Chapter 429: Vietnamese-Chinese Offensive

Just as Nobunaga's army was confronting Katsuyori in Higashiminon. (Novel.com!. a.）

Uesugi Kenshin personally led the Echigo army, but it set off a furious hurricane in Hokuriku.

Kitayama Castle, Koganuma Castle, and Shengkata Castle on the Matsukura Castle branch network fell one after another under the rapid offensive of the Uesugi army.

After conquering these fortifications, Uesugi Kenshin concentrated his forces and turned his head to besiege Uozu Castle.

The castle guard of Tenjinyama was the henchman Yokohama Ichian, who was raised by Kinoshita Hidenaga with one hand, and there were 650 soldiers in the castle, including 50 samurai.

In order to strengthen this city, Li Xiao used to use it as a garrison city, focusing on the construction, not only to build an extra layer of outer pills on the periphery.

At the beginning, the Southern Barbarians were invited to build in Waimaru, imitating the mainstream castles in Europe at that time, and reconfigured the iron cannons, bows and arrows, and installed two gun emplacements in Waimaru, the other two gun emplacements were installed in Nimaru, and the last gun emplacements were secretly placed.

In charge of besieging the castle were the Uesugi generals Saito Asanobu, Takemata Keitsuna, and Yamamoto Temple Dingna, while Uesugi Kenshin himself led the main force to monitor Matsukura Castle.

Due to the loss of three branch castles in a row on the side of Matsukura Castle, the defense power was greatly reduced for a while.

If the Uesugi army captured Tenjinyama Castle again, it would be able to completely cut off the Jiboya reinforcements from Toyama Castle and connect with Matsukura Castle, so Uesugi Kenshin's mission to Saito Asanobu was to immediately capture the castle at all costs.

Right now, under the castle of Tenjin Mountain, the Uesugi army has launched a new offensive.

Horikiri, the castle under Tenjinyama Castle had long since dried up, and the bottom was covered with blue-black mud, and not long ago, the Echigo army's diggers cut off the water source of the castle from the outside.

The Echigo army besieging the city was now able to cross without wading through the water.

Right now, at the bottom of Horikiri, fifteen or sixteen Echigo soldiers are ashigaru and clinging their bodies to the inner edge of Horikiri. They did not dare to show their bodies, and the two corpses crawling in the mud at their feet were the fate of the reckless and careless.

Above their heads, from time to time, there were Takeda Iron Gunners, as well as bow-footed light hands, firing coldly on one side.

The Echigo army was pinned down at the bottom of Horikiri, unable to emerge.

At this time, the second wave of the Uesugi army's offensive began.

Dozens of ashigaru members of the Uesugi Army, holding the arrow shield in their hands, braved the arrows and projectiles shot from the castle, and slowly moved forward step by step.

However, they were afraid of the power of the Takeda army's large cylinders at the head of the city, so they did not dare to line up too closely.

Behind them, the iron cannons of the Echigo army were lightly pressed, pressed up in echelons, and took turns to the head of the city, and in the narrow places, they strafed with iron cannons to cover them.

The Uesugi army, who had been pinned down at the bottom of Horikiri, also began to climb up again.

Above the city, the sound of the iron cannons of the Takeda army also intensified again.

Takeda Army's iron gunner, Shinsuke Taga, is a battle-hardened veteran who is one of the best iron cannon masters in Tenjin Mountain Castle.

With his marksmanship, within thirty paces, there was very little deviation in shooting.

In this siege, there were already three Echigo soldiers who died under his iron cannon, and one of them was a samurai.

Right now, he was hiding behind a Waimaru Sasama, staring coldly at the Echigo army Ashigaru who had regained his feet from Horikiri and ran down the castle.

Shinsuke Taga's eyes were fixed on a swift Echigo samurai.

This person was the first person to get up from Horikiri, and the other party was very smart, and decisively abandoned the big gun that had grown up and had difficulty moving, and only took a rib and bit it between his mouth.

Shinsuke Taga watched the other party's figure constantly change direction in the run, fast or slow, always unexpected, and it was difficult to grasp the trajectory of his movements.

For Shinsuke Taga, this is indeed a cunning adversary.

But now he smiled playfully, and he gently stretched out the iron cannon in his hand and aimed it at an open space in front of a hollow. …,

According to his judgment, this Echigo Ashigaru will definitely grab this hollow at the moment before approaching the castle wall to avoid the shooting of the castle head, and then a clearing in front of the hollow will be the opponent's place of death.

Shinsuke Taga's patient wait finally paid off, and he pulled the trigger in his hand just before the other party could rush in.

He saw with his own eyes that the projectile pierced the cunning Echigo Ashigaru's back at that moment, and a cloud of blood spurted out of the other's body.

After the shooting, Shinsuke Taga immediately pulled away from Sasama's position.

Immediately, the place was met with retaliatory fire from the Uesugi Army's iron artillery team, and the projectiles flew stone chips in a narrow place.

After confirming that it was safe, Taga Shinsuke showed a smug smile on his face and let out a sigh of relief, but his happiness did not last long, although the Echigo army paid a lot of casualties in the crossing, but many people still arrived at the castle, with the shovels and iron forks they carried, they began to dig the root of the stone wall.

Their aim was to dig a gap in the stone wall that could be climbed by hands and feet for Ashigaru to climb.

The outer maru stone wall of Tenjin Mountain Castle is not very high, only three and a half rooms, which is not easy to hinder the enemy army.

