Chapter 318: Sweeping Thousands of Armies
Soon Nagao Keitora made a decision, and on August 26, Nagao Keitora personally led an army of 5,000 troops out of Higashi-Ueno, aiming directly at the Higashi-Kamino rebel coalition forces, and the garrison of Stablebridge Castle was given to Saito Asanobu to be fully responsible, and Honjo Shigenaga and other Vietnamese reserves were responsible for assisting in the garrison.
In fact, the Kiryu clan, the Yamagami clan, and the Yura clan pulled up 5,000 troops and walked to the vicinity of Mt. Tenjin in Higashiueno, and suddenly stopped, no matter how the envoy of the Hojo family urged, they were unwilling to take another step, on the grounds that the food and grass were not enough, and the soldiers were tired, and they were really unable to continue, so they asked Odawara Hall to bear with Yunyun.
The envoys of the Hojo family found that they were not sincere at all and left with a cold snort, and the three family governors happily sat on Mt. Tenjin to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Ueno Province, and in late summer and early autumn with more than 5,000 people traveling collectively, they could also climb high and look far away to taste wine and make songs, and the small life was only so comfortable.
Kiryu Sutsuna was silent for a moment and said, "The face of that noble envoy just now was very unpleasant! ”
Teruha Yamagami said disapprerovingly: "What are you afraid of, isn't it the envoy of the Hojo family?" Didn't you see a pot of porridge in Nishiueno Castle? How long will it take to get to us? ”
"I'm not worried about the envoy of the Hojo family, it's the reaction from Nishi-Ueno!" Kiryu Suketsuna swept the expressions of the two worriedly: "I always feel that it is not good to wait for a big fanfare, Nagano Shinano Shouden must be very angry, and I guess I won't be happy to play the main hall!" After all, it's really not good for me to rebel after taking the grain and rice from the Nagao family! ”
"Huh! I can't say that, I'm also forced to be helpless! Yura Seriga comforted: "The Hojo family is unstoppable, and it is natural for us and other countrymen to repeat according to their positions, and in the troubled times, the main thing is to preserve strength." As for the kindness owed to the longtail family. Let's pay it back slowly when you have a chance in the future! ”
This is the only way to get into Higashi-Ueno Street. If the Hojo family wins for a while, then they will definitely take the opportunity to rush down the mountain and shout with the flag, and then the Hojo clan will not be able to deal with them.
If the long-tail family wins for a while, they can send a messenger to say that they are forced to helpless, and at that time, the long-tail Jinghu will definitely not be able to do anything to them, this uncapitalized transaction of stepping on two boats and waiting for the price is not too refreshing, and the east ueno can pull out the five thousand Hao clan alliance at once is also gathering to take advantage of this.
They soon stopped laughing. When the Ranlong Banner and Jiu Yaoba appeared from the ground little by little, the leaders of the three clans stood up in panic, and the wealthy clans who had gathered looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with the long-tailed army that rushed over.
"Yura Shinno guards the temple! What's going on? Didn't you say the Longtail wouldn't ask us? So what's going on! The Longtail Army is coming! A Chinese shouted angrily, waking up the shocked Higashiueno wealthy clan.
Immediately, a Chinese person shouted: "It's too late to say anything!" Hurry up and pack your things and run away! ”
"That's right! Run for your life! ”
The people of the eastern Ueno country scattered in a hurry, those with horses turned over and fled directly on their horses, those without horses fled backwards with their weapons on their shoulders, those who did not have time to run simply discarded their bulky bags and tents, those who were reluctant to throw away things were still trying to pack, and many samurai without horses took this opportunity to take away the horses of their allies. It's come to this, who cares about this.
Kiryu Suketsuna looked at the approaching Nagao Army dumbfounded, and muttered to himself, "It's over!" We're going to be finished! I said a long time ago not to rebel. You don't believe it! What a good thing to do now! ”
"Don't stand stupid! Run! "Yura Narita has long since run away, and Teruhisa Yamagami is still a little righteous, so he pulled Kiryu Suke Tsunade and ran down the mountain.
A war that had not yet begun was beginning to collapse, and Nagawei Jinghu rushed to the front of the team first, watching the people of the East Ueno Country fleeing in disarray, and shouted: "Order all the reserves to attack, capture the people of the East Ueno Country alive, and kill them in case of resistance!" ”
The 5,000 army turned into several long dragons and dispersed, and Nagao Jinghu personally led a thousand cavalry teams to rush to the camp on Tianshen Mountain, at this time, a group of samurai in the camp who were leading horses and preparing to escape were blocked, and the samurai led by him saw that the Jiuyao Ba banner of the Nagao family followed the general to move here, and quickly turned over and dismounted and knelt down to beg for surrender.
