Inuyama Castle is located on a 40-meter-high cliff a few dozen meters away from the east bank of the Kiso River, and it is not high enough to say that it is a mountain castle, but it is built on a hill, so it can only be regarded as a Hirayama Castle. In front of Inuyama Castle, a three-meter-wide stone staircase leads to the gate, and the trees on both sides of the castle wall have long been cleared by the defenders of the castle to prevent the enemy from ambushing here. Behind the castle is a steep cliff more than 40 meters high.

The entire Inuyama Castle, in addition to the castle tower, has a wooden exterior wall and a stone wall surrounding, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As soon as the 200 troops led by the clan entered Niwa Prefecture, they were divided into two armies, and the clan led the ashigaru to make a feint from the front of Inuyama Castle to attract the enemy forces defending the castle to the front, and this 100 troops also had to take on the heavy responsibility of blocking reinforcements.

Wasuka Masakatsu commanded 100 ninja troops to go around the back cliff of Inuyama and wait for the opportunity to carry out a sneak attack. After the division of the army, because it was still early, the clan slowed down the march. The clan knows that only night is the most suitable time for ninja battles.

When the clan arrived outside Inuyama Castle, it was already dark, and because the horses were useless during the siege, he sat down and left all the cavalry in the castle of the local wealthy clan, and then went back to fetch it after the battle.

Inside Inuyama Castle, the atmosphere was very tense, and when the guard Nakayama Kawasuke saw that the enemy appeared outside the castle and that it was Ashigaru led by the Takayama clan, he immediately ordered the castle gate to be closed and put on emergency alert.

Although he had never met with the Takayama clan, he knew the name of the fox of Owari, and he was afraid that he would use some tricks, so he simply decided to fight in the city. And seeing that the enemy had few soldiers, he did not send anyone to ask for help.

Seeing that the enemy could not hold out, the clan had already known that the other party wanted to ridge the city, so he boldly advanced to forty meters outside the city, so the arrows from the city ** could not reach them, but the iron cannon in the hand of the banner under his command could hit the other party. It's just that the accuracy is slightly worse.

After seeing that Akimoto Ashigaru had finished loading the projectile, Maeda Toshiie and Yamauchi Kazutoyo saw the lord wave his hand and hurriedly ordered Ashigaru: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang." The sound of iron cannons continued to sound.

With the loud noise and gunsmoke, on the wooden wall on the periphery, more than a dozen Ashigaru were killed in an instant, most of the people in charge of defending the city were just peasant soldiers, like iron cannons, and fire-breathing and smoking weapons, unheard of, unseen, frightened They squatted down one after another, not daring to show their heads, and even more, they had already thrown down the weapons in their hands and ran in the direction of the inner city.

Seeing this, three or four samurai including Nakayama Kawasuke and more than 20 bannermen hurriedly came to the city wall to supervise the battle, and they first dissuaded Ashigaru from fleeing, and if they did not listen, they would draw their swords and cut them down, and they would not be merciful.

After doing this several times, the defenders of the city gradually became accustomed to the weapon of iron cannons after paying the price of more than forty lives.

"Lord Nakayama, now that Ichicheng has lost his army, but the enemy is unharmed, if it continues like this, it won't be long before Inuyama Castle will be breached, so my subordinates have applied to go out of the city to fight the enemy in the field, please ask for your approval."

Nakayama Chuansuke was very angry in his heart, this is simply too much deception, his own side relies on this city wall, so that the enemy has no power to fight back, and he has never been so embarrassed in his life.

However, since Oda Nobukiyo was able to entrust him with the important task of guarding Inuyama Castle when he went out into battle, it also proved that Nakayama Kawasuke was not a brainless person, seeing that the enemy did not attack, but just kept shooting, he thought that the price of lead bullets and gunpowder was not low, and it would not take a few rounds for the enemy's projectiles to run out, as long as he held on for a while, the enemy could only take a strong attack, as long as they were willing to engage in close combat, then he was confident that with the advantage of numbers and walls, he would be able to push the enemy back.

He can only hope for this, Nakayama Chuan knows that the Dao clan is a resourceful person, maybe this is just to lure him out of the city. You can't be fooled by what you say yourself.

However, things did not develop according to his ideas, the ammunition of the enemy army outside the city seemed to be inexhaustible, as if it was inexhaustible, and seeing that it had already been fired for several rounds, it was not even possible to stop fighting, and it was absolutely impossible to fight like this, and Nakayama Kawasuke now had to have the idea of going out of the city to fight.

Just when he hesitated, another round of iron cannons sounded outside the city, and seeing that several more clans fell lightly, the warrior who had just advised him knelt on the ground and said eagerly: "My lord, if you don't go out of the city to fight again, it will be too late, my lord, you can't hesitate." ”,

Nakayama saw that the enemy's iron cannon was only forty meters away from the city wall, and that they were only concerned with loading projectiles and were defenseless, and that they were very empty around them, and that there was no possibility of an enemy ambush. At this moment, he finally made up his mind and said: "Draw three hundred ashigaru, led by you, and go out of the city to fight." As long as the enemy is repulsed, it is not to be pursued. ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will organize an attack." The samurai was overjoyed when he heard this, and finally he didn't have to suffer anymore.

He was just about to get up to summon Ashigaru, only to hear Nakayama Kawasuke hurriedly say, "Wait." The front ashigaru cannot be withdrawn, so let's go. "In order to create the illusion that the clan will continue to hold out, he didn't move the ashigaru who defended in front, and all the ashigaru who was defending the castle in other directions were drawn, except for a few flags that were defending in the castle tower, the ashigaru in other directions had all been concentrated at the gate of Inuyama Castle.

As soon as Ashigaru was transferred in the castle, Wasuka Masakatsu, who was ambushed in the back cliff of Inuyama Castle, knew about it, but he did not act immediately, but waited for the castle Ashigaru to be evacuated before commanding the ninja army to start a sneak attack, and the forty-meter cliff was not difficult at all for these well-trained ninja troops.

Wasuka Masakatsu and another ninja with the best skills, carefully climbed the cliff and gently climbed into the city walls, the two of them had to kill the enemy on both sides of the back of the city and above the high oar, only in this way could the ninja army quietly enter Inuyama Castle and kill the enemy by surprise.

Since the battle ahead was tight, there was only one ashigaru on each high turret, and they felt that it was impossible for the enemy to attack from the back cliff of Inuyama Castle, so they were secretly glad that they had survived, and they were completely unaware of the impending danger.

Masakatsu Wasuka and the other ninja jumped onto the platform almost at the same time, crept behind Ashigaru, covered Ashigaru's mouth with one hand to prevent them from screaming and disturbing the enemies in front of the castle, and swung a dagger with a blade three inches long with the other hand and lightly brushed their throats. Suddenly, a column of blood more than a meter long erupted from their necks, and then the two of them fell to the ground limply.

After eliminating the two ashigaru, Wasuka Masakatsu stood on the high turret and waved his hand outside the city, and in a short time, the remaining ninety-eight ninjas had all climbed over the wall and entered the city.

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