At this time, outside the west gate of Daojing City.
The six artillery groups led by Naoe Nobuhei had just received an order to immediately withdraw to Yu Qiupei's main formation to assist the main force in the battle.
"What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry?" Naoe Tohei was a little surprised after hearing the order, and asked Mori Ranmaru who was delivering the order, "The siege here is going well. We are about to push the artillery in to bombard Honmaru. Why?"
Are you suddenly going to evacuate?"
"Senior Nobuhira, something bad has happened!" Mori Ranmaru's face was flushed with anxiety at this moment, "Akai Naomasa's 1,000 soldiers suddenly entered the battle, launching from the joint between Isshiki Yoshimichi and Yoshioka Sadakatsu.
Fierce attack. His Highness and Lord Charles have personally led the guards up, and even the escorting spearmen of the artillery team were pulled up, so they can barely withstand it! If we don't support it, the entire front will collapse!"
"What?" Naoe Nobuhira was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly ran up the stairs to the Ninomaru castle wall to check the situation. I saw that the Sanin Allied Forces on the entire front were as powerful as a rainbow - they had nearly 5,000 to 2,000.
The superiority of troops. However, Yu Qiuping had personally inserted the Maple Bird Horse Seal into the center of the battle line, thus temporarily stabilizing the situation.
"The Tanba Twin Ghosts still have something, they are much better than those miscellaneous soldiers yesterday." Naoe Nobuei muttered a few times to himself, then looked at the battle situation, then quickly ran down the stairs and said to Mori Ranmaru
, "Ranmaru, it's too late to go back now! By the time we drag the cannon to the position, the battle line will probably be breached!"
"What should we do?" Mori Ranmaru was still a twelve-year-old child after all, and he was a little at a loss when he saw this.
"I pushed the cannon up to the Ninomaru castle wall and bombarded them from a high position." Naoe Nobuei pointed to the Ninomaru west castle and the northwest section of the wall that had been taken down by the Red Leaf Army.
"But..." Mori Ranmaru curled his lips hesitantly, "His Highness's order is... to let you go back, Nobiragi-senpai... In the military regulations of the Hongye Army, isn't it forbidden to disobey orders? As long as the superiors give orders, they must be carried out.
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"Your Highness doesn't know the situation here. He probably doesn't know that we have taken down the city wall in the northwest section of Ninomaru!" Naoe Tohei explained to Mori Ranmaru.
"But..." Mori Ranmaru was still a little resistant.
"Ah, that's it. Just pretend that this never happened, and I'll tell you that I'll go to the main formation right away." Naoe Touhei chuckled, patted Mori Ranmaru on the shoulder, and took the gun crew with him.
Walking to the city, "There is no time. As for disobedience, I will explain it to His Highness myself when I get back."
After that, Naoe Noboira led the others away without looking back, leaving Mori Ranmaru alone in a daze.
"You guys, go and ask the auxiliary soldiers to come over with shovels, quickly!" Naoe Nobuei shouted to the leaders of the other artillery groups, "Have them come over and fill in the soil, and fill in the stairs section by section for me.
Fill in a slope so we can push the cannon up!"
Several artillery team leaders eagerly grabbed a bunch of auxiliary soldiers and immediately began to fill the stairs with soil. Naoe Nobuhei found a rope from somewhere and tied them to the cannon. He pulled them from the front and pushed them from the back.
In a short time, the six cannons were transported to the Ninomaru Castle Wall through the small passage filled in on the stairs.
"Push! Push to the edge of the wall stacks! Auxiliary soldiers, fill the corners of the female wall with soil and fill it higher! Let the muzzle just pop out from the depression in the wall stacks!" Naoe Nobuhei hurriedly directed the artillery crew.
While transporting the artillery, he gave a loud order to the auxiliary soldiers. The auxiliary soldiers were busy with their hands and feet, and in a short time they had consolidated six simple small platforms. Without saying a word, Naoe Nobuhei asked the artillery crew to push the cannon to the platform.
