Warring States Eagle

On the second day after the Luo family launched the siege of Kokura Castle, both Sugi Takakage and Sugi Shigeki in Xiaokura Castle were preparing to continue to face the fierce siege of the Luo family, but they suddenly discovered that In the next two days, except for continuing to besiege Xiaocang City, the Luo family's army did not attack the city again.

Although the Luo family turned to launch a harassment war against Xiaocang City at night, at least the defenders in the city did not have to directly engage in fierce cage battles with the Luo family, so everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when the defenders in the city relaxed, on the morning of the fourth day when the Luo family army besieged Xiaocang City, the Luo family suddenly launched a siege battle against Xiaocang City.But compared to the previous attack, the way the Luo family's army launched the attack this time has new changes.I saw that they were not taking the method of crowds climbing the city wall to attack the city, but lifted out a large arrow shield made of wet branches and trunks to resist the bow and arrow attacks on the city, and then quickly rushed towards the city gate. near.

"Hurry up, boil the water and scald them to death." Seeing this, Sugi Chongji, who was on the top of the city near the gate of the hand, saw this. Although he didn't know what the Luo family's army was planning to do under these shields, he immediately had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart. It was a wonderful feeling, so I ordered it immediately.

Ordinary arrows, stones, wood and other defensive weapons obviously cannot cause too much damage to the soldiers of the Luo family under these shields, but the kerosene in the city is basically used up, so he had to temporarily order people to go Boil water, ready to use boiling water as a weapon for defending the city.

It is obviously too late to boil water only now.I saw this huge "shield" of Luo's family quickly approaching the door, and then piled up bags of things by the door, and the last standing one directly ignited the ignition wire.He hid directly under the huge "shield".

After the ignition wire was ignited, a puff of blue smoke came out immediately.Then there was a "boom".There was a loud bang at the door.

"Boom!" Before Sugi Shigeki on the top of the castle figured out what was going on, there was an almost identical loud noise from the Otemon Gate in the west.The two loud bangs almost shook the entire Xiaocang City, and some of the guarding soldiers in Xiaocang City were so frightened that they sat on the ground directly.

These things that make a loud "bang" are naturally the improvised explosive kits that the Luo family made in the past two days.Because of this time, all engineering weapons, gunpowder and other materials are prepared to be transported by water. (The main reason for not carrying these things with the army is to speed up the march, so that the army can quickly pass through the territory of the Aso family, and at the same time launch a lightning attack on the Buzen area. In order to increase the speed. This time the army even only carried enough food for five days That is to say, if the supplies transported by the navy of the Japanese family have not arrived tomorrow, then everyone, including Masahiro, will start to starve the day after tomorrow).

After seeing that his family was blocked during the siege, Zheng Liang immediately thought of a way, which was to gather part of the gunpowder carried by the Iron Pao Squadron, and then create two huge simple explosive packs.Then they concentrated manpower to create a giant "shield" that was used to cover the "demoman" from reaching the city gate.It took a total of two days to fiddle with it.All preparations were finally completed yesterday.So these explosive packs were sent to the field immediately today.

To be honest, Zhengliang was also worried that these improvised explosives would not work.You must know that these two explosive packs have gathered all the gunpowder reserves of the Iron Cannon Team, and now the Iron Cannon without gunpowder has become a fire stick without gunpowder.And if these explosives don't work in the ongoing siege battle, then they have to temporarily withdraw their troops.Then wait for the water army to deliver the siege weapons before launching the attack.

Fortunately, in the two city gates.Although the explosion at the west Otemon gate did not blow open the city gate, the Tote gate was opened.At this time, the soldiers of Yoshida Shigemasa's Right Front, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately rushed into the gate of the hand, and from here they went straight to the city.After a scuffle, the gates of the big hands in the west were also opened by soldiers from the Luo family on the right, and Aguda's front line also poured into the courtiers at the same time.

There were only a few hundred guards, and when faced with the attack of nearly 1000 people, they were obviously outnumbered. Some of them immediately dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender. die.Sugi Takakage and Sugi Shigeki, who were guards, were also captured in the fierce battle.These two people were unlucky enough, they finally got back from being exchanged from Luo's family by Ouchi's family, and finally died in the hands of Luo's family.

