Chapter 351: Battle of Shuiwei Mountain

The poisonous plan of Guangdeji Chengxian did have an unexpected effect, but Yamamoto Tokiyuki, who defended the city, was not good at stubble, and knew that Matsukura Castle would not be attacked for a while and a half, so he personally came to Mizuo Mountain Castle to supervise the battle, and under his organization, the gold juice that had been buried in the city for a long time was unsealed, and the people were busy setting up a cauldron to boil the gold juice over the fire, and the boiling gold juice exuded a foul smell that could not be concealed.

Yamamoto Shixing slowly walked to the cauldron containing the golden juice with a bamboo cane, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and frowned and said: "Ueno no Suke, look at it, this is the city defense technique recorded in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", I know why the old man built such a high stone wall, standing on the city wall and splashing an army with this thing will have a miraculous effect!" ”

Numata Yumitsu coughed twice, he couldn't bear the stench and deliberately pulled away a little, and felt a little better before he said: "You can also insert arrows into it and cook it, but this method is out of harmony and is spurned by the samurai, is it really okay for us to use it like this?" ”

"If he is unkind, will I not be unjust?" Yamamoto Shixing snorted coldly: "The civilians' vicious tactics of attacking the city are not the work of the samurai, there is a vicious monk with a bad mind in the army on the opposite side, since he dares not to use this vicious tactic, the old man doesn't mind teaching him a lesson!" The old man also knows that this law is harmful to Tianhe and cannot be abused, so he transferred the National People's Army and the Shiina Army, and handed it over to you to implement here, only this time it will not be an example! ”

Numata Yumitsu perked up, and hurriedly said solemnly: "Please rest assured, Master!" ”

Seven or eight strong men covered their mouths and noses with cloth, carrying a cauldron containing gold juice and walked up to the city wall, like this cauldron is full of twenty mouthfuls all over the city wall of Mizuoshan Castle, which contains a foul-smelling gold juice that becomes a reminder, Numata Yumitsu stood at the head of the city, looking at the crazy people under the city, and the believers showed unbearable expressions. I hesitated for a long time and couldn't bear to give an order.

At that moment, there was a commotion from the top of the city. In one place, a group of believers stepped on the bodies of their companions and climbed onto the wall. Fortunately, the quick-eyed Kira army samurai kicked him down again, and Ashigaru, who was slow to react, immediately rushed over and picked up his spear and poked it violently, so as to resolve the crisis.

"It's not that I'm cruel, it's really that this troubled world is so cruel, I'm sorry!" Yumitsu Numata waved his hand and yelled, "Splash the gold juice!" Splash it on a crowded place, don't waste it! ”

The so-called gold juice is human feces and urine, which can be used as medicine to treat diseases, and it is a weapon for blindly defending the city recorded in the military book. The boiling gold juice is the ancient version of the biological and chemical weapons, the gold juice is different from the boiling boiling water or boiling oil, the former has poor thermal insulation performance, the latter is too expensive, the material is difficult to collect, the gold juice is heated at one time and the thermal insulation performance is excellent, not to mention that it is poured on the group of unarmored and lightly armored soldiers in the city, that is, the elite warrior with an iron armor is poured on his head and face, and his end is only a dead word.

The army under the city did not know that a catastrophe was about to be ushered in, and the boiling gold juice splashed on the body and immediately scalded the skin and flesh of the whole body, and the young believers were covered with foul-smelling gold juice, and the bright red flesh and blood were exposed and wailed wildly and fluttered and rolled around. But the more he did this, the more wounds broke all over his body, and gradually the wails were drowned out by more screams. The figure also disappeared into the frenzied surging army.

The smell of corpses and the smell of gold juice overlapped, facing the cool sea breeze of early autumn to the south shore of the camp, the stinky vomiting of those monks who were powerful and blessed, Guangde Temple Chengxian's eyes were smoked and could not open, snot and tears kept flowing uncomfortably and wanted to die, and it took a while to ease up, at this time he had vomited so much that he didn't even have the strength to speak.

Twenty pots of gold juice were sprinkled, and the stench of the sky completely extinguished the fanatical mood of the believers, and when they came back to their senses and found themselves in the midst of a mountain of corpses, the huge mental stimulation drove many of the believers crazy, and the morale of the army collapsed, and tens of thousands of believers fled without their lives.

