But his troops had not rushed far when the troops at the front let out a scream! There was a huge pit and nearly a hundred people fell into it at once! Under the big pit were countless sharp wooden stakes, which would trap the soldiers who fell into it.
One by one, they were dressed as human skewers!
"No! You've fallen into a trap!" Kinoshita Koichiro shouted, "Get back quickly!"
But at this time, dense enemy troops had stood on the top of the city. They were holding flaming arrows, and suddenly thousands of arrows were fired! Kinoshita Koichiro's army was immediately shot to death and wounded several times, and several soldiers in front of the city gate were also shot.
He rushed into the city and closed the city gate neatly!
"Damn it!" Koichiro didn't expect the enemy to play this trick. He judged that the enemy's troops were insufficient, so he pretended to be an empty city to delay time, but it obviously didn't look like this.
He had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat angrily.
"This Koichiro is indeed very tender!" Uozumi Kagegu smiled brightly: "Kitao, you have made a great contribution this time! After the enemy retreats, I will definitely launch troops to capture Miki Castle in front, and use that city as my
Your reward!"
Although Kitao Shinko bowed his head and thanked him, he said silently in his heart: If you make a promise to a city that has not yet been captured, you can be regarded as the first person in ancient and modern times!
Koichiro was very distressed after his first battle was unfavorable. Only then did he realize how difficult it was for him to lead the army alone and how much pressure he had to bear.
However, like his elder brother Tokichiro, he also has a spirit of unwillingness to admit defeat.
The next day, his army appeared again at the edge of Yuzhu City.
After hearing the news, Yuzhu Jinggu rushed out of the battle, but when he climbed to the top of the city, he saw that the city was already in flames!
"Damn it! I just taught him a lesson, and he came again the next day?" He led the generals to organize a resistance with disdain, but before they could shoot a burst of arrows, the Kinoshita Army on the opposite side gave them a
A surprise: I saw several flaming stones falling from the sky and hitting the city wall one after another!
Regarding the habit of siege, Kinoshita Koichiro and Du Fei's ideas coincided with each other: "Instead of wasting the lives of soldiers and inefficiently attacking the city, it is better to make more use of siege equipment.
But the walls of Uozumi Castle are very strong. Although Koichiro Kinoshita brought a lot of siege equipment to help this time, under the attack of giant trebuchets and large barrels, the solid outer walls of Uozumi Castle only slightly lost some stones.
Block, the main body is almost unscathed!
After seeing this scene, Koichiro decisively ordered the soldiers to surround Uozumi Castle. He counted the food and grass he had left, which was enough to feed the army for three months.
So he decided to temporarily use a war of attrition to force the defenders in the city to come out on their own.
But Uozumi Jinggu didn't seem to be worried. He had already stored a large amount of military rations in the city to prevent such a situation. These military rations could feed his troops for half a year!
Of course, Koichiro did not regard siege as the only solution, he just wanted to make a gesture. After a few days, he retreated with his troops.
"Haha! Want to spend time with me? I have plenty of food!" Yuzumi Jinggu's face was full of pride: "It seems that the so-called Kinoshita Army that is victorious in every battle is nothing more than this! Isn't it? Military advisor?"
At this time, Kitao Shinko said worriedly: "The enemy has come from afar and will never retreat so easily! Lord, we should continue to strengthen our defenses!"
"Well, that makes sense," Yuzumi Jinggu nodded.
At first, the Uozumi Army could still focus on the defense, but one day passed, two days passed, and a whole week passed, and there was still no news from the Kinoshita Army. Everyone began to relax.
Even Kitao Shinko, who was always vigilant, began to think that he was worrying too much.
"It seems that Kinoshita's army withdrew because they were short of rations." But he still had a doubt: "Since they didn't bring much rations, why didn't they attack the city quickly? It's really puzzling!"
But what is even more puzzling is what comes next. At night, there are always soldiers saying that they hear ghosts screaming in the dense forest outside the city. The sounds are very frightening! Uozumi Jinggu is quite superstitious about ghosts and gods.
When he learned the news, he personally supervised the sentries on the top of the city at night. Sure enough, at midnight, strange and scary noises kept coming from the woods outside the city. At first, he thought they were animals, but he didn't take it seriously.
But later on, a frightening howling sound gradually and clearly came out. The sound was as cold and weird as if it came from hell! Yuzhu Jinggu's hands and feet were cold when he heard it.
He quickly ordered the soldiers to go out of the city to find out what was going on. Unexpectedly, all the soldiers cowered. He was so furious that he had to lead hundreds of people in person, lighting torches to explore the woods.
But the elder Kitao Shinko stopped him: "This is probably a trick by the enemy to lure the enemy. You must not go there easily!" After saying that, he ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows into the woods from the top of the city. After a while, in the woods,
It's really quiet!
"Did you see? As long as you have enough courage, even ghosts will be afraid of you!" Kitao Shinko sneered, turned around and went back to rest.
But Yuzumi Jinggu stared at the woods for a long time and murmured: "Why do I feel like someone is watching us?"
Before he could finish his sentence, an arrow suddenly shot out of nowhere in the city and hit him in the chest!
"Ah! This!!" Yuzhu Jinggu didn't even have time to scream before he fell off the city wall!
"Ah! The enemy has made a surprise attack!" The soldiers were so frightened that they panicked when their commander was killed. After Kitao Shinko reacted, he immediately organized the soldiers to resist, but he discovered that the enemy was not there.
Outside the city! But inside the city!
It turns out that Kinoshita Koichiro has been digging tunnels leading to the city these days! While digging tunnels, he also sent soldiers to pretend to be ghosts at night to confuse and distract the enemy. In just a week, he led the soldiers day and night.
Along the way, he dug a tunnel from the outside of the city to a corner of the city. When his vanguard general Hao Naozhi carefully led the soldiers to climb out of the tunnel, he happened to see the gorgeously dressed Uozumi Kagegu on the top of the city, and his men
When the general Hao Zhizhi saw the enemy commander, his hands became itchy, and he shot him with an arrow without any explanation!
Although he shot Uozumi Keigo to death, the trouble he caused was not small: because the tunnel was narrow, Koichiro's troops had not yet completely crawled out of the tunnel. However, the guards in the city were quickly organized by Kitao Shinko.
Gather together!
Koichiro, who was organizing the soldiers to climb out of the tunnel, was so angry that he cursed: "Who asked you to shoot the arrow? What's the use of killing a Uozumi Kagetsu?! Eighty percent of our army is in the tunnel!"