Pillars of the Wu family

The poisonous plan of Guangdeji Chengxian did have an unexpected effect, but Tokyuki Yamamoto, who was guarding the city, was not a good person. Knowing whether Songcang Castle would be attacked for a while, he came to Suweishan City to supervise the battle in person. The gold juice buried in the lower city for a long time was unsealed, and the peasants were busy setting up a large pot to boil the gold juice, and the boiling gold juice exuded an unconcealable stench.

Tokiyuki Yamamoto leaned on a bamboo stick and walked slowly to the cauldron containing the golden juice, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and frowned and said, "Uenosuke, take a good look, this is the defense of the castle recorded in "Wu Jing Zong Yao". I know why the old man built such a high stone city wall, standing on the wall and splashing an army with this thing will have a miraculous effect!"

Numata Yuguang coughed twice, couldn't stand the stench and deliberately pulled a little distance away, feeling better, then said: "You can also insert arrows into it to cook, but this method is not suitable, and is cast aside by samurai. Is it really okay for us to use this?"

"If he is not benevolent, then I will not be allowed to be unrighteous?" Tokiyuki Yamamoto snorted coldly: "The insidious and vicious tactics of civilians attacking the city are not done by samurai. If this vicious tactic is not used, the old man would not mind teaching him a lesson! The old man also knows that this method is harmful and should not be abused, so he transferred the Nationalist Army and the Shiina Army, and I will leave it to you to execute this one time. Let's not be an example!"

Numata Yuguang lifted his spirits, and quickly said solemnly: "Master, please rest assured!"

Seven or eight strong men covered their mouths and noses with cloth and walked up to the city wall carrying cauldrons containing golden juice. There were twenty such cauldrons all over the city wall of Shuiwei Mountain, and the foul-smelling golden juice contained in them became a whole city. Standing on the top of the city, Yuguang Numata looked at the frenzied Yiyikui believers below the city, showing a look of intolerance.He hesitated for a long time and couldn't bear to order.

At this moment, there was a commotion from the top of the city.In one place, a group of Kui believers climbed up the city wall by stepping on the bodies of their companions.Fortunately, the samurai of the Kira Army with quick eyesight and quick hands kicked him down again, and the slow-acting Ashigaru immediately rushed over and picked up his long spear and poked it fiercely, at least to resolve the crisis.

"It's not that I'm cruel, it's just that this troubled world is so cruel, I'm sorry!" Numata Yuguang waved his hand and shouted: "Pour the golden juice down! Aim at places where there are many people, don't waste it!"

The so-called golden juice is human excrement and urine, which can be used as medicine to treat diseases, and it is also a sharp weapon for defending the city recorded in military books.Boiling golden juice is the ancient version of biochemical weapons. Golden juice is different from boiling water or boiling oil. The former has poor thermal insulation performance and the latter is too expensive to collect materials. The golden juice has excellent thermal insulation performance once heated, not to mention being poured on the crowd in the city. On the Yikui army with no armor and light armor, even an elite warrior wearing an iron armor was poured on his head and face, and his end was only one word of death.

The Yikui army under the city had no idea that a catastrophe was imminent. The boiling golden juice splashed on them and immediately scalded their flesh and blood. Howling and rolling around.But the more he did this, the more the wounds on his body cracked, and the wailing was gradually drowned out by more screams.The figure also disappeared into the crazily surging Yikui army.

The stench of corpses and golden juice intertwine, facing the cool sea breeze in early autumn, blowing to the Yiyi camp on the south bank, vomiting the stench of those domineering monks. He couldn't open his mouth, his nose and tears kept dripping, and he wanted to die. It took him a while to recover. At this time, he had already vomited to the point that he didn't even have the strength to speak.

Twenty pots of golden juice were poured down, and the soaring stench completely extinguished the fanaticism of Yiyikui believers. When they came back to their senses, they found themselves in the middle of a mountain of corpses. The huge mental stimulation drove many Yikui believers crazy. The morale of the army collapsed, and tens of thousands of believers fled desperately.

