Gaoguan Mountain is 273 meters high, surrounded by lush trees, there are only two mountain roads leading to the top of the mountain, the city is another small city called Odate, this city belongs to the branch of the Dabaoji clan, and the status in the Dabaoji clan is not high, so this city is built extremely narrow, including the city lord, including the relatives and the defenders, there are less than 50 people, belonging to the typical small wealthy clan that no one cares about or deterres, this family is still in their sleep and is captured, and they become prisoners of the Kira army in a daze.

Kira Yoshitoki did not intend to embarrass the two families, but climbed to the top of the castle to look at the hazy night scene under the mountain, and sneered: "What a bold Dewa countryman, Mogami Yoshimori, Date Terumune, Onodera Keimichi, as well as Mogami Hachi, Yuri Twelve, Hanhejiang, Shiratori, Ayu, these miscellaneous fish also dare to join in the fun, is it really a long life?" ”

The cold night wind took away his words, and in the large camp outside the city of Opo at the foot of the mountain, a group of samurai who were on vigil dozed off, and after the two attacks during the day were repulsed, the main general ordered the troops to rest and rest, compared to a month ago when the attack began at dawn and did not stop until the sun set, but it was several grades worse.

The samurai were tired from the endless attack, and the daily attack was more like a routine, even the most naïve stunned Qing was going through a long siege baptism, and he couldn't raise his nature and dared to shout that he wanted to kill Oura Castle and capture Naito Masari alive, and the 13,000 army had gathered the essence of most of the entire Yuzen, and if he added more, he could only take out all his family resources and fight for it.

Several large camps were quiet, and the samurai who had been running all day went to bed early, and the samurai who were on patrol at night cursed the dry weather in low voices. The most recent precipitation was heavy snowfall at the beginning of the year. Since the snow and ice melted, it has not rained for four months. If it weren't for the fact that the terrain of Dewa was too remote and the ice and snow began to melt long in spring, the drought might have been more severe.

Date Teizun had dinner in the camp of Mogami Yoshimori before leaving, and his camp was located in the southeast corner and the northeast corner of the camp of Mogami Yoshimori were separated by nearly a mile, but he worked tirelessly every day to go to Mogami Yoshimori here in the morning and dusk province, and the pair of would-be sons-in-law staged the trick of father and son filial piety in the camp every day, and the eldest son of Mogami Yoshimitsu seemed to be redundant.

In fact, this is the effect of the most righteous observance, the more in front of many Izuwa daimyo people, the more he has to show how important he is to his son-in-law. Let them always realize that they have a close relationship with the support of a quasi-sect, so that he, the leader of the alliance, can sit firmly, even the powerful Onodera Jingdao of the three counties of Xianbei must maintain respect for him.

He knew very well that after seeing the play performed by Date Huizong and himself, his attitude gradually changed from arrogance and disdain to jealousy and resentment, and Mogami Hachiyu and a group of people in Mogami County and Murayama County also changed color, and when he saw his eyes again, he was a little envious and cautious, this is the power of power, and he loves this feeling.

In recent days, Yoshioshi has slept very early, and his body has begun to gradually decline at his age, and his energy is not as vigorous as ten years ago. After the second watch, he was tired and went to bed early, and he always muttered in his heart these days. It is doubtful whether the Kira family will notice the change in the situation of Dewa Province, and how long it will take for them to capture Oura Castle.

In fact, the layout of this Dewa country's coalition to deal with the Kira family was not created by him alone, but from his idea in the correspondence with Date Harumune, after the beginning of winter last year, he noticed that the stable situation in the Dewa country was becoming more subtle and complicated with the intervention of the Kira family, and he has been thinking about how to deal with the Kira family.

Although the Mogami clan is the descendant of the Oshu Spo clan, and the Osaki clan is respected as a clan when it comes to the family, they are also considered to be a powerful member of the Spo clan, and they have worshiped the shogun's last word for generations to show their honor, and were awarded the title of Dewa exploration by the shogunate, as well as the position of Dewa Mamoru applied by the shogunate on behalf of the shogunate, and legally their family is the veritable supreme ruler of the Dewa country, and the entire people of the country should obey him.

