"You guys retreat! Just throw the fire bombs and rolling stones. Leave the troops who go up to the city to our Red Leaf Army!" Junji Mitsui didn't hesitate when he saw this. He immediately put down the iron cannon, gravel, and drew his knife to greet them.
Protecting Yosaburo and several other volunteers behind him, he rushed forward in one stride, closing the distance between himself and the Oda samurai, making it difficult for the Oda family iron gunners on the lookout to shoot. Looking at Mitsui Junji
With this heroic figure, Yosaburo felt an unprecedented peace of mind. This time he carried out the order without hesitation and rushed towards the box containing the calcined bombs in the chaos.
"You guys, come with me!" Seeing that there were still a few companions standing by the wall, Yu Sanlang immediately waved to greet them. Several volunteers woke up as if they were dreaming after Yu Sanlang shouted, and followed Yu Sanlang all the way.
They ran away. They brought back a dozen baking bombs and huddled against the wall - but now the problem came, they couldn't start a fire.
"That's probably how it's used..." Yosaburo picked up the flint that Mitsui Junji used to light the fire, rubbed it vigorously, and immediately ignited the fuse of the roasting bomb in his hand. He then quickly lit three more, and then
He and several volunteers each held one and watched the fuse gradually burn to the bottom. Then Yosaburo imitated Mitsui Junji's behavior just now and shouted: "Three, two, one, throw it away!"
The three volunteers followed Saburo and threw the baking bombs towards a lookout on the side. The four baking bombs lived up to expectations, three of them hit the target, and one landed just above the lookout, among the iron gunners, and exploded.
, all of a sudden the nearby Oda Army iron gunner was blown to pieces, and the observation deck immediately burst into flames.
"Well done!" Mitsui Junji, who was fighting on the side, saw the heroic performance of his subordinates and did not forget to encourage him. The Oda samurai opposite him was a little distracted because of the loss of his own observation tower, and his sword skills were messed up.
He was stabbed in the waist by Junji Mitsui, and then he kicked him down the city.
"Keep smashing!" Junji Mitsui shouted to Yosaburo as he met another Oda family warrior who climbed to the top of the city, "Command these people!"
"Yes!" Yosaburo responded loudly, and immediately led several volunteer companions to the corner where the wood and rolling stones were piled. Braving the arrows and projectiles that kept flying, they attacked the Oda troops who were climbing the city one by one.
The ground was smashed down. On top of the entire city, a small number of Red Leaf Army soldiers were brandishing swords and guns, fighting continuously with the Oda Army on the upper city, while the volunteers continued to attack the enemy troops on the lookout and ladders.
Some people fell during the shooting at the Oda family, but a steady stream of volunteers were still fighting with their own blood.
After throwing a papaya tree, Yosaburo looked carefully outside the city and was instantly startled by the sight in front of him. There were hundreds of ladders erected in the north city, and each ladder was covered with people holding papayas.
The enemy soldiers leaning against the flag were as dense as ants climbing a tree. However, the Yuqiu army at the top of the city had no intention of retreating even half a step, and forcibly limited the Oda family's offensive to the walls.
"We can hold it!" Yosaburo had this thought in his mind and took a moment to glance at the sun that was gradually moving towards the center.
However, at this moment, the roar suddenly sounded from the distance again. Before Yosaburo could recover, he saw countless small black dots suddenly appeared in his field of vision, flying towards where he was from where the smoke was rising.
Those small black dots grew larger and larger as they flew rapidly, gradually turning into spheres and heading straight towards the city. At this moment, gunpowder smoke and firelight also rose from a closer place, and countless smaller black dots
The dots fell like a curtain of rain towards the city.
"Lie down!"
Mitsui Junji's hoarse roar came to his ears, and Yosaburo instinctively hugged his head and lay down on the wall again. The moment before he knelt on the ground, he saw Yosaburo flying past him.
——He was trying his best to push the unresponsive gun crew leader to the ground. Yes, he said that the gunner’s life was more valuable than his own.
The next moment, the ground shook, the scene in front of him shook violently, and his body seemed to be shaken. His head buzzed, and his eyesight turned white and black. After waiting for stars in his eyes, Yosaburo finally recovered his senses and groped his way up.
After he got up, he discovered that the clothes all over his body were stained with blood, and the blood that covered his palms had accumulated on the wall where he pressed his hands.
