Just when Kira Yoshitomi was in a trance, Mogami Yoshihime shook his arm and asked in a low voice, "Will Your Highness take Yoshihime to Kasuga Mountain Castle this year?" Is Kasuga Mountain Castle big? Are there any beautiful autumn leaves? What kind of people are the sisters? Will you like Yoshihime? ”

"Kasuga Yamajo Castle is much bigger than Yamagata Castle! It's constantly being renovated every summer.,After a while, Yoshihime will know.,There is a piece of red leaf trees, but there are not as many as in Yamagata Castle! There is a sea of cherry blossoms that is your Tiger Queen's favorite place, and your sisters are all good and good women, and they will definitely like Yoshihime. ”

Kira Yoshitoki inadvertently caught a glimpse of the figure of Yoshimitsu Mogami shrinking his head and preparing to leave, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Yoshimitsu, since you came over, come over and talk for a while!" Speaking of which, it won't be too long to stay here, but how did you feel about your last few months at the helm of the Governor? ”

"Your Highness, Yiji retreated first!" The little girl saw her brother standing awkwardly under the porch, so she bowed very sensibly and withdrew, and when a man spoke, a woman should know to be evasive, even when her father and brother were talking about business, which came from the childhood teaching of her mother, Major General Ono.

Mogami Yoshimitsu smiled at his sister, and then said, "Your Majesty has been under a lot of pressure lately! Because of the autumn harvest, as well as the deep-seated contradictions between the match and the force, as well as the diplomatic pressure of the Yonezawa Ida family, Date Kyozhao has been making a lot of moves recently, and it looks like he is going to do something against his subordinates' territory! ”

Ever since Date Harumune made it clear that this matter was not over, the Yonezawa Date clan's small actions have not stopped, such as Yataro Nakayama, a retainer of the Date family, running to the southern border of Murayama County to establish a Nakayama Castle. Forcing the lord of Kamiyama Castle, which was only one mile away, Takeshi Yoshitada, to ask Mogami Yoshimitsu for help.

This place happens to be the sub-district of Sukawaguchi between Murayama-gun and Jishi-gun. This place was originally the territory of the Mogami family. But because the Mogami family has been weak for nearly a hundred years and has been abandoned, as Date Minoru invaded Murayama County and fought an occasion battle in Hasedo Castle, forcing the Mogami family to bow their heads and soften, it fell into the control of the Date family, and the Date family had not been so presumptuous in establishing the castle before, but now it doesn't matter if the face is torn with the Mogami family.

Kira Yoshishi didn't care much about the stumbling in the Dewa Country, and said with a smile: "Even the Date family dares to do something to the Mogami family, is it idle to do nothing when Yu sits in the Dewa country?" Then they really won't be able to open their eyes! At the end of autumn, you will follow Yu to Kasuga Mountain Castle to meet my brother. I know that now I have the power of the Ashikaga family!

According to the latest information received by Yu, the elder brother launched a joint battle in the Zhuangchuan River in Echichu, and with 23,000 troops, he defeated Kaga's 100,000 troops, and invaded Kaga on the south bank of the Tetori River to defeat the 60,000 Kaga Ichichi army, swept away the Tsunomi Prefecture, and the Honanji Temple, the patriarch, had already sent a request for peace to Yu. ”

"What? Kaga has always lost most of Kaga country, and was forced to sue for peace with His Royal Highness? It's incredible! How did 23,000 defeat 100,000 troops? I can't understand it! Mogami shook his head in surprise, saying that he had never heard of such an exaggerated record, it was really unheard of.

Mogami Yoshimitsu sighed for a while, and he didn't feel anything special, his level of military strategy was indeed a little blind. Compared to Date Terumune, who had several combat experiences, his father Mogami Yoshimori himself was not very good at military strategy. Or in other words, the military strategy level of the various daimyo people in the entire Dewa country and even the Mutsu country is at that level, and they really don't care much about the successive battles between Echichu and Kaga, and they sigh a few words of freshness and forget them in a blink of an eye.

