The samurai who climbed the city was only a few steps away from Yu Qiuping's command. Both sides turned their heads by chance and looked at each other, full of surprise and surprise. The samurai suddenly recognized that Yu Qiuping must be a big shot from the exquisiteness of Yu Qiuping's armor. So they immediately drew their sword in their hand and rushed towards Yu Qiuping.
Yu Qiuping hurriedly pulled out the long sword from the scabbard. This sword was given to him by Toshi Semei when he gave him armor, and had never been used. Before he could adjust his posture, the samurai had already drawn his sword and was about to cut it off at him.
"Oh no!" Yu Qiuping secretly cried in his heart. Suddenly, the warrior who rushed straight to him fell to the ground. Although Yu Qiuping didn't understand why this happened, he still quickly raised his sword and slashed the sword on the warrior's armor. The blade was penetrated into the armor, and the stickiness of the body made Yu Qiuping feel a little disgusted for a moment. The samurai who was not dead struggled hard, and blood kept splashing out along the wound. Yu Qiuping, who had chopped people for the first time, almost vomited.
Suddenly, at some point, Omaezaki Nakahide, who was sitting next to him, stabbed the man hard into the throat. The warrior vomited a few mouthfuls of blood and stopped moving. Yu Qiuping then realized that the warrior was pressing a foot under his right calf. The owner of the foot was Omaezaki Nakahide.
So this guy just sat down and tripped the samurai! Yu Qiupi smiled at Omaezaki Nakahide, who expressed satisfaction with his vulgar moves with a proud look on his face.
In these moments, more and more Sasa family samurai and samurai rushed to the top of the city. "Arrowman! Retreat!" Yu Qiuping hurriedly called Charlie and took the archers to retreat from the city wall, and commanded the samurai to fight with Omaezaki Nakahide. The pressure on both sides was relatively light, and several people were assigned to support him.
Among the five samurai who rushed to the city gate, one of them had been killed by Yu Qiuhei and Omaezaki Nakashui. But the other four were extremely brave. Since most of the two armies were holding long spears, they were very unfavorable in close combat, while the samurai sword was an excellent weapon for chaos. In addition, the samurai was superb martial arts, in a few rounds, five Imakawa family samurai were cut down to the ground. They opened up a considerable space at the top of the city, and there were continuous footsteps behind them climbing the city wall.
Yu Qiuhei and Omaezaki Nakahide hurriedly moved closer to the middle and attacked a samurai. The samurai was caught off guard and was hit by Yu Qiuhei's arm. He immediately retreated with blood. However, the Sasa family samadhi, who reacted, immediately counterattacked Yu Qiuhei and Omaezaki Nakahide, and forced Yu Qiuhei and Omaezaki Nakahide to retreat step by step. Imakawa's family slammed for help behind him, but he could only maintain a stalemate on the five-meter-wide city wall and could not tighten the gap to prevent Sasa army from continuing to climb the city.
On the other side of the central city wall, Jigang Shinmasaki, who was extremely powerful, wielded the sword and killed randomly. His moves opened and closed without paying attention to the rules, but he fought the two warriors against him in this small space. The warrior near the wall tried to strike against Jigang Shinmasaki, but was shocked and staggered back. One of them fell down the city wall. The other warrior was alone and could not support him. The foot behind Jigang Shinmasaki relied on Jigang Shinmasaki's personal courage to open up the situation and continuously compressed the gap. The two warriors on Yu Qiuping's side saw that something was wrong in the rear, and one was distracted and was stabbed by Yu Qiuping.
"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Katsumasa Yoshigang roared in a loud voice. Imakawa's family feet on both sides were so excited that they were about to drive all Sasa's army down the city tower. Suddenly, another rain of arrows hit. Several people were injured in arrows for a while, and Yu Qiuhei was also shot on his shoulder. The armor was of good quality and was not shot through. However, the casualties of Mimaezaki Nakahide's team had already reached nearly 30%. So they were friendly troops around, otherwise the troops might be at risk of collapse at any time.
Yu Qiuhei took the time to scan the outside of the city. More than 40 Oda archers under the city gate kept shooting at the city, and the archers on the watchtower were constantly reaping their lives. Their targets were the archers of the Imakawa family and the archers who threw the rolling stones of the marble, so Yu Qiuhei and his hand-to-hand combat had not yet felt the threat of arrows. However, as the first two people withdrew from the battlefield, the firepower of the archers immediately greeted Yu Qiuhei and the others. The archers of the Imakawa family had just retreated from the city wall. At the top of the city, the Sasa family's foot was only about ten people, and they were mixed with the Imakawa army and could not aim and shoot at all. However, the city wall was narrow, and only a few people could be in the front row. A large number of people behind were shot meaninglessly by arrows. After two rounds of shooting, nearly ten people had been shot, and more than a dozen people were scratched by feather arrows.
