Chapter 152: Gasaki Castle
In addition, a lot of small turrets were built densely in the city of Kinzaki Castle to strengthen the defense system of the entire city. There are also 100 Maruki bowashigaru under Matsudaira Kiyomune, and they will also cooperate with him in defending the castle.
Because Matsudaira Kiyojong had already taken all kinds of precautions in the city, and even set up various organs on the top of the mound. So when it came to defense, they were actually very advantageous, and the Kuroda family attacked for nearly two hours, but they were not able to capture Yashiki Castle.
On the contrary, he lost a general in the attack, that is, Goto Matabei Keiji's father, Goto Keikoku. Goto Kikuni is the first batch of subordinates of the Kuroda family, and he has been serving in the Kuroda family for more than 30 years, so he can definitely be regarded as a veteran of the Kuroda family!
He has been fighting with the Imate Tomoshi since the beginning of Bigoku, and Bigo has made his own contribution to every battle in which the Imate Tomoku clan participated, then the Mori family, the Shikoku forces, and then the southern Kyushu.
His death dealt a big blow to the morale of the Kuroda family's army, especially Tomoji Imate and Shigetaka Matsui, who were very saddened by his death.
After that, the Kuroda family's army, at the request of the Iate Tomoji, intensified their attack on Yahiki Castle. Imate Tomoshi himself took more than a dozen samurai from the Kuroda family and personally climbed to the castle to fight the Tokugawa family. Finally, during the third attack, the city was captured, and the results began to slowly expand.
Matsudaira Kiyomune on the Tokugawa family's side finally became nervous, and he had only faced some surrounding wealthy clans, countrymen, or an old-fashioned daimyo army like the Imagawa family, and it was the first time that he had fought with an elite soldier like the Kuroda family.
It was precisely because of his lack of experience in fighting with the elite that he often misjudged, and he already felt that the Kuroda family should retreat, but he did not retreat. I don't think I should continue to attack from a distance, and I'm still shooting.
Moreover, the remote soldiers of the Kuroda family put a lot of pressure on the defenders at the head of the city, even if they were only able to attack the city before the ants attacked the city, the Kuroda family had already brought great casualties to the defenders in the city.
In addition, this time because of Goto Kikoku's affairs, although the Kuroda family is demoralized, they are full of righteous indignation and share the same hatred. Especially as an old friend, Ite's Tomoshi is even more angry. Repeatedly led the army to attack the city in person, and as for this result, the attack intensity of the entire Kuroda family army was greatly increased.
After three days of attacking, the Kuroda family did not capture Yashiki Castle, and it was at this time that the small lotus team behind the Kuroda family finally delivered the siege equipment that the Imate Yushi clan desperately needed, and among them was a precious wooden crashing car.
When the crashing wooden cart appeared on the battlefield, even Matsudaira Kiyomune, who was extremely knowledgeable about defending the city, did not know how to deal with it, because he had never seen such a siege weapon.
Whether it was the use of rockets or the use of rocks, it could not have any effect on the crashing car, and the soldiers of the Kuroda family had already filled in all the dug up hori outside the city.
When the wooden cart kept knocking on the city gate, the entire wall of Yashiki Castle shook, and at the same time, the military spirit of the entire city defender army and Matsudaira Kiyomune's confidence in this battle were shaken.
Because the Tokugawa family had no way to hit the wooden car, in the end, in this attack, the wooden gate of Yashiki Castle was finally smashed open by the collision, which was almost an inevitable result.
As soon as the gate was opened, the Kuroda family immediately cheered loudly, and then quickly rushed into the city, and at this time there were nearly five hundred defenders in Yashiki Castle.
All the defenders, under the command of Matsudaira Kiyomune, entered the Honmaru and continued to resist, but in the process of retreating, nearly 200 soldiers who moved slowly were still caught up and surrounded by the Kuroda family, and were completely wiped out.
Because the size of the crashing cart is relatively large, it is not possible to enter the city, otherwise Imate Yushi will definitely bring the collision cart directly into the city and directly bombard the gate of this game.
However, because the entire castle layout of Yashiki Castle is very compact, it is easy to attack the defenders on the Honmaru city wall through the walls of Ninomaru at this time, which is something that the Kuroda family can really do.
A long time has passed, and Itetomo knows that he can't do it anymore to contain the Tokugawa family at this time, so he simply began to slowly repair his own soldiers, and then use the attacks of long-range soldiers to consume the defenders in the city.
When Yasuki Castle was finally captured on the fifth day, only Matsudaira Kiyomune and ten soldiers were left in the Yashiki Castle Honmaru to resist.
Previously, Honmaru continued to resist more than 300 soldiers of the Tokugawa family, and was basically shot by the long-range troops on the Kuroda family's side.
The layout of Yayin Castle helped Matsudaira Kiyozong a lot before, but now it is indeed the key point of Matsudaira Kiyozong's final defeat, if it is not arranged so compactly, with his three hundred people, as well as his defensive ability, it is no problem to hold on for more than ten days.
After capturing Yashiki Castle, Iate Yushi did not rush forward to attack, because the long-range team needed to be supplied with all kinds of ammunition. The previous supply brought ammo and crashing carts, but the ammo had been depleted in the subsequent attack, so it was necessary to wait for subsequent supplies.
At the same time, after the team of the Imate Tomoshi entered the Mikawa country, there was first a large joint battle, and then a large-scale siege battle. Although he killed more than 5,000 people from the Tokugawa family, he also lost nearly 3,500 men and horses.
This is the loss of fighting with the people of Mikawa Province, and it can be said that since the Kuroda family began to fight for the world, it has rarely occurred in such a battle where one thousand enemies are killed and eight hundred are lost, so in this case, even the Imate Yushi has become cautious.
At this time, the Itetomo clan still had 17,000 men under his command, and the Tokugawa family had regathered a team of 9,000 people through the previous rest, and all of them were gathered in Kinzaki Castle.
There were more than 15,000 people before, and there was also Honda Tadashikatsu, who was not the opponent of the Kuroda family, but now there are only 9,000 people left, and they are not very elite, and the morale is very low, whether they can resist the attack of the Kuroda family is really a big problem.
The two sides fought another joint battle outside of Kinaki Castle, and this time it was the Kuroda family who emerged victorious.