At this time, on the Oda family's bastion position southwest of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, Oda Nobunaga inserted his Yongle-dong BMW Seal high in the center of the giant bastion, which was also right opposite the southwest corner of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle.

He has made full preparations for the battle before him. He is 100% sure that he can destroy the invincible and powerful army in front of him.

After returning from the expedition to Kanto, he specially came to the battlefield of Shinano River Nakajima and completely learned the bastions left by the Red Leaf Army. He found that although the bastions built by Yu Qiupei were exquisite and strong, they had a fatal flaw.

——The bastions are not connected to each other, but are connected by wooden fences and trenches. Oda Nobunaga found this simply unreasonable—there are obviously such strong fort walls, why should these fragile breaches be left? Moreover?

In this case, it would be difficult to support each other. So he improved the bastions and built a series of non-independent fortresses. In addition to the various edges and corners protruding out, each bastion also has a sealed corridor that is also protected by high walls.

, connecting the bastions to each other also eliminated the possibility of the enemy breaking through between the bastions. Oda Nobunaga only opened a back door on the rear wall of each bastion facing Maple Leaf Mountain Castle behind it to facilitate the entry and exit of the army.

With this bastion, coupled with enough iron cannons and cannons, as well as 30,000 elite troops directly under the Oda family led by Kawajiri Hidetaka, Kanamori Nagakon, Kamaojigo and others to garrison, even the Red Leaf Army would be powerless against the position, right?

What's more, they not only don't have a big barrel, they don't even have a ladder or a charging car. How do you ask them to break through the fortress? Do they rely on climbing?

Thinking of this, Oda Nobunaga couldn't help but sneered twice. The people of the Red Leaf Army must have thought the same way, right? No one knows the power of the bastion better than them, and no one knows better than them that relying on bare hands is absolutely

It was impossible to break through the bastion. In this case, they had no choice but to take a detour, and this was the key to Oda Nobunaga's layout.

The world's army commanded by Oda Nobunaga in this battle has a total of more than 400,000 people and about 130,000 soldiers. In order to facilitate battlefield maneuvers, Oda Nobunaga has collected most of the auxiliary troops into the captured neighborhoods of Maple Leaf Mountain City.

The rest were also arranged to move to the other side of the Yodogawa River. He left Ota Ushiichi and Yamauchi Kazuoto to lead 3,000 soldiers to garrison Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, firmly blocking the volunteers in Ninomaru.

In the bastions in the west and south of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, Oda Nobunaga deployed a total of 60,000 soldiers. The west and southwest corners of the city are responsible for the 30,000 troops directly under the Oda family, while the south of the city is occupied from west to east by Ikeda Henghe's 3,000 soldiers.

, Sawaki Yoshiyuki's 2,000 soldiers, the Kanto daimyo's 18,000 soldiers and Tokugawa Ieyasu's 7,000 soldiers were stationed. Oda Nobunaga placed these men with weak combat effectiveness and those who were old to Amakihei at the edge of the battlefield.

place to prevent them from causing trouble, and hid all the real elite main force on the other side of the Yodo River.

Oda Nobunaga held on to the wall and looked northwest toward the opposite bank of the Yodogawa River. The Yodogawa River originates from Lake Biwa and flows from northeast to southwest, passing seven miles outside the northwest corner of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle. In

Hidden behind the forests and hills on the other side of the Yodogawa River are 25,000 soldiers of the Oda family directly under the leadership of Hidemasa Hori, Yoritaka Haeiya, Kazushi Nakamura and others, 10,000 soldiers of Katsuie Shibata, 3,000 soldiers of Toshiie Maeda, and Naimasa Sasaki.

The total number of 3,000 soldiers, Fuwa Koji's 3,000 soldiers, the late Oda Nobutada's Kanto () Army's 15,000 soldiers, Niwa Nagahide's 2,000 soldiers and Takigawa Kazumasushi's Higashiyamado Army's 5,000 soldiers

It reached nearly 70,000 people. If Hashiba Hideyoshi's Sanyodo Army had also arrived, the strength would be more objective - but that stinky monkey army just took its time to reach Settsu - Oda Nobunaga couldn't help but think of this.

He cursed. Not only did the monkey, Tsuneaki Ikeda and Yoshiyuki Sawaki give up on executing the order to attack the Red Leaf Army, and let the Red Leaf Army run away, but now they are still lingering around. When he comes back, they must be sorted out. If not for watching

Since he had successfully concluded an armistice agreement with the Maori family, Oda Nobunaga now wanted to send an envoy to scold him bloody.

On a hill on the northwest bank of the Yodogawa River, most of the Oda family's large barrels are hidden - yes, Oda Nobunaga did not deploy most of the large barrels on the fortress, but on the northwest bank of the Yodogawa River.

