"We can't continue fighting like this..."
About an hour after the battle started, the face of the frontline commander Hojo Clan was getting worse and worse. He was hiding behind a rock and looking at the battlefield. At this moment, the soldier of the Hojo clan fell in front of the red leaf army's rock camp. , the number of auxiliary troops was already close to 2,000, and such a terrifying rate of casualties was simply not acceptable to him. If the fight continued like this, the Hojo family, as the attacking party, would probably collapse before sunset due to excessive casualties.
In front of the red leaf army's rock stronghold, a large number of Hojo ashigaru and samurai were trying to climb up via ladders, and the siege oars were also pushed into position. The iron gunners and archers were shooting at the red leaf army's iron gunners. , which restrained a lot of energy of the Red Leaf Army's archers. However, these siege oars would be closely guarded by the opponent's large cannons. It would not take long for them to be destroyed by the incoming cannonballs, causing the Hojo family's archers and iron gunners to also suffer losses. heavy.
Unlike the active cloud ladders and siege oars, the Hojo family's rushing convoy was at a loss in front of the red leaf army's rock village, spinning around like headless flies. The Hojo clan was still behind at the beginning, and the commanders of the rushing convoy came from behind. The eighteenth generation of ancestors began to criticize this over and over again, and then gradually realized the problem - none of the rock villages of the Red Leaf Army seemed to have doors facing the main battlefield in the west. There were so many rams that could not find a door to rush through, but In vain, he became the target of Hongye Army's iron gunners.
"Damn... what kind of weird rock fortress is this? Are they all made of turtle shells?" The Hojo Clan looked more and more strange, and finally ordered angrily, "Just ignore those rock fortresses and directly break through the gaps between the rock fortresses. Those fortifications!”
After the Hojo clan's order was issued, the Hojo family's convoy, which had originally gathered in circles under the rock wall, immediately moved neatly towards the gaps between the three red leaf army bastions from the south. However, the situation they faced became even more embarrassing. The iron gunners from the bastions on both sides attacked them from time to time, and the defense line composed of the Red Leaf Army's long gunners in front of them was also impregnable. They were exhausted just by breaking through the low walls, trenches and fences. How can they be the opponent of the long spear formation of the Red Leaf Army who is waiting for work? On the entire front, there are many commanders like Hojo Clan who simply abandoned the bastion and rushed to the defense line behind the gap because they could not take down the Red Leaf Army's bastion. The result was only to lose. The Kwantung Allied Forces suffered even heavier losses. During the gap, the troops whose morale collapsed due to casualties and lost their will to fight had no way to retreat. Instead, they crowded among themselves, causing further chaos in the situation.
"These sharp corners sticking out... are really terrible. It is these strange-shaped sharp corners sticking out of the main body of the rock village that make the attackers have no place to take cover." At this time, at the northernmost end of the battle line, Satake Yishige He also realized the power of the strange rock village of the Red Leaf Army. But the choice he made was different from that of the Hojo Clan.
"No fortification can only have advantages and no loopholes. Where in the world can such a thing be cheap?" Satake Yishige frowned and quickly thought about it, "Then this kind of weird rock fortification...its weakness is what?"
"Yes." Satake Yoshige suddenly had an idea in his mind, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Isn't the shape of this rock village just like extending your hand to constantly interfere with the opponent during sumo wrestling? If you dare to reach out like this, I will Break your hand off!"
"All the troops obey the order!" Satake Yoshitaka ordered to the Satake family's troops, "Concentrate your firepower and knock down the protruding corner first! Don't worry about other places! Cars and other items have also been rushed in. Just hit the wall in that corner! I still don’t believe it can be done!”
Under the instruction of Satake Yoshige, Satake's army suspended its offensive on the entire bastion, and instead concentrated its firepower on the northwest corner starting from the first bastion in the north. The Hongye Army on the wall where the corner was located immediately faced a Under tremendous pressure, samurai from the Satake family jumped onto the city one after another, causing the spearmen on the city to also fight hard. The iron gunners were also forced to lose their shooting position by the attacks one after another. More and more The Satake family's Ashigaru were able to board the city. The Satake family's iron gunners also kept attacking the red leaf army's iron gunners on the corners on both sides, hindering their support.
Upon noticing the change, Captain Haesuka Koroku of the Spark Reserve immediately made adjustments to his forces. He transferred the iron gunners and spearmen from several defense lines ignored by the Satake Army to the horn that was under concentrated attack and the two horns on both sides of him. .As the support firepower on both sides increased sharply, the Satake Army's climbing troops encountered continuous attacks from the back, and the tide of climbing on the city was also stagnant. The samurai who had already rushed to the fortress lost support and were rushed by the Red Leaf Army. The spearmen laid siege and were driven back from the city head while being outnumbered.