Seeing that the reinforcements of the Uesugi army were constantly arriving, Shimsuke Taga was heartbroken, and immediately ordered an ashigaru to ask the castle lord for help and ask for more reinforcements.

And he held the gunpowder pot in his hand, and walked to the other narrow room where he was shooting.

He was very experienced, and knew that an iron gunner could not be fixed in one place, so he would prepare the opponent psychologically.

This time, he walked alone to a hidden narrow room, and looked through the hole, where he could see the Uesugi Gunashigaru who was trying to dig the stone wall.

Shinsuke Taga chuckled, and after refilling the cannon, he calmly took aim, and gently pulled the trigger with his right index finger.

After a gunshot, Ashigaru Echigo, who was trying to dig into the stone wall in front of his chest, suddenly shot through the iron sheet wrapped around his head.

At a distance of less than fifteen rooms, a thin layer of iron cannons could not bring any obstacles to the projectile and penetrate directly into the brain.

The ashigaru fell to the ground, and the asha fell to the ground.

This scene made the excavation of Echigo Ashigaru at the scene terrifying, under the stone wall here is a dead end for shooting, even if this place is shot, then what safety is there.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the Echigo army.

On the side of the Echigo army's main position.

The Echigo generals were watching the siege.

Yamamoto Temple said to Saito Asanobu, "Shimono Mamoru Lord, it seems that the siege in the direction of Horikiri is extremely unfavorable. ”

Saito Chaoxin smiled and said: "Yamamoto Temple Iyo, don't worry, the art of war has a cloud, a void and a reality, and in the direction of the west of the city, although our army's siege is huge, it is just a deliberate pretense by me to attract the attention of the other party." ”

General Saito Asanobu pointed to the position of the Oteemon Gate of the Heavenly God Mountain Castle and said, "The direction of the castle gate is my goal. ”

Immediately, Saito turned his head back and asked, "Is the gunpowder ready?" ”

A samurai nodded and said, "Returning to my lordship, despite the many assaults and the loss of many people, I have planted enough gunpowder with half a barrel under the Otemon, which can definitely blow up the enemy's outer pill Otemon." ”

"Very well," said Yamamotoji, "in the blasting of the enemy's gate, in addition to breaking through the Otemen Gate, it can also play a role in deterring the enemy, so let me personally lead the army to attack the enemy's gate." ”

Saito nodded and said, "It's so hard work, Iyomori-sama." ”

After the Echigo army had been attacking in the direction of Josai Horikiri for half an hour, it suddenly changed direction and stormed the Otemon Gate of Joikewaimaru. …,

After an earth-shattering bang, the Otemon Gate of Gomaru was blown up into the sky by the gunpowder planted by Echigo.

Yamamoto Temple Dingchang wrapped his head around a bowl scroll, holding a family heirloom sword, personally led hundreds of Echigo army samurai, and slaughtered into the Otemen Gate in one go.

For a while, the Tenjin Mountain Outer City Pill became precarious.

In the narrow room of Ninomaru on the outer Marumoma Road, the Takeda Gunjo Daiyokohama Ichian is stepping on a Franc cannon.

The Furlong cannon was a six-pounder gun, hidden behind a narrow room, with only the muzzle slightly protruding.

The position of the muzzle of this Fran cannon is a straight road in the direction of Otemon.

"Oh, the head of Yamamoto Temple actually went into battle in person, but I didn't expect that this time I would be able to get a great achievement."

Yokohama Kazuan stroked his beard, withdrew his foot from the Franco's cannon, and gave the order to his subordinate gun commander to shoot.

The artillery commander of the Takeda Army did not hesitate to open fire.

Rumble!

At the narrow city gate, Yamamoto Temple and countless Echigo troops rushed into the city, and they did not expect that the Takeda army actually buried a large cylinder behind the Otemon Gate.

In such a short distance, the cannonballs that shot directly from the Fran cannon smashed one of the first Echigo samurai into minced meat on the spot.

And this cannonball penetrated the crowd of Echigo samurai at the city gate in a straight line, and wreaked havoc among the Echigo army.

At the gate of the city, Kakadi's hand was broken and broken, and Yamamoto Temple was not spared, and he was hit by this shell, and half of his skull was cut off.

In the main formation of the Echigo army, Saito Asanobu saw this great change, and his face turned blue when he landed.

The lord of Fudoyama Castle, the head of the Uesugi Army's sect, was actually killed by the Takeda Army on the spot.

This blow was very heavy on the Echigo army, and immediately the Echigo army outside the city was in chaos on the spot, and Yokohama Ichian in the castle of Tenjin Mountain also seized the opportunity to kill a hundred dead soldiers outside the city, and slashed in the Echigo army formation.

Under the cover of the Takeda army, the siege troops of the Echigo army trampled on each other, and there were countless casualties in an instant.

Saito Asanobu resisted desperately for a while, and finally retreated a mile and then took a firm foothold, but he was unable to attack the castle for a while.

Saito Asanobu could only inform Uesugi Kenshin of the defeat at Matsukura Castle to him, and he would make the decision.

Uesugi Kenshin under Matsukura Castle is also in a hurry at the moment, and the strategy of Matsukura Castle has not been going well.

Although he was unwilling, he also had to admit that the opponent's generals Kinoshita Hidenaga and Takenaka Shigeharu were indeed opponents who could compete with him.

"If it were Li Xiao alone, it would be fine, but he, the retainers, would be so difficult."

After receiving the report of defeat, Uesugi Kenshin couldn't help but say this.

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