Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 1022 Enemies 8
"One day after the official general offensive was launched, two city walls were demolished..."
In the early morning of June 15, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was standing at the top of Shinomaru Castle, looked uneasily at the streets where fierce fighting had broken out, but he became increasingly worried:
"Go-no-Maru is the city wall with the most complete defensive facilities. The deeper you go inside, the weaker the defensive performance becomes. If Go-no-maru and Shi-no-maru are broken through in one day, the remaining walls may not be able to hold up for long.
Ah... the earliest the Red Leaf Army can arrive is June 17th, so it will take June 18th to actually launch a relief operation... The remaining city wall can't hold up for three days at all."
"There are too few soldiers. One less person will die. The Oda family's fighting style that does not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy is really vicious... No matter how brave the common people who lack combat experience are, they are no match for the regular army. Hasn't it been proven by Ichigo Mune? As long as the army
Regardless of casualties, coupled with so many artillery, it is impossible to withstand it anyway. That is an army of 400,000 people... To be honest, it is surprising that Maple Leaf Mountain City can rely on more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians to resist for two days.
Already."
Tokugawa Ieyasu frowned and pinched his knuckles, and began to think about how to establish contact with the Yuqiu family defenders in the city and cover their retreat.
"We can take down the honmaru today, and then set fire to the castle at night. This battle will be won. Just use the lord's tactics. I don't know how to lose!" Kawajiri Hidetaka from Beicheng was more confident, patting his chest.
Face boasted, "Gonomaru and Ninomaru have only been fighting for one day. The three Maru, Ninomaru, and Honmaru add up to give them one day. Isn't it interesting enough?"
Kawajiri Hidetaka's words caused a burst of laughter from Hōya Yorōtaka, Kanamori Nagakon and others. It was the Uqiu family defenders who were laughed at by them, and they were currently engaged in a life-and-death struggle in the streets and alleys.
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Veteran Goro Uchida was currently in a neighborhood near Shinomaru, where he was hiding behind and commanding his subordinates to fight and retreat, delaying the Oda army's attack. To be honest, he was very unaccustomed to this kind of fighting method.
He started following Yu Qiupei during the Owari period. Whether as a private, squad leader or platoon leader, he always led his companions by example. He also always believed in one thing: "Follow me" is always more valuable than "Follow me".
Can boost the morale of subordinates.
However, at the temporary assessment meeting last night, Yu Qiu Shang was present in person and repeatedly told all the Hongye Army soldiers in the city to pay attention to controlling casualties. Only then did Uchida Goro know that not only the North City where he was located had suffered an indiscriminate attack,
The same style of play was used in Xicheng and Nancheng. The Oda Army was obviously deliberately launching an attack against the Hongye Army soldiers, even if it had to suffer several times the casualties. More than 15,000 Hongye Army soldiers and garrison troops, in one day
More than half of them were damaged in the battle. Among them, the 1,200 Nirvana soldiers who served as the core commanders suffered 700 casualties. When Goro Uchida looked around the venue, he realized that this was not an exaggeration at all - many Nirvana soldiers could still be seen yesterday.
All the old faces have disappeared today.
If the battle losses continue like this, the soldiers of the Red Leaf Army will soon be exhausted. By then, the hundreds of thousands of volunteers in the city will be completely unable to command and become a mess.
"For His Royal Highness Hongye." Goro Uchida muttered these words silently in his heart, and what Yu Qiu Shang said at the meeting, "We must also live.
, commanding until the end.”
"Sir, several people rushed in from the west warehouse!" When Uchida Goro was thinking about this, Yosaburo suddenly pushed the door in from outside the room, with a lot of blood on the long knife in his hand, "They are all very powerful.
Samurai! We can't handle it!"
If it were in the past, Goro Uchida would have shouted "Okay, I'll be there right now" without hesitation. But now, he could only awkwardly wave his hand to the soldiers of another team, gesturing for them to follow him for support.
At the same time, he ordered the team in the dormitory on the other side to move back a little to avoid getting dumped.
However, as the shouts of killing in the west warehouse got closer and closer, Goro Uchida realized that his men were being beaten back steadily. And from time to time, one or two muffled groans or screams came, which was even more...
It made Uchida Goro's heart twitch with pain. Finally, he could no longer bear to sit back and watch, but drew the knife in his hand and rushed towards the warehouse quickly.
However, as soon as he left the door of this house, his sense of smell from many years of fighting immediately made him realize that something was wrong. He suddenly jumped forward and then rolled forward. Almost at the same time, gunshots rang out beside him, and followed behind him.
One of the volunteers was shot down. Uchida Goro crawled and hid behind the wall next to the warehouse. Looking at the bodies of his men lying on the street, he clenched his fists bitterly - this street had been filled with people just now.
The team was already there, but the ambush sniper never fired - he just discovered that there were soldiers of the Hongye Army commanding the house, so he would rather let go of so many shooting targets than snipe himself.
