If they are not in their positions and do not seek their own politics, more than 2,000 people will not have enough food to feed.

Originally, Gao Shisheng also despised the actions of Takeda Shingen and Nagao Jinghu, and only when he led an army alone did he feel this kind of pressure.

If we do not co-opt these villages, which are also people and thieves, we will not be able to guarantee the stability of the back road. When they are co-opted, they are responsible for giving a bite to eat to these hungry people who are waiting to be fed. If you can't feed them, you can do it for one day, you can do it for two days, and on the third day, they will scatter in a hurry, and even turn against each other and drop the hundreds of Imagawa arms led by themselves.

The thought of this makes one feel distracted.

Accepting Ono Tadaaki's strategy of killing prisoners is not that he really thinks that he can deter the enemy, but that there is really no surplus food to feed these hungry people who may revolt again at any time.

If you want to sell the two castles of Baima and Qianguo Temple directly to Lianzhao Temple, the largest famous lord that can be found in Anyun County, it is also because of the lack of food to support the soldiers.

If it weren't for the influence of his reputation and the reason why it was also difficult to attack, maybe he would have led his troops to loot Lianzhao Temple first, and slowly fought a siege battle with Shaotian Chonggao.

Now Gao Shisheng is beginning to understand why Imagawa Yoshimoto knows that intervening in the battle of Kawanakajima is a bad thing that costs the people and money, but he still insists on going into battle, thinking of the tragic situation in the country like Shinano, which makes people feel terrified.

Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, and righteousness is not about money. Such wise sayings should be sincere and not deceive.

When a person doesn't even care about his own life, he naturally doesn't care about the strength of the troops under his command, the enemy's prisoners, and the lives of innocent people; Looking at the millions of copper coins, after easily falling into the pocket, it is even more difficult to give up looting easily.

Gao Shisheng is a mediocre person, so naturally he can't avoid vulgarity. However, he had a decision about Oi Mori's inquiry.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and on this issue, he had already expressed his desire to sell the city to Lianzhao Temple. At this time, in the evening, he sent someone back to the temple to inquire about the host, and Lai Qing, who received a clear answer, took the initiative to speak and convey the intention of the host.

"Mamoru Musashi, all of you need not worry. Since my Pure Land True Sect is a Takeda family friendship alliance, I will help each other in terms of grain and straw, and I have a general understanding of the general situation in the key points inside and outside the city of Qianguoji, the deployment of soldiers and horses, the equipment and food, and the elderly and weak population. In addition, among the samurai, ashigaru, and common people in the castle, there are quite a few disciples of my Pure Land Shin Sect. As long as Musashi Mamoru is willing to pardon the fathers and elders in the city, and then the poor monks secretly communicate and persuade him, not to mention the immediate surrender of the city, it is expected that he will defend it, and he will not be of the same heart and mind as the Shaotian family's subordinates. After all, the Shaotian family is a native of Echigo, and they have a deep confrontation with the people of Shinshu. ”

As mentioned above, it may not be so certain, but the people of Shinano and the people dislike the Shaoda clan from the Echigo wealthy family, but it is true, in addition to the closed and xenophobic folk customs of Shinshu, it is more of the three Kawanakama rebellions, if it weren't for the fact that Nishina couldn't resist the Takeda army at all, he wouldn't necessarily have succumbed to the Nagao family.

"Besides, the soldiers under the command of Musashi are brave, and there are only a rabble in the city, so they must not be opponents." Next, Lai Qing twisted the Buddha beads in his hand, talked eloquently, took a scroll from the hand of the novice on the side, unfolded it, and invited everyone to watch.

This axis of the city defense scroll map is the Lianzhao Temple painstaking solitary, it took several years of time, sent a detailed investigation, and used the leakage of the disciples in the city to find out little by little, but before it came in handy, the Nishina family was cut off by Takeda Shingen, and the city also fell into the hands of the Takeda army, and in the end, only with the ambition of seizing the city of Senkokuji, it was put on the shelf.

As Yorikei Shimoma said, the distribution of the large and small Tibetan military walls and hidden yakuras in the city are clearly visible on the map, and the lanes and key points that can be guarded in the castle town are also focused on using a red pen to circle and outline.

He said quite confidently, "The castle of Qianguoji is all on it, and coupled with the elite attack under Musashi Mamoru Mori, the poor monk asserts that within a few days, this castle will definitely be destroyed. ”

Master Gao Sheng was silent, and everyone in the tent was happy. Nagata Mori laughed even more, "With this city defense scroll, coupled with the disciples of Lianzhao Temple as the internal response, even the gods and Buddhas really came to help our army." After carefully looking at the scroll map, he asked again, "Musashi Mamoru when will the castle be attacked?" ”

Gao Shisheng took the wine cup and saluted Lai Qing from a distance, then drank it all up, and ordered, "Intensify the defense tonight, you and others will return to each team immediately, and lead the people to hurry up and prepare siege equipment." After that, he stretched out his hand to signal Beizhuang Shengzhong, and encouraged, "Wan Jiro is in the front, you should know that I am not a stingy disciple, and the one who breaks the city first tomorrow will be listed as a gun skill, and give Yongle money 500,000!" ”

"Musashi Mamoru is so rewarded, dare not serve to die!" Even Shinano followed the samurai of the Imagawa Army to get up and answer the promise, and then in turn he answered the order and withdrew from the account.