"Yura Shinno Shou Cheng Fan surrendered to the main hall of the bullet! We were all coerced by the Hojo family to defect, it's really helpless! That's right! I also have an edict from the Furukawa Hall here, please play the main hall and take a look! Yura Chengzhu's reaction was very fast, and he pulled out a letter from his arms and handed it over respectfully.
The long-tailed Jinghu seemed to see something dirty, he didn't even bother to look at it, he turned his face in disgust and read the edict, a short edict added up to a hundred and ten words, and the long-tailed Jinghu looked at it for half an hour before putting it down, it seemed that his expression was very bad, and his gloomy expression was very terrifying.
"Furukawaden turned into a puppet of the Hojo family, I didn't expect the samurai family in Kanto to be so degraded, where is the righteousness of the samurai? What is the spirit of the Kanto samurai? Nagao Jinghu's questioning made the people of Ueno bow their heads in shame.
"The devil knows where!" Yuliang Cheng hung his head and muttered secretly in his heart, Yuliang was originally from the next Keshang, and he naturally disagreed with the question of the governor of the Nagao family, and he was still glad that he had brought out the edict of the Furukawa Princesses in time, and this time he could probably get through the danger, and he really didn't have time to care about the lives of others.
"Shinano Mamoru please get up, please Shinano Mamoru lead the way for his family and surrender the rebellious countrymen!"
The long-tailed Jinghu looked at him with a faint smile, his voice was gentle, and the murderous aura in his eyes flickered faintly, which made Yuliang Chengfan's pores explode, and he said busily: "I, Cheng Fanding, should do my best to serve the main hall!" ”
Ignoring Yuliang's trembling expression, Nagatail Jinghu looked at the people of the Higashigami Wild Country who were scattered and fleeing under the mountain, and snorted coldly: "No matter what happens to the Furukawa Palace, we must teach the reckless Higashigami Wild people a lesson!" ”
Nagao Keihu has always said the same, and in the next few days, under the guidance of Yura Narishigeru, the leading party, swept through the entire Higashi-Ueno, Kiryu Castle Lord Kiryu Sutsuna, and surrendered immediately without saying a word, and Yamagami Teruhisa also surrendered, and Akabori Castle's Akabori Shimono Mamoru Kintsuna and other countrymen immediately surrendered. These people are not strong-willed. It was not surprising to see the Longtail Army coming to surrender.
There are always people who can't recognize the facts and hope that the Hojo family's army will come to the rescue. For example, the representative figure of the Akuzawa clan, the lord of Goranda Castle, and the nearby Matsushima clan, Takakusaki clan, and Wasasawa clan resolutely resisted the Nagao family's strategy, and he tried to use the cage battle to slow down the Nagao army, and use the branch city network to resist the attack of the Nagao family.
This group of people were not ordinary Higashi-Ueno people, but a branch developed by the Fukasawa clan, a wealthy clan living near the Kurokawa Valley, with the Akuzawa clan as the core, forming a Lang clan called Kurokawa Clan, and these wealthy clans were closely related to each other, forming a very complex network of relationships. This time, they were also successfully persuaded by the Hojo family to use Seta-gun as a bait, and the order they received was to delay the pace of the attack of the Nagao Army in order to cooperate with the Hojo family's strategy in Nishi-Ueno.
They did succeed in slowing down the pace of the Nagao Army's all-out attack, and the angry Nagao Keitora ordered the Iron Cannon Team to come forward to attack, and when the three hundred Iron Cannon Ashigaru cultivated by the Kira family stood outside the city, the Kurokawa people, who had never seen an iron cannon, looked curiously at the Iron Cannon Ashigaru under the castle and raised a burning stick to aim, and they didn't know what they were going to do, and the bold samurai stuck his head out of the arrow oar and laughed loudly, as if he looked down on the secret weapon of the Nagao family.
"Aim...... Launch! "The iron cannon general of the Long Tail Army is the eldest son of Jin Jinyi, Jin Jin Xinbing Wei Huyi, I saw him give an order. The fifty iron cannons in the front row quickly fired out bullets, and the dense bombardment aimed at the four arrow oars inside the Otemon to concentrate fire. Several daring samurai were killed on the spot, and before the survivors who were hiding in the arrows could figure out what was going on, another blow followed.
Every fifty iron cannon ashigaru do a round of fire, the iron cannon ashigaru in the back row will immediately replace it, and the three hundred people are divided into six equal parts to shoot in turn, and the time is just enough to connect the next round of circular firing, as if the endless iron cannon bombardment quickly shattered several arrows, and the suppressed ashigaru in the city did not dare to take the lead.
Akuzawa Iga Mamoru tried to fight back with the archery team in the castle, and every time he tried to climb the arrow turret, he would be hit hard, so he could only shrink inside the castle and throw at the army outside the castle indiscriminately.
The high-intensity concentrated fire shot came to an abrupt end, and the iron artillery team needed to go through a short break to clean up the gun dirt that was not cleaned up during the short cleaning of the gun brush, which is related to the life of an iron cannon.
