Nobunaga's Bastard

Episode 95: Struggling Maruyama Castle (Map Available)

Since ancient times, there are stories of widows who have beaten the great army in no time to name them. Far west, in the area where the Great Qin Nation exists, I have heard of an example of a once halted march of a million soldiers with three hundred soldiers. In the era of Tang Guo and the Three Kingdoms, there are also rumours that Zhang Liao, Wei's general, led 800 soldiers in a struggle against the Xu army of 100,000. Further down in time, during the turmoil of the North and South Dynasties, the battle of Akasaka Castle, where Lord Masaki Nanki intercepted the Shogun's army with five hundred widows, is famous. According to the Pacific script and various materials, the army of the shogun at this time ranges from 200,000 to 300,000. Some things are said to be millions. Assuming that the total stone height of the Japanese books was about 20 million stones, the total force would be 600,000 even if 300 people were collected per 10,000 stones. It is not hard to imagine that millions would be aside and perhaps even 200,000 would be an exaggeration. But assuming it was five hundred to twenty thousand, his power difference is forty times greater. There are 3,000 soldiers in Maruyama Castle where we are now caged. Estimate more opponents, even if it's 60,000. Twenty times. It is half the difficulty of Lord Nanki.

"… etc., I was forced to dig out a favorable example, and said that the situation remained unchanged"

Fifty thousand soldiers surrounded Maruyama. The enemy formation crossed the Kitsu River, forming a long plain to the north and south that existed to the south of the river, to the west of Maruyama. Those tens of thousands. On the south side, long and 10,000 soldiers lined up, and on the east side more than 5,000 to its east without crossing the Lordship Valley River. On the north side, about five thousand arrays were arranged in the north of Maruyama Castle Honmaru and in the outer three sides of the river, which drew half a circle along the ridge of Maruyama.

The intercepting allies are built so that against the 15,000 in the north, the castle Maeda Zao Man Castle blocks the northwest opposite the river, the castle of Ogunomiya Daino also blocks the northeast, between the river and the mountain, each containing eight hundred soldiers. Baidi Maru to the west of Honmaru, also five hundred in Furuda Maru to the south. The remaining 400, as a guerrilla army, are mainly blindfolded to help the two castles.

It is not just the battle given in the example, but in the battle in which an overwhelming minority of armies prevailed over the Great Army that is commonly portrayed as the "Skilled Extraction of Commanders". I would like you to tell me exactly what kind of extraction is a masterful one, but it is often hard to write that you do not know what it seems to know when you pull on the enemies you strike, when you strike the enemies you pull again, etc. When I actually see more than ten times as many enemy soldiers right now, it makes me wonder if that's the only way to win and nowhere else.

"That's why I can't just die."

Squeeze with laughter. After I decided to resist him to the end, my feelings became more relaxed. Do what you just do and die. All I have to do is decide what to do.

He cited commanding skillful extraction as a common denominator in the battle where the widows defeated the Great Army, but it can also be said that it is' the Great Work of the Admiral '. The barrel span doesn't even leak into that example if you think about it. People might say that defeating the Great Army is the only famous general, but I don't think I am. There can be no such thing as a big reversal if the Admiral doesn't stay active from start to finish and inspire his surroundings. Those actions are, of course, flanked by the consequences of the death of the Admiral. But you have to keep on betting to support the small group of allies. It was done at Omi Sakamoto by Shinji Mori. It is not barbaric, nor is it the courage of a comparable husband.

"That's why. We're going in."

Having enclosed those who, being generals, objected to me going into the middle of the enemy formation with the above rationale, I took the lead as early as July 5 in the first battle conducted after the Allied forces 50,000 completely besieged Maruyama Castle.

The first battle took place in Maruyama Castle Honmaru North, in a slight flat on the inside with the river curved. Leading the 15,000 that besieged the two castles are those with deep remorse for the Hayashi, Saito, Kitami and other Oda families. Arbitrary, more than a thousand and five hundred main units led by me penetrated the other side of the Saito Squad, which crossed the river beside the western Maeda Zao Castle.

The rainy season has dawned and the river plains, which have not yet passed, are soaked, and we cannot hope for a quick march. For a month and a half already, the complexion of enemy soldiers who had been hit by the rain and repeated the wild boarding house was clearly poor. Find one of the commander-like men and run over. I watched the bow on the horse. It's not a crossbow. Squeeze and release the pull string with your own arm. No way, there's an enemy here, and the look on the face of an enemy general who hasn't been able to sort out the situation clearly. During the bundle, velocity was taken from the world and the surrounding movement slowed. An arrow, unleashed in a slow world and slowly advancing, pierced the throat of the enemy general. I'll take the bow, I'll take the spear out. He shook a spear at a miscellaneous soldier who was nearby and beat him down, leaping into the center of the enemy. So, for the first time in a long time, the world's speed returned to normal.

"You're the eldest son of the Oda family here! If you win the neck, the grace prize goes as you wish. Bye! Who are you to fight me!?

I painted the horse's hair red and dyed the spears and armor. In a more conspicuous appearance than anyone else, the flag was neither Oda nor Murai, and made the flag of "Dr. Sentence" stand up.

