Chapter 324: The Siege Begins

"Kill!" As the Tsugawa family launched a wave of "fierce" offensive against Minato, the shouts of killing suddenly resounded throughout Minato. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

On the upper floor of the south gate of Minato Castle, Anton Toki looked at the Tsugawa family Ashigaru who was approaching, and shouted loudly at the ashigaru beside him, "Archers come forward, release arrows!" ”

"Hah!" Suddenly, dozens of archers appeared on the castle tower and began to shoot at the Tsugawa family outside the castle.

The archers of the Minato family are fairly well-trained, but the archers of dozens of people have shot several Tsugawa family ashigaru in one round. However, fortunately, everyone in the Ashigaru of the Tsugawa family wears a bucket river bag, and the archers of the Minato Anto family use a Maruki bow, which is less powerful. Therefore, the few Tsukawa family ashigaru who were shot were all fine except for one who was unfortunately shot in the right eye.

"The archers shoot back!" Outside the castle, Komatsuyama Castle garrison Kuchiki Mitsuaki shouted to a group of archers behind him.

Each squadron of the Tsugawa family's standing ashigaru has a squad of archers, and Kuchigi Tsumei, as an ashigaru general, can command 1 brigade of ashigaru, so Kuchigi has 3 squads of archers under his command, a total of more than 30 people.

Similarly, there are more than 30 archers under Hailong Yoshizhen, and there are more than 60 archers under the command of the two of them. For a while, the archers on and off the city shot at each other, and no one could suppress anyone.

"First Squadron, Siege!" Hailong Yoshima drew the sword at his waist and let the ashigaru of the first squadron under his command start to climb the castle wall.

A squadron has 5 ashigaru squads under its command, led by a ashigaru group leader. The head of the Ashigaru Group of the 1st Squadron was originally the flag of Kuroda Iekane, and he was also one of the few remaining flag members of Kuroda Iekane's death in battle, called Imai Kansuke.

Imai Kansuke is a middle-aged man with five big and three thick, although he has a rough face but a careful mind, and he has always won the Shinna of Kuroda Iekane. After the death of Kuroda Iekane in battle, Kuroda Iekane's Zhixing Territory was retained, but the strength of Komatsuyama Castle was independent. Kuroda Iekane's Banner Bun was also dispersed to serve as the head of the ashigaru and the samurai leader.

"First Squadron, come with me!" Imai Kansuke shouted loudly, and then personally took Ashigaru and began to climb the walls of Minato Castle.

Minato Castle is a flat castle located in the coastal plain, and although there are also mizuhori, this does not prevent the people of the Tsugawa family from attacking the castle tower. The castle tower is not very high, only two layers of stones are piled up, and there are several platforms scattered on it.

It didn't take long for Kansuke Imai to climb the castle tower of Minato Castle with the Ashigaru of the 1st Squadron.

"Kill!" Imai Kansuke took the lead, brandishing the sword in his hand and rushing towards the nearest ashigaru, followed by seven or eight ashigaru.

On the castle tower, Anton Toki saw that the Ashigaru of the Tsugawa family had already killed the castle tower, and immediately said loudly to a samurai beside him, "Sun Saburo, you bring a team of ashigaru to block the people of the Tsugawa family for me!" ”

"Hah!" Anton Sun Saburo, a samurai from the Minato family, has just been served this year.

It is also helpless to let Sun Saburo take on such a responsibility, a large number of talents of the Minato family were lost as early as a year ago when Andong Yaoji and the Tsugawa family were fighting, and now even Sun Saburo, who has just served Yuanfu, can be regarded as the current "pillar" of the Minato family.

As Anton Sun Saburo rushed to the castle tower with a foot light, the attack of Imai Kansuke and others was gradually blocked. Since it was only a wave of tentative attacks, Imai Kansuke did not let Ashigaru sell his life, but fought steadily at the castle tower, trying to wear down the fighting spirit of the enemy army as much as possible.

