The encounter with the enemy in Yamabuki Castle was unexpected for both Chen Bazhi and the Mori clan.

Chen Bazhi didn't expect the reinforcements from the Maori clan to come so quickly, and the Maori clan didn't expect the Ming army's offensive to come so quickly.

"The thieves are prepared, and the family has tried their best to recruit troops to rush to the aid before the fall of Yamabuki Castle, and this battle must be won."

In the southwest of Yamabuki Castle, in the ashigaru array that spreads all over the mountains, it is the three men of the Mori Motoshi who hurriedly led the army from An Yi Province to help, and it is also the famous wise general Kobayakawa Takakei in the western country, as one of the 'Mori two rivers' decentralization, he has always been in charge of the diplomatic and government affairs of the Mori clan, but at this time the Ming army came to attack and he had to lead his troops to the battle.

"Our advantages have been undoubtedly revealed at this time, and the thieves have not expected our army to mobilize quickly, and the paper shell will rush to the battle." Kobayakawa Takakei sat on his waist and said to the Aki people Amano and the military generals of the Routo clan who went out with the army: "The martial arts of the Maori clan will last forever!" ”

The so-called 'beard thief' is because the Ming people have the habit of growing beards, and the opposite of this word is 'bald thief', because the Japanese people have the habit of baldness.

This kind of thing, when I am friendly, I call you the Son of Heaven in the Land of Sunrise, and you call me the Son of Heaven in the Land of Sunset, and suddenly there is a bright sword and gun to open the film, then you are a bald thief and I am a thief, and they are just verbal slander against each other.

In this land of Japan, except for Oda Nobunaga, no one can take out an army that can guarantee a year-round campaign, especially because Chen Bazhi chose the time of war, which is the time of spring ploughing, at this time all the daimyo in Japan will not go to war, but Chen Bazhi took the Nizi family into San'in.

Because of this time of war, the Maori clan has already scolded Niko Katsuhisa to the blood.

Not to mention that there is no separation of soldiers and peasants, usually the daimyo next door begins to gather troops, and the news comes back, the soldiers and horses have not yet been assembled, and this side has also begun to gather troops, and the two sides wait for ten days and half a month before they start fighting.

Where is it like Chen Bazhi's subordinates, all of them are professional samurai who manage the food of the sea boat, and they will fight when they are called, which has a great advantage over anyone on the three islands, which is also the reason why Chen Bazhi is rampant.

It's just that this time Kobayakawa Keitaka led the troops to appear in Yamabuki Castle, which surprised him.

Jinglong's self-proclaimed 'conscription speed' is not a boast, the Ming army has just entered the Iwami place and can project An Yiguo's troops here, which can be called god speed at this point, but this has little to do with conscription.

He had been mobilizing troops in Aki Province since a month ago, and he did not expect the Ming army to appear in Iwami, in fact, he saw the Ming army at almost the same time that the Ming army discovered him, and he consciously guessed that the purpose of the Ming army was to recapture Iwami Silver Mountain for the Niko family.

The original purpose of Keitaka's conscription was to prepare troops for Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was fighting in the east, to build a second line of defense for summer operations, and later to aid Tomita Tsukiyama Castle in Izumo Province.

At this moment, the narrow encounter with the Ming army in Iwami Province means that Tomita Tsukiyama Castle has already fallen, but in the end it still caught up with the main force of the Ming army.

Scout alarm, no one dared to take it easy, the two thousand households led by Wang Rulong to form a formation in the field where there was no danger to rely on, the artillery team and the troops of the thousand households were pushed back under the leadership of Chen Bazhi, and the city was no longer attacked, and they were staring at each other in a stalemate.

"I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the city, there are two or three thousand cavalry formations in the northeast of the city, and there are more than three thousand enemy troops in the southwest mountains.

Li Rubai let the wooden fence brought by the Japanese come in handy, and soon two high watchtowers were erected on the plains, and the high ground was controlled by the enemy army in two places, he was relatively lowland in the plains, and there were two small puddles and barren fields between the enemy army, and the dense trees and moss everywhere in the distance made people look green, except for the fields, which were not suitable for soldiers.

