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Chapter 591 Human Heart
In this war, there is one person who suffers the most. He is Akechi Hinata Mori Mitsuhide who is leading troops to help Hakushu.

He was ordered to send troops to rescue with the purpose of uniting the vassals. The vassals were either killed on the spot or the neighboring countries were annexed.

Worried that the delay in raising military rations would delay the fighter plane, he dispatched a friend of his confidant comrade as a vanguard. The friend was pierced by an iron bullet in the chest, and the head was put in a wooden box and sent back.

On the way to the march, I received the head of my confidant, and before I was too sad, I had to lead the army out to defend the dangerous point and set up a defensive line. The day before, I heard that Nizi's army had just entered Tajima, and the day after tomorrow, I got the news that my army was in Tango. Army cut off.

The food road is not a big deal. When we came, we prepared food for 4 horsemen, and the first [-] people didn’t have to eat after halfway. We sent troops for a total of more than [-] miles. All the lands were surrendered to Zhitian, even if we didn’t force them to confiscate It was also possible to transfer food and grass from nearby Tamba and other places, but this dealt a heavy blow to the overall situation—limited to the fact that the defeated former army was unable to provide reliable information, Akechi Mitsuhide almost turned a blind eye to the Ming army.

This side wanted to divide the troops to search various places to obtain information. In a blink of an eye, Yamanaka Yukimori had led his troops into Tajima, and no one could distinguish carefully which was the main force and which was the partial division.

Thought that the Ming army was in Tango, but Ma Haihai had frequent artillery bombardment in many battles, Hosokawa Fujitaka was not far away, so frightened that Mitsuhide did not dare to lead troops to the front line to explore the terrain, even if the two armies faced each other, they would fight against each other. It is located on the back of the hillside, just to guard against the enemy cavalry's surprise attack from behind the formation.

It's not that the Ming army has never done this before, Li Rubai likes it, even though the environment here makes the important strategy of cutting off food in the Central Plains a little weak, but Li Rubai just likes it.

Not only he likes it, Korean soldiers and Jurchen soldiers also like to plunder the enemy's luggage, and they jump up for joy when they hear that they are about to take a boat.

In the Central Plains, the strategic significance of attacking the grain road is greater than the actual significance, but here, the actual significance of breaking the grain road is far greater than the strategic significance.

Li Rubai sent troops to plunder, not to cut off food, but to kill the enemy.

Just as he doesn't understand parabola and ballistics, but he understands what winning or losing is, he doesn't know what post-traumatic stress disorder is, but it doesn't prevent him from issuing orders to his generals to let everyone from Kyushu Island to Ezo hear The Ming army was afraid.

According to the battle reports obtained by Akechi Mitsu-soo, Li Rubai has indeed achieved his goal.

People remember the Korean archers who can suppress the foot light archers at [-] or [-] steps, and even more remember the Jurchen warriors who dared to hold the bow and run to [-] or even [-] steps before releasing heavy arrows one after another. Liaodong iron cavalry who are truly worthy of Ji Rufeng and Xu Rulin, especially know that this cavalry is extremely good at bullying.

A famous samurai from Kinki, because he met Liaodong iron cavalry and survived, directly resigned from the master's family, gave up the fief, and went to Kyoto to write waka - the battle that made him survive was enough for him to blow half his life .

The experienced ashigaru who managed to escape from the battlefield spread a life-saving trick that no one knows whether it will work or not, never turn your back on the iron cavalry, and some people even practice running backwards, because when people's eyes are fixed on the cavalry, it seems to be forever. When the iron cavalry wandered around the periphery of the battlefield, their horses always paced slowly with heavy hooves, and once they turned around, they would hear the pounding of horseshoes in a blink of an eye.

People say don't look back, that's a better way to die.

Because most of the scars on the corpses of the troops who were hunted down and annihilated were on their foreheads, and half of their faces were smashed to pieces when they faced the huge shackle with their hard frontal bones.

Akechi Mitsuhide spent a long time blocking land routes, and finally learned from the stragglers who escaped from Tongshan Castle that there were several huge Ming ships docked in the bay during the Battle of Tongshan. In this way, the problem of how the Ming army appeared everywhere was easily solved. , but his nightmare is not over yet.

When he planned to lure the enemy army away from the coast and shrink his troops to deploy in Danbo, the enemy army suddenly seemed to disappear, silently, and never appeared again.

On the contrary, Xingsheng in the mountains in the west fought more and more bravely, and repeatedly broke through the defense line, forcing Akechi Mitsuhide to go to fight. It brought extraordinary morale to the Nizi army, and they even wanted to take Danbo in one go.

But this can only be an idiot's dream, Nizi's army is not many at all, and now facing Akechi Mitsuhide's huge army of more than [-], it is luck to break through the defense for a short time, and he was beaten back in a blink of an eye.

Even when the Nizi army was at its most dangerous, the annoying Ming army did not show up, making Akechi Mitsuhide wonder, did they go back?
On the fifth day after he led his headquarters to chase Shikasuke Yamanaka to Tajima Middle School, Akechi Mitsuhide finally figured out where the Ming army had gone—they went to Wakasa Kingdom, burned four cities along the coast in three days, and Liaodong cavalry rampaged across Hokuriku , and even once broke into the Omi River, used artillery to open six large holes in the wall of Niwa Changhide's newly built city, and plundered along the way.

Then... Oda Nobunaga sent someone over to scold Akechi Mitsuhide for the invasion of Wakasa.

Ming Zhi Guangxiu in this formation had helplessness written all over his face, and he bowed down to the retainers who came to deliver the message: "Your subordinate is guilty, please punish me, my lord."

How could he know the crime and what crime should he know!
To scold him for the crime of being unfavorable to attacking the west, he admits it. After all, the battle was indeed not won, but to scold him for the matter of the northern Wakasa country... Akechi Mitsuhide had no time to slander him, and spread the word that the old god of the retainer was on the ground to wake him up. Then he took out another letter to ask him to bow down again, and then scolded him again with the same words about the disadvantage of the west attack.

"Master Hinata Mori, I have offended you. I have fulfilled my orders, and I will retire now."

At this moment, Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly felt that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty hoped that Japan would be unified as a country, the samurai would respect the royal family, and the people would never fight. Those deceptive words did not seem to be bad.

Of course, just thinking about it.

While Nagahide Niwa was actively preparing for battle in Omi, and Mitsuhide Akechi was defending the incoming enemy from the west in Tamba, Chen Bazhi, who had just led an army to attack the Wakasa Kingdom and plundered the cities a few days ago, had returned to the waters around Tango with an invincible fleet. Guangcheng prison bully and Li Rubai put down their warships and issued an order to them to completely capture Danbo and Tango after the First World War.

"After capturing Tambatan, didn't the Niko family make wedding dresses? In this way, the Niko family will become a big family that can rival Shimadzu and Otomo, and control more territories than us."

Before marching, Wang Rulong said to Chen Bazhi on the bank: "It's better to set up a mansion here as well, distribute the land to the people, and mobilize the people to guard their own land and fight against Zhitian."

"Don't worry, General Wang, how prosperous the Nizi clan is now, they will worry about it in half a year—they won't be able to appease this side. Don't forget that they just snatched all the land that the people of the two countries have worked so hard to cultivate, and want to rule here?"

Chen Bazhi smiled and said: "When their faces turn red, we will accept it smoothly, not only the land, but also the hearts of the people."

(End of this chapter)