Chapter 7 7. Fight the War with Your Own Body and Be the First to Reach the Battle

First of all, the war has reached this point, and Shirakawa has completely become a weakling. Although the food and water sources in the city can still be maintained, the people's hearts are floating.

Moreover, in a flat place downstream of Lianchuan, Yamanouchi's famous water conservancy expert Kitabatake University has been building a goose-shaped dike. Soon the water flow of Lianchuan will be greatly reduced, and the city will inevitably be short of water. The moat will also become an empty moat, and the city defense system will be further damaged.

Turning to siege, first of all, we don't have to deny the existence of catapults, siege scales, flying ladders, Lu Gongche, goose towers, etc. in the Japanese Warring States Period. But in addition to the cost problem, there is a bigger problem with this thing, that is, a certain noble who can make these things may have been so hungry that he sold his son to be a male PR, and the books on siege weapons in his family may be three inches thick with dust.

In the entire Warring States Period, except for Hosokawa Fujitaka, there is no record of using large-scale siege weapons. So what Xiao Pingtai is facing now is the most violent way of siege-ant attachment.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the first group to lose their lives were the more than 600 guides, the Jiangjiri shinfangzhong. This is the time to surrender.

So for three consecutive days, this group of guides worked very hard. Under the fire suppression of the iron cannon foot soldiers and bow foot soldiers supporting the main camp, they advanced layer by layer with wooden shields and bamboo bundles, filling a section of the trench. They also removed the ground spikes and fences outside the gate. At the same time, the deployment of troops in the Ichinomaru in the city was basically explored.

After nearly 200 casualties, their mission was accomplished. After all, there is a limit to how hard you work, and you can't squeeze them endlessly. After the city is broken, Jiangjiri will become the leader, and these guides will become the backbone of local rule.

So the second group of foreign nationals who lost their lives, that is, the Lianchuan Sixteen People where Xiao Pingtai was, and the other Hachiman Shrine People who needed to be suppressed, began to advance.

The two sides took turns to attack, and soon the so-called divine army of the shrine people broke through the already dilapidated outer city. In the absence of heavy casualties in the two armies, the order to continue the siege was issued.

As a small flag bearer, Xiao Pingtai finally experienced the cruelty of war. Although he did not need to attack first as a spearhead, he had to be caught in the battle and try to plant his flag on the enemy's wall. The lead bullets and arrows whizzing through the city basically killed Xiao Pingtai, who had no armor at all.

But Xiao Pingtai dared not go, and those foot soldiers also climbed up the stone wall. The means of siege were so inferior.

Although the defense was not very good, Xiao Pingtai's life would be reimbursed here.

As a protagonist who traveled through time, he was so helpless that he was on the verge of death for several consecutive days. It was probably the first one.

On the tenth day of the siege, Xiao Pingtai finally realized. People die and birds fly to the sky, but they will not die for thousands of years. Fight, if you can survive, you will be rewarded, and if you die, you will be buried in the yellow earth.

While continuing to be dragged into the city, Xiao Pingtai sacrificed himself to climb the three-meter-high stone wall. When he was about to climb up, he used his arm to resist the blow of the barrel gun. Suddenly, a heart-wrenching pain came, as if half of his arm was shattered. Xiao Pingtai, who was almost in pain, couldn't even hold on to the stone wall and fell directly.

The fingers of his other hand grabbed a corner of the stone wall. Regardless of the blood spilling from the scratches, he shouted and used all his strength to loosen a corner of the stone. He endured the severe pain and pulled out the two-drawn two-horse flag on his back and inserted it into the stone wall.

Finally, the horse flag representing his side was firmly inserted into the gap of the stone wall. The other side saw the two-drawn two-horse flag and panicked with a gun to poke him down.

How could Xiao Pingtai let him do what he wanted? He endured the severe pain and the blood on his slippery hands and inserted the horse flag more tightly.

He roared loudly: "Hosokawa Saimon is on top of the city wall! Hosokawa Saimon has already climbed to the top of the city wall!" The soldiers on both sides saw that the flag of the Nihikiryo had been planted on the stone wall and roared together. The Shirakawa army, which was originally on the edge of the city, suddenly lost its spirit.

Various shouts such as "Ninomaru has been broken", "such and such samurai has been killed", "Otemon has been captured" were heard everywhere. They swarmed to the castle tower and Honmaru, and some people opened the city gates and surrendered to the Shirakawa army.

As for Hosokawa Saimon, who had nominally fought a bloody battle to climb the city wall, he observed the battle for a long time and found that he had finally broken through, so he jumped out with his hands ready.

Hosokawa Saimon, who was freed from the protection of the wooden shield and guards, shouted: "Charge!" and rushed into the city with the living force. The shrine people behind him also swarmed in.

Xiao Pingtai touched his left hand and collapsed under the stone wall. He estimated that there was no fracture, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he smeared the blood on his hand on his face, pretended to be seriously injured, and sat on the ground peacefully.

He tried his best. At least he was not dead or seriously injured. However, in this era, being seriously injured is almost the same as being dead. I guess my arm will be in so much pain in the rainy days in the future.

After a lot of random thoughts, Xiao Pingtai was very grateful when he saw the army rushing into the city.

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