Samurai of the Takeda Family

Volume Two: Shinano Storms] Chapter 429: Yuezhong Offensive

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Chapter 429: Yuezhong Offensive

Just when Nobunaga's army confronted Katsura in Higashi Mino.

Uesugi Kenshin personally led the Echigo Army, but he set off a madness in Hokuriku.

Kitayama Castle, Kosuganuma Castle, and Shengfang Castle on the Matsakura Castle branch network fell one after another under the swift and violent offensive of the Uesugi Army.

After attacking these branch cities, Uesugi Kenshin concentrated his forces and turned his head to besiege Uozu Castle.

The guardian of the Tenjin Mountain Castle is Hidenaga Kinoshita's confidant Yokohama Ichian, who was pulled up with one hand. The castle has 650 soldiers, including 50 samurai.

In order to reinforce this city, Li Xiao used it as a garrison city, focusing on building not only an extra layer of Waimaru on the periphery.

At the beginning, Nanban people were invited to build in Waimaru, imitating the mainstream European castles at the time. The iron cannons, bow and arrow narrows were reconfigured, and two gun positions were installed in Waimaru. The other two gun positions were installed in Nimaru, and the last one. The gun positions were set up in secret.

The siege of this city is Uesugi's generals Saito Asanobu, Takemata Keizuna, and Yamamoto Temple set the length, and Uesugi Kenshin led the main force to monitor Matsakura Castle.

As Songcang City has lost three supporting cities in a row, its defense power has been greatly reduced for a while.

If the Uesugi Army conquered Tenjin Mountain Castle again, it would be able to completely cut off the Jinbao family reinforcements from Toyama Castle and contact Matsakura Castle. Therefore, Uesugi Kenshin’s mission to Saito Asanobu was to immediately capture the city at all costs.

Right now under the Tenshin Mountain Castle, the Uesugi Army set off a new offensive.

The Horikiri under Tenjin Mountain Castle was already dry, and the bottom was full of blue-black soil. Not long ago, the diggers of the Echihou Army cut off the water source of the city from the outside.

The siege Echihou army can now go by without wading.

Right now at the bottom of Horikiri, fifteen or six Echigo troops were light enough to press their bodies tightly against the inner edge of Horikiri. They didn't dare to show the slightest amount of their bodies, and the two corpses crawling in the mud under their feet were the fate of the careless.

Over their heads, from time to time, there were Takeda Army iron gunners, and bow-footed light hands, cold shooting from one side.

The Echigo Army was suppressed at the bottom of Horikiri, unable to emerge.

At this time, the Uesugi Army's second wave of offensive began.

Dozens of elite Uesugi soldiers, holding their arrow shields in their hands, braved the feathers and projectiles shot down from the city, slowly stepping forward.

However, they were afraid of the power of the city's head and Takeda army's big tubes, so they didn't dare to arrange them too densely.

Behind them, the Echihou Army’s iron cannons were light enough to press them up in steps, turning to the front of the city, turning rounds, and narrow spaces, firing with iron cannons for cover.

The Uesugi soldiers who had been suppressed at the bottom of Horikiri also began to climb again.

Above the head of the city, the sound of the iron cannons of the Takeda Army re-emerged.

Shinsuke Taga, an iron gunner of the Takeda Army, is a battle-tested veteran and one of the best iron gunners in Tenjin Mountain Castle.

With his shooting skills, within thirty steps, the shooting seldom deviates.

In this battle of defending the city, there were three Echihou Army killed under his iron cannon, and one of them was still a samurai.

Right now, he was hiding behind a Soomaruhazama, staring coldly at Echigo Junzui who had re-started from Horikiri and ran down the castle.

Taga Shinsuke's eyes fixed on an agile Echigo samurai.

This person was the first person to get up from Horikiri. The other party was very clever, and decisively abandoned the big gun that had grown up and was inconvenient, and only took a rib and bit it between his mouth.

Taga Shinsuke watched the opponent's figure constantly changing direction while running, fast or slow, which was always unexpected, and it was difficult to grasp the trajectory of his actions.

For Shinsuke Taga, this is indeed a cunning opponent.

But now he showed a hint of a playful smile, and he gently extended the iron cannon in his hand to the narrow space, aiming it at the open space in front of a recessed ground.

According to his judgement, the name Echihad was light enough, and he would definitely grab the depression in front of the city wall and avoid the shooting from the top of the city, then enter the open space in front of the depression, which is the opponent's dead place.

Taga Shinsuke's patient waiting finally paid off. Just before the opponent snatched in, he pulled the trigger in his hand.

He saw his projectile with his own eyes, and at that moment pierced the sly Echizuoka's back, and a cloud of blood spurted out of the opponent.

After shooting, Shinsuke Taga immediately withdrew and left Hazama's position.

Immediately there was a retaliatory shot from the Uesugi Army’s iron artillery team at the place just now.

After confirming safety, Taga Shinsuke showed a smug smile on his face and let out a sigh of relief. However, he was happy that it did not last long. Although the Echihou Army had paid a lot of casualties during the crossing, there were still a lot of casualties. When the man arrived at the city, with the shovel he was carrying, the fork began to dig the roots of the stone wall fiercely.

Their purpose is to dig a hole in the stone wall that can be climbed by hands and feet, so that they can be climbed up lightly.

The Waimaru Ishigaki of Tenjinshan Castle is not high, only three and a half rooms, which is not easy to hinder the enemy.

