Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 149 Psychological Contest
Today, the Imagawa family's offensive reached a new level and they launched a fierce attack on the entire front. Fierce fighting took place at Beishan, the rock fort by the river, several key nodes of Yangqiang and the "Stone City". Yuanye judged that the enemy was about to launch a decisive attack, so he was on high alert and put all the forces he could put on the city walls.

At the same time, he also made a plan in case the Yang Wall was breached and the rear lost its shield, and was prepared to shrink the defense. After the Yang Wall was lost, he was ready to abandon the Beishan Rock Fort and withdraw the remaining more than 100 Wanjin troops there to the Gangkou Rock Fort for defense.

Part of the combat soldiers and auxiliary troops on the sheep wall entered the "Stone City" to increase the defense force, while the other part retreated to several small rock forts between the port and the "Stone City" to increase the resistance of the second line of defense.

The same treatment should be applied to the riverside rock fort, but there are only a few dozen Wanjin troops there, and they can all be moved into the "Stone City".

The weak and old civilians who had no fighting power in the camp were also organized and retreated to the port area as much as possible. If the port could not accommodate them, they would be diverted to the "Stone City" and the small rock forts in the second line.

If there is no more room, then I can only...

In short, after the first line was breached, he would still insist on fighting, but he was afraid that he would be attacked from all sides and would not have such good supply conditions.

It could be said that he had no choice but to do so. He had too many civilians without combat capability and a large amount of supplies accumulated in the past, which resulted in the front line being stretched out very long. The Wanjin Army was spread out very thin, making it difficult to cope with the enemy's all-out attack. He was afraid that the Yangqiang could not be defended. But now he was forced to concentrate the Wanjin Army, which was not entirely a bad thing. If necessary, he could even find an opportunity to take the initiative and fight the enemy in the field to capture the leader first.

The outcome is unpredictable. In a field battle with a few hundred people against several thousand, not to mention winning or losing, he will most likely be destroyed after the battle. If Oda Nobunaga takes the opportunity to "take over" this place, he can only watch helplessly.

It is so difficult to start from scratch. It was difficult to develop to the optimal state under the nose of Oda Nobunaga. And running to the Chita Peninsula was even more of a risky gamble, trying to force the Imagawa family to make concessions without seriously damaging their strength. As a result, looking at it now, the risk has failed. They are surrounded by dangerous enemies and the situation is complicated. It is not easy to become a "small daimyo" out of thin air.

He spent the entire day deploying personnel and transporting supplies, preparing for the possibility that the Sheep Wall would be lost and he would be trapped in the city. Then he stood on the city wall and looked at the enemy's positions and camps.

It was already dusk, and the enemy was taking advantage of the last period of good light to exchange positions in the front and back and bring in fresh troops. The enemy also needed to eat, and wisps of smoke were rising from behind the enemy's positions and in the camp, and they had begun to disperse and eat.

Until the sunset completely sank into the horizon and the sky gradually darkened, the enemy's positions began to light up again, but there were not many lights. As they moved away from the city walls and were no longer vulnerable to attack, the lights became more and more numerous. By the time they reached the enemy's camp, they had become tiny dots, like the numerous stars in the sky.

The number of enemies has been increasing, and almost all of the Chita clan have been called here...

Yuan Ye watched quietly for a long time, watching the scene that was somewhat distorted and floating under the influence of the smoke. For a moment, he felt a little bit like a dream, and doubted whether he could survive the night, and whether he would be trapped to death in the city. If he was really trapped to death in the city, he would probably have to compete for the top ten shames of time travelers in history.

He even wanted to clasp his hands together and ask the enemy from afar: So many of you have died, why don't you leave? Is this place so important? Why are you fighting me to the death here?
So many people have died, I can hardly bear it, why can you still bear it?
But he also knew that it was useless to ask. The enemy did not believe that he simply wanted to move to the Chita Peninsula. They were afraid that he was so strong that he would bring disaster to the entire Chita Peninsula and cause them to lose the entire southern wing of the Shirakawaguchi Line of Defense. There might even be more important reasons that he could not guess, which involved the Imagawa family's further arrangements for the Chita Peninsula, but these were no longer important.

The sound of conch shells rang out from the enemy's position, and it seemed that the shift had changed. Yuanye's scattered thoughts gathered again. He glanced at the lights in the enemy's camp, then looked up at the starry sky. He turned around, took out the whistle, and blew it with all his strength.

