At noon, Jiang Cheng sent someone to deliver the news that the orange family and more than 300 tenant farmers on the Oga Peninsula had all been killed by the Kun people, but the Kun people also suffered heavy casualties, paying the price of nearly 200 casualties, but even so, the eldest son of the orange family, Tachibana Zhenlai, also escaped in the melee, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Sima Yangjin sighed and said to Fan Ning: "It seems that the Kun people are still unreliable, not only killed and injured two hundred people, but also killed innocent people indiscriminately, and actually let the most critical people go." ”

Fan Ning was also deeply disappointed, he shook his head, "There is no need for them to fight in the future, Tachibana Zhenlai is estimated to have fled to Kaga to report the news, or prepare for a decisive battle with the Qingyuan army!" ”

At this time, Xu Qing took out more than a dozen horses from the city, and laughed loudly: "Look at these horses, it's very interesting!" ”

Everyone stepped forward, and these horses were really special, and they were all very small, like donkeys. ”

Fanning smiled: "This is a Japanese horse, the reason why I don't use Japanese horses to breed is because they are too small to afford a soldier in full armor to fight, and it is almost the same to be a substitute for the people of Kunzhou." ”

"It seems that this is still their war horse, how can such a short horse fight?" Xu Qing asked puzzled.

Fanning smiled slightly, "That's because the Japanese soldiers are also very short, and they complement each other well on this kind of horse, and they are very compatible, everyone will understand when you think about it." ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they thought of the little soldier on the pony.......

Fan Ning immediately urged the horse to lead the army into Akita City, and as the Song army entered the city, every household in the city kowtowed at the door and begged the Song army for forgiveness.

These people are not Japanese, but Ainu, that is, Ezo people, but they are no longer indigenous people like the Kunzhou Ezo people, they have completely Hue and transformed into an agricultural people, except for the language and beliefs have not changed, other living habits, houses and clothing are no different from the Japanese.

However, it can be seen that they are all poor, poorly dressed, and the houses are short and dilapidated, Zhang Zhi, who joined the army, smiled at Fan Ning: "According to the situation of the humble position, the taxes of the Ezo people here are quite heavy, one is the land rent, which is the rent handed over to the wealthy families, and the second is the tribute rent, which is the tax handed over to the Japanese court, and in recent years, a military tax has been added, that is, the burden of military expenses, and almost sixty percent of the annual income of each family has to be paid, so the farmers here are generally in extreme poverty." ”

Fanning nodded, the peasants in the hinterland of Japan are similar to these three, but the Japanese imperial court demanded that the tribute rent of Dewa and Mutsu countries be twice that of the land in Japan due to the exploitation of the Dongyi people, which was the root cause of the Abe family's rebellion.

Everyone walked into the Qingyuan family's mansion, Fan Ning came directly to the side of the warehouse, the warehouse is divided into two parts, the outside is to store rice, fish sauce and wine and other food items, the inside is the inner warehouse, storing a large number of silver, gold, sea pearls, coral, hawksbill turtles, animal skins and other precious items, Yang Jin led the soldiers are busy counting.

The rice is packed in sacks, each bag is about 100 catties, piled up like a hill, there are tens of thousands of bags, a lot of rice has shown signs of mildew, this is still only the grain of the Qingyuan family, in addition, in the garrison warehouse, there are more tribute rents that have not been handed over to the imperial court, calculated at least more than 300,000 stones.

This is the condition that the Japanese court gave to the Kiyohara family, as long as they sent troops to the Mutsu Kingdom, the court could waive the tribute rent they owed before, that is, a large amount of grain in the garrison warehouse became the private property of the Kiyohara family.

Fanning then ordered: "Order the soldiers to send a bag of rice to every household in the city, and tell them that all taxes will be exempted this year!" ”

After a while, the people in Akita Castle began to cheer, and more and more people ran into the streets to start dancing and celebrating.

.........

Five days after the Song army occupied Akita Castle, an army of 6,000 men was rushing to Akita Castle along a secret gorge under the cover of night.

While they were fiercely besieging Kaga Castle, the old nest of the Abe clan, they suddenly learned that the Song army had landed on the Oga Peninsula, which shocked Kiyohara Mitsuyori.

Of course, he knew that the Song army was supporting the Abe clan, but he did not expect that the Song army did not directly support Kaga Castle, but counterattacked his own root base.

Kiyohara Guanglai was also afraid of being ambushed by the Song army halfway, so they did not walk the Liangshan Gorge Road where they came, but took another secret path to return, and this road was a little closer.

Kiyohara was about fifty years old, dark-skinned, wearing black iron armor, and his eyes were particularly gloomy, and he tried his best to hide his anxiety, but the hasty withdrawal of troops had already exposed his heart.

