Chapter 301 Fighting under the City

Mino, Gujo County, is one of the eighteen counties of Mino.

Gujo-gun is located at the junction of Echizen, Hida, and Mino.

Oinidake in Gujo-gun is the boundary mountain of the three countries. The Nagara River (flowing through Mino-Owari), Shogawa River (flowing through Hida Etsuchu), and Kuzuryu River (flowing through Echizen) all diverge from this.

So if Li Xiao occupies this place, not only will Hida's defense be perfected, but he will be able to attack and defend both forward and backward.

Gujo Hachiman Castle.

Endo Keilong and Anakoji Raizuna stood on the arrow scull of Sotomaru, looking at the Takeda army in the attacking queue under the castle.

After watching it for a long time, Endo Keilong's face began to change color, saying: "Takeda Army is really well-trained."

"There are so many big barrels and iron cannons at the same time. This Li Xiao is no more than 40,000 stone territory. Where can he get so much money to equip his army."

Sister Koji Raizuna snorted, and said, "You don't need to ask, you know that Takeda Shingen gave him the call. The Takeda family wolf is ambitious and wants to annex the country of the four directions. It's not just a Hida. Right now, my sister Koji. As soon as the family was destroyed, the Takeda family used this verbal statement to attack Mino, which is really hateful."

Endo Keilong said: "Yes, no matter whether your Excellency is here or not, the Takeda army will not let go of this opportunity to seize Mino. If it were not for this Oda family's aggressive attack on Mino, my Mino clan would never sit back and watch Takeda. The army is attacking our county. Damn it. This Li Xiao's timing is too good."

Sister Xiaolu Lai Gang said with consolation: "It's okay. Lord Nagai is stationed in Dongdian Mountain City and we are horns of each other. The Takeda army will never let go of their hands and feet and attack the city with all their strength. As soon as the reinforcements arrive, our strength is far above the Takeda Army. When the time comes, the Takeda Army will be defeated."

Endo Keilong nodded and said, "It's so good."

Although he said that, he looked at the Takeda Army's big tube piled on sandbags on the periphery of the trench with a hesitant look on his face.

Takeda Hiroshima's banner rustled.

In the morning light, Li Xiao picked up a monocular telescope and looked at Gujo Hachiman Castle, which covered the entire Hachiman Mountain.

The appearance of Gujo Hachiman Castle is at a glance.

Li Xiao put down the monocular telescope, and said to the two staff members, Bento, Usami said, "Although Gushangcheng is far less steep than Guiyuncheng, but the city is deep and wide, you can hide soldiers, and the wheels are all made of stone. Change me. A mortar of this caliber, I'm afraid it won't break the city wall."

Bendo Masanobu was the first to say: "Lord, we can divide our troops into two ways. We can use mortar cannons to attack all the way. The lower west side of the city is curved to attract the opponent's ideas, while the main attack can quietly push the direct-fire cannon to the enemy. Bombard in front of the big hand gate, and after the city gate is broken, you can attack in one fell swoop."

Li Xiao nodded when he heard Bendu Zhengxin say this, and said: "You are right, it is just what I want."

Li Xiao turned his head and looked at Usami Nami who had been silent.

Usami Nami seemed to be in a trance. When she felt Li Xiao glance at her, she suddenly said, "Master, I think, we should be more careful of the army in the East Palace."

Li Xiao turned his head and glanced at Dongdian Mountain City, which is opposite Gujo Hachiman Castle, and said with a smile: "It's okay, we can divide the army into three divisions, line up separately, and fight each other."

"We are fighting separately? Each unit must have sufficient strength, otherwise it will be scattered and destroyed by the enemy." Usami said.

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Of course."

Soon after, the Takeda army had moved. Li Xiao led the main force, Qimoto, and stayed on the spot, facing the curved wheel on the west side of Gujo Hachiman Castle, where the mortar gun position constructed by Rui Costa was also located.

Shima Katsumi's Kamiokabei, and some of the big tube team carrying two direct-fire cannons, moved to the big hands of Gunshangcheng.

Finally, Koichiro Kinoshita's snake tail equipment, and the horseback riding team from Tsuchiya Masahiro, moved to the side of the two reserve teams, and watched the Toden Mountain Castle where Nagai Daori was located.

After the formation is completed, the bronze mortars of the big tube team are ready.

Seven medium-caliber mortars have been aimed at the east side of the curved wheel, and in the front row of the mortars, a row of wooden and bamboo shrouds wrapped with straw is temporarily covered. The iron cannons of Kimoto are light. Hidden behind, holding an iron cannon and aiming it on the curved wheel.

On the other side, the two hundred flags' team was light and looked ahead.

At this time, Li Xiao slowly raised the military manpower in his hand. This military manpower was given to Li Xiao by Shingen Takeda as a recognition of the qualifications of Li Xiao's army general.

