Chapter 152: The Battle of Situations (Part II)

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Ikoma was stationed in Shinkiyama Castle on the border of Yamato and Hanoi. The castle was built by Kizawa Nagamasa, and was later added by Matsunaga Shu, and was once one of the four fortified castles in Hanoi along with the Takaya Castle of the Hatakeyama family, the Iimoriyama Castle of the Miyoshi family, and the Wakae Castle of the Yusa family. However, unlike the other three fortified fortresses as residential cities, Xingui Son Fortress was built entirely to manipulate the situation in Hanoi and conquer the Yamato Kingdom, and in the northwest of this city, there is Ruojiang Fortress in South Hanoi, and in the southwest is Gaowu Fortress in North Hanoi, which are arranged in an equilateral triangle with a straight-line distance of only ten kilometers; Directly north of the castle is the main castle of the Miyoshi family, Iimori Castle, due west is the former Sakai Town and the built Quanzhou Castle, and to the southeast is the Kofukuji Temple, Tsutsui Castle and Yamato-gunyama Castle in the center of Yamato Yamato Province, and the distance is only about 15 kilometers, so it is absolutely very convenient to interfere with any of them.

Perhaps, only these two people will be particularly fond of Xingui Mountain City! Kizawa Nagamasa took advantage of the two opposing branches of the main family (the Hatakeyama Suishu family and the Oshu family) to seize the dominance of the territory, and used the dispute between Ichijo and Hokei to eliminate the political enemies in the country; Matsunaga Shu controlled the Miyoshi family to get power in Ki Nai, until he attacked and killed the shogun, they were all ambitious conspirators, and the city they favored could be described as a city of ambition. Because of this, after Nobunaga destroyed Matsunaga Shu, his first order was to abandon the castle.

The prospect of the show derived from Koma is stationed here, so that he can monitor the Yamato Castle side and provide an early warning to the Takaya Castle of North Hanoi, ten kilometers to the southwest; When Hideyoshi attacked Quanzhou Castle, he gave him the same order, but the target of the warning became the front line of Quanzhou Castle, fifteen kilometers to the west.

In addition, Hideyoshi also handed over jurisdiction over Nanhanoi to Ikoma Shinmasa, and asked him to strengthen the defense of his position in the hope of being able to resist the attack of the Yamato country. At that time, this order seemed unnecessary, because there were seventy or eighty thousand troops of Hideyoshi and Jingxiu on the front line of Quanzhou City, and as long as Tsutsui Shunqing was not brainless, he would definitely not easily pick up the tiger's beard; However, now only the Hokuriku Legion of Hara Hidenaga in Kinai, Wakasa Takigawa Ichida (Takigawa Patriarch, Ichiyi himself has lived in seclusion) and Tango Hosokawa Tadashi, with a total number of only about 40,000 people, the value of the Shinkiyama position is revealed.

It can also be imagined that Hideyoshi did have a plan and set the main battlefield in the Sanyang area to prevent his own Jinghua area from being ravaged.

Fortunately, Ikoma has just been put into service and has obtained Nan Hanoi, and it is the time to be grateful to Dade and work hard to serve, and he is not slacking off because of everyone's common opinion. As soon as he arrived at the predetermined position, he immediately requisitioned several nearby wealthy families to assist him in strengthening the defense of the position. After more than half a month of operation, he has relied on the remains of the various branches of Xinguishan Castle in the past, and built several fortified cities, although they are not comparable to the defense level of the Matsunaga family back then, but they are not able to capture in a short time.

Regarding the information of Xingui Mountain City, Jing Zheng has already explored it in great detail, and even formulated several tactics. When Naota Ii arrived at Yamato-gunyama Castle with the Northern Ise of the Honka, the Annonbei and Naka-Iseshi of the Nagano family, and the Minami Ise of Oda Nobubu, he saw the handwritten warrant that Maeda Toshinaga carried, and he had no choice but to hand over all the information and predetermined tactics to Naoto, who would adjudicate it. Considering the urgency of time and the large superiority of troops, Zhihu chose the tactic of dividing the troops and dividing the general into three. Among them, the Iga Nation, the Middle Ise, and the Northern Ise were on the right, with a total of about 13,000 troops, led by Keimasa, to take Wakae Castle; Tsutsui Shunkei's 12,000 Yamato people were the middle road and went to Shingui Mountain to contain Ikoma and pro-masa; Naotora himself led more than 8,000 people from Annonbei, Uenobei, and Minami Isekai as the left road and marched towards Kawachi Takaya Castle.

The three armies marched in unison, each with the strength to contend with Ikoma Koma, the middle lane was responsible for containment, and the other two were heading straight for their destination. At this time, Ikoma is expected to be very difficult, because his purpose here is to defend the Yamato Kingdom, and his great reliance is the Ikoma mountain system, which separates Yamato and Hanoi in a north-south direction, as well as the Shinguiyama position and the Senoguchi Pass in the middle of the mountain system. However, the other side relied on the superiority of troops, and arranged for the two armies to abandon the convenient Nobuki Mountain Noguchi and forcibly cross the Ikoma Mountain Range, and it was impossible for him to divide his troops to intercept it, otherwise he could only be defeated by the other side.

