Chapter 141: The Death of Shibata Katsuie

The death squad, which was mainly composed of the wealthy clans under the Kuroda family and the forces under the command of the countrymen, began to follow the long-range team day and night, and launched a fierce attack on Qibu Castle.

Kuroda also brought in two crashing carts so that he could attack Gibu Castle. He didn't expect two wood-hitting carts to be able to break through Qibu City, after all, there were 23,000 troops in the province, and the purpose of transferring these two wood-crashing carts was more to be able to contain the defenders on the city.

In this way, the inside and outside of the city of Qibu Castle became a large meat grinder, and the two sides continued to invest soldiers, surrounding the fortified city of Gibu Castle, which was the last banner of the Oda family, and at least hundreds of people were killed and wounded every day.

The wealthy clans and countrymen under the command of the Kuroda family didn't care about the death or injury, and they were a little happy about the death and injury of these people in their hands. Because the Kuroda family had already told them at the beginning that the more people who died under their command, the more land they would get in the end, and the Kuroda family would compensate them.

However, the casualties of the soldiers in the castle could not be replenished, and as the soldiers continued to be killed and wounded, the pressure on Oda Nobutada and the samurai under his command also increased.

At first, Oda Nobutada thought that with his 23,000 troops, it should be more than enough to resist the attack of the Kuroda family, because the castle defense system of Gibu Castle was originally very sound, and it was built on Mt. Inaba, so there was also the terrain advantage brought by the entire mountain.

As a result, he didn't expect the Kuroda family's army to attack so decisively. Moreover, these horses under the command of the Kuroda family are so fearless of death, which is really beyond his imagination. But so far, he has only lost 3,000 men under his command, and he feels that he can still support it for a long time.

Oda Nobutada did just a simple arithmetic problem, using the total number of men and horses under his command, subtracting two or three hundred per day, and subtracting two or three hundred per day, but he didn't see a lot of things behind this problem.

Before the end of the ninth year of Tensho (1581 AD), the Kuroda family finally completed their strategy against the Oda family, first in the autumn, when the Iate Tomoshi personally led people to attack Kishin Mountain Castle.

Before the castle was broken, Matsunaga Shu was ready to detonate the explosives in the castle tower, but he was told in advance by his Takayama Yuteru, and he personally led people to extinguish all the gunpowder, which was a great favor to the Kuroda family, and also saved the Kuroda family from too much loss, you must know that if it was at that time and was going to explode, all the Kuroda family soldiers in Guishin Mountain Castle would be blown up into the sky along with the castle, and this included several important samurai of the Kuroda family, including the Iate Tomo.

However, in the end, this Takayama Tomosho did not end well, and when he destroyed the gunpowder, he was killed by Hideshige Varin under the command of Matsunaga Hide.

Matsunaga Hide's Ooka Kunigaka, Okuda Tadaka, Kusunoki Masato, Takada Mikawamori, Yuki Tadamasa, Takeuchi Hidekatsu, Toki Tsuji, Hayashi Tongkatsu and others followed Matsunaga Hideshige, Shitei Iebo, Shitei Ietake, Yamaguchi Hidekatsu, Umi Lao Tomokiyo, Mori Masantomo, Iida Kiji, Mori Yoshihisa, Takayama Yorisada, Takayama Yorimori, Kawai Hidetake and others fought to the end with the Kuroda family, and were beheaded by the Kuroda family, and finally only Yagyu Sogan was the only one who really surrendered to the Kuroda family.

Don't look at Yanagi Zong's cultivation of Jian Hao, he is very strong in terms of combat effectiveness, but the problem is that he focuses more on the survival of his own family.

He was a very traditional samurai, and although he practiced the way of the sword, he should pursue more cultivation of the mind. But he still values his family very much. So for the sake of the family, he resolutely devoted himself to the Kuroda family, and at the same time he chose to lose his discipline.

Sometimes a person's dignity is really not proportional to his own strength, and what can really make a person appear dignified may be his integrity.

Just a month after the capture of Kishin Mountain Castle, Gibu Castle in Mino Province was finally breached by the Kuroda family, and at this time, it had been more than a year since the Kuroda family began to besiege Gibu Castle.

Of the original 23,000 defenders in the city, there were still 7 or 8,000 men left when the city was finally opened, and the tragic situation of the year can be seen. And these horses couldn't stand the huge pressure brought by the Kuroda family, so they decided to submit directly to the Kuroda family.

And in the middle of the broken city of Gibu City, the key role is the Tsuda family under the command of the Oda family, although this family is a member of the Oda family, but there are actually some grudges with the Oda family, they were originally part of the Oda family, for the control of the entire Owari country, and Oda Nobunaga's branch is still a little dirty.

In the end, it wasn't until the first snow fell that Kitanosho Castle opened its arms to Musato Takayu, and it was true that this castle was not conquered.

In the end, Shibata Katsuya took a dozen major samurai under his command to commit suicide in the presence of the Kuroda family, and on this condition saved the remaining 4,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, showing his noble integrity as a samurai.

Perhaps the historical description of Shibata Katsuya focuses more on the habits of cruelty, self-serving, disobedience, and irritability. But this is originally the history written after the victory of Yushiba Hideyoshi, and it is really difficult to say how much credibility there is in the history of success and defeat.

Anyway, at least in this time and space, Shibata Katsuie's temperament in the last moments of his life is indeed worth writing about, at least much better than Hashiba Hideyoshi's attempt to survive.

Miss Aichi of the Oda family also became a captive of the Kuroda family, and along with her were added to the captivity, along with her three women, Aichi is a beautiful woman, perhaps because the heavens are jealous of her beauty, so bad luck has always been with her, and whoever she marries or becomes will always have bad luck.

Asai Nagamasa, Oda Nobunaga, and Shibata Katsuie, as long as they are men who have been involved in Ashi, none of them will end well, and even the forces that bring them will be greatly threatened.

To be honest, Kuroda Vocational High School was not unmoved after seeing her, but he didn't dare to make this bet, he didn't feel how hard his life was, and he could stop this woman with a tougher life.

But Ashi's three daughters, Kuroda Vocational High School can be considered, Ashi's eldest daughter Chacha is now more than ten years old and can get married as an adult, and she is really a little difficult to say in history. So Kuroda Vocational High School directly dedicated her to the emperor.