Viet Chung.

The heavy rain had just stopped, and the horizon, which was already covered with dark clouds, was half brightened.

The turbid currents mixed with yellow mud rushed down the muddy slope, forming streams in an instant.

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As the turbidity current swirled, there was a dull sound from time to time at the bottom of the hillside, and it was no wonder that it was the sound of corpses falling down the hill from the hillside along the current.

In a corner of the hillside, more than a dozen corpses were piled up in various postures.

Due to the heavy rain and soaking for some time, the corpse already smelled foul.

Soon after, more than a dozen people dressed as miscellaneous soldiers, each pushing a pack cart, came here.

And two ashigaru, who wore a hat in a hat, held spears and rode behind.

In order to resist the smell of corpses, these miscellaneous soldiers used cloth to tighten their mouths and noses in front of them.

As soon as the men had put down the packer, they served one by two, carrying the corpse and putting it on the packer.

They prioritized the removal of the corpse in black armor, and at this time, a miscellaneous soldier shouted indistinctly, "Is it that even the people of the Takeda Army have to be carried into the car?" ”

Ashigaru, who was standing by the side with a gun, was also disgusted by the stench, and said impatiently: "Bastard, didn't Lord Gokan say just now, whether it is a samurai of his own family or a member of the enemy army, they will all be buried. ”

"Oh, but there aren't enough cars."

"Then you can move as much as you can."

"Yes."

Ashigaru looked at the corpses stacked on the pack cart, sighed, and then raised his head to look at the castle of the Takeda Army in the middle of the mountain.

On the hillside, the castle of the Takeda army has been breached by the Echigo army.

The ditches dug under the forts were filled with rainwater, and one or two corpses floated above each interval of the ditches.

The wooden wheels of the castle were like arrow targets, densely covered with arrow feathers, and holes in the iron cannons, and the arrow oars were leaning crookedly and half-leaning on one side, and several corpses were sticking out.

At the gate of the city, where the fighting was fierce, the wooden gate had already been burned to char by the fire of the siege.

More than 20 corpses were piled up at the gate, and the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies of Takeda Echigo were stacked on top of each other.

Seeing such a price to be paid for the fight for a castle, the ashigaru's face couldn't help but twitch.

"Hurry up, at least there are hundreds of corpses to be carried?"

Ashigaru urged.

At present, the battle between the Takeda army and the Uesugi army in Vietnam and Central China has been delayed until the end of September.

By the time Uesugi Kenshin had joined up with the reinforcements of Katsuji, his strength was already above the Takeda Army.

As a result, the Uesugi army immediately launched an offensive against the Takeda army in the confrontation.

And on the side of the Takeda Army, they were not idle.

Since the day of the match, Li Xiao's Takeda army seems to have only done one thing, which is to dig trenches and repair the city.

As a result, the soldiers of the Echigo army, before they got up in the morning, could hear the sound of ping-pong banging on the opposite hill.

It turned out that the Takeda Army had already gotten up and started to get busy like a groundhog.

The Takeda Army was everywhere on all sides of the position, digging trenches and repairing fortifications.

Moreover, the Takeda Army did not work for a day or two, but got up early and worked late, and continued to work, and there was a momentum of building several new cities here.

The Echigo army was very surprised by the Takeda army's tactics of not attacking but building fortifications, and among the Warring States periods, there was no daimyo of any country that used this tactic.

When the Echigo army reported the construction of the fortifications to Uesugi Kenshin, the other party pondered for a while, but did not say anything.

The Uesugi army also allowed the Takeda army to go on like this, and did not build fortifications and harass the other side.

In fact, it could not be attacked, and after receiving reinforcements from Baba Masabo and Honganji, the total strength of the Takeda Army had reached 9,000 men.

So after nearly three months, when the reinforcements of Gansu Jingzhi arrived.

The Uesugi army, which was preparing to attack, discovered that the Takeda army's main camp and the area where the reserves were located, a total of 12 temporary fortresses had been built by them.

He built all sides like iron barrels.

And the Takeda Army has not stopped, their work is still continuing, the battle line continues to extend in all directions, and the three unbuilt fortresses are still being built.

In response to this scene, the samurai of the Uesugi Army looked very speechless.

Therefore, the initial offensive of the Uesugi army, although it had the advantage of troops, fell into a bitter battle for a while.

The castle of the Takeda army was guarded by the relatively weak Hida and the wealthy clans of Yuezhong, while Li Xiao's three major reserves, as mobile troops, thought that they would support each other. …,

In addition, the construction of the Takeda military fortress is very skillful, and they echo each other.

Attacking one fortress inevitably involves being flanked by other castles, making it often impossible for the Echigo army to attack one fortress alone.

When attacking the castle, the Echigo army also had to guard against the flank attacks of the three major reserves of the Takeda army.

In the first three days of the battle, the Uesugi army had a strong offensive despite its superiority, but the offensive was not smooth.

In the midst of the attack on the Takeda military fortress, the Echigo general Tenjin Mountain Castle lord Kokuni Yorihisa was ambushed by Li Xiao's Kamioka Bei and Snake Tail Bei.

The small country Yorihisa was killed in battle, and the head was taken, and more than 300 Uesugi troops were killed in this battle.

Kokuni Yorihisa is a veteran of the Uesugi family, and since the first battle of Kawanakajima, he has participated in many joint battles of the Uesugi family, and he himself is also one of the twenty-five generals of Uesugi.

After this man was killed in battle, Uesugi Kenshin was furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered the attack to be stopped.

In fact, in the first three days, the Uesugi army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties under the Takeda military fortress, which is enough to prove the usefulness of the defensive network that the Takeda army built up in three months.

