Chapter 365: The Second Battle of Tsugawa Castle (3)

Yoshikei Komura and the men of the second squadron also walked towards the east of Ninomaru, and Naomi Kitagawa had already fought Yokote Mitsumori and the others again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

There are two gates in Tsugawa Castle, one on the east and one on the west, connecting Ninomaru and Sannomaru. The design of the tiger's mouth is somewhat based on the design of Umezawa Castle, with more than a dozen masturbation platforms scattered across the stone walls of Ninomaru.

As a standing ashigaru, each squadron has a squad of archers. Naomi Kitagawa and Yoshiaki Komura had already let the archers under their command board the platform and condescendingly shot at Yokote Mitsumori and the others.

The tiger's mouth between Ninomaru and Sannomaru is unusually narrow, and the ashigaru of more than 200 people including Yokote Mitsumori and others are crowded at the tiger's mouth, and it is difficult to advance and retreat.

Such a dense enemy army made the archers on the platform smile! Basically, every shot can hit an enemy.,Although the lethality of the Maruki bow is insufficient.,But as the Yokote family and the Owada family of the small wealthy family.,There is no important economic source in the territory.,So a lot of the ashigaru body is very shabby and shabby.。

The twenty archers on the platform caused a lot of casualties to the ashigaru of the Yokote family for a while.

Yoshikei Komura and Naomi Kitagawa commanded the second and first squadrons of the Ashigaru to firmly block the attack of the Yokote family, and Yokote Mitsumori stood in the ashigaru and looked at the battle ahead with a solemn face.

"Our archers, let go of the arrows! Suppress the enemy archers on the masturbation platform for me! Yokote Mitsu Sheng shouted loudly.

Of course, there are archers in the Yokote family, but the archers say that we can't release arrows at all.

It turned out that since they had already entered Tsugawa Castle, for a while, the ashigaru of the Yokote family suddenly wanted to establish meritorious deeds, and they all wanted to rush into Honmaru one by one. As a result, ordinary ashigaru and archers were already crowded in confusion.

There were so many people around that there was no place to draw a bow at all.

Yokote Guangsheng gritted his teeth, looked at the chaotic Ashigaru in front of him with a pale face, and said angrily, "A bunch of waste! ”

"Where's our wood? A few of you are resisting the wooden tree to cover the ashigaru in front of you! Yokote Mitsumori said to a few ashigaru beside him.

However, after hearing Yokote Mitsumori's words, several Ashigaru stared at each other for a while and stood in place.

Wood tree? Such a bulky thing would have been lost outside the city a long time ago.

"Your Excellency... The wood is still outside the city and has not been brought in. An ashigaru couldn't help but speak.

Hengshou Guangsheng was stunned when he heard this, and then said angrily, "Ah! A bunch of rubbish! Hengshou Guangsheng kicked his foot to the ground, and said loudly, "Rush me, even if you die, you will die on the way to charge!" “

"Whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"

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The battle between the west gate and the south gate of Tsugawa Castle ended with the arrival of Mitsumi Owada and the transmission of Yoshikei Komura's order. Shimizu Naokin, Takahashi Kokoku and others hurriedly retreated to Ninomaru with their troops.

Ninomaru only had two gates, Yoshikei Komura and Naomi Kitagawa defended the one to the east, and Kokoku Takahashi and others also gathered troops to defend against the attack from Ryotaro Miyasui and others at the Teemon Gate in the west.

Many of the mobs that had entered the city began to loot in all directions, and the peasants who participated in the fight were unorganized, and when they saw that they had entered the city, they immediately gave up the fight and began to plunder everywhere.

For a time, the city of Tsugawa Castle was full of mobs.

At the east gate of Tsugawa Castle, Shiraishi Jingshan and others faced the siege of the superior forces of the Asa Mai, and after killing more than a dozen ashigaru, they also paid four ashigaru casualties.

Baishi Jingshan's body was covered with the blood of the enemy at this time, and his face was hideous, which frightened many peasant soldiers of the shallow dancers who did not dare to step forward at all. Seeing this, the shallow dance in the rear hurriedly said to Michitoshi Nishino beside him, "Lord Nishino, this group of people is really difficult!" ”

"I didn't expect Saigo Kicho to die, these ashigaru still have such a big fighting spirit, it's incredible." Michitoshi Nishino also said with a shocked face.

Generally speaking, as long as the main shogun is killed in battle, except for a few die-hard elements, the rest of the ashigaru will scatter and flee. However, what happened today shattered the perception of Asai Nagamichi and Nishino Michitoshi.

