Warring States Eagle

April 1559, the second year of Yonglu (AD [-]). !Top! Click*! The novel is in Sugawa, Bungo, Kyushu, and the battle between the Luo family, the Saeki family, the Shimadzu family, and the Ito family is still going on.

"From the opposite side to the front of our camp...all the mountain roads are full of enemy soldiers and flags. There may be at least [-] of them..." Masamune Luo Shi was talking to himself, while climbing to the highest mountain of the camp to observe situation.At this time, the mountain mist that is most common in this season has disappeared.

"Hehe! It looks like there are [-], but in fact it's only [-]%. I'm still panicking. I didn't expect that the enemy would take the initiative to come to die." Fukuda Nobukiyo who followed Masamune Luo said with a smile.

"Hehe!" Masamune Luo also smiled slightly when he heard the words.As Fukuda Nobukiyo said, in the eyes of the generals of the Luo family, these behaviors of the other party were nothing more than suspicions, which surprised the main family.But this is just a cover. After all, when the other party came out from the Southern Kyushu area, it had already been closely monitored by the secret agents hidden in the southern Kyushu territory. Therefore, how many people the other party actually had, the Luo family members would have been from the main family a long time ago. It was learned from the Intelligence Pavilion.No matter how quickly the opponent dispatched reinforcements from the rear to support them, it was impossible to present such a large-scale military force in front of them in such a short period of time.So, as the lord Zhengliang who presided over the overall situation in the rear pointed out sharply, all this is just a trick of the other party.

However, even so, in the past few days, the competition between the two sides around the position he presided over before can be described as quite fierce.On the side of the Luo family, there were thousands of casualties alone.Moreover, the Luo family is located at the first four fences of the five-fold fence in the left, middle, and right positions on the eastern bank of the Kurusugawa River.It was destroyed by the opponent several times.In the most critical time, even the opponent's coalition forces almost broke through the fifth fence. Fortunately, our family was prepared and was able to retreat the opponent's attack.However, the damage to the main family was really quite tragic. Even the three main generals of the three positions, Shengli Jindai, Masamune Roshi, and Shinji Ueda, were injured successively and were forced to withdraw from the battlefield.Even Fukuda Nobukiyo, one of the two generals Asakura Sodi and Fukuda Nobukiyo who came to support the earliest before, was also injured and had to withdraw from the battlefield.

At this time, the forward position has been presided over by Shigemasa Yoshida, Hisamori Takeuchi, Sodi Asakura, Tonao Kalai, Ryusuke Hironaka, Yoshiro Kawada, etc., while Aguda and others are in charge of Sugawa, which is the main home position of the West Bank. The lord Zhengliang presided over the rear line as the general.As the wounded, I and Fukuda Nobukiyo were slightly injured, so after treatment, they returned to the front position again and served as the main logistics behind the position.

"Oh!" Just as Roshi Masamune and Fukuda Nobukiyo were talking in the simple arbor on the top of the mountain, the enemy camp below the mountain suddenly shouted.

"Oh, it's coming up again." Masamune Luo set up an arbor with his hands.He narrowed his eyes.Obviously, the enemy is about to attack again.

Immediately, the gunfire of "Tom tom tom..." was deafening again.Looking from the top of the mountain, the enemy's flag surged toward the home position like a flood that broke the embankment.

"The waves of whales shake the earth, and the smoke of wolves covers the sky."

"What did your lord say?" Fukuda Nobukiyo who was on the side asked.

"It's nothing. I'm talking about the momentum of the enemy's attack. It's like a scourge. Although it's our enemy, the momentum is extremely spectacular." After finishing speaking, Masamune Luo once again shifted his gaze to the direction of the enemy's main formation in the distance.

At this time, there were also several fog belts lingering over the enemy's main formation—no, that was not a fog belt, but white smoke, which should be the white smoke of the iron cannon.Flocks of birds rushed into the air from the woods and mountains near the battlefield from time to time due to being frightened, and flew far away, away from the battlefield.