"What is the squadron over there doing? I haven't noticed a sniper here for so long." Goro Uchida cursed the squadron on the left block and rushed towards the warehouse quickly. At the entrance of the warehouse, ten
Several volunteers are struggling to resist the attack of three Oda samurai. They can only parry but not fight back. The three men are well-equipped and have superb sword skills. Judging from Uchida Goro's many years of combat experience, they are probably the lord of the city.
Although he was not a member of the flag team, he still waved his sword to meet them without hesitation.
"Bunsuke, Yosaburo, hit his legs!" Goro Uchida used his sword to deflect the blow of the Oda family samurai on the far right, and shouted to Bunsuke, Yosaburo and his son. The volunteers who just didn't know how to fight back just now
With the command, there was a backbone in an instant, and he stabbed the samurai with two or three swords. The samurai was forced to retreat continuously. Goro Uchida took advantage of the situation and stabbed him forward with one lunge, but was blocked by the block of another Oda family samurai.
Well, the blade only scratched the samurai's leg.
"Tch..." Goro Uchida spat, cursing in his heart, "If you were more than ten years younger, you would have died just now..."
"There is a samurai here!" The Hatamoto of the Oda family who was staggering back across from him reacted and immediately shouted towards the door, "A samurai from the Red Leaf Army!"
"What the hell..." Uchida Goro cursed and slashed with his sword again, "Is your Oda family so embarrassed? You scream when you see a samurai? You Oda samurai can only bully us common people.
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However, the three Oda samurai in front of them had no intention of responding to the enemy. Instead, they all ran towards the edge of the warehouse and opened the door behind them. Uchida Goro suddenly realized that there was probably another person in the direction of the door.
Oda family
The iron gunner! He hurriedly took a lunge to the left and pulled his body to a place that almost overlapped with the three Oda family samurai. He wanted to make the shooting Oda family iron gunner throw a rat weapon - he thought too much. There was an instant sound outside the door.
With three roars, Uchida Goro and the few Oda samurai in front of him were not concentrated by a long shot. In order to kill the Red Leaf Army, the iron gunners of the Oda clan did not regard their own samurai as human beings at all...
However, these three projectiles did not hit Goro Uchida, but one shot hit the leg of a volunteer soldier who was caught off guard. He wailed and fell to the floor facing the door. At this time, the three fifty and fifty members of the Oda family
The dozen or so volunteers led by Uchida Goro were hiding on the edge of the warehouse, where the snipers outside the door could not shoot. However, the volunteer fell in the distance, struggling in a pool of blood, and stretched towards Uchida Goro.
He took action and wailed for help, "Sir! Help me!" However, Goro Uchida knew that he would be sniped once he appeared in the sight of the opponent's iron gunner, so he had to freeze in place for a while.
Seeing the opportunity, the two Oda samurai whose thighs had not been scratched just now immediately raised their swords and rushed towards the volunteer soldier who fell on the ground. The volunteer soldier was at a loss and just screamed desperately waiting to die. At this critical moment of life and death,
, Uchida Goro's body moved involuntarily, and he rushed towards the volunteer without any explanation, exposing himself to the iron gunner's shooting range. While he stabbed one of the Oda samurai with his sword, he rounded it with his left hand.
He moved his fist and hit the two Oda samurai almost instantly. However, at this moment, the three iron cannons outside the door opened fire at the same time, knocking Uchida Goro and the two Oda samurai down in a pool of blood.
"Sir!" Wensuke, Yosaburo and others were horrified when they saw this, but the consecutive days of fighting had made them less panicked. Even if the captain was knocked to the ground, they did not lose their bearings, but swarmed up and hacked him to death.
The injured Oda samurai in front of him quickly pulled Uchida Goro and the remaining volunteer to a safe place while the iron gunner was reloading.
Yosaburo hurriedly leaned over to check Uchida Goro's injuries, only to find that the projectile had hit his abdomen directly, blood was trickling out, and it looked like he was dead.
"Funsuke..." Goro Uchida, who was on his deathbed, did not forget to perform his last duty. He looked at Fuzuke who had just hacked to death the Oda family samurai, "You will take over the liaison and command of the Seventh Squadron... During the meeting in the evening
, go with the people from the Sixth Squadron, he will lead you."
"Sir!" All the subordinates burst into tears, but the Oda family soldiers' cry "There is a Yuqiu family warrior in the warehouse" also sounded outside the door, and then there was a burst of footsteps from a distance.
Sound - someone is coming.
"Leave me alone, retreat to the house, the terrain is good there." Goro Uchida drove away his subordinates without any explanation, and then Kanran met his final moment in the sound of approaching footsteps.
"Stay alive...control the casualties...I'm sorry, young master, I couldn't fulfill this order. There are no veterans to command the 7th Squadron now...Damn it, this is the most difficult thing I have ever received in all the years of following His Highness Hongye.
Order..." Goro Uchida finally coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood and complained with slander in his heart: "We in the Red Leaf Army... never watch our brothers die, we are always used to standing in the front..."