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Chapter 40 Domination of Kurashiki

The Takaliang River, which originated from the mountains of China, and the Adagawa River of the Kibi Highland Court, formed an alluvial plain in the southeastern part of the country, and is the essence of the country, and the plains have been an agricultural area since the Yayoi period, with one of the few large ancient burial mounds in the Wa Kingdom, and only by relying on the land of the two counties of Shimodo and Metropolitan Governors to feed three-fifths of the population of Bei China, the Mimura clan and the Zhuang clan fought for hegemony in China, and the Hosokawa clan, which had the guardian position, gradually declined, and the Ishikawa clan was unable to maintain the hegemony of the guardian generation, had to be relegated to the second place. By the biquge.info time Ishikawa Hisatochi arrived, the Ishikawa clan was no longer able to maintain a second seat, and the Mimura family was in a tense struggle for hegemony, and the Ishikawa clan could only be reduced to a bystander or simply a public granary, and anyone could ask for money and food from Ishikawa Hisachi. Date Masaki started in the land of the mountains and wilderness, and has nothing to do with the Ishikawa clan, it can be said that the Date family is Date Mashiro slashed the powerful people all the way with a sword and a sword to become powerful, whether it is the Nakayama clan at the beginning, or the later Shinmi Sadatsune, the Mimura family has ended up in disrepute, leaving no room for any room, this is what makes Ishikawa Hisachi feel afraid. Sarukake Castle fell, and the territory of the Date family was already adjacent to Yukiyama Castle across the river, and with Ishikawa Hisato's idea, Date Masaki would definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue after successive victories, which led to Ishikawa Hisato's overreaction.

The Gaoliang River is one of the three major rivers in Okayama County, the largest river in Bei China, there is no one, its main trunk and tributaries irrigate the whole of Bei China, it can be said that it is the mother river of Bei China, with a total length of 11 kilometers, running through the whole of Bei China. The division of the county system of Beichu is based on the Takaliang River, the upper reaches of the east and west of the Aga and Zheta counties, the middle reaches of the Kamikawa-gun and Kamibo-gun, the downstream of the Oda-gun and the lower part of the county, the east and west sides of the estuary are Asaguchi-gun and Toku-gun, a river divides the Beichu into eight counties, plus Heyang County and Houyue County to form the entire Beichu. In summer and autumn, most of the time in China is sunny, drought and little rain, there will be a certain break in the Gaoliang River, but now is the beginning of spring, a large amount of rain and snow melts in winter and the rolling torrent is poured into the Gaoliang River, irrigating the people on both sides of the river, often because of the burst of the embankment to make the downstream banks of the flood monstrous, diversioned several times, the Gaoliang River seen in later generations and the Gaoliang River seen now is a little different, but it is still not much worse, just wider and more urgent.

Although the Gaoliang River, like the Wa Kingdom, is known as one of the three major rivers in Okayama Prefecture, it can only be said to be a small river compared to the big rivers of the Ming Kingdom, and it is much worse than the rivers in the provinces and cities. The surface of the river is about thirty or forty zhang wide, and there are no fishing boats on the river for a long time, and it is empty, only the occasional leap out of the water does not know what kind of river fish tells that the river has not been governed as strictly as in later generations, but it cannot be as original as it is now. The snow melts on the mountains, and the rivers upstream overflow with the occasional floating tree trunks, branches, and beast carcasses in the rivers that flow down.

Zheng Heng looked at the flags on the other side, the figure staggered, the corners of his mouth turned slightly, and he turned his head to Noyama Yosaki and asked, "Shosuke in the palace, has the embankment of Nimizhuang been reinforced?!" ”

Noyama Yichao nodded slightly, and responded: "Yes, in winter, more than 1,000 people were gathered to reinforce some defective embankments along the Takaliang River, which should be able to block the flow of water in front of you, but it is not very safe, Akagi-kun has already led people to inspect, which can ensure the cultivation of Shinmizhuang, and there are no big problems with several other rivers." ”

Zhengheng kicked the soil under his feet heavily, then grabbed a handful, kneaded it, and said softly: "It's good fertile soil, even if you don't add any fertilizer, you can have a good harvest, since Ishikawa Hisachi insists on being my enemy, then I can only barely take Kurashiki into my pocket." ”

