Warring States Eagle

Tokie Castle of the Usa Omiya Shi family in Usa County, Buzen Country.To the east is the Takada Castle of the Yoshizuru family in the East County of the Bungo State, to the west is the Miaokenyake Castle of the Sugi family of the Usa County of the Buzen State, and to the north is the own field of the Usa Omiya Shi family of the Shimo County of the Buzen State. Torizaki Castle.

From a strategic point of view, as long as Tokie Castle is under control, the Usa Omiya Shi family's territory can be divided into two areas, Usa County and Shimo County.Judging from the layout of the entire Bungzen and Bungo regions, winning Tokie Castle is equivalent to dividing the southeastern region of Bungzen into two parts, one part is Shangmo County and Xiamo County, and the other part is It's Usa County.At the same time, it can also exert pressure on the neighboring Bungzen Province.Therefore, winning here is equivalent to driving a nail in the local area, thereby dividing the local forces.

It's just that it is not easy to take Shizhi Castle, after all, the Usa Omiya Shi family also knows the strategic significance of the city's location, so there are at least hundreds of troops stationed in the city at ordinary times.With these hundreds of defenders, even if they are attacked by an army several times their size, they can support the arrival of reinforcements from other places.Therefore, if you want to take this city, you must lure the defenders out of the city.

The first, third, and fourth armies of the Luo's family came out this time, in addition to being responsible for attacking the areas along the way, they also played the role of leading snakes out of their holes.

The first army of Yoshida Shigemasa and Yamamoto Kansuke is targeting the Bungzen Country's Shanmo County, which is very close to the eastern part of Xiamo County next to Jomo County.As long as the first army makes a lot of noise in the local area and shows a tendency to be destroyed, then the Usa Omiya Shi family's Tatorizaki Castle, who is an important town in the eastern part of Shimo County, will definitely feel the pressure.They will even dispatch reinforcements from Shizhi Castle in the rear to help defend the city.

Kinoshita Masao Nao's third army.Just make the movement louder locally in the western part of Xiamao County.Then, Tatorizaki Castle in the eastern part of Shimo County will also feel the pressure, and it will also draw reinforcements from Shieda Castle in the rear to assist in defending the city.

The Fourth Army, where Aguda and Ishimune Kakukuma belonged, is the most important part of this plan to lure the snake out of the cave.Because the target of this army's attack is the Dragon King Castle, the home city of Usa Omiya Si's family.Dragon King City is located on the hillside of the towering and steep Dragon King Mountain in Usa County. It is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and there are mountain springs on the mountain. As long as enough food is stored in the city, it is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.At the same time, because there are several fertile intermountain basins under the mountain, it is the location of Usa Shrine.It is the birthplace of the Usa Omiya family, so it has always been the residence of the Usa Omiya family.

Since the Dragon King City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Zhengliang's requirements for the fourth army's strategy are also very simple, that is, to implement siege tactics against the Dragon King City, and at the same time make a preparation to bypass the Dragon King City, and then continue to Usa County Deep falsehoods in other areas.

Of course, even if it is just a siege tactic, it is not easy to implement, because there are also the Sugi family's Aoyama Castle, Miaojianyue Castle, and Usa Omiya Shijia's Tokie Castle near the Dragon King Castle.All of these strongholds will come out to support Dragon King City at any time.So for a while.The Fourth Route Army must stick to the local area and be nailed to the local area like a nail.This is used to contain the forces in these areas (similarly, while the other armies are attacking, they actually also play a role in containing the local forces).

In fact, just as Zhengliang had expected before, after learning that his home city was besieged, the defenders of Shizhi City immediately dispatched to the Miaojianyue city of the Shan family, preparing to fight with the Shan family in Miaojianyue city. The army united to support Dragon King City.

The ones responsible for leading the army to support this time are Kiko Miyari and Miyashige Sano from the Shi family of Usa Omiya.After the two led an army of more than 300 people, they set off from Shizhi Castle and marched along the east bank of the Midate River below the city.In the afternoon, they came to a place called Gao Sen, which was far away from Shishu City, and there was still a lot of distance from Miao Jianyue City of the Shan family in front.

Just as the members of the Usa Omiya family moved forward along the river bank, arrows shining with cold light were aimed at them in the semi-dark woods and half-human-high wild grass beside them.

These troops ambushing here are naturally the second army of the Luo family led by Takashi Murakami.As early as when Shizhi City started to mobilize its army last night, they received a report from their own scouts who were mixed in the village outside Shizhi City, and they learned that Shizhi City's army was mobilizing its army to support Dragon King City news.

Although I don't know when the other party will leave, Murakami Takashi and others have already gathered the Luo family's army scattered nearby pretending to be refugees, and after everyone reassembled their weapons and armor, they rushed here again overnight Ambushed at the places that must pass through to Dragon King City and Miaojianyue City.

