Chapter 798: Mountain and Forest Ambush
In the midst of this astronomical drought, a large number of victims also appeared in the territory of the Otomo family. Unlike the way ordinary lords treat these disaster victims, Otomo Yoshijin, as the governor of the clan, actually ordered the wealthy clans to open their granaries to provide relief to those disaster victims.
After this relief, the victims in the territory suddenly settled down, and the chaos caused by the movement of the victims was reduced a lot, and the Otomo family gained a lot of popularity in this disaster relief, and at the same time, a large number of troops began to use the gratitude of the people to the Otomo family to hunt down those who deliberately spread rumors. After this series of actions of the Otomo family, the situation inside the Otomo family's territory is much more stable than that of the adjacent Bunzen Province.
It is reported that the homeless people on the side of Fengzen Province have rushed to this side because they learned that the Otomo family will help the homeless, so they all rushed here, but fortunately, the Tianbei family and the Yoshixian's family at the junction of Kunisaki County and Utasa County of Toyozen Province have urgently set up checkpoints to prevent the further influx of homeless people, otherwise the wealthy families around the country will be a little unable to withstand the loss of continuing to open warehouses and release grain. And in order to appease the wealthy families who were dissatisfied with the order to open the warehouse and release grain, the Zong family governor Otomo Yoshizhen was also constantly visiting each family during this time.
The act of opening warehouses and releasing grain to provide relief to the victims of the disaster has indeed alleviated the chaos of the people in the territory, but it has also brought risks to each family. Due to the reduction of the grain reserves of each family, once there is an invasion of foreign enemies at this time, and the strategy is carried out in the form of a protracted war, then the wealthy clans who have just had a large reduction in the reserve of grain will suffer.
It's just that what is afraid of will happen, and it was at this time that the Luo family really invaded. His wolf ambition is really obvious. It is estimated that it is precisely to see the sinister intentions of the Luo family. The Governor of the Zong Family, Otomo Yoshizhen, issued a mobilization order to all the wealthy clans in the territory. Otomo Yoshicho hopes to quickly concentrate the military forces. Then quickly fight the invading Roche family. In this way, the army of the Luo family was driven out of the territory of the Otomo family and defeated, so as to avoid falling into a protracted war with the Luo family.
"Don't worry, brother, this family will definitely be able to defeat the Luo family this time." Seeing that his brother Fu Lai Jianzhong was still frowning, his younger brother Fu Lai Shi smiled and comforted.
Seeing that his younger brother was still so content with the status quo, Fu Lai Jianzhong couldn't help but shake his head in his heart. Or it is precisely because of this character of the younger brother that it is necessary to avoid the infighting between the two brothers for the position of governor after the death of his father in battle.
"Have you gathered the forces to support the front line?" Fu Lai Jianzhong then asked.
"Two hundred reinforcements have been mobilized. Tomorrow, my younger brother and I will personally lead to the front line to resist the Luo family's army. ”
"No, first join the forces of the Tahara family, and then rush to the front line together."
"Huh? Brother, after reading the letter from the Luo family to the Tahara family, didn't you plan to set off with the Tahara family? ”
"No, it is precisely because I am worried that the Tahara family will rebel that I need to be with them, otherwise after you lead the army to leave, the Tahara family's army will suddenly go out to the family, then the city that is in the void will be in danger." Fu Lai Jianzhong said.
"I see. Don't worry, brother. I have been with the Tahara family before, and my younger brother and I will definitely be careful to watch out for the Tahara family. After listening to Fu Lai Jianzhong's words. Fu Lai immediately understood, so he said.
On the second day, Minoru Furai personally led the 200-strong Furai family army to the vicinity of Tahara's Iizuka Castle, and joined the Tahara family's 200-strong army that was already waiting there. While the two armies were on guard against each other, they were heading towards the border of Naga's territory.
"Attention, the enemy is coming." Just as the two armies were about to arrive at a place called Shiguchi at the junction of Naika's territory and Tahara's domain, someone whispered in the woods here.
