Seeing the Oda army disappearing like a tide, the Imagawa family's ashigaru cheered excitedly. Due to the cover of the Oda family's archers on the city wall, the Imagawa army was unable to pursue them.
Due to the fires in the North City and South City, the Oda Army has not invaded the city from these two sides until now.
"We did it!" Yu Qiuping shouted excitedly to the ashigaru, "We defended it!"
However, the good times did not last long. Not long after the Oda family's troops evacuated from the city, a large number of soldiers came up again, and this time they attacked from the North City, West City and South City at the same time.
"The fire is not out yet. What are they doing?" Although Yu Qiuping did not understand the movements of the Oda family, he still asked the troops to continue to defend according to the deployment method just now.
The first ones to board the city were the archers of the Oda family. They continuously attacked the castle tower and the post station where the janissaries were located on the castle tower, suppressing the archers and harpooneers and almost unable to raise their heads to fight back.
Yu Qiupei frowned, but it was acceptable. Under such circumstances, although the Imagawa family's archers could not shoot the Oda family's troops, the Oda family's archers also had no spare power to attack the Imagawa family's ashigaru.
However, the ashigaru who subsequently ascended the city did not kill the city wall as Yu Qiuping expected. The ashigaru in the west city rushed straight towards the north and south cities along the city wall. They did not hold bamboo guns in their hands, but shovels and wooden boards in their hands.
"Nani?" Yu Qiuping was confused for a while, "Are you trying to put out a fire? There is no soil on the city wall, so what are you doing with a shovel?"
However, the actions of the Oda family soon surprised him. The ashigaru of the Oda family rushed into the north and south walls regardless of the risk of being burned, and used shovels and wooden boards to remove the burning straw placed on the walls.
, wooden fences, horses and other flammable objects were pulled out vigorously, the movements were exaggerated. The burning flammable objects were thrown high and fell into the houses in the city.
"Clear the obstacles to put out the fire, is it necessary to make such a big move..." Yu Qiuping was curious and stared blankly at the actions of the Oda Army's Ashigaru, "This is for..." Yu Qiuping suddenly realized something, and his eyes suddenly opened.
Da, looked at the area of houses close to the city wall.
"Oops!" As Yu Qiuping roared, the houses close to the city walls on both sides had been ignited by flammable materials dropped by the Oda army, and the fire was gradually expanding. Some of Ogawa Yufuyu's soldiers who were originally ambushing in the house could not
Don't escape quickly in the billowing smoke.
At this moment, another group of auxiliary soldiers of the Oda Army appeared on the front wall. They were in groups, carrying small oil pans, either on the stairs or rushing down the stairs, pouring boiling oil into Chili Castle.
on the fortifications.
"Quick! Shoot those holding the oil pans!" Yu Qiuping realized that something was wrong when it was too late. The archers who reluctantly attacked knocked over two oil pans and burned many Oda troops, but he also
Many people were hit by the Oda family's archery team and were forced to stop.
As several torches were thrown into the city, not only the North City and Nancheng areas, but also the defenses near the West City were instantly ignited. The fire became bigger and bigger, and the rolling heat wave came directly towards the Imagawa family. The Ashigaru on the defense line
They were forced to retreat one after another, and several people were shot by the Oda family's archers on the way. After they finally escaped to the castle tower, half of the city was almost engulfed in fire.
"Oops, it's too much." Yu Qiuping was helpless at this moment. It was impossible to put out the fire. The fortifications he had worked so hard to build had been burned down. "Quickly, evacuate to the east city!"
Before he finished speaking, several Oda army ashigaru who rushed to the east city wall along the city wall took the lead in igniting the flammable materials on the east city wall, and the east city wall instantly burst into flames. The current Chiri Castle, South City, North City and West City walls are all
Occupied by the Oda family, a fire broke out on the east city wall. The Oda family continued to throw down flammable materials, igniting the east city area. But not only was there a fire in the west city area, there were also the Oda army on the wall.
Breaking through is no longer possible.
Who would have thought that he was burned to death in the end?
Yu Qiuping swallowed and covered his face in pain. The surrounding Ashigaru members of the Imagawa family also leaned in despair on the edge of the castle tower where there was no fire yet, and could only wait silently for death.
"No! We can't give up!" Yu Qiuping suddenly raised his arms and shouted, "Didn't we agree! Even if we are going to die, we will fight until the end!"
"Build an isolation belt!" Yu Qiuping thought of the forest fire prevention method he had learned before, "Tear down all the houses in a circle around the castle tower, and dig a trench! Get water from the well in the castle tower and pour it into the trench!
"
"Hurry up!" Yu Qiuping saw that everyone was still in a daze, so he picked up a hoe and rushed forward, "According to the formation of each team, act as quickly as possible."
The Imagawa Ashigaru tried their best to knock down every house they saw in front of them, and then they dug up the soil crazily behind them. Shovels, hoes, swords, and even bamboo guns were used to dig up the soil and pile it up inside the trenches.
The young men struggled hard despite the rolling heat waves and tongues of fire, sweat dripping down their faces and being instantly dried. The ashigaru who were fetching water rushed over one after another, splashed the water into the trench, and then ran back to fetch water again.
The trenches were dug wider and wider, and the trenches surrounding the castle tower had already taken shape. The flames were finally blocked from the knocked down houses and did not continue to spread.
At four o'clock, the flames were isolated five meters away from the castle tower. Counting the seriously injured, more than 200 survivors were hiding in the castle tower. Everyone poured water on themselves to resist the oncoming fire.
