Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 360 Southern Kyushu Decisive Battle ([-]) Flooded Chasing Soldiers
"The shame" is that Xiujia usually has a good relationship with Xiangxi Jiaqing and others, but after seeing more than 300 people in Sanuki were kicked out by more than [-] people from Marunai, Xiujia couldn't help but scolded.

For example, it was Xiujia himself, even Xiangxi Jiaqing himself was so suffocated by his multi-collared reserve team that he let his son brandish a horsewhip to ruthlessly beat Ashigaru who was retreating from the city.

Just as he was about to regroup and launch an assault on Demaru again, he was preempted by Iemitsu Samukawa who was beside him, and led more than 1200 people from Samukawa Bei to kill him.

Han Chuanjiaguang was the first to follow the Xiu family's own attendants, and learned a lot from the Xiu family about siege, the most obvious being the use of gunpowder to blow up the cities.

Iemitsu Samukawa obviously learned from Kasai Kasei's mistake and knew that he couldn't delay too much time in Demaru. After all, it would be hit by the firepower of Sannomaru and even Ninomaru. The longer it took, the greater the loss for the siege party.

Therefore, he personally rushed into Demaru, squeezed dozens of remaining Shimadzu soldiers into a corner, and ordered people to bring two barrels of gunpowder and place them in Sannomaru's tiger's mouth, and directly ignite them with rockets.

With two loud bangs, the Sannomaru of Tsumure Castle was greatly shaken. Unfortunately, this city was the sub-city of the Saeki family in the past. After that, it was not blasted.

Seeing this situation, Hanchuan Iemitsu was also stunned for a moment, but quickly ordered: "Damn it, before the defenders have reacted, let Xian Fanzhong hit the door with a ram."

Affected by the shock wave from the explosion just now, the defenders near Sannomaru's tiger's mouth suffered a certain percentage of damage, and some people were even stunned by the shock wave.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Although the explosion just now did not directly blow up the city gate, it did affect the structure of the city gate. Following the slamming of the gate by the former crowd, the gate of Sannomaru of Tsumure Castle came in response.

"Go into the city, and those who seize the city will be rewarded!" Seeing that the city gate was broken, Iemitsu Samukawa yelled, and led the crowd into the city. This was the first time that the Toyotomi Clan formally invaded Tsumurei Castle.

The defenders guarding the Sannomaru city gate were quickly wiped out by Iemitsu Samukawa, and the attackers and defenders began to fight on the hillside where Sannomaru opened to Ninomaru.

Due to the firepower of the Ninomaru defenders, the attack by Samukawa Bei on the siege side seemed a bit restrained. The Shimadzu family in Tsumure Castle even moved a few stone fire arrows and directly bombarded the Samukawa people who lined up the mountain in a long snake formation.

"Don't be discouraged! Attack! Attack! Drive out the intruders!" Toyohisa Shimadzu, who was defending, stood at the head of the Ninomaru Castle when he saw the collapse of the Samukawa crowd, encouraging the soldiers below the castle.

Look at the way he talks, as if his own is the attacker.

Seeing the collapsed Han Chuanbei at the top of Tsumure Castle, which was hit by multiple blows, Hideka put away his brass binoculars and ordered to the attendants beside him: "Send reinforcements to Tsumure Castle, let Qinglongbei and Baihubei go up , take this opportunity to directly pull out the city."

At the same time when the order from the Hide family was issued, Ninomaru, the castle head of Tsumure Castle, made a few loud noises, blasting a circle of screens around it, blowing up the Shimadzu soldiers who were originally stationed here and shooting arrows downwards. Raise the eight prongs.

The sudden change caught the Xiu family's attention, because he had ordered the artillery battalion to stop shelling as the Hanchuan people invaded the city. The explosion of the bag at the top of the city must not have been caused by the shelling of our own side.

Following the sound of the first explosion, several explosions followed one after another at the top of the city of Tomury, weakening the force of the defenders at the top of the city to suppress Han Chuanbei, who was going up the mountain.

After the two sides fought fiercely along the mountain road from Sannomaru to Ninomaru for about 30 minutes, Han Chuanbei, who had been fighting for a long time, finally withdrew from the formation under Bai Hubei's support, and repaired under the city.

At about the same time, Shimadzu Yoshihiro, who was watching the battle at Ikeda Castle on the opposite bank of the Banjiang River, finally made a move and sent an army of 1 to cross the Banjiang River where the water was not strong.

Hideie, who observed the movement of the Shimadzu family on the opposite bank, blocked a total of 1 troops led by Asano Nagamasa and Otomo Yoshitomo on the bank of the Banjo River and organized Shimadzu Yoshihiro's assault.

Feeling that their own generals sent reinforcements from the other side, the morale of Chumuli City was even stronger, and even in the face of the Xiu family's standing preparations, they still could not lose the wind.

"Boys, the General has rescued us, follow me to the city and join the General!"

