Yonglu 5th year, June.

Rock Castle, foggy outside the city. There was an atmosphere of solemnity in the air,

With an absolute superiority of 17,000 troops, the Uesugi family besieged Iwaki Castle so much that it was difficult for the birds to enter.

At this moment, the Uesugi family's first attack on Iwakujo Castle was built on a small hill only 500 meters away from the castle, which was the remains of the castle town of Iwakujo Castle, and now the charred remnants have been re-cleaned and converted into the forward position of the Joetsugo army's siege of the castle.

The moist water of the Azuma River was steaming, and there was a fog in front of me, like a huge curtain hanging low. Looking from the main camp of the Uesugi Army's Ichiban team, there was a white expanse everywhere, and the outer Maru Tengu Maru earthen ramparts, Ishigaki, and Horikiri of Iwaki Castle could not even see a vague outline.

"Such a thick fog always reminds me of the bloody battle on Kawanakajima."

The general in charge of the first team's attack was none other than the famous general of Echigo, the lord of Hirabayashi Castle who was born in the northern part of the country, and the color department repaired Katsunaga.

At this moment, he was sitting on top of the Maza, holding the military armament, and he was sitting beside him, as an auxiliary team to attack, the lord of Torisaka Castle, and Fujishi, the left doorman of Nakajo.

These two people are both from Yang Beizhong, and they are also veterans with crane hair, and they have seen each other in the dispute between the guardian generation Nagao family and the original guardian Uesugi family, and the astronomical rebellion of the Date family. Later, as Uesugi Kenshin's retainers, they fought side by side in the Kawanaka Island together, and they all performed heroically, and were awarded a blood-stained feeling by Uesugi Kenshin.

Now they are jointly entrusted with the task of attacking Iwaki Castle Ichiban by Uesugi Kenshin.

Nakajo Fujishi nodded, and said: "The bloody battle of Kawanakajima is still vivid, I have fought for half my life, and I have never seen so many people die, and how many heroes of Echigo Kai have been annihilated in this battle." ”

During the Battle of Kawanakajima, he was a brave general in the first battle of the Echigo Army as a surprise attack on Hachimangahara.

After a pause, Nakajo Fuji said: "Takeda Katsurai's courage is no less than that of his father, and he is assisted by generals like Li Xiao, Sanada Masayuki, and Daxiong Chaoxiu, and they must not underestimate their combat power because of their small number of soldiers." This siege should be prepared with sufficient sacrifices. ”

Katsucho Shibe laughed and said, "If you are afraid of sacrifice, you are not worthy of being called a samurai of Echigo." ”

Katsucho Huo Ran stood up and shouted at the bottom of the mountain: "Where are the warriors of my Echigo? ”

"Oh!"

A tsunami-like cry could be heard from below the hills.

Sebe Katsunag's face was solemn, and he pressed the iron armor in his hand down heavily, and two words broke out of his mouth: "Out of battle!" ”

"Oh!"

There was a sound of flags rattling at the foot of the mountain, and then the drums slammed and thumped, and in the fog, there was no sign of the army coming out, only the sound of countless soldiers' footsteps on the ground, as if rustling in everyone's heart.

At this moment, countless Echigo soldiers and ants gathered under the castle of Iwaji.

The road up the mountain is not wide, and the Echigo Army's Kopuki Group is working hard to widen it so that the follow-up forces can be deployed sufficiently.

The first sequence of the siege was dominated by miscellaneous soldiers, who walked in front of them carrying arrowboards, bags of sand and dirt, and large wooden stakes at the siege gate. The follow-up was the samurai of the Echigo army, with spears and bows, and iron cannons, advancing in order.

As the Echigo army advanced, the outline of Iwaki Castle gradually became clear.

On the front of the mountain road is the Demaru Tengu Maru of Iwaki Castle, and after a hori cut, there is a four-room high stone wall, and above the stone wall is a curved wheel with another layer of wood. There is a black hole in the crank wheel at intervals for shooting.

On the left and right sides of the stone wall, there is also a tall arrow oar, and several Takeda soldiers are armed with iron cannons and bows and arrows stationed above.

On the tiger's mouth in the center of the stone wall is the Otemon Gate, which is also the destination of the siege army.

PS: One is equal to 1.8 meters

The fog still shrouded the castle.

On the mountain road, a steady stream of black-clad and black-armored Echigo troops continued to advance, and they were advancing cautiously from the beginning to the end, and the flag behind them was shaking with the drumming of the mountain wind.

Kinpachi was an ordinary Echigo Ashigaru, a native of Echigo-Numatu Prefecture, who was drafted into the army in a military service order issued by the lord of Nakajo Castle in response to the Kanto Governor Uesugi-sama's expedition to Azuma Prefecture.

