On the second day after the Luo family launched the siege of Ogura Castle, Sugi Takakei and Sugi Shigeki in Ogura Castle were ready to continue to face the fierce siege of the Luo family, but they suddenly found that in the next two days, the army of the Luo family did not attack the castle again except for continuing to besiege Ogura Castle.

Although the Luo family instead launched a harassment war against Kokura Castle at night, at least the defenders in the city no longer had to directly engage in a fierce cage battle with the Luo family, so everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when the defenders in the city were slackening, on the morning of the fourth day when the Luo family's army besieged Ogura Castle, the Luo family suddenly launched a siege battle against Ogura Castle. However, compared with the last attack, this time the way the Luo family's army launched an attack has changed in a new way. I saw that they were not using the method of climbing the city wall to attack the city, but raised a large shield made of damp branches and trunks to resist the bow and arrow attacks on the city, and then quickly approached the city gate.

"Quick, boil the water, scald them." Sugi Shigeji, who was located above the castle head near the Tsute Gate, saw this, although he didn't know what the Luo family's army under these shields was planning to do, but he immediately had a bad feeling in his heart, so he immediately ordered.

Ordinary arrows, stones, simmers and other weapons to defend the city were obviously unable to cause much damage to the soldiers of the Luo family under these shields, but the fire oil in the city was basically used up, so he had to temporarily order the personnel to boil water, preparing to use boiling water as a weapon to defend the city.

It's just that it's obviously too late to boil water now. I saw that this huge "shield" of the Luo family quickly approached the door of the hand, and then stacked bags of things on the side of the door, and the last one directly lit the ignition line. He hid directly under the huge "shield".

When the ignition wire was ignited, a puff of green smoke came out. Immediately after that, there was a "boom". There was a loud bang at the hand door.

"Boom!" Before Sugi Shigeki at the head of the castle could figure out what was going on, there was a loud bang that was almost the same at the Oteemon Gate on the west side. The two loud bangs shook almost the entire Ogura Castle, and some of the soldiers defending the castle in Okura Castle were even so frightened that they sat directly on the ground.

These things that make a loud "boom" sound are naturally improvised explosive packs made by the Luo family in the past two days. As a result of this expedition, all engineering weapons, gunpowder and other materials were prepared to be transported by water. (The main reason for not carrying these items with the army was to speed up the march and allow the army to pass quickly through the territory of the Aso family, and at the same time launch a lightning attack on the Bunzen area.) In order to increase the speed. This time, the army only carried enough food and grass for the army to eat for five days, that is, if the supplies transported by the Japanese navy had not arrived, then the day after tomorrow, everyone including Masashi would have begun to starve).

After seeing that his family was being blocked during the siege, Masarashi immediately thought of a solution, which was to concentrate some of the gunpowder carried by the iron artillery team, and then create two huge improvised explosive packs. Then he concentrated his manpower to create a giant "shield" to cover the "Demoman" when he reached the city gate. It took two days to tinker with it. In the end, all the preparations were completed yesterday. So these explosives bags were immediately sent to the field today.

To be honest, Masara is also worried that these improvised explosive packs will not work. You must know that these two explosives packets have already gathered all the reserve gunpowder of the iron cannon team, and now the iron cannon without gunpowder has become a burning stick without gunpowder. And if these explosives don't work in the ongoing siege war, then they have to be temporarily withdrawn. Then wait for the navy to deliver the siege weapons before attacking.

Fortunately, in the two city gates. Although the explosion at the Otemon Gate on the west side did not blow the gate open, the Te Gate was opened. At this time, the soldiers of Yoshida Shigemasa's right formation, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately burst into the Tsutemen Gate in one breath and slaughtered straight towards the city from here. After a scuffle, the door of the big hands on the west side was also opened by the soldiers of the Luo family on the right, and the front formation where Akuta was located also poured into the ministers at the same time.

There were only hundreds of defenders, and in the face of the attack of nearly 1,000 people, they were obviously outnumbered, some of them immediately dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender, and the other part of the defenders who were still resisting were besieged and killed by the soldiers of the Luo family. Sugi Takakei and Sugi Shigeki, who were the defenders, were also won in the fierce battle. These two people were also unlucky enough, and they finally got back from the Luo family by the Ouchi family, and finally died in the hands of the Luo family.