"Bless the Lord!

Hikogoro, who followed me as my sidekick, showed me standing in line, saying that he was once dead. He plunged nearly four times into the center of the enemy, and when he found a good-looking soldier straddling the horse, he stabbed the spear and kicked it down.

"Don't take the back! Follow my lord!

All of a sudden, the soldiers' morale rises when they realize I've taken over one of the enemy generals. They all hit their enemies as if they were attached to something without fear of death.

"Push it! Push it out!

Without stopping, I penetrated the centers of a thousand and five hundred enemies. He pierces it, then flips it, penetrates it again, and then hurts his enemies enough before returning to Maruyama. If you hurry, the enemy's main unit will come. Temporary momentum only works because it is temporary.

"Oda's son!

The river was being crossed by enemy troops. Maeda Zoren Castle is now surrounded by more than 7,000 enemy soldiers, but about 2,000 of them come close to me without alignment.

"Isn't it Master Saito who is there?!? What can I do for you!?

Former Lord Mino, Ryuxing Saito. In my current age, my father took Mino from me.

"I need help with that neck! Along with Bullet Zhengzhong's neck, he'll line up in front of my father's grave!

"Is it Master Left! But for some, your neck has no attraction, so please excuse me this time."

On the way I was saying I had already returned my horse's head and headed to Maruyama Castle. Ryuxing Saito followed me as soon as he crossed the river, and more than three thousand troops followed four hundred. Feeling uninterrupted pressure in the rear, I rushed to the hemline of Maruyama. Running up, at the same time that the reveal of his allies had arrived, now he looks back and pokes his spear up loudly.

"Let go. Yeah!

At the same time I screamed, 400 ambushes hidden in the woods in the mountains appeared in two units, adding simultaneous shooting of artillery. Commanders are Ancient Left and Baidi Tampa, respectively. Since I am four hundred and eight hundred each in the castle, this is about two thousand and eight hundred. At present, Baiji Maru and Furuda Maru are protected by hundreds of pieces, which is a mushroom shell that leads to Honmaru. If the enemy's main unit moves, let them know immediately by cursor, the Goemon is in the Hundred Land Round. The iron rule of victory is not to make Rangers. If you're going to attack only the north side, let me hit this one with the whole army.

"Rebuild the system!

I let out my voice at the soldiers I led. Soldier's eyes are always gleaming. Standing at the head of such soldiers, they rush into enemy forces who stopped walking with simultaneous fire.

"Go on with me!

Until then, there were still a few allies who would run into enemies sooner than me. But at this point, I definitely hit and defeated the enemy first.

"Siege over the Tripartite! Push it up!"

"Attack more than rear! Surround!"

Ancient Left also gave command over the horses, and Baidi Tampa made the enemy rear raise the flag at when it was moving, making it look as if it was surrounding the entire enemy army perimeter.

It was the White Soldier War again. Hit Dokan on horseback with the enemy soldiers and fall off the horse with them as they are. Striking his hips strongly, the white blade appeared in front of him as he was stuffy.

"Your Highness!

An enemy soldier comes at my neck with a blade. I grabbed the blade with both hands and stopped it. Squeeze with force. My palms are cut and my blood erupts. With my body pressed from the top, I punched my right hand away from the blade. The enemy soldier kicked Hikogoro over and fell where his movements stopped for a moment.

"My lord!"

"It doesn't matter!

I clenched my hands and opened them again. The skin is torn, the meat is also cut. But I can hold it, and I can open it. My fingers weren't even skipped. I rode the horse again and shook up my fist. At the rear of the enemy, on the occasion of the beginning of the shooting against Saito Sze from the castle, Saito Sze abandoned the inside of the river and retreated. The direct battle on this day ended in victory.

"Count the damage done by your allies. This kind of battle will continue in the future."

After sunset, I said with bandages wrapped around my hands. Fifty-two men were damaged by the main unit. Fifty-two out of a thousand and four hundred, never less.

Beginning the next day, the enemy attacked from the woods of the South. Directed by Qili Requisition Zhou, who left the Puritan main temple faction and became a steep vanguard against Oda. Protecting the South around Koda Maru, we gradually shredded the enemy's power and command by replacing Iga Shinobu and repeating a small ambush. For ten days, if the land was taken, it was taken back, and the retreat was repeated, eventually leading to the surrounding of Koda Maru. Thus, the entire forest south of Maruyama Castle is engulfed in a volcanic fire, unknown on the 17th of July, when both armies continued to fight together as they shrugged their nerves. It was naturally Iga Shinobu who moved, and I was the one who gave the instructions.

"We're going to ambush."

At the same time as the southern forest burned, I gathered more than a thousand of the remaining soldiers in the main castle, traveled to the Western Hundred Land Round, secretly southbound the mountains and raided from the front against 20,000 who had not previously participated in the battle.

"Aim for the boy's neck! If you win the enemy general's head, the battle will be over!

Still screaming in the lead, I stormed and collided with the enemy avant-garde. After breaking the enemy formation for about three steps, he retreated.

