Chapter 17: The Battle of Heshan Castle (Finale)
Shinmi Sadatsune's idea is good, he is also learning and selling, the city he guarded back then was also under the repeated harassment of Date Mashiro fell, and now he has to face the city of Tsuruyama Castle Matsushima Hengkatsu followed Date Masaki's side back then.
After seeing the successive attacks in the east and south of the city, Matsushima Hengsheng showed a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth, and said in a low voice: "There have always been capable people in the middle of the city, and he would come up with such a riot plan, but he used it in the wrong place. ”
His cousin Matsushima Yashiro said with a little puzzlement: "Second brother, I have always been here to attack tonight, is it from the east of the city or from the south of the city?" The rest of the people looked at Matsushima Hengsheng, which made Matsushima Hengsheng suddenly feel like he was pointing out the country.
Matsushima Hengsheng squinted his eyes and looked out of the city for a while, the bonfire outside the city was lit, and he couldn't see anything, with a sarcastic face, and said, "East of the city? Seongnam? Now it's early spring, it's warm and cold, and the river is full of ice water coming down from the high mountains, and the cold night is swimming. ”
Matsushima Yashiro was young but didn't quite understand the meaning of his brother's words, and wondered: "Then why did you choose to harass in the east and south of the city, instead of harassing at the main gate?" Once there is too much harassment, laxity and paralysis, doesn't it just give them a chance?! ”
Matsushima Hengsheng nodded and smiled: "Yashiro, you can think and make progress." After a pause, Matsushima Hengsheng pointed to the outside of the city and said: "In yesterday's battle, there have always been heavy casualties, and I am afraid that there are three or four hundred people who died in our hands alone, and the wounded are double, what about ourselves." Two were killed in battle. Seven or eight people were wounded. It can be said to be a complete victory. Nowadays, the number of people who have always been one is less than 2,000, and the body is also scarce, who will dare to fight at night? ”
Matsushima Yashiro thought for a moment and responded, "It's a monk?!" Yes, it's a monk soldier of Benguang Temple. ”
Matsushima Hengsheng nodded in agreement and said with a smile: "That's right, the monks and soldiers of Benguang Temple will not exceed 100 people. Coupled with some young and strong, the number of people who stole the city would not exceed three hundred, and if we harassed the main gate continuously, we would definitely put most of our forces at the main gate, and even if only one person showed the enemy's situation, their plan would be in vain. Besides, they only have one chance. ”
Matsushima Yashiro nodded again and again, and when he heard Matsushima Masakatsu's last sentence, he was puzzled: "Why?" ”
Matsushima Hengsheng looked at the deep night sky and said meaningfully: "The tiger whiskers of the Date family are easy to dial?" He said. He said to several ashigaru captains around him, "Did I let the scarecrow you prepared tie up?" Don't they want us to disperse our forces? Just give them a good look. ”
Captain Hehe sneered: "Hey! As he spoke, in the eastern, southern, and northern directions of the city, figures flickered under the swaying of torches.
Shinmi Sadatsune, who was watching the enemy situation in Heshan City from a high place outside the city, patted his knee and shouted, "Okay." The defenders of Heshan City were fooled, and the garrison of three hundred defenders was more than enough on one side, but if it was to be distributed on all sides, it would be sparse, even if it was a strong attack, and it was too late to come to reinforcements from other places. ”
Emi Izu, who was standing not far from him, heard the shouts of Shinmi Sada, and took a closer look, he still didn't figure out who the person in front of him was, and he actually came up with such a plan, if he encountered it, I am afraid that it would immediately fall apart.
Shinmi Zhenjing turned his head and said with a smile: "Emi Izumori, please take care of me later." "It turned out that in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, and in order to save the lives of the monks and soldiers, the remaining members of Jiang Jian's remnant party and more than 100 young men were organized into the raid team to act together.
Jiang saw Izu bowed his hand and said, "Each other!" ”
Shinmi Zhenjing didn't mention it again, but said to one of the monks beside him: "Give them one more time, from the east of the city, close the formation to the river, so that the shadows in the city can be seen more clearly." ”
In Heshan City, Matsushima Yashiro sighed lightly, took two steps forward, and said, "Second brother, I've been here again?" "When I looked up, I couldn't see it from a distance, and there were many shadows, and it was blurry. The appearance of thirty or forty flags, a cursory glance, the scale of one or two thousand people, it seems that the whole army has been dispatched, beating gongs and drums, shouting loudly, faintly in the ears.
Matsushima Hengsheng smiled softly and commanded in a low voice, "Act according to the original plan." As he spoke, he looked at the stars in the sky and said, "It's ugly time, and there's still an hour to go, so let's squint for a while." ”
On the 28th day of February in the 23rd year of astronomy (that is, 1554), at the moment of the second hour, when people were most difficult, Matsushima Hengsheng, who was half-sitting at the head of Heshan Castle, suddenly heard a low bird call, the corners of his mouth were slightly cracked to reveal a cruel smile, and he held the handle of the knife stuck in the ground with one hand, and muttered: "It's coming!" ”
Matsushima Yashiro, who had been waiting for a long time, saw his brother's movements, and quietly made a preparatory action to the people behind him, more than ten people lifted the barrel in their hands, ready to fall down at any time, and there was no other sound, quietly waiting for the order to come.