And just as the battle was raging in Ogura Castle, the left formation of the Luo family, which was camped in the southeast of the Luo family's main camp, Zichuan, also encountered the combined reinforcements of the Sugi family and the Nagano family who rushed to rescue Ogura Castle.

Since the Luo family's attack on Ogura Castle was blocked, the Sugi family and the Nagano family, which were closest to Okura Castle, finally recovered from the shock of the Luo family's sudden invasion of Bunzen Province, and immediately organized a part of the army to start rescuing Okura Castle. After all, Ogura Castle is the gateway to the Ogura Plain in Toyozen Province, and once Ogura Castle is lost, then the next target of the Luo family will naturally be the territory of the Sugi family and the Nagano family.

"Ha Luha, it's good to come!" Looking at the menacing combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family coming along the east bank of the Zichuan River, the chief general of the left formation of the Luo family, who was stationed in the north direction of the east bank of the Zichuan River, laughed.

"My lord, do you want to ask the lord's opinion before attacking?" The more cautious military commander Fu Luo Shigoro spoke.

"What are you waiting for, the lord has already sent someone to inform him, and judging from the distance between the place where we are stationed and the lord's main formation, by the time the lord's order is delivered, we will already hand over to the other party." Adjutant Uemura said.

"Yes, don't wait, let's attack!" On the other side, Akaike Changren, who had long been warn, said.

"The decisive battle is today!" Executing the kind and making up his mind at this time.

"Ha Lu Ha! I'm going to blow up those little cubs in front of me! Marumme Yorumi was angry and flapped her fists.

Seeing the expressions of these people, Roche Shinogoro knew that he no longer needed to say anything, so he also pulled out the sword on his waist. Prepare for battle.

That's it. After discovering each other. The two armies immediately and silently began to line up in the north and south directions of the river beach on the east bank of the Zichuan River.

"Is this the military strength of the Luo family? Is the other party planning to attack first? In the military formation of the Sugi family and the Nagano family, Sugi Shigeju, as the main general, said. In his opinion, at this time, the army of the Luo family was divided into several small phalanxes, arranged according to echelons, and the front end was slightly convex, which was a fish scale array.

"Don't underestimate your opponent! After all, the other party is the army of the invincible Hizen Eagle! On the other side, the governor of the Nagano family, Nagano Yoshibo, said. Compared to the Luo family, the overall formation on their side looked okay, but the soldiers seemed to be bad. Many of the peasants even used bamboo as a weapon. There is only bamboo armor on the body. Some of the people on the other side were wearing armor that they had never seen before, which was unique to the Luo family and was only used for standing ashigaru, while others were wearing ordinary armor that was currently popular among the wealthy daimyos. The Luo family is much better than their own side in terms of formation and weapon preparation.

"Hmph, the other side looks like there are only about 500 people, and there are more than 1,000 people on our side, so why be afraid of them?" Sugi said coldly. Speaking of which, for the Luo family, a sudden rise of the nouveau riche, as a traditional wealthy family, Sugi Shige is very disdainful, especially when he thinks of the Hizen Eagle who was still groveling closely in Ouchi Yoshitaka, he was even more disdainful. Now that Nagano Yoshifang is actually arrogant in front of him and destroys his own ambition, he is naturally very dissatisfied.

"Then I'll leave everything to the Guardian Dai-sama to command." Seeing that Sugi Chongju's face was unhappy. Nagano Yoshibo said immediately.

Soon after, the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family began to move towards the Luo family's army. After the distance is close. The six teams of soldiers sped up and broke away from the main formation and began to make contact with the Luo family's army, attacking the reserve in charge of the first line of Akaike.

As soon as the two armies fought, the Luo family was at the top of the peak, suppressing the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family outside the spear formation. As the rear of the army, Fu Roche Shigoro was counting the casualties on both sides. Most of the battles between the daimyo of the Sengoku period were low-intensity wars, which meant that the number of deaths in head-to-head encounters was small. The average soldier can withstand a 10% casualty rate, which is quite strong. Bearing 20% casualties and not retreating is an elite.

