Chapter 1017: Before the Decisive Battle (4)
Hearing the lord's question, Kosefuan hurriedly said: "Back to the lord, the subordinates have been recorded and counted, except for the other appointments of the Changzong family, each family has sent a total of 70,000 troops, and I also ask the lord to decide." ”
After hearing this number, the clan nodded with satisfaction, in addition to the 70,000 troops, the remaining army strength that he could dispatch would reach six in addition to the army strength in the defensive territory. Seventy thousand, a total of 140,000, is enough.
Although he knew that Kinoshita Hideyoshi's army must be more than his own, but what can this be, his family has a weapon like the collapse of the country, and the ten gates of the country will collapse in a row when the time comes...
Thinking of this, I only heard the clan say: "Kagawa Tadaji, if the family sends an army of 130,000 to fight a decisive battle with the Kinoshita family, how long can the grain and grass last." ”
Kagawa Tadaji, the military commissioner in charge of grain and grass dispatch, replied directly without thinking about it after listening to this: "Back to the lord, if there is a decisive battle with the Kinoshita family, with the existing grain reserves of the family, it is enough to hold out until the autumn harvest, and please ask the lord to decide." ”
"Got it." After nodding, he only heard the clan ask again: "Hasegawa Shuichi, I need you to immediately form a team of 200,000 people to transport grain and grass to Inabayama Castle, can you do it?" ”
Hasegawa Shuichi is the Takayama family's law and order, and the transfer of the people is under his jurisdiction, and for this task of the main bus generation, it is a trivial matter for him, and now the family has long since stopped using peasants to fight, so the strong men do not need to fight all, after capturing the Kanto region, the lord only expanded the army by 20,000, so there is no difficulty in gathering 200,000 strong men to be responsible for transporting grain and grass.
"Please rest assured, within a month, within 20 days, the subordinates will definitely complete this matter."
"Okay, in that case, do you have anything else to say?"
Now that there is no problem with the military situation and the grain and grass, what else can the retainers do, seeing that no one spoke, only listened to the momentum of the clan, and stood up and said: "Since there is no more problem, I have decided to have a decisive battle with the Kinoshita family in two months, and if there is no major matter, you can return to the territory to prepare, and after that, please lead the army directly to Inabashan." ”
"It's the lord, and we will live up to the lord's trust."
"Kosefuan, you immediately write a war letter, and after you finish bringing it, hand it over to the Nine Demons Yoshitaka, and send it to Himeji Castle!"
"My lord, although the time for the decisive battle has been set, I don't know where it is... After hearing this, Kose Fuan did not respond directly, but asked.
"Where? Since the time is decided by the family, it is up to Kinoshita Hideyoshi to decide the location. "For the time of the decisive battle, the location is the most important, the clan sect will leave the location of the decisive battle to the other party to decide, which is equivalent to losing the geographical advantage, but at this moment he is not worried, he is very clear about the situation of the Kinoshita Army, even if there is a geographical advantage, what can it be, it is not worth mentioning in the face of absolute strength, he has been cautious for twenty years, and it is time to be arrogant.
"It's the lord, please rest assured, the subordinates will definitely write a letter of battle." After the lord made a decision, Kose Fuan had no problems, and at this moment he was very excited in his heart, although he could not participate in such a big battle, but with only this war letter, he could make himself famous for eternity.
The clan didn't pay attention to him, but said to the head of the clan of Chomune, "In this battle, everything between the Chomune and Kumano Naval Army was carried out according to the plan set before, but now that the Maori Naval Army and the Shimazu Naval Army have been destroyed, Kinoshita Hideyoshi will definitely stay in Himeji Castle to guard heavy troops, so if you can't do anything, you can decide where to attack for yourself, and you don't have to report it in wartime." ”
"It's the lord, and the subordinates will live up to the lord's trust."
After the head of Changzong and my department answered, he only heard the nine ghosts Yoshitaka speak: "My lord, my subordinates have something to ask for, and I also ask my lord to transfer the five gates of the kingdom of Wise Lord to the Kumano water army, as long as there is a collapse of the five gates, the subordinates promise to capture Himeji Castle together with the lord of the Changzong and my department, if they can't be willing to be punished." "Although it has been half a month since the end of the last naval battle, and on the way to Odawara Castle, although passing by Owari, the nine ghosts Yoshitaka is not ready to return the country collapse to Akechi Mitsuhide, but has been loaded on the ship, before he came, he had already made up his mind to leave the five gates of the country collapse no matter what, this battle is about the future, and once he can have the five gates of the country collapse, it is not easy to capture Himeji Castle, Himeji is not far from the sea, although it is not possible to reach the sea again, But he can't go far ashore, there are Changzong and my army guarding around, and when the time comes, he only needs to line up the five gates of the country, and then bombard his mother, he doesn't believe how long the Kinoshita defenders can hold out under such an attack, as long as they can capture the enemy's own city, this credit is similar to winning the enemy's general. Even if it's not the first merit, it's definitely in the top three, so even if you don't have a face, you have to collapse the country.
Before the clan sect could speak, he only heard Wise Mitsuhide say angrily: "Lord Nine Ghosts, what do you mean by this, I am kind enough to borrow your country to collapse the enemy, but you want to take this thing away, but you still put me Wise Mitsuhide in your eyes?" "I have to say that Akechi Mitsuhide, as an extremely well-cultivated samurai, is so literary even when he is angry, if it were someone else, I am afraid that he would have scolded him in disregard of his identity.
And obviously the scoundrel is not afraid of people with self-cultivation, so the Nine Ghosts Jialong didn't take him seriously at all, and said directly: "Wise Guangxiu, this country collapse belongs to the lord, and it is not your wise family, and the lord hasn't said anything to you." ”
"You..." The word bastard, Akechi Mitsuhide really can't say it, so there is nothing to say at this moment for him to vent his anger.
"Okay, Nine Ghost Jialong, I order you to return the collapse of the country to Wise Mitsuhide, there must be no mistake."
When the clan sect finished speaking, if he changed to other retainers, even if he was unwilling, he had to accept it, but the nine ghosts Jialong was not moved and afraid, but wanted to work hard, but he still said: "Lord, the collapse of the country can play a greater role in the hands of the navy... ”
For the use of the national collapse to attack the Kinoshita family's main city, how could the clan not have imagined, but the main role of the weapon is to deter, and cause panic in the Kinoshita family's army, but as far as he knows, although the Kinoshita family did not have a national collapse, but with the support of the merchants of Kai Town and Himeji Town, the iron cannon has been improved, and a large cylinder has been successfully developed, although this weapon is still an iron cannon, but the caliber has reached ten centimeters, and it requires three people to work together to use.