Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 166 The Sister Xiaolu's Family Strikes

Behind the Ote Gate of Outomaru is the building inside Outomaru.

There are training grounds such as horse farms and shooting ranges on the building, as well as the houses where Li Xiao lived close to the samurai, such as Shima Katsumi, Shioka Kazuha, Ohata Akira, and their families, all staying here.

In addition to these buildings, there is a horse road that runs from behind the Ote Gate of Sotomaru to the gate of Jinshoumaru.

This horse trail is quite long, winding uphill, and there is no obstruction on the horse trail. It is completely exposed under the firing range of Honmaru and Jinshoumaru's curved wheel.

In other words, if the enemy forces break through the gate of Sotomaru, they will want to follow the second table on the horse track and attack the gate of Jinshoumaru.

On the horse road, the enemy will be shot by the Honmaru and Jinshoumaru defenders. Only after paying the price of casualties can they finally attack the gate of Jinshoumaru castle.

In contrast to the big hand gate of Waimaru, in the design of the gate of Jinshoumaru, Li Xiao added the elements of the Chinese Urn City in this point to make the structure of the front and rear double gates.

In fact, the design of Wengcheng was not original in Japan at the time.

In the design of the gates of Japan, the outer ring-shaped tiger's mouth and the horse out have the shadow of the design of the urn castle. However, these two designs are not mainly considered for the purpose of killing the enemy forces in the city, but are mainly used as a buffer after the main city gate is breached.

Therefore, Li Xiao also adopted the Goryeomen approach in the design of Jinshou Maru. The lower level is the gate, and the upper level is the curved wheel and shooting port.

However, the gate of Jinshou Maru, in reference to the design of China's Ong Castle, made the Goryeo Gate into a front and rear hyperbolic wheel. At the same time, there is a narrow space on the back of the curved wheel of the gate, which can be used for shooting, so it is safe and protected. It also made it possible to prevent enemy troops entering the city from climbing from the north.

However, due to the time limit of rushing work, this Wengcheng can only be delayed in the coming year.

Because of time constraints, Li Xiao gave up more than that. Li Xiao originally wanted to build a stone wall on the outer wall of the countertop where the Honmaru is located.

Ishigaki is built with stones one by one. It is mainly used to prevent enemy troops from climbing on the horse path of Outer Maru and directly climbing to Jinshou Maru and Honmaru. It is also difficult to prevent enemy troops from digging.

Japan’s first large-scale use of Ishigaki was when Kublai Khan attacked Japan. At that time, the Hojo Tokimune, the former Hojo family who held the power of Japan, learned the lessons of the first Yuanjun ascending 6, and ordered people to travel along the coast of Hakata Bay in Kitakyushu. A long stone wall similar to a stone embankment was built to prevent Yuan army ships from approaching the sea.

After Kublai Khan’s second attack on Japan, the Battle of Hong'an, after the Yuan Army’s warships arrived in Kyushu, Japan, looking around, there were stone walls built on huge rocks along the coast, and there was not a single place where you could board the 6th. At the location, several storms were defeated on board 6 and the whole army was forced to stay at sea for a month.

Finally, there was another typhoon, and more than 100,000 troops died.

However, although Kamioka Castle did not use stone walls, because of its construction on the side of the mountain, after excavating the grass mud on the surface, there are blocks of hard rocks inside, which temporarily replaced the role of stone walls.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the defense, Li Xiao also planned to build five sculls in Kamoka Castle, two in the outer maru, two in the Jinshou maru, and one in the main maru. According to the position of the scull, they are named Yifan to Wufan.

The design of the scull is a bit like a Chinese arrow tower, but its function is not limited to the arrow scull.

For example, Li Xiaojian’s scull in the Tianshou Pavilion is called the Taiko scull. It is generally used when there are special circumstances when the taiko drummer beats the drums on it to convene all the retainers for discussion, or to convene the standing guard to defend against the enemy.

All the sculls of Shengang City are unified on the second floor. This is called the double scull. The upper layer is used for early warning, fire bows and arrows or iron cannon shooting, while the lower layer is for materials and equipment.

There is not much difference between a scull and a castle tower. Generally speaking, the castle tower is actually the largest scull in the city.

The castle tower is generally located in Honmaru, the core part of a city and the last line of defense. Standing on the castle tower, the lord of the city can have a bird's eye view of any corner of the city, and it is easy to give rise to a sense of superiority above 10,000 people.

In addition to being used for military purposes, the castle tower also has the function of providing residence for the lord and his family. It is also a place where important matters are discussed and evaluated between the lord and his retainers.

Speaking of the castle tower, I have to mention that Azuchi Castle and Osaka Castle, Oda Nobunaga, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were all from the world at that time. The Azuchi Castle Castle was the Seventh Castle Tower, and the Osaka Castle It went even further and reached eightfold.

