Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 84 Broken Version Diao Ye Fu Yi Retreats from the Enemy Monkey Intermediary Hideka and Maori (Big Chapter)
With Ukido being able to enter the Kamesu Castle, the most important stronghold of the Mori family in Beichu was occupied by Ukido, and the rule of the Mori family in Beichu was completely shaken.

The Xiu family is deeply aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the Maori family. Because of the system problems of the Maori family, each of their military mobilizations takes a very long time.The Xiu family's offensive strategy against the Maori family is to use this time difference to advance as far as possible towards the Maori family.

With the surrender of the Shishido Takashi family, the Mori family lost a unified command in Beichu. After a night of rest, Hideka divided his general forces into three groups to attack Zorashiki Mountain, Kasaoka Mountain, and Kobe Mountain Castle.It then meets at Ogasamaruyama Castle on the border with Bingo.

The Yuxi family's offensive was very fierce. On August 8, the tenth year of Tianzheng alone, the Xiu family had brought 5 Yuxi family troops to surround Shenbian City, the back door.

According to the report of the ninja soldiers of Tsusue Sanzhicheng, the castle guard is, and Mao Liyuan is related to the fourth son Hoida Moto.

After the Shishido Takashi family sent an envoy to Kobayakawa Takakage, Kobayakawa Takakage urgently organized an army of 3000 people to support Hoida Motochin.On the other hand, he continued to organize the army in the rear, waiting for Mori Terumoto's reinforcements before supporting the Hide family.

Kamibe Castle, built on the remaining veins of Yoshino Mountain, is connected to the Ashida River in the west. It is an important gateway of the Fukuyama Plain, the main grain production area after the containment. Chuan deployed the army.

So the Xiu family cherished the time, and after two days of preparation, the trebuchets and artillery fired together, and the mountain city at the waist was captured.

Projectiles from trebuchets and lead bullets from cannons quickly pierced through the flimsy defenses of the city in this era, but Hoida Moto-chan was also prepared to temporarily replace the wooden screen with soil bags and build a half-person-high female wall, allowing Ashigaru squatted behind him and fired iron cannons and bows and arrows down the mountain.

In addition, there were 5000 people defending the city, repelling the attacks of Ukita's army many times, making Hideo's offensive unable to make progress.

At this time, I was already in the Maori Forte, and the distance from Mihara, the base city of Ryukei Kobayakawa, was not even more than 35km.Xiujia spread the ninja soldiers in his hands as far as possible.To give yourself a higher reaction time.

On August 8th, the Ninja Army reported that Terumoto Mori led an army of 10 troops from Hiroshima to support Takakage Kobayakawa after half a month of mobilization.

Xiujia, who received the news, immediately stopped the attack and began to consider withdrawing troops.

Although the 3-meter-wide Ashida River is 30 kilometers west of Kamibe, Hideka has no plans to confront the Maori army along the river, and the movement of Yoshikawa Motoharu is unclear.

Secondly, the east bank of Ashida is different from the west bank. Yoshino Mountain has Duochu gorge connecting both sides of the mountain range. The Maori family can use the mountain passage to sneak around behind Ukido and surround the Xiu family without anyone noticing.

Hideka led the catapults, cannons and other heavy contingents to evacuate first, with 3000 Togawa Hidean as the army, and retreated to Beizhong. The route did not choose the larger and more convenient Sanyo Avenue, but took the Sanyo that connects the Zongsha Plain ancient road.

Hideka chose this road for a reason. The Sanyo Ancient Road was an ancient road that connected Kibi Kingdom in ancient Japan when the Bigo Fukuyama Plain and the Bitchu Kurashiki Impact Plain were not so vast.

In front of the access of Shanyang Avenue, this place has always been referred to as Sanyang Road. There are many high mountains in the north and south, sandwiching a long and narrow passage, and there are mostly basins with mixed hills along the way, and it passes through many roads along the way. Longitudinal mountains are good places for ambushes.

Xiujia retreated all the way, choosing ambush locations along the way.The first place we chose was a 5-meter-wide rift valley 500km east of Shenbian, which is the Zhuxun area of ​​later generations.

After Hideka left 3000 ambushes in the rift valley, he withdrew his troops to the vicinity of Bazhangyan at the junction of Beizhong, and left an elite reserve team on the mountain roads on both sides. Guichuan, which passes through the canyon, arrays in the south of the Yangtze River.

There is a reason for Xiujia to do this, because Guichuan's own middle mountain range flows into this place and flows parallel to the mountain to the direction of Shenbian.

