The sixth day of the battle of the cage city of Iwaji.

Saito Asanobu and Takemata Kiyotsuna changed the tactics of delaying yesterday and led the Echigo army to launch a campaign against Iwaki Castle, which can be called the most fierce attack in the past six days.

The Takeda garrison used up all the arrows and ammunition in the last stockpile, and the iron cannon and bow foot light were red-eyed until they ran out of ammunition for the swarming Echigo army.

Because there was no need to take care of it, Takeda's iron cannon Ashigaru beat the iron cannon hot, and the sound of the iron cannon of the two armies firing each other was deafening.

In just one morning, the Echigo army attacked Ninomaru three times.

This time, even Li Xiao himself almost felt that Ninomaru would not be able to hold it, and almost gave the order to abandon the city.

Fortunately, at this time, Takeda Katsuyori personally led his flanks to help.

Takeda Katsuyori, Li Xiao, and Sanada Masayuki are all on the front line for white-knuckle battles.

Both sides were struggling, fighting each other to the death and not retreating, and the two armies hated the armor in the way, so they went into battle shirtless with each other at the city gate to fight to the death.

If you think the corpse is in the way, you will kick the corpse aside or step on it.

Just a piece of the city gate, the corpses of the two armies were piled up several meters high, many generals of the Takeda army were wounded, and several people were killed on the side of Takeda Katsuyori, so the Echigo army was blocked at the city gate.

The Echigo army also paid a heavy price.

The Echigo troops outside the city all blasted their iron cannons until their bowstrings were broken. The soldiers of the Echigo Army looked in amazement at the castle gate cave of Ninomaru, which seemed to be the mouth of a terrifying giant beast, devouring countless lives.

Whether it was an ashigaru soldier or a skilled Echigo samurai, after rushing in, no one came out alive. What kind of terrible existence is this? They were clearly only one step away from capturing Ninomaru of the Takeda Army, but this step would never be taken.

In the end, the Echigo army could not hold on anymore, and at dusk, the whole line retreated.

Both sides fought hard and exhausted their last ounces of strength.

The main camp of the Echigo army outside Iwaki Castle.

"It seems that Saito, Takemata-sama, they still can't take Iwaki Castle today." Usami Dingman looked at Iwakuyama from afar and said.

Yataro Kojima, the banner warrior of Uesugi Kenshin, smiled to himself: "Wouldn't it be better if Saito didn't capture Iwaki Castle, otherwise I wouldn't be able to show my skills and personally behead Takeda Katsuyori." ”

Usami Dingman shook the feather fan lightly and said: "It's best if the lord doesn't fight, otherwise it doesn't mean that this Takeda Katsurai, Li Xiao, and my Echigo army has no one to do anything about them except for the lord." In vain to increase the morale of the Takeda Army. ”

Yataro Kojima laughed and said: "Lord Suruga, I'm too worried, in short, once it's over, the Takeda army in this city has become a dead body, and who will criticize us at that time." ”

These words eased the originally dull atmosphere in the tent a lot, and the generals in the tent nodded one after another.

Usami shook his head and said, "It's really incomprehensible, it stands to reason that the Takeda Army should have fallen into the predicament of cutting off the water, but why are they still able to resist so tenaciously." Could it be that our estimation is wrong, or is it that Takeda is victorious and Li Xiaozhen has three heads and six arms? ”

"Regardless of whether the Takeda army is cut off or not, we have continued to waste too much time under the Iwaji Castle," it was Naoe Minoru who spoke, and after a pause, he said again: "The Takeda Army is fighting the trapped beasts, and it is good to be able to hold on to this step, since the Ming Dynasty said that the main banner of the army personally went out into battle, Iwaji Castle is doomed to fall." ”

Ming said that the Echigo army would be led by Uesugi Kenshin himself to launch a general attack on Iwaki Castle.

This also means the end of the Cage City War of Iwaki Castle.

All the generals in this formation will look at the rock castle on the mountain.

The fall of the rock city is in the Ming Dynasty!

Iwaki Castle Ninomaru.

"Order the soldiers to hurry up and rest, and before dawn, our army will attack Tengu Maru at night!"

