11th year of Yonglu, August.

The war between Vietnam and China was raging, in order to seize the advantageous situation in Vietnam before Uesugi Kenshin returned to Vietnam.

The Shiina family and the Takeda family each exerted their full strength and attacked in the direction of the plan, both trying to establish their own power in Vietnam to the greatest extent during this gap.

The guardian of Echichu was Yasumina and led 3,000 troops to storm Toyama Castle, the main city of the Jimbo family.

Under Toyama Castle, the war is in full swing.

Arrows continued to shoot from the warp wheel at the head of the city, and the sparks spewed out by the iron cannon in the narrow room flashed by.

The bows and arrows on the head of the castle, and the iron cannons were like raindrops, slamming on the head of the Shiina family who was bravely attacking the city.

Yasuyin Shiina held the military ration in his hand, his face was like a fire, and he was anxiously walking around in the formation.

And every time he stopped and turned his head to look at the battle situation on the city, the Sichuan character on his brow deepened again.

"Report to the lord, Lord Fugibei Dingji was killed in battle, the third team of Ashigaru has been defeated, and our army still has not gained a foothold at the curved wheel."

"Bastard, still no progress."

In the face of the envoy's retribution, Yasuyin Shiina's anger suddenly exploded, and he kicked Maza at his side to vent his anger.

Seeing this, the little surname on the side put Mazar back up one after another.

"It's okay, just keep attacking, I don't believe that this Toyama Castle is made of iron, and after attacking for so many days, the defenders must be tired," Saying this, Shiina Yasuyin looked at the castle fiercely and shouted loudly, "The five Ashigaru teams attack, we must gain a foothold in the castle, and I must see the fall of Somaru in Toyama Castle today." ”

"Oh!" He said yes and stepped back.

Soon after, the sound of fighting sounded again in front of him, and Yasuin Shiina stood up straight, staring at the castle with full attention, quite a bit of a hopeful look.

After Shiina's Ashigaru received support this time, the offensive improved greatly.

In the trench where supernatural powers, river water, and water are poured in, the large and large strands of Shiina are light, like a herd of antelopes wading across the river on the prairie, and they do not hesitate to jump into the waist-deep trench.

Then brave the bow and arrow iron cannon above his head, and wade bravely.

Under the fire of iron cannon bows and arrows, a bright blood flower floated on the surface of the river from time to time.

Crossing the river, Ashigaru can often see people on the left and right, expressionless and hurrying across the river, and suddenly, with a look in their eyes, they are planted into the river.

Despite the casualties ahead, not far away, the samurai were still holding horsewhips, whipping the ashigaru men under their command, and ordering them to continue forward.

Under the tactics of Shiina this almost human flesh landfill.

The Shiina army finally lived up to expectations and approached the castle, and there were Shiina soldiers fighting everywhere in the curva wheel who suddenly climbed to the top of the castle.

The Divine Protection Army finally couldn't hold it anymore, and now there is a castle head in Waimaru that has finally been broken through by the Shiina Army.

Several drenched ashigaru climbed to the top of the castle and occupied the area.

A bloodied samurai in the lead of the ashigaru naka blushed with an irrepressible exuberance, and pulled the opponent's flag from behind the corpse of one of the magimono ashigaru.

The warrior slashed the flag with a wave of his hand, throwing it under the wheel.

Seeing this scene, the Shiina army besieging the city broke out into collective cheers.

But the cheers didn't last long.

From the top of the Ninomaru arrows, a volley of iron cannons was heard, followed by the incessant screams of the Shiina army.

The ashigaru, who had managed to climb the castle easily, was suddenly overturned and fell heavily into the trench.

And the Shiina warrior who slashed the flag and entered the city showed a resentful and unwilling identity on his face, and his body was diagonally lying on the head of the city.

Suddenly, the cheers of the Shiina army under the castle came to an abrupt end.

The reinforced Jimbo army immediately reoccupied the gap, and several members of the Jimbo family, Ashigaru, unceremoniously, cut off the head of the Shiina samurai who had entered the castle, and then raised it high with the tip of their spears.

After seeing the name of the samurai clearly, the other samurai shouted loudly: "Shiina Army samurai Katasho Kushichiro begs for it!" ”

As the castle was repeated, the shrill sound sounded on all sides.

Obviously, this Nakaoka Kushichiro is a famous samurai in the Shiina army, and the morale of the Shiina army under the castle has been greatly reduced.

And Shiina Yasuyin also knew that there could be no more results in today's siege, so he immediately shouted and said: "Withdraw the army!" ”,

When the main formation of the Shiina army sounded one after another to collect the troops, the remnants of the sun in the sky were like blood.

Seeing this scene, Yasuyin Shiina suddenly soaked in cold sweat behind his back, and thought, could it be that this Toyama Castle will be the place where my Shiina family soldiers and corpses are buried in a sea of blood?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a step back, could it be that the Takeda Army deliberately gave up Toyama Castle without attacking, and let the Shiina family consume the strength here? This text is provided by Qihang Dagger Qishen

No, it's impossible, the conceited Shiina Yasuyin immediately put this thought out of his mind, as long as I take Toyama Castle, then all the costs are worth it, and Echichu will definitely hold it in my hands for Shiina Yasuyin.

Thinking of this, Shiina Yasuyin's gaze at Toyama Castle became even hotter.

And on the other hand.

After making an agreement with the Shiina family, Li Xiao immediately withdrew his troops from Toyama Castle, and gathered his troops to begin to sweep to the west of the Shentong family, embezzling the power of the Shenbo family.

In order to sweep through Yuezhong in one go, Li Xiao's generals divided their heads, although the division of troops made the offensive somewhat loose, but in this way they could occupy Yuezhong as quickly as possible.

