Uehara Toda is also a general who commands the army, and he has dominated San'in Province for many years, so he still has basic military knowledge. Through the orbits where the boulders fell, the attack was quickly locked behind the dense forest. He immediately ordered someone to try to shoot arrows into the dense forest, hoping to reverse the defeat in one fell swoop.

At this point, Maori was already on guard, relying on the dense forest as a defense, ordinary bows and arrows could not shoot at all, not to mention that the ambush team was already far out of the range of bows and arrows. On the contrary, those catapults are thrown in the air, and they can ignore the dense forest, which forms an overwhelming advantage, only to be beaten, but not to beat.

After half an hour of attack, I don't know how many explosives and boulders fell in the barracks, and I don't know how many people were killed and how many people were wounded. Finally, the offensive slowed down, and the attack materials that had been prepared for several days were about to be exhausted. The main Maori Orthodox appeared.

He had actually started his operation two quarters of an hour earlier, but because of the distance, it always took time to close the distance between the two sides. When it was finally possible to see the tent of Uehara Toda's large army camp, it was just as time for the catapults to stop working, and then, at the command of Mori Masanori, the army of 90,000 came in a dense and overwhelming manner like a wasp.

If there is no chaos in the army, 70,000 against 90,000 is not without the strength to fight. On the contrary, Uehara Toda may also have a certain advantage as a defender. But now, the army has been scattered, there are heavy casualties, and the morale of the army is in chaos, where can any decent counterattack be organized?

Seeing the dense enemy rushing in, the 70,000-strong army, whose morale quickly collapsed, was not even organized to put up a decent resistance, and was dispersed by the flow of troops from afar.

Defeat is like a mountain!

This moment can only be described in such words. In the face of the sudden, even like a divine soldier, the Maori regular army of 90,000. One side is discouraged, the other side is in full swing, and it is about to end before it starts, which is not a fair competition.

If Uehara Toda had been able to make the right judgment from the very beginning of the catapult attack and escape with his troops, perhaps he would have been able to retreat to San'in Road and find a way to reorganize himself. But now, before he could make any preparations, Uehara Toda was surrounded by Mori Masanori before he could go far, and then he was killed in the chaos.

Uehara Toda is dead!

With an army of 80,000 in control, Uehara Toda, the de facto controller of the San'in and Michido regions, died. His death also means that a series of treaties signed with Yang Chendong have become waste paper. After the special envoy who signed the contract with him learned the news through the telegram for the first time, he got up and walked towards the mansion of the county magistrate of Daze.

Osawa County is not a very conspicuous county seat in San'in Province. The warlord in charge of guarding here is named Wise Changxin, who is the leader of the younger generation in the Wise family, and he is also the person who is favored by Yang Chendong.

The Wise Family is a family with a long history in the Wa Kingdom, with a glorious ancestor, and it is even recorded that the earliest rulers of the San'in and Michi regions were actually their Wise Family. But after all, it is a legend that has been around for a long time, and there is no way to verify it, and in the eyes of many people, this is just a person from the wise family putting gold on his face.

It's just that as a wise family, they all do it

Rong, and dreamed of one day being able to reforge their glory to prove that their Wise Family's bloodline was the most powerful.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. In the war-torn Wa Kingdom, the warlords were in the forest, and the wise family who retreated to Daze County only had an army of 10,000 people built at a high price. These 10,000 people are already the most powerful existence in Daze County, but in the face of other warlords nearby, they seem to be so weak.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops in the face of the great shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, but also in the face of Uehara Toda, the actual ruler of Sanin Province, the 10,000 people in their hands are simply not enough. Even if the time is not ripe, they can only continue to lie dormant and wait, waiting for the opportunity to rise.

Opportunity is always for those who are prepared. Guan Xing came to the door, and the two sides had contact before that, and he was accepted by the Wise family by virtue of his identity as a special envoy of the Five-Star Army, and this time, he appeared directly in front of Wise Changxin.

"There is news from the front, Uehara Toda has been ambushed by Maori Masanori, and has died in the chaos of the army, and now San'in Dao Qunlong is leaderless, and seeing that the tentacles of the great general are about to reach here, Akechi-kun, your chance to perform has come." The manager said the new information with a solemn face.

At this moment, the wise long letter was already red, representing the excitement in his heart at the moment, "Great, it's finally time for our wise family to rise." Honorable envoy, thank you, we owe the wise family is also willing to be led by King Wunan and listen to his orders. ”

There is no such thing as a white pie in the sky. The basis for the management of the guild's support for the wise long-term letter is that the wise family is willing to be headed by Yang Chendong. Without this premise, a small county magistrate and an army of 10,000 people really can't afford to run this trip in person.

