Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 99 The Battle of Bianshan (Continued) Shibata's Rout
In Ozaki Castle, Sakuma Masayoshi was also listening to the army's report on the day's battle damage. The 5600 troops when they went into battle, after a day of battle, lost more than 1500 people.

The Shibata Katsumasa team on the side, because they underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, finally retreated under the cover of Sakuma Masayoshi, but the team had lost nearly half of the battle and had lost the possibility of continuing the battle.

Even so, Sakuma Shengzheng never thought about withdrawing the army, he replied to his younger brother Shibata Katsumasa and his uncle Shibata Katsuya

"After a fierce battle, Major General Yuchai did not see any reinforcements coming. I think Major General Yuchai should transfer his troops to other places. Our army should take this opportunity to break through Mushan City and encircle the strong Yuchai army in the Tangmu Mountain Pass. , then the war can be settled.”

Immediately, the Sakuma team was ordered to make repairs in place and wait for tomorrow to fight again.

As a result, just after the messenger returned to rule Shibata Katsuya with his reply, there was a military team to report: a team with torches was arranging on Tianshang Mountain, and the formation was endless.

Mofuu soon found out the report: the flag of the enemy army was the Yajiri Alisagata flag of the Yushiba family, and it should have been the Yushiba Hideyoshi team.

After receiving the news, Sakuma Masayoshi abandoned his last illusions, changed his order to pack the whole army overnight, and retreated from Ozaki Castle at dawn. "Quickly inform my uncle that Yuchai Hideyoshi has arrived at Jiyue. The army quickly organizes the supplies, and the wounded soldiers and corpses cannot be left behind and brought back."

It's just that the Yuchai army didn't do what he wanted. At 4:21 a.m. on April 3, the Yuchai Hideyoshi team climbed Mount Chausu and began to surround the Sakuma team.

The Sakuma Army, who had learned the news, began to retreat from Ozaki Castle. In order to ensure the safe retreat of the entire army, Sakuma Shengzheng sent all the scouts in his hands to monitor the movements of the Yuchai Army.

Soon the scouts came back from the direction of Mushancheng on the east side and reported that "Mushancheng Yukita's army has already entered the battle, and the target is the direction of our army, and the number is no less than 3000."

Although Sakuma Shengzheng and Shibata Shengzheng still had more than 5700 soldiers in battle, in order to ensure that more than 1200 wounded soldiers and all 2000 corpses were brought back, he needed to assign nearly 3500 people to help them transport them. , there are only more than [-] soldiers available.

Sakuma Shengzheng looked at Lang Dang who was either supporting each other or lying on a stretcher. He recalled that he was still alive and kicking on the mountain two days ago, and he felt guilty for the first time in his heart. He secretly vowed to take them away. Take it back to the Northland.

He called his younger brother Shibata Katsumasa aside and asked him to lead his own team back with the wounded and dead, while he led 3500 people to take charge of the rear.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, Ukita's army finally caught up with Sakuma who was in charge of the rear of the temple at Gongfa Temple Mountain.

Sakuma Shengzheng fought and retreated. The battle reached 7:[-] in the morning, and the two armies had reached the vicinity of Mount Sasa. At this time, Hideyoshi Hideba's team also climbed Mount Jiedake from Oiwa Mountain and began to rely on the mountain to move towards Mount Sasa.

Sakuma Shengzheng wanted to urge his younger brother to act quickly, but there were too many wounded soldiers and corpses, and it was difficult for the team to speed up on the mountain.

Finally, Shibata Katsumasa saw Maeda who came to his side with a plum bowl pattern.He knew that it was Maeda Toshiya's home, and he soon sent an envoy to send a message to Maeda Toshiba's family, hoping that he could help transport the bodies of the wounded and the dead.

Jiyue Mountain is not very big at first, and in the middle is the low-lying Yuwu Lake, so that even Maeda Toshiya who is in Mushan can see the vast military movement in the direction of Dayan Mountain.

Looking down the mountain along Yuwu Lake, there is also a team of Yuchai troops advancing along the valley of Guanyuan to the first Tangmu Mountain fortress. Seeing this scene, Maeda Toshiya knew that the Chaitian army had no chance of winning this battle, and was afraid that he would also The Maeda Toshi family, who was under siege, issued an order to his son Toshiichi Maeda to withdraw the army.

Shibata Katsumasa thought that seeing the Maeda Toshiya team, he waited for the savior, but he watched Maeda Jun turn and back away, looking at the plum bowl pattern who was far away, Shibata Katsumasa roared angrily.

Maeda Toshiya saw Hideyoshi Hideyoshi’s team going up the mountain in Mushan, and Sakuma Masayoshi in Sasayama naturally saw it. Sakuma Masayoshi, who knew what to do, didn’t care what promises he just made secretly, only Abandoned the team and joined Shibata Katsumasa, trying to escape back to the Hokuriku.

Seeing that the lord has retreated, the generals of the Sakuma army began to shake, and the Sakuma team, which had been fighting for two days, finally collapsed, and further triggered a "back collapse" (like an avalanche that caused a larger avalanche)

No matter how elite the soldiers of the Sakuma Army were before, they are now full of fear of death. No matter how suppressed their superiors are, they fled all over the mountains with Sasayama as the center.

