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At dusk, the sun was setting, and outside the small Araki Castle, thousands of wise troops divided into more than a dozen columns tightly surrounded the small coastal city in front of them.

More than half an hour ago, the general of the Wise Army, Wise Zomasuke, captured another city, Fangchuan Castle, not far from here.

It was said that it was captured, but in fact, Wise Zuo Majie did not spend much effort -- to be precise, the defenders of Fangchuan City were only a few hundred, and the defenders of the city were so frightened that they didn't even have the strength to speak when they saw so many enemies coming from under the city.

Wise Zuo Majie was very merciful and generous to send people to the guards to send a message, as long as they surrendered obediently, then the money in the city and the lives of the city soldiers could be saved.

With these words, the group of people opened the city gate very interestingly.

Fang Chuan City fell into the hands of the enemy in this way after being besieged for less than half an hour.

At this time, the defenders of Araki City were also terrified in the face of this situation.

This group of people is huge, their banner has never been seen before, it is definitely not the troops of Boqi's country, eighty percent of them are coming from the outside, looking for trouble for the Maori family, we are just the people of the country who can't work so hard for the Maori family......

Look, how conscious people are, after determining that they can't fight it, it's better not to fight, maybe they can still survive, and the gates of Araki City are also opened.

In this way, without spending a single soldier, the two coastal cities in Yahashi County fell into the hands of the Wise Army, and thus the Wise Army gained a firm foothold in the coastal zone of the Boqi Kingdom.

Hosokawa Tadashi couldn't sit still, he walked back and forth in front of me, if I hadn't been looking down at a book, I would have been stunned by him.

"Zhongxing, you are walking around, is it urgent to urinate, if this is the case, wouldn't it be good to go to the toilet, what are you doing dangling in front of me? It annoys me! ”

"Big brother, I've heard that Zuo Majie and they have already laid down a lot of cities in the past few days, and Yaqiao County has all been captured!"

"Well, I also know all of this, it's a good thing, Zuo Majie and they are preparing to march westward, and before and after us, they will attack Hino County, as long as they take Hino County, the entire Xiboqi Kingdom will fall into my hands...... Hahaha, I really didn't expect it to be so easy, I originally thought there would be a few hard fights. ”

"But, don't you think you're bored, big brother? They have already achieved a lot of successes, but there is no progress on our side. ”

"Bored? No, I'm always waiting for Yoshikawa Motoharu to arrive, but he doesn't come anymore, and I'm a little anxious to wait! ”

"Big brother, although our side is just bluffing, but after all, it is the main force, if there is no combat results at all, it will be looked down upon...... During this time, we have been attacking Yaotai City in these Three Kingdoms Mountain, but we have never captured it, will this be ......?"

"I didn't plan to attack the castle in earnest, but now on the other side of the sea, the second team led by Matsuda Masajin has also landed, haha, even if I don't have any size here...... Now the Boqi Kingdom, which is empty of troops, can't withstand the back and forth of 10,000 troops, so I'm happy to wait here slowly. ”

"General, Yaotai City has been captured!"

It is the flag book of the entrance.

"Oh? Are you sure? ”

After all, Yaotai City is a city facing the country of Meizuo, there are enough three thousand defenders in the city, plus the topography of the Three Kingdoms Mountain, it is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, but I don't plan to put much effort into it, although the momentum is so loud, but there are not many specific actions, and the people of the various factions in the family take turns to fight, that is, no one really wants to take it down, and often just fight and leave, making the enemy inexplicable.

So now when I hear that this city has been conquered by us, I can't believe it at all.

"Did the enemy surrender on his own initiative?"

"Yes, the food in the city has been eaten, and the city is over, and the soldiers cannot get supplies, so they go to the guards to make trouble, and this is the end of the city."

"Cut! This group of people is so boring! ”

Hosokawa Tadashi was disappointed.

"Don't put on that yet, now that the castle has been laid, let me go into the city and have a look."

I was about to go out when a man dressed like a peasant hurriedly ran up to me and knelt down!

"Ah, Miyauchi, how do you dress up like this, you can't go on a mission in person."

The person in front of me is also my retainer, his name is Okuda Keizuna, and he calls himself Miyauchi Shaosuke, so I call him "Miyauchi", and the ninja reconnaissance work at home is generally entrusted to him to be in charge -- by the way, there are no ninja troops in my legion, because I don't think the ninja army can do anything, it's just a special force with a little stronger combat effectiveness.

"Lord, ......"

He took a few deep breaths, and after getting into the fresh air, he was finally able to speak to me in his normal tone.

