Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 65 The Lord Shimizu Mongzhi Can't Save It!
Digression: Some readers said that I am water, that I am an encyclopedia.To be honest, I haven’t copied and pasted an encyclopedia until now. I typed it out word by word. Otherwise, there would be so many typos, and many opinions are completely opposite to Baidu Encyclopedia.

Others said that I shouldn't bring so much background commentary and analysis.

I can only say: You have a deep understanding of that period of history, but it does not mean that others understand as much as you do. If many of my explanations are not released, many readers will really not understand why I did this, including but not limited to the character of Mori Terumoto explanation etc.

In summary, this novel is popular literature. I also hope that through this novel, I can attract more readers who like the history of the Warring States Period in Japan, or change some readers who have been biased by other authors to return. There are various necessary explanations for the background. , if some readers really feel that I am watery, you can read it after fattening up.

Let's tolerate each other

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After Hideka waited for the 7000 support corps led by Oka Toshikatsu and Togawa Hidean, the total strength reached 1.5, and officially marched towards Matsuyama Castle and Kuraya Castle. The later Bichu Takamatsu Castle is one of the ten famous cities in Japan .

Even now, as the main city of the Mimura family that once dominated Beichu, it is still an extremely strong fortress that has been built.

After Mimura Motokin betrayed Mori and formed an alliance with the Oda family, Kobayakawa Takakage led an army of 2.5 to besiege Buluo, but he had no choice but to uproot the branch first, and encircle and starve Takamatsu Castle.

Hideka was on the edge of the Takahashi River, looking at the Bichu Matsuyama Castle of UF Wuhuancheng Maru on the mountain relying on the mountain and straddling the two mountains, and left a helpless sigh again.I was thinking in my heart, how great it would be to have 2 sets of Parrot field guns at this time!

Although Xiujia did not have the confidence to win Matsuyama, he still asked Ukita Army to cut trees and build stone catapults. After 2 days of preparation, 16 catapults were arranged in two rows under Matsuyama Castle, and one row threw grass covered with pine oil inward. Ball, a row of stones thrown inward.

The Oteguchi at the foot of the mountain is not difficult to attack. After trying two assaults, Shangdoubei has already broken through the crown wooden gate and entered the city. However, due to the narrow mountain road, only 4 or 5 soldiers can walk side by side in a row. Even only 3 people side by side.

At the same time, Wuzhimaru's troops were on the screen of the mountain road, preparing to pour ammunition towards the upper road that had just entered Oteguchi, attacked the Wuzhiwan city gate on the mountain road, and lined up to attack.

As one of the most elite backup teams in the hands of the Xiu family, the difficulty in the city has reached the point where even the commander of the "Iron Army" Gao Shan Shizong had to ring the bell to withdraw his troops. In the first round of confrontation, nearly a hundred people were cut from the Shangdaobei.

Hideka, who was repulsed by the defenders in the city, had no choice but to order the catapult to suppress the defenders at the head of the Inomaru Castle, and asked Shangdaobei to organize a charge here.

The range and upper limit of the kinetic energy of the human-powered trebuchet were too low. Under Matsuyama Castle, it was only possible to reach the Gonomaru at the foot of the mountain. Hideka could only order the production of the first-generation gravity trebuchet equipped with a winch and a noon bin.

Despite the lack of a gravity catapult, relying on a human-powered catapult, the five-maru screen in Takamatsu Castle was smashed beyond recognition, and the arrows and sculls that originally stood on both sides of the crown wooden gate were also shot down. Finally captured the fifth no-maru that had been left unattended.

Although Wuzhimaru was captured at noon under the cover of Ukita's catapult, Ishimaru, which used to be a catapult, has become a new problem.

These heroes who broke through the Five Maru screen are now scattered and blocked on the mountain road from Gomaru to Shinomaru, making the already difficult mountain road even more difficult.

After attacking and defending for several days, the Xiu family decided to persuade the defenders to surrender again. This time, the Xiu family decided to use all Hoki Hino County to add 4.2 shi to the northern Fasheng Temple City, in exchange for the defender Zhuang Zisheng to move the city. seal up.

