"Yes!" Sugiura Xuanren did not hesitate to tell the ins and outs of the matter: "In the next fierce attack on Zengshan Castle for a day, I found that the defenders in the city were not active, but I couldn't figure out what the reason was, and returned to the camp in the evening to rest for a long time. So he ordered the camp to retreat, and led the remnants of the defeated army to resist the surprise attack of the Kira army, and tried to see if he could block this wave of raids and grasp the movement of the Kira army......"

After Sugiura Genren's explanation, Chaosheng Temple Miteru figured out the situation on the east bank of Zhuangchuan, and the two were talking when they saw a few monks running in in a panic and shouting: "Oh no! The Kira family's navy is about to land and attack! The monks are all hurry up and drive them down! ”

Chaosheng Temple Zhao sneered: "Why are you still here!" I don't think it's enough to eat a poor monk's army, do you still want to take the poor monk's main formation together? Someone came to put on clothes and armor, and the poor monk wanted to see how much this Jiliang army could shake my army of 70,000! Send an order to the chief of the gods, let him keep an eye on the movements in the north, and report back quickly if there are any problems! ”

Sugiura Genren's main force of less than 19,000 people were all withdrawn, and there were more than 1,000 deserters who crossed Zhuangchuan by various means, plus the 30,000 troops of the Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao Formation, and the 23,000 troops guarding the Tonami Plain, adding up to 70,000 people, only a little more, among them, there are also 5,000 elites who rely on the Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao has never moved, which is the biggest hole card in his hand.

But he still misjudged the strength of the Kira army. The entire Shokawa River was blocked by a steady stream of Kozaoseki boats. The ships of the Kira naval army were moving, but the Kaga army on the shore was always moving. Kaga's bows and arrows were always piled up on the shore and shot arrows, and nine times out of ten, they fell into the water, and the few that landed on the boat also turned into a light drizzle due to the quality and distance of the arrows.

However, the navy army in Zhuangchuan used a new iron cannon with strong range and power, as well as a heavy rattan bow in each person's hand to do round after round of fire, even if the ability of Kaga's army was great, it could only be passively beaten, and the bows and arrows piled up on the shore were emptied and replenished by a group.

Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao stood outside the camp and looked clearly, and a red fire appeared on the water surface of Zhuangchuan in the distance, and then the sound of iron cannons rumbling like thunder came. He knew that this was the special iron cannon of the Kira family, which was famous for its long range and great power, and he had never heard of the specific situation, and the Kira family hid this iron cannon as if it were a treasure, and not even a single one of them flowed out.

In fact, he also has five hundred iron artillery ashigaru in his hand as a treasure and is reluctant to invest in it, and his own iron artillery skill level is also very good, a slight estimate of the distance shook his head, the ships of the Kira naval army are very close to the east bank of Zhuangchuan, so that the distance of the Kaga bow and arrow ashigaru on the west bank of Zhuangchuan is more than thirty meters, and it has basically reached the limit of the effective range of Kishu iron cannons, and most of the people who sent it over are useless.

After a while, there will be a reward. At the same time, a large number of ships were transported to the Kira army in the upper and lower reaches of Zhuangchuan, and a large number of Kira naval forces were nearby to support it, so the envoy did not find out the specific number of troops. Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao realized the seriousness of the situation, and Sugiura Xuanren said worriedly: "Great monk, the situation is very bad, why don't you retreat and make a decision?" ”

"Hmmm! It is indeed necessary! This formation temporarily retreats to the Sangshan City point, leaving you to take this formation and those retreating troops to break off! Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao quickly made a decision, the 30,000 army quickly packed their bags, the monks were busy packing up a lot of messy things, and the officials were busy carrying food with small pack loads, and the army could not stabilize the morale of the army without food outside, but this retreat order was too urgent for them to retreat for a while.

Time passed little by little, but the army was still slowly cleaning up the camp, and Sugiura Xuanren saw a group of monks arguing over the relics of the three of Guanglin Temple, Anyang Temple, and Benxiang Temple.

"Nothing is enough, there is more than failure! No way! I have to go to the monk and make it clear! If you delay it like this, you will miss a big thing! ”

Sugiura Xuanren was just about to walk back, when he saw a few envoys breaking in in front of the camp and shouting, "Oh no! The Kira Army is rushing over! ”

Numata Yumitsu and Yamamoto Tokiyuki led the army from the upper and lower reaches of the Zhuangchuan River to kill together, its majesty was unstoppable, and pulled out the secret whistle that Kaga had always buried, and the situation became very unfavorable to Kaga Ichi, Sugiura Genren saw that the situation was not good, and ran back to the camp in three or two steps and shouted: "All the monks, please leave immediately!" The Kira Army has already been killed! ”

"So fast! It's a mistake by the poor monk! The order was to go down and immediately pull out the camp, except for carrying three days' rations, and abandon all the rest, and the order was limited to half an hour to complete the killing of violators! Chaosheng Temple Zhao walked out of the camp tent wearing big armor, I have to say that the five thousand elites in his hands are really powerful, from the beginning to the end of the day has been silently packing up and sorting out the grain and grass and waiting for the order, while the other 25,000 people are much worse, and it took a while to form the queue when they poured out of the camp tent in a hurry.

