The allied forces of the Miyoshi family and the Matsunaga family arrived at the foot of Kannonji Castle at 6:00 a.m. After discussion, Miyoshi Yoshihide led 12,000 people from his unit to pretend to attack the west gate, while Matsunaga Hide led 18,000 people from the Matsunaga family to attack the north gate.
The commander of the Matsunaga family's vanguard force was none other than Matsunaga Nagayori's son Naito Ruyasu. He was also the diplomat who was active in the Bunroku and Keicho battles in his previous life (Ming Dynasty historical materials mistakenly stated that he was Konishihi). However,
At this moment, he had just turned 20. As a member of the Matsunaga family, he commanded the vanguard troops to attack the North City Gate.
He was originally told that the North and West gates of Guanyin Temple City had been destroyed in yesterday's fierce battle, but he never expected that the gates would have been repaired now.
"The action is quite fast." Naito Ru'an muttered in his heart, and looked at the Oda family's Ashigaru at the top of the city--it was flying the Yuqiu family's maple leaf flag. He had 500 soldiers in hand, and 1,000 more.
There were many auxiliary soldiers pushing battering rams and ladders. Due to time constraints, the Matsunaga family rushed all the way and had no time to carry heavy siege oars, observation towers and other equipment, so they could only use these simple facilities to attack.
Although he had not been on the battlefield a few times, his father was a veteran general who had experienced hundreds of battles. He had long talked to him about various matters during the siege. He led the entire army slowly to a distance of 50 feet from the city.
Far away. The archer standing at the top of the city has an estimated maximum shooting range of only this far, and cannot effectively attack him. His men are all well-dressed, and it would take at least 30 seconds to inflict fatal injuries on them with bows and arrows.
Within a distance of ten feet.
Then, he ordered his own archers to line up and form a formation in a leisurely manner. After arranging the formation, he planned to go forward and shoot with the Yu Qiu family's archers, covering the auxiliary's ladders and battering rams.
near.
However, to his surprise, there was a roar from the top of the city, smoke instantly rose, and the archers standing not far in front of him immediately screamed, and many people were covered in blood.
He fell directly to the ground.
"Iron cannons? So many?" Naito Ru'an was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly looked towards the city. After the smoke slowly cleared, he saw nearly 100 iron cannons standing behind the wall, meticulously and quickly changing ammunition.
"Good guy! 100 iron cannons! Are the Yuqiu family so rich?" Naito Ru'an hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the archers to move forward quickly and fight back before the next shot of the iron cannon.
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"The iron cannon is so easy to use." At this time, Yu Qiuping, who was standing in the castle tower watching the battle, looked at the performance of the iron cannon man with satisfaction, and sighed to Takenaka Shigeharu and others beside him: "These iron cannons are all bought by
Come, the cost is too high. When Hanamaru and his military industry department can produce iron cannons on their own, we can train all the archers in Tokiwa Prefecture into iron cannons."
"Moreover, every time we encounter a new opponent, our iron gunners can take advantage." When Yu Qiuping saw Naito Ru'an's archers advancing quickly, he couldn't help but smile, "It's just that they don't know that our iron gunners are
The gunner's reload speed is 30% faster."
As soon as Yu Qiuping finished speaking, the iron gunners at the top of the city opened fire again. As soon as the unprepared archers stood in position to draw their bows, they were hit by dense bullets again. After two rounds of condescending volleys, the 150 archers failed to take an arrow.
Nearly 30 people fell down when they were released. Just halfway through pulling the bow, they were fired by iron cannons. All the bows and arrows that were already on the string were shot out, and only a dozen arrows fluttered softly.
It flew over the city and shot three iron gunners - but none of them caused any damage to the Tokiwabi Ashigaru, who was wearing high-quality armor.
Naito Ruan became anxious when he saw it, and hurriedly ordered the auxiliary soldiers to push the ladder and battering ram forward. Now, he no longer counted on the archers to suppress the firepower at the top of the city to cover the auxiliary soldiers, but on the auxiliary soldiers.
Soldiers can draw firepower for valuable archers.
However, the Yuqiu army did not seem to be fooled. As the Matsunaga family's archers entered the shooting range of the Yuqiu family's archers, the archers and iron gunners worked together, and under the command of Kitahata Keijie and Charlie, they attacked Matsunaga.
The archers who were already in chaos took turns pouring firepower, and soon the archers were defeated.
"It's not good there, Ru'an. There are estimated to be nearly 200 iron cannons and archers at the top of the city." After seeing Naito Ru'an's archers being neatly eliminated by the firepower of Yu Qiu's family, Matsuzuki Nagahide was skeptical of Yu Qiuping's strength.
I had to re-evaluate. "Jiutong, bring 5,000 more people up and take down the North City Gate for me."
By the time Matsunaga's 5,000 men rushed to the city, Naito Ruyasu's first batch of auxiliary troops had also suffered heavy losses under the fire from the city. The ladders and battering rams were scattered all over the ground, and only five ladders were raised to the city wall.
Above, two battering rams were pushed to the city gate.
