On November 20, the seventh year of Tensho (1579), the Oda army launched its first attack on Ishiyama Gobo Castle. Under fierce artillery fire, the auxiliary soldiers each carried a sandbag and began to rush towards the moat.
Lai Lian of the lower class is currently on the north city wall of Ishiyama Imperial House, resisting the attack of the Oda army.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, get up and shoot!" After one round of shelling, Lai Lian immediately called to the monks and soldiers to raise their iron cannons and fire. "They had at least 200 breaths between the two rounds of shelling. We had time to fire two shots."
Come on! Fight!”
The iron gunners stood up, raised their iron cannons, and fired at the unprotected auxiliary soldiers below the city. The auxiliary soldiers were knocked to the ground by random shots, and the sandbags they were carrying fell beside the bodies.
After Shimo Lai Lian fired two rounds, he immediately crouched down and hid behind the wall. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Oda family's artillery team to open fire. However, their aim was very poor, and only a few shells hit the city wall.
, and immediately killed a dozen believers.
However, in a pool of blood, the fighting spirit of the surviving believers was still very high. They chanted the Buddha's name and used the inferior weapons in their hands - soft bows, javelins, and stones to desperately attack those under the city who were trying to fill in the moat.
Auxiliary soldiers. Even though the Oda family's artillery and iron cannons kept attacking them, even if they kept sacrificing themselves again and again, no one stopped.
"Hit their iron artillerymen." Shimoma Lairen ordered to his men. Then, during the interval of the next round of shelling, Honganji's iron artillery team aimed at the Oda family's iron artillery team gathered in several places under the city. They fired volleys.
Afterwards, the Oda family's frontmost iron artillery lines immediately suffered heavy losses.
"Don't be in a hurry to attack those miscellaneous soldiers at the top of the city. Wait for their iron gunners to get up and then shoot, and hit their iron gunners too!" Yoshiyuki Sawaki, who was on the front line, also saw Shimo Norailen's trick, but this was also for defending the city.
The defensive side has an inevitable advantage. The iron gunners of the defending side can shoot suddenly, but the attacking side does not know when and where the defending side will poke out of the city wall, so it is difficult to aim.
However, when the iron gunners of the Oda family stopped attacking, the believers at the head of Ishiyama Gobo Castle immediately lost their pressure and attacked the Oda family's auxiliary soldiers like crazy. A large number of auxiliary soldiers fell to the ground more than ten steps away from the moat.
In this place, the morale of the auxiliary troops began to collapse.
"Those people are really not afraid of death." Yoshiyuki Sawaki cursed fiercely. The Oda family's artillery kept shooting at the city, but the believers did not retreat for a moment. Although they did not know how to find bunkers, they caused
There were huge casualties, but the Oda family's auxiliary soldiers also suffered heavy losses. After fighting for an hour, they still couldn't throw a few bags of sandbags into the moat. However, the morale of the believers was still high, but the Oda family's auxiliary soldiers could hardly bear the casualties.
Seeing that the battle situation in the north was basically stable, Xia Jian Lai Lian immediately hunkered down all the way down the city and ran to the west city wall near the sea to inspect. As soon as he arrived at the West City, Xia Jian Lai Lian saw the pressure coming towards him.
The artillery firing interval here is more than twice as short as that in Beicheng, and the attack sequence and attack positions are properly distributed, resulting in each section of the city being constantly covered by artillery fire. The terrifying firepower of the Red Leaf Fleet gave way.
Ma Lai Lian took a breath of cold air. In this case, it was difficult for the iron gunners of Honganji Temple to stand up and shoot. They could only attack the enemy's auxiliary soldiers through a very limited number of shooting holes. However, the believers were still enthusiastic
, believers were killed by artillery almost every moment, but they kept getting up to attack, causing the auxiliary soldiers of the Red Leaf Army to pay considerable casualties, and the progress of filling in the moat was also very slow.
In the next room, Lai Lian went around to the south city again, and the artillery fire from Jingzhe Preparation was equally fierce. However, the believers who were not afraid of death made the auxiliary soldiers who rushed to the moat unable to complete their work even though they suffered heavy casualties. When the sun set,
The Oda army had to evacuate from all fronts. But the believers at the head of Ishiyama Gobo Castle chanted the Buddha's name in unison to celebrate the victory.
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At the evaluation meeting of the Oda family in the evening, the atmosphere was a little depressing, but Mori Nagako was the only one who still had high morale. On all fronts today, Mori Nagako made the most progress. The Hongye Army was worried about the number of casualties.
He didn't use all his strength, but Mori Nagako led his troops to fight. His own left shoulder is now wrapped with a bandage. According to Mori Kolong, he was shot by a stray arrow. But Mori Nagano didn't take it seriously at all.
I broke off the arrow shaft on the battlefield and continued to charge forward with my men. I bandaged it after withdrawing my troops.
"The casualties are too great, we can't continue fighting like this." Yu Qiuping was the first to speak, saying what many people wanted to say.
"If one of us dies, two of them will die. When we fill up the moat, if one of us dies, four or five of them will die." Morinaga crossed his arms nonchalantly, leaned back, and shook Mazha casually.