"Lord...... Motoharu Yoshikawa is here! ”

"What do you say?! Motoharu Yoshikawa is here? ”

"Yes, Yoshikawa Motoharu received permission from Mori Terumoto to withdraw his troops from Takamatsu Castle in China, and now he is leading troops north, and now he has entered the territory of Misasaka Province!"

"You've already arrived in Misasaka?"

I thought about it for a moment, most of the wealthy families of Misasaka Province, led by the Ukita family, had already followed the monkeys to prepare for China, and Yoshikawa Motoharu would definitely not encounter any obstacles along the way.

"The mountain roads in the China region are very difficult to walk, and Yoshikawa Motoharu will not be able to get here until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, so let's arrange it again while we have time now."

"Huh? Zhongxing, what's wrong with you? So excited? ”

"I'm excited, I'm finally able to fight against a real celebrity, Yoshikawa Motoharu is a great character."

"That's right...... Seeing that you are happy like that, I thought it was because of your old constipation for many years! ”

"Nonsense! I'm young, where did I get constipation?! If you dare to do that again......"

"Zhongxing! Are you bored? ”

"Of course, this Yoshikawa Motoharu is too opportune, I'm about to suffocate."

"Hold back? I've said it all, you really have constipation, hahahaha......"

"You guy!"

Okuda Keixuna listened to the sweat flowing.

The current lord of the great enemy can still joke with others so easily, I really don't know whether to praise him for being calm in the face of danger, or to scold him for being heartless...... But then again, the fact that the lord likes to joke is completely different from the serious Guangxiu Gong before.

"Alright, that's all for jokes, I have a task for you now!"

"Task? Okay......"

Hosokawa Tadashi looked weak.

"Lord, are you asking me to serve you tea, or to pour water for you, anyway, aren't you asking me to do this in the past few days? However, I can't do it, I'm not interested in the 'way', and the Hosokawa family's family motto doesn't allow it......"

Okuda Keitsuna was scorched by Raideri.

I have long heard that the son of the Hosokawa family is a person who speaks openly, and sure enough......

"Fuck your sister! Don't say that Lao Tzu is not good at this mouth, even if he is interested in this, he will not look for you to be a good-looking guy...... I really have a serious mission for you! If you don't like it, let someone else do it! ”

"Okay, lord, let's talk about what the task is."

"Now the largest city in the vicinity, Yaotai City, has been controlled by me, but the control of the mountains in this vicinity has not yet fallen into my hands, so I want to take away several cities near this Yaotai City, so that when I fight with Yoshikawa Motoharu, I can make full use of the steep terrain of the Three Kingdoms Mountain, and at the same time, I can ensure that when I fight with Yoshikawa, the forces of the Boqi Kingdom behind me will not sneak attack me, because I have sent defenders to the castle on the mountain!"

"Hmm...... Big brother, you have a good plan! ”

"If you don't do it, if you don't do it, I'll find someone else to do it, I heard that Keijiro guy has been as idle and panicked as you recently, why don't I find something for him to do......"

"Eh, eh, ......"

Hosokawa Tadashi hurriedly grabbed my arm.

"How can such a trivial matter bother Brother Keijiro? I'll just do it, and besides, people drink flower wine in the whale house in the nearby castle town, how can they have this time......"

He hurriedly covered his mouth, but the problem was that he had already said almost everything he had to say. "Keiji Maeda! You bastard! They ran out to play without my approval! You're not going to take me as a lord in your eyes, are you? Waiting for you to come back! See how I clean you up! ”

"It's over, Keijiro, that guy will definitely pick my skin when he comes back!"

My strictness in governing the army,It's no worse than my father.,It's basically a continuation of his set.,It's hard for Maeda Keiji to be usually unrestrained.,People who love desertion.,Originally, when I was still a young master.,I turned a blind eye to these things.,Sometimes I even help cover it up a few times.,It's all out of buddy righteousness.,

But now that I am the governor of the house, I can no longer allow such a thing to happen -- just kidding, as a governor, even violating military discipline is allowed, then the family is basically not far from falling apart.

Hosokawa Tadahei was bitter in his heart, he originally promised to help Maeda Keiji keep the secret, and when he turned around, Maeda Keiji would bring him a table of sumptuous wine and food from the castle town -- it seems that the eldest young master Hosokawa is also sick to his stomach after eating military meals, but then again, the eldest young master, your "price" is too low, and you will sell yourself for a meal, I really don't know what else you will do in the future.

