Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 98
Shibata Katsuya did not know that the Hideyoshimoto team had left Nagahama, so he believed that Sakuma's actions were extremely dangerous.But sometimes it just so happens that Hideyoshi Hideyoshi's departure turns Sakuma's raid into an extremely effective tactic.

The Yuchai army in history almost collapsed under the raid of Sakuma Shengzheng. If the dead monkey stepped on the shit luck and rushed to the Sakuma Shengzheng army, which had already begun to pursue the remaining enemy, the ending of the battle of Jiyake would have been. rewrite.

The Hide family is of course afraid of such a thing happening. For him, as long as he can delay Hideyoshi's return, it is a victory.

Hide's house is only 4-5 towns and about 600 meters away from Nakagawa Kiyoshi Honjin in a straight line. However, due to the ups and downs of the mountains, Qinglongbei, who was the pioneer pair, still walked for 30 minutes before reaching the foot of Dayanshan Mushan Castle.

At this time, it was nearly 7 o'clock, the Zhongchuan Army in the city had been supporting for almost 3 hours, and the situation was on the verge of collapse.

There is a very strange point here, as Takayama Ukin, who is also Settsu, would not dare to support him because of Shida.But Sangshan Shigeharu, who was behind Nakagawa Qingxiu's side, was there to cover Nakagawa Ujino and the village.

However, judging from the route of Sakuma Shengzheng's raid, Kuwayama Shigeharu did not resist or warn.Even after Sakuma Shengzheng began to launch a surprise attack on Nakagawa Qingxiu, the messenger that Nakagawa Qingxiu once sent to Sangshan Shigeharu for help was like a stone sinking into the sea.

Sakuma Shigeharu's operation revealed a different political flavor. Even after Sakuma Shengzheng defeated Nakagawa Qingxiu's main team, he did not attack Kuwayama Shigeharu at the end of the mountain, but went down directly from Dayan Mountain, and the attack was on Yuchai. The Takayama Ujin team, which is close to Xiuchang.

If Sangshan Shigeharu supports Nakagawa Qingxiu from the rear in time, with Nakagawa Qingxiu's ability, he will never retreat like history.

(Glorious deserves to be a game made by Christians, but the ass is really crooked, Gao Shan's close record is so high, and Nakagawa Qingxiu is so low.)
The Qiu Shang Jiu family team climbed a hillside and came to the foot of the Mushan City. At this time, the Mushan City was surrounded by the Sakuma army. The team members hold bows and arrows behind them, bending bows and arrows.

"Shoot!" Following the order of the Akigami Hisa family, the iron artillery team in the front row fired at the outermost Sakuma army. "Crackling~!"

The sound of the iron cannon was the command, "Shoot!" The bow-handling squads behind the bows and arrows also released the bows in their hands under the orders of the captains of each team. forward.

"The enemy is behind you, follow me!" The Sakuma army who was hit, led by a samurai, tried to turn around and charge towards the Ukita army.

The mountain situation became the best bunker for the Yuxi Duo army. The iron artillery team calmly loaded and fired again, and completed two shots within 1 minute, while the bow reserve team behind it fired 6 rounds of arrows.

Seeing that the enemy had already reached the 20-step position in front of him, Qiu Shang Jiu's family ordered the members of the reserve team to put away their iron guns and bows and charge forward with guns.

The well-trained Yuxi Duo Standing Team followed the whistle of changing the charge formation. Both the Iron Cannon Reserve Team and the Bow Reserve Team put their long-range weapons behind their backs, picked up the long spear that had just been inserted to the side, and charged towards them. The former Sakuma army.

The two troops collided at the top of the big rock in the north of Jiyue Mountain. The mountain was undulating and was not suitable for arranging guns. In this narrow terrain, Yuxi Duojue used a 2-person team as the basic combat unit and a 5-person combat team as the basic combat unit. The battle relay cooperates with each other to effectively kill the Sakuma army who are fighting each other.

5 minutes later, Suzaku Bei, led by the second formation of the Gaoshan clan of Yuxiduo, climbed Osaki Mountain on the side of Yuwu Lake and attacked the Sakuma army from the side. This was only to surround the wood mountain castle and rushed forward too deep. The army was repelled under the attack from both sides, and Yuxi Duo gained access to the Zhongchuan army in the city.

