While Hojo was still discussing with Hojo Tsunari, Kasahara Yasukatsu and others, the battle at the north gate of Namba Castle had already begun.

"Attack!" Yasuyuki Naito waved his baton, and all the troops under his command moved. However, the front team moved quickly, leading with 200 peasant soldiers holding bamboo bundles, followed by 200 archers and 300 spears. The rest of the army advanced ten paces before coming to a halt. Behind the spear ashigaru, there were eight ashigaru carrying rams tied together by three logs, and slowly followed.

Garrisoned at the north gate was Namba Hiroyoshi, who was finally in command of the infantry this time. In his career, there were not a few times when he commanded infantry, almost all of them were cavalry! Especially the Kawagoe Knights, he also commanded for a long time, but unfortunately the current command of the Knights was handed over to Saito Rizo, otherwise he would still be the cavalry commander.

Under the order of Namba Tian Hiroyoshi, none of them fired arrows lightly, because he only had 500 troops and 100 Wushu soldiers under his command. He needs to preserve his strength. The ram soon reached the north gate and began to hit the door.

However, the latch was ordered to be replaced with a piece of wood, and the original latch was set aside. After six consecutive hits by the Hojo Gunashigaru, the latch of the North Gate was quickly broken. However, before this, Namba Hiroyoshi had already ridden his own brown warhorse. The ashigaru under Nambada Hiroyoshi were all in front of the gun, and the bow was behind, all waiting for the entry of the Hojo Army.

"I'm the Hojo family's retainer Dadaoji Temple! This is the first shot to attack Namba Castle! Immediately, a leading samurai of the Hojo Army led a dozen Hojo Soldiers to rush into Sannomaru with a light charge.

Namba Tian Guangyi didn't pay attention to the Great Daoji Temple, and directly clamped the horse and held a riding spear in his right hand, and quickly rushed towards him.

"Ahh Just when Daidaiji Weiming was still brandishing the Taidao sword to signal his subordinate Ashigaru to hurry up and enter the city, Nambada Hiroyoshi had already rushed in front of him on horseback. Immediately, Dadao Temple was caught off guard and was shot through the heart.

"Pick up your samurai!" Nambada Hiroyoshi shook it hard, and threw the Daidoji Temple Weiming, who was strung on the gun, in front of the panicked Hojo army at the gate of the north gate.

"Lord Dao Temple died in battle!" Not long after they came in, the Ashigaru men of the Hojo Army immediately turned around and ran, not taking their leading samurai with them.

"I don't care what Great Dao Temple you are!" Namba Hiroyoshi immediately led his headquarters of twenty mounted samurai to take the lead from the castle, and the spear and sword ashigaru also followed.

After a handover of troops, the morale of this Hojo army was somewhat low due to the fact that the Daido Temple was killed at the beginning of the attack on the city. And the defeated Hojo Army Ashigaru directly dispersed the formation of the follow-up Hojo Army, making them have no formation to speak of. In addition, after the samurai on horseback led by Hiroyoshi Namba arrived, the Hojo Army's bows and spears were mixed together, and they could not gather together to fight back. In this way, after Namba Hiroyoshi led his army to kill for a while, he sent people to move all the bamboo bundles back to the castle.

Yasuyuki Naito, who was not far away, was already blue in his face, but he watched his army be defeated in an instant and flee. A samurai on horseback beside him was eager to take the plunge and immediately retreated to catch up with Namba Hiroyoshi.

"Your Excellency must be the Uesugi family's important minister, Lord Nambada Hiroyoshi, right? In the next is the Hojo family's retainer Yasuyuki Naito's riding samurai pen head Yuki Moto, I want to ask your Excellency marksmanship! The samurai in red armor first announced his name, but he didn't know if he could defeat him.

"Oh? It's Namba Hiroshi in the next, so eat me a shot! "Nambata Hiroyoshi wishes that someone would come and send him to death, and then after taking the other party himself, he can still deter the enemy army and boost his morale.

As the two got closer and closer, Yuuki Motoji took the lead in stabbing Namba Hiroshi with the spear in his hand, but Namba Hiroyoshi leaned his body and dodged Yuuki Moto's shot. But Nambada Hiroyoshi seized the opportunity - the spear stabbed by Yuki Motoji didn't have time to be recovered, and there were flaws everywhere! Namba Hiroyoshi stabbed the spear in his hand directly into Yuki Motoji's abdomen and threw him off his horse. The two Ashigaru under the command of Nambada Hiroyoshi who didn't have time to enter the city immediately ran to Yuuki Motoji's side, and after pulling out the knife, one first made up another knife on his body, and the other hurried to cut off the head and handed it to Nambada Hiroyoshi who was riding on a horse.