The group of monks and disciples did not dare to quarrel, gathered together to discuss for a while, and then divided into three groups, each holding a camp tent to take away the property left by the three monks, and finally sorted out the big bags and small bags and ran out of the camp, the army of Chaosheng Temple Mizhao had already left the camp and marched towards Sangshan City.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki stood by the Zhuangchuan River on a horse, looking at the Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao who was far away, and smiled slightly: "Is this the general who Kaga has always been the commander-in-chief, the Chaosheng Temple Mi Zhao who has skipped people?" It looks like that's all there is to his military strategy! It's a pity that the little cleverness can't last long! ”

In this Echichu, he cooperated with Uesugi Masatora, and it was impossible to give Chaokatsuji Miteru a chance to show his military strategy and resourcefulness, even if Kaga's military strength was amazing, but in the eyes of the samurai who had been professional for hundreds of years, it was nothing more than that, and when Asakura Munetsu was young, he could defeat the 300,000 Ichichi army with 18,000.

When he was young, it was impossible for Asakura Sodri to be invincible as he was in his old age, and even if he had outstanding talent and extraordinary ability, it was impossible to kill Echigo Guardian at the age of eighteen, and he killed Nagao of the Kanto Governor in his early twenties.

After a while, I saw a horseman flying forward: "General! Kakizaki Izumi Moriden and Saito Shimono Moriden are already in place and standby, and Numata Hall has already engaged Sugiura Genren! ”

Yamamoto Tokiyuki nodded and ordered: "Pass my general order, immediately go north to meet Sugiura Xuanren, and must not let him retreat easily!" ”

The momentum of the Kira army's two-way attack is really amazing, even if Sugiura Genren has an army of 20,000, he does not dare to have the slightest carelessness, he chooses to rely on the camp under the Chaosheng Temple to rely on the camp, this move is really good is much stronger than blindly rushing out of the camp to meet the attack, but the price of doing so is to lose the ability to defend Zhuangchuan, and let the iron artillery team and bow team of the Kira Naval Army, as well as the baking team that has been hidden for a long time, calmly land ashore.

Sugiura Xuanren didn't realize what kind of serious disaster he would bring about if he was so indulgent, under the cover of the iron artillery team and the archery team, the two armies were able to calmly organize an assault army, and bombarded the walled gate again and again with the long-prepared battering ram, this large camp was not a permanent building, and the walled gate must not be compared with the big hand gate of Zengshan City.

The mountain road of Masuyama Castle is a slope that has been artificially repaired, and there are steeper Horikiri on both sides, and it is impossible to use a battering ram when attacking, but this large camp is built on a flat bottom and there is no shelter on all sides, and in this case, it is completely insoluble when it encounters a battering ram made of cast iron and a demon head.

In the process of the battering ram attacking the walled gate, Sugiura Genren sent the archers to climb the arrow oars several times in an attempt to shoot the siege troops outside the camp, but every effort was wiped out by the efforts of the iron artillery team of the Kira Water Army, and this very strong walled gate finally collapsed after two quarters of an hour, and dozens of ashigaru guarding the gate were rushed up by Kira Ashigaru who was waiting for the opportunity to kill them.

When the first wave of Ashigaru excitedly rushed into the camp, they were greeted by the muzzles of five hundred iron cannons Ashigaru black holes, and the sound of "bang" iron cannons came and went, and the first hundreds of Ashigaru who rushed into the camp, together with dozens of samurai, were all beaten to the bottom of the sieve, and the most unlucky were a few Echichu samurai, who rushed the fastest and died the worst, and the whole body was beaten into a pile of bloody rotten meat by the dense iron cannons, and they died so much that they couldn't die anymore.

Hearing the dense sound of iron cannons falling, the second wave of Ashigaru rushed in without hesitation, their iron cannon charge takes time, but he never expected to rush into the camp and find that the iron cannon team was gone, and in front of him were hundreds of bows and arrows Ashigaru, a wave of close-range arrow rain invading made this group of Ashigaru more than half killed and wounded, and the remaining Ashigaru was led by a dozen surviving samurai with his head down and three guns to charge hard.

Before he could rush out a few steps and collide with the mounted samurai who came out of the side, he slashed and killed the remaining survivors one by one, and this delay in time allowed the iron cannon to complete a long round of reloading preparations, Numata Yumitsu secretly scolded himself for being stupid, how could he treat Sugiura Genren as an ordinary mediocre general.

Such a delicate small coordination is obviously a mature tactic that he has used many times, maybe it is still Sugiura Genren's specialty in Echizen against Asakura, and he can become the number one general that Kaga has always been the number one general, in addition to having a body of courage and a fairly good military strategy, he will definitely have a unique skill to suppress Kaga and Echizen so many officials.

He just used his own small ashigaru to hit Sugiura Xuanren's best tactics, and no matter how much he sent, he suffered a lot of losses, if he was counterattacked by Sugiura Xuanren at this time, he was less than 4,000 tired and exhausted foreign strong and middle-class troops, maybe he would be reversed to Zhuangchuan and the whole army would be annihilated. (To be continued......)