Soon, there were only four people left in the tent: Gao Shisheng, Aoki Daizen, Oi Shengchao, and Shimoma Lai Qing. Gao Shisheng then promised: "After the city is broken, our army will rest for two days, and then hand over the White Horse and Qianguo Temple City to your temple to take over!" ”

Let the next Lai Qing be surprised and delighted, and he didn't dare to say anything, saying that he could let the city whenever he wanted, and everything was based on the convenience of the Imagawa army.

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The Imagawa army came from afar, but due to the military order passed down by Gao Shisheng, it was not possible to rest as much as possible.

The siege was set for early in the morning. Except for the 600 ashigaru who were selected to participate in the siege the next day, the rest of the teams were commanded by the soldiers, and the Shinano miscellaneous soldiers in the army were assembled, and Shimoma Yorikei came forward to select hundreds of disciples of Renshoji Temple from among them, and the monks and soldiers escorted them to the nearby mountains to cut down trees.

In addition, Mitsuhide Naito was sent to lead the evil party members who were born from mountain ambushes and water thieves to the surrounding villages to collect vegetable oil, firewood, grass, wooden planks, etc., so that they could make slabs, bundles, and oil cans for siege.

In the army, there are only five simple stone carts captured from the Murakami army, and there is no nest car used to transport dozens of people at a time for siege, but the nest car is also used to attack Gaodaping Castle, and it is not easy to use for mountain castles with rugged roads and steep altitudes.

Therefore, the most rushed and modified are ladders, flying bridges, half-cut boats, hook sickles and other equipment.

After the soldiers entered Anyun County, the Imagawa army coerced many craftsmen from the countryside along the way, and formed a team of craftsmen among the many non-human craftsmen. The number of people was small, about forty or fifty people, and it was handed over to Oi Mori Chao to be in charge of management, and two hundred-man teams were assigned to assist and rush to work overnight.

Ono Tadaaki and others proposed to follow the usual tactics and drive the weak people to fill the trenches and block arrows. After a little consideration, Gao Shisheng did not fully adopt it, but he did not directly veto it, but adopted a relatively compromise method.

Anyone who can carry a cloth bag and three stones into the trench can receive a table of miscellaneous grains from the army and return it home.

The Imagawa army continued to kill along the way, which had already terrified the people of Shinano country, so they would ask for surrender one after another in order to survive, and if they were to fill in the trenches when attacking the city, it was likely to arouse their resentment.

If the Shaotian army in the city colludes, the inside and outside should cooperate to attack their own headquarters, but it will be counterproductive.

What's more, with the assistance of Lianzhao Temple, he believes that he will soon be able to break the city, and there is no need to be a villain.

But the use of the people to fill the ditch, can indeed effectively reduce the casualties of the ashigaru, rather than force the people to give gifts, it is better to lure with profit, sure enough, within half an hour, hundreds of young people took the initiative to join the vanguard team, anti-soil bags, bundles to fill the trenches.

Shinano is short of grain at the moment, and a table of miscellaneous grains is a considerable amount, if these hundreds of people can receive a table of miscellaneous grains, it is hundreds of tables of miscellaneous grains, which is converted into a stone height and is about fifty stones, which is also a lot of supply pressure for the Imagawa army's grain stockpile, but by tomorrow evening at the latest, the first batch of grain supported by Lianshoji Temple will arrive in the castle.

Moreover, these hundreds of people had to ensure that they could return alive in the process of carrying the earthen bags three times before they could receive the promised grains. Even if they do come back alive, there are almost no people who are unscathed.

Seriously injured people, as long as they are detained in the army in the name of treating their injuries, and drag on for three or four days, there will definitely be many people who will die due to the deterioration of their injuries, and they will be able to save most of the grain at that time.

After a busy night outside the city, there was no relaxation in the city. The enemy soldiers on the Torade Kolunmaru also tried many times to fix the stone machine at the top of the oar, throwing baked jade and oil canisters to obstruct the Imagawa army's siege preparations, but the distance was too far and the range was not enough.

The Imagawa army outside the city was also not polite, and kept blowing snails and drums in the safety of the city, firing arrows into the city, harassing the defenders in the city and not allowing them to rest in peace, and made a fuss until the second half of the night before dispersing alternately.

When Ping Danyin buried a drum to make rice, when the sun rose and the two drums were cooked, Chen Kechao finished eating, the whole army beat the drum, gathered to attack the city.

