In the leather hand castle, Mino guardian and Saito clan head Saito Toshira has not been in a good mood recently.

A few days ago, the Furuta clan, the Shiki clan, the Ishimaru clan and other only remaining wealthy clans under their own command visited together, and as soon as they met, they began to cry one after another, saying that their families had suffered military disasters, and all the autumn grain in many villages had been robbed, and the land had been driven away. Hearing this letter, Saito Toshira was shocked at first, thinking that the rebellious thief Nagai Norihide (Saito Michizo) finally couldn't help but do something to himself, and hurriedly scattered his subordinates to the Quartet to inquire about the news, but he was so worried that he even missed several bowls of dinner every day.

Today, the exact news finally came, and it was actually a group of bandits who robbed these wealthy families, although the visual inspection varied everywhere, but the total number of people should be no more than sixty or seventy. The imaginary enemy shrunk from Nagai Norihide to a bandit, and Saito Toshira was stunned at first, and then became furious. I've only been in decline a little over the years, and I've turned around early in several encounters with Nagai Norihide, but not all cats and dogs can kick their noses in the face. He is the guardian of a country, and a few thieves dare to defy his authority.

Is it tolerable or intolerable? Saito Toshira scolded the wealthy family under his command for being too pustuated, and he actually had the face to be beaten and cried by a few thieves, no wonder his great cause of supporting Lai Wugong was so bumpy, it was really this group of wastes that dragged him back; On the one hand, he planned to quickly order his troops, vowing to capture and kill all the bandits, and hang the pole to set an example, and renew the prestige he had left.

The old man is old, but he is still as vigorous and resolute as he was back then, and he immediately summoned all the victims to discuss the matter of sending troops. According to the situation in the past, each family could always pull out three or four hundred ashigaru, but in order not to delay the autumn harvest and reduce the consumption of military rations, Saito Toshira finally decided to make a plan for each of the four families to gather 50 people and send a total of 200 troops.

The sick tiger still has a lingering threat. When the Lord gave the order, the Saito clan's domination system also began to operate. In three days, the samurai masters of the Furuta clan, the Shiki clan, and the Ishimaru clan, as well as fifty peasant soldiers, arrived at the castle one after another with grain and grass, and after joining up with Saito Toshizuna's main team, they went to the area infested by the bandits.

The time for the two armies to meet was unexpectedly short. This gang of bandits did not know whether they were bold or reckless, or they were carried away by the white rice, and they did not wait for the bandit army to search area by area, but actually swept all the way along the straight line, and the two sides directly collided head-on the next day, and the battle was about to break out.

Saito Toshitsuna is over 50 years old, as a member of the Saito clan has several fierce generals, has followed Saito Toshikoku, Saito Toshitaka, Saito Toshimo, Saito Toshira and other generations of Saito clan leaders, Mino Province guardian generation of the southern expedition to the north, personally experienced and survived many vicious battles such as the Battle of Funada and Omi Toichi, it can be said that he has rich experience in the battlefield and first-class life-saving skills. For this particularly abnormal group of bandits, I was a little wary at first.

However, seeing the two sides opening up on the plains, Saito Toshizuna couldn't help but laugh at himself, whether he was no longer as brave as he used to be, and he would deepen his association in the face of a group of ordinary bandits.

Just look at the nearby unobstructed view, there is no ambush at all, and the bandits on the opposite side are also ragged and unarmed, and the only weapon is a broken bamboo pole; On the other hand, on his own side, there are not only 200 serious ashigaru who are crushed by equipment, but also more than a dozen genuine samurai. It's really a flying dragon riding face, and I don't know how to lose at all.

Since the situation was very good, Saito Toshitsuna put his mind at ease, gave birth to the intention of taking the school examination to cultivate the juniors, waved his hand to beckon the young people of the accompanying families in front of him, pointed to the Sichuan in the distance and asked:

"If you are a general, what should you do?"

When the juniors next to him saw the opportunity to perform, they all showed off. There is the arrogant one, who only says that he can kill the gang of thieves with one knife and one person; There are those who are cautious, but they say that they should be careful to advance step by step in the circle under the knot; There are those who are stunned, and they say that they want the whole army to rush forward with a bang.

