Chapter 131: A Thousand Bodies Collapse

The first year of Yonglu, March 20. While the war was going well in the Kanto region, the war in the Tohoku region suddenly deteriorated.

Originally, the Uesugi army, Soma army, and Tamura army in Aizu and Iwaki were defeated several times under the command of Tao Qingxian, and one of its important ministers suffered many casualties. However, when the war in the northeast was being won, Maori Takahiro did not obey Tao Qingxian's command and led his troops alone into the hinterland of Date House.

At first, the three brothers Mori Takahiro, Mori Takamasa, and Mori Takacho led an army of 2,000 from Soma Ryoma Marumori Castle (captured with the assistance of the Uesugi army), and the troops were directed at the territory of the remaining family and the Miyagi country. After receiving the help of the Uesugi family, the Soma family restored its old collar, of course, did not forget the kindness of the Uesugi family. Soma Yoshiyin, who succeeded as the sixteenth governor of the Soma family, immediately sent Yoshinobu Sato, Sato Weixin, father and son, to lead more than 1,000 Soma troops to support Mori Takahiro. In order to prevent Maori Gaoguang from being defeated, Tao Qingxian could only send more than 500 people from the Tomita clan to fight in Date Ling. After the death of the head of the left-behind family, Ryō Hyunmune was succeeded by the third son of Date Harumune, who was left behind in the political scene.

The territory of the left-behind family is located near Matsushima Bay, and the territory includes Iwakiri Castle, Komainukan and other castles. The national division is different from the left-behind family, and the territory of the national division family is in the southwest of the left-behind family. Although the two families bordered each other, due to the death of the eldest son of the Kokubun Mori clan in the battle of Mt. Otaki, the Kokubun Mori clan decided to hold on to Sentai Castle (also known as Chiba Castle) and Kokaku Castle, and he prepared to fight to the death with the Uesugi army.

There were not many troops under the command of the Guofen Sheng clan, and the defenders of Qianti City were only more than 1,100 people, and the defenders of Xiaojiao City were even less, only more than 500 people. The army of the national division family is not large, but after all, the Uesugi army is the besieging side, while the national division family is the defender of the city. The Kokubun Mori clan stationed his younger brother Shiraishi Kei in Kokkakuse, assisted by his retainer Park Ze Masakao. Except for the Shiraishi Jing clan, all the members of the Guofen clan gathered in the Thousand Bodies City to prepare for the battle carefully. The members of the Kokubun family in the Senti Castle are Konachi Soshige (the uncle of the Kokubun Mori clan), Kunibi Mori Lian (the second son of the Kokubun Mori clan, he will inherit the family business of the Kokubun Mori family after the death of the Kokubun Moriken in battle), Xiangroku Shengmasa (the son of the Kokubun Mori clan), and Yokozawa Moriki (the younger brother of the Kokubun Mori clan).

In general, the besieging side must have more than three times more troops than the defending troops to attack the city. Maori Gaoguang carried the banner of his big ant, with 2,000 troops under his command and 1,000 Soma troops, and a total of more than 3,000 generals to launch an attack on Qianti City.

Before the Uesugi army attacked the castle, the remaining Masakai sent his retainer Itami Hitsuno into Senti Castle and asked the Kuniti Mori clan if they needed reinforcements from the remaining family, but the Kokubun Mori clan replied that he refused. The reason why the Kokubun Sheng clan refused to stay in Zhengjing was entirely because Date Harumune had fled to Tsunade Island in the east of Xiantai with Date Huizong and others, as long as the Kokubu family held the two cities, the people belonging to the Date family would spontaneously come to the rescue, and the remaining Zhengjing as one of the few important ministers of the Date family still needed to preserve their strength.

Although Maori Gaoguang has been brainless and rebelled before, he is still good at combat. He did not concentrate his forces on attacking Qianti City, where the Guofen Sheng clan was located, but the Qianshan Castle to the west of Qianti City.

The castle is located in the south of the white mountain, and the lord of the castle is Akiho Norimori (the son of the autumn ho moribo). The Akiho family followed Date Harumun during the Astronomical Rebellion, so Date Harumun also trusted them quite a lot. Akiho's house also has an iron cannon that Date Harumune personally rewarded.

The vanguard of the Uesugi army was Mori Takamasa, who led only 100 men to conquer the branch castle of Kayama Castle in half a day, and won the castle lord Baba Naoshige (the relatives of the Akiho family).

After the news of the fall of Shangguan Castle quickly spread to Aoshan Castle, Qiu Bao Norimori was very calm. He knew that his family's martial arts had come to an end, but he still had to make the last struggle!

When the Date family invaded Soma Territory before, the Akiho family was not asked by Date Harumune to participate in the battle, so they still retained their strength. Even so, the defenders of the city were only about 900 people.

