"Damn it! Get out of the way!" Yoshioka Katsumasa's anger rose as he listened to the unbearable curses on the city wall. He pushed away a Tokiwa Bei Ashigaru who was about to climb the ladder, and snatched from his hand the special equipment for attacking the city.
The shield made by him. As an ashigaru general, he has a katana that ordinary ashigaru don't have and can be hung on his waist, so climbing the ladder is easier for him. He didn't hesitate, holding the shield in front of him, hands and feet
Using them together, he climbed up the ladder slowly. His progress had far exceeded the speed of the other five ladders around him.
Shinmaru saw a strong red-leaf samurai climbing up quickly on the ladder next to him. He knew that he couldn't let him climb up like this. But he wanted to shoot with his head, but he couldn't suppress it.
The archers in the lookout. There is an extremely accurate archer on the side of Tokiwa Bei. His arrows are as deadly as ghosts. He has already shot two ashigaru heads and an ashigaru general to death. The archers at the top of the city.
He was so suppressed that he didn't dare to show his head.
However, seeing the samurai crawling faster and faster, Mahimaru gritted his teeth, stood up suddenly, and aimed an arrow at the samurai's shield! He had no time to observe the results of the battle and squatted down in a hurry. Almost at the same time,
Three feathered arrows passed over his head and hit the city brick one meter away from his feet.
"It's so dangerous..." Shinarimaru, who narrowly escaped death, let out a long breath. He quickly glanced at the ladder from the gap in the battlements, but was shocked. The samurai seemed not to be affected by the bow and arrow at all. The shield shield protecting his body was estimated to be
He had already inserted more than a dozen arrows, but he kept rushing forward and saw that he had already reached the edge of the city.
"We can't let him come up!" an ashigaru general next to Shinarimaru roared, "auxiliary soldiers! Where are the auxiliary soldiers! Hit him with rolling stones! Hit him!"
After he roared angrily, the few auxiliary soldiers hiding in the distance had no choice but to grit their teeth and carry the rolling stones to the city wall despite the rain of arrows. They understood that if they behaved cowardly on the city wall, the warriors had the right to do so.
Killed himself on the spot.
However, the three men carrying the rolling stones were immediately taken care of by the archery team. The archers on the lookout began to concentrate their firepower here. The three auxiliary soldiers fell down after being struck by arrows, and the rolling stones hit the city wall floor heavily.
With the help of inertia, he rolled to the edge of the battlement - right between Shinarimaru and the Ashigaru general, directly opposite the ladder.
The ashigaru general glanced at the red-leaf samurai who was getting closer, gritted his teeth, and suddenly put his hands under the rolling stone and began to exert force, slowly lifting the rolling stone to the height of the outer wall between the battlements. However, the urging god
The archer shot another arrow directly into General Ashigaru's chest. He spurted out a mouthful of blood and lost his grip on the rolling stone, leaning precariously on the wall.
Shinarimaru glanced at the ladder and saw that the samurai had almost rushed to the edge of the city wall! If he were allowed to rush up, he, an ashigaru holding only a bow and arrow, would definitely be dead! His survival instinct made him burst out with huge power.
He rushed to the rolling stone in one stride, held up the rolling stone with both hands, and pushed the rolling stone towards the ladder with a roar!
"Yu Qiuping! The traitor who killed a thousand swords! The traitor——!" He shouted loudly, as if he felt endless power pouring into his arms, and he pushed the rolling stone down the ladder heavily.
Die. He thought silently in his heart. He seemed to have seen the scene where the warrior was helplessly knocked down by the rolling stone and took several people behind the ladder down with him.
Then his roar suddenly stopped.
Because he clearly saw that the rolling stone stopped there motionless - in other words, the red leaf soldier was very close at hand, holding the rolling stone motionless with his shield.
Time suddenly became very slow, and the surroundings seemed to become very quiet. It was so quiet that Mahimaru could clearly hear his own heavy breathing, from weak to strong, and then to weak again.
Until that angry roar broke the short tranquility!
"Ah——!" Hearing Yoshioka Katsumasa's roar, he tried hard to resist the rolling stone. He suddenly stepped on the ladder and exerted force at the same time with his hands holding the shield. The top of the rolling stone flew out of the ladder and hit him hard.
On the ground below!
He took advantage of the momentum and jumped up to the top of the city. From a high position, he looked fiercely at the stunned Udono family archer - the archer who cursed his most beloved Highness!
"Shut your stinky mouth!" Yoshioka Katsumasa roared and drew the knife in his hand. While jumping off the wall, he stabbed the sharp samurai sword into Manimaru's throat! "No!
You humiliate my Highness like this!"
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Yu Qiuping watched the progress at the top of the city getting faster and faster, but he had mixed feelings in his heart. The defenders of Dagao City had been alone outside the border for many months, with no reinforcements outside. Their morale had long been low, and naturally they could not withstand the siege of the Oda family from all sides. The five enemies in front of him
Aerial ladders were set up, and three of them had already gained a foothold at the top of the city. Takigawa Kazumasu had even begun to arrange for archers to climb the ladders and enter the city in an attempt to suppress the resistance within the city.
Yu Qiuping watched his men continue to make progress, stabbing down one Imagawa army one after another... His heart was not only filled with joy, but also sadness. He did not want his troops to suffer losses, and he also hoped that the Imagawa family could defend the city or resist.