"Lord Nishino, we can't go on like this, hurry up and destroy this force!" Asa Mai Changdao continued.

"Good!" Michitoshi Nishino immediately drew his sword and joined the battle. The shallow dance Nagado also entered the battlefield under the protection of several flags.

With the addition of Michitoshi Nishino and Asai Nagado and others, it boosted the morale of the Asamichi peasant soldiers. For a while, Baishi Jingshan and others began to struggle.

"Ahh A scream sounded in Shiraishi Jingshan's ears, and a leading samurai was taken by Michitoshi Nishino.

Shiraishi Jingshan looked at Nishino Michitoshi in front of him, and immediately recognized that this was the person who held the head of Saigo Kicho before, and immediately shouted loudly, "I am Shiraishi Tadajiro Jingshan, the head of the Tsugawa family, and the enemy general dares to fight with me!" ”

Michitoshi Nishino laughed and said, "Haha! Nameless, look at me Michitoshi Nishino to take your head! ”

"Kill!" Michitoshi Nishino wielded a sword and fought with Shiraishi Jingshan.

Asa Mai Nagado commanded the ashigaru beside him to attack Shiraishi Jingshan and the others in front of him.

At this moment, a shout of killing suddenly sounded from behind the shallow dance long road!

"Kill! The enemy army is in the city, everyone rush! ”

Asai Nagamichi, who was commanding the battle of Ashigaru, suddenly turned his head in shock, gritted his teeth and said, "It's Yamaguchi!" Damn it! ”

The person who came was none other than the Yamaguchi people led by Enta Abe! Due to the distance between Mt. Moriyoshi and Tsugawa Castle, when Abe Enta and others arrived at Tsugawa Castle, Yokote Mitsumori and others had already surrounded Tsugawa Castle, so Abe Enta could only take the bandits of the Yamaguchi people to be stationed outside Tsugawa Castle and attack the flank of the Owada family from time to time.

Today's huge battle at Tsugawa Castle, of course, Abe Enta also noticed it. Immediately, the bandits of the Yamaguchi people attacked the Yanagida Mori Guards sent by Owada Mitsumi to contain the Yamaguchi people.

Just as the Yamaguchi people were fighting with the Yanagida Mori Guards, suddenly a Tsugawa family's troops joined the battlefield from the rear and cooperated with Abe Enta to defeat the Yanagida Mori Guards in one fell swoop. Yanagida Moribei was also taken by one of the samurai who took the lead!

Enta Abe once thought that reinforcements from Soji Tsugawa had arrived, but the samurai who took the lead was very young, and Enta Abe didn't know him. After the two reported their identities to each other, Abe Enta knew that the person who came was the lord of Osawa City, Osawa Kochi!

Osawa Kochi, under the proposal of Mizutani Hisaharu before, has inherited more than 1,000 stones of Zhixing Ozawa Castle and Kamiyama Castle, which were originally from the wealthy family of Senhoku County. In fact, both Yoshikei Komura and Soharu Tsugawa ignored the existence of Osawa Kochi.

Unexpectedly, Osawa Kochi has been preparing since learning about the battle at Tsugawa Castle. Since the forces of Kamiyama Castle and Osawa Castle have been incorporated into the Qingbei by Mizutani Hisaharu, there are not many troops mobilized at all in Kamiyama Castle and Osawa Castle.

So Osawa Kochi took the only dozen or so remaining peasant soldiers from Kamiyama Castle and Osawa Castle, as well as a few samurai from the Osawa family left by Mizutani Hisaharu, and began to mobilize the people in the area of Osawa Township. After the mobilization of the leaders of Osawa Township was completed, Osawa Kochi and others came to Nagano Township, Maeda Township, Ryohei Township and other places, and mobilized some of the "fish that slipped through the net", and after several days of hard work, it really allowed Osawa Kochi to pull up a 150-person peasant army.

So, Osawa Kochi immediately took this force to Tsugawa Castle to support, and happened to bump into the Yamaguchi people under the banner of the Tsugawa family and the Yanagida Mori Guard. Osawa Kochi immediately led troops to support the Yamaguchi people, and Osawa Kochi, who was deeply known as Mizutani Hisaharu's art of war, even won the head of Yanagida Moribei.

Subsequently, Osawa Kochi learned about the situation of Tsugawa Castle at this time from Abe Enta's mouth, so at the suggestion of Osawa Kochi, Yamaguchi and Osawa Kochi and others began to march towards Tsugawa Castle, preparing to support Omura Yoshikei and others in the city!