After receiving the task of entering the city to assist in the garrison, 1500 people in the city quickly rushed to the castle and asked the defenders in the city to open the city. The old Matsuzaki Takao, who was under Nakagawa Qingxiu's subordinate, quickly came to confirm that the friendly army was behind, and finally put Oka Risheng into the city.

When Oka Rikatsu saw Nakagawa Qingxiu, he was already shot with an iron cannon and was carried by his retainers to the Honmaru Palace for repair.Now that Gang Lisheng arrived, he simply handed over the command of the garrison to the elder of the Yuxi family.

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When Shengzheng Sakuma launched the raid, it was when the mist was permeating the mountain. Unlike the generals on Yuchai's side, who couldn't figure out what was different, the Shibata Katsuya in the north of the mountain combined with the situation that the city was empty. He quickly realized that it was Sakuma Shengzheng who disobeyed the order and launched a surprise attack on the Yuchai army.

Although Shibata Katsuya has the heart to kill Sakuma Shengzheng at this moment, but at this moment he has to send the arrow on the string, so he has to order the whole army to fight.

The first group was led by Kanamori, who approached the vanguard and launched an attack on the fence between the garrison Tangmu Mountain and Dongye Mountain;

Order Bu Po Xiaoguang to climb Mount Higashino to restrain Hori Hidezhengjun's movements;
Ordered the former Chang Lai to be responsible for containing Kimura Dingji on the right-wing Tangmu Mountain;

Order Maeda Toshika to rely on the mountain to move to the west of Mt. Domori and attack Kimura Seiji, who is guarding Mt. Domori, from the side;

The generals of Shibata received the order and began to move quickly.

The Yuchai Army was slack for a long time, and the two armies fell into a hard battle as soon as they took over the battle. The first direction was also in charge of the right wing, and it was easier for Hori Hidemaa to retreat twice.Attempt to send reinforcements to Toshihisa Kinoshita at the foot of the mountain.

Kinoshita Toshihisa was facing the Shibata Army's elite troops, the Kitagashi. This troop was the core force to guard Echizen and resist the invasion of Honganji when the Asakura family was subordinate. Strongly armed.

However, when facing the Shibata Katsuya attacking the Asakura family, this armament chose to abandon its lord, so its strength was retained, and now it is under the control of Kanamori Nagami, the city of the Great Holy Temple.

Kinoshita Toshihisa could only rely on two fences to resist steadily, and sent messengers to ask for help to Kimura Singji and Hori Hidemasa on both wings.

However, Kimura Singji, who was in charge of defending the left wing of Domori Mountain, did not receive any decent offensive. The front of the former Changlai seemed to just want to involve Kimura Dingji, and did not launch a decent attack on Domori Castle.

And Maeda Toshiya, who was responsible for flanking and flanking, was stagnant after occupying the main peak of Tangmu Mountain, and Kimura, who was no longer on the mountainside, attacked.

In fact, from the perspective of future generations, if the former Nagaurai and Maeda Toshiya work together to defeat the Kimura Singi team, then the first line of defense of the Yushiba family will break, and Hori Hidemaa and Kinoshita Toshihisa must retreat.

As the connection point between the second team and the first team, Takayama Ujin has already abandoned his position and moved closer to Tiangami Shan Yuchai Hideyoshi, so Kimura Seji and Kinoshita Toshihisa, who are the former Yuchai team, will inevitably fall into the encirclement of Sakuma's grand administration. Perhaps only Hori Hidemasa, who was on the right side of the mountain, was able to retreat smoothly.

At this time, even Hideyoshi Yuba felt that the situation was powerless.

History is so interesting, there are not so many possibilities and certainties.

Maeda Toshiya's stagnation caused Shibata's army to lose the only fighter plane. According to Maeda Toshiya's own statement later, the order he received was only to ensure the retreat of Sakuma Masayoshi, and he did not receive an order to attack Kimura Singji.

Do you believe this?
In any case, the internal contradictions of Shibata's army created time for the Yuchai army's counteroffensive.

On Oiwa Mountain Mushan Castle, the Ukita Army encountered the strongest enemy since its founding. The Sakuma Army, with more than 5000 people, was tenacious. The Ukita Army, who came to the rescue, launched an attack.

