Even Honma Tengshu and Sagara Keitai are stained with cold sweat, and it is rare for a joint battle to be so tragic.

In their memories, only in the seventeenth year of astronomy, Imagawa Yoshimoto forced the Mikawa samurai to storm Ansei Castle, and after the battle, almost every family in Mikawa Country was vegetarian, and women and children were dressed in white.

Regardless of whether they can capture the Thousand Nations Temple City or not, the wealthy families of Anyun County are afraid that their vitality will be greatly damaged, and it will be difficult to organize the army or go out of battle without three or five years of recuperation.

After the Imagawa army filled in the outer trenches, they did not rush to attack.

In the next few days, Gao Shisheng ordered people to dig trenches, and at the same time dug tunnels not far from the city to create pressure on the defenders of the city, and used the excavated soil to pile up mountains, slightly leveling the city. Garrison troops on it to monitor movements in the city.

The army he brought to the siege was only 2,000, but there were many people who were instigated by Lianzhao Temple to help the siege. Compared with the higher-level counties next to it, Anyun County has a larger area and a denser population, and there are many refugees from other counties who have fled the wilderness, and more are indigenous farmers from Anyun County, and there are also more than 1,000 people.

A total of more than 2,000 hungry people and miscellaneous soldiers helped to build the fortifications, although there were heavy casualties, the progress was not slow, the earth mountain outside the tiger out of the pill was quickly built, and the army began to rush to make other siege ordnance.

What is the use of spending manpower to build a mountain of earth? Siege of course.

Build overpasses and other things, put one end on the dirt mountain, and the other end crush down the city. Soldiers can rush directly into the city through the overpass, which is much less labor-saving than climbing the ladder, but there are also many drawbacks. There is also a risk of being smashed and broken by such things as flyovers, but even if the flyovers are broken, it doesn't matter.

Pull the stone machine up the earth mountain, mobilize the bow foot light and climb to the top of the mountain, compared to the city wall, it can be said to be condescending, and then the random arrows and throwing flying stones, thus hitting the city, it is also very effective to get twice the result with half the effort.

The siege of the earth mountain belongs to the most common 'siege method', which refers to the gathering of soil into a mountain. It seems to be a clumsy solution, but if you want to crack it, it's very difficult.

In the previous confrontation on Kawanaka Island, why did no one in the Takeda and Nagao armies use this strategy to attack the city? It's not because no one in the two armies thinks of it, and it's not because the two armies don't want to use it. In fact, every siege battle, either time is short, or there is not enough manpower, or it is too late, or there are simply not so many sufficient manpower to build the so-called earth mountain.

That's not even the most ambitious of the projects.

But where the besieged mansion and the mountain city were besieged, the storage in the city was abundant, and there were many military horses, and it was difficult to conquer quickly, the besieging side often built a wall outside the city. This also turns the 'high fortress' in the deep ditch into a permanent city wall. A wall was put around the outside of the city, thus creating a situation of complete isolation between the inside and outside of the city. It is not surprising that a siege lasts for months, if not years.

During the Odawara expedition, Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi raised 200,000 troops to besiege Odawara Castle, which was to build a solid wall outside the city, and surrounded the entire Odawara Castle, which covers a vast area and can be called the largest flat castle in the Kanto region, which took three months, so that the Hojo clan was completely desperate, and the city was subdued when the soldiers were sufficient.

Gao Shisheng's method of besieging Senkokuji Castle is not comparable to the later Toyotomi Taiko's expedition to Hojo, but the pressure brought to the defenders in the city is not inferior, or even greater.

The Hojo clan has 50,000 soldiers, enough food to supply the soldiers and civilians in the city for a long time, and there are reinforcements from the Oshu Date family who can wait for rescue. Unless the Nagao family tears up the peace treaty that has just been signed, there will never be a single soldier who dares to come to the rescue openly, and the grain in the city of Senkokuji will not last for half a month, and the Imagawa army outside the city can continue to besiege for a month with the full support of Lianshoji Temple.

In this case, if the defenders of the city still want to resist stubbornly, they will either transfer their troops out of the city and launch a counter-battle against the enemy to stop the attempt to build a mountain of earth; Either they can learn from the Imagawa army to use the earth dragon attack in reverse, dig a tunnel to enter the bottom of the earth mountain, use a wooden stake to support the earth mountain on the ground, slowly hollow it out, and set fire to the wooden stake when retreating, so that the earth mountain above will lose its support, and it will naturally collapse.

However, there is a shortage of food in the city now, where can there be such energy to carry out this kind of tiring work, and the tunnel is not so easy to build well, Gao Shisheng has been busy for many days without much progress, often hitting a hundred and ten meters away, the dome or wall will collapse because it can't withstand the force, and more than 30 people have been buried alive so far.

This is still under the guidance of Hida Ashigaru, although the Hida country has a small territory and is poor in mountainous land, but mountainous often means more forests and minerals, and more famous than Ashigaru are carpenters and miners, and there are several senior miners in this group of Hida Ashigaru who surrendered.

With their help, the Imagawa army has failed repeatedly, not to mention the almost ignorant defenders in the city, and if the Takeda family's gold diggers were to do it, perhaps the outer curved wheel wall would have collapsed by now, allowing the army to successfully enter the city.

As Shigetaka Shoda had envisioned, such a tragic siege would have caused a rebellion among the Shinano people outside the city, and as soon as there was a roar, he immediately responded with his troops, and went out of the city to respond to the attack, defeating the besieging Imagawa army in one fell swoop.

What he can think of, how could Gao Shisheng not anticipate it, in addition to detaining the wealthy clan of Anyun County who accompanied the army, the news of Sencheng will be transmitted every day, according to yesterday's military report, the Qulun outside Sencheng has been breached, and Nishina has retreated to Ninomaru to hold on, and the distance has been completely wiped out, but it is just a matter of three or two days.

Then the whole army was transmitted, and Ono Tadaaki led the troops to the outside of the city to show off their might and surrender to the city.

Ono Tadaaki stationed under the horse city, shouted to the city, "My Musashi Shou was ordered by the public to clear and suppress Xinzhou, and you and other fierce battles for several battles, first broke the white horse and a beat, and then slaughtered hundreds of thieves in the Black House Pavilion, marched to capture, invincible, yesterday received a report from the army, Sen Castle has been broken, the thief Qu Renko Sun Liulang gave the head, and tens of thousands of troops will come to the city in a few days, and the soldiers are few and women, and the food is scarce. ”

Shaotian Chonggao received the notice, hurriedly stopped the military discussion, and led the people to the top of the city to watch, seeing that the other party still wanted to break the heart of his own army, so he let people release arrows.

Ono Tadaaki rode his horse back, pointed at the head of the castle, and laughed, "Shaoda Senbei!" Because you want to monopolize the selfish interests of the temple city of Qianguo, you secretly poisoned the people who defended the city together, and now the hermits fled to our army to seek refuge, and my Musashi Shou is only for the sake of the samurai, and I will never be able to keep such a fierce and evil person as you, continue to run rampant in the city, and dominate the city. ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Shaotian to reply, laughed and led the troops back.

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