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So this army of silver guards gathered, and even armed the miners, expanding the army to more than 10,000 people, and the number of iron cannons reached more than 2,000, and decided to take revenge on Tokugawa Ieyasu in a desperate battle, and sent a war letter early, which gave Tokugawa Ieyasu a headache, he knew that this kind of soldier was the most difficult to deal with, because they didn't want to leave alive at all, and they had to defend Iwami Ginzan no matter how Tokugawa Ieyasu wouldn't get it.

Tokugawa Ieyasu urgently needs Iwami Ginzan's silver as military expenses and daily expenses, at this moment Iwami still has a lot of silver mines that have not been transported, that is Tokugawa Ieyasu's goal, but the existence of this army has become Tokugawa Ieyasu's biggest stumbling block, Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to let Honda Tadakatsu attack Iwami Ginzan with the most powerful Honda team, but he never thought that Honda Tadakatsu, who had never been defeated since the attack, and at most was a draw, actually lost for a while.

The Toyotomi army took advantage of its familiarity with the terrain and mountains to attract Honda's cavalry to the mountainous and rugged places, which caused Honda's cavalry to fall down one after another, advancing or retreating, and the ambushed iron artillery team was used as a live target, and suffered heavy losses, Honda Tadakatsu returned defeated, and after returning, he knelt in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu and asked for punishment, although Tokugawa Ieyasu was angry, but when employing people, he could not punish the general too much.

Honda Tadakatsu asked for battle again, this time there was a daimyo who led the army to go out together, but both of them were defeated by the Iwami defenders, and they broke more than 200 horses, and fled back in embarrassment, Tokugawa Ieyasu never expected that a small Iwami would be able to block his own progress.

In the face of Honda Tadakatsu and the daimyo's plea, Tokugawa Ieyasu still did not punish them, forgave them leniently, and received support and gratitude from the camp, but the problem was still not solved, which made Tokugawa Ieyasu very annoyed, he did not have much time, at least, could not delay Kuroda Rusui's overall strategy.

"There is no mistake in loyalty, there is no need to punish it, but we must get the silver mountain, is there any way you can capture the silver mountain as soon as possible?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu asked his retainers and daimyo for a strategy, but everyone was unfamiliar with the terrain and was at a loss, so he asked the locals, and the locals also said that there was no way, and they attacked the residence of the Mori family, but found that the building was empty, and no one could be found.

The tenacity of the Iwami region made Tokugawa Ieyasu feel troublesome, and at the same time, he realized that his reputation as a traitor was very bad, and it had brought a very strong negative effect, and everyone was ashamed of his association with the betrayer, and if he didn't grasp the scale well, it would be extremely easy to embark on the old path of Akechi Mitsuhide, and Maeda Toshiya would become the final victor, in order to suppress this negative impact as much as possible, it was necessary to attack Iwami and take the world as quickly as possible.

Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to use fraudulent means to pretend to withdraw his troops to attack other places, and no longer pay attention to the Iwami area, but secretly left an elite army to Commander Honda Tadakatsu, and decided to take advantage of this army to pursue Tokugawa Ieyasu to carry out a sneak attack and take the whole Iwami in one fell swoop.

This strategy is a bit rough, but the defenders in the Iwami area are not smart people, but they are brave and good at fighting, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is obviously not as good as playing with his heart, therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu's strategy has a little effect, and about 6,000 defenders chased after Tokugawa Ieyasu, and were ambushed by the ambush arranged by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and more than 6,000 defenders were beaten and only more than 3,000 people ran back in embarrassment.

When they ran back in embarrassment, they found that the nest was also attacked by the Tokugawa army, the twice-defeated general Honda Tadakatsu rushed the hardest and beat the fiercest, the shame of the two defeats made him almost crazy, the third chance could not be let go of no matter what, the Iwami defenders who lacked troops were defeated and retreated, and many hills and important positions were taken away, fortunately, the defenders who fled back from defeat just collided, and the two armies merged together to burst out the will to survive, and actually blocked the offensive of the Tokugawa army.

At this time, heavy rain fell from the sky, and the heavy rain hindered the offensive of the Tokugawa army, especially the cavalry and iron artillery team could not be used, a large number of infantry soldiers slipped and fell on the muddy ground, and the war could not continue, Tokugawa Ieyasu was angry and ordered the withdrawal of the army, giving up this excellent opportunity.

No matter how provocative the Tokugawa army was, they did not fight, or they learned to defend with long-range weapons, so that Tokugawa Ieyasu's teeth itched but there was no way to do it - they came too quickly, and they did not bring the bulky artillery, and they advanced directly with the light army, but when they encountered the need to use artillery, the artillery was not around.

On the fifth day of the Iwami battle, the situation changed, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Kuroda Rusui, who had divided his troops with Tokugawa Ieyasu, completed the task and led the army to join Tokugawa Ieyasu, and by the way, Tokugawa Ieyasu brought Tokugawa Ieyasu the five artillery pieces he had been thinking about day and night, and Tokugawa Ieyasu got the artillery, and was overjoyed and quickly arranged an attack.

However, there was also good news on the Toyotomi side, Toyotomi Hideji's retainer military commander Maeno Nagayasu rushed to Bigo Province with more than 10,000 elite soldiers day and night, and it only took a day at most for the vanguard to enter the Iwami area to support the Iwami defenders.

This made Tokugawa Ieyasu anxious, so he used artillery to bombard the positions of the Iwami defenders at all costs, and the Iwami defenders could not resist the power of the artillery and had to retreat step by step.

However, the power of the five guns was limited, and the rate of fire and mobility were also very worrying, and it took almost half a day to capture a defensive line, which was very time-consuming, which made Tokugawa Ieyasu very passive.

Kuroda Rusui thought again and again, and in the face of such a situation, he could only apply to bring a force to contain Maeno Nagayasu and buy time for Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt that he had lost face, so he issued a death order to destroy these hateful defenders in one day no matter what.

The Tokugawa army rose up bravely and charged the defenders' positions, and the defenders also realized that this was the last moment, so they used all their remaining strength to fight against the Tokugawa army, and the Tokugawa army repeatedly tug-of-war, close combat, close combat, killing corpses into mountains and rivers of blood, the battle lasted for two hours, and then the defenders' defense line broke through, and the Tokugawa army basically annihilated the Iwami defenders by virtue of the superiority in strength, and the Iwami defenders participated in more than 600 people gathered together to make the final resistance.

At the critical moment, a very special army appeared on the battlefield of the two armies.

At the beginning of the arrival of this army, they entered the battlefield chaotically, attacking the Toyotomi army and the Tokugawa army that were fighting bloodily on the battlefield with very strange models of weapons, and the last defenders of the Toyotomi army were bombarded regardless of the enemy and me, and the seven or eight hundred people of the Tokugawa army also died in this shelling, and the remaining army was defeated and fled, and this very special army became a big advantage.