Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 574

The composition of Yikui people is essentially a group of farmers, not to mention the farmers in Ou, even the farmers in Kyoto are hungry and full, and their physical fitness is naturally not good.

No, after running for a while, he couldn't catch up, and stood there panting for breath.

Xiujia had to deliberately slow down, throwing cloth, money, and even the golden beans that his doctor brought with him on the ground vigorously along the way.

As a result, the mob of the original Utsunomiya family returned to the Tomiyama headquarters one step ahead of the Hide family, and was grouped by the Hide family's old man Tian Zizheng and others who accompanied the battle.

Ota Zi is the new vassal of the Kanto people, and also the new elder of the family. The Xiu family specially brought him as the representative of the team this time.

One reason is that the main force for the battle this time is the army composed of Shimono, Shimoso, and Hitachi. This is the sphere of influence of the Furukawa family in the past, and the Ota family has quite a prestige here.

The second point is that after he has assigned the responsible tasks of each elder, the elder who is the most vacant in the entire Kanto Toyotomi family is now.

Of course, the main force of this army is not these wealthy people, but the 2000-strong red reserve team led by Sanada Nobushige and the 1000-strong Xiujia Banner. The core combat effectiveness accounts for 3/8, which is still quite effective.

Hideka used all his strength to lure the enemy to a place a little more than 2 kilometers south of Inari Shrine, and a little more than a kilometer away from Toromiyama Castle, but they couldn't attract any more people.

Because the Xiu family found that the number of people who continued to pursue was limited and sparse, most of the bandit army might not be able to catch up and chose to go back.

How can this work?Didn't Xiujia's strategy to lure the enemy this time fail because of the opponent's hip stretching?

It would be too embarrassing to say it, because the talented person will not care if your opponent is not strong enough to keep up with your plan; it will only be rumored that the Xiu family was defeated by a group of people, and they discarded their belongings and led the group to flee.

Defeating in battle is not terrible, but losing to a crowd is someone the Xiu family can't afford to lose.

Seeing that the meat of his mouth was about to be thrown away, the Hide family ordered Hongo Yoshino, a battalion commander of the Banner Clan beside him, "Kusaemon, bring someone back and kill these bastards."

Hongo Yoshinori was originally a descendant of the Akamatsu family, and his original surname was Tamagawa. Later, he became an official of the Hide family and became an attendant of the Hide family. battalion general.

The battalion of the banner group is different from the battalion of the reserve team. The first battalion has only 1 brigades with a total of 3 people, and there is no wing in the middle.

In history, he was the absolute confidant of the Xiu family. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he accompanied the Xiu family to the Shimadzu family in Kyushu for refuge. The Shimadzu family found out for a long time and became the archer of the Shimadzu family.

"Ha Yi" had long been suffering from the order of the Xiu family, and the other Hongo Yoshinori, after receiving the order, he took his battalion and turned around on horseback to fight back.

The knights clamped the horse's belly with their legs, urging the horses to go north, "Tata~Tata~Tata~" The horses that were trotting slowly were brought up quickly, like a group of high-speed horses. The chariot rushed towards the enemy.

When he was 50 steps away from the enemy, he took the lead to bow his bow and set an arrow, and only heard three sounds of "嗖~嗖~嗖~", three consecutive arrows were shot from his horseman's hand, flying to the distance, and he was still panicking because of the sudden U-turn of the Banner crowd. Standing blankly on the ronin/peongbing.

The other banner warriors followed suit, drew their bows and set up arrows, and shot the arrows at the group of stragglers in the distance.

With the wailing sound of the arrow being hit, before the Yikui stragglers on the opposite side could even react, Hongo Yoshino who came on horseback had already charged up with his bannermen holding lances.

"Puff!" With the sound of the spear piercing into the body, one of the soldiers was stabbed to death.

"Go and call all our people, and scatter this group of bandits outside Sukagawa City!"

Hideka looked at the first meritorious deeds of the banner led by Hongo Yoshinori, ordered to the attendants behind him, and then turned to join the battle group with the rest.

The cavalry battle of the Japanese has always been a problem. After years of training, Xiujia can also do horseback archery and charge, but he is still not capable enough to really fight on horseback.

Therefore, when the cavalry charged into the crowd, they could only dismount and fight on foot. Don't even think about the situation where the cuirassiers line up to charge the opponent like Europe, and then pull the cavalry team out and charge again.

Fortunately, at this moment, what they met on the opposite side was a group of stragglers, a group of stragglers, because the formation chasing them was even looser, and the cavalry charged as if entering no one's land, and unexpectedly smashed the group of stragglers.

Seeing the wailing and howling of the friendly soldiers in front who were killed, the group of people in the back were a little frightened, and they were about to turn around and flee, but who did not know who yelled, "There are only a thousand people on the other side, and Ogasawara Hideyoshi is in the formation, captured He and I have won the victory!"

The group of people who heard this shout restrained their hearts that were about to break up just now, and mustered up their courage to surround the Xiu family.

