Warring States Eagle

Munakata Utsuguchi, who received a request from Occupation Department Shangan for help, also realized the seriousness of the situation, so he immediately called two important officials in the family of Kurokawa Takamaka and Fukada Utoshi to discuss.In the end, the three decided to go home and mobilize a group of troops to support Xufeishan City, Shimaru City and Banyuan City.

After meeting outside Baishi City, Jucheng, the army of the three formed a team of more than 12 people.This is already the most troops that can be used in the territory of Munakata's family (almost all males over the age of 50 and under the age of [-] in the territory have to go into battle).Since it was the autumn harvest season, when some peasants learned that the lord was going to forcibly recruit farmers and soldiers again, they would rather be punished by the lord afterwards and hid, which led to the fact that they could only mobilize such a large number of troops in the end.Even now, these peasants and soldiers who were captured because they were too late to escape are full of resentment, so in order to avoid accidents, Munakata Utsuguchi, Kurokawa Takamaka, and Fukada Utoshi had to send a large number of family warriors to attack these peasants and soldiers. monitor.

After the army of the three joined forces, they quickly came to the north bank of Diaochuan.Here, as long as they reach the opposite bank, the three people's forces will separate and go to Xufei Mountain City, Ishimaru City, and Sancheng Banyuan City to support them.

Diaochuan is a river that runs through the hinterland of the Zongxiang family's territory.On both sides of the broad Diaochuan River, there are rice fields being harvested everywhere, but due to the sudden war, almost none of the people in the territory have harvested grain by hand.Some of the citizens who recognized their paddy fields were obviously moved by the scene at this time, and they burst into tears.

"Cross the river quickly." Seeing that the morale of the soldiers was low and even full of resentment, Munakata Clan did not dare to stay here any longer.So he quickly ordered.

The place Munakata chose to cross the river is located in the middle of Diaochuan River.It is the largest wooden bridge used to communicate the north and south sides of Diaochuan.The wooden bridge here is not only the widest.It is also the main passage in the interior area of ​​the Munakata family hinterland.At the same time, because the river here is the shallowest, the soldiers can even wade directly across the water. In order to rush to the cities for support, Munakata directly issued an order to cross the bridge and wade to the opposite bank at the same time.

For a moment, the team of hundreds of people scattered into a group and began to go to the opposite bank. Munakata Usui, Kurokawa Takamaka, and Fukada Utoshi first arrived at the opposite bank from the wooden bridge under the protection of their relatives and samurai. Command the people on the opposite south bank to cross the river quickly.

Maybe this is the reason why it belongs to their own hinterland, so they all forgot to set up the minimum outpost around them, so when they were crossing the river.I didn't realize that there was a large army hiding in some forests and bushes on both sides of the river.

This army is led by Aguda as the main general, Asakura Sodi, Shimabara Junshige, and Fukuda Nobukiyo as the deputy generals, and Kawada Yoshiro's army is the third permanent ashigaru squad of the Luo family with more than 500 people.Long before Zhengliang's army came out, their army had already sneaked onto the north coast of Munakata's house in one evening under the transport of the navy.

Most of the north coast of Munakata's family is covered with mountains and forests. In addition, the navy of Munakata's family was wiped out by Luo's family. As a result, a total of more than 500 troops quickly sneaked into the nearby mountains and forests, and they were not defeated by Munakata's sentinels. Discover.

In fact, in this direction, the Zongxiang family also built a stronghold named Yuan prison city for defense. If they want to enter the hinterland of the Zongxiang family through the northern coastal area, there are only two ways, one is to capture the Yuan prison city.The second is to enter the intricate mountain forest area, and then open a road in it to enter.In order to avoid alarming the enemy.The third standing ashigaru team chose to enter from the forest.It may be very difficult for the army of the general Hao family to pass through the intricate mountain forests, but for the Luo family's foot light troops who regularly conduct mountain forest combat training in the forests near the station every month, this way of marching is just fine. It was just an ordinary actual combat exercise.