As a last resort, Guangde Temple Chengxian sent the main force of the army to try to save the morale of the rout, but the corpse mountain under the city is not clear, no one can stand on the ground, and the attack did not last for a few hours to be smoked with black eyes and retreated, and all kinds of methods have been exhausted for several days in a row, and there is no way to solve it, and the defenders who want to clean up the corpse in the city have no fierce reaction, that is, there is nothing to scatter arrows to deal with.

As long as the arrows soaked in gold juice are hit, the wounds will rot within a few days, and then the wounded will scratch frantically until the whole body festers and dies, with this experience, no one dares to go to the city to clean up the corpses, and the consequence of letting them rot and emit a stench is that flies and insects are flying all over the sky, and the siege is even more distant.

Fortunately, a violent storm swept in, and the torrential rain washed away the smell of rotting corpses, and the defenders in the city really couldn't stand the smell, and the defenders in the city were all about to lose their smelly organs.

Stay up until the clouds and rain stop, only half a month away from the autumn harvest, Guangde Temple Chengxian is busy and sent a large army to continue to attack the city, this time has always been a large army is quite regular, just let the main army around a few city gates to storm fiercely, worried that the vitality is not enough and deliberately sent five hundred iron artillery to the big hand gate as fire support.

The sound of iron cannons in ping-pong came and went, most of the soldiers had never seen such a thing as iron cannons, and when they heard the sound of spring thunder, they thought it was the thunder god in the sky cheering, and suddenly the morale was greatly boosted, and the rhythm of the attack was accelerated, and it was a strong attack for a few days, and the fortified city was still standing for a few days, and the defenders in the city died a total of more than 600 people in half a month, and the so-called five or seven days to capture the city became a complete joke.

Numata Yumitsu stood energetically at the head of the castle and looked very excited, these months of training is a test of his studies for several years, but also a huge improvement of his own level, Mizuo Mountain Castle has to be in charge of everything, at the age of early twenties, he led thousands of troops, thousands of townspeople to complete such a large-scale defense of the city, such a valuable experience is not something anyone can encounter.

"Master, I silently counted forty-five times before the second round of salvos, I have always been equipped with an old-style iron cannon, from a distance, the morale of the army is low and the formation is scattered, as long as there is a naval army to cooperate with the opportunity to go out to the decisive battle, I am sure to hit them by surprise!" Numata Yumitsu looked extremely confident, and in his eyes, this has always been nothing more than that.

Yamamoto Tokiko was noncommittal about this, but changed the subject: "Ueno nosuke." You've been doing a great job lately. But it's not perfect enough. Old man, there is an important task to be handed over to you, the siege of Yujin City by the Yuezhong army is very urgent, so you will take 4,000 national troops to support the defenders of Yujin City, and you will temporarily act as the city lord as the military power, but you must remember! You can only hold on and not go out of the city to seek a decisive battle, understand? ”

"The army of 4,000 people can only hold on and not seek a decisive battle? Why did Master put forward such harsh conditions? Numata Yumitsu didn't dare to refute, so he could only lead the troops to Uozu Castle with a mind full of doubts.

When it rained a few days ago. When the news came that the 30,000 Ichichi army was besieging Uozu Castle as a partial division, Shiina Yasuyin found Yamamoto Tokiyuki, hoping that the Kira army would assist the Shiina family to block the 30,000 Ichichi army, and in the face of the enemy army with absolute superiority in numbers and the position of old enemy Jimbo, Shiina Yasuin himself did not have the courage to take his little family to the rescue.

He was also afraid that if he really brought all his family wealth to Uozu Castle, if the Kira naval army came to cross the river and demolish the bridge, he would only need to withdraw the fire and material support from the sea, and let the 30,000 troops besiege Uozu Castle, and the city would be in a situation of running out of ammunition and food in a month at most, so he offered a high price and was willing to pay the Kira family with land.

Tokiyuki Yamamoto didn't get the words through. His expectations for Numata Yumitsu are still high, but now he is not mature enough to take charge of his own experience. Only using his own elite reserve to fight is not a qualified general, in the near future Kira family to fight a lot of wars, if you want to become the commander of one side, you must be familiar with the method of dominating the national army, there is no shortcut.

