Iwaki Castle.

The sky was gray, and the second day of the Battle of the Cage City of Iwaki City was a cloudy day.

In the Tengu Maru, the flag seal of the Echigo Army's Uesugi Sasa stands tall, and countless black-clad and black-armored Echigo samurai ashigaru hedgehogs gather in the city, and the mountain wind blows, and the flag fingers are plucked and fluttered like ocean waves.

Kan Kazumo, Shinbata Nagatsu is holding the sword at his waist, standing in the highest samurai house of Tengu Maru, looking out at Ninomaru in the mountains of Iwakuyama.

From Tengu Maru, there are two main roads that lead to Honmaru at the summit of Mt. Iwaku, passing through Ninomaru and Nakajo respectively.

The road from Midtown is very difficult to navigate, the terrain is difficult and only a few people can pass through, and it is flanked by cliffs.

On the other hand, the Ninomaru horse road, although the attack distance is a little farther, is a relatively spacious mountain road, but the disadvantage is that if you attack Ninomaru from Tengu Maru, you will be attacked by Nakajo, Honmaru, and Ninomaru itself at the same time, and three fires.

Which route to attack was a difficult choice for the Echigo army.

In the end, after discussions with Uesugi Kenshin, it was finally agreed that Ninomaru would be the main direction of attack, and Nakajo would use a feint to disperse the pressure on Ninomaru's attacking troops.

Gan Bad Jing Zhi, Xinfa Tian Changdun's subordinates are all recuperating after yesterday's day, and they are all new forces, and they are all ready to go.

The same new force also had a drawback, they were inexperienced in attacking a fortified city like Iwaji, which they had to trade their lives for a lesson in the beginning.

This time, Kanya Keichi set the reward for the spear of Ninomaru Ichiban, who was the first to attack, that no matter whether the samurai Ashigaru was ashigaru, he could get 400 stone Zhixing, which was twice as much as the reward set by Katsucho Shibe and Nakajo Fujizi yesterday.

Under such a heavy reward, the soldiers of the Echigo army were boiling, and they were waiting for the opportunity to attack the city.

And Gan Ya Keiji was also confident that with the bravery and good fighting of the Echigo army, and the fierceness of such a high reward, it was enough for them to exert 200% of their combat power.

Gan Yu Jingzhi is convinced that Ninomaru will definitely be able to go down today!

As the mountain fog dissipated, Kanya Keichi finally gave the order to the Echigo army to go out of battle.

The roar of the Ninomaru iron cannon suddenly woke up Takeda Katsuyori, who was sleeping lightly.

Takeda Katsuyori's first reaction was to reach out and touch the katana next to his pillow, and only after hearing the gunfire that he was still some distance away from him was a little relieved.

He hadn't slept all night last night, and only when it was almost dawn, he slept lightly for less than two hours.

He walked to the north side of the castle tower, and when he put up the window, he was greeted by the earth-shattering noise, and what he saw in front of him was the lineup of the Echigo army when it came out of the battle.

In a small tengu pill, I don't know how many Echigo troops were waiting to come out, and they were waiting for the battle.

From the top of the road leading to Ninomaru from the top of the castle tower, a pair of black armor was advancing one after another, carrying a shield and flocking towards Ninomaru like a dense swarm of ants.

Then the Ninomaru curl wheel, and the iron cannon on the arrow oar sounded, and the arrows rained down. However, as if ordered to die, the Echigo Gunashigaru began to fill the Horikiri in front of Ninomaru in ignorance of their comrades, who were constantly being killed by iron cannon bows and arrows.

The Echigo army continued to fall from bullets and arrows, but immediately a follow-up Ashigaru took his dirt bag and filled Horikiri forward. One by one, the Echigo army seemed to be dying, and rushed to Ninomaru, where the Takeda army was stationed.

Just as the Echigo army launched a wave of attacks towards Ninomaru, at this time, the iron artillery team of Nakajo, as well as Honmaru's side, and the warp wheel close to Ninomaru's side, also sounded at the same time.

Under the salvo from three sides, the Echigo army that attacked Ninomaru finally suffered a large number of casualties.

After dodging this wave of bombardment, the surviving Echigo soldiers seemed to have finally begun to realize what a terrible thing death was, so they relented a lot and hid behind the arrow board, not daring to come out.

The same Echigo army had enough troops, and even had spare strength, so Asamaru sent a force to Mado in Nakajo to attack it.

Take out the Chisato Cylinder and see clearly the flag seal of the general fluttering in the Tengu Pill, Takeda Katsuyori knew that it was the general of the Echigo Army who was in charge of the siege of the castle, Kanya Keiji, Shinbata Nagatsu, the name of the bravery of these two people, he had heard of it when he was in Kai.

The same number of troops under their command were also the elite of the Echigo army.

Takeda Katsuyori made a rough estimate on the castle tower that the siege force dispatched by the Echigo army was between two and three times that of the Takeda army defending the castle, and what was even worse was that this was only a part of the Echigo army's huge military strength of 17,000.

