Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 221 Gu Zhongcheng Captured

In many games, the morale is often digitized, and a BUFF that increases the morale of the whole team is given to the general. This BUFF will have different performances depending on the general's data, and can even pull the troops that have already fled from the white flag state. Return to combat state.

Back to reality, this is the embodiment of a general's personal charm and prestige.It's hard for you to imagine what kind of qualitative change will happen when an army has a soul.

Taking the defeat of the Asano Legion as an example, under the dual effects of Hideka's prestige and military law, the originally timid Asano Legion started from the fleeing daimyo and samurai, turned around and killed the enemy from top to bottom.

After all, who wouldn't want to win?Especially when the chief general is watching by your side, if you run away in front of the Xiu family, not only will you leave a bad impression on the Xiu family, but in the end, if you want to refer to the military report reported by Hideyoshi, you should think about it ?

The purpose of fleeing just now was to save one's life. Now that reinforcements are pouring in from the rear, there is no reason to run away. Holding the thighs and drinking soup is the right way.

Tadake Hosokawa, who was desperately trying to get to the front and tried to escape just now, wanted to get angry after his trusted samurai was killed, but was dragged down by his retainers.

Hosokawa Tadakashi looked in the direction guided by his retainers, and he saw the well-dressed Hideo Banner Congregation on the opposite side of the Yoshino River, and the five-san paulownia flags were planted behind the banners of these banner congregations.

Just at this moment, the boss Matsui Yasuyuki squeezed beside Hosokawa Tadakashi, without any regard for the younger brother of the same clan who had just been treated as a negative teaching material, and suggested to Hosokawa Tadake, "Yoichiro, the reinforcements from Hashiba Takeshiden have arrived now." , At this moment, if you forcefully retreat at this moment, I am afraid that Hashiba Wuwei will be offended, if you can turn the tide at this time and restrain the soldiers from reincarnating and killing thieves, it will be considered a great achievement in the future."

In fact, of course Tadake Hosokawa knew these reasons, but his attendant was beheaded in front of him, and he was a little embarrassed. Now that Matsui Yasuyuki gave him a step down, he would naturally go down the donkey. "In this case, then by You are in charge."

The Hosokawa army is the most complete army in the entire Asano army. Before that, there were still some wealthy daimyos who were hesitant. When they saw a samurai in the Hosokawa army taking the lead in turning back, they all followed them to compete with the Tosa barbarians behind them.

Hosokawa Tadaoki, who was suffocated by the ashigaru just now, showed amazing fighting power after returning to the front line. Compared with other places in Kinai, the land of Tango is poor, so this The common people in this block are as ferocious as Tosa soldiers.

Compared with the Tango people who had the backbone, the Tosa soldiers who had relaxed were like deflated balls. It was difficult to bring up the momentum of the Asano army who had just pulled the mountain and pierced through the Asano army, but was beaten by the Hosokawa army. We are losing ground.

I don't know where Tadakashi Hosokawa found an ownerless horse. While riding the horse condescendingly commanding the battle, he kept looking across the Yoshino River on the right, as if he wanted to see if Hideka noticed his behavior. Side of the brave.

When he saw Xiujia nodding to him, the evil fire in Hosokawa Tadake's heart became stronger, and he vowed to win more achievements in this battle to save face.

But Asano Nagamasa on the left had the same idea as him. He was worried that the embarrassment that he took the lead in escaping as a branch general would be known by Hideka, so he worked hard after returning to the battlefield.

What should I do if I encounter obstacles?Directly let the iron cannon ashigaru ride on the samurai's horse, condescendingly shoot at the enemy in front of the formation, and then someone specially assigned to load the iron cannon for him.

Although he couldn't see it very clearly, Hideka did notice Asano Nagamasa's innovation, and thought in his heart, "It really made you play a different kind of dragoon!"

The battle situation under the Zhongxi City experienced many turning points in one day, and the mood of Chang Zong and my relatives also continued to experience ups and downs like a roller coaster.

Yuan Qin, who had just relaxed, focused all his attention on the Zhongxi City, pestering and preparing to prevent them from returning to the city, and to give them limited damage in a limited time.

Now that the battle situation on the front line has changed suddenly, he still can't care about going to the Midwest City, but He Qibei will not give him this opportunity. The crowd went out of the city again, together with He Qibei, to entangle Changzong's relatives, preventing him from retreating.

At this moment, Xiujia is more like a mascot, and there is no need for Xiujia to carry out actual command. All the famous names under Asano Nagamasa are veterans in the battlefield, and there is no room for tactical operations in this narrow combat area. One word, "It's over."

When the battle lasted until 2 p.m., Changzong's relatives led the remnant troops to retreat voluntarily, and the relatives who held Ruoshan City to us also retreated.

