The relatively thin wide wooden canopy can't resist it at all, and the wooden canopy that was hit suddenly cracked, and the baked jade exploded in an instant, and the iron nails and hot oil filled with the clay pot sputtered everywhere.

Ashigaru behind the board was hit at the time and swept into a piece. The wall was suddenly scattered, and a companion at the end blocked the iron nail, and the uninjured people hurriedly stepped forward, picked up the wooden tree that fell to the ground, and lifted it up again, but it was still seized by the archers on the head of the city, and shot a rain of arrows, and several people fell to the ground with arrows.

The artillery men in charge of covering the front line of the Imagawa army immediately dragged the stone machine to return the color to the enemy soldiers at the head of the castle. Set the target, aim at the stone machine on the platform, and counterattack three or four times in a row without hitting.

The wrench of the trebuchet was too short, but the length of one room, and the fact that these gunners had never learned how to operate such a complex siege machine before, and it was not uncommon for them not to hit at such a distance.

The tiger came out of the corner of the front wall of the pill curl wheel, opened a few hidden chaser narrow doors, and one hundred and ten dead soldiers rushed out quickly, reached the shed behind the trench, the hidden cave, and drilled in.

The positions of the basement and the cave are very low, almost as flush as half a ship. The third wave of the trench fillers rushed forward, and half of the ships could block the arrows and stones shot down from the city, but they could not defend against the opposite side.

In a matter of moments, more than a dozen people were shot in the legs, feet, chest and abdomen with short bows by the enemy soldiers hiding on the opposite side of the trench, and the uninjured companions hurriedly pulled them up, and on the way back to the rear, they were shot down by arrows, causing a lot of panic in the front team.

"Drumming! Cheer! "The master sat on the lookout platform, and erected a tent with the pattern of the 'Hanging Wheel' around him, so that the banner hurriedly sent orders to the stone machine, adjusted the distance, and first dealt with the enemy hidden behind the trench.

The majestic and heavy taiko drum sound resounded through the mountains and forests. Shaotian also ordered people to push drums to the top of the city, and then they also beat and shook to boost morale.

The two sides seemed to be relatively high, and the drums beat higher and higher.

The birds in the surrounding mountains and forests flew in all directions. The lookout platform under the feet of Gao Shisheng and the others seemed to be trembling with vibration.

"Weyha! Whiha! Hasegawa Hayato and other samurai stood in front of the formation, paused and took the lead in shouting whale waves, raising flags and dancing flags, and bravely fighting for the soldiers of the front team.

The thousands of Imagawa army miscellaneous soldiers who have experienced many joint battles have not necessarily become really brave and fierce, at least they can deal with this small battle in front of them. In the sound of the drums, inspired by the whale waves of the rear team, the soldiers of the trench filling team followed one after another, and the originally bottomless trench was slowly filled.

The overflow of cold water made the roads along the way extremely muddy, and by the way, it soaked the soldiers' and young and strong already cold straw sandals, and many people shivered from the cold.

There was a sudden burst of earth-shattering cheers in the camp, and a young man covered in blood was lifted up by everyone, and was sent all the way to the front of the battle, where everyone changed into a brand new winter coat.

Later, several envoys stepped on their horses to give orders, and shouted separately, "Shichiro Ishino of Ota Village, Mishiki Township, threw three stones of earthen bags and saved one of our army's ashigaru, and Musashi Mamoru gave him one stone of brown rice, one winter coat, and three thousand pieces of Yongle money, and he could be released home after the trench was filled!" How dare you not encourage you to fight? ”

The troops, under the leadership of the various teams of Fenggong, chanted in unison, "Fight to the death to repay the grace of Musashi Mori!" Morale is rising.

There is no need to fill in the trenches, and all the trenches that are more than a dozen rooms wide can be completely filled, and only four or five rooms wide can be filled.

The rear camp is hurrying to build the flying oar bridge, and the role of the flying oar bridge is similar to that of the ladder and the big oar. It's just longer and wider than the previous two, and multiple flying bridges are connected together, and the width can reach several, or even a dozen. Erected at both ends of the trench, it was like a wooden hanging bridge, and the soldiers could step on the planks on it and rush directly through the trench to the bottom of the city.

Due to the lack of craftsmen and the rush of time, the length of the flying bridge can only be seven or eight rooms long at most. No matter how long it is, when the soldier charges from the plank, there is a high probability that the gap connection will not be able to withstand it, causing it to break in the middle.

Otherwise, Gao Shisheng does not need to spend manpower to fill the trench at all, and can directly cross the trench by erecting a row of flying oar bridges.

The shed and the hidden hole under the high wall of the earthen mound, because of the large number and dense, can be more easy to hit than the lone hanging high place of the platform, several times throw stones down, collapse into a pile.

The 100 Shaotian soldiers who went out of the city were killed and wounded more than 20 times, and the rest had nowhere to stay, so they scattered their formation, shot the arrows in their hands into the air, and then returned to the city along the secret gate of the chaser.