This is all because it is located in a remote place for half a year in winter, spring and autumn are short and amazing, and the traffic is very bad, and several main streets are only wider and neater than Echigo's country roads, and they can't be compared with the main streets that Echigo has renovated.

The Oshu Astronomical Rebellion involved by the Yonezawa Ida clan is just a group of Chinese people making a fuss for a few years, and it is nothing more than that there are more daimyo people involved, and it is several grades worse than the Astronomical Rebellion in Kanto, and the remote news of the place makes the Chinese lords of Yuao not care much about the news outside.

At most, some news from Echigo or Kanto can attract some attention, and the events in the East China Sea and Kainai farther away are just a good story for them, and Kira Yoshitoki does not intend to correct the young man's personal interests and hobbies, since he has not yet realized the role of military strategy, he will leave him alone, anyway, he will have to go through the battle formation sooner or later, and this time he plans to take the opportunity to polish some young and excessively young "Dewa Shogun".

Kira Yoshitoki said to Yoshimitsu Mogami, who was not thinking about it, "It's already the sixth day of September, and Yu has decided to leave Yamagata Castle by boat at the end of September, so let's teach the disobedient Date Terumun a lesson before that!" Go back and prepare, in the next few days, Yoshimitsu will lead the army out of Zhongshan Castle and cut off the claws of the Date family that penetrated into Murayama County. ”

"Out of Zhongshan City, siege the city? Your Majesty hasn't fought it! Mogami Yoshimitsu said in a panic: "Your Majesty's first battle was the battle of Opo Castle, and the first time he went out of the battle, he was defeated by the soldiers of His Royal Highness the Princess, and he had never led an army before this and had never commanded any joint battle!" ”

Kira Yoshishi secretly laughed at this Izuwa general is still a little immature, this year's young man who is thirteen or fourteen years old has not yet grown up, and he is very weak in doing many things, but this is also normal, it is not possible for every young governor to be like him, ten years old can command his retainers to win the battle of deep grass, and annihilate the fierce general Shihe in one fell swoop.

In order to drum up this sect, Kira Yoshishi also patiently comforted: "It doesn't matter, there is more than behind you as a reliance for fear of him doing anything, the left and right are just a city and it won't be too difficult to fight, knowing that you have not commanded a joint battle, you have to experience it, there is always a first experience, and you can learn anything after a few more joint battles." ”

Mogami Yoshimitsu also knew that he couldn't escape this catastrophe, and his subconscious rebuttal just now was a little timid, so he took a deep breath and said firmly: "Your Majesty understands, Your Majesty will do your best!" ”

Kira Yoshishi was just about to turn around, but he turned back to him and said, "Besides, you don't have to worry too much about the reduction of grain production. The remaining 10 grain depots in Echigo store 2 million stone old grain. Only a small part of the grain produced each year is sold. Most of them are deposited in the grain storehouse, and there is no problem in paying you 50,000 stone as relief. ”

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Under the orders of the Kira-Yoshitoki, the Dewa retainers moved very quickly, and it took only six days to levy military service in various places, which was due to the fact that the Kira family was able to do their work, and the action of withdrawing and annexing villages and demolishing useless cities in Dewa Province quickly had a good effect, and the more concentrated residence of the peasants greatly increased the utilization rate of land, and also brought great convenience to the management of general service, military service, and normal taxation.

On the other hand, it is also because of the 15,000 troops of Kira Yoshi. How dare the people of the three prefectures of Hazen not act hard, hurriedly took their weapons, put on their armor, and rode on their mounts with a bento wrapped around their belts, and rushed to Yamagata Castle in front of and behind the ashigaru, gathering 8,000 troops in only six days, and for a time the military was at its peak and there was a bit of unstoppable momentum.

