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Published at 21st of October 2021 11:01:22 AM


Chapter 21: 21

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After shioka Yiyu left, the heavy rain continued to fall, and the streets of Gaoyuan town were already empty. At this time, the sound of horses' hoofs sounded in the distance of the street, and five cavalry galloped from the direction of Gaoyuan city. The first is a military general wearing a belly roll. The other party has a beard, a burly figure and a very rough appearance.

After dismounting, the general went straight to Takeda shenglai. After saluting, he said: Your Highness shenglai, I haven't seen you for a long time, and finally grew into a man.

Takeda shenglai smiled and said, "really? Lord Akiyama."

Li Xiao looked at this person. The other person's name was Qiushan Xinyou, also known as Hufan. It came from the branch Qiushan family of Jiafei Wutian family. His family Qiushan family has always been the existence of a genealogical Minister of the Takeda family. After taking the yuan service, Akiyama Xinyou himself, as a fierce general of Takeda family, made many outstanding military achievements and was promoted to a 250 riding general by Takeda Xinxuan. Because of his bravery, he was praised as a fierce bull of Takeda army by Tokugawa Jiakang.

This time, he did not lead the army to fight in the joint battle of Chuanzhong island. Instead, as the garrison of Yinai County, he stayed in Gaoyuan city to guard against the military trend in the direction of Sanhe Meinong.

Gaoyuan city has always been the direct leader of the Takeda family. Qiushan Xinyou serves as the city representative here, not the city master. His territory is sealed elsewhere. After Takeda shenglai assumes the post of city master, Akiyama Xinyou will move to Fantian City, which is the border of Xinnong and closer to Sanhe and Meinong.

Takeda shenglai, Li Xiao and Yamamoto Kazuo are back on the horse. The horse's hooves trampled on the uneven road, splashing mud and water. Takeda shenglai suddenly whipped heavily and galloped forward. Qiushan Xinyou and Li Xiao hurriedly urged their mounts to keep up, while Xicun pingsan and his foot light team also accelerated their pace and trotted all the way behind the horse team.

The outline of Gaoyuan city became more and more clear in front of Li Xiao.

As Pingshan City, Gaoyuan city occupies a large area. From the appearance of Gaoyuan City, it can be seen that the structure of Japanese castles in this era is first built on the earth base with compacted foundation, and then on the stone wall built with boulders to prevent the enemy from climbing, and the stone wall is surrounded by curved wheels (city walls).

There are two curved wheels in Gaoyuan city. In this way, the inside surrounded by the outermost one is called Erzhi Pill, and the inside surrounded by the innermost one is called benwan. A trench is dug under the outermost curved wheel, which is called hori. Gaoyuan city is one of the representative works of Yamamoto's investigation and assistance in building the city. The empty hori outside Gaoyuan city is designed as the characteristic of "three day moon hori".

The so-called "three day moon hori" means that there is a curved moon like hori in front of the two sections of hori. The three sections of hori form a convex semicircle. All the soil excavated during the excavation of the hori is stacked behind the hori to form an earth base to cover the garrison soldiers. When the enemy attacks, they can only go around the narrow channels on both sides of the "three day moon hori", In the process of marching, they will be intensively killed by the Garrison's bow, arrow and iron guns. Even if they rush in, they will be attacked by the garrison on many sides. The stronghold composed of three-day moon hori is called "pill horse out" because of its shape.

There is also the "wildebeest horse" that Beitiao family often used when building the city.

This structure is somewhat similar to the protrusion design of later European prismatic fort, which is designed to kill more enemy troops. In addition to Gaoyuan City, Yamamoto also built Shenzhi City, Xiaozhu city and Haijin city according to this structure, which should be built by Takeda Xinxuan according to the needs of consolidating Xinnong's rule or preventing the invasion of other forces at that time.

It is not surprising that when Li Xiao played with Nobunaga's wild hope, Yamamoto's urban suitability would be S-class.