The military equipment is made of cowhide, covered with black lacquer, one side is Sanskrit, and the other side is written with twelve branches. The outer edges and handles are all made of iron.

This thing looks pretty good, and as far as Li Xiao knows, Takeda Shingen's army must hold in every battle has written the book "King of Zhou Wenwang".

After Li Xiao left Mazza, the general lifted up and pressed down decisively.

Rui Costa received the order and pressed his hand.

Immediately the mortar in front of me roared loudly.

Clouds of black smoke rose up, and behind the curved wheel of Gujo Hachiman Castle, one could faintly see a flag and an object moving left and right. Obviously, the Endo family also took into account the Takeda army's aggressive attack here, and the generals gathered here.

The projectile whizzed by, smashing a large hole on the stone wall of the county town.

The shells that fell into the curved wheel can always cause a scream of screams in the opponent's city, which obviously caused casualties to the opponent.

The missed projectile fell into the water with a loud thud, and the water column rose into the sky.

Immediately after the empty mortar gun was shot, the Takeda army immediately cleared the chamber and reloaded it skillfully.

The shelling continued.

After the second round of shelling, a simple wooden scull in the city was hit by two consecutive shells and collapsed.

After three consecutive rounds of seven mortars.

The clamor behind the other side's turn seemed to calm down quite a bit.

Several stone walls on the curved wheel were also destroyed by projectiles or punched out of large pits, and sand and rocks were falling sparsely.

At this moment, Li Xiao waved the military uniform in his hand, and the two hundred feet with sleeves and trousers pulled up high, armed with long spears, began to wade across the river.

The trench was about five rooms wide and not deep, at most it didn't reach the chest level, but it still played a role as an obstacle.

Many people who are familiar with water are light-hearted, but fortunately they pinned their spears to their bodies and stroked directly through the water.

At this time, Gujo Castle's counterattack began, and the Endo army hiding behind Haza began shooting with iron cannons and bows, trying to stop the Takeda army from paddling by.

But as soon as they came out, they heard a string of iron cannons roaring like beans before firing.

On the edge of the trench, the Takeda army’s iron cannons were light enough to hide behind the flares, and began a intensive salvo.

Rows of guns spouted out gorgeous fire snakes neatly, and gun smoke rose.

Several Endo Army iron cannons that tried to stand at the gap in the curved wheel and fired at the city were light enough. They were directly hit by the Takeda Army's iron cannon and rolled over and fell into the trench.

The rest of Endo, who was hiding behind Hazama, was light enough. Although his life was unimpeded, he was almost shot by a volley of iron cannons from the Takeda army, making him afraid to show his head.

They only waited for the momentum of the Takeda Army's iron artillery to slow down before they dared to counterattack.

Their hurried shooting only shot and killed a few enemy troops crossing the river. At this time, the fourth round of shelling sounded from the Takeda army camp.

In an instant, there were a few more big holes on the curved wheel.

"Iron Cannon Salvo"

It was another round of shouting orders, reloading the Takeda Army's iron cannons, and firing a row of volleys at the enemy's city. The enemy's city was covered with sawdust and gravel flying indiscriminately.

After a few screams, it is estimated that another unlucky ghost was hit by an iron cannon.

Under the cover of the big barrel and the iron cannon in turn, Takeda Army's foot light has successfully crossed the river.

In front of the corners of the collapsed wall that were bombarded by the big tube, the first few were light, biting the ribs in their mouths, directly using their hands and feet together, grabbing the cracks at the roots of the wall, and bravely climbing up.

Before a Takeda army climbed to the top of the city, he was turned out from the gap, and several spears were pierced severely and fell down.

Then another Zuqing was hacked to death by a knife and fell to the city.

The iron cannons from the Takeda army also continued to shoot at the head of the city, Gongzuqing had crossed the river, and began to shoot arrows at the city.

The corpses of both sides, like sacks, fell from the top of the city and fell into the trenches from time to time.

Seeing that the Takeda army was about to gain a foothold at the head of the castle, the head of the castle also began to throw stones down.

Suddenly, more than a dozen Takeda soldiers were beaten to blood.

The Endo Army took the opportunity to counterattack, and the Takeda Army who had managed to gain a foothold on the front of the city was so light that they were knocked down by the opponent.

Li Xiao was holding his army and watched this siege scene. This was the first official siege since he led the army (the battle of Returning to Cloud City can be ignored).

Despite the large barrels of his own and the massive superior firepower of the iron cannon, the siege battle was still so difficult.

In this era of siege warfare, unless the force is absolutely superior, the general siege warfare is extremely tragic. In the battle of Minowa a few years ago, the Takeda army was still defeated by Nagano under such a large military advantage. The army suffered heavy casualties. According to records, more than 600 people were killed by the Takeda army.

