In the early morning of July 3, Yu Qiuping finished the dressing early. After breakfast, he began to patrol the city.
After all, it was his first time to go into battle. He was nervous, excited, guilty, and worried and tortured, and he sniffed for a while in a daze all night. But just like when he was in the middle school entrance examination, even if he was insomnia, he could still be highly concentrated because he was about to encounter major events. The troops had already prepared according to the newly deployed defense map in the morning.
The location of Zhili City is on the east side of the official road. Therefore, Yu Qiuhei did not leave troops at the East Gate. Because if the Oda army wanted to attack from the East Gate, it would have to go around Zhili. Such a long time is enough for Yu Qiuhei to make problems and then adjust their deployment.
At the north gate, west gate, and south gate, Yu Qiuhei arranged for Fukushima Ansei, Omaezaki Nakahide, and Yoshigang Katsumasa to defend. The 45 people were spread out on the 10-meter city wall, which seemed a little thin. For this reason, Yu Qiuhei left Ogawa Yudong's team in Tianshou, and was ready to reinforce the various city walls at any time. Yu Qiuhei remembered that Napoleon once said that anyway, he would leave enough reserves. For this reason, he also left Charlie and his thirty-dozen archers in the Tianshou Pavilion. Now, the stakes are busy moving the rolling stones and squats on the city wall. On each city wall are several large pots, boiling oil is boiling inside. Torches and flints are also prepared by the city wall.
Yu Qiuping was about to command the battle before he found that he had no flag. So Yu Qiuping found a huge red tablecloth from somewhere, tied it to a wooden pole, and erected it in the Tianshou Pavilion, even if Yu Qiuping was the flag.
The cavalry of the Ma Li began to move on the official road at about four o'clock in the morning, but no cavalry approached the reconnaissance Zhilicheng, which may be because they thought it was not worthy of reconnaissance.
After a while, when the rolling stones and wood were almost ready to be completed and the footmen were resting on the city wall, they seemed to be able to see some small black dots moving on a small hill far away from the official road.
"Here you come." Yu Qiuping swallowed and tried to take a deep breath to calm himself down. The crow on Amano Keidu's shoulder whineeded a few times, not knowing what he was expressing.
At the third hour of the Chen Dynasty, those little black shadows finally appeared in Yu Qiuping's vision. It was a team of 200 people, and there were more than a dozen horse-riding warriors in the formation. They were now about 10 miles away from Zhili City.
The Tianshou Pavilion where Yu Qiuping is located is about 10 meters high. If calculated using the earth's radius and Pythagorean theorem, it is estimated that it can be seen more than ten miles away. Maybe you can directly see the camp of the Oda family in the Tuksanjian. However, there is a small hill on this official road, which blocks the view. The place where the Oda family's troops appeared just now was this small hill.
When those troops got closer, Yu Qiuping could see the flag of the troops. In addition to a papaya-patterned flag, the flags on the backs of the feet were all another home pattern that Yu Qiuping had never seen before.
"It's the Takigawa family." Amano Keito narrowed his eyes and looked for a while before coming to the conclusion, "The head of the family is Takigawa Ichie, a samurai who comes from a ninja. He is the best at adjusting strategies and is also a famous general of the Oda family."
"Send the order and the entire army is on guard." Yu Qiuhei ordered the personal guards, and the personal guards immediately arranged the commands to go to various city walls. Takigawa Ichii is a famous general that Yu Qiuhei often sees in the "Nobunaga's Ambition" series of games. Generally, the commander and wisdom data are quite good, and he is also good at iron cannons, that is, Chinese melee guns.
When Yu Qiuhei thought of his first formation, he would fight against such a famous general in Japanese history, Yu Qiuhei couldn't help feeling relieved. But then, he also came up with an excuse to comfort himself, "These people will have to grow up for many years before they can become famous generals, and they are not very powerful yet." Yu Qiuhei murmured to himself, "Isn't that Taige Toyotomi Hideyoshi who will make Japan scared in the future, now he is just a little servant carrying straw sandals."
"Ah! Ah sneezing!" A short and ugly low-level foot, who was short and ugly, suddenly sneezed.
"Monkey, what's wrong? I can't help but be so weak, how can I be a slight at the Oda family?" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly.
"Please atone for your sins!" Kishita Fujiro knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, "The villain is not cold! The villain just felt a little excited when he thought that his lord's reputation was about to spread throughout Sanhe. He just sneezes!"
"Hmph, you can talk." Oda Nobunaga had no intention of making things difficult for him, "help Yu hold the straw sandals."
At the 8 o'clock in the morning, the troops of the Takigawa family slowly approached the city. They left the official road at the northwest of Zhili City and headed straight to the north gate of Zhili City. Yu Qiuping could clearly see the outline and number of people in the Tianshou Pavilion. There were indeed only about 200 people, and there were no auxiliary soldiers. All of them were soldiers wearing armor coming in person.
"Maybe I think it's only a dozen miles away, so there's no need to let the auxiliary soldiers follow you." Yu Qiuping made a judgment.
"Sure enough, there was no siege equipment." Fukushima An Cheng, who was guarding the Kita Castle, was worried. "Who could have thought that we lords could repair the city gate in just half a day."
