"Wow~~"

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This is a river valley located more than 20 miles southwest of the original city of the Western Capital, and the winding river channel is full of dense forests on both sides, and there is no trace of human settlement.

Halfway up the mountain next to the river valley, Abe Tadamoto's subordinate Ranpo Eleven Lang was hidden in the pines, holding a clairvoyant mirror to carefully examine the seemingly quiet river valley.

After a long time, he slowly put down the clairvoyant mirror and put it back in his arms, and after tidying up the clothes that had been completely soaked with sweat, he took off the big hat on his back and took it with him, and quietly descended from the tree like an ape, and disappeared into the long forest.

Time passed rapidly in the pine waves, and after about a stick of incense, he reappeared under the tall pine tree, and there were a few more strands of red blood on his clothes and hat; After holding on to the trunk of the tree and gasping for breath for a while, Ranbo Eleven turned his head to look at the valley below the mountain again, and muttered softly, "Seven thousand...... It's so well hidden! Then he walked briskly to the northwest.

When it was almost dark, Ranba Eleven finally returned to the camp at the foot of Mount Shikibe-dake; He didn't go directly to Amakusa Shiro Shizhen, but came to a remote corner of the camp.

"Ahh Eleven Lang is back? It's waiting for you! ”

It was Mori Katsuya who spoke, the eldest son of Mori Katsunaga, one of the commanders of the Toyotomi clan in the Battle of Osaka; At that time, the 15-year-old Katsuya followed his father to the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Osaka, and in the end, the castle tower was lost, and Mori Katsunaga accompanied Toyotomi Hideyori to commit suicide and martyrdom, while Mori Katsuya escaped by hiding in the pile of dead people and escaped from Osaka Castle under the cover of night.

Since then, he has been determined to overthrow the Tokugawa family and avenge his father, so he soon joins Kinoshitamaru, who has the same goal; Although he is a famous family, he has actual combat experience in life and death, but he has been depressed in Kinoshitamaru, the reason is very simple, first, he is too young, he is just 29 years old this year, and there are more samurai ronins than his seniority; Second, his philosophy was far from that of the elders - he had always advocated that Kinoshitamaru must have an army of his own, rather than using the forces of Ichimune to complete the task of overthrowing the shogunate, as the elders thought.

With the break between Kinoshitamaru and Ichijomune, the death of Matsusada and Ukita Hideya, Kinoshitamaru's power fell into the hands of Kato Tadaji, and the Mori Katsuya finally had a day of emergence - at the beginning of the year, after Kinoshitamaru formed an alliance with Kirichi Tanichi, he was assigned to lead dozens of young ronin and most of the turmoil to the army, with the goal of assisting Kirita Danichi to completely disrupt Kyushu Island, and at the same time tempering an elite army that belonged entirely to Kinoshitamaru in the process!

After a few months of following Amakusa Shiro Shizhen to fight around, the Mori Katsuya felt that the harvest was huge, first of all, his Kinoshita camp had been organized, expanded to more than 300 people, and the daily training was exactly the same as the Jihad Camp, which was a training method that the Maori Katsuya had never seen but had a remarkable effect; The second is that the combat method of the holy war battalion made him refreshed - the powerful black fire* powder, the continuous three-stage strikes, and the exquisite cooperation between the various detachments strengthened his confidence in building an all-iron artillery army in the future.

What surprised the Maori Singer the most was the unbelievable organizational form of Chezhi Dan, where there were no chickens and dogs, and there was no need to worry about the problem of replenishing the troops!

I think that in the Battle of Osaka, what impressed him the most was the escape of the Ashigaru, whether it was the Toyotomi family or the Tokugawa family, deserters were commonplace, as long as he was not careful, a small half of the Ashigaru squad could escape in one night!

Such a headache is not a problem at all in the case of Chezhi Dan - with nothing and a crime on his back, no one who is sane will dare to flee easily, otherwise there is only a dead end.

In this way, the enemy was dealt a blow to the greatest extent - the farmers were taken away, and who would pay the land tax and military service for the Shimazu family?

Although it is a bit cruel, the Maori winner has to admit that this is a brilliant move!

The more he learned, the deeper the bond between the Mori Katsuya and Kirichi Tanichi became, so when he received the strange letter, he became doubly cautious - the letter was not headed or signed, and the content of the letter was very simple, that is, in the near future, he would encircle and suppress an army under the original castle of the western capital, and he was tied to an arrow and shot into the camp.

The suspicious Amakusa Shiro Tokisada immediately stopped the eastward advance of the army and asked the Mori Katsuya to send all the Ranbo out to reconnoiter the movements of the Shimazu family's army, and Ranba Eleven was the last to return.

"Your Excellency Maori, your subordinates have found out that in the river valley southwest of the original city of the western capital, there is indeed an army of 7,000 people of the Shimazu family!" Ranbo Eleven Lang knelt down on one knee and said with a glance.

"Oh? Are you sure there are 7,000 people? The Mori Katsuya asked in surprise.

"Hay!" Ranbo Eleven Lang nodded heavily and said, "My subordinates are lucky, I caught a general who went out of the camp without permission at the foot of the mountain, and the number of people is what he revealed...... He also said that they had been waiting there for five days and did not know when they would have to wait. ”

"Yo Si! Eleven Lang, you've worked hard, go down and rest! Mori Katsuya nodded with satisfaction at Ranha Eleven, and after the latter left, he whispered to himself, "There are seven thousand hidden in the south, five thousand hidden in the north, and more than five thousand followed behind the butt, it seems that this guy Shimazu Iehisa really wants to wipe us out under the West Capital Castle." ”

After saying that, he turned around and walked briskly towards Shizhen Amakusa Shiro Shizhen's tent by moonlight, still muttering in his mouth, "Fortunately, someone leaked this secret, otherwise it would have been a failure...... Who revealed it? ”

After Ichijo reported the reconnaissance to Shiro, several leaders of the Ichichi army got together to discuss how to crack the trap of the other party.

The Jihadist Battalion Banner originally advocated going north, because the number of ambushes in the north was small and the mountains were more precipitous, so it was not easy for the pursuers to stick up; However, his suggestion was opposed by the Holy Treasury Mori, because after this period of consumption, there was not much food, gunpowder and other materials in the Holy Treasury, and if he continued to go to the more uninhabited mountains in the northern part of Miyazaki, it was estimated that it would not be long before the entire army would run out of cooking.

Walking east is a trap, the north is deserted, and there are powerful pursuers in the west, Shiro can't help frowning deeply, how should this dilemma be solved in front of him?

At this time, the words of the Maori Katsuya made Shiro's solemn brows gradually relaxed, and in the end, he smiled and nodded frequently. (To be continued.) )