The Tsugawa family's ashigaru was strong, but the number of people was not as good as the Minato family, so the battle on the castle tower was scorched. At this time, the situation at the east and north gates of Minato City is not optimistic.

The attack on the north gate was carried out by Masashige Tozawa and Moritsuna Tozawa and Kokuni Takahashi, and the first wave of the offensive was launched by Takahashi Castle Ashigaru under Kokuni Takahashi. After the last attack on Takahashi Castle by the Onodera family, the Ashigaru Castle of Takahashi suffered heavy casualties. At present, most of the ashigaru under Takahashi Kokoku are newly recruited ashigaru, and their combat effectiveness is really limited.

Although there was a brave general like Takahashi Kokoku in command, he was still repelled by Toshima Shigemasa at the North Gate.

Toshima Shigemasa saw that the Tsugawa family's forces had retreated, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although it only repelled the first wave of attacks from the Tsugawa family, the Toshima Shigemasa team was also uncomfortable.

The strength of the Toshima family is all peasant soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Takahashi Kokoku team, and the ability to repel the attack of the Takahashi Kokoku team is entirely by virtue of the defense of Minatojo.

"Count the casualties, take the wounded down to repair, and prepare the reserves for the next wave of enemy offensive!" Toshimashima Shigemasa said loudly while standing on the castle tower.

"Hah!"

After a short time, a samurai came to Toshima Shigemasa and said, "My lord, in the battle just now, 4 peasant soldiers were killed in the battle, 9 were slightly wounded, and 3 were seriously injured. ”

"Hmm." Toshimashima nodded, "What about the enemy casualties?" ”

The samurai slowly raised his head and said hesitantly, "Enemy... Enemy... There were no casualties on the enemy! ”

"What?" Toshimashima Shigemasa was shocked: "There are no casualties on the enemy? How can it be! ”

"There are more than ten casualties in this family, are all the people of the Tsugawa family cast in iron?" Toshima Shigemasa said in disbelief.

The samurai hurriedly replied, "It may also be that the enemy took away the corpse of the dead when they retreated, but anyway, when the corpses were counted just now, the body of the Tsugawa family was not found." ”

Toshimashima Shigemasa was silent for a while, "Is the Tsugawa family really that tough?" One person can cause more than 10 casualties in his own family without damage, but there are still thousands of enemy troops outside the city. ”

Outside the castle, Takahashi Kokuni retreated to safety with Ashigaru. Masashiro Tozawa and Moritsuna Tozawa hurriedly came to Takahashi Xingguo's side and asked, "Takahashi-sama, how is the war?" ”

Takahashi shook his head helplessly and replied, "The enemy resistance is very fierce, although we rushed to the castle tower several times, but we were all repelled by the enemy. ”

"But fortunately, only a few of the ashigari in my family were slightly injured and were not damaged." Takahashi continued.

"Takahashi-sama has worked hard, so let's organize Ashigaru to attack." Tozawa Moritsuna, who was on the side, spoke at this time.

"Hmm."

While speaking, Tozawa Moritsuna turned his head and said loudly to the ashigaru behind him, "Ashigaru of Otaka Castle comes with me!" ”

"Wow!"

At the north gate of the castle, Toshima Shigemasa was condescending, and soon discovered the movement of the Tsugawa family's army. Seeing that the Tsugawa family's troops outside the city had once again divided one or two hundred people, Ashigaru hurriedly said to Ashigaru beside him, "The second wave of enemy attacks is coming, everyone resist it!" ”

"Hah!" Since they had just repelled a wave of attacks from the Jingchuan family, the fighting spirit of the farmers of the Toshima family was still quite high.

Outside the city, Tozawa Moritsuna's team quickly rushed to the north gate of Minato Castle, looking at the "tall" Minato Castle gate, Tozawa Moritsuna shouted loudly, "Rush!" ”

"Kill!" Ashigaru of Ōtaka Castle immediately howled and began to climb the castle walls.

War is both casualty and merit!