Warring States Eagle

On March 14, the 22th year of Tianwen ([-] A.D.), after half a month, the first standing cavalry unit of the Luo family located in Chikugo finally arrived at the three-person group of Isano Yuanmasho, Akaana Mitsukiyo and Tano Nakamoto. Under the leadership of the Luo family, they arrived at the big camp of the Luo family in Juchi County.

For the cavalry squadron, this march can be regarded as a long-distance long-distance training.In the past, in Hizen and Chikugo, their marching roads were relatively flat, and there was even a marching avenue specially built by the Luo family. The mountain roads in Tamana and Yamaga counties that have not yet been repaired, this is the first time for the Luo family cavalry squadron to march like this.

At the same time, there were also new changes in the camp of the Higo coalition forces.

First of all, the reinforcements of Bungo Otomo's family and the Ito family's reinforcements of the Hinata Kingdom also arrived at the camp of the coalition forces at the same time.Since the Kikuchi family expressed their attitude of not secretly uniting with the Luo family by attacking the Kanpo ninjas employed by the Luo family, and Nagai Sagara of Minami Higo directly supervised in the castle, the reinforcements of the Otomo family The reinforcements of the Ito family first met at the Omiya Shi family's Yupu Castle in Aso County, and then passed by the vicinity of the Fufu Castle at a very fast speed, and finally came to the camp of the Higo coalition forces.

The main generals of Otomo's reinforcements this time are Yoshioka Changzeng and Tian Bei Jiansheng. There are a total of 1000 reinforcements.As for the reinforcements of the Ito family, the main generals are the fierce generals of the Ito family, Huanwu Huanjiu and Mita Iutake, with a total of 300 reinforcements.

Secondly, although the powerful families in the camp were huddled in the camp due to rumors, each family recruited some farmers and soldiers from their respective territories to reinforce the army in the camp.At this time, in the camp of the Higo coalition forces.Except for Otomo and Ito reinforcements who just arrived.There are already about 1000 people in the camp.

As a result, the total number of coalition forces has reached more than [-] people.After going through last year's battle with the Luo family and the ongoing riots in the territory, it was not easy for Higo's side to still be able to gather such an army.

At this time, both Zhengliang's side and Higo's coalition forces already have the idea of ​​ending the war as soon as possible.For Higo's side, the main reason why they were eager to drive the Luo family's army out of Juchi County was that spring plowing was about to start.After experiencing some territorial riots last year, the fields inside each rich family's territory were damaged to varying degrees.They are also eager to take advantage of this year's spring plowing to recover.Moreover, once it enters April and May, it will be the most prominent rainy weather in the area. It is not a good job for any family to fight in such weather.

On Zhengliang's side, he also hopes to get out as soon as possible. First, he hopes to concentrate his energy on the complete control of the newly occupied territory. Although peace is temporarily maintained with the local original people, if he occupies Juchi County this time, Then there are also many aboriginal tribes in the northeast of Juchi County.Once these tribes come out to make trouble at the critical moment of the war, it will cause Zhengliang a lot of trouble.

also.As the climate of the small glacier becomes more pronounced, the weather pattern becomes more and more elusive.Generally speaking, in the two or three months after April, the local area will enter continuous rainy weather. Under such circumstances, the power of the Luo family's iron cannon will be greatly reduced by the weather.Moreover, according to historical records, in fact, the coast of Wa Kingdom will be hit by typhoons in recent years.Higo also belongs to the coastal area. Under such weather conditions, it will inevitably bring uncertain factors to the two parties in the battle.Therefore, Zheng Liang also hoped that under the current situation where the Luo family is relatively dominant, a battle will be decided as soon as possible.

Based on such considerations, Zhengliang sent someone to issue a decisive battle letter to the Higo coalition on the second day after the cavalry team arrived, and then personally led the army on March 14 in the 24th year of Tianwen (that is, [-] AD) and began to attack The Qingpu area where the Higo coalition forces are located advances.

"Hmph, how dare an army of less than 2000 people come to challenge?" Tian Bei Jiansheng, one of the generals of the Feihou coalition army, said with a cold snort after hearing that the Luo family's army was approaching.

In the past few battles between the Otomo family and the Luo family, Tian Bei Jiansheng did not participate. However, even the famous general of the Otomo family, Ji Hongjianli, died because of the Luo family, and even Huci Jianlian was beaten to the ground by the Luo family. He jumped into the water and escaped, but in Tian Bei Jiansheng's heart, he was quite upset, and Luo Shizhengliang's determination was likely to be revealed for a while.

Just when Tian Beijiansheng was upset, the Luo family's army had already arrived on a plain less than half a mile away from the camp of the Feihou Allied Army, waiting for the arrival of Feihou's army.

