Sanada Maru is a castle advocated by Sanada Yukimura. Most of his troops are also stationed here. At first, there were doubts about the necessity of the Sanada Maru project. However, Osamu Ohno and Shigetsunari Kimura supported his idea, so the project was carried out.

Keiji Goto was also one of the supporters of the project. One of the reasons for this is that the terrain in the southern part of Osaka Castle is so unfavorable for defense. The wide plains were too good for the charge of the enemy's cavalry. In addition, without the barrier of rivers, it is not too difficult to supply the enemy. However, the defense line of our side is set up with a lot less moats that can be relied on.

In the past, no fortifications were set up here because there was really no terrain to rely on, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so invincible that he had never been prepared for enemy attacks. After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the arrogant Yododen believed that the loyalty of the national daimyo still belonged to the Toyotomi family, so he did not add many fortifications. And with his military qualities, even if he wanted to add fortifications, he would not find this defensive loophole.

It wasn't until the arrival of Sanada Yukimura that this major military oversight was brought to the fore. He is Kangning's person, although he is a guest qing, but because of this identity, he doesn't need to pay too much attention to the identity of Diandian when he speaks.

And Yododen's perception of Kangning was raised to the same height as Kuroda Takataka during the expedition on Awaji Island. For Kangning's subordinates, it is natural to love the house and Wu. Even after the news of Kang Ning's detention of the negotiation envoy came, his first reaction was that Kang Junshi must have some important arrangements.

Therefore, his trust in Sanada Yukimura, also in the spirit of Aiya and Wu's temperament, has reached a level that makes many retainers jealous.

Construction of the Sanada Maru began shortly after Sanada Yukimura entered Osaka Castle. Building materials sponsored by Boss Huang were used. The building materials from later generations amazed Kiji Goto, who came to supervise the work. Although the same is true of Sanada Yukimura. But he tried his best to put on a commonplace expression, so that Goto Kiji couldn't figure out the depth, thinking that he was already a core figure in Corning's camp, and knew a lot of secrets that ordinary people couldn't find out, so that he was used to these things.

But then Goto Kiji gradually began to be suspicious, because after the construction of the Sanada Maru. Sanada Yukimura's troop deployment does not seem to be able to give full play to the defensive ability of this walled city.

That's because Sanada Yukimura is really the first time I've seen such an angular fortress. In fact, Kangning is not suitable for the middle fortress, but it is the engineering and technical personnel who have been trained by Boss Huang for a long time who command the project. And Corning really doesn't have much of a heart for defending the city. He couldn't say more.

As a result, such forts continued to appear on Awaji Island, and by the way, the famous Sanada Maru completely changed its style.

Later, a letter asking for advice on how to equip troops was sent to Boss Huang, and Boss Huang sent his confidant Xuanyuan XIV to guide him. Of course, such an important person is not suitable to be sent directly to Sanada Maru, although he has also asked for it. But it was quickly vetoed by Corning.

He simply asked Regulus to pass on the mantra that needed attention to one of the people he had just summoned.

"Yao Chang, you have to study hard."

The traitorous male Yao Chang pursed his lips and looked at the young man next to him who was as big as the lord, a little disdainful.

But after a few days, Corning could no longer see that disdain on his face. The guy was now obsessed with the art of defending the city, and didn't have the skills to laugh at anyone.

Soon after, Yao Chang took a cavalry that had just been trained and stationed in Sanada Maru. And An Jingsi. In other words, Li Cunxiao led the heavy infantry phalanx to camp on the southwest side of Sanada Maru.

Due to the severe scarcity of horses. and the huge difference in living habits, so that there were not many good cavalry under Corning. Compared to the number of cavalry, Corning, who was not inferior to steel, turned every infantry into a tin can.

The number of infantry was no longer limited by the amount of armor, resulting in an astonishing number of infantry in this sortie. When their camp was pressed, Goto Kiji, who was standing on top of Sanada Maru, was about to dislocate his jaw in surprise.

"It's huge." Goto Kiji said with emotion. "It looks a little bigger than Sanada Maru."

Yao Chang took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "If you don't make a big noise, you may be attacked first." They are not like us, we have walls, very strong walls. But they have nothing but armor. All that's left is flesh and blood. ”

Goto Keiji didn't think much about Yao Chang's words. His attention was already drawn to the armor of the enemy.

"If I had armor like that, I would have swapped places with them."

With a poof, Yao Chang, who was drinking, smiled.

