In the current form, whether it is Honda Masanobu or Sanada Masayuki, the first thing that comes to mind must be how to win this battle, and it will never pave the way for the future, after all, military divisions also need meritorious service to be promoted, especially now that the family has resumed its separation, who doesn't want to get the territory, but this Hosokawa military division will see it much longer-term. So although this tactic is not to their liking, there is no doubt about Hosokawa's ability. After going down, they all began to actively prepare for the battle, waiting for the arrival of the Hojo Army.

It is not impossible for the Hojo Army to cross the mountain castle and attack the rest of Kai, of course, if they are not afraid of being cut off by the Takayama army in the city, they can do so, but Hojo Naritatsuna is not a fool, how can he make such a joke with the elite of the family, so after he learned that the main force of the Takayama army was in the castle, he immediately led the 25,000 troops under his command to rush straight over.

He still has full confidence in the five-color preparation under his command, and when he fought with the Takeda family, the opponent had no power to fight back, and he obtained such a result under the personal command of Takeda Shingen. Although the family has never fought against the Takayama Army, no matter how elite it is, at most it is at the level of Chibei, so he is still confident in defeating the Takayama Army, especially this time the Takayama Clan Sect is not in charge in person, so the possibility of his victory will be greatly increased, and he has now begun to plan how to capture Kai after defeating the Takayama Army.

But when he arrived at Zhedian Mountain City, he was a little dumbfounded, he did not count the high mountain army, which was famous for field battles, and he did not plan to fight with himself in the field, but Cage City. In this way, all the plans that I have worked so hard to designate along the way will be nullified.

But soon he had a decision. Since the mountain army is defending the city. Then with his advantage, he started to attack from all sides, and the chance of breaking the city is still very great, although it is not as happy as the field battle, but it is also difficult for the other party to play any tricks, so it is not bad to win the insurance victory.

After making a decision, the five-color preparation was immediately split into five by him. He led Huang Bei to act as the main formation, and the other four were responsible for one side, such an arrangement is just right, as for the credit for breaking the city, Hojo Chengzuna does not plan to fight, if he goes out with the lord, it must be fought for, but now he is the main general, no matter who breaks the city, the credit is indispensable to himself. And why bother because of the big things and the small things. After a brief rest, Hojo Naritana immediately ordered the siege of the castle.

"Newspaper. Commanders, my lords, the enemy is moving on all sides of the city, with a total of 5,000 men on each side, and ask the commanders to decide. ”

"Got it, you listen to the order, and immediately defend the city according to the plan."

Because Duryu County is not a rich place, although the scale of this castle is second to none in this county, it can only be regarded as a medium scale at most, so that each side can not line up 5,000 people to attack at the same time, so this time the Hojo Army that launched the attack was only 4,000, 1,000 on each side, and the Takayama Army defending the city used to defend was about this number, but they definitely had a great advantage on the defensive side, especially the defensive army was a long-range attack, and the original advantage was magnified.

Therefore, before the Hojo Army could approach the castle, the archers with the longest range began to attack the enemy, and although there were only 250 men on each side, they still inflicted a lot of casualties on the enemy.

Although there were casualties under the attack of the alpine army's bow and crossbow, no one retreated, and in order to reduce losses, not only did not retreat, but greatly strengthened the speed of the attack. However, they soon discovered that the archers of the Alpine Army were nothing more than appetizers, and when they rushed thirty or forty meters outside the city, a sudden deafening noise drowned out their shouts, and the smoke of gunpowder obscured their vision. The iron cannons of the Takayama Army began to wield their might.

Since this time the defense of the city was a long-range attacking force, and he was not afraid of the enemy's empty space when he turned the iron cannon to reload, this time Hosokawa Fujitaka did not take a three-stage shot, but a two-stage one, with two hundred and fifty people each time, which seemed to him to be enough. As the sound of iron cannons sounded, the Hojo Army, which had been suffering casualties constantly, suffered even more casualties this time. Although the iron cannon fired, but still no one has retreated, after all, in their cognition, they can be used for long-range attacks are bows and iron cannons, as long as they break through the blockade, then their own side of the chance of victory is still very large, maybe only this attack can capture the city, after all, the city in front of them is not too big, the army inside can never exceed 10,000, so after some nervousness, they increased their speed under the leadership of the samurai, and in a blink of an eye, it was only about twenty meters away from the city, However, the leading samurai of the Hojo family began to have a large number of casualties at this moment, and most of these were caused by the flag warriors of the Takayama family, they didn't care who the other party was, anyway, as long as it was better than the five-color preparation, they would shoot an arrow, although the distance was invisibly shortened on the mountain castle wall, and the hit rate was not very high, but it didn't matter if you didn't shoot, just make up for one more arrow, and if you miss two arrows, then continue.