It is still possible to win one or two sneak attacks as long as his 4,000 national army is properly coordinated with the Kira water army, but the enemy army on the opposite side is not the big straw bag of Guangde Temple Chengxian, Shengxing Temple Yuncheng has more than 20 years of experience in leading the troops, and the head snake of the Shenbao Chang is very familiar with Yuezhong and is extremely difficult to deal with.

If Numata Yumitsu is allowed to win two games accidentally, it will inevitably give birth to a sense of slackness and contempt in his heart, and the judgment of the attack is more rash and subjective, which will inevitably lead to big trouble, and with the military strategy level of several generals who have always been able to figure out the level of Numata Yumitsu, he can quickly find out the details of Numata Yumitsu's level, and only a small cooperation can make a backhand ambush and annihilate all the defenders of Uozu Castle.

Let him defend the city is afraid that he will do something stupid with a hot head, which is the same as the principle of cultivating martial arts, if you want to learn to attack, first learn to defend, and if you can't do well in defense, you can talk about attack, give him 4,000 national army instead of 4,000 new army, it is to exercise his command level in defending the city in adversity, and in the face of unfamiliar national army, he can also lead a good team to defend the city in order to be considered successful in learning and art, every challenge is a test for him, and he can be regarded as entering the house after crossing this threshold.

Sending Numata Yumitsu to experience it, he knew that his choice was to gamble with his life, but Yamamoto Shiyuki was still very confident in Numata Yumitsu, and after years of contact and training, he knew that this apprentice was not the kind of pedantic person like Ma Tan, and a splash of gold juice was such a test, and the pedantic had no place to stand in this troubled world, and it turned out that his performance was still very good.

As for the pasty-brained Shiina Yasuyin, who is just a small man, this gentleman's idea is very stupid and naΓ―ve, and he also thinks that the Kira army will defend the city for him for free, and after the matter is completed, he will randomly pick a piece of land that has no owner in the war to the Kira family, and admit that in the first year of Oei (1521), Nagao was the guardian of Shinkawa County obtained by the Jing period, and the Shiina family was willing to be the "guardian generation" to continue to dominate the actual control of Shinkawa County.

I have to say that his ideals are very plump, but the reality is so skinny, Yamamoto Shiyuki disdains his perfunctory words, the Kira family is not a costless insistence to defend Yuezhong, and it takes money to invest so much money and food, how can it be ended by the Shiina family's fluttering guardian generation.

It's not impossible to move the Kira family to rescue and aid Uozu Castle.,The premise is to use a large territory near Uozu Castle in exchange.,As long as Shiina Yasuin nods here.,The next day the army will go to Uozu Castle.,This proposal was immediately rejected by Shiina Yasuyin.,This gentleman is ambitious and daydreaming of unifying Yuezhong.,It's strange that I'm not in a hurry to cut his own land.。

The heavy rain Fang Xie has always been a smashing army to start moving again, the Uozu Castle side is more urgent, the city has a thousand defenders and no name general to defend it, the Kira water army is not willing to take risks for them, seeing that the city is about to be breached, he can't help hesitating, Shiina Yasuyin can be sure that the Kira army is most likely able to hold on after the Uozu Castle is breached.

He didn't have this ability himself, and many of the more than 3,000 people in his only family were people from the vicinity of Yujin City, and once Yujin City was breached, they would lose the support of their land and soldiers. The peasants and soldiers don't care what your countrymen think, they must run back to their hometowns.

Because people are social creatures, there is a herd mentality. As soon as the first deserter appears. Soon there will be more and more deserters, and it will almost snowball bigger and bigger, and the morale that was okay will collapse because of this, and without the peasant soldiers, there will be no countrymen, and without the support of the countrymen, the Shiina family will be in danger.

In the end, Shiina Yasuyin chose to relent, and was willing to give half of the Shiina family's land to reward the Kira family, provided that the Kira family promised to protect the Shiina family from the previous violations, and he also hoped to go to Kasuga Mountain Castle to meet the town palace after the war. The meaning expressed is almost that he wants to exchange half of the land for the qualification to hitchhike on the Kira family, and Yamamoto Tokiyuki accepts his proposal and invites Shiina Nagatsune to visit Kasuga Mountain Castle at the right time, and leaves Shiina Yasuyin bluffed, and flees in embarrassment after a few hasty responses.

