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Chapter 43 Dominating the Preparation

Located at the confluence of Oda County and the Taka River, Mt. Takakura is the most turbulent place in the area of the Takakura River, and Sekibune anchored on a small alluvial plain near Mt. Takakura, and a short distance in the direction of Oda Boate is Tsurushou Castle in Kawakami County. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

The mountain road is difficult to walk, there are several places directly cut into two by the cliffs, in the past, the three village relatives also wanted to open the cliffs to connect the road from Heshou City to Songshan City, but they could not make the trip under the special attack of Zhuang Weizi, but the small field boat can still drive the ship, and it can also go back and forth several times a day, without worrying about the shortage of military rations and other military materials.

Takakura Mountain is a strategic place, according to the mentality of the Japanese people at that time to build a walled city on the mountain as long as it is a mountain, such an important strategic place, and the last barrier to block the enemy from Matsuyama Castle, how can not build such a castle on the mountain to destroy the bad environment. Sure enough, there is a castle built on Takakura Mountain, which is called Takakura Mountain Castle.

Due to the Zhuang clan's control of Shangfang County and Oda County, the nearest land route from Heshou Castle to Matsuyama Castle was cut off, and the waterway could not transport soldiers and horses on a large scale, Takakurayama Castle was considered the hinterland of the hinterland, and it was not expanded decently after Zhuang Weizi entered Matsuyama Castle, and it was still dilapidated.

Since learning the news of the arrival of Date Army, Zhuang Gao Capital wants his two younger brothers to go to Takakura Mountain Castle to garrison, the two younger brothers have a bad relationship with him, where will they obey such an order to send death, Date Masaki wants to attack Matsuyama Castle, he must attack Takakura Mountain Castle first, no one is stupid, and in one day he will be able to break through Dadu Castle, which is more powerful than Takakura Mountain Castle, and whoever goes will die.

Zhuang Gaozi saw that his two younger brothers did not listen to his orders, and wanted his retainers to go to defend the city, but after thinking about it, his soldiers and horses were slightly stronger than those of his two younger brothers, and they were slightly stronger, otherwise Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi's two younger brothers would not turn against each other in front of absolute power. If the troops were divided to garrison Takakura Mountain Castle, once damaged, the soldiers and horses under Zhuang Gaozi would be much weaker than the soldiers and horses of the two younger brothers, and they would not be able to play a higher position in Matsuyama Castle.

The news of the loss of Dadu City first came to Takakura Mountain City, and then went to Matsuyama City, thinking that it would not arrive until at least tomorrow morning, he thought that he would flee to other places with his family at night, where did he think that it would come so quickly, and he was so frightened for a while, and he spread his legs and fled out of the city. As a result, Takakura Mountain Castle soon fell into the hands of Date Army.

Takakura Mountain is also regarded as the remnant of Woniu Mountain, where Matsuyama Castle is located, the elevation of Takakura Mountain Castle is a little shorter than that of Matsuyama Castle, but it is not much shorter, and the movement on Matsuyama Castle can be seen directly from the head of Takakurayama Castle, obviously the news of the fall of Takakura Mountain Castle has spread to Matsuyama Castle, and there is a busy scene in Matsuyama Castle.

Zheng Heng glanced at the sky, Dadu City still delayed for some time, the sun has gradually turned west, a faint moon halo appeared in the sky, night will come soon, he whispered: "It's getting dark, since they are ready, let's wait until tomorrow morning to decide the male and female, so that they can think about the way to go." "Saying that, he ordered his subordinates to station the main camp in Takakura Mountain Castle, and at the same time sent an envoy to Matsuyama Castle to send a letter of persuasion, the messenger was originally the lord of Takakura Mountain Castle, and he escaped halfway through the siege of the mountain Date Army twisted back and shouted that he wanted to surrender to save his life, and this kind of jumping clown to send a letter of surrender is the best choice.

The Date army was busy in Takakura Mountain Castle, but in fact, it was just a few key points in the vicinity and set up as a sentry post, and the others began to cook pots and rice.