This is the problem of encounters and terrain restrictions. The Xiu family is powerless and can't expand the results of the battle at all. But if the plan is made early or the terrain is not as bad as here, the Xiu family has already sent a special team to go around and intercept the fleeing enemy. , but now they can only watch Yuan Qin retreat.

I thought the Battle of Naka-Nishi Castle would be over, but the Hide family was sitting in the main formation at the foot of Wakayama, reviewing the heads. Since most of the people who captured the heads of well-known samurai were Asano Nagamasa's subordinates, Therefore, the presiding work of this matter was in charge of Miyabe Tsuijun, and Asano Nagamasa and Hideka sat at the head to review together.

The ceremony of reviewing the heads was in the middle of it, when suddenly there was another shout of killing from Beishan on the other side, and in the dense forest, the flag of Changzong's family was faintly seen flickering, fighting with He Songbei who was occupying Beishan at the moment.

After Masatoshi Suga, the captain of the shogunate, retired to Hideka, he rushed out of the shogunate and went to the east bank to command the battle.Yu Xiduo, who hadn't gained much merit in the front, seemed to see a fleshy tiger, and surrounded him from all directions. Even the Asano soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield under the Zhongxi Castle, put down the heart of searching for spoils, and went to fight again. thoughts.

The battle in Beishan came suddenly, and it ended suddenly. Soon Masari Suga personally led someone to drag a blood-soaked warrior to the Xiu family. There were still three arrows stuck in his legs. At this moment, he With disheveled hair and tired face.

"Your Highness, this person calls himself Gu Zhongcheng. I asked some captured samurai, and he said that he is the lord of Katsuura and a close relative of Changzong's family." Masatoshi Suga introduced him to the Xiu family in the middle of the shogunate.

In fact, Gu Zhongcheng's injuries were not serious, it was just that he was a little tired after the long journey and fought immediately. After asking Xiu's family for some water to drink, he began to formally pick up the boy in front of him.

During the Battle of Sanuki a year ago, Gu Zhongcheng was ordered to attack the southern part of Iyo, and he was not in the Sanuki formation, so he had never seen the face of Hideka, and he was not very impressed with this No. But really curious about him.

"Is the army stationed in Beishan today the army of Wuwei Palace?" Gu Zhongcheng asked after taking a breath.

"It is indeed the backup team of our family." There is nothing to hide about this, after all, the flags and pointers planted behind He Songbei's team members cannot be fooled.

"Why does Your Highness appear in Baidi City at this moment, shouldn't it be?"

"Shouldn't we be looking for traces of Changzong's family in Yiyo?" Hideka answered the question directly.

This question is also a question that many people present are curious about. After all, the Battle of Zhongxi City has only lasted for 4 days. It is not enough time to go to Yiyu to inform Xiujia. How did he manage to restore the situation in Baidicheng from Yiyu? ?
"Miyauchi Shaosuke's idea is very good, but how can the temporary change plan be arranged perfectly? After a little thought, the problem can be found. I think that the surprise attack on Shiroji Castle should be the result of Miyauchi Shaosuke's return to Oka Toyo Just a random idea."

Gu Zhongcheng looked at Xiu's family in surprise, what he said was exactly the same as the actual situation, the surprise attack on Baidi City was a plan by Yuan's relatives to return to Gangfeng after receiving a letter from his younger brother asking for help, and planned to use the time difference to expand the results of the battle.

He originally wanted to rush forward quickly and directly attack the Asano Army that was besieging Baidi City, but who would have thought that the surprise attack would turn into a positional battle when he was discovered by the defenders of Zhongxi City.

But even so, Yuanqin was still confident at first, and planned to take 3 to 5 days to defeat Asano Nagamasa before dealing with the incoming Hideka, but no one thought that Hideka would arrive so quickly.

"That's right, did Wu Wei find out a long time ago?" Gu Zhongcheng said with a sad smile, "It turns out that this battle was destined to be impossible to win from the very beginning."

"You're right about that. When the news of Dana Yan arrived in Tosa, Changzong and my family should assess the situation and save us the trouble of dispatching troops from Kinai."

Asano Nagamasa misunderstood the meaning of "this battle" that Gu Zhongcheng said, and Gu Zhongcheng was taken aback by his answer, but he quickly agreed with his statement.

"Actually, at the very beginning when the lord was about to start a war with Yu Chaidian, I knew that the outcome of this battle was unpredictable, but I still firmly supported the lord's decision. Without him, it is completely too much for Yu Chaidian!"

"The land of Iyo, Awa, and Tosa is the territory that the lord took all his life and spent the blood of countless people with lofty ideals from the four countries. Yu Chaidian will cut it down as soon as he wants, and he is only willing to give Tosa a country security. How can the soldiers accept this!"