Shimadzu Yoshihiro's movements seemed to be a different kind of signal. Toyohisa Shimadzu in Tsumurei Castle didn't even intend to continue to cage the castle, and actually led the defenders in the castle to slide down the mountain and rely on ropes, dying. Turn around in the direction of Shimadzu Yoshihiro.

Just when Hideka was about to issue a strangulation order to Toyohisa Shimadzu who was leaving the city, Nobuoshi Shimizu behind Hideka also reminded, "Your Highness, Secretary of State, there has been movement in Saeki Castle."

Hideya didn't want to pay attention to the situation of Saeki Castle at first, he was very confident in Kobayakawa Takakage, but Shimizu Nobuya's next words made him have to turn his attention to Saeki Castle again.

"The defenders in Saeki Castle seem to have rushed out of the city through the back door, and are coming towards the main formation!"

After hearing the information from Nobuya Shimizu, Hideya didn't have time to make detailed arrangements for Toyohisa Shimadzu of Tsumure Castle, but ordered Oka Toshikatsu to take people to solve it, and then ran from the west side of Fukuyama Castle Honmaru to the east side to observe.

Sure enough, as Nobuya Shimizu said, perhaps seeing the movement of Yoshihiro Shimadzu on the other side, the defenders in Saeki Castle let out a loud roar, which attracted the attention of the Kobayakawa army who was attacking the city.

But this is just a small number of troops left behind by them. Due to the team of more than 500 people, they descended from nowhere and rushed towards the west side.

If there are 100 defenders who ran down from Uupira Castle, the combined forces of the two armies will exceed 600.

In this matter, Fukuyama Castle's attention was all focused on Tsumure Castle and the direction of the river bank, and they did not notice that someone came out of Saeki Castle on the east side.

Moreover, Saeki Castle was attacked by a trusted friendly army. No one would have thought that the defenders in the city would leave the city from another line of defense, so they relaxed their guard.

Placed between Fukuyama Castle and Saeki Castle are the troops dominated by Beichu Kitayama from Ikaruga Heiji and Bichu Oda from Maeda Keiji. They are mainly responsible for escorting Ukido's military supplies, which can be regarded as auxiliary troops to participate in the war.

At this moment, they were suddenly attacked by Saeki Castle, and they couldn't resist it for a while, especially the Oda crowd, who actually collapsed.

After seeing the Oda crowd collapsed under the surprise attack, Xiujia mobilized a reserve team from his own formation to stabilize the occupation. "Let Masahiro Date bring the bannermen to support, and they must be blocked at the foot of the mountain."

The Hide family's banners are staffed by samurai. Although the number is comparable to the Shimadzu's who were killed in Saeki Castle, their combat power is not the same.

After sending them out, Xiujia had absolute confidence in blocking the ranger's surprise attack.

"In addition, I sent an order to Kobayakawa Kingo, saying that a large number of soldiers in Saeki City have broken through, and asked him to pull out the city as soon as possible, and send the extra troops to support me."

When seeing Yoshihiro Shimadzu's actions, the Hide family had a premonition that this was probably the Shimadzu family's all-out attack. If this battle was handled properly, the battle situation in Southern Kyushu would be basically stable.

Therefore, the Xiu family didn't care about the width of the battlefield, they just wanted to gather people here and use the crowd tactics to drown the Shimadzu family.

Facts proved that Hideka was worried about the wrong direction. Even though the Oda and Kitayama Bei at the foot of the mountain on the east side were slightly weaker, the Captain Bei who led them was not a good person.

Maeda Keiji and Ikaruga Heiji were bored with the whole battle of Kyushu. They thought that they would not be able to win the battle this time because they were in the rear.

Even if most of the Oda Clan collapsed, they still organized 3/500 people. In addition, Ikaruga Heiji's Kitayama Bei has not yet fought and remained intact. How could Kawayama Kudaka, who broke out from the encirclement in Saiki Castle, be able to stop it? .

Even before the bannermen of the Xiu family arrived, the front line at the foot of the mountain had already stabilized, but Huashan Jiugao was not allowed to enter an inch of ground.

On the west side of Tsumurei Castle, Toyohisa Shimadzu gave up the fight against Hakuhobi, and the act of hanging directly from Sannomaru earned him the initiative.

The two main forces, Baihubei and Qinglongbei, were already like a city, but they were trapped in the tuna can by their own people. They could only continue to attack upwards, but they couldn't turn around in time to block the Shimadzu army who had already gone down the city.

At the moment, the Hoki members of Ukita Kan's family and Hanafang Masashige's head office are stationed under the city. Although their combat power is not bad, they relaxed their vigilance a little when they saw Hanchuan Bei attacking the city and Qinglong Baihubei all end. , was hit hard by Toyohisa Shimadzu.

Almost at the same time, the shout of killing sounded again in Tsumurei Castle, and the sound came from Ninomaru, presumably it was Saeki Yosaka who surprised the remnants of Shimadzu's garrison from the rear.

This move was originally Hideka's winning move, but because Toyohisa Shimadzu led his troops to break through, Saeki Yusada's surprise attack was like hitting cotton.