But the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny, the influence of the Dewa Mogami clan has always been concentrated in the Mogami County, and the influence of the outer county can only be described as inferior, because of the mess of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a number of concubines were divided to defend the territory of the Dewa Kingdom, and the Yanliu Bureau of the Yamagata Castle was dispatched, which was also an important feature of the construction of a collar system based on blood relations at that time.

The key is that later, the family governor of the most senior family began to play cards not according to the routine, and the marriage everywhere, including his own speed, the Hanhejiang Dajiang clan also became an in-law relationship, and later succeeded to the position of the family governor by the step-concubine, so that the situation of the originally stable concubine and the concubine obeying the flow appeared fatally flawed, and the system of relying on blood relations became more and more unsustainable, and gradually transformed into a system that relied on the combination of geography and the party.

Since the Mogami Manchu family, the pedigree of the Mogami clan is very chaotic, obviously there are two younger brothers, Mogami Yoshisu, Mogami Yoshitan, but he was kicked out of the Naizawa clan and the Sugiyama clan, and then gave the name of the concubine to the Nakano clan's son-in-law Nakano Manshi to inherit, as a result, a group of concubines were dissatisfied, and felt that the Nakano clan, the family governor, was unclean and unfair, so there was a situation of internal family disputes.

Before Mogami Yoshimori, the family line was already the blood of the Nakano clan, and after the death of Mogami Yoshimori's adoptive father, Mogami Yoshida, as the second son of Nakano Yoshikiyo, he was succeeded to serve as the family governor, and after a few decades, I saw the Nakano clan's successor to the family governor, and it was definitely not easy to think of being scrutinized day and night by a member of the Mogami clan with ridicule and ridicule.

Without prestige, there is no guarantee to maintain the status of the governor, and even a genealogy does not listen to you, the governor, and expects those ordinary retainers to be obedient and obedient, Mogami Yoshimori held his breath in his heart to prove that he was worthy of the governor, so when he tentatively proposed to deal with the Kira family, and quickly received a positive response from Date Masamune, he immediately set about perfecting this plan.

He needs military exploits to expand his territory and improve his personal prestige, and he needs a larger territory to support the family business of the Mogami family, as long as the Mogami family is revived in his hands, those strange eyes and yin and yang weird remarks will disappear without a trace, just like what Takeda Harunobu did after his father was exiled, using military merits and territory to gag the mouths of the retainers of the spectrum.

As the proposer and first initiator of the plan, he gained undisputed leadership in this war. The only one who has enough prestige and strength to fight for the power of the most righteous is Date Harumune. But he had already lived in seclusion in Yonezawa Castle to concentrate on appeasing his cousin Genri Motomune. and his father-in-law, Iwaki Shigetaka, and a quasi-sect left behind.

Onodera Jingdao is still a hairy child in his twenties, in the eyes of the most senior Yoshimori, the level is good, but the prestige and strength are still a little worse, give him another ten years, maybe he can compete with himself, it is absolutely impossible to compete with him at the moment, the biggest abnormal sound within the most senior family is only Tiantong Laizhen, but he is also similar to Onodera Jingdao young and no prestige, the means and knowledge are worse than Onodera Jingdao, and there is no more than ten years of training to become a climate.

As for his future son-in-law, Date Terumune, he is even younger. The play staged in the military conference a few days ago can only be described as immature means, compared to his professional acting skills, it is still too far behind, Date Mimoto is so alert that he can't be the master, and he doesn't dare to say a lot of things, and no one in the entire Dewa National People's Army will compete with him for power, and he can grasp the supreme command of this army of more than 10,000 people without any worries.