He sat there blankly, taking a deep breath
It took a long time to gradually realize what had just happened - the Oda family's artillery team and the iron artillery team that stood densely in several rows under the city opened fire again. Even though there were so many Oda family soldiers at the top of the city and on the ladder, they still opened fire.
——Both armies fighting at the top of the city were blasted into a pulp without distinguishing between friend and enemy.
Yosaburo's breathing became panicked and rapid. He covered his mouth with his blood-stained hands and stared blankly at the hell on earth on the city wall. Almost all the soldiers from both armies who had been fighting just now fell beside the battlements, many of them
Their bodies were blown into pieces, including their squadron leader Junji Mitsui. Most of the hundreds of ladders that had been erected on the wall just now were also affected by the shelling and salvo, and countless Oda soldiers fell to the ground.
After getting off the ladder, I was hit hard on the sandbags filling the moat. Many people who were not dead yet were screaming for help.
Crazy...the Oda family is crazy.
The ladder resumed shaking again, which also brought Yosaburo back to his senses in the chaos - someone from the Oda army began to climb the ladder again! At the same time, countless ladders were pushed up. Even if they died all at once,
With many people, the Oda family still has an endless source of troops - but the Red Leaf Army does not!
Yosaburo searched in panic at the top of the city, trying to find a soldier of the Red Leaf Army, but he found that from Junji Mitsui down, all the soldiers of the Red Leaf Army were fighting against the enemy by the battlements, whether they were Nirvana Bei or the security forces.
Regardless of whether they were new recruits or veterans, they were all killed in the shelling just now, and there was no one left who could command...
The shaking of the ladder became more and more violent, and the Oda army was about to climb to the top of the city! Yosaburo gritted his teeth, picked up a rolling stone on the side, rushed forward, and smashed the stone down with a roar
: "For His Highness Hongye!"
But at the same time as he smashed the rolling stone, an Oda samurai jumped up on the ladder to his left, and immediately stared at Yosaburo himself. Yosaburo was instantly frightened, unable to move with fear, and watched him stab him.
Cut it up.
At this time, a figure suddenly flashed out of the diagonal stab, and stabbed the samurai to the ground with a fierce knife. After taking a closer look with Saburo, he found that it was the veteran who had taken care of them before. The right half of his face was covered with blood, probably
It was also affected by the shelling just now.
"Captain Mitsui has been killed in action. According to the command regulations, the 7th Squadron is now commanded by me, Goro Uchida!" Veteran Goro Uchida glanced at Mitsui Junji's body. Without any time to mourn, he yelled to everyone in the city who were stunned.
The volunteers ordered. "All the Hongye Army soldiers under the Seventh Squadron except me have died in the battle, and there is no cover! All the volunteers picked up their samurai swords and spears and started fighting to defend the city! Avenge the dead brothers!"
Avenge His Highness Hongye!"
"For His Highness Hongye!"
Uchida Goro's roar woke up the stunned volunteers. The corpses of their companions in front of them made their blood surge up one by one, and they all responded with a neat roar:
"For His Highness Hongye!"
Almost blinded by the blood, Yosaburo casually picked up a blood-stained samurai sword. Regardless of the fact that he had no martial arts skills, he rushed towards an ashigaru of the Oda family who had just climbed up the battlement. That one
He was still unheard of, and was caught off guard by Yu Saburo's sudden attack. He slipped and fell directly into the city.
"I killed someone!" Such a thought echoed in Yosaburo's mind. But at this time, he naturally did not have the leisure to feel pity for killing. He just had this feeling-killing didn't seem that difficult!
The volunteers at the top of the city suddenly rose up and fought with the new batch of Oda soldiers who boarded the city. However, no matter how courageous and determined they were, the gap in martial arts was still irreparable. The volunteers fell one by one.
At the top of the city, more and more Oda troops jumped on the towers of the entire North City. The Yuqiu family's defenders were gradually exhausted. Having lost so many Hongye troops and security forces who were the backbone and commanders, the fall of North City was no longer possible.
avoid.
Just when the city was on the verge of retreat, the reserve team sent by Yu Qiushang from the castle tower arrived in time. Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobushige led the elite Nirvana soldiers and ninjas to attack the city in a mighty manner.