As a last resort, Guangde Temple Chengxian dispatched the main force of the Kui army to try to restore the defeated morale, but the mountain of corpses under the city was unclear, and no one could stand on their feet. Hei retreated back in a daze of defeat, and tried all kinds of methods for several days, but couldn't solve it. The defenders in the city didn't react violently when they wanted to clean up the corpses.

As long as the arrow soaked in golden juice is hit by the arrow, the wound will rot within a few days, and then the wounded will crazily scratch until the whole body festers and dies. With this lesson learned, no one dares to go to the city to collect the corpses and let them rot. It's flies flying all over the sky, and the siege of the city is even more distant.

Fortunately, a violent storm swept over, and the torrential rain washed away the smell of rotting corpses. The defenders in the city couldn't stand the smell. With an order, thousands of people wore coir raincoats and threw the corpses into the soaring Zaoyue River under the heavy rain. After many days of heavy rain, the smell was finally washed away.

When the clouds harvested and the rain broke, it was less than half a month before the autumn harvest. Chengxian of Guangde Temple was in a hurry and sent a large army to continue to attack the city. Onslaught, worried about lack of vitality, specially sent [-] Iron Cannons to Otemon as fire support.

Ping-pong-pong iron cannons sounded one after another, and most of the Yikui army were rural servants who had never seen iron cannons before. When they heard the sound like spring thunder, they thought it was the thunder god cheering from the sky, and their morale was boosted immediately. The tempo sped up a bit, and the fortified city remained standing after another few days of storming. In half a month, more than 600 defenders in the city died in battle. The so-called five or seven-day seizure of the city became a complete joke.

Numata Youguang stood at the top of the city in high spirits, looking very excited. The exercise in the past few months was a test for his years of study, and it was also a huge improvement in his own level. He was in charge of every detail in Suweishan City. Leading thousands of troops and thousands of townspeople to complete such a large-scale defense of the city at the age of early twenties, such a valuable experience is not something everyone can come across.

"Master, I counted 45 silently before launching the second round of volleys. The Zongyifang is undoubtedly equipped with old-style iron cannons. From a distance, the morale of the Zongyi army is low and the formation is scattered. As long as there is a navy to cooperate and take a chance to go out for a decisive battle, I have Catch them off guard!" Yumitsu Numata looked extraordinarily confident, and in his eyes, the Ichikui Army was nothing more than that.

Tokiko Yamamoto was noncommittal about this, but changed the subject: "Uenosuke. You have done a good job recently. But it is not perfect. This old man has an important task for you. The siege of the Yikui army is very urgent, so you will take [-] national troops to support the defenders of Yujin City, and you will temporarily act as the city lord to exercise military power, but you must remember! You can only stick to the city and not go out to seek a decisive battle, understand ?"

"The army of four thousand people can only hold firm and not seek a decisive battle? Why did the master propose such harsh conditions?" Numata Yuguang did not dare to refute, and could only lead the troops to Uojin City full of doubts.

When it rained a few days ago.When the news came that the [-] Xiangyikui Army was besieging Uojin Castle as a partial division, Yasunon Shiina found Yamamoto Tokiyuki, hoping that the Kira Army would assist the Shiina family to block the [-] Yixiangyikui army, facing an absolute superiority in numbers and the old enemy Jinbo The senior enemy soldier, Shiina Yasushi himself did not have the guts to bring his little wealth to the rescue.

He was also afraid that if he really brought all his family assets to Yujin City, if the Kira Navy came across the river and demolished the bridge, he would only need to withdraw the firepower and material support from the sea, and let the [-] Xiangyi troops besiege Yujin City for a month at most. The city was about to run out of ammunition and food, so he offered a high price and was willing to pay the Kira family with land.

Tokyuki Yamamoto didn't speak clearly.His expectations for Numata Yuguang are still very high, but he is not mature enough and lacks independent experience.It is not a qualified general who can only fight with his own elite reserve team. There are still many wars that the Kira family will fight in the near future. If you want to become a commander, you must be familiar with the command method of the Chinese army. There is no shortcut can go.

