Chapter Thirty-Six: Watching the Fire from the Other Side
"Ladies and gentlemen, you also know the current situation, Narumi Castle is about to break out into war, now what we have to do is to wait for them to fight, and then expand our territory in one fell swoop, the defenders of Moriya Castle have all withdrawn, and now we just want to let them know that Owari is a lamb to the slaughter!"
Guo Jia sat on the top of the ceremonial hall and moved his left arm as he spoke, and the time he was pumped at that time was still a little painful.
"If you have anything, report it now, and I'll go back and continue to recuperate when it's over." Guo Jia didn't seem to care about the battle between Ise and the Imagawa army at all, and he was not even distracted when the meeting was so important.
"I'll go first!"
"I, let me come!"
"Okay, let's start with Shibata Katsuya one by one." After stopping their excited voices, Guo Jia asked them to report one by one, and the kind of quarrel they had just made him upset.
"My lord! The invasion has expanded to fourteen hundred men and is now on standby. ”
"By the way, don't talk about the military battle group, I've already checked it, and you can report on other things that you think are more important." Guo Jia shook his head.
When he returned to the ancient wilderness, he had already inspected the four regiments of the Wind Volcanic Forest, and the total number of people had expanded to about 6,000, the number of people who did not move like a mountain was nearly 2,500 at most, and the number of people who were as fast as the wind was only about 1,200.
Guo Jia knew everything about the military battle, and now he wanted information to know things like the speed of the Imagawa army, the distance of the Ise army, and the internal information of Owari, not the strength of Owari Province. Because after they built the hospital and school, Guo Jia asked them to continue to be on standby.
"My lord, here's a piece of information for your lordship." Takigawa Yiyi blamed himself for a long time, he knew that Guo Jia's injury was inseparable from him, but Guo Jia didn't embarrass him at all, and didn't even say anything.
"I'll see." Guo Jia instantly became serious when he heard his words, and his brows furrowed into a few words.
Takigawa Kazuki's information is nothing more than two kinds, one is about the movements of Toe and Ise and the other is about the two people inside Owari.
After taking the paper handed over by Takigawa Yiyi, Guo Jia opened it and looked at it, and was instantly angry.
"It was discovered that Oda Nobuyo and Oda Nobuyuki had met with the envoy of Ene Province, and the two issued a second order to draw troops, which was stopped by the ninja. The tax revenue of the residents of Inuyama Castle in Cheongju Castle has reached eighty percent, and now there are some displaced people who want to enter Nakono Castle. ”
This message can be said to be disgusting to Guo Jia, Oda Nobuyo and Nobuyuki are not obedient, he doesn't say that it looks like he will surrender to Yuanjiang Kingdom! Moreover, the two of them have greatly increased the tax revenue of residents, causing this situation of people to be displaced, which makes Guo Jia even more upset!
First of all, they raised taxes for their own selfish interests, which completely destroyed the content of Guo Jia's reform of the law, and then they made the residents displaced and had nowhere to return, and a large number of displaced people may enter the ancient wild city, and the displaced people don't care about this kind of thing, but what if there are spies from Yuanjiang inside?
"Damn it. Go on! Guo Jia crushed the information and put it in his sleeve and motioned for them to continue reporting.
"The adults have now trained seven or eight literate people, and the skills of the residents have all been documented, and it is estimated that in another month, Owari Academy will be put into use. The interior of the hospital has been renovated, and now all the Langzhong people in Nakono have gathered here. "Niwa Nagahide has been appointed by Guo Jia as the first leader of Owari Hospital and Owari Academy, and he has done a good job in this matter, and the construction of these two new projects has been completed in only two or three days, and it is only a matter of time before these two industries develop.
"My lord, if nothing else, Ise Province will clash with Enoe Province tomorrow. What do we do now? "In addition to these contents, the rest is about the military, but Guo Jia has long been aware of the current situation. Nakono Castle was like a fortress, where 7,000 Oda troops remained and 5,000 garrisons sent by Mino Province. If there are people who don't open their eyes and come to attack, it's basically a matter of going and not returning.
"Come to think of it, let's disperse. Wait until they're done. By the way, Takigawa Ichiki prepares horses, you and I will go to Cheongju Castle. Guo Jia touched his chin with his hand and narrowed his eyes. Now just wait for the two armies to exchange fire, and he doesn't plan to persuade him, he now wants to directly force out Imagawa Yoshimoto and then directly let him go and have no return, and the most important thing now is to find out the intentions of the Yuanjiang Kingdom, if they send an envoy to rebel, Guo Jia will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, more than forty miles outside Narumi Castle, the Ise Miyoshi people had already stopped their camp and rested, because they were going to attack Narumi Castle the next day, so they must have enough energy to fight the army defending the city. And the Geshan clan Yuan, who is still marching, doesn't think so, he is now going to Minghai City to retrieve the remaining troops that he thinks still exists and then attack Naguno City, so he doesn't plan to stop at all today, he has made a big circle to reach the vicinity of Minghai City, and his hatred for Guo Jia is almost explosive now, and he is really marching with the mentality of not killing Guo Jia and swearing not to be a man.
"My lord has twenty miles to reach Narumi City!" The spies in front have returned, and he has brought good news to the Katsuyama clan.
"Full speed ahead!"
The Katsuyama clan didn't stop, and now as long as he hastened to Narumi Castle, he could lead his troops to attack Owari to report his humiliating hatred. But it wasn't until they arrived at Narumi Castle at night that they found that there were no Imagawa defenders here at all, and it was basically an empty castle!
