After hearing the report, the Ashina Mori clan couldn't help but sweat profusely, now he can be sure that the Satake family is not just as simple as becoming a vassal of Takayama, at least it has accepted the transfer of the Takayama family, if there is still room for maneuver in attacking Satake, then attacking Takayama, even if he wants to develop his own family, he doesn't have the guts, so after getting the news, the Ashina Mori clan did not hesitate, immediately issued an order to withdraw the army, and sent people with a large amount of property to the Takayama clan outside Odawara Castle, hoping to get the other party's understanding, and a farce ended.

Not to mention the chaos in Hitachi, just say that Satake Yoshishige finally led the army to Odawara Castle outside three miles, Takayama clan main camp, at this moment Takayama clan is discussing siege strategy with Asai, Shibata and others, since the victory of the Ashigara battle, it has been half a month now, in this half month, the Takayama coalition army launched several fierce attacks on Odawara Castle, and even once the coalition army used 50,000 people at a time, but it was still blocked out of the moat. Since the concentrated attack could not achieve results, the clan immediately adjusted the strategy, divided the troops into three sides, and launched an attack on Odawara Castle, but it still ended in failure, with a moat to block, the Hojo family only needed to arrange thousands of troops on each side to be able to resist the attack of the coalition army,

Seeing that the attack could not be forced, the clan immediately stopped the offensive, but sent the ninja army under his command to pick out ninjas who are good at lurking and other abilities, and prepared to sneak into the city, and come to the inside and outside, although it really allowed the Takayama ninja to find the drainage outlet of the moat leading to the city, and really sneaked into the city, but the Hojo family had already prepared, and when they came up, they were greeted by the sharp blade of the Hojo family. With this defeat, the clan knew that it seemed impossible to steal the city. For a while, the coalition army was in a predicament, and after the Hojo family repelled the Takayama coalition army several times, the originally low morale also recovered a lot.

And at this time, Satake Yoshishige has appeared in front of the Takayama clan, Satake Yoshishige only came at this time, and he can't make the clan satisfied, although this time he didn't plan to let the other party participate in the joint battle, but the other party's attitude is the most important thing for the clan, obviously, the other party just arrived here at this moment, then you don't have to guess to know, it must be waiting for the result of the battle, this time the family is victorious, if it fails, it is still unknown whether this Satake Yoshishige will come again, so the clan feels that the Satake family governor needs to be replaced, That is, the other party came with a lot of grain and grass, otherwise it would not be as simple as changing the governor.

Since he no longer had to worry about food and grass, the clan's eyes returned to the map where Odawara Castle was drawn. To say that this Odawara Castle is only surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the other side is backed by Mt. Hachiman, which the clan has been very clear about before, and the reason why he did not attack from here is because the terrain of this mountain is peculiar, and the side facing the outside is a gentle slope, so it is not difficult to go up, but the problem is that the other side of this mountain, that is, the side facing Odawara Castle, is a cliff, of course, this was not the case before, but the building stones used by the Hojo family were quarried from here, so when the castle was built, This place has become a cliff, which can be said to have been planned by the Hojo clan as early as the construction of the castle, especially after the continuous reinforcement of Odawara Castle, the cliffs of this Hachiman Mountain are even more dangerous, and there is no room for others to descend from here, so the clan did not consider attacking from here.

But now that the offensive is blocked, the confidence of the coalition army has begun to be slowly worn away, if it continues like this, the offensive will become more and more difficult to carry out, before the war, he did not think about the difficulty of attacking the city, but in the end he thinks that the city is a dead thing after all, as long as it can win the battle, then the Hojo family wants to rely on the dead thing to block the attack of the family, it seems unlikely, but he really waited until he arrived in the city to know, why in history, the monkey led more than 200,000 troops, failed to capture this city, In the end, they forced the other side to surrender by themselves.

After a while, I heard him speak: "Everyone, now that the offensive has been blocked, I don't know what you suggest?" ”

Now even the famous Owari no Fox has no way, and the other people present can have any good ideas, so when the clan opened his mouth, everyone bowed their heads and remained silent. It can't be attacked, even the stealing city that the Gao Shan family is best at can't make a contribution, who can still have a way at this time. Especially the tricky way, you don't even have to think about it.

