Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 144 Xiaoqi is dead! ! ! !

Ishimochi Kensaburo followed the crowd, stumbling over trenches and pits before finally reaching the front of the rock fortress.

At this time, the place was like a hell on earth. The cannons on the rock fortresses and towers were bombarding in a loop. Exploding pottery jars were thrown down from time to time. People kept falling down with screams. There was even hot oil falling from the sky, instantly causing a large group of people to howl miserably, fall to the ground and roll around, causing chaos.

Ishimochi Kensaburo was stunned for a moment, and instinctively pulled over a gang member who had hot oil poured on his face and was scratching and screaming in pain, and used him to block the lead bullets and arrows falling from the sky. He wiped his face hard and finally recovered a little. He looked around and saw that a ladder had been erected not far away. The gang members of the Matsudaira family were climbing up while howling desperately, but they could not reach the top of the city wall and would be shot down before they could climb too high.

He looked around for a moment and didn't find a better position, so he threw away the dead Langdang in his hand and rushed forward. He pushed away a Langdang who was about to climb the ladder, and with a murderous look in his eyes, he was the first to climb the city wall.

As the military instructor of the Matsudaira family, he was one of the samurai who were selected to be the first to arrive, otherwise he would not have been allowed to lead the army in the front.

It was then that he demonstrated his value. He had been practicing martial arts since he was young, and his body had been tempered. He had also been in battle for a long time and had rich experience on the battlefield. Even though he was now wearing heavy armor, he was still agile. He held a katana in his mouth and climbed up quickly. His speed was several times faster than that of ordinary men, and his reaction was excellent. Seeing a figure flash at the mouth of the battlement and an enemy suddenly stabbed down with a spear, he immediately turned around and went to the back of the ladder. Then there was a wail, and a close servant following closely behind him was stabbed in the head and face and immediately rolled off the ladder.

He had no intention of caring about the life or death of his close servants. He climbed up a few steps in mid-air with just his hands from the back of the ladder before suddenly twisting his waist and returning to the front of the ladder.

At this time, he was already very close to the top of the city wall. He took a breath and instinctively swung his arm to block an arrow shot at him from the side. He suddenly exerted force with his legs, took a few quick steps and rushed onto the city wall. As soon as he relaxed his mouth, the sword fell into his hand, and he raised his hand to chop down an archer who was about to shoot.

There were quite a few enemies guarding here. When they saw the enemy suddenly jumped onto the city wall, they were all stunned for a moment, and then they immediately reacted. Two of the three nearest spearmen drew their spears and immediately stabbed at him, while the remaining one threw away his spear, drew a katana from his waist and rushed towards him, intending to force him down from the city again.

Although the three enemies reacted quickly and attacked swiftly, they were full of flaws in the eyes of a swordsmanship master like Ishimochi Kensaburo. He dodged a spear by slightly turning sideways, then grabbed the body of another spear with one hand, and used the force of the opponent's rush to push back, causing the enemy to scream and fall off the city wall with the spear.

At this time, the last katana hit him, but he was leaning sideways and the katana only scratched the paint on his fine iron armor, creating a streak of bright sparks, which barely made his body stagger, but didn't even make him bleed. He took advantage of the force of his staggered body to grasp the hilt of the katana with both hands, and with a reverse kasaya slash he ripped open the belly of the last enemy, then he turned around and slashed horizontally, hitting the neck of another spearman who had not yet had time to put away his spear. Although he failed to cut off the opponent's head, he made the enemy fall down instantly.

In a flash, Ishimochi Kenzaburo bravely climbed up first, fighting one against three and killing three of them. He was only slightly scratched, but he did not get complacent, nor did he care about the cheers of the gang members under the city. He forced himself not to breathe heavily, shouted angrily, and forced himself to rush with his sword.

With his long experience as the first to climb the city wall, as long as he climbs up the city wall and kills the enemy defenders one after another, he should be able to greatly deter the enemy. At this time, as long as he musters up the remaining courage and rushes forward, he can scare the enemy away.

It doesn't take long to scare the enemy away. As long as the enemy is too afraid to fight and behaves in a panic, the people behind them will climb up continuously, and the city will be broken.

But he miscalculated this time. Just as he shouted angrily, the enemy also shouted, and their voices were extremely sad and angry. The voices were so loud that they drowned out his shouts - "Xiao Qi is dead!!!"

According to the provisions of Wanjin's "Simple Agreement of Eighty-eight Beheadings": Those who look back and retreat in the face of a battle, and those who whisper to each other, will be beheaded; those who fail to defend strictly and cause the loss of the position will be beheaded; those who kill the leader in battle and the subordinates fail to provide adequate support and there are no casualties, and those who die in small flags and the soldiers of their own flag are not injured or have no merit, will all be beheaded as a warning to others.

Now that the flag bearer of our team has died on the spot, every single soldier in this team will be beheaded as long as they have done no merit or been injured after the battle (no injuries serious enough to make them lose their combat effectiveness). If they abandon their position and turn around and flee, they will also be beheaded. Since they have committed two serious crimes at the same time, they will die a more miserable death. Even their families will be implicated and deprived of all the basic rights enjoyed by the people of Wanjin. It is basically equivalent to returning to the status of "family members", and this time they will really be "slaves", and they will no longer receive the previous preferential treatment.

The eyes of this team of soldiers with small flags instantly turned bloodshot. The armed warriors who rushed over were going to kill them all, and might even kill the entire families of some of them!

