Pillars of the Wu family

Seeing Xiaodao Zhizhen's complacent spirit, and looking at his appearance as a bastard genius, Terajima couldn't help asking with a sullen face: "I'm curious why His Highness Zhizhen calls himself His Highness, and calls the Lord His Highness Shenbao?" ? Could it be that His Royal Highness Zhizhen thinks he is so prosperous when he stands next to the big tree, forgetting us fellow warriors who have lived a hard life?"

"Because I have already surrendered to the Kira family, and gained the power of Fire Miyagi, one of the Etsuchu priests of the Kira family is serving as the deputy assistant of the Etsuchu Echihide Okuma Asohide..." Kojima Shizhen laughed Hehe said: "By the way, by the way, I would like to present an important message to you gentlemen. Before coming down here, I just returned from Echizen Ichijo Valley Castle. I was ordered by Uesugi Seden to make an agreement with His Highness Echizen Asakurazaemon Governor, and agreed Let's divide up Kaga Ichikomune's power with Tetorigawa as the boundary."

The scene suddenly became very quiet. All the samurai present understood what this short sentence meant. The hatred between the Asakura family and the Kaga Issato clan was too deep to be expressed in words. The two families have been entangled for 60 years. Together, there is always a tug of war between Echizen and Kaga.

But because the strength of the Ichimuzong is really strong, as early as decades ago, a group invaded Echizen and established a group of officials. Most of Honganji's decrees fell on deaf ears. There have been many records of Kaga Ichikomune killing envoys sent by Ishiyama Honganji.

For example, Sakai Shinzongji's "Secretary Notes" records an amazing incident on April 1556, the second year of Hongzhi (26). This year, the Asakura family's offensive momentum was greatly reduced due to the death of Asakura Zongdi. At the beginning of April, Shishan Neither the Honganji nor the Echizen Asakura family intends to continue the war.So the envoys from both sides ran back and forth to discuss and conclude a peace agreement.Just when the two sides were about to sign an agreement on the truce and withdrawal of troops.Koyoshi Choshoji, the chief general of the Echizen Ichiko sect, poisoned Shimoma Reiyan, the envoy of Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

Because the envoy in charge of the negotiation was suddenly killed, the peace negotiations between the Asakura family and Ishiyama Honganji almost collapsed. Asakura Keiji wished he could swing a sword and hack Chaoshoji Jiaofang to death, but this barbarian monk was really shrunk. Don't show your head, the Buddhist master Honganji who lives in Kinai seems to know that his envoy has been killed again, his expression is so wonderful and wonderful.

It's just such a group of bastard barbarians who are Fatian. In fact, Ishiyama Honganji doesn't like it very much, but the temptation of Hokuriku is too great.It is big enough to make Honganji seem to be the scapegoat for these savage monks, and more than half of the bad evaluation of the Ichiko sect from the outside world is caused by this group of Kaga Ichikoi.

Uesugi Masatora's proposal was obviously inspired by Yoshitomo Kira, and it was a big deal to agree with the Asakura family to share Kaga together, but Jinbao Chief was not intimidated by it, and his mind was extremely fast. He started and said calmly: "Sharing Kaga together is probably an excuse for the Lord of the Town and the main hall. As far as I know, the target of the Kira family's attack has never been in the direction of Hokuriku. If you want to conquer Hokuriku with the strength of Lord of the Town Dao, the country of Vietnam and China will not wait until now to do it!"

"His Highness Gongfang and the main hall's thoughts, I really dare not speculate. If His Highness Shenbao thinks this is the case, then so be it!" Xiaodao Zhizhen smiled and continued: "As a former minister, I would like to advise His Highness Shenbao , Surrendering the Lord of the Town will still have a place for the Shenbo family. I am afraid that following the Kaga Ichikozong will be more or less fortunate. Please make early plans so as not to miss this good opportunity, and don’t spend more than a hundred years for the Kaga Ichikozong A hard-earned family business." [

Shinbo chief knew that Kojima probably thought of him as undeterred towards Kaga Ichimune, so he said something more. From here until now, he has repeatedly talked about it, and he did not hesitate to violate the law to reveal the truth to Shenbao chief. The long-term position, the kindness and righteousness of the monarch and his ministers for decades cannot be given up in a single game. It is indeed well-intentioned that Xiaodao Zhizhen is willing to take risks to relieve him.

Thinking of this, Chief Jimbo nodded gratefully and said, "Thank you, Your Highness Kojima, for your reminder, our family will seriously consider it!"

"So farewell!" Kojima Zhizhen handed over the paperwork and bowed before getting up and leaving.

Terashima said suspiciously: "My lord! Xiaodao Zhizhen's attitude is very strange! If he would never have been so talkative before, is there any fraud in it?"

"It's not fraudulent, but he is helping the family at the risk of violating the law!" Shenbao Chief Chief sighed: "It seems that it is time to make a decision!"

There is less rain in Yuezhong this year. The storm in July stopped for half a month, and then it was sunny for a month and a half. The red sun scorched the earth and evaporated the moisture that fell for many days. In summer, a sunny day can withstand the heat of April and May, and the sunshine time is so long that you will be sweating profusely if you walk outside for a while.

