Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 118 Hideka's Sanuki Strategy

The Hide family assigned an extremely elite reserve team to the three of Akikami's family, Takayama's family, and Ukita's family, so that they could have enough strength to quickly capture the land in central Sanuki.

On the other hand, Hideka plans to lead the Tekpaobei, Takamatsubei, and Banner teams as the main team, plus the Hojo group led by Shinmen Zongguan, the Kume Katsumi group led by Takeuchi Kuji, and the Katsuhoku group led by Arimoto Saaki. 8000 people went west to attack Sanye County and Toyota County.

Since the head of the Xiangchuan family, Xiangchuan Zhijing, was captured by the Xiu family in Tianwu City, it would not take much effort to evaluate these two counties. part of the living space.

After everyone received the order, the assessment was over, and they dispersed one by one. Hideka saw that Takatora Todo stayed and did not leave, and motioned him to come forward and talk.

"Your Highness, please give Kazuki one more chance and let me participate in Sanuki's strategy." Todo Takatora said straight to the point.

"He Qi Bei still has more than a thousand soldiers who can stand alone. Now the enemy's momentum has dispersed, and some wealthy families are all at hand. Now other Class B equipment has missions, and everyone can win great fame. Therefore, I am here on behalf of He Qi Bei. Please, Your Highness, please allow me a mission."

It turned out that Gao Hu heard that the Xiu family arranged for him to repair, but he was still worried that the Xiu family would punish him, so he asked the Xiu family for an errand.

What's more, everyone contributed to this battle. After defeating Changzong's army, each general led an army to pacify Sanuki. It doesn't make sense that they can't even drink soup by themselves.

After listening to Gao Hu's words, Xiujia understood in his heart that he still couldn't understand the aspirations of the soldiers who were eager to fight.

After the reform of the military system and the reform of land acres, ordinary ashigaru can also obtain hereditary land grants by virtue of their military merits.

Although everyone now has fields, most of them are temporary in nature. Only one generation of open fields will harvest the fields after death. The future is the common cognition of the bottom class people in Japan today.

Of course, the Xiu family has no reason to reject Gao Hu's decision. More importantly, the Xiu family is unwilling to refute the fighting spirit of the soldiers. I don't care about military exploits.

And all the soldiers directly under the reserve team are willing to die for the Xiu family, relying on fighting on the battlefield to get a jump in class.

Therefore, after thinking for a while, Hideka said, "In this case, I will let the Kume Katsunan of Takeuchi Kuji temporarily stay in Tianwu City, and I will hand over the Katsuboku to you, and you will be in charge of the southern part of Naka and the southern part of Sanye. Raiders in Shioni, etc. You have only about 2500 people in the reserve team, but you are facing many wealthy families including Nagao Takakin and Caitian Jiuchang, and there are many mountains there, so you must be careful when marching and fighting."

"Ha Yi, please don't worry, I will definitely assess this territory." Fujido Gaohu was very happy when he heard that the Xiu family finally arranged for him to lead the army alone, and immediately agreed.

The Hide family can only lead 5500 people from Ruyi Mountain to the west, cross the plain between Huoshang Mountain and Dongshan Mountain, and enter the Sanfeng Plain to wipe out the participating strength of the Kagawa family.

On November 11, the 11th year of Tianzheng, Hideka took the first step to conquer Macheng at the foot of the eastern mountain, beheaded the guard of the Ohira family, Kaji Matagoro and others, and then turned to the northwest to attack Takuma, Nio and other places.

At this time, the Sanye Peninsula area in the upper left corner of Sanye County, although it belongs to Sanuki in name, has been occupied by the salt-saturated army all year round. Xiujia still maintains a good relationship with the salt-saturated army at this time, so there is no need to deal with it. The Sanye Peninsula launched an offensive.

On November 11, Hideka conquered Takuma Matsuki City, took control of Takuma Port, and then turned to the south to connect with Kejinzhong, Xiagaolai and other cities.

On November 11th, they turned west and crossed Zhenping Mountain and entered Renwei. It was not until here that Xiujia encountered ongoing resistance.

Nito was originally the main city of the Sanuki Hosokawa family. In 1579, the Hosokawa clan died in the political battle because of resisting the attack of the Nagagawa family. The Sanuki Hosokawa clan was completely extinct, and its territory was also awarded to the Kagawa family.

When Hosokawa Yorihiro and Hosokawa Shizheng were still alive, it can be said that the Hosokawa family was the guardian of Sanuki. The wealthy families in the territory would more or less give some face, and the cover would be given for festivals, making it only 3000 shi. The Hosokawa house is still alive and well.

Its main city is the 99 mountain city built on the top of Qibao Mountain in the south of Renwei. As the last facade of the Hosokawa Sanuki family, this city is as magnificent as Tianwu City and Shihe City.