This place in Shikou is not far from the mountains and forests where the Luo family's army is ambushed, but it is an area with dense mountains and forests. To get from the Tahara family to the Nadu family's territory, you have to pass through a mountain trail in the forest here.
After learning today that the Tahara family's army had gathered under Iizuka Castle, more than 800 members of the Sixth Route Army were ambushed on both sides of the mountain trail early. According to the plan discussed by Murakami Takeyoshi, Wakabayashi Echigo Mamoru and others, they planned to take advantage of the opportunity for the Tahara family to rush to support Lumingyue Castle this time, ambush them here, and then pretend to be them to kill Iimori Castle.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that this time not only the Tahara family came, but even the military strength of the Fulai family came.
"What should I do, it seems that the other party seems to be the military strength of the two wealthy clans united, and there are at least four hundred people." Seeing such a scene, Wakabayashi Echigo Mamoru immediately asked.
"The other party has only 400 men, but I can have 800 men, so why fear him? The order was to go down and act according to the plan, especially to tell the ambush soldiers at the exit on both sides of the complex mountains and forests that they must not let go of a single enemy soldier, otherwise this time the plan will fail. Murakami Takeshi said. Wakabayashi Echigomori, Uku Junding, Uto Yukiko, Ariurataka, Ahri and others immediately nodded in understanding after hearing this, and then they went down to ambush each other.
Soon after, the Tahara family's army led by Minoru Fulai and the Tahara family Rufa Temple finally arrived. It is estimated that neither of them would have thought that the Luo family would be able to lurk in the territory of the Otomo family by climbing the coastal cliffs, let alone that they would encounter an ambush in such a place, so the two put more attention on each other.
Zhengliang's previous several secret letters that separated the wealthy families did make these local wealthy families wary of each other, although they would not fight each other, but mutual vigilance was inevitable. In order to monitor each other, they marched side by side.
In a mountain road, two teams of troops, divided into two groups of left and right, marched together. In this way of traveling, once encountering an ambush, because the soldiers behind him are soldiers of other families, it is difficult to completely hand over the security behind them to the other party for a while, resulting in the soldiers being unable to cope with attacks from the side, and the combat effectiveness of the army is often reduced a lot.
When he saw that the troops of the Fulai family and the Tahara family had completely entered the ambush circle in the mountains and forests, Murakami Takeshi suddenly shouted:
"Archery!"
"Whoosh ......" With Murakami Takekishi's order, the whistling sound of arrows tearing through the air cut through the air. A dense array of arrows raised a beautiful arc in the air. Shoot at the two coalition forces that were marching below.
"There was an ambush. Retreat! "Enemy attack, retreat!" Murakami's sudden roar (a sudden roar in the silence of the forest would probably frighten people) and the ensuing rain of arrows plunged the two coalition forces into chaos.
All the bows used by the Luo family are all the same bows, and the lethality is much stronger than the ordinary Maruki bow and the like, and with the Luo family's three consecutive rounds of close-range shooting, nearly half of the two coalition forces suddenly lost their combat effectiveness. The hapless Fulai didn't have time to shout yet. was shot into a hedgehog by a rain of arrows, and died with a whimper.
Rufa Temple, who was lucky enough to escape, gasped when he saw the soldiers who were injured by arrows all around, and he couldn't think about why there were enemy troops here, so he just yelled: "Don't panic, don't panic, kill them, they don't have many people, kill ......."
Murakami Takeyoshi saw that the enemy general was trying to regain the routed soldiers of the Luo family who had been beaten by several rounds of arrows and could not find their way, so he pulled out the sword hanging from his waist and shouted, "Kill." Kill the Devil! After shouting, he took the lead in rushing out.
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Luo family saw that their master was so powerful. He immediately let out a low roar to make his courage stronger, and drew his sword and jumped to kill the enemy in the mountain road.
The enemy soldiers who had just been gathered by the Rufa Temple were suddenly attacked before they had even set up their formations, and in a panic, the enemy soldiers all retreated, and some of them even turned around and began to flee.