The Xiu family didn't want to talk about this topic with him, in the end it was nothing more than winner and loser.If the Hideo family loses in this battle, Hideyoshi may become angry and send further troops to come; of course, it is also possible to suffer from this dumb loss just as he recognized Tokugawa Ieyasu in history, and finally use the transfer to reduce the influence of the Nagamune family. .

But no matter what kind of choice it was, the Xiu family would not bring it up. If they said too much, it would make people feel that they were mocking them.

Next, under the inquiry of Xiu's family, Li Gu Zhongcheng revealed Yuanqin's battle plan in full.When they heard that Yuanqin was held back by Oka Toshikatsu, and the quick attack turned into a positional battle, all the generals expressed their admiration for Asano Nagamasa's mechanism.

"Sikuyi, Qian Yedian is really powerful, unexpectedly predicting the enemy first!"

When he heard that Gu Zhongcheng was ordered to take a detour and cross the mountains to attack Beishan and failed, someone taunted him mercilessly.But Xiujia knew that Gu Zhongcheng had really tried his best, and this time it was just bad luck. Just imagine if Xiujia didn't feel that Yuan Qin didn't make a frontal breakthrough so quickly, Gu Zhongcheng might be the key to breaking the game.

Gu Zhongcheng is not annoyed by the people's ridicule towards him. He has already been reduced to a prisoner at this moment, so he is naturally at the mercy of others. If this battle is won by Changzong's family, the subject and object of the evaluation here will naturally be interchanged. However, the Nagamune family will not be polite to the samurai of the Hashiba family.

This is the winner and loser, this is the reality.

Of course, he still asked the Xiu family as usual, if he could exchange his life for the lives of the captured Abozhong in Beishan.

The Xiu family was not a bloodthirsty person, and they recognized Gu Zhongcheng's ability, and immediately said to him, "Only by living can we do more things. Now that the battle with Shaosuke Miyauchi has been defeated, it is meaningless to continue to resist. I There is a lack of a messenger here, are you willing to do it?"

The Xiu family could have hunted down the remaining brave bandits, caught Chang Zong and my family and chased them fiercely, but at this moment, the Xiu family seemed to want to give them a way out, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Asano Nagamasa stared straight at Hideka, as if he wanted to find the answer from his gaze.

The reason why the Xiu family gave up their continued attack on Changzong's family is actually very simple.The current Changzong's family is tasteless to Yuanqin, it is tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard it.

Nagamune's family lost two rounds at the hands of the Xiu family, but the strength of its core Tosas has not been lost. The Tosas in the local battle should still have more than 3000 troops. Chickens and dogs, but you must know that the environment in Tosa is extremely harsh. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is Guizhou in Japan.

If Yuanqin has the will to die and play guerrilla games with Xiujia in the deep mountains of Tosa, Xiujia will definitely not be able to support it.Whether it's Xiujia's side or Lai's corps in Kinai, Xiujia can see the fatigue on the soldiers' faces.

Indeed, since 1580, the soldiers in Bizen have been fighting for years. In the past four years, less than a quarter of the real recuperation time has been spent. To become the second Afghanistan is something Xiujia doesn't want to see.

The second point, from the perspective of the Xiu family's personal emotions, the Xiu family has a good impression of the Changzong family from a previous life, and the Xiu family is full of respect for the struggle history of the three generations of the Changzong family.

Just one, you ask yourself, can you jump from two floors at the age of 7 in exchange for a family to help restore your family name?People who are relatives of the country dare to do so.Moreover, the Guoqin who had never received an orthodox education since childhood was the foundation for Yuanqin to lay the foundation for the rise of the Changzong family.

The third point is that even if Hideka really took the effort to assess Tosa's force, what he finally got was a barren Tosa after consuming a lot of manpower and material resources.

Since it is not his own control, the situation of the powerful daimyos on the land has nothing to do with the Hide family. If you can take over the ruling power of Tosa on the basis of reducing the number of Chang Zong and my family without using weapons, why not? Why not?

The third point is the reason why the Xiu family is really willing to give Chang Zong and our family a chance.

So the Hide family set out their own conditions, "As long as Chang Zong and our family surrender, they are willing to give Tosa 10 koku security."

This condition was relatively lenient. Yuanqin was not held accountable for initiating the war, and the Changzong family was given the status of a medium-sized daimyo. The Xiu family thought that the conditions given were very generous.

After hearing the conditions, Gu Zhongcheng expressed his willingness to accept them, and he was willing to go to Gangfeng City to persuade his relatives to surrender.

　After writing this chapter, I think many people may not be able to accept that the Xiu family let Changzong and my family live, but please continue reading.This is not the end of the Four Kingdoms War.

　　
　
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