Shiina Yasuyin has how many levels of discerning people can see, in recent years, the Shiina family has been able to barely withstand the attack of the Jinbao family, thanks to the fact that there is still a root in the family of the sea god needle, there is no Shiina Changchang from time to time, less than five years of Chenguang, Shiina Yasuin can defeat half of the foundation of the Shiina family, and within ten years, it is enough to remove the Shiina family from Yuezhong.

On the evening of the second day, the 4,000 national troops rushed to Uozu Castle on the roundabout ship of the Kira Naval Army. For the Kira army to send troops to rescue so blatantly, the only reaction of the army has always been dry staring and scolding. They have neither a navy nor the power to obstruct it, the Kira family is to take advantage of the evening to send troops to the gap between the army and the army to respond to the meal, you are not blocking it, and you are not blocking it, and in the end, you can only watch them rush to Yujin City downstream by boat.

The main force of the Kira Navy Einsatzgruppen did not dare to go deep into the Hatsuki River, because the river was not wide, and the ships of the Einsatzgruppen were not enough, and the composition of the fleet was mainly composed of roundabout ships transporting supplies, and it was more difficult to hold a port in Uozu Castle, and letting them blockade them was simply sending them to death.

After a few days, the morale of the previous party was restored, and it seemed that their monks had instilled many things to encourage them to have the courage to dedicate themselves, in short, this army of less than 70,000 people once again mustered up the courage to attack in a big way, and after learning a lesson and not daring to use the tactics of attacking the city, the wise army did not touch the city, and now even the golden juice could not be used.

Their main direction of attack is still placed in a few city gates, with the advantage of manpower to cut down a few big trees to make a battering ram, thousands of believers braved the rain of arrows to hammer the big hand gate, again and again the hammer trembled, the defenders of the city could not do anything about it, they could not pour gold juice from the arrows, Yamamoto Shixing saw that the situation was not good, so he simply gave up this attempt, only soaked a small amount of gold juice with arrows to continue to be used as biological and chemical weapons, and the rest was all removed.

Calm down has always been a smashing army is still difficult to deal with, around the gate is a dead knot, no matter how strong the gate is always breached, in the crumbling big gate survived the fifth day, Yamamoto Tokiyuki knew that he had to be ready to fight a tough battle, actively mobilized the samurai to boost morale, and arranged for the defenders in the city to eat a full meal and rest.

At dawn on the second day, a full-scale attack was launched by a group of troops, and the Otemen gate was finally smashed through by a battering ram before noon, and the swarming army of a group of people rushed into the city like a hungry wolf, and the Kira army fought and retreated into Sannomaru to hold on, and a tragic siege battle was inevitable.

The 3,000 Kira army and the 2,000 Shiina troops in the city held their positions to meet the stormy invasions again and again, and the iron artillery team of the army had always been vigorous, and the defenders did not have iron cannons to hide behind and keep firing cold guns, if it were not for the biological and chemical weapons in their hands to hit their morale, the defenders in the city did not know how to deal with the crazy army of the army.

The morale of both sides is not comparable, the number of the army occupies the initiative, the defenders gain absolute superiority in equipment and training, mainly because of the geographical advantage so that Yamamoto is fortunate to have the confidence to hold on, the winding ramp on the layers of tiger's mouth, Made, Mikazukibori is like a huge labyrinth, towering walls and arrows become the main firepower of harvesting life.

It has always been a huge price to pay for the army without money, and if you don't kill a defender, you have to take out several times or even more than ten times the casualties, and more importantly, several cities support each other to protect the defenders to the greatest extent, and it is not easy to break the big hand gate during the day, after a night of repair, the next day it is blocked by debris, and if you want to attack it, you have to remove the blocked debris and then continue to attack, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to defend the city.

During the day, the defenders were wounded, and after retreating at night, they retreated to Matsukura Castle to recuperate, and the defenders in the rear continued to defend the city. Tossing back and forth like this will consume the whole thing. Guangdeokji also tried to send a large army to stay in the outer city. At least to keep the results of the day, and as soon as the sun went down and the main force withdrew to Xiguang Temple, the defenders of several other cities came from outside the city, and the internal and external attacks ate this team.