Compared to the peak military strength of the siege of Oura Castle, it is worse and there is no way to do it, this time there is neither the Senbei Onodera clan, nor the intervention of the Yuri Twelve Heads of the Hago and the Anto clan, and the hostile is the former alliance Yonezawa Date clan, and on the other hand, Kira Yoshitoki did not let all the three prefectures of Hazen be mobilized, but only used the Mogami clan and its forces to fight. The name was to capture Nakayama Castle, which was deep in Murayama County.

This name is very flattering, which can avoid the Date family from being highly vigilant, at least they will not nervously gather his sect and quasi-sectarian crowds to start a joint battle. Therefore, when the 8,000 troops rushed to Sugawa, one of the upper reaches of the Mogami River, a day later, only the Date army and the 5,000 troops of the Yonezawa National People's Army came from the opposite side, and the follow-up Kunishun army with the next gate of the Gentle, the Mori clan of the country, and the Kuniren army who stayed behind in the sect were still on the way to come.

The main force of the Date family has actually been between 3,000 and 4,000, and the losses in the battle of Oura Castle have been reduced to just over 3,000, and the small main force is also a major feature of the Yuao Daimyo, because there are not many of their own troops, so the people of the country who are matched together are only 5,000 troops, and it is not easy for a county-level samurai to have so many troops.

If it weren't for the big tree when the Mogami family climbed Kira Yoshi, the army directly under the Mogami family would be more than 2,000 people at most, and it was not as strong as the strength of the Mogami family's Ichijo family, according to the normal situation, the Mogami family singled out the Date family to find death, even if the group of relatives of the Mogami family was called to the sky, there were more than 8,000 people, and the Yada family could easily make up more than 12,000 troops, which pinched the life of the Mogami family so that they did not dare to move.

Mogami Yoshimitsu received an order to go all out, with Tiantong Yorizhen as the vanguard to launch an attack on Zhongshan Castle, Nakayama Yataro asked Yonezawa for help while cage the castle, and insisted on waiting for three days to come to Date Terumune with 5,000 troops to kill, during this period Mogami Yoshimitsu's attack can only be described as mediocre, neither caused any heavy damage to Zhongshan Castle nor dared to let the army fight to seize the city, and every day it was like a vacation.

As a pioneer general, Tiantong Lai Zhen is very active in attacking, but his military strategy level is just like that, plus the siege war is an extreme test of ability of the war, Zhongshan Yataro cage city stubbornly does not go out of the city to fight, and he has no decent engineering equipment can only replace with a poor bamboo bow and shoot at the defenders in the city, and then cooperate with the ashigaru beating the military drum to cross the earthen mound, so that the fight means that the army will be beaten out, and it is easy to be caused by the defenders in the city to fight more and less.

Seeing Date Huizong killing, the eight thousand most army inevitably fell into a panic, and the most advanced Yoshimitsu also didn't know how to deal with it, wasting the best adjustment opportunity in vain Seeing the five thousand troops stationed in Zhongshan City and there was nothing he could do, at this time he finally remembered that he could adjust the strategy, it was really the first time that he commanded the army was too nervous and forgot about this stubble.

The arrival of Date Terumune obviously will not give him a chance to adjust, and his henchman general Ghost Court Ryoshi personally guarded the Otemen Gate so that the already small siege opportunity turned into zero, and the two sides confronted each other for three days in scolding and provocation, until Murata Soza, Watari Motomune, Kokubun Mori, Stayed behind Rongzong, Kuwazuri Zongchang, Kurokawa Haruki, Akiho Naomori, Kuroki Mutoshi and other national armies arrived one after another, and the defenders in the city suddenly increased to more than 9,000 and forced 10,000 people.

Mogami Yoshimitsu saw this and knew that he had not sung at all, and without receiving a clear answer from Kira Yoshitoki, he returned to the camp early the next morning and retreated, and his departure immediately attracted the follow-up pursuit of the Date army, although Date Mimoto strongly opposed the pursuit. But the people of the next country have said that they cannot let go of this opportunity.