Not only that, as an iron artillery general, you must have a precise grasp of the psychological adjustment of operations, as the milk brother of Nagao Keito, the 27-year-old Kanazu Torayoshi studied with the Kira family's iron artillery Takigawa Mashige for three years, from the basic iron artillery command, to the ability to judge and grasp the situation, the terrain and the skills of the iron artillery formation, and to pacify and boost morale.
"Bang ......"
Goran Castle's Otemon Gate was struck, the sturdy wooden gate trembled violently, and the whole gate seemed to be silently telling of pain in the flying dust, and the last bit of Otemon's defense was exhausted again and again, and the slanting rain of bullets penetrated the shattered wooden planks and hit the head of Ashigaru who was holding the gate behind the Otemon.
Red blood and white unidentified objects splattered on the cheeks of a young warrior, and the young man in a simple carcass pill without a throat chakra was stunned, and a few seconds later a deadly bullet unfortunately pierced the gap and hit the warrior's head, ripping off half of his head.
The endless artillery bombardment seemed to play an unknown music, and the iron artillery team unconsciously advanced to thirty meters, twenty-five meters, twenty meters, and the closer the distance, the stronger the firepower, the young iron cannon general insisted on using the first battle to deter all the unscrupulous people, and he wanted to use the iron cannon to make them realize that the Nagao family was irresistible.
When this sturdy Otemon was blasted out of several huge gaps, all the Akuzawa family Ashigaru who guarded the Otemon was wiped out, and a Nagao family samurai gently pushed open the tattered Otemon, and found that the world behind the door had become a blood-red hell, dozens of corpses were in tatters, some Ashigaru were shot more than a dozen times, and there was bleeding all over the body, like a leaky doll was simply a puddle of blood and minced meat.
A quarter of an hour later, Akuzawa Castle surrendered, and the desperate Akuzawa Igamaru committed suicide by seppuku in exchange for the right to survive the whole clan, and this battle defeated the spirit of the Kurokawa people, and soon the Matsushima clan, Takakusaki clan, and Wasasawa clan of the Kurokawa clan surrendered one after another, and the rebellion of Higashi-Ueno ended in less than two days.
At the same time that Nagao Keiho swept through Higashi Ueno, the Hojo family in the direction of Nishi Ueno was not idle, and after learning the exact news that Nagao Keiho was out of Higashi Ueno, early the next morning, the scheming Hojo clan Yasu immediately sent the surrendered Ueno clan led by the Shirakura clan, Kurakano clan, Nabo clan, and Akai clan to attack Shimana Castle, aiming to test the will of the temporary commander of the Nagao Army.
However, he soon realized that he had guessed something wrong, and Saito Asanobu unequivocally led 3,000 troops, easily crushed the Hojo side's leading party with extremely fierce cluster attack tactics, captured Shirakura Michisa alive, Kurakano was wide, and in one fell swoop defeated the main forces of the rebels such as Naba Munemoto, Akai Teruyasu, and Tomioka Hidenobu.
Another day, annoyed and angry, Hojo Shiyasu decided to personally lead a large army to conquer Shimana Castle, Saito Asanobu immediately entered Shimana Castle to fight a cage battle, 30,000 large army groups surrounded Shimana Castle and attacked for a whole day to no avail, seeing that Nagano Ye was leading the army to come to the rescue, Hojo Shiyasu immediately changed his strategy and sent Hojo Tsusunari to lead 8,000 troops to attack the Nagano Army, and the main force was still attacking Shimana Castle.
Nagano Yoshima hurriedly led his army to help fight with the Hojo family, and Hojo Shiyasu's strategy was implemented correctly, but the problem was that he selectively forgot about the two thousand Yue reserves guarded in the stable bridge castle, and Hojo Takahiro, Honjo Shienaga, and Kurokawa Kiyomi rushed to Hojo Tsunari's flank with endless anger.
Hojo Takahiro was at a time when his heart was extremely high, and he was ignored as soon as he wanted to show his skills, and he scolded angrily: "There is no one in the Hojo family!" It's disgusting to treat me as if I were infallible! ”
Kurokawa Kiyomi also echoed: "You must teach them a lesson!" ”
"When you find that you can't defeat the enemy, attacking the flank is usually the best thing to do...... War is a contest of perseverance and patience, and whoever is more tenacious and patient will be the winner...... No one can withstand a two-sided attack! Honjo repeated these words, smacking his lips and admiring the foresight of Yoshishi Yoshishi.
"What the hell are you kid going! Didn't you still grin at the coloring department just now? Why are you wandering again now! ”
Honjo suddenly said unhappily: "I am also Echizenden!" I'm a famous Echigo general, you have to respect me! ”
"Let's wait until the stubble grows!" Hojo Takahiro pursed his lips, waved his horsewhip and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order, target the Hojo Army!" Charge! (To be continued......)