As Soharu Tsugawa said, war was inevitable. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On June 10, the allied forces of the barnyard clan, the Ufu family, and other wealthy clans sent troops from Shinhori Castle and surrounded the south and west sides of Takasuidaji Castle.

Spo Kanzan, Trout Morimitsu and others personally led a force of 1,700 men to take charge of Takamizuji Castle, and Nagaoka Castle, a branch of Takasuidaji Castle and a mile away from Tasuiji Castle, was garrisoned by 800 troops led by the Tasuo family and the Sentoku family.

A fierce siege battle broke out between the two sides at Takasui Temple Castle.

However, due to the tall walls of Gaoshuiji Castle, the allied forces of the barnyard family and other wealthy clans could not shake the foundation of Gaoshuiji Castle in the slightest. After three days of fruitless siege, the Haruka family ordered an attack on Nagaoka Castle, a branch of Takasuidaji Castle.

Nagaoka Castle was built on a hill and was originally built to provide limited support for Takamizuji Castle. The Tian Suo family in the city is the master, Tian Suo Zhengguang and the Qiande family are the masters, and Qiande Shansheng is miserable for a while.

In desperation, Spo Quanzhen of Takasui Temple Castle ordered Shirai Kiyomoto to lead a force of 500 people to attack the rear of the Barnyard family, in an attempt to contain the attack on Nagaoka Castle by the Barnyard House and others. However, because the army led by Shirai Kiyomoto was only 500 people, it was easily blocked by the army led by Ufu Fang Hiromoto.

However, although the offensive of the barnyard Kan Harujia and others was very rapid, both Takamizuji Castle and Nagaoka Castle were finally defended.

However, just when Spo Quanzhen and the others just breathed a sigh of relief, the situation changed dramatically again!

Iwate Prefecture, in the case of Ishishimizu Castle and Abe Castle lost one after another. Tsukuda Kankane, Fuji Masahide, Johoji Shigemasa and others gathered 1,500 troops to fight fiercely with Inogo Kanyoshi and Shizukuishi Kanma at Abe Castle.

However, just as the two sides were fighting fiercely. From the rear of Shikuda Kenkan and others, the troops of the southern family suddenly slashed out.

Yes, the Nanbu family appeared behind Shikita Kankan and the others without warning, which was something that no one expected. When the troops of the thousands of southern families suddenly entered the battlefield, both Shikita Kankan and Inogo Kanyi were shocked.

"What's going on! Why did the troops of the southern family suddenly appear here! The pig went to Quanyi and stood outside the formation without an image and shouted.

Shizukuishi on the side dragged the pig to Quanyi, and said with a panicked face, "Could it be that Spo Quanzhen invited the southern family as reinforcements!" ”

"Nope! Brother, look at the battlefield, not only are the southern families attacking our Ashigaru, but even the forces of Kenkan Shikita and others are also being attacked! The pig went to Quanyi and said with a hideous face, "All this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy of Southern Qingzheng!" ”

"Brother, we've all been deceived! Deceived by the southern house! ”

"The death of the lord is not a ghost of Spoquan at all, and it has no connection with us. At the moment, the sudden dispatch of troops from the southern family proves everything, so withdraw quickly! Our strength alone is no match for the southern family. Retreat to Gaoshui Temple City first, explain everything to Si Bo Quanzhen, and gather all the troops of the family to resist the invasion of the southern family! Pig said eagerly.

"That's right! Retreat, retreat! Otherwise, once the southern family forms an encirclement of us, then everything will be over! "Shizukuishi is not a stupid person, and he analyzed the situation in an instant.

"Withdraw!"

"Order the whole army to retreat to Takasui Temple Castle!"

With the transmission of the military order in this camp, the Pig Departure House and the Shizukuishi Family's Ashigaru who had been beaten by the family began to retreat backwards with the Pig Interpretation and others, and some of the Ashigaru who had no time to retreat either scattered and fled or abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

As Inogo Kanyi and the others withdrew from the battle, the other side of the party, Kankan Shikuda and Shigemasa Johoji also gave the order to retreat in this formation!

"I didn't expect the pig to go to Quanyi and join forces with the southern family, this battle can't go on like this, quickly withdraw to Gaoshui Temple City to assist the lord to defend the city. Now, only the Tsugawa family can save the family! Shikuda Kankan hurriedly took the reins from Shikuda Kane's hand and said as he got on the horse. Shikuda Kankan and the others thought that the southern family was on the side of the pig to the interpretation, and they didn't notice that the strength of the pig to the interpretation of the others had withdrawn from the battle one step ahead of them.

However, not far from the arrival of Shikuda Kankan and the others, a cavalry team of hundreds of people in front of them lay in front of everyone.

"Surrender, people of the Spo family!" A young samurai dressed in a black carcass and a blue array of feathers rode on a war horse and shouted loudly at the nervous Shikita Kankan and the others, and a group of cavalrymen with their backs to the Tsuru Kuyao pattern behind them were looking at the Shikita Kankan and the others in front of them with a fierce attitude, and the sense of oppression that came to their faces made many of the Shiba family's Ashigaru not even dare to breathe.

"It's the horseback team of the southern family!"

"It's over! We're going to die here! ”

Several Shikuda Kankane's flagships pointed to the soldiers that suddenly appeared in front of them and shouted loudly, and with the roar of the flagbooks, the Ashigaru of the Spo family kept exclaiming.

It is the family crest of the southern house to a crane pattern. Later, when the 13th generation of the Nanbu clan fought against the Anto family in the Akita area, two cranes flew through the formation, and the southern guard immediately thought it was an auspicious omen, so he decisively ordered the whole army to attack. And this battle is indeed the victory of the southern family.

After the war, Minami Moriyuki thought that the pair of cranes had brought victory to the southern family, so he changed the family crest to the tsuru.

However, the tsuru pattern of the southern family is also different from the crane pattern of other samurai families. One of the features of the crane pattern in the southern house is that the two cranes each have a nine yao pattern on their chests. Jiuyao comes from the North Star and the Big Dipper in the northern sky, and the territory of the southern clan happens to be in the northern part of Honshu Island, so the southern family uses Jiuyao in the family crest to add icing on the cake. Therefore, the family crest of the southern family is also known as the Tsuru Nine Yao Pattern or the Double Feather Tsuru Nine Yao Pattern.

Shikuda Kankan looked at the domineering southern family horseback team in front of him and did not answer, but silently pulled out the sword on his waist - Shikita Kunimitsu, this is the family treasure of the Shikita family for generations, and it was cast by the modern forging knife master of the Shikita family.

"Warriors of the Shikita family! Warriors of Iwate-gun! Heroes of the Spoy family! For the sake of the Spo family, I will lead the charge! The southern home is just a school of soft-footed shrimp, we were able to beat them hard last year, and today we can too! ”

"Kill me! Rush! "Shikuda Kane's old figure did not appear sluggish because of his age, on the contrary, at this time, Shikuda Kankan seemed to glow with a second spring, riding on a galloping war horse, and an indomitable momentum suddenly affected the originally demoralized Ashigaru and Hao clan coalition forces behind him.

"Kill!" Seeing that his father had rushed out, he immediately yelled and followed behind him, and then the flags of the Shikita family followed closely behind. Behind him, Johoji Shigemasa and Fuji Masahide glanced at each other, and quickly nodded and shouted, "Everyone rush!" ”