Heat wave. As for the seriously injured members of the Oda family, they could no longer take care of them. Many people died in the fire. Omaezaki Nakahide even threw Sasaki Masaji's coffin into the fire in a rage. However, the well water was suddenly flooded.
After using it a lot, he soon couldn't keep up. The thirsty Yoshioka Katsumasa ignored Ogawa Yufuyu's objection and snatched several bottles of wine from him and gave them to the ashigaru below to drink.
"Nine bottles of wine total 27 Wen, pay me back when the time comes!" Ogawa Yufu cursed.
"You drunkard is very sober now!" Yoshioka Katsumasa laughed, "When you finished drinking, you were so drunk that you couldn't even remember the price!"
"Whether you want to drink or not is entirely up to you." Nakahide Omaezaki said with a smile.
The chatting and laughing between the three people more or less eased the desperate atmosphere. Hearing that the Ashigaru Tomon was still discussing repaying the money later, the Ashigaru people also regained some confidence.
At this time, Oda Nobunaga, standing on the wall of the west city, looked with satisfaction at the whole city being gradually engulfed by fire.
"My lord, you have clever calculations and can defeat the enemy with fire." Nao Zhizheng on the side complimented, "I admire you very much."
"Humph, you don't even know who our lord is, and you still want to play tricks." Yoshiyuki Sawaki said with a smile. "Our lord set a fire under Qingzhou City ten years ago. That brat on the other side is nothing!"
"But Naame Akihei is really a talent." Oda Nobunaga said approvingly, "Even though the situation was so dangerous, he still responded calmly and saved the castle tower from being destroyed by the fire."
"Now this wall of fire has become an obstacle to us." Oda Nobunaga frowned, "Light a fire on the city wall, let the archers light their bows and arrows in the fire, and then shoot rockets at the castle tower in the city!"
As the Oda family began to throw rockets at the castle tower, the castle tower, which had been dried out, immediately burst into flames. However, there was not much water left, so the Ashigaru people had no choice but to use shovels to shovel the fire, or put out the fire with their clothes.
But the fire on the roof was really out of reach. It didn’t take long for the roof of the castle tower to collapse. The falling roof ignited the third floor of the castle tower. Rain Qiupei, who was exhausted, looked at the Oda family’s densely packed house.
The falling rockets and the fire on the third floor of the castle tower were getting bigger and bigger. I finally realized what despair was. I was very thirsty, hungry and tired, but there was no time to rest. I don’t know how many times my clothes had been wet with sweat.
Roasted dry by fire.
"Sir." Amano Jingtoku suddenly came to Yu Qiuping's side and whispered, "Sir, you can send an envoy to ask for surrender. The lives of me and the slaves are not important. Your Excellency is so talented and strategic that he should not die here like this."
"How is that possible?" Yu Qiuping grabbed Amano Keide's shoulder with his backhand and shouted in a low voice, "We agreed to live and die together! As long as this red leaf is still there, I will never leave you alone!
"
"Sir..." Amano Jingtoku looked stern, "Then it is not up to you to make the decision."
Yu Qiuping looked back and saw that Fukushima Yasunari, Yoshioka Katsumasa, Gomaezaki Nakahide, Ogawa Yufuyu, Charlie and his own soldiers had all gathered around him.
"Tie the master up, and then we tell the Oda family that you surrender, and we will come back to resist." Nakahide Omaezaki smiled evilly, "Mr. Amano, the foreign brother and the one-eyed brother, you have been taken care of for so many days.
Now, you don’t have to accompany us to death, let’s go together.”
"How dare you! You can't!" Yu Qiuping yelled, "Jianbingwei! Thompson! Don't mess around with them!"
"Sir, we don't have time!" Amano Keide looked at the burning fire and the rockets that kept falling, "We..."
At this critical moment, the rockets that had been falling suddenly stopped. The Imagawa Army Ashigaru seized the time to put out the fire immediately, and finally contained the fire.
Yu Qiuping looked at the city wall in surprise, and saw the Oda troops on the wall staring straight in the southwest direction. Many people shouted in surprise, and a few people raised their arms and pointed to the southwest, pulling the undiscovered people around.
companion.
Yu Qiuping quickly jumped up to a commanding height on the third floor of the castle tower and looked to the southwest.
I saw a flag flying high on a hill in the distance in the strong wind.
On the white flag, there is a big red bird flying.
"Red Bird Military Flag!" Amano Keide suddenly shouted excitedly, "That's the horse seal of the Governor's Hall!"
"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!" Nakahide Omaezaki shouted excitedly after reacting, wishing every ashigaru could hear it, "Our family governor is here in person! The end of the Oda family has come!"
The Imagawa Army, which was already at the end of its rope, suddenly escaped death. Many Ashigaru shouted excitedly with their thirsty throats. There were also many people who were speechless with joy and just kept waving their arms and hugging each other.
, jumping and celebrating.
At this time, on the wall of the West City.
"That's right...it's Yoshimoto's horse seal." Oda Nobunaga's face turned pale.
"Could it be that the enemy is bluffing? Putting up Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal to scare us?" Naomasa's voice was trembling, "Imagawa Yoshimoto is in Sunfu! How could he come so soon!"
"It's not important!" Oda Nobunaga suddenly became furious, "What did the horseback people do! Why do we let the enemy touch us under our noses without any reward!"
"That place..." Kawajiri Hidetaka suddenly realized, "it's the location of the camp we set up on the official road from Kariya Castle to Chiritsu."
"The Imagawa family's flag was erected there... and no one came back to report... It means that the dozen or so horseback cavalry who were scouting there have been wiped out." Kawajiri Hidetaka murmured, seeming a little unbelievable.