Chapter 200: Invite the Enemy into the Urn
Nineteenth day of the first year of Yongroku. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć With Kurokawa Kiyomi as the general, the court led a total of 7,000 troops from the northern and Joetsu groups to leave Takaoka Castle at night with great fanfare, and went to Shoushan Castle with the bamboo finch pattern of the team. The information obtained by the Western Vietnamese Central Command was also inaccurate, they only learned that the Uesugi army had sent troops to defend the mountain castle, and they did not know how many people this army was. However, the powerful generals in Kuwasan Castle all felt that Fujiwara Asadashi had personally gone out to Shoushan Castle.
At present, about 30,000 people are gathering inside and outside Sansan Castle, and the pioneer Kurose Kakudo has also led his troops to take the lead. The defenders of Nakata Castle were only five hundred, and so was Sangyama Castle.
As one envoy after another hurried to Takaoka Castle Honmaru to report, the Uesugi generals sitting in the Ohiro room had long been impatient.
"Your Highness, please immediately send troops to resist the enemy!" Nagao Fujikei was the first to stand up.
As soon as Nagao Fuji Kei and Naoe Keixuna spoke, people like Honjo Hidetsuna, Yamayoshi Toyomori and others also chimed in.
However, Chao Ding still closed his eyes on the main throne and ignored the anxious generals around him.
After about a moment, Kato Kato's arrival caused Asadashi to stop closing his eyes and recuperate.
"Your Highness, the enemy generals Shimoma Lai Jun and Sugiura Genren have left Sangshan Castle, and led a large army to Zengshan Castle, and will prepare to force the Shentong River." Just when the generals of Uesugi were chattering and arguing, Kato Kato's report instantly silenced them. Many people even gasped.
"Well, it's hard work. Listen, everybody! The key to this battle is to lure the enemy deep and annihilate him, rather than simply rejecting the enemy from the border. Blindly repelling a momentum will not play any role in the benefit of the family at all. The Uesugi family's current mission is to pacify Hokuriku, Kanto, and Okuwa, rather than engage in a long tug-of-war with a rivalry. Therefore, the forces of the Pure Land Shinshu and Ishidoyama in Kaga and Noto must be defeated! Chao Ding said slowly.
"Zhenfu Palace, is it possible that the House Hall also means this?" Gan Yu Jing Zhi had doubts about this.
"Otherwise, the Uesugi family will waste a lot of time, troops, and materials in Kaga and Noto. When the time comes, if you want to go to Luo to assist the general's family, how can you go? Do you have to go through a missile to borrow Minono? Chao Ding's words made Gan Liangjing immediately speechless.
"In this way, Duan Zang, you immediately go to Muzhou City, and order Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru and other troops to raid Nakata, Kuwasan, Akamaru, Ichijoji, Hirose, Imaishido, Tsuchiyama and other cities in the middle of Western Vietnam that are occupied by a force, and you must cut off all the retreat routes, grain routes, and reinforcements of a force!" Chaoding didn't want the enemy to fight more and more, and he didn't want to miss out on annihilating the main force of the Pure Land True Sect in Hokuriku. And the 6,000 troops of Kakizaki Keike and Usami Dingman stationed in Muzhou Castle were enough to take back all parts of Western Vietnam from the hands of the Pure Land Shinshu. In addition, Okugoshi's momentum was also blocked by the 7,000 troops of the Great Bear Asahide and other troops guarding the mountain castle, and he could not quickly move south to merge with Shimoma Yorijun, Sugiura Genren and others.
"Yes!" After receiving the order, Kato immediately walked to the courtyard outside Ohiroma, only to hear a gust of wind blowing, and he disappeared into the courtyard.
"Usami Surugamoru, Nishi-Etsu will be handed over to you and Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru."
"Yes! Please rest assured. The minister decided to work with friendly forces such as Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru to block the follow-up army of a powerful force from the border of Vietnam! Usami Joman bowed to Asada, and then left Ohiroma quickly.