The loss of thousands of elites in vain did not get any effect, Guangde Temple Chengxian seemed to recognize that the situation was far more severe than he imagined, seeing that the autumn harvest was imminent, he did not even pull out a city, he also began to be anxious, and immediately ordered the army to seize Shuiwei Mountain City at all costs within three days.

He has always been ruthless in his desire to capture Shuiwei Mountain City. Even at the expense of giving up the attack of several other castles, it is necessary to take down Mizuoshan Castle and annihilate the defenders, according to the theory of Guangdeji Temple, as long as the defenders of Mizuoshan Castle are annihilated, the other small cities are not to be feared at all, and Matsukura Castle, which has lost its protection, can also be taken in an instant.

I have to say that his opinion is correct, Shuiwei Mountain City gathers sixty percent of the main force of the defenders, when the 60,000 army is dedicated to storming Shuiwei Mountain City, and the big hand gate of this mountain city has long been broken, defending the city has become an extremely difficult task.

The army has always been in a hurry. All the officials of the Echichu Workshop went into battle and attacked Sannomaru under the cover of Ashigaru holding a step. Sannomaru is still a stone pier with an earthen hori inside the arrow, and several tiger mouths are easily blocked by the complex structure of Mikazukihori, and if you want to cross Mikazukibori, you not only need to fill in the soil but also dig the earth, which is almost impossible to complete for the time-constrained Ichichihan.

The main force of the defenders was stationed in several tiger passes, making this place an insurmountable chasm, the narrow trail was only for two people to pass side by side, surrounded by towering arrows like sharp swords, and the army tried to send a few teams of ashigaru to rush in and was wiped out without holding out for a quarter of an hour, they wisely gave up the plan to continue to storm the tiger mouth, and instead forcibly filled in Horikiri and broke over the wall to break into Sannomaru.

Yamamoto Shixing stood on the terrace of the castle tower and looked sideways at the cage battle under the castle, the sound of iron cannons from time to time made his brows furrow tightly, although the old iron cannon had such and such problems, but it was no problem to shoot the unarmored enemy army within twenty meters in windless and dry weather, and the large number of casualties of the defenders in the city basically came from the salvo of the iron cannon, and only twenty iron cannons were needed to gather fire together to cause damage to the bow and arrow in the arrow oar, so that it lasted for more than a dozen rounds, and there was basically no one standing on the arrow oar.

The defenders' response is very interesting, simply carry the bamboo bundle to the arrow oar as a defensive robbery, between the six or seven thick bamboo bundles there are two or three narrow gaps only for shooting, such a response makes the old iron cannon completely useless, for the iron cannon Ashigaru hit rate is like the clouds in the sky is unpredictable, occasionally lucky to hit the bow and arrow in the gap, just like the jackpot can not be repeated.

The earth-filling team moved very quickly, sacrificing hundreds of lives in just one day to fill in a passage over the stone wall, and the few samurai who broke into Sannomaru were immediately set on fire by a large group of bows and arrows, and before they could run a few steps, they were shot into human-shaped hedgehogs.

More and more ashigaru climbed over the castle wall one after another, and the defenders of the castle once again offered a new tactic, the long-prepared oil was thrown at the Ichikazu who broke into Sannomaru with clay pots, and the broken oil canisters splashed all over the body with oil, and the bow and arrow Ashigaru replaced the long-prepared rockets and fired a volley at the oil, and clusters of flames ignited out of thin air, and the fire people struggled and rolled, tearing the carcass armor on their bodies in an attempt to free themselves, and soon they turned into a puddle of rotten flesh that could not be distinguished.

In three days, the Ichichimaru army experienced defeat after defeat and finally took full control of Sannomaru, but all the food and ordnance in Sannomaru were transferred to Ninomaru, and the defenders calmly withdrew to Ninomaru after paying hundreds of lives to continue to hold on, and the next thing that will greet them is that Ninomaru's stone wall has an arrow turret built into the earthen garden.

Regardless of the method of filling the earth or the iron cannon fire, it failed to bring victory to the army that has always been one, and the autumn harvest is approaching, not only the strong demand of the Vietnamese Chinese to stop the senseless offensive, even Kaga Ichikyu has quite a lot of complaints inside, originally said that the city could be broken in five or seven days, and then completed half a month, and then became a month, and finally said that it must be broken before the autumn harvest, and now the autumn harvest is coming to nothing, and even with Mao himself, more than 10,000 lives have been taken, and Guangtokuji Chengxian is under great pressure.

