Chapter 8: The Battle of Murozu Castle (Part II)

In addition to the Urakami family's bowshigaru, the Kuroda family's crossbowshigashi also focused on taking care of the Urakami family's anti-collision farmers in the middle of the army. www.biquge.info The Kuroda family specially assigned thirty people to shoot at the peasants who carried the crashing wood, and there were more than a dozen people to carry the collision wood, but because of the blocking of the collision wood, the crossbowmen shot two or three peasant soldiers in one shot, and the other crossbow arrows either shot to the ground, or shoot to the peasants or ashigaru around the collision wood. The people around the collision wood found that the big guy around him was easy to be attacked, so the surrounding ashigaru and the peasants were far away from the collision wood, this separation, the shooting sight within the collision wood became very clear, and the hit rate of the crossbow ashigaru was obviously improved when he shot again, and five people were killed at a time, because the remaining manpower was not enough, only to hear the sound of "coaxing", the collision wood fell to the ground, and a peasant soldier was killed.

When the wood hits the ground, the samurai behind will take a knife and urge a few peasant soldiers to step forward, lift the wood, and continue to walk forward. After being shot, several people died, hit the wood and fell to the ground, and the plot of the peasant soldiers made up for it was staged in a different cycle.

When the long-range troops of the two families were firing at each other, and while they were taking care of the collision wood, the samurai, ashigaru, and peasant soldiers of the Urakami family had already rushed to the castle.

The soldiers of Urakami, who were running fast, bypassed the huge rejection horses, lowered the ladders into the trenches, and set them up on the city wall. Because I saw the whole picture of Murozu Castle in Mt. Kongo, and knew that there were horses and moats on the edge of the city, I made corresponding preparations in advance, and the ladder was raised by two meters, and there were more on the head of the castle.

Otawara saw that the ladder in front of him had reached the head of the city, and he immediately waved his hand and pressed all the soldiers up. At this time, the troops of nearly 7,000 people in the rear had also come over, ready to join the siege sequence.

Under the organization of Li Sanbao, the Kuroda family developed a kind of push rod specifically for the ladder, with two forks in the front section, just enough to resist the ladder, and the long pole is three meters long, which requires five ashigaru forces to push the ladder down. This kind of putter has no cost at all, but it needs to do some anti-corrosion and anti-moth treatment, and it is simple to use, as long as a few people work together, so basically the Kuroda family's castle has prepared this kind of putter.

The putter has long been prepared on the side, several Kuroda family ashigaru immediately picked up the putt, aimed at a ladder on the city wall, the fork at the front end firmly against the ladder, five ashigaru together force, the ladder slowly left the city wall, fell backwards, one of the Urakami family above saw the ladder fall backwards, firmly grasped the ladder with his hand, shouted and hit the horse behind him, this ashigaru vomited a mouthful of blood, and went directly to the lunch box.

The Kuroda family has ten groups of people to push the ladder, it's not that they don't want to prepare more people, it's just that there are only so many pushers, and the city wall can only accommodate these people who push the ladder, and more will still have a certain impact on the defense of the city, after all, it still needs crossbow light shooting, and other people need to throw stones and wooden blocks.

The men and horses of the Urakami family under the castle climbed up along dozens of cloud ladders, the number of cloud ladders was sufficient, almost the entire city wall, and the samurai, ashigaru, and peasant soldiers below, well, the peasant soldiers were forced by knives, and they were all desperately climbing up anyway. The Kuroda family's crossbowshigaru had stopped firing, and they retreated, if Ninomaru was captured, the walls of Honmaru would be their next battlefield, and if they could repel this attack, they would still return to the walls of Ninomaru to set up defenses.

A Urakami family's ashigaru took a spear and rushed to the castle, he saw several people from the Kuroda family pushing a pole, and without noticing himself, he immediately raised his spear and prepared to stab one of them, but before his spear could move, a spear stabbed a bloody hole in his neck from his right side, and fell straight backwards.

