Chapter 22 Drumming urges horseshoe disease
When the miscellaneous soldiers of the Sichuan and Echigo armies had no way to retreat, a brutal bloody battle broke out in the eyes of the generals on both sides.
Dozens of long canopy stacked on top of each other, pushing and shoving, the corpses that had already died in the front row could not fall to the ground, standing on their own in the squeezing, as if there was a thicker barrier, the sickles and miscellaneous soldiers on both sides, stabbed out, hooked, the moment of contact, blood splashed, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the injured soldiers were like cut down rice and wheat, and they fell down one after another, but then they were filled with the gap by the follow-up substitutes.
The short soldiers on both sides shouted vigorously, and under the leadership of their respective samurai, they wielded swords, short axes, and broken gold rods to fight in one place, and the weapons collided, crackling on the armor, and fought each other in great strides.
Ono Tadaaki roared angrily, dragged an enemy soldier abruptly, pulled out a knife and stabbed the opponent's chest, pushed the corpse and strode forward, and then reached out and pushed hard, hitting two or three approaching Ashigaru, and behind him the soldiers who were holding the flag with the 'hanging wheel', immediately ran on foot to protect his sides, and followed the enemy to strangle him.
With the sound of a conch horn, the wild ambush team that had been in ambush for a long time suddenly struck out, jumped over the sheltered rocks, passed through the tall trees, and launched a surprise attack from all sides towards the weakest south of the camp. The method used by Shoda Tokirisuke is very obvious to be a two-headed dragon strategy, attracting the attention of the enemy on the one hand, and launching a fierce attack on the other side, launching a cover kill.
Gao Shisheng frowned, although he saw Shaotian Changlusuke's intentions, he didn't have too many troops to stop the attack launched by the hundreds of people in the wild ambush, but there was nothing he could do, and the difference in strength made him feel deeply troubled.
Although the Echigo army was fierce, after all, there were only more than 300 people, and the Imagawa army still had hidden means that had not been used, so it was still unknown who killed the deer.
Both sides of the camp are open fields, and when the camp was first set up, considering the lack of troops, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defend comprehensively, especially in the wilderness, there are pits, which can slightly hold back the enemy soldiers for a while, and there is no big problem.
Bending his bow to shoot down a lone enemy soldier, Taka Shimori gave a brief but firm order to Mitsuhide Naito, who was commanding the archers, "South! ”
The big thief in the mountain, after loudly agreeing to the promise, hurriedly beckoned the last seven or eight Lang Dang in the flag-walking team, rushed down the high slope, gathered a group of stragglers, and gathered a dozen people to hide behind the southern fence to defend.
When the Echigo army ambush team was about to rush to the front, they pulled the rope violently, and the bamboo felling buried under the snow and floating soil suddenly bounced, and the enemy soldiers who rushed to the front immediately made a mess, and the people with the bamboo raft in front wanted to stop their feet, and the people who did not have a bamboo raft in front saw that there was no one on the left and right, and hesitated, and the people who did not see it in the rear team continued to move forward, and the people in front of them were squeezed to the ground, trampled on each other, or hit the sharpened sharp thorns, and died on the spot.
In the back team, many of them stepped on the pit and sprained their ankles in the panic. Mitsuhide Naito took advantage of the situation to lead people to rush out from both sides of the raft and slash and chase the Echigo army in chaos.
Gao Shisheng saw that the trap had an effect, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at the other side of the Yuming River.
Obviously, the other party also has no extra troops to mobilize, otherwise when he is empty now, how can he not send someone to attack and kill.
With the help of the camp and traps, as well as the superiority of the condescending position, although the Imagawa soldiers retreated again and again, and the entire defensive area continued to shrink, they firmly guarded the low slope, and raised the billowing smoke to ask for help from the main camp, and the black smoke rushed straight into the sky, and now it can only be seen whether the reinforcements can arrive in time.
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It is often said in the world that there is only the wrong name, not the wrong name, and this sentence is used in Murakami Yoshikiyo, which can be described as appropriate, this Shinano's fierce bull general, with a stout body and a beard, strides out of the watchtower.
Looking downstairs, there are two rows of samurai neatly lined up, all of whom are generals and colonels of the Chinese army's flag team, although they are anxious about the war, they are still silently waiting for military orders.
Murakami Yoshikiyo ordered a few people with his military apparatus and ordered, "Then take the headquarters, go around to the east, and sneak behind the mountains and forests to attack the hand gate behind the temple." Ben will personally cheer for the drums of the others, the drums will stop, and the enemy camp will be broken! ”
The Tsukumi Gate, the secret gate used by the defenders to retreat when the city was broken, had already discovered its location during the last siege of Taihei Temple, and this time it was intended to send troops to attack the Takeda army in the temple.
