Chapter Sixty-Seven: Vulnerable Enemies and Weaker Allies

On a late autumn morning, a cool breeze blows across the river, rustling the reed leaves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info sits on the sunny side, the hillside blocks the rising sun, making it even more shady.

Pingshou sat lazily by the lake, wearing a hat on his head, wearing a cloak, his left hand resting on his thigh to support his head, and his right hand holding a long fishing rod obliquely.

There was a circle of guards standing around, all dressed and armed, standing in a pretentious manner, for fear of disturbing the sovereign's fishing, and did not dare to make a loud noise. It's just that a few water birds on the river surface don't understand the amorous feelings, flying around, the noise is non-stop, and the piercing cries echo in the mountains and wilderness, which is more and more exaggerated.

Fortunately, Tie Tsutsu doesn't really want to fish. The reason why he ran out of the warm camp of the main general and sat on this cool muddy grass covered with dew was just to calm the morale of the army.

It's not that his own men are shaken. Half of the flag book of the Heite family are veterans, plus a group of retainers led by Kawada Nagajin are also experienced in a hundred battles, and there are also fighting generals such as Baixiang Jiajia and Honda Masashige, so the momentum is not so easy to decline.

But the situation with friendly forces is not optimistic. Miyoshi Yoshitsugu's troops can basically only be regarded as a makeshift militia, and Hatakeyama Akitaka is several times worse on the other side.

A few days ago, at the military meeting, the commanders, after some discussion, decided on a mediocre offensive plan, that is, each person was responsible for one direction, and each of them led his own troops to attack. It seems a bit stupid to spread the troops evenly and not communicate with each other, but considering that there are only less than 1,000 soldiers on the other side, everyone thinks that there is no problem.

The most powerful tie was in charge of the east of the battle, which had the longest front. Heide Honhide personally inspected that the fortifications of this position were not badly built, and there were obvious signs of just renovation, so it was conceivable that they were very strong. On the other hand, due to the lack of undulating terrain and the shallow digging of the trenches, these strong walls were of limited protection against the defenders.

Therefore, Fan Xiu didn't pay too much attention to it, and ordered the four flag reserves to attack in twos and twos in turn. Cover up the attacking troops, while another group attacked the outcrops with bows and iron cannons.

After several days of preparation, the Tie family fought for an afternoon with this conservative tactic, and naturally could not break through the defensive line, but it is estimated that both sides suffered about 50 casualties.

I'm quite satisfied with this number. That's about one-twentieth of the enemy's total strength, and it is not easy to inflict such damage on the first day.

At this pace, it will be difficult for the enemy to maintain his morale after five days. So after arranging the manpower for the night, Fan Xiu fell asleep peacefully.

But I didn't expect to fall asleep this time, and there was a big problem.

Seeing that the attack was strong, they adopted an extremely aggressive tactic, and took 300 people to sneak out to attack that night.

This so-called "night attack" is just a farce in the eyes of the veterans of the Tie family. First, he did not detect the camps of the attackers' commanders, second, there were no measures to hide his movements and movements, third, he did not release false information in advance to confuse, and fourth, he did not wait for the attackers to get tired, and he did not use high-end means such as changing military flags and disguising identities.

Even among the 300 "warriors", many of them rushed out of the main gate with torches! It's not so much a night attack as an open fire attack!

I never thought that such a night attack at the level of a little doll would catch Hatakeyama Akitaka off guard. The South Hanoi Army he brought was stationed in the west of the city, and when it encountered the enemy, it immediately fell into chaos and fled in all directions, incidentally impacting the Miyoshi Righteous Relay Army in the south of the city, triggering a chain reaction.

By the time the Tie Army in the east and the Shogunate Army in the north reacted, the situation could no longer be contained. A large number of stragglers were mixed together, and the men and horses of Hatakeyama and the "three hundred warriors" who attacked were crumpled into a big ball, and outsiders couldn't tell who was who.

Rao is unparalleled wisdom general Tieshou Tsuhide, and heroes such as Hosokawa and Akechi of the shogunate, can only settle down in their own camp first, and then send people to slowly find out the situation.

Fortunately, after a night of chaotic fighting, Hatakeyama Akitaka himself was not harmed. The loss of a few hundred troops (most of them not killed in battle but escaped) does not affect the overall situation. On the contrary, the defenders who came out to assault were killed by more than a hundred elites, and they were even more precarious.

Tactically, this night attack was a failure. But mentally, there is a different situation.

A group of big people led by Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Hatakeyama Akitaka became panicked when they saw only some swords and swords. Their retainers and soldiers also began to lose their fighting spirit. The Tie Army, which was originally a guest army, naturally lost its spirit.

At this time, the city made a request for peace, claiming that as long as the lives of the defenders were spared, they would agree to the pre-war demands and accept the rule completely.

Obviously, no one with a brain will agree to this "peace". More than 10,000 troops have come, and you have only expressed your surrender, how can you maintain the conditions before the war?

However, those "frightened birds" who had the right to speak were actually seriously considering it, and simply negotiated peace, so as not to be attacked again the next night.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki grew up in the temple since he was a child, and he had never experienced this kind of battle, so he felt that it was understandable.

But Hatakeyama Akitaka, who was obviously born in a famous samurai family, received formal education since childhood, and was trained to be dignified, but he didn't expect it to be a completely useless embroidered pillow. I don't know if Nobunaga will regret it in the future and marry his sister's sister to this person.

Ordinary people naturally did not dare to question Lord Gongfang, and they all cast their eyes on Nan Hanoi with contempt.

And the tie also thought of another layer.

is also Nobunaga's brother-in-law, and the brother-in-law of Hatakeyama Akitaka may indeed have no ability. But he has a group of old ministers of the Hatakeyama family under him, so he won't have no basic battlefield experience!

If you look like this, you can't say that there is an internal problem. I heard that the head of the pen head of Hatakeyama in Hanoi, the Yu Zuo clan, has always been suspected of having a big tail, could it be that they played a negative role in it?

With the help of a ridiculous night attack, let the young lord of the Hatakeyama family "sacrifice" in order to seize power?

If that's the case, then Hatakeyama Akitaka decided to retire, but it was the right choice!

But no matter how you say it, it's an internal affair, and outsiders can't intervene.

The only thing that Honhide can do now is to use his own way to appease the morale of the army - to be exact, the main thing is Ashikaga Yoshiaki's mood.

After briefly speculating on the habits of this princess, Fan Xiu did not go straight to persuasion, but acted and spoke. Early the next morning, he happily left his troops to Kawada and ran to the river with his guards to fish.

Although he had nothing to do with this battle, the option of accepting the peace agreement and returning to the division did not enter the mind of the tie.

After all, he has been talking and laughing with opponents of the level of Imagawa Yoshimoto and Miyoshi for so many years, and now if he folds in the hands of such an unknown countryman, can he hold his face?