Chapter 8: The Capture of the City (Chapter 2)

Yamada's finish. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Yoshinobu Yamada watched as Ashigaru under Soji Tsugawa rushed over to harvest the last few Ashigaru of the Yamada family who did not surrender. The cruel truth made Yoshinobu Yamada, who was originally ambitious, hang his head high! It's all over.

Now, don't say anything about seizing Kakuyama Castle and dominating Nansenbei County, after this battle, the Yamada family suffered heavy damage, and it is unknown whether they can save their family name. I can only hope for the son of Yamada Yoshiyasu who stayed behind in Iwatani Castle, and I hope that he can resist the invasion of the Tsugawa family, and if he can't escape the catastrophe, he will leave a trace of my Yamada family's blood.

Thinking back to the time when he went out of the city, he was still full of ambition and high spirits, as if he had returned to his youth, and he never thought that he would end up so miserably.

The last Ashigaru was solved, and the only one standing was Yoshinobu Yamada. Soji walked in front of Yoshinobu Yamada, looked at Yoshinobu Yamada who was silent, and thought a lot. "You cut your stomach, I'll make a mistake for you." Soji looked at Yoshinobu Yamada and said this.

Yoshinobu Yamada raised his head in surprise and said, "I didn't expect you to give me the opportunity to seppuku, it's really admirable." Yoshinobu Yamada silently pulled out the ribs. Yoshinobu Yamada slowly took off his feet and pressed his ribs against his abdomen. Gritting his teeth, the sound of stabbing into the flesh came, and Yoshinobu Yamada raised his head in pain and looked at the sky. It's so blue, but unfortunately this is the last time I've seen it.

Soji raised his sword and swung it heavily, and Nuo's big head rolled to the side. Yoshinobu Yamada, the head of the Yamada family who dominates Iwatani Township and Rokugo! Die!

Soji wiped the bloodstained sword, and said to the excited Tsugawa family Ashigaru around him: "Today's battle, thanks to your hard work, to capture this mountain castle, each ashigaru will be rewarded with 1 stone"

"Wow" With the reward that Soji said, Ashigaru was excited, although he knew that the reward would be very rich, but he didn't expect Soji to be so generous. You must know that 80 ashigaru is 80 stone grain, and the ashigaru can't believe their ears.

"Shinbei"

"The subordinates are here," Kuroda called Soji and hurriedly responded. "Count the casualties and clean up the battlefield."

"Yes," Kuroda said.

It didn't take long for Kuroda Iekane to come to Soji's side and say, "Lord, the statistics are out." ”

"Oh, what about the casualties?"

Kuroda replied: "Thanks to the master's strategy, no one in my family was killed in battle, and only a few people were slightly injured. ”

Soji nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, turned to Komura Yoshikage and said, "Komura Yoshikage, you gather the ashigaru of the Yamada family who surrendered, and follow behind the forces of the main family. Now send troops to this mountain city"

"Yes," Yoshijing Komura promised.

"Wait, are there any of the bandits in Caomuchuan who have been captured?" Soji asked Kuroda Iekane again. "Lord, some of the bandits escaped, and the rest were injured and couldn't run, there were about more than 20" Soji thought about it, this bandit has good combat power, maybe it can be used in the future, so he said to Kuroda Iekane: "The captured bandits, you take them back to Kakuroyama Castle, find a place to settle them, and if you are willing to stay and work for your family, you will be incorporated into the family's standing ashigaru, as for those who don't want to, kill them."

Kuroda was shocked, "Kill them all?" Zongzhi said affirmatively: "Kill them all, if you don't kill them, will you let them continue to be thieves and harm the party?" Kuroda Iekane also nodded, and that was all there was to it.

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In Motoyama Castle, there were only less than 50 standing ashigaru guarding the castle, and 40 were taken away by Yoshinobu Yamada, and the remaining more than ten Ashigaru were responsible for staying in Motoyama Castle. The rest of the peasants and soldiers had been mobilized out of the city, so there were only a dozen or so people in the entire city.

When the Tsugawa family's troops arrived at the castle, it was already night, and the Yamada family's Ashigaru couldn't see clearly, thinking that Yamada Yoshinobu had returned with his troops, and he actually opened the castle gate. Soji saw it, drew his sword and commanded the ashigaru to attack. The ashigaru of the Yamada family couldn't find the north all of a sudden. The quickest reaction of Ashigaru immediately shouted: "It's not good, it's the enemy, close the door quickly." ”

However, it was too late, and Yoshikage Komura and others had already stormed the city gate. The remaining Ashigaru was the opponent of Komura Yoshikage and others, and after being killed several people in a row, they began to retreat, and Ashigaru, who was the first to shout and organize everyone to resist, had been cut off by Komura Yoshikage just now. For a time, the dragons were leaderless, and the remaining ashigaru retreated. With the influx of follow-up ashigaru led by Soji, the resistance in the city was instantly collapsed.

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In the castle tower of Motoyama Castle, Soji looked at Komura Yoshika, and then said, "Komura-sama, this time the family successfully won Motoyama Castle, thanks to everyone's courage to kill the enemy, and the order was passed on, and all the people were rewarded with a stone of grain." Now, let's talk about the situation in the city. ”

"My lord, the Yamada family in the castle has been wiped out, and Yamada Yoshinobu's youngest son and other family members have been taken into custody to wait for the lord to be released, and there are no casualties in the family," said Yoshikage Komura.

After hearing this, Zongji nodded, and asked again, "What about the loot?" Is the inventory out? ”

"A large amount of money and a small number of weapons were found in the warehouses in the city, but the exact amount needs to be further checked before we can confirm it," added Yoshikai Komura.