In his sleep, he dreamed that he was standing on the Opo Castle and looking at the Ichibana Hirakawa in the Shonai Plain, behind him was the people of Dewa who knelt down and prayed his wisdom and decisiveness, the Hanhe Jiang clan obediently offered the castle as a retainer, Tiantong Laizhen remorsefully slapped himself and admitted his arrogance and stupidity, and Onodera Jingdao did not say a word and bowed down to admit his mistake. Date Terumune willingly made the blade in his hand.

Later, the entire Dewa was captured, and half of Mutsu was won. He led tens of thousands of troops south to Echigo to compete with Kira Yoshitoki, and even his old rival Date Harumune had to praise his inferior skills, laying a huge foundation that his ancestors never thought of.

In the last dream, Mogami Yoshimori dreamed that he was standing in Kyoto and shouted, "I want to achieve immortality, I want to ......"

The beautiful dream was suddenly shattered, and I faintly heard the screams for help, and the next moment Mogami Yoshimori kicked off the quilt and suddenly jumped up, pulled out a knife and shouted: "What's wrong?" Why is there a lot of movement outside......"

Walking out of the camp tent and seeing the scene in front of him, Mogami Yoshimori was stunned, where is the big camp he is familiar with, neat and clean rows of tents burst into flames, scattered samurai are all disheveled, just like he pulled out a sword, a piece of sickle to resist the sudden attack of the army, suddenly a loud noise exploded in the ears, but saw dozens of ashigaru carrying a burning stick in the distance like weapons spewing out golden flames, and the Samurai Mogami who was desperately resisting in the distance fell straight in a pool of blood.

"This must be an iron cannon! I've heard that its power can kill tigers, so this army must be the Kira Army! Reinforcements from Kira Yoshitomo are coming! How did he get here! Did you come by boat? Where did they land from, why was it a night raid, and why were the surrounding troops not aware of it? Why exactly? ”

Mogami Yoshimaru couldn't figure it out, he couldn't understand what was going on, according to his plan, Kira Yoshitoki should indeed find out that something was wrong at this time, but he should always send an envoy to Oura Castle to contact him, and ask if it was the Mogami army that hit the Shimizu Domain, or if there were other reasons that caused the severance of contact.

As long as the envoy of the Kira family comes to Sakata Port by boat, he will be captured by the Mogami samurai disguised as the Kira army, and then he will be able to accurately know the movements of Kira Yoshito, and the Echigo side will wait for half a month without a reply and then send more envoys, or tentatively send two or three thousand reinforcements over It is not a big problem, they can buy an extra month to a month and a half.

This time is definitely enough to capture the city of Opo, after all, this city is not large and strong, and the defenders in the city have a lot of food and grass but not much to prepare, so that they can withstand three months of siege battles, and at night they have to be mentally prepared to strictly guard against night attacks, in this case, the food consumed must be more than three times that of the usual garrison, and as the weather warms up, the number of wounded increases and the number of doctors in the city will also fall into shortage.

After repeated calculations, he was very sure that he would end this long-lasting battle within a month, as long as Oura Castle was broken by him, Kamezaki Castle, which was even more lacking in food and grass, would definitely not be able to sustain itself, and if the near and far reinforcements were not opened and surrendered in time, they would inevitably be captured by the Izuwa army in less than half a month, and even if the Kira army sent a large army to rescue at that time. That doesn't mean much anymore.

There are captives in their hands. Tagawa-gun was taken by the people of Dewa again. At that time, he only needs to stand up as a peacemaker again, and release the captives in exchange for a non-war peace between the two sides, and all this will be smoothly revealed, and at that time it will be irrelevant to them whether the Kira family prefers to go to Kanto or Koshin, and he himself can establish outstanding personal prestige in this war, and the completion of the comprehensive suppression of Mogami Hachiyu is just around the corner.

"But...... What the hell is going on! My vision! My life's ambition! How could my struggle be exchanged for this result! Why! Mogami Yoshimori shouted hysterically, but it attracted the attention of several of the Kira family's red cavalry. Fortunately, the flag warriors came to the rescue in time, and the few horsemen could not get close.