Above, the black muzzle of the gun bounced out from the depression in the wall.
"Hit me!" Naoe Touhei glanced at the shooting angle, "I don't think I can hit the Nuijing school right next to Daoi Castle. Let's hit Yagi Toyonobu a little north of the Nuijing school first, and hit it with solid bullets.
Where his horse seal is!"
"But sir, when the gun is fired like this, the recoil will directly bounce the bubbles off the platform!" A gun crew leader couldn't help but questioned loudly.
"What can we do? Can't we repair the fort now that we have time?" Naoe Touhei glanced at the increasingly critical battle situation and shouted anxiously, "You pull the rope to hold the cannon! This is what the navy does! They can't even carry six pounds.
You can pull a cannon, but you can't pull a three-pounder?"
"Calibrate!" Naoe Tohei shouted the command loudly. Even if the gun crew members were still doubtful, after hearing the order, they still started to execute it like a conditioned reflex - they must execute the military order when they hear it. This is the red leaf army day and night.
Training is a habit that every soldier develops - of course, Naoe Touhei seems not to have developed it.
"fire!"
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Yagi Toyonobu was shouting loudly and commanding the battle. After Akai Naomasa joined the battle, the balance of victory was slowly tilting towards them. Is the Red Leaf Army's combat effectiveness really tenacious, with less than one-half of its strength?
Without the influence of tactics or terrain, the Sanin Allied Forces were suppressed for a time. Akai Naomasa simply arrived in time, allowing the Sanin Allied Forces to regain control of the situation.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! We don't have much time!" Yagi Toyonobu personally signed the horse seal from the flag bearer and swayed back and forth, urging his subordinates to rush forward. However, suddenly he heard the sound of cannons from the south.
Yagi Toyonobu turned his head and looked blankly, only to see smoke rising suddenly from the top of Inai City, and six black projectiles falling from the sky, falling in his direction.
Yagi Toyonobu felt his eyes go dark, and there were violent crashes and screams next to him, knocking him to the ground. He looked around in shock, and saw a mess around the horse seal, with people lying on their backs and horses turning upside down. And he
But he luckily escaped and was safe and sound.
However, before he could recover, the artillery at the top of Daojing City opened fire again. This time, he did not have such good luck. Two of the six three-pound cannon shells fell directly beside him.
, knocking Yagi Toyonobu and several guards who rushed to rescue him away together. Also falling together was Yagi Toyonobu's horse seal.
Being sniped condescendingly by six artillery pieces at such a close distance, it would be difficult for a god to escape unscathed. What's more, the one who fired the artillery was Naoe Nobuhira, the chosen one who was extremely lucky - back then he could shoot at the extreme distance without vision.
Using a cannon just dug out of the earth and a cannonball swimming in the water to hit Takeda Shingen with one shot, it would not be a problem to use two cannons to snipe Yagi Toyonobu who was right in front of him.
After Yagi Toyonobu was suddenly killed, the Yamana army under Yagi Toyonobu immediately went into chaos. Opposing him were Yu Qiushang and Ii Naomasa. The two launched a counterattack without mercy, killing Yagi Toyonobu in one fell swoop.
The headquarters was defeated. Naoe Tohei was not idle either. He continued to raise the muzzle of the gun and began bombarding Yoshioka's headquarters. Although at such a distance, the accuracy of directly bombarding Ma Yin was a bit reluctant.
However, the indiscriminate firing of solid bullets still brought great confusion to Yoshioka's troops. Soon after, the most powerful general of the Yamano family was also forced to defeat.
As Yoshioka Sadakatsu and Yagi Toyonobu withdrew from the battlefield, the Sanin Allied Forces' front line had been fractured to the point where it was no longer organized. The southernmost Tenei Educational Institute was the first to be swept away by Uakishang and Ii Naomasa.