At the head of the city, Shaotian leaned out again. After a night of discussion last night, they still wanted to try to reach a truce with the Imagawa army, so they led someone to ask in a loud voice, "Musashi Mamoru and you and I are old acquaintances, why don't you come and answer?" ”

shouted three times in a row, and finally someone came out to respond, but it was Naito Mitsuhide who led the troops forward, and took over from the archers of the Nagata Mori clan to return to the camp to replenish the arrows, while he continued to lead people to cover the siege.

The ashigaru of the Naito team is a vicious party born of mountain ambush and water thieves, and each will get it with swords, guns, bows, and arrows.

Hundreds of thieves and thieves, both large and small, who were quite famous in Shinano, did not hold a long canopy to cover them, so they swaggered behind the trench filling team, spread out a line, drew their bows and released arrows, and counterattacked the enemy archers on the castle.

This group of bold thieves and robbers, using big bows and strong arrows in their hands, stood below and shot at the Shaotian army at a high place, without falling behind at all.

Most of the archers and stone generators of the Shaotian army were busy dealing with the half of the boats of the trench filling team, and they didn't care about them.

Mitsuhide Naito took two or three good archery skills, and even hit them in succession, killing several ashigaru at the head of the castle one after another, forcing the other party to erect a long bow at the head of the city and hide behind in embarrassment.

"Mamoru Musashi, please listen to the next word. The city of our Qianguo Temple is steep and strong, the soldiers can be fed for half a year, and there are thousands of elite soldiers defending the city. Although I don't know the strategy, I also know that there are few speedy people in the siege of the city. When you come from afar, the soldiers are tired, and there are only two thousand of them, how can you capture me, a strong city in the mountains? Shaotian at the head of the city was heavy, and loudly analyzed the military situation for Gao Shisheng.

After finishing speaking, he said, "I don't dare to say anything, and I will defeat the soldiers under Musashi Shou, but it is enough to defend the castle!" However, I did not want the people of Shinano inside and outside the castle to increase casualties, and I and Musashi Mamoru hit it off at first sight, and if there was a shortage of food and pay in the army, despite words. I wish to pour all the city, and Musashi Mamoru to form this good fate, to help the victims, the Imagawa army is only Takeda borrowed troops, and we have no suspicion and grudges. In this way, wouldn't it be beautiful to strike the troops on both sides without losing the Buddha's benevolent karma? ”

This time, he openly asked for a boycott of the war, but secretly he was shaking Gao Shisheng's military heart.

First pointed out that once a strong attack on the castle was launched, the Imagawa army would inevitably drive the Shinano people to die, and then pointed out that the Imagawa army did not need to fight to the death for the Takeda family, and all they asked for when they came to the castle was money, food, and goods, and the Shaoda family was willing to pay a large sum of money and grain to buy the Imagawa army's retreat, so that both sides took what they needed, and they were both happy.

When the senior master heard this, he seemed to be moved, and opened and closed the folding fan in his hand a few times, and after thinking for a while, he asked the people beside him, "How to settle the city, the army has not yet succeeded, and it is just right to listen to your opinions at this time." ”

In addition to waiting to receive half of the Anyun County of Shimoma Yorikei, Shinano people are very concerned in their hearts, even Honma Tengxiu and Sagara Keitai, who have just returned from the army to return to their lives, are also quite moved, relying on this period of time to be courteous, thinking that they have guessed Gao Shisheng's thoughts, and they are bold, and they say, "I think that what the city guards said is not unreasonable. ”

Gao Shisheng was noncommittal, turned his eyes to look at Ono Tadaaki and Shimoma Laiqing, and said, "Please also ask the two Zen masters to teach me with gold and jade." ”

Ono Tadaaki didn't give in, and he didn't mean to ask Lai Keisan to say it at all, he shook his monk's robe, reached out and picked up a piece of charcoal and threw it into the brazier in front of him, and unhurriedly put the wine jug on the horizontal rack to warm it up, before replying, "Please Musashi Mori allow me to come forward and meet with him for a while." ”

After getting permission, several bannermen came to the city with long trees in their hands, and talked to Shaotian Chonggao: "Qianbingwei's words are just old skills!" What food and grass are sufficient, thousands of elite soldiers, it is just nonsense, and they want to try to coax in vain. Yesterday, the lower room officials of Lianzhao Temple have already informed the city of the truth and the truth, after the city is broken, the money, food and goods are all at our own disposal, why do we need others to give alms? ”

"Qianguo Temple City, this is not the place of your Shaotian family, but it is to take advantage of the chaos to steal evidence, and it is not right. Since it is not right, what kind of face is there to make a big deal about it? I, the official army of the shogunate, came here to pacify Shinshu by the imperial order of the general of the public government, and to save the people from fire and water. Since our army entered Anyun County, everywhere it passed, the people of Qianshou have all eaten pot pulp to welcome the official army. Lang'er lonely city, why should I rebel against the victorious army? What's more, after our army, there are tens of thousands of troops from Takeda and Imagawa, and they can come every day. My Musashi has a word, the first advocate of righteousness in Kaicheng, and the ability to block it; Those who surrender to the soldiers and the common people will be rewarded heavily. ”