After a fierce dispute that lasted all night, early the next morning, there were dozens of officials who unilaterally announced their retreat within the army, only the remaining 22,000 men of Kaga Province were left, and the most resolute Echichu officials who had been the loudest patter a month ago were also the most resolute, and since you could not bring them benefits, you should be abandoned, no matter who you are.

It's not that Kaga's army doesn't want to go.,It's really that they obeyed the order of the general Chaokatsuji Mi Zhao to come to help.,At this time, if you retreat back, there's no way to make a difference.,People don't go doesn't mean that they still have the heart to continue to fight and die.,Kaga Ichi's army of the fang officials united to persuade Guangtokuji Chengxian to stop in time.,If you can't break it this time, it's the same next time.。

What can Guangde Temple Chengxian do if he is not convinced? The arm can't twist the thigh, and he has more than a hundred monks and soldiers in his hands who are cronies, or stay in Xiguang Temple to be powerful, and it is those officials who really fight and die, and finally glared at Shuiwei Mountain City with hatred, and led the army to retreat unhappily.

At this time, Mizuoyama Castle seemed to have experienced a catastrophe, most of the Shikiya were destroyed and shattered, the stone of Sannomaru was smashed into several deep gaps, the moundi were filled into several mounds, the corpses of the war dead were discarded everywhere, many of the corpses were crawling with flies, and the whole street was filled with a foul smell that could not be concealed.

The defenders in the city killed 2,800 people, and the remaining ashigaru was almost all wounded, and half of the soldiers who died in the battle were the Shiina army and the Kira new army, and the Kira new army died so much because they were on the front line to bear the largest casualties, and two out of every three ashigaru killed by iron cannons were members of the Kira new army, and the more people who defended it, the more they died.

The reason why the Shiina army suffered more casualties was that they were not familiar with the military orders of the Kira family, and they did not respond to the signal to retreat, or they moved slowly when they began to retreat, causing unnecessary losses.

At the same time, the defensive battle of Uozu Castle also successfully persisted until the final victory, and it didn't take long for Numata Yumitsu to understand the special meaning of those two orders, Katsukoji Yuncheng and Jimbo Changshi are not simple characters, and the rhythm of the siege is just right, and sometimes he uses the strategy of attacking the east and west to make him tired of dealing with it every day, and he is unable to think about what to attack out of the city.

Fortunately, the 4,000 national army he brought with him had a deep hatred and hatred for the whole city, and the overall morale was maintained well, plus the original defenders in the city and the deterrence of the bay and the early moon river in the two cities of Ji were able to hold on to this difficult cage battle until the final victory.

After learning the news of the retreat of the leading army of Guangde Temple, Yun Cheng of Shengxing Temple, who had to seize the city first, also breathed a sigh of relief, and attacked a flat city for a month, losing more than 3,000 people and finally not taking it down is a bit ugly, but it is still much better than a big straw bag in Guangde Temple, he has more than 16,000 dead, even if most of them are ordinary believers, he can't hide the nature of his straw bag.

The victory of the two cage battles could not be ignored, and when Yamamoto returned to Matsukura Castle, he strictly ordered the army not to go out to collect grain, let alone attack at will, and had always let them collect the grain west of the Satsuki River if they wanted to do so, and not to risk their lives to collect that little bit of grain.

Most of the land in Viethorn and Central China was abandoned for several months because of the war, and the owners of the fields either fled to Songcang Castle or were taken captive without even pants, and finally they were forced to choose to join or continue to flee the famine.

Fortunately, there is still some grain to be collected on the front line of Yujin City, and the part that does not give up has always been a fangguan with his own soldiers, crossed the border and invaded the vicinity of Yujin City to try to collect food, and was ambushed several times by the local people with the advantage of geographical advantages, and suffered a lot of losses, and wanted to retaliate and had no confidence to face the resistance of the high wall and deep fortress, and there was no great monk of the Zong to preside over the collection of grain, and they did not dare to act indiscriminately, and they hurriedly retreated at the Yujin City with two voices. (To be continued......)