Last night, after discussing with Oyano Tanemitsu, Shangjinpu Zhongjiao, Tsuruta Nao, Yupu Zhen, Guan Qinqing and others, everyone decided to ambush the reinforcements rushing from Shizhi Castle to the direction of Dragon King Castle here first, and then With the cooperation of the captives, pretending to be the army of the Usa Omiya Shi family, they first captured Tokieda Castle.Perhaps it was God's will, not long after the members of the Luo family set up an ambush in the morning, Shizhicheng rushed to Miaojianyuecheng (from the eastern part of Usa County to the western part of Miaojianyuecheng and Longwangcheng, etc., you must go here One road, because it belongs to the hinterland of Sugima and Usa Omiya Shijia, so there is no guard checkpoint here) the reinforcements arrived.

More than [-] members of the Luo family's army were scattered among the woods and grass beside the river. At that time, after the reinforcements of more than [-] people in Zhicheng had completely entered the encirclement, Murakami immediately shouted:

"shooting!"

"Whoo, whoosh, whoosh..." Hundreds of feathered arrows immediately shot at Zhicheng's reinforcements who were marching like a rain of arrows.Since this place is in the hinterland of the home, these reinforcements never expected to be ambushed here, and caught off guard, many people were shot immediately.And the reinforcement team fell into chaos.

"What's going on here? Where did these Luo's family's forces come from?" Gong Chenggong, who was the leader of the support army this time, was suddenly ambushed, thinking in his mind, but he knew that this was not the time to pursue this matter, so He began to shout orders to direct the soldiers to resist.

At present, the Luo family's army is constantly rushing out of the forest, and the Usa Omiya Shi family's army was walking along the river bank before, so the marching line was too long, and it was impossible to concentrate their forces and form a formation to fight back.Gong Chenggong held the sword in his hand, shouted anxiously, and kept ordering the ashigaru who retreated to turn back and fight back.

For a moment, the Luo family's army and the Usa Omiya Shi's army were very powerful, stabbing and killing each other with long spears and swords on the bank of the river.Many soldiers of the Usa Omiya Shi family retreating in embarrassment slipped on their feet and fell into the muddy river beach, and then were stabbed to death in the river beach with long spears by several Luo family soldiers who caught up.

In such a situation, the resistance of the general ashigaru farmers and soldiers is hopeless. The samurai of the Usa Omiya Shi family's army risked their lives and fought back desperately. Dozens of gunmen swarmed in and formed a spear array, and they lost their lives in an instant.

The killing was still going on, and the sharp screams continued to come from a distance, obviously not only here, the Usa Omiya Shi family's army at the other two ends had already been defeated.Under the heroic offensive of the Luo family's army, the resistance of the Usa Omiya Shi family's army was only a flash in the pan. The Usa Omiya Shi family's army lost its courage and collapsed instantly. corpse.

Gong Chenggong was anxious and angry, his eyes were red, he watched the army of the Usa Omiya Shi family under his command, he escaped and was killed, but he still firmly held on to the place with his troops and died. Also refused to retreat.He even stepped forward to kill a few deserters with a knife, but it didn't have much effect. Seeing this scene, the Usa Omiya Shijia army fled away in a hurry, bypassing Gongcheng km go.

However, they were surrounded by more than [-] ambushes of Luo's family from three sides with only [-] people, and there was a rushing river behind them, so they had no way to escape.

After a fierce battle, more than a hundred Omiya Si family soldiers including the chief general Gong Chengkm were killed, and the rest became prisoners of the Luo family.The Luo family also paid the price of dozens of casualties.

"My lord, this person was identified by the captives. This time, he is a general of the opposing army." At this time, his subordinates escorted a young general who looked only in his teens, but was extremely embarrassed, to the presence of Murakami. .

"Oh? Who are you?" Murakami asked immediately.

"Hmph!" Facing Murakami's solemn question, the young man snorted contemptuously.This person is Sano Mishige, a retainer of the Usa Omiya Shi family.He and his uncle Sano Takai were originally Ouchi Yoshitaka's retainers. After Ouchi Yoshitaka was killed by Tao Takami, Sano Takai took him and the Sano family's family to migrate to Fengzen Kingdom during the war.In order to expand the influence of the Sano family in the Buzen country as soon as possible, Sano Takai himself joined the Sugi family, the guardian of the Buzen country, and Sano Kinshige became Usa Omiya under the recommendation of his uncle Sano Takai The retainers of the family.

As a fledgling young general, this ambush was the first battle Sano participated in, and it could be said to be his first battle.But it was in this first battle that he was defeated, so he was very dissatisfied with the way the Luo family used a sneak attack to defeat them, and he was even more contemptuous in his heart. Naturally, he didn't have a good attitude towards everyone in the Luo family now.

"Hehe, take it down, and I'll leave it to you guys." Seeing that Sano Misaki was so uncooperative, Murakami Takashige smiled slightly, and then said to the few people beside him. (To be continued..)