Warring States Eagle

() Just when Pu Chi Jiansheng lost his color in shock, the straw of life-saving finally arrived.Tajiri Kanshige, head of the Tajiri family, Kanhiro Kamaike of the Kamaike branch, and Kamryu the head of the Kuroki family were invited to Yanagawa Castle one after another.Perhaps it was a coincidence that these four patriarchs were all around 20 years old.

Following several guests, there was also a letter of challenge from Luo's family.It turned out that the Luo family officially launched a challenge to all the tyrants in the southwestern region of Chikugo in line with the spirit of Bushido to avoid affecting innocent people and causing too many unnecessary sacrifices. , to face the coalition forces of the powerful clans.

The moment he saw the Luo family's gauntlet, Puchi Jiansheng knew that he had made another mistake.When he sent reinforcements to rescue the Shengjin Pavilion, he even forgot to send people to guard the pass at Shanmen Mountain.

The origin of Shanmen County is said to be mainly because it is almost surrounded by mountains on both sides and the sea on one side. The entire terrain is like a gate that controls the passage connecting Chikugo and Higo, hence the name.The Shanmen Mountain in Shanmen County is the passage that mainly connects Shanmen County, Mizuma County and Xiazuma County. ..

If Puchi Jiansheng had been able to deploy defensive troops here in advance, it would have prevented the Luo family's army from approaching the city directly.For this, Puchi Jiansheng regretted it.It's just that no matter how regretful you are, now you have to face reality.

Looking at the Luo family's war letter before everyone, the four most powerful families in the southwestern region of Chikugo immediately discussed.

According to Puchi Jiansheng's thinking, of course, relying on the mountains and rivers, the self-contained Liuchuan City blocked the progress of the Luo family's army.But others don't see it that way.

After hearing Puchi Jiansheng's thoughts, the other three patriarchs all thought in unison: "Of course it's fine for your Puchi family to hide in Liuchuan City, but what if the Luo family directly bypasses your Puchi family's Liuchuan City and rushes directly What about us? We will not help you guard the city like a fool. But your homeland has fallen because of this.”

From the terrain point of view.It is indeed possible for such a thing to happen.The Luo family can attack the Puchi branch and the Kuroki family through Changyan Castle in Yamamoto County, which they have already controlled.or.The Luo family can bypass Yanagawa Castle directly along the Yanagawa River, and go straight to the Tajiri Castle of the Tajiri Family and the Yamashita Castle of the Kamaike Branch Family.

As for whether the Puchi family will contain the actions of the Luo family from behind?never mind?Rather than counting on this guy who planned to hide in the city from the beginning to take the initiative to attack, it would be better to expect the Luo family to retreat voluntarily?Besides, as long as you look at the expressions of the Puchi family and the Puchi branch family, you will know that the Puchi family is unreliable.

So, everyone started arguing over how to deal with the Luo family's attack.After arguing for a long time, everyone finally calmed down after receiving the news that the Luo family's army had started camping at the foot of Shanmen Mountain.

In the end, the other three families headed by the Tajiri family gave their own plans.One is to accept the letter of gauntlet from the Luo family, each family will go back and muster all the fighting forces in their territories, and finally fight against the Luo family's army at the foot of the mountain gate, and resolutely drive the Luo family back to Feihou.

The second is that the remaining three families retreated, and then united in the Yabe River area on the border between the Kamaike family and the Tajiri family, and combined the strength of the three families to resist the Luo family's army.As for the life and death of the Puchi family, it has nothing to do with them.

After much consideration, especially under the persuasion of general Miike Jianying, Puchi Jiansheng finally agreed to the first plan of the other three families.Originally, Pu Chi Jiansheng should have consulted Yuan Ye Huiguo, the important minister of the family, but because Yuanye Huijun, the son of Yuanye Huiguo, colluded with the enemy.Yuanye Huiguo committed suicide at home an hour ago to apologize.

Tianwen 12 years (1543) February 23rd, noon.The Chikugo coalition led by the Kamaike family, the Tajiri family, the Kamaike branch family, and the Kuroki family finally appeared on the plain at the foot of Sanmon Mountain.

The coalition forces divided into four square formations and came directly to the battlefield.Looking at the scattered formation inside.Zheng Liang knew that most of the coalition forces were peasants and soldiers.

Compared with the somewhat scattered coalition forces, because they have experienced many battles and are waiting for work, the camp of the Luo family's army seems to be much weaker.

Zhengliang's formation this time is like this.

The Luo family's army was divided into three formations: left, middle and right.On the left side of the main army, the general will be the executioner who was urgently transferred from Matsuoka Castle, Fujitsu County, Higo, and the temporary deputy will be Watanabe Michi.The main force is one hundred standing ashigaru and two hundred temporarily recruited peasant soldiers belonging to the first standing ashigaru team.

Since they had just repelled a sneak attack organized by the Arima family that attempted to take advantage of the Higo War, the morale of the No. [-] Standing Ashgaru Division led by the executive Kane was high.As for those farmers and soldiers, they were not vegetarians either. They were farmers and soldiers conscripted from Higo Matsuura County.This area can be said to be the first area to implement the daily training system of farmers and soldiers. Although the combat power of these farmers and soldiers is not as light as that of regular soldiers, they are much stronger and more disciplined than other powerful farmers and soldiers.