Under the hard work of Toyohisa Shimadzu and Yoshihiro Shimadzu, the two armies met on the bank of the river, but Shimadzu did not intend to continue to expand the results of the battle, but began to slowly retreat to the other side of the Banjiang River.

Shimadzu Toyohisa Yoshihisa had the idea of ​​​​retiring the army, and reminded his uncle Yoshihiro, "Uncle, Kawayama Gonzaemon (Hisaka) hasn't come yet."

Toyohisa Shimadzu and Hisashi Kawayama were in similar senior grades, and both of them fought under Yoshihiro Shimadzu, and became friends over time.

Both sides received orders before the war. If Shimadzu Yoshihiro sent reinforcements, they must break out of the encirclement and reunite with themselves at all costs.

But at this moment, Yoshihiro had reconciled with Toyohisa, but Kawayama Kudaka had not been seen for a long time. Shimadzu Yoshihiro looked at Shimadzu Tadashi who was struggling in the front line, and had no choice but to order people to withdraw.

"Mataschiro, look at this battlefield, if we continue to persevere, our army will definitely be defeated, if our army is defeated, where will the Shimadzu family be?
The Battle of Bungo is no longer possible, so we should take advantage of the fact that our army has suffered little loss and quickly retreat to Hyuga for defense.

Only in this way can we preserve our strength and resist the attacks of the Toyotomi family steadily, and earn conditions for the elder brother to negotiate peace with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Quan Youweimen and his sons defended Saiki Castle according to my order. I am also very sad that they cannot withdraw now, but at this moment we should focus on the overall situation, and there will be a chance to exchange them back in the future! "

After Shimadzu Yoshihiro said, regardless of Shimadzu Toyohisa's opinion, he pulled him away like the other side of Banjiang River.

In fact, from Yoshihiro Shimadzu's words, he already believed that it was impossible to win the battle with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which can be seen from the fact that he used "change" as the verb for rescuing Kawayama Hisaka and his son.

Seeing Shimadzu Yoshihiro's retreat, Hideka knew very well that the victory of this battle had been sealed, and Hideka nodded in approval for the invitation of Anayama Nobutada, Sanada Nobushige and others.

After all, with the victory locked, there is nothing wrong with letting them chase down the remnants of the enemy to gain some meritorious service and gain a little battlefield experience.

Children will grow up one day, and one day they will go out to lead the army and become generals of one side. Letting them out at this moment is just to accumulate experience.

It wasn't just Hideie who saw the Shimadzu's retreat, but also Asano Nagamasa and Otomo Yoshijin.

Especially in Yoshihiro Otomo, Otomo's family has been suffocated by the Shimadzu family for so long, and he himself was besieged by Yoshihiro Shimadzu in Usuki Castle for more than February.

Now Yoshihiro Shimadzu was defeated by the Xiu family and retreated. Naturally, they would not take this opportunity and decided to bite off a bite of flesh from the Shimadzu family.

All of a sudden, the entire northern bank of the Fanjiang River sounded the order "Pursuit! Pursuit! Don't let the bandits retreat!".

Ordinary ashigaru and low-level samurai, no matter whether they have just participated in the battle or not, this is the perfect time to cut off their heads to get rewards, and regardless of whether this is an order from their superior generals, they will run across the river to pursue them enemy.

The joy of the great victory dared to pass on to Toyotomi's army, but at this moment, there was a loud noise from the upper reaches of the Banjiang River, and when the sound reached Fukuyama Castle, it was drowned out by the shouts of the soldiers from the three castles, so that the Xiu family didn't pay attention arrive.

Sooner or later, a white light appeared from the upper reaches of the Fanjiang River, like a white dragon rushing down, rushing into the Toyotomi army that was crossing the river and chasing the Shimadzu family before the Hide family could react.

"Run! It's a flood!"

After all, the Xiu family's cry was too late, Hong Feng galloped down from the upper reaches, swept away the soldiers who were too late to retreat, and rushed them into the sea one after another.

Fortunately, here is not far from the mouth of the Banjiang River, and the Okayama navy of the Uki family blocked the sea at the mouth of the sea. When they saw the flow of people rushing from the Banjiang River, they quickly responded and rescued the people who rushed out onto the boat as much as possible.

The few Asano and Otomo soldiers who had already crossed the river were at a loss when they saw that their retreat was cut off for a while, and their heads were cut off by the Shimadzu samurai who turned back.

The flood not only took away the lives of many Toyotomi soldiers, but also washed away the joy of victory just now.

The Toyotomi army who was still shouting victory by the Banjiang River just now was frightened by the scene in front of them. Fortunately, the Shimadzu family released the flood earlier, and the flood took away the troops from both sides who were too late to go ashore.

If the timing had been later in the evening, all the dead would have been members of the Toyotomi family, and there would only be more people who had landed at this time.

But they lost their backup, and they were nothing more than lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the hands of the Shimadzu family.

(End of this chapter)