A little longer... because the loss of Odaka Castle means that all the breakthroughs made by the Imagawa family since the Imagawa Yoshimoto era will be in vain.
Watching Er Yinliang's military flags retreating at the top of the city, the maple leaf flag stood erect at the top of the city. Yu Qiuping looked at his listless Maple Bird Horse Seal hanging quietly in the windless weather, feeling extremely sad in his heart.
desolate.
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Sasaki Narimasa was mainly responsible for commanding the assault convoy this time. Due to the lack of troops in his family, he did not participate in the attack on the city. Instead, he led the auxiliary and combat soldiers, surrounded an assault vehicle, and was trying to drive away the south gate of Dagao City.
Gate. Since the Imagawa family's archers at the top of the city had been suppressed, and Rolling Stone and Sagi's main focus was on the ladder, Sasaki Narimasa was hardly disturbed. However, even so, he did not feel that he
He was able to break open the city gate before the Oda family troops at the top of the city came to kill them. Because Otaka Castle has been a stronghold of the Imagawa family for a long time, the city gate has been repaired many times, so it cannot be easily broken open.
However, even before Sasanagi Masa commanded the convoy to hit the door a few times today, the door was already a little loose. Sasanagi Masa was overjoyed and immediately asked his subordinates to increase their strength. However, before the ramming hammer knocked down the door,
On the way up, the city gate itself began to open slowly.
Although he didn't understand what happened, Sasaki Narimasa excitedly ordered his men to push the door forward, preparing to rush into the city first and win some achievements!
However, as soon as the city gate opened, more than a dozen ashigaru from the Imagawa family knelt down at the door, and two people fell in a pool of blood next to them. "My lord! Your lord! We surrender!" the Ashigaru shouted in all directions.
: "Please, sir, save our lives!" "Those reckless guys still wanted to resist the Oda family, but we have already killed them!" "Youngster, you surrender sincerely! Sir, spare your life!"
It could be seen that there were probably more than a dozen Imagawa Ashigaru who wanted to surrender to the Oda family, so they opened the city gate as a credit in the hope of being forgiven. Sasaki Narimasa had no time to talk to them, "Go out of the city yourself! Find our lord!"
He is still eager to enter the city to grab the credit! However, these dozen people have contributed to the opening of the city, so they probably will not be demoted as slaves. If Oda Nobunaga is in a good mood, he might even let them go.
river.
With the fall of the south gate, the defense of Dagao Castle completely collapsed. Uden Chang, who was originally commanding the north gate, realized that the situation was over and led his men back to the castle tower to continue fighting. The west city, east city, and north city fell successively, and a large number of people were killed.
The surrounded Imagawa family Ashigaru surrendered. Uden Nagateru did not have enough troops to defend the Honmaru and retreated directly to the castle tower. The Oda family took only one morning to capture the Ninomaru and Honmaru of Otaka Castle without any blood and began to besiege the castle tower.
Pavilion.
Generally speaking, a siege battle is basically settled once the city wall has fallen. Very few people can survive the enemy's attack with the help of the barbican, honmaru or castle tower - not to mention Uden Nagateru doesn't even have reinforcements.
There will be.
However, the battle in the afternoon became extremely difficult. The Imagawa family has been continuously reinforcing Otaka Castle in the past few years, and the castle tower has also been built to be impregnable. Not only are there winding corridors and stairs, the Oda family, who are not familiar with the terrain, have
It was miserable. There were also many traps and shooting holes that were obviously designed for combat, which caused a lot of trouble to the Oda family. And there were about a hundred Imagawa Ashigaru who resisted in the castle tower, and most of them were also
Loyal people. The unsteady Ashigaru had surrendered long ago. Those who were willing to follow Uden Nagateru into the castle tower to resist were die-hard samurai or Ashigaru who had followed Uden Nagateru for generations. These people fought to the death.
They refused to retreat and almost sacrificed their lives to protect the important ground in the castle tower. Uden Nagateru also took the lead many times and rushed to the front line to kill the enemy with his subordinates, which greatly boosted the fighting spirit of the Imagawa army.
In the meantime, a nephew of Uden Nagateru, who also personally led four or five samurai who dared to die, suddenly jumped out of the second floor window of the castle tower and went straight to the location of Oda Nobunaga Main, who was commanding nearby.
Oda Nobunaga was caught off guard and was almost killed on the spot. It was only thanks to the fierce fighting of Maeda Toshiie and other horse soldiers that he was able to turn the corner. However, Oda Echizen Mamoru and Yamaguchi Hida Mamoru among the Akamon Clothes were unfortunately killed, which made Oda Nobunaga
I was heartbroken. After two hours of fierce attack on the Oda family, they were still fighting in the stairwell between the first and second floors, and they were still far away from the third floor.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, if the castle tower was not taken down by sunset, things would be very troublesome. Oda Nobunaga then ordered his subordinates to attack the castle tower in turn, without giving Uden Nagatora a chance to rest. In the morning, Yu Qiuping had already
Relying on the merit of being the first to land on the city, he proved that he was completely separated from the Imagawa family. Ame Akihei, who won the trust of the Oda family, was also sent to rotate the lineup to attack the castle tower.