Western Country.

Itsukushima.

Looking at the undulating sea, Tao Qingxian's heart was extremely calm.

Not far behind Tao Qingxian stands a city, and several three-star banners with a text on the head of the city are spreading their bodies against the sea breeze, which is the Miaocheng Castle belonging to the Maori family.

In fact, this battle against the Maori family was wanted to start as early as last year. However, because a major war broke out in several regions in recent years, all the major forces in the world were waiting, so Tao Qingxian did not dare to act rashly.

But to everyone's surprise, this war, which was second only to the Onin Rebellion in the past hundred years, ended in less than a year.

Tao Qingxian knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and he had to hurry up and end the battle with the Maori family. So Tao Qingxian immediately issued a mobilization order, and the troops in Zhoufang, Changmen and other places quickly began to assemble, and in less than a month, Tao Qingxian pulled up an army of about 30,000 people.

At the same time, Tao Qingxian set his sights on "Miyao Castle" in the Seto Inland Sea.

Miyao Castle was built on Itsukushima Island in the Seto Inland Sea, and its geographical location was extremely important, and it was an important base for controlling the coast of the Seto Inland Sea.

In fact, long before Tao Qingxian led his army to land on the island, a series of small battles had broken out between the forces of the Ouchi family and the Maori family, and Tao Qingxian's side won an overwhelming victory.

A series of victories made Tao Qingxian full of confidence in winning, coupled with the Maori family's important minister Gui Yuancheng and his own internal communication, a small palace city is not yet easy to capture?

If Miyao Castle is captured, then Tao Qingxian will completely lose his worries, and then he can rest assured and boldly move eastward and go straight to the mountain castle of Yoshida County, the home of the Maori family. The thought that he would achieve a victory that he had not won since his father's generation made Tao Qingxian's heart particularly excited.

"Owari guards the hall, and the defenders in Miaojo Castle refuse to surrender." Miura Fangqing, who was in front of the Ouchi family, suddenly came behind Tao Qingxian and said.

Miura Fangqing was born in the Zhou Defense Miura clan, commonly known as Echichu Mamoru, and was the general of the Ouchi family's naval army, and the plan to attack Miyao Castle was proposed by Miura Fangqing.

Before that, the Ouchi family was divided into two factions about how to send troops, and one faction advocated going straight to Aki by land. On the other hand, Miyao Castle was conquered by sea, and the Seto Inland Sea was controlled before marching into the hinterland of the Mori family.

In the end, Tao Qingxian adopted the latter, so there was the current Battle of Itsukushima.

After hearing that Ji Fei Naoyuki, who was defending the city, was unwilling to surrender, Tao Qingxian couldn't help but be a little annoyed.

"Miyao City is only a few hundred troops, and now the family is besieging the city with tens of thousands of feet, and they are actually unwilling to surrender, it is really stubborn!"

"Order the whole army to rest on the spot and launch an offensive against Miyao Castle early tomorrow morning!"

"Hah!"

......

Sato Ginzan Castle, across the sea from Itsukushima, has also assembled the forces of the Maori family.

Mao Li Yuan, who is already 60 years old, is still not old, wearing a black lacquer and coloring armor, wearing an Agutuo-shaped tendon hood, standing majestically on the seaside, and behind him stands his son-in-law Mao Li Takayuan and others.

"My lord, the forces of the Ouchi family have landed on Omotoura, on the south side of Itsujima, and the enemy army is currently deployed on the southern line of Miyao Castle. In addition, the detective found the flag seal of the enemy's general Tao Wei Zhang Shou in the south of the island, and it has been confirmed that Tao Wei Zhang Shou himself is located! Twenty-four-year-old Kobayakawa Takakei calmly walked behind Mori Motosa.

"Zhongwu Shaofu, are the sailors ready?" Mao Liyuan was still looking in the direction of Itsukushima in the distance, and asked without looking back.

"Everything is ready, now it's up to the U.S. military department."