"My lord! Please leave this task to me! I will do my best to complete this task in order to repay you for raising me...... Oh no, the grace of the encounter! ”

"Ahh Where did I get my kindness to you? You serve the wise family, that is the meaning of His Highness the Right Mansion...... But then again, you've always been the laziest and least obsessive person in the family, how could you suddenly become so aggressive? ”

"Hahahahaha......ha I'm not bored, and I suddenly want to find something to do, according to that...... Oh yes, the words of the Book of Changes say that it is called 'Quiet Mind and Movement', haha......"

Whether the idiom "quiet and moving" really has anything to do with the Book of Changes, I don't know anyway.

"For the sake of your rare and positive today, I'll give you this task, but after all, you're still too young and your experience is still a little lacking, so I'll send Mitsuharu-sama and Fujita-sama to you as deputies! They are all very prestigious people in their own family, you have to get along with them! ”

"Yes, yes, I'll do it!"

Hosokawa Tadashi ran away as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

"Miyauchi-sama's ......"

"What's the matter, lord?"

"Why do I always think that Hosokawa-sama has a ghost in his heart, you are a ninja, help me see what is going on."

In fact, Hosokawa Tadashi does have a ghost in his heart.

If you don't run now, you can't do it, Keijiro will come back in a while, and I'll be dead, so let's go to the Three Kingdoms Mountain to hide first......

Although the mountain road was difficult to walk, Hosokawa Tadashi finally walked through it.

The battle went very well.

Unlike before, this time I was no longer bluffing, but actually attacking the enemies of the Boqi Kingdom.

"Lord Guangchun, these castles are all made of wood, and I want to destroy them with fire attack, what do you think?"

"Well, the lord hopes that these things can be preserved and used by the family themselves, but now it seems that the enemy is planning to resist to the end! Hosokawa-sama, if you want to attack with fire, it's not impossible, but it's more troublesome to set up camp here again when you go back. ”

Hosokawa Tadashi was very happy to hear Akechi Mitsuharu's words.

"I can't care so much now, prepare the rocket!"

Children and teenagers seem to love arson!

204

Faced with the situation that the defenders of the city refused to surrender, Zhongxing, who was already fond of being funny, finally decided to be ruthless.

Countless rockets were fired onto the towers, and then the lit straw and firewood were thrown under the city walls, and the traditional wooden stockade was ablaze.

In fact, at this time, and Sanyo Province were surprisingly cold and damp, and the drizzle continued to fall in May, and not only that, but there was even a large-scale torrential rain in China, and the monkeys took this as an opportunity to launch the battle of "flooding Takamatsu Castle" and achieved results.

But there was not a drop of rain on the mountain.

Not only that, but there is also a drought that has caused a lot of damage in the area.

The air dries like this, so a little spark causes a large fire.

The firewood was blazing, and the hundreds of guards guarding the city were horrified to find that their surroundings had become a sea of fire, and they scattered in all directions with strange screams, but the firewood piles were placed extremely insidiously, and with a touch of grain, grass and cloth on the ground, there was nowhere to escape.

Seeing the ferocity of the fire, many people rolled around on the ground crying and screaming on the fire, and were burned alive not long after. Many people ignored the fire and fled to the outside of the fire. But I heard a sudden sound in the woods and shouted to kill, a shirtless and naked figure brandished a weapon to kill the general, under the fire, the thieves only cared about avoiding the fire, many people had already thrown away their weapons, at this moment to see someone killed, panicked, how could they have the strength to resist again, and they were cut down to the ground by the hundreds of people.

The city collapsed in the flames.

Seeing so many people die tragically, Hosokawa Tadashi clapped his hands happily and laughed - this may be his nature, in history, he is a generous and rational person, extremely fierce and cruel, he can suddenly give a stranger for no reason, and can kill the retainers who have followed him for many years indiscriminately.

"Defeated the enemy so quickly, hahahahahaha...... The lord will definitely reward me when he returns, of course, this is all the credit of Mitsuharu-sama and Fujita-sama, and the kid is just doing what he wants. ”

The expressions of Wise Mitsuharu and Fuji Tian were very indifferent, and the scene in front of them did not provoke even the slightest fluctuation in their hearts.

They have all experienced a hundred battles, and they have seen even the biggest war scenes, and compared to those war scenes, a small city is really nothing.

The scene in front of him was not any tragedy, and the samurai, who had become the "weapons of war" of this era, had to be prepared for a tragic and painful death at any time while enjoying the glory and wealth.

Maybe the person in front of him is not even a serious samurai, just a group of people, but even so...... Be prepared for this too!

Ke'er hid the sweat on her body with a wet towel from time to time

“TMD！ The weather was already hot, but that kid from the Hosokawa family still ordered to set fire to the city...... Cut! Who does he think he is?! Zhuge Kongming is still Lu Xun, just play fire attack if you have nothing to do, beware of burning yourself one day! ”

The heat made Kerr hide the constant slander of Hosokawa Zhongxing.