They hadn't seen what the Kira army looked like. It's just hearsay that his master's family suffered a big loss under the hands of Kira Army. Most people can't tell what the specific situation is, in the eyes of these people, this is not enough at all, thinking that it is reasonable to come to Echigo Kira with an army of 15,000 and suddenly attack at night to defeat the 13,000 army of Dewa people, and they can do this by launching a night attack with so many troops, so they don't take the Kira family very seriously in their hearts.

Date Huizong is not stupid, he also knows very well that his own national army is definitely not the opponent of the Kira army, and it is very difficult for Kira Yoshitomi to say whether he will launch a wave of surprise attacks, and he does not dare to take such a big risk to bet his entire military strength on the pursuit of the Mogami army. Even if he catches up with the Mogami army, he will not dare to attack with a swagger, at most he will withdraw after a little cheapness.

Rather than doing this, it was better to simply stay in Zhongshan Castle and not go anywhere, so he ordered the 5,000 Mutsu National People's Army, who was willing to fight, to pursue the retreating Mogami army under the leadership of Murata Munezo, Kurokawa Haruji, Akiho Naomori, and Kuroki Mutoshi, Mogami Yoshimitsu did not expect that they would dare to chase them out, so he could only grit his teeth and retreat to Narusawa Castle.

When he was about to enter Narizawa Castle, the envoy of the Kira family told Mogami Yoshimitsu not to enter the castle, but to choose the nearby Kashiwagi Mountain to rearrange the formation, and Mogami Yoshimitsu was a little confused by this order, Kashiwagi Mountain was just a small hill near Narizawa Castle. This height of the mountain is not enough to establish a huge geographical advantage, and Mogami Yoshimitsu does not want to set up a position here. But the order still had to be carried out, and less than 8,000 troops hurriedly climbed the Kashiwagi Mountain to set up a formation.

At this time, the Date army had already hurried over, and saw Mogami Yoshimitsu set up a formation in Kashiwagi Mountain without saying a word and turned to attack Narisawa Castle, these people were not stupid at all, and felt that Mogami Yoshimitsu was clearly trying to lure himself into the bait, and it sounded a bit funny to set up a formation of 8,000 people in the mountains to wait for the 5,000 troops, but it was not so pleasant to do, and it was definitely unwise for them to climb the mountain and attack and forcibly deal with the army that was more than themselves.

If Mogami Yoshimitsu chooses to enter Narizawa Castle and hold on, maybe these 5,000 Date troops will climb Mt. Kashiwagi to monitor Narizawa Castle under the mountain, and now Mogami Yoshimitsu chooses the 8,000 troops on Mt. Kashiwagi and a castle under Mt. Kashiwagi, showing that the chariots and horses will use this horn to fight against the invading Date army.

These 8,000 troops are stuck in the formation and unhurried, as if telling the people of Date under the mountain in silent language that Mogami can let the Date army attack the 8,000 army on the mountain, even if Date Teizun pulls out the army, he may not be able to win, and he will also let the Date army attack Naizawa Castle, anyway, you can't beat it for a while, and you must always be on guard against the army on the mountain rushing down and losing in vain.

The best choice in front of this Ita army composed of all the people is to retreat in the face of difficulties, mountaineering operations are self-defeating, siege operations are not necessarily cheap, these 5,000 troops are not high or low, it is really embarrassing, it is better to retreat early to avoid wasting troops and food in vain.

But if they were to retreat immediately and a little unwilling, it was they who strongly demanded to kill and pursue the most advanced army, and as a result, they retreated in disgrace within a few hours of rushing out, and the face between the relatives could not be saved, and there was only one way to save face for today's plan, that is, to fight Chengzawa Castle and then find a reason to retreat.

In the evening of the same day, the Date army hurriedly removed the siege of Narisawa Castle and chose to set up camp in Sugawa Riverara, not far away, although it was a little rudimentary to just pull up a small wooden fence and set up tents and checkpoints in it as the name of "camp", but the people of Yuao almost always set up camp in this way when they were marching or attacking, and at most they would not set up a large camp similar to that in the battle of Oura Castle when they were besieged for a long time.

