28. The gate of Odawara Castle opens
After spending more than ten consecutive days of scrambling, the city had long been accustomed to the siege of the Kanto Alliance Army. After all, seeing all the Hojo naval forces being driven into Odawara Port, the return ships from the seaway were constantly stopped day and night. The soldiers and formation men unloaded their food and salt from morning to night, and the smoke outside the city was full of smoke every day.
Anyone can see that the Kanto Alliance must have embraced the rich and wealthy Long-tail Jinghu's thigh. Now, Long-tail Jinghu waved a lot of money and bought at least two or three months of grain from the seaway (it is estimated to be wrong in the city, but it is actually only a month later). When this batch of grain is finished, the summer harvest will come up.
As long as long as the Long Tail Jinghu is patient, he can surround Odawara Castle for at least half a year. Although the grain in Odawara Castle can be used for at least 20,000 military branches for a year and a half, now Odawara is isolated from the inside and outside, and the mouths of 50,000 Zhangmachi people are difficult to solve. By this calculation, the grain in Odawara Castle will only take seven or eight months.
In this way, the winner will be 55, and few of the teenagers in the city can figure it out. However, most samurai with some education and level basically see it. Anyway, the money from Long Tail Jinghu is stolen, so he uses the money to buy food. With the food, he can surround Odawara. This effortless and undead siege method is simply the best choice for the moment.
So most of the warriors began to slack off. After all, they were going to face a boring siege for more than half a year. When the young men saw that their leaders were all floating, they all relaxed. Although they were still on guard, they were not as hard as the job of starting the war.
The result was beyond Hojo Army's expectations. Half a month passed in a hurry. After all preparations were completed, the long-tailed Jinghu today forced more than 20,000 weak people (that is, the people who were caught and sold, the families of the soldiers in the city who were valuable had long been selected, and the rest were just to make use of their remaining energy and sacrifice themselves for the cause of "justice". The strong resisted rice bags, the weak dragged earth buns, and the men, women, young and old were driven into the army in a mess.
As for the formation, there were rough carriages carrying large amounts of rice bags of land and rice, and hundreds of them moved to the front of the city with the army.
Suddenly, the Kanto Alliance Army was seen taking off the battlefield. The alarm bell rang loudly and countless soldiers rushed to the earth. The flags of the third ranks of Linguistic and the flags were connected into clouds, rolling across the city.
Xiaopingtai rode a horse and commanded the front line. Aji followed closely with the sunlight and moonlight horse mark. Soon all the carriages drove out of the army alone. The shoddy carriages were squeaked by the rice bags on the carriage. The quality of pack horses was far less than that of war horses. I felt the breath on the battlefield, and they sniffed one by one, and they were stuttering in a panic. They seemed to feel the fate of being abandoned on the battlefield.
As for the coachman, he would definitely not use the Yamauchi family's own soldiers or the Long Tail Keiko soldiers. Each of the foot samurai warriors is so precious. He must also use the people brought by the Long Tail Keiko people, and forced hundreds of young and strong men who could drive with their families and asked them to drive.
Then twenty or thirty vehicles were listed as a team, pierced the horse's buttocks, and rushed into the trench in the carriage, and the smoke rolled into the blue sky. People shouted, horse neighed, and loudly sounded. Xiaopingta told the groom that as long as he could jump back alive, each person would give rice to him as a reward, and the whole family would redeem it and release it.
So a bloody and exciting scene appeared. The pack horses pulled a loaded carriage and rushed into the trench, breaking their tendons and fractured. Then they splashed huge splashes and sank into the bottom of the water in the whine.
However, the carriages continued to rush into the trench from behind, and the soldiers on the earth were stunned for a moment. Even if there were a few archers and fired cannons, it would be difficult to hit the horses in a hurry. Even if they shot a horse for a while, they would not die.
In just twenty or thirty minutes, hundreds of carriages rushed into the trench, and except for a very few who failed, most of them successfully entered the water. The bodies of people and corpses and the trampolines filled out several trenches without any accident.
At this time, Xiaoheita could no longer care about the casualties of the man and the horse. He sent orders to the back. Long-tail Jinghu immediately sent two thousand iron gunners and one thousand heavy vine archers under some guards to charge in three sections, holding bamboo shrouds and wood skulls to a place thirty meters away from the city, setting up a bunker, and then shooting in sections to suppress the city. Hojo Army behind the fence on the earthen barricade was shot so hard that he could not raise his head.
Seeing the situation of the war, Xiaopingta said that the warrior under Longtail Jinghu held swords and guns, followed the passage left by the iron gunners, and under the cover of fire, forcing more than 20,000 weak-footed people to rush to the city and throw rice bags and earth buns. Even if these weak-footed people were accidentally shot and injured in the city, no one would stop to rescue them and directly put them on the foundation of the city. Who cares about their life and death when fighting? Longtail Jinghu didn't care about these belongings, and Xiaopingta didn't care even more.
When war is over, don’t talk about the lack of people. In this Warring States Period, except for the samurai football, other people are not in the eyes of Daming. It’s not bad to die. Xiaoping has seen this basic understanding too early.
What's more, this method has been used in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, from East Asia to Western Europe, and more than a few people have been used. Especially the so-called bandits, which drive the people to consume the ammunition and medicine of defenders and consume the morale in the town. It can also prepare for siege and reduce the number of casualties of soldiers.
At this time, people were not much different from the numbers. Didn’t Ottoman attack Constantinople also use jihadists and militia troops that were no different from the people. The Crusaders attacked Jerusalem and let alone pilgrims attacked the city.
Not to mention bandits in China, even many barbarian dynasties are the same. The Jin army will issue signing troops wherever they go. Anyway, they are all the Southern barbarians in their eyes, and it doesn’t matter if they die. For example, the Northern Wei Dynasty said that it seemed to be a Chinese, so it would still drive ordinary Han people from their own country to attack the city. As for the braided dynasty, let alone, they are still happy. When the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be burned. Do you really think it is a joke in history books?
It's okay to be here in Japan, but this kind of thing that drives people to the city rarely happens. Koheita now aims to seize the city, so he must not care about the names of these people. He has forced these people to lose more than three hours of landbags (ideally) and has no choice but to lose their lives. Originally, the top of the moat was as high as ten meters and the inclination was nearly fifty degrees, and two slopes of twenty or thirty meters were piled up alive.
Chapter completed!