"The enemy will be taken by me, Nambada Hiroyoshi!" Nambada Hiroyoshi immediately raised the head of the Yuki Motoji clan high, so that the Hojo army under the command of Yasuyuki Naito on the opposite side could see it clearly.

"Oh!" In an instant, the morale of the Uesugi army skyrocketed a lot. Namba Hiroyoshi really hadn't tried a few times to fight on horseback, and he succeeded in demoralizing the enemy.

However, Ishimaru Dingtaro at the east gate was no better, and the army under his command was basically composed of peasant soldiers, at best, they came to 'indiscriminately hunt' and gather the number of people, and collected the heads of the people with the wind, and left the general to run away against the wind. It's the same this time, but the guard of the east gate is Miyagi Masa. He's not going to take risks, but he's not going to retreat at will.

When Ishimaru first began to attack, he waited for his army to enter the city gate, and when he was still fifty paces away from the city gate, he ordered his men to bow their feet and fire arrows. And Ishimaru Jotaro's military strength, combat effectiveness and morale are simply pitifully low! After just one round of fire, the two hundred peasant soldiers of the first echelon of Ishimaru's Dingtaro team dropped more than sixty corpses and retreated! If it weren't for the 1,000 Hojo Army of Kasawara Iekai in the back, I'm afraid this person would have left the coalition army with his troops and retreated. And Miyagi didn't pay much attention to it, so he was deadlocked, and he didn't send people to pursue it.

"Report to the General General! The elder of the family, Nan Hata, who was stationed at the North Gate, has killed the Hojo Army samurai who have entered the castle and repelled the Hojo Army that surrounded the North Gate! While Namba Tian Kenji was still discussing with Katsuyama Unkatsu, a samurai covered in ash came to report on the battle.

"Yes." Kenji Namba nodded and continued to look at the map on the floor. He knew very well in his heart at the moment that Honjo Shigenaga was going to sneak attack the various cities that had taken refuge in the Hojo family along the way, in fact, he was going around to the flank of the Hojo army to carry out a sneak attack, and it was still very risky for the 700 troops of his department to really implement this plan.

"Report to the General General! The old Miyagi Masayi who was stationed at the east gate had repelled the attack of the Hojo Army! "After a while, another samurai came. However, this person was much better than the samurai just now, at least there was not so much dust on his body.

"Yes." Kenji Namba is now reassured, and the defense on the first day is more than enough. He was able to defend Namba Castle well under the siege of the Hojo Army on all sides, so it is not clear what the next day was. He knew that Hojo would not just retreat, it was only half a day. Maybe there's even a night attack!

"General General, the poor monk feels that the Hojo Army has two ways to go next." Jieshan Yunsheng's words stopped again.

"Master, speak quickly." Namba Tian Kenji still wants to hear the opinions of Katsuyama Yunkatsu, who is temporarily serving as a military advisor.

"One is that the Hojo Army will attack the city day and night, and after taking this city, it will be able to take the various castle territories of the family in North Musashi, and the family will be driven out of Musashi again, and even Kanto." Jieshan Yunkatsu then placed his rosary on the map in Namba Castle and surrounded it.

"What the master means is that the Hojo family has another way to surround this castle first, and wait for the reinforcements from the family or the Echigo army to break it!" Namba Tian Kenji saw it, and Jieshan Yunkatsu nodded immediately. If that's the case, the Uesugi army will really suffer heavy losses. Namba Tian Kenji was willing to attack the city day and night, while he could hold out for a few days, as long as the reinforcements from the Asadachi arrived.

"Hojo Shiyasu has a lot of appetite, I don't know if he has such good teeth." Katsuyama Yunkatsu didn't think that the Hojo clan would be able to swallow the standing army of the Uesugi army in one gulp, and he didn't want to think that the military strength brought by the various departments from Aizu was enough for the Hojo army to drink a pot, not to mention the 'Shuangkan Hada' army that fought all year round.

"The heart of the Hojo clan is known to passers-by." At this time, there was a samurai wearing a red carcass standing at the entrance of the tea hermitage, and he was none other than Toshimitsu Anazawa.

"Anazawa, why did you leave your post without permission if you didn't go to the garrison?" Namba Tian Kenji was not a question, and first handed him a scoop of water.

"Thank you." Toshimitsu Anazawa wiped his mouth after drinking the water, "Tominaga Naokatsu is nothing more than that, what else will he do except let his troops send him to death?" ”

"The Hojo family has more than enough to defend the city, and the siege is insufficient, and if it is replaced by the Hojo family to defend the city, the main family will definitely suffer heavy casualties." Jieshan Yunsheng shook his head, having said that, the siege equipment of the Uesugi army was also insufficient.

