Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 51 Kobe Nobutaka, You Don’t Talk About Wu Mori (44)

The Ukita Hide family did not get the power that Nobunaga promised Sanuki to control.However, as an independent army that invaded Sanuki, Ukita has the right to expediently dispose of Sanuki.

As for why the Samukawa family acquired the territories of Samukawa, Miki, and Shodoshima, it was naturally because the Samukawa family acted as a vanguard and cooperated with the Ukita Army to wipe out the Anfu family who refused to surrender.

With such great achievements, what's the problem with the Ukita Hide family awarding the original Anfu family's territory to the Suzukawa family based on the principle of not extending rewards for meritorious service?These are all the powers that a leader of the Independent Army should have.

After the surrender of the Samukawa family was established, the Hide family ordered the Tadaka family to lead 2800 people from Toyama Bei and Ono Bei, and 800 people from the Hanchuan family, Nishinomiya family and other wealthy allied forces to attack Miki County and Samukawa County.

Facts have proved that as many bowls as there are people can hold as much rice, and the Anfu family paid the price for their arrogance. Only by mid-November, the Ukita Tadaka family had already taken down all the cities of Anfujia Zhidu and Yutaki, and completely wiped out the Anfu family. Drove out to sea.Just owning Shodoshima is also under the siege of Oda and Ukita navy.

On November 11th, the owner of the Anfu family, who had been suffering for a long time in Shodoshima, brought his son. Anfu Shengji came to Takamatsu and surrendered to the Ukita Hide family. The 25-stone knowledge and safety of the book city in the mountainous area.

With the prestige of a great victory, the Xiu family asked the Xiangxi family to transfer the seal to Hanchuan, Miki, and 2 shi in the southern areas of Kagawa, and ordered them to build a residence in Wang Zuoshan to control the central part of Sanuki.

Don’t think that the southern part of Sanuki is a backcountry. If you are interested, you can go to the Google satellite map to have a look. The Wangzuoshan area transferred from Xiangxi’s family has 17 large and small freshwater pools. The land is also extremely fertile. The key is that he is backed by praise. The Qishan Mountains, and the Northeast is the home of the friendly army Hanchuan, unlike the Hesheng area now, although it has the end of the Sanuki Shock Plain, it is indeed a place for the Fourth World War.

The Xiangxi family gladly accepted the 5000 shi increase and went to Wang Zuoshan. The Xiu family placed 3000 shi from the Anfu family who had just surrendered in the Xiangxi family, allowing the Anfu family to accept the control of the Xiangxi family and become Xiangxi's vassals.

The Kanuchi family, originally a wealthy family in the Wangzuoshan area, was arranged by the Xiu family to Kagawa, 1 shi in the north of Ano County, and ordered him to build the main castle in Ippongsong.

The above three families are relatively friendly with the Xiu family, and they can be used as the support of the Xiu family at any time.

As an ally of the Hide family, or Nobunaga is directly subordinate to Nobunaga, Yu Xiu's family belongs to the alliance relationship but cannot directly control the Nara family in Tongji area with 1.7 shi, the Yubutsu family in Ikeuchi and Goto area with 1.8 shi, and Ouchi , Hanchuan part Shihejia 2.1 stone.

As for the original He Sheng and Takamatsu lands, Xiuchang did not divide them up. As for this geomantic treasure, it was still managed by the Xiu family until Nobunaga made a final decision to divide it up.So far, the Ukita Hide family has completed the conquest of 3/2 of Sanuki within 3 months.

On December 1581rd in the ninth year of Tensho (12), Ukita Hide’s family held a Yuanfu ceremony in Takamatsu Town for their partners who had grown up together since childhood. Because Kenjiro entered the Samurai family as a married man, Mitsutoshi Samkawa was Kenjiro’s Black hat pro.

The whole process is basically the same as when Xiujia was in Yuanfu. Xiujia bestowed his family name, and Kenjiro called Samukawa Iemitsu in Yuanfu.

As the original retainers of the Anfu family, after the surrender of the Anfu family, Liuche Zongzan, Nakamura Ujimune, and other powerful families who surrendered to the Hanchuan family after being reduced after the surrender of the Anfu family, congratulated the new family under the leadership of the old family of the Hanchuan family, Mitsuyuki Shinomiya.

