Hitsu Castle is a typical Hei Castle, which played an important role in the fifth Kawaakashima Joint Battle. However, with the demise of the Takeda family and the subsequent Honnoji Change, this place was once abandoned. It was not until Pusuo Lai Township was appointed as the castle destiny by Pusuo Hidehound, that the fortifications here were restored. However, in the face of a fierce day and night attack of 13,000 people, this Hei Castle, which only owns Honmaru and Ninomaru, was simply unbearable. Moreover, there were only 600 defenders left in the city. Pusuo Lai Castle thought that within one day, this place would be captured by Echigo Shinno's coalition.

On the afternoon of the 29th, when the Tokugawa army attacked Matsuida Castle for the first time, Hori Hidege moved its own formation from the east of Chauyu Mountain on Kawaakashima to the bank of Chikogawa, and Ishikawa Yasunagata, where his wife and daughters were in charge, commanding Hori, and Ishikawa's army attacked Hitsu Castle from the west and south.

Hori Hideshige, who was nearly seventy years old, took the battle this time. He also came with him the younger brother of Hinata Hori Hidemasa, the elder brother of Hinata Hori. At this moment, the two were sitting in the main formation with the Hori Gangkori pattern "Sanmori Gangkori" printed around him, closely monitoring the war on the other side of the river.

A few days ago, after learning that the Tokugawa family had defeated Hinahara, Hori Hidege once wanted to withdraw his troops and return to Echigo, but was stopped by Naomasa, who had always been with Ieyasu. He persuaded him: "The family has now captured Katsuyama and Asahiyama II, and the Pusheng family has a close relationship with the Right Mansion. The family really cannot turn back. Instead of giving up halfway, it is better to take a single bet and have a slight chance of winning."

After hearing this, Hori Hideki felt it was reasonable. In addition, the Tokugawa army had crossed Numata Castle and arrived at Mirhara Castle. The two armies met in front of us, and it seemed difficult to tell who would win or lose. Finally, they decided to capture Hitsu Castle according to the established plan. Then they went south to attack Ueda Castle with the four Shinobu and finally met in Komori.

Unlike Hori Hidege, Ishikawa Yasunaga was determined to stand on Ieyasu's side. Although his father Ishikawa Shumasaki was in Komaki and shortly after the long-term battle, Kasunaga, who was over thirty at the time, had always been attached to the Tokugawa family. After Ishikawa Shumaki passed away, Ishikawa took the initiative to strengthen his contact with Kasunaga, so that he gradually began to disobey Toyotomi Yoshi. Especially after Hideyoshi's death, he simply turned to Ieyasu and became an important piece of his chess piece in Kitashino.

Yasunaka Ishikawa originally inherited only 80,000 of his father's 100,000 Shi Zhixing, and the remaining 20,000 were inherited by his second brother Katsushikaku and his third brother Katsushikaku and five,000 Shi. Before the war, he coerced his two younger brothers to fight with him, but Katsushikaku had always been loyal to Toyotomi, and when he went to Korea that year, Hideopo was willing to save his life, so he refused to join Katsushikaku. However, he did not want his brothers to fight against each other and fought with each other. After weighing the pros and cons, he had to lead his family to flee to Katsushikaku overnight and surrender Azuma County. Katsushikaku then spent three thousand soldiers in the Matsumoto area, becoming the strongest one in Shinno Daming.

At this moment, Katsunaga was quietly watching the smoke of Haizin Castle at the foot of the mountain, and the corpses on both sides of the city wall were everywhere. He was both happy and worried: on the one hand, he used the southern barbarian big tube to bombard the southern gate of Haizin. He had initially achieved results. A small number of Ishikawa troops had entered the city through the gap in the city wall, and the number had not decreased. I believe that he would soon occupy Ninomaru; on the other hand, he was also worried that Hori Hidejo, who had an army of 10,000, chose to attack from Ximen, which was much better than himself. Ximen was closest to Horimaru. Once it was broken, he would soon be able to kill Honmaru. At that time, the merit of breaking the city might be given up.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered the army to strengthen its offensive and seize the head of Pu Sheng Laixiang before the Hori family.