The men agreed and went away with their knives.
When the envoy announced that it was Murakami Yoshikiyo who personally sounded the drum, the soldiers besieging the temple fought even more bravely. Generals are the courage of the three armies.
Only brave and fierce generals can bring out soldiers who can fight well, and there are very few generals who can be as fierce as Murakami Yoshikiyo, and they can inspire soldiers to fight to the death only by beating the drums in person.
Hundreds of roundabout troops quickly assembled, swords unsheathed, spears like a forest, murderous rush to the rear of the temple.
The army of more than 2,000 enemies shouted the surging whale waves, trying to completely drown the opponent. The soldiers inside and outside the temple killed each other with red eyes.
Murakami's army had the advantage of having a large number of soldiers and a wide range of generals, aiming at the weak points of the temple's defense, and going forward one after another, and from time to time some soldiers screamed and fell to the wall.
Some have been killed, some have fallen from the high slope and fallen to their deaths, and some have not fallen to their deaths, holding stumps and broken arms, tossing and moaning. The successors stepped on their corpses and bodies as if numb, as if they had no discerning sense, and in the sound of the golden drums that shook the sky, they were like moths to a fire, constantly pounding the high walls of the temple.
The main direction of attack of Murakami's army is the front line of the main gate. Because the temple gate has been sealed with earth and stone, the courtyard walls on both sides have become the direction of the main attack of the stone machine, and the fire is the most violent, and in less than an hour, it has collapsed and cracked in many places.
Overlooking from a high place, the steps of the imperial road in front of the torii gate are pressed by the black of the murakami soldiers, the heads of the people are moving, and the front is holding a large oar, and the archers who are good at shooting on the temple wall are full of energy, and they have released a few bursts of arrows towards the crowd behind, but the formation is not chaotic, and even the soldiers who were hit by the arrows gritted their teeth and did not cry out in pain.
Suddenly, I heard a shout to let go, and the Murakami army in front of him suddenly set up in front of the courtyard wall, on the wide drainage ditch, into a simple bridge, the brave dead soldiers rushed over quickly, the defenders were shocked, and hurriedly ordered to release arrows, and swept down more than ten people at once, but the soldiers of the Murakami army rushed forward as if they were not dying, and killed from the gap in the collapsed courtyard wall at once.
The guarding Takeda Army hurriedly blocked the gap, and the two sides fought bloody battles in these gaps, and people were constantly slashed and fell to the ground, rolling down from the gap. Fujido Tiger Gao sent two reserve teams in a row, as if they were filled into a bottomless pit, and in the blink of an eye, they were exhausted.
Ii Naoqin was in one of these whirlpools, seven or eight Murakami soldiers stepped lightly across the trench on the bridge, rushed to the front in three or two steps, in order to prevent the enemy from rushing into the temple, stride to lead the flag to stop it, and split a ashigaru into the trench with a sword, an enemy soldier on the right stabbed with a spear with red eyes, he made a mistake, avoided the tip of the spear, and pulled the barrel of the gun in his hand with his arm. The opponent came back hard, Jing Yi got closer, pulled the knife with his right wrist, cut the opponent's throat, and then kicked the body back to the bridge and forced the enemy behind to retreat.
At this time, the flag behind him also rushed out and made a mess with Murakami's army. Almost all of the veterans who could be selected for the flag team were veterans of a hundred battles, and they did not blask and shout, but only dull slashing, except for the heavy wheezing sound and the clashing of weapons, there was almost no other sound.
Blood flowed on the ground, and soon it was completely soaked, and the soldiers on both sides staggered and struggled on the slippery boardwalks, fell, killed their opponents, or were killed by their opponents.
Seeing that the charge of the Murakami army was contained, the samurai guarding the gap ordered the men to quickly push the 'female wall' parked in the distance, the so-called 'female wall' is a wooden fence with wheels at the bottom that can be flexibly pushed, because it is much shorter than the real wall, like a woman, so it gets its name.
Wait for the wooden wall to block most of the gaps, leaving only a narrow path two people wide for friendly troops outside the hospital to retreat.
When Jing Yi Nao personally turned around to count the number of people and was about to retreat, he suddenly found that the sixty members of his team who originally followed him were now less than half of them still following him, and the rest of them were all wounded, which showed the strength of the onslaught launched by Murakami's army.
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