Chapter 206: Operation Sophora Flower
Summer and May are a month to remember.
This month is not only the day when the Empress of Heaven's army broke through Iwaki to open a new era of Dongying, but also the time when Kensu Susanoo ordered the nether Dongying to be borne.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the Empress Tendai's "Operation Sophora Flower" has obviously been successful, and within a month, when Hideto Bando led 150,000 men to attack Iwaki by surprise, the balance of the war in the Dongying Yin Shang era had already tilted in favor of the Empress of Heaven.
And after the Silver Fire City got the news of the Empress of Heaven's troops, the Heavenly Fairy Meixin Ji personally led 20,000 troops and horses to attack Iwaki at night like lightning, although Kajiwara Jingshi held on hard for 13 days, but the two sides of the men and horses flanked back and forth, and there was no support in the rear, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, Kajiwara Jingshi fought to the last soldier, facing the south and committing suicide to apologize.
In June, Miura Yoshisumi issued a war letter to have a final decisive battle with Shida Yoshihiro, but Shida Yoshihiro only hung up the exemption card and refused to fight. Miura Yoshisumi led an army to attack the Shida military camp, a slight victory, and when he was about to go north to destroy Akita Castle in one fell swoop, news came from Nasu Town, Hatakeyama Shigetada was besieged by Nitta Yoshishige and Satake Hideyoshi, and once again a war broke out in the Nasu River, Hatakeyama Shigetada's forces were weak, and finally ended up fleeing in a hurry.
Miura Yoshisumi went deep alone, and he really didn't dare to take another step, so he could only lead the army to retreat and retreat to Dongye Town.
Dongye Town, a famous war-torn city, is deserted for hundreds of miles, with corpses and bones all over the field. A large area of territory to the south and west was not garrisoned by the Yuan Lai Dynasty, so Dongye Town became a veritable isolated city.
This copper wall is no longer the same as the long gang defense line, Miura Yoshisumi naturally understands that Higashino Town is difficult to hold, in July, Feishu Nara City, although the source of the Raina Dynasty Ling Zhi Zhi, but still sent 100,000 defenders, ordered Chiba Tsuneyin to lead the army to the north to support, another military order issued to the town of Huoli, Iga Flying Bear on the grounds of physical discomfort, euphemistically refused the order of the source of the Rain, the source of the Nara Dynasty at this time finally understood, Iga Flying Bear has been wrong, and he has gradually drifted away.
In August, Miura Yoshisumi personally wrote a letter, detailing the pros and cons, and asking Iga Flying Bear to jointly attack Silver Fire City with him, although Iga Flying Bear had the heart to support, but the "Outer Heaven Plan" was at an important time, and it was impossible to leave him for a moment, so he could only reluctantly let the North Island Starry Sky lead 20,000 horses and horses to the Silver Fire City in the north, but just halfway to a certain valley, he was ambushed by a group of masked monsters in black robes and red armor, left half of his body, and fled back to Huoli Town.
In September, the north of the east and the north reaped a bumper harvest, while the south was rainy and rainy, and there was no grain harvest. It seems that even God is helping the Empress of Heaven.
In October, at the end of autumn of another year, the army of the Empress of Heaven prepared enough grain and grass in Silver Fire City, rectified the officers and soldiers of the whole army, and besieged Dongye Town with all its strength in three routes of army and horses.
The North Route Army Shida Yoshihiro led 50,000 troops to the south in Changgang Town, the East Route Army Hando Hideto led 200,000 troops as the main force and took the Saitama direction, the South Route Army Satake Hideyoshi led 50,000 troops to take the Yamanashi direction, and the Heavenly Fairy Meixin Ji led 50,000 horses from Silver Fire City to garrison the South Road border defense in order to contain the Iga Flying Bear Army in Huoli Town.
The war was rekindled, the people were miserable, no matter which side of the army and horses, the local residents fled in a hurry everywhere they went, and the people in the hinterland of Dongying were almost dead, barren smoke and vines, and the world was desolate.
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The battle in Dongye Town is chaotic and dangerous. In Huoli Town, it is a different prosperity.
Due to the inaction of the Iga Flying Bear, he did not declare himself an enemy of the Empress of the Heavens, so the area around Mt. Fuji became a three-way zone for the two forces, and in addition to the war in the north, Mt. Fuji was the sacred mountain of Toei, so the two towns of Shizuoka and Honashi fled countless refugees from the north, although they brought a lot of unstable factors to the two towns, but also created the illusion of wartime prosperity for the two towns.
In addition to the original three cities and the Silver Fire City, the wartime base camp of the Heavenly Empress, there may be only two towns left in Dongying, which can be regarded as a prosperous place.
In December, Dongye Town was besieged by the three-way army, and gradually showed its defeat, but Iga Feixiong got a lot of benefits because of the war refugees who migrated in large numbers, and his military horses increased geometrically, from the original thirty or forty thousand, to a local tyrant who commanded an army of 100,000, and Yan Lengfeng of Huoyun Village also benefited, when Iga Feixiong carefully selected noble samurai, Yan Lengfeng received countless refugees and reckless men, and also became a local hooligan with 100,000 ruffians. Although the 200,000 men and horses on both sides also stayed in the same place, and the military camps of the two sides were only a few dozen miles apart, the forces of the two sides did not have the slightest friction and maintained a very strange peace.