The damage caused by this assault was not so much in itself for both armies, but it was able to panic the head of the enemy army. Twenty thousand of the main unit retreated from the front of Maruyama to the side of the street, to the front of the Kitsu River, and five thousand led by the general pulled to the rear across the Kitsu River. We can also assume that the enemy's attack power has been reduced by 10%, but we can also take it that no matter how hard we try to reach the General's neck, it no longer reaches us. I didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. In front of the soldiers, the weak-hearted boys swung as they fled, laughing and showing off.

"The salvation is that all the enemy troops are not attacking at once."

"These are the ones who originally ended only in terms of anti-Oda. You must be fighting for the right of initiative."

That day, I was talking to Jiawei while dealing with a newly made flank wound. I must show up on some battlefield day after day and I'm out of line. And I must have suffered some kind of hand injury. I've been helmed by a bullet, and this day I was flanked with a spear. It was done to the point of being skinned slightly off, but would have been pierced through the guts of every armor if it had been a little more inside.

"Cross the thin ice, but the battle will continue."

Nodded. Only 15,000 enemies have high morale attacking the two castles. The Miscellaneous have brought in two thousand of the soldiers, but are you afraid that they will take the most handles, or have not made any movement in formation on the east side of the castle since the beginning of the battle. Shinhiro's father-in-law, Shige-soo Suzuki, has not come, but the big man alongside him, Mr. Tobashi's Bungliang Tobashi, has been able to confirm his appearance.

It also went around the middle of July and after twenty days the temperature outside rose steadily. In the way we attacked, those who fell in the heat appeared, and we defended them, and we definitely lost our morale every day. In addition, by this time, the method of attack began to cheer three times each night and repeat the act of ringing a ringtone. I never actually came in for a night raid, but this definitely took my strength and strength away from the defensemen.

Originally, we were surrounded and more blocked from information about our surroundings. Are the allies coming to help, or have they already been defeated? Many soldiers are anxious and trembling. Since it is a cage battle, we naturally cannot want fresh sashimi, vegetables, etc., as well as meals. The inability of young men to see or see women also causes distress. In the midst of all the infirmities already present, cheering three times every night was an act that even deprived me of freedom of sleep. Including me, the smile disappeared from the Castle Soldier's face and the conversation disappeared.

You decided to wait for this one to make more noise than a force attack, and the attack started repeating sporadic attacks every day. Every day the castle troopers definitely dwindled, and I began to chase him with my eyes whether he was alive or not. But when I lost sight of more than 20% of the total, I couldn't even count.

So, after July, which was as long as eternity, the second day of August.

"Enemy soldiers are attacking Maeda Zoren Castle and Omiya Dashinoshi Castle. Those tens of thousands."

Finally, the full-scale invasion resumed. A thousand and six hundred soldiers to guard together, not knowing how many of them are now alive.

"... give you wolf smoke. He said to surrender."

I can't abandon you. But soldiers were also coming from the south and west. No soldier can turn from there. Soon a wolf smoke was raised, and the two castles, without surrendering, showed the structure of a thorough antiwar.

"What do you mean!?

Seeing the castle continue to fight in isolation, I bared my voice but knew the answer.

"My lord, you've grabbed the minister's heart well."

"The idiots......!!

Thus, both the Caveman and Jinglian withstood the enemy's attack of the day. Aside from the two, there were three people in the castle: Keijiro, Suke-right Gate, and Yasuke, but no reports came in that any of the generals were taken over.

"You can't abandon me. I'm going to save you."

Early the next morning, I squeezed out a hundred soldiers, formed a unit to rescue them, and set out. Soldiers outside the castle respond, rendezvous and retreat to Maruyama Castle. I don't know how many soldiers there are in the castle, but even if survival is alone, there's a big difference between going to help it or not.

"Don't think about fighting properly. Anyway, run for a run and come back here."

The river is already contained by enemy forces on both sides of the shore. I attack enemies forming on the side of Maruyama Castle and disrupt the formation. It is hard to predict that the formation has been disturbed, and ask the collector and Jinglian to strike out. We can't have a meeting, but there's no chance we'll survive.

Almost at the same time as the sunrise, I launched an attack. The first to set it up was on the east side and on the castle side of the Omiya Oshinochi. You weren't alert to the ambush, the way you attacked him collapsed easily. As he changed direction greatly without defeating the collapsed enemy and attempted to make his way to Maeda Zao Man Castle, the castle gates of both castles opened and he could see soldiers jumping out of the inside.

"Retreat!

When I ran through to the west, surprisingly, there were few hundred allies down. Go straight to the west side of Maruyama Castle Honmaru and run up. Both Jinglian and the collectors seem to have considerably reduced their troops, but they are still not wiped out. We should be able to rendezvous and fight for a little longer if only the main castle is defended.

That's how it's going to fall, and if it's winter and it snows. When I thought about that for a moment, it smelled like burning. I wasn't aware of something, I unconsciously change my face direction and see it. There, I saw about thirty volcanic guns pointing at me. Commanding is one man who looks at me in a tattered manner, without a look on his face. I had never met him, never heard of his appearance, but I was convinced why that was Tobashi Keepsake.

"Shit."

Don't let me tell you, my arm swung down and the muzzle erupted.