In the golden yù building where both castle towers are built, Oda Nobunaga also put gold leaf on the outside of the castle tower of Azuchi Castle, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi added the third floor of the castle tower of Osaka Castle and paved a tea room with gold. . However, such a luxurious style can also be seen in the two people's mentality of showing off their wealth.

In contrast, the later Tokugawa Ieyasu did much better on this point.

Li Xiao made the castle tower into a triple castle. Although it is not high, it occupies a very spacious area.

The assessment room was large enough to hold nearly fifty people and courtiers to discuss matters together. At the same time, Li Xiao dug many small ponds around the castle tower. They were used for viewing the scenery on weekdays, and they could also be used to fetch water in case the water source was cut off.

After the design of the entire Shengang City was roughly completed, Li Xiao let Shioka win fierce, Shioka Kazuha, and Obata Xiaoxian were responsible for military defense tasks.

The construction and treatment of the entire city are both in charge of Changan Dazo and Koichiro Kinoshita.

The Tibetan Changan is responsible for overall planning and distribution, while Koichiro Kinoshita is responsible for supervision and management.

During the first month of the fortification, everything went smoothly. Except for the external fence, Horikiri was completed within a few days. Next, the soil base was compacted and the piling process progressed very fast. By mid-August, the crank wheel of Waimaru had also been completed.

During the period, the sister-koji family secretly dispatched ninjas to the wood accumulation area in Li Xiaocheng, trying to set fire to them, but the ninja premise of Yokotani was detected, and the sister-koji family's conspiracy went bankrupt.

In September, the two arrow sculls of Waimaru were completed, and the defense of Waimaru was initially completed.

After that, Sister Xiaolu's house couldn't sit still, and another three hundred troops came to attack at night.

Li Xiao's two hundred standing turtles huddled in Kamoka City, and with the help of horse guards and Horikiri, they used iron cannons and bows to repel the sister Koru army.

However, the place where Kamioka Castle stockpiled the building materials was attacked by the sister-xiaolu army with rockets throwing torches and arrows tied with cotton cloth.

The part of the wood that Li Xiao hoarded was burned.

Immediately, Li Xiao spent two more days to introduce the wood for the fortification from the plateau to the town again.

Due to this delay, the degree of fortification slowed down. As the construction period got closer and closer, Li Xiao had to speed up the degree of fortification. The next day was heavy rain and scorching sun, and he did not stop the construction of the city.

After the autumn harvest is over.

Li Xiao ushered in a particularly meaningful news for life. Yumi Obata is pregnant and is expected to give birth around the new year in the coming year.

Li Xiao was blinded by the news for no reason. I was actually going to be a father.

In contrast, Dao Shengmeng’s retainers were even more excited. Li Xiao’s heirs, for them, Li Xiao’s family was inherited, and the objects of allegiance could be continued.

For them, such news undoubtedly greatly strengthened the cohesion of the Li Xiao family members.

Good things came one after another. Li Xiao had just learned the news of being a father, and with the help of three hundred people, the rate of building the city further accelerated.

Most of the construction of the outer maru defense has been completed, and the construction of the Jinshou Maru army ration warehouse and the castle tower is proceeding immediately.

Just when Li Xiao saw the dawn of Shengang City being completed on schedule.

Sister Koji Ryorai finally couldn't sit still, he must not sit back and watch, the Takeda family was established in Hida country, and such a bridgehead ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ threatened his status of Hida country.

So Sister Xiaolu Lianglai mobilized seven hundred troops within the leadership to personally attack Li Xiao's Shengang City.

Li Xiao learned the first-hand news through Yokotani's ninja public report, so he immediately mobilized the peasants and soldiers to prepare for battle.

Although he did not have any expectations, Li Xiao still sent a letter to Jiang Ma Shisheng on the way, asking him to send troops to help the battle, but as expected, Jiang Ma Shisheng refused Li Xiao's request.

The reason is that I feel unwell recently, so I can’t bring soldiers to help. I deliberately boasted of Li Xiao’s bravery in a sarcastic tone, saying that the 8,000 people of Uesugi Kenshin on Shirane Mountain were defeated by Li Xiao, sister Xiaoji. The seven hundred troops at home are nothing.

At the end of the letter, I also wished Li Xiaoma every success.

Li Xiao sneered silently when he saw this letter. Anyway, the mountains are high and the rivers are long. The account with Jiang Ma Shisheng will be calculated sooner or later, and one day he will be allowed to drink his own footwashing water.

Therefore, Li Xiao immediately mobilized to prepare for the war, and put the only hope of repelling the sister Xiaolu family on his 200 Standing.