The anxious tug-of-war continued for a period of time. The Satake Army endured constant casualties and forced the Red Leaf Army to concentrate all its firepower on the city walls. The rushing convoys that crashed into the city below also gained space to attack. With perseverance, the earth and stone structures were constructed. Cracks were also created in the walls of the solid fortress built from the building. As the cracks continued to expand, several walls collapsed and slid down. Seeing that this corner was in danger of collapsing, Hachisuka Xiaoliu immediately tore down the wall. The iron gunners and spearmen on board quickly retreated to the main fort and defended it with roadblocks prepared in advance. Upon seeing this, the soldiers of the Satake family immediately swarmed in, trying to dig through the collapsed wall and pour into the fort. However, After digging around, they realized something was wrong - these walls were clearly solid, with no space at all inside.
"What's going on..." Satake Yoshitaka frowned even more after witnessing what happened in front of him not far away, "It turns out that the outer walls of those horns are not the outline of Yanzhai at all...could it be said that the outline of Yanzhai is There is only the circle in the middle, and the hollow space where people can stand is only in the middle? The protruding areas are all solid fortifications?"
"All your hard work was in vain." Satake Yoshige looked at the corpses and blood scattered around the horn that he had finally broken off, and felt a burst of heart-wrenching pain. He had sacrificed hundreds of people to chew off the horn, but there was only one piece left. Meaningful earth and stone cannot lead from there to the interior of the rock village and other city walls. The samurai of the Satake family who rushed up to the horn from the landslide wanted to break through further, but were blocked by the iron gunners and spearmen of the Red Leaf Army who had built a new defense on the wall. Killed them one after another.
"Withdraw." Satake Yoshitaka waved his hand helplessly and gave the order to retreat, "Faced with such a rock stronghold, the only chance of winning is to gnaw down one corner at a time, and then attack the exposed main stronghold. ?But I have to kill 500 people in this horn...How many 500 people in the Satake family can die? Do I have to trade the lives of my whole family for this Yanzhai?"
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Not long after, the central front was where Takeda Katsuyori was.
The Hojo family and the Satake family faced many difficulties, and the Takeda family naturally had a lot of them. Large numbers of Koshinobu warriors senselessly fell in a pool of blood under the fortress, although many brave warriors once fought on the top of the city. But there was no hope of a breakthrough. Takeda Katsuyori had already arrived at a very difficult situation, but while fighting, a new situation unexpectedly emerged - the two rock villages on the northern flank began to attack more and more people. The firepower was directed at the Takeda Army soldiers on the central front. The Takeda Army soldiers were already overwhelmed by the frontal firepower, and they were even more overwhelmed after encountering the flank attack.
"What's the situation?" Takeda Katsuyori turned his attention to the two rock villages in the north, which were the areas responsible for the left-wing troops of the Kwantung Allied Forces - the small daimyo of the Kwantung. However, the battlefield where there should have been fierce fighting was now empty. After leaving the shot field, the Kanto minor daimyo left corpses on the ground and retreated beyond the range of the Red Leaf Army's iron gunners. Except for a few small troops still seeking breakthroughs, the other armies stopped attacking. With some spare time, the Hongye Army turned its firepower to the Takeda Army on the central front, and cooperated with its own bastion in the middle to carry out a larger-scale cross-fire attack.
"What are they doing?" Takeda Katsuyori was furious when he saw this situation, and immediately sent two close associates, Atobe Katsuki and Nagasaka Mitsuken, to question them. However, not long after, Atobe Katsuki and Nagasaka Mitsukoshi Sakamitsu Ken ran back in despair, and said to Takeda Katsuyori very apologetically: "My lord, none of the daimyo in Kanto are trustworthy. One by one, they can't be defeated at all, and they are just dead in vain." They refused to send troops and instead asked us to withdraw our troops."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Now is the opportunity for us to have a decisive battle with the division of the Oda Army after a month of trekking. Do we have any chance of victory if we withdraw at this time?" Takeda Katsuyori was so angry that he was furious. Sora swung his riding whip, wishing it could hit the Kanto daimyo in the face, "It's because they were so passive and sabotaged that we were flanked, so we couldn't beat them down!"
"Give them a death order and resume the attack! Even if they refuse to attack the city, send me iron gunners, archers and siege oars to shoot at each other. Don't let the people from the two rock villages in the north be able to hit our Takeda Family members!" Takeda Katsuyori yelled viciously, and then looked at Atobe Katsuki and Nagasaka Mitsuken, who were still hesitant, "Go now! Don't be stunned!"
Under the pressure of Takeda Katsuyori, the Kanto minor daimyo troops who had originally separated from the front as the Satake family retreated had to press on again. However, it was obvious that they did not have the mobilization capabilities of the Hojo family and the Takeda family, and they could not be as capable as the two of them. The family endured huge casualties. So even after returning to the front line, the troops of the Kanto small daimyo were working as foreigners with the Red Leaf Army. At first, the iron gunners and artillery crews of the Red Leaf Army were ready to fight back with all their strength after noticing the enemy's return, but After discovering that the enemy had no intention of seriously attacking the city, and was just casually firing cold guns and cold arrows from a distance, he felt relieved and once again took his time and pointed the muzzles of his guns at the Takeda army in the center.
Chapter completed!