Entering May, it is also early summer, the night is already quite cool, Zheng Heng'an sits on the empty city tower, fully armed and extremely upright, looking at the brazier standing around with one eye, Huo Peng on the triangular support is burning orange-red pine, countless flying insects are flying around, from time to time there are a few moths that are not afraid of death into the fire and make a popping sound, which looks very strange in the silent moonlight.

Zheng Heng looked down at the flying insect that stopped on the back of his hand and thought so, and when he wanted to subconsciously slap it off because of this, the flying insect flew away without a trace, and laughed at himself in a low voice: "Flying insects all know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, I don't know if the three guys in Songshan City will retreat without a fight!" He laughed at himself again, and now there are only a few powerful people left outside Songshan City and Shangfang County who have not yet fallen to the bottom of the table, and all of them have fallen into the pocket of the Date family, once they leave Songshan City, the three brothers of Zhuang Gaozi don't know where to settle down, so he laughed at himself.

After thinking about it, Zhengheng stood up and stood at the head of the castle, since there was no castle tower in Takakurayama Castle, and the castle head was the tallest building, he could look at the surrounding scenery at a glance. At the foot of Mt. Takakura is Matsuyama Town, where the alluvial plain formed by the impact of the Takaliang River on Mt. Woniu can be seen at a glance, and the lights shine between the houses and look a little lonely, and the town began to decay and the population withered from the chaos of the three brothers of Shogaozi, Sho Tsuki, and Sho Zishi, and the news of the arrival of the Date Army had already spread in Matsuyama Town, and a large group of people fled to the mountains and forests to hide, waiting for the end of the battle before returning home. A sea breeze mixed with a fishy smell blows in the face, making people feel shivering and dizzy.

The three brothers thought that Date Masahiro had just captured Tsurushou Castle in Kawakami County and would inevitably have to fight against the Mimura family, hoping to be able to separate the winners and losers before the two families were defeated and become the real masters of Matsuyama Castle. Hearing the news of the demise of the Mimura family, the three brothers accelerated the pace of attacking each other, expecting Sarukake Castle to be able to block the Date family's troops, but unfortunately Sarukake Castle could not resist the Date family's edge. When they heard the news of the fall of Ape Hanging City, the three brothers panicked, and wanted to bridge the relationship, just now they were still desperate to live and die, how could it be so easy to bridge the relationship for a while, when the news of the demise of Ishikawa Hisachi in Yukiyama City came, Zhuang Gaozi didn't care about anything else, and took the initiative to let go of the block, and let the two younger brothers enter Matsuyama City.

Just as the three brothers were negotiating in Matsuyama Castle on how to resist the Date family's troops, Date Masahiro led a large army to Matsuyama Castle, which made Matsuyama Castle completely panicked, so he had to hurriedly start caging the castle, waiting for the arrival of the rainy season, and looking forward to the mediation of the Niko family.

At this moment, the scene of the cage battle in Matsuyama Castle, because no one expected it to come so quickly, so the surrounding houses were not demolished as imagined and used as military houses, but most of the houses closer to Matsuyama Castle had already been destroyed and burned to the ground, confirming that the three brothers had a fierce conflict.

Zheng Heng touched his blindfold, looked at the direction of Matsuyama City with one eye, and said in a low voice: "I'm ready, are you ready?!" "Saying that, I went back to the city to sleep, there will definitely be a big battle tomorrow, and it is very important to recuperate.

Since the news of the fall of Dadu Castle came, Matsuyama Castle immediately strengthened its vigilance, once again carried out a general mobilization of Matsuyama Town, captured a small number of townspeople who had no time to flee and added to the guard team, the city was heavily guarded, and some middle and lower-level retainers and samurai in the city also packed up their belongings, ready to see that when the situation was not good, they fled Matsuyama Castle and returned to their respective places of knowledge and travel for temporary refuge. For a time, the wind was loud, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. Zhuang Gaozi was also helpless about this, so he could only wait for someone to jump out first, and then kill the chicken to show the monkey again.

At the head of Songshan Castle, a team of guards walked around the city, Zhuang Gaozi sat in the castle tower with a stern expression, and sitting between his two younger brothers, Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi, when the foreign enemy came, the three brothers finally sat together again, but the faces of the three brothers were not very good-looking. The soldiers standing at the door were all lacking in energy, and their faces were pale and helpless.