When they came to the earth bridge on Kong hori, Takeda shenglai, Li Xiao and his party slowed down their horse riding speed and slowly walked to Hukou in Gaoyuan city. Hukou is the location of the opening of the curved wheel, and the city gate located in Hukou is called the big hand gate, or the chasing hand gate. In contrast, the gate on the back of the city is called tetany gate.

The big hand gate is also the main gate, so they are all built in style. Now the big hand gate has been opened. On both sides of the channel behind the gate, the Takeda warriors guarding the city stand respectfully on the left and right sides, and are preparing to welcome Takeda shenglai.

Although the rain did not decrease at this time, Takeda shenglai still posed as a master, sat on the horse with his back straight, drove his horse into the city along the horse road, and got off the horse in front of the pill door all the way. Then enter the pill surrounded by Akiyama Xinyou and others.

On the same day, Takeda shenglai and Akiyama Xinyou handed over Gaoyuan city. Because Takeda shenglai has no family members, Li Xiao and Yamamoto moved into the Tianshou Pavilion in this pill together. The Tianshou Pavilion in Gaoyuan city is relatively small. It's a little reluctant to call it Tianshou Pavilion, or it's more appropriate to call it a small arrow tower such as rowing. But it's better than nothing.

Tianshou Pavilion is the daily residence of the city Lord and the headquarters in wartime. It is usually attacked by the enemy in the cage city war, which basically means that you are finished.

In addition to the Tianshou Pavilion, this pill also stores weapons, soldiers' grain and a large pool that has been excavated for a long time, which is reserved to prevent the other party from cutting off its own water source during the cage city war. Among the two pills, there is the residence of the garrison warrior, the horse farm, and the horse path connecting the gate of this pill to the big hand gate at the foot of the mountain, circling up the mountain, which is built like the current winding mountain highway.

In order to prevent the enemy from breaking through the big gate, attack Ben Wan directly on this horse road. The garrison will also set up various obstacles to prevent the enemy from deploying its forces and delay the other party's offensive. The garrison can shoot the enemy with iron guns or bows and arrows through the commanding tianshouge or in the curved wheel slot (shooting hole) around this pill.

From the narrow design, we can also see the meticulous of the Japanese. The slits used by iron cannon and bow and arrow are different. Generally speaking, the slits of iron cannon are triangular, circular and square, while the slits of arrow are rectangular. It is said that this design is because the angle of view and action of bow and arrow and fire gun are different when shooting.

Now Li Xiao, like a curious tourist, carefully observes everything up and down Gaoyuan city. With the design of the Japanese castle, it has become a purely military building. Before the emergence of artillery and other advanced weapons, with such a city, it is easy to stick in front of the enemy's superior forces for a period of time, and then wait for reinforcements.

Some people have counted the more than 80 battles fought by Takeda Xinxuan in his life. Except for a few outside, they all took the initiative to attack, and more than half of the offensive battles were also sieges. Cage City wars can be as few as a few days, as many as a year and a half. Otherwise, with Takeda Xinxuan's great talent and strategy and the elite of Jiafei's family officials, how can we spend more than ten years on Xinnong's strategy, most of which is used to besiege the city.

So I think Takeda Xinxuan should hate the siege war very much. Since he loves reading Sun Tzu's art of war, it's absolutely impossible not to know the wise saying "siege is the next thing", but he still has to do it. The reason is also very simple. Xinnong's city or Zhai is too fucking much.

Therefore, it is often said that Takeda Xinxuan advocated attack, so he never built the city, and no enemy hit his city in his life. According to what Takeda shinxuan repeatedly said before, "man is a mountain, man is a city, and man is a hori." And "a strong city can't be guarded. Only a strong group of family officials can be trusted by Xinxuan."

But when Li Xiao looked at the design of Haijin city and Yuancheng City, he felt that there was still a difference in his understanding of Takeda Xinxuan's words. Maybe even though he lived his whole life, no one really came to his wandering museum under the city. But that does not mean that his rule in Shino is equally strong. The four cities built by Takeda xinxuanming Yamamoto are all located in Xinnong.





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