But a kui is a kui, and most of them are farmers who have just started hoes, even if Japanese farmers often fight wars, they are still farmers.

However, Xiujia's bannermen and attendants are all composed of warriors who have been trained since childhood. This is the difference in quality.

Xiujia signaled the three battalions of the Banner Congregation and his Banner Congregation to disperse in three ways, intending to make full use of the mobility of the cavalry to pull the enemy away.

However, it is possible that although the order was issued, the execution was not perfect, and more than a dozen people were still surrounded by rioters.

There is no way to do this. After all, people are not systems, let alone a string of game codes. They can be pulled out if they want to. The transmission of orders takes time, and many people have already been trapped.

Even when you play the Total War series, not all cavalry can be pulled out again under the cavalry charge.

But at this moment, Xiujia's adrenaline and dopamine were secreting rapidly, and he had no time to care about some of his subordinates who were caught in the chaos, and because of the division of troops on the Xiujia's side, some of the members of the group also sent out part of their troops to chase after Xiujia.

Did the Xiu family lead the crowd to turn around and shoot with their bows and arrows, what they wanted was the opposite side of the kite, pulling the opponent's formation to the limit.

Seeing that the chasing formation was stretched long and thin, another Banner Battalion General Kondo Masaji, who was waiting for an opportunity, rushed towards the center with his subordinates, also charging with a gun after a round of riding and shooting.

As soon as some samurai's spears fell into the formation, they drew out the samurai swords at their waists and slashed with them. In an instant, the formation of chaotic soldiers here was cut off by the middle.

Hearing the shouts of killing from behind, the chaotic soldiers chasing the Xiu family stopped, and wanted to look back, but saw the cavalry rushing to their rear like a tide, and directly rushed to pass.

However, their side hadn't recovered yet, and now the sound of the Conch came from behind them, and when they turned their heads, it was indeed the Xiu family who started to lead people to charge!
In just ten minutes, Banner's group made a big charge, and four or five small battalion-based charges had already crushed the chasing thousands of chaotic soldiers.

The dead bodies fell to the ground, blood flowed to the ground through the tattered clothes, and the Kanto Toyotomi bannermen in blue battle jackets urged their horses to trample on these corpses mercilessly.

Some Yikui rebellious soldiers were not killed, some were knocked unconscious by the impact of the horses, some were shot in the legs by bows and arrows and fell to the ground crying, and some were not fatal even though they were wounded by knives.

However, they were all trampled under their feet mercilessly by the war horses urged by the Banner crowd, and they turned into flesh with a wail, and they no longer had a breath.

The composition of this group is very complicated, Xiu Jiayou especially remembered that the soldier who seemed to be stabbed to death just now seemed to be a woman.

This is not surprising, the whole family of Ichikui in Japan has always had a tradition of rebellion and banditry. In Japan, where there is a shortage of strong men, let alone adult men, even strong women, emaciated old people and children are the targets of conscription.

The Yikui people are even more vegan. After all, these healthy women can serve as soldiers in wartime, and they can condolences to the wild warriors and ronin in the army in their free time. They are the most important combat power of the Yikui army.

Just now I was thinking about killing the Yikui army who captured Xiu's family. I have never seen such a scene.

Perhaps it was because the bannermen were wearing blue war jackets and wearing ghost masks on their heads. They cried and cursed: "Run! It's Abi Hell! It's the green ghost of the region. If you don't run away, it will be too late." ran to the rear.

No matter how the ronin and samurai drove them away, they could no longer have the idea of ​​reflexive combat.

Not to mention this group of farmers who were born in Yikui. Facing the Banner crowd who started to form a team in the distance, even the samurai who were still watching the rebels became frightened and took the lead to turn around and run back.

I was so excited when I was just chasing, but now I am so scared when I run away. I don’t want all the money, utensils, and silk cloth I picked up along the way. I don’t want the bamboo spear in my hand that is not conducive to running. It's better to throw them all away, the speed of throwing away armor and armor is faster than that of the Utsunomiya people just now.

However, how could a two-legged person run faster than a four-legged banner, Xiujia ordered his subordinates to kill those ronin, ground servants and warriors in armor, vowing to dig out the backbone of their army.

The Xiu family's counterattack has already begun. The Banners and entourage, which consisted of less than 1000 people, unexpectedly killed nearly 5000 people. The corpses that fell on the ground covered the entire street of Oyu.

Just when the Xiu family ordered the pursuit, the shouts of killing from the defense line of Sukagawa City in the distance gradually became clear.

The two sides began to raid the Inari Shrine in the morning when Sukagawa Castle came out of the city, and the battle outside Sukagawa Castle ended at around 11:[-] in the morning. Hideka still did not kill him in the end, and let the cavalry drive a group of people to gather together and wait for disposal.

After the battle, after questioning, the number of troops who went out of the city to attack the Xiu family reached more than [-]. Later, some people could not catch up with the Xiu family and returned one after another.