That's the difference. Although Ikoma kinmasa controls Mt. Nobukiyama, he is not Kizawa Nagamasa or Matsunaga Hide, and in the Kawachi Province behind him, there is no such huge power as the Hatakeyama family or the Miyoshi family that can be borrowed, but he is facing the soldiers of Yamato, Iga, and Ise. Now that the entire Hanoi Kingdom has concentrated its military forces on him, Ruojiang Castle in the northwest and Gaoya Castle in the southwest are almost empty cities, and it is impossible to resist for long. What is serious is that if there are still Ikoma parents under house arrest in Jiangcheng, once they are rescued by the other party and rumored to crusade against him, at least the North Hanoi side will not be stable.

However, Izumi Province also has Yura Hidenaga, and the 40,000 troops under his command are enough to serve as the backing of Ikoma and even stabilize the entire Kinai region. I think that's what Hideyoshi expects from him!

Yura Hidecho is a person, his ability is still very good, in the pacification of San'in and Hokuriku battles, he has a good performance, and in history he also presided over the water attack of Beichu Takamatsu Castle, the Shikoku Expedition and the Southern Kyushu Expedition, and forced the surrender of Shimizu Soji, Nagamune's head and Shimazu Iehisa. His status in the Yuliang family is equivalent to the Xiujing of the family, and the roles and affairs he usually plays are very similar.

However, with their status, they will inevitably lack in decisiveness. Because they have been working for a long time, they have been accustomed to carrying out step-by-step affairs, or the ready-made arrangements of the head of the family, and after a long time, although they can cultivate careful thinking and the ability to pick up the missing pieces, they are not good at dealing with complex situations and unexpected situations. Throughout most of Hideyoshi's life, he rarely presided over a raider, and most of the time he acted as Hideyoshi's deputy general, or was responsible for the finishing work. The only time he served as the general of the raiders was the expedition against the Shikoku of the Nagamune family, but at that time, Hideyoshi was seriously ill and was helpless; Rao is like this, as soon as Hideyoshi recovers his health, he immediately intends to take over the raiders, but in view of the obvious superiority in troops, Hidenaga did not give the other party any opportunity to take advantage of it, and accepted his request to preside over it alone (Shikoku Imperial Hair Affair).

And the reason why I chose the breakthrough point in Kinai, which Hidenaga is responsible for, is based on this judgment of Hidenaga. I think that with a few dark moves that I arranged in Kinai, it would be enough for Hidenaga to cope with it. And the Ise people of the straight tiger are only the first in dark chess; She went to reinforce Yamato Province, but she was only the first move in the dark chess.

In the face of Ikoma's friendly flying horseman asking for help, Hidecho Hagara responded very well. He sent an order to Ikoma himself, ordering him to divide his troops into two routes, with the people of Kawachi in the north to defend Wakajiang Castle, and the people of Hanoi in the south to defend the position of Shinguishan, and sent Hatakeyama Masashang, who had served as the guardian of South Hanoi, to lead the people to Gaoya Castle in South Hanoi to defend it. In addition, he himself began to gather his forces and prepare to march towards Hanoi to defeat the invading enemy forces on three fronts.

By the time Naotora crossed the Ikoma Mountains and reached the territory of Kawachi Province, Hatakeyama Masasho had already entered Takaya Castle and laid a defensive line on the Ishikawa River to the east of the castle. Receiving the information, Naota immediately turned south, heading to Tsuboji Temple and Tsukui Hachimangu Shrine on the east bank of the Ishikawa River.

Tsuboji Temple and Tsukui Hachimangu Shrine are of great significance to the Genji family. The temple was built in 1034 by Minamoto Yorisin, the ancestor of the Kawachi Genji clan and the then head of the Kawachi State Division. It was during the Minamoto Yoshishin era that the Kawachi Genji established the right to rule over the Banto Genji (Kanto) and obtained the status of the pillars of the Genji, and the Tongfa Temple became the Bodhi Temple of the Kawachi Genji, burying the pillars of the first three generations of the Minamoto Yorishin, Minamoto Yoriyoshi, and Minamoto Yoshinoshi; Tsukui Hachimangu Shrine was built by Minamoto Yoriyoshi as the god of Genji in Kawachi, along with the head god of Genji, Ishimizu Hachimangu Shrine (Ise Jingu Shrine, which is second only to the Imperial Family in the opposite position of Enryakuji Temple in the northeast), and Tsuruoka Wakamiya Shrine, the predecessor of Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine, the god of the Minamoto clan in Banto.

However, the buildings built by the pillars of Genji have been burned down in the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and only a remnant remains. I was already the elder of the Genji clan when I-nobu joined Nam Hanoi a few months ago, so his first big move after taking office was to rebuild Tsuboji Temple and Tsukui Hachimangu Shrine in my name, but due to Keexiu's sudden attack, the whole project had to be stopped halfway, and only two main temples and one unfinished shrine were completed.

