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The Choshu clan immediately began to purchase rice and grain from the castle town, but it was still a little insufficient, and Morihide even made a request to the Breaker Army to buy rice grain.

Of course, Li Hu agreed to everything, wouldn't it be a pity to put the big granary in Beihua without it, but now Beihua has set up four large granaries in Huadu, Fangmao and other places, and there is really too much grain piled up there, and it is all stored in accordance with the orders of the adults.

But there is still too much grain in Beihua, and now the merchants have begun to sell to the Ming Dynasty, of course, the Denglai Department and the Meng family in Yangzhou are still the main force, selling the old grain, and storing the new grain is a major priority in Beihua today.

Since there are people who are now rushing to digest the old grain for Beihua, of course the Broken Army will not refuse.

When all the grain and straw were ready after half a month, the Choshu Domain immediately mobilized and seized the two so-called military masters sent by the shogunate, which were actually the eyes and ears of the shogunate in the Choshu domain.

They paid close attention to Ogijo's every move, so that the Choshu Domain did not dare to act rashly, and the Choshu Domain's previous planning was carried out far away from the Ogi Domain, but now that the attack on the homeland of China requires the entire Choshu Domain to mobilize, how can the enemy spies in Ogijo be obtained.

When this thorn in the side was removed by the Choshu Domain, the Choshu Domain immediately began to mobilize in the territory.

Generally speaking, a territory of 10,000 koku can mobilize 200 ashigaru, but in an emergency, 4 or 500 ashigaru can be mobilized, and the young and strong in the territory can sweep through the Taiban.

Now the Choshu Domain was convened urgently, and ten days later, 11,000 Ashigaru gathered in Ogijo, the town of Choshu Domain.

Of course, these ashigaru will not go east to conquer China, their task is to defend the territory of the Choshu domain, so as not to have a fierce battle in front and the worst-case scenario of the back road being cut off.

At this time, the 8,000 standing garrison of the Choshu Domain had been assembled, and the more than 2,000 cavalry troops of the Broken Army began to march eastward.

The general of the Choshu domain was none other than Yamauchi Nobumasa, and the lord of the domain, Mori Hide, in front of a group of retainers, put out the affairs of Yamauchi Nobumasa's enduring humiliation for several years and secretly contacting the Akito, which can be described as a high degree of hard work.

At the same time, Yamauchi Nobumasa's position was restored and he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expedition.

With the support of the feudal lord, seeing that Yamauchi Nobumasa and the Ming army general Nan Yong were indeed very familiar, the other retainers did not speak out against it, after all, after the success of the Eastern Expedition, it was the time to regain the old land for meritorious deeds, and now it is really not in a hurry.

The deputy general of the Eastern Expeditionary Army is the eldest son of the elder Masuda Motosho, and the Masuda Motojia, who is now nearly fifty years old, also inherited the position of the head of the Masuda family, and is also a close general of Maori Hidesou.

And Maori Xiu and the old Fukuda family of the pen head stayed in Ogijo and stuck to the foundation of the Choshu Domain.

On this day, Mori Shu led a group of retainers to worship the family temple of the Mori clan on the back mountain of Ogijo Uchimaru, hoping that after the blessing of the heavenly spirit of the heads of the family, more than 10,000 troops embarked on the journey to the east.

According to the planning of the Choshu Domain, the Iwami Province and other places in the north were first abandoned, and the army of the Choshu Domain was to follow the Aki Province and Bigo in the south, and then go directly to Bichu, locking the official road to the east of China and blocking the main road of the shogunate's incoming army.

After all, if the shogunate came from the east, it would usually be a flat place on the coastal plain along this line.

In the north, Izumo and Iwami made a detour to attack the Choshu Domain, which was a long detour, and the mountain roads were relatively rugged, which was not conducive to the march of the large army, which was also the reason why the Choshu Domain attacked the south first.

In addition, it was close to the two Tokugawa domains of the Kii Domain and the Owari Domain, and it was possible that they would kill them before waiting for the order of the shogun Iemitsu, so it was crucial to lock the door from Chugoku to the East in Bichu.

The march of the army along the way frightened a group of wealthy clans who came with the same Zhou Fang, they cowered in their own territory and did not dare to fight, their small territory was destined to only have two or three hundred ashiba, it was simply not worth mentioning.

Yamauchi Nobumasa didn't have time to deal with them, and it was true that the whole army would seize Bichu as soon as possible, and these wall-to-wall grasses finally found that they would surrender to the Choshu domain if they lost contact with the shogunate.

Seven days later, they approached the territory of the Hiroshima Domain of Aki Province, the lord of the Hiroshima Domain at this time was the thirty-year-old Asano Mitsusheng, the Hiroshima Domain was a large domain of 420,000 koku, with 8,000 standing and 500 cavalry, and its strength was said to be not under the Choshu Domain.

When the feudal lord Asano Mitsusho learned that the Choshu Domain had rebelled for several days, he quickly reported the rebellion of the Choshu Domain in Edo Castle, and at the same time the Hiroshima Domain began to reorganize its armaments.

The old man of the pen family, Fukuda Iehiko, thought that the Changzhou Domain was menacing, and if it wasn't for something to rely on, he would never be so unwise.

Therefore, Fukuda Iehiko's advice was to hold on to Hiroshima Castle or call for help from the neighboring Daidai Fukuyama Domain, and it would not be too late for the two families to merge and fight a decisive battle with the Choshu Domain.

However, how did Mitsumori Asano, who had only been on the throne of the governor for several years and had not had much opportunity to perform, give up such an opportunity, and how he was willing to retreat to the town to avoid the battle, and he also pinned his hopes on this big victory and left him with great prestige.