Under such pressure, the Hojo army was still advancing, and had already reached the castle, many people had already climbed the castle walls, and when they reached the castle, they suddenly found that the bows and crossbows and iron cannons that had caused them a large number of casualties had stopped at the same time. This made them extremely happy in their hearts, and then in their opinion, the Takayama family must be the same as other forces, seeing that the bow and crossbow and iron cannon could not stop the offensive of the family, so after the main family attacked the city, they immediately withdrew the long-range attack army, and changed to a spear ashigaru to defend the city, which is nothing to the Hojo family, if the five-color preparation has no way to take the long-range offensive army, then they really haven't been afraid of anyone in close combat, but they were soon dumbfounded, and what greeted them was not the imaginary spear and sword, but the overwhelming shuriken.

The Takayama family ninja army, which had just been replaced by the city wall for defense, was frantically throwing a lot of arrows outside the city at the moment, at most seven or eight at a time, and as few as two or three, so many shuriken were thrown out at the same time, and the Hojo family army that immediately climbed the city wall and came to the city was shot into a hedgehog. If they still had the courage to fight just now, then now they were completely desperate, countless shuriken had completely blocked their way of attack, and now there was no way but to retreat, so before the samurai in charge of the command gave the order, the Hojo family turned around and ran towards the rear.

Seeing that the enemy had temporarily retreated, Hosokawa Fujitaka immediately went out of the city to clean up the battlefield, collecting arrows, shurikens and other killing weapons.

Although the two sides did not fight for a long time this time, it cost the Hojo army nearly a thousand casualties, while Takayama's side was unscathed, it can be said that Hosokawa Fujitaka's plan was successful, as long as there were no accidents, it was only a matter of time before the Hojo army was repulsed.

As for Hojo Naritana, after seeing the other party's army defending the city, he also knew that it was not realistic to attack and capture the city by force, so he immediately made a change and wanted to use a plan to break the city, although this idea was good, but how could Hosokawa Fujitaka, who was sitting in the city, let him get his wish, so after a few days, not only did the city not be captured, but a lot of troops were damaged.

Seeing that the castle could not be attacked for a long time, not only Hojo Castle was anxious, but other Hojo family samurai were also anxious, so they proposed to send troops to surround the castle on the one hand, and launch an attack on the other side of Kai, but this proposal was quickly rejected by Hojo Chengzuna, if there are fewer people left, maybe they will be killed by the enemy army in the city, he does not doubt the ability of the Takayama family's military strength now, especially the thousands of elusive ninja troops in the city, if there are more troops left, Then the thousands of Gaoshan cavalry and other troops in the Fei Kingdom are not so easy to deal with, so in the end, I can only report the current situation to the lord.

And when the news came back to Odawara Castle, the Hojo clan also fell into hesitation, for the Hojo family Kai is indeed very important, but if you use human life to fill, especially the elite of the family, it will be a bit more than worth the loss, so in the end I chose to retreat, after all, as long as the elite of the family is still there, then once the Takayama Army invades Kanto, I can choose a more suitable battlefield, and the initiative will be in my own hands, and the five colors are better than defense, and then the time and place are all on their own side, The Gao Shan Army can only return in vain, once the two families start to compete for consumption, then this is the most beneficial to the family.

Although the Hojo clan finally chose to withdraw the army and abandon Kai, he also saw the lack of his own army, so after making a decision, he immediately began to expand the army, and in addition to making up for the loss of the five-color reserve, he also began to vigorously form a cavalry team and an iron artillery team.

Not to mention the development of armaments after the withdrawal of the Hojo family, it is only said that the clan in Takayama Castle at the moment received a letter from his father-in-law, Sakuma Nobumori.

Although the content of the letter is simple, but the amount of information is very large, the content is very clear, the lord summoned his father-in-law half a month ago to go to the audience, and what is unexpected is that the purpose of recruiting him is that the lord intends to exchange his territory with the existing three kingdoms of Tokugawa, of course, the lord did not force the exchange, after all, the role of Tokugawa to the Oda family has completely disappeared after he captured Kai. And Sakuma completed the goal as quickly as possible, and now he is pleasing Nobunaga, so Oda Nobunaga still cares a little about Sakuma's thoughts.

After reading the letter, the clan was somewhat hesitant in his heart, from the overall situation, he didn't want his father-in-law to change the territory, after all, if his father-in-law was in Tanba, he could play a role in containing Kinoshita, and once he exchanged with Tokugawa, then no one on his side would be able to play a role in restraining him. (To be continued.) )