The conditions offered by the Xiu family are not unreasonable. The Yuxi family worked hard to conquer Hoki in exchange for only about 15 shi in exchange for a territorial state. They exchanged 4 shi in Embankment for Yamada Shigeichi Kaesong, and now Fasheng Temple 4.2 1.7 in exchange for the [-] shi fiefdom of the Songshan City dealer.

Back and forth, Boqi Banguo has been promised to go out, as a bargaining chip in the exchange of benefits, the Xiu family even has a feeling that they are fighting against Boqi and working for others.

However, Zhuang Zisheng, the lord of the city, insisted that Songshan City was strong, and the reinforcements of the Maori family rejected the Xiu family's persuasion to surrender not far away.

It wasn't until the end of May that Hideka's gravity trebuchet was built, and a projectile hit the Sannomaru yagura platform halfway up the mountain, killing Zhuang Zisheng who was observing the situation on the yagura platform. Under the auspices of Nao and Kanimoto Kohei, the Hide family in the castle surrendered.

Surrender at this time is not such a generous condition for all Hoki Hino County to meet with Hoshoji City in the north with 4.2 shi.

Even so, Zhuangjia still chose to surrender, and at the same time sent Zhuang Zhiqing, the head of the Xiu family, who was the same age as the Xiu family, to the Xiu family's formation to serve as the Xiu family's near side.

The Xiu family has already reformed the near-side crowd, and merged him and the close horse into the guard team, but most of the team are young samurai who have already served. At this time, a young man of the same age who can replace Kenjiro finally came. .

The fall of Matsuyama Castle was beyond everyone's expectations. Even Hideka himself was prepared to not be able to fall before Honnoji, let alone Takakage Kobayakawa who was confronting Hideyoshi on the front line of the Nagara River.

As the most important city in Bichu, his fall also meant that Takakage Kobayakawa was surrounded by Ukita and Hashiba's family, leaving only Kishenjo Castle and Arahirayama Castle at the junction of the remaining lines of the mountains and the Sosha Basin behind him.

Hideka's journey southward via the Takaogawa River must pass through Arahira Mountain Castle, which is an important gateway to control the flow of the Takaozu River from the Dashan Mountains to the Sosha Basin, and finally to the Bichu Plain, just like Takamatsu Castle.

But with Kobayakawa Takakage's character, he would definitely not choose to tell the two small towns about his back.Therefore, after discussing with Motoharu Yoshikawa, he planned to use the five countries of Hoki, Inaba, Misaku, Binchu, and Bingo as conditions in exchange for Monkey's retreat and peace with the Oda family.

Akechi Mitsuhide's private ally with the Tanba wealthy family is a lesson from the past. How could the monkey accept the Mori family's terms of harmony? He clearly knew that Oda Nobunaga's bottom line for Mori was the two countries.So negotiations broke down.

In fact, this condition of the Mori family is also insincere. Misaku has always been a supplementary territory of Ukita, a subordinate of the Oda Army. However, the actual condition given by the Maori family is only the country of Bingo.

For Maori, they think that the most important thing in this negotiation is Maori's recognition of the legitimacy of the Oda Army's occupation of the four countries.

But they miscalculated Nobunaga's bottom line again. Nobunaga doesn't care if you admit his rule over the four countries. It is best for him to admit it. If you don't admit it, I will use force to beat you to admit it.

As far as Ukita Hideka is concerned, the Mori family's use of beauty as a condition for negotiation also makes him personally disgusted.

The 3 members of Yoshikawa and Kobayakawa's family, fearing that their retreat would be cut off, decided to retreat from Takamatsu Castle, and their retreat also meant the fate of the defenders in Takamatsu Castle.

With the retreat of three stars on the bank of the Nagara River, Muneji Shimizu, who did not know the situation of the Maori family, felt disappointed and frustrated for the first time since the city was besieged for several months. , surrendered to Hideyoshi.

It was June 6rd when the news reached Xiujia's army. In the end, Xiujia still failed to catch up with the fate of history. As a military general with only 3 dimensions in the late Western Kingdom, Xiujia coveted Shimizu Zongzhi's ability. , if he can catch up, he will definitely try his best to save his life.