Speaking of the enemy's iron cannons, Roshi Masamune couldn't help but recall that in the previous meeting of the main family before the war with the enemy, the Lord Masamune had emphatically proposed that the Shimadzu family had also manufactured their own iron cannons, and at the same time, they also wanted to entangle themselves in the Satsuma country. The pirates of the Ming Dynasty along the coast bought a lot of iron cannons, and even in this joint battle with the opponent, the Shimadzu family probably hired these pirates of the Ming Dynasty to secretly participate in the battle, so the generals of the Luo family must be careful. The Jin family's iron cannon attacked.

And in the previous battle, the iron cannons in the opponent's formation did bring a lot of threats to the members of the Luo family, and even caused a lot of casualties to the Luo family.Although the number of iron cannons participating in the battle in the opponent's formation is not large, and the shooting range does not seem to be as powerful as that of the own iron cannons, but the shooting accuracy of the opponent's iron gunners is very good, which has caused many of the opponent's iron cannons to attack. Standing was shot by the opponent.And according to the news from the intelligence cabinet of the main family, the iron gunner in the opponent's formation is very likely to be the pirate of the Ming Dynasty under the banner of the Shimadzu family.

As a result, Masamune Roshi felt strange.As far as he knows, the pirates of the Ming Dynasty entrenched in the coastal area of ​​Satsuma seem to be led by a guy named Wang Zhi.And Wang Zhi signed a trade agreement with his family, and agreed not to intervene in the battle between his family and the Kyushu tycoons.So why did the other party suddenly allow his subordinates to be hired by the Shimadzu family?

Just as Roshi Masamune thought, some of Wang Zhi's more than [-] pirates did participate in the joint battle of the Shimadzu family this time.In order to avoid attracting the attention of the Luo family, these people also wore local clothes and equipment of the Shimadzu family.What they didn't expect was that Zheng Liang had always been very concerned about the movements of the pirates led by Wang Zhi and others. The reason was that shortly after these people joined the Shimadzu family to support the Saeki family's reinforcements, they were monitored locally by the Luo family. The intelligence cabinet staff knew about this situation and quickly reported it to Zheng Liang.Zheng Liang also immediately sent envoys to negotiate with Wang Zhi's fleet.

However, before the envoys from the Luo family sent by Zheng Liang arrived at Wang Zhi's territory on the coast of Satsuma in Kyushu to negotiate, the Shimadzu family, as the employer, was annoyed by these Ming pirates.

"Damn it, these Ming country pirates only have gold nuggets in their eyes." Ijuin Tadaro scolded angrily in the Shimadzu family's camp on the east bank of the Kurusugawa River.Just now, the retainers came to report that the more than [-] Ming pirates in the rear had rejected his order to go out into battle.Obviously, these Ming country pirates suffered dozens of casualties in the previous joint battle with the Luo family.So now they simply hid in the back and did not participate in the hand-to-hand combat with the Luo family.Although these Ming pirates fought bravely.And because of the frequent use of iron cannons, the accuracy of their iron cannons is very good.But after all, they came to the battle this time because they received a lot of gold from the Shimadzu family, not to die, so after finding out that the enemy Luo's family was a tough one, they simply hid behind the battlefield , only provide the support of the rear iron cannon shooting, and do not participate in the hand-to-hand combat in the front battlefield.

"Hey!" After thinking about the calculations of these Ming pirates, Ijiin Tadaro couldn't help but sighed, and then thought to himself. "Even so, no matter what, we must fight a bloody path in the position set up by the Luo family, otherwise this time the coalition forces composed of the main family, the Saeki family, and the Ito family will definitely not be able to expel the invading Luo family army." And went."

"It's just, is this possible?" Ijuin Taduro couldn't help but think of the battle between the two armies in the past few days.In this way, Yijiin Zhonglang continued to organize the army to gradually rush towards the Luo family's position with complicated emotions.At the same time, the nearby Saeki family and Ito family's army also began to march towards the Luo family's position.

Soon, the three families and two armies were less than four or five towns away from the Luo family's position.The soldiers could no longer hold back, and hastily fired arrows.

