Because when the Matsunaga Army marched in the alley, they not only encountered resistance from the front, but also encountered attacks from all directions. Whether it was arrows, projectiles, javelins, or even stones, the Matsunaga Army encountered continuous attacks from all directions.
The attack came. Originally, the Matsunaga army had an overwhelming advantage in numbers over the defending Oda army - because 30% of the Oda family's troops had to guard against the Miyoshi family at the west gate. However, the Matsunaga family had endless attacks on the flanks and diagonal rear.
Remote harassment and ineffectiveness.
"What on earth is going on?" Matsunaga finally noticed something was wrong and looked around cautiously. Only then did he realize that something was wrong. The Oda family's troops did not all stand in front of the Matsunaga family, but dispersed a lot.
People were scattered one by one at various commanding heights in the city, firing at the Matsunaga family's army non-stop. Iron gunners, archers, watch gunners, and even many auxiliary soldiers throwing stones.
"It's so troublesome." Matsunaga muttered unhappily. He glanced at the main force of the Oda family who was fighting and retreating in front of him, and shouted angrily: "Why don't you want to fight one-on-one to the death?"
"By the way, knock down that three-story house!" Matsunaga noticed at a glance the three-story building with the most iron cannons and bows and arrows. Under his command, the Matsunaga family sent a special team and began to move toward the third floor.
The building was quite close. However, it was blocked on the road by a company of Tokiwabei. On the narrow street, the long guns almost blocked the road, and there was no chance to detour. The Rangers had no choice but to come back and report.
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"Nearly 300 soldiers?" Matsunaga frowned, "It seems that this house is very important to the enemy."
"I'll give you another 2,000 people. Surround the house on all sides and seize the blocks around the house." Matsunaga waved his hand, and a large number of troops from the Matsunaga family began to surge towards the house. However, they immediately faced
The same predicament as when the main force attacked. The company in front of them fought and retreated, and they were once again subjected to long-range attacks from the side and rear, and it was the same as before: projectiles, arrows, javelins and stones thrown by auxiliary soldiers.
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"This formation method was brought back by Kang Qing from Europe." Yu Qiuping stood on the castle tower and watched with satisfaction as the street fighting developed in the direction he expected: "It's called a bastion."
"Hongye, what exactly does this mean?" Ikeda Hengxing scratched the railing in confusion, stretched his neck and looked into the city: "What kind of trick did you perform to beat the Matsunaga army to such torture?"
"Actually, this is not a bastion in the strict sense. It can only be said to be a reappearance of a concept." Yu Qiuping smiled slightly, turned around, took out the Sena Shijun's ribs from his arms, and placed it on
Drawings began on the floor. People standing on the edge, such as Ikeda Tsuneaki, Takenaka Shigeharu, and Sanada Masayuki, all gathered around curiously. Yu Qiuping laid on the floor, roughly carved out a square with his ribs, and then drew another
It looks like a five-pointed star.
"In short, it changes the traditional defensive formation from a convex polygon to a concave polygon." Yu Qiuping pointed to the square on the map and said, "Traditional cities are built in a square place. Generals
When they set up simple defensive positions or defend in street battles, they also adjust their defensive front into a convex polygon."
"But when the enemy attacks a convex polygon, they will only face attacks from one direction." Yu Qiuping selected a point outside the square, made a vertical line to the side of the square, and then clicked on that side.
"But if it's a bastion - that is, a concave polygonal defense." Yu Qiuping twisted slightly and gestured at the five-pointed star again. "No matter which side you attack, the sides or back will be exposed to the defender.
Under attack, there is nowhere to hide. For example, if you attack this corner," Yu Qiuping said, he clicked the side of one corner of the five-pointed star, and then pointed to the corner adjacent to that corner, "The troops at this corner over there.
, you can directly shoot the attacker in the back, causing great damage to it."
"Then Your Highness." Seeing this, Takenaka Shigeharu was slightly confused. He took out the ribs in his arms and tapped the tip of the five-pointed star. "If the opponent only focuses on this protruding part to attack, wouldn't it be possible for the other two sides to attack?"
It will be difficult for people to form support.”
"No, no, that's not the case." Yu Qiuping shook his head after hearing this, "If you only focus on the sharpest point of the bulge, you won't be able to deploy your troops. Whenever you want to expand the attack range, you have to
Spread your troops along that corner and you'll be exposed to the sight of the defenders on the other two sides."
"And this protruding part is solid." Yu Qiuping said while pointing to the five corners of the five-pointed star. "It won't hurt even if it is knocked down. Only the center inside the bastion is hollow."
"But Kang Qing said that the defenders of the bastion were basically using iron cannons, and their bows and arrows were a little weak." Yu Qiuping looked at the battle situation of Lord Tianshu with some concern, "I don't know whether this experiment can be successful."
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It has to be said that the application of the bastion concept was very successful this time. Matsunaga was obviously not suitable for this method of warfare. He tried everywhere but hit a wall everywhere and was harassed. Yu Qiuping was originally worried about being close to the few.