Mogami Yoshimitsu came out of nowhere, a few gray stains on his pink face were particularly conspicuous, his gorgeous robe was cut a few times, and he walked over quickly with a knife in his hand and said anxiously: "Father, the Kira Army is coming!" The nearby camps are all set on fire, Tiantong Lai Zhen and Yan Ze Manzhong have already retreated, let's retreat quickly! ”

Mogami Yoshimoru panted for breath, his eyes widened red, his spirit was as if he had been hit by a demonic barrier, and he shouted with a sword: "Retreat? There must be no retreat! Here are my dreams. With my ambition, our dreams are gone! Can't retreat! ”

"Father! Please leave quickly! It's too dangerous here......" Mogami Yoshimitsu wanted to go up and help him. But the emotionally confused Mogami Yoshimori thought that he was holding the sword to his disadvantage, so he kicked Mogami Yoshimitsu's small stomach, and Mogami Yoshimitsu was kicked by his father and fell on his heels, and he couldn't get up for a long time.

The most beloved Taidao didn't know where he was thrown, and his head seemed to be slammed against a stone and a trace of blood oozed out, Mogami Yoshimitsu covered his groggy head and struggled to get up, and he heard his father's angry voice scolding in his ears: "What do you want to do this bastard rebel do?" Is holding a sword to the detriment of the family? The family has long known that you, a rebel, have thoughts about the Kira family, and this time you must want to hold the family hostage to invite merit and favor to Kira Yoshitoki! Don't think about it! Hum! ”

Mogami Yoshimitsu was helped up by a few small surnames, stretched out his hand and saw the bright red blood between his five fingers, and finally couldn't help crying, he never thought that his father would be so ruthless, even if he resented his harshness and severity to himself, he never left the slightest affection for himself, but he never thought about being bad for his father! Why did he treat himself like this, just because of a night attack and said everything in his heart?

The little surname hurriedly helped him into the camp, washed the wound on his forehead with cool boiling water, and then applied the best wound medicine after washing the wound, and then tied it with a clean linen cloth It was no big deal, but Mogami Yoshimori somehow chased in and scolded: "My family knows that you, a rebel, have always wanted to seek the position of family governor, but my family can tell you!" The position of this governor is not necessarily yours! If your family is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, you want to seek the position of family governor, and your rebel family will never ......"

Mogami Yoshimitsu felt the pain in his forehead still with a trace of pain, raised his head and looked at Mogami Yoshimori, who was almost crazy, and said in a cold voice, "Is my father going to abolish my heir?" ”

"Wasted? Right! This family is to ......"

The old family of the spectrum family rushed over at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Lord! Never! ”

"Iyomoru! How are you? You're here just in time! The family was about to ...... "Yagami Yoshimori, who fell into madness, only to feel that it was dark in front of him, and he collapsed."

The clan Shoudong supported the fainted Mogami Yoshimori, and said to Mogami Yoshimitsu: "Don't listen to the nonsense of the lord in the young hall, look at his situation must be in a demonic obstacle, this kind of disease Your Majesty has also heard of it, great joy and sorrow or other stimuli will make people crazy, usually only a few months of cultivation can be cured, please Shaodian don't take the lord's words into the devil in your heart." ”

"Don't take it to heart...... Can I not take it to heart? Mogami Yoshimitsu looked at Mogami Yoshimori with only indifference in his eyes, he would not take Mogami Yoshimori's words as crazy, the dark footprints on his lower abdomen and the pain in his forehead reminded him that everything that happened just now was true.

Mogami Yoshimitsu was completely cold, and said coldly: "I really wish nothing happened just now, I didn't appear here just now, I didn't take this kick and I didn't fall out and break my forehead, and I didn't hear these words that were more painful than falling and breaking...... But what happened can't be changed, his most senior family governor, he only has authority in his eyes, ambition and no family affection, and he is still like this to me, the eldest son of the eldest son, and the daughter of Ayi, how can I treat others? ”

"Shaodian ......" The family hesitated and waited to be persuaded again.

