Matsunaga Shu made such a decision, not because he was carried away by anger, and he didn't think about the siege without attacking, but in his opinion, don't look at the Miyoshi family's army is close to 20,000, but it is definitely not the opponent of the Oda army, and he is confined here, so I'm afraid it won't be long before the Miyoshi family's army will fail, and then he will have to surrender to the Oda family

But he has already made a feud with the Takayama clan, if he can't kill the Takayama clan before the Oda army defeats the Miyoshi family, then with Oda Nobunaga's trust in him, he has absolutely no possibility of development, so now he is left with only a strong attack.

The retainers present saw that the lord had made up his mind, and no matter how much he persuaded him, it was impossible for the lord to change his decision, so they no longer persuaded him, so they had to go to prepare immediately.

The Takayama clan sect in the city was not happy to see that those peasant soldiers had completely fled, and he knew that after the peasant soldiers fled, then the next attack would be to face the elite of the Matsunaga family.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Matsunaga army to line up and head towards the city. However, this time, instead of attacking from four sides, it was divided into two and attacked Takasaki Castle from the front and the other.

Seeing this, the Takayama clan immediately redeployed the troops under his command, except for the ninja army who did not move, the rest of the army was all transferred to the two sides of the attack of the Matsunaga army.

The elite of the Matsunaga family is not comparable to those peasant soldiers, and at the time of the battle of Ikoma Mountain, these elites had already seen the sharp attack of the Takayama family, so they had already prepared in their hearts.

Under the leadership of the Matsunaga samurai, as soon as they approached the 100-meter ten, they rushed towards Takasaki Castle at the fastest speed.

And the samurai also launched a charge, while shouting: "Disperse!" ”

Those ashigaru are not stupid, only the formation is scattered, can they live longer, after all, there are only fifty people in the city guarding this side, even if you add the iron cannon ashigaru, there are only seventy or eighty people, sure enough, after the first round of shooting, the two sides caused a total of less than thirty casualties to the enemy, and such casualties are nothing compared to the more than a thousand ashigaru who rushed over.

Moreover, the elite of the Matsunaga family also knew that the more they entered the range of the bow foot light, the more they could not slow down, and only by reducing the number of attacks of the opponent could they be more likely to live, so the Matsunaga family saw that the enemy had begun to release arrows, and not only did not slow down, but the speed of the charge was two points faster. *.*.*/*

When the second round of arrow rain fell, I saw that they had rushed to a distance of about forty meters.

"Iron cannon ashiki obeys orders and shoots at the enemy." No matter how hard Shigeto Bow Ashigaru and Iron Cannon Ashigaru triumphant, they can't stop the enemy's advance.

Since the rushing enemy had no formation at all, the lethality of the iron cannon was even more limited, and in the blink of an eye, the enemy had rushed outside the city with a loss of less than a hundred men.

The Elite Cavalry and Scimitar Riders on both sides of the castle wall and some ninjas had to join the warband.

At this moment, Matsunaga Hide, who was looking from a hundred meters away, couldn't help but feel good when he saw that his ashigaru had already attacked the castle, and even the anger brought to him by the wealthy clan just now was all left behind, and he knew that as long as he could attack the castle, it would already be half the success, after all, the elite archery foot light team of the Takayama Army belonged to a long-range attack team, as long as the strength of his own army could attack the front, then they would have no effect.

As long as they don't make trouble, then even if the Gaoshan army has a city to defend, it will not be able to withstand the attack of its own army.

Moreover, not only that, when the two armies fought, Matsunaga Shu also found that the weapons used by the elite ashigaru of the Takayama army were all spears, and the weapons in the hands of the Takayama army were not scimitars, and the sword was a ninja knife, even the long blade on the iron cannon was much shorter than the spear, as the so-called one inch long and one inch stronger, one inch short and one inch dangerous, the weapons in the hands of the Takayama army were not only one inch shorter, so they did not cause much loss to the army of the family at all, except for killing some ashigaru who were ready to climb the city wall. …,

Although it is difficult for the family to cause too many casualties to it, the elite under his command is three times that of the Takayama Army, and it has an absolute advantage in numbers, even if it is a hard fight for the Takayama Army, it is definitely not right

The Takayama clan in the city also discovered this, the spear in the other party's hand is too dominant, the main purpose of his coming this time is to attack, he didn't expect that there will be a day of defense, and, in his opinion, even if it is discovered by the enemy and needs to be defended, then it is impossible to let the enemy get close with the heavy vine bow and iron cannon ashigaru, if he encounters other military forces, it will indeed be as the clan imagined, but he just ran into the Matsunaga army, whose elite level is no less than the strength of his own army, so as a result, It's impossible to just rely on ranged attacks to withstand enemy attacks.

Seeing that the weapons in the hands of the ashigaru could not touch the enemy's body at all, but kept resisting the enemy's spears, this made him feel very anxious, but there was nothing he could do, and now the only thing he could do was to keep boosting morale, and hoped that the reinforcements of Minase Uemon would arrive soon.