Seeing that the victory had been locked, the Xiu family ordered, "The preparations will be repaired in place, and all the other preparations will be scattered to capture the prisoners and cut off their heads!"

At the same time, he ordered the army, "Don't let Sakuma Shengzheng run away, take away the head or 500 Shizhixing, and capture Sakuma's prisoner and reward Qianshi Zhixing!"

In the Yuxi Duo military system, in addition to the famous samurai who must cut off their heads to be certified for military merit, others can be replaced by cutting their left ears, and the Xiu family also stipulates that prisoners are certified half-level more than their heads. The purpose is to capture strong laborers, or Sent to the Mizuo Mountains to mine, or sent to Ezo to populate the population.

At this time, there will be no policy of treating prisoners well on the Japanese battlefield. The only way to certify military merit is the head. Therefore, many samurai choose to cut off the heads of those who have surrendered to report military merit. This is also the military disadvantage of the defeated side. The reason why the military heart is very easy to collapse.

But these are all strong labors on the military account. A little training is a new army. Sending them to the mines to drain the value is more beneficial than being cut off after surrendering on the battlefield.

After the Hide family rested here for about 10 minutes, Fukushima Masaaki, Kato Kiyomasa and others came to the Hide family and saw the Ukita Hide family who was already sitting on the horse.

I saw Fukushima is wearing a red deerskin with feet, wearing a hat with bear hair inserted on his head, and holding a long spear in front of the show's house.Fukushima Masaru glanced at the Hide family and seemed to have something to say, but in the end he didn't say anything, and rushed directly to the Sakuma Army with his troops.

Kato Kiyomasa stopped, greeted Yukita Hide's family, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Servant Hall."

The show family also nodded kindly to Kiyomasa Kato, who then led this episode to keep up with Masaru Fukushima and joined the team chasing Caitian Jun.

Shibata Shengjia saw the great defeat on Mount Jianyue and knew that the situation was over, and immediately led the team of less than 3000 banners to withdraw from the battlefield in embarrassment and fled to the North Village.

By 8 o'clock in the morning, the enemy army on Mount Kiyoshi had basically been eliminated, and Hideyoshi Yuchai won the final victory in the battle of Mount Kiyoshi. In this battle, Yuchai's army captured more than [-] heads of Shibata's family, and Shibata's family was broken.

By the time Shibata Katsuya fled to Kanazaki Castle, there were only a few hundred people left in the Shibata Katsuya team. When they found out that the city was under the control of Maeda Tosaka, Shibata Katsuya just arrived at the inner peace and sent an messenger to let Maeda Tosaka open the door and let him go. into the city.

At this time, Shibata Katsuya was sincerely happy for the Maeda Toshi family to retreat. In the battle of Jianyue, he was defeated very badly, and many retainers were killed. If Maeda Toshiya was able to retreat, he could be ordered to temporarily guard Kanazaki Castle. , and then compete with Hideyoshi for the world after he has reorganized his military power.

The messenger quickly took Kanazaki Castle's reply, returned to Shibata Katsu's house, and said, "Maeda Hall refuses to open the castle."

Shibata Shengjia, looking at the hundreds of exhausted soldiers around him, laughed at himself, "I have fought for the Youfu in [-] battles, and I have never lost a single battle. I didn't expect to fall in this battle with Bozhou. exhausted."

"Bring a sentence to the right and left for me, and said that I have worked hard for me before, and I am grateful to you. However, my martial arts have ended here, and the responsibility for the defeat lies with me. Now that the world has lost the general trend, I understand that I will make a decision with a single step, and I will make a single step. There is no need to be ashamed, it's just that I haven't eaten a mouthful of rice water since I came from Jianyue, can you please provide some for me to eat."

Shibata Katsuya didn't know at this time that Maeda Toshiya was directly in front of the Maoshan position and left the matter of Sakuma Masayoshi and Shibata Katsuma, thinking that Maeda Toshiya was just out of the normal state of the Warring States period, and when he saw his own weakness, he chose to surrender Hashiba Hideyoshi. , he generously expressed his understanding of this behavior.

Perhaps out of guilt, Maeda Toshiya went out of the city in person and handed the prepared tea and food to Shibata Katsuya, and the two had a conversation between the ruler and the minister under the Kanazaki Castle.

Seeing the guilt expression on Maeda Toshiya's face, Shibata Katsuya said comfortably, "Steps and Banzhou are close friends. If you want to come and surrender to Banzhou, Banzhou will definitely not treat you badly."

Seeing that he was at a loss after hearing this, thinking that he was doing it for the life of his daughter Moaji, Shibata Katsuya said, "As a samurai, you have performed very well in the Battle of Bianshan, and you don't need to feel guilty. Hostages I'll put it back, don't worry."

After saying that, Shibata Katsuya took the supplies, thanked Maeda Toshiya again, and then rode on horses to the North Village.

(The above content is recorded in history. From this perspective, Shibata Katsuya is a really good man and a gentleman! Maeda Toshiya is nothing compared to him. It’s a pity that xx has not lived long since ancient times.)
　So far today, no more.everyone can sleep

　　
　
(End of this chapter)