Generally speaking, if a city like Gujo Hachiman Castle is defended by enough troops, even if a large army is mobilized to attack, there is no one that can't be attacked in five or six days.

Just as Li Xiao and the generals were watching the siege battle, an envoy came to report and said: "Report to the lord, Dongdian Mountain City has sent troops."

Sure enough, when the fierce battle started on Gujo Hachiman Castle, the direction of Dongden Mountain Castle had changed.

Saito's general, Nagisa Tori, personally led the 700 troops out of the city and lined up behind the Takeda Army.

Tori Nagaido moved and faced each other, it was Koichiro Kinoshita's long-awaited scorpion and the horse-riding team of Masahiro Tsuchiya.

Koichiro Kinoshita gave a shout, and the iron artillery team was assembled and lined up on the two wings of the central long spear phalanx. On the left and right wing of the iron artillery team, the archer foot light team and the gun foot light team cover, and in the snake tail Behind the reserve, Tsuchiya Masahiro’s 200 horseback riding team was hiding behind and slowly following.

What Koichiro Kinoshita deployed was the phalanx of the West, and the army was now lined up in a dense queue, approaching the opponent.

Looking at the Takeda army approaching slowly, and this weird array, both Nagai and his son were amazed.

"My father, the other party's array has never been seen before." Nagai Daori's son Nagai Michi said.

Nagai Daori flashed his eyes and said, "Don’t make a fuss. Li Xiao is extremely stupid. He divided the troops and gave me every opportunity to break through. You just assault forward. After defeating this army, I will go straight to Takeda Junben. Array."

As Mino's famous general Nagasi Tori, he personally led the army assault without keeping the tail of a snake in his eyes.

Immediately after the Nagai Army's taiko drums were beaten, the 700 troops also began to fight forward.

The two armies approached slowly, and within a quarter of an hour, they entered the range of each other's iron guns and bows.

Both sides fired together almost at the same time.

There was the roar of iron cannons in the center of the battlefield, and Nagai Daori actually prepared a lot of iron cannons. When the two sides started to shoot at each other, they were evenly divided, and there were casualties to each other.

But the next scene went far beyond Nagai Army's expectations.

The firepower of the Takeda Army’s iron cannons is endless, and after the launch, the Nagai Army’s iron cannon, which is standing in place and loading ammunition, is light enough, but while preparing for the second shot, it has no defense at all.

Every time the iron cannons of the Takeda army rang, there were several Nagai army's iron cannons. They seemed to convulse suddenly and hit the ground straight.

Seeing this, Nagai Tori was shocked, and immediately removed the iron cannon that was not enough to fire the second time. At the moment, he led the samurai Azuma to kill in the Takeda army.

But in the Takeda army's position, the firepower of the iron cannons is also continuous.

After the Takeda Army’s row of iron guns fired lightly, the second row immediately stood and fired. The third row and the fourth row seemed to be a never-ending cycle.

Although Nagaido Toshihiko's subordinates moved forward bravely, the closer they were to the Takeda army, the more they were killed by the opponent's iron cannon.

The famous samurai of the Nagai army with a sword in front of them fell one by one on the way to charge.

The Takeda Army's iron cannons who acted as the killers were light enough, but after the shooting, they retreated expressionlessly, as if they didn't react at all to the messy corpses in front of them.

After several years of training by Kinoshita Koichiro, this western country phalanx has been small, and the iron artillery teams on the two wings and the long spears in the center cooperate very closely.

This small version of the western phalanx is simply an extremely efficient killing machine.

In Europe, as soon as the phalanx of the West came out, the matchlock gun was used to its fullest effect, and the war was directly transferred to the era of hot weapons.

On the Nagai Army’s side, dozens of the most effective samurai in the front were killed by the Takeda Army’s iron cannon bows and arrows. The Nagai Army has lost the courage to attack~lightnovelpub.net~ The two sides have not yet joined the battle. The Nagai Army was defeated by Kinoshita Koichiro's counterfeit preparations.

As a famous Mino general, Tori Nagaido, before even hacking to death a Takeda army, he was encumbered by several sons and joined the route of defeat and escape.

At this time, the Takeda Army horseback squad had already been ready to hide behind the snake's tail.

With a swipe of the sword from Tsuchiya Masahiro, the 200-horse-ridden Takeda Army horse-riding team took advantage of the momentum to cover up and kill the Nagai Army.

The horses hooves rumblingly, the Kiso horses under the knight's hips rushed one by one, Takeda Hiroshima's flag finger swelled to its maximum in the air, and the knight on the horse turned the sword with his wrist, facing a group of fledglings who had seen defeat. The soldier, as if seeing a group of lambs to be slaughtered, showed a bloodthirsty expression on his face.

While the Nagai Dori who was fleeing, seeing the heavy cavalry of the Takeda Army arrive, he suddenly showed a look of despair.

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