In the early morning of July 30, Yu Qiuping finished dressing up early. After breakfast, he began to patrol the city.
After all, it was his first time to go into battle. Nervous, excited, guilty, and worried, he squinted for a while in a daze all night. But just like when he took the high school entrance examination, no matter how much insomnia he had, because he was about to encounter a big event,
The spirit can still be highly concentrated. The troops have been prepared according to the newly issued defense map in the morning.
The location of Chirit Castle is on the east side of the official road. Therefore, Yu Qiuping did not leave any troops at the east gate. Because if the Oda army wanted to attack from the east gate, it would have to go around Chirit. So
It took a long time for Yu Qiuping to find problems and adjust the deployment.
At the north gate, west gate, and south gate, Yu Qiupei arranged the teams of Fukushima Yasunari, Omaezaki Nakahide, and Yoshioka Katsumasa to defend. 45 people spread out on the 100-meter wall seemed a bit thin. For this reason, Yu Qiupei
Ogawa Yutong's team was left in the castle as a reserve team ready to reinforce each city wall. Yu Qiuping remembered that Napoleon once said that no matter what, sufficient reserves must be left. For this reason, he also sent Charlie and
More than thirty of his archers stayed in the castle tower. Now, the Ashigaru were busy moving rolling stones and wood onto the city walls. There were several large pots standing on each city wall, and boiling oil was boiling in them.
.Torches and flints for making fire were also prepared beside the city wall.
When Yu Qiupei was about to take command, he realized that he did not have a flag. So Omaezaki Nakahide found a huge red tablecloth from somewhere, tied it to a wooden pole, and erected it in the castle tower. Even if Yu Qiupei
The general's flag has been raised.
The horsemen and cavalrymen began to move along the official road at about 4:00 a.m., but no cavalrymen approached to investigate Zhili Castle. Maybe they thought it was not worth investigating.
After a while, when the stone rolling was almost completed and the Ashigaru were resting on the city wall, some small black spots seemed to be moving on a small hill far away from the official road.
"Here we come." Yu Qiuping swallowed and tried to take a deep breath to calm down. The crow on Amano Jingde's shoulder screamed a few times, not knowing what it was expressing.
At three o'clock in the morning, those small black figures finally appeared in Yu Qiuping's field of vision. They were a group of Ashigaru with about 200 people, and there were more than a dozen horse-riding warriors in the formation. They were about 30 meters away from Chili Castle.
About 10 miles.
The castle tower where Yu Qiupei is located is about 10 meters high. If calculated using the radius of the earth and the Pythagorean theorem, it is estimated that it can be seen for more than ten miles, and maybe you can directly see the Oda family's camp in Okezama. However,
, on this official road, there is a small hill that blocks the view. The place where the Oda family's troops appeared just now is this small hill.
When the troops got closer, Yu Qiuping could see the flags of the troops. Except for a large flag with a papaya pattern, the flags on the backs of the Ashigaru were another family crest that Yu Qiuping had never seen before.
pattern.
"It's the Takigawa family." Amano Keidei squinted his eyes for a while before coming to the conclusion, "The head of the family is Takigawa Kazumasu, a samurai who was born as a ninja. He is best at strategizing and is also a famous general of the Oda family.
"
"Send the order, the whole army is on alert." Yu Qiupei ordered to the lord guard, who immediately arranged for the order soldiers to go to each city wall. This Takigawa Kazumasushi is the one Yu Qiupei often sees in the "Nobunaga's Ambition" series of games.
The famous generals who arrived have very good general and resourcefulness statistics, and are also good at iron cannons, which are Chinese matchlock guns.
Thinking of his first battle, and having to fight against such a famous general in Japanese history, Yu Qiuping couldn't help but feel guilty. But then, he also came up with an excuse to comfort himself, "These people will have to grow up for many years before they can become
Famous generals are not that powerful now." Yu Qiuping murmured to himself, "That Taige Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who would frighten Japan in the future, is now just a little attendant carrying straw sandals."
"Ah! Ah sneeze!" A low-level ashigaru with short stature and ugly face suddenly sneezed in Okehazama.
"Monkey, what's wrong? How can you be an ashigaru in the Oda family if you are so weak?" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly.
"Please make atonement, my lord!" Kinoshita Tokichiro knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times. "I don't have any cold. I just thought that my lord's reputation would be spread throughout Mikawa, and I got a little excited, so I sneezed!
"
"Huh, you can talk." Oda Nobunaga had no intention of embarrassing him, "Help me hold the straw sandals."
At eight o'clock in the morning, the troops of the Takigawa family had slowly approached the castle. They left the official road in the northwest of Chirit Castle and went straight to the north gate of Chiri Castle. Yu Qiuping could already clearly see the outline of the team on the castle tower.
And the number of people there is indeed only about 200, and there are no auxiliary soldiers, all soldiers wearing armor come in person.
"Maybe it's because it's only a dozen miles away anyway, so there's no need for the auxiliary troops to follow." Yu Qiuping made a judgment.
"Sure enough, we didn't bring any siege equipment." Fukushima An, who was guarding the North City, felt reassured. "Who would have thought that we adults could actually repair the city gate in just half a day."
At this time, there was a slight commotion among the Takigawa Army under the castle. The burned castle towns on both sides were completely changed beyond recognition, exuding the unique smell of burned ruins, which was particularly annoying. The Ashigaru were originally attacked by the horse soldiers who returned last night.
I was told that Zhili City was a small city defended by only more than two hundred slaves with little fighting ability, and the northern city gate had collapsed in half. They only needed to go up the slope, and then there would be an easy massacre.