Saito Toshizuna was not annoyed when he saw everyone arguing, and after patiently listening to the last person's speech, he stroked his beard and smiled, and said in a harmonious voice:

"You are worthy of being a talent of the moment, and each has his own ingenuity. But you may not have heard what the Holy Sun Tzu of the Ming Dynasty said, 'All those who fight, with the right combination, with the odd victory.' It means that in ordinary battles, we can always fight with regular soldiers and win with surprise soldiers. Wait and see, this gang of bandits has neither an ambush nor reinforcements, and they are far inferior in numbers and equipment to us. Therefore, as long as we press the past with dignity and integrity, we will respond to the 'right combination', and when the thieves are in chaos, we will take an elite to attack the opposite side, and then we will respond to the 'victory with surprise'. ”

Hearing Saito Toshitsuna's introduction, a group of juniors couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly they were like a wave of sycophants.

Having heard enough of sycophancy, Saito Toshitsuna's face was grim and began to give orders:

"His Royal Highness Furutian, His Royal Highness Seoki, His Royal Highness Ishimaru, and you each brought their own team Ashigaru out together. His Royal Highness Furuta as the vanguard, His Royal Highness Shiki, and His Highness Ishimaru divided the left and right, and each advanced at a distance of fifty zhang and arranged in a cone-shaped battle formation. Wait within 100 steps of receiving the enemy, and then converge and assemble to form a crane wing array to meet the enemy. ”

"I will bring my own headquarters Ashigaru and all the cavalry to roam in the rear, and when the time is ripe, I will surprise the enemy and make a contribution!"

"Okay, Your Highnesses quickly go out of battle, and the martial arts are prosperous!"

"Hey, hey!"

At this moment, Jingzhen also took the leaders of Mibuchi Tengyuan and Kawanami, dressed in blades of grass to watch the battle on a small slope behind the battle, as for Nagasaka Nobumasa, a martial idiot, he wrapped his armor in tattered clothes, abandoned his spear, and charged forward together in the bamboo spear team.

100 steps, 50 steps, 10 steps, 5 steps, and then, until the two lines of the black tide are smashed head-on. The rumbling sound, the continuous roar of the tide, came from the gun-to-gun ramming, from the cries of life and death. In an instant, the blood-stained spearhead, the hideous face of the enemy, and the breath before death suddenly intertwined and magnified in this plain!

Under the gaze of the shadow of death, Kawa and the others could only rely on their usual training, mechanically shouting trumpets to slap, stab, and collect their guns, and then slap, stab, and collect their guns again...... The people on the opposite side shouted frantically, the guns were stabbed, and the people in the second row crashed into them. Then came the third row, where everyone pushed forward with all their might!

The front line of the battle spread forward like a tide of rage, expanding the area in this twilight field. However, like a piece of music that breaks at the highest note, or like a tidal wave that shatters after hitting a, the intensity of war can drop at its climax. The enemy shadow in front of them gradually thinned out, and the resistance from the end of the gun became smaller and smaller, and in front of the small but still tight gun formation, some people began to kneel down and beg for mercy, and some were still hesitating before being stabbed by a shot.

In less than half an hour after the start of the battle, the team of 150 people of Furuta, Seoki, and Ishimaru had completely collapsed, and the defeated troops were like a tidal wave rolling towards Saito Toshizuna's rear army!

Saito Toshitsuna watched all this dumbfounded, and the heads of seven or eight samurai of Furuta, Seki, and Ishimaru were also looking at him dumbfounded. He gritted his teeth, kicked over the stool, and let out a cry of "ah-" with his hands on the ground, kicked over the small stool, and let out a cry of "ah-" with his own intact troops.

While the horse's hooves were galloping, Saito Toshitsuna's heart was not only panicked and incredulous, but there was already a faint chill in his heart.

One hundred and fifty against sixty or seventy, more than double the advantage, how could it have been defeated so quickly? He couldn't figure it out. Although Ashigaru is weak, it is relative to cavalry or samurai, but it is in front, Ashigaru is against the mountain bandits, but at this time, his own large army, like snow meets spring and melts instantly. Even in front of him, he could hardly admit that it was true.

"Hell, what kind of bandits are these!"