Because he knew that the Red Leaf Army would definitely not storm the bastion. Leaving too many barrels on the bastion would just be a waste of firepower. Facing the bastion group southwest of Maple Leaf Mountain City, the Red Leaf Army

The Ye Army had only a detour. But the detour to the east was unavailable because Oda Nobunaga built the bastion all the way to the foot of the Kongo Mountains east of Maple Mountain Castle. In other words, the Red Ye Army could only try to go north.

Detour around the west bastion of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle and try to enter the city from the north - this requires passing through the 7-mile narrow strip between the Yodogawa River and Maple Leaf Mountain Castle. When the Red Leaf Army reaches there, the Oda family on the other side of the Yodogawa River

The ambush troops will rise up and launch an attack, and the big tube troops on the hill will fire together, completely annihilating the Red Leaf Army there.

"It's foolproof." Oda Nobunaga sneered again, listening to the sound of drums from the Hongye Army's position several miles away, "Just think of yourself as a detour, and then run headlong into the trap I prepared."

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"We will break through from here, break through the Oda family's fortress, and enter the city."

Not long ago, Yu Qiu Shang was standing in front of the formation, holding an evaluation meeting and issuing his instructions to all the officers.

"Your Highness." Charlie, as the highest-ranking warrior present, made pertinent suggestions to Yu Qiu Shang, "The bastion is very difficult to capture with the help of guns and artillery. I suggest you take a detour to the north and look for loopholes in the enemy's defense line to enter the city."

"There is no time left." Yuqiu Shang, who didn't know that Oda Nobunaga had suspended his attack on Maple Leaf Mountain Castle Ninomaru, looked very heavy, and his mind was filled with the scene of yesterday's bloody battle, "The casualties of the common people have been

It has exceeded the capacity of the army, there are too many corpses to pile up, and the defenders may collapse at any time. If Ninomaru falls, my mother and the families of countless civilians and soldiers will fall into the hands of the enemy. How will we fight then?

There is no time left, not even a minute can be wasted, and there is no time to take a detour. Besides, there are countless capable people in the Oda family, how can they leave us a gap that we can easily find by taking a detour?"

Yu Qiu Shang's words eliminated all opposition. No one would question the judgment of a samurai who had just led a great city defense battle that the city could no longer hold on. After all, if Maple Leaf Mountain City fell, everything would be over.

Lost.

"But Your Highness, we not only don't have artillery, we don't even have ladders or assault vehicles. How are we going to board the fortress?" Xinxian Chengliang whispered worriedly, "Would it take longer to build a ladder to command now? It's too late to dig trenches.

Already."

"Concentrate your forces to attack a section of the bastion wall in one of the bastion groups. Attack the central bastion where Oda Nobunaga's horse print is located. Put up one reserve team one by one, and pile them up with people." Yu Qiu Shang was silent.

After a moment, he looked stern and responded resolutely.

"The human ladder will be broken up, Your Highness. That is a bastion, and there is no shooting to death..." Uji Hidetaka didn't realize what Yu Qiu Shang was saying at first, but he suddenly realized what he was saying halfway through, and was stunned for a moment.

Living.

The person Yu Qiu Shang talked about was not a human ladder, but a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. As long as you die under the fortress, your body can become a ladder for your comrades behind you to climb up.

The air solidified again, and everyone understood how much casualties this meant. Walking to the fortress under the hail of bullets, they were swallowed up by the flames of the cannons and iron cannons. There was no hope of climbing the city, and no one could survive.

Hope, the troops at the forefront died in vain, it had no effect, no one could escape this disaster, there was not even the slightest hope - just thinking about it makes people shudder.

"There is no other way, is there?" Yu Qiu Shang's eyes have turned red, and the veins on his forehead have gradually stretched, but there is no wavering or hesitation at all, "We have to solve the siege of Maple Leaf Mountain City, and this is the only way.

It’s time, we don’t have time.”

"Please leave the vanguard to Tokiwa Bei." As soon as Yu Qiu Shang finished speaking, Ii Naomasa took a step forward, stood straight and saluted a standard military salute, and said in a deep voice, "Nearly half of Tokiwa Bei's casualties were killed before, and the organization is in chaos.

, the execution ability on the battlefield is not as good as other preparations. But if the order that needs to be executed is 'die', Tsukiwa preparation will do his part! Mr. Fukushima can lead half of his brothers to die in order to block the flood and save the entire army, and our remaining brothers will also die.

You can die just to let the whole army board the fortress! In the twenty-four years since the First Lord formed the army, Tokiwa Bei has never been afraid of death!"

"Please." Yuqiu Shang, as a member of the former Tokiwabi, and as a member of the heroic company that stood alone against eight thousand Takeda soldiers in the Mikamachi Battle, Yu Qiushang knows better than anyone else the heavy meaning behind Ii Naomasa's words.

