The advance of the Tieshou Army was to land on the morning of the fourth day of the sixth lunar month. Although there were many www.biquge.info number of people, the enemy soldiers were all mobilized and left, and Nishisanuki was extremely empty, and the troops of 5,000 people were never discovered.

Then, after a day and night, in the afternoon of the fifth day of the first lunar month, five cities were captured one after another with the momentum of lightning and stealing bells. And it was on this day that Shinohara Nagabo got the news and began to march. (When the military intelligence was sent, there were still two cities that had not fallen, so it was actually lagging behind)

After some simple preparations, 5,000 members of the Heite family moved into the city in the early morning of the sixth day of the new year, and at the same time learned the news that the enemy army was hurrying in.

In addition to knowing that the enemy's nearly 20,000 troops were approaching, Iwanari Yutong actually got another piece of news at the same time. That is Miyoshi Nagajun came to report, saying that today's situation is unclear, please defend the city, act with the camera, and then find an opportunity to join forces when the two armies face off, and get rid of Shinohara Nagabo together.

Such a thoughtful reminder makes it look like something really happens.

Indeed, judging from the other party's series of actions, things seem to be very reliable, at least ordinary people can't see what is wrong.

The other party is not blindly friendly and sincere—or groveling and pleading, on the contrary, the members of the Miyoshi family are clearly sinister, ill-intentioned, and not very respectful.

But if you think about it carefully, this is exactly in line with the reality of the situation, and the two sides are not relatives and friends, but they have a lot of old grudges, which is nothing more than a relationship of mutual use, isn't it very normal for each to have hostility?

It is said that in the Miyoshi family, most of the territories of the original family were in Kinai (except for the lords of the two countries of Awasanki), so they were all on the side of the "Kinai faction", and they were originally the ones who advocated the bloody war with Oda. But once he lost power, in order to save his position of power, he colluded with outsiders without shame. On the contrary, the Shinohara Nagafang they tried to attack was relatively dovish.

Such a reversal of stance is truly unbelievable. However, the current period is the Warring States period when "etiquette collapses and happiness is broken, and people's hearts are not ancient", and "incorruptible and shameless, unbelievable" is not the norm in today's political situation?

All in all, Iwasari Tomoto, who was appointed as a pioneer general by Tieshou, still has deep doubts in his heart, but he can't stop the other generals from believing it.

Miyoshi's former minister, Kasai Naganobu and Matsuyama Shigeharu, were temporarily authorized to understand the cause and effect, and then talked for a while, thinking that "it is reasonable, and it can be accepted." If you can take advantage of the situation to win over the enemy chieftain, it is really an immortal achievement. ”

Dr. Yasuya Terada, who has a certain relationship with the Miyoshi family, has always been an insider, and he vows: "I have speculated about the discord between Miyoshi Nagayi and Shinohara Nagabo early in the morning, and now it has been confirmed." This is a God-given opportunity, all of you have made contributions and repaid the grace of the prisoners, just at one moment! ”

Toda Tadaji and Natsume Yoshinobu of Mikawa's new Sento had just received the notice, and they did not show a clear attitude, but said: "Since Lord Supervisor has entrusted Iwanari as the vanguard general, I ask you to make a decision, and I will naturally obey the order!" ”

And the leader of the Saga Party, Shigehide Suzuki, was also called to share information at the military council for the first time, and he accounted for half of the combat strength of the vanguard army. However, Zaga Zhong is a first-class mercenary, and he knows the truth of taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others, so he did not speak rashly, and cautiously expressed his obedience to military orders. After all, behind this business is Ashikaga Yoshiaki Oda Nobunaga, two uncles are staring, and they must behave well.

This public opinion situation, the attitude of the Mikawa people and the Saga people gave Iwasari Youtong confidence.

Out of the feeling of "the king treats me as a national soldier, and I should repay it as a national soldier", he consciously has a precipitation responsibility on his shoulders for the Pingshou army, and should be cautious first, so he ordered all troops to strictly guard the city, and before the arrival of the prisoner, he must not think of anything about "combining inside and outside, and making meritorious contributions in one fell swoop".

Iwasari Youtong himself has no prestige, but he holds the fan given by the flat hand, even though he is scolded behind his back as a "fox and fake tiger", but on the surface, people dare not disobey.

So next, the Pingshou army took the initiative to abandon the two more remote cities, emptied the grain, and distributed 5,000 troops in the three cities, forming a horn arch guard, strictly guarding against the situation, and stationing down.

About half a day later, Shinohara's army arrived at about 4 p.m., and they did not rush to attack the castle when they saw this, but spread out their soldiers and surrounded the four castles. At the same time, they set up camp, cut down trees, and prepared for the siege.

During this period, Shigehide Suzuki, Yasudai Terada and others tried to attack first while the enemy was not firmly established, but the results were not great. The squad sent out kicked to the iron plate and was driven back cleanly, losing its troops in vain.

Shinohara Nagafang has never heard of being good at trickery, but he has a good ability to use regular soldiers, and he is not a mediocre general who will easily give the enemy a good chance.