How many days can we hold out?

At the moment, even Katsuyori Takeda, who has always been full of confidence, has this question in his mind at this moment.

Immediately, Takeda Katsuyori snorted heavily, and said to him, as Li Xiao said, if Uesugi Huihu wants to take Iwaki City, he must take 10,000 surnames to fill it.

The general of the Takeda Army stationed in Midtown was Okuma Ashide, while Ninomaru was personally commanded by Li Xiao himself.

The fierce battle of the siege lasted all morning, with the powerful firepower of the iron artillery team, as well as the cooperation of Nakajo and Honmaru.

The Echigo army attacked Ninomaru, where Li Xiao was, and left more than 200 corpses in one morning, but there was no advance. They can't even fill in Horikiri.

It's no wonder that the two of them, in terms of favorable terrain conditions for the defenders, Ninomaru is twice as difficult as the Tengu Pill that they attacked yesterday with Katsucho Sebe, and Nakajo Fujishi.

Li Xiao can completely imagine that the opposite side of Gan Bad Jingzhi, Xinfa Tian Changdun, facing Jiancheng Ninomaru, looked like thunder, but he looked helpless.

And in fact, after the overall management of the ammunition and arrows of the iron cannon bow and arrow overnight in Chang'an, the consumption of ammunition and arrows today is much lower than that of yesterday.

Based on the current use of Takeda Army's iron cannon bows and arrows, Li Xiao's prediction that if it continues to be used according to this trend, it can support three more days.

Li Xiao praised him for his outstanding performance, which made him, a young man who has always been eager to get ahead, very excited.

For Dazang Chang'an, whether as a close public or the original ape musician, he doesn't want to be a pleasing courtier in the eyes of the lord all the time, and he is also eager to prove himself from the other side. Because he had no talent in martial arts, he went to Hakata no Town in Kyushu and learned mining skills from Nanban merchants.

But he didn't expect that under Takeda Katsuyori, he discovered his talent for managing and coordinating this other side.

At present, as long as the Great Treasure Chang'an can survive this battle of Iwaki Castle, he must be an important retainer of the Takeda Katsuyori family retainers in the future.

But these extra three days are still far from enough for the defenders of the city. Just as Li Xiao was calculating how to further save the iron cannon ammunition to support it for a few more days.

At this moment, in the sky, dark clouds were thick, lightning flashed, and thunder sounded.

Seeing this scene, even Li Xiao's face couldn't help but change dramatically at this moment.

"Oh no, this time the iron cannon ammunition can really be saved." Li Xiao looked up at the sky and said to himself.

The same Echigo army was located in the main camp of Tengu Maru.

From the house, Shinbata Nagatsu saw the scene of Ninomaru's former Echigo army being killed and wounded.

They were all eager to break the city at the moment, and as soon as the city was broken, they would capture all the iron cannons of the Takeda Army and execute them one by one.

For the Echigo army, the damage of iron cannons is worse than that of bows and arrows, and bows and arrows can also avoid blocking, and even on the body, there is armor that can be weakened.

But the iron cannon is completely unavoidable, unstoppable, and it is a hole in the iron armor.

In the face of the suppression of the iron cannon, no matter how brave the Echigo samurai, he would not dare to play with his surname, and would rather be hacked to death by the enemy samurai from the front with a dignified sword, or be killed by a shot by this invisible thing, and die completely unclear.

At present, the situation is good, and Shinbata Nagatun is very worried in his heart, and the difficult terrain of Ninomaru and the terrifying number of iron cannons of the Takeda army have made it difficult for them to move forward.

They were even thinking that if the military strength was so badly damaged today, they would not be able to attack the Takeda Army Ninomaru in one step.

In the face of the anger of the Uesugi Teruto, should they commit suicide on the spot in order to atone for their sins.

Just when the two of them were at a loss, there was thunder in the sky, and they looked at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

Sweet and bad, Xinfa Tian Nagatsu rushed out of the house, and the air was filled with a damp and fishy smell.

They held on the railing with their hands and watched the lightning in the sky, swimming like a golden snake, and the thunder roared, and then a strong wind blows, and the raindrops the size of beans crackle in an instant.

Between heaven and earth, in an instant, heavy rain poured.

"God help me." Gan Lijing looked up to the sky and sighed.

Then Gan Yu Keigi turned his head, and in the heavy rain, a large area of the Echigo army ashigaru who were on standby waved his hand, and said murderously: "The iron cannon of the Takeda army has become a pile of scrap iron at the moment, sons, follow me out of battle, take down Ninomaru, and then kill Honmaru directly, and take the head of Takeda Katsuyori." ”

Oh!

The Echigo soldiers raised the tips of their guns and said yes loudly.

Immediately, like a rolling torrent, the Echigo army swarmed towards Ninomaru in Iwaki Castle.