The Red Leaf Army's prediction was not wrong. The Honganji Army at the top of the city really couldn't attack the engineers in the trench, and could only watch them slowly advance. The Red Leaf Army's engineering team was between the south gate of Ishiyama Gobo and the castle town.
Large continuous diagonal lines were drawn one after another on the flat ground, and by the evening, most of the excavation had been completed.
In the early morning of November 22, the seventh year of Tianzheng (1579), the Hongye Army Engineer Corps began operations again, gradually digging trenches outside the moat of Shishan Yufang. Here, the shooting angle was already very large, and some engineers began to straighten up a little.
They would be hit by the iron cannons and archers at the top of the city. Therefore, the Hongye Army's artillery crew once again launched fire suppression, using such ferocious artillery fire that the iron artillerymen of Shishan Yufang did not dare to fight back.
Finally, the engineers of the Hongye Army dug the zigzag trench to the edge of the moat. Lai Lian watched the engineers of the Hongye Army busy at work, and then withdrew from the trenches one after another.
"Your Highness, the gunpowder has been placed." Oshio Nakazaburo, the temporary leader of the engineering team, gave a military salute to Yuqiu who was waiting in the main formation of the castle town.
"Where's the lead?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the arrangements have been made." Oshio Nakazaburo replied meticulously, "We used an extra long dry straw rope as a lead, sprinkled gunpowder and sulfur around and on the rope, and then wrapped it in cotton cloth.
Brush it with oil. Once this end is lit, it will quickly reach the gunpowder."
"Has the personnel evacuation been completed?" Yu Qiuping had seen the engineering team's fuse experiment, and it was indeed done to perfection.
"It's over." Oshio Nakazaburo nodded again.
"Then let's light a fire." Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and planned to see how effective the tactics he designed were. He dug the trench all the way to the moat, then placed a pile of gunpowder at the end of the tunnel, intending to light the pile of gunpowder.
, blasting open the soil between the moat and the tunnel, allowing the water in the moat to flow out along the tunnel and into the nearby river.
The fuse was lit. It turned out that the effect of this fuse was indeed very good. The fire burned along the fuse and soon reached the moat. The Honganji Army on the city seemed to have noticed what the Hongye Army wanted to do.
, one by one nervously stood on the city wall, staring intently at what was going on below the city.
The gunpowder was ignited, making a roar, and gunpowder smoke rose at the end of the tunnel, obscuring the view. However, the scene in which Yu Qiuping imagined the water from the moat rolling into the tunnel did not appear - obviously the pile of gunpowder failed to explode.
Open the soil.
"What happened?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he saw this, "You obviously put 10 big bags of gunpowder?"
"Is the soil gap you left between the tunnel and the moat one meter?" Yu Qiuping asked Dashanzhong Saburo in surprise, "Why can't it explode with so much gunpowder?"
"It's one meter, or even less than one meter of soil. This... I don't know." Oshio Nakazaburo also shook his head in confusion, "The end of the tunnel is almost full of gunpowder, why did it still explode?
Not open."
So, the Red Leaf Army tried a second round. This time, they planed away half a meter between the tunnel and the moat, and put 20 bags of gunpowder there, and again spent a lot of effort to get a fuse -
-As a result, the enemy and our troops were invited to watch the fireworks again, but it had no effect.
Seeing this situation, the top of Ishiyama Gobo Castle couldn't help but burst into laughter, and even many of the Oda family's allies were happy. Morinaga even laughed from ear to ear, "This is what Yuqiu Hongye came up with.
way?"
"The red leaves in Yuqiu are really whimsical." Lai Lian, the lower class man at the head of the city, finally understood Yu Qiuping's strategy. "You expect gunpowder to explode the soil? The most powerful thing you can do is to pull an iron ball out of a big tube.
It's just pushed out, how about you use it as a battering ram? It won't matter how many bags of gunpowder you put in it!"
"Your Highness, let me tell you, gunpowder is useless at all." Seeing this, Nakahide Omaezaki couldn't help but ridiculed beside Yu Qiuping, "How much do you think about it? We are all the same.
You said it's useless, if you insist on using him to blow up the earth, where can you blow it up?"
"It shouldn't be." Yu Qiuping scratched his head with a headache, "Although black () gunpowder is definitely not as good as yellow gunpowder, this... blasting should always work. How come it can't even explode half a meter of soil?"
"Okay, sir, don't delay things." Maeda Keiji smiled and clapped his hands, "Find someone who dares to die, rush over and dig up the soil directly, won't the water come out? Why do you have to do all the bells and whistles?
Explode with gunpowder? We don’t want to watch fireworks again.”
"Okay, okay." Yu Qiuping shook his head angrily and sighed, "Damn it, my physics..."
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After the farce of Yu Qiuping's obsession with gunpowder ended, the earthwork fortifications of the Hongye Army finally showed their results. The moat and trenches were opened, and the trenches deliberately dug according to a subtle slope became drainage channels, and the water in the moat surged violently.
After entering the trench, they were discharged into a nearby river. The moat of Shishan Imperial Palace soon turned into a dry trench.