After a long while, I heard Sanada Masayuki speak: "Please also ask the lord to forgive his subordinates for their incompetence, and their subordinates think that if you want to capture this city, then the first step must be to cross the moat first, otherwise everything is empty talk, so the subordinates feel that since it is impossible to achieve results now, it is better to stop the offensive first, and transfer a large number of troops to fill the moat, only one side needs to be completed, then the outermost defense will be completely useless, so that it will undoubtedly be much easier to attack Odawara Castle later." ”

When he finished speaking, the other samurai present also echoed, after all, the biggest obstacle encountered by the coalition forces at present was this moat, and once it was filled, it would undoubtedly be much easier to carry out an offensive.

After hearing this, the clan immediately thought of the historical Osaka strategy, the size of Osaka Castle is about the same as this Odawara Castle, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also has about 200,000 troops, but he still failed to storm Osaka Castle, and finally chose to fill the moat first, so as to go to the final victory, it seems that if you want to break through this city, there is really only this way to go.

And just as the clan was about to make a decision, suddenly a flag samurai walked into the tent, and then saluted and reported: "Report to the lord, Lord Inatomi is asking to see you outside, and please make a decision." ”

In addition to serving as the deputy commander of the Iron Cannon Foot Light Team, Inafu Yuzhi has a more important task, which is to develop the big tube, when he found out that the clan attaches great importance to this thing, so he gave more time to research and development, this time because the research and development of the big tube has reached the most critical moment, so the clan allows it not to fight, he comes now, and he doesn't need to ask to know, it must be the success of the research and development of the big tube.

After getting the permission of the clan, I saw Inafu Youzhi immediately walk in, and after saluting, I saw him say with excitement on his face: "Lord, fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission, and my subordinates have successfully developed the country." ”

"Okay, I want details." The face of the clan also swept away the haze of the past few days, and hurriedly asked.

"Hui Lord, before coming here, my subordinates have tested it twice, and the effective range of the national collapse is two hundred meters...... although Inafuyou said very excitedly, but after hearing that the effective range is only three hundred meters, the clan can't lift his spirits, what can he do with two hundred meters, it is just a little stronger than an iron cannon. Originally, he had high hopes for the independent research and development of the national collapse, but now although it has been developed, it is far from meeting its own requirements, not to mention anything else, this distance alone is completely unqualified, especially when I heard that this national collapse needs several people to be able to move, and the launch speed is slow, in terms of distance, once the field battle is carried out, then this big guy must be arranged in the forefront, in order to have a chance to open the cannon, but after firing once, then it is absolutely difficult to escape the fate of being captured by the enemy, and if it is used to attack the city, it is not much use......

As soon as the clan thought of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, if it is not of much use for attacking other castles, then it is the most suitable for attacking Odawara Castle, and the breakthrough point is in Hachimanyama, because the Hojo family thinks that it is impossible for anyone to attack from Hachimanyama, so there is no defense here at all, so the first step is to transport the country collapse to the mountain, which is not dangerous except for spending some manpower, once the country collapse is transported to the top of the mountain, you can directly fire artillery into the city, a distance of two hundred meters, It's enough to fight the castle tower, and once the castle tower is flattened, no matter how strong the Hojo Army's will to fight is, it will definitely not be able to resist again. With this thought, I heard the clan sect hurriedly ask, "Have you brought the collapse of the country this time?" ”

"Back to the lord, my subordinates feel that this thing is of great use for siege, so they have brought the collapse of the country here, but it's just ......" Speaking of this, Inatomi Yuzhi seemed to be a little embarrassed and did not continue.

"Just what?" Whether or not you can capture Odawara Castle depends on this thing, and now that the other party has only said half of it, how can the clan not be in a hurry.

"Back to the lord, because the national collapse has just been successfully developed, there is only one at present, and only three large projectiles have been produced."

Hearing this, the clan sect was also not happy, there were only three shells, which was too little, and if the three shots were not good, it would not be able to bring too much shock to the enemy in the city, and it seemed that it would have to be carefully planned.