At this moment, a herald suddenly rushed in the direction of Osaka Castle.

Yao Chang gave Sanada Yukimura a look, and the latter immediately went down to ask what was going on. After a while, a disturbing piece of news arrived.

"Toshiya Maeda? It seems to be very famous. Yao Chang looked at Sanada Yukimura and asked, "Are they approaching Osaka Castle?" Can you guess what they're going to do? ”

Sanada Yukimura pouted, what can an army do close to the city where the enemy is stationed?

"Naturally, it was for the attack on Osaka Castle."

Yao Chang shook his head and said to him: "The Maeda Toshiya was also a generation of famous generals, and among the original retainers of the Toyotomi family, his status was not much inferior to that of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Even now, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not have enough ability to drive him as a striker to attack Osaka Castle. ”

"Moreover, shouldn't some inconsequential pawns be sent out in the first offensive operation to charge forward as cannon fodder? How could Tokugawa Ieyasu be willing to send a general like Toshiya Maeda? Isn't he worried that the other princes will suspect that he is using war as an opportunity to destroy them? ”

Sanada Yukimura thought about it, what he said did make sense, but Maeda Toshiya was obviously on the way to Osaka Castle, how could this be explained!

Yao Chang guessed the question in his heart, and slowly explained: "Their target is not Osaka City, but us. Maeda Toshiie's appearance at Osaka Castle was only as a deterrent to force the reinforcements of Osaka Castle not to dare to go out of the castle to aid us. In Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes, there is no army to save outside, and there is no city to defend inside. In fact, the situation is similar, if there is no mobile force on the periphery to involve the besieging army, then our situation is quite passive. ”

Sanada Yukimura nodded. If the other party is allowed to attack the city with all its might, no matter how strong the city is, sooner or later it will be captured.

"So what are we going to do?" He asked.

"What else can I do? We had to do it cold. Yao Chang took out a map and depicted the landscape around Sanada Maru.

Sanada Yukimura frowned, he had been observing the surrounding terrain for a long time, and there was nothing available. If anything, it was useful for the enemy's cavalry.

However, this is a relatively strong city, and the enemy should not be stupid enough to send cavalry to attack here, but should bypass this city and insert into the area between them and Osaka Castle to cut off the supply of food and grass.

But Yao Chang's next layout made him stunned.

"Do you see this open place? As a cavalry general, you must think that it is very suitable for cavalry charges, right? ”

"Yes." Sanada Yukimura replied with this in his mouth, and at the same time secretly thought in his heart that it should be very beneficial to the enemy's cavalry charge.

But Yao Chang smiled sadly and said, "If we use cavalry, we will break the enemy's formation here." You say, will there be any unexpected effect? ”

Sanada Yukimura's eyes lit up, and he looked at the other party in surprise, and from that sly smile, he saw the hope of victory in this battle.

"Are you talking about going out of the city? Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had an absolute superiority in troops, certainly did not think of it, and this was indeed a good opportunity for us, but unfortunately, my cavalry training time was not long enough, and the cooperation was not tacit enough. ”

"It's okay, I also brought a cavalry, we charge alternately, so it's enough to disrupt their formation, as for the killing of the enemy, we don't need to do it in the first place, you won't forget it, right? Outside our city, there is also a large number of heavy infantry. ”

Sanada Yukimura grinned, he knew that Tokugawa Ieyasu was going to suffer once.

Keiji Goto overheard their discussion not far away, and he let out a sympathetic laugh. He knew that the defenders of the city were already equipped with the pulley bows sent by Corning, and if they were to shoot at the enemy archers, they would not only have a condescending advantage, but also an advantage in range.

This should be the key to their victory.

Things were developing as they expected, and early the next morning, two of Tokugawa Ieyasu's confidants, Naotaka Ii and Tadanao Matsudaira, led their men and rushed towards Sanada Maru.

Naodaka Ii and Tadanao Matsudaira weren't actually ready for war, and they advanced towards Sanada Maru, just to surround the small fortress. They obviously didn't think it was a difficult task, so last night, after they simply assigned the task they were going to carry out today, they fell asleep. Until today, when the march began, they were still in a sleepy state.

But soon, the two of them were so frightened that they didn't feel sleepy.

The gates of Sanada Maru slowly opened. The Kai Chibei cavalry, under the leadership of Sanada Yukimura, was in a mighty position in front of them.

And behind them, there is another cavalryman of unknown origin, who is shining with their armor, showing unfathomable strength. (To be continued.) )