Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 582 Chaos
In fact, the Xiu family wanted to post this fire for a long time, but it was just that Date Masamune was also a famous name, and he was quite powerful in the Northeast. send.

But today, after making a lot of trouble, a group of people want to act as if nothing happened, and even put on official status and become the master in a grandiose manner?Who are you hitting in the face?
Not to mention Hideo, after seeing the words brought by Makotosuke Imura, the expressions of Asano Nagamasa, Maeno Nagayasu and others were already extremely dignified, and people like Nakamura Kazushi also buried their heads early, choosing to avoid being affected .

In this case, Hideka didn't get angry at Date Masamune until the left and right low-level samurai present were cleared out, which was already giving Date Masamune enough face.

The younger brother Date, who was sitting next to Date Masamune, wanted to defend his elder brother, "Your Highness, it's not that we are unwilling to send troops, it's that after the confiscation of Yonezawa, Date, and Shino County, the strength of my Date family Big loss. It's winter again, and we really dare not act rashly before His Highness's army arrives."

Hideka ignored the good brother's excuse, and looked at Date Masamune, bound to ask him to give him an answer.

"This matter is due to my inability to live up to the expectations of His Highness and Guan Baidian. Please forgive me."

Unlike Date Masamune, Date Masamune did not make excuses, instead he quickly recognized his problem, but cleverly attributed the reason to 'ability'.

"During the Battle of Odawara, His Highness Kanbai said beforehand that all daimyos who did not arrive were punished by dividing them into reforms. Both Osaki and Kasai dealt with it in the same way, without any excuses at all.

If I remember correctly, Dr. Sakyo was also late.Now your Date family is only being divided and reduced to 1/3, which is already tolerated by His Royal Highness Guan Bai.

You must not forget that your current head and the prosperity of the Date family were given to you by His Highness Guan Bai.His Highness Guan Bai placed you here to let you play the role of guard. If you don't have the ability, you can change to another name. "

Masamune Date didn't dare to express any dissatisfaction in the face of the Xiu family's verbal criticism. The guy who was called a 20-year-old dragon in history didn't even dare to fart in front of a boy who was 5 years younger than him. I only know the submissive saying yes.

However, in fact, what he just said about transfer and change was just used to frighten Masamune Date, and picking him out and scolding him is already the limit that Hideka can do.

The Hide family treated Date Masamune with such a soft attitude under their own complaints, and they didn't want to continue scolding any more, because it would be a bit insulting to the Date family to continue scolding.

"Date Palace, let the past go, I hope you can prove your worth in the next battle!" Hideka sat back on the seat and said to Masamune Date, and then started talking to Masamune again. Follow the map to arrange military meetings.

Hideka's handling of Osaki Kasai Ichikui's evaluation basically refers to the historical route of Gamo's evaluation of Osaki Kasai Ichikui, that is, the strategy agreed with Date Masamune to divide the army into two routes to the north.

Toyotomi Hideji is the West Route Army, mainly responsible for suppressing the Osaki Territory, including important targets such as its main city, Mingsheng Castle.

Date Masamune is the East Route Army, mainly responsible for the suppression of the Kasai collar. He needs to regain the Sanuma and other cities that were previously occupied by the Yikui people because of the evacuation of Jikimura Yoshikiyo.

Toyotomi Hideji has more than ten thousand Toyotomi banner elites, so there is no need to worry about it, but Date Masamune's strength here is much weaker than in history, which makes the Hide family feel a little unconfident about him.

Therefore, Xiujia asked him, "How many troops can the Date family mobilize this time?"

Date Masamune hesitated after taking his seat and replied, "6000 people should not be a problem."

In ancient times, 6000 people was already a large military force. When Sun Chuanting swept Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty, the main force was only 5000 elite soldiers.

But these 6000 people still look so unattractive in a sea of ​​tens of thousands.

So Xiujia looked at Yancheng Lilong and Xiangma Yiyin and asked, "How many people did you bring?"

Xiangma Yiyin Elementary School only brought 800 people to join the battle, and Yancheng Lilong slightly more, with 1500 people.

After thinking for a while, Hideka pointed to Nobushige Sanada who was at the bottom and said, "Genjiro Sanada is my general, and the Battle of Stable Bridge City was won by his surprise attack.