Dressed in a bamboo suit and holding a spear, Jin Ba stared at the Iwaki Castle shrouded in white mist with apprehension.

Before leaving the battle, Nakajo-sama had ordered that any Ashigaru soldier who attacked Iwakujo Castle with a spear would be given the Chiyuki of the 100-stone territory and officially become a samurai.

For Jin Hachi, this is an ordinary person, and in one fell swoop, he was promoted to a samurai, and the carp jumped into the dragon gate. He longed to make a contribution, but he couldn't help but fear in his heart that he would lose his life in battle.

Thinking of the few acres of thin fields at home, as well as his wife, who is not outstanding in appearance but has a gentle surname, he still feels that it is good to be able to keep his surname.

"Jin Ba, what do you think?"

Then a punch hit Jin Ba's head hard, although his head was wrapped in a hat, Jin Ba was still dizzy by this punch.

The one who punched the golden eight was the head of the team, Rokuro Ono, who was a rude samurai who was always beating and scolding them, the low-ranking ashigaru. Konpachi, like many Ashigaru soldiers, hated this man.

"I'm about to go into battle, and I'm going to die if I'm cranky, you know? Teach you a bunch of stinky boys who haven't dried up, how much saliva you want to waste on my Uncle Ono Rokuro! ”

Ono Rokuro Guard roared rudely, and even scolded Jin Hachi with his fists and feet, this foggy weather, and the mood of facing life and death when he went out of battle, all made his originally irritable temper even more irritable.

After Jin Ba was beaten and scolded, he continued to swallow his anger and move forward silently.

Within 30 rooms in front of the Otemon Gate, the cross-section of the mountain path suddenly shrank, and only 20 rooms were left wide.

One side of the mountain road is facing a cliff, and on the side of the mountain is Ninomaru of Noriwa Castle.

The bottom of Ninomaru was built with an earthen rampart and a stone wall to prevent enemy troops from climbing. At the same time, the narrow room opened on the Ninomaru curved wheel and the narrow room between the main gate of the Tengu Maru formed a crossfire, which made it convenient for the defenders to use bows and arrows and iron cannons to kill and injure the enemy troops attacking the city head-on.

Kanpachi looked at the miscellaneous soldiers who were not wearing any armor, and first put down the arrow board wrapped in straw on the outside and solid wood on the inside, facing the Otemon on the side, and Ninomaru put it down.

According to Ono Rokuro Guard, such an arrow shield protected both the bow and the arrow from the arrow, as well as the fire of the iron cannon.

As soon as each of the shields was placed, Ono Rokuro Guards gave the order to let several Echigo Ashigaru hide behind them.

Then Echigo's miscellaneous soldiers continued to move forward, and they trotted all the way with dirt bags on their backs, bowed down, and began to fill the Horikiri in front of Tengu Maru.

And at this moment, the iron cannon of the Takeda Army opened fire in the narrow room of the Tengu Maru warp.

The roaring sound of the iron cannon made Jin Ba, who was out of battle for the first time, tremble uncontrollably, throw the spear aside, and curl his body tightly behind the arrow shield. He screamed loudly in panic.

"Bastard, what's it called!"

Ono Rokuro Beibei slapped another palm on Kinpachi's face, and he shouted angrily, pressing his hand to the katana at his waist. Jin Hachi looked at his expression and had no doubt that if he screamed again, he would kill himself with a single sword.

Jin Ba nodded, indicating that he would keep to himself, but his legs were still shaking like a swing.

At this time, I heard the sound of iron cannons, and a muffled snort came, and Jin Hachi quietly looked sideways from the edge of the arrow shield, only to see the Echigo miscellaneous soldiers who rushed forward under the fire of iron cannon bows and arrows, one after another, they were shot or hit by arrows, and threw the dirt bags in their hands on the ground.

The combat effectiveness of these miscellaneous soldiers, not to mention the samurai, is not even as good as the ashigaru, and after a few rounds of shooting by the Takeda army, these miscellaneous soldiers began to break and flee.

"A bunch of cowards," Ono scolded, and he reached out and waved back, signaling his Ashigaru soldiers to move.

Just after the miscellaneous soldiers retreated, at this time, a large number of Echigo troops with small flags on their backs and black armor, and the follow-up Ashigaru soldiers were dispatched.

They dropped their spears one after another, rushed up to take the dirt bags that had been dropped in front of them, and then braved the bullets of the Takeda Army to fill Horikiri.

Echigo Ashigaru was constantly hit by the Takeda Army's rifles and arrows, and then fell to the ground, but they still fought forward.

At this time, Kanpachi heard the sound of an iron cannon again, and the iron cannon in the narrow room of Takeda Jun's Ninomaru, which was originally located above their heads, also fired, and the arrows and projectiles were all fired.

Suddenly, the Echigo army in front and behind was again killed and wounded.

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