Even so, when Naohu turned to these two places, he still made a gesture of worship and worship. She changed into an intricate and ornate three-tiered single coat, rode a temporary collection of ox carts, and led by Anno and Ueno Bei, and rode along the east bank of the Ishikawa to the south of Tsukui, seemingly completely ignoring the Hatakeyama family defenders on the west bank.

When the news reached Takaya Castle, Hatakeyama Masasho must have been very angry! It is simply an insult for a woman to act as the main general of the raiders and despise his defense line so much. Although the Hatakeyama family has declined and no longer has the prestige of the steward of the past, is he also the guardian of a country after all...... He at once gathered all his forces in the city and went to the west bank to join the defenders, preparing to teach a lesson to the swaggering, ritual-like of a ritual.

In the face of the menacing Hatakeyama Masao, Naotora immediately ordered the whole army to change formations and set up a defensive line along Ishikawa. The more than 50 meters on the edge of the river were vacated in advance as the firing area of the two reserves and the North Ise Zhongchu Iron Artillery Team, and behind them was a gun formation composed of the backbone of Annonbei and Ueno Bei Lancers, and all the mounted samurai were also ordered to assemble next to the ox cart and prepare for the attack.

When the enemy troops came ashore one after another and rushed towards their positions, the iron artillery team spoke at the right time, taking the lives of nearly 100 people. Then, Naotora took off his single coat a few times, threw the single coat and the prepared firewood and grass into the carriage, lit a fire and rushed towards the enemy army by the river, while he tightened his full armor under his clothes, jumped on the war horse led by the attendant with his spear, and led the mounted warriors to charge towards the river.

This series of actions obviously stunned the enemy troops by the river. In addition to the iron cannon strike and the fire bull charge, the shock given to them by the straight tiger was particularly severe. A moment ago, the beauty who was still wearing a single dress and riding an ox cart has now become a samurai who leads the charge, and the contrast between the two is like a little white rabbit turning into a big bad wolf. And when Zhihu cut into the formation along the gap opened by the fire cow steak, they found that this gray wolf was still a particularly ferocious kind, and a few people who blocked the way immediately turned into dead corpses on the ground. And the two or three hundred horseback warriors behind her, as if inspired by the straight tiger, also exerted twelve percent of their combat power, and defeated the enemy on the river bank to the ground. Seeing that the situation was not good, the surviving ashigaru men turned their heads and fled into the river, colliding with the follow-up troops, further aggravating the chaos of the army.

Seeing that the vanguard of his family rushing to the opposite bank was completely destroyed, there was a wail in the river channel dozens of meters wide, and the blood almost stained the river red; And after the opponent's spear formation came up, it slapped his own team like a wave, and each time it could take dozens of lives, and even the Ashigaru team in the rear was frightened into a commotion, and Hatakeyama Masano understood that his own military spirit had collapsed, and this battle could not be fought. He quickly gathered dozens of samurai and four or five hundred ashigaru around him, turned around and retreated into Takaya Castle, and at the same time sent his close horse to Izumi Kuniyu Yoshihide to ask for support.

Hatakeyama Masashi had retreated, and his Notobu people naturally had no reason to insist anymore, so the rear army dispersed in a hurry, and fled into the surrounding fields and mountains and forests in a chaotic manner, giving up the Hexi defense line. Naotora ignored these routs, she came ashore surrounded by a large number of samurai on horseback, immediately reined in her army, and set up camp at Hayugao Hill in the south of Takaya Castle, and then sent Zhezhi Kiyohiro to lead Ueno Bei to go up the Ishikawa River to join Keimasa's main force, and ordered Keimasa to march north according to the plan and march directly to Yamashiro Province.

"Then there are only more than 6,000 people left around the general, is it too risky? After all, Yura Mino still has more than 30,000 troops in his hands! Ueno Bi Seikue Kiyohiro, Anno Bi Nagano Hideto (Hidekei and Nagano Yoshihime), Minami Ise Oda Nobuyige (Nobuchi Naga) all persuaded one after another.

"It doesn't matter, for both the enemy and us, Nam Hanoi is far less important than the Son City Country. If Hara Minomori can't let go of Minami Hanoi, that's a good thing, and I have a way to deal with him," Naotora explained to everyone with a smile, "I think Hara Minoru should understand the importance of the two...... And Ise Mamoru is the child of His Royal Highness, and he leads most of the army, so he is like the general of the family in Kinai compared to me, and it is easy to become the target of the enemy's main force! ”

Hearing what she said, Zhezhi Qingguang became worried for Jing Zheng: "Then the head of the family will have to face the main force of Yuliang Minomori, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with, right?" ”

"So please tell Isemoru that Kinai is empty now, and you can go to Kinai at full speed," Naotora said to Seihiro Zhezhi, "as long as he occupies the Yodogawa ferry first, he can completely block the forces of the Yura family...... At that time, the rest of His Highness's arrangements will be activated! ”ro！ ~！