Chapter 1120: The Law of Breaking the City
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In the fifth year of Yonglu (1562 A.D.), May.
Tokaido, Suruga Kuniokabe Home Castle Asahi Mountain Castle, outside the castle at this time there is a lot of fog. There was an atmosphere of slaughter in the air, and the Enoe-Imagawa family besieged Asahi Mountain Castle with an absolute superiority of 2,000 troops, making it difficult for birds to enter.
At this moment, the main formation of the Enoe-Imagawa family's attack on Asahayama Castle was built on a small hill only 500 meters away from the city. As the main general of the Toe Imagawa family's army this time, Nobuya Roshi was standing on a small hill, watching his army's attack on Asahi Mountain Castle.
On the night two days ago, when the raiding army led by Roshi Nobuya's father, Roshi Masahiro, suddenly launched a surprise attack from behind the camp of the Suruga Imagawa family in the early hours of the morning, Roshi Nobuya's side, which had been notified in advance, also led the army that had been prepared for a long time to attack immediately. In one fell swoop, he seized all the castles and territories between the Oi River on the border between Enoe Province and Suruga Province and the central part of Suruga Province, Suruga Imagawa Home Castle, Sunfu Castle, and the only thing that did not fall was Asahi Mountain Castle, the home of the Okabe family.
So, after besieging Suruga-Imagawa Home Castle Sunfu Castle in one fell swoop, under the order of his father Masayo, Roshi Nobuya led an army of 2,000 people to Asahayama Castle again. Determined before launching a final decisive assault on Sunpu Castle. First of all, the danger factor behind them was cleared.
But. When the 2,000 Enoe-Imagawa family army arrived at the foot of Asahayama Castle and set up a formation, because of the prestige of Prince Nobora and the Onibai Takeshi Kenkane, although there were hundreds of defenders in the castle, they did not dare to act rashly. In the face of several invitations from the Toe Imagawa family, the Okabe family still did not come out, and it seems that they had long planned to prepare for the battle of Cage City.
Seeing that the Okabe army was cowering in Asahi Mountain Castle, the army of the Enoe-Imagawa family directly surrounded Asahi Mountain Castle.
After the siege. Today, under the arrangement of Roshi Shinra, the generals led by Hyakkutake Kenkan began the task of besieging the Asahi Mountain Castle Toraguchi Otemon. After attacking for half a day in the morning, although the Okabe family, as the defender, was very difficult, the Otemon Gate of Asahi Mountain Castle was still not lost.
However, just as the defenders were paying attention to the Otemon Gate, the Scratching Gate, which was the back gate of Asahayama Castle, was suddenly killed by some defenders in the castle who were planning to surrender and the gate was surrendered. Although there were hundreds of defenders in the city at this time, in fact, among these defenders. Most of them had fled into Asahayama Castle in the night's rout two days earlier, and they had thought they would have escaped because of this. As a result, he was suddenly besieged by the army of the Enoe-Imagawa family, so he simply surrendered in fear.
At this time, the team of Hyakwu Kenkan, who had been waiting for a long time, burst into the Te Gate in one breath and killed Honmaru who was heading for Asahi Mountain Castle from here. Asahi Yamajo Castle is not a big city, but a general Ninomaru Honmaru, a two-fold curver structure. After the Hyakwu Xian and the army attacked from the Te Gate, they killed all the way up the path and headed straight for Honmaru.
Seeing that the back gate was lost, the defenders of Honmaru hurriedly diverted their attention and shot arrows at the soldiers of the Imagawa family of Enoe, either from the Honmaru castle tower or standing on the edge of the curved wheel, but there were no casualties. However, after the barricades on the road, from time to time, several soldiers loyal to the Okabe family fought their lives from the back of the earthen ramparts, trying to delay the time when the army of the Toe Imagawa family attacked Honmaru.