While fighting fiercely in Xiaocang Castle, the left camp of the Luo family, who camped in Zichuan, southeast of the Luo family's main camp, also encountered the joint reinforcements of the Sugi family and the Nagano family who came to rescue Xiaocang Castle.

Because the Luo family was blocked from attacking Kokura Castle, the Sugi and Nagano families who were closest to Kokura Castle finally recovered from the shock of the Luo family's sudden invasion of Buzen Kingdom, and immediately organized a part of the army and began to attack Xiaokura. Cangcheng rescue.After all, Kokura Castle is the gateway to the Kokura Plain of Buzen Country. Once Kokura Castle is lost, the next target of the Luo family's attack will naturally be the territory of the Sugi and Nagano families.

"Haha, good time!" Looking at the menacing Shan family and Nagano family coalition forces coming along the south side of the east bank of Zichuan, the chief executive of the left formation of the Luo family stationed in the north direction of the east bank of Zichuan laughed. up.

"My lord, should I ask the lord for his opinion first before attacking?" the more cautious Gunmeko Roshi Shingoro said.

"What are you waiting for? My lord has already sent someone to inform me. Moreover, judging from the distance between our station and the main line of the lord, we have already handed over the opponent by the time the lord's order comes back." Lieutenant General Uemura This outline is said.

"That's right, don't wait any longer, attack!" Chichi Changren, who had already been fighting on the other side, said.

"The decisive battle is today!" The executioner made up his mind at this time.

"Haha! I'm going to blow up those brats in front!" Marume Raimi clamored and waved her fists in a fiery temper.

Seeing the expressions of these people, Roshi Shingoro knew that he didn't need to say anything anymore, so he also drew the sword from his waist.Ready to fight.

that's all.After discovering each other.Immediately, the two armies silently began to line up in the north and south directions of the river beach on the east bank of Zichuan.

"Is this the strength of the Luo family's army? Is the opponent planning to attack first?" said Shigemo Sugi, the general in the army formation between the Sugi family and the Nagano family.From his point of view, the Luo family's army was divided into several small square formations, arranged in steps, with a slightly convex front end, like a fish scale formation.

"Don't underestimate your opponent! After all, the opponent is the army of the invincible Hizen Eagle!" Nagano Family Governor Nagano Yoshibo said on the other side.Compared with the Luo family, the overall formation on their side looks okay, but the soldiers seem to be mixed.Many farmers and soldiers even took bamboo as weapons.There is only bamboo armor on the body.And some of the opponents were wearing a kind of armor they had never seen before (the Roche unique to the Luo family was only available for regular ashigaru), while the other part were wearing armor that is currently more popular among the famous families of various wealthy families. common enough.The Luo family is much better than their own in terms of formation and weapon preparation.

"Hmph, the other party seems to have only about 500 people, but we have more than 1000 people here, why should we be afraid of them?" Shan Zhongji said in a cold voice.Speaking of which, Shigemo Sugi, a traditional aristocratic family, disdains the sudden rise of the Luo family, an upstart, especially when he thinks of Hizen Taka who was still close and servile to Yoshitaka Ouchi, he is even more disdainful.Now that Nagano Yoshikado is showing off his aspirations in front of him, he is naturally very dissatisfied.

"Then I will entrust everything to the Guardian Commander." Seeing Sugi Shigemo's expression was unhappy.Nagano Yifang said immediately.

Soon after, the coalition forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family began to move towards the Luo family's army.After the distance is close.The six teams of soldiers sped up their speed and left the formation to start contacting the Luo family's army, attacking the front-line reserve team in charge of Chief Chi Chi.

As soon as the two armies fought, the Luo family was at the top, suppressing the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family outside the spear formation.Shingoro Shingoro, who is the rear line, is counting the casualties on both sides.Most battles between powerful daimyos during the Warring States Period were low-intensity wars, meaning that not many people died in head-to-head confrontation.The average soldier can withstand a casualty rate of [-]%, which is quite strong.To withstand [-]% of the casualties without retreating belongs to the elite.

"It won't be long before the Sugi family and the Nagano family's allied forces will retreat in the first battle." Looking at the battle situation in front, Roshi Shingoro said confidently.Sure enough, the Sugi family and the Nagano family's allied forces fled back after a few samurai roared a few times.