"Brothers, hold on a little longer!" Sanada Nobushige shouted loudly while dancing the tachi in his hand vigorously, beating the Oda family samurai in front of him back steadily:
"His Highness is arranging the evacuation of the residents between Gonomaru and Shinomaru, and is also arranging the logistics team to move back to Shinomaru! We have to hold on here for a while! If we can't hold it here, the folks down there will be in danger.
It's over! Brothers, let's fight here! We'll die here!"
"For His Highness Hongye!"
After Sanada Nobushige yelled, countless volunteer soldiers, including Yosaburo, quietly glanced at the crowd of people hurriedly evacuating from the city. The logistics team was also divided according to residential areas, and there were the families of these volunteers on the city wall.
Sanlang knew that his mother, sister-in-law, and sister must all be there.
If you can't withstand it here, you can't protect your family. You have to die here!
"For His Highness Hongye!" The volunteers once again chanted in unison the sentence that has become a unified slogan. The few words seem to provide endless motivation. The ordinary people who are honest and responsible seem to be transformed at this moment.
Shura was like a fierce ghost, covered in blood, roaring and killing the Oda army in front of him.
At this moment, Yosaburo, his brother Yoshiro and two other companions, besieged an Oda family samurai who went up to the city. The samurai was so angry that he chopped down the two companions with two swords, and the dancing swords and flowers made him
It was difficult for Saburo and Erlang to get close. But at this moment, a volunteer soldier who was not dead suddenly used his hand to protect the foot of the Oda family warrior, and bit into the Achilles tendon. The Oda family warrior slipped in pain.
, Yosaburo and Yojiro immediately rushed to attack each other with a sword, but they were still blocked by the Oda family samurai. They stabbed Yojiro directly in the abdomen with their backhand.
"Second brother!" Yosaburo screamed in shock, but Yojiro refused. He firmly held the knife that the Oda family samurai stabbed into his abdomen with both hands. Even if it was dripping with blood, he would not let the samurai hold the sword.
Pulled it out. Yosaburo was already in tears at this moment, howling and roaring, and slashed at the samurai with his sword one after another. The samurai of the Oda family raised his hands to parry, and the armor on his arm was chopped off by Yosaburo's swords, leaving flesh and blood.
Fuzzy, he finally pulled out the knife. But at this moment, another volunteer soldier rushed over regardless of his own safety, hugging the Oda soldier to prevent him from swinging the knife. Yosaburo finally found the opportunity and cut the knife open.
After blood spurted out from the warrior's neck, the warrior was finally killed.
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At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had walked around a small hill in the northeast of the city, was observing the situation at the top of the northern city with a telescope. Behind him, Honda Masanobu was also holding a pair of telescopes.
"The Oda Army was really ruthless, letting the Otsutsuki and iron gunners fire indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe, even if it sacrificed countless people and the morale of the entire army, they still had to replace those Red Leaf Army soldiers who were the backbone at the head of the North City.
Almost half of the Red Leaf Army soldiers in the northern city are gone, and now only the common people are left." Honda Masanobu kept watching the bloody battle at the top of the city, and murmured in his mouth, "The Oda Army is
It succeeded. Now the North City is leaderless, and there are not many people with fighting experience left... But these people... are too brave. They obviously don't know how to fight, and it takes many casualties to replace an Oda family samurai, but
Still fighting to the death and refusing to retreat... I have only seen this kind of aura and fighting style from a follower of the Yiyi Sect."
"They are different from the followers of the Ichiki sect." Tokugawa Ieyasu put down the telescope and let out a long sigh.
"My lord, what do you mean?" Honda Masanobu asked while still looking at the city head intently.
"Members of the Uchichi sect are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of death." Tokugawa Ieyasu put the telescope back in his pocket and turned his head as if he couldn't bear to look at it any longer.
"How can these people be afraid of death? This is completely a life-for-life strategy..." Honda Masanobu shook his head in disapproval, "My lord, you are joking."
"They are all honest people. How can they not be afraid of death? They are just more afraid of losing their families and homes. After all, everything hard-won in this troubled world was given to them by Hongye. How can they watch helplessly
What if all this is taken away?"
Tokugawa Ieyasu sighed again and walked slowly down the hill. The calls of "For Momiji-sama" from the top of the city came in waves with the wind. Tokugawa Ieyasu understood that it was not just a slogan, but a slogan.
Chapter completed!