"Is this Aizu? It's really a mountain and a river, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Zhou Dingguo immediately climbed to the top of the mountain, looked around and said, this time he was the commander of the Mutsu Expeditionary Army, leading an army of 30,000 to the north. However, among the 30,000 people, there are actually only 12,000 standing troops, and the rest are reserve forces. The civil strife of the Ashina family is just an opportunity, if the Ashina family is really pacified, he doesn't need to take action at all, and there is no need to send so many troops, so that Nagano Yemasa or Hojo Tsunari-level generals can bring 20,000 people over, spend some time, and no matter what, it can be calmed down. But Ashikaga Molong's intention was to cut off 1.2 million koku in Aizu, Hazen, and Iwaki! That is, in history, Uesugi Keikatsu was transferred to the sphere of influence during the period when he became the five elders, with this 1.2 million stones, and then crazy immigration here, then not only can the security of the Kanto region be ensured, but also another 20,000 standing troops can be recruited, so that the number of Ashikaga standing troops reached 70,000, of which 60,000 can be used in Shangluo.

Ashikaga Nobuden asked with some concern: "My lord, at the moment, we divide our troops and attack the strategy, is it too scattered to disperse the forces?" The main force enters Aizu, and once the Date family leads the Mutsu forces to attack from the direction of Iwaki, we will only have 3,000 troops at our disposal. ”

Zhou Dingguo said with a confident smile: "It doesn't matter, in my opinion, there is only one lord in the world who uses soldiers like ghosts and gods, and those who can be in the middle of me are only the number of five fingers. ”

Just when Zhou Dingguo and Ashikaga Nobuden led the troops to brag in Naganuma City, the main force of the 30,000 troops of the Mutsu Izuwa Alliance led by the Date family was also assembled in Sugime Castle, not that Date Harumune didn't want to send more people, but this place was vast and sparsely populated, and it looked scary that the stone was high, but in fact, there were not many that could be effectively used, and the logistical pressure was even more terrifying. Oda Nobunaga's attack in the land of still gave the Date family a little confidence, after all, it is impossible for Ashikaga Molong to sit idly by and watch the Rokkaku family be destroyed, once this nail is pulled out, those forces that oppose Ashikaga Molong can be united, and the harm will be great. But what they didn't know was that Ashikaga Moryu was ready to sacrifice the Rokkaku family, of course, only if those opposition forces shed enough blood.

The Tamura family in Miharu City is not a particularly strong force, but the Tamura family's superintendent, Tamura Takaaki, is recognized as a wise general, and the internal turmoil in the Date family is mediated by him. This time, he was invited by Date Harumune to give advice, and Takashi Takashi played the role of a military advisor. "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone must have heard of the courage of the Ashikaga family, 30,000 against 30,000, I don't dare to fight such a battle, but Zhou Dingguo is too big, and the main force is exhausted, so he will lead 3,000 people to guard the logistics center of Naganuma Castle, once we cut off here, then the 30,000 Ashikaga army that entered Aizu will become a turtle in the urn, so there is no need to worry."

"What are we going to do if those 30,000 people fight back desperately?" Mogami Yoshimori, the head of the Mogami family, asked.

"Hahaha, that's not a problem. When the Ming Kingdom was in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, once led 300,000 elites to conquer Goguryeo, and the Goguryeo people were powerless to resist and could only defend the city, but even so, they were still on the verge of extinction. At this time, Yang Xuangan, who stayed in the country and was in charge of logistics, rebelled, resulting in the collapse of front-line logistics, and the 300,000 troops were scattered, and the elite of the Sui army who were captured and killed were said to have more than 200,000, and the Goguryeo people cut off their heads and piled them up as high as a mountain! ”

Everyone immediately laughed, as if they had seen the scene of capturing the elite of the Ashikaga Army and cutting off their heads and piling up hills.

"But we can't do that!" Tamura Takashi suddenly said: "The Goguryeo people dared to do this, but in the end, they were exterminated by Li Tang." Even if we kill all the 30,000 Ashikaga troops, Ashikaga Moryu will immediately be able to mobilize 100,000 troops to continue to conquer us, so we must promote peace by war. Let Ashikaga Ryū acknowledge our domination of Mutsu Dewa, that's what we're all about! "Of course a smart person like Takamura Takashi will not do stupid things, just the character of Ashikaga Molong, others dare to slaughter his soldiers, Ashikaga Molong is determined to slaughter the entire Mutsu Dewa, anyway, he has no shortage of people, and he killed all the people, and the immigrants of the Ming Kingdom have it, and they just return it to other places.

"The top priority is to select the elite of us, raid Naganuma Castle with lightning speed, and take this place while the main force of the Ashikaga army is still in Aizu and has not withdrawn, and then we will have the qualifications to negotiate with Ashikaga Molong." Takashi Tamura said, and everyone nodded in agreement.

Date Harumi, the strongest of them, knew that it was time to express his position, and immediately spoke: "Since everyone agrees, then I mean that we all put together a cavalry team of 10,000 people, led by me personally, to raid day and night, and take Naganuma City first. The main force of the rear army was commanded by Mogami-sama and Tamura-sama, and they were ready to respond next. ”

Everyone didn't have any objections, although the family governors of the various families also knew about Date Harumi's little ninety-nine: With the help of this battle! Further strengthen the position of the Date family. But the premise is that you have to be able to take Changnuma City, although it is only a small city, but it is Zhou Dingguo, the Ashikaga family, the sun and moon double dragon will be stationed, I am afraid it will not be so easy to take it.

Mutsu Dewa itself is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of horse farms, so it is not difficult to make up a cavalry team of 10,000 people, although the cavalry team of 10,000 people is divided into more than 300 large and small forces, but the scale is already very amazing, as for how to command, it is not a headache for the wealthy families, look at Date Harumun. If the limelight is not right, it is easy for cavalry to run away.

Date Harumun didn't think about it so much, he had the ability in history, but his military talent was actually not very prominent, but the Date family was the most powerful, and as the governor of the Date family, he had people to listen to his command. Seeing that he had tens of thousands of iron horsemen under his command, a man could inspire a wave of pride and ambition, and he originally wanted to recite a poem to last for a hundred years, but the ink in his stomach obviously couldn't support Date Harumun to complete this task, and in the end he had to give up. However, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been fully promoted in the Wa Kingdom, and Date Harumi is still very proud of the fantasy that there will be a legend about his own defeat of the enemy in the future. Although his military talent is very average, Date Harumune is a family governor anyway, and he has heard of the horror of the Ashikaga family ninjas. In order to successfully raid Naganuma Castle, it is necessary to march quickly and break through Naganuma Castle before the ninja can relay information about their cavalry raid back. Thinking of Cao Mengde's fierce record of running hundreds of miles in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and destroying Wuhuan in the first battle, Date Qingzong immediately ordered not to be stingy with horsepower, galloped with all his might, and began the first long-distance attack in his life! Belch...... And for the last time.