There is no geographical obstacle in Jiangbei, so it is convenient for the Togawa army, who is the palace army, to retreat directly and line up under the cover of Jiangnan troops.

However, the south of the Yangtze River is blocked by Guichuan, and the Xiu family can use certain geographical advantages to make up for the lack of troops.

Following the pursuit of the Togawa army, the Maori army will fall into the Hide family's encirclement. At that time, the ambushes will be all around, and Takakage Kobayakawa will stage a fishing wild ambush!

Who knows, the plan can't keep up with the changes.

On August 10th, Tensho Year 8, Hideyasu Togawa, the general of the front army, sent a message to the Hide family that the army had been defeated in Yuasa by the pioneers of Kobayakawa, Hirohei Mukunashi and Kageshigeru Tezata, and the most important bait for Yunobushi was gone!
Although the Xiu family had greeted Togawa Hidean in advance and asked him to slowly lead the army back to the ambush circle, they kept it secret and did not rule down to the ears of the rich.
But who would have thought that Kobayakawa's army was so fierce, after catching up with the palace army, they caught Togawa Hidean, who was outnumbered, and beat him fiercely.

Seeing that Ukita Hide's family had already retreated a day early, the powerful troops in charge of the rear should have been safe.As a result, he lost his fighting spirit within a moment of contact with Kobayakawa's army, and scrambled for their lives.

The Ukita army all over the mountains lost their formation and rushed along the ancient Sanyo road. After passing by the imperial leader, these defeated soldiers actually saw the Ukita Hideya team in a neat formation south of Kamegawa.

Although a little stunned, but in line with the human desire to survive, these defeated soldiers abandoned Jiangbei, which was not geographically blocked, and crossed Guichuan Wan, and Xiujia's team came here.

Then followed by Kobayakawa Takakage's 3000 pioneers. Due to the blocking of sight by the rout, they did not see Ukita Hideka's team in the rear.Also scrambling to cross Guichuan to attack.

Although the Xiu family was very reluctant, but the layout had deviated at this moment, they had to order the two cannons on the top of the mountain to fire at the Kobayakawa army at the foot of the mountain.

Then he ordered Hamoto, who was waiting in full battle, to rely on Kamegawa to advance from the right, and Kamichi to attack from the left, relying on Yashiro Mountain, leaving the center to the rout.

With the sound of cannons on Hachijo Mountain in Jiangbei, Toyama Bei, who was ambushing on Nanbaxun Mountain, was killed from the mountain, and directly attacked the vanguard led by the veteran Xiejing Shige at the foot of the mountain.

At the same time, the Toyama crowd ambushed in Jiangbei also descended from the Hachijo Rock, blocking the way for 4000 people from Kamibe, Hoida Motokiyo, the second formation of the Kobayakawa Army, to go to support the pioneers.

"The sound of the cannon is the signal!"

Gang Lisheng, who was lying in ambush in Zhuxun, clearly remembered the order of the Xiu family. With the sound of cannons on the Sanyang Ancient Road, Gang Lisheng quickly led 3000 fresh troops out of the Zhuxun Valley, and directly attacked Mao Li who was marching. The Huiyuan tribe launched a surprise attack.

Although there were only 3000 ambush soldiers, Xiujia asked them to plant two flags and march with more than double the flags, making the Maori army think that there were more than 5000 ambush soldiers.

At the same time, in order to deepen Mori Terumoto's credibility that this ambush is the main force, Hideka handed over 500 iron cannons and all the iron cannons in his home to Oka Toshi to strengthen the firepower of this ambush.

With the roar of hundreds of iron cannons, Mori Terumoto really thought that he had been ambushed by Ukido, and saw that the one who attacked him into the army was the elite reserve team directly under the Hideka.

"Damn it, we fell for it. This is Yuxi's elite. Get out, get out!" The panicked Hui Yuan couldn't control the 3000 pioneers and the 4000 Kobayakawa army who were already surrounded.

Although the elder Kumagai Nobu has always wanted to fight against the enemy, the governor Mori Terumoto has already led the banner people to retreat towards the god.

"My lord, the elite of my Kobayakawa army is still in the enemy's formation, retreating at this time is tantamount to trapping them in an injustice!" Kobayakawa Takakage said while holding Huiyuan's horse rope.

Takakage Kobayakawa would definitely not be able to abandon his troops like Huiyuan did. If he retreated with Huiyuan at this moment, then his 7000 army would completely lose its support and would collapse soon.Then his rule over Beihou would fall apart.

"Uncle, come with me. This is the main force of Ukita Hideo's family. Right now, the queue is too wide to command. Let's retreat to Yuno to complete the team. After the army is ready, we will fight again with the Ukita Hideo family in a dignified way." "Hui Yuan wanted to pull the rein of the horse from Long Jing's hand, but the rein was held in Long Jing's hand and remained motionless.

How could Long Jing believe Huiyuan's nonsense, I'm afraid he will directly retreat to God's side to make plans, and maybe take advantage of his damaged strength to suppress himself.

"Bang bang bang~" The sound of the iron cannons was getting closer and closer, and the ambushes led by Gang Lisheng attacked Huiyuan Mayin under the opening of 500 iron cannons.

"My lord, with a body of ten thousand gold, really shouldn't be in danger. Please give me 3000 troops and let me rescue Shiro, he is your uncle!"

Hearing the sound of iron cannons a hundred paces away, Long Jing finally gave up struggling, and asked Hui Yuan to support his 3000 troops to rescue the 4000 men commanded by Hoida. For the 3000 pioneers, Long Jing no longer had any hope.

It was the first time that Mao Li Huiyuan was riding a horse, and this was the first time he saw this wise man asking himself for help in such a low voice. Looking at Long Jing, who had broken his heart for the Mao Li family in the past two years and half of his head turned white, he still couldn't stop being so cruel to the old man. Nobuyuki Kumagai said

"Master Kumagai, I'll leave it to you." Nobunao Kumagai was a veteran of Motoji's time, and it can even be said that he grew up watching Takakage Kobayakawa, and it was the first time he saw such a proud child bowing his head to another person. , wanting to help Long Jing in his heart, so he said, "I obey."

Long Jing got the approval of Mori Terumoto, leaving Kumagai Nobunao to help him, and he immediately said to Kumagai Nobunao, "Please Kumagai Temple, please line up here to stop the progress of Uki's family. It only takes a quarter of an hour, and I will be able to kill Shiro." Rescue."

"Okay, please wrap it around me." After a brief exchange with Kobayakawa Takakage, Kumagai Nobunao called Sun Tzu Yuanzhi to his side and asked him to defend against the fence of the village at the imperial collar.

Takashi Kobayakawa took his team of 3000 to rescue Hoida Motokiyo who was caught in an anxious battle.

"Shiro, retreat quickly, the Uki family's ambushes are attacking from behind, the number of them is no less than 5000, Mr. Kumagai is helping us guard the back road," Takakage Kobayakawa who came to the front of the formation said to Motoki Hoida

Hoida Motoki pointed to the battle group on the south side of the Guijiang River 500 meters ahead and said, "Look, brother, I'm only 500 steps away, and I can rescue Lord Tezata and Master Muruna. That's 3000 Erlang."

Kobayakawa Takakage looked at the Pioneers who had been surrounded by nearly 4000 people from the Uki family, and even saw the black-and-white character on a blue background that only Hideka Hatamoto could use.

Long Jing, who had fought against Ukita Hideka, knew the strength of this standing army. Coupled with the flags in front of him wearing stone cakes and patterns, only 1500 people were holding back Hoida Yuanqing's 4000 people. , is second only to the elite of Hideka's banner pair—the Fushan group led by a group of Ukita interpreters.

Not to mention rescuing the vanguard, I'm afraid that the time will be too long, once Mr. Kumagai is defeated, his 1 troops will be completely surrounded on all sides.

Although Kobayakawa Takakage's heart was bleeding, he was extremely sober at the moment. He had abandoned all extravagant hopes and forced Yuan Qing to take the troops to withdraw, and his own direct-controlled troops would serve as the first army, and retreat while fighting.

At the beginning of the period, Kobayakawa's army, which was surrounded in the south of the Yangtze River, saw Kobayakawa Takakage's horse seal, and their morale began to pick up. They firmly believed that their lord would come to rescue them.

But they were wrong, Kobayakawa Longjing's horse seal gradually drifted away, and was finally blocked by the Uki family's children's character pattern, and they believed that they had been abandoned by Longjing.

Some samurai chose to launch a desperate charge against the Xiu family after losing their faith, while most peasant soldiers and samurai chose to put down their weapons and surrender honestly.

After all, they are all veterans of the Warring States Period. Whoever is not your retainer today will become his servant tomorrow.

Long Jing, who was preparing for battle with Toyama and retreated, did not realize something was wrong until he retreated to the imperial collar. At the beginning of the period, there were less than 3000 Ukita troops who retreated from their marching ranks to launch a surprise attack.

Hoida Motoki, who was one step ahead, even ordered the troops to carry out an anti-encirclement towards Ukita's army, preparing to eat the troops and recover the losses of this battle.

Seeing this situation, Long Jing thought of the 3000 soldiers he had abandoned on the battlefield, and remembered that Huiyuan refused to listen to his advice just now. If Huiyuan chooses to line up here to fight the enemy, he will fight steadily.

Even though the 3000 pioneers are still in danger, he believes that the Maori army will win the final victory.

Thinking of these two points, Long Jing was full of remorse for himself, and complained to Hui Yuan for the first time. The aggrieved emotions in his heart were accumulating, and finally his heart felt sweet, his heart ached, and his face flushed red. Hoida Motokiyo passed out in his arms.

Long Jing's fainting was tantamount to crushing the last straw of the Maori army, even though all plans were not dared to be carried out.Suida Yuanqing urgently ordered his retainers to form a whole team as the palace army to cover the retreat of the main force.

In the end, Oka Toshikatsu, with the support of Ukita's family, finally drove away the main force of the Maori army, bringing an end to this imperfect ambush.

Xiujia knew his details, and was afraid that the Maori army would attack again after they figured out the situation, so they ordered the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, and then arranged 500 people in each of Hachijo Castle and Namu Castle on the north and south sides of the Sanyang Ancient Road. Defensive, the main force retreated to Ogasamaru Castle for repairs, and waited for the autumn harvest before fighting.

The Hide family didn't know the situation of Kobayakawa Takakage at this time, so they chose to send it away more safely. On the other hand, there was chaos in Kamibe Castle, and the retainers invited the doctor Daojinbian from the castle town and even the more prosperous Fukuyama Castle to serve Kobayakawa Takakage diagnosis and treatment.

In fact, Longjing's symptoms are collectively referred to as myocardial infarction caused by high blood pressure in later generations, even in later generations it is a disease with a very high mortality rate.The first priority of first aid is bloodletting and decompression.

Of course, doctors in this era don't know this truth. With acupuncture and moxibustion first aid, they miraculously brought Long Jing back from the brink of death.It's just that Long Jing is still extremely weak at this moment.It is worthy to say the word "negotiation" weakly.

On August 8, Anguoji Huiqiong, who was a diplomatic monk of the Maori family, went into battle again and came to Ogasamaru Castle to meet Hideka.

"Foreign Minister Anguoji Huiqiong, pay homage to Ukita Bizenshou-sama."

"Get up, Master Hui Qiong is here to discuss peace. Tell me about the conditions of Longjing Hall." Sitting in the assessment room, Xiujia said, eating precocious persimmons.

Huiqiong didn't directly answer Xiujia's question, but asked rhetorically, "The two signed a peace agreement with June, but Bizenshu once again invaded after February. How do you make me believe in the credibility of Bizenshu?"

Xiujia laughed angrily at Huiqiong's words, threw the half-eaten persimmon to Ukita Xiuyi behind, wiped his mouth and said, "Master Huiqiong, what joke are you talking about? You and I were both at the scene when the contract was signed. What's on it?" Do I have to repeat the content? Did the Mori family abide by the treaty? Why do they still occupy our Oda family’s important cities such as Kameha, Saruka, Kamibe, and Fukuyama?”

Hui Qiong said without saying a word, "I heard that the Oda family was in great trouble, and the right mansion was begged to death by the retainers. Both Ukita hall and Hashiba hall led their troops back to defeat Zhizhi. It seems that there is no extra troops to garrison these cities. My Maori family Based on the principle of good-neighborliness and friendship, I will take care of these fortresses for Your Highness for a period of time, why Your Highness wants to attack me instead of writing a book?"

Huiqiong's meaning is very clear, I'm just temporarily occupying it, helping Xiujia to look at the land, preventing Otomo, Shimadzu, Changzong Gabu, Kono from crossing the sea to steal, your Xiujia not only didn't thank us, but also kept silent What's the point of coming to beat us?
"According to this, isn't it my Xiu family's? Then I will officially inform you now, how about quitting the 5 counties behind?" The Xiu family laughed angrily at Hui Qiong's logic.

"His Royal Highness wants unrighteous teachers to kill loving friends and neighbors, and now forces them to continue to cede territory, how can there be such a reason in the world." Anguo Temple Huiqiong choked at Xiujia.

"Master Huiqiong, you made a mistake. The five counties behind were originally agreed in the original agreement. Didn't you just say that you were looking after the city for the Oda family? Why is it now a ceded land?"

