"Open the door, open the door, open the door!"

The defenders of Cheongju City were smashed early in the morning by a hurried knock on the door. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Who!" Naturally, the temper of the defenders who are not sleep-deprived will not be too good.

"We are Shibata-sama's subordinates!" The visitor replied, "Lord Shibata was defeated and injured, and only a few dozen of us were left to desperately protect the Lord and come back." ”

The defenders of the castle looked at their broken equipment and banners, and it was indeed Shibata Katsuya's.

Since he was defeated and wounded, he had no problem fleeing back into the city for safety.

They looked into the distance again, but they didn't seem to be chasing them, and they didn't look like enemy troops.

"Where's Shibata-sama?" The people of the city asked again.

Shibata Katsuya beckoned to the top with an embarrassed face.

Shibata Katsuya is the chief patriarch of the Oda family and has an outstanding status. The appearance of Shibata Katsuya's family, these defenders have already admired it, which one doesn't know? His heroic image is difficult to fake. Since Shibata Katsuie-sama was also present, the defenders confirmed that these people were indeed the remnants of Shibata Katsuie.

Since they are their own people, then there is no reason to turn them away.

So the defenders opened the gates of the outer city and let them in.

The remnants of the army entered the city, saying thanks, but instead of marching towards the inner city, they suddenly aroused a burst of vitality and climbed up the stairs in the city.

"What are you going to do?" The defenders were a little flustered, and they didn't know what Shibata-sama's remnants were going to do? But they didn't get an answer in the end. The soldiers who were ahead drew their spears and katanas and slew them with fierce eyes. The unprepared defenders were naturally killed without resistance.

It didn't take long for the remnants of the Shibata Army to slaughter the defenders, take control of the gate, open it, and raise the flag outward. Soon, an army galloped in the distance and rushed along the gate.

It turned out that this was not the remnants of the Shibata family, but Gao Xianda's troops.

Cheongju Castle is no better than a stone made of wood, and as the residence of the Oda family, it is a solid castle made of genuine and practical stones.

The inner and outer walls, a three-story castle tower, and various fortifications on top of it all tell the invaders of their fortifications.

A retainer of the Oda family once suggested to Oda Nobunaga that he should concentrate all his forces on Kiyoshu Castle and perhaps have a chance to resist the Imagawa family's army.

However, Oda Nobunaga was worried that Imagawa Yoshimoto would use the siege tactics of cutting them off from water and food. There are many mines in the Imagawa family, and they have a lot of experience in mining. In the early years, when attacking the Yuanjiang region, there was a precedent of digging up the water veins in the opponent's city and forcing the opponent to surrender out of the city.

Moreover, Oda Nobunaga, as a small daimyo who had just taken over as his father's governor, had limited control over his subordinates. He could not guarantee that his retainers would be loyal to him. If a few of them are against each other, and open the gates of the city without permission, they will die without a place to be buried.

So Oda Nobunaga finally chose to take a gamble. But this also illustrates the sturdiness of Cheongju Fortress from the side. Gao Xianda didn't think he could open the door for himself as easily as he climbed up the Danxia Barrier.

Even if Cheongju City was empty, Gao Xianda did not want to risk attacking the city.

So he led the team to the city of Qingzhou at night, let the large army ambush, and successfully evaded the detection of the defenders in the city.

He then selected dozens of samurai from his subordinates who were both strong and courageous, and together with them, they changed into the clothes of the Shibata Katsuya's army, took their utensils, and pretended to be the defeated army of the Shibata family.

Gao Xianda originally wanted Shibata Katsuya to take everyone into the city directly. However, when Shibata Katsuya arrived at this time, he made it clear that he would not betray the lord Oda Nobunaga, although he was able to bring Gao Xianda and them to the castle of Cheongshu, but it was definitely an act of betrayal to open the city gate.

This "table character" which wants to establish the torii arch......

He didn't help, but it was hard for Gao Xianda.

Gao Xianda was afraid that Shibata Katsuya would suddenly change his mind when he arrived in the city, since you don't plan to help me earn the city gate, then at the very least, you can't ruin my plan!

Gao Xianda is not an ordinary person, he lightly clicked his finger, and he lit the dumb hole of Shibata Katsuya. Shibata Katsuya couldn't say a word now.

In fact, Shibata Katsuya is also hesitating in his heart, although the Imagawa family is huge, and Gao Xianda is very powerful, but in order to keep his samurai reputation, he always has to do something.

He originally thought that if Gao Xianda wanted to use him to open the city gates, he would shout loudly under the city to tell the soldiers in the city not to open the door. If Gao Xianda killed him in a fit of rage, it would be regarded as fulfilling his reputation and his last contribution to the Oda family.

But Gao Xianda had a miraculous way to make him speechless.

Gao Xianda communicated with the castle himself, and when the other party needed to confirm the identity of Shibata Katsuie, he brought Shibata Katsuya out for everyone to see.

Shibata Katsuie's shoulder injury is real, Gao Xianda only needs to say that Shibata-sama is injured and can't speak loudly, and the people in the city are so far away, there is no way to confirm the injury. As long as you can confirm that the following is Shibata Katsuya.

This is also the reason why the smile on Shibata Katsuie's face is very embarrassing.

This is the second time that his plan has been discovered by Gao Xianda. Don't look young this guy, he's really much more powerful than himself!

When Gao Xianda opened the outer city gate, he naturally used thunderous means to control the soldiers defending the city and let his large army enter the city.

Cheongju Castle has two inner and outer walls and a three-story castle tower. The most defensive is naturally the outer wall with a moat. In the case of insufficient troops, the soldiers were also stationed on the outer city walls. After the outer walls were breached without warning, a group of people were killed, and the rest of the soldiers had no time to retreat into the inner walls. So the inner city was quickly broken through by the soldiers under Gao Xianda.

Now there is only one castle tower left. The so-called castle tower is the main building of the great castle in Japan.

More than a thousand soldiers surrounded the castle and surrounded it.

The height of the castle tower is usually designed to be very high, so that you can shoot arrows from above. But when the castle is really besieged, unless there is a heavy creature like a rolling wood thunderstone thrown downward, the effect of shooting arrows straight up and down is not good.

So in Gao Xianda's heart, Cheongju City has already been won.

However, during the invasion of the castle tower, there were some minor setbacks.

At the entrance to the large castle stood a tall samurai.

He wore a loose outfit made of strips of various colors, and a pair of shorts with a wide waist, revealing two hairy legs. His hair was not the usual Tsukiyo head of the samurai, but was combed into a large braid. Ordinary braids are just that, and he also combs his braids high on the top of his head. His face was powdered, his eyes were red and his head moved like a big rooster.

Although his costume is strange, he holds a huge spear in his hand, which is even more exaggerated than the shape of Shibata Katsuie's.

And his marksmanship is also better than Shibata Katsuie, and all the ashigaru who approached him were easily stabbed by him.

"With my Maeda and Saemon here, no one can enter Kiyoshu Castle!" He said, "Hey, that tall guy over there, do you dare to go head-to-head with me?" ”