The shouts of killing rang out for a while, and Li Xiao's newly recruited peasant soldier crouched low behind the curved wheel of the outer pill, pressing his head low.

From time to time, stray arrows flew over the warp wheel and shot into the outer pills of the city.

Unfortunately, an arrow with fire happened to shoot into the pile of wood left over from the outer pill, igniting a fire.

"It's on fire, put it out."

With a shout from one of the samurai, several ashiki rushed forward, raised their feet and stomped wildly on the burning place, and the fire was extinguished immediately, stifling the fire early.

"Bastard! Didn't you tell you to put away this flammable thing? Why are they still piled up here. ”

The warrior scolded.

Then another round of arrows flew into the curvature, and as he spoke, the warrior was hit by an arrow in the right shoulder, and a peasant soldier who had not been able to dodge in time was also hit by an arrow in the foot.

After being shot, the peasant soldier began to cry and scream.

The samurai who was hit by the arrow was so angry that his beard straightened up, and he scolded: "If you can't die, don't scream, uncle, I didn't say a word when I was hit by an arrow." ”

The samurai kicked the peasant soldier in the ass with a hard blow.

Only then did the peasant stop crying, and he was so frightened that he crawled to this side.

Li Xiao was watching the battle on the arrow oar of the outer pill.

Relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness of these temporarily recruited peasant soldiers was still insufficient, and if it weren't for a few samurai with them, it is likely that they would have collapsed their collective morale and fled in all directions under a few rounds of arrows fired by Sister Xiaolu's family.

It has been two days since the siege of the city, and Sister Xiaolu Lianglai has no intention of directly attacking it, his purpose is to consume, not to let Li Xiao and them build the city, and delay this time.

If Li Xiao can't complete the task of building the city before the first snow of this year, it means that the city building has failed.

Time is very precious to Li Xiao now.

Thinking of this, the sister road army launched another round of arrow attacks, and the ashigaru of the Takeda army could only bury their heads behind the curved wheel, unable to fight back at all.

Of the 700 troops brought by Sister Xiaolu Lianglai this time, there were 200 bowers.

The overwhelming shooting of the two hundred bows and feet has been pressing the iron cannon on Li Xiao's side, and the bow and foot light can't raise their heads, so it has caused a passive situation where they can only fight back after being beaten.

In the past two days, more than a dozen people on Li Xiao's side have been injured by arrows, and two people have been killed.

After surviving a day, as the sister Xiaolu's family retreated lightly, and the second day the war was temporarily suspended, Li Xiao's men and horses couldn't fight back because they were only beaten, and they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

It can't be delayed any longer.

Li Xiao secretly made a decision, and said to the warrior beside him: "Immediately gather all the warriors in the city and ask them to come here to discuss matters." ”

In the arrow oar of the outer pill.

After Shima Shengmeng, Shigang Kazuyu and other generals sat down, they first gave a jail, and they were suppressed by the opponent's bow and arrow, and they couldn't fight back, which was really a very wretched thing.

Li Xiaojing waited for them to finish complaining, and said: "Everyone, it is in vain to complain about anything, what is the way to defeat the current enemy army now, you must know that the first snow of the year in Hida is about to fall, and it will be cold and freezing at that time, which means that it is absolutely impossible for us to succeed in building a city within this year." ”

The generals hesitated, and Shigang Yiyu said loudly: "Lord, if you go out of the city to fight, our soldiers and horses are insufficient, and most of them are newly recruited peasants. These peasant soldiers are not even prepared with armor, and if they are reluctant to fight, I am afraid that the chances of victory are not high. ”

"Not necessarily." Xiaohan Xiaoxian suddenly spoke, originally he had the lowest qualifications here, and he shouldn't have made a noise at this time.

Li Xiao glanced at Xiaohan Xiaoxian and motioned for him to continue.

Xiaoman Xiaoxian turned his head to look around, and said: "My lord, my sister Xiaolu's family has the strongest combat power at this time, and it is the two hundred bows and feet he carried this time. We just have to find a way to make his two hundred bows and feet ineffective. ”

When all the retainers heard this, they all sneered, making the two hundred bows ineffective, how could this be done easily, the child was just whimsical.

When Li Xiao heard this, he had already guessed the meaning of the eight points in Xiaowan Xiaoxian's words, nodded and said encouragingly: "You go on." ”

Seeing Li Xiao's encouragement, Xiaowan Xiaoxian sighed and said: "What I mean is to carry out a night attack on the sister road army, and it is pitch black at night, and the two hundred bows of the sister road army are naturally useless." ”

As soon as Xiaohata's proposal came out, everyone's eyes lit up, this is indeed a good strategy.