However, the cloths discarded by Hideo along the way were so touching that many Ichikui managed to come out, and naturally they had to search Sanchi. As a result, there were more than 8000 people who did not escape into the city before Toyotomi Hideji and Satake Yoshinobu were encircled. .

Xiu's side had the largest number of people. According to statistics, more than 1000 people were killed and more than 5000 people were arrested. The rest scattered and fled.

The captured Yikui people were driven aside like sheep, waiting for the disposal of his lord Ogasawara Hideyoshi. The Hide family had no time to pay attention to them. He wanted to seize the opportunity to organize an offensive when the morale in the city was weakened by the defeat outside the city. A drum broke the city.

Soon, the first wave of offensive commanded by Toyotomi Hideji began in Zouwa Qulun, southwest of Sukagawa Castle. composed of warriors.

This place is the conscription base of the Osaka Division of later generations, but in this era, in this area dominated by agriculture, the combat effectiveness of ordinary ashigaru is quite good.

The main reason is that the land in this area is mostly flat land, which is flat and rich, and has many famous castle towns in Japan. The Ashgaru family will do some handicrafts in Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Himeji, Sell ​​in Nara and other cities and towns to earn extra income.

Therefore, the ashigaru in these places are relatively rich, and can be equipped with full-length armor similar to that of low-level samurai, and some ashigaru do not even wear array hats, but wear samurai pockets.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no samurai sword on the waist, it would be a replica of a samurai.

With good armor to save their lives, they naturally cared less when fighting on the battlefield. It was these armors that gave them courage.With just one charge, Zouwang Qulun had already fallen, and Toyotomi Hideji's subordinate Shirae Naritaka personally led the attack from the west to Sannomaru.

Compared with Toyotomi Hideji, the results of Satake Yoshinobu on the east side are a bit inconspicuous.He launched the attack together with Toyotomi Hideji, but was blocked from Kaji Qulun.

However, the morale of the defenders inside the city had already dropped to a low point when they saw their comrades outside being killed by the officers and soldiers.

When the Xiu family and Ogasawara Hideyoshi's troops were encircled on all sides, they felt timid. At first, it was just because they had a little bit of courage to fight against the city wall.

Now that the west side Qulun has fallen, the Ichikui no longer have the idea of ​​resisting. Kashima Sanzaemon, one of the leaders of the Sukagawa Ichikui, took the initiative to open the gate of Ninomaru, and went to Toyotomi on the west road. Xiuci surrendered.

Xiujia rode his beloved horse Wuyun northward, and looked at the smooth situation on the west side, curled his lips a little helplessly, the battle of Sukagawa Castle, Xiuji's first victory seemed to be decided.

Although there is no natural conflict between Xiujia and Xiuci, it is like Saudi Arabia's upset victory over Argentina on 11/22.It doesn't matter if Argentina loses and they don't make money, but they just don't want to see others make a lot of money!
Ninomaru took the initiative to open the city, and there were more than 3 troops outside the city. Naturally, there was no suspense in Sukagawa Castle. Enter the city in batches.

After entering the city, Hideka, as the general, made arrangements to let the Utsunomiya family's old Hoga Gaoding lead 1000 people to take over the defense of Sukagawa Castle, and let Ogasawara Hidetada leave some people to deal with the Yikui people who surrendered.

As a new daimyo, Hideyoshi Ogasawara did not have experience in dealing with a group of people, so he took the initiative to ask Hideka for advice.

The Xiu family asked him, "Do you want to restore the power of the people as soon as possible and then slowly develop it, or take this opportunity to completely control the territory by scraping the bones and curing the poison?"

"Is there any difference?" Ogasawara Hideyoshi asked the Xiu family for advice.

"Now there are still two months before spring begins. Ouyu has experienced this turmoil and people's minds have changed, which may delay the farming season. If you want to focus on stability and restore people's strength as soon as possible, then you pardon them and hope that they will be grateful Your kindness.

But in this way, many of your rules will have to be changed. Whether Hata decides that Zhixing may have to make a retreat, and whether Zhixing will reduce the tax this year, you must make a compromise. This is to build a country with benevolence.

And even if you really make a concession, will these people really know what kindness is?
If you want to choose the second option, then you should be ruthless and deal with a batch of them severely, and let them know what will happen if they violate you, so as to establish the country with prestige.But you have to master the speed here, once the threat is too strong, they will only hate you more. "

Ogasawara Xiuzhen nodded after listening, and then asked the Xiu family another question, "What do you think, brother?"

"Me?" The Xiu family looked at Ogasawara Xiuzhen in surprise and said, "This is your territory, you should make the decision, if you can't make a decision, you can ask your retainers for advice.

But I have to remind you that the conquest time set by my father is the spring of next year. You have to complete the transfer, resettlement and armament matters within one year. According to your knowledge and practice, you need to provide 1 large ships with a discount of 4 Guanwen pillars of money. "

(End of this chapter)