However, not long after the ninjas left, several emergency smoke suddenly rose in the direction of the Akechi family's position under Tottori Castle.
"What?" Yu Qiuping looked at the fireworks signal in the distance on the other side of the river in disbelief. It seemed to mean "the enemy troops are leaving the city." "There are only 13,000 people in the city...and they are all rabble-rousers with ulterior motives. Mitsuhide has something in her hands.
With 10,000 elite soldiers, why do we need to be in an emergency? Is there any accident?"
"Have the Yoshikawa Bei immediately cross the Chiyo River to attack, contain the Yoshikawa Kyouke headquarters, and don't let them attack my back!" Yu Qiuping decisively shouted to the flag bearer, and the maple bird horse seal also immediately waved to the friendly forces in the distance.
The order was issued, "Tianhe Bei will immediately return to Tottori Castle to assist His Highness Akechi! Accept His Highness Akechi's command! The copper wall will be temporarily recovered, and do not go deeper!"
"How is this possible... What happened... that made us need to call for help so urgently? We actually used beacon smoke directly?" Yu Qiuping was still shocked and stared at the Mingzhi family's position.
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"Damn it...why did you forget the mountain?"
At this moment, Akechi Mitsuhide was very upset.
Not long ago, the north gate and west gate of Tottori Castle opened at the same time. The Nishi Army and Urakami Army fought out of the north gate, and the Ukita Army fought out of the west gate. Akechi Mitsuhide believed that the Tottori Castle defenders must cooperate with the Maori army to fight to the death.
She immediately gathered the entire army and ordered to fight. What surprised her was that the ones who rushed out from Kaicheng were Nizi Katsuhisa, Urakami Munekage and Ukita Naoie, but Nizi's army, Urakami army and Ukita army were all working hard after opening the door.
, it seems that they just want to hold back the Mingzhi Army.
"Could it be that they put everything on the Maori family and wanted to preserve their strength, so they fought hard?" This thought flashed through Akechi Mitsuhide's mind, "At this time, you are still plotting against friendly forces. How can you win?"
However, the facts immediately proved that Akechi Mitsuhide was wrong. Not long after, a beacon for help was suddenly lit up on the mountain behind Tottori Castle on Hisamatsu Mountain - that is where several important springs are located. They can be vaguely seen in the mountains and forests.
Yamanoge's troops are marching towards Kusatsuyama.
"Does Tottori Castle actually have a secret door facing the back mountain?" Akechi Mitsuhide reacted immediately, "So the big commotion around Tottori Castle is to draw us away so that the Tottori Castle defenders can go up the mountain.
Take back the spring and dredge the water source?"
"But... what's the point of dredging the water source? Is it really worth such a big fight?" Akechi Mitsuhide's expression gradually became serious, "So what if it is dredged... After we return to the city, we can still cut off the water source again.
.The location of all water sources has been determined, and it is effortless to cut them off again. Precious troops are not used in decisive battles at precious opportunities, but are used to dredge water sources in a meaningless manner... It is really incomprehensible."
"No matter what, let's send a warning. Our troops are all entangled, and they won't be able to go around to the back mountain to stop the Yamana army for a while." Mitsuhide Akechi ordered to several Hatamoto samurai, "Light a bonfire to warn."
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At the same time, on Jiusong Mountain.
"It's true that the poisonous snakes of the Ukita Nao family can think of such attention." At this moment, Otagaki Terunobu led 3,000 mountain troops out of the secret door of Tottori Castle and quickly climbed up the foothills of Hisamatsu Mountain.
"Place gunpowder in the landslide area and then detonate it to trigger a landslide..." Yoshioka Sadakatsu recounted the vicious plan of the Ukita Nao family, "The Hashiba family dug springs indiscriminately before, and the soil on the mountain has become terrible... It really blew up the landslide.
If it does, it might cause a flash avalanche, which could bury all the camps of the Yuchai family, the Mingzhi family, and the Yuqiu family... If the landslide is more intense, it might even destroy the Yuchai army, Mingzhi army, and Yuqiu army under the city.
Buried together with the army..."
"It is possible that Tottori Castle was buried together." Otagaki Terunobu added with some fear, and took a breath of cold air and said, "That is the last resort of the Yamano family..."
"Apart from this, can you think of any other way? Is there any other way to defeat the Oda Army? We have no way to break the situation. We have to risk everything..." This was Yoshioka's plan all along.
A staunch supporter, it was his advice that convinced Yamana Yutaka to adopt this plan that might ultimately bury the Yamana family.
"They must think that we are here to cut off the water source. I will lead the feint attack troops there later." Otagaki Terunobu finally confirmed the details of the action plan with Yoshioka Sadakatsu, "There should be only Oda Army troops on the mountain.
The Yuqiu family's large reserve team moved their position to the seaside after encountering the landslide. It will definitely be safe for you to go towards the landslide. As long as I can attract everyone's attention, I will leave it to you later.
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"give it to me."
"We have been brothers for decades. The survival of the Yamano family depends on us." Yoshioka Sadakatsu and Ohtagaki Terunobu patted each other's shoulders, told each other and said goodbye. Then Yoshioka Sadakatsu led a small group of people with poles.
