The scorching heat of midsummer was carried away by the cool sea breeze to take away the last trace of heat, and the more than 75,000 troops of the Yue army were snowballing bigger and bigger, burning and looting all the way into Xinchuan County, and the people of the county, the Tohi clan and the Yokota clan, were unable to resist and were forced to abandon their home city and flee to the Shiina.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki came to Echichu one step earlier, and found that Shinkawa County was a good place, carefully analyzed the geographical environment, and decided to set up a formation in Matsukura Castle of the Shiina family, and the five thousand new troops could do very limited, and it was inappropriate to expect them to charge into battle, and it was tantamount to suicide to take the lives of five thousand sons to rush into the vast expanse.

Yamamoto Shixing dared to bring them out with a certain certainty, and Yuezhong has always been a joke in his eyes, and the large number of people does not mean that they are great, on the contrary, the more people there are, the more difficult it is to command, and the strategic adjustment of military deployment, material supply, and even the barracks require more energy adjustment.

As for Hokuriku's Ichijo army, it's even more of a joke, fifty years ago, when the strength of the Kaga Ichijo sect was at its peak, Kaga Sanji raised an army of 300,000 to invade Echizen, 300,000 people! In the Middle Ages, there were a number of wars of more than 200,000 people in Japan, not to mention that it was 300,000 people, and it was still the military strength of one side.

The general sent by the Asakura family to respond to the battle was the former Northern Army God Asakura Sodrus, at that time this old man was still a young man in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, and his name was still Asakura Kyojing, this gentleman took Asakura 16,000 troops on the edge of the Nine-Headed Dragon River, and defeated the vast Kaga Ichichi army one after another, not only agreed to the joint battle, but also took advantage of the situation to destroy the Yoshizaki Imperial Workshop established in Echizen, and this battle also became the famous battle of the Northern Army God.

It is undeniable that the Asakura family was powerful at that time, and the former governor of the family, Asakura Toshikage, was powerful in the Onin Rebellion. And single-handedly laid the foundation of the Echizen Asakura family. Create two strong armies of Tsuruga and Ono people. Asakura Sodra was able to defeat the army of the Leader with a small number of elites, relying on excellent military strategy and strategy, as well as 16,000 elite soldiers and strong generals who could fight well.

It stands to reason that the Asakura family can do it, and the Kira family can also do it, but if it can't be done, it is not said, but practiced by practical actions, Yamamoto Tokiyuki feels that it is impossible to lead these 5,000 recruits, and Yuezhong has always had no 300,000 troops. There are no 16,000 elites on their own side, and 5,000 raw melons and eggs still lack the experience of blood and fire.

On the other hand, the 5,000 Omi New Army was all majestic and high-spirited, making an appearance of saving the safety of the world, and Yamamoto Tokiyuki did not know how to persuade them, in addition to strengthening military discipline and emphasizing unity and obedience, he was busy strengthening the defense facilities of the castle all day long, and building the city wall was his specialty.

Viet Cong has always been a professional legion, they are more like a group of bandits and robbers under the banner of gods and Buddhas. Without a unified command or even a nominal alliance leader, the dispatch of troops is entirely based on one's own feelings. All the way out of Tonami County, like a swarm of locusts, frantically gnawing at the large and small villages in Echichu.

The peasants either joined the family and became a member of the family to loot their neighbors, or they gave all the food at home to save their lives.

The 5,000-strong army and the 3,000 people who had fled to Central Vietnam were all mobilized to work, and in two months, 30,000 displaced people fled to Sinchuan County, all of whom were frightened away by the "tyranny" that had always been carried out.

These refugees were all settled in various branches of the castle along the line from Uozu Castle to Matsukura Castle, and the Kira army provided enough food to temporarily levy the fortifications of the castles where they were located.

Not to mention that the people of Viet Nak are envious and greedy to death, that is, the local residents of Viet Nak have not known how many people have secretly run over in the past few years, and the main reason for the population of Viet Cong has not changed significantly in recent years is that the people of Viet Nak have run to Echigo, and the foreigners who come to Viet Cong are also counting on one day to go to Echigo, and I heard that the population of Echigo has exceeded 600,000 and still faces the dilemma of fewer people and more land, and eighty percent of these 30,000 fugitives are also ready to move.

Yarokuro Kawagami is sweating profusely with a hoe and digging the soil garden, the earth garden of the mountain castle has been digging for more than half a month, and the soil slope on the southern slope has been cut out of a steep cliff, and the soil garden he is digging is more than two meters deep, and the inner wall has to be repeatedly tamped with a wooden hammer, and then embedded with sharp wooden nails to make traps, the process is not complicated, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

After a while, there was a faint sound of a bell from the top of the mountain, Kuramitsu Yarokuro looked up at the sun, threw the hoe in his hand to the ground, jumped over the tohori with both legs, and shouted at the man who was still working hard: "It's over!" Call it a day! I'll do the work this afternoon, let's eat!" ”

"Okay!" Seeing that Yarokuro Kawagami showed a little anger, he hurriedly lowered his head and shrunk his shoulders and pretended to be honest country men, and more than a dozen men stood on the soil in twos and threes, and they just stood there in a daze.

However, after a while, all the people in the earthen bori climbed up, and after a cursory look, there were at least seventy or eighty people, and an old man in his fifties walked out of the crowd, and said to him very kindly, "Yarokuro is here!" We are saying that there is no Liulang as the leader of our group, this work will definitely not be done so lightly, only half a month to throw the three groups far away, this time after repairing the city defense, the old men in the city will definitely reward us! Speaking of which, my old man also saw a group of big men coming to the city from a distance, and I heard that it was still the big man of Echigo, saying that he was here to inspect the defense construction of the mountain castle. ”

Mu Hachi, who was as thin as a monkey, suddenly rubbed his stomach and put on a bitter face and exclaimed, "Ouch! My stomach hurts! They were all nagged and hungry by the three uncles...... I said don't look at me like that, you will be over the meal after a little more nagging! If you leave us men hungry and have no strength to work in the afternoon, how can you get it! The samurai lords are going to be angry! ”

Shi San snorted and retorted: "Nonsense! You bastard will lie to the old man for a long time, and the old man will only say a few words, don't try to bluff the old man with this ......" (to be continued......)