Letting him only defend and not attack is also a kind of training and consideration. As long as his [-]-nation army cooperates properly with the Kira Navy, it is still possible to win a game or two with a surprise attack, but the enemy army on the opposite side is not Guangde Temple. Chengxian's big idiot, Yun Cheng of Shengxing Temple has more than [-] years of experience in leading the army, and the boss of Shenbochang is very familiar with Yuezhong and extremely difficult to deal with.

If Yumitsu Numata wins the last two games by accident, he will inevitably feel slack and contemptuous in his heart, and his judgment of attacking will be more hasty and subjective, which will definitely lead to big trouble. With the military strategy level of a few generals, he will soon be able to figure out Numata Youguang's level is very good, and with just a little cooperation, he can set up an ambush with his backhand and wipe out all the defenders of Yujin City.

Let him defend the city because he is afraid that he will do something stupid when his head is hot. This is similar to the principle of martial arts. If you want to learn to attack, you must first learn to defend. The four thousand new troops are training his commanding skills in defending the city in adversity. Only when he is able to lead a good team to defend the city in the face of an unfamiliar Chinese army can he be regarded as successful in his studies. Every challenge is a test for him. Threshold, he can be regarded as entering the room.

He sent Yumitsu Numata to practice. He knew that his choice was to gamble with his wealth and life. However, Tokyuki Yamamoto still had great confidence in Yumitsu Numata. After many years of contact and training, he knew that this apprentice was not a pedantic like Ma Di. Jin Jui Po Yi Kui is such a test. The pedant has no place to stand in this troubled world, and his performance has been proved to be very good.

As for the confused Shiina Kangyin who is just a young boy, this gentleman's thinking is very stupid and naive, and he also thinks that the Kira army will defend the city for him for free, and after the event is completed, he will randomly pick a piece of war-torn land that has no owner to the Kira family. It was also recognized that in the first year of Dayong (1521), Nagao was the guardian of Xinchuan County obtained by the Jing Dynasty, and the Shiina family Gan as the "you guardian generation" continued to control the actual control of Xinchuan County.

I have to say that his ideals are very fulfilling, but the reality is so skinny. Tokiyuki Yamamoto dismissed his perfunctory words. The Kira family did not stick to Etsuchu for nothing, and invested so much money and food It also costs money, how can it be settled by the careless guardian of the Shiina family in one fell swoop.

It is not impossible to move Kira's family to rescue soldiers and aid Uojin City. The prerequisite is to exchange a large area of ​​territory near Uojin City. As long as Shiina Yasushi nods, the army will go to Uojin City the next day. The proposal was immediately rejected by Shiina Yasushi. This gentleman has great ambitions and daydreams of unifying Yuezhong. It is strange to hear that he is not in a hurry to cut off his own land.

The Yujin army started to move again after the rainstorm, and Yujin City urged even more urgently. The thousand defenders in the city were guarded by an unknown general, and the Kira Navy was not willing to take risks for them. Seeing that the city was about to be breached, he couldn't help it. Hesitating, Shiina Yasushi can be sure that the Kira Army probably has a way to persist after the Uojin City is broken.

He didn't have this ability himself. Many of the more than 3000 people in his only family were Chinese people near Yujin City. Once Yujin City was breached, they would lose the support of land and soldiers.Farmers and soldiers don't care what your countrymen think, they must run back to their hometown.

Because people are social creatures, they have a herd mentality.As long as the first deserter appears.Soon there will be more and more deserters, and the snowball will get bigger and bigger, and the morale that was originally good will collapse. Without the peasants and soldiers, there will be no Chinese, and without the support of the Chinese, the Shiina family will be in danger.

In the end, Shiina Kangyin chose to give in and was willing to give half of the Shiina family’s land to reward the Kira family, provided that the Kira family must promise to protect the Shiina family from being violated by Yi Yikui. He also hopes to go to Kasuga Mountain City to visit the town hall after the war.The meaning expressed is almost that he wants to exchange half of the land for the qualification to get a ride in the Kira family. Tokiko Yamamoto accepted his proposal, and invited Shiina Changchang to visit Kasuga Mountain Castle at an appropriate time, bluffing Shiina Koyin With a pale face, he fled in embarrassment after a few hasty sentences.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see the level of Shiina Kangyin. In the past few years, the Shiina family has been able to barely withstand the Jinbao family's attack. Shiina Koyin can destroy half of the Shiina family's foundation, and it is enough to remove the Shiina family from Yuezhong within ten years.