Mori Takahiro does not intend to give Akiho Norimori a chance to live. He divided all the troops under his command into four parts, led by himself and Mori Takatsu, Mori Takamasa, and Sato Nobun father and son, and attacked from all sides of Sakayama Castle at the same time. The durability of Kakuyama Castle is not high, and although it is a castle with a double crankwheel structure, the walls of Ninomaru are a circle of fences, so it can hardly be counted.

In this way, Mori Takahiro launched a general offensive on the 16th. Relying on the superiority in numbers and the good fighting of the samurai and ashigaru, the Uesugi army completely annihilated more than 900 people of the Akiho army in one day, and the autumn army was mori to the indoor seppuku of the Honmaru residence.

Just when Mori Takahiro was planning to divide his troops into two routes, he received the news that the Kurokawa Haruhi clan had sent 700 troops to support Little Horn Castle. This made his original plan to attack Little Horn City all the way and attack Thousand Bodies City all the way aborted.

Maori Gaoguang didn't care, so he took advantage of the situation to bring the 3,000 army to the Thousand Bodies City. He wanted to completely knock on the door guarding the southern part of the Date family's territory, so that Asada, who was in Kanto, could see that he was not only old but also better at fighting than Tao Qingxian.

The Kokubun Mori clan had fortified the castle before the arrival of the army led by Mori Takahiro, and he handed over all parts of the castle to a group of men to guard it. This pill is guarded by the Kokubun Mori clan himself; Ninomaru is garrisoned by Kokubun Mori and is ready to support all localities at any time; Sannomaru was garrisoned by Yokosawa Moriki; Nishinomaru was garrisoned by the township Rokumori Masa; Higashinomaru was garrisoned by Gunai Soshige.

After Mori Takahiro learned that Date Harumune had taken his family to hide on the island, he didn't take Date Army seriously. He thinks that Date Harumunu has fled the ability, so who will send a large number of reinforcements to rescue? Maori Takahiro didn't know that this was Date Harumi's trick. Date Harumune hid on Tsunaji Island in order to make it easier for him to send ships with reinforcements to support.

In the early morning of the 17th, the Uesugi army began the siege with ten iron guns Ashigaru firing at the castle. Qianti Castle is completely different from Kamidate Castle and Kayama Castle, which were easily conquered by Maori Takahiro before. Although Sentai Castle is a flat castle, it has become a fortified castle after several generations of repairs by the head of the Kunibu family, and the morale of the people of the Kunifu clan is unusually high because of the hatred of the Uesugi family and the Soma family. The Uesugi army and the Soma army stopped the siege after losing nearly 100 men in the morning siege. Mori Takahiro was forced to take a siege and set fire to the castle town.

The Kuniti Mori clan repelled the attack of the Uesugi army in the first wave of the defense battle with more than 1,100 defenders, which gave them a lot of confidence. Moreover, the 400 reinforcements of the Yangtze River Jiajing (Yangtze River Jiajing) had already sailed on the sea, and they could land in a day's time, and copy the back road of Maori Gaoguang. Of course, Maori Gaohiro didn't know all this, and he was kept in the dark. However, Tao Qingxian knew that although he mobilized the Yangbei troops who came to the aid such as Katsucho Sebe to support, it depended on whether Maori Gaoguang's own actions could support the arrival of reinforcements.

After resting for the night, the Uesugi army continued their attack on Senti Castle. Again, it was repulsed. Maori Gaozheng and Maori Gaoding were wounded during the war. This battle showed the Date family the weakness of the Uesugi army - the siege of the city.

It was only after Mori Takahiro had taken stock that he learned of the landing of the Date Army. At this time, there were more than 1,800 Uesugi troops left, and more than 800 Soma troops left. Mori Takahiro did not intend to let the Soma army continue to increase casualties, so he asked Sato Yushin and Sato Yoshinobu father and son to lead the Soma army to withdraw first, and he led the Uesugi army to cover.

Sato Weixin, father and son, naturally thanked Dade after hearing that Maori Takahiro came to break it off for himself, but they didn't know that Maori Takahiro was not thinking about the Soma family but himself. After Maori Takahiro went out to lead the battle, there were nearly 200 casualties and casualties, and he didn't even capture a thousand-body city, how could he gain a foothold in the Uesugi family in the future? Mori Takahiro intends to capture the Thousand Bodies Castle before enemy reinforcements arrive.

The last siege was personally supervised by Mori Takahiro, and this time the siege showed obvious results - Nishinomaru and Higashimomaru were captured, and both Gorokumori Masashi and Furuchi Soshige were captured.

Just when Mori Takahiro was about to expand the results of the war, the reinforcements of the Date Army had already reached the back of Mori Takahiro.