The place where the Qianguo Temple City is located, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the winter wind blows the flags of the whole battalion, and the armor is hung with frost, which makes people feel refreshed, and even the exhaustion of last night's busy work is all rolled away.

Gao Shisheng chose the main gate of the Tiger Out Pill as the main direction of attack, in front of the ditch that was as wide as a dozen rooms, and at this time there was also a thin layer of ice floe, and the newborn morning sun climbed up the mountain, not only did not dispel the cold, but added three points to the cold.

The Hida people and the monks and soldiers of Lianzhao Temple were eager to buy rewards, and they all invited themselves to serve first. The role of the first hand is very important, and if it goes well, it will boost morale; Frustration discourages the morale of the army.

He could not hand it over to these generals who only relied on brute bravery, and chose Beizhuang Shengzhong as the first general, and led 600 men to carry half of the boat and the board, and took advantage of the fatigue of the enemy army to approach the trench.

The half-cut boat resembles a small fishing boat that has been overturned in half-overturned, and the top is supported by four wooden pillars, and during the siege, each of the four ashigaru holds a pillar to shield the arrows, and as for the action, except for peeking in the direction through the small opening in the middle of the bow, they can only rely on the command of the rear drummer, and the soldiers under the ship follow the drum to adjust the direction and march in unison.

In addition to these four ashigaru, there were ten men under each half-cut boat, carrying Shinano miscellaneous soldiers digging up bags of earth and filling in the trenches.

Because of the limited number of half-cut ships, only a few elite ashigaru of the Imagawa army were allowed to use them, and the remaining soldiers who went out of battle and the young men who took the initiative to participate in filling the trenches could only carry slabs, firewood and grass bundles to follow the gap between the half-cut ships, lined up in a ryu armor wall, and followed slowly.

The enemy troops shouted at the head of the city, and hurriedly lit torches to adjust the orientation of the stone machine on the platform. The leaders of the group and the soldiers shouted loudly, and the longbows and iron cannons fired in unison. Because it was made in a temporary hurry, the half-cut ship was built quite roughly, but it was very strong, and the top cover was spliced with several thick wooden planks with rivets, which was impermeable.

The bow and arrow could not penetrate half of the ship, and only after dropping the bundle of firewood and grass, a few young men who did not have time to withdraw to the wall of Ryu Jiajiao were hit by iron cannons and fell into the trench, and before they could struggle to climb ashore, they were thrown back into the water by friendly people, and soon the originally clear icy pool water was stirred into a muddy piece by blood and loess.

These losses were expected, and after a short time, the first wave of trench-filled troops returned, and the half-cut ships and the board walls were full of arrows, and the Imagawa sergeants were not killed or injured due to their tight protection.

Everyone didn't sleep all night, and at this time they were all next to Gao Shisheng and watched the battle together. Seeing this scene, Honma Tengshu and Sagara Keitai saw this scene, laughed heartily, and took the initiative to ask the order to come forward, and personally led the team to join the siege in the second wave of trench battles.

When the two of them were under the command of Asahina Shinji, they were always the ant tribes who led the team to fill in the trenches, not only did the subordinates suffer great casualties, but they themselves also risked the arrows and stones, rushing to the front, but the reward and seizure after the war was always the least.

In the battle to rescue Taihei Temple, the two led the troops to fill the trench and almost died under the Ueda Eagle Cavalry Knife, but the reward for meritorious deeds was not ranked at all.

After returning to Gao Shisheng's dispatch, he suddenly turned over and became the main force in the army, and the generals of the front no longer had to charge into battle.

The subordinates who received the reward and the Hirayama Party have always been treated equally, and even vaguely higher than the 500 Imagawa troops who supported later, so they also want to pocket the 500,000 Yongle money after the city is broken.

At this moment, the most dangerous trench battles are so safe. I couldn't help but want to go into battle and mix up some combat exploits, even if I couldn't get the first place, with this feat, it was good to ask for more money and food after breaking the city.

Gao Shisheng had nothing to do, the two thanked him and left, and soon took the second wave of soldiers to the outside of the trench again, this time the defenders in the city learned the lesson of the previous time, and rekindled the rockets.

In this kind of superficial trick, how could the Imagawa army be defenseless, and before each team of trench fillers set off, they would pour a layer of permeable water on the outer roof of the half-cut boat and the slab, and the rocket could not burn for a while. Occasionally, there is vegetable oil hanging to make the fire fierce, and you can wait until you return to the camp and put it out calmly.

At this time, the stone machine on the turret platform also began to throw baked jade, and there were only three stone machines in Torano Maru, but if they could hit it every time, it would cause a lot of damage to the soldiers who were in a dense formation inside the Ryu armor wall.

Three times in a row, hit two targets. The half-cut boat only shook and could still move forward, but the board that relied on manpower to resist it was not so calm.

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