"No, you can't be attacked by bows and arrows on the wall of Xicheng." Yu Qiuping slightly withdrew from the front line, gasping in the back row, quickly planning a response plan, "We have few people and cannot withstand consumption, so it's too much to consume."
"How can we avoid being shot by these archers?" Yu Qiuping glanced at the archers who were planning to shoot under the city wall. "Now on the city wall, who has more people, who suffers! Because only the people in the front are in the battle, and the people behind are still shot. The target is big and it is easy to aim! Oda's family has fewer people, so our archers cannot shoot! Now we are being beaten with more and less!"
"I have it!" Yu Qiuping suddenly thought of a way to deal with it, "Then let the Oda family have more people on the city wall! Isn't it just that we fight less? Leaving the Xicheng city wall, their archers can't cover and shoot!"
The position is dead, and the person is alive. If a position can no longer bring the defense an advantage in the scene or exchange ratio, then why should you defend it? Give it aside!
Retreat, reach a better position, and form a local advantage!
"Quick! Quick!" Yu Qiuping suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, "The Imakawa army on the West City will obey orders and all withdraw from the West City Wall!"
"Kashimasa! I've taught you there! Guard the southwest corner of the city wall!" Yu Qiuping shouted to the separated Katsumasa Yoshigang, "Zhongxiu! Take your people down the stairs and retreat to the lower end of the stairs to defend around the city wall! Block them on the city wall!" Yu Qiuping turned around and gave orders to Omasaki Nakahide. Omasaki Nakahide immediately opened his voice and asked all the original Nishi Castle guards to go down the city. Yu Qiuping told Ogawa Yudong to guard the northeast corner of the city wall from the stairs on the north side to prevent the Oda army from attacking the north city wall. The Imakawa army, which was retreating like a tide, made the Oda army archers unable to aim at all, and the feather arrows shot out rushed in a hurry and did not cause much casualties.
When Yu Qiuping retreated from the city, Amano Keito had already led the reserve team in Tianshou Pavilion to the stairs below the city, and responded to the broken Mimaezaki Nakahide's troops, and built a defense line around the stairs to block the Sasa army's attack.
"Thompson! Take your people to the Heavenly Guard Pavilion!" Yu Qiuping shouted to the archers beside the Heavenly Guard Pavilion!
"Prepare to fight back!" Yu Qiuping saw more and more Sasa troops on the city walls start to pursue, and his lips curled slightly.
Because of the retreat of Imakawa's army, the Sasa army became unhindered in the Nishi Castle. Soon, almost all the Sasa soldiers climbed the narrow city walls and crowded around several ladders. The watchtower and the archers outside the Nishi Castle lost their shooting targets for a moment, and looked at each other in a daze and at a loss.
"What? Is this a win?" Sasa Masaji, who was supervising the battle below, saw that Imakawa's army actually gave up the Nishi Castle Wall. "Is morale so low? He retreated after just a while of fighting?"
Sasa Masaji was a little unbelievable, so he climbed a ladder and planned to go to the city wall of Xicheng in person. Behind him, the soldiers of the Mori family were also ready to start climbing the city.
However, Sasa Masaji went to the castle very well, and the team in front of him could not move no matter what. After a long time of procrastination, he finally squeezed onto the city wall. The scene in front of him surprised him. He originally thought that the Imakawa family had given up resistance, and the next one should be the pursuit of the defeated army by their own army.
However, he found that his troops were blocked on the walls of Xicheng City and were in a dilemma.
The corners of the Xicheng City Wall and the two north and south walls are very narrow, and it is difficult to expand their troops. The Imakawa army has 40 people on the corners of Nancheng and Beicheng, and the Sasa army will find it difficult to attack Nancheng and Beicheng. The two attempts to follow the Xicheng stairs to kill the city and then enter the Tianshou Pavilion in the city were stopped by the teams of Fukushima Ansei and Mimaezaki Nakahide who gathered in front of the stairs. Some people wanted to jump directly from the middle of the stairs, but they were immediately stabbed into a sieve by the Imakawa family, who was waiting for the battle below. The two armies were so they stabbed each other with long spears at the middle of the stairs.
What's even more fatal is that whether it is the Xicheng City Wall or the stairs that are two lower walls, one south and one north, they are now exposed to the third floor of the Tianshou Pavilion, under the vision of the Imakawa family's archery team. They are shooting constantly, and every time they shoot, they will shoot five or six people. The dilemma facing the Imakawa army just now is now his turn to Sasa Masaji.
Sasa Masaji saw his subordinates fall down one by one, but he was unable to open up the situation for a long time, and his eyes were red. Behind him, the Mori family had already begun to climb the city. If he wanted to retreat from the west city, he would definitely be blocked and he would suffer greater casualties.