"What's the situation? What about the defenders of Narumi Castle? Geshan clan Yuan stared at Narumi City, puzzled in his heart.
"Lord Hui, according to the person in charge here, not long ago, when the Oda army seized the castle, they annihilated the rest of our Imagawa army!"
"What do you say? Damn it! Hit the trick! Fall back! Retreat now! ”
When the Katsuyama clan heard Ashigaru's report, he immediately asked the army led by him to retreat, what did he think, three thousand troops against Owari? Dream! And until now, there has been no information about the success of Okabe Motonobu himself and the Anbara general who will supervise the anti-Oda family, and he does not dare to clash with Guo Jia again.
But is he in time? Of course it's too late.
"My lord, we can't retreat!"
"What nonsense are you talking about, why can't you retreat! Immediately give the order for the whole army to retreat! ”
"My lord, I really can't! According to reliable information, the Ise Miyoshi people are now stationed thirty miles west of Narumi Castle, and it is estimated that they will attack Narumi Castle tomorrow! Adults can't retreat! ”
"Huh? What did you say? Three good people? Are they crazy? ”
The Katsuyama clan is now in turmoil, he originally planned to come here to take revenge, but he didn't expect that they would be surrounded, and it was the Ise Kuni Sanhao people who had nothing to do with them!
Now the Geshan clan can't retreat, once he retreats, his army will be attacked by the enemy, and he may be attacked by Guo Jia's Oda army on the way!
"Quick! Report to Yoshimoto-sama Imagawa immediately! Immediately! "After analyzing it, the Katsuyama clan immediately made a decision, at this time he must report to Imagawa Yoshimoto as soon as possible, now that he is in a state of being attacked on his back, if he makes a mistake, it will definitely leave him with no room to turn over!
"Quick, report to Lord Imagawa Yoshimoto, the Miyoshi people and the Oda family have formed an alliance and the two sides are attacking Narumi Castle!" Even if his situation is not good now, the Katsuyama clan does not dare to tell Imagawa Yoshimoto about the total annihilation of the 3,000 Imagawa army that he said.
"Everyone prepare me to defend against the siege of the Three Good People!"
In the afternoon of the next day, the army of the three good people arrived at Narumi Castle and launched the siege of Narumi Castle.
The sun in the sky watched everything on the earth as before, and this time it did not intervene in the war, and with a long bull's horn, the siege of the Miyoshi people began.
The banners of the Miyoshi people were located in all directions of the legion, the men and horses on the right flank, dressed in wooden armor and holding three-pronged spears, were constantly approaching the Imagawa army defending the city outside the city, and the left flank was the camp of archers, who drew their longbows and waited for the order of the commander to start the rain of arrows. The frontal battle group was a cavalry force of nearly 1,000 on both sides, and those of the three good people were all heavily armed, but this was not the case with the Imagawa army, and the disadvantages of their long march were undoubtedly revealed in this battle.
"Archers release arrows!" As the rain of arrows from the two lords swept towards each other, the Miyoshi people were certainly prepared for the attackers, and the infantry in their ranks raised their shields to help relieve the pressure caused by the rain of arrows.
"Charge!" As the cavalry continued to approach, the damage caused by the rain of arrows was greatly reduced, and the Miyoshi people began to charge, and the cavalry instantly rushed into the camp of the Imagawa army, but in doing so, it paid a terrible price.
The Katsuyama clan had already set up their ranks, and they only took half a step back to reveal the hidden rejection horses, which completely blocked the speed of the heavy cavalry, and they had already rushed into the enemy camp to retreat, nor did they even let the Imagawa army kill all the soldiers who charged first.
"All the troops are attacking!"
Seeing that the Miyoshi people were bound to win this Narumi City, the general directly asked the legion to charge, and the Miyoshi soldiers dressed in iron chain mail and wooden outer defense instantly turned into meat grinders and entered the battle group.
"The cavalry on the right flank cut in!" The Katsuyama clan, who was completely ready, planned to immediately break the direction of attack of this group of attacking soldiers, so he directly ordered the soldiers stationed there to immediately attack the enemy's tail.
"Kill!"
"Ge Laozi!"
"Die!"
The roar and invective sounded at the moment when the two sides fought, and the Imagawa army was even more angry when they saw their former comrades-in-arms fall, and every soldier was red-eyed, what military merits and rewards were not so important in their eyes, the important thing was to kill this group of invaders.
There was no smoke or fire in the sky, there were only the souls of the Miyoshi people and the soldiers of the Imagawa Army, and there was no laughter outside Narumi Castle instead of roars and sorrows.
The corpses on the ground were slowly getting cold, no one was going to collect them for them, stumps and severed arms were stuck with swords and arrows, and every soldier in the battle group was in despair and anger. War is like that, it is like a huge wheel that runs over everything in the world, and no one is spared in its hands.
"Retreat!" Knock knock!
The defenders were already in a difficult situation, and there were too many troops from the Miyoshi group to stop it, and the Katsuyama clan ordered the army to retreat back to the city. He hates Guo Jia very much now, just because of this little cub he has suffered a defeat, and because he himself will be so embarrassed in Minghai City!
With the retreat of the Imagawa army, the Miyoshi people also stopped attacking, compared to them, they were almost not damaged, but the Miyoshi generals who exchanged a thousand troops for their nearly two thousand troops were even more happy, this Narumi City was about to fall into his hands, and this piece of fat would definitely allow him to get more rewards!