"Big brother, didn't Song Jun reach an agreement with the imperial court? If you don't interfere in the Japanese civil war, why do you go back on your word and send troops to our country? ”

The question is Kiyohara Mitsuyori's brother Kiyohara Takenori, who is the commander of the army of Dewa Province, and he was supposed to lead the army to attack Kaga Castle, but Kiyohara Mitsuyori wanted to enjoy the capture of Kaga Castle, so he led the army to come together, but he also escaped the destruction of Akita Castle.

Kiyohara Guanglai said for a while: "This so-called agreement is not worth mentioning in the face of interests, the Song army will not allow the imperial court forces to go north to the northeast, if the Abe clan and the imperial army are evenly matched, he will indeed not intervene, but now that the Abe clan is facing the danger of being attacked by the enemy, he will not sit idly by." ”

"But why is the target us?" Kiyohara Takeshi was angry.

Qingyuan Guanglai was silent, in fact, he knew very well in his heart why the Song army's goal was to leave the feather country, and it was estimated that it was related to the marriage at the beginning of the year, it was they who first intervened in the political situation in Kunzhou, and were caught by the Song army.

Kiyohara Guanglai let out a long sigh, and his heart was full of regret at this time.

But now there is no point in saying that it is regretted, and Kiyohara Mitsuyori has to order: "Order the whole army to speed up, and you must rush to Akita Castle before dawn!" ”

The army of 6,000 quickened up and ran along the trail towards the valley mouth more than ten miles away.

Although the army of Dewa Province had 6,000 men, the actual standing army was only 3,000 men, and the other 3,000 were temporarily recruited peasants, which led to the uneven equipment in the army.

The 3,000 standing army is mainly bamboo armor, iron armor is only equipped by a few generals, and there are about 2,000 horses, but they are mainly used to carry logistics supplies such as food, and weapons are mainly knives and spears, but the manufacturing is relatively simple.

In particular, the spears are made of ordinary wooden poles with spearheads, unlike the spear shafts of the Song army that go through multiple steps such as cloth winding, oil immersion, and sun drying, the spear shafts are as hard as iron, and the knives are constantly chopping.

This was still the equipment of the standing army, and even more rudimentary if it was a peasant, first of all, without armor, all dressed in ordinary cloth clothes, barefoot, and holding sticks or wooden spears with sharpened fronts.

At this time, neither the standing army nor the ordinary peasants knew that the Song army had landed in the country of Izuwa, and they thought that they would no longer fight, and they were elated, dreaming of returning home quickly.

After passing through the Ou Mountains, they entered the plains of Dewa Province, from here to the seaside, more than 100 miles of plains and basins, at least 4,000 square kilometers of fertile plains, which are rare flat areas in the Japanese archipelago, and it is this plain that made Dewa Province the main food producer of Japan.

However, the population of Dewa Province is now only more than 70,000 people, and the land is far from being developed, only the land around Akita Castle is developed for dozens of miles, and the other plains are basically endless grasslands, which are suitable for raising horses.

For this reason, the ponies produced in the Izuwa country are quite famous, and thousands of them are paid to the imperial court every year.

As the day began to dawn, the army of Dewa Province had arrived about twenty miles from Akita Castle, when a spy came to report that an army of about 2,000 men had been found in the distance.

Kiyohara immediately realized that they had encountered the Song army, and he immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing.

The night of rapid marching exhausted his soldiers, and the battle was bound to cause a sharp drop in the combat effectiveness of the army, which was very detrimental to them.

As soon as his military order was given, a black line appeared a few miles away in the distance, and the Song army did not give them a chance to breathe, but appeared in time, and the army of Dewa began to stir, and they realized that they hurried back to fight.

Kiyohara Takeshi yelled: "Don't make a commotion, concentrate and prepare for battle!" ”

The generals restrained their armies one after another and quickly lined up their battle formations.

At this time, the two thousand Song troops had arrived a mile away from the army of the Dewa Kingdom, and they also set up a formation.

The 2,000 soldiers were all elite troops, very well-equipped, each soldier was wearing the armor of the Shunshui Mountain, wearing an eagle helmet, holding a standard spear, carrying a sword at the waist, and a round shield on the back, and a thousand of them also carried a powerful crossbow.

Among the 2,000 soldiers, there were 500 cavalry, which were 500 cavalry trained in Kunzhou, and they rode tall and strong horses, carrying spears, and lined up neatly behind the infantry.

In front of the cavalry were fifteen hundred sharply armored infantrymen in a zigzag formation, and in front of them were two phalanxes of five hundred men, both of which were armed with crossbows, and could be switched from spear infantry to crossbowmen at any time.

Fanning rode in the middle of the infantry, he was accompanied by the general Xu Yan and two commanders, and the Kun people entered Akita Castle for defense, and they did not participate in today's battle.

On the vast field, two thousand Song soldiers were murderous, like a piece of iron and stone motionless, and powerful killing machines shrouded the field, quietly waiting for the moment of decisive battle.

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