That night, Sister Xiaolu Lianglai had just fallen asleep when he was suddenly woken up by the sound of iron cannons blaring everywhere.

"Night raid?"

Sister Xiaolu Lianglai turned over and sat up, and suddenly had this thought, it was ridiculous, it was Li Xiao's little man, and he had not trained enough, he dared to take the initiative to fight.

As soon as his sister Koji Yoyori put on his armor, his subordinates entered the military tent to report the news, saying: "My lord, the iron artillery team of the Takeda Army, the archery foot light team, went out of the city and shot at our army. ”

"What?" Sister Xiaolu Lianglai thought for a moment and asked, "Then where is their spear foot light team?" ”

"I don't know."

Sister Koji Yoshiyori picked up the katana and ran out of the camp.

In addition to the sound of iron cannons, many arrows flew into the tents of the army in all directions, and the situation looked as if the Takeda army had surrounded them.

Sister Xiaolu Lianglai looked around, and the camp was already in chaos.

Suddenly, there was a sound of several iron cannons ringing from the east, and the samurai in charge of the command, with a sword in his hand, pointed to the east and shouted, "The enemy army is in the east, attack." ”

More than 30 guns snapped lightly and ran to the east with their guns together, but after only a few steps, the west side of the camp was hit by a volley of bows and arrows from the Takeda army.

The samurai didn't know what to do, so he ordered the gunners to stop and pursue them to the west.

But at this moment, there were shouts and fights from the north, as if the enemy army was about to attack the camp.

The ashigaru of the main family, holding a hat in their hands and spears, ran around the camp like headless flies.

Because this camp was only built temporarily, the defense was not strong, and people in the camp were constantly shot into the camp with bows and arrows and iron cannons to knock down.

The four fields were all in the dark and blind, and they couldn't see the location of the enemy army clearly, but the place where the sister road military camp was located was brightly lit, so that the soldiers of the sister road family could only stand here and be beaten in vain.

The 200 bows and arrows of our army could not see where the enemy's men and horses were, and could only shoot indiscriminately at all directions, with a bow and arrow without any purpose.

Such a hit rate is almost zero.

Bastard, can't go on like this.

Sister Xiaolu Lianglai shouted loudly, and shouted at the cavalry team of his army, and the spear foot light team shouted: "Go out of the camp to search for the enemy army and decide the victory." ”

After receiving the news, the cavalry team and the gunashigaru sorted out the military situation, and then attacked the military tent.

Looking at the bright lights, the sister road army saw the opposing horseback team, and the spear foot light team attacked from all sides.

Shima Katsu Takeshi, the spearhead team led by Shioka Kazuha, has obviously been ambushed for a long time.

Dao Sheng gave an order, and on Li Xiaojun's side, there was a standing gun foot light team, so he met the sister road army to intercept it.

Because both sides are in a black light and blind fire, it is easy to injure themselves by mistake in a fierce battle, so they don't dare to be too involved in each other's fighting, the purpose of the sister road army is just to let the Takeda army bow and arrow, the iron cannon should no longer shoot the base camp, and the Takeda army side only needs to protect the bow of the army, and the safety of the iron cannon is light.

So they all had a very tacit understanding, just a flash, and there was no too fierce fighting, so although the screams were loud, the casualties on both sides were not large.

The two sides fought until dawn, and seeing that the sky was about to brighten, Li Xiao ordered to collect his troops and return to the camp.

In this night battle, Li Xiaojun did not take advantage of anything, and the two armies fought to a draw.

However, during the day, the people on the side of the Takeda Army began to build Kamioka Castle again.

On the other hand, because the sister road army fought all night, and now that it is daylight, it is impossible to fight again.

Therefore, Sister Koji Yoshiyori could only watch the Takeda army continue to build the city during the day, and could not delay.

On the third night of the siege, the Takeda army repeated its old tricks and launched a night attack again, and the two sides fought again in ping-pong all night, with bows, arrows and iron cannons being placed indiscriminately, and Li Xiaojun feinted several times to attack the position of the base camp of the sister road, but the results were all resolved under the command of the sister road.

By daybreak, both armies were exhausted, so they called it a day and went home to sleep.

Immediately after the fourth day, Sister Koji Yoyori saw that the people of the Takeda Army continued to rush to work and began to build Kamioka Castle, while Li Xiao's subordinates Ashigaru all fell on Waimaru with guns and slept peacefully with their clothes.

Seeing the situation, Sister Xiaolu Lianglai angrily whipped his horse whip to the grass, if he couldn't interrupt the speed of Li Xiaojun's construction of the city, then it would be in vain to lead his troops here.