"The enemy is still far away. Don't let it go!"

Ijuin Tadaro got off his horse and said while holding a spear.He has fought for the Shimadzu family for more than [-] years. Looking back, it is very rare to be able to live to this day.I thought that in the war when the Shimadzu family unified the Satsuma country, they would follow the ancestors of the Shimadzu family. Unexpectedly, under the wise leadership of the former family governor Shimadzu Takahisa and the current family governor Takahisa Shimadzu, he has been able to defeat the enemy. But this time, he might die for the Shimadzu family.Life is really unpredictable.

It's just that, even so, he still has no fear on his face, and even laughs occasionally.He firmly believed that after his death, the Shimadzu family would hold a grand funeral for him and sing praises.

"Tom tom tom", several puffs of smoke rose from Ijiin Tadaro's feet, several bullets whizzed past his ears, and a feathered arrow almost hit him.As the coalition forces continued to approach, the defenders of the Luo family on the defensive side immediately began to fire iron cannons, bows and arrows.At the same time, there was also a rain of arrows fired by the Luo family's archers in the sky.Under the fire of Luo's family's iron cannons, bows and arrows, soldiers from the three-party coalition fell to the ground from time to time.

"kill!"

Under the command of Ijuin Tadaro, the Shimadzu family also launched a counterattack, and then shot arrows towards the Roche family's position like migrating locusts.The only dozen or so iron cannons were also spouting flames in the opposite direction.After several fierce battles, although the forward position of the Luo family has not been captured by the allied forces of one's own side, the fences and trees in the other side's position have been damaged to varying degrees. As a result, the defenders have lost a lot of defense In this way, one's own arrows and iron cannon projectiles can be shot into the opponent's position, thus causing a lot of casualties to the opponent.

When the vanguard of the three-party coalition forces approached twenty or thirty meters away from the Luo family's position, the soldiers of the three parties immediately became excited, because the Luo family's position was right in front of them.For a moment, as if they had heard someone's order, they spontaneously gathered 80 to [-] people, and then rushed to the Luo family's position without thinking about their own safety.

"kill--"

"kill--"

The shouts of the attackers and defenders were indistinguishable from each other under the clear sky, but they only lasted for a moment.None of the soldiers who rushed up as the attacking side were standing.

The sun had risen very high, and the sun was scorching Ijuin Tadaro's helmet hotly.But he was still holding the nine-foot spear, standing still.

The second team rushed to the position of the Luo family's army again from the right of Ijuin Tadaro.At this time, the arrows had been shot, and the iron cannon was also dumb.

I don't know the situation on the battlefield at this time, did the lord Takahisa Shima see it... When Ijuin Tadaro suddenly remembered this, the third death squad rushed to the Luo family's position again.It was a suicidal joint battle, and the angry howls of the enemy and the enemy soon overwhelmed his thoughts.

"My lord!" A retainer hurriedly came from behind, "All the troops have already entered the battle."

Hearing the retainer's report, Yijiin Zhonglang squeezed the spear in his hand and bent down.

"Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, please watch the last moment of I, Genshiro Tadairo Ijuin." After saying that, Ijuin Tadaro charged straight to the Luo family's position with a spear in his hand.A few scattered guards and retainers also followed - there were less than 20 of them.

At this time, it was about four o'clock, and noon was approaching, and the fresh green leaves reflected the brilliance of the sun.

At the same moment when Ijuin Tadaro led the Shimadzu family's army to the Luo family's position, a group of troops was quietly resting in the forest near Matsuo Castle, the home of Yi Dong's family in Hyuga, Southern Kyushu.

Among this group of people, there were three people sitting around a flat field in the forest at this moment, carefully looking at a detailed map laid out on the ground, and at the same time discussing in a low voice from time to time.If the guards of Matsuo City were here, they would have suddenly discovered that this detailed map was the topographic map of Matsuo City and its vicinity.This detailed map is the painstaking work of the Luo family's intelligence bureau, which has been lurking in Hyuga country for several years.

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