Chapter 37: The Battle of Taniguchi (II, 900 Additions)
It was already the second half of the night, and suddenly behind the wall on one side of this house, an arrow slashed through the sky, but it was obviously processed, and the sound was not loud, and if you didn't listen carefully, it would be difficult to spot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The Hattori security chief in the info department house, who had his eyes closed, immediately opened his eyes when he heard the arrow, and his eyes were bright and with a powerful murderous aura, and he said coldly, "Action." ”
Fifty ninjas immediately rushed out of the room, and at the same time, several guards who were originally guarding the city gate were attacked at the same time, some were shot in the throat and chest by ninja darts, and some were shot in the head by kunai, basically all of them were killed with one blow, but because of the lesson of the rapid fall of Koguchi Castle, Taniguchi Castle arranged at least ten people to keep vigil every night, although it was attacked by the ninjas of the Kuroda family, but at this time there were still three people in the castle who survived. Their first instinct was to shout a warning. The shouting Ashigaru used all his might, and his voice was so loud that his voice could be heard throughout Taniguchi Castle.
"Damn, speed up, you have to take the gates before the enemy finds out." Hattori roared.
If the Akamatsu Army discovers the anomaly at the gate first and sends people over to defend it, even if there are only a few dozen people, it will be difficult for the ninjas to take the gate in the short term, and as the war develops, more enemies will be attracted to come, then the operation will inevitably fail. Now for Hattori Baocho, Fujibayashi Hoho and Tongxin, the most important thing is time, and they must seize the city gate as soon as possible and open it.
The Akamatsu army still made some preparations this time, and in less than two minutes after that ashigaru shout, several samurai had already run out of the department house in full clothes, and they were also shouting loudly in addition to running towards the city gate themselves. It is believed that soon more garrison samurai will find out about the situation and come out to fight.
Hattori Baochang ran down desperately, only a few dozen seconds, and he got under the city gate first, he didn't go to open the city gate immediately, it took at least four people to open the city gate, and he was useless alone.
"Open the gates." Hattori snorted softly, and he himself immediately jumped high, and the three people on the castle tower were in big trouble. The city wall is two meters high, and Hattori is about to reach the head of the city with a jump, and his left hand ninja knife is just reaching the edge of the city wall, and his body shakes, and his right hand is on the city wall.
The three Ashigaru of the Akamatsu family, who had not died before, were all hiding behind the city walls, shouting loudly, not daring to make any movements, nor daring to expose any part of their bodies.
One of the three people with sharp eyes saw the action of Hattori Hattori jumping up before, and knew that he was going to go up the city wall, so he immediately lowered his head and drew his knife and walked in the direction of Hattori Hattori. He saw Hattori's hand on the edge of the wall and slashed at Hattori's right hand.
At the moment when the ashigaru moved, Hattori was already aware of his actions, and the moment his knife fell, Hattori Baocho let go of the city wall after exerting his right hand, and his whole body climbed the city wall to the left with the help of his strength, he went up the city wall, immediately rolled forward, and slashed at the leg of Ashigaru who had not yet reacted, and Ashigaru was still by the city wall at this time, and he was stabbed in the leg, screamed, fell under the city wall, and fell to his death under the city wall.
The other two ashigaru saw that Hattori Baochang jumped on the castle in a strange way, and one of his companions was killed with just one move, and immediately attacked Hattori Baochang with a spear, and the two people stabbed at Hattori Baocho with two shots, one left and one right. Hattori Baocho didn't panic when he saw the two shots coming, after all, he was one of the three shinobi of Iga who had seen the world, and he saw that he didn't retreat but advanced, and his body twisted weirdly, like a snake, through the gap between the two guns. A knife slashed through the neck of Ashigaru on the left, bringing out a red bloodshot, and Ashigaru on the left looked back at Hattori Baocho, his eyes were full of horror, he didn't understand what had just happened, and he didn't know why it was himself who died.
Another ashigaru saw that the nirvana failed and his companion was killed, but he reacted quickly, just for a moment, he knew that the opponent opposite him was not an opponent he could compete with, he immediately threw down the gun in his hand, turned his head and ran in the opposite direction of Hattori Baocho, he wanted to run to the city, as long as he ran to a crowded place, he would be safe for the time being.