Seeing that Uesugi's back-ups were rushing, Taga Shinsuke immediately asked a Zuqing to ask for help from the lord, asking for more reinforcements.

And he held a gunpowder pot in his hand and an iron cannon in one hand and walked to the other shooting narrow room.

He has a lot of experience and knows that an iron gunner cannot be fixed in one place, as this will give the opponent a preset mentality.

This time, after he walked to a hidden narrow room alone, he observed from the hole, there was just an angle, and he could clearly see that the Uesugi army was working hard to dig the stone wall.

Taga Shinsuke chuckled, and after refilling the iron cannon, he aimed calmly, and gently squeezed the trigger with his right index finger.

After a gunshot, an Echigoki who was trying to dig toward the stone wall on his chest was shot through.

Within this distance of less than fifteen, a thin layer of iron cannon is impossible to bring any obstacles to the projectiles and penetrate directly into the brain.

The name Zuqing fell to the ground, and the array fell to the ground.

This scene made the people who excavated Echihou at the scene lightly horrified. The bottom of the stone wall was a dead spot for shooting. Even if it was shot, there was no safety at all.

Suddenly there was a commotion in the Echihou Army.

In the main formation of the Echigo Army.

The generals of Echigo are paying attention to this siege.

To Saitou Asanobu, Yamamoto-ji said: "Sama Shimomori, it seems that the siege in the direction of Horikiri is extremely unfavorable."

Saito Chaoxin laughed and said: "Yamamoto Temple Iyo, don't worry, there is a cloud, a frustration, and a reality. The direction of the city is in the west. Although our army siege is huge, but I deliberately pretended to attract the attention of the other party. Powerful."

General Saito Chaoxin pointed to the position of the Otemon Gate of the God Mountain Castle, and said: "The direction of the gate is my goal."

Immediately Saito Asanobu turned his head back and asked, "Is all the gunpowder ready?"

A samurai nodded and said: "Return to the lord, despite the repeated assaults, although many people have been damaged, enough gunpowder has been buried under the door of the big hand, which can definitely blow up the enemy's big hand. door."

"Very good," Yamamoto Temple said, "Blasting at the gate of the enemy's city, in addition to breaking through the big gate, you can drive straight in, and it can also serve as a deterrent to the enemy. So let me personally lead the army to assault the enemy's gate. ."

Saito Chaoxin nodded, and said, "It's so hard to do, Lord Iyomori."

After the Echigo Army's offensive in the direction of Horikiri at the west of the castle lasted for half an hour, it suddenly changed its direction and attacked the Otemon Gate of the Castle Outer Maru.

After a loud noise, the Otomen of Sotomaru was blasted into the sky by gunpowder pre-buried by Echigo.

The long head of the Yamamoto Temple was wrapped in a bowl roll, holding a family-renowned sword, and hundreds of Echigo Army samurai were personally led into the big hand gate.

For a while, Tenjinshan Outer Maru became precarious.

On the Ninomaru 1st narrow area on the outer Maruma Road, Takeda Army Castle Dai Yokohama Kazuan was stepping on a Flange machine gun.

This Franco machine gun is a six-pounder. The body of the gun is hidden behind a narrow space, with only the muzzle sticking out slightly.

The position facing the muzzle of the Flange machine gun was a straight horse track in the direction of the big hand gate.

"Oh, the Lord Yamamoto Temple actually went to battle in person. I didn't expect that this time I would make Yokohama Kazuan a great achievement."

Yokohama Ichian touched his beard, withdrew his foot from the Flannel machine gun, and ordered his gunner to shoot.

The gunner of the Takeda Army fired without hesitation.

boom!

At the narrow gate, the Yamamoto Temple and countless Echigo troops swarmed into the city. They did not expect the Takeda Army to bury a large tube behind the Otemon Gate.

Within such a short distance, the shells fired directly from the Franco machine gun smashed the first Echigo samurai into minced meat on the spot.

And this shell pierced the city gate Echigo samurai in a straight line, raging arbitrarily among the Echigo Army.

Kakadi at the gate of the city broke the sound of a broken hand, and the Lord Yamamoto Temple himself was not spared. He was hit by the shell and his skull was cut off by half.

In the main formation of the Echigo Army, Asano Saito saw this dramatic change, and his face immediately turned blue.

The lord of Fudoyama Castle, the Uesugi Army's six-ban-me Yamamoto-ji Temple, was killed by the Takeda Army on the spot.

This blow was very serious to the Echigo Army~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Suddenly the Echigo Army outside the city was chaotic on the spot, and Yokohama Kazuan in Tenjin Mountain City also seized the opportunity to bring a hundred dead soldiers out. Out of the city, he hacked for a while in the Echihou army.

Under the cover of the Takeda Army, the Echihou Army’s siege troops trampled on each other, causing numerous casualties.

Saito Chaoxin resisted desperately for a while, and finally retreated one mile, and settled down, but he was unable to attack the city for a while.

Saito Asanobu could only inform Kenshin Uesugi under Matsakura Castle of the defeat, and he would make this ruling.

Uesugi Kenshin, who was under the castle of Songcang City, was also in a desperate situation at the moment, and his strategy for Songcang City had been extremely unsuccessful.

Although not reconciled, he also had to admit that the opponent's defender Hidenaga Kinoshita and Reharu Takenaka were indeed opponents who could compare with him.

"It would be fine if it was Li Xiao alone, but his retainers were so difficult to deal with."

After receiving the defeat, Uesugi Kenshin couldn't help saying such a sentence.

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