This is the decisive battle location chosen by Zhengliang in advance based on the topographical information detected by the scouts.To the east of this plain area is the corner of the Kikuchi Plain where the eastern mountains of Kikuchi County penetrate into the Kikuchi Plain, where there is the Fudo Rock Mountain with a rather complicated terrain.On the west side of the plain, there is a wide section of Kikuchi River that runs through the Kikuchi Plain from south to north.

Zhengliang placed [-] trained standing troops on the flat ground of the plain, with an open front, which was suitable for the Western phalanx in plain warfare.

At the same time, Zhengliang also set up military formations on the left, right and rear of the western military formation, mainly to prevent the western military formation from failing, so that these long-prepared military formations can immediately replace the western military formation.

The specific distribution of the army formation is that the 500-strong Western Army is in the middle, Enjoji Shinyin is the chief general, Ander and Roshi Masamune are the deputy generals; the right wing of the Western Army is a standing army of 400 people, and Oishi Tomohisa is the general; The left wing is also a standing army of 400 people, with Asakura Sodi as the general.

At the rear of the western army formation is Masara's main formation of 500 men. Masara is the main general, Kansuke Yamamoto is the military adviser, Watanabe Michi, Ahri, and Hidan are the deputy generals, and there are also close attendants Taketori Sheranmaru and Tao Guanglong Jun, and Naoshima Naoshima and Yoshihiro Shimadzu with the small surnames.

In the rear of Masara's main formation, there was the first permanent cavalry team of [-] Luo family led by Masahiro Isano, Mitsukiyo Akaana, and Nakamoto Tano.

A total of 300 troops.If Tian Beijiansheng knew the real number of Luo's family's army, he would probably vomit three liters of blood immediately, because the information he received was that the Luo's family's army had less than 2000 people.

In addition to the above-mentioned generals who followed Masara, Shinnosuke Akabane, as the general, led more than [-] peasants, soldiers and wounded soldiers to stay at Luo's house together with the military physician Mingfeng Xiuzheng, the weapon practitioner Liu Ye, and Ashgaru General Honda Toshimasa. In the original camp, he was responsible for stabilizing the rear for Zhengliang.

At this time, it was approaching noon, and the sun shone like gold on the plain where the Luo family's army formation was located.

Zheng Liang rode on Bailihei, and looked towards the direction of Feihou's coalition army camp. If the opponent didn't come to fight this time, it could only show that they were timid. The Higo clan and even Otomo's reinforcements from Bungo and Hyuga rushed home.

This time, the military power of the Luo family has a great advantage.First of all, most of the Luo family's military forces are professional soldiers who have undergone long-term training. Although there are some farmers and soldiers mixed in, the overall combat quality is obviously higher than that of the fattened coalition army formed by mixing various military forces.

In addition, in terms of the number of troops, the Luo family is also higher than the number of Feihou's coalition forces.

Finally, in terms of morale, the Feihou coalition forces had just experienced a failed night attack campaign, and they were caught in rumors that made them wary of each other. The morale was obviously not as good as that of the Luo family who had won consecutive battles.Therefore, under such circumstances, if Luo's family can't win yet, then Zheng Liang really wants to find a piece of tofu and kill him.

It was with such a guarantee that Zheng Liang dared to take out the long-trained Western army to meet the enemy.The purpose is to use actual combat to test the power of the Western military formation.Of course, this will add an uncertain factor to the outcome of this battle.If the western military formation performs well, it will naturally add points to the attack power of the Luo family's army. If it does not perform well, it is very likely that the Luo family's attack will be hindered.

Just as Zhengliang was thinking, the army of the Higo coalition finally appeared in front of the army of the Luo family.

Immediately, all the troops of the Luo family stood up from their original sitting positions, and entered a posture of preparing for battle.Even the cavalrymen of the Luo family in the back stuffed a ball of cotton into the ears of their beloved horses, and then rode on the horses, ready to fight at any time.

After the army of Fei Hou's coalition entered the battlefield, it began to form at the other end of the battlefield, about a hundred meters away from the front of the Luo family's phalanx.

At the same time, the opponent's cavalry team rushed forward, cruising in front of the Luo family's army, in order to prevent the Luo family's army from taking advantage of our army's position and attacking suddenly.

There were also a few warriors from Bungo Heroic in the opposing cavalry team, who deliberately showed off their excellent riding skills on horseback, provoking the Luo family's army.

One or two riders even deliberately charged within the range of the iron cannons of the Luo family's army, galloped at high speed, and brandished their spears on their horses to challenge the Luo family's army loudly.

But on the side of the Luo family's army, they had already received strict orders from Zheng Liang not to fight, so they remained motionless and ignored it.

As a result, the enemy cavalry became even more reckless. More than a dozen cavalry attacked the Luo family's army one after another.

Seeing that no one came out to fight, the enemy cavalry couldn't help laughing out loud on the horse.

As the chief general, Otomo Ieta Kansho laughed even more, pointing in the direction of the main flag of the Luo family, turned his head and said to the Higo generals behind him: "This is what you call the invincible Hizen The army of the eagle?" (To be continued...)