Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 61 Politics is the Art of Compromise
On March 6th in the tenth year of Tianzheng, Hideka brought the Ukita army to Takada Castle, and Oka Toshikatsu, who was the guard of the castle, kindly received Hideka.Xiuzai's decisiveness in assessing Meizuo's rebellion made this elder, who once expressed distrust of Xiu's family, now full of confidence in Yuxijia's future.

Since several tyrants headed by Oka Toshikatsu are handing over fields and military service certificates to each other, they are temporarily unable to participate in the battle. The Hide family can only wait in Takada Castle until 1800 Tsuyama people plus a total of 2600 people headed by the Yuan family have not moved. The troops of the noble family.

So far, the Hide family's army against the Hoki Yoshikawa family has been unified.

With 1500 Toyama all and 1500 Minobei as the forward,

The 2300 Eupaku and the 1600 Erdo are the second team.

The 1500 banners are prepared, the 1500 roads are prepared, and the 1800 Jinshan people are the Chinese army.

The 1200 Heki crowd, the 1100 Pan Li crowd, and the 2600 Ximeizuo crowd came out to Yuyi Shicheng.

On March 9th, the Xiu family entered Yuyi Stone City. The Sanchao Castle and Songqi Castle in Kawamura County had been assessed by the Vanguard Army before the Xiu family arrived, and Kawamura County was pacified.

On March 11, the Hide family invaded Kume County of the Hoki Country. As the governor of the Yoshikawa family in Kume County, Yamada Shigenao abandoned the defense of Iwakura Castle, attacked the mountain castle, and shrunk his power to the main city of the family for generations, Tsuijo.

It has to be said that the essence of the Shan'in kingdoms is all in Yunzhou and Bozhou. As a rare plain area among the mountains, Hoqi has been the granary of San'in since ancient times, especially Yuliang River, Tenshen River, and Hino River. The place where the estuary passes is flat and fertile.

The embankment city was built into a mountain on the side of the Yuliang River estuary, and the flood discharge area of ​​the Yuliang River was under the city. Although there were only 1200 people guarding the city, the Xiu family could not take advantage of their numbers and attacked the city with all their strength.

It is extremely easy to prepare the dike city at the mouth of the Liang River, whether it is insufficient food or water from the sea, so Xiujia's siege tactics are also facing difficulties.

Hideka recalled his siege history. From Maruyama Castle Road, Bōkio Castle, to Sagayama Castle, they encountered all these steep castles. Hideka looked at the Yura River next to him, and wanted to refer to the flooded Takamatsu in his heart. A flooded embankment.

However, the dike city is different from Takamatsu in that Takamatsu is built in a low-lying place surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only needs to breach the dike on one side to launch a water attack, while the dike city is located in a plain, with the Sea of ​​Japan not far to the north. To launch a water attack, the amount of work will be several times that of Takamatsu.

Hideka knew very well that the purpose of coming here was to take advantage of Nobunaga's last moments before his death and Hideyoshi's participation in the scramble for the core power of the Oda family to occupy more land, create established facts, and make it his own bargaining chip in the future.

The Hide family didn't have so much time to spend under the embankment, so they sent the former samurai Makoto Ito into the city to lead the conversation, and exchanged all of Kume and the 4 koku security block of Yasashi in exchange for Yamada Shigeno's Kaesong.

Sometimes Xiujia is so helpless, even though he has to make a compromise because he hates Yamada Shigenao who can't resist in the city, at this moment Xiujia really understands what is called politics is actually the art of compromise.

Shigenao Yamada, who had served the four families of Niko, Nanjo, Mori, and Yoshikawa for several generations, knew his weight very well. After confirming the conditions of the Hide family, he chose Kaesong to surrender.

When the entire Boqi State was in the Taiko inspection area, the stone height was 13.3 shi, but this must be different from the actual situation. The number of acres of fields that Xiu Jiaguang saw along the banks of the Yuliang River was no less than 5 shi. You must know that the Boqi State There is also Yonago Plain, which is the main grain-producing area!The real high number of Boqi Kingdom will never be less than 20 shi.

Tetsugi is the gateway to Hachihashi City, the fortress of Eastern Hoki. No matter how bad Yamada Shigetao's conditions are, Hideka must accept it with humility, because Hideka needs to evaluate Hoki as quickly as possible.

Of course, following the opening of the embankment, Yu Xiduo surrounded the eight bridge city on the night that the embankment was opened.

I, Ukita Hideo, have no choice but to face the embankment full of swamps. Isn't it easy to catch you with a flat city near the sea?

The Xiu family vented all the grievances they had received in Embankment City on Eight Bridges City, and spent two days cutting down trees to build more than a dozen human-powered trebuchets, throwing cannonballs and flaming grass balls into the city, causing chaos in the city , Then Shangdoubei and Toyamabei seized the opportunity to attack the city, and scored Sannomaru in the city on the first day.

For Yu Xiduo, as long as the outer gate is broken, everything is easy to say. Blasting the city gate has become Yu Xiduo's regular method of attacking the city, so much so that in order to save the amount of medicine, there are even experts who have accurately calculated the explosion.

Yatsuhashi's offensive continued from morning to evening, and only Honmaru remained in the hands of Yoshikawa's army in the entire Yatsuhashi city. Facing Ukido's powerful offensive, defender Misawa Weiqing chose to sacrifice seppuku in exchange for the lives of the entire city.

Although Xiujia didn't understand why the Japanese chose to cut seppuku in exchange for the other party's forgiveness when they encountered failure, they didn't refuse such insignificant things at the time, and agreed to Misawa Weiqing's request, after all You are not Yuanzhang Yoshikawa of Yuanzhuang Guancheng, the Hide family doesn't care about your life or death.

