However, there is still a lot of the city wall that is firmly occupied by the Urakami family, and that is the Torakura Castle people led by the lord of Torakura Castle, Iga Kutaka. With his high martial arts, Iga Kutaka hacked a shield to death as soon as he landed in the city, and he also picked up the big shield and held it in his hand.www.biquge.info As long as the Kuroda family's ashigaru comes up to attack, he will follow the Kuroda family's shield ashigaru, first block with the shield, and then counterattack with a katana. In just a few minutes after ascending the city, he killed a small head of the Kuroda family, and seven or eight spears, firmly controlling this section of the city wall.

The Kuroda family's ashigaru general, Saka Echichomichi, was the closest to him, and when he saw that there were still people from the Urakami family here, he immediately took a few ashigaru to kill him. Seeing Saka Higashi kill Iga Kutaka, Koji Vocational High School, who controls the overall situation, knows that Iga Kutaka is powerful, last time it was Imate Tomoshi who personally went into battle to repel Iga Kutaka, Koji Vocational High School felt that Sakabu Nagatsu would be unfavorable to Iga Kutaka, so he motioned to Musato Takayu to go up and help.

Saka Hagashi Nagatsu held a katana in his hand, and went up to slash at Iga Kutaka, Iga Kutaka was already familiar with the use of the shield, although this was inconsistent with the bushido spirit he was familiar with, but on the battlefield, it was the most important thing to be able to save his life, and what bushido spirit was really not as important as his own life for Iga Kutaka. Iga Kutaka immediately greeted him with a shield, and the result was different from before, Saka Hisashi Nagatsu had more strength, and the knife smashed on the shield, and the shocked Iga Kutaka took two steps back, but Iga Kutaka was not injured at all, and Sakabuchi Nagatsu just smashed a deep dent in the shield.

Iga Kutaka saw the opportunity and slashed at Sakabuchi Nagatsu's neck, Sakabu Nagatsu could only swing the knife to block, Iga Kutaka used his shield to hit Sakabuchi Nagatsu at the moment when Sakabuchi Nagatsu blocked the knife, Sakabuchi Nagatsu was not prepared at all, and was hit by the shield solidly, and he was still in a daze. Iga Kutaka slashed at Sakabuchi Nagatsu's right hand, and Sakabuchi Nagatsu avoided it with all his strength, but a big hole was still cut on his right hand, and the katana in his hand almost fell to the ground.

Iga Kutaka saw that Saka Hagashi Nagatsu's empty door was wide open, and slashed at Saka Hagatsu's neck, Sakabu Nagatsu did not react, and when he saw that the butcher knife was already in front of him, Saka Hagashi Nagatsu could only pray for a miracle. With a bang, a spear forced Iga Kutaka's katana back, and the tail of the spear was picked up from the bottom up, knocking the shield in Iga Kutaka's hand away. The owner of the spear is none other than Musato Takayu, who stepped forward and held Sakabuchi Nagatsu with one hand.

"Is it alright?" Takayu Musato asked with concern.

"Don't worry, you can't die yet." Sakabuchi Nagatsu just grinned at him and said with a smile.

"Can you still fight?"

"Let's go together."

"Come on! Kill!! The two men shouted loudly together

The two of them rushed to Iga Kutaka together, Iga Jiulong originally wanted to pick up the shield, but Musato Takayu directly picked the shield into the distance with a shot, Iga Kutaka slashed Saka Hagashi Nagatsu behind him, Iga Kutaka could only turn around and block Saka Hisaka Nagato's knife, but he was stabbed in the back by Muzato Takayu, and there was a huge pain from his back.

Iga Kutaka faced either Sakabuchi Nagatsu or Musato Takatomo and one of them was estimated to be at least a draw, but he was besieged by the two, and if he continued to fight, he had only one way to be killed.

"Withdraw, all withdraw" Seeing that the situation was not good, Iga Hisabaka immediately called the people of Hucang Castle to retreat, and he quickly left the city wall from the ladder. After Iga Kutaka retreated, it was difficult for Urakami's army to storm the castle.