"Gan Kamoru Omi, Honjo Misasuke. The two of you immediately led your headquarters to the west bank of Toyama Castle to resist the enemy, and you must not let the enemy reach the Tsuneji River with a single soldier! ā
"Yes!" The two of them, Kan Ya Kei Ji and Honjo Hidetsuna, were ordered to leave.
The fact that the two of them were given the task of blocking a powerful army was also seen for their good performance in the Echigo Yongroku Rebellion.
"Jiro Ikeda, you go to the direction of Shoushan Castle, and order the headquarters of the Echichu Garrison to immediately turn to garrison Muzhou Castle, and the rest of the troops will be stationed to defend Yamashiro according to the original mission."
"Yes." Immediately, Ikeda Morishu, who was standing behind Asada, also left Ohiroma.
"Captain Kojima Saemon and Daisuke Tangren Shikibu, the two of you will immediately go to Shiratori Castle north of the Kamitsu River to stand by. Once the two divisions of Ganra Omi Mamoru and Honjo Misasuke engage the enemy, you two quickly move south and attack from the enemy's flank. ā
"Yes!" Kojima Zhizhen and Tang Renqin Guang also took the order to leave.
After a while, seeing that Chaoding did not continue to issue the mission, Tosabin Chandong asked Chaoding, "Your Highness, why didn't I go out on a mission?" ā
"Yes, Your Highness. You can't let me wait for the Zhongyue people, the Zhuang people, and the Huijin people to have nothing to do! Naoe Keitsuna, Uesugi Keishinobu and others also began to ask anxiously.
"The Zhongyue people, the Zhuang people, and the Huijin people are the key to this decisive battle, and they must not be moved lightly." Chao Ding did not intend to spread his forces too far apart to meet the enemy. However, he wanted to completely destroy Kaga's Pure Land Shinshu, so he left more than 15,000 troops in the city to continue to stand by and wait for an opportunity.
"Your Highness is wise!"
Due to the low visual distance and difficulty of detection at night. Many of the small works sent by Yorijun Shimoma, Genren Sugiura, and others were captured or killed by the Xuanyuan ninjas, and they were completely unable to obtain further information about the movements of the Uesugi army, the deployment of troops, and so on after leaving Kuwasan Castle. They simply continued their march towards Toyama Castle as originally planned. However, under the cover of night, the two of them marched quickly to Toyama Castle and began to destroy all the pontoon bridges and wooden bridges in the surrounding area. Even the bamboo rafts and fishing boats from the surrounding villages were temporarily confiscated to Toyama Castle for safekeeping.
The upper and middle parts of the Shintogawa River are places where the water is turbulent, and once there are no pontoon bridges and wooden bridges. Then a single force will not be able to cross the Shentong River in a short period of time. The depth of the Kamitsu River is not less than 1.6 meters, and unless the subordinates of Yoshitoshi Shimoma, Genren Sugiura, and others are all good swimmers, they will have non-combat attrition when crossing the Kamitsu River.
In order to be able to set the powerful army of the West Vietnam Central One in the area of Toyama Castle so that it would not be able to leave for a short time, Kanya Keichi and Honjo Hidetsuna discussed with Honjo Hidetsuna, and after Honjo Hidetsuna's Gomi Uno Sasuke led people to the river in the Nakabashi area northwest of Toyama Castle, and threw a large number of sandbags and logs into the river, so that the flow of the Jinzu River was reduced by half. As long as they wait for the arrival of a powerful army and start crossing the river, then this Shentong River is their burial place.
The two of them, Yoshijun Shimoma and Genren Sugiura, believed that the court would not dare to pour the main force out of the nest. If this is really done, the disciples of Ao Yue Zhong and Shi Dongshan will look for various opportunities to infiltrate the hinterland of Yue Zhong. That's why they were moved by Fujimaru Katsutoshi's 'intelligence'.