The battle between the two sides has lasted for nearly half an hour, and such a fierce battle has reduced the physical strength of the two sides to the point of Ashigaru, and the Takayama Army, as the defending side, is relatively better, while many of the Ashigaru companies in the Matsunaga Army who are already tired can't lift their spears.

Sanada Masayuki also found that the enemy was exhausted, and in his opinion, this was a great opportunity not to be missed, and even he would not be able to make the Matsunaga army retreat, but it was relatively easy to think of repelling the enemy's attack.

I saw him walk quickly to the front of the clan and said: "My lord, the enemies outside the city are all tired, why don't you order Lord Bee Suga to lead the ninjas who have never participated in the battle, sneak out of the city from the other two sides, and launch an attack on the enemy, so that it should not be difficult to repel the enemy's attack." ”

After hearing this, the clan couldn't help but light up in his eyes, and only listened to him immediately order: "Immediately order Wasuka Masakatsu, lead the ninja army who has not participated in the battle to sneak out of the city, and launch an attack on the enemy in front!" ”

"It's the lord, and the subordinates will give orders."

At this moment, Masakatsu Beesuka was walking around the back wall of Takasaki Castle, and the shouting of killing from the front made him feel very irritated.

The rest of the clan were fighting the enemy in front and on the flanks, but he was the only one who was tasked with leading the remaining fifty ninjas to patrol the walls on both sides of the city where there was no enemy attack.

Although he knew that the Dao Lord was also afraid that the enemy would attack from the other side, so he let himself defend on this side, which fully reflected his trust in himself, but he would rather go to the front to fight the enemy than have nothing to do here.

But when he was bored, he saw a foot running briskly in front of Wasuka Masakatsu, and before he could speak, he heard Wasuka Masakatsu ask excitedly: "Tell me quickly, is it the lord's order?" ”

I saw that the ashigaru nodded and said, "Lord Hui Suka, the lord orders you to lead the ninjas who have not participated in the battle, sneak out of the city, and launch an attack on the enemy in front, and be sure to defeat the enemy in front. ”

After hearing this, Wasuka Masakatsu couldn't help but be overjoyed, only to hear him hurriedly say: "You report back to the lord immediately, and your subordinates will do it, and you will definitely live up to the lord's trust." After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the ashigaru who had come to give the order, but immediately gathered the fifty ninjas, first observed outside the castle, and after seeing that there were no enemies outside the city walls, he immediately led the fifty ninjas out of the castle.

Although Matsunaga Hide, seeing that the attack launched by his troops had begun to weaken, it stands to reason that he should immediately order the withdrawal of his troops and launch an attack on the castle after he had recuperated his spirits.

However, he didn't do it, although his army is exhausted now, but he thinks that the mountain army is not much stronger, as long as he holds on for a while, maybe he can attack the city, and if he withdraws now, then when he attacks again, he will have to face the enemy's bows and arrows and iron cannons, so that the army under his command will be lost in vain, not to mention the loss of a hundred, even if it is one, Matsunaga Xiu feels very distressed. …,

That's why he didn't speak for a long time, only to see him gritting his teeth, clenching his fists, staring intently at the battle situation ahead, he hadn't been so nervous for a long time.

And at this moment, Matsunaga Xiu suddenly found that on the side of the city wall, dozens of ninjas suddenly appeared, they were clinging to the city wall, quickly approaching the army attacking in the front, Matsunaga Xiu Zhizhi said, don't look at the other party There are only a few dozen people, but if they are allowed to get closer, then the army is already exhausted, even if they can block the enemy's sneak attack, they will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Thinking of this, I only heard Matsunaga Xiu shouting loudly: "Pay attention to the west, the enemy has already left the city, quickly line up!" ”

After Matsunaga's army Ashigaru heard the lord's shout, he couldn't help but be stunned, now that they didn't have any formation at all, it was not easy to line up in a short time.

And after Wasuka Masakatsu heard Matsunaga Hide's shouts of killing, he knew that the army he was leading had been discovered by the enemy, so he immediately quickened his pace.

"The enemy is right in front of you, rush me!" Hearing the shouts of Wasuka Masakatsu, he drew his sword and rushed towards the enemy.

The fifty ninjas under his command also drew their ninja knives and followed behind the adults to attack the enemy.

Although Matsunaga has received the alarm from the lord, but there is no time to prepare, and the family is physically and mentally exhausted, and Wasuka Masakatsu has been recuperating for a long time, so although there are few fifty ninjas, they rushed into the enemy army without any hindrance, and all the enemies in front of them were all killed by the ninjas.

If they were able to rely on faith just now to not retreat, then now, there is nothing left to support them, and they are physically and mentally exhausted, and now they have only one thought, that is, to retreat immediately, even if they are punished by the lord.