One-third Ichikei led 400 reinforcements to the back of the Uesugi army at once, and erected a large number of flags to confuse the Uesugi army, so that it did not know how many reinforcements came. Not only that, but the Shiraishi Keishi, Park Zemasatoki, and Kurokawa Haru clans of Little Horn City led 1,400 troops on the way.

At this time, Maori Takahiro was surrounded, and this was the 'central flowering' of Date Haruzong.

Maori Gaoguang was not stupid and immediately stopped the siege. He had his 20 female cavalry escort the wounded Mori Takamasa and Mori Takasho to the nearest Soma Castle, and he led the remaining 1,500 troops of the Uesugi army to break through from the largest number of Date troops. Mori Takahiro directly led the army to attack Shiraishi Kei and others.

Originally, the Shiraishi Jing clan and the others, who had just come to support, were instantly caught off guard. The retainer of the Shiraishi Kei clan, Park Ze Masaka, was taken on the spot, and the Kurokawa Haruki clan and the Shiraishi Kei clan finally withstood the attack of Mori Takahiro after losing more than 400 people. However, Maori Takahiro also lost more than 200 people here, and with the previous siege, this Uesugi army has long been tired.

Mori Takahiro still led this tired army to fight against the Date army. He successively defeated the Shiraishi Jing clan and the Kurokawa Haru clan. However, with the addition of Tsunemasa Shikura, the lord of Kamikaku Castle of the Date family, Kurino Nagakuni, the lord of the northern castle, and the lord of Iwakiri Castle to stay in Masakai, and others, Mori Takahiro gradually lost his support. In a short period of time, the Date army had risen to more than 3,000, while the Uesugi army had less than 1,000 left after a series of vicious battles.

Even though the Uesugi army suffered heavy losses, Mori Takahiro still led the remnants to fight their way out of the encirclement. On the way, the retainer of the left-behind family, Yi Jianguang, will be obtained. After Maori Gao Guang led his troops to break through, the people of the Date family did not dare to pursue.

Although Mori Takahiro fought his way out of the siege, he was hit by an iron cannon by a group of unidentified ronins as he marched outside Kitome Castle.

Greeted at the city gate, the Mori Takamasa and the Mori Takama immediately surrounded the Assassins with their mother-clothed cavalry, and as a large number of ashigaru arrived, the Assassins all chose to commit suicide.

Maori Gaoding immediately asked several samurai to enter the city with Maori Gaoshi, who was shot in the abdomen and right shoulder, but Maori Gaozheng found a letter on the assassin's body, signed by the Ashina clan!

This can't help but shock Mori Takamasa, the main room of the Ashina clan is the adopted daughter of the Satake family (the daughter of the Satake family), if it is really an assassin sent by him, then he wants to assassinate Mori Takahiro and then raise troops to restore the old leader of the Ashina family?

Maori Gaozheng did not intend to continue his thoughts, he first ordered the remnants of Maori Gaoguang to break through into the city to rest, and he began to carefully read the contents of the letter.

Soon, Mori Takamasa learned the names of the five Assassins who had attacked his brother: Kawarada Moriji, Kawaharada Toyamae Mamoru Kawarada, Yokozazawa Saizaburo, Ikue Kizen, and Watanabe Hakute. And the identity of these people is the former retainers of the Ashina family, and due to the demise of the Ashina clan, they had to flee to Date to hide. In the letter, the Ashina clan only said that they hoped that the five of them could assassinate Mori Takahiro, who was guarding the area around Aizu, so that they could restore their old territory. As for the three-iron cannon used for the assassination, it was provided by the Date family, and the Ashina clan made contact with Date Harumune before the Battle of Mt. Otakine.

The two brothers, Maori Gaomasa and Maori Gaoding, found three or four doctors from the castle town to go to the castle to treat Maori Gaoguang. Unfortunately, Maori Takahiro was overtired at first, and was hit in two places by the lead bullets of the iron cannon, causing heavy bleeding. All the doctors said that Maori Gaoguang was no longer able to be treated.

On March 20, Mori Takahiro stopped breathing in a living room in Kitome Castle. Half of his life was spent in rebellion, and the last rebellion was to become a retainer of the Ogiya Uesugi family under the mediation of the court. After becoming a retainer of the Uesugi family in Ogiga, Mori Takahiro changed from the original Hojo to Mori, and played a role in the joint battles again and again. However, this time, he was killed after being plotted by the villain.

In the entire southern Michitsu Olympus, the only retainers left by the dynasty were capable of Tao Qingxian, Mori Takahiro, Usami Dingkatsu, Jieshan Yunkatsu, Kawada Nagakin, and a few others. After the death of Maori Takahiro, Tao Qingxian will not be able to launch a large-scale offensive against the Date family, and the surrounding Soma family still needs to restore its strength and so on.

The death of Maori Gaoguang and the defeat of the siege of Thousand Bodies City are known as the "Thousand Bodies Collapse" by the world.