Therefore, he did not listen to Fukuda Iehiko's dissuasion, and personally commanded the standing 8,000 to meet the enemy to the west, leaving Fukuda Iehiko to guard Hiroshima Castle.

In Asano's view, there is not much difference in the strength of the two sides, and his subordinates are progressing at ease, so the Hiroshima Domain is more dominant, as for the Choshu Domain, since the Osaka War was reduced, now the stone is only 320,000, which is not as much as his Hiroshima Domain's fiefdom, but there is nothing to be afraid of as a castrated tiger.

Mitsusho Asano attacked violently, and the two armies met on the border west of the Hiroshima Domain, and a major battle broke out immediately.

At the beginning of the war, the situation was indeed as Asano Mitsusheng thought, and the two armies first exchanged fire from a distance with a rifle bow and a few small firearms, and then the two armies began to fight at close range.

But at this time, the Hiroshima Domain Standing Reserve on the right flank was quickly defeated and retreated, for the simple reason that their opponent was the 2,000 new Standing Guards, and these Choshu Domain Standing Guards were copycat versions of the Broken Capture Army, and nearly half of them were firecrackers, although they were arquebuses, but the power of the three-stage combo was not something that could be blocked by only a few dozen iron cannons on the opposite side.

The Hiroshima Domain's soldiers on the right flank suffered heavy losses under the enemy's firecrackers, and the Ashigaru in the front row was almost empty, and then the guns of the Choshu Domain in the back rushed up.

These pikemen are also imitating the equipment of the Broken Army, their spears are a foot broken than the spears of the Broken Army, there is no way, their physique is there, this is already the limit of what they can wield.

In this way, their spears are nearly a foot longer than their opponent's three guns, and these lengths make it easy for them to assassinate their opponents, while their opponents are very difficult to kill.

Immediately, the first two rows of the Hiroshima Domain suffered heavy losses with guns, and they fell to the ground screaming and struggling, compared to them, the Choshu Domain suffered less than a tenth of their casualties.

The two successive heavy casualties shook the fighting spirit of the soldiers on the right wing of the Hiroshima Domain, and not all soldiers could hold on to the one-sided battle formation, and soon the right wing of the Hiroshima Domain collapsed like an avalanche, and the army of the Hiroshima Domain was scattered in pieces.

Having lost the protection of the right flank, the Hiroshima feudal army in the middle was quickly defeated and retreated, and then the pursuit and flight began.

Mitsutsu Asano and the others rode first, followed by a large group of infantry troops running in a messy manner.

At this time, the cavalry of the Ming army, which had been idle, began to urge the horses to pursue, and for a time the roar of the horses' hooves on the ground shook the earth, and hundreds of poor cavalry riding short horses in the Hiroshima domain were quickly defeated.

The more than 2,000 cavalry of the Broken Army and the 500 cavalry of the Choshu Domain began to slash and slaughter in the rear, and pursued for more than ten miles, and only a few hundred of the Hiroshima Domain's soldiers finally fled from this bloody battlefield.

Mitsumori Asano wanted to cry and fled back to Hiroshima Castle with hundreds of people, but the garrison of less than 1,000 people was not enough to stand on the city walls, how to protect Hiroshima Castle.

Asano Mitsusho had no choice but to flee east to the Fukuyama Domain with his family members with his retainers, and as for the rest, he could not take care of the rest, and only when the shogunate army returned to defeat the Choshu Domain, he could recover the lost towns and fiefs, and Asano Mitsusho firmly believed that he did not need to leave for too long.

Therefore, Mitsusho Asano left Hiroshima Castle without any damage, and if the destruction was the destruction of his own town, of course he would not do it.

After paying more than 400 casualties, the Choshu Domain drove straight into Hiroshima Castle and occupied the town of Hiroshima Domain.

After repairing here for several days, the Choshu Domain was left with 500 ashigaru guards to guard Hiroshima Castle, including more than 200 wounded soldiers, and the rest of the brigade began to march eastward, driving directly to the Fukuyama Domain in the east.

The current lord of the Fukuyama Domain is Mizuno Katsunari, who is now seventy-two years old, he is the brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu and a close subordinate of Tokugawa Ieyasu, so the Fukuyama Domain is also considered a close domain of the Tokugawa family, and is responsible for supervising all parts of China.

Now that Mizuno Katsu is an adult, his legs and feet are not good at walking, and he spends more time on the couch.

His sister-in-law, Mizuno Katsutoshi, has already taken charge of the affairs of the domain, and Mizuno Katsunari plans to hand over the responsibility of the family governor next year and retire, and the Fukuyama domain will begin a new era of the second generation of the family governor.

At this time, the Fukuyama clan received an urgent military situation about the rebellion of the Choshu domain, and Mizuno Katsunari immediately reported it to the shogunate.

The Fukuyama clan also began to prepare for the battle with all its might, after all, the opponent was not far from Bigo, and he could attack here at any time.

Although the Fukuyama Domain had more than 300,000 stone fiefdoms, his standing reserve was 5,000 people, because from Hidetada, even if it was a pro-domain, the shogunate was extremely concerned about the number of its standing reserves, and was deeply afraid of posing a threat to the shogunate's rule.

Therefore, Mizuno Katsu, who was far away from Edo City, became a suspicion, but he kept five thousand standing reserves, and at this time, the war was together, and it was a little not enough to see, so whether it was the mobilization of the whole territory was light, so Mizuno Katsunari was extremely hesitant.

As a result, before he could make a decision, hundreds of remnants of the Hiroshima Domain were defeated and retreated to Fukuyama Castle. (To be continued.) )