Suddenly! In the midst of the fire, a group of soldiers ran out surrounded by a general!

"Huh? They didn't even get burned to death by the fire, but ran out, it seems that the lives of these people are really not ordinary! ”

Ke'er Caizang had already discovered the enemy, but instead of attacking it, he complained straight to the side.

Is it because he is idle and hurts? Or is it because he suddenly has a kind heart and wants to let this group of people go?

Of course not, if the soldiers are so merciful, then how can they be expected to fight?

Let me tell you, the only reason why K'er Caizang hesitated was because he was afraid of the heat!

That's right, those deserters and the general who was about to escape, although a city had long been blackened by the billowing smoke, but the eyes of Ke'er Cai, who had always been very good, were immediately recognized by them.

Especially that general, Ke'er can only hide it, and he is the defender of this city!

Ke'er Caizang has been eyeing him for a long time, and if the guard is killed, it will be tantamount to the first class achievement of this battle!

It's just that the unlucky guy is too close to the fire now, and it's too hot to stand when he takes a step forward.

Eventually, those people fled beyond the confines of the Flaming Mountain.

Ke'er Caizang couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart anymore, and picked up a bamboo skewer in her mouth (strange?). Where did this bamboo skewer come from? Could it be that the author got it again with a "hand from another dimension"? He whipped the horses under his seat and rushed towards them!

"Who are you?!"

The military general saw this man menacing, so he asked loudly.

"You don't care who I am! Uncle Ben is going to take your life today, just remember this! ”

The general's face changed, in this era, the military commander danced the sword and made the sword, and before he picked up the guy and slashed, he had to inform each other of his name, which was already a rule that had been handed down from the Pingyuan era, who knew that this guy in front of him didn't understand the rules at all!

Keer Caizo is a very traditional samurai (to be honest, I think since this guy mixed with the protagonist like a pig, he has completely become a "non-mainstream" like Keiji Maeda, and he doesn't look like a traditional samurai anywhere), of course, it's not that he doesn't know the rules, he just thinks he shouldn't talk nonsense with a guy who is about to die!

Ke'er Caizang rushed over, picked up his bamboo spear and stabbed at the other party!

According to the rules of this era, soldiers are not allowed to intervene in a fight, unless the general's life is threatened.

Sure enough, the soldiers were very honest and stood aside.

However, they didn't stand quietly for long, and soon the soldiers who were hiding from Ke'er arrived, and the two sides rose from "heads-up" to "group fighting", and it was not lively for a while.

Let's talk about the battle situation here, Ke'er Caizang's bamboo spear stabbed three times, and suddenly stabbed the other party "through the heart, the heart is flying", but even this is not over, Ke'er Caizang jumped off the horse, came to the general's corpse, cut off his head, and stabbed the bamboo stick in his mouth into the ear of the deceased - even if the deceased is alive, he will be painfully re-killed by this blow.

"Now I can tell you the name of Uncle Ben, Uncle Ben is called--Bamboo Stick Hide!"

Ke'er Caizang said to the deceased's head.

And the team battle on the soldier's side, Ke'er Caizang was not even interested in watching it, and re-mounted the war horse and rushed to the main formation.

"Hosokawa-sama, Mitsuharu-sama, Fujita-sama, the heads of the enemy guards have been cut off!"

"Oh, this is the head of Tanaka Sanemon (the first time Ko'er Caizo also knew the name)? Hahahahaha...... Sure enough, Lord Ke'er did a good job! I'll give you a big credit...... But then again, why did you put a bamboo stick in him? ”

"I'm afraid that someone will come to rob me of my achievements, so I use bamboo sticks to mark them!"

"In this way, you can rest assured, you are the lord's favorite general, who dares to steal credit from you?"

"Uh...... Hosokawa-sama, if you really want me to talk about things, it seems that you have done this, mistaking my military exploits for yours, and finally denying it. ”

"Hahahahaha...... Is there something going on? I don't remember, Lord Ke'er, you've worked hard, go down and rest. ”

The battle over there was raging, and here, surrounded by my retainers, I entered this mountain city that had been captured for several days -- Yaotai City!

Yaotai City is indeed not a very big city - to be exact, it is about the size of those tourist resorts I have seen in my previous life.

There is a small three-story castle tower inside the castle, so you can see the situation down the mountain clearly.

"Lord, this city can carry 20,000 horses, do you want to let all the troops station?"

"Well, so be it...... By the way, Changde, we must hurry up and repair the various arrow towers and sentry posts, I hope to use them tomorrow when I fight the enemy! ”

"This ......"

