Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 60 The Reincarnation of History - Flooded Takamatsu

Hideka was worried about keeping the cabbage in the sight of the monkey, so he chose to take the cabbage with him. Hideka, who was waiting anxiously in the Ukita barracks under the castle, finally saw Kiyohime walking with Suga Masari.

I saw that Qing Ji was wearing the Xiu family's old small armor, with a blue turban tied on top, and the Xiu family's treasured samurai sword stuck in her waist, she was quite heroic.

The Xiu family walked up to Qing Ji, tidied her armor a little, observed it for a while, nodded and said, "It's just a good look," then led Qing Ji to a pony, and attached her.Immediately, he got on his mount and said to Yu Xi's family, "Let's fight—Gao Tian."

Hideka was ordered by Hideyoshi to act as the commander of San'in to contain the Yoshikawa Motoharu Army. For the convenience of commanding, Hideka decided to temporarily set up the main army in Takada Castle in the west of Mizusa.

In March of the tenth year of Tensho, Hidekatsu Hashiba and Hidecho Hashiba, as the vanguards, entered Beizhong with 5000 Shiba troops. Takakage Kobayakawa, who had just disbanded the army, had to send a notice to Miyajiyama Castle, Kanyama Castle, and Matsushima to strengthen their guard. .

Kobayakawa Takakage wanted to regroup the army, but because the spring plowing was about to start, there was little response from the nobles in the territory. As a last resort, Kobayakawa could only send money and food to the front-line castle, hoping that they would stick to it until after the spring plowing.At the same time, Muneji Shimizu, the lord of Takamatsu, was appointed as the front-line acting general, responsible for commanding the front-line defense.

However, Hideyoshi's offensive was too aggressive. Within 5 days, Kanzan, Kamo, Shiraishi, and Fuchuan Castle fell one after another. Even Shimizu Munji's hometown, Shimizu Mountain Castle, was conquered. On March 10, Hashiba Hideyoshi's main camp had arrived at Takamatsu. On the Dragon King Mountain, facing the city that fulfilled his destiny in history.

Takamatsu Castle is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and under the valley, Zushouchuan passes through the city. There are 3500 defenders of Muneji Shimizu in the city. , The siege failed.

At the end of April, Hideyoshi was anxious and angry in the face of successive siege failures. At this time, news came from Shinano that the Oda family had pacified the Takeda family. Compared with the rapid progress of the Eastern Army, Hashiba Hideyoshi’s West Army Here, it was blocked at the Beichu portal, and the size of Takamatsu Castle did not enter.

This made Hashiba Hideyoshi, who swore in Okayama Castle and was determined to wipe out the Mori family before the Takeda family was destroyed, was so frustrated that Hideyoshi began to write a letter to Nobunaga to plead guilty in the face of the unfavorable situation of siege.

"The siege of the city is really beyond our grasp. The Maoli family has been operating in Takamatsu City for many years. The city is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Our army has not achieved an inch of success in the years of strong attacks. I really cannot explain my own incompetence. blame."

Frustrated, Hideyo dictated these words to the clerk in a depressed mood, and asked him to write them in a letter and hand them over to Nobunaga. Hearing Hideyoshi's eagerness to find Hidecho, he said. "Brother, if the lord sees such a weak discovery, I'm afraid he will end up like a wise man."

"Then what can I do? The Hide family in San'in has already invaded Izumo, and I'm still stuck at the gate of Beichu. What kind of feathers and tigers, in the end, I'm not even as good as my adopted son." Monkey shook his head in a daze Said.

"Master Yifu, after all, Lord Ukita is attached to you, and making meritorious deeds in Sanin can be regarded as meritorious deeds for the lord!" Ishida Mitsunari on the side comforted him.

"Zoji, are you looking down on me?" Unexpectedly, the monkey was not happy after hearing Ishida Mitsunari's comfort, but was angry.

Looking at the extremely depressed and emotional monkey, Kuroda Kanbei said, "Don't worry, my lord. I see that Takamatsu Castle is surrounded by mountains on three sides. On the west side of the castle, there is the Ashmori River flowing. I really found a strategy that will help the lord break through the city."