"What?"

Li Xiao revealed this earth-shattering news to the generals of the Takeda Army, and the generals were in an uproar.

Maba Masabo immediately stood up and asked Li Xiaoyan bluntly: "There are hundreds of Echigo troops stationed in the Tengu Pill, and the Echigo army under the mountain may come to help at any time, and our army only relies on night attacks, without the slightest chance. ”

"No, I agree with Lord Li Xiao's opinion," Bao Ke Masanori stood up and said, "If this continues, our army will not die of thirst, but also die in battle, so it is better to try the opportunity." ”

"It may not be that there is no chance," Takeda Katsuyori said in a voice from the side of the crowd, "Don't forget, don't forget, in addition to the well tower in the middle of the castle, there is also a well in the Tengu Pill. If we fight for water, our army will definitely fight to the death. ”

At the mention of water, all the generals present couldn't help licking their chapped lips, their throats were about to smoke from the dry ground now, and when they heard the word water, they all reflexively swallowed dryly.

As soon as he thought that if the night attack on Tengu Pill was successful, he would be able to get water to drink, and the generals who had originally wanted to oppose several were silent.

Immediately, Li Xiao Zhengse said to the generals: "I am here to convene everyone, not to discuss, but to convey the order of His Royal Highness Katsurai, to attack the Tengu Pill tonight, success or failure in this move." ”

"Oh!" The generals replied with a bang.

It was the dark moon that night, and it was pitch black in the four fields, but the Tengu Maru was brightly lit when viewed from Ninomaru.

The Echigo army was heavily garrisoned, and the Echigo army was constantly patrolling around with torches in the Tengu Maru, apparently also on guard against a possible night attack by the Takeda army.

And the Takeda Army, which was the side of the night attack, had already pressed all the belongings and made a desperate attempt to make a last ditch.

After resting in the middle of the night, everyone knew that this battle was very important, and capturing Tengu Maru would not only turn the tide of the battle, but also obtain water.

This made the Takeda army, which had already been cut off for a whole day, and now their chests and abdomen could almost be ignited, and the eyes they stared at Tengu Maru were different, and their eyes were red one by one.

As the first team to attack Tengu Maru, it was the samurai of the Takeda family, led by Takeda Katsuyori himself, Okuma Asahide, Sanada Masayuki, Baba Masabo, and the Hoshina brothers who personally assaulted.

The second team is the gun, these fierce battles, the original more than 600 guns in the city, only less than 300 can fight, lack of troops.

Therefore, the iron artillery team and the archery team that ran out of ammunition and arrows had to be pressed on, and they were the third team of the Takeda Army to attack, each with a spear in his hand, and he went out as a reserve army.

The last group was the original miscellaneous servants of the city, such as horsemen, medicine men, prayer monks, drummers, conch hands and other non-combatants, including some wounded soldiers who were not seriously wounded, and had to go into battle. Each of them was issued a weapon.

In short, this time the Takeda army attacked Tengu Maru, either planting Takeda Ling's banner on the head of the city, or the entire army was annihilated under Tengu Maru.

At the moment, none of the hundreds of Takeda soldiers in Ninomaru said anything, and they all waited with bated breath.

Even Takeda Katsuyori was vigilantly staring at the castle head of Tengu Maru, waiting for the moment of attack, and at this time, if you were careful, you would find that Li Xiao, the number one general under Takeda Katsuyori, was not in the formation.

And at this moment, Li Xiao took Shima Katsuto, Shioka Kazuha, and thirty elite samurai Ashigaru, standing on the curved wheel on the other side of Ninomaru, looking down.

Facing each other were a thirty-meter-high stone wall, which was behind the Echigo Army's Tengu Maru, near the side of the gate.

There was a detachment of the Echigo Army stationed here, and they were obviously wary of the Takeda Army, which might climb down from Ninomaru's Ishigaki to attack Tengu Maru, so they were specially prepared for it.

As long as any Takeda soldier dared to climb down the mountain with a rope, he would immediately be shot with a bow and arrow.

But Li Xiao and Shima Katsumeng, Shigang Ichiba, they are about to smuggle from here and attack Tengu Maru at night.

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