So Sister Xiaolu Lianglai stared fiercely at Kamioka Castle and pondered for a while.

By the fifth night, Sister Xiaolu Lianglai was fully prepared. In the camp tent, he made a big plan to empty the city, leaving only a small number of men and horses to garrison, but instead arranged ambushes around him, just waiting for the Takeda army to come to the door and attack at night.

But contrary to the expectations of his sister Koji Lianglai, he waited for most of the night, but the Takeda army did not kill, and no shadow could be seen.

It wasn't until dawn that it was already dark.

Sister Koji Ryoyori thought that the Takeda army would not attack, so he was about to order someone to transfer back the ambush troops on the periphery, when he suddenly heard the sound of killing outside the tent.

Sister Xiaolu Lianglai suddenly slammed into a sudden, and said in a lost voice: "It's not good, we have been tricked." ”

The sudden appearance of the Takeda Army, and the killing from all sides, and the sister army that had been on guard all night was now exhausted.

The first to engage the Takeda army was an ambush on the periphery that had been lying in ambush in the grass all night, and under the battle between the two sides, the sister army was immediately defeated.

Sister Koji Lianglai was unwilling to fail like this, so he ordered Bow Ashigaru to pick up a spear and go into battle, and personally led the horse back to the crowd and went out of the camp to meet the Takeda army.

The two armies fought hard for half an hour, and finally the sister Koji Lianglai collected the defeated troops on all sides, and fought and retreated, and finally did not reach the point of the rout of the whole army.

Sister Koji Yoyori was in the place of death battle, and finally led part of the sister Koji army to retreat, but he also paid a lot of price, and he was no longer able to attack the Takeda army in Kamiokande Castle, and finally had to retreat to Sakurato Castle to return to Sakurato Castle's sister Koji Yoyori, facing the inquiry of his son sister Koji Yoritsuna.

Sister Xiaolu Lianglai could only look up to the sky and sigh and said: "The general of the Takeda Army Li Xiaozhi is by no means inferior to Xin Xuan Gong and Xin Fan Gong, my sister Xiao Lu family has such a big enemy, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the Hida Country." ”

Sister Xiaolu Lai Gang asked, "Father, can't we really stop Li Xiao from building a city in Hida?" ”

Sister Koji Ryori shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, I have delayed him enough time, whether he can finish it before the heavy snow in Hida Country depends on his luck."

In September, after Li Xiaojun repelled the offensive of Sister Xiaolu's family, he finally relieved the biggest external crisis.

Now the construction of Kamiokanda Castle has finally been able to continue.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the construction period is progressing smoothly.

However, in September, a torrential rain suddenly arrived, and the highland river swelled, destroying not only the castle town, but also the timber accumulation needed to build the castle.

Suddenly, the timber would be washed away by a flash flood and lost.

The heavy rain continued for several days, and the 600 people could only build the city in the heavy rain.

The heavy rain was cold and freezing, and the people were miserable.

Even Li Xiao personally went to the front line to supervise the work.

Looking at this pouring rain, Li Xiao suddenly asked Xiaohan Xiaoxian beside him, "What do you think of this heavy rain?" ”

Xiaohan Xiaoxian thought for a moment and replied: "It's a good thing, lord, this heavy rain is just a test of whether the house we have built is firm and strong, and if there are any shortcomings, we should correct them immediately." ”

Li Xiao laughed when he heard this, admired Xiaohata Xiaoxian's attitude, nodded and said, "It's just a person who works hard in the rain." ”

At this moment, Shima Katsu Meng, Shigang Kazuha Dazang Chang'an, Kinoshita Koichiro and other Li Xiao's retainers also braved the rain to rush to the place where Li Xiao was.

Dao Sheng said fiercely: "My lord, this rain is estimated to not stop for several days. I've heard that there have been complaints among the people who have threatened us to stop working. ”

Shigang Yiyu said coldly: "If they really dare to do this, kill a few of them and warn." ”

"It's not going to work."

Li Xiao shook his head, he knew that the people of this book were super strong in patience and obedience, and if they were not forced to the minimum, they would never rise up to resist.

In Chang'an, Kinoshita Koichiro was from humble backgrounds, so they could empathize with the pain of ordinary people building cities in the rain, so they also echoed Li Xiao's point of view.

Shigang Yiyu shook his head and said, "If it weren't for that, what better way would we have?" ”

The Great Treasurer Chang'an advised: "My lord, we can divide the six hundred people into two groups, and if the two groups take turns to build the city, they should not have any complaints. ”

"But then the progress is much slower." Koichiro Kinoshita asked questions on the side.