On the evening of the second day, the army of four thousand people rushed to Uojin City on the return ship of the Kira Navy.For the Kira Army's blatant dispatch of troops to rescue, the reaction of the Ichikui Army has only been staring and swearing.They have no navy and are powerless to stop them. The Kira family is taking advantage of the gap in the evening when the Ichikui army calls for gold and withdraws troops to respond to meals. You are blocking or not blocking or not. In a dilemma, you can only watch them go downstream by boat. Uojin City.

The main force of the Kira Marine Ranger did not dare to go deep into the Saatsuki River, because the river was not wide, and the Ranger's ships were not enough. The fleet consisted mainly of returning ships to transport supplies, and guarded a port in Uozu Castle. It is more difficult, and asking them to block is simply letting them die.

A few days later, the morale of the Ichikui side recovered. It seemed that their monks had instilled many things to encourage them to be brave in their sacrifices. In short, the Yikui army, which was less than [-] people, once again mustered up the courage to attack aggressively. They learned their lessons and dared not use them. After the tactics of rushing to the city, the smart ones have always kept the Kui army from touching the top of the city, so now they don't even need the golden juice.

Their main attack direction is still on a few city gates. With the advantage of manpower, they cut down a few big trees and made them into battering rams. The garrison at the head was powerless to do anything about it. They could not pour gold juice from the arrow scull. Seeing that the situation was not good, Tokiko Yamamoto simply gave up this attempt. He only soaked a small amount of gold juice with the arrow and continued to use it as a biochemical weapon, and removed the rest.

The calm down Ichikui army is still very difficult to deal with. Fighting around the city gate is a deadlock. No matter how strong the gate is, there will always be a moment when it is breached. When the shaky Otemon survived the fifth day, Tokiyuki Yamamoto Knowing that he must be prepared for a tough battle, he actively mobilized the warriors to boost morale, and arranged for the defenders in the city to have a good meal and a good rest.

At dawn on the second day, the Ichikui Army launched a full-scale attack. Before noon, the Otemon Gate was finally smashed through by a battering ram. The Ichikui Army swarmed in like hungry wolves frantically pouring into the city. The Kira Army retreated while fighting. Sannomaru stood firm, and a tragic siege battle was inevitable.

In the city, the [-] Kira Army and the [-] Shiina Army defended their positions, and faced the storm-like attacks again and again. Cold guns, if it weren't for the biochemical weapons in their hands to blow their morale, the defenders in the city would not know how to deal with the crazy Yiyikui army.

The morale of both sides is incomparable. The Kui army has an active advantage in terms of numbers, and the defenders have an absolute advantage in terms of equipment and training. The main reason is that the geographical advantage gives Yamamoto Tokiyuki the confidence to continue the stalemate. Machu and Mikazukibori are like a huge labyrinth, with towering walls and arrow sculls becoming the main firepower for harvesting life.

The Yikui army has always paid a huge price if they have no money to go further. If they don’t kill a defender, they must pay several times or even ten times the casualties. It was hard to break the Otemon gate. After a night of repairs, it was blocked by debris the next day. If you want to attack, you have to remove the blocked debris before continuing to attack. benefit.

The defenders were injured during the day and retreated to Songcang City to recuperate after retreating at night. The defenders who filled the rear continued to defend the city.Tossing back and forth like this has exhausted Yi Xiang Yi Kui.Guangde Temple Chengxian also tried to send a large army to stay in the outer city.At the very least, we must keep the achievements made during the day. When the main force retreats to Xiguang Temple as soon as the sun goes down, the defenders in several other cities will come from outside the city, and the internal and external attacks will eat up this team.