"Guanbingwei, do you have a solution? Quickly tell it!" Hearing that Kuroda Takataka had a way to break the city, Hideyoshi seemed to have found his soul, and asked Kuroda Takataka happily.

"His Royal Highness Bizen burned through the strong castle in Saga Mountain Castle, and also burned through the morale of the Maori army. Now our Takamatsu Castle is located in a low-lying area, and there is the Sushou River passing by. There is still spring in January. Come here soon. In the rainy season, the water potential of Ashori River will inevitably rise, we only need to build dams in these few places, and blocking the water flow will surely be able to submerge Takamatsu Castle."

As he spoke, Guan Bingwei spread out his hand-drawn map on the table, and marked the places where dams should be built.

"I've never heard of water attack!" Masanori Fukushima, who was sitting next to him, said angrily.

Hearing Fukushima Zhengzheng's words, the officers, soldiers and guards were not annoyed, and said with a smile: "This is a strategy that has been frequently used by the Ming Dynasty for 1000 years!"

"Oh~ is it an ancient strategy! It's amazing, Guanbingwei! What a good strategy!" Hearing the officers and soldiers' plan to flood Takamatsu, Hashiba Hideyoshi said excitedly. Happy.

However, Hashiba Hidecho, who heard Kanbei's plan, frowned while looking at the drawings on the table, and interjected, "To build dams in these places, how much earthwork and construction period are required, have you calculated all of these, Kanbei? "

Kuroda Kanbei's strategy is very good. The biggest difference between him and Takenaka Hanbei is that he has no strategy and no actual internal affairs ability and experience.

On the other hand, Hashiba Hidecho, who has been in charge of the internal affairs of the Hashiba family for many years, just made a rough calculation in his mind, and already knew that this was an extremely huge project, so he couldn't help feeling that this idea was not feasible.

"Leaving aside the required earthworks, the construction period will take a long time. It is not certain whether the construction can be completed before the end of the rainy season. You must know that the spring plowing will end soon, and the Maori army will mobilize more than 4 people to come here soon. We must take it as soon as possible. Takamatsu is"

"The length of the embankment is one mile, and it needs to be at least 1 feet to flood the Erzhi Maru of Takamatsu Castle. The embankment must at least resist the impact of the water flow and the enemy's surprise attack, so it must be at least eight feet wide at the bottom and four feet high. The soil is at least 20 million pieces (600 piece is approximately equal to 1 catties of later generations)"

Unlike Hidecho, Ishida Mitsunari, as the bottom-level follower, quickly calculated the required amount of earthwork with branches and soil on the ground.

When Ishida Mitsunari said 600 million yuan, everyone gasped.

"Are you kidding me? Is it true, Sakichi?" Hachisuka Masakatsu asked in disbelief. This number seemed to weigh on everyone like an astronomical number.

"Qing believes in my calculations. I have calculated this number empirically, and it will never be wrong!" Ishida Mitsunari confirmed.

"Let me just say, this plan is as boring as fart. Let's not talk about where to find 600 million mounted soils. The number of people who transported these soils is astronomical." Fukushima heard the words of Ishida Mitsunari, Continue to pour cold water on the officers and soldiers.

At this moment, Hideyoshi said, "The way to find soil is very simple. You can buy mounting soil with [-] Wen and a bucket of rice, and the people will be very happy to carry the soil."

"Using money to buy soil, Your Highness is really too smart." Ishida Mitsunari heard the monkey's plan and worshiped the monkey even more. "But this is a Maori territory. Will people really come here if you spend money to buy land?"

"Zoji, you are indeed very smart, but I came from the bottom, and I understand people's hearts better than you." The monkey patted Ishida Mitsunari on the shoulder and said to Mitsunari.

After finishing speaking, the monkey said to everyone, "Come on, everyone, we have to move the soil, we must hurry up and let the dam be completed! Koichiro, I will leave the money and food to you."

Hearing Hideyoshi's order, all the generals accepted the order one after another. Koichiro said to Hideyoshi, "Leave the cleaning to me! Brother"

(End of this chapter)