As originally negotiated, as the price of 2 koku from the Suzukawa family, Mitsutoshi Suzukawa received 3000 koku from Shodoshima for hermitage, Shinomiya Mitsuyuki received 3000 koku from Takiyu Castle, Muksha Zongzan received 3000 koku from Iketo, Nakamura Ushimunekioka 1500 shi, that is to say, the territory directly under the control of Iemitsu is 1800 shi, most of which hit near the city of Zhidu.

Kenjiro applied to Hideo to transfer the original samurai of Kim Jiaguang to him to improve his control over the Hanchuan Territory. The ashigaru and their family members from a brigade gathered in his territory also sent them over to help Iemitsu quickly grasp the Samkawa collar.

After Hideya completed Kenjiro's succession ceremony, he quickly used the winter time to mop up the families of Okada, Saito, Otanigawa, Takimiya, Nagao, and Taiping who had not yet surrendered in the counties of Ano, Uzu, and Naka.

As for the Mitani family in the Sanuki Mountains, since the Xiu family has transferred that area to the Xiangxi family, it is natural to hand it over to Xiangxi Jiaqing to solve it.

Unlike Hideya's rapid progress, Awa's Oda main force of 3 people is confronting the 2 Nagamune family near Iwakura Castle. Because of the slow progress, Kobe Nobutaka, who is the general, was reprimanded by Nobunaga.

Faced with his father's reprimand, Kobe Nobutaka lost patience and ordered the whole army to attack.

But in the west of Awa Country, facing the valley between the Sanuki Mountains and the Shikoku Mountains, the Oda Army's superiority in numbers could not be brought into play at all, and only about 3000 people could fight on the front line.

The time came to January 10, and after the Spring Festival in Takamatsu Town, Hideka sent a coordination order to Nara, Kanai, Yubutsu, Samukawa, and asked them to lead their troops to assemble at the foot of Ano Shushan Castle at the end of January. Besiege the Aono family who is defending Jiushan Castle.

As for the Xiangxi family, the Hide family asked them to attack the Mitani family in the Sanuki Mountains immediately after they stabilized their territory, and the other ally, the Shihe family, as a subordinate of the Miyoshi family, was not an existence that the Hide family could mobilize.

Hideka led 500 people from Hajimoto, 1300 from Toyama, and 1500 from Mino to Okamoto on January 1, and captured the Okamoto Castle, a branch of Jiushan Castle, with almost one blow. Tried before backing up.

Afterwards, Hideka used Okamoto Castle as the base, and began to encircle Jiushan Castle from the southeast.Facing the siege of the city, Shigeno Aono, who was extremely stubborn in front of him, sent envoys to Xiu's family, hoping to surrender.

The Hide family doesn't need to mobilize the forces of Nara, Yutomo, Suzukawa, and Shinnai to fight against your Aono family. You only need your own Ukita team to take it down. The reason why you called so many seven aunts and eight aunts is to kill you. Show it to the monkey!

Therefore, after receiving the surrender letter from the Aoye family, the Xiu family clearly rejected the surrender of the Aoye family.

By January 1th, the Nara family had already set up camp from Ayano, and Samukawa and Kannai had also arrived at the foot of Jiushan Castle. Only the Yubutsu family had not arrived. As the two closest families to Jiushan, Yubutsu and Kanai should arrive at about the same time , but the Yubutsu family has not yet arrived.Hideka sent an envoy to Yubutsuke's family.

According to the emissary's report, the head of the Yubuki family, Yubuki Jizai, actually led more than 1000 people from the Yubuki family into Awa from Toramaru Castle in East Sanuki, and went to support the Oda family on the frontal battlefield together with the Juhe family.

You know, in the Sanuki area, except for the Miyoshi family’s vassal, the Toka family, the rest of the independent families are accompanied by the Ukita’s Sanuki Raiders Army. Even though your Yubuke family is directly under Nobunaga’s family, what reason do you have? Report to the legion chief in the other direction beyond your own legion chief?
After questioning, I found out that it turned out that Yubuto Jizai gave his daughter to Kobe Nobutaka as a concubine. As Nobunaga's son, Kobe Nobutaka must take care of this father-in-law, so he was allowed to serve directly as a member of the Shikoku Army from the Sanuki Army. directly under the Central Government.

But Kobe Nobutaka is not doing well at this time. No matter how you say it, Ukido is an ally in another battlefield. Although you are the general, you have to take care of the mood of the army commander below.

