The Dabao Temple family retreated, and they came and went in a hurry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 By the time the troops of the Takizawa family and the Atakuho family arrived at Lost Island City, the forces of the Dahoji family had disappeared without a trace.

The lost island castle was defended, the Daihoji family also retreated, and the threat to the south of the Tsugawa family was gone. Nagaru Kiuchi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Kiuchi-sama, Takizawa Masato and Akasa take care of the request to see." At this time, Urakami Motoyo came to Kiuchi Nagaru's side and said.

Kiuchi Changru "snorted" and said loudly, "The Takizawa family and the Koubao family have a good fight!" When the family is weak, then the leader will not move! Wait until the family defeats the Anton family before sending troops! ”

"Nope! Send a message to them, and let them go to Ueno Castle to explain to the lord in the future! Kiuchi said loudly.

"Hah!"

...............

The Anto family was defeated, and the Daihoji family retreated, but the battle for Tsugawa Castle was not over.

Yokote Mitsumori and others have been besieging Tsugawa Castle for several days.

Yokote Mitsumori sent troops from Yokote Castle and went straight to Tsugawa Castle. Along the way, Kanazawa Castle and Rokugo Castle were all fallen, and both castles were the only way to Tsugawa Castle, so they were both attacked by Yokote Mitsumori.

Kanazawa Castle was easily captured because Tozawa Masashige had already led his troops to fight with the Tsugawa Soji and the Anto family, so there were no troops left behind. Although Liuxiang City has a city on behalf of the Liuxiang government, the mobilization of troops is caged.

However, the enemy was outnumbered, and Liuxiang City was only held for half a day before it was captured by Hengshou Guangsheng. Rokugo Masato and others took advantage of the chaos to escape and went straight to Tsugawa Castle.

Subsequently, Yokote Mitsumori and others marched in the direction of Tsugawa Castle again, and arrived outside Tsugawa Castle early the next morning.

At this time, there was already a rumor in Tsugawa Castle, and all the remaining troops in the Tsugawa family had been assembled in Tsugawa Castle, ready for the next big battle.

Yoshimori Totoki of Umezawa Castle, Moriyoshi Tozawa of Tazawa Castle, Saigo Kicho of Iwamatsu Castle, Kokoku Takahashi of Takahashi Castle, Shiraiwa Castle Daishi Shinbata Inkine, Asai Nagado of Asamai Castle, Matsuoka Hideyo of Matsuoka Castle, and Shimizu Naokina of Yuzawa Castle had a total strength of less than 1,200 men.

Yokote Mitsumori and others took the lead in destroying the castle town of Tsugawa Castle, with Owada Mitsumi in charge of attacking the east gate of Tsugawa Castle, Yokote Mitsumori himself sitting at the south gate, and Konjobo Gentaka attacking the west gate.

As for Tsugawa Castle, the miners mobilized by the Saigo Kicho team and the Maeda Silver Mine and the Tsugawa Iron Mine were responsible for guarding the west gate, the Shimizu Naokin, Totoki Yoshimori team, and Tozawa Moriyoshi team were responsible for guarding the south gate, and the Matsuoka Shuyu team and the Asai Nagado team were responsible for guarding the east gate. Yoshikei Komura and Shibata Kinie and others sat in Honmaru and were responsible for coordinating the war in the entire Tsugawa Castle.

On April 28, the 13th year of the Astronomical Calendar, Yokote Mitsumori and others launched a general attack on Tsugawa Castle.

Although Tsugawa Castle has been renovated several times, the overall scale of the castle is not large, and the castle walls are only a simple structure made of earth rammed and rows of wooden planks inserted into them. Totoki Yoshimori and Tozawa Moriyoshi relied on the two curved wheels in the south of the city to stubbornly block Yokote Mitsumori's attack.

Yokote Mitsumori sent two retainers, Yamauchi Takamitsu and Kurosawa Yorito, to attack Totoki Yoshimori and Tozawa Moriyoshi respectively, while Yokote Mitsumori personally led his army to attack the castle tower at the south gate.