At this moment, Mogami Yoshimitsu's little surname Kamioka Kamenomaru ran in with his lost Taidao and said eagerly, "Your Highness is not good! The cavalry of the Kira army is coming towards our big tent! There are a lot of people! ”

"A lot of people? I see! Everybody come out with me. Mogami Yoshimitsu stood up with the support of several small surnames, and when he was hit, his head hurt so much that he was groggy when he walked, and when he passed by his father's house, he said lightly: "Owari Moriden helped him to the bed to rest, and then followed the family to the front of the camp to surrender." ”

The clan persuaded him directly: "Are you going to surrender?" Your Majesty thinks you can escape with Your Highness! ”

Mogami Yoshimitsu also frowned, he knew better than anyone that the situation was irreparable, his father was not optimistic about this anti-Vietnamese-Vietnam alliance from beginning to end, at home, in the military tent he expressed his opinion several times, thinking that Kira Yoshitoki was a generation of famous generals, and he would definitely not make such a stupid mistake to let the Mogami family take advantage of the loopholes.

However, where would his father's most righteous guard listen to his bitter persuasion, but felt that his sister-in-law deliberately poured cold water, and deliberately used his tone to pretend to be surprising to attract his attention, so the dissatisfaction and contempt in his heart increased a little, and gradually he lost his right to speak in the army, and became his father's follower who was only responsible for seeing with his eyes and listening with his ears.

In Mogami Yoshimitsu's view, the defeat of this war was a matter of time, and the fault was that his father chose the wrong opponent, thinking that he could suppress the situation, but he never thought that behind the amazing achievements of Echigo over the years, there must be a thrilling iron-blooded war, and the strategy they could not understand, even Takeda Shingen, whom his father had always admired, lost and did not dare to come out, where did his father get the courage to stop the powerful Kira army?

As long as the Kira army enters the Dewa country, there is no need to expect the people of the Izuwa country to block the iron hooves of the Kira army at any time, how can a remote area without even iron cannons withstand the huge forces that have defeated the Kai Takeda clan, the Sagami Hojo clan, and the Echichu clan one after another? Not to mention that this town government public Zhi Kuangfu shogunate, the formation of the samurai law order, is exactly in line with the development line of their Mogami clan, mastering that Dewa must suppress the disobedient clan, and re-establish the dominance of the clan over the clan.

From the bottom of his heart, he very much agrees with Kira Yoshitoki's strategy, and he is full of respect for this young Genji famous family who has made immortal achievements, and he has long decided that neither the Mogami clan nor the Dewa Kuniren can fight against the Kira family, and the current situation just confirms his argument, the Dewa Kuniren are indeed not the opponents of the Kira army, and they have already lost without even pants.

Thinking of this, Mogami Yoshimitsu snorted coldly and said, "What if you go back?" Seventy percent of the elite of my top family is here, and I have no chance to turn over when I flee back alone, and most of the people of the town government will be killed by the army of the town government, and most of the people in the country will be killed, and the blood will flow like a river, and those who flee back will eventually be trampled by the iron hooves of the Kira army, since it is only a stubborn resistance to flee back, it is better to surrender in exchange for a grace is also good. ”

The clan Shoudong settled the most senior Yoshimori, and when he came out of the tent, he sighed and said, "Yes! With the power of his subordinates, at most he fled back with two or three hundred horsemen, which is only one percent compared to the three thousand elites of my family, which is too little! Fleeing back, he did not have the strength to resist the attack of Kira's army...... No! I'm afraid that even Tiantong Laizhen's attack can't resist it! ”

"Say no more! It's time for us to go out and meet the elite of the Kira Army! Mogami Yoshimitsu glanced at Mogami Yoshimori, who was lying alone on the bed in the tent, his eyes were full of pity and sorrow, and his favored Date Terumune did not think of coming to see this good father-in-law at a critical moment, and finally asked his son to clean up the mess, but I don't know if it was because of this reason that he lost his mind and committed such a chilling behavior.

Thinking of this, Mogami Yoshimitsu quickened his pace and walked out, and he had nothing to say to this biological father. (To be continued......)