In fact, this group of people from the Mutsu Kingdom of the Date family will choose to camp here, and it is also very particular, not only to maintain the oppression of Narusawa Castle, but also not to get too close, in case they are killed by the Mogami army on Kashiwagi Mountain, and the whole army is finished, and the mouth clearly says that they are not afraid of the Kira army, but the timing is still fierce, staring at the possibility of a night attack.

As for the main force of the Kira army still in the village, it will never be able to be transferred for three or five days, Murata Munezaku and the others were not worried about this at all, and just before sunset that day, before dinner was ready, this 5,000-strong Date army was suddenly attacked by a small fleet of ships that went upstream, and the hungry Ashigaru died in a daze under the fire of iron cannons and strong bows.

Murata was the ninth son of Date Minoru and the uncle of Date Terumune. I've been working as a house governor at the Murata family in Mutsu, and I've never seen a weapon with such fierce firepower. I was so shocked that I couldn't even speak. Kurokawa Haruki, Akiho Naomori, and Kuroki Munetoshi looked at this rumbling loud noise, and the thick white mist that erupted was really amazing, and the people and the servants from all walks of life were hit by the salvo of iron cannons and strong bows, and they couldn't even form a formation.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the four of them hurriedly led the army to retreat as soon as they discussed, as for the food on the stove and the small pack and grain and grass they carried, they were all abandoned, and Kuroki Zongjun, who had just been in the Yuan suit, was still in the mood to put a torch to disperse the pack horse and disturb the sight, and their move really had a good effect. At least in front of this chaotic camp, the Kira Navy did not dare to enter and raid.

As soon as the Date army was about to leave, the cavalry of the Kira army suddenly came from behind, and at the same time there was Mogami Yoshimitsu who received the general's order, seeing the situation of this siege, Murata Sozo almost fainted in fright, Kurokawa Haru grinned and hurriedly ordered the samurai to help him, and he and Akiho Naomori and Kuroki Mutoshi each led their own troops to flee desperately.

This run is about to abandon the broken military momentum, the four families and the people of all walks of life are unwilling to die, and in the end, they scatter and flee, whoever runs fast will be safe, and if you are unlucky, you can only think that you are unlucky. Murata was unfortunate enough to be overtaken by the cavalry of the Kira Army and became a prisoner with honor.

Kurokawa Kiyomi, Akiho Naomori, and Kuroki Mutoshi were lucky enough to escape back to Zhongshan Castle. There is no way to lose some of them, and when the three-way army rushed back to Zhongshan City, it was already midnight, Date Huizong was woken up and learned that his army had suffered another defeat, and his uncle Murata Sozaku and his subordinate about 800 people were captured, and they shouted angrily in the castle tower, but the current situation is so bad, what can he do but be angry?

Getting up early the next morning, Date Terumune found that the outside of Zhongshan City had been surrounded by 23,000 troops, Murata Munezo was forced to press under the head of the city to call the door, and the captured 800 Date soldiers knelt in front of the battle and cried, the scene was so miserable that people couldn't bear to look at it directly, the so-called physical injuries and the like were probably this kind of mood, and the people of the Date family pleaded for running to Date Terumune, hoping that he would rescue his colleagues and relatives as soon as possible.

Date Huizong saw this situation and knew that he could not refuse ruthlessly no matter what, the system within the Date family was based on the geographical marriage of the local chiefs, which was completely different from the system of a leader who valued the blood system, but both had a fixed problem, that is, they could not get out of the trap of the family relatives holding a huge amount of territorial resources.

After a long quarrel, Date Terumune's retainers reached an agreement in the afternoon of the same day, and asked the Kira family to redeem the captured captives, of course, surrender was absolutely impossible, and it was not allowed to negotiate peace and strike the army, but to redeem their captives while maintaining a state of hostility, the shame of Date Terumune's main room being snatched away by Kira Yoshitoki to be a side room could not be ended because of this setback, and sometimes the face was worthless in this troubled world, and sometimes it was as heavy as Mount Fuji.