At this time, the fear of death was no longer so important, or the soldiers' desire to survive had overwhelmed the fear of death. Before the voice of "Xiaoqi is dead" had completely fallen, the team had already raised their swords and guns and rushed to the battlement. They had to kill Ishimochi Kenzaburo on the spot, and they couldn't even let him escape, otherwise they would not be able to explain to the military police after the war. Even if Ishimochi Kenzaburo had practiced martial arts since he was a child, he was extremely talented and had extraordinary martial arts skills. He couldn't withstand such a group of crazy people who didn't care about their lives. If it weren't for his excellent armor, he would have been stabbed to death on the spot. He could only desperately swing his sword to defend himself, step by step, and retreated to the battlement in two steps. However, he finally opened a breakthrough with his extraordinary bravery and delayed a little time. The samurai retainers behind him had climbed up one after another. Seeing that he was besieged and in danger, they immediately howled and joined the battle.

For a moment, a bloody fight broke out between the two sides around the small battlement entrance, with screams audible and no one willing to step back. Ishimochi Kensaburo swung his sword a few times and barely knocked down one man. Then he felt exhausted and could not hold on any longer. Taking advantage of the opportunity when a man next to him was stabbed to death, he pulled his body outward, then used his last bit of strength to squeeze back, and only then did he temporarily avoid being attacked again.

He took a deep breath in an attempt to recover his strength quickly, and at the same time looked quickly to both sides to see how the other warriors who had arrived first were doing. After all, he felt that he was unlucky. There were elite troops stationed here, and it would be difficult to break through for the time being, so he might not be able to count on them.

When he looked around, he saw that in addition to his side, there were two other groups that had climbed up to the top of the city wall despite the enemy's firepower, but they were still unable to disperse the defenders even on the top of the wall. These "lang gangs" of the Nohara family were different from those of ordinary powerful families. They had extremely strong fighting power and will, and faced with the powerful attack of the equipped samurai, after several of them were hacked to death, they had no intention of screaming "the city is broken" and starting to flee. Instead, they became even more crazy, and rushed up, stabbing with spears from behind and slashing with swords from the front, fighting to the death. Most of the equipped samurai who climbed up the city wall were killed, and the lang gangs at the back could only squeeze on the battlements and struggle to hold on. Basically, as many as came up died.

The situation was even worse than his here. It looked a little weird at first. He thought that the people of the Nohara family were going to rush down from the battlements madly, but the Matsudaira family would not allow it and were blocking the way with their bodies.

The firepower of the rock fortress had not weakened much. This rock fortress was built extremely luxuriously, with extremely wide and flat walls, which could garrison a large number of armed personnel. There were tall and protruding towers with horse faces at the four corners. Now a large number of arquebusiers and archers were still firing crazily from above, shooting at the enemies below the rock fortress without interference, gaining the advantage.

We must quickly attack the tower and kill the cannonmen and archers inside, otherwise there won’t be many people coming up from behind…

Ishimochi Kensaburo became extremely anxious after taking a look, but he immediately felt a pain in his ribs. Several gang members in front of him were killed. An enemy with a bloody face and bloodshot eyes stabbed him in the waist with a gun, but the tip of the gun was blocked by a piece of armor, and could only penetrate a little bit of the flesh. He could only push him back.

However, this enemy was immediately chopped down by a member of the Matsudaira clan who climbed up behind him, and this member of the Matsudaira clan was chopped in the neck by another enemy, and he slowly fell limp in a daze...

Immediately afterwards, two more spears stabbed towards Ishimochi Kensaburo. They had 100% hatred for this heavily-armored samurai who could not be killed no matter what, and they had to kill him first.

Ishimochi Kensaburo had no choice but to muster up his remaining courage and chopped repeatedly, and was once again drawn into a meat-grinding fight. He seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, even though the enemy's martial arts were very poor and they only used three or five moves back and forth, which were not worth mentioning at all. He relied on his superior swordsmanship to kill several enemies in succession, but he still could not move forward and could not expand the breakthrough at all. The enemies were not afraid of death at all, and they kept rushing forward and fighting to the death. Some of them even died, and the enemy would go crazy and rush forward regardless of the consequences to exchange lives.

He was exhausted and suffered repeated injuries. He lost his sense of time for a moment. The only thought in his mind was to defend the battlement. He didn't know how much time had passed when he suddenly heard a sharp female voice with a slightly childish tone coming from behind the enemy, shouting something in Owari dialect. Then his eyes suddenly opened up and the enemy suddenly dispersed to both sides, revealing a giant cannon behind them, with the muzzle as big as a bowl.

Ishimochi Kensaburo was stunned for a moment, but the long-term fighting made him instinctively feel that something was wrong. He subconsciously pulled a Lang gang to block in front of him. Then he heard an extraordinary roar, and the Lang gang blocking him seemed to be hit by a huge hammer and suddenly crashed backwards, knocking him directly out of the battlement. The Lang gangs of the Matsudaira family who were surrounding the battlement also screamed at the same time, and were beaten like a honeycomb by countless iron sand and lead bullets.

Ishimochi Kensaburo's last thought while flying in the air was "It's over, the enemies from the south have come to reinforce..." Then he fell heavily to the ground, severe pains attacked all parts of his body, blood oozed from his mouth and nose, his whole body twitched, and he gradually became motionless.

The most famous military instructor of the Matsudaira family, the best swordsman of his generation in Mikawa Province, the winner of "Ichiban To" and "Senjin" more than ten times, just lay in a weird posture on a hill without even a proper name, and it is very likely that he will never be able to return to Mikawa Province again.

Soon after, similar loud roars began to sound continuously on the tower of the rock fortress, and large amounts of iron sand and lead began to sweep across the gangs above and below the rock fortress. The Matsudaira family finally could not hold on any longer.

(End of this chapter)