As an old minister of the clan era, Pu Sheng Laixiang was once confused about the future of the Pu Sheng family because of the weakness of the head Xiuxing. Fortunately, Xiu Bao helped him at this time, allowing the Pu Sheng family to retain the strength of a medium-name after being punished. Moreover, due to Xiu Bao's strong recommendation, Xiu Bao decided to let Laixiang serve as the genius of Haijincheng and the acting official of Kawaakanashima 120,000 Shi Zhixing, and his status in the family was consolidated.

From this we can see that Hideopo has been kind to Pu Sheng's family and Lai Xiang. Even if Hideyoung does not stand on Hideopo's side at this moment, Lai Xiang will not be enemies with Hideopo. In the least, he was imitating Ishikawa Yasakashi and fled to other places. After all, he had always had a good relationship with Ishida Mizunai, and he could temporarily ensure his safety when he went to his place.

But now Hideyuki has given him a death order to defend Kitzu Castle to the death. He must not let the Echigo army of the Hori family join Shinono and Tokugawa coalition forces join. This is destined that he only has the path of Cangcheng. As for the result, he must face it.

When Laixiang first came to Shinobu, he used Haijin Castle as the center of the entire Kawaaka Island area and built the Sanshi Tianshou, which enhanced his combat vision and defense capabilities. Due to the limited area of ​​Honmaru, he originally planned to move the Oden to Ninomaru, but he failed to do so because of the sudden war. With the loss of his wife and daughter mountain, Tianshou was also hit by the Nanman Datong, which basically lost its original role. Laixiang had to move to the old Oden to command the battle.

The smoke of gunpowder spread everywhere outside the city, and the shouts of killing were deafening. From time to time, arrows shot into the Imperial Palace, causing some casualties to the attendants. Laixiang sat upright in the hall, while the warriors came in and out of the Imperial Palace to report on the progress of the enemy's siege and their own casualties. Each report made Laixiang clench his fists. Except for answering "I know", there seemed to be no other way to imagine. After all, relying on his own 600 peasant soldiers, he could not resist the 13,000 troops of the turn of attacks.

"Sir Qi, a gap was opened by the Nanman Tube near the South Gate. The enemy's offensive was fierce, and our army was really unbearable!" Qi Fan covered the wound on his shoulder, gritted his teeth and knelt in front of Laixiang and said.

"So quickly, it is worthy of being a Nanman product purchased at a high price... Tell Pu Sheng that the left guard must be kept, and I will take people to support you now." After that, Lai Xiang stood up quickly. Seeing this, the side servant hurried forward to make up the whole thing for him and handed him a sickle gun. Lai Xiang took the gun and walked towards the door, causing Fan to follow him resolutely regardless of the bleeding wound.

However, as soon as Lai Xiang walked out of the hall, he was hit by the oncoming Qi Fan. Seeing this, Chi Fan knelt down in horror and admitted his mistake. Lai Xiang didn't care at all and asked him to report the situation directly.

"Sir, Lord Zuo Bingwei... He just died in battle!" Shi Fan trembled and said the bad news. Pu Sheng Zuo Bingwei is the eldest son of Pu Sheng's old Pu Sheng family, and is also a close friend of Lai Xiang. He was entrusted by Lai Xiang this time and came to Haijin from Asahiyama Castle to be responsible for the garrison of Ninomaru South Gate.

When Lai Xiang heard that the Zuo Bingguard died in battle, he looked dazed and said, "Just leave like this..." Although he couldn't accept this reality, he had more important things to look for. Thinking of this, Lai Xiang immediately turned his horse and led the horses to the South Gate to support him.

As the sound of fighting and the sound of swords and swords hitting closer, Laixiang saw more and more Ishikawa troops with flying crane-patterned flags on their backs pouring in from the gap on the west side of the South Gate. Although Pu Sheng's army struggled to support it, as the number of enemy troops continued to increase and their own physical strength was exhausted, there were signs of retreat.

Seeing this, Laixiang immediately raised his gun and shouted: "I am Pusheng, who is guarding Laixiang. All the soldiers followed me to kill the enemy. They are only allowed to advance, not retreat!"
Chapter completed!