At this time, the Takigawa army under the city was slightly in a state of turmoil. The burning town on both sides was beyond recognition, and the unique smell of burning ruins was particularly annoying. The young men were told by the Ma Li people who came back last night that the small town of Zhili City had only more than 200 slaves who had no combat power, and the gate of the Beicheng City had collapsed halfway. They just needed to go up the slope, and then there was an easy massacre.
However, what we greeted them at this moment was the repaired north gate and the city wall, and everyone was filled with a red leaf on their helmets. Surprisingly, they did not have a flag on their backs.
"What does this mean?" Takigawa Ichii frowned and rubbed a thorn on his chin with his left hand. "Send the order to call me the people in the black mother-clothed there."
After a horse-riding samurai left, a few of the Oda family cavalrymen who were cruising on the official road left the team and went to the Takigawa family's queue.
"Sir Sasa, what's going on?" Takigawa Ichii stared at Sasa Narimasa who was coming and pointed to the north gate wall of Zhili City from afar. "The information given to me by Ma Lizhong yesterday, but the north gate wall has collapsed."
"Master Takigawa isn't very polite." Sasa Naimasa looked at Takigawa Ichie's team and responded without showing any weakness, "I can't attack the city without siege equipment. Can you just spread the anger on others?"
Takigawa Ichiyi's eyebrows were about to twist into a lump, and his eyes seemed to be on fire, "Information errors, it's almost a mistake to miss the fighter plane. Do you know what a sin?"
"It's not that I'm going to miss the fight!" Sasa Naimasa pointed to the direction of Tuosa. "I came to change shifts last night. The people who conveyed the information were Lord Hidetaka Kawajiri and Lord Naomasa. If Lord Takigawa has any dissatisfaction, he can ask them to talk."
Takigawa Ichiyi took a deep breath and calmed down for a moment, "I just blamed Lord Sasa." He said.
"Hmph," Sasa Naruta snorted, "I don't dare to be it, Lord Takigawa, I only know how to report it truthfully, not anything else."
"Since that's the case, then the siege has to be postponed." Sasa Narimasa said, "In order to conquer Anxiang Castle and Okazaki Castle in Tuosa, the lord has already built some siege equipment. Waiting for the auxiliary soldiers to transport them over..."
"No." Takigawa Ichii suddenly interrupted Sasa Narimasa. "Just use me, two of them, to defeat Chili."
"Oh?" Sasa Naomasa looked at Takigawa Ichii mockingly, "Sir, are you joking? Without siege equipment, you can't even enter the castle. Do you cut open the city gate with a knife?"
"No." Takigawa Ichiyi ignored Sasa Naimasa's ridicule, but stretched out his hand and pointed to a ruin in the burned castle town. "Did you see it?" Takigawa Ichiyi said in a low voice, as if he was afraid that the Imakawa soldiers on the top of the castle would hear it. "There is a huge beam there, which has not been burned, and can be used as a hammer to rush the castle."
"Although they built the North Gate wall, the gate of Zhili City itself has been disrepaired for a long time and cannot be compensated by any means. We just knocked the gate open."
"It's not that easy." Sasa Naruta sneered, "The lord took out the beam in front of the defenders and then hit the city gate. The people inside the city had already blocked the back of the city gate."
"No." Takigawa Ichiyi smiled slightly, "With the trick, there must be a capable person in the city who can repair the city wall for half a day. Then the whole city will definitely be complacent because of this matter." Takigawa Ichiyi looked at the red leaf soldiers of the Oda family who were smuggling with no siege equipment on the city wall. They still made noise from time to time.
At this time, on the city wall, the Imakawa family's gushing at the Oda family downstairs.
"Haha, guys, you guys, you can climb up!" He pressed his hands on the wall and shouted excitedly.
"Come on! Come on! Siege the city! I didn't expect that we lords would repair the city wall in one day!" Another whispered excitedly while waving his arms, causing the people around him to shout OK.
Fukushima Ansei looked at everyone's excitement. Although he felt something was wrong, he did not stop him and just smiled. After all, he himself was immersed in pride.
"They will focus too much on the wall that has just been repaired, thinking that they can only enter the city by climbing over the wall, and ignore the city gate. This will cause them to underestimate the enemy and cause them to relax until we bring the siege equipment." Takigawa Ichie continued. "Until this, they will not even focus on defense."
On the city wall.
"Sir, why are we still here? I was so tired yesterday and didn't have a good rest," a slight complained to Fukushima Ansei, "I can't climb up before the ladder comes to the cloud. What's the use of us spending time with them?"
"Yes, yes, sir," another foot littor took over the conversation. "It's better to let everyone have some rest and preserve their strength so that they can get the strength at that time, right? Before fighting bandits, wouldn't they also have to have a good rest?"
"This will only take you to ask Lord Yuqiu for instructions," Fukushima Ansei called a commander and passed the order to ask for rest to Yuqiuhei. The foot of the city wall was already gathered together in groups of three or three, and naturally they had gathered together to rest.
Takigawa Yiyi chuckled, "Next, I need the help of Ma Zhuzhong." He said, pointing to the south, "We will quietly find the beam. In order not to attract attention, we need to go to the south of the castle and suddenly approach the city wall to harass the Imakawa army. When their attention distracts, I will rush straight to the city gate, knock the dilapidated wooden gate open and attack the city!"
"Sir, I was so disrespectful before." Sasa Naruta bowed and left to prepare. Takigawa Ichii also carefully commanded the troops to approach the beam.
Chapter completed!