Pillars of the Wu family

() "It's not that simple! What our family is really worried about is the Liujia family on the other side. Once Nakao Castle is in crisis, Liujia Yixian will definitely not wait to die. Eight thousand Liujia troops cross the north and join the children of the Kira family. It's difficult! It's a bit difficult to fight against 5000 people with an army of [-] from my family, and my brother can't mobilize more troops for a while, so my family can only have a chance of winning if we join forces with Sun Xiangshou."

Shihe Yicun's military strategy is not bad. Before leaving, it has been calculated that the gap between the two armies is not big. Eighteen thousand vs. fifteen thousand is not safe. What's more, there are three thousand Xichuan troops in Zhongwei City. This is an army that wants to defeat Miyoshi's family one by one.

Sanuki Mutai City Lord God Neijingzhi asked suspiciously: "But why didn't Liujiao Yixian just cross the river and join Kira's army? Isn't it possible to directly oppress our side?"

Shihe Yicun laughed and said: "Of course Liujiao Yixian can't do this! How can such a cunning person as Liujiao Dinglai take the initiative to change the situation of the battle? Don't forget your brother's evaluation, the Liujiao family only does things to follow suit , who will never take the risk of charging ahead!"

Seeing the sudden realization of his retainers, he went on to say: "Of course, this is only part of the reason. The biggest reason is that I don't want to leave a gap and let my brother seize the opportunity. Kita Omi on the north bank of the Uji River, once faced with the fall of the Sakamoto Imperial Palace, , not only will the little general on the mountain be scared out of Zhongwei City, but Liujiao Yixian will also face the situation that his return route will be cut off, so he will not take the risk of crossing the river. The real decisive battle is still very early!"

On the other side across the river, Yoshitoki Kira and Tokiyuki Yamamoto’s discussions were similar to Kazukun’s statement. Yoshitoki Kira frowned and said: “Actually, you can also receive some annual tribute for the summer harvest. It looks like a few thousand stones! But this is far from enough! There are still two months before the end of the autumn harvest, and the real decisive battle has to wait."

"Yes! The Liujiao family can only send 2 reinforcements because of lack of food, and the Miyoshi family can only send [-] reinforcements at a time because of lack of food. Speaking of which, the family still took advantage, and the two counties of Shiga Takashima did not care about the cost. Mobilize and organize an army of [-] shi, and even if they wait until the autumn harvest, there will not be much more than this number." Tokiyuki Yamamoto is familiar with the actual situation of grain and grass, and Kira's family currently only has [-] shi of grain in storage, which is the old grain left over from the autumn harvest last year. , only enough food and grass for seven thousand troops to eat for more than three months.

"This kind of confrontation is a waste of food!"

Tokiyuki Yamamoto asked: "Isn't it a waste of food to train in Sakamoto?"

"That's different!"

"What's the difference? It's all training soldiers to eat food, and now you can also train soldiers."

"...It seems very reasonable! Then use these two months to continue training!" Yoshitoki Kira was finally persuaded and gave the order to continue training.

So the long confrontation began at the end of June. Yoshitoki Yodogawa ordered the fishermen under the jurisdiction of the Yodogawa family to hang around the river near the Miyoshi family every day, with the purpose of monitoring the movements of the Miyoshi family. These fishermen fixedly cast nets on Kamogawa every day. The Miyoshi family is highly vigilant, the Miyoshi family pays close attention to the movement on the river, and even sends warriors to arrest a few fishermen for interrogation, and concludes that they are indeed fishermen.

Therefore, every time the fishermen who come to fish will be driven away by the samurai of Miyoshi’s family in small boats, and these fishermen will run back and continue casting nets after the samurai return. It is said that this kind of annoying thing makes Miyoshi very angry. The samurai in the family were annoyed, and even the fishermen who came to sell fresh fish were rejected. Hattori ninja took the opportunity to pretend to be a vendor selling fruits, vegetables and salted fish, and successfully sneaked into the camp to spy on information.