Now that you transfer the accompanying wealthy family away without saying a word, it is equivalent to slapping Yu Xi's family in the face, isn't it just to see that Yu Xi's head, the Xiu family, is young and can be bullied?
That is to say, Niwa Changhide, as the vice general, discovered the problem, and wrote a letter of trust to the messenger of the Yubutsu family who came to discuss the direct participation in the Shikoku team and brought it back, hoping that it would be transferred to Hideya,

However, Yu Fumo, who hugged Kobe Nobutaka's thigh, might have taken your Yuki family seriously, and left with the reserve team without handing over the letter.

It wasn't until the envoy came to Goto Castle that the guard of the castle, Habeduki Suiji, delivered Niwa Nagahide's letter to the envoy for him to take back.

Hideka looked at Niwa Nagahide's concise explanation of the situation, and there was guilt between the lines, even though Hideka knew that Kobe Nobutaka had absolutely no guilt at all.

Even if Kobe Nobutaka doesn't give you face, what can your Ukita Hide family do?Do you have the guts to beat him up now?He is the son of the Great Demon King, the general of the Four Kingdoms Conquest, and his background is harder than you.

What the Xiu family can do is to borrow a donkey to go downhill, to give His Royal Highness Dan Yu a face, and to expose the matter for the time being.

Leaving aside this troublesome matter, Hideka ordered Oino Bei to start attacking the city. If it is said that encountering close combat is the weakness of Ukita's direct-controlled reserve team, then siege warfare, city defense warfare, and positional warfare can definitely be said to be Ukita's weakness. military advantage.

Minobei's iron cannon fire and arrow rain directly suppressed the defenders of Erzhimaru in the city, unable to probe, and only willing to fight back through the reserved shooting holes on the screen.

In fact, it was not until the stone walls gradually replaced the screens as the main bunker in Japantown that the firing of musket bullets could be effectively suppressed.The screen plate is only used to defend against the shooting of the Marugi bow.Not to mention the thin layer of screen board.

Especially the roar of the iron cannon, even if you hide behind the screen, you still can't escape the death of the lead shot, and the heavy armored arrows shot by the long archer within 100 steps can penetrate three points, hurting the feet hiding behind the screen light.

Seeing that the firepower at the top of the castle was being suppressed, the warriors selected by Miyano began to carry logs and smashed into the door. Some people on the yagura towers on both sides of the Oteguchi crown wooden gate wanted to lean out and shoot arrows at Ashgaru who was hitting the door, but Mino Prepare the archers reserved in advance to shoot by name.

The nobles of Sanuki under the Jiushan Castle once again witnessed Ukita’s full use of bows, and Ukita’s reputation for being good at using bows also spread from the mouths of the Sanuki nobles to the surroundings.

Minobi began to attack the city at around 9:10 in the morning, and had already entered Nijimaru at around 30:[-]. Adhering to the fine traditions that Ukita learned from Hideya in Inaba Maruyama Castle, Minobei quickly moved ahead after breaking Nijimaru. The prepared gunpowder was placed at the gate of the Honmaru crown wood, and with a "boom" explosion, Ukita's army attacked Honmaru almost without stopping for twenty pills.

The Yuxi family's siege tactics have already been seen by the Hanchuan family when they cooperated with the Yuxi family to attack the Anfu family, so their expressions are relatively normal. The tactics gave them a deep memory.

Aono Shigeyuki was brought out not long after, and the Hide family had no idea about this kind of trick at all, not to mention that since they relied on force to capture their skills, it was right for the Oda family to completely defeat Okada's old collar.

But the Xiu family also gave them a chance to survive. Although they lost their territory, the Xiu family gave Qingye Shigeyuki, Qingye Jiazhen and Qingye Jingzhen father and son each a share of Mi, and let them work in Yuxi's family.

The fact that Jiushan Castle fell in a single blow undoubtedly stimulated the Takimiya family not far away. The head of the Takimiya family, Takimiya Tatsushi, ran to Okamoto Castle alone to express his surrender to the Hide family when Ukita's army was being repaired.

The Xiu family greatly reduced the territory of the Takimiya family, blocking them with only 800 shian from the Takimiya. Even so, Takimiya Tatsushi, who escaped the disaster of death, still thanked the Hide family a lot, and organized an army of 180 people when they returned. The team joined Hideo's Sanuki Crusade Army (Taki Miyamoto has a territory of 3500 shi).

He even asked all his peasants and soldiers to tie cloth belts with the word "rebellion" written on their heads, and repeatedly claimed that "I and Changzong's family are inseparable."

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