Pride - that's what

The pride sustained by the corpses of countless Tokiwabei martyrs.

"But please wait a moment!" Ii Naomasa apologized, and then quickly rode away. After a while, everyone watched Tokiwabei's mountain maple flag being taken down from the flagpole, and then Ii Naomasa held the flag in his heart.

A flag came to Yu Qiu Shang.

"The regulations of the Red Leaf Army state that if the flag is lost, the reserve force cannot be rebuilt. If the flag is still there, the reserve force will be rebuilt no matter how many times it is destroyed, because the flag inherits the spirit of the reserve force." Naomasa Ii put his feet together again, and that's it.

He saluted, then bowed sharply, and held the neatly folded mountain maple flag in front of Yu Qiu Shang, "Jiuban Bei is about to die, and I'm afraid I won't be able to protect the military flag. Please keep the flag of Tokiwa Bei on your behalf! I will definitely do it!"

We must rebuild this reserve force! Pass on the will of Fukushima-sama and all Tokiwabei brothers!"

"Don't worry." Yu Qiu Shang stretched out his left hand and took the mountain maple flag that was so heavy that he could hardly stand upright.

"Your Highness, Tokiwabi takes leave!" Naomasa Ii stepped back half a step, saluted again, and then rode his horse towards the remaining formation of Tokiwabi.

"All officers come out! From now on, we will line up in order according to military rank! Those with higher military ranks are in front, and those with lower military ranks are in the back!" Naomasa Ii dismounted, stood in front of the military formation, and ordered in a deep voice with his back to the soldiers of Tokiwa Bei.

After receiving the order, the Tokiwabi soldiers quickly changed their formations, from the temporary reserve captain of the colonel, the company commander of the major, the platoon leader of the captain, the platoon leader of the lieutenant, the platoon leader of the second lieutenant, the squad leader of the sergeant, the squad leader of the sergeant, the squad leader of the corporal, the first-class private, and the second-class soldier.

The third-class soldiers moved back layer by layer and formed a horizontal formation.

"Each platoon, report the number!" Naomasa Ii gave the order, and the soldiers in each platoon turned their heads to report the number smoothly. This is something they have done every day since they have been in the army for 20 years, and they have become extremely proficient.

"one two three…"

"Reporting to you sir, 1,500 people were expected to arrive, but 772 people actually arrived, and 728 people were killed. Report completed!"

"Okay! Return to the team!" Naomasa Ii yelled, and then said loudly:

"Our mission is to walk to the bastion, die under the bastion, and use our bodies to build a ladder for our comrades to climb up the bastion! We must first form a dispersed formation to avoid harm, and then join forces under the bastion! This is

A battle does not require command, only determination!"

"Yes!" Tokiwabei's soldiers responded with a uniform roar.

"Disperse! Form a straggler line!" Naomasa Ii ordered without hesitation, "Throw away all weapons! Take off all gear!"

After a burst of broken footsteps and neat smashing sounds, the team returned to silence.

"Avenge Fukushima-sama!" Naomasa Ii yelled again.

"Avenge Fukushima-sama!" The soldiers seemed to see the always kind and generous veteran captain appearing in front of their eyes. They pictured him tucking the quilts for the soldiers during the night training camp, and personally helping the soldiers who couldn't write.

They looked like they were writing letters home, they looked like they were desperately trying to retrieve wounded soldiers from the battlefield, they kept saying they wanted to go home to be with their wives and children, but they still couldn't worry about the troops - but their Fukushima-sama was no longer there.

I can't go home because of these bastards in front of me. The soldiers all had red eyes and yelled back.

"Avenge His Highness Hongye!" Naomasa Ii continued to roar at the top of his lungs.

"Avenge His Highness Hongye!" The soldiers thought of their Highness, the kind-hearted and kind-hearted His Highness, the His Highness who led them to victory after victory, the His Highness who allowed one family after another to survive in troubled times, the one who would always be there.

Your Highness, who cherishes the life of every soldier - he was killed by those Oda family members in front of him! The soldiers responded with the same volume with tears in their eyes.

"Avenge all the brothers who died in Tokiwa Bei!" Naomasa Ii shouted hoarsely, his voice almost hoarse.

"Avenge all the brothers who died in Tokiwa Bei!" The tears of the soldiers kept pouring out of their eyes. The voices and smiles of countless comrades who were still alive and kicking half a month ago seemed to be still in front of them. They and they jumped into the torrent without risking their lives. It seemed as if they were heroic.

They are still in front of them, and countless bits and pieces of the past seem to be still in front of them - but they can never come back. The soldiers wanted to tear their throats to pieces and roar out all their anger and mourning.

The strongest Momiji Army in the world, the strongest Momiji Tokiwabei.

"Tokiwa Bei——"
Chapter completed!