Chapter 17: Nobuhide dies in battle
"Shibata Katsuya! Don't you see me? The discordant voice sounded, and everyone didn't expect Oda Nobuyuki to continue to mess around, and at this time, even Tsuchida Gozen was confused by Nobuyuki.
"The minister is here!" Of course, Shibata Katsuya would not disobey his master, and as a retainer of Oda Nobuyuki, he had to follow no matter how absurd Oda Nobuyuki's orders were.
"Guo Jiahe! Guo Jia, he disobeys me! Go and kill him for me!" Hearing Shibata Katsuie's response, Nobuyuki seemed to have found the confidence to say something rebellious in front of everyone.
"This ......" Shibata Katsuie didn't expect Oda Nobuyuki to say such ridiculous words.
"Shengjia, you go and go with Master Guo Jia." At this time, Masahide Heite sighed and looked at the son of the Oda family in disappointment. I didn't expect the stupidest thing in the whole Owari to be here.
"Okay!" For some reason, Shibata Katsuya breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if it was Guo Jia who followed back then...... He didn't think about it, turned around and left.
"Shibata Katsuya! You ungrateful villain! Oda Kakuka! I'm going to kill you with my own hands! A resentful roar sounded in the distance, and Shibata Katsuie knew that from today onwards, he would never follow such a person who had no relatives in his eyes and no morality in his mouth.
"Master Guo Jia, wait for me." Shibata Katsuya hurried in the direction of Guo Jia.
But Guo Jia didn't know what happened to the council hall after he left, and he was still complaining in his heart that Shibata Katsuya was too slow, because his shadow warrior had been following closely, and when Guo Jia arrived at the gate of the castle tower, Takigawa Kazuyi basically appeared in front of him, which was in stark contrast to Shibata Katsuie's speed.
"Yiyi, we don't know how many people can be used by the Yin Tuan?" Guo Jia asked.
"One hundred and twenty people can be used."
"Scatter them all, blend into Narumi Castle, and hang the castle. Find the whereabouts of Imagawa Yoshimoto, determine their strength, information about the generals who led the troops, and the battle plan! Remember, you can do it, you can't do it. Don't lose your life in vain. ”
At this time, Shibata Katsuya ran over, and he was panting under heavy armor, but he had an excited look on his face, looking at Guo Jia as if he was looking at a military god!
"Get on your horse and get going!" Guo Jia saw that the Shibata Katsuya who had arrived had no nonsense, and directly asked him and himself to set off to rescue Nobuhide. If Guo Jia's plan succeeded, then rescuing Nobu-so was inevitable.
"Did you figure it out?"
In the military camp outside the castle in the distance, the Katsuyama clan Yuan stared at the half-kneeling Ashigaru. He couldn't wait, he had been planning for so long, but he kicked the iron plate on the side of Mori Mojo.
"Lord Hui, for the time being, I haven't found out the number of garrisons in the end of the city." The head of the foot light hung deeply, as if if he would see a demon when he looked up.
"Damn it!" Geshan clan yuan gritted his teeth and hammered his fist on the table. Suddenly, the ashigaru was frightened by him. "Stand down and keep checking!" Katsuyama waved his hand. It was as light as if he had been amnesty, and he got up with his head bowed and withdrew.
"Report!" Outside the tent came another hurried voice from Ashigaru. "Lord Shiyuan, the villain has an urgent report!"
"Enter!" Geshan Clanyuan, who was already angry, didn't have a good message, how could he have such a hurried subordinate.
"Report! An urgent report came from the front, and the scouts found nearly 3,000 people heading from Morisue to Nakono Castle, and the military flag was the Oda family crest. ”
The retreating man had been discovered by the forces of the Katsuyama clan, and the news represented a talisman given to Oda Nobuhide.
"Huh? Nearly three thousand troops? Damn it! Bastard! Pass my order, all troops regroup and attack Senmo Castle! ”
The Katsuyama clan realized that he had been deceived by Nobuhide, and there were not many garrisons in the castle at all! The Oda family's troops are evacuating, and the entire Morimo Castle is like an empty city! The Geshan clan was too frightened to attack by an empty city!
The vast army has been prepared, and the whole army is pressing towards the city, and the dense soldiers with spears in their hands are ready to attack the city.
"It looks like they've launched a general offensive." Nobuhide stood at the highest point of Morimoe Castle at this time, looking at the army outside the city, with a bitter expression on his face.
"Pass my order, let the soldiers defending the city prepare, set up a defensive formation on the city wall, and once the Imagawa Yoshimoto army attacks, push the wood and stone down, and slow down their pace. After the gates were breached, they retreated to the second front. Oda Nobuhide picked up his katana and planned to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle himself.
"Assault of the whole army!" The roar of the Katsuyama clan resounded through the sky, and after this sound, there was also an earth-shattering cry among his troops.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! "The army's fighting spirit has been mobilized to the limit, and the sound of war cries has swept through the city.
"Don't flinch, don't be afraid! Today, I, Oda Nobuhide, live and die with Morise Castle! Soldiers, soldiers. I've already opened the back road for you, and the reinforcements are about to arrive, so we just need to defend for a while and hold on until the reinforcements arrive! War! Oda Nobuhide's voice came from near the castle walls, and his voice vaguely overshadowed Imagawa Yoshimoto's troops.
"Fight!" With the first battle cry out, the defending army of Morisue Castle also began to confront the battle spirit of Imagawa Yoshimoto's army.
"Think of your rear, which is our capital, where your families and your loved ones are all looking forward to your return. We can't let Imagawa Yoshimoto's aggression continue! They are nothing but a rabble, where are you strong! Don't forget that you are my Oda Nobuhide's personal guard! Oda Nobuhide can only mobilize the morale of his side with all his strength now, and he doesn't want to be defeated before the battle.
