Chapter 45: Who is the Yellow Sparrow?
If it was Matsudaira Motoyasu who tricked the Kira family into attacking the castle of the Oda clan, then the original idea made sense. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but ...... If he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, what would he do now? Do you take the opportunity to attack the castle of the Kira family? It doesn't seem to be too easy to succeed. If it was to ambush Kira's march halfway, it would require too much intelligence ability. If he just instigated Kira to offend Oda and had no follow-up means, it seems that Matsudaira might not be able to benefit either!
"Regardless of this, we still have to act according to our own plan."
Hirate put away the letter and instructed the retainers.
"You might as well write a letter back to the past, so that you don't have to go on an adventure."
Matsui Yu bowed his head when he heard this, and replied after a moment:
"If you don't send someone, I'm afraid it won't be enough to win people's trust!"
"Oh?" Fan Xiu glanced at him in surprise, "It's rare for you to take the initiative to solicit tasks again and again!" ”
"I do have a request for the lord below." Matsui stood with his head bowed and spoke bluntly.
Fan Xiu couldn't help but be a little interested, this Matsui, who has always been indifferent to materialism and doesn't have a lot of fame, will he actually ask for something? If there are no harsh conditions, you can accept him.
"Alright! Then I'll have to make a trip for you. ”
"Your Highness." Hirano Kanemon suddenly ran to the front again, "Let me go with Matsui-sama!" If the situation is not good, it can also be protected. ”
"But your leg is ...... bad"
"Although there is a disease, it does not affect walking, the other party will definitely ask the negotiator to untie the saber, and only my sword throwing skills can come in handy."
However, Fanxiu obviously overestimated the negotiation efficiency of the small wealthy families in this era. It was once rumored that after the three families of Takeda, Suwa, and Murakami joined forces to build a small fortress, it took three days to discuss the division into areas of interest, which was a joke in later generations. The so-called citrus sentences come to the nest and come from the wind, and there must be a basis.
As soon as Matsui ran over there, the other party made a righteous proposal, asking the defenders to give up the grain, grass, iron cannons and other materials in the city and go out clean. Matsui, on the other hand, suggested that the attackers needed to provide hostages and wait for all the castle to retreat to a safe place before they were released.
It is clear that neither side is willing to accept each other's terms.
"It seems that there is no need to talk about it anymore."
Matsui had a look of regret.
"So you still have to fight, but I don't know how many people are still available in the city?"
Although Yoshiaki Kira's attitude was quite polite, the arrogance and disdain in his words were too lazy to hide it.
"Even if we don't have to negotiate, we can take it in three days! When the time comes......"
A retainer next to him was intimidated.
"This ......"
Matsui showed the right amount of fright, then smiled in front of him again, and turned to Yoshiaki Kira, who was in charge.
"Lord Kira, I'm not like those die-hard guys......"
The latter laughed when he heard this, signaling that the other party did not need to panic.
"It is precisely because I know this that I have invited Your Excellency to come! After all, the contemptible person is also a famous family, and he will not do anything insulting to the family. ”
"At first glance, you can see that you are an orthodox samurai family, and it is completely different from the countrymen of Owari......"
It's a complete flood of compliments, as if you don't even know who is on the other side.
"In short, we still value harmony."
Yoshiaki Kira doesn't seem to want to see such unnutritious compliments either.
"Alas......" Matsui looked hopeful, then shook his head and sighed, and said, "It's a pity that I can't represent everyone......"
"Does Matsui-sama still recognize me?"
Suddenly, another retainer stood up from the side and smiled at Matsui.
"Are you...... The merchant of the day? ”
"Yes, it's under the guise of a merchant to find out the news."
"This ......"
Matsui showed just the right amount of surprise and a hint of anger.
"If Matsui-sama can convince the people in the castle to abandon the castle, the family will be courteous."
Yoshiaki Kira remembered that this was the "samurai who coveted wealth", and began to tempt him.
"How can this be done below?"
refused, but there was a little greed on his face.
"Besides, I can't convince the die-hards ...... alone."
"All you have to do is tell them that our army still has two hundred reinforcements of iron cannons yet to be dispatched."
"That ......"
"Afterwards, the family will give a gift of fifty yuan."
"Your Highness, you have misunderstood." Matsui shook his head sadly, "It's not about money, it's about having a lot of ...... in the city."
"So, how about a hundred times?"
Kira interrupted unceremoniously. This is obviously an offensive act without courtesy, but the other party behaves as if he is very willing to be offended.
"In that case, I'll give it a try."
Matsui nodded "very reluctantly" and agreed.
"Greedy for money and stupid, he's also a samurai?"
As soon as Matsui walked on the front foot, someone immediately said disdainfully.
"In a place like Owari, there are too few literate people, and those who can manage accounts are considered talents."
Someone next to him interjected, completely forgetting that his three rivers were also considered a rural area.
"Even if it were, it wouldn't make such people ......"
The former is still unconvinced.
"The weak soldiers of Owari are known to the world, and I am afraid that they may not be as good as the people of Suruga, who can compare to our Mikawa samurai, who have always been brave and fearless......"
Naturally, this remark made everyone agree. Someone reminded him: "It is better to be a little humble, lest outsiders mistakenly think that we Mikawa people have no one in their eyes!" ”
It's even more laughing.
"Stop arguing!"
Yoshiaki Kira suddenly reprimanded.
The head of the family spoke, although he didn't know what was going on, but no one dared to make a mistake.
Although he was forced to submit to Sunfu, Kira was quite impressed by Imagawa Yoshimoto's strength, but now that he was dead, his son did not show enough political skill, and it was inevitable that he would seek independence. Do you still want to shout like that fool of the Matsudaira family, "Avenge Daisuke Jibe"?