Unlike history, due to the rapid source of reinforcements, the Nakagawa army quickly recovered from the chaos, and the depressed morale also recovered. Taking advantage of the terrain in Kimura Castle and the Sakuma army fought back and forth.

The chaos outside the city continued until 10 am. After all, the Sakuma army, which was outnumbered, began to show fatigue. Sakuma Shengzheng had to suspend the offensive, and the troops retreated to Ozaki Castle, which had been raided earlier, to rest temporarily.

At the same time, 2500 people behind him who were in charge of monitoring Kuangshan Shigeharu's younger brother, Shibata Katsumasa, were dispatched to contain more than 2000 Yukita troops outside the city, while he attacked Mushan City with all his strength.

In the northern part of the mountain, Shibata Katsuya saw that the frontal battlefield could not make a breakthrough, and Sakuma, who was in charge of the assault, did not return to report the results. Shibata Katsuya, who was worried about the safety of his adopted son and nephew, finally sent to Oiwa Mountain to ask Sakuma to retreat. messenger.

The messenger came to Ozaki Castle controlled by Sakuma. Sakuma Shengzheng and his younger brother Shibata Katsutoyo had just discussed the afternoon offensive. Facing his uncle Shibata Katsuya's persuasion, he turned a deaf ear and forced the troops to carry out the afternoon raid as planned.

Sakuma Shengzheng believed that at this time, he was already riding a tiger, and he disobeyed the military order and led the Shibata family's heirs to raid Oiwa Mountain and could not achieve the victory. Continue to attack the Yuchai army in the afternoon.

He didn't know that the chance for him to retreat calmly at last disappeared.

The show family also took advantage of this time to take the flag and the squire team into the wood mountain castle, and saw the injured Nakagawa Qingxiu. Can only see himself.

It is a pity that in this era, penicillin has a long preparation time and a low success rate. Even if it is successfully prepared, it is difficult to save and cannot be widely used in people.

The show family appreciates Qingxiu Nakagawa's ability. If he can make him owe his kindness to Yuxi Dao and stand by his side during the battle of Guanyuan, it can also increase his chances of winning.

After the operation, Nakagawa Qingxiu could no longer bear the fatigue and fell asleep. As a result, the command of the 3500 Nakagawa troops in the city was handed over to the commander of Yuxi Duoxiu's family (hereinafter collectively referred to as Yuxi Duojun).

At 3:50 pm, after the noon break, the two armies once again formed a battle on Dayan Mountain. The Yuxi Army and the Sakuma Army were separated by [-] steps. They started shooting each other.

The Sakuma Army had more than 5000 people, more than 600 iron cannons, 2500 Shibata Katsutoyo team, more than 300 iron cannons, but on this mountain, the number of iron cannons could not be spread out, so they hit 900 iron cannons and lined them up. In three sections, shoot at Yuxi Duo's army.

The firepower of the three-stage strike is not infinitely connected, but in the first 15 seconds, a large number of projectiles were poured into the Yuxi Duo army, so that the Yuxi Duo army just went out to form hundreds of people fell, the army was defeated, and the remnant army retreated. Inside Mushan Castle.

Of course, the Hide family was not one to sit still. They gathered 500 iron cannons in their hands and handed them over to the Takayama clan, whose manpower remained relatively intact. They went out from the back door and formed an array on the flank of Maruyama, and launched a confrontation with the Sakuma army.

The other main force, relying on the terrain in the city, covered the Sakuma army with bow and arrow fire.Blind defense is meaningless. The Hide family will use the United States as the main force, and prepare 3 raid troops with a scale of [-] people to launch a counter-charge against the Sakuma army outside the city at any time.

Soon the fighters paid for it. Due to the disadvantage of the number of iron cannons, more than half of the iron cannons attached to the right wing Suzaku were killed or injured. The Gaoshan clan had to order the reserve team to retreat, and Shibata Shengzheng, who was in charge of the enemy's left wing offensive, thought that the Yukita army was about to run away. He quickly commanded his reserve team to catch up.