"Well, let's go and count the supplies now," Soji said to Yoshikage Komura. "Hi" Yoshijing Komura promised.

Two hours later, Komura Yoshikyo reported to Zongji, "My lord, there are a total of 400 stone of grain and 170 yuan of money in the city. There are dozens of knives and spears, and there are a lot of them. In addition, smelting workshops and large quantities of iron ore have been found in the city."

Zongzhi nodded with a smile and said, "I can't imagine that the Yamada family can still be rich, with so much money and food, it seems that the family doesn't have to worry about food in the future." ”

"As for the iron ore, what's going on? I remember that there are no mines in the territory of Liuxiang? ”

Yoshikage Komura replied, "My lord, it is true that there was no mine before, but some time ago, an iron mine was found at the junction of the back of Motoyama Castle and the Kusaki River, and the Yamada family mined for a while, and was preparing to make weapons and farm tools, but I never thought that the Motoyama Castle would be recaptured by the Motoyama Castle today."

Zongzhi is very happy, iron ore is a good thing, with iron ore can make weapons and agricultural tools, which is of great help to the development of the territory. "Let people protect the iron ore workshop, the workshop will continue to produce as usual, and then we will go to the mine to see, if it is a big mine, then we will send it."

However, it is destined that Zongzhi is happy in vain, and the iron ore found is only a very small iron ore, and it will be gone after two years of mining, but it is better than nothing. "How many miners are there?"

Yoshiki Komura found the person in charge of the mine, who was a middle-aged man with a thief's eyebrows. The person who came didn't dare to look at Soji squarely, so he could only reply in a panic: "My lord, there are only more than 10 miners in the mine, because they are all Yamada-sama before, Ah No, and they are displaced people collected by Yamada Yoshinobu. ”

Soji looked at the trembling feet of the frightened whole person, and said with a smile, "What's your name?"

"Back to the adult, the villain's name is Rokuro Umino"

"Don't be afraid, you still continue to be responsible for the mining of the mines here, and I will send more people after a while, and you will increase the mining efforts to ensure the progress of the smelting workshops in the city" Umino Rokuro saw that Soji did not blame him, but let him continue to be in charge of the affairs of the mine, and immediately knelt on the ground, and said loyally: "Thank you, my lord, the little one will definitely die for his family in the future."

Soji sent Umino Rokuro and said to Komura Yoshikage: "Yoshikage, you go and inform the workers in the workshop to increase productivity, and produce more farm tools and weapons, try to be refined rather than measured" Komura Yoshikei replied: "It's the lord, so should we return to the city?" In addition, how to deal with the family members of the Yamada family? ”

Soji thought for a moment and said, "Let's kill all the men of the Yamada family, and the female dependents will be taken into custody" "Yes" Komura Yoshikyo replied.

In such an era, Soji knew that he would only be able to ask for trouble in the end. You cannot be merciful to your enemies.

In Iwatani Castle in Iwatani Township, Yoshinobu Yamada's son, Yoshiyasu Yamada, was shocked to learn the news of the capture of Honyama Castle from Ashigaru, who had escaped from Honyama Castle.

"What? The mountain castle was attacked by the Tsugawa family, but what about the father? Yoshiyasu Yamada said. The ashigaru replied: "Young lord, the lord led the troops to fight against the Tsugawa family at noon today, and there is no news so far, and the mountain city has been attacked, so I am afraid that it will ..... I'm afraid that the lord has been killed."

Yoshiyasu Yamada stumbled to his feet, and said with blank eyes: "How is it possible, how can my father lose to the waste of the Tsugawa family?" Yamada Yoshiyasu couldn't believe what he heard, as an authentic loser, Yamada Yoshiyasu had always been in charge of the affairs of the family, but when he learned such bad news, he couldn't pay attention to it.

The Yamada family was responsible for guarding Iwatani Castle, and in addition to Yamada Yoshiyasu, there was also Yoshikawa Hiroie, the Yamada family's ashigaru general, who was a retainer of the Yamada family, who was brave and had a high prestige in the Yamada family. Seeing the young master like this, in addition to being disappointed, he had to say: "Young master, now that the old lord has passed away, the Yamada family still needs you to preside over the overall situation, you must cheer up"

When Yamada Yoshiyasu heard Yoshikawa Hiroya's words, he grabbed Yoshikawa Hiroie's hand and asked, "Yoshikawa-sama, what do you think we should do now?"

Yoshikawa Hiroke said: "The top priority now is to ask the young lord to succeed him as the master, and to recruit peasant soldiers to defend Iwatani Castle tightly. The Tsugawa family has always been weak, and now although they don't know how they defeated the old lord and captured the mountain castle, it won't be all luck, it must be that their strength has increased. The young master's wife is the princess of the Haoqiang Liangping family in Xianbei County, and she can send someone to seek reinforcements from the Liangping family, so that the strength of the two families will definitely be able to avenge the old lord."

Yamada Yoshiyasu then remembered that his father-in-law was a powerful Ryohei Yoshishi whose strength was on par with his own family in Nansenbei County, and his heart suddenly improved, and he said to Yoshikawa Hiroka: "Just do what Yoshikawa-sama said, and immediately send someone to Ryohei Castle to ask for help from my father-in-law."

"Hi" Hiroke Yoshikawa replied, and walked out of the castle tower with a thought to himself, "Oh my God, it's going to change." The son-in-law of the Yamada family is so unbearable, I am afraid that my family will be more auspicious. Maybe I should ......."