After that, Yu Qiuping arranged for the auxiliary soldiers to line up in a long queue in the trench, and relayed the sandbags from back to front and threw them into the dry trench of Shishan Royal Square. At the same time, he also sent people to run into the dry trench to transfer the sandbags and let the sandbags
It can be paved in the dry trench. This is the blind spot for attack above Shishan Royal Square.
Bows and arrows or iron cannons were useless. Some believers tried to use barwood and rolling stones to smash down, but these objects were not only difficult to hit people, but instead helped the auxiliary soldiers of the Oda Army to fill the trenches. While other Oda Army
Various ministries also followed suit and began to dig trenches for the auxiliary troops to fill in the dry trenches.
On November 24th, the seventh year of Tianzheng (1579), several sections of the moats outside the Ishiyama Imperial Palace Gate had been filled in. That night, the Oda family held an evaluation meeting.
All the important members of the Oda family followed Yu Qiuping to a table. On the table was a huge sand table. Based on the observations of the Military Intelligence Department and the intelligence provided by the insiders who lurked into the city, the staff almost restored the entire Ishiyama Royal House.
model.
The four-maru, three-maru, two-maru, main-maru, Buddhist hall, various corridors, inner gates, oars, and even the layout of the shooting holes and the castle's houses have been restored. This level of exquisiteness is closely related to later generations.
The display models of real estate companies are comparable.
"Oh my god?" Ikeda Hengxing couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw this. He ran out of the crowd in a few steps, lay down on the edge of the sand table, and put his face almost close to the model of Ishiyama Gobo.
He looked at it carefully there. Just looking at it was not enough. He also reached out and touched the exquisitely crafted Buddhist hall and those oars.
"Do you even have people who can make sculptures in your staff?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki looked at the model and was full of praise. He walked around and looked at every detail of the model, "Oh my god, this is too detailed.
The plan is to shrink the entire city a hundred times before us!"
"I said Hongye, after this battle, can you give me this city?" Ikeda Hengxing suddenly came to Yu Qiuping's side and smiled flatteringly, "How about it?"
"Hahahahaha..." Yu Qiuping was amused by Ikeda Hengxing's appearance, "Okay, I'll give it to you, and I'll ask my staff to build another Maple Leaf Mountain Castle for you, okay?"
"I'm just waiting for your words, buddy!" Ikeda Hengxing patted Yu Qiuping hard on the shoulder and stood back to where he should be standing happily.
"With this model, you won't be blind when fighting in street battles and suffer the loss of being unfamiliar with the terrain." Hori Hidemasa is obviously much more professional than the two living treasures Ikeda Tsuneaki and Sawaki Yoshiyuki, "In the past, we attacked cities
, the biggest fear is not knowing where to ambush troops or where to find shooting holes. With this model, everything is clear at a glance.”
"Yes, but after seeing the model, I became even more confused." Yu Qiuping pointed to the structure between Sinomaru and Sannomaru, "This Shishan Imperial Palace is so exquisitely built. If ants attack the city, it will
Climb the Shinomaru Castle Wall and stand
Immediately, you will encounter a large row of Sannomaru shooting holes and iron cannon oars. The troops ascending the city will definitely suffer losses. Moreover, there are too many turns in the city, which is very suitable for iron cannons to shoot from high places. If you want to attack by force,
The casualties will be huge."
"Aren't we going to fight if the casualties are huge?" Mori Nagao snorted disdainfully, "This is nothing."
"My suggestion is to use the red leaf army's iron ram to break open the city gate, and then directly enter the rows of samurai houses behind the Shinomaru castle wall. After capturing those rows of houses, you will have the ability to avoid the iron cannons.
We have to find a way to advance from the shooting stronghold." Yu Qiuping ignored Sen Changke and explained to the model on the desk, "The method is a bit clumsy, but it can defeat hundreds of tricks with one force. We have absolute firepower advantage and can cover it.
Rush the car."
"How can you attack a city like this? I saw you struggling to attack the city before. It took you a long time to prepare and you crawled towards the city like a snail." Chief Sen couldn't help it anymore and complained to Yu Qiuping.
, "Aren't you asking you to attack the city like this in the Year of the Monkey?
It only takes four or five days to fill in the moat, and another four or five days to build the city gate? And then pass through alley after alley in this way? You can't defeat Shishan Royal Square in 100 days. 'Yuqiu Art of War, Absolute Defense', it turns out
What do you mean when you say you can’t attack?”
"Chang Ke, be quiet." Yu Qiuping stopped and made a silent gesture to Sen Changke, "Admit your bet and accept defeat. I have solved the moat, and you can't mess around in the military discussion anymore.
.”
"Tch." Sen Changke snorted coldly and curled his lips, but he still complied and did not interrupt again.
"I admit, I really don't have anything outstanding on offense." Yu Qiuping nodded honestly, "However, we have enough time for this battle for the time being, and we are not short of ammunition and food. If we can kill fewer people by attacking slowly, I will
Or are you willing to take your time, what do you think?"
"What your Highness Hongye said is true." Seeing that Mori Naga was still unconvinced, Hori Hidemasa turned his head and said nothing, so he came out to smooth things over and said, "Your Highness Hongye is the senior and the commander-in-chief, so naturally we will listen to you in this battle.
Chapter completed!