"My lord, we have killed and wounded more than 1,200 people in an hour, and we can't fight like this anymore." Otawara didn't even walk into the main camp for a long time, and he began to speak loudly.

"Where's Kuroda?" Urakami said calmly.

"There were less than 300 dead and wounded." Otawara said for a long time.

"Their casualty ratio is larger than ours, we have a chance to win, keep attacking!" Urakami Sokei stood up and said, and his voice was very excited, as if he had defeated the Kuroda family.

"But......" Otawara was about to speak for a long time, but was interrupted by Urakami Sokei.

"Okay, there's nothing to do, I've made up my mind, don't say anything more." After saying that, Urakami Sokei walked out of the main formation and went to rest.

Otawara bit his lip for a long time, and his face was full of worry. What he wanted to tell Urakami Sokei was that the more than 1,000 people he had lost were mainly samurai and ashigaru, and several of the famous samurai of the Urakami family had died, and the peasant soldiers who were not strong in combat were afraid to advance, so the losses were very small. Of the three hundred members of the Kuroda family, except for two ashigaru heads, not a single samurai died, and Kogawa Yoshitoshi was a wounded soldier, but it was only a minor injury, and it did not affect any action at all. Moreover, of the 300 people, only half of the total number of ashigaru were killed or wounded, and the other half were peasant soldiers, and there were many minor injuries among them, so they could quickly recover their combat effectiveness.

So in fact, the Kuroda family's combat effectiveness has not declined much, but the Urakami family's combat effectiveness has declined seriously, you must know that among the 10,000 Urakami family, only 3,000 are standing ashigaru, more than 100 samurai, and the other 7,000 are peasant soldiers. In fact, the situation is tilting in Kuroda's favor, and if Kuroda continues to fight, he is more likely to be the final winner. Now that the 3,000 ashigaru has basically lost 30%, if the remaining 2,000 ashigaru are also exhausted here, it is unrealistic to expect the peasant soldiers to defeat the Kuroda family. Even if the two thousand feet are really exhausted, let alone defeat the Kuroda family, the Urakami family's rule in Bizen will be shaken, and whether they can continue to sit safely in Bizen has become a problem.

Although Otawara was worried here for a long time, Urakami Munekei was not aware of the current situation and the possible risks at all, and now he is only thinking about how to defeat the Kuroda family and how to occupy Harima Province, and absolutely no alarmist remarks will be allowed. As for the important ministers in the family, Otawara saw that Satsuura Nobumune, Higasa Yoribo, and Hattori Hisashi were all sitting there listlessly; Iga Kutaka was even more seriously injured, and he couldn't come to the main camp to discuss;

Nobuhara Jingneng and Okamoto Shishu exchanged heads and ears from time to time, but their eyes flickered, and they were definitely not discussing a strategy to attack the city; As for Akashi Kei-kin, who was in the far corner, he sat there without saying a word. Otawara suddenly had a feeling that the Urakami family was finished.

Just before the Urakami army attacked Murozu Castle the next day, Musato Kobei was the main general, Goto Kikuni, Sasaki Nagahide, and Yamamoto and Rokuro were supplemented, and led 800 people from Oyama Pass into Bizen Province, and of course there was a copy of the complete map of Bizen Province in his hand. As soon as the army of Muzato Kobei entered Waki County, they came to a valley, and there was a small town in the middle of the valley, and a concentric congregation told Musato Kobei that this valley was called Kugi Valley, and the small town was called Kugi Valley Castle, and the lord of the castle was called Kugi Valley Rokuro, and this castle was the closest castle to Harima Province in the vicinity.

And if the Kuroda family wants to really enter Bizen country, this city is the only way to go, Musato Kobei took everyone to see the terrain, this city is just stuck in the narrowest part of the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are only a few dozen people in this small wealthy family, it is not easy to easily take down.