"That's it, keep a good guard, remember that from today onwards, the night guard can't be relaxed!" Namba Tian Kenji didn't want to be attacked at night, and the Hojo family's sneak attack was not low.

"Yes." Toshimitsu Anazawa immediately retired, and Jieshan Yunsheng also left the tea house after him.

Just as Hojo decided to rest most of the Coalition Army, he would attack the city again the next day. However, the castle did not know the news, and Namba Tian Kenji still arranged the duties of each retainer very carefully.

Just when neither Hojo Shiyasu nor Namba Tian Kenji knew it, Uesugi Asadashi took the lead in meeting with the 1,400 troops of the Ishikawa Kiyocho Army. However, Yamamoto Temple and Nagao Keishinobu were still on the way, but Hideharu Kano, who was in charge of the broken end, took the lead in leading 100 spear warrior cavalry from his headquarters to Beppu as soon as possible, believing that Hideji Kano would be able to rendezvous with Asadachi in less than a day. It would take about three to four days for the forces of Yamamoto Temple and Nagao Keishun to enter Musashi, and Asadachi had to wait, and Namba Tian Kenji was even more anxious.

Just after both sides had spent a peaceful night, the Hojo Army sounded the horn of attack again in the early morning of the 31st.

This time, the Hojo clan did not send some of the subordinate wealthy clans and countrymen as the first servants, and he could only invite the Imagawa army (2,900 people), the Kira army (plus the 1,000 peasant soldiers led by the Kira Yoriyoko Kira clan dynasty in the follow-up arrival, a total of 1,900 people), as well as the Hojo family's important ministers Naito Yasuyuki (1,000 people) and Shirabi Kasahara Yasukatsu (1,800 people), and the four of them surrounded Namba Ta Castle. This time, the Combine didn't let their men die, because they thought of the best way to do it - drive nearby civilians to carry sandbags to fill the mori. And the nearest castle is only Akatsuka Castle, Itabashi Castle, and Ishijini Castle, in order to successfully capture Namba Castle by the Hojo family in this battle, Hojo Shiyasu also personally went to do the ideological work of Akatsuka Yasuaki and Itabashi Higo, although on the surface they agreed, but in their hearts they were a hundred unwilling!

In the end, the first to arrive at the city that afternoon were more than 1,000 old and weak women and children near Shijinjing Castle. And Akatsuka Yasuaki and Itabashi Higo only symbolically summoned less than 500 people to go, they knew very well the consequences of doing so, if this group of people all died, then they would lack the already small amount of labor! Moreover, if the famine had only passed in the near future, if the people were to be lost again, their taxes would not be collected.

And at this moment, Asadashi is looking into the distance in Kawagoe Castle Honmaru Ohiroma, and the direction directly opposite the entrance of Ohiroma is Namba Ta Castle.

"Returning to his hometown this time, who can remember the sorrow of the heroic souls who died here in the war? A game of backgammon, a ping game, a game of ups and downs······" Although Chaoding sat on the main seat, he did not forget the retainers who were still fighting, and he couldn't show that he was still in Musashi at this moment!

"My lord! Hideharu Kano has taken the lead in leading a hundred horseback samurai from his headquarters to join him! Saito Rizo walked in in a hurry, but he became serious after looking at Asada, who had a flat face.

"Kano-sama's army is as powerful as the stables of the former palace hall, and its combat power is comparable to that of the horseback samurai under your command." Although Kiyocho Tsukawa had already arrived in Heyue Castle, he could only follow Chaoding all the time, and he didn't know what he was going to do next.

"Mino, ordered the remaining 3,200 Shangzhou soldiers to continue training in the city. The rest of the departments are all on standby, and there must be no mistakes! "Asadachi can only hope that Yamamoto Temple and Nagao Keishin can hurry up now, otherwise all the Aizu soldiers under his command will die in Namba Castle.

"Yes." Ota Zimasa was ordered to retire without any complaints, and he knew in his heart that the court was not comfortable. After all, the Hojo Army had reached more than 33,000, and if you count the army that was annihilated before the siege, it would be more than 35,000 before and after. On the contrary, the Uesugi army currently has only more than 3,000 troops in Namba Tian Castle, plus more than 8,000 troops of Kiyonaga Ikawa and the three teams of Yamamoto Temple and Nagao Keishinobu who are about to arrive, and then the 3,200 troops available to the Kamishu soldiers and the main team of the Asadachi (excluding the Kawagoe Knights) will be 15,300 troops.

It can be said that the current form is very severe for the Uesugi family, and if you want to change it, it will depend on the prosperity of Honjo.