Zhuang Gaozi's face was stern, and he asked in a low voice: "How can this battle be fought?!" "Even he himself doesn't have much confidence to be able to resist the famous Date army, although Matsuyama Castle is known as the first fortified city in China, that is, it is stronger than Kazuki Castle, Tsurushou Castle, Sarukake Castle, and Yukiyama Castle, but when facing the soldiers of the Date family, the last four castles all fell in one day, although Matsuyama Castle will not fall in one day, but it is impossible to hold on for a long time, not to mention that the guards in the city do not have any self-confidence to defend it, It has already been frightened by the Date Army.

Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi glanced at each other, and read the four words of panic and panic from their respective eyes, and the two of them had no good way, Zhuang Zichao was able to oppose Zhuang Gaozi, compared to Zhuang Zishi's ambition and courage was a little higher, he thought for a moment and said: "Hold it can't be held, even if it is held until the rainy season, the food in the city is also insufficient, the Date army has ships, enough to transport military food from Heshou City, and in the end there is only one way to perish, now it is time to think about how to retreat." "Zhuang Zichao's meaning is self-evident, that is, surrender.

Zhuang Gaozi showed a strange smile, turned his head to look at Zhuang Zishi, and said, "Third brother, do you think the same." His smile was strange, especially in the candle-lit castle tower.

Zhuang Zishi has always been the only Zhuang Zi to look at the horse, before coming to the castle tower conference room, the two brothers have already discussed properly, it is better to die than to live, nodded slightly and said: "Now Matsuyama Castle can't be defended, or retreat to the north to go to Fang County, maybe there is a glimmer of life for the Zhuang family, Date Zhengheng will see the kindness of his father that day and let the Zhuang family survive as a wealthy countryman." The more he spoke, the more fluent he became, the smoother he became.

Zhuang Gaozi muttered in a low voice: "The second brother and the third brother are right, it's time to make a decision, the current Songshan City is difficult to hold, I don't know what kind of conditions Date Zhengheng will put forward to persuade us to surrender." Whispering, he stood up, just when Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly pulled out the knife, while Zhuang Zichao had not yet reacted, he grabbed Zhuang Zichao's head with his left hand, and the knife in his right hand quickly and directly cut off Zhuang Zichao's head, and a piece of blood splattered out, drenching Zhuang Gaozi.

This change came too quickly, and Zhuang Zishi, who was sitting on the side, didn't have time to react at all, but Zhuang Gaozi's expression remained unchanged, and he turned around and smiled weirdly: "Our Zhuang clan relied on many years of struggle and many people's sacrifices to get Songshan City, how could we give up so lightly?!" Even if you give up, you can only die in battle, how can you surrender and tarnish the countless blood and sweat of your ancestors?! Date Zhengheng, we have already offended him severely, you won't know about Xiaozao, he will let go of the Zhuang family, dream! As he spoke, the knife in his hand kept stopping, and it stabbed straight into the chest of the stunned Zhuang Zishi, and another piece of blood splattered out.

The guards of Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi, who were guarding at the door, had no time to react at all, but Zhuang Gaozi's personal guards also suddenly attacked after seeing their general's move, and rushed up, without subduing the two brothers' personal soldiers at once. Zhuang Gaozi quickly cut off the heads of the two brothers, and held it in his left hand and raised it high and shouted: "Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi have been killed by me!" Resistant! Those who descend will not be killed! Because Zhuang Gaozi had already prepared, his army quickly took control of various strongholds, and killed those who resisted with weapons when they saw them, and it didn't take long for Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi's subordinates to fall into the hands of Zhuang Gaozi.

By the time it was light, the one-night coup d'état had ended, and except for a few who had escaped from the city, all the city had fallen into the hands of Zhuang Gaozi, and the strength of Matsuyama Castle had been reduced by one-third. Zheng Heng was awakened by the sound of footsteps outside the corridor, got up and rubbed his eyes, and found that Noyama Yichao and others had come to the door.