Then no one had any more ideas, and they couldn't hold on to it, and sat back and watched the attackers surround themselves.

On the other hand, Shinohara's long house also seems to be very tacit, unhurried, and orderly mobilizes the soldiers under his command.

Iwanari Yutong watched as the banners of his former colleagues in Shikoku were erected around the city one by one, including the Miyoshi clan members who colluded with the Hirate, and he remained unmoved.

Out of fear of his old boss Miyoshi Changyi, he was determined not to make any risky moves for the sake of safety.

Anyway, it doesn't take long to defend, and the main force of the Lord of the Equals Prison will arrive in a few days.

What kind of intelligence is that adult? Arrangements must have been made for follow-up matters, and the requirement for Iwanari DFI is only to "stay quiet for up to five days".

The attacker has a maximum of 20,000, the defender has 5,000, and after simple preparations, it is more than enough to hold for five days.

Normal means of defense, of course, are difficult to defeat the general Iwa.

Seeing that the first day of the siege will pass in peace.

……

Unexpectedly, after a night of confrontation, before dawn on the first day of the seventh day of June, the attack still did not begin outside the city, but there was a sudden riot in the army.

Iwanari Tomomichi, who had set off from Honmaru, hurried to the front court, and received a message halfway through: "Lord Tax! Hundreds of people vomited and diarrhea, as if they had been poisoned by something! ”

didn't wait for him to react, and at about this time, he received a secret letter from Miyoshi Changjun at night.

It reads:

"It is said that before some of the defenders escaped, they sprinkled poison in the city's wells and granaries, and my generals heard about it, and did not dare to delay, so they immediately sent it over, and asked the Pingshou army to be careful! In addition......"

Iwacheng Youtong's heart immediately sank, and he deeply felt that he was sorry for his identity as a "general".

I have been deeply entangled in the question of whether the "internal response" is reliable, but I didn't expect to miss the basic battlefield response and be calculated by this kind of trick.

However, those wealthy families affiliated to the Sanhao family are really fighting, and in order to hurt the enemy, they did not hesitate to poison their own homes! Forget about the granary, the poison in the well is very troublesome to clean up!

The only thing that was okay was that the enemy was in a hurry, and the dose of poison that was given seemed to be insufficient, and everyone drank it for about ten hours, which only caused diarrhea among some of the soldiers, so it seems that none of them had died.

But even if it's diarrhea, this also affects the combat effectiveness very much, maybe most of the soldiers have reached a critical point, and if they continue, there will be adverse reactions? …… Can you only eat your own dry food and wait for the rain?

I didn't have time to think about it first, and then read the secret letter in my hand.

It turned out that it was the two cities of Tianwu and Gaosong, which had resisted a little before, and the city soldiers had a strong fighting spirit, and they were very unwilling to withdraw from the back gate, and did a lot of destruction work. In addition to poisoning, they also seized the time to dismantle some beams and pillars, hid flammable and explosive materials such as rosin gunpowder in several places at the city gate, made holes in inconspicuous places on the outer walls, burned the materials that could not be taken away, and burned the arrows and oars by the way.

Most of these small actions have not been hidden from Iwacheng Youtong's eyes, the missing beam and column structures have been urgently replaced, most of the flammable and explosive materials have been removed, and the fire has been extinguished as soon as it enters the city.

However, MeSign still played a role, and there were still some means to send someone to deal with it after receiving a reminder.

But it's too late for this all-important water thing.

Now they had to give an ad hoc order not to use the food and well water that had been left in the city. But if it doesn't rain, let alone five days, it's hard to hold on for three or two days.

Supposedly, the Lord of the Tie Shovel is about to arrive. But if he moves a little slower, that's ......

At that time, I can only believe in the "inside and outside" thing, and let it go.

Thinking back to the time when the city was broken in the morning, there wasn't much time left for the other party to react? How can so many countermeasures be taken? Was it prepared beforehand? Is this all a conspiracy?

The three good used the fraud meter, the tie knew that the three good used the fraud meter, and the three good knew that the tie knew that the three good used the fraud meter......

However, it can't be explained, at this time, why send a secret letter to remind you?

For a while, Iwasari Yutong also began to feel that the old buddy Miyoshi Changyi might really want to join forces to expel Shinohara, and he might not know about the poisoning. Maybe it was Shinohara Nagabo who instructed him to prepare the poison?

If you think about it, the water seems to be very deep.

If the late Changqing Gong was here, how would he decide?

Now we should be thinking about it, if the Tie Prisoner is here, how will he make a decision?

Subconsciously, Iwacheng Youtong compared the two in his heart. Moreover, although Changqing Gong is worthy of admiration and worship, it is already history after all.

He already subconsciously felt that he couldn't handle the whole thing, so he had to wait until the Tarashite Supervisor came.

And before that, what you can do is to try to hold on for a few days, and send someone back to report the latest news.

Without waiting much effort, through the secret help of the three good people, the scouts sent back an important military information:

Hirate Honhide, who had landed with 6,500 men in the early hours of the morning, was only about 10 km away from this place.

This news relieved Iwasari Youtong's heart, but at the same time, he felt a little "ashamed to see the prisoner".