After saying that, Mori Moto in front of him turned his head and looked at the other side with Kobayakawa Takakei.

Not long after, a ship came from a distance and approached the shore.

Naomi Zongsheng walked down from the boat mountain with a gloomy face, walked quickly behind Mao Li Yuan, and just about to open his mouth, Mao Li Yuan in front of him had already turned around.

"Needless to say, Murakami's water army doesn't want to go to war, right?"

Nami Zongsheng nodded, "How does the lord know?"

"Humph! If the Murakami Navy is willing to participate in the war, it should be the Murakami Navy's warship that will come back with you at this time, not yourself! ”

"The Murakami Navy was invited by the Miyoshi Family Navy to fight in the Wakasa area, and it is said that there were heavy casualties, but they had no strength to send troops." Naomi explained.

Previously, Miyoshi Changqing wanted to cut off the sea grain transportation channel of the Tsugawa family through the navy, but because he was afraid that the strength of the Ataka navy was not enough to defeat the Tsugawa family's navy, he said that the Murakami navy would join the battle together.

However, in the First Battle of Wakasa Bay, the Ataka Water Army and the Murakami Water Army were defeated, and Murakami Takeyoshi and Murakami Ryiyasu and others are still locked up in Goseyama Castle, where did the Murakami Water Army have the spare strength to support the Mori family?

In the original history, because the Murakami Naval Army was related to Kobayakawa Takakei and Nomi Munekatsu and others, the Murakami Imperial Army was on the side of the Mori family. At that time, Naomi went to the Murakami family to negotiate and persuaded the Murakami family to participate in the war with the rhetoric of "asking for a day to borrow a warship".

In 1554, Mori Moto passed on the daughter of the Totaka family to Kobayakawa Takakei, and asked her to marry Murakami Tsuyasu as the adopted daughter of Kobayakawa Takakei.

After tying up the Kobayakawa Navy under his command and the Murayama Water Army, the power of the Mori family's naval forces can be called the highest in the Seto Inland Sea.

However, with the defeat of the Ataka and Murakami armies at Wakasa Bay in 1555, there was no doubt that Mori Moto's arm was broken.

"Now that there is no support from Murakami's navy, can the family's navy alone cut off the Ouchi family's retreat?" As soon as I thought of the plan that was about to be implemented next, the Maori Yuan was also bottomless.

Kobayakawa Takakei and Nomi Sokatsu glanced at each other, and then said categorically, "Yes!" ”

"Good!"

Maori Yuan is not an indecisive person, and the ability to develop the Maori family from the cracks to the point where it is today is enough to show Maori Yuan's ability and skill.

"Even without the support of the Murayama family, my Maori family will definitely win this battle!"

......

It's been three days since the siege of the city, but Miyao Castle has not been captured for a long time, and the troops of the Ouchi family are revealing irritability.

Tao Qingxian had ordered the water supply to Miyao Castle to be cut off, but the defenders in Miyao Castle were still very stubborn.

"My lord, more than fifty ships suddenly appeared in the northern waters of Miyao Castle, and there were Maori family crests on board!"

In the evening, after the last round of siege was over, Tao Qingxian had just walked back to his main camp when a samurai came to report quickly.

"Big ship or small boat?"

"There are only three or four ships, and the others are all small boats."

"Is Mao Liyuan looking down on me Tao Qingxian, and he has sent such a small number of reinforcements here! Keep an eye on the sea, and report any signs of an increase in the Maori family's troops! ”

"Hah!"

Before you know it, it's getting dark soon.

Ouchi's troops fell into a deep sleep, and in the waters east of Itsukushima, a large number of naval troops were quietly approaching Itsukushima under the cover of night.

Mao Li Yuan stood at the bow of the ship against the sea breeze, and among the surrounding ships, except for Mao Li Yuan, who was sitting on the boat and lit an oil lamp, the other ships were all advancing in the moonlight, in order to be secret.

Suddenly, the otherwise silent sea suddenly set off a furious wave, and the sky was also overcast, and a storm seemed to be coming......

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