A samurai of the Urakami family, holding a big knife in his hand, rushed up the city wall, and when he saw a spear stabbing at him, he did not panic at all, his body was slightly deviated, just enough to let go of the spear, and the katana slashed down directly, hacking the Kuroda family's spear ashigaru to death. But before he could be complacent, three spears pierced out from different directions in front of him, and he was unprepared and pushed off the wall.

In this way, some of the samurai, ashigaru, and peasant soldiers of the Urakami clan began to attack the castle walls, and they could occasionally occupy a small section of the castle walls, but they would soon be driven out of the castle by the Kuroda soldiers. Although there has been no substantial progress, at least in the hand-to-hand combat, the Kuroda family has already suffered casualties, although this proportion is a bit small, but if it continues like this, it is still not good for the Kuroda family, after all, the Urakami family has five times the number of Kuroda families.

Soon, the rear team of 7,000 people of the Urakami family also pressed up, and from the city, it felt like the Urakami family's soldiers were endless. Although it did have a certain impact on the soldiers of the Kuroda family in terms of visual effects, the soldiers did not hesitate, after all, behind this Murozu Castle is Kuroda Ling, which is their own home, and they live their parents, brothers and sisters, wives and children, and they can't retreat. Otherwise, the Urakami family will take possession of their own land, abuse their sisters, wives and daughters, rob their property, and destroy everything they want to be good in their home, which the Kuroda soldiers who have just lived a good life cannot bear.

Several samurai from the Nagasaki family of Otawara rushed to the castle, and Higasa Yoribo, the lord of Higasa Aoyama Castle, and his two sons, Higasa Yorinori and Higasa Yorishige, also attacked the castle, as well as Iga Kutaka, the lord of Torakura Castle, and several samurai from his family. With these well-armed and skilled samurai ascending the city walls, the pressure of the Kuroda family's defense of the city instantly increased by several notches, and several city walls left the Kuroda family's control in an instant.

Seeing that the situation on the city wall was critical, the fierce generals of the Kuroda family, Iate Tomoji, Otani Moriji, Miyata Mitsuji, Kogawa Yoshito, and Goto Kikuni all led people to rush to the gaps that were breached.

Iga Kutaka is a fierce general of the Urakami family, and the Iate Yushi has been eyeing him from afar, and he rushes forward with a spear, and Iga Kusataka is still panting after hacking to death a Kuroda peasant soldier, he has already hacked five or six Kuroda army soldiers, and now he is a little tired.

As a result, as soon as he looked up, a military commander of the Kuroda family rushed towards him, and with his martial arts, he found that this military general might not be something he could compete with. Inote Yushi stabbed out with a shot, like a poisonous snake, fast and ruthless. Iga tried his best to smash the spear with his knife, but when he found that the spear was not moving, he stabbed himself anyway. Iga Kutaka was also battle-hardened, and when he saw that something was wrong, he immediately retreated sharply and took a big step to the right, which was able to avoid the spear of Ide Tomoji, but his abdominal scroll was still broken a little by the force, and the others were fortunately not injured. He screamed and slashed at Ide, who immediately swung his spear in a circle, smashed his knife away with the tail of the spear, and immediately turned the spear around, stabbed out, and stabbed straight at Iga Kutaka. Iga Kutaka found that he had no way to avoid it, and finally he could only roll to the left, and his vertical pockets fell to the ground, his hair unkempt.

After only two or three moves, Iga Kutaka realized that he was not the opponent of Ite's Tomoji at all, and the moment he landed on the ground, he felt his scalp feel cold. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looking at the determined eyes of the Ide Tomoshi on the other side, he had a strong feeling that if he made a few more moves, he would probably die here. Without hesitation, he ran directly down the ladder behind him, and cut down a peasant soldier who was in the way. Imate Tomoji smiled contemptuously, looked at the back of the fleeing man, stabbed the spear in his hand to the right, and stabbed to death a Urakami Ashigaru who wanted to sneak attack.