But none of these people caused any obstacles to Hyakutake Kenkan and them, and along the way, the iron artillery team and archery team of Hyakumtake Kenkan from the outer periphery also stood in several rows, and began to shoot intensively at the defenders of Asahi Mountain Castle Honmaru under the castle. Suddenly, several soldiers of the Okabe family who had been shot or shot were shot and fell from the Honmaru earthen ramparts.
By the time Hyakkutake Ken and them attacked the front of the Honmaru Gate, a fire had already ignited on the side of the Otemon Gate, and black smoke was billowing out. It turned out that the gate had just been breached by some soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family, but the remnants of the defenders still resisted stubbornly near the Otemon Gate and did not give an inch. Bai Wuxian was overjoyed when he saw this, because this time he broke through the Honmaru and captured the Okabe family, and it was very likely that it would be his.
But Hyakkutake Kenkan was not happy for long, and the defenders of Asahi Mountain Castle immediately made a final effort, and more than 20 samurai of the Okabe family, who were the last to be stationed in Honmaru, brandished their katana in both hands, shouted loudly and fought with the soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family.
In the narrow city road, the samurai of the two armies fought together, and although the samurai of the Okabe family were ready to exchange their lives for their lives, the army of the Toe Imagawa family rushed here were all fierce generals led by Hyakkutake Kenkan, and where could the other side be able to attack.
So, after the army of the Imagawa family of Toe continued to swarm, these samurai of the Okabe family were finally outnumbered, and despite their most heroic resistance, these people were drowning in the sea of people in a few moments by the troops of Hyakkutake Kenkane.
The corpses of more than 20 people lay in front of the main gate of Honmaru, and the soldiers of the Imagawa family stepped forward and dragged the feet of these people with both hands, removed the corpses, cleared the open space in front of the door, and turned around to cut off the heads as their own combat exploits.
"Break the door."
Looking at a large area of soldiers from the Imagawa family in Yuanjiang, before and after the hedgehog gathered at the door, Bai Wuxian immediately shouted and gave the order to hit the door.
Immediately, six soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family, who were burly and shirtless, hugged a log and slammed into the crown wooden door where Honmaru had little defense.
Within a few clicks, the fragile crowned wooden door was smashed by the soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family, and the soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family collectively cheered and rushed into the Honmaru in one breath. After the Honmaru was breached, generally speaking, the battle of Cage City had reached this point, and the defenders could basically wash their necks and prepare to lead their necks. Inside the open Honmaru Gate, on the stone staircase of more than 20 steps, the gate of the castle tower is closed. Hyakwu Xiankan still asked someone to bang the door open with a piece of wood. Killed the castle tower.
When several soldiers of the Toe Imagawa family, who were eager to make meritorious contributions, had just entered the castle tower. It was sniped by iron cannons. One person was killed instantly, leaving one injured and collapsed to the side. But the soldiers of the Enoe-Imagawa family were in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and more people rushed in.
When Hyakkuken entered the castle tower with his spear in hand, he saw that the last resistance was made by seven or eight old men armed with katanas and dressed in official uniforms, most of whom were supposed to be the retainers of the Okabe family. Although these old men are old, the knife is spicy, but they are still old in the end. The legs and feet are not good and do not cause much trouble.
And to Bai Wuxian's surprise, the people who were sniping with iron cannons just now were actually two eleven or twelve-year-old children who had not yet been served. Guessing that it should be the nephew of the Okabe family in the past, now they saw the tall Hyakkutake Kenkan approaching step by step, frightened and nervously into the muzzle of the iron cannon, refilling the projectile, but in a panic, there was still time to attack again? As a result, the two children were immediately held by several soldiers of the Imagawa family of Yuanjiang. Capturing the enemy's family alive is also a great achievement. More effective than killing them.
"The city has been breached, please get ready."
At this time, the last old retainer who was killed, with several bamboo guns poked on his back at the same time, lay on the stairwell, stretched his hands, and shouted to the stairs with his last strength.
"It's not good, everyone in the Okabe family is going to commit suicide." Thinking of this, Bai Wuxian signaled the soldiers of the Yuanjiang Imagawa family to speed up and follow.