At this time, Dao Sheng suddenly said: "It won't be slow, anyway, it is impossible for the sister road army to attack this city now, and our standing reserves can also be put into building the city, so that there will be not two groups of people, but three groups of people." ”

Dazang Chang'an listened to Dao Shengmeng's opinion, and immediately his eyebrows fluttered, and he said: "It's great like this, Lord Dao Shengmeng, is it really okay?" ”

"No problem." Shimakatsu nodded in affirmation.

Li Xiao listened to everyone's opinions, and obviously looked like he was thinking about his family wholeheartedly, and couldn't help but be very happy.

So Li Xiao finally said: "Then it is decided, we will divide into three groups, each time we will divide into two groups to build the city, and the other group will rest." At the same time, we must prepare a place to rest and shelter from the rain, and boil hot soup to ward off the cold, so that everyone who participated in the construction of the city in the rain can drink it. And all the people in the city, including me, must participate in the construction of the city, and there can be no exception. ”

When everyone heard that even Li Xiao personally participated in the construction of the city, they were too surprised for a while.

Dazang Chang'an said happily: "If the lord joins, even if these people are tired and hard, they will not have any complaints." ”

In the sixth year of Eiroku, in early October, the first heavy snow in Hida Country finally fell.

This first snow was ten days earlier than the first snow in the fifth year of Yonglu, and it was not small, it rained for three days in a row, and the snow was not deep at the feet.

Not to mention Hida, it is Echichu and Echigo, and the entire Hokuriku is covered under this winter snow.

After the heavy snowfall, the temperature plummets, and the weather freezes suddenly.

In the heavy snow, Li Xiao wore a white bear fur cloak, a thick hat, a katana, and a katana, and took Shimakatsu Takeshi, Shigang Kazuyu and several horses back to inspect the castle in Shengang.

"See the lord!"

"See the lord!"

The ashigaru people who are cruising come forward to pay their respects.

Li Xiao waved his hand, stepped on the snow along the road from the outer pill, all the way to the main pill.

In the midst of the snowflakes, the triple tenshu of Kamioka Castle stood silently, ice cubes hanging on all sides of the eaves, hanging down one by one.

Ōzo Chang'an, Kinoshita Koichiro, and several craftsmen stood aside, looking up at the triple castle tower together.

As soon as Dazang Chang'an saw Li Xiao rushing over, he bowed and begged for reward, and said: "My lord, under this heavy snowfall, everything is intact in my Shengang City, and the samurai Ashigaru Yashiki is all fine, and no one is frostbitten. ”

"Got it, thanks to your scheming. If it weren't for the rush of the rainy days, how could we have built the city before the first snowfall? Li Xiao smiled and patted Dazang Chang'an's shoulder.

The Great Treasurer An Tun felt a burst of excitement, originally when he was transferred from Takeda Katsuyori to Li Xiao's retainer as a retainer, he was still dissatisfied, but now he saw that he was under Li Xiao, and he could play his talents, and suddenly felt that this was the place where he could show his skills.

Xiaohan Xiaoxian smiled at Dazang Chang'an and said: "I don't know a few days ago, who is still worried that this city will not be able to withstand the test of heavy snow, and the whole thing is worried. ”

Dazang Chang'an laughed when he heard this, his old face was slightly red, and he also felt a little embarrassed.

Together with Li Xiao, all the retainers looked at the three-fold castle tower standing proudly, and looked back at the hardships of the city in the past few months, and everyone couldn't help but sigh.

Shima Katsu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Who knew that this first snow would fall so early, or a heavy snow, if it weren't for our previous rush work, I guess this city would have failed." ”

Kinoshita Koichiro also said at this time: "My lord, thanks to the people, if they had been working all night, our city would never have been built so quickly. ”

The rest of the retainers also spoke passionately.

"Anyway, we have succeeded in building the city."

"Yes, we finally have our own foothold and built a city of our own."

"We can do it."

Li Xiao smiled slightly, turned his eyes from everyone's faces one by one, and said: "Thousands of high-rise buildings have risen from the ground, in the past few months, thanks to everyone's concerted efforts, I would like to express my gratitude." ”

"Oh!"

All the retainers were in high spirits and agreed in unison, and their morale was high for a while.

Then Li Xiao's retainers came to the third level of the castle tower together, and looked down condescendingly, and the scenery was infinite for a while.

The entire plateau river was already at their feet, and in the midst of the heavy snow, the Hida country, where the mountains were stacked, suddenly became clear in their eyes.

(To be continued)