Having one eye embedded in the camp of Shihe Yicun also made Kira Yoshishi feel at ease, but there are great mysteries in the seemingly unimportant news.

Hattori Baochang said one by one: "On the second day of the seventh month, ten rivers will be stored in the big tent to feast the officials, and the ape musicians of the Yamato Kingdom will help the fun until the third watch."

"On July [-]th, Shihe Yishou held an eagle hunt at the southern foot of Tianwang Mountain. Miyoshi Kang Jun accompanied him on the hunt, and returned to the camp on July [-]th."

"Running to the edge of Katsuryuji City to hunt eagles? This guy really doesn't care about his family!" Kira Yoshishi felt annoyed and funny. Ten thousand against seven thousand dared to be so careless, saying he had no brains. It is absolutely impossible, ten rivers and one deposit running to hunt has nothing to do with the tight defense of the camp on the other side of the river.

"Who else in the opposite camp accompanied Shihe Yicun to participate in the falcon hunting?"

"No! Shihe Yicun rushed to Shenglong Temple City with only two hundred cavalry banners, and did not bring any retainers to follow."

"That is to say, this is a play?" Ji Liangyishi understood after a little thought, and secretly said: "What a family of three good people! What a family of ten rivers and one deposit, not only showing an attitude of looking down on the family, but also secretly testing the family's strength Attitude? Three good brothers and four brothers are tough and ruthless!"

He originally thought that this "Ghost Ten River" was just a muscular brat, who would have thought that he could play tricks, if he hadn't had a source of information, he would have been deceived by him, and Ji Liangyi got up and walked back and forth After a few laps, he ordered: "Continue to keep an eye on Shihe Yicun for me, and report in time if there is any situation!"

"I have another piece of information to report. The two thousand Yamashiro people led by Ise Zhenxiao are very special. They are arranged in the westernmost part of the camp. After observing that the discipline of the Yamashiro people is the worst and the morale is the lowest, I quietly found out Near the big tent of Ise Sadaka, I found that his defense is very lax, do you want to?" Hattori Baochang made a head-cutting motion.

"No need! You just need to keep an eye on Shihe Yicun!" Ji Liangyi thought for a moment before rejecting this proposal. Killing him now will not help the situation in any way, on the contrary it will cause unnecessary trouble .

"Yes!" Hattori Baochang quietly retreated.

Because there are too few sailors subordinate to the Kira family, just releasing the fishermen under the Yodogawa family has made the Miyoshi family raise their vigilance, and it also shows from the side that it is not time to use the Yodogawa family. The wave's situation was finally broken. Miyoshi's samurai often rode their horses on the other side of the river to provoke, as if intending to arouse the anger of Kira's army, but their performance was really clumsy. .

It may be that the performance of these samurai was too bad. In short, there has been no scolding since then. Shihe Yicun is still drinking and banqueting. When he despised Kira Yoshitoshi, he said that he was just a Mikawa child, and such words were not worth mentioning. This kind of words quickly spread to Kira Yoshitoki's ears. Mikawa Samurai jumped out angrily to ask for a fight. Cursing ten rivers and one existence without mentioning anything else.

In order to appease the impatience of his subordinates, Yoshihiro Kira presented evidence to persuade them: "According to investigations, the military of the Miyoshi family is rigorous and unslack, and the three thousand and four kingdoms under its command are powerful, and they will not let the four reserve troops of the family , This is a trap, in order for the family to take the initiative to attack the trap, the first movers will definitely show their flaws."

"That's right! Your Highness Kira is right! Let's wait!" Kuchiki Fujitsuna quickly responded.

Yise clenched his fists tightly and roared angrily: "Damn it! Just wait like this? After a long time, morale will definitely be affected!"

"Training! Strengthen training from now on!" Tokiyuki Yamamoto came up with his own solution: "Tough training, shameful lessons, morale will definitely be maintained!"