Because Ishida Mizunari is here, military generals such as Sanada Yukimura were not constrained by civil servants as in history, and were commanded randomly, resulting in extremely passive situations. More importantly, Tokugawa Ieyasu is dead, and the Eastern Army cannot fill the moat outside Osaka Castle in the name of peace talks like before, and they have to fill it out one by one with human lives.

So in the next period of time, the Eastern Army and the Western Army had a similar advantage, and the Eastern Army had an advantage in terms of numbers, especially the 38,000 troops led by Tokugawa Hidetaku himself were the few elite troops left in Japan today; and the Western Army relied on the defensive system formed by Osaka Castle and "Sana Maru", coupled with the personal talent of Sanada Yukimura, which also caused a lot of trouble for them; during this period, although the moat and "Sana Maru" were successively captured by the Eastern Army, it also caused them great casualties, and more than 30,000 Eastern Army fell on this land forever, while the Western Army only had 10,000 casualties.

This exchange was acceptable for the Western Army, but it was heartbroken for Tokugawa Hidetachi. He sent envoys to the mountain peaks near the sea every day, hoping to see the shadow of the Upper National fleet as soon as possible. However, every time the envoy brought back nothing, it was disappointing to Tokugawa Hidetachi.

Without the help of the Shangguo army, the war still had to continue fighting. Even if he was willing to wait for Sanada Yukimura and Ishida Mizunai, it would not make him feel relaxed. Western soldiers continued to go out of the city to launch surprise attacks through various means, which made the Eastern Army unable to remain peaceful day and night, so they had to speed up the attack. Large siege equipment was transported to the front line, and the projectiles of stone bullets, arrows, and iron cannons attacked Osaka Castle like raindrops.

However, the Osaka Castle built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself is one of the most sturdy cities in Japan. He was prepared for these measures. The defenders relied on the defense of the city wall to launch a counterattack against the Eastern Army. For several days, the Eastern Army could only retreat in a hurry after leaving a large number of corpses, and failed to achieve the results like the previous few days.

In addition, the inner city did not play its due role. Under the command of Yukimura Sanada, Osaka Castle took a series of measures to prevent spies. Often, they were immediately discovered and killed by the Western Army as soon as they made some small noises. Tokugawa Ieyasu's years of preparations were lost bit by bit.

Because of the existence of the Ming army, the Western Army Daming, who had been in contact with the Tokugawa family, changed his previous attitude of the two ends of the rat, and stood firmly on Toyotomi Hiderai, providing sufficient troops and food for the defense of Osaka Castle. In addition, the Toyotomi family's years of accumulation, it is not something that can be done in a short period of time to break through this city.

Kazuhara Yasumasa and others thought of many ways to lure the Western army out of the city to fight to the decisive battle, but no matter how they lure and insulted them, Yukimura Sanada was still motionless and did not intend to give up his advantage in going out of the city to fight to the decisive battle. This put him under great pressure. Fortunately, with the support of Daimai, Ishida Mizunai and Maori Fumimoto, who participated in the Battle of Sekihara, the desire for others to go out of the city to fight to the decisive battle.

While these two armies were fighting in Osaka, subtle changes gradually occurred in other parts of Japan. Many poor people who could no longer bear the lord's exploitation. Under the leadership of Zhang Xianzhong and others, they killed the local lords, snatched all the food and weapons that were supposed to be sent to Osaka, and then began to spread to the surrounding areas. Encouraged by this, Yixiangzong and other ambitious people began to follow this move, and it was like a spark of fire.

At this time, Li You, who was hiding not far from Osaka Castle, realized that it seemed that it was finally time for him to make his debut. So on a sunny morning, the Tokugawa soldiers who were looking forward to the top of the mountain finally saw a little sail. They quickly spread the news to Hidetachi Tokugawa.

After confirming that it was indeed the fleet of the General of the Ueko, Tokugawa Hidetachi led Yasuhara Yasumasaki, Masato Ida and others to greet him personally; after the ship docked, Li You walked off the boat and rushed, haha, "I'm really sorry, I encountered wind and waves on the sea a few days ago, and deviated from the course and went to a place I had never been to before. I finally found the correct route again, so I didn't arrive until today. I don't know what the war ahead is?"

Despite their dissatisfaction, how dare Tokugawa Hidetachi and others express it? Not only that, they also comforted each other, "The General of the Supreme Kingdom has worked hard all the way, and my Tokugawa family is very grateful. Now we have prepared a banquet in the camp to welcome the army of the Supreme Kingdom, and we also ask General Chen to enjoy the glory."

"It's easy to say, I'm not to hide it from my nephew. I've been tired of wandering on the sea these days. It's even better to have some good food." Li You went down and blocked Tokugawa Hidetachi's plan to join the war immediately, but he didn't do too much. When he led the army down from the ship, he brought a lot of large-caliber artillery, which made Tokugawa Hidetachi and the others feel a little relieved. It seems that the general of the Shangguo Kingdom still wants to help us.

The arrival of the Ming army made the Western Army immediately nervous. Mitsunari Ishida had experienced the power of the Ming army's artillery in Daheng City. Although Osaka Castle is far better than Daheng City, it is hard to say whether it can block the Ming army's artillery, so he had to order Yukimura Sanada to arrange a sneak attack, hoping to destroy these artillery when the Ming army was not yet stable.

But this intention was too obvious. The Eastern Army had already made arrangements. Masamune Ida led his army to set up an ambush to attack the Western Army, who was in a mess, and then left thousands of corpses and fled back to the city in a hurry. This victory greatly boosted the morale of the Eastern Army for a long time, and then increased its efforts to attack the city.

However, without the help of the Ming army's artillery, their siege efficiency was limited and they did not make any greater progress for three consecutive days. However, this also made the Western Army exhausted and unable to attack, leaving enough rest for the Ming army.

Three days later, the Ming army completed the renovation, and Li You felt that the time was almost done, so he concentrated his cannons in his hand and launched a violent bombardment at the gate of Osaka Castle. He used the cover of artillery fire to dig tunnels under the walls of Osaka Castle and placed a huge amount of gunpowder.

Then, with a huge roar, the gate of Osaka Castle flew into the sky, and the solid wall cracked a huge gap. The Eastern and Western troops who woke up from the shock immediately rushed towards the gap, and a bloody battle began.
Chapter completed!