Soon after, sharp whistles sounded on the city walls and the sheep wall, responding to him, and a new round of attack and defense was about to begin. This night, the enemy really didn't show him any mercy, launching a far more fierce attack than before. Several parts of the sheep wall were attacked with an intensity no less than the previous "Battle of Kitayama Rock Fortress". A large number of heavily armored samurai from the Imagawa and Matsudaira families were thrown into the battlefield, and the main attackers were all Imagawa and Matsudaira family members, and no longer used the samurai members of the Chita clan to make up the numbers.

Yuanye personally led a "fire brigade" to run around on the sheep wall, with swords and guns drawn, and muskets fired, constantly driving the enemies off the sheep wall. However, there was still a tower occupied by a group of enemies who suddenly rushed up. Then, during the fight, the gunpowder barrel in the tower was ignited somehow, and there was a huge explosion on the spot, which almost killed him.

There was even a small group of enemies that somehow crossed the sheep wall in the chaotic night and got behind the defense line. In the dark, they fought a small rock fort on the second line of defense, which instantly caused the auxiliary troops on the front line to be shaken on a large scale.

By the time dawned, the entire Sheep Wall was in chaos. In many places, the enemy relied on their large numbers and the even larger number of miscellaneous soldiers and foot soldiers to forcibly pile up earth hills, allowing them to quickly climb up the Sheep Wall. Face-to-face combat increased rapidly, and the number of casualties among Wanjin's soldiers also began to soar. The situation began to get worse.

There was no time to wait any longer. Yuanye calmly accepted the reality, ordered the defense to begin to shrink, and ordered the gendarmes to fill the holes in the sheep wall that had been reserved when the wall was built with gunpowder barrels. If necessary, he would collapse a few sheep walls and let several towers closer to the city collapse to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of them. Volcanic ash concrete could be blown down, but in order to achieve a good blasting effect, the wall needed to be dug up and detonated from inside. About one pound of black powder could break up one cubic meter of volcanic ash concrete. He had tried this before to prevent the volcanic ash cement from getting out and making it impossible for even him to deal with it in the future.

Of course, there is no need to rush now. It will not be too late to collapse after the enemy has taken over. The fuse has been buried in advance.

The defensive contraction went smoothly, the junior officers were very capable, and most of them entered the new defensive positions according to the plan. The main reason was that the enemy was in a state of chaos after fighting all night, and they successfully occupied the Yang Wall and were unable to pursue for a while. At the same time, all the Wanjin troops, including the auxiliary troops, knew that the small bay was blocked by the sunken ship, and everyone had no way to retreat, so they could only hide in the rock fortress.

At this time, the harsh military discipline had little effect. It was difficult for Hara to control these scattered small rock forts. Most people had to fight independently under the leadership of junior officers and were forced to start fighting for their own lives. After all, in this unfortunate era and unfortunate country, there was no such thing as preferential treatment for prisoners. If they fell into the hands of the Imagawa family, their fate would probably not be very good.

At least they will not surrender until they are no longer able to fight.

I guess so!
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Yuanye couldn't care less about the gains and losses of the small rock fortress. There was a well in the city anyway, so he planned to rely on the strong city to defend for a month or two. Now the Sichuan army paid a heavy price and finally won the victory with great difficulty. They were very excited. After saying "Oh oh hey" for a while, they saw several brand new rock fortresses appearing in the wilderness in the dawn sunlight. Further away, there were two large rock fortresses, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the entrance to a small bay, and in the middle was a shorter but higher and thicker sheep wall.

Looking at this scene, the "oh oh hey" sounds from the Imagawa family on the city wall became lower and lower, and gradually disappeared completely.

Only then did they realize that the enemy did not flee, but retreated into a new defensive position. They tried their best, but only managed to take down a wall of sheep.

How long will it take to drive away this group of enemies?
Even the most brainless Langdang in the Imagawa family began to think about this issue.

Now this war has turned into a psychological contest. Neither side understands why the other side is fighting so hard. Both sides are anxious and afraid that the other side will persevere to the end. Both sides feel under a lot of pressure and feel that they may not be able to hold on any longer. Now it depends on who is more willing to give it their all.

(End of this chapter)