Chapter 161: Nagato Kunigawa

Hagiyama Castle, Abu County, Nagato Province

The Maori clan has been rooted here for more than 400 years, and although the current governor is a Mori Hideki, the power of the Maori clan is the same as that of the Tokugawa shogunate, and Terumoto, who lives in seclusion behind the scenes, is the voice of the Mori family.

Hagiyama Castle has been established for hundreds of years, strong and tall, when Oda Nobunaga pointed at the Choshu Domain, and the Mori family was in full swing, if it were not for the participation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Mori clan surrendered to the Oda family may not be established, and when Hideyoshi besieged Hagiyama Castle with an army of 30,000 for four months, Terumoto even waited for the main force of the Mori clan to return to help, forcing Hideyoshi to withdraw his troops.

"I didn't think the ancestor was still alive... It's ridiculous... Hahaha..."

Xiu looked at his father, and then looked sad: "Father, Lord Laifang's 170,000 former army vanguard has arrived in Iwami Country, and the 100,000 people of the Toyotomi Army behind him have also set up a position in front of Feng, father, how to make a decision in front of you?" ”

"Bunzen?"

Hui Yuan dragged a somewhat heavy body, his body has deteriorated in recent years, especially this year, he often feels that he has a sense of imminent limit.

"Ahem... With the wit of the Hideya, how could he possibly fight the shogunate army in Bunzen? ”

Terugen is Terumen, and at a glance he saw through that the Ukita Hideya would never allow the decisive battle between the two armies to be set up in the Bunzen Kingdom, so that according to the narrow borders of the Bunzen Kingdom, the decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of people may not really be carried out.

Xiu participated in the Battle of Munrok that year, and made great contributions in the Battle of Ulsan, defeating the Ming troops who came to attack the city several times.

"Father, could it be that the decisive battle place they set up in Fengqian is just a cover?"

'Knock knock...'

There was a gentle knock on the door, and then the door was opened, and Lao Zhong knelt outside the door: "My lord, there is news from Fengpu County, 50,000 people under the command of Sanada Yukimura, the former general of the Toyotomi Army, have entered Fengpu County and stopped at the Kamiya River. ”

The current strategy chosen by the Choshu clan is not to help both sides for the time being, and Mori Terumoto was forced to be the commander of the Western Army as the commander of the Western Army, and he didn't know that all this was the idea of Ishida Mitsunari, and the commander-in-chief of the Western Army was all in the hands of Ukita Hideya and Ishida Mitsunari, he was just a puppet.

But when Hideyoshi was reincarnated, he was not very good to the Mori clan, so Terumoto did not choose to join the shogunate army until now, but chose neutrality, and it is precisely because of this that all the forces in Nagato and Shufang are now concentrated in Hagiyama Castle, and the army here is 50,000 people, which can be described as a pillow to wait for.

In this way, the territory of the Choshu Domain is now an open space, and in addition to the scouts who are watching, the territory of these two countries is now free to come and go, and it is precisely because of this that the vanguard of Sanada Yukimura's 50,000 troops has entered the Kamiya River in Toyoga-gun without being stopped in the slightest.

Hui Yuan looked at the map beside him, and then let out a sigh of relief and said, "The Xiu family really didn't bury his name as a wise general... I think that when His Excellency Sekihaku conquered Kyushu, it was in this Kamiya River that he defeated the main force of the Ryuzoji Temple, thus laying the foundation for the key battle to enter Kyushu, and now the Toyotomi clan has chosen this place again, it seems that it is gambling..."

"What if we send troops when the shogunate army arrives?" Xiu asked with a frown.

Hui Yuan squinted his eyes and recuperated for a long time before he spoke: "As long as the old man is still alive, they will never dare to persecute my Choshu Domain, if so, then the shogunate has a fool and forced my Choshu Domain, and the shogunate will definitely fail." ”

"Father, the child still can't decide."

The wrinkles and age spots on Hui Yuan's face looked a little ruddy at the moment: "The Xiu family is telling the old man that the Kamiya River is the place of choice for my Changzhou Domain, and the order will be passed down, and all the armies will be ready to wait, just waiting for the old man's order." ”

"Yes..."

...

The only intersection of the official road in the Kamiya River Plain is in the shape of an eight, where Hideyoshi fought a big battle with the main force of Ryuzoji Temple, and finally Hideyoshi's Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa led a surprise attack from the mountains on both sides to break through the main camp of Ryuzoji Temple, and finally won a great victory.

Standing on the top of the hill on the south side, Sanada Yukimura seemed to have been involved in that battle back then.

"My lord..."Shimazu Tadao walked quickly to the top of the mountain, "The whole army has already camped in Taniguchi, and now scouts have been arranged to explore the situation in the mountains, and in addition, the troops of the important feudal clans from all parts of the Choshu domain have been withdrawn, and Toyoga-gun is now empty." ”

"The food can only last for fifteen days, and it is reported that the forward troops of Tokugawa Yoribo have just arrived in Iwami Province, and they are not fast, and it will take at least ten days to get here..."

Sanada Yukimura looked at the flag on the top of the mountain on the north side, and then said, "It seems that if you want to attract them, you have to lose a big game..."

Shimazu Tadaro thought that Sanada Yukimura was joking, but the terrain here was indeed seamless, and Hideyoshi could not move forward when the Ryuzoji army guarded the mountain pass of the Kamiya River, but Hideyoshi was defeated and led the entire Ryuzoji team to attack, thus allowing Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa's surprise attack force to take advantage of the loophole.