So when Zheng Liang used the target to focus the attention of Munakata's family on Xufei Mountain City, a group of more than [-] people headed by Aguda, Asakura Sodi, Shimabara Junshige, Fukuda Nobukiyo, and Kawada Yoshiro The third standing ashigaru team has sneaked into the mountains and forests inside the hinterland of Munakata's house and ambushed, while paying close attention to the changes near Shiraishi Castle, Munakata's home city.

According to the plan that Zhengliang made before, this time the strategy of Munakata's family is divided into three steps.The first step is that Zhengliang's army will attack the Munakata family's Xu Feishan City as a target, attracting the attention of the Munakata family and Ouchi family's troops stationed there, and providing cover for the actions of other armies.Of course, in this step, Zheng Liang used some small tricks to order Xu Feishan City to lose troops and generals. The first step to attract the main force of the enemy left the Munakata family with no time to take into account the effects of other places.

The second step is to let Qiuyue's family and Aso's family attack from the south and north respectively, causing the Munakata's family to be besieged and make the Munakata's family completely lose their sense of proportion.At this time, the third step of the plan is about to be staged, and the protagonist of this step is the third standing ashigaru team who secretly sneaked into Munakata's house.They will decide what actions to take based on the situation inside the Munakata family at this time. The purpose is to create chaos within the Munakata family and cut off the connection between the Munakata home city and the rest of the city, so that the Munakata cannot form a whole, so that the Luo family will be separated one by one. smash.

Since entering the hinterland of Munakata's house to hide, the third standing ashigaru squad has sent a large number of personnel to closely monitor the movement of Shiraishi Castle.Just the day before yesterday, after they learned that Xufeiduocheng, Ishimarucheng, and Banyuancheng were in urgent need of help from a messenger of Munakata's family who was captured halfway, Aguda, Asakura Sodi and others knew the reason for their actions. The time is coming.

Sure enough, just as they expected, just yesterday, they detected the large-scale mobilization of farmers and soldiers near Baishi City, so they rushed to the vicinity here at dusk yesterday.This is the only avenue in the hinterland of the Munakata family, and it is also a three-way junction leading to various cities. The reinforcements of the Munakata family will definitely pass through here.

In order to avoid being discovered, from last night until now, the third standing Ashgaru team has been eating some dry food mixed with salt and dried sweet potatoes, in addition to some seaweed and sour plum rice balls that were temporarily prepared in the mountains ( The seaweed is collected from the coast, and the sour plum is a fruit tree newly introduced from the Kanto region in the Luo family farm the year before last. Due to the limited planting area, there are not many armament reserves), during which time even an open fire did not dare to light a fruit tree. heap.During the ambush, they also encountered some local farmers who tried to hide in their ambush in order to avoid being captured.So these peasants naturally became their captives.

It was already afternoon at this time, outside the mountain forest tens of meters away, the army of the Munakata family was crossing the river. Aguda, Asakura Sodi, Shimabara Junshige, Fukuda Nobukiyo, and Kawada Yoshiro were each leading a part of the army. Hiding on both sides of the river, they prepared to fight later, and then divided into two army formations on both sides of the river to attack the enemy who was crossing the river.

"My lord, good news! The messenger soldier who was captured the day before yesterday pointed out that the guys on the horses below are the governor of the Munakata family and several important ministers!" At this time, a standing foot lightly Climbed up to Asakura Sodi who was hiding in a bush and whispered.

"What? Seriously?" Asakura Sodi was surprised when he heard the words, and immediately reconfirmed in a low voice.

"I found a few unlucky farmers who were caught by us to confirm again. They all said that those below are the high officials of the territory." The standing ashigaru confirmed again.

"Okay, that's great!" Asakura Zongdi didn't expect that this time the ambush would encounter the governor and important officials of Munakata's family. As long as they are dealt with, then the next thing will be easy.He immediately thought of informing the other generals of the news, but suddenly remembered that due to terrain restrictions, they all led a group of people to disperse and hide nearby, and now it is impossible to notify each other .

"Listen, inform these people here immediately, and leave the others alone when the attack is about to take place, and get rid of those horsemen first." Thinking of this, Asakura Sodi immediately turned to order.The latter took orders immediately. (To be continued..)