In fact, there is no loss in showing respect for a dead person, but you can gain a certain reputation, but this is not something that everyone can see.
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After that, the two sides still could not reach an agreement immediately, and the hostage matter was put on hold for the time being, but the besieging side strongly demanded possession of the military supplies in the city, and the city said that it would rather burn it than leave it to the enemy, so it ran aground again.
Although Kira seems to have the upper hand, the attacker's commander is not completely stable. If it drags on for a day or two, although the distance of Kiyoshu Castle will not be able to react, the Matsudaira family of Okazaki Castle will not sit idly by. That's when things get complicated. Therefore, the conditions were gradually relaxed, and only the grain, grass and ordnance that were not easy to transport were required to be left, while gold and iron cannons could be taken away.
At the same time, in order to urge the defenders, a new offensive was launched with rockets and baking.
After repeating this twice, the castle finally made a decision to accept the offer and withdraw from the castle. The small gate on the west side opened, and dozens of peasant soldiers and subordinates lined up along the narrow bridge and slowly went out. Kira, who was watching from the sidelines, also kept his promise, did not attack according to the agreement, and let them disperse westward.
When they had gone far, the big gate in front of the city slowly opened, and the back of the door was as empty as promised.
"The other side has already evacuated more than 70 people, and the number of people they just participated in the battle is only about 100, it seems that they have really abandoned the city."
Tomiyong Tadamoto, who has a lot of combat experience, repaid his lord.
So the last trace of doubt was gone, Kira Yoshiaki was overjoyed, and almost took people in person, but was dissuaded that he should not forget to adjust the appearance of the army, so he sent a general of Ashigaru to lead a hundred people into the door, and this line of formation was at the back.
It's a pity for the ambushers, but it has to be launched.
The Kira army crossed the bridge in turn, and when they were halfway there, the iron gunners on both sides suddenly came out, and without aiming, there was a burst of flat fire. Within thirty meters, more than twenty iron cannons fired at a frontal width of less than ten meters, enough to penetrate more than ninety percent of the country's armor. More than a dozen people at the front fell in response, and the bridge suddenly became chaotic.
The side doors also closed quickly at the same time.
"Tie Honshu is here!"
The wounded city lord rode the iconic warhorse and held a short spear aloft, suddenly appeared at the door, shouting and killing, in front of a professional spearman who had just been training for two months, and was completely out of production and guaranteed food supplies. It's not that he is not afraid of death, but considering the low lethality of the bow and arrow and the accuracy of the iron cannon, as long as he does not take the initiative to rush into the enemy formation, the danger is really not high.
The neat black body, the brand-new three guns, the unified pace, the gun array glittered in the sunset, and dozens of people shouted the slogan of the charge to assault, and in an instant there was more than ten times the prestige of the peasant soldiers.
That's the power of formal construction.
The Hattori brothers followed on horseback, Hirano Kawada and others followed behind with their subordinates, and Hiraite Ji Yin and Asano Nagayoshi pressed behind, with a total of only more than 100 people armed, rushing out in batches at the narrow gate, but giving people the illusion of endless ambushes.
In close combat, less than ten people had just died under the spear, and the loyal and brave warriors of Mikawa began to flee in the opposite direction, disrupting their formation.
This is Matsudaira's ploy, and he said that they have joined forces?
Kira Yoshiaki didn't have time to think about it, but shouted loudly to the left and right:
"Hurry up, don't panic, there aren't many people on the other side!"
But at this time, slogans are not enough to turn the tide.
"Haha......"
Hearing this, Hisho Honshu laughed, and pointed a gun at Kira:
"How are you compared to Daisuke Imagawa?"
As soon as these words came out, even Kira himself couldn't help but want to escape.
Yes, even Imagawa Yoshimoto died under this man's scheme! Mikawa knew a little bit about this, and if it weren't for the fact that the investigation showed that this person was dead or seriously injured, many small wealthy clans might not have refused to come here to attack at all. Now that the flat is alive and well and still riding on the horse, this can only show that everyone has been tricked, and the devil knows how many ambushes he has?
After crossing the bridge in a moment, Fan Xiu's soldiers pointed at him, and he was about to kill Yoshiaki Kira.
After the Ninomaru was defeated, the head of the family himself sat here, but there were not many people in the narrow courtyard, and half of them were blocked out of the city. The chaotic military situation is simply the prey to be slaughtered in the face of organized gun arrays.
By the time Yoshiaki Kira escaped from the city, the team was completely in disarray, and only two or three close attendants were left to command.
"Your Highness, I'm here!"
The elder Tominaga Tadamoto counterattacked with the troops outside the city, and he personally led a gate to rush to the front, indiscriminately attacking those who came this way, whether it was the enemy or the retreating friendly troops. After a fight, he barely stopped the defenders at the door of Ninomaru.
However, at this time, led by Hashimoto and others, those who had just withdrawn from the city, had come back again......
After retreating four or five miles in a row, nearly 100 corpses were left behind, and more than 100 people fled, leaving only six or seven hundred people, barely standing on their heels, but they were already demoralized and unable to fight anymore.
Fanxiu looked around, and thirty or forty people on his side were killed, and most of them were injured in the flag book, and they also had the intention of retreating.
Pursuing five times the enemy army with more than a hundred people is nothing more than taking advantage of the situation, and it will be difficult to say when they react.
However, at this time, in the east, that is, behind Kira, there was a shout of killing.
Faintly visible, often seen in later films and television, the three-leaf sunflower flag...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )