Chapter 430 is to attack at night

"Lord Takenaka, the Uesugi army is digging a trench under the castle again."

Kinoshita Hidecho slammed his fists heavily, and in the past few days, the Uesugi army had dug trenches around Matsukura Castle in an attempt to cut off the connection between the castle and the Jinbo army.

If the connection between the two sides is severed, then it is undoubtedly likely to be broken by the Uesugi army.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Shigeharu Takenaka held the silk handkerchief to cover his mouth, and looked at the Uesugi family's army surrounded by Matsukura Castle silently and expressionlessly.

Shigeharu Takenaka put down the silk handkerchief and said to Kinoshita Hidenaga, "The only way at the moment is to open the castle and attack the Uesugi army." ”

Kinoshita Hidecho was slightly surprised when he heard this, and said: "With the current strength and the Uesugi army, we have no chance of winning, not to mention that the other party has Uesugi Kenshin in person." ”

Shigeharu Takenaka pointed to a small city not far away, and above this small city was the banner of the Jimbo family, which was obviously the 3,000 troops of the Jimbo family.

Shigeharu Takenaka said: "The Uesugi Army's move is to cut off the connection between Matsukura Castle and the Jimbo Army, and if they blindly wait for the battle and dare not attack, the situation will be even more passive." As far as I know, the Jimbo army did not bring much rations this time, and the city they were in was originally an abandoned city with extremely low defense, and if they were isolated, they were likely to be attacked by the Uesugi army. ”

"The art of war cannot be based on the predetermined assumptions of the enemy, and the more the Uesugi army thinks that we will not dare to fight in the field, the more we must start fighting in order to defeat the enemy army. Who was the Uesugi army fighting in front of the castle? ”

Kinoshita Hidenaga stretched his neck and looked at it for a while, and said to Shigeharu Takenaka: "It's the Ueda people who are out of the Uesugi army. ”

Kinoshita Hidecho has been dealing with the Uesugi army for so many years and has been dealing with the Uesugi army for a long time, and he also knows that the Ueda people are the elite of the Uesugi army.

After hearing the name of Kamisaki Jingsheng, Shigeharu Takenaka nodded and said, "Lord of the city, don't underestimate the enemy." ”

Kinoshita Hidecho nodded and said, "In that case, I will personally attack and bother Takenaka-sama to defend the city." ”

Shigeharu Takenaka smiled and nodded, "Of course, but Lord Castle, you only need to line up under the city, if the Uesugi army attacks, you can rely on the fortified city to repel it." ”

Soon after, on the side of Matsukura Castle of the Takeda Army, the Gate of Outer Pill Oteema was opened, and the Takeda Army came out of the city, relying on the Outer Pill to form a formation.

The Echigo army under the castle was all surprised when they saw the gate of Matsukura Castle suddenly open.

The Echigo general who commanded the Ueda people, Kamishi Keikatsu, looked at it and said in surprise: "With this little strength of the Takeda Army, it actually dares to go out of the city!" ”

A general of Ashigaru said: "Your Highness, please be careful, the general of the Takeda Army is Takenaka Hanbei, this person is brilliant in wisdom and may be deceitful. ”

Shangyi Jingsheng nodded and said, "Whether there is a plan or not, we must not easily let the Takeda army line up. ”

In his opinion, the Takeda army that went out of the city to fight was only a few hundred people, while the Ueda army had a strength of 1,200 troops, and they could definitely eat the enemy army outside the city.

Kinoshita Hidenaga personally led 500 troops, went out from the big gate, and then took Horikiri as a screen, and then against the outer Marumu earthen fortress, and began to line up.

In the front row, Takeda Gunashigaru pushed the arrow board forward, and placed it in a two-and-a-half-height outer ring, revealing a temporary wooden wall with an interval in the middle.

The Takeda military had just finished stacking the wooden walls, and by this time, the Uesugi army's cavalry had already arrived like a galloping wind.