"Sprinkle the scouts back ten miles, and the artillery team retreats."

Chen Bazhi came down from the lookout and said to the herald: "Let General Wang lead the army to retreat here, the banner army will dig fortifications and build wooden fences, and the enemy army will be numerous, and we will defend this battle." ”

The enthusiastic Li Rubai was also recalled, and before his cavalry department could show its majesty, in a very short time, Chen Bazhi planned to be on guard, and asked Li Rusong: "How far can your cavalry run?" ”

Chen's banner army can cope with any situation, but the only shortcoming is that from top to bottom from beginning to end, they have no understanding of cavalry.

They didn't have cavalry, they hadn't used cavalry to fight, and there weren't even many who could ride horses, so Chen Bazhi didn't know about cavalry at all.

"If you are in Liaodi, it is nothing to travel eighty miles a day, but here." Li Rubai didn't know what Chen Bazhi wanted to do, so he said thoughtfully: "Four hundred cavalry for forty miles a day, no need for Japanese robbers, and you can still fight with four hundred infantry for thirty miles." ”

The mountainous terrain is difficult and the official road is narrow, Li Rubai didn't dare to go to the sea, so he saw Chen Bazhi squatting and spreading out the backpack map, nodded and said: "Thirty miles is enough, it is not easy to gather six or seven thousand soldiers and horses in Japan, Maoli has not fought a big war for many years, and this time there should be a grain road." ”

Chen Bazhi mentioned the grain road, and Li Rubai understood.

Cutting off people's grain roads is a common trick in the Central Plains War, Li Rubai nodded and said: "Cut off the grain road and hand it over, but the enemy army is guarding the mountain blowing city, and whether there is a grain road still needs to be said." ”

"The mountain blows up to a thousand troops, and it is best for them all to enter the city, this city can't support so many people, and the city can be emptied in a few days." Chen Bazhi drew a circle on the map and said with a smile: "It would be better if there was no grain road, Brother Li only needs to guard our grain road, and they will run out of food for a few days if they are hungry." ”

"But I guess there is a grain road, Iwami Province can't recruit so many soldiers, these people are far away, maybe they want to go to Izumo to fight Niko, but they happened to be intercepted by us, Izumo is an expedition for them, and they have to starve to death if they don't have a food road."

Chen Bazhi was thinking that it might be that the soldiers and horses retreated and were seen by the enemy on the mountain, so a scout came to report that there was an enemy attack on this side, he climbed up the watchtower and couldn't help laughing, and looked at Li Rubai downstairs and smiled: "The enemy army seems to have only sent a thousand people, maybe less, and there are too many flags to be difficult to estimate." ”

In fact, there are not many flags sent by the Maori clan to the first generals, and not everyone planted flags, and the samurai of each team planted flags behind them, and Ashigaru simply brushed a point under the ecliptic with paint on the belly to finish the matter, but the samurai carried a large flag and looked like there were many flags.

In fact, it really has to be counted, and the number of small flags under Chen Bazhi is about the same.

In the telescope, the hundreds of troops of the Maori clan stopped three miles away, and a yellow-armored warrior rode out of the battle alone, and planned a few laps in the field with a spike gun, and finally pointed to the watchtower where Chen Bazhi was with a gun.

Governor Qi whispered to Chen Bazhi: "This is a horse bargain, he wants to fight with the general." ”

"The book is blocked, right?"

Chen Bazhi smiled dumbly as if he cared for the mentally retarded, thinking that Deng Zilong would be able to jump three feet happily when he saw this scene in Japan, and he would use the long knife on the tip of his eyebrows.

However, General Xiao Chen adhered to his adoptive father's fine family style, opened his arms and pointed to the distance to look at the herald waiting downstairs and shouted: "Sue General Wang, six hundred mandarin duck formations are pressed, and all the seven or eight hundred people will be killed!" ”