Chapter 1166: The Battle of Itsukushima!
Ugly time.
Maori Moto, who was soaked in feathers, went ashore with 3,000 troops at Baonoura in the east of Itsukushima.
"My lord, the forces of Kumagai-sama (Nobunao Kumagai) have entered Miyao Castle. The navy led by Nakabu Shosuke and Nomi set out from Kusatsu two hours before us, and according to the time we went ashore, we could reach the predetermined place in one more hour. Yoshikawa Motoharu wiped the rain from his face and said to Mori Moto, who was in front of him.
"Standing on that peak, can you overlook Dayuanpu?" Mao Liyuan suddenly pointed to a hill in the southwest direction and said.
Yoshikawa Motoharu tried to think about it for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes, there is Bo Yiwei, which happens to be located at the commanding heights south of Dayuanpu. ”
"That's good! I have a thousand troops with you, and you take the Hiraga, Amano, and Azenuma clans to march towards Bo Yiwei, and wait for the opportunity to attack the Ouchi family after dawn! ”
"Hah!"
At this time, the troops of the Ouchi family were sleeping peacefully. Although the weather was bad, it did not prevent them from leaning on each other to fall asleep after a hard day's battle.
In a sea area to the west of Itsukushima, hundreds of warships are lining up in an orderly queue and heading in the direction of Dayuanpu.
"Lord Nami, let's divide our troops here. You take fifty boats and continue to circle north to the north shore of Dayuanpu, and cruise on the south shore below. At dawn, both of our armies simultaneously attacked the Ouchi ship, which was docked on the shore. ”
"Killing the enemy in this battle is secondary, and the most important thing is to destroy the warship of the Ouchi family. Without a boat, the two thousand inner soldiers on Nayan Island are a group of guinea dogs waiting to be slaughtered! ”
Nomi nodded and jumped over the side of the ship to another ship.
Immediately, the fleet split in two.
The fleet led by Kobayakawa Takakei began to stop and cruise, while the fleet led by Nomi Munekatsu continued north.
Before coming, in order to avoid being discovered by the Ouchi family's patrol boats, Kobayakawa Takakei and Nomi Munekatsu led the fleet to drive south for hundreds of miles along the northern shore of the Seto Inland Sea before turning around and heading in the direction of Omotoura.
So until Kobayakawa Takakei and the others had approached Omotoura with a fleet, the Ouchi family was not prepared at all.
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At dawn, the sky was just dawning.
Tao Qingxian, like most ashigaru, had not woken up at this time, but the various forces of the Maori family had already prepared for battle.
As the sky began to glow white, all the Maori clans who had participated in the battle quickly picked up their blades, knowing that this was the signal for the beginning of the battle.
The first to attack the Ouchi family was Yoshikawa Motoharu in Bo Yiwei.
When the Maori family rushed out from Bo Yiwei to attack the Ouchi family's military formation, the sleeping Ouchi family did not know what was going on.
Immediately afterwards, Mori Moto personally led his team out from the flank, and Kumagai Nobunao, Jifei Naoyuki and others in Miyao Castle also opened the city gate and rushed out.
It was only at this time that the forces of the Ouchi family finally came to their senses, and they were attacked by surprise!
"How is that possible! How could the Maori family be here! ”
Tao Qingxian couldn't believe that the army of the Maori family would quietly appear behind him.
"Owari Shouden, this must be the people of the Maori family marching at night, and the family has not found out!"
"With such a big storm last night, isn't Maori Yuan afraid of capsizing in the sea?"
Last night's storm made Tao Qingxian not think about it at all, Mao Liyuan was willing to brave such a big storm and come across the sea overnight.
"What are you still doing standing here, immediately organize a counterattack!" Tao Qingxian looked at the people who were in a daze in this formation and said angrily.
A group of Ouchi retainers at this time, you look at me, I look at you, and finally a bold samurai stood up, "Owari Shouden, the front and second formations of the main family have been defeated. At present, the strength of this family has been completely defeated......."
"Isn't the battle just beginning, and this is the end of it?" Tao Qingxian is known as the unparalleled general of the Western Kingdom, and he has never seen any scenes, but now his two 10,000 troops were defeated just after the war, and he couldn't imagine it.
"What can you do?"
"Why don't you take a boat and evacuate this place before you make plans?"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to leave!" Just as everyone in the camp was about to take the boat and leave first, Miura Fangqing suddenly walked in from the outside, "The Mori family's navy blocked the coast of Omotoura, and the other party suddenly rushed out of the sea, and the target went straight to the warship of the main family docked at Omotoura. ”
"Within a quarter of an hour of the start of the war, more than half of my family's warship was burned."
"Not a single one of the five hundred warships?" Tao Qingxian's mouth grew up, and his face was full of disbelief.
Miura Fangqing nodded bitterly, "Originally, there were still some warships left, but the main family ashigaru fled to the place where the warships docked, and everyone scrambled to get on the ship, and many ships were directly overturned..."
"Even if a ship is lucky enough to go to sea, it is attacked by the Maori navy, and it is also very lucky."
Hearing Miura Fangqing's words, everyone in this formation suddenly sat down on the ground.
"The Maori family has a plan for a long time, everything in Miyao City is a trap, we have been deceived!" Tao Qingxian suddenly stood up from the ground with a hideous face, "Everything is a strategy of Maori Yuan, the other party has already laid a trap here, and we stupidly drilled in according to the enemy's plan." ”
"Report! The third and fourth formations have been routed, and the enemy forces are attacking this formation. ”
"Report! I found that the Maori Yuan was in the camp, and it was less than a mile away from here. ”
Hearing the constant ringing in his ears, the hearts of the Ouchi retainers present were half cold.
"We can't die here!" Miura Fangqing suddenly stood up, "The humerus of this family is here, and the head of the family is young, if I die here, where is this Ouchi family?"
"After this battle, Maori will attack my family, and I hope that the lord will take care of his useful body and escape from this place, and return to the territory to preside over the overall situation! In the next wish for the palace army, take care of the princess! ”
At the critical moment, Miura Fangqing stood up, took the spear from the gun-wielding little surname and strode out of the main formation.
The so-called wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and Miura Fang Qing must have gone and there is no return.
Tao Qingxian finally reacted at this time, and turned around and ran away without saying a word.
However, not far from the main formation, the Maori family behind him had already been killed, and the first general was Yoshikawa Motoharu, the son of Maori Motosa.
Yoshikawa Yuanchun found Tao Qingxian's flag mark from a distance, and knew that Tao Qingxian was going to escape, so he immediately left the ordinary peasant soldiers and chased after Tao Qingxian.
Tao Qingxian traveled all the way south, and ran along the rugged mountain road for nearly an hour before finally arriving at Dajiangpu on the south shore of Itsukushima.
It was dawn, but there was not a single ship on the vast sea. Moreover, the sea area near Dajiangpu is still in the midst of a storm, and the sea surface is flooded with monstrous waves, which makes Tao Qingxian suddenly lose the desire to survive.
How can you cross the sea without a boat?
"Look, my lord! What is that! ”
Suddenly, a flag flashed and panicked by pointing to a row of black dots that had suddenly appeared on the southern sea.......