The face of the governor of the Yonezawa Ita clan belongs to a very important kind, Date Harumune has also been an Oshu detective for a period of time, and he also bought a false title of Zuojing doctor from the imperial court, and a large number of relatives in the family rely on the reputation of the Date family to bluff the small land servant, and it is also for this reason that a large number of sons and daughters are sent to each family as adopted sons and main rooms, and without this halo, there is no Date family that creates astronomical chaos.

Date Huizong's face is more important than anything else, the face of the family governor is faceless when he is stripped of his face, and the Date retainers and many people who are attached to him are also disgraced, this dead knot is definitely not something that can be reversed in a few words or a little setback, and the Kira family will not return Mogami Yoshihime, which is not over.

The matter of snatching relatives has risen from simple marital love to a serious problem with the face of Yoshitomi and Date Terumune, who is in shame, and the disgraced Date Terumune is a bigger enemy of the Mogami family, at this time, neither Mogami Yoshimitsu nor the reclusive Mogami Yoshimori can no longer accept the Date family as an ally, let alone send Mogami Yoshihime back.

Because at this moment, Date Terumune is definitely a dangerous person to Mogami Yoshihime, even if the Mogami family re-enters into a marriage contract with the Date family when he betrays Kira Yoshi, it can't eliminate the knots in Date Terumune's heart, just imagine how a man who has been slapped in the face faces the wife who was snatched away and the children born in the future, the unstable marriage and the hatred for the main messenger of Mogami Yoshimitsu, will bring deep disasters to the Mogami family, and the Mogami family has no way back at this moment.

The Mogami family was pulled onto their own ship by Kira Yoshitoki with a ploy to rob their relatives, and the only thing they could do was to try to keep up with the pace of the Kira family, and they were forced to accept the mess left behind by Kira Yoshitomi's withdrawal, the powerful daimyo Senkita Onodera Keido entrenched north of Mogami County, and Yonezawa Date Terumune south of Murayama County.

The envoy sent by the Date family was a member of the Date clan, the lord of Takahata Castle in Dewa Province, Koragawa Morimune, as the northernmost gate guard in the county, and it was his power that directly supported the construction of Nakayama Castle.

Mogami Yoshimitsu did not hesitate to refuse, bluntly saying that at this time, the two sides were hostile and there was no possibility of redeeming the prisoners, and only by reaching peace first could we talk about the redemption of the prisoners, and the Ida family's tricky strategy could be easily broken, although the redemption of defeated prisoners was the most popular way nowadays, and the victor could not only obtain merit, but also obtain benefits from the redemption process, but there was a premise for redeeming the prisoners, that is, the war would not be fought, or it would not be fought for the time being in a state of armistice.

It's impossible that there is a war going on here, I'll sell the captured captives over there, and it won't take long for the released captives to return to the Date Army to change back to their original identities and continue to fight against the Kira family, which is equivalent to spending effort to earn a little money to spend this time and again, and this money is still exchanged at the risk of his life, and it may not be such good luck every time, and he can't let such a general as Kira Yoshitoki design for half a day just to earn that little money from the Date family, which is simply a waste of his time and insulting his IQ.

It's not easy to train in this is the samurai son of his own family, and the people who live a tight life don't forget to cultivate more elites, and the Date Hui Sect will be pressured by the genealogy retainers and the people, on the one hand, because of the damage to the like, on the other hand, they are not willing to lose eight hundred children and one Date in vain.

To redeem the prisoners, you have to stop the war first, and if you don't stop fighting, you can't redeem the prisoners, this paradox makes Date Huizong very annoyed, he is unwilling to agree to the truce, but if the truce is not allowed, there is no way to redeem the prisoners, or go back to Murata and the 800 captive people will make trouble, and it is difficult for Date Huizong, the family governor, to be the governor, and finally after thinking for a long time, he decided to ask for a trick to see if the Kira family would agree to buy prisoners. (To be continued......)