"My lord, let's start the chase." Marume Raimi, who is on the left side of the fish-scale formation, asked to fight. His army was not in the lead, and he had long held his breath in his heart. .”

"Wait, look over there!" The chief general was performing the task but pointing at the battlefield, the second formation of the Sugi family and Nagano family coalition quickly took over the space left by the retreat of the first formation, avoiding being chased by the Luo family's forces.

"Even so, we can defeat it with one blow!" said Marume Raimei, "My lord gave the order"

"Well, it's almost done, pass the order, and the whole army goes out!" At this time, the executioner also felt that it was almost done, so he immediately ordered.Although there are only 500 people on their side, there are [-] standing ashigaru squads standing by. Even the other [-] peasant soldiers came as standing reserve peasant soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than ordinary peasant soldiers. up.

"Ha!" Marume Raimi, Uemura Motozuna, and Roshi Shingoro, who had been waiting for a long time, yelled out of breath, turned around and ran to their respective front positions to command, "Ready to attack!"

"Array and raise guns!"

"Huh!" The pikemen in the Luo family's phalanx immediately raised three pikes in unison.There is a slight distance between people and they stand in three rows at attention.

"Go slowly!"

"Huh!" The Luo family's phalanx echoed and began to march forward.There were bursts of crashing sounds on the armor, like a raging tide, one overriding the other.

"kill!"

"kill!"

Every five steps the Luo family's phalanx took was a loud cry.The white flag and the black Luo's family's eagle family crest are moving forward like flocks of eagles hunting.With spears like forests and bugles like thunder, the morale of the Luo family's army was greatly boosted.

Akachi Changren, who was in the middle of a fierce battle with the opponent, was encouraged by the aura of the main family's army at the back, and he stood up first and shouted: "Little ones, the army of the adults is here to support us! Break through the enemy army in one breath! "The roar is over.The first soldiers rushed to the third formation of the Sugi family and Nagano family coalition forces.

"Kill!" Chichi Changren's team roared and charged behind Chichi Changren.

"Hmph. I'm planning to break up my army formation. It's wishful thinking with just a few people!" Seeing Chichi Changren's square team charging towards him, Shan Shigemo said with disdain.Immediately, he commanded the troops under his command to encircle and wipe out this phalanx before the troops behind the Luo family arrived.

"Haha! The more cubs of the Shan family, the better!" Seeing more and more enemy troops besieged, Chief Akachi laughed while wielding a knife, "I'll chop, I'll chop, I'll chop! chop chop!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" At this time, there were bursts of roars from behind.A huge cry began to echo over the entire battlefield.It turned out that the Luo family's army from the rear arrived in time and at an extremely fast speed.

"Ping gun. Quick step!"

The chief general executed the command and leveled the gun, commanding loudly.So the spears around the ashigaru immediately leveled their weapons and trot forward.Seeing this, Sugishige in front immediately sent four teams from the Sugi family and Nagano family coalition forces to stop them.

"Get ready to meet the enemy, charge!" Seeing that the enemy army is also coming, under the command of Executive Zhongjian, the soldiers of the Luo family raised their weapons and charged at the enemy more than ten steps away.The three-pointed spear formation was like cutting tofu, piercing into the formation of the coalition forces of the Rushan family and the Nagano family.The spear head stabs the enemy in an instant, pierces out from behind, and the human body hangs on the spear like a meat skewer.A long-armed soldier with a battle result needs to shake the gun vigorously to draw the weapon.

"Slow down, gun fur!" The executioner gave another order.The ashigaru spears immediately changed from stabbing to hitting, and more than a hundred spears struck up and down together.If you look down from above at this time.You will find that the Luo family's gun array swept away the Sugi and Nagano coalition forces like a broom, and the Sugi and Nagano coalition forces fell down row by row.A member of the Sugi family and Nagano family coalition forces was stabbed in the thigh and fell to the ground thinking he was dead.Seeing the spearmen of Luo's family stepping past him, he didn't seem to notice him, and just as he was very lucky, he saw a wild sword slashing at his head.

