Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Tiger Comes Out of the Yaksha (Part I)

These bridges are also repeatedly doused with water, even if they are burned with fire oil, they can be temporarily safe, not to mention some rockets.

Honma Tengxiu and Sagara Keitai scolded and shouted, and they only lived a few comfortable days, but they accidentally offended the formation generation again and were sent to the front of the ant. Even though he had resentment in his heart, of course he didn't dare to show it in front of Gao Shisheng, so he had to vent it on his subordinates, and even kicked and beat his subordinates to brave the rain of fire arrows and arrows, pushing the crashing car and the ladder through the trench.

The crashing car slammed into the gange board fiercely, making a loud noise, and the whole surface was forged with wrought iron and the heavy iron plate was swayed back and forth, but at the same time, the wooden pillar hammer in front of the crashing car was also hooked by the barbs on the iron plate, and it was impossible to retreat.

These 100 dead soldiers had no choice but to abandon this siege machine, push the second rushing car to bypass the main gate, and instead go to urge the hidden ambush soldiers in the previous city, and the chaser was exposed to the narrow gate.

Since it is called the narrow gate, it is naturally not very wide, and the crash car is built according to the standard of hitting the main gate, in order to achieve the purpose of quickly breaking the city gate, the ram deliberately uses heavy, wide rough wood.

When these dead soldiers, braving the rain of arrows at the head of the city, finally pushed to the last narrow gate, they found that the size of the ram was too wide to break through the iron fence behind the narrow gate of the chaser, or before they could penetrate the narrow road that was one person wide, they were firmly blocked by the outer wall of the curved wheel.

As a last resort, he had to drop dozens of corpses, remove the long straps hanging on both sides of the crashing car, lift them above his head, and turn back and retreat.

The 100 evil parties who followed Mitsuhide Naito to shoot arrows in front of them were able to kill and shouted in unison. Contrary to the banner team that was ordered to take the lead, without receiving a military order, they threw down their bows and arrows, drew their swords and guns, and howled and took the lead in attacking the city.

According to the practice left behind by the Heian Dynasty, only those who kill more than three people and fail to subdue the law are qualified to be called evil parties. It can be seen from this that this group of people are all vicious repeat offenders, who have been repeatedly surrounded and suppressed by the Takeda and Nagao armies, hid in the mountains and forests of Shinano, fought for food, and even fought with each other.

Mitsuhide Naito has been in the armor for many years, and he has a slight reputation in Kitashinano, but these evil parties gathered from all over the mountains of Hokushin are far from being close to him, and there are even several people who are more famous than him, the third leader of the Nagano Party.

If it weren't for the fact that North Shinano was all over the place this winter, and there was no surplus food everywhere, they really had nowhere else to go, and they would never honestly devote themselves to Gao Shisheng's command, and they would have despised this peer who had taken refuge in the daimyo early.

It was for the money and food to serve, when I learned the amount of 500,000 Yongle money to buy the reward, all of them were surging, and at this time they directly saw the profit and died, and rushed straight to the city without restraint, Naito Mitsuhide not only did not stop it, but vigorously instigated, this Nanxin thief also wanted to use the blood of these evil parties to snatch a gun for himself.

It would be better if those evil parties with a similar reputation died in the siege battle.

Naito Mitsuhide has long since lost the kind of hardness that resisted death when he was in Yuanjiang, and he was afraid that he would not be able to escape death when he went to Saku Castle, but he went around in a circle, but he picked up a life and came back.

He secretly thought that his martial arts were not bad, compared to Aoki Daizen's Kashima swordsman, he was far inferior, but compared to Hasegawa Hayato and Kitazhuang Shengzhong, they were more than a few chips, watching the two of them soar one after another, one had a revival of his family name, and the other became a retainer samurai, so he naturally became competitive.

When it comes to his background, Naito Mitsuhide thinks that his family is also a serious Fujiwara Kitake Xiu Xiangliu samurai, and his background is much more innocent than the Hasegawa family, which even recognizes several ancestors, and the wild land head that is all recognized by climbing is much more innocent, why can't he restore his family name, and this gang of evil parties under his command is not necessarily worse than the flag team.

At this time, on the edge of the city, the Ashigaru of the Honma and Sagara teams had already erected many ladders. The cloud ladder built by the Imagawa army is not simply a ladder, but a long ladder nail embedded in the army cart, the pack cart smashed the bottom, and the front and back, left and right temporarily added solid wood boards, covered with raw cowhide, forming a sealed carriage.

Ashigaru, who moves the ladder, hides inside, not afraid of arrows and stones, and the outside of the carriage is also tied with heavy wood and stones, which increases the weight of the ladder car and prevents the enemy troops from pushing it down with brute force at the head of the castle.

The sound of the drums urges the striking. The stream flag with Genji's wheel printed on it in the camp was raised, and Honma Tengshu swung his sword to slash down the arrows that came at him, threatening Ashigaru to climb the ladder and annex the castle. The two Lang Dang held up a one-man tall long skull, and surrounded him on his left and right sides.

Sagara Keitai personally took the lead, leading more than a dozen supervisors of the army, with the back of the sword to drive out his subordinates, one after another to climb up to the head of the city, although the two of them are weak, but the experience of joint battles is the richest, Gao Shisheng let them be responsible for the siege of the city is the most suitable.

Faced with this kind of scene of ants, Shimazaki Keishin, who was standing at the head of the city and commanding the defense, had expected it and scolded loudly. The soldiers who had been prepared in the rear immediately pushed more than a dozen rows of forked logs, aimed them at the ladder, and slammed them hard.

Because the carriage was tied to a heavy load, it only shook twice, and there was no situation of falling backwards, and the city head shouted and cheered again, and hit it vigorously again, and several agile mountain ambushes, holding the sword in their mouths, used their hands and feet together, and quickly climbed towards the city head.

On the Yakura and Hengzhang Towers protruding from the left and right of the city wall, the arrows of the archers of the Shaotian army flew wildly, and several Imagawa troops on the cloud ladder were shot down. The horizontal tower is also called the pier platform, the straight wall every three distances, will protrude a wide pier platform outward, this raised horizontal platform, specially used to place the soldiers, to cross the attack to defend the dead corner, cover the city wall.

From time to time, Ashigaru fell from a great height, screaming, and crashed into the dense crowd below. He fell to his death on the spot, his brain burst, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere. This method of death was much more tragic and terrible than dying in a flat battle, and the impact produced was particularly terrifying, and a few timid Shinano soldiers took a few steps back.

Mitsuhide Naito rushed forward with an arrow step, kicked them to the ground, threatened with a sword, and shouted angrily, "The law in the army, those who take a step back without an order, behead!" ”

Many ashigaru immediately remembered that the method of killing prisoners when they captured the two cities of White Horse and Black House in the previous time would not suspect that these prison guards would be able to do what they said.

With a little courage, the more battle-hardened Hida soldiers took the lead and continued to climb in line.

Mitsuhide Naito chose a mountain ambush with excellent archery skills, and shot the enemy in the horizontal pier platform and Yakura from the back, covering the soldiers who climbed the ladder to attack the city. However, he himself knew that the danger of climbing was too high, so he just hid in the relative safety of the rear and chased after him with a bow.

The horizontal platform lacked a long cover to cover the arrows, and he immediately shot several people and fell down.

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