Now he holds the most elite red reserve team under my command, the two of you will be incorporated into his army and fight together with him.The three of you are in similar grades, so you should have a lot of topics in common. "

After speaking, he pointed to Date Masamune and said, "Genjiro, take the two adults and Dr. Sakyo to complete the suppression of Kasai leader as soon as possible."

It is worth noting that Hideya did not directly add Sanada Nobushige's Akabi Team, Iwaki Ritaka, and Soma Yoshino to Date Masamune's team.

Date Masamune's power is much weaker than in history, and it really needs to be strengthened for the smooth evaluation, but Hideka has a natural distrust of him.

Therefore, when Hideka formed the formation, he first incorporated Soma Yoshin and Iwaki Ritaka into Sanada Nobushige's team, and Sanada Nobushige coordinated and commanded them, and then asked them to cooperate with Date Masamune to fight.

Hideka didn't say that they have a superior-subordinate relationship with Date Masamune, and Hideka's relationship with the team is "cooperation".

In history, Date Masamune did not betray, but it is very likely that his situation has been known and prepared by Kamo clan, and he knows very well in his heart that after losing the suddenness of the surprise attack, it is meaningless to rebel.

Date Masamune's power in this life is much, much weaker, maybe he will not rebel, but Ichikui's power in this life is much stronger than in history, Hideka is still worried about him.

Regardless of whether the history of his rebellion is true or not, there is solid evidence that he was involved with a group of people.

The East Road Corps needed to be strengthened, and the Xiu family sent out the strongest Red Army Corps under them, the purpose of which was naturally to take advantage of this opportunity to train troops.

Xiujia is very afraid that his red reserve team is a good-for-nothing, and he can't bear to send them to Ezo or North Korea to fight hard bones. He feels sorry for their loss. There is nothing like Yikui and this group of mobs who will train as opponents. bloody.

At the same time, in order to prevent Date Masamune from having thoughts about his precious treasure Chibei, Hideka strengthened him by 2300 people, making the total force more than 4000, which was evenly matched with Date Masamune's army, and his safety was naturally guaranteed.

"I will send a letter to Sanhu City, let the Nanfang family go south together, and put pressure on the north of Kasai."

"The most relaxed of your three paths should be Toyotomi's side, and our focus in this battle is to adopt a strategy of first west and then east.

When Osaki's suppression is almost over, brother Sun Qi, you can lead the troops to the east to support Dr. Zuojing's offensive. "

As the general, Xiujia has rarely been in charge of front-line tactical command in such tens of thousands of battles, and there will be no more such as Sukagawa who took the lead in luring the enemy.

"Asano's attendant is in charge of the transfer of food and grass for you in Lifu City. I lead the team and live in Lifu as your support, and at the same time coordinate the affairs of the surrounding daimyos."

This time Osaki Kasai Ichikui, Hideka did not intend to continue to lead troops to fight northward, and if he continued to lead troops to fight, he might not be able to obtain the title of Zhixing, but would become a highly anticipated existence.

As Hideyoshi gets older, his thoughts will become more and more bizarre, and Hideyoshi wants to hide it as much as possible.

The Hide family purposely brought Toyotomi Hideji with them this time, because they wanted to put most of the credit for this battle on Toyotomi Hideji's head. At that time, Hideyoshi will have an adopted son who is closer in blood and "capable of fighting". The force will naturally be removed from oneself.

Of course, the Xiu family didn't just eat ashes in Lifu City. The Xiu family wanted to take this opportunity to collect information about the Date family around Lifu City. The right object.

In fact, it is still difficult to collect evidence in Lifu City, where Date's family is located. Masamune Date ordered Date to stay behind and monitor Hideka from all over the city.

However, after all, there are thousands of soldiers around the Xiu family, so the Xiu family had to wander around with guards in the name of hunting and visiting customs.

On February 2th, news came back from the Osaki collar that under the leadership of Tamagawa Hideyuki, Toyotomi Hideji raided and took down Meisheng Castle, and planned to use this as a base to march towards Iwadeyama Castle in the northwest.

After Date Masamune was scolded by Hideka again, there was indeed movement, but according to the source of Sanada Nobushige, after Date Masamune suppressed Shida County and Momo County, progress slowed down.

He discussed with Nobushige Sanada that Nobushige Sanada would be responsible for the strategy of Toda County and Tome County, while he would be responsible for the strategy of coastal counties such as Yoshimoto and Stag County.

