Chapter 20: Blood Shou Honmaru

On the slope of a green mountain, Kitazawa Yoshikiyo looked at the injured subordinates around him, Kitazawa Yoshitaka was also temporarily unable to exert his strength because of the arm injured by falling from a horse, and he was surrounded by subordinates with their heads hanging down. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"I'm the one who hurt everyone!" He said with a little sadness.

Dadaoye said: "We died in battle for the Kitazawa family, and we died without regrets." ”

Kitazawa Yoshikiyo patted Dadaoye's shoulder, everything was silent; Da Dao Ye also smiled bitterly, he didn't know where the future road was.

"Lords, look." One of his subordinate samurai suddenly stood up and shouted at Kitazawa Yoshikiyo.

Kitazawa Yoshikiyo and Dadaoye walked over and took a look, and their faces changed drastically. I saw an army of 500 people stepping on neat steps, step by step towards the Seven Households Castle.

"Is Yoshinao a family back?" Dao Ye couldn't help but ask.

Kitazawa Yoshikiyoshi shook his head, he saw the southern crane pattern flag and Ishikawa crane pattern: "Ishikawa Takanbu is here." ”

"What? Did the Qingzheng Palace send reinforcements so soon? One of his subordinates exclaimed.

At this moment, Kitazawa Yoshikiyo is even a little glad that it is not himself who is in Shichinohe City now, and he suddenly regrets a little that he decided to rebel against the southern family, and it is not something he can compete with any army sent by the southern family!

Ishikawa Takanobu walked leisurely with a team of thirty horses, and in front of him was Shichinohe Castle to go and take a rest, and received a report from Yoshinao halfway, he led his army to surround Lima Castle, is it to not hand over the military power to me? Hum! He snorted coldly in his heart.

"My lord." A samurai on horseback galloped over to restrain his horse and reported: "My lord, we have found that the gates of the seven houses are closed, and there are a lot of blood stains and losses on and under the city, so we must have experienced a bloody battle not long ago. ”

"Oh? Everyone speed up. "Could it be that the Igen clan has already attacked here? When did it go into the hinterland of North County?

When 500 people were arrayed under the castle, a samurai stepped forward and called the door: "Ishikawa Mino has arrived, open the city gate quickly." ”

Zenjiro had a headache when he looked at the army under the city, and he had no choice but to report to Iyuanzhe.

"Open the door!" The warrior under the castle was on his horse and kept shouting.

When Yi Yuanzhe came out with a strip of cloth wrapped in his right hand and grabbed the sword, he saw that this was the reinforcement of the southern family. The military appearance is fundamentally different from that of the Kitazawa family just now, neatly and capably, and they are in a posture of attacking at any time.

"Yoshinao-sama has left for Lima City, and this city is not open to anyone." Iwon-chul wanted to stall for time.

"Bastard! Open the door, Ishikawa Hall is not something you righteous lackeys can offend? The samurai cursed.

Ishikawa Takanobu sensed that something was wrong, and a samurai said something in Ishikawa's ear.

I saw two samurai bring a man dressed as a down-and-out samurai.

"Say, what just happened?"

The samurai was already frightened, he was originally a low-ranking samurai of the Kitazawa family, but he was frightened by Iyuan Zhe during the war and fled. I wanted to escape, but I was caught by the Ishikawa family's horseback samurai who was a sentry.

"Big ...... My lord, I can see it clearly, it is a black eagle pattern, not a household and a word pattern. The lord he, no, it was Kitazawa who rebelled and they wanted to take advantage of the emptiness in the city to take it, but the Iyuan family took the lead. ……”

After Ishikawa Takanobu listened, he believed it, and the blood and broken flags around him proved it one by one.

With a wave of his hand, the man was taken down, and his fate was to be lightly slashed by the Ishikawa samurai.

"My lord, they don't open the door." The samurai returned to the main camp.

"Of course they won't open the door." Ishikawa Takanobu turned his head and shouted back, "Prepare to attack." ”

"Wow!" So the army shouted in unison, and the head of the gun was tilted.

