Volume 6 Recruiting people to hear the Luocheng flute, chapter 798, cliffs
In the early morning of November 25th, the seventh year of Tensho (1579), the Hongye Army's iron rush cart was pushed by the auxiliary soldiers towards the city gate. The artillery outside the city was ready. Once the Honganji Army at the head of the city showed up to attack,
vehicles, they will cover their own troops with fierce artillery fire.
However, to everyone's surprise, the charge went very smoothly this time, and no one interfered until they reached the city. Yu Qiuping looked at the city in surprise. When he attacked the branch city before, the believers would attack desperately.
Chongche, why did they misfire this time when they started attacking our city?
When the iron ram approached the city gate and began to hit the city gate with its huge ram, Yu Qiuping's confusion reached its peak. Could it be that the Honganji army had ambushed someone inside the city gate and was waiting for someone to do so?
Did they rush in through the city gate with the Oda army? Do they not know that we already know the structure of Ishiyama Gobo Castle well?
However, it turns out that Yu Qiuping thought too much.
After the collision at each city gate, the rush vehicles discovered the problem sooner or later. They stopped their actions one after another, slowly withdrew from the city, and then sent people to report to the main formation.
"What did you say?" Yu Qiuping was a little unbelievable after hearing the news, "The door of Shishan Royal Square is blocked?"
"Yes, Your Highness." The auxiliary captain responsible for leading the charge affirmed, "The sound of the impact is wrong. The back of the city gate is solid. It must have been built with bricks several layers of stone walls. It cannot be hit at all.
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"Blocking the city gate by yourself?" Fukuzawa Yunan was bewildered by Ishiyama Gobo's behavior, "Unless they have no ability to attack in the field, which city defender would block the city gate by themselves? Isn't this like cutting off one's arms?
?These are good, we were originally worried about the counterattack by the monk soldiers in Shishan Royal Workshop."
In a city defense battle, the city gate is the defender's biggest weapon. Because the defender can overlook the battlefield from a high position, all actions of the siege team are exposed to the defender's eyes, and it is easy to discover problems with the siege formation.
.The defenders can maneuver inside the city without the siege's knowledge, and suddenly leave the city to attack the siege. Therefore, the siege must be cautious at all times, for fear of being caught by the defenders.
If they blocked the city gate themselves...then wouldn't the Oda army be able to do whatever they wanted?
But this is not good news for Yu Qiuping.
"But if they block all the city gates, we will have only two ways to break the city." Yu Qiuping pursed his lips and glanced at Shishan Yufang, "Either dig tunnels to attack, or set up ladders.
Attached to the city..."
There are two types of earth dragon attacks in this era: one is to dig a very spacious tunnel from outside the city directly into the opponent's city, allowing soldiers to drill through underground. However, this kind of earth dragon attack is very difficult, and one must be dug.
The tunnel is wide enough, strong enough, and breathable enough. However, such large-scale earthmoving operations are easily discovered by the other party, and the way to deal with it is also very simple. You only need to prepare a reservoir or a pile of firewood and fill the tunnel with water.
Or just smoke it. Another kind of earth dragon attack is to dig the tunnel under the wall foundation and fill the original soil position with wood. Then withdraw the people and light the wood. After the wood is burned, the city wall above will
Collapse. Although this kind of earth dragon attack takes less time, it usually takes more than ten days. Once the defender discovers it, it is not difficult to deal with it. You only need to build an inner city in the city to surround the wall that is about to collapse; or
Just like dealing with the first type of earth dragon attack, prepare a water storage trench, dig it towards the opponent's tunnel, and fill it with water before the opponent wants to set fire to it.
Generally speaking, the earth dragon attack is by no means a reasonable way to siege the city in most situations, and the success rate is not high. Especially when facing a huge city with sufficient manpower like Shishan Yufang, it is even more hopeless. Therefore, we decided to
It seems that there is only one way in front of Tian Jun - and it is what Yu Qiuping wants to avoid most - ants attacking the city.
At this time, after seeing the rush car leaving the city in a panic, the Ichigo Sect believers at the top of Shishan Yufang City burst into overwhelming laughter, and their words were full of ridicule for the Oda Army and Yu Qiuping.
"Your Highness, Lord Mori is requesting a battle." A moment later, Mori Nagaka's messengers arrived at the formation. Also arriving were Ikeda Tsuneaki, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Nakamura Kazuji, and Yamauchi Kazutoyo's request for a battle. Finally,
, even Hori Hidemasa sent a letter of challenge.
"Fight early and fight late. As a general, morale comes first. If you are ridiculed like this, if your side is powerless, your morale will drop. Even if you lose, you have to fight." Yu Qiuping understands the Oda family.
The general asked for a fight, sighed slightly, and ordered, "Let's fight, let's try it for a day. Be careful, be careful of Sannomaru's shooting hole after climbing onto the Shinomaru wall."
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"But I was so suffocated." Sen Changke finally got Yu Qiuping's order to allow the attack, and immediately opened his arms and shouted excitedly, "My sons, follow me, let's give that 'absolute defense' right now
Look, what is meant by 'absolute attack!'"
