And Kuroda Zhitaka, who was standing in the rear, knew why Akamatsu Masahide was so crazy to attack Koguchi Castle, it must have been the ninja army of Hattori Baochang, who killed and injured many of Akamatsu Masahide's sergeants, so that Akamatsu Masahide couldn't bear it anymore and directly ordered the siege. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Kuroda was right, but he didn't expect that in Akamatsu Masahide's heart, whether it was the Kuroda family's sneak attack on the territory of Iho-gun from behind, or the use of ninjas to sneak attack their own soldiers, it was not the behavior of samurai, so he ordered an attack in advance in a hurry.

Although it may be that Akamatsu Masahide's idea is in line with the thinking of most of the current island lords, the war is all about victory, and everything is done. In the current era of the collapse of etiquette and music in the island country, father and son kill each other, brothers kill each other, and then emphasize the need to have a samurai spirit and fight hard, then there will be no such thing as a cage city. Everyone simply wrote down their famous generals, the number of soldiers, the training situation, and the equipment allocation, compared the two sides, and forgot the surrender of the loser.

Akamatsu Masahide was unreasonably angry, and Kuroda Zhitaka was also at ease with crooked ways, and even a little proud, this is the psychological state of the generals of the two sides at this time.

The Kuroda family had already formulated the entire process of this battle and the methods of dealing with each battle, so they had already brought most of the family's longbows, Maruki bows and almost all the arrows to Koguchi Castle, and at this time, on the city wall, facing a section of the wall where Akamatsu Masahide was attacking, sixty archers were arranged, and all the generals with better archery skills basically held longbows and stood on the city wall.

When Akamatsu Masahide's army entered a hundred paces outside the city walls, several generals, including Kuroda Yoshitaka, shot arrows from their hands, and seven or eight arrows were scattered towards the enemy. Because the longbow was more powerful than the Maruki bow, five unlucky ones were shot, three were killed instantly, two fell to the ground and groaned, and the other soldiers just stopped for a moment, immediately avoiding the wounded and moving forward again.

When entering the range of fifty paces, "shoot" a ashigaru general shouted, all sixty archers shot arrows, the Maruki bow is small in power, the range is also short, within fifty steps is the effective killing range, and this so-called effectiveness is still debatable. In the island country, a military general is still charging with hundreds of arrows hanging on his body, in fact, there is nothing strange, this is the power of the Maruki bow.

Anyway, there are still three Akamatsu Masahide troops who fell to the ground and left this world forever, and a few who were wounded, the Maruki Bow Team shot arrows a total of three times, and the generals shot arrows five times, killing and wounding more than 30 enemies, which is already considered good.

Although the peasants of the Masahide Army were a little scared, the samurai who pressed the formation behind them all held big swords in their hands, and looked at these peasants viciously, and if they retreated a little cowardly, they might be cut to the ground by the samurai master on their side. It's better to rush forward if you're dead on the left and right, and if you're lucky enough to kill someone, you might even get a reward. Between dying immediately and waiting for death, the peasants decisively chose to wait for death, and quickly found a reason to paralyze themselves.

When the army drove under the city wall, it could only attack the city wall if it was a dozen paces wide in front of the city wall, and the rest of the area was either a ditch or a horse rejection.

"Don't be afraid, kill it," Yajuro Shibahara shouted, brandishing his scythe.

Just when the dozens of soldiers of the Masahide Army at the front began to move the horses and ants to attack the city, the Kuroda Army was not idle, and the bows and arrows, wooden blocks and stones prepared in advance were smashed at the Masahide Army without money. For a while, Masahide rushed forward desperately to die in vain, and Kuroda smashed it hard, and he was very happy.

Just when hundreds of people were killed and wounded, the Masahide army finally couldn't hold on, so they couldn't touch the enemy's life in vain, these ashigaru peasant soldiers really couldn't do it! If there is one who retreats, there will be the next, and then it becomes a great retreat of the whole army, even if the overseers are standing behind with broadswords, but they also know that in this situation, they will die in vain, and they can't expect to use their own corpses as ladders to go up and attack the city! Even if the corpse fell so high, but there were still people or not?

"Withdraw" Akamatsu Masahide looked at everything in front of him, and knew that everything was irretrievable, so he spit out a word from between his teeth with difficulty.

At this time, a herald ran over, "The lord is not good, our army's food team was attacked by the Kuroda army ninjas, and most of the army's food was burned." ”

"What?" Akamatsu Masahide looked back at the camp behind him, and sure enough, there was smoke in one place, and just now because he was so engrossed in watching the siege in front of him that he didn't notice the change in the rear at all.