However, once the poor people at the bottom taste the sweetness of the war, it will be difficult to suppress the endless **, the initial upheaval, but now in Huoyun Village can turn over and be the master, which makes their inner ** completely released, although they have a stable life, but Huoyun Village is too small, although it has expanded countless times, but for 100,000 ruffians, it is still too small, it really can't accommodate this group of wolf-like people, they want a broader sky, a more prosperous residence, More fertile land, that place has a bazaar, a tavern, a teahouse, and Mt. Fuji.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another year is about to pass.
Chinese New Year's Eve, at the foot of Mt. Fuji. Every family of the people is slaughtering chickens and sheep, preparing to spend the New Year, but at the moment when the residents of the two towns are happy together, the army of Huoyun Village, which has maintained peace for a long time, burned all of Huoyun Village in the middle of the night, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the night sky of the New Year.
The ruffians of Huoyun Village, who have no place to live, do not want to rebuild their homes, that home is no longer worth building again, they want a more prosperous residence, this prosperous residence, is Shizuoka Town.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, 100,000 riffraff soldiers put on armor, polished their swords and guns, and rushed all the way to Shizuoka Town under the leadership of the Black Deacon, and after a night of frenzied killing, the president of Wada Shrine, Hatoyama Naota, and burned to death Tsurumi Keita, the head of the Tsurumi family, and the forces in Shizuoka Town only escaped the three forces of Shinto Wunianliu, Erten, and Akiyama Ichisai, but they were also defeated and survived.
In the hinterland of Dongying, the only remaining place of peace and happiness, Shizuoka Town, finally failed to escape the fate of war and ushered in a new round of troubled killings.
On the first day of the first lunar month, just as the whole army of Dongling Lingxin was celebrating, in the big tent of the military camp in Huoli Town, Iga Feixiong ushered in the last conversation with Kitagawa Nagano and others in his life.
"Huh...... Thanks to the peace between you and you for so long, Iga-sama, you have a big heart! Miyama Tamao was covered in blood, his cloudy eyes stared at Iga Flying Bear tightly, and he said with a sneer.
Iga Feixiong, who was tightly closed, suddenly opened his eyes at this time, and glanced at the three of them with a sharp gaze, but he just snorted coldly at the moment and did not respond a word.
Akiyama Naruto saw that he had always been a good man, and at this time he finally couldn't help but ask: "Iga-sama, do you still use me to tell you the truth that 'the side of the couch is not allowed to snore'?" Why didn't you exterminate Huoyun Village before it was strong, and now let Shizuoka Town fall into such a field......
"Blame me?" Akiyama Narumi didn't finish his sentence, but he was interrupted by Iga Feixiong's yin and yang weird opening, and the meaning of the words was unclear, can you blame me for your own problems in Shizuoka Town?
"Dead lips and cold teeth! Iga-sama, what's wrong with you? Why did it become so timid? You didn't go to Lord Miura's request for help, I can understand that you are trying to protect the people of Mt. Fuji, but why would you tolerate the constant expansion of Toling's spiritual flow, don't you feel a little nervous? Who is Black Butler's next target? Don't you really know? "Kitagawa Nagano painstakingly enlightened and patiently persuaded that Ito Iga Flying Bear could send troops to recover Shizuoka, after all, the overall quality of the soldiers under the black butler was far worse than that of the Iga army, and it was not too late to send troops at this time.
"Lord Beichuanliu, I know what you mean, let me ask you first, can you see the armor of the soldiers under the Black Butler?" Iga Feixiong heard Kitagawa's words, and finally he was a little moved, after all, Shinto has no thought flow of face still to give some.
When Beichuan Nagano heard this, he immediately opened his eyes angrily, gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "Black robe and red armor, kill most of my Shinto Wunian stream samurai, I can see it clearly, how can I forget?" ”
"Do you know who ambushed Kitajima when the sky was heading north?"
"Who?"
"It's the black robe and red armor, the black deacon's subordinates, this group of people is well-organized and has outstanding combat power, it is by no means a group of stragglers, even if I personally lead the troops forward, I'm afraid I won't be able to get benefits." Iga Flying Bear finally said the reason why he didn't send troops.
Kitagawa Nagano smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Iga, have you ever wondered how he could train such a divine soldier in such a short period of time? The combat power is outstanding, and it is only a few, how can they all become first-class masters in Dongying within a few months? ”
"Okay, don't say it anymore, in short, this group of people is not easy to deal with, and the matter of recovering Shizuoka Town needs to be considered in the long run!" Iga Feixiong waved his hand impatiently, stood up, turned his head and said to Takashima Kuan behind him: "Several adults have fought hard all night, and they are physically and mentally tired, send them to the mansion to have a good rest, the soldiers are in chaos, don't move around at will these days." After saying that, he took the lead and left the barracks tent.
"Coward! Instead of attacking the Black Butler, you put us under house arrest, Iga Flying Bear, what are your intentions! The three of Beichuan all stared at the back of Iga Feixiong and scolded angrily, but in the camp of 100,000 male soldiers, they did not dare to act rashly, so they could only lower their heads one by one, and under the supervision of a group of soldiers, they walked towards the mayor's mansion.