Noyama Yichao grinned, he never thought that it took less than a year for the Date family to rise from decline, which made him quite gratified, the tide is rising, and he, the first old status of the Date family, is also rising, if it weren't for the fact that Matsuyama City has not yet been captured, maybe it has already begun to be divided, he grinned and asked: "Your Highness, do you say that this time you can cross the river and win in one fell swoop?" ”

Zhengheng shook his head slightly, looked at the situation on the other side, scattered the soil in his hand at his feet, and said with a wry smile: "It's not easy to fight, Takahashi Chuan is blocked in the middle, although Ishikawa Jiuzhi is not wise, but the Ishikawa clan has long occupied a rich land, and the family is thick, I'm afraid it will not be easy to overcome, they are on the defensive, and for us who attack them, the geographical advantage is very unfavorable; The time is not in me, now there is only people, Ishikawa Hisachi is wary of Yakushiji Yashichiro, a rare fierce general, Ishikawa Hisataka of Takamatsu Castle remains neutral, and other powerful people will not fight hard for the Ishikawa family. Although I treat Da Haoqiang harshly, the interests of the Date family, and the interests of the people who follow me can only be grabbed from them, but for Xiao Haoqiang, the Date family is quite tolerant, they will not see this, and obviously they will not fight hard without the slightest interest. ”

Noyama Masashi snorted, looked in the direction of Koyama Castle and said: "Now we can only expect Yoshida Masanari and Kotera Sabei Captain to be able to win, once Koyama Castle falls, there will be an uproar on the other side, and it is possible to bomb the camp, now the only way to delay them here, as long as they delay for a while, they can be given a little more time to win." ”

Zhengheng smiled and said, "Miyauchi Shaosuke, we will win this battle, we have to see if Ishikawa Jiuzhi holds on." Saying that, he shouted from afar: "Kiyokawa Atsutaro, say hello well, don't let them pull the formation apart, Taoshan Zhenbei, the wooden shield is on top in front, and the trees are pulled and thrown into the river with ropes in the back, and then wooden planks are laid on the trees, and the pontoon bridge is built, step by step." ”

Five huge catapults were placed on the small hillside of the riverbank, the small hill was quite flat, and there was no need to worry about the collapse of the catapults, and the cobblestones that had already been prepared on the catapults roared past under the crisp firing order of Atsutaro Kiyokawa, and projected towards the opposite bank. The deterrent power of the catapult is quite strong, the projection distance is quite long, and the river of thirty or forty zhang is not a problem at all, but if the enemy formation is scattered, the pebbles that are not very fast can be completely dodged, and the effect is greatly reduced, but in the face of the Ishikawa army that has begun to set up a formation, it is a bloody mold.

The whistling sound that pierced the air was like a sneer from the Grim Reaper, and the breath of death instantly enveloped the empty Ijiri Plains. The sound of the cobblestones crashing on their pockets was drowned out by the wails of the peasant soldiers, and only the brutal scene of hundreds of people covering their foreheads and bleeding could only be seen. The pebbles fell from a high altitude, coupled with the power projected by the catapults, so that the force of the impact on the human body was huge, if you wore heavy armor such as large armor, you just felt a chest tightness and there was not much to do, but the foot equipment of the peasants and soldiers was quite thin, mostly made of bamboo pieces in series, and the impact was huge, and if it fell on the head, the head broke and the blood flow was also a common thing. Although it is not fatal, the wounded in the army are more severe than the consequences caused by death, and the wounded need to be cared for and treated, which requires personnel, that is to say, although there are only more than 100 wounded people, the number of people who quit the battlefield at once has reached more than 150.

Where did Ishikawa Hisatochi think that the army formation had not yet been arranged, and he lost more than 150 people at once, although his total strength reached 45,000 people, 150 people is less than 10% for 45,000 people, but the morale situation caused is not optimistic, it can be said that the optimism of relying on the strength of the crowd was beaten on the spot by a wooden stick, and the head was dizzy and the blood flowed. Ishikawa Jiuzhi scolded viciously, but there was nothing he could do, he still relied on the defense of the Takaliang River, where did he still have the courage to rush across the Sorghum River.