After the fall of Tianwu City, Changzong's family was forced to fight the Hide family, and finally retreated with heavy losses. As the second son of Changzong's family and the heir of the Kagawa family, Kagawa's life and death in the scene of the head of the family are uncertain On November 11, at Takamaru Castle, he inherited the position of Governor of the Kagawa family.

As the gateway of Takamaru, the 99 Mountain Castle has a dangerous terrain. Once the city is defended, the Ukita Army will follow the Kamiyama and Kuwayama to look down on the entire Kannonji Plain.

Hideka could have set up a fort at the end of Mt. Kuwazan and bombarded Takamaru Castle not far from the foot of the mountain. Therefore, although the preparations were cramped, Kagawa Amiwa still let the family elders Yoshida Kanenchi and Aono Masakazu lead 1200 people to garrison 99 Mountain Castle.

Hideka surrounded 20 Mountain City on the 99th. The main formation was located at the top of Mount Shiho in the north. Due to the ups and downs of the mountain, the cannons could not be transported up. The attack on this mountain city could only enter the most primitive stage of attack.

The Hide family learned from Tsusue Sanzhicheng that his family's old Yoshida Kanenchi wrote "Jade Broken Form" and stood up to the Kagawa Affinity Association until one soldier died.

By the time Xiujia arrived at the 99th mountain city, the city had already been reinforced. The Kagawa army dug vertical boreholes along the earthen walls of the mountain to prevent Ukita from attacking the city with ants. At the same time, they used the wood on the mountain to temporarily build several The simple arrow tower, the entire 99 mountain city is like a hedgehog lying on the southward road of the Xiu family.

The Xiu family had no choice but to adopt the old method, using iron cannons to cover the fire, and the soldiers transported gunpowder barrels to the nearest city gate to ignite them, and blasted the city gate to attack the city.

Before the arrival of Hideo, Yoshida Kanenchi installed another layer of screens behind the screens, and added soil between the two screens to build up the city wall, so that the screens of 99 Mountain City have the effect of preventing iron cannons from shooting.

Facing this kind of soil splint city wall, the iron cannons prepared thousands of iron cannons to shoot at the city head, but the effect was not obvious. Due to the dangerous terrain of 99 mountain castle, the vertical bore was also excavated in relatively flat areas, so that Ukido could only take the Otekou one way project.

Now that we encounter these earthen walls that can defend against iron cannon projectiles, the enemy only needs to hide behind the screen and shoot at the passage of Oteguchi through the shooting holes, so that Takamatsu prepared for the 2nd day in addition to paying dozens of people He has gained nothing other than his life, not even Waimaru Oteguchi.

Seeing that it was not possible to drag on like this, Xiujia ordered the whole army to be repaired, and the 6-pound guns from Tianwu Mountain were transported to the foot of Zhibao Mountain, and they were transported to the mountain by horse-drawn retreat. formation.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, three 3-pound guns fired a volley at the crown wooden door and the screen, and the screen was directly shot open, but the crown wooden door was still standing upright after being hit.

When the soldiers arrived, they found that the defenders had already sealed the city gate with stone strips. Facing this kind of granite stone strips, the 6-pounder guns in the hands of the Xiu family had no way out. Strategic siege stage.

The cannons of the Xiu family couldn’t take down the 99 mountain city, but Kagawa Amiwa at the foot of the mountain didn’t know it. At 7 o’clock in the morning, he was awakened by three cannons at very close intervals. It can even be said that it left him with post-traumatic sequelae, so that he is very familiar with this new weapon that sounds like thunder.

His first reaction was that Yuxi's family had come to attack the city. Surprised, he crawled out of his concubine's bed, drew out his weapon and prepared to fight. When he heard that it was Yuxi's family who bombarded 99 Mountain City, he ordered people to investigate 99. Mountain city situation.

In the afternoon, the scouts reported back: Yuxi failed to bombard 99 Mountain City. General Yuxi has given up the attack and turned to siege. 99 Mountain City is temporarily safe.

After hearing this rest, Kagawa Kagawa could finally have a good sleep. When Yuanqin left Sanuki, he asked him to refuse to defend West Sanuki for 1 year. After 1 year, he will come back with reinforcements.

This request is difficult for Kagawa Affinity. You must know that the opposite party is a man who can't even defeat his father Yuanqin, so how can he delay for a year.

Now I heard that Yuxi's family failed to attack 99 Mountain City, and turned into the most time-consuming siege. With 99 Mountain City's food, it would not be a problem to hold on for more than half a year.

After the opening of the 99 mountain city, Kagawa Affinity has integrated the forces of Nishi Sanuki, and can take every step of the way, deal with the Uki family, and finally he can be regarded as high in front of his father.

At this time, the Xiu family in Zhibaoshan was also thinking about a way to break the situation.

(End of this chapter)