A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After wandering around and cursing in the streets for more than ten consecutive days, the city has long been accustomed to being besieged by the Kwantung Allied Forces. After all, seeing all the Hojo naval forces being expelled into Odawara Port, the return ships from Kaidou kept coming day and night. The soldiers were unloading food and salt from morning to night, and there was plenty of smoke from cooking outside the city every day.

No matter who looks at it, the Kwantung Allied Forces must have embraced the wealthy and wealthy Nagao Kagetora. Now Nagao Kagetora was waving a lot of money and bought at least two or three months' worth of food from Kaidou (the city's estimate was wrong, it was actually only a little over a month). Once this batch of grain is finished, the grain for the summer harvest will arrive.

As long as Nagao Kagetora is patient enough, he can surround Odawara Castle for at least half a year. Although the food in Odawara Castle can support the 20,000-strong army for at least a year and a half, now that Odawara is isolated from the inside and outside, it is difficult to deal with the 50,000 townspeople's mouths. Based on this calculation, the food in Odawara Castle is only enough for seven or eight months.

In this way, the outcome would be 50-50, and few of the Ashigaru people in the city could figure this out. But most warriors with a certain level of education can basically see it. Anyway, Nagao Kagetora's money was all robbed. He used the money to buy food. With the food, he could surround Odawara. This effortless, death-proof method of siege is simply the best choice at the moment.

So most of the samurai began to slack off. After all, they were about to face a boring siege for more than half a year. When the Ashigaru saw that their leaders were distracted, they all started to relax. Although they are still on guard as normal, they are not as hard as they were when the war started.

The result was beyond the expectations of the Hojo Army. Half a month passed in a hurry. After all preparations were completed, today Nagao Kagetora forced more than 20,000 weaklings (these civilians who were captured and sold, anyway) All the families of the soldiers in the city who were of value had been selected long ago, and the remaining ones were just able to use their residual energy and devote themselves to the "just" cause). The strong ones resisted the rice bags, the weak ones dragged the dirt bags, and the men, women, old and children were driven away in a chaotic manner. Come to the army.

As for the formation, there were crudely made carriages carrying a large number of earthen rice bags, and hundreds of them moved with the army to a distance of 150 meters in front of the city.

Suddenly, the Kwantung Allied Forces were seen in the city. The alarm bell rang loudly, and countless soldiers rushed to the barrier. The flags and flags of the third-order rhombus formed into a cloud, rolling over the top of the city.

Xiao Pingtai commanded the front formation on horseback, and Aji followed closely holding the horse sign of Sunlight and Moonlight. Soon the carriages all drove out of the military formation alone. The crudely made carriage creaked and creaked under the weight of the rice bags on the carriage. The quality of the pack horses was far inferior to that of the war horses. Feeling the scent of the battlefield, each one snored and stomped their feet in a panic. They seemed to feel the fate of being abandoned on the battlefield.

As for the driver, he would definitely not use the Yamauchi family's own soldiers or Nagao Kagetora's soldiers. Every Ashigaru samurai is so precious. They must have also taken advantage of the people captured by the Nagao Kagetora people, and used their families as coercion to force hundreds of young and strong men who knew how to drive to let them drive.

Then twenty or thirty vehicles lined up in a line, pierced the horse's buttocks, and drove the carriage quickly towards the ditch, with billowing smoke rising into the clear blue sky. There was a loud noise with people shouting and horses neighing. Xiao Pingtai told the groom that as long as he could jump out of the car and come back alive, he would be rewarded with rice per person and the whole family would be redeemed and released.

Then a bloody and exciting scene occurred. The packhorses pulled the loaded carriage into the ditch, breaking bones and muscles. Then it made a huge splash and sank to the bottom with a cry.

However, the carriages rushed towards the trench from behind in a steady stream. The soldiers on the earthen base were stunned for a moment. Even a few archers and cannons could not hit the horses in a hurry. Even if they hit the horses for a while, they would not die.

In just twenty or thirty minutes, hundreds of carriages rushed into the trench. Except for a few who failed, most of them successfully entered the water. The corpses of men, horses and carts filled up several trenches without any accident.

At this time, Koheita could no longer care about the casualties of the men and horses. He gave the order to the rear formation. Nagao Kagetora immediately sent two thousand iron gunners and one thousand heavy cane archers under partial protection. They divided into three sections and charged to the third level of the city with bamboo bundles and wooden poles. Set up a bunker ten meters away, and then fire in sections to suppress the city. The Hojo army behind the fence was shot so hard that they could not raise their heads.

Seeing the battle situation like this, no need for Koheita to say, the samurai Ashikaga under Nagao Kagetora raised their swords and guns, followed the passage left by the iron gunners, and under the cover of fire, forced more than 20,000 foot soldiers to rush to the city, throwing rice bags. bumpkin. Even if these weaklings were accidentally shot and wounded under the city, no one would stop to rescue them, and they would directly build the foundation for climbing the city. Who cares about their life or death when the war begins? Nagao Kagetora doesn't care that these are his property, and Koheita doesn't even care.

There is a war, let alone talking about people and people. In this Warring States period, except for the samurai ashigaru, everyone else is nothing in the eyes of the daimyo. A few of them die is nothing. Xiaoping understood this basic understanding too early.

What's more, this method has been used by more than a few people at home and abroad, from East Asia to Western Europe. Especially the so-called rogue bandits, who drive the people away to consume the defenders' ammunition and supplies, and reduce the morale in the town. You can also prepare for siege and reduce the number of casualties among soldiers.

At this time, the number of people was not much different from the numbers. The Ottoman attack on Constantinople was not the first to use those jihadists and militia troops who were no different from ordinary people. The Crusaders did not let the pilgrims attack Jerusalem together, let alone the Mongols attacking the city.

Not to mention rogues here in China, there are also many barbarian dynasties. The Jin army is a big army no matter where it goes. After all, they are all Southern Barbarians in their eyes, and it doesn't matter if they die. Another example is the Northern Wei Dynasty, which seems to have been Hanized, but it still used ordinary Han people in its own country to attack the city. As for the braid facing that way, let alone that, I am quite pleased with it. When the heavenly soldiers arrive, all jade and stone will be destroyed. Do you really think it's a joke in a history book?

Fortunately, here in Japan, this kind of expelling people from the city rarely happens. Xiao Pingtai's current goal is to seize the city, so he definitely doesn't care about the names of these people. After pushing these people continuously for more than three hours (under an ideal situation), the casualties were incalculable. The tall earthen rampart, which was originally ten meters high from the bottom to the top, with an inclination of nearly fifty degrees, was piled up into two slopes twenty to thirty meters wide each.

This slope is completely enough for Nagao Kagetora's army to directly ascend the city and fight for the fortress. As a result, the gate of Odawara, a fortified city that is world-famous and unparalleled in the world, opened.

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