Chapter 1297: Black City, Cold Mist, Ice Beauty, Death
Noda Castle, which was expanded on the original site, consists of two parts, namely the new town and the old town.
The old city is the ruins that were completely destroyed by the Takeda army in the Battle of Noda Castle. It is located in the center of Noda Castle.
The new city was built on the dilapidated original site and expanded 200 meters outward. The veteran engineer then designed it according to the plan given by Liu Shiba.
Finally, the Takeda family mobilized the surrounding people, spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and used advanced firing technology to burn black mud bricks and pile up the tall outer walls.
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In the middle area of Noda Castle, where the original site was burned to ruins, there was a lot of noise all night long, and the heavy noise was so frightening that people couldn't breathe.
Meng Tianfang led a guard of forty people and quickly shuttled between the ruins, searching...
In addition, in some specific areas of the new city, there are Takeda Ashigaru troops responsible for guarding the city, and they are also looking everywhere!
The people living in the outer new city area are actually auxiliary soldiers recruited from the Takeda Kai area and the villages surrounding Noda Castle.
Auxiliary soldiers generally do not participate in direct combat, so there are both men and women, and the proportion of women among them is not small, even exceeding the proportion of men in the total number of auxiliary soldiers.
These are still essentially auxiliary soldiers for the common people. Their duties are to make weapons and armor, collect food and grass, and make military rations and meals. The Takeda family will give them rewards or food.
However, there will be exceptions under special circumstances!
If the defenders of Noda Castle are attacked by a strong attack that is difficult to withstand, both civilians and auxiliary soldiers will be driven to the city wall and participate in the battle like regular troops!
The responsibility of guarding the territory and protecting the family is related to the amount of resources obtained, and even the life and death of the ethnic group. War caused by territorial resources does not distinguish between men and women!
In Noda Castle, there are more than 6,000 auxiliary soldiers belonging to the Takeda family, which is a very large number!
It can be thought of that, considering the weapons and ammunition consumed by tens of thousands of troops fighting a war, this number of people is actually not that much...
As for these auxiliary soldiers, they are only responsible for the casting process of weapons, ammunition, and armor, and the food and grass Liu Shiba is not counted on them!
Because one of Liu Shiba’s strategies for Maori Katsunaga is to be self-sufficient and support war with war!
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This day was the political review meeting held by the head of the Takeda family of Noda Castle, and the day when the generals went into battle under the command of General Mori Katsunaga.
Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers who are temporarily staying in the new area of Noda Castle are granted permission to take a rest for a day!
During the day, it was just fine. The various echoing roars and slogans did not disturb the tired auxiliary soldiers who were sleeping soundly.
And by the time the army raised their flags and marched into battle, it was almost dark!
But at night, the auxiliary soldiers huddled in the brick houses, staring with frightened eyes, trembling all over...
They were all frightened and had never seen such a terrifying sight...
The entire Noda Castle was shrouded in thick clouds!
All the auxiliary soldiers did not dare to stay at the door for a moment as long as they were panting!
The entire Noda Castle is filled with an invisible evil spirit!
The source of the evil spirit was the forty or fifty personal guards led by one of Takeda's lord Shiba Takeda's fierce generals.
Those guards wearing blood-red armor, like tireless evil spirits, searched the ruins of Noda Castle all night long, creating an extremely huge momentum...
The personal guards formed by the Death Soldier Legion are all burly men with cold and ferocious expressions and bright red facial armor, but they cannot stop the indifference among them. Who among the auxiliary soldiers dares to stop them?
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Noda Castle New Castle has a huge three-story arrow tower building on the outer city wall.
The tower is similar to the tower on the ancient Chinese city wall. It uses huge logs as beams. The rough surface is not the key. The key is that this tower is absolutely sturdy and durable!
Standing on the tower, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Noda Castle and the surrounding scenery outside the city, as well as the geography and landforms of about ten miles in radius.
The tower corresponds to the only gate of Noda Castle, and outside the gate, for the first time, there is an extra urn that is nearly one-third shorter than the main city wall.
The construction method of the urn city draws on the protruding style of the octagonal cornices. Every two protruding cornices can clearly be observed between the two cornice walls of the urn city, forming a pincer attack.
Both the urn city and the main city are about seven meters thick. The urn city is 20 meters high, and the main city wall is 30 meters high. Four or five cavalry can ride side by side on it.
Riding a horse from one end of the city wall, patrolling in a battle situation, and running around the wall in less than three minutes!
It doesn’t matter that Noda Castle New Town is dilapidated, but its walls and height are the leading architectural methods of the contemporary era.
Thirty meters high and seven meters thick, it is not large enough for a fast passage for war horses, which undoubtedly greatly improves the defense capabilities of Konoda Castle.
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At the highest point of the city wall, narrow iron cannon shooting holes and a considerable number of long-armed iron hooks were reserved to repel ladders, flying claws and other climbing equipment.
Between the shooting holes, there is a light position recessed into the thick wall every five or six meters to prevent wind and rain.
As long as an open fire is lit late at night, the entire city wall is brightly lit, and it is difficult for a samurai with superb ninja detection skills to climb to the top of the city silently.
This style is a defensive architectural symbol that many cities in ancient China had.
The architectural style of the urn castle in front of you was borrowed by the famous general in history, Sanada Yukimura, in Osaka Castle, and was called "Sanada Maru."
Sanada Yukimura built the barbican castle in this way and defeated Tokugawa Ieyasu's First Battle of Osaka Castle in one fell swoop.
At this time, the tall city wall of Noda Castle had already been lit with lights, illuminating the expressway on the upper level of the wall like daylight!
Patrolling back and forth on the city wall were three hundred ashigaru who were specially left to guard the city.
These three hundred people were organized into a city guard by Liu Shiba and were temporarily placed under Solanta's control.
Solanta, on the other hand, was very free and easy. Among the three hundred ashigaru, she directly found an ashigaru who was very clever in marksmanship and became the leader of the city guard!
The clever ashigaru leader predicted that the Takeda family would march in all directions tonight and there would be no accidents at night, so he boldly divided the three hundred ashigaru into fifteen squads!
Each of the twenty-man squads was led by a low-level military commander and two Ashigaru small hatmotos.
Fifteen teams patrolled Noda Castle every hour, and twelve of them patrolled Noda Castle around the clock.
The three extra ashigaru teams will become mobile troops to defend the city. When there is no fighting, they will take turns to rest with the patrol team.
These three hundred ashigaru defenders were stationed nearby under the walls of the city. A small team camp was stationed at the gate of Noda Castle, and a team camp was stationed on each side of the city wall.
Under the last section of the city wall, which echoes the gate of Noda Castle, there is also a team of ashigaru squads stationed for the day's rotation.
Noda Castle was built into an extremely strong city defense structure by veteran drivers among Liu Shiba and his group, Li Ergou, Solanta and others.
At least, in this era at that time, the thirty-meter-high city wall must have been a behemoth, so it is not enough to say it is strong, it should be said to be breathtaking!
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In the middle of the three-story Noda Castle tower, amid the morning mist, three people could be vaguely seen, one sitting and two standing...
At this moment, the black city, humans, wasteland, and morning fog seem to be monsters spawned in silence, giving off a gloomy smell...
It's - chilling!
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