絶望的状況下でも楠木正成は信念を失くすことも、降参を選ぶこともしませんでした。
Despite being put in a hopeless situation, Masashige Kusunoki neither lost faith nor opted to surrender.
楠木正成は幕府の兵を藁人形の囮の所へと誘き寄せ、兵が囮に飛びかかると、楠木正成の兵は一斉に大量の岩石、煮立った熱湯と人糞、火のついた油をそこへ目掛けて落としました。
Bakufu’s troops were lured to the straw doll decoys of his troops; as soon as they leap at the decoys, his troops dropped dropped a bunch of big rocks, boiled water and their popes, and lit oil at them all at once.
そして、長きに亘る籠城作戦に成功した末、奇跡的にも千早城は陥落しませんでした。
After his successful strategy of holding themselves up in a castle for a long time, Chihaya Castle didn’t fall miraculously.
そんな中、後醍醐天皇は自力で隠岐を脱し、幕府討伐の勅を全国の武士に発しました。
In the mean time, Godaigo Emperor escaped from Oki Island on his own, and he sent the Imperial order to subjugate Bakufu to Samurai throughout Japan.