The silence in the city can only be heard the sound of rapid breathing, after a bloody battle, the first skill that the defenders learned on the battlefield is to obey orders, only by obeying orders can they save their lives, in the absence of orders, everyone maintains a silent movement, without the slightest sound.
Shinmi Sadatsune bent over his hands and feet to climb the mountain path where the plasma had coagulated yesterday, and from time to time he could see the corpse not far away from the shadows, and he resisted nausea and vomiting to climb up, so that he could not make a sound.
The monks and soldiers beside him also endured no noise except for the sound of climbing, for fear of causing movement in the city, so that they appeared in the city in advance, close to a point is a point, once it is present, it will have to be attacked, and the result of the attack is difficult to predict.
Behind the monks were the remnants of Emi Izu's Emi and more than 100 young men, who were supposed to climb up with them, but obviously they couldn't keep their composure as the well-trained monks, so they had to stay behind, and as soon as the city gate was opened, the second group rushed up.
Behind them there are thousands of struggling Sect believers.
When he was a dozen steps outside the city gate, Shinmi Sadatsune stopped, he looked up, only to see that there were few torches at the head of the city, and by the faint light of the stars, he could only see the dark city wall, and there were no bows, no arrows, and no shadows of the defenders on the wall.
There is no above, Xinjian Zhenjing suddenly has a palpitation, the city gate is close at hand, but the feeling of palpitations is getting stronger and stronger, looking up again, my heart is suddenly shocked: "It's not good, there is an ambush!" ”
The monks saw that the Shinmi Sutra was motionless, but they did not continue to stop, they had already come to this step, and it was impossible to retreat, and the monks who rushed to the front clenched their knives and looked at the Shinmi Sutra with a threatening look in their eyes.
Shinmi Sadatsune knew that if he didn't move forward, he would be the first to die when the fight broke out later, so he had to cover his head and continue to move forward with a fluke mentality.
"Pour!"
A calm and powerful voice floated down from the city, and then looked up and saw that more than a dozen figures suddenly appeared at the head of the city, a large basin of slimy liquid poured down, poured on the mountain road, so slippery that Shinmi Sadatsune almost fell, he touched a handful of black liquid on his face, sniffed it on the tip of his nose, and shouted in horror: "Oil, it's fire oil!" ”
While speaking, a torch fell from the head of the city and fell on the mountain road, which was unusually bright, and when the new Mi Sadatsune saw the torch falling, he was busy climbing towards the shadows, trying to escape, only to hear a "bang", and the entire mountain road was lit, and more than 20 monks and soldiers who rushed to the front were like fire men and rolled down the hillside with a scream, igniting more people.
Shinmi Sadatsura fell and rolled down directly from the top of the hill, but he escaped a catastrophe, but he rolled down from a hundred meters high hillside, which was really uncomfortable, but fortunately there were corpses piled up below, and he didn't fall to death, but fainted.
In fact, when Shinmi Sadatsune crawled out of the corpse, only one of his eyes could still be seen, his leg was also lame, and a few fingers were missing, and he often muttered "Woodpecker tactics!" Woodpecker tactics! Later, no one ever saw him in the West again.
Back on the battlefield, the hillside suddenly burned, and more than 20 monks and soldiers rolled in the fire, and then rolled down from the bottom of the mountain, causing the greatest chaos, and more and more people fell to the ground with them, causing a chain reaction. In the light of the fire, the archers at the head of the city took aim and fired, and the iron cannons made a loud noise.
At the foot of the mountain, as soon as Emi saw the chaos on the mountain, he raised his voice and shouted, "Retreat!" Fast! Fall back! He couldn't care about the safety of the friendly troops on the mountain anymore, so he withdrew from the battlefield first and then talked about anything else, and hurriedly led the remnants of Jiang Jian to retreat to the back, and hundreds of young people were also stunned, so they had to withdraw with Jiang Jian Izu.
Benguang Temple Zhengcheng looked at the fire on the mountain in despair, he didn't know what to do at all, he saw the chaos in front of him, and saw that Jiang Jian Izu was about to retreat, and wanted to go up and pull Jiang Jian Izu to question, Jiang Jian Izu split his head and covered his face and said: "Master, it's unpredictable, the enemy has already been prepared, and it is a dead end to rush up again, the day is about to dawn, as soon as the dawn comes, the enemy will rush out of the city, and when the time comes, what will we fight, only to retreat to Benguang Temple quickly, waiting for more believers to arrive." ”
Benguang Temple Zhengcheng has long been out of opinion at this moment, and he can't make up his mind when he hears Jiang Jian Izu's urgent words, and he wants to wait for the new Shinmi Zhenjing to mention others first, and he is ambiguous about Jiang Jian Izu's mentions. Jiang saw that Izu saw that Benguang Temple Zhengcheng was still hesitating, and said in his stomach: "The erection is not enough and the plan!" As he spoke, he pretended to give an order, and collected more than 200 young men and women and quietly left Heshan City, heading in the direction of Inaba Country.
It was supposed to be vigorous, but after only two days, a huge heel was planted in Heshan City, and it immediately collapsed. (To be continued......)
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