"Shoot the arrows!" With an order, arrows rushed up to the city, "Ah~" An Yiyuan soldier was shot down the corner tower. Suddenly, there were seventeen or eighteen people in the city.

Yi Yuanzhe hurriedly ordered to dodge, because his side had just gone through the battle and was physically exhausted, and there were only more than 70 people left, and 20 people lost their combat power in this array of arrows.

Cage City is only possible if you have enough troops to fill the loopholes in the city's defenses, of course, now Iyuanzhe does not belong to that type. He watched many of his subordinates die in wailing, and even had a regret in his heart, did he take too many risks to rush forward? I don't know how long Teng Zheng and they will arrive. He stood up and commanded his men into battle positions, and after the arrows they might take the city.

Whoosh, boom! Yi Yuanzhe suddenly felt a chill in his left shoulder.

"Lord!" "Lord ......" his subordinates immediately picked him up and ran towards Honmaru.

He looked at the sky, and he knew that the arrow was stuck in him. Blood kept pouring out.

When he entered the Honmaru, a soldier wanted to pull out an arrow, but Zenjiro slapped him directly: "Bastard, do you want to kill the lord?" Get me some medicine. ”

Everyone immediately copied the Honmaru to the bottom of the day.

But Ishikawa Takanobu's offensive did not pause at all, "Huh! Ooh! "The soldiers slammed into the city gates, and some even climbed the city walls, and since Igen Tetsunaka Zenjiro led his men to protect him inside the Honmaru, only the Igen army was left in the outer Qulun and Ninomaru.

Although the Yiyuan army was fierce and not afraid of death, the city could not achieve a comprehensive defense due to the gap in numbers, and the soldiers of the Yiyuan family continued to die in random shots.

"Boom! Boom! "Hah! "The southern Ishikawa army has begun its final offensive, and the city gates Quren and Ninomaru have been lost.

"My lord, the enemy army has entered the city." A wounded ashigaru came in to report it, nodded to Zenjiro and immediately went out to continue the fight.

The arrows on Iwon-cheol's body were cut off, leaving the remaining arrows in his shoulder blades. He looked at the dozen or so people around him, and everyone looked at him with a determined expression.

"Zenjiro, let me die like a samurai!" At this time, Iyuanzhe only regretted endlessly, regretting that he had let his brothers die tragically because of his plan, and regretting that he was going to die if he failed to unify Mutsu.

"Lord, Ninomaru is gone, there is still this pill, even if there is no Honmaru and our body, swear to protect the lord."

"Swear to defend the lord to the death!" The others around were also inspired by Zenjiro's words and shouted in unison.

At this time, the southern Ishikawa army had completed the encirclement of Honmaru.

"Kill it!" "Hah!" Ishikawa's army attacked Honmaru, and Zenjiro led his men to resist the enemy's attack in the narrow passage at the entrance to Honmaru. Except for the stone masonry of the base, the Honmaru is all wooden, and it is far less conducive to defense than the strong castle tower, and there are examples of ancient castles that relied on the castle tower to defend the half-moon, but it was built on a solid stone castle, and Shichinohe Castle Honmaru did not have such a strong defense.

"Drink! ...... "Blood splattered at the door of Honmaru, and six more people had fallen under Zenjiro's knife, and he was also like a bloody man. Iyuanzhe went upstairs under the escort of two of his men, who occasionally killed the enemy with their longbows.

"My lord, they have already defended Honmaru." A samurai reports to Takanbu Ishikawa outside the castle.

Ishikawa Takannobu nodded, and the samurai beside him laughed, what could be more pleasing than defeating the enemy, even if they had the advantage.

"Take down the head of the commander of their team."

"Oh!" The warrior left and entered the city.

At this time, Ishikawa Takanobu didn't know that the head he was going to take was the head of the Iyuan family.

And Kitazawa Yoshikiyo still did not leave on the hillside, "After all, it still fell!" He sighed, but then his pupils shrank, and the hooves of galloping horses were reflected.