disease, I will be sent to Mitsuyoemon Ota." The commander said as he walked out towards Maruma. I was apprehensive, but I still comforted myself: "After all, it's a messenger, so it shouldn't be fine." ”

It turns out that he overestimated himself too much, and the samurai of Maruma did not see him as a messenger, but as a rebel with Osamu Ohno's group, so why should he have any mercy for the traitor? As soon as the samurai of Ota was halfway there, he vaguely saw a little fire suddenly appear from the opposite side, and just as he was thinking about the worst, he saw several projectiles fired out from the narrow room with the sound of gunfire. With a few metal thumps, the samurai snorted and fell neatly in a pool of blood.

"What the stables want to see is Ohno repair, and why did you only send a junior samurai here, wouldn't it be an insult to the identity of the stables, since Your Excellency is not sincere, then you don't need to bother to speak." Before Osamu Ohno could get angry, the leading samurai after the horse came out took the lead in giving up the idea of peace talks, and this provocative shout immediately made Ohno and his sergeants angry. Those high-ranking samurai even rushed to apply for the first battle, vowing to kill all the Gunzong Bao and this group of banner guards.

Seeing that the morale was so high, Osamu Ohno was also full of confidence and immediately ordered. Appointed Koji Horino, the general under the Nakajima clan, as the striker, and led the leading army of 80 people to directly attack Maruma Ide.

Although there were only eight people in the horse, there were no less than 100 people who could shoot in the narrow room, so as to minimize the losses. He ordered everyone to attack the front of the horse, so as not to scatter the attack and be broken by the defenders.

Since the reload time of the iron cannon is fifteen to thirty seconds, therefore. Except for the four or five Ashigaru who rushed to the front at the beginning and fell to the ground with injuries, the rest of the sergeants all successfully reached the earthen ditch of Made. Due to the fact that it was a horse from Marunouchi, the height was only two meters, and the gate on both sides was not guarded by troops, and soon, this fortification collapsed like a dam rushing down from a flood, and the excited Otno sergeant continued to climb over the mound, rushed through the building gate and entered the horse, shouting and roaring to attack the eight samurai.

At this moment, those flag-guarding horses put down the iron cannons, drew their swords and fought to the death with the oncoming enemy, but the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us was huge, in the ratio of nearly one to ten, most of the horses were chopped into meat puree with only one foot of light, only two senior samurai tried to break through the encirclement and retreat to the tiger's mouth, their skillful knife skills once made the Daye army frightened, only dared to surround and did not dare to attack.

Seeing that the sergeants hesitated, Koji Horino scolded them for being cowardly as rats, and angrily pushed through the crowd and walked to the innermost part of the encirclement. I saw two samurai blades outward, leaning back to back against each other, and the feet on their bodies had already been dyed red by the plasma. Although they are very brave, they can be roughly counted, there are still no less than dozens of knife wounds on the two of them, and the older samurai Xiao Tui is trembling, and when he looks closely, the wound that was poked open by the bamboo spear is bleeding out.

"Brother, Jing Saburo, why are you here?!" In the face of these two samurai, who were ready to die generously at any time, Koji Horino shouted almost madly.

The older samurai was slightly stunned, wiped the blood stains from the corners of his eyes, looked at Horino Koji, and after confirming his judgment, he replied coldly: "I am a flag guard stables under the command of the county stable, how can there be a traitor like you as a younger brother?!" ”

"I'm Keizaburo Horino Yukimasa, who are you, a traitor, and you dare to say that you are my brother, it's ridiculous." The young samurai also chimed in.

"Well, since you don't recognize me, there's no other way." Horino Koji waved his hand lightly, and a group of iron cannons suddenly appeared behind him, "I came to Jingjing on the order of Ohno Repair, if you two are willing to let our army pass, you can not blame the past, otherwise, don't blame the brother for not being emotional." ”

"Bastard, I said that there is no brother like you, what nonsense?!" The elder samurai categorically interrupted Koji Horino's warning, "Yasuyan, hum, it's really true, you and Osamu Ohno are all punished by rebellious ministers and thieves, even if you die today, you are doing the way of a samurai, and you, haha, I'm afraid you will always be scolded by the world!" ”

"Enough!" Koji Horino roared "shoot", and suddenly, dozens of projectiles were fired at the chests of the two samurai from different angles. In the smoke of gunpowder, the two of them used their last strength to look up to the sky and laugh, without saying a word, and fell into a pool of blood.

"Okay, the traitor is dead, everyone will follow me to attack Honmaru!" Koji Horino raised the sword in his hand and swung it heavily at the tiger's mouth on the other side of the bridge. The fighting spirit of everyone was also high again because of Horino's "righteous annihilation", and they all raised their spears and knives in their hands and went crazy to kill the tiger's mouth.

Knowing that Maruma had lost, the four samurai who were in charge of guarding the tiger's mouth immediately panicked, and after a round of shooting, they could only make a final struggle behind the door.

"The trapped beast is still fighting, brothers give it to me, and the reward for winning the first level of the county sect is ten pieces!" Koji Horino then ordered the samurai in the rear to bring the battering ram, and the hammer did not hit a few times, and the bolt behind the door could not resist the impact and broke.

"Broken city, I'm from my Shinoyama Palace!" The samurai of the advanced castle shouted loudly to prevent their military exploits from being taken away by others, and the rest of the samurai followed closely behind, pouring into Otemon like a sea of water, and the four banner-guarding horses were killed by the oncoming Ono army before they could retreat.

After all, four heads can't satisfy so many people, and the ultimate goal of most samurai is Ken Soho, who is the chief general.

I thought that the county sect would hide everywhere because of the broken city, but I didn't think that this veteran would sit firmly in the middle of the grass facing the big gate, gently wiping his beloved knife with a handkerchief. Such courage, just like the thousand-percent scoop beside him, makes people feel awe-inspired.

"The head of the stable is also my Sasayyama Palace!" Without waiting for Koji Horino to enter the Honmaru, the samurai who had achieved some feats thought that he was quick-eyed, shouted "Hachiman Great Bodhisattva bless", and desperately went to kill Gumuneho.

"Don't defile my knife." It was too late, and when the two of them were still about two meters apart, Jun Zongbao suddenly picked up the spear from the side, leaned forward, waved his arm hard, and flew straight out, "poof", the spear passed through the left side of Shinoyama, pierced another samurai behind him, and did not stop until he pierced into the third samurai.

Shinoyama looked at Soho in disbelief, and then lowered his head to look at the big hole in his mouth, and the sword in his hand immediately fell to the ground, and his two eyes also rolled over,!。