Losing thousands of elites in vain did not achieve any results. Guangde Temple Chengxian seemed to realize that the situation was far beyond his imagination. Seeing that the autumn harvest was imminent and he had not even pulled down a city, he also became anxious and immediately ordered The Yikui Army must capture Shuiwei Mountain City at all costs within three days.

Zong Yikui is determined to capture Shuiwei Mountain City.He even gave up the attack on several other castles, in order to take down Shuiwei Mountain City and wipe out the defenders. According to the theory of Guangde Temple Chengxian, as long as the defenders of Shuiwei Mountain City are wiped out, the other small cities are not to be feared at all. Songcang Castle can also be captured in an instant.

It has to be said that his opinion is correct. Mizuo Mountain City gathers [-]% of the main force of the defenders. When the [-] army concentrates on attacking Mizuo Mountain City, and the Otemon Gate of this mountain city has long been broken, defending the city becomes an extremely difficult task. Task.

The Yikui army has always attacked very quickly.All the officials of Yuezhongfang went into battle, and attacked Sannomaru under the cover of Ashigaru holding a rifle.Sannomaru is still a stone wall with earthen boroughs and built-in arrow sculls, and several tiger mouths are easily blocked by the complex structure of Mikazukibori. To cross Mikazukibori, you need not only filling but also digging. It is almost impossible for a Kui army.

The main force of the defenders is stationed in several tiger mouths, making this place an insurmountable gap. The narrow and long trails are only for two people to pass side by side. The Ashgaru team rushed in and within a quarter of an hour, the entire army was wiped out. They wisely gave up their plan to continue to storm the tiger's mouth, and instead forcibly filled up Horikiri's wall and broke into Sannomaru.

Tokyuki Yamamoto stood on the terrace of the castle tower and looked sideways at the battle of the cage city below the city. The sound of iron cannons from time to time made his brows tightly frowned. It is no problem to shoot the unarmored enemy within 20 meters. The large number of casualties of the defenders in the city basically come from the salvo of iron cannons. It only needs [-] iron cannons to focus their fire together. The ashigaru caused damage, and this lasted for more than a dozen rounds, and it was basically impossible to stand on the arrow scull.

The way the defenders responded was very interesting. They simply carried the bamboo bundles onto the arrow oars as a defensive weapon. There were two or three narrow gaps between the six or seven thick bamboo bundles that were only for shooting. This kind of response made the old iron The cannon is completely useless. For the iron cannon, the hit rate is as unpredictable as the floating clouds in the sky. Occasionally, it is lucky to hit the bow and arrow in the gap, just like winning a big prize.

The soil filling team worked very quickly, and in just one day they sacrificed hundreds of lives to fill in a passage over the stone wall. The few Ichikui warriors who broke into the Sannomaru were immediately gathered by a large group of archers. Huo was shot at a human-shaped hedgehog before he could run a few steps.

More and more ashigaru climbed over the city wall one after another, and the defenders in the city once again resorted to new tactics. The long-prepared oil was thrown at the Ichikui army who broke into Sannomaru with clay pots, and the damaged oil pot splashed all over the body. It was oil, and the bow and arrow Ashigaru replaced the long-prepared rockets and fired at the oil, clusters of flames ignited out of thin air, and the firemen struggled and rolled, tearing the armor on their bodies, trying to free themselves, and soon they turned into A pool of rotten meat whose faces cannot be discerned.

In three days, Ichikui's army experienced repeated failures and finally took full control of Sannomaru, but all the soldiers, food, and weapons in Sannomaru were transferred to Ninomaru, and the defenders calmly withdrew to Ninomaru after paying hundreds of lives. Ninomaru continued to stand firm, and the next step to meet them was Ninomaru's stone wall with a built-in arrow scull in the soil.

Regardless of the method of filling the soil or the concentration of iron cannons, they failed to bring victory to the Ichikui army. The autumn harvest is approaching. The city can be breached in five or seven days. Later, it was completed in half a month, and then it became a month. In the end, it was said that it must be breached before the autumn harvest. With many lives, Guangde Temple Chengxian is under tremendous pressure.