As for the reason, of course, they are familiar with Toyotomi Hideji, so they can easily get his support, and here are mostly plains, which is convenient for marching, while Yoshimoto and other coastal counties are mostly mountainous, and they are familiar with the terrain and it is not easy to ambush.

What Date Masamune said was true, but in fact, most of the three districts in Japan were autonomous villages. They only provided soldiers for the lords but did not pay taxes, and even directly resisted and obeyed with arms.

Most of the villages in places like Gibbon and Hart don't care about your taxes, and they generally won't participate in the one if they don't get affected by the land inspection.

And Tome County and Toda County are all plains. This is the essence of the entire Kasai Territory, and it is also the area where the Yikui people gather most.

According to the previous information, there are more than 2 gangsters with 5 big bandits and thousands of small gangsters with 3 people. The total number exceeds 4000. Masamune's relentless attack caused a lot of damage.

Therefore, it can be said that compared with the West Route Army, which is making good progress, the progress of the East Route Army of Date Masamune and Sanada Nobushige is quite slow.

After receiving this letter, Hideka sent a letter to the Kasai front line, urging Date Masamune to join forces with Sanada Nobushige as soon as possible to clear the enemies in Toda County.

However, on the night when the letter was sent out, a fast horse galloped from the north facing the snow. The knight found the military strength of Toyotomi Hideo's family in the lower town of Rifu Castle, saying that there was an urgent military situation and he needed to praise the Hideka in Rifu Castle. .

As Masatoshi Suga who became the garrison, he came to the gate of Rifu Castle and called for the door, but the guard of Rifu Castle refused to open the door, and it was Ota Suzumasa who came forward to admit the person in the end.

"Why are things so hot, His Highness can't bear the severe winter cold and has already gone to sleep, if it wasn't for some particularly important news, it would be the same to present it tomorrow morning."

As soon as the person came in, Ota Suzumasa scolded him, and finally Keisuke Ota realized that the person who came was actually Sanada Nobushige's younger brother Sanada Nobukatsu, and then he realized that something was different.

At the beginning, their father, son and brother were divided into three families, and most of their relatives followed Sanada Nobuyuki at first. Not long ago, Sanada Nobushige became a daimyo, and the consulate Hayashi 3 stone.

Feeling deeply that there is a lack of family and retainers in the collar, Xinfan wrote to his elder brother Xinzhi, asking for some support.

In the end, his uncle Shinyin took the lead and brought Sanada Nobukatsu who had a good relationship with him to become his core retainer.

"Why did you come to Genshiro?" Keiko Ota asked him.

"Is the lord there? There is an urgent military situation, I have to see him right away." Sanada Nobukatsu did not answer his question, and reiterated his request once again.

As the team leader for this battle, Ota Suzumasa has the right to deal with the military situation when it is inconvenient for Hideka, so facing Nobukatsu's request, he reiterated, "What is the situation like for me, the lord has already rested now. "

Sanada Nobukatsu had no choice but to ask for a different place and said, "This is not a place to talk, can you lead me to the lord to talk about it later, if the adults think the situation is not serious at that time, just don't rouse the lord."

Seeing that Sanada Nobukatsu hadn't opened his mouth yet, Ota Zizheng sensed that something was unusual, and seeing that he was already shivering from the cold, he said "follow me" lightly, waiting for someone to take a step ahead.

When a few people came to the samurai house where Hideka Banners were stationed, they picked a room and sat down, Keisuke Ota added a cup of hot water to warm up, Sanada Nobukatsu said
"Dr. Date Sakyo's Yubi came to my brother's camp in the evening, and presented a secret letter, saying that Dr. Date Sakyo wrote to the leader of Kasai Ichikui, Bessho Awaji."

Sanada Nobukatsu's words attracted the attention of everyone in the hall at the very beginning. After all, Yubi's identity is equivalent to the lord's secretary, and the secrets he can grasp are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Generally speaking, Youbi must be in charge of a very trusted person, and it is usually not responsible for connecting with outsiders.

But now Suda Hoki, who is Date Masamune's Yubi, actually ran to Sanada Nobushige's place by himself. How can people not be curious about his purpose?

"You pen? What does the letter say?"

"The letter will inform you of the situation of our side, and I want Bessho Awaji to connect with the surrounding Ichikui leaders, and cooperate with them inside and outside to gather the 4000 people of our side into the wild!"

(End of this chapter)