As soon as he received the order, Chief Mori led the Mori army to launch a fierce attack on the east city of Shishan Royal House. He used one hand to carry the ladder that ordinary auxiliary soldiers and civilians could carry with both hands and shoulders, and led a team
The auxiliary soldier carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall. He carried the human body on his back, and held a large shield in his left hand to block the projectiles, arrows, javelins and stones fired at him.
On the large tube position behind them, the Oda family's large tubes were also firing continuously to cover their own assault troops. The iron cannons at the top of the city did not fire very frequently, and they basically fired between the large tubes. However, arrows, javelins and stones were fired.
But it never stopped, pouring firepower without stopping for a moment. Chief Mori knew that those believers must have ignored the casualties of the artillery fire and rushed to attack outside the city, hoping to be killed by the artillery fire so that they could be reborn in the pure land.
"You're in a hurry to be reincarnated. I just want to give you a ride." Mori Nagake felt that three or four arrows were stuck firmly on his shield. His face was also hit by a stone, and blood flowed from the corners of his eyes.
When it came into his mouth, Mori Nagako became even more excited, "Come on, come on!"
Auxiliary soldiers continued to be knocked down, and others continued to come up. Senchang's feet were covered with arrows and gravel, and two javelins were stuck on the ladder, and a few projectiles almost hit him.
Sen Changke, but he had no intention of stopping. He walked up and down the ladder, and finally rushed to the foot of Shishan Yufang Castle.
"Turn over, put up the ladder!" Seeing that the position was reached, Sen Changke immediately turned around to greet the auxiliary soldiers behind him. The moment he turned back, he was stunned for a moment. He himself had been rushing to the front, but
Knowing what was going on behind him, he turned around and found that the flat ground behind him was already littered with corpses. They were all Oda troops who had been knocked down by the attack from the Ishiyama Gobo Castle. It looked like a Shura field.
"Damn it." Sen Changke cursed with a smile, and then he and the surrounding auxiliary soldiers turned the ladder vigorously. However, their team rushing to the front of the ladder obviously attracted the attention of the city head, like migratory locusts.
Feather arrows, javelins, rain-like projectiles, and gravel greeted them. For a moment, almost all the auxiliary soldiers carrying the ladder fell down, leaving only Morinagako and the two people around him. At this time, the ladder was
It was lifted up to about 60 degrees, but failed to reach 90 degrees, and it was about to fall to the ground.
"Hold on, I--stop!" Chief Mori shouted loudly. He kicked his feet hard on the ground and used all his strength to push the ladder upwards. He felt that all the strength in his body was drained away.
, veins popped out on his forehead and neck. Amidst the roar, the shaky ladder was forcibly pulled over by Mori Changke and smashed towards the city head.
"Push it down, push it down!" A loud shout immediately sounded from the top of the city. Mori Nagako did not hesitate. He immediately jumped onto the ladder with his shield, stabilized the weight, and climbed up quickly. Mori Nagako's heroic encouragement
The morale of the entire Dongcheng Oda Army was reduced. Everyone shouted and rushed to the city wall, setting up ladders at the top of the city.
Mori Chang Ke took the lead, climbed up the city wall first, and pulled out the Human Bones with a sweep. However, after he knocked down two people in a row, the third believer he hit forcefully hugged his Jumonji Spear.
Even though his chest had been penetrated by the left tip of the Jumonji Gun, the believer held on tightly and refused to let go. Morinagako took a closer look and found that the believer was actually an old woman with gray hair.
Sen Changke violently exerted force and finally pulled out the human boneless man, but he had lost the coherence of his movements. The seven or eight believers on the side seemed to have seen gold and silver jewelry on the ground, and they swarmed towards this fierce god.
A bloody samurai. Senchang could use the Boneless Man to swipe left and block right, but those believers were not afraid of death at all. They faced the tip of the Boneless spear and would not let go even if they were stabbed to a bloody pulp.
The people rushed up and beat Mori Changke with knives, hoes, hammers and other weapons. Mori Changke couldn't draw his gun, so he had to deal with it with his hands and feet. However, not long after, his feet were knocked to the ground.
The believer who was not dead was hugged tightly. Morinagako kicked him twice in succession, knocking his teeth to the ground, but the man refused to let go, and even used his open mouth to bite him hard.
At this time, a believer with a stick rushed over from the front. Mori Nagako knocked him to the ground with a punch from his left hand, but a believer pounced on Mori Nagako's left hand.
, pulling him to prevent him from moving.
At the critical moment, the two guards behind him also boarded the city, and finally managed to relieve Mori Changke from the siege. One of the guards was not careful, and was hugged by a believer and knocked down the city wall together. Those believers did not notice anything.
Unable to see the mountain of corpses and sea of blood at the top of the city, they kept killing the samurai ashigaru of the Oda family who climbed to the city. They chanted the Buddha's name one by one, not seeking life, only seeking death, and tried their best to use their lives
Go to replace the people of the Oda Army. At the head of the holy city of Ishiyama Gobo, the Oda Army encountered resistance that was ten times more fierce than when they attacked the branch city of Yanzhai. Everyone seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, unable to move even an inch.