Akamatsu Masahide clenched his hands into fists, gritted his teeth, and shouted in the direction of Koguchi Castle: "Does the Kuroda family only dare to do this kind of thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs?" Why don't you dare to ......" Before he finished speaking, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

At this time, the retainers and soldiers around Akamatsu Masahide can be regarded as knowing what it means to be angry, and they vomited blood, and the blow of the burning of military rations was undoubtedly a resounding slap to Akamatsu Masahide, who had always been conceited, and this was the third slap that the Kuroda family gave himself in a few days, how could Akamatsu Masahide, who was born with a smooth sail, not be angry.

"Quickly gather the whole army together to rest, not allowed to act alone, and more than 20 people must act to relieve them, strengthen patrol vigilance to prevent the Kuroda family from sneaking up again, and quickly go to Takino City to mobilize food, send more guards, hurry, hurry! Kuroda, Kuroda, damn Kuroda......" Akamatsu Masahide said to a samurai through gritted teeth, blood still gushing out of his mouth.

The first general in the Masahide army knew that Masahide Akamatsu was very angry now, and he had absolutely no patience; Second, if you only rely on ants to attack the city, judging from the current fortifications of Koguchi Castle, even if everyone here dies, it will not be able to take it down, so you need to make some siege equipment.

Three hours later, the Masahide army moved again, this time there were a few more rush ladders in the army, and then dozens of archers came to the front, the strength of the Masahide army was field warfare, and this time the army was to make a show, and he didn't bring any bows and arrows at all, and finally made dozens of Maruki bows temporarily, and more than a hundred and ten arrows.

I saw that the archers were at the forefront, and the scene of a brutal confrontation with the Kuroda army in the city did not appear, until a few people died, and when they entered the range of fifty paces, they lit the front end of the bow and arrow, and shot out, and after two rounds of attacks, these Masahide troops ran back desperately.

Originally, the generals of the Masahide Army imagined that after the rocket was fired at the city wall, the city wall would burn along with the oiled rocket, so as to attract the attention of the Kuroda army, and if the fire was not extinguished quickly, the entire city wall would burn up. In fact, the rocket hit the wall and burned for a while, but it did not ignite the wall at all.

"How so?"

"There must be mud on the walls."

"The Kuroda family is too cunning."

"When did the Kuroda family become so difficult?"

"Yes! Sneak attack, ninja, new castle building method, we fought with the Kuroda family several times, and it was always over in the earth weapon mountain. ”

"Is it really because of the Kirin of Harima Country, as the legend says?"

"Don't say it, look, the ladder is up."

The Zhengxiu army continued to attack, more than a dozen people carried ladders, did not dare to stop all the way, ran to the city wall, set up the ladder in the moat without rejecting horses, and climbed to the highest point and could barely attack the city wall.

The soldiers defending the city did not panic, first stewed a meal of stones and wood under the city, and when someone climbed halfway, two or three people worked together to push the ladder to, and occasionally one or two people climbed up to the city, and there were also Kuroda or Miki generals who led people to wait on it, and generally there was more than one hole in the body, and it was better to be thrown to the ground.

Masahide's fierce general Shibahara Yajuro leaned against the castle as soon as he saw the ladder, and one or two ashigaru still barely climbed to the top of the castle, as long as he increased his attack, there was still an opportunity. Without thinking about it, he took his weapon and ran to the bottom of the castle, and with a sickle in one hand and a struggle to climb the city in the other, he kept dodging the stones and wooden blocks on the city, and soon reached the top of the city. Ashigaru of the Miki family, as soon as he saw someone entering the castle, immediately stabbed Shibahara Yajuro in the head with his spear. Seeing the enemy attacking, Shibahara Yajuro let out a loud shout, and the scythe spun around and swung away Ashigaru's spear, and then the scythe slashed lightly, leaving a deep blood mark on Ashigaru's neck and falling backwards.

Shibahara Yajuro jumped and successfully climbed the castle wall, and a general of the Miki family saw him ascend the castle and surrounded him with four ashigaru. The general of the Miki family raised his knife and slashed, Shibahara Yajuro raised a sickle to block, and the back four ashigaru all took the opportunity to stab out the spear, Shibahara Yajuro saw that the situation was not good, and immediately took a step back, Kankan dodged the spear, and the sickle waved horizontally, forcing these people back, and they confronted each other against the city wall.