"Kill!"
Seeing this scene, Murakami Takeshi immediately shouted again. At this time, his face was full of blood, and he suddenly found that he liked this bloody scene very much. He rushed to an enemy soldier with a sword, his face was hideous, and before the enemy soldier in front of him could react, his sword had been cut off, and his helmet was cut off at once, and half of his head rolled to the ground, and he soon fell to the ground and died.
He didn't have time to wipe off the blood, so he laughed and shouted, "Kill, kill with me!" As he spoke, he brandished his sword and rushed towards the young monk with the ring scar (that is, the Rufa Temple himself).
"Roar!"
The Luo family's army ambushed here continued to emerge from the mountains and forests. As they joined the warband, they let out a roar before the battle, like the sound of a wild boar seeing an enemy, the voice of the bravest beast that the mountain people had lived and cultivated for a long time, and the sound of this sound would have terrified all enemies. Each armed with their own weapon, with their respective generals as the central arrow, formed a square formation and surrounded the chaotic enemy soldiers.
Among the crowd, the former retainer of the Hata family, who had just become a retainer of the Luo family, was only in his early twenties, and it was the first time he had participated in such a battle scene. In the past, he had fought at sea, and his greatest achievement was to drive away a few pirate ships. After joining the Luo family's navy, he learned that for the Luo family's navy, they must not only know how to fight water warfare, but also be able to fight the enemy on land.
Even so, it was the first time he had participated in such a big battle. At first, he was still a little timid, but after seeing a few Luo family's standing sailors around him bravely beat several enemy soldiers in front of him back again and again, his courage came up. How can you say that you are a naval general, how can you not even be as good as your subordinates? After fighting, he immediately let out a loud roar, screaming that a rich man in front of him was a light spirit, and a numb and swishing coolness swept through his body in an instant, and then a sound of broken bones came from his chest.
It turned out that Ariurataka took advantage of this moment when Ashigaru was stunned and took the lead, and the knife had already slashed through Ashigaru's chest quickly, cutting Ashigaru's clothes, revealing the bamboo board that had been cut into two pieces inside, and the next piece was drooping to the side. Immediately, Urataka saw the ashigaru fall to the ground, but he didn't die immediately, just spit blood and convulsed. The blood on the sword was gently swept by the somewhat cold winter wind, and it soon solidified and turned a shocking purple-brown.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! In the shout of increasing his courage, Ariurataka did not stop, directly crossed the enemy army who was about to die, and quickly followed Murakami Buyoshi in front of him to kill the allied forces of the Furai family and the Tahara family who had already begun to retreat.
As the soldiers continued to fall, Rufa Temple Kinritsu, who was retreating and commanding everyone to fight, was finally surrounded by more than a dozen Luo family standing water troops led by Murakami Takeyoshi.
"Kill!" Rufa Temple saw that there was no way to avoid it, but he raised his spear and stabbed at Murakami Buyoshi. It seems that he intends to capture the thief and capture the king first, trying to take Takeshi Murakami, who seems to be the apparent leader, as a hostage, and then escape from the delu in this way.
At the spear that came to kill, Murakami Takeshi sneered. When the spear standing in Rufa Temple was stabbed, he flashed sideways, and the spear in his hand was sent forward at the same time.
"Poof!"
With the sound of a spear entering the flesh, Murakami Takeyoshi's spear pierced directly into the throat of the Rufa Temple.
"You ......" With a large amount of blood flowing out of his mouth, Ruhoji himself looked at Murakami Takeyoshi, who had regained his standing in front of him, and said vaguely.
"Whoosh!" Murakami Takeshi seemed to understand what he wanted to ask, so he casually took the Luo family flag behind a naval army standing next to him and inserted it directly in front of him.
"It turned out to be the Luo family!" At the moment before he died, Rufa Temple finally knew who ambushed them.
(Thanks to the monthly pass of "Kaihuang and Lumiya"; Thanks to "leely, every day to the 88, green mia" reward. (To be continued......)