He suddenly understood the reason for all the reversals. In Nishi Castle just now, the Oda family had 240 people attacked more than 100 people in the Imakawa family, so naturally the Oda family had the advantage. After the Imakawa army released his troops to the city, the Imakawa family had more than 200 people attacked less than 100 people.
"Where is my samurai!" Sasa Masaji was angry. As one of Kotosaka's seven-blue guns, he naturally had a sense of courage. He shouted, and several samurai with high martial arts and well-equipped samurai were gathered by him immediately. "Crash with me! Go to the Tianshou Pavilion! Expand our position! Let the troops behind continue to climb the city!"
Or simply kill the enemy in front of him. He told himself in his heart that he could control the city gate and let Sen Kecheng's troops enter the city.
After saying that, he pulled out the samurai sword from the scabbard, shouted and rushed out, pushing the stairs along the way to block the road, and plunged into the Imakawa army formation. Several samurai soldiers behind him immediately followed. Imakawa army was caught off guard, and many people were killed in one go, and a shallow hole was torn apart. Sasa's family immediately began to follow. The morale of the team where Mimaki Nakahide was located suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley. The samurai retreated step by step and had no intention of resisting. After suffering a heavy blow, they had no choice but to collapse, discarded the bamboo gun in their hands and fled to the friendly forces on the Tianshou Pavilion.
Seeing that things were not good, Fukushima Ansei and Mimaezaki Nakahide were drawing their swords in their hands. The two besieged Sasa Masaji, and barely blocked his advancement. However, the other samurai became more and more brave and slashed the Imakawa Family Shoo with a spear. Fukushima Ansei's troops hurried to pick up the team of the retreating Mimaezaki Nakahide, and at the same time blocked the gap to prevent Sasa Masaji from killing down and controlling the city gate. However, the troops left only Fukushima Ansei were gradually unable to resist.
"Thompson! Kill him!" Yu Qiuping saw that Sasa Masaji was too fierce, and in desperation, he shouted directly in front of the two armies.
Before he finished speaking, the sound of pine strings was already ringing in the Tianshou Pavilion above his head.
"With Charlie's low roar, the sharp feather arrow shot straight into Sasa Masaji's throat. Sasa Masaji was charging directly under the powerful momentum and fell backwards. The blood sprayed out of his mouth was almost as high as one person. After struggling on the ground for a few times, he was unwilling to die with his eyes wide open.
The samurai beside him collapsed instantly when he saw the head of the family's death. He howled like a madman, and was about to drag the body back. Fukushima Ansei and Mimaezaki Nakahide rushed over and killed each other, and then the two samurai who had not been able to capture for a long time had completely collapsed. The morale of the Sasa family, relying on the bravery of the head of the family, completely collapsed. After most of the hard fighting for half an hour, they had already suffered nearly 30% of the casualties. The samurai who were in charge of commanding and supervising the battle were all on the front line, and no one could restrain the behavior of the samurai. The samurai who were shot by the bow and arrow could no longer bear it. They threw down the bamboo guns in their hands and fled out of the city. Many people were squeezed down the stairs and the city walls. The samurai who wanted to protect the samurai were also killed by the group fight of the Imakawa army.
"Each division! Turn on the counterattack!" Yu Qiuping raised his arms and shouted, and the three teams that could still fight began to counterattack the Sasa army in front of him. The Sasa army, who fled in a hurry, was chased and assassinated many people, crowded by several ladders and scrambled each other, pushing their companions away and trying to get off the ladder by themselves, but no one was willing to turn around to fight.
Morikeen and Ichii Takigawa did not expect that the Sasa army, who had been smooth sailing just now, suffered a crushing defeat after attacking the city wall. They hurriedly directed the archers to shoot arrows at the top of the city to cover their evacuation.
"Don't chase! Don't catch up with Nishi Castle! Go up as a target!" Yu Qiuping stopped Yudong Ogawa and Katsumasa Yoshigang, "Stay on your walls! Just let the archers shoot!"
"But sir! At most, we can be shot to death by rushing up, but how many more than a dozen people can be killed!" Ji Gang Shengzheng's face was flushed with anxiety, and shouted at Yu Qiuping in the middle of the city, "Let us chase us!
"No!" Yu Qiuping rode his horse to the south wall and shouted with his neck tilted, "Our number is insufficient! It cannot withstand consumption! Anyway, this army collapsed so much that it could not attack again within a few days. There is no need to sacrifice the lives of the brothers for them! I will take as many people back to Jun Mansion as possible!"
Yu Qiuping's words made Yoshigang Katsumasa suddenly realize. The Imakawa army gave up the pursuit, and only archers kept shooting the escaped Sasa army.
At the second moment of Shinshi, all Oda troops evacuated the city wall and the second attack was declared a failure.
Chapter completed!