Ming Zuo

Chapter 1379

Sakai Tadakatsu and Mori Hidemoto met each other in chess and met Liangcai, and they all took advantage of each other's weaknesses.

Matsudaira believed that the gods would descend from the sky, and burned all the food and grass of the daimyo coalition army with a single fire.

Shimadzu Tadaro's surprise soldiers protruded, like a tiger descending the mountain, and crashed into Sakai Tadakatsu's headquarters.

Both parties seized on each other's weaknesses.

The result is that the entire battlefield is completely messed up.

The daimyo allied forces knew that food and grass were running out, and they would all be starving soon.Therefore, we can only desperately hope to completely defeat the shogunate army in the shortest possible time.

The shogunate army didn't know the situation of the commander, and they were all panicked, retreating desperately, trying to get out of danger.

The two sides fought together in the plains of Okayama. In the end, there would be no soldiers and generals.

Anyway, as long as you see people with different clothes and armor, you should kill them.

This scuffle lasted for a full day and night.In the end, the two sides were really exhausted, and they didn't even have the strength to move, so it was announced that it was over.

The shogunate army headed eastward in a hurry, retreating hundreds of miles before they could barely stabilize.

The daimyo allied forces had no choice. The reality before them was that they had to find food as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if so many people are hungry, there will be trouble.

"Give him to Ling Chi, I want to eat his flesh raw."

Standing in front of the granary that had been reduced to ashes, Mo Li Xiuyuan was furious.

Looking at Matsudaira Nobudaka who was caught, he issued the most vicious punishment order.

According to the original plan, after Matsudaira Shinsada burned the food and grass of the daimyo coalition forces, the shogunate army would take advantage of the chaos of the daimyo coalition forces to attack in an all-round way.

In this way, Matsudaira Nobusaka was safe even though he was behind enemy lines.

However, the shogunate army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat eastward.Matsudaira Shinsada, who was trapped behind the enemy, was besieged by an enemy force ten times larger than himself.

The men and horses he brought were quickly wiped out, and when he himself was about to commit suicide, he was captured by the rushing enemies.

Knowing that he will inevitably die, Matsudaira Nobudaka is extremely crazy.

"You rebels, who violated the oath of allegiance, will definitely be condemned by God. When the general's soldiers and horses come back again, it will be the day you die."

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu stepped up, turned the handle of the knife upside down, and slammed it heavily on his mouth.

Nobudaka Matsudaira let out a scream, and all the teeth in his mouth were knocked out.

He was dragged to a distance, stripped of his clothes, wrapped in a fishing net, and began to be tortured by Ling Chi.

The daimyo allied forces hated him to the core and didn't want him to die quickly.After three full days and three nights of execution, he was cut into pieces.

On the other side, Sakai Tadakatsu finally stabilized.Gathering and gathering the broken soldiers, they almost apologized on the spot by caesarean section.

Of the more than 20 shogunate troops, less than [-] fled back.

More than half of the soldiers and horses were lost in this battle.

This is definitely a serious injury to the shogunate.

Not only that, Date Masamune died in battle, Date Hidemune broke a leg, and Masamune Honda fell into a coma.

He didn't even know, how should he explain to Tokugawa Iemitsu?

However, the overall situation is actually equal to both parties.

The shogunate army was badly damaged and urgently needed recovery.As for the daimyo allied forces, the food and grass are cut off, and it will also take quite a long time to prepare.

There was a moment of silence on the battlefield.

However, at the local level, the people of Dongying began to encounter brutal looting and oppression.

Edo.

The people of the shogunate rushed into a shop viciously.

"The front line is fighting, and soldiers are needed. Men of the right age in your store must apply."

The shopkeeper was taken aback and begged quickly.

"My lord, there are only so many people in our store. If you want to join the army, there is no way to manage it."

"Baga! Do you want to disobey the order of the shogunate?"

With the shining knife resting on his neck, the shopkeeper was trembling with fright and desperate.

I can only watch the three shop assistants being snatched away by the shogunate.

Looking back and looking at his own store, he already had a premonition of the bankruptcy scene.

At the same time, in the vast rural areas of the Tokugawa shogunate, the situation was even worse.

Countless people were broken into, and any males over the age of 13 were forcibly taken away.

The wailing and crying of the women can't get any mercy.

The biggest impact of the lack of labor force is that the vast farmlands are left unattended and begin to become desolate day by day.

But the Tokugawa shogunate no longer cared about these.

If you can't win on the battlefield, the only thing waiting for the shogunate is perish.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to re-form the army.

Not only that, he sent someone to contact Xia Guo and spent 500 million taels of silver to buy weapons again.

The daimyo allied forces are not much better.

Without food, we can only ask innocent people for it.

In all the vassal states, the homes of the common people are like robbers breaking into their homes.

All the food in the rice vat was taken away, and those who dared to resist were killed on the spot.

Anyone who fails to hand over the food will be arrested and hung on a tree at the entrance of the village, exposed to the wind and sun, and dying.

Through this method, it took a full three months for the daimyo allied forces to finally raise more than 100 million catties of grain, and have the capital to start the war again.

The consequence that can be brought about is that countless people go bankrupt because of this.

In the fields and countryside, I don't know how many people died of starvation.

The people whose families have been ruined have accumulated powerful anger in their hearts.

Maybe it just takes a chance for these rages to explode.

In the area near Shimabara, many people simply chose to flee.

They fled into Shimabara's territory one after another, seeking a chance to survive.

Shimabara's side followed Amakusa Tokisada's order for the people who came running, and gave them all proper arrangements.

For a while, Shimabara became a holy place that everyone on Kyushu Island yearned for.

The resulting fleeing wave became even more violent.

The big names quickly noticed the abnormality and arrested them one after another.

But there were too many fleeing people, and many people still ran into Shimabara's territory.

All the big names were furious, and they came to demand someone one after another.

Amakusa Tokisada was also polite, treated him toughly, and resolutely refused to let him go.

In the end, the matter came to Xia Guo, and Xia Guo was still required to judge.

"Birds move with the weather, and cattle and sheep live after water and grass. This is nature. When people have no way out in one place, they will naturally go to other places to seek survival. This is the spontaneous choice of the people. It is against the law to block it. The way of heaven. I also hope that all the big names can relax their minds and don't commit evil to the end."

Shen Tingyang naturally sided with Amakusa Shizhen, and beat back the daimyos.

The big names have no choice but to hold grudges.At the same time, the vigilance was secretly strengthened, trying to prevent the escape of the people as much as possible.

Under the tragic war, changes are taking place quietly.

Japan's national strength began to be severely depleted, and it was not far from the limit of collapse.

(End of this chapter)