Dozens of Uesugi army horseback samurai, when approaching the Takeda army's position, opened their hands and raised his two-meter-long bow, stretched out their bows on horseback, and took advantage of the inertia of horse speed to shoot arrows towards the Takeda army's formation.

Takeda Gunashigaru hurriedly hid behind the arrow board, and most of the opponent's arrows were nailed to the arrow board, and only a few people let out a muffled snort, obviously from the body arrows. …,

The bow of the Takeda army raised his bow lightly and shot at the Uesugi army cavalry on horseback.

The arrows on both sides staggered,

The Uesugi cavalry samurai fired two or three rounds of arrows each before slicing past the edge of the Takeda position.

After that, Kamishi Keikatsu urged his Ueda people to press towards the Takeda army position.

Boom!

Boom!

Two loud bangs.

Outside Matsukura Castle, the large barrel of the Marutakeda Army began to shell the Uesugi Army's position.

One shot missed, and the other shot directly in the array of Ueda people, crushing a bloody path, killing and wounding more than a dozen Uesugi soldiers on the spot.

However, the Ueda people, under the order of Kamishi Jingsheng, still maintained a tight array and approached the Takeda army.

Approaching the distance of thirty rooms, the two armies bowed lightly and began to tilt their arrows into each other's arrays.

When the Uesugi army approached Shima, the Takeda army's iron cannon on the outer maru warp wheel was light and began to condescendingly shoot at the Uesugi army.

Seeing that the front row of the Uesugi army had suffered a lot of losses, Kamishi Jingsheng immediately withdrew the bowfoot light team and ordered the gunfoot light team to attack.

The Ueda people approached the Takeda army outside the city, and the Takeda army formed a half-moon formation to meet the battle.

Although the Takeda army was relatively advantageous in battle with the support of the castle head and iron artillery, the Ueda army was still outnumbered, and Kamishi Keikatsu was not an incompetent general, so under the command, the Takeda army and the Uesugi army fought evenly under the castle.

Shigeharu Takenaka saw Kinoshita's battle situation on the lookout turret, and couldn't help but be very satisfied, and immediately ordered his subordinates, saying: "Lord of the castle, you have successfully attracted the attention of the Uesugi army, so you will go down the mountain from the back of the castle with a team of twenty people, and sneak into the camp of the Uesugi army by night. ”

The five ashigaru heads snorted and immediately retreated.

On the other hand, when the Takeda army and the Uesugi army were fighting fiercely under the castle, Jimbo Nagaken also saw the movement under Matsukura Castle.

When the two of them heard about Kinoshita, the two of Takenaka, did not hesitate to order Mizugoshi Katsushige and the two of them to dispatch 1,500 troops to kill in the direction of Matsukura Castle, in order to echo the offensive of the Takeda army under Matsukura Castle.

As soon as the Jimbo Chogendarme left the city, they were intercepted by the Uesugi army.

It was the Uesugi Army's color department that intercepted the Jimbo Chogenku.

Relying on the newly built anti-horse fence and the trench, the chief of the color department relied on the horse fence and the trench to block the offensive of the Jinbao army.

On the one hand, the Jimbo army fought fiercely with the Sebe Shō team, but on the other hand, they bypassed the front of the Seki army and attacked the Uesugi army who were digging the fortress.

The Uesugi army sent the Chisaka Keijin team to cover the cover, and although the Uesugi army succeeded in covering the safe retreat of the diggers, the Jimbo army attacked the warehouse where the timber was stacked near the fortress.

Mizukoshi Katsushige poured the oil that had been prepared into the warehouse, and then ignited it.

After the Takeda Army set fire to the warehouse, they began to set fire to the wooden barracks that had been piled up.

For a while, the fire was like a torch, and it was raging into the sky.

The Takeda army went out of the castle to fight the Uesugi army, and this action was unexpected by the Uesugi army.

However, Uesugi Kenshin reacted immediately, and under his command, the Uesugi army repelled the attack of the Takeda army from several sides.