"It won't be long before the first formation of the Sugi family and the Nagano family alliance will retreat." Looking at the battle situation in front of him, Roche Shingoro said confidently. Sure enough, the first formation of the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family fled backwards after a few samurai roared a few times.

"My lord, let's start pursuing" Marume Raimi, who was on the left side of the Fish Scale Formation, asked Zhandao, his army had not become a pioneer formation, and he had already held his breath in his heart, "Those soldiers on the other side only need to disperse them once." ”

"Wait, look over there!" The main general executed the kind and pointed to the battlefield, and the second formation of the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family quickly took over the vacancy left by the retreat of the first formation, avoiding being pursued by the Luo family's army.

"Even so, we can break it with one blow!" Marumme Yorumi said, "Your Excellency will give the order."

"Well, it's almost, the order, the whole army is attacking!" At this time, the executive also felt that it was almost over, so he immediately ordered. Although there were only 500 people on their side, they had 200 55 standing ashigaru troops on standing, and even the other 300 peasant soldiers came as peasant soldiers in the standing reserve, and their combat effectiveness was much more powerful than that of ordinary peasant soldiers.

"Hah!" Marumme Yorumi, Uemura Hontsuna, and Roche Shiongoro, who had been waiting for a long time, held their breath and roared one after another, turned around and ran to the head of their respective counter-formation positions to command, "Prepare to attack!" ”

"Raise your guns in array!"

"Bluff!" The pikemen in the phalanx of the Luo family immediately raised the three spears in unison. There is a slight gap between people, and they stand in three rows.

"Slow down!"

"Bluff!" The phalanx of the Luo family echoed and began to move forward. There was a crashing sound on the armor, like a wave of rage, and one sound was drowned.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Luo family's phalanx shouted loudly every five steps. The white flag and the black eagle crest of the Luo family rushed forward like a flock of eagles hunting. The spear is like a forest, the military horn is like thunder, and the morale of the Luo family is greatly boosted.

Akaike Nagahito, who was in the midst of a fierce battle with the other side in the first formation, was inspired by the momentum of the main family's military formation in the rear, and immediately stood up and shouted, "Little ones, the army of adults has come to support us!" Pierce through the enemy army in one go! "Roar. The vanguard soldiers rushed to the third formation of the Sugi family and the Nagano family's coalition army.

"Kill!" Akaike Nagato's team followed behind Aike Nagaren and roared and charged.

"Hmph. I intend to break up my army. Just because these few people are also delusional! Seeing that Akaike Changren's team charged and killed, Sugi said with a little disdain. Immediately, he commanded the army under his command and began to encircle and annihilate this phalanx before the army arrived behind the Luo family.

"Ha Lu Ha! The more cubs of the Sugi family, the better! Seeing that there were more and more enemy troops besieging him, Akaike Choren fought wildly while wielding his sword, and said with a smile, "I'll cut, I'll cut, I'll chop!" ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! At this time, there was a roar from the rear. Loud cries began to echo over the battlefield. It turned out that the Luo family army formation in the rear arrived in time and at a very fast speed.

"Flat guns. Quickstep! ”

The main general carried out the kind and the gun was leveled, and commanded loudly. So the spears around him immediately flattened their weapons and trotted forward. Seeing this, Sugi Shige in front immediately sent four teams of Ashigaru from the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family to block it.

"Prepare to meet the enemy, rush!" Seeing that the enemy army was also coming, under the command of the executive class, the soldiers of the Luo family raised their weapons and charged at the enemy more than ten paces away. The three-pointed spear formation was like slicing tofu, piercing into the combined army formation of the Rusugi family and the Nagano family. The head of the spear instantly pierces the enemy, pierces from behind, and the human body hangs on the spear like a meat skewer. Spear guards who have achieved success need to shake their guns hard to draw their weapons.

"Slow down, Gun Fur!" Execute the kind and issue orders. The spear was light and immediately changed from stabbing to attack, and more than 100 dry spears hit up and down together. If you look down from above at this time. You will find that the Luo family's gun array is like a broom sweeping away the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family, and the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family fall in rows. A member of the Sugi family and Nagano family coalition was stabbed in the thigh and fell to the ground, thinking he was dead. Seeing the spearmen of the Luo family stepping on him, he didn't seem to find himself, and just after rejoicing, he saw a wild knife slashing at his head.