Ishikawa Hisachi hurriedly ordered the queue to be scattered, in fact, there was no need for him to order, during the second wave of catapult projection, the number of injured people was greatly reduced, and they all avoided the attack of the pebbles, although the queue was much more chaotic, but only a dozen unlucky people were injured when they ran a little slower and were slightly injured, and they were able to go into battle with a simple bandage. Just when Ishikawa Hisachi secretly rejoiced, Taoshan Zhenbei shouted loudly, carrying a large wooden shield covered with a layer of copper on the outside, and walked towards the river bank step by step, followed by more than 100 people shouting and shouting, and a group of four people carried the trees step by step.

Ishikawa Kuchi Tetsuqing had a sneer on his face, and shouted loudly: "Let them see how powerful our iron artillery team is, find a few wooden planks to come over, and block the attack of the stones at the front, and the iron artillery team will kill them for me." "Thirty or forty zhang is a distance of nearly 100 meters, at such a distance, the killing distance of the iron cannon is about 200 meters, and the killing distance is indeed 50 meters, and it still has a fairly high damage after the formation of a scale, of course, the actual distance is much farther than more than 100 meters, about 150 meters, but it is also within the killing distance. And both sides are facing each other head-on, with the ballistics of iron cannons, there is no need to worry about missing shots.

The Ishikawa family's iron artillery team is different from the Mimura family's iron artillery team, the latter does not even have training personnel, the former relies on rich money and the development of the port, and has trained hundreds of iron gunners, which are much more elite than the iron gunners temporarily recruited under the command of Zhengheng, at least the amount of training ammunition is much more than that of the Date family.

The Date army soon arrived in front of the river beach, the wooden shield stood in front, and there was no appearance of opening, and the Taoshan Zhenbei who commanded it also saw the situation on the other side, knowing that opening the wooden shield at this moment would only be passively beaten, he immediately reported the latest situation to Zhengheng, hoping to get Zhengheng's tactical command.

Zheng Heng paused slightly, squinted his eyes and looked at the iron artillery team on the other side slightly, the other party did not fire blindly, obviously knowing that the lethality was limited in the case of the wooden shield at the front, and secretly said: "This iron artillery team is elite." "The psychology of people on the real battlefield will change dramatically, which will lead to their own behavior getting out of control. All kinds of factors may cause the psychological breakdown of the iron gunner, and the tense atmosphere will lead to a slower reload, an increase in the amount of gunpowder to be loaded, and an increase in the number of reloads. It's rare to be able to stay still in the face of an enemy.

It's hard to come by, it's the enemy's iron artillery team, not his command. Masahiro secretly regretted it, so he quickly ordered Matsushima Yajiro and Iwase Kogoro to lead the iron artillery team to come forward to support, and ordered: "Wait until the opponent's iron artillery team fires and suppress the opponent's attack with the iron cannon, and quickly throw the trees into the river." ”

Yajiro Matsushima and Kogoro Iwase led more than 100 gunners through the trees, and began to lay them behind the wooden shields, waiting for the other side to fire bullets.

Seeing that his iron artillery team was ready, Zhengheng ordered: "Qinghe Atsutaro, use the whole stone projection to aim at the iron artillery team on the opposite bank, I want to see how long they can endure?!" "The catapult worked again, this time it was no longer a pebble on the plate, but a large stone with a heavy weight, and the projection distance was greatly reduced, but the distance of thirty or forty zhang was still too short, and it could only reduce the projection angle of the catapult, and the throwing became a direct projection.

Using the principle of logs, Date Jun pushed two huge stones with great effort, uttered the slogan "one-two-one-two", walked to the edge of the stone sac of the catapult, and placed the huge stone on the stone sac. The corners of Kiyokawa Atsutaro's mouth twitched, and with a wave of his hand, a huge boulder roared towards the opposite bank with the sound of wind and thunder.

Hisachi Ishikawa, who was commanding the Iron Artillery Team, looked at the grinding plate-sized stones whistling from the opposite bank, and subconsciously shouted: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

Just shouted, a stone fell on the big wooden board in front of him, crushed the big wooden board, directly crushed the soldiers in front, the stone carried the impact force and directly crushed over, the kneeling iron gunner directly crushed over, until the retreating Nakajima Tadashi did not stop rolling in front of the retreating Nakajima Tadashi, the stone was full of blood and mud, Nakajima Tadashi, who had been in the mood of the war for a long time, actually had the idea of vomiting, and a burst of disgust against his stomach hit, and finally calmed down.