"Very good, I will convey your loyalty to King Wunan, and then proceed according to the plan. Wise Lord, please rest assured, our five-star army will cooperate with you in secret. Guan Xing nodded with satisfaction, one needed a chance to rise, and the other needed to find a puppet to complete his goal, and the two sides hit it off and soon came together.

Yang Chendong's layout was finally revealed.

The so-called alliance with Uehara Toda in the past was just a situation. There are too few places where the other party can ask for their own, and if they are vigorously supported, they may be able to inflict a heavy blow on the forces of the great generals under the alliance, and even defeat them. But who can guarantee that after the victory, Uehara Toda will not become the next great general?

That is, if it is uncontrollable, it is better not to control it at all, and to treat it as an outcast. This is the theory that the sword roar forced Ninki Tahide to write a letter and prepare Ashikaga Yoshimasa in advance. When the plan is well underway, the controllable wise Nagashin appears, and he will become the current spokesperson of the Five Star Army, doing his best to help them unify the entire Wa Kingdom.

Zhizhi Changxin, who had received the support of the Five-Star Army, was full of confidence, and he first sent people to the two nearby county magistrates to visit his house. At the banquet, the white silver was brought out, pointing to the 200,000 taels of silver, and the wise letter promised that as long as the two county magistrates made themselves the masters, each of them could take 100,000 taels of silver back, and at the same time, there would be different amounts of silver every month in the future, and there would be heavy rewards for the merits of the war, etc.

There's no one who doesn't get impressed. Relying on silver as a supplement, the power of wise and long-term faith has increased from 10,000 before

The number of people became 30,000 now.

It is still not enough to be the enemy of the general, but at least there is a good start, and at this moment the wise Changxin is full of confidence and began to fight in all directions.

Heiankyo Imperial Palace.

This has become the place where Yang Chendong's camp is located. A side hall that originally received the courtiers was now converted into a military conference room, and a huge sand table has been put up.

It has occupied Heiankyo, Saikaido and Sanyo Provinces. Now that San'in Dao has the spokesperson of the Wise Family, the progress of the Five-Star Army after entering the Wa Kingdom can be said to be smooth.

Considering the strength of the army, Yang Chendong decided to stop expanding on land and instead set his sights on the sea. As the largest naval division base in the Japanese Kingdom, Nankaido will be his next major strategic target.

"Tell me about it." In the conference room, Yang Chendong's gaze fell on Ding Yan, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Sea, very casually.

"Yes, Sixth Young Master." Ding Yan got up, then picked up a wooden stick that had been placed long ago and pointed it at the sand table and said: "Everyone, please see, Nanhai Road is surrounded by water on all sides and the sea in the east, and it has become an independent existence that is separate from the land of the entire Renwei Kingdom. In particular, Kii-gun, which belongs to this area, is just south of our Heian-kyo, and it is always a threat to us, which is really unsettling..."

"For special geographical reasons, Nankaido is actually the place where the naval masters of the Wa Kingdom are located. According to the news from the intelligence department, there are thousands of ships on the Japanese Sea, 400,000 soldiers, and some warships are also equipped with earthen cannons, and the effective attack distance can reach about 1,200 meters.

"The naval commander of the Wakoku Province of Nankaido, named Yukicho Kuroda, is an old seaman with rich experience in naval warfare, and he himself is also a descendant of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, so he is very much used by him..."

"Due to the geographical advantages of Nankaido, there are many large reefs in the nearby waters, and once the big ship approaches, it is likely that a bottoming out shipwreck will occur if it takes the wrong road. Although our intelligence department has worked hard to obtain a lot of information about the situation in this terrain, no one can guarantee that there will be anything missing, and I do not recommend a large-scale offensive until the situation is fully understood..."

Ding Yan was ordered to give a detailed explanation of Nanhai Province at this meeting, and gave a detailed explanation of the comparison of the enemy's forces and environmental conditions.

Compared with the 400,000 naval divisions of the Japanese army, more than 1,000 warships of various types still have the advantage of geographical advantages. On the side of the Five-Star Army, there were only the 4th and 5th Divisions of the Sea, and together they were only 240 warships, and even if they added the 20,000 men of the Korean Provincial Navy Division and more than 100 warships, they were only 40,000 soldiers and 400 ships.

With less than 40,000 against 400,000, 400 warships against more than 1,000 warships, this battle is not easy to fight, and to be more precise, if the Japanese navy can not come to fight them, they will have to burn high incense, let alone take the initiative to cause any naval war.