"Fight! War! War! After the loose battle cry just now gradually turned into a uniform battle cry, the roar of the defending army of the end of the city also resounded in the sky. It was at this moment that the fighting between the two sides broke out in full force.
The sun in the sky was gradually turning westward, and it would not pay attention to the siege army of the Katsuyama clan or the defending army of Oda Nobuhide. The snow on the ground has not yet melted by it, and it is only a witness.
The siege army of Geshan Yuan is nearly 8,000, this army has all poured into the end of the city, the formation of the three armies, the left wing is the cavalry battalion of the Geshan clan, the soldiers of the army on the right wing are holding longbows and staring at the city wall, and the middle camp is an infantry siege camp, and the middle camp is separated to both sides, exposed in the eyes of everyone is a long log about the thickness of five people, and more than a dozen burly soldiers carry the long wooden pile. With a long horn sound, Imagawa Yoshimoto's army moved.
"Push the wood down for me!" At the roar of Oda Nobuhide, the defending army pushed the collected timber off the walls. Suddenly, the screams and screams of the Imagawa army troops sounded, which was thrilling. However, this was only part of the story, and the earth-shattering shouts of the Geshan infantry continued to sound, which were their comrades-in-arms who got along day and night. The voices were contagious, and the soldiers of the Imagawa army were already red-eyed, and the bumper wood in their hands slammed into the gate of the city at the end of the forest for the first time.
Boom! The first sound of hitting the wood came, and the army defending the city looked at the crashing wood as if it was not hitting the city gate, but their hearts.
"Warriors! Lapidation! "The first wave of wood has been thrown, but the Imagawa army is like locusts and cannot reap the harvest!
Oda Nobuhide knew in his heart that there was no one behind him who would help him in this battle, and now he could only delay time, and the longer he delayed, the longer this group of people would live.
"Shoot the arrows!" At the command of the Katsuyama clan, the troops on the right flank moved, and the bows in their hands were drawn like a full moon, and each bow had an arrow tied to a fire cloth. As the command came, the arrows were already flying. The sound of swishing through the air was endless, and the arrows flew like locusts on fire to the castle tower.
The flames of war rose and thick smoke filled the entire castle tower. The cold wind did not stop the development of the fire, but the raging fire burned more violently with the help of its power. The military flag emblazoned with the Oda family crest rattled in the cold wind, but arrow after arrow made it stagger.
At this time, screams also sounded on the city wall, and some soldiers of the defending troops were already injured. The thick smell of blood, mixed with the smell of sweat, filled the air and drifted into the distance.
"Stand back, get into the second line of defense!" Nobuhide couldn't bear to see his guards injured, and ordered them to retreat to the second line of defense in advance.
The war continued, and the Imagawa soldiers outside the castle tower suffered heavy casualties due to the falling wood and stones, but their bodies were not cleaned up. At this time, the second hit hit the gate of the city, and a small click sound reached the ears of the retreating people, the sound seemed to be the talisman of the king of Hades, and there were some cracks in the gate of the city.
"Stop! The infantry team continues to storm the city! Seeing that there were no more stones or wood falling from the walls, Katsuyama stopped letting the archers continue to release arrows.
When there was no one to stop and delay their siege, the group of people holding the bumper moved quickly, and once again let the bumper hit the city gate. At this time, the gate of Senmo Castle was like a large broken wooden plank, and it was almost the last time that the gate that had stood for several years would be broken. And the people who were defending the city were exposed to them.
"The Chinese army is ready!" Katsuyama ordered his strongest cavalry to wait for the gates of Morino to completely collapse, at which point Katsuyama would lead his cavalry to charge in.
"Ready? Draw the bow. ”
The defenders of the city have retreated to the second line, and in front of them are the horses that they don't use all year round, this group of soldiers all have an arrow in their mouths, and they have already drawn their bows and arrows in their hands, and their aiming direction is the gate of the city that is about to be broken.
After the fourth onslaught, the gates of Senmo Castle finally collapsed.
"Shoot the arrows!" Oda Nobuhide seized the opportunity to let his men release arrows before the Katsuyama clan could react. The arrows of the defending army were far less powerful than those of the besieging army, but this kind of arrow gave the Katsuyama clan a surprise. The infantry who were the fastest to enter the castle were all stabbed into hedgehogs by arrows, and some of those outside the gates were wounded by arrows.
"Pull again!" With Oda Nobuhide's order, the soldiers of the defending army put the arrows in their mouths on their bows.
"Rush!" Katsuyama looked at the group of soldiers with large shields in front of them and told them to move on.
"Put!" The second and final round of arrows was released from the defenders, but this time it was of little use, as the besieging forces had adjusted their formation, and a group of heavily armored soldiers were at the forefront, their sturdy shields holding off most of the arrows.
"Cavalry! Kill! "Seeing that the second wave of arrows had been released, Katsuyama realized that he had to seize this wave of free time to attack. So he drew the saber from his waist and rushed in with the cavalry himself.
"Draw your sword! Kill! Oda Nobuhide did not flinch when he looked at the Katsuyama clan cavalry that was charging in, he pointed his katana at the Katsuyama clan who was riding his horse, and rushed towards them, while the guards behind him also dropped their bows, and then drew the katana at his waist and followed closely behind Oda Nobuhide.
The terrible screams accompanied by the frenzied slaughter and the blazing beacon fire made the war between the two sides more and more intense, and the corpses and broken arms were everywhere, and the defenders were finally outnumbered and disadvantaged. At this time, Oda Nobuhide's army didn't think about any more support, they only thought about killing one enough to kill enough, and killing two to fight with the Katsuyama cavalry.
"Your Admiral is dead!" In a high-pitched and loud voice, the battle finally came to an end.