Now that time has passed, the offensive and defensive sides have changed directions, and Sanada Yukimura said that he would take the initiative to defeat him.

"My lord, even if the shogunate army is fooled here, there are many of them, and they can retreat after defeat, and there are many people behind them."

Sanada Yukimura is no longer hiding anything at this moment, after all, now that the Shimazu family has been on the chariot, it is impossible to think about it again, not to mention that this battle is not only a big victory, but more importantly, it is more important to drag the main force of the shogunate, and give Chen Caoxing, who is marching by sea, convenient and buy enough time.

"The frontal battlefield must be won by the lord himself, and the surprise attack troops in the north and south mountains are led by the old man and Miyoshi Masayasu respectively 5,000 people, as long as the old man cuts off their connection with the main formation, then they can rush towards the main formation of the shogunate army, and there is the cover of the Ming army in the rear, once the front army of the shogunate has a chaotic situation, this battle, our army has a sixty percent chance of winning."

"Only sixty percent?" Shimazu's eyelids trembled slightly.

Sanada Yukimura said coldly: "For the rest, if the old man fights for his life and breaks through to the front of Xiuzhong's main formation, then, in this battle, my Toyotomi family will win, and the help that should be there will follow,

Ay... What a beautiful country..."

...

"Hizen Kuni taught us..."

Before Toyotomi Hideyori led the remaining 50,000 troops to the Kamiya River, Chen Cao said this, and then said goodbye to Hideyori and left with his troops, and the two armies were temporarily separated.

Chen Cao then instructed Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to lead the third division to attack Hizen Province, and after taking Hizen Province, they rushed to the Kamiya River as soon as possible to support Hideyori's department, and then took the remaining two divisions to Fangjin to board the ship and go to Musashi Province to start his important plan to attack Edo.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty Longjiang ferry docked more than a dozen Japanese fleets, after a month of sea routes, finally arrived in the Ming Dynasty Nanjing City, and then there were officials of the Ministry of Rites to greet them, although it is not the date of tribute agreed by the imperial court, but this is also a 'vassal country', as the heavenly kingdom is naturally not able to lose face.

This envoy team bribed the officials of the Ministry of Rites as soon as possible in Nanjing, and then they got the Hoom to enter Beijing, and even the officials of the Ministry of Rites wondered if the Japanese people who came to pay tribute in the past were all showing off their might, where would they give these officials of the Ministry of Rites to get benefits, this time I don't know what happened.

The gold and silver vessels of the fleet went towards the Jingshi one by one with the help of the Cao boats, and the speed... Soon...

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In the middle of May of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the vanguard of the front army of the Tokugawa Shogunate Army, which had been oppressed with a powerful momentum, finally arrived thirty miles away from the Kamiya River in Toga-gun.

"The vanguard general is one of the twenty generals of Tokugawa, the son of the daimyo Itakura Katsushige, Itakura Shigemune, who has an army of 10,000 and is already thirty miles away, and will arrive soon."

Sanada Yukimura nodded slowly after receiving the news, and then looked towards the camp of Hideyori outside Taniguchi: "Quickly go and report to the lord, the enemy vanguard has arrived, so you must prepare early." ”

"Yes..."

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Itakura Shigemune didn't attach much importance to this battle, because they really had too many men, even if they didn't need to gather more than 500,000 troops, they only needed 170,000 people in front of them to beat those old men back then.

"My lord," Itakura Shigemune's confidant came on horseback, "the scouts have come to report that the Toyotomi army has gathered in the Kamiya River, and they want to fight our army here. ”

Although Itakura Shigemune is a little arrogant, he himself is not stupid, he is confident that he does not have the courage of Oda Nobunaga and the strategy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so he will not make the choice of resisting with his own 10,000 troops and 100,000 on the other side.

"Send someone to inform the Admiral immediately..."

"Yes..."

Seeing that it was not early, Itakura Shigemune immediately ordered the whole army to rest on the spot, and then set up camp to prepare dinner, his father was one of the best names in the Tokugawa lineage, and the family passed on the martial arts, at least not so mediocre that he didn't even lie scouts.

It is not too hot in May in the Wa country, but in Funga-gun, which has become an open space, it still gives people the feeling of wind leaking from all directions.

The main force of the 160,000 former army of Tokugawa Yoribo has just arrived in Zhoufang, and it will not be until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, so what Itakura Shigemune has to do is to serve as a vanguard, and he must not make mistakes.

At night, Itakura Shigemune, who had just been lying down, felt a slight tremor in the earth, which indicated that a large group of cavalry was approaching rapidly, not to mention that the Wa Kingdom had always had few war horses, which could make people feel the sound of the earth, and the number of war horses on the other side would not be less than five hundred.

The anxious Itakura Shigemune was about to let people report the situation, when he saw the guards running into the big tent with a roll: "Lord, the big thing is not good, the enemy is attacking the camp." ”

Not to mention the fact that the generals of the Ming Dynasty should be cautious about the night attack, it will basically not appear in the Wa Kingdom, even if it is the battle of Sekigahara, it is also the two sides of the army marching in the dark and happened to meet and start a battle, but they also quickly separated soon after, and the eyesight at night is too poor, it is difficult to judge the relationship between the enemy and us.

"Quick, blow the trumpet, get ready to kill..."

Itakura Shigemune himself felt his voice tremble a little.