As a result, he was trapped in the cross fire between Mushan City and Suzakubei. Shibata Katsutoyo attempted to charge the former Suzakubei, but the 1500-man (reinforced 500 iron gunners) reserve team that he drove was already more than 20. [-]%, just need to add another fire to defeat it.

As a result, Suzakubei's perseverance exceeded his imagination, and the Xiu family also dispatched 1000 Nakagawa troops out of the back door in time to support Suzakubei, who had entered hand-to-hand combat with Shibata's army.

Shibata Shengfeng, who was in a hard fight, was surrounded by people from two directions, and behind him was the Ukita army on the head of Mushan Castle pouring arrows on him.Shibata Katsutoyo, who was gradually unable to support it, wanted to retreat and reorganize his troops.

On the other hand, Sakuma Shengzheng, who was in charge of attacking Mushan Castle, also found his younger brother's dilemma, and dispatched 600 people to try to support his younger brother. A gap appeared in Sakuma's formation.

Yukita's family quickly ordered the city gates to be opened, and Oka Risho led 1000 Meizuo to rush out of the city for the first time, to break up the Sakuma troops who were attacking the city, and the Nakagawa Army organized 800 people as the second formation to widen the gap.

The remaining 500 American soldiers and Qinglong soldiers were mixed together to attack as the third group.If possible, move directly from the gap to the right wing to block Shibata Shengfeng's retreat, and cooperate with Suzaku to prepare to encircle Shibata Shengfeng.

The timing of Yukita's family selection was very good, and the Sakuma Castle was suddenly opened.

The battle continued from 3:[-] p.m. until the sun went down. Sakuma Shengzheng, Shibata Katsutoyo, and Ukita Hideka did not get any benefit from either side. After the sun went down, both sides retreated to Mingjin.

After a day of fierce battle, only 2300 of the 1600 members of Nakagawa Kiyoshi's team were left. Hideyoshi gave 2000 people to the Tsutsui Shunqing Army, who was temporarily under his control. Due to the defeat of Ozaki Castle, there were only less than 1000 people left, and 1200 of the 1000 wealthy clansmen were left with [-] people. about.

Has basically lost the ability to fight.

There are more than 700 members of Yuxi's own team, the remaining more than 800 people in Qinglong, and more than 100 people in Suzaku, and more than 1300 people in iron cannons.

The 4000 Yuxi Duo army that went out in the morning only had more than 3000 soldiers left at night.

(The above figures are combat attrition, including combat deaths and injuries, not simply the number of combat deaths)
Out of desperation, the Hide family could only order 1000 people from Akashi Jing, who was stationed in Iwasaki Village, to call in to take advantage of the night.

Of course, the Hide family believed that the Sakuma army on the opposite side must not feel very well. Both sides were elites, so the number of casualties should be similar to that of Yukita's army. Both sides were licking their wounds to prepare for the next day's battle.

It's just that the Hideba Hideyoshi team turned quickly from Ogaki Castle and reached the south of Kiyake at midnight on the 20th, and Niwa Nagahide, the lord of Wakasa, also led 3000 people to the southern part of Kiyake behind Kuwayama Shigeharu.

Almost at the same time, Yukita Hide's family in Kiyama Castle and Sakuma Shengzheng in Ozaki Castle received the news that Hideyoshi Hideyoshi had come to Jiyake.Shibata Katsuya once again sent a messenger to Sakuma Morimasa to demand the withdrawal of the troops.

At the same time, he ordered Maeda Toshiya Oiyama, who was originally in charge of flanking Kimura Singji, to rush to cover the retreat of the raiding troops.

So far, Maeda Toshiya, who had been sitting on the top of the top of the mountain for a day, ordered the team to take a break and then move towards Oiwa Mountain.

Masayoshi Sakuma, who had understood the possibility of no change in the situation, ordered his troops to pack their bags. He had planned to withdraw at dawn on April 4.

Just how could Hideyoshi Hideyoshi allow you Sakuma Shengzheng to retreat calmly? At the first moment of arriving at Jiyue, he ordered Yukita Hide's family, Kuwayama Shigeharu, Niwa Nagahide, Nakagawa Qingxiu to surround Ozaki Castle and delay Sakuma Shengzheng's withdrawal. He will lead his team of more than [-] people to keep up.

(End of this chapter)