The soldiers of the Luo family stepped on the corpses of the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family, and Akaike Nagahito, who was at the forefront, didn't know how many people Lu Dao had killed at this time, and he was injured because of it, only to see a few feather arrows stuck in his body, but he still laughed and shouted: "Happy! Rejoice! ”

At this time, the execution of Tankane and the others repelled a wave of combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family, and the corpses that fell were in pieces, and the blood flowed down the slope into the nearby Purple River, making the entire Purple River a blood-colored river.

The executive thought in his heart: "If you repel another wave of enemy troops, the enemy's morale will collapse." ”

Just when he was carrying out the calculation in his heart, the opposite Sugi Chongju, who saw that his own army, which was two or three times the strength of the other party, was defeated and retreated by the other party, and he gritted his teeth and immediately took out the old bottom. So under his command, a samurai team in full armor swarmed over with a large number of ashigaru.

"Gun fur!" Seeing this, the execution of the species was also in his heart, and he immediately shouted.

"Bluff!" The spears of the Luo family roared, and the three spears danced up and down, and the front of the formation was completely shrouded in a forest of guns. And the samurai team of the Shanjia Coalition Army, relying on armor and martial arts, swept away the spear in front of them with a horizontal sword, rolled forward to avoid the sweeping attack, and approached the Luo family. 、

"Just give me a break into this gun formation, and the other party will be finished!" As soon as a samurai wanted to get up, a cold light hit his shoulder, and the whole person was knocked to the ground, and then three or four three-pointed spears slashed at him with the edges, and he died after a few struggles. The attacks came from the second and third platoons. Dozens of corpses lay down in front of the gunmen in an instant.

Seeing that the Sugi family coalition could not break through head-on, relying on the numerical superiority, the Sugi family and the Nagano family alliance army surrounded the Luo family from the flank of the Luo family's army under the command of Sugi Shige. In this case, the Luo family's camp has become dangerous again.

"Woo woo woo ......"

At the critical moment, I only heard the sound of a magic horn from the rear. He stabbed a samurai of the Sugi family to death with a single shot, and then looked back. In the distance, a black torrent was rapidly approaching.

"Rumble......" Then everyone felt the ground begin to shake.

"Ah, it's the family's cavalry! It's the family's cavalry! The sharp-eyed Roche Shinogoro suddenly shouted in the back.

"Ahh It's our reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! Our reinforcements are coming! A burst of cheers suddenly sounded in the Luo family's military formation.

"Kill! Reinforcements are coming! Kill me! Don't let those fellows of the cavalry take the credit for us! At this time, the executive also shouted!

"Kill!" The morale of the Luo family's army was suddenly boosted. On the contrary, seeing that the black torrent in front of him was getting closer and closer, the morale of the soldiers on the side of the Shanjia coalition army dropped instantly.

"Guardian Dai-sama, what should we do?" Seeing that the cavalry reinforcements of the Luo family were getting closer and closer, Nagano Yoshibo couldn't help but ask.

"Retreat, retreat!" Shanzhongju on this side suddenly changed his face at this time, and immediately ordered. The reason why Sugi made the decision to retreat so decisively was because he roughly estimated the number of cavalry that the Luo family would come to reinforce. Oh, my God! There were at least 400 riders or more. This is really the largest cavalry force in the Kyushu region. In such a plain, when the infantry encountered such a large number of cavalry, it was simply slaughtered, so he did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.

"Huh? Wait for me, my lord! After giving the order to retreat, Sugi immediately pulled the reins of the horse, turned the horse's head and fled. And Nagano Yoshibo, who finally reacted, immediately exclaimed.

"Whoosh!"

"Shhh Unfortunately, at this time, a stray arrow suddenly came from the front, and it happened to shoot into the left eye of the war horse under the crotch of Nagano Yoshibo, who was turning the horse's head. The war horse neighed, stood up directly, and unloaded the Nagano Yoshibo on the horseback, and Nagano Yoshifang screamed "Ah" and fell directly to the ground.

"Ahh The lord has run away! At some point, someone in the Shanjia coalition exclaimed.

"What?"

"Run!" The soldiers of the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagao family, who reacted, immediately turned around and ran.

"Kill!" The Luo family army behind him immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue. (To be continued......)