Another huge stone fell on the tidal flat of the Takaliang River, and the mud that had been picked up fell on the body of the iron gunner, who had no time to escape, and five stones were projected in succession. Only the first stone fell in the crowd, directly crushing the three soldiers, and the number of injured people was about ten or so, although it was not much, but the shadow caused was really huge.

Nakajima's face turned pale, he was completely frightened, he had seen many scenes, but how could such a cruel scene be presented in front of him. It's just that Ishikawa Hisachi's rebuke came soon, scolding them for why they didn't fight back, Nakajima was shocked, the iron gunners panicked, where was there still the initial calm, and they fired the iron cannon in their hands indiscriminately towards the opposite bank, which also caused a slight injury to a member of the Date army, and the iron pill directly grazed the edge of the wooden shield and slipped into the crowd, but fortunately, it only scratched the thigh of an unlucky guy and was stripped of a piece of fur.

Matsushima Yajiro and Iwase Kogoro saw that the other party's formation was in chaos, and the iron gunners made a mess, their excited eyes turned green, and they laughed and shouted loudly: "The first team prepares, the second team aims, and shoots in turn." The gunners aimed at the other side, and when the wooden shield at the front opened a wide road, and the soldiers who followed continued to advance with the trees, the iron gunners of the Date family began to wreak havoc.

Although the Iron Gunners of the Date family were all temporary workers and did not train properly, the first and second waves of fire still caused great damage to the Ishikawa Army's Iron Artillery Team, especially the situation of guarding against the projection of catapults. The Date family has copper ore resources, and the iron ore is not small, and there has never been a precedent for the use of shields in the Wa Kingdom, and the wooden shield of the Date army is wrapped with a layer of copper plates, which makes it difficult for the projectiles of the iron cannon to penetrate the wooden shield, and the large wooden planks of the Ishikawa family's iron artillery team are miserable. What's more, the big wooden board is not too thick, and the projectiles hit the wooden board, often able to punch a hole in the door panel at once, and after some projectiles penetrate the door panel, they hit the people hiding behind, and when even if some people were knocked over on the ground, the iron cannon team of the Ishikawa family was in chaos.

It was not long ago, Nakajima Tadashi watched more than 30 elite soldiers being shot by the bullets, being hit by falling rocks, suffering heavy casualties, and letting out a miserable howl in pain, his heart was pounding, and he heard Ishikawa Hisachi's untimely reprimand, and suffered heavy losses in a short period of time, it is foreseeable that if he continues to fight, all these people under his command will have to be explained here, and immediately give an order: "Turn around, withdraw, even if Ishikawa-sama punishes me, only one of me will be punished, save my life!" ”

There is only one way to die if he continues to fight, and Ishikawa Hisachi ignores the casualties, and the only way to survive is to rush out from the flank and take refuge in Takamatsu Castle Ishikawa Hisataka, no matter who wins or loses, as long as Ishikawa Hisataka protects them, they will be able to survive.

The iron gunners had already been frightened, and if it weren't for the supervision of the army behind them, they would have collapsed, and now they all cast grateful eyes when they heard Nakajima's orders, and followed Nakajima Tadashi along the river bank to run upstream, and the downstream is the sphere of influence of Yukiyama Castle, and only by going upstream can there be a way to survive.

Ishikawa Hisachi thought that the Iron Artillery Team would run away in front of the formation, and he didn't react for a while, but let the Iron Artillery Team run a long distance, and he was furious, and shouted loudly: "Sano Tokiyori, you bring five hundred people to pursue Nakajima for me, and arrest me immediately after catching up, if you resist and kill." ”

Sano Shilai took the order and left, glanced at Ishikawa Hisachi from a distance, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, the defeat is decided, and you are still showing off your power here, Lao Tzu will not accompany you, go home." As he spoke, he led his men back to the territory of the Sano family, and went to Hayashikameyama Castle.

When Ishikawa Hisachi's men rebelled and left, Yukiyama Castle fell, and Yoshida Masanari and Kodera Sabei Lieutenant attacked Koyama Castle with little resistance, and the heirs of Ishikawa Hisatomo's family in the castle fell into their hands without even having a chance to escape, even Ishikawa Hisashiki, Ishikawa Hisashiki.

Ishikawa Hisachi was shocked and immediately scattered, and a great battle that was supposed to be protracted was a dramatic victory, and on the same day, Ishikawa Hisataka of Takamatsu Castle delivered the surrender table and hostages.

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