However, what greeted them at this moment was the repaired north gate, and the energetic Ashigaru at the top of the city. Everyone had a red leaf on their helmets. Surprisingly, there were no pillows on their backs.
flag.
"What does this mean?" Takigawa Yiyi frowned, stroking a tuft of mustache on his chin with his left hand. "Send the order, call the people in black women's clothes over there."
After a knight on horseback galloped away, not long after, several of the Oda family's cavalrymen who were cruising on the official road left the team and went to join the Takikawa family's queue.
"Lord Sasa, what's going on?" Takigawa Kazumasa glared at Sasaki Narimasa who was coming over, and pointed at the north gate wall of Chiri Castle from a distance, "The information that Ma Zouzhong gave me yesterday was that the north gate
The gate wall has collapsed."
"Lord Takigawa, you're not very polite." Sasana Narimasa glanced at Takigawa Kazumasuke's team and responded without any sign of weakness, "We can't attack the city without bringing siege equipment. Just spread your anger on others casually.
On your body?"
Takigawa Kazuki's eyebrows were about to twist into a knot, and his eyes seemed to be on fire, "Information errors, missed fighter opportunities, do you know what a crime this is?"
"It's not that I missed the opportunity to fight!" Sasaki Narimasa pointed in the direction of Okehazama, "I just came to change my shift last night. The ones who conveyed the information were Lord Hidetaka Kawajiri and Lord Naomasa Maki. If Takikawa-sama has any dissatisfaction,
, you can talk to them."
Takigawa Kazumasu took a deep breath and calmed down, "I wrongly blamed Sasa-sama just now." He said.
"Hmph," Sasaki Narimasa snorted, "I don't dare to take it seriously. Lord Takigawa, I only know how to report it truthfully and don't know anything else."
"In this case, the siege has to be postponed." Sasaki Narimasa said, "My lord has already built some siege equipment in Okezama to conquer Anxiang Castle and Okazaki Castle. We are waiting for the auxiliary troops.
Just transport them here..."
"No need." Takigawa Kazumasu suddenly interrupted Sasanagi Masa. "With just 200 of my men, we can capture Chiryu."
"Oh?" Sasana Narimasa looked at Takigawa Kazumasa mockingly, "Are you kidding me? Without siege equipment, you can't even enter the city. Do you want to use a knife to open the city gate?"
"No." Takigawa Kazumasu ignored Sasaki Narimasa's sarcasm, but stretched out his hand and pointed to the ruins of a burned castle town. "Did you see that there?" Takigawa Kazumasu said in a low voice.
, as if afraid of being heard by the Imagawa soldiers at the top of the city, "There is a huge beam there that has not been burned and can be used as a battering ram."
"Although they built the north gate wall, the gate of Zhili City itself has been in disrepair for a long time. It cannot be repaired anyway, so we just knocked the gate open."
"It's not that easy." Sasana Masagi smiled, "My lord just took out the rafters in front of the defenders and then hit the city gate. The people inside the city had already blocked the back of the city gate."
"No." Takigawa Ichimasu smiled slightly, "Just use the trick. There must be capable people in the city who can repair the city wall in half a day. Then their whole city must be complacent because of this matter," Takigawa Ichimasu looked at the city wall with pride.
They laughed at the red leaf soldiers of the Oda family who did not bring siege equipment, and they made noises from time to time.
At this time, on the city wall, the Ashigaru members of the Imagawa family were mocking the Oda family downstairs.
"Haha, Owari guys, climb up if you dare!" An Ashigaru pressed his hands on the wall and shouted excitedly.
"Come on! Come on! Attack the city! I didn't expect us adults to build the wall in one day!" Another ashigaru shouted while waving his arms excitedly, causing the people around him to cheer.
Fukushima Yasunari looked at everyone's excitement. Although he felt something was wrong, he did not stop it and just smiled from the side. After all, he himself was immersed in pride.
"They will focus too much on the city wall they have just worked hard to repair, thinking that they can only enter the city by climbing over the city wall, and ignore the city gate. This will cause them to underestimate the enemy and cause them to relax until we come to attack the city.
Equipment." Takigawa Kazumasu continued. "Before this, they wouldn't even focus on defense."
On the city wall.
"Sir, what are we still doing here? We were so tired yesterday and didn't even get a good rest," an ashigaru complained to Fukushima Yasunari. "Before the Owari guy brought the ladder, we couldn't climb up at all. We are accompanying them.
What’s the use of wasting it?”
"Yes, yes, sir," another ashigaru took over, "it's better to let everyone take a good rest and conserve their strength so that they can be strong again, right? In the past, didn't you have to have a good rest before fighting bandits? .”
"This needs to be done after asking Mr. Yu Qiu for instructions," Fukushima Yasunari called the messenger and passed the order to request a rest to Yu Qiu Ping. The Ashigaru on the wall were already gathering in twos and threes to rest together as a matter of course.
Takigawa Yiyi chuckled, "Next, I need the help of Ma Huizhong." He pointed to the direction as he said, "We will find the beam quietly. In order not to attract attention, we need adults When I got to the south of the city, I suddenly approached the city wall and harassed the Imagawa army. As soon as their attention was distracted, I rushed straight to the city gate, knocked open the dilapidated wooden door in one fell swoop, and stormed into the city!"
"My lord, this is a great idea. I was disrespectful earlier." Sasaki Narimasa bowed his hand and left to prepare. Takigawa Kazumasashi also carefully directed the troops to approach the beam.
However, the cheerful Imagawa troops on the city wall were completely unaware of the changes in front of them.