First of all, Li Xiaoming Terashima Jobada, Terashima Shengtoku, Nabeyama Yoshiyuki, and Hirose Sojo led 800 troops as generals to attack Fushi Castle.

Mizukoshi Moritge led an army of 500 to attack Imaizumi Castle.

The purpose of the two armies is to completely open up the entire Feihui street, so that the traffic between Feihui Street and Chengsheng City is unimpeded, and the transportation of logistics materials is unimpeded.

Baba Masabo, Uchijima Clanri, and Shioya Gengzhen led an army of 1,000 troops to attack Ikutsu Castle in the west to open up communication with Honganji Ichijo Sect.

August 10.

After dividing the troops, Li Xiaosuo led the 2,500 troops of the Rokuda army lord, and suddenly turned southeast from Toyama Castle and surrounded Echichu Fire Palace Castle.

Hinomiya Castle, also known as Hinomiya Castle, is located in Shesui City, Toyama Prefecture today, and was relocated to Masuyama Castle when the Jimbo Choshi was attacked by Uesugi Kenshin very miserably.

And the fire palace castle is as a branch of Masuyama Castle, but also the gateway is located, built very strong, in addition to the main city, there is also an Akai as a castle, the two sides echo each other.

The lord of Huogongpo is the god of the chief of the gods, and the city is the head of the god of the family, and the city is the town of the chief of the god protection family, and the city is guarded by the two.

Shen Bao Jue Guang is not a person who does nothing, but the small island town should not be underestimated, he and the temple island of Li Xiao are called the double walls of the Shen Bao family.

In history, it was this person who expelled the rebellious Jimbo Nagaju, Terashima Tojo, and after quelling the rebellion, he assisted the Jimbo Great Wall to inherit the Jimbo family's governor, and then the Jimbo family was annexed by the Uesugi family, and this person also changed his appearance to become the Uesugi family's important minister in Vietnam.

Therefore, if Li Xiao wants to eradicate the divine power, the power of the Divine Protection Family in the south, this small island town is the opponent he must eradicate first.

Due to the lack of chimney support, the Sotakeda army could only attack the city in an orthodox way.

Li Xiao prioritized concentrating his forces and attacking out of the city of Chijing.

Just when Li Xiao was about to bombard Akai with two direct-fire cannons, at this time, Li Xiao heard that the ninja had reported that the forces of the Shenbao family in Yuezhong began to gather a large army to rescue Rimiyagi.

When Li Xiao heard this, he immediately stopped the attack on the Japanese Palace City, removed the siege of the Japanese Palace City, and turned around to meet the incoming army.

On the second day, before noon, the Hao army from all over Vietnam and Central China rushed to reinforce Zengshan City, and had arrived.

Li Xiao looked through the monoculars and saw that in the west of Rigong City, the flags of various wealthy families were flying, no less than a dozen or so.

Seeing this scene, the generals of the Takeda army couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and the military momentum that came to help this time was indeed as the intelligence said.

Most of these wealthy clans were originally subordinate to the Shenbao family, and some were called by the Shenbao family, ready to join forces to expel Li Xiao from Yuezhong.

And the one who picks up the first among them is the members of the Shenbao family, and its second person, the Shenbao clan Zhang.

Zhang Nai of the Shenbao clan is the son of the Shenbao clan, and he comes from the Shenbao family.

Although he was born in a low-class family, he has the potential and power that is almost not inferior to the chief position of the god of the sect family.

The Jimbo clan Zhang himself is the lord of the two cities of Echichu Shoushan Castle, the ancient country capital city, and the retainers under his command and the Ikubo Castle Kano Ukyo entered the Daozhou, so the power of the wealthy clan.

This time, Zhang of the Shenbao clan understood that in order to prevent Li Xiao from unifying the entire territory of Yuezhong, survival was at this time, so he had to take the lead for the head of the Shenbao clan of the sect. ,

The Jimbo clan Zhang not only exerted all his forces, but also invited such independent forces as Ishiguro Narita, the lord of Muzhou Castle, and Kikuchi Takekatsu, the lord of Ao Castle, to join.

Therefore, the Shenbao Army that is currently in front of Li Xiao is better than a large coalition army that is small in half of the wealthy forces in Vietnam.

In the face of such a huge battle of the enemy, Li Xiao ordered the army to show weakness first, retreat to a hill to defend, and rely on the mountain to defend.

On the other side, the large number of Vietnamese-Chinese coalition forces came over, and the momentum was very huge, and the town of Kojima, which had been trapped in the city of Rimiya, was also confident that the city and all 600 troops of Akai were able to go out of the city and join the coalition army.

After the two armies converged, the momentum became even stronger.

At that moment, the Vietnamese-Chinese coalition forces began to slowly approach the hill where the Takeda Army was located, and fought against the enemy.

The coalition forces sent more than 20 samurai skilled horsemen to constantly run past the positions of the two armies, boasting of their bravery and shouting their family names at the same time, hoping to have a fight with the samurai of the Takeda family.

Li Xiao and the others stood on the top of the mountain, watching the battle for a long time, waiting to watch the performance of this group of people at the bottom of the mountain, with all kinds of expressions.

Kinoshita Koichiro asked, "Lord, do you want to fight?" ”

Kinoshita Koichiro said that the brave generals under Li Xiao, such as Tsuchiya Masatsune, Fujido Takatora and so on, were all eager to try.

Li Xiao couldn't help but smile, pointed the horsewhip forward, and said: "What age is it, and you still play a ride!" Joke. ”

Immediately, Li Xiao said loudly: "Beat the taiko drum and fight against them!" ”

"Tell Shenbao Zhang, there is no need to fight for anything, the two armies will directly face off, and let's divide the superiority here!"