Because the clan did not summon Inatomi Youzhi alone, so when he finished speaking, everyone present also heard it clearly, because these people are not through the public, there is no concept of the future generations at all, so when Inafu Youzhi finished speaking, although he has not seen the real thing, but he was also shocked.

And when they came to their senses, they immediately began to study their strategy around the collapse of the country, and with the existence of the collapse of the country, then there was no need to fill the river, and as for the strategy of attacking the city, everyone and the clan had the same idea, that is, to transport the country collapse to Mount Hachiman, and then bombard the castle tower, in order to be able to cause enough deterrence to the Hojo family, and finally the clan adopted the opinion of Sanada Masayuki, and the country collapsed to the top of the castle tower and opened fire, because the top of the castle tower is a wooden shingle structure, it can't stop the bombardment of the projectile at all, Once it passes through the roof, the projectile can be directly driven into its interior, which is enough to make the other party feel frightened.

After making the decision, since it was still early, the clan did not hesitate at all, and personally led the Hachimoto samurai, the ninja army, and dozens of farmers who transported the collapse of the country to the back of Odawara Castle and prepared to climb the mountain.

Although there is no road on the outside of Mt. Hachiman, it is not steep, so by the afternoon, the Takayama clan has appeared on the top of the mountain, and from here it is completely possible to overlook the castle tower, although there is a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters from the top of the mountain to the castle tower, Ken is not very clear, but this is not important, as long as Kunobi can see clearly.

Due to the limited number of projectiles, and only Inafuyu of all the people present had fired two shots directly, this time, of course, he was still in charge of the operation.

At the same time that the Takayama clan led the army to Hachiman Mountain, the Hojo clan was discussing countermeasures with the retainers in the assessment room, such a meeting was basically held every day, after all, now the enemy was outside the city, so they couldn't relax at all, of course, with the enemy repelled again and again without damage, the hearts of the Hojo family have relaxed, at least now they don't think that the other party has the ability to break through the city, so that as long as the other party runs out of food and grass, the family is worry-free, and this time, The main purpose of the Hojo clan's retainers was no longer to discuss the defense of the castle, but to study how to restore the territory and strength after the Takayama army withdrew.

And just when everyone was talking about the high sex, and had an infinite outlook on the future, suddenly only heard a loud noise, and before everyone came back to their senses, they suddenly only felt a shaking when they sat down, and then saw a big hole broken above their heads, although the castle tower was set on the second floor, but because the shelf was made of wood, the projectile continued to smash the third floor after breaking through the top of the castle tower, and this is not counting, after the projectile smashed open this floor, the impact continued to go down, and smashed the second floor. Directly to the first floor of the castle tower, this is powerless to go down, but even so, from top to bottom, this projectile still opened a large hole with a diameter of two meters, and a large crater appeared at the bottom of the castle tower.

"This ...... What is it? Hojo Clan was the first to come to his senses, but his expression was still very unnatural, but he didn't think it was a weapon, because he thought that there could be no weapon with such power in the world, so he only thought it was a natural disaster.

However, his question was also in vain, and none of the retainers present could explain it clearly, after all, they had no concept of the collapse of the country in their hearts, so they couldn't think of it. And the most important thing now is not to think about what this thing is, but to protect the safety of the lord, looking at the big hole above the head, everyone is palpitating, fortunately, the location is near the gate, if this falls on themselves, it will definitely be a lump of flesh.

Therefore, instead of answering the question of the Hojo clan, the people immediately advised the lord to avoid this place for the time being.

But just as they spoke, there was suddenly another loud bang, and the collapse of the country in this era is really not accurate, after aiming at a rough point, everything can only follow the feeling, especially under the influence of wind speed and wind force, even if the cannon is fired in the same position and at the same angle, there will be a big deviation in the impact point.

And this time, the Hojo family is not as lucky as just now, or the Hojo family is too unlucky, if the Hojo clan did not move, he could have escaped, but it was precisely because he accepted the advice of his retainers to dodge, when he walked to the center of the castle tower, before he walked out of the gate, accompanied by a loud noise, the Hojo clan only felt a heat wave coming from his head, and then ...... There is no then. (To be continued.) )