The army is on the right.The main general is Shigemasa Yoshida, who was urgently transferred from Higo Misase Castle, and the temporary deputy is Victory Kindai.The main force is one hundred standing ashigaru and two hundred temporarily recruited peasant soldiers belonging to the third standing ashigaru team.

The third standing Ashgaru team, as the main combat force that participated in the defeat of the Otomo Allied Forces, also had high morale.Moreover, due to the disastrous defeat of the Ouchi Allied Forces, the Chikuzen Harada family, which is adjacent to Sanse Castle, has fallen into a trough again, and there is no threat to Sanse Castle for the time being, so Masaragi also safely transferred them to participate in this battle.

Finally, there is the Chinese army.The chief general of the Chinese army is Aguda.The main combat force is the fifth standing ashigaru team of 300 people.

And the chief general of the Luo family is of course Zheng Liang himself.A team of three hundred warriors followed closely behind the Chinese army and formed part of the Chinese army.A hundred of the most elite cloaked members of the Luo family stood around Luo Ming.The last is the 100-man Musketeers.Commanded by Iron Cannon General Ander.

Since the first battle with the Otomo Allied Forces, the weapons and personnel of the Musketeers have also suffered a lot of damage. The original 120 Musketeers have only 100 people left.Those lost were all wounded by burst fire or muskets in their hands.In other words, twenty fire systems or muskets withdrew from the battle order and returned to the firearms workshop for maintenance.

Regarding the quality of these muskets or fire systems, Luo Ming was also quite speechless.Especially those Huotong from the Ming Dynasty, which made people even more angry.This also shows the degree of corruption of the Ming Dynasty from another aspect.The quality of the firearms developed by the Ming Dynasty for so long is definitely not so bad. The only possibility is that the phenomenon of cutting corners and materials appeared.In desperation, Zheng Liang had no choice but to increase the number of matchlock guns he purchased from Zhu Qinfeng.

In addition to the last Musketeers, there were [-] cavalry led by Masahiro Isano, Mitsuki Akaana, and Nakamoto Tanao.They will serve as mobile teams.

Taken together, the Luo family dispatched a total of 600 regular troops this time.This does not include Detective Ban and Black Eagle who are responsible for intelligence and other work, and the [-] logistics teams led by physician Mingfeng Hidemasa, weapon executor Liu Ye, and ashigaru general Honda Toshimasa.

And what about the coalition?

Due to the disastrous defeat in Mizuma County, the Puchi family only sent an army of 400 people led by general Miike Jianying and his son Miike Jiansu this time.Puchi Jiansheng stayed in the rear of the army as one of the generals of the coalition army.

The Tajiri family is directly headed by the head of the family, with an army of 500 people under his command.Similarly, the Puchi branch and the Kuroki family are headed by the head of the family, with 300 and 200 troops respectively.

In addition to the soldiers of the generals and lords themselves, these armies also consist of soldiers from other wealthy families in other places.After the leading four tyrants fell, these local tycoons would not have a better time, so after the four tyrants mobilized, they also came to join the war.Judging from the situation of the soldiers on the battlefield, these powerful families can be said to be young and strong, and almost all the people are soldiers.

Combined, the coalition forces totaled 400 men.Judging from the number of the two armies, it can be said that they are evenly matched.

After the formation was arranged, the two armies confronted each other.

When it was close to the afternoon, the coalition forces were the first to lose their composure!The first to attack was the Puchi family in the central position. The general of the Puchi family ordered his bow and arrow team to start shooting, and then the entire coalition army began to attack.

Of course, the Luo family's army would not show weakness, and immediately a shower of arrows shot at the opponent.The arrows of the two sides exchanged in the air, forming a rain of arrows that almost covered the sky.It's just that in comparison, the Luo's family's arrows are more powerful and have a longer range.

Combat with bows and arrows at such a distance, in fact, the lethality is limited.So Zhengliang waved his hand, and the [-] cavalry who had been prepared for a long time, led by Masahiro Isano, Mitsukiyo Akaana, and Nakamoto Tanou, rushed in along the blank area of ​​the central yang of the two camps.

Then, like a long rolling black dragon, it rushed past the coalition barracks at a distance of more than ten meters.Seeing such a powerful cavalry team, the morale of the soldiers of the coalition army was at a standstill, and the attacks of bows and arrows became sparse.

Just when the coalition soldiers expected to be attacked by the cavalry, they saw this cavalry passing in front of them strangely.What followed were short spears like spears, and they shot towards them like arrows.The most terrifying cavalry short spear team of the Roche family pulled the bloodthirsty trigger.

The moment they saw those short guns, many soldiers who had earlier participated in the assault across the Chikugo River organized by the Huci Jianren Company screamed in horror.

That sneak attack ended in the failure of Huci Jianlian.More importantly, in that retreat, almost all the troops they landed at the beginning died under such short gun attacks.The scene at that time was really too tragic. More than 100 people were all pierced through by short guns like being flesh.Not even a little counterattack ability.

Therefore, when these soldiers who had escaped unharmed by not going ashore on the ship saw these short guns again, they immediately became terrified.The confusion of some soldiers also caused slight confusion in the coalition formation.This further weakened the defense of the coalition forces, which in turn increased the lethality of these short guns. (to be continued...)