When Uesugi Kenshin stopped attacking, he was looking for a new means of attack.

Uesugi Kenshin stationed at the head of Ma Mountain, observed the position of the Takeda Army, watched for a day, and finally found a flaw for him.

The next day, Uesugi Kenshin concentrated more than 3,000 troops and chose them to storm the Takeda army.

And the reinforcements sent by Li Xiao were desperately blocked by the Uesugi army.

The Uesugi army fought fiercely for a day, and finally broke through a fortress in Li Xiao's defense circle.

Garrisoned by the castle is Li Xiao's subordinate and force, Hirose Takado Castle lord Hirose Castle.

And Hirose Sojo was killed in battle, and the two hundred people under it either died or surrendered.

The castle was missing a link, the defense was weakened, and the Uesugi army attacked along the gap one after another, in the next seven days.

The Takeda military fortress broke through three more for the Uesugi army.

Li Xiao's Yuezhong wealthy clan, the lord of Akamaru Castle, Jiro Nakayama was killed in battle.

The lord of Shiratori Castle of the Jimbo family lived for a long time, and during the battle to defend the city, he was shot in the right eye by a bow and arrow, and almost pierced his brain.

And the famous general of the Uesugi army, Saito Asanobu, known as Echigo Zhong Kui, was seriously wounded by a stray bullet from the Takeda army's iron cannon during the siege of the city.

During the battle for the castle, Li Xiao's banner Benbei, Snake Tail Bei, and Kamioka Bei took turns to fight with Uesugi Kenshin's Qiben army, and the two armies fought fiercely for several days, both of which suffered heavy casualties, and the place where they fought was a mess of dead and wounded.

However, in the midst of the battle, there was an unexpected surprise for Li Xiaoqi, Li Xiaoqi's original general Fujido Gaohu was in pursuit, regardless of the seven wounds on his body, and he forcibly captured Qianxin's adopted son, and the general of the Ueda people, Shangshan Jingsheng.

Being able to capture the future head of the Uesugi family in history was indeed something Li Xiao expected.

However, Li Xiao did not embarrass this person, and ordered someone to watch him live.

But the overall battle was unfavorable for Li Xiao, four cities had been breached, causing the defensive network to collapse, and the gap in Li Xiao's defense line was getting bigger and bigger.

At this moment, Li Xiao's heart is also bottomless, if the war continues, he doesn't know how many days he can support, whether he can delay until the moment when his plan takes effect.

And just when Li Xiao was worried, a wealthy family rescued Li Xiao's predicament in time.

This wealthy clan fell very much, under the rain washed, the mountains were muddy and difficult to walk, and the two armies could no longer continue the fierce battle, so they could only withdraw their troops.

Li Xiao easily took this opportunity to take a breather, resting the army while counting the casualty figures.

After ten days of fierce fighting, the Takeda army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.

Such a bloody battle, although everyone expected it before the war, but when it happened, everyone still couldn't sit still.

Of course, the most pressure is still Li Xiao, the Yuezhong Hao clan under his command has suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and now this group of people is already unbearable, and they have joined forces to ask Li Xiao to retreat several times.

Of course, there are various excuses, such as thieves at home, the autumn harvest is imminent, there are not enough people, and so on.

However, their unified caliber is, anyway, the attacked Shiina family is not a close alliance with each other, is it worth shedding blood and sacrificing for the Shiina family? Let them die.

Li Xiao understands the position of these small wealthy families, they are more concerned about their own one-acre and three-point land, whether their family name can survive, how the autumn harvest of the territory is, and whether the stone height can increase.

But Li Xiao is different, he must consider the overall situation, Shiina and Li Xiao are now grasshoppers on the same rope.

Once Matsukura Castle is captured, the next one will be Li Xiao's turn, exposed to the Uesugi family's troops, and now as soon as the news of Li Xiao's withdrawal comes out, Shiina Yasuin will definitely surrender to the Uesugi family without saying a word. …,

So this war has been going on until now, and it will continue even if it is difficult.

Li Xiao is not hard, in the past few days of fierce fighting, his standing casualties are known to be huge, and on the battlefield with the elite banner army of the Uesugi army, the two armies are fighting with corpses.

Li Xiao didn't use the Yuezhong wealthy clan as cannon fodder, so it was also one of the reasons why the Yuezhong wealthy clan was willing to serve Li Xiao, otherwise they would have smeared oil on the soles of their feet and gone home with their own troops.

Compared to the huge casualties on the side of the Takeda army, the Uesugi army was also not happy, and as the attacking side, they now suffered even greater casualties.

Echigo suffered 3,000 casualties, which was the most tragic battle that had never been seen since the Battle of Kawanakajima.

Saito Asanobu was seriously injured at the moment, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and the general Kokuni Yorihisa begged for the Takeda Army, and even Kenshin's adopted son, Kamishi Jingsheng, was captured by the Takeda Army.

Thinking of the courage of the Takeda Army in the fierce battles of the past few days, the Echigo Army shuddered.

Sure enough, as Uesugi Kenshin said before, Li Xiao's three standing offensives are fierce, and they can be called a rare strong army.

With the ability of Uesugi Kenshin to personally command the banner army to fight, he could only barely reach a tie with Li Xiao's standing reserves, and if he was replaced by someone else's command, or the Echigo army with average combat strength, the result would be unimaginable.

Under such heavy casualties, the Echigo army was not an iron man, and in fact, the generals did not know the current situation of the Takeda family, and they were not sure that they would defeat it.

They have now begun to lobby Kenshin Uesugi to ...... about the withdrawal of troops.