Since Hideka came out in Okayama in March, in three months, he fought back and forth with the Mori family's territory along the surrounding area of ​​Mimasaka, and forced Motoharu Yoshikawa to retreat twice, and established a lot of merit. With meritorious deeds, the loot can't be taken away.

And the authority of the Xiu family's family governor was finally formally established through this war. If Togawa Hidean had thought of coercing the emperor to command the princes before, at this time he completely worshiped the Xiu family.

As one of the elders of the family, Hideyasu Togawa, saw Hideka's sullen expression after hearing the news of Zongzhi Shimizu's death, and asked Hideka why, and Hideya also confessed his appreciation for Zongzhi Shimizu to Hidean Togawa.

Hearing the reason for Xiujia's sadness, Fujido Takatora said to Xiujia seriously
"I heard that Harima Mori used to prepare for the half of the country in exchange for Shimizu Muneji's surrender. Shimizu Muneji did not agree, let alone whether he will become an official. If His Highness persuades Harima Mori for Kiyomizu Muneji, Harima Mori may be against him." The lord is dissatisfied."

"how do I say this."

"May I ask my lord how about Harimashou?"

"It's not the behavior of a minister to judge a father by a son." The Xiu family refused to answer this question, mainly because the Xiu family, who knew the direction of history, was afraid of leaving a story behind.

Fujido Takatora is also a smart person. Seeing that Hideka is unwilling to talk about this topic, he quickly leads to the next question, "Dare to ask this battle with Mori, at present, who is more dazzling, His Highness or Harima Mori?"

"That's naturally my lord. I persuaded you to surrender Tsukijo, went down to Hachihashi Bridge, retreated to Yoshikawa twice, and quickly went south after receiving the letter from Harima Shou. It took us 3 months, and the whole battle was done by us." Said Gang Lisheng on the side very proudly.

Fujido Takatora nodded in satisfaction when he heard Oka Toshikatsu's answer, and said: "My lord, as a lieutenant general, his military achievements are so dazzling that the brilliance of the lord Harimamori is covered by you. I have heard many times about that in Kyoto in Tenjin Mountain. The Great Hall calls His Highness the future pillar of the Oda family."

"My lord's record is indeed quite brilliant. It is much better than Harima Mori." Akashi Jingqin said

"It is precisely because the lord is too dazzling, and Shimizu Zongji has refuted Harima Mori's face several times and defended Takamatsu so hard that Harima Mori has almost failed to accomplish anything. Does Your Highness think that Harima Mori hates Master Shimizu? If Your Highness wants to persuade Harima at this time Shou, even if you don't mean it, it will give people the feeling of being overwhelmed by military exploits, which will make you father and son displeased."

"My Uki family is now integrating Bizen, Misaku, Hoki, and western Inaba, with 70 koku on the back of Bichu, and Hashiba Hideyoshi only has 50 koku from Harima, Tajima, and Inaba Hankoku. We need to see his face?" Okatoshi Katsura Said disdainfully.

Although Oka Toshikatsu believed that Ukita Hideka did not need to succumb to Hideyoshi through strength analysis, but Hideka, who knew history and had political acumen, quickly found the key point.

Indeed, his achievements in this battle were too dazzling. In contrast, Monkey lost face as a adoptive father, and the biggest reason why Monkey was blocked in Takamatsu was Shimizu Soji in Takamatsu Castle.

For the monkey, if the Xiu family really came forward to ask for Shimizu Soji's forgiveness, it would leave a message in the monkey's heart, "I've asked you not to surrender three times and four times, and you will not surrender if you are blocked by Beizhong Banguo. Now my son persuades you not to surrender." You just surrender, what do you mean?" thought.

To put it seriously, Houzi would even think that Xiujia and Shimizu Soji had hooked up and deliberately obstructed his idea of ​​making meritorious service.Don't think it's impossible. Monkeys are born farmers, and they eat soft things but not hard ones.

Monkey is extremely concerned about his own face, if Xiujia really took the risk of angering Monkey to save Shimizu Zongzhi, Monkey would really be disgusted.

Hideya, who was reminded by Takatora Fujido, suddenly felt scared, and there was no trace of regret for being late to Takamatsu. After calming down for a while, he began to command the siege of Huangping Mountain Castle.

(End of this chapter)