It was difficult to maintain firepower with the iron cannons and bows and arrows, so many long spears seized from the Rokkaku family were used as javelins for the auxiliary soldiers, and a lot of stones were also collected. Later it was discovered that in street fighting, these javelins and stones
The role played by blocks is no less than that of iron cannons and bows and arrows.
At the same time, on the North City wall.
"I see." Matsunaga Hide had climbed onto the North City wall in person at some point, and was looking down at the situation in front of him. Standing on a high place, he could understand the Yuqiu family's situation more clearly than Matsunaga Hide who was in the melee.
The formation - it was a huge five-pointed star with Ninomaru as the core. The five points of the five-pointed star were the five high-rise buildings in Kannonji Castle Sannomaru. They passed through the cover of the fighting and retreating troops.
Echoing each other with Ninomaru, they formed a cross fire, constantly harassing the attackers.
"There will be no results if you collide there." Although Matsunagahide, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, has never seen such a strange formation, he quickly reacted based on his experience.
Pull it out!"
"At the same time, let Naito Ruyasu speed up the progress, first control the walls of Sannomaru, and attack from a high position."
When the Matsunaga Army changed its tactics, the Oda Army immediately fell into trouble. The five protruding houses and hotels fell one after another. However, Yu Qiuping had already planned for such a situation. Whenever a protrusion
When the headquarters is about to fall, Ameakihei will send Tsuneki Ikeda as a reserve team to set off from Ninomaru to cover it, and pick up the troops of Fukushima Yasunari, Charlie, Mori Katsunari, Inaba Ittetsu and others in the salient one by one.
Ninomaru was not outflanked and annihilated even once. Seeing that the blocks of Ninomaru and Sannomaru could no longer be garrisoned, the Ujie family prophecy on the city gate and the troops guarding Ando were also withdrawn into Ninomaru by Amakihei.
"What a strong dispatching ability." Matsunaga Hide looked at the maple flag in the castle tower from a distance and issued instructions in an orderly manner, and suddenly understood why Miyoshi Yixian valued this person so much, "This guy's defense is something.
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However, at this time, the time had been delayed until eight quarters in the afternoon. The Matsunaga family, who had been tired for most of the day, had to suspend the attack and start lighting a fire for cooking. The Oda army in Ninomaru seemed to have already prepared lunch, and the smoke
They have gradually dispersed.
While eating, the Matsunaga family's samurai also began to count the number of dead. After a morning of fierce fighting, more than 600 of the 18,000-strong Matsunaga family's army had been killed and nearly 1,500 injured. Matsunaga himself estimated that Ori
The casualties of the Tian army were estimated to be only more than 500, not 800. This exchange ratio was really unacceptable to him - if he really wanted to kill all the Oda army in the city, then his troops would probably
There will also be heavy casualties.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his attention to the Xicheng Tower - where the Miyoshi Army was stationed who had been releasing water all morning. The Matsunaga family had a total territory of more than 600,000 koku, and only had more than 20,000 people. If the main force fought here until exhausted, the Miyoshi Army would
Xian will definitely not miss this great opportunity to seize the land in Minami Omi.
Therefore, Matsunaga Hide had already kept a careful eye on the second round of attacks after lunch. He did not adopt a siege method from all sides, but only focused on a gate attack in Ninomaru, trying to reduce casualties to a minimum.
However, this was destined to be slow. The siege turned into a long tug of war, and it was not until sunset that the Matsunaga family barely reached the top of Ninomaru - but the sight before them was enough to make them despair.
Yu Qiuping took almost the same measures as Sannomaru - they used the Honmaru as the core and five or six towering buildings as the protrusions to once again construct Yu Qiuping's "bastion-style" defense system. And the second one
Marugami's troops also cautiously retreated to this new defense system and the city walls on both sides.
"It will never be over." Matsunaga Hide personally climbed up the city wall and sighed at the Oda family's fortifications. Yu Qiuping was very decisive every time he retreated. As long as a fortification did not bring a good exchange ratio, he would be
Giving up decisively, the Matsunaga family never had any good opportunities. Seeing that it was getting dark, it seemed that they would not be able to capture Honmaru tonight, so Matsunaga had no choice but to order the troops to retreat from Ninomaru - otherwise the lonely section of the city wall would definitely encounter
The counterattack was in vain. Matsunaga's army saw that the section of the city wall they had fought for all afternoon was taken back by Oda's army, and their morale suddenly plummeted.
"The Oda family's reinforcements may arrive tomorrow evening..." Matsunagahide thought silently to himself, "We will charge a wave tomorrow morning. If we can't defeat them, we will have to retreat."
After thinking about this, Matsunaga was getting angrier and angrier as he thought about it, and the usually peaceful expression on his face could no longer be pretended. The surprise attack that was thought to be a sure thing was unexpectedly delayed for so long by Yu Qiuping.
Chapter completed!