After a fierce dispute that lasted all night, there were dozens of officials who unilaterally announced the retreat within the Ichikui Army early the next morning. In one day, only the remaining 2 taels of the Kaga Kingdom were left with the [-] troops. Thousands of people, the Yuezhongfang official who was the loudest flatterer a month ago is also the most determined to leave. Since you can't bring them benefits, you should be abandoned, no matter who you are.

It's not that the Kaga Ichikui Army didn't want to leave, it's that they followed the order of General Chaoshoji Misho to help out, and if they retreated back at this time, they couldn't do business. If they didn't leave, it didn't mean they still had the heart to continue fighting and die. The officials of He Yikui's army united to persuade Chengxian of Guangde Temple to stop in time. If they can't break this time, they will fight next time.

What if Chengxian of Guangde Temple is unconvinced?His arm couldn't twist his thigh, and there were only a hundred or so monks and soldiers in his hand who were his cronies, and they still stayed in Xiguang Temple to act as a domineering force. Those who really fought and died were those officials. led the army to retreat.

At this time, Mizuo Mountain City seemed to have experienced a catastrophe. Most of the houses were destroyed and fragmented. The stone wall of Sannomaru was smashed into several deep gaps. Abandoned everywhere, many corpses were covered with flies, and the whole street was filled with an unconcealable stench.

The defenders in the city killed 800 people, and almost all of the remaining Ashgaru were wounded and died. Among the dead soldiers, the Shiina Army and the Kira New Army accounted for half. The Kira New Army died so many because they were on the front line. Bearing the greatest casualties, two out of every three Ashgaru who were killed by iron cannons were members of Kira's new army, and the more guards, the more deaths.

The reason why the Shiina army suffered more casualties was that they were not familiar with the military orders of the Kira family, and they did not respond to the signal to retreat, or they moved slowly when they started to retreat, causing unnecessary losses. Losses increase a lot.

At the same time, the defensive battle of Uozu Castle was also successfully persisted until the final victory. Not long after arriving in Uozu Castle, Numata Yumitsu understood the special meaning of those two orders. The rhythm of the siege is just right, and sometimes he uses the strategy of attacking east and west so that he is too tired to deal with it every day, and he is unable to think about sneaking out of the city.

Fortunately, the [-] national troops he brought had a deep hatred for Yiyikui, and the overall morale remained good. In addition, the original defenders in the city and the deterrence of the two cities of Kyrgyzstan against Haiwan and Zaoyuechuan were worthy of this difficult cage. The city battle persists until the final victory.

After learning the news of the retreat led by Chengxian of Guangde Temple, Shengxing Temple Yuncheng, who was determined to seize the city first, was also relieved. The 3000 Xiangyi Kui army surrounded a Pingcheng for a month and lost 6000. It's a bit ugly that many people didn't capture it in the end, but it's much better than the big idiot of Guangde Temple Chengxian. He died more than [-] people, even if more than half of them are ordinary believers, he can't hide his idiot Nature.

The victories in the two battles of the Cage City should not make them careless. When Yamamoto returned to Matsukura Castle, he strictly ordered the army not to go out to collect grain, let alone attack at will. The Yikui army has always wanted to grab the grain west of Zaoyuechuan and let them go. Harvest, don't risk your life to harvest that little grain.

Most of the land in Vietnam was abandoned for a few months because of the war. The owner of the field either fled to Songcang Castle or was robbed without even a pair of pants. In the end, he was forced to choose to join the farmland that has always been one or continue to flee without care. How much food can be produced is still a question, and it is not wise to take the risk to grab that little food.

Fortunately, there is still some food on the front line of Yujin City, and the unwilling part has always been the Kuifang official with his own soldiers, crossing the border to invade the vicinity of Yujin City in an attempt to grab food, and was ambushed several times by the local Chinese by virtue of the geographical advantage. Having suffered a lot, they wanted to retaliate but had no confidence to face the blockade of high walls and deep fortifications. They did not dare to act recklessly without the great monks of Yixiangzong to preside over the grain collection. They yelled at Yujin City and retreated in a hurry. (To be continued..)