Not to be outdone, Shaotian retorted, "Why should the Zen master deceive me? It is rumored that the people of the White Horse and the Black House were slaughtered after the defeat, all of which were harmed by the words of the Zen master, and the monks were so cruel and easy to kill, it was really shocking and inexplicable, unbelievable! ”

Ono Tadaaki questioned this, neither admitting nor refuting, but changed the tone and replied, "Our army is here, not only for the shogunate to ask for thieves, but also to ask the guard general Shaoda Shigetaka to repay the blood feud on the bank of the Yuming River, and to inform the city sergeants and the people that your guard will abandon the people to his party that day, not to mention the Shinano people?" If you don't want to sacrifice the city, you can also withdraw from the army if you want to send the head of Shaotian Chonggao to our military camp! ”

The roar of iron cannons and the rain of arrows came and went, and the two did not give in to each other, and did their best to boast and belittle each other. After two or three rounds of fighting, Shaotian was defeated. How could the samurai be a monk who was a fool of his tongue and relied on agitation to coax his disciples to eat, and he could not resist the ridicule of a few words.

Ono Tadaaki returned to the camp victoriously, and the senior master snapped, closed the folding fan again, and said, "What the Zen master said, even my heart, Shaotian Qianbei is the enemy of my Pingshan Party, only by taking his life, can he be hated before the snow, otherwise even if the whole city is slaughtered, it is not enough to comfort the dead and injured Lang Party on the bank of the Yuming River." ”

Then, to Honma Tengshu and Sagara Keitsu, who had previously proposed to retire, he warned, "How can you be cowardly above the joint battle army? ”

The folding fan opens and closes to make a clear sound, like a knife out of its sheath. Hearing him frankly say that the slaughter of the city seemed to be nothing to do, Honma Tengxiu and Sagara Jingtai were originally from a small country in Yuanjiang, and they were accused in public by Gao Shisheng, a generation from the spectrum, and they could only make promises, where did they dare to say more, and hurriedly left the table to accuse.

Then he was sent back to the front and prepared to attack the city.

Akari trained the two Yuanjiang warriors, but in fact, even the people of the Shinguo were beaten together, and gathered them on the lookout to feast and watch the battle, which was also depriving them of the connection with the miscellaneous soldiers.

Sure enough, the rest of the Shinano people fidgeted, twisted their bodies boldly, and coughed lightly; The cowardly face showed a shocked face, and quickly raised his sleeves to cover his face, pretending to be drinking.

Combined with the city defense map scroll presented by Lai Qing in the next room, the artillery hand pondered the high wall of the tiger out of the pill for a long time, and chose the relatively low and weak Ximen corner as a breakthrough. The five catapults all pushed through, concentrated their firepower, and stormed one place.

For a while, fireballs and rocks flew sideways in the air, hitting the ashigaru on the city wall and fleeing in embarrassment.

It was almost noon, the deep and long trench in front of the tiger out of the pill was filled in most of it one after another, Gao Shisheng sent an order, the banner holders standing on the Yalou waved the flag, sounded the drum to urge the position, and Beizhuang Shengzhong led his subordinates to collect the corpses of the fallen soldiers when filling in the trench, and returned together.

Next, it was the turn of the flag team led by Hasegawa Hayato to go into battle, still holding half of the boat above their heads, and hundreds of people died bravely, draped all over their bodies, pushed the crash car, and rushed to the front of the trench in the face of flying stone arrows.

He lowered the flying oar bridge from the car and fell heavily to the opposite side, kicking up a cloud of dust. Because Torademaru is built on flat ground, the foundation is extremely deep and strong, not as low as the gable, and if you want to easily learn to attack the Black House Pavilion, it is obviously impossible to climb over the wall and enter, and it has become the quickest way to break through the city gate.

However, since Qianguosi Castle is called Anyun County, the premier fortified city, of course, it will not be without means of defense. With a wave of his hand, the ashigaru on the turrets on both sides of the gate immediately released the winch wheel, let go of the gange board, and hung it in front of the three-sided door opening, which was wrapped with iron leaf nails, thick and solid, enough to prevent the Imagawa army from pushing the ramming car conflict.

This method was introduced to the western country from Yunzhou Meibaoguan in the Southern Song Dynasty, and in the battle of Genpei, the Heijia soldiers relied on this method to defend the city, causing huge casualties to the samurai regiment that launched a strong attack on the Genji, and later gradually spread all over the world with the fall of the Hei family.

In the Warring States Period, simple city-defending equipment such as Gange board was very common, but because it was too simple, there was no way to crack it.

Shaotian raised his military pendant high, waved it a few times, and a large group of archers poured out of the city, and the ignited rockets rose into the sky and fell densely on the flying oar bridge.

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