At the beginning of September, Etsuchu had already entered the autumn harvest, and Chaosheng Temple Misho planned to take advantage of the opportunity of Kira Army's distraction to give Zengshan Castle a full blow, and the re-raised army was more than 600 people. Sugiura Genren's ability to catch strong men is extraordinary. In just a few days, he has collected more than 1 strong men, and if he is given a few more days, he may be able to gather [-] men.

Therefore, Kaga has always advertised an army of 12 to the outside world, but only 3000 troops were actually used. The other [-] people were divided into various cities and villages to monitor the streets to resist the Kira army going south. Hokan, as an important point on the west bank of the Wada River, his role is to protect the road from being blocked by the Kira Army, and the nationals under the post of Jinbochang are scattered in various villages in the Tonami Plain as eyeliners. Sitting in the Dongbaokan, the head of Shenbao provides information.

To be honest, this layout is very rigorous and can be called rigorous. It is absolutely impossible for a master of military strategy to come up with such a set of detailed layout. If the tiger really came south, if he was not careful, he would be delayed by such a dense army of [-] troops.

If you take into account the hatred of the Vietnamese Chinese who have lost their territory towards the Kira family, then this tactic is likely to evolve into a sea of ​​people tactic similar to the vast ocean. If many people are familiar with the terrain, as long as they harass along the way, they can hold back the Kira army going south. Uesugi Masatora swept thousands of troops like a sweeping sweep, but his sweep will eliminate all the suddenness of the main force's southward tactics. At that time, Chaosheng Temple can calmly turn around and cross the river to reorganize the army and wait for a good raid. It becomes an encounter.

On September [-]th, the Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Autumn Festival, Kaga, who has always been ignorant of elegance, set out on the morning of that day, and a large army of [-] came to the Senkoji Ferry to cross the river, spending nearly a morning's time. It took more than half of the [-] troops to send over. When the remaining [-] troops were on the west bank of Zhuangchuan, they suddenly stopped crossing the river, and the remaining [-] troops camped on the other side of the Zhuangchuan river.

Chaoshengsi Mizhao always felt a little panic in his heart. Although he is a Buddhist, he is not an eminent monk who is proficient in Buddhist scriptures, but a warrior who has never believed in fate. The reason why he stayed here sounds absurd. He just wanted to reassure himself. A few Buddhist names muttered to themselves: "It is a waste if 5 people can capture Zengshan City and go to 5. It is meaningless if [-] people cannot capture Zengshan City and go to [-]."

This move of his frightened some people. The samurai sent by the Jinbao family hurried back to Dongbaokan and reported: "Kaga has always been crossing the river with only 5 troops. The [-] army has not yet crossed the river, but chose to camp on the west bank of Zhuangchuan and stand still."

Shui Yue Shengzhong asked nervously: "What is he going to do? Did he catch some wind? Will it be bad for us?"

Shen Baochang was also very nervous, but he couldn't say anything frustrating, and forced a smile to comfort him: "Probably not, if Chaoshengji Mishao knew our plan, he would either lead the army directly to Dongbaokan, or Recruit the family into the formation and detain it, and our strategy will naturally fail." [

It is also understandable that the Shenbao retainers suspect Chaoshoji Mitsuru's abnormal behavior. It is a fatal thing for him to hook up with Uesugi Masatora. I'm not sure how much the Kira family can support them. It would be a big loss if they abandoned their own family.

Worse still to come, Sugiura Genren led an army of [-] people to Yuancheng Temple to set up the main formation, Korinji Hideo, Anyangji Ryotoshi, and Motoji Junxing each led an army of [-] people to stay behind. In Gancheng Temple, and only his own [-] troops launched an attack on Zengshan Castle, this arrangement made Shen Baochang very confused.

Sugiura Gento's 600 army did not cause too much trouble to the [-] defenders in Masuyama Castle. They attacked again and again and retreated again and again. It took until evening to attack for five or six rounds with less than [-] casualties. Then Sugiura Gento led With the army swaggeringly withdrawing from Yuancheng Temple to rest, when the head of the Jinbao thought that today's war was about to end, Yuancheng Temple poured out [-] troops to attack Zengshan Castle in a swarm. Si Lejun and Motoji Zhunxing joined forces to besiege Zengshan City.

Although the military strategy level of these three people is not worth mentioning at all, this wheel tactic still puts huge pressure on the defenders in Zengshan City. The remaining part of the army held up torches and continued to attack the city without any hassle. The defenders outside the city did not gradually retreat until midnight.

Early the next morning, Sugiura Gento took an army of less than [-] to attack Masuyama Castle. Only then did Jinbao Changzhi understand their tactics, and secretly said: "It's a wheel tactic plus a strategy of exhausting soldiers. Fight till midnight, if another guard can't hold on for two days, he will collapse!"

This set of wheel fighting and exhausting soldiers is obviously much better than Guangde Temple Chengxian's, but there will always be a huge danger in his doing so. There is a faint smile on the face of Jinbao Changzhi: "Isn't this right? Appetite for Uesugi Seiden?". (to be continued...)