Carrying baskets of gunpowder, they walked to the right. Otagaki Terunobu led the army to the left, splitting up and attacking various water sources in an attempt to attract the attention of the Oda army.
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"Are they coming to take back the water source?" Senju Ogege, who was directing the artillery transport at the fort on the top of the mountain, was stunned when he saw this. At this time, Jingzhe Preparation still had nearly half of the three-pound artillery being transported on the mountain road.
If it was intercepted, something would be very wrong. Senju Oshige immediately sent out all the escorts to cover the transportation of the three-pounder. He asked the gunners who were already in place to immediately adjust the artillery elements and launch a bombardment against the Yamana troops who were going up the mountain.
However, due to the rugged mountain roads and numerous obstacles, hasty bombardment would be difficult to hit the target.
"Why did so many people suddenly rush up?" At this time, Naoe Nobuhei was taking 4 of the 12 three-pounder artillery batteries of the first company of Jingzhe Preparation to climb the mountain. They were walking at the back of the team when they suddenly saw a large number of people.
The troops used the mountain road to the left.
"Is it too late to wait for the escort to come?" Naoe Nobui glanced at the distance between the escort coming from the mountain fort and the Yamana army, and made a decisive judgment, "They should be coming for the water source, right? Let's go around.
Road! Go to the right! There is no water on the path on the right, they won’t chase you!”
"But sir, if you go to the right, won't you go back to the dead end of the landslide?" A gun crew leader under Naoe Nohei couldn't help but question, "If the enemy is chasing us..."
"Then let's throw down the cannon and escape!" Naoe Nobuei replied without hesitation, "The cannon is dead, but the people are alive."
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Naoe Touhei and his artillery crew members rushed along the path with the four three-pound guns. After all, this road had been repaired by the auxiliary troops of Jingzhe Preparation before, so it was not that difficult to walk. Naoe
What made Deng Pingping safe was that the Yamana army did not catch up, but continued to move towards the various water sources on the left. The fort prepared by Jingzhe on the top of the mountain kept firing, and the crosshairs gradually increased, and the screams of the Yamana soldiers continued.
came.
"It seems to be safe here." Naoe climbed up a hillside exhausted after running around for a long time. He put his hands on a tree at the top of the hill and gasped for air. He looked back at the people shouting for death who were gradually disappearing.
The members of the artillery crew were also extremely tired, and they all rested against the cannon behind the slope.
However, at this moment, a group of Yamanoge soldiers suddenly emerged from a fork in the road in the distance. Naoe Nobuhira was startled when he saw it, and quickly retracted to the other side of the hillside to hide, and carefully poked his head out.
Go and observe, "No way? Is there anyone else outflanking us? Isn't that the end?"
But after he calmed down and took a closer look, he realized that those people did not seem to be on a capture mission. Except for the few leading warriors, everyone else was carrying a shoulder pole, and the shoulder pole was filled with bulging bags and no one knew what was inside.
"Load ammunition, load shotguns!" After seeing that the distance was still enough and that the attacking Yamana army was obviously not aggressive, Naoe Nobuhira immediately ordered his artillery crew to load ammunition behind the slope. Their position behind the slope was
On the other side of the hillside, Shan Mingjun, who was going uphill, had a blind spot in his field of vision, which Shan Mingjun could not detect.
After all four three-pound cannons were loaded, Naoe Nobuhira first asked the first artillery crew to push the cannons to the top of the slope, intending to let the four cannons take turns to fire and load, creating an artillery version of a "three-stage attack."
When the first artillery piece was pushed to the top of the slope, the soldiers of the Yamame Army were still unaware. It was not until the sound of firing that they looked up in confusion.
"They will probably be swept into a pool of blood." Naoe Nobuei was already used to the sight of densely packed queues being bombarded by shotguns, and he already had a premonition of the scene that was about to appear in front of him——
But the picture in front of him directly exceeded the boundaries of his imagination.
"Puff!"
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After a violent explosion, there was a series of "cracking" explosions like firecrackers. The momentum brought Naojiang to the level, and the gun crew members and the three-pound gun pushed up the top of the slope were shocked.
It had to roll down the hillside. Fortunately, the artillery crew behind it had quick eyesight and quick hands to catch Naoe Nobuhira and other members of the artillery crew, but the three-pounder gun rolled directly off the cliff in one breath.
"What happened?" Naoe Tohei was dizzy after being thrown down. He staggered to his feet and was helped by several other soldiers to climb to the top of the slope to have a look at the situation - he saw that there was a mountain master just now.
The queue area was already filled with smoke, and the surrounding mountains and forests were ignited by the flames. When the smoke gradually dissipated, you could see the broken limbs on the ground in a mess, and then they were immediately enveloped in the thick smoke of the flames.
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"This...could it be that the gunpowder they packed in their shoulder poles was gunpowder?" Naoe Nobuhira touched his injured head in disbelief, "I'm so stupid..."
"Sir, what are we going to do next? What are we doing?" Every member of the artillery crew was dumbfounded and looked at Naoe Nohei without knowing what he was doing.
"If you ask me, I don't know. Why did they carry gunpowder up the mountain to cause trouble?" The disgraced Naoe Nobuhira stood there blankly, and after a while he ordered, "No matter what, let's report the situation first.
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Chapter completed!