After Matsunaga arrived at the battlefield, he immediately ordered Naito Ruyasu's soldiers to start climbing the ladder. The more than 3,000 newly arrived auxiliary soldiers picked up the ladder and battering ram left on the ground and continued to move forward. While he himself
Push the 500 archers they brought to the front line, intending to suppress the 300 people from the Yuqiu family.
However, just before they were about to draw their bows and shoot, 400 archers suddenly appeared from behind the walls of the north city of Kannonji Castle, under the banners of the Mori family, the Ikeda family and the Inaba family. They communicated with the Yuqiu family.
300 archers and iron gunners rushed to shoot before the Matsunaga family's archers. After one round of shooting, more than 30 of the Matsunaga family's 500 archers fell, while the Oda army at the top of the city suffered only a dozen casualties.
After being suppressed in terms of human momentum, the archer could not sustain a few rounds of shooting and was forced to retreat.
"Good boy, I have something." Matsus Nagahide frowned when he saw this, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "First show weakness and lure me to send out no more and no less archers, and then gather superior forces to kill my men one by one.
Defeat. Once the long-range soldiers are suppressed, their accuracy and rate of fire will be greatly reduced. Originally, the 650 soldiers could have been inseparable from the 700 soldiers, but after being divided into two groups to attack, they suffered heavy losses and were not able to cause any damage to him."
"We're going to get serious." Matsuzaki Nagahide sneered and said to the ordering soldiers on the side: "Send the order, the whole army is coming, and storm the North City Gate!"
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After seeing Matsu Nagahide's entire army approaching, Yu Qiuping remained calm and did not rush to change his deployment. Instead, he continued to let the two companies at the top of the city resist. However, such troops were obviously unable to complete the fire suppression. Then
As the Matsunaga family arrived, more and more archers arrived in front of the city, and finally the situation was under control.
At this time, Naito Yoshiyasu was leading his men to climb the ladder. Due to his poor performance, he wasted a lot of time before, and it was almost noon. In order to wash away the shame of being a samurai, Naito Yoshiyasu took the lead, without fear of those around him.
Flying arrows and projectiles.
However, although more than twenty ladders have been set up at the top of Guanyinji Castle, the progress of climbing the city is unusually slow. Naito Ruyasu was stuck on the ladder for a long time, and the people in front did not move.
It was not until he finally reached the front that he understood why his men had not been able to reach the top of the city after fighting for a long time. The defenders of Tokiwabei gathered at the edge of the ladder and kept stabbing at the ladder with their spears.
.The ashigaru's marksmanship is very good, and they look like battle-hardened spearmen at first glance. Naito Ruan used his shield to block left and right, barely protecting his body from being penetrated, and there was no chance to attack upwards.
In this way, the attacking party was in a stalemate for a long time. Naito Ruan felt that his feet on the ladder were numb, but at this time, it would be a shame and humiliation to ask to be replaced. He was in a dilemma and had to stay there.
I don’t know how much time has passed, but for Naito Ruyasu, who walks on the line between life and death every moment, the time for one stick of incense has already been a year. Although facing the tenacious defense of Tokiwa Bei’s spearmen,
The attack on the ladder was almost helpless. However, the city gate below was broken through by the persistent attack of the city ram! As the cheers rang out one after another from the city, Naito Ruyasu felt reassured. In this era, siege of a city
The outcome of the battle is basically determined by the loss of the city gate. Of course, there are exceptions - such as the city guarded by Yu Qiuping.
Naito Ruyasu originally thought that due to the loss of the city gate, the Oda army on the city wall would scatter like birds and beasts, giving him a chance to pursue. However, the situation was completely different. The Oda army at the head of the city followed the plan that Yu Qiupei had already arranged.
They retreated quickly and orderly through different paths such as stairs, corners, city walls, etc. By the time Naito Ruan scaled the city wall, the top of the North City was almost empty. And almost at the same time, the towers of the North City were immediately set on fire. Obviously, the Yuqiu family
A lot of flammable materials have been prepared in advance and placed inside, waiting for the moment when Beicheng falls to light the towers to cause trouble for the attacking side.
"Go and ask for instructions, my lord!" Naito Ruan tried hard to gesture towards the messengers below the city, "Should we abandon the tower and attack directly, or should we put out the fire in the tower and move on!"
After a while, Matsunagahide's order came: control the fire so that the fire on the tower does not burn to the city wall. Advance in two directions along the city wall and the ground. Naito Ruyasu directed the attack on the city wall, while Matsunaga was responsible for
Attack on the ground.
At the same time, the Miyoshi Army led by Miyoshi Yoshihide has not yet broken through the west gate. Matsunaga Hide knew this well - because the territory of Minami Omi and the Miyoshi family are separated from the Matsunaga family's territory, even if they are defeated, it will be difficult to control. Therefore.
, the Miyoshi family will naturally not be too concerned about attacking Kannonji Castle. If the Matsunaga family goes well, the Miyoshi family will definitely work on the sidelines. Anyway, as long as the Shangluo army is blocked, the Miyoshi family can achieve their goal.
Matsunagamichi, like Naito Yoshiyasu, believed that with the loss of the city gate, the resistance of Kannonji Castle was about to end. Even if it was a street fight, it was not a big deal. However, Matsunagamichi continued to fight.
Found something was wrong.
Chapter completed!