"Your Highness, please don't forget that the one who signed the agreement with my Mori family was His Highness Hashiba Harimamori, the head of the Oda clan's army, not Bizen Mori. Why do you want it?"

"The Qingzhou Council has agreed that Beizhong is a reward for me. Why can't I take it?"

The Xiu family got Hui Qiong a little information here. The Mori family must have heard about the internal meeting of the Oda family, but they should not know the specific arrangements in detail.Xiujia intends to use this to blur the relationship between Beizhong Quanling and Beizhong 15 shi.

Sure enough, Hui Qiong was fooled, thinking she had found a loophole in the Xiu family, and said with a smile, "The Cheongju Council only said to give His Royal Highness the right to control Beihou, but it didn't give you the 5 counties of Binhou."

Hideka pretended to be speechless for a while, and said after a while, "I am asking for the 5 counties on behalf of my father. You give it to me for now, and I will hand it over to the governor of Banzhou. You should hand over the 5 counties of Bingo quickly, or my father's heavenly soldiers will It will arrive in a few days, and then we will see how your Maori family resists!"

After hearing Xiu's threat, Hui Qiong didn't panic, and slowly pulled out a letter from her sleeve and said, "Here is a letter from the Governor of Banzhou, Your Highness, would you like to see it?"

The appearance of Hideyoshi's letter here was beyond the expectations of the Hideo family. He signaled his attendants to take the letter from Hui Qiong, and seeing the stamp on the letter, it was indeed from a monkey, so he opened it and read it carefully.

It turned out that after Hideya attacked Bichu, Kobayakawa Takakage, who received the message, immediately wrote to Hashiba Hideyoshi, confirming and asking Hideyoshi what it meant.

In his reply letter, Hideyoshi tried his best to appease Long Jing, explained the general situation of the Oda family after the Cheongju meeting, and stated many times that he had no intention of opposing the Mori family and further sending troops to the Mori family.

Moreover, Monkey promised in the letter that he would restrain the Xiu family and persuade the two parties to turn hostility into friendship.

Xiujia did receive a letter from Hideyoshi a few days ago, and the letter did not scold Xiujia. Monkey thought that Xiujia simply thought that after the end of the Qingzhou meeting, the situation of the Oda family would be stabilized, so he went back in a hurry to continue Act as the vanguard to attack Maori.

Therefore, in the letter, Houzi explained the current situation of the Oda family earnestly, and asked the Hide family to accept it as soon as it was good, and prepare to help him participate in the civil war of the Oda family.Perhaps the monkey was afraid that the letter would not be enough to explain the situation, so he sent Mitsunari Ishida to deliver the letter himself, and educated Hideyoshi orally.

Looking at the letter that Hui Qiong handed over, Hideka knew that the lie that the Hashiba army was behind him had been seen through by the other party, and also knew that with the arrival of Hideyoshi's letter, there was no chance to further expand the results of the war. Best chance yet.

Xiujia folded the letter again, returned it to Hui Qiong and said, "I understand what Father means, Master Hui Qiong, let me explain the conditions."

"Please return the captured Shishido Takashi, father and son, and the army, as well as the Maori family soldiers captured in the Yashiro Valley. The border between the two sides is the border of the Central Reserve, so how about stopping the army?"

Anguoji Huiqiong's conditions are quite satisfactory, but Hachijo Castle and Nagi Castle are both on the side of Bingo at the junction of Bichu and Bingo, and the border town of Bichu, Ogasamaru Castle, is still 1km away from the border. Home defense is really bad.

So Xiujia said, "Since the two families are at peace, returning the martyrs is of course the right thing to do. It's just that I want to get the two sides of the Sanyang Ancient Road that I want to occupy, with Hachijo and Hemingmu Castle as the fulcrum."

In fact, this condition is also difficult for the Mori family to accept, because once they lose these two fulcrums, the next fortress will be Kamibe Castle 3km away, which is farther than the Hide family's Ogasamaru Castle.

In the end, Huiqiong and Xiujia communicated, and Xiujia proposed to hand over the Henagi Castle and its surrounding 1500 shi territory closer to Bichu, while Hachijo Castle was controlled by Maori. Huiqiong accepted this condition after thinking about it.

After Yu Xiu's family signed and pledged, Hui Qiong brought the 2000 people captured by Xiu's family in Baxun Canyon back to God to report on the same day.

So far, Xiujia's Maori strategy has come to an end.

(End of this chapter)