The Xiu family calmly witnessed the end of a famous warrior outside Eight Bridges City, and entered Eight Bridges City with his army.

During the renovation of Yahashi Castle, Xiujia heard from ninjas that Yoshikawa Motoharu had mobilized 1.3 troops in Gassan Tomita Castle to stop Xiujia, and Yuanjia, the third son of Yuanchun, was also in Yonago City. Mobilized 3200 troops to join his father's army.

Yes, you heard me right, after losing the Eastern half of the country, Yonezi Cheng Gongzhuang Yuan’s family still relied on the Western half of the country to organize a 3200 army. From the strength of the military organization, it can be reversed. The number of Shi Gao in the Western half of the country is not It will be less than 6.5 stone.

As far as the eastern half of the country controlled by the Xiu family is concerned, the stone height of the eastern half of Boqi should be more than 8 shi. From this, it can be seen how false the 13 shi reported by the Taige inspection was.

Some friends may be unfamiliar with the name Gongzhuang Motoharu, so I said that everyone must know who he is by his other name-he is the later Sekihara fan god Yoshikawa Hiroka.

In the third year of Yuangui (1572), Yuanjia, the third son of Yoshikawa Yuanchun, joined the Shuliu Gongzhuang clan of the Yoshikawa clan.After Oda Nobunaga's death, Hashiba Hideyoshi quickly became a man of the world.

In order to maintain friendly diplomacy with Hideyoshi, the Mori family sent the Yuan family to Hashiba Hideyoshi as hostages, and grew up with Kobayakawa Hideyoshi, who was also a hostage.

In the 15th year of Tensho (1587), because his elder brother Yoshikawa Motonaga died of illness during the Kyushu Shimadzu conquest one year after his father Yuanchun's death, the second son Motoshi inherited the Shigezawa family, so the Moto family was able to inherit the Yoshikawa family.

Mori Terumoto bestowed the Mori family's "Guang" character to the Yuan family (the "Guang" character came from the name of Mori's ancestor Oe Hiromoto).From then on, Gongzhuang Yuanjia officially changed its name to Yoshikawa Hiroka.

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Bashang Castle is backed by the rest of the mountains on the boat, facing the sea, just above the San'in Line, this is an important road to communicate with San'in, the mountains behind it extend inland to the foot of Takada Castle, Yoshikawa Motoharu wants to attack Hideka The nail Misaku Takata must be pulled out first.

But unlike Miura Sadahiro, Hideka has full trust in Oka Toshikatsu, which prevents Yoshikawa Motoharu from attacking Hideka's back.

Yoshikawa Motoharu, who has only one path to choose from, will inevitably choose the Sanin Main Line to come to the battle of Hideka at Yahashi. In addition, Yamada Shigeno who surrendered to Hideka, Hideka has a total of 1.75 troops, and Yoshikawa Motoharu on the opposite side has only 1.55. People, numerically speaking, the advantage is mine.

Xiujia took advantage of this time to order the soldiers to look at the wood, build more trebuchets, and collect stones as ammunition.At the same time, faced with the fact that the main family was not good at melee combat, Hideie learned from Oda Nobunaga's situation in the Battle of Nagashino, dug trenches in the west of Yatsuhashi, set up wooden fences, and prepared to rely on long-range firepower to consume Yoshikawa's army.

On March 17, Motoharu Yoshikawa finally entered Akasaki Castle in the west of Yatsuhashi. On March 18, the two armies met on the battlefield for the first time.

In the direction of Akasaki, the 1.5 troops of the Yoshikawa family stood under the banner of Jiuyaobawen in Yuanchun. There were samurai running in front of the battle to boost morale.The first formation at the front was the Boqi Legion of Gongzhuang Yuan's family with 3200 people.

On the side of the Xiu family, I sit in Yaqiao City by myself, and outside the city are mainly the Daobei, Miyanobei and Tsushanbei as the main force, and cooperate with the Meizuo Haozu and Yikuzhong as the second formation. The whole army has a total of 8000 people.

The Battle of Hoki officially begins!
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Off topic

I read the results of my book today, and it has been exactly one month since I wrote the book; I wrote 61 chapters and 21 words; Uesugi Lizhiwen next door wrote 2 chapters and 189 words in 39 months, the recommendation of the two of us, the degree of discussion in the comment area , the number of monthly tickets, and the out-of-circle index are very different.

I used to think that many readers would not like that kind of unparalleled and brainless text, but I found that I was wrong. In the past two days, book friends often asked questions about the invasion of North Korea and the killing of Japanese in the comment area. It seems that many book friends In my eyes, that is the real Japan.

Until now, the Xiu family has almost never personally killed anyone on the battlefield.One is that the Xiu family is really young, and the other is that the Xiu family in my eyes is a wise general who stands under a dangerous wall, not a reckless man who rushes into battle.

In my eyes, what the Xiu family wants to do is not to be an enemy of a hundred people, but to be the people of the world who can change the general situation of the world.

But regardless of Shangshan's novel, Nobunaga's son and my father's two novels are much more popular than mine. On the whole, everyone prefers Wushuang Shuangwen at all.

I also know that my novels have many problems, such as unclear paragraphs, typos, punctuation problems, etc. This is also the reason why many book lovers can't read it.

And after I compared it, I found that "Tai Ping Ji", which was indeed written about my father, is very good in detail description, and the author is a person with profound literary skills.It's really not easy to get such a result, come on!

I also hope that "Bizen Prime Minister" I wrote can become a clear stream in Japanese Warring States novels, change the Wushuang routine of mindless hacking, and make war and politics truly "smart".

I don't ask for a monthly ticket, I don't ask for a reward.If I write well, of course people will send it to me spontaneously; if I write rubbish, no one will read this book is also my problem.

Whether it's good or bad, I will share weal and woe with this book, thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
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