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"Isn't this a lot of casualties?" Yu Qiuping shook his head, "There are more than 100,000 people in the city. If you want to change like this, we will have to deal with tens of thousands of people."
"More than a thousand casualties were suffered today..." Hori Hidemasa also stood up to speak to Yu Qiuping, "I also feel that the casualties are too great, and it is not an option to continue fighting like this. Although the lord also did this when he besieged Ishiyama Royal House for the first time,
But at that time, there were not so many iron cannons in Shishan Imperial Palace, and the moat was much narrower than it is now. Now... maybe it’s time to find a better way."
"Perhaps we can besiege the city for a long time." Yu Qiuping put forward a point of view, "We have blocked all water and land transportation in Shishan Yufang. More than 100,000 people consume countless amounts of money every day, and they will soon be unable to hold on."
"We can, but do you have that time?" Mori Nagao sarcastically said, "How many days do you have left? 90 days?"
"My lord, you won't really count according to these 100 days, right?" Ikeda Hengxing on the side couldn't help complaining, "How can you treat your general like this? This doesn't mean you are encouraging Honganji and telling them to hold on for 100 days.
Are you liberated?"
"With my lord's temperament, it's really hard to tell." Sakuma Yoshiyuki looked at Yu Qiupei with great concern, "Hongye has offended the lord several times before, and the lord is probably eager to deal with His Highness Hongye... Before His Highness Sakuma is released, who can
Do you think that my lord actually fucked an important minister to the end after telling him to do it? Hongye should be more careful."
"That's what you said..." Yu Qiuping rubbed his cheeks in fear. Oda Nobunaga's death order directly rejected Yu Qiuping's safest way to capture the city.
"So, just keep fighting." Sen Changke raised his hand and patted the table, "If you can't bear to fight, you can gather all the big troops of the army together to cover me, and I'll charge.
It’s over! Anyway, you Yuqiu Hongye, when faced with a challenge, you will always wait for others to rush first, and then run away yourself!"
"It's not you kid, why are you so young?" Ikeda Hengxing was annoyed. He slapped the table with more force, pointed at Mori Nagako and said, "Senior Mori is so good, you just learn from it.
To charge into battle?"
"Then you guys should think of a way out. Come up with a way to conquer the city within 100 days without paying heavy casualties. If you can't think of a way, what are you talking about? Rely on your old age and sell your old age!" Morinaga snorted disdainfully, "You can't do anything.
The number one pretender. Owari King, do you think I don’t know you?”
"Damn it!" Ikeda Hengxing was about to have a fit when he saw this, but Sawaki Yoshiyuki finally pulled him down. Yu Qiuping held his forehead deeply. With such a place where Morinaga could be, he wanted his wife to finish driving.
It's even harder to hold an evaluation meeting than to climb to the sky. I don't know how Oda Nobunaga tolerated Oda Nobunaga's violent temper before.
"If I can figure out a way, can you promise me something?" Yu Qiuping put his hands flat on the table and stared at Sen Changke.
"You said?" Morinagako accepted the challenge with a look of disbelief.
"You will not be allowed to be so undisciplined in future evaluation meetings."
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In the early morning of November 21st, the seventh year of Tianzheng (1579), Lai Lian, a man at the head of Nancheng City, suddenly noticed strange movements outside Nancheng City. He looked closely and found that the Hongye Army seemed to be carrying out earthmoving operations on a large scale.
"Is this an earth dragon attack?" Lai Lian was stunned when he saw this, then he looked down at the moat to make sure he was not blind, "The moat is still here, how did they dig a tunnel to get in?"
However, after looking at it for a while, he realized that something was wrong. The Hongye Army was not conducting an earth dragon attack - all earth dragon attacks required digging tunnels, but the top of the trench dug by the Hongye Army was open to the open air.
"Is this a trench being dug here?" Lai Lian was once again confused by the Red Leaf Army's actions, "But why are they digging diagonally? Are they digging a zigzag?"
Lai Lian didn't know that Yu Qiuping had already mobilized all the engineers from various reserve teams, formed a temporary engineering brigade, and was digging trenches. They had already planned the drawings, and used multiple huge "
After the zigzag battle, we approached the city wall. The starting point of the zigzag was located in the castle town outside the range of the iron cannon. The trenches dug were almost parallel to the city wall - but with a slight inclination. It was because of this inclination that the progress of the excavation was able to
Slowly approach the city wall.
"Fire and hit them." Although Lai Lian didn't understand why the Hongye Army did this, his instinct still told him not to underestimate the enemy. However, the iron gunners on the city had no shooting angle at all, and the engineers hiding in the trenches only had half a shot.
Crouching down, the iron gunner can't hit them at all.
"This..." Lai Lian was a little confused for a moment. This veteran who had been fighting for many years didn't know how to deal with the strange earthwork work of the Red Leaf Army. He dropped the archer again and tried to use projectiles to shoot into the trench, but this
The requirements for archery skills were really too high. After shooting for a long time, only one or two arrows fell into the trench without causing any casualties.
Chapter completed!