This Ashigaru thought very well, but Hattori didn't give him this opportunity, and Hattori didn't react quickly, just quickly chased after him, and a knife slashed through his throat, and Ashigaru fell to the ground, still panting in his mouth when he was dying, maybe it was scared, or it was the result of running.
By the time Hattori had dealt with the three ashigaru, the ninjas had already opened the gates, and the soldiers of the Kuroda family could already see them running towards the gates. However, the soldiers of the Akamatsu family were closer to the city gate, and there were already more than a hundred soldiers of the Akamatsu family rushing towards the city gate one after another.
Hattori jumped directly from the city wall, rolled over, and stood firmly in front of the city gate. shouted to the concentric people behind him: "Don't panic, we must resist, we only need to resist for a while, and the army of our family will enter the city, and we will win." ”
Hattori threw out two ninja darts with his right hand, and the two people who ran in front of him hit one in the forehead and killed him instantly, and the other shot him in the shoulder and fell to the ground moaning. The light was not good at night, so it could only be lit by two bonfires at the head of the castle, otherwise the head of the Hattori Shocho would be a little higher.
Seeing the two fall to the ground in an instant, the Akamatsu army was still stunned for a while, but immediately a samurai came out and shouted loudly, more than a hundred people saw that there were indeed only a few dozen people at the city gate, and the number of people on their side was superior, once the army of the Kuroda family entered the city, everything was really over, and all of a sudden, the Akamatsu army, whether it was a samurai or a peasant soldier, began to run towards the city gate.
In fact, there was only a distance of more than thirty steps, and in order to delay time, the ninja darts and kunai in their hands were thrown to the Akamatsu army as if they didn't want money, although they hindered the pace of the Akamatsu army for a while, but it was not of much use.
Just when the Red Pine Army was about to come into contact with the Tongxin people and engage in hand-to-hand combat. The sound of war horses sounded behind the Tongxin people, and it was the Kuroda family's dozen horseback warriors led by Ite Yuji.
"All of us retreat, and all get out of the way." Imate yelled.
Hearing the shouts of Ite's Tomoji, the Iga Tongxin led by Hattori Hocho and Fujibayashi Hoho finally breathed a sigh of relief, white-knuckle combat is really not a ninja's forte! If it really relied on the Tongxin people and the Red Song Army to fight head-on, the Tongxin people didn't know how many they would die, and the dozens of Tongxin people here were the core of the ninja army, and even if they lost one, it would affect the strength of the Tongxin people. The Tongxin people quickly retreated, or escaped through the walls of Taniguchi Castle's battle in front of the gates, handing over the entire gate to the samurai who arrived first.
The Imate Tomoshi took the lead, and the war horse directly hit the first Ashigaru of the Akamatsu family in front of him, and the big gun in his hand fell quickly, making up for the shot, and as a result, this Ashigaru's life was killed. On the left, a Akamatsu family ashigaru, shouted and raised a spear to stab, Ide Tomo's big gun tail was a shelf, the arm was rounded, the big gun swirled, and a shot was stabbed in the chest of Ashigaru, and the gun was picked up hard, and the body of this ashigaru was thrown into the middle of the Akamatsu family soldiers, and no one in the Akamatsu family dared to come forward to challenge for a while.
Seeing that his morale was low, a samurai of the Akamatsu family shouted: "The general Higashiyama Jiro under the command of the Akamatsu Masahide Hall is on the top." "Holding his own katana, he launched a cavalry attack on the Imate Yuclan.
Ite Yushi looked at this Akamatsu family samurai who rushed out of everyone, his eyes were condensed, and he suddenly urged the war horse, and the war horse began to run slowly. At the moment when the two came into contact, Imate Tomoshi just stabbed each other with a hard shot, and Higashiyama Jiro also jumped up desperately, trying to cut Imate Tomoji. With the help of the war horse, Ite's Yushi stabbed out with a single shot, and the momentum sank, and as soon as the body of the Akamatsu samurai was touched, as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, it flew upside down, and after the body hit the ground, it was motionless and dead.
"Does anyone dare to fight?"