It was just that a camp and prepared timber were burned, and all this only delayed the efforts of the Uesugi army for a day or two.

It was easy to repel the attack of the Takeda army, and Uesugi Kenshin returned to his camp to rest.

As soon as he entered the camp, he received the news that Saito Asanobu was defeated at the foot of Tenjin Mountain Castle, and his own sect, Yamahonji Dingcho, died in battle.

Upon hearing the news, Kenshin Uesugi sighed with emotion.

Kenshin Uesugi held a rosary in his hand, pacing in the military tent, and over the years he had conquered Takeda, and the loss of the generals was innumerable.

At present, the head of Yamamoto Temple is in the middle of the battle, which makes Uesugi Ken's confidence blocked, if he is young, he will be more resolute, not to slaughter the entire city of Tenjin Mountain Castle as revenge, but now Uesugi Kenshin is no longer young, and the pride of the year has been reduced a lot. …,

He hesitated to give up the plan to increase the number of troops in Tenjin Mountain Castle, and prepared to concentrate his forces and continue to besiege the front line of Matsukura Castle, and he expected that in another ten days, the defensive barracks blocking the inside and outside of Matsukura Castle could be built, and then he could choose either Matsukura Castle or the Divine Protection Army to break through each way.

Just when Uesugi Kenshin was preparing to write a letter to the wealthy families in China at his desk, asking them to transfer troops to the front line in Vietnam and Central to help.

Now he has received two more military reports that are close to bad news.

First, the Oda Army, which had agreed with him to attack Li Xiao on two routes, had withdrawn from Kajida Castle and returned to Gifu Castle.

Unexpectedly, Takeda Katsuyori actually came out of the Heshisakikan and forced Nobunaga to return in vain with a small victory over Nobunaga in a head-to-head battle.

This surprised Uesugi Kenshin, and it stands to reason that if the Oda Army were to go all out, it would not be so easy for the Takeda Army to win.

But at the moment, if it is said that the Oda army retreated, it would be a big loss for Kenshin, then in the second letter, the head of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan, led an army of 30,000 at the invitation of the Takeda family to return to the Kanto region and come to Higashi-Ueno with a strong army.

The lord of Stablebridge Castle, Hojo Takahiro, complained to Kenshin Uesugi.

At the same time, in Kaizu Castle on Kawanaka Island, there was also news that Takasaka Masanobu's army was about to move.

Uesugi Kenshin once again tasted the bitterness of Takeda Shingen's three-way attack for himself.

It is true that he wanted Nobunaga and Noto to defeat Li Xiao on three sides together, and each took its own advantage, but he didn't expect Li Xiao to have this tacit understanding with Takeda Katsuyori, and use it in his own way.

The Hojo family intends to dominate the Kanto region and annex Ueno for a long time, if Higashi Ueno is lost, he will have no real name for the Kanto governor, but the Takasaka army is eyeing Kasuga Mountain Castle and can attack the castle within a day.

These two places must not be lost to Uesugi Kenshin, and his key point can be described as pinching in the hands of the enemy.

Damn, Uesugi Kenshin thought of this, and waved his horsewhip again, it was really his own miscalculation that he didn't kill these two people in Shirane Mountain in the first place.

At this time, there was news of several fires outside the city.

It turned out that during the day, Shigeharu Takenaka rode Kinoshita Hidenaga to fight head-on, and when he attracted the attention of the Uesugi army, he quietly sent people down the mountain to lurk, and at night, they set fire to the Uesugi army camp near the camp.

Attacked by this fire, the camp of the Uesugi army was suddenly in a hurry, and at this time, the gates of Matsukura Castle were opened again, and Kinoshita Hidenaga led the army out of the city again, and there was a great posture of fighting with the Uesugi army at night.

And the Jimbo Army on the other side also seemed to have agreed at the same time to act against the Uesugi Army together.

In the darkness of the night, the Uesugi army could not distinguish the direction of the Takeda army's main attack for a while, and only felt that it was attacked from all sides.