Yamazaki Nagatoku looked a little embarrassed, but he gritted his teeth and replied:

"Although the lord can rest assured, even if I cut down all the trees on this mountain, I will complete the task arranged by the lord!"

"Well, you are an old minister in the family, I am very relieved of your ability, okay, go down and do something!"

In fact, because of the voluntary surrender, the damage to this city is not large, only the arrow tower needs to be repaired because of overuse.

It's not too early to see if it's time for lunch.

"Let's eat first."

After saying this, I realized that Yamazaki Nagatoku had just been sent down by me, but then again, he was in a hurry to complete the task now, and he might not stay to eat with us.

People sit on the ground, or drink miso soup, or eat rice balls, fried rice, fried beans.

Now it's easy to understand why Hosokawa wants to eat outside.

Although enough food has been scraped together, because everyone has not yet obtained their own territory, everyone does not dare to take it lightly, and they can save it!

As a result, the military meal of the wise samurai was more than a notch lower than that of his father.

The mid- and high-ranking samurai around me were given brown rice balls, but the lowly commoners were accustomed to dry food, so they had to prepare their own food.

That's why I'm so devout to the God I believe in, let me conquer Izumo Province as soon as possible! This kind of life is really not something that a wealthy family like me, who has been used to living a good life in the past, can get used to.

"Everyone......"

I fiddled with the rice balls in my hand, and suddenly I spoke, and everyone's attention was drawn to me.

"I suddenly feel more than ten years younger!"

"Hahahahaha...... What kind of joke is the lord, you are only twenty-two years old now, if you are a teenager younger, then you will become a child, won't you become a child? Ha ha! ”

"Guangzhong, you didn't understand what I meant, I mean, looking at these rice balls and miso soup, I suddenly thought of many sad memories when I was a child, when our family worked under Echizen Asakura Yoshikei, and became a small official, at that time, everyone was relatively poor, and they lived by eating this rice ball and miso soup every night, speaking of which, Guangzhong, you always coaxed me to swallow the rice balls that were not delicious at all, it must have been very difficult, uncle?"

"Ah, young master, do you remember these......"

My "uncle" made him feel a sour nose, and even called me wrong.

"Of course I remember some things, speaking of which, I was quite grateful to you at that time, if it was my father, I'm afraid I would have slapped me a long time ago, haha......"

Not only me, but my father was very strict with all the juniors in the family (in fact, guys like Hosokawa Tadashi should be in charge), and it was more common for me to get beaten.

Listening to me talk about the past, the atmosphere in the venue was much better.

"Now I and everyone can only eat this rice ball and miso soup here, but when we conquer Izumo Province, I will fish out the entire North Sea and invite everyone to eat a 'whole fish feast', so you must not come, hahahaha......"

"Hahahahaha......ha

"Humph! Then I'll let you starve for a day or two, and then come here and go out ......."

After eating, we went back to the usual military meeting.

"This time, I heard that Yoshikawa Motoharu's army is nearly 15,000 people, which is about the same as us, so just by competing in numbers, we actually can't have any advantage!"

Actually, I have four or five thousand more than him.

"Lord, Yoshikawa Motoharu has come from a long journey, and we can set up an ambush here, so as to wait for work, and talk about him lying down!"

"Uchizosuke, your idea sounds good, and in this lofty mountain, it does have a high level of implementation, but after all, I have never fought with Yoshikawa Motoharu, and I am not familiar with him...... So before we got to know him, any idea we came up with was a bit of a pointlessness! ”

"But the lord ......"

Saito wanted to speak, but I waved the folded fan with my hand, realizing that he didn't need to say any more!

"Uchizosuke, can you think of waiting for work, Yoshikawa Motoharu is a military general on the same level as you, wouldn't he have thought that we would use him from afar, and the soldiers and horses were exhausted to make a plan?"

"This ......"

Saito Toshizo can't say this question either, but his face looks a lot better, and I don't know if I'm happy that I just touted him as a military general on a par with Yoshikawa Motoharu.

"I don't know which family's art of war this Yoshikawa Motoharu is using at all, so ...... I'm going to take a closer look! ”

"Close up? Are you going to ...... my lord?"

"Are we going to fight a field battle with Motoharu Yoshikawa?"

"No, no, no, the method of taking the initiative to fight with Yoshikawa Motoharu is too risky, and I won't take the initiative to engage him head-on without getting to know him seriously!"

"Lord, do you want to stick to the castle and start a city war with Yoshikawa Motoharu?"

"Well, I want to consume the morale of the Yoshikawa army by the way......"