Immediately, the bodies of these people were kicked aside, and Hyakkutake Kenkane and Ashigaru soldiers rushed to the second floor of the castle tower with guns in hand. On the second floor, Hyakumtake Kenkan and everyone happened to see the scene of several retainers of the Okabe family stabbing each other with their blades, while other retainers had already committed suicide by cutting their abdomen with knives.
Bai Wuxian also ordered the other retainers who had not yet committed suicide to take care of them, and quickened his pace, stepped over the corpses of the retainers, and together with several samurai, rushed straight to the residence where the lord of the castle was.
When the door of the Ohiroma Gate was opened, it was an extremely tragic scene that appeared in front of everyone's eyes, two samurai lying in a pool of blood, both of them wearing white clothes and white pants, each holding the ribs in their hands and inserting them in their abdomen, and their bodies were falling forward.
Of these two people, one is Okabe Nobutsuna, the lord of Asahi Mountain Castle, and the other is Okabe Motonobu, a retainer of the Suruga Imagawa family. Motonobu Okabe managed to escape from the rout of that night two days earlier, but he finally committed suicide by seppuku here.
"The governor of the Okabe family has committed suicide, and the battle has finally fallen here. My lord, you have to work hard to capture Asahi Mountain Castle this time. When some of the warriors behind him saw such a scene, they immediately congratulated Bai Wuxian.
"First tell His Highness about the situation here outside the city." Bai Wuxian hurriedly commanded.
And just when the Suruga Kunikabe family Asahi Yamajo Tengu Maru officially declared.
The general behind the scenes of the Toe Imagawa family's army, Luo Shi Masashi, and all the generals under his command were riding their horses to the south of Suruga Imagawa Home Castle Sunfu Castle at this time. If you look ahead from here, you can clearly see Sunpu Castle, a middle castle between Tengumaru and Ninomaru.
Luo Zhengliang pointed his horsewhip upwards and said to the generals on the left and right: "This is the well building used to draw water from Junfu City. ”
Following the direction of Luo Zhengliang, everyone saw that five or six well towers were built directly to the river outside Sunfu Castle to draw water from the rear of Sunfu Castle Honmaru. The overall structure of the well building is a roof made of grass and mud on the top, a fence is built below, and four wooden pillars are spliced and fixed, which directly probe into the river water as support. There is a winch in the center of the well building, which is used to draw water from the river.
The generals didn't understand what Luo Zhengliang meant by bringing them here.
Only the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke smiled and said, "My lord, do you want to destroy this well tower and cut off the water source of Junfu City?" ”
Luo Zhengliang nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, according to the report of the Intelligence Pavilion, the place where Junfu City takes water, except for a well in Tengu Maru, is here, if the water source of Junfu City can be cut off, the defenders in Junfu City will definitely be in turmoil and surrender without a fight." ”
At this time, Cheng Song Xinsheng asked: "But my lord, how can I destroy this well tower?" You must know that the width of the river here is sufficient, beyond the range of our army's bows and arrows, and the river is also very fast, and it is impossible for people to swim across it. ”
Cheng Song Xinsheng's words made everyone nod their heads, the original city builders built the well tower here, and they had already considered it, otherwise it would be so easy to be destroyed, and the water source of the whole city would be cut off.
Luo Shi Zhengliang nodded, and said to the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke: "Military advisor, I'm afraid there is a way, right?" ”
The military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke nodded and said, "It should coincide with the lord." As Nobu said, the water here is turbulent, so we can just go upstream, pile up a bamboo raft, and then use the momentum of the water to lower it and use the bamboo raft to destroy the well building. ”
Luo Zhengliang nodded and nodded, "Not bad." ”
After the generals listened to Luo's Masayo and the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke, they suddenly realized.
"As long as the water source can be cut off, in this way, the destruction of Junfu City will be in the middle of these few days, why should our army bother to attack the city?" Cheng Song Xinsheng immediately said in a deep voice.
"No," Luo Zhengliang waved his hand and said, "There is snow in winter, and there may be rain in summer. Our siege will also begin. ”
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