The soldiers of the Luo family stepped forward on the corpses of the allied forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family. Akachi Changren, who was at the forefront, did not know how many people he had killed at this time, and he was also injured because of it. Only Feather Arrow, but still laughed loudly and shouted: "Happy! Happy!"

At this time, the executive Zhong Jian and others repelled the combined forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family. The fallen corpses were in pieces, and the blood flowed down the slope into the purple river next to it, turning the whole purple river into a bloody streak. long river.

The executioner thought in his mind: "If you repel another wave of enemy troops, the morale of the enemy will collapse."

Just as he was carrying out the calculation in his mind, Sugi Shigemo, who was on the opposite side, saw that his own army was twice or three times stronger than the opponent's, and was defeated steadily by the opponent.So under his command, a samurai team in full armor swarmed over with many ashigaru.

"Gun fur!" Seeing the situation, the executioner was also terrified, and immediately shouted.

"Huh!" The Luo family's spear ashigaru roared, and the three spears danced up and down, completely covering the front of the battle in the forest of spears.And the Shan family coalition army warriors relied on their armor and martial arts skills to sweep away the long spears in front of them, rolled forward to avoid the sweeping attack, and approached Luo's family Ashgaru. ,

"As long as I break into this spear array, the other party is finished!" A warrior just wanted to get up, a cold light hit his shoulder, and he was beaten to the ground, and then three or four three-pointed spears chopped at him with the side edge, struggling He died in a few strokes.These attacks came from the second and third platoons of spear ashigaru.Dozens of corpses lay down in front of the spearmen in an instant.

Seeing that they could not break through the Shan family's coalition forces head-on, relying on their numerical superiority, the Shan and Nagano family's coalition forces, under the command of Sugi Shigemo, surrounded them from the side of the Luo family's army.In this case, the camp of the Luo family became dangerous again.

"Woooooooo..."

At the critical moment, I only heard the sound of the French conch horn coming from behind.Executing the species and stabbing a samurai of the Sugi family to death with one shot, and then looked back.In the distance, a black torrent was rapidly approaching.

"Rumble..." Immediately afterwards, everyone felt the ground start to vibrate.

"Ah, it's my family's cavalry squad! It's my clan's cavalry squad!" the sharp-eyed Roshi Shingoro suddenly shouted in the rear.

"Ah! It's our reinforcements! The reinforcements are here! Our reinforcements are here!" There was a burst of cheers from the Luo family's army formation.

"Kill it! Reinforcements are coming! Kill me! Don't let those guys from the cavalry squad steal our credit!" At this time, the executioner Kaneya shouted!

"Kill it!" The morale of the Luo family's army was immediately boosted.On the contrary, seeing the black torrent in front of them getting closer, the morale of the soldiers on the side of the Shan family coalition army dropped instantly.

"Master Guardian, what should we do?" Seeing that the cavalry reinforcements from the Luo family were getting closer, Yoshika Nagano couldn't help asking.

"Retreat, retreat!" Shan Zhongji on this side suddenly changed his face at this time, and ordered immediately.The reason why Shan Zhongju made the decision to retreat so decisively was because he roughly estimated the number of reinforcement cavalry from the Luo family.God!There are at least four hundred riders or more.This is really the largest cavalry team in Kyushu.In such a plain area, when the infantry encountered such a large number of cavalry, they would simply end up being slaughtered, so he gave the order to retreat without hesitation.

"Ah? My lord, wait for me!" After giving the retreat order, Shan Zhongji immediately pulled the rein of the horse, turned the horse's head and fled.Nagano Yifang, who finally reacted, exclaimed immediately.

"Whoosh!"

"Hiss!" Unfortunately, at this time, a stray arrow suddenly shot from the front, and it happened to hit the left eye of Nagano Yoshika's crotch horse, who was turning the horse's head.The war horse neighed miserably, stood up directly, and unloaded Nagano Yifang from the horse's back. Nagano Yifang let out a scream of "ah" and fell directly to the ground.

"Ah! The lord has run away!" Someone from the Shan family coalition army exclaimed at some point.

"what?"

"Flee!" The soldiers of the Sugi family and the Nagao family's allied forces immediately turned around and ran away.

"Kill!" The Luo family's army behind them immediately took advantage of the victory and pursued. (To be continued..)