Guarding the castle tower is the Shimizu Nao-kin's team, which has been transferred to Yuzawa Castle and has more than 100 peasants and soldiers under his command. The former retainer of the Onodera family, Otonai Shitoida, became a ronin after the death of Onodera Uemichi, and was later recruited by Shimizu Masayoshi as a retainer to work for Shimizu's direct relatives.

The Yokote family who attacked the south gate had only more than 300 people and less than 400 people, and the Tsugawa family had only more than 400 people.

However, the situation at the west and east gates of Tsugawa Castle is not optimistic.

The total number of members of Matsuoka Shuyo and Asamai Nagado is less than 300, while the Owada Mitsumi team has more than 500 people, and the east gate is the area where the castle town is located, so the terrain is wide, and the houses of the castle town are used as cover, which increases the difficulty of the castle defense to a certain extent.

Fortunately, at this time, Abe Entata, the leader of the Yamaguchi of Mt. Senyoshi, suddenly killed with more than 300 bandits and attacked Owada Mitsumi from the side. Owada Mitsumi immediately asked his general Yanada Castle Castle to take a ashigaru to block Abe Enta.

Although Abe Enta's attack was blocked by Owada Mitsumi, Owada Mitsumi suspended the attack on Tsugawa Castle because he was afraid of Abe Enta, which made the pressure on Matsuoka Hideyo and others drop sharply for a while.

The most critical should be the Saigo Wood Captain of the West Gate.

The forces attacking the West Gate were the monks of Kanazawa Hachimangu led by Gentaka Kaneshiro and some ronin led by Ryotaro Miyamizu, plus a flick of nearly 2,000 people, for a total of 2,000 troops.

Although they are all mobs, with poor weapons, low morale, and poor combat effectiveness, they can't stand the crowd. After fighting for a long time, Saigo Kicho could only ask for help from Yoshiki Komura.

Komura Yoshikyo immediately asked the miners, as well as the Xinbata family team and the Rokugo political team to go to the west gate to support.

However, the situation in Ximen was still very unfavorable to the Tsugawa family. Jin Chengbo Gengao asked Miyasui Ryotaro to lead a "death squad" composed of monks and ronins to launch several fierce charges against the Ximen Castle Wall, and the last time it was almost to repel Saigo Kicho and others and capture the castle tower. Fortunately, Takahashi Xingguo arrived with Ashigaru of Takahashi Castle, and he was able to hold the castle tower.

On April 30, the thirteenth year of astronomy, the third day of the siege of Tsugawa Castle by Yokote Mitsumori and others.

In the main camp of the Yokote family, a morning siege battle has just ended, and the troops of the Yokote family have also retreated to repair.

Yokote Mitsumori called Owada Mitsumi and Konshobo Genko to discuss countermeasures.

"Yokote-sama, although there are not many troops in Tsugawa Castle, you have seen it. Our troops of nearly 3,000 people have been fighting Tsugawa Castle for almost three days, but the Tsugawa family in Tsukawa Castle is like not afraid of death, so what can we do? Jin Chengfang Xuangao said loudly.

Yokote Mitsumori smiled and said slowly, "Omiya Division, don't be impatient. The ashigaru in Tsugawa Castle is mostly the elite standing of the Tsugawa family, although the number is less than us, but it has only been 3 days, and when the Tsugawa family's ashigaru fighting spirit is almost exhausted, Tsugawa Castle is at your fingertips. ”

"Yokote-sama, this time I sent troops to Kanazawa Hachimangu Palace, firstly, to repay the kindness of the Yamada family's first-in-class doctrine, but the Tsugawa family also has a deep hatred with my Hachimangu Palace!" Jin Chengfang Xuangao suddenly said, "The battle situation over there in Hefu County is still unclear, but according to our current attack speed, it will take at least ten days to capture Tsugawa Castle." ”

"Yokote-sama, if you need to know later, things will change." Jin Chengfang Xuangao looked at Hengshou's eyes and said loudly.

"Omiya Division is worry-free, I have my own plans for this matter, I believe it won't be long before there will be news." Yokote Mitsumori said with a smile.

"So.........." Yokote Mitsumori was about to continue saying something when a ashigaru suddenly walked in from outside and interrupted Yokote Mitsumori.

"My lord, a letter has just been shot from Tsugawa Castle."