During the pincer attack, he hurriedly led the auxiliary soldiers under Dajing Castle to retreat into Dajing Castle. Many people trampled on each other along the way, and countless surrenders were killed. Akai Naozheng hurriedly adjusted his formation under the crisis and blocked Jiuwu.
Nagahe came around and attacked from the side, trying to stabilize the situation.
At this moment, a group of cavalrymen with aqua platycodon flags suddenly came from the mountain road to the east - it was Akechi Mitsuhide's banner unit. I saw Akechi Mitsuhide leading the way, leading his men straight towards the northern front of the Sanin Allied Forces.
Behind the scenes, Akai Naomasa had no one to resist, and was the first to suffer. Immediately afterwards, Isshiki Yoshitsune's troops were affected. After Akai Naomasa and Isshiki Yoshimichi's troops were defeated one after another under attack from three sides, Otagaki Teru further north
The Yamana army led by Enwa Yamana Yutoyo had realized that the situation was over, and they organized their troops and retreated from the battlefield, fleeing towards the mountain road in the direction of Sonobe Castle in the north. As soon as they withdrew, they immediately sold out the back roads of Isshiki Yoshimichi and Akai Naomasa.
They were given Sui Aton Sutra and Shingen Nariyō. Sui Aton Sutra and Shin Hōnariyō quickly moved forward, blocking the retreat of Isshiki Yoshimichi and Akai Naomasa's troops, and forcing them towards the mountains to the east.
The morale of the desperate Isshiki Army and the Hatano Army completely collapsed, and they declared collapse one after another. Akai Naomasa fought his way through the rebel army and fled into the mountains to the east. However, Isshiki Yoshimichi was not so lucky, and was killed by the water atom in the rebel army.
Two ashigaru under Sushou were captured. Most of the defeated troops under Isshiki Yoshimichi and Akai Naomasa had no choice but to surrender.
Yu Qiuping, who had won a great victory, immediately turned his army to the south, joined the Mingzhi army who had arrived belatedly from the mountain road, and launched a general attack on Daojing Castle. Naoe Nobuhei directly turned the muzzle of his guns and headed towards Daojing Castle.
The castle tower was bombarded. Soon after, the third floor of the castle tower was bombarded by artillery. Araki Tsuna and Ashida Kunizumi, who had no intention of fighting anymore, led a large number of panic-stricken auxiliary troops to surrender to Yuqiupei, while Renjing Jiaye took advantage of the chaos.
He led his army to break through the east gate of Daoi Castle and fled towards the mountainous area of ​​Danba Kingdom.
After capturing Daojing Castle, Yu Qiuping immediately ordered his troops to pursue and search for the defeated troops in the nearby mountains. Yoshioka Sadakatsu hid in the valley and tried to reorganize his troops. However, he was discovered by Xinxian Chengliang and was directly defeated. Yoshioka Sadakatsu.
Katsu abandoned the army and fled without a trace. Akai Naomasa accidentally threw off his horse while fleeing and was captured by the Tokiwabei cavalry who arrived later. Tenui's luck in teaching was much better than that of Akai Naomasa, although he was
The troops were defeated by the pursuing Mouri Takashi, but Renjing Jiaye took advantage of the chaos and escaped. Mouri Takashi had no cavalry and could not catch up with him.
On the evening of March 7, the Battle of Inai came to an end. The San'in Allied Army, with a total strength of 16,000, was defeated by Akehi Mitsuhide's Momiji Army when Mitsuhide Akechi's troops failed to arrive. Yagi Toyonobu was killed, and Isshiki Yoshimichi
, Akai Naomasa, Araki Utsuna, and Ashida Kunizumi were captured. Of the 16,000 Sanin Allied Forces, less than 3,000 people fled to Sonobe Castle with Yamana Yutoyo, and all their food and grass supplies were lost. A large number of them were placed in Inai.
All the auxiliary soldiers in the city were captured by the Hongye Army, numbering tens of thousands, so Akechi Mitsuhide had to urgently allocate food and grass from the rear to accommodate so many prisoners.
Chapter completed!