Zheng Heng squinted his eyes that were not yet awake, looked at the people kneeling outside the door, and asked, "What happened, could it be that something happened to Songshan City?" ”

Noyama Yoshichao's expression was shocked, and he reported: "Yes, there was a coup d'état in Matsuyama Castle last night, Zhuang Gaozi lured Zhuang Zichao and Zhuang Zishi into entering the castle tower, and then suddenly killed the two people, and killed all the personal guards of the two, and now that the situation is under control, whether to start the invasion of Matsuyama Castle immediately." ”

Zhengheng exhaled and said, "So that's what happened! If we had been so decisive a few months earlier, we wouldn't have been able to attack Matsuyama Castle now, it's too late, give him some time to get ready, let's eat first, well, don't worry, get the catapult ready first. ”

Noyama Masahiro and the others didn't expect that Masahiro would be so relaxed, as if they knew that there would be a coup d'état in Matsuyama Castle, and they didn't mean to be in a hurry at all, but Taoshan Zhenbei suddenly said: "Your Highness, the three thousand troops led by Ueki Hideji of Saiida Castle have come to the other side of Woniu Mountain, do you want them to come and see it?" ”

Zheng Heng sneered and said: "He still hasn't grown at all, three thousand, I'm afraid it's all foodies composed of peasants and soldiers, since he is here, let him serve as the first team to attack Songshan City, and let their two cousins catch up on the past." He also ordered the Haoqiang people of the three counties of Oda, Xiadao, and Tsubo to come to Matsuyama Castle at the standard of three people per 100 koku, and give them two days. ”

The crowd prayed, "Yes!" He said and left in a hurry.

Ueki Hidezi really did as Zhengheng expected, he mobilized all the peasants in the territory to go into battle, recruited all the way, and when he arrived at Matsuyama City, he already had three thousand, and the combat effectiveness could only be seen by opinion, but it was enough to show off his might, and after hearing Zhengheng's order, he had to lead the troops to Matsuyama Castle. Hideshi Ueki also couldn't say anything, so he slapped himself fiercely, and said in his heart: "Why do you want to recruit so many people, isn't this going to die?!" "Immediately began to set up a formation under Matsuyama Castle, it didn't look like a siege, and there was a burst of shouting around Matsuyama Castle.

Zhuang Gaozi killed too much last night, and his body was hot and he lay down in the castle tower to recuperate, his mind calmed down a little, and he heard a bang, the door was opened, and the captain of the personal guard broke in, knelt on one knee, clasped his palms over the top, gasped, and stammered: "Big, big things are not good!" The Date family is besieging the city! This alarm, just like the galloping of thousands of troops, Zhuang Gaozi's head exploded, almost fainted, he slapped the desk, jumped up, and shouted: "Akamaru!" Out of the line! "Akamaru is his little surname.

Akamaru said yes outside the door! Flying over, there was already a mess outside the door, mixed with shouts, shouts, and curses, and the entire Matsuyama City almost turned upside down! Zhuang Gaozi lay on the castle tower, looked down, the black pressure was full of human heads, he was dizzy, when he saw the flag fluttering under the mountain, a burst of evil anger surged from his heart, and shouted: "Bastard, Ueki Xiuzi, you are a well-dressed beast, I will fuck your mother?!" "Suddenly remembered that Zhuang Weizi captured Matsuyama Castle with the help of Hidecho Ueki, and now in a reincarnation of twenty years, he met Hidecho Ueki's son to attack Matsuyama Castle, isn't it ironic.

Hideki Ueki waved his hand, in fact, he would do the same, and then the catapult launched hundreds of pebbles and began to charge towards Matsuyama City, looking up to the sky and yelling: "Attack, attack, attack!" Zhuang Gaozi scolded viciously and ordered the captain of his own soldiers to start leading the ashigaru to defend Matsuyama Castle.

The two sides began to fight on the road up the mountain, but the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, one side was all composed of peasants who had just left farming, and the other side had just experienced a bloody coup d'état, and the morale of the fighting force was not very high, so that the fighting strength of the two sides was weak, and the battle lasted from morning to evening, and both sides collected their troops and returned to their camps.

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