Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . y falling heir to some-thing more than ashes and hard blows. And the blowswere hard indeed. After a stiff campaign, Takehira andIehira were cornered in the castle of Kanagawa in were the deeds performed. Kagamasa (he wasonly sixteen) a captain of Yoshiiye was struck in the eyewith an arrow. Allowing it to remain in the wound heused it to sight his own missile, and killed the man whosent it. Ot
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . y falling heir to some-thing more than ashes and hard blows. And the blowswere hard indeed. After a stiff campaign, Takehira andIehira were cornered in the castle of Kanagawa in were the deeds performed. Kagamasa (he wasonly sixteen) a captain of Yoshiiye was struck in the eyewith an arrow. Allowing it to remain in the wound heused it to sight his own missile, and killed the man whosent it. Other captains of great courage performed equalprodigies of valour. And to set the standard decentlyhigh, Yoshiiye separated the sheep from the goats, thebrave from the retiring in disposition. The castle was too strong to be taken by assault, and atthis game Yoshiiye lost a plentiful sufficiency of men,material, and time. The besieged were ingenious in theirsallies and ambuscades. Equally keen were the besiegersto detect these untoward tricks. The wild geese drivenout of the marshes invaded the camp of Yoshiiye. One * Or for his great deeds in the campaign against the Abe say HACHIMAN-TARO MINAMOTO YOSHI1YE. INTRODUCTION. 125 Masafusa suspected then the presence of an reeds were surrounded and beaten out, and a bandof thirty of the enemy were thus cornered and was on pins and needles, witnessing the destruc-tion of his prospective property—men and materials : (hehad a pretty shrewd idea where he was going to land).He counselled starving out the besieged. Yoshiiye adoptedthe advice, and it went hard with them in the provisions daily diminished, and they were reducedto great extremities. Finally on December 27th (14 dayof the 11 month) Takehira and lehira set fire to the castle,and sought to escape by flight in the confusion. Yoshiiyeat once sent out his storming parties, and every humancreature in the castle was put to death. T
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