Chapter 121: Ruojiang City is stubbornly defended
Faced with such a situation, after consulting with Shigeharu Takenaka, the Imate Tomoshi made a request to send hostages, reduce the table, keep sixty percent of the land, and transfer it to another country.
You must know that the original regulations of the Kuroda family were to be able to keep eighty percent of the land certificate and transfer it to other countries, which means that the requirements set by the Imate Tomoshi this time were very strict, and they were also something that the Kuroda family had not had before.
However, even so, most of the wealthy families and people still chose to accept the Kuroda family's conditions, you must know that there are 148,000 stone of land in Hequan Country, and just this time, the Kuroda family got 50,000 stone of land for nothing.
When the Imate Tomoshi entered Kawachi Province from the Black Earth Street, Matsunaga Hideya quickly led the army, left Yamashiro Province, and directly gave Yamashiro Province to Yushiba Hideyoshi, and entered Kawachi Province from Matsui Street. After learning that the Kuroda family had entered the country of Kawachi, after thinking for a long time, Matsunaga Shu decided to lead the army to abandon the country of Kawachi directly, and returned to the country of Yamato through Kishinotsu, after all, the country of Yamato was his old nest.
However, even if Matsunaga Xiu did not leave too many people in Hanoi, it did not mean that he did not have any arrangements, at least among the 15,000 men and horses under his command, 3,000 people and horses had been divided.
These people and horses are all local wealthy clans and national forces in Hanoi, regardless of whether their main family will take these people to resist the Kuroda family in the future, or submit to the Kuroda family. At least among these people, as long as one of them is willing to resist the attack of the Kuroda family, they can at least delay the Kuroda family for a certain amount of time, which is definitely a good thing for Matsunaga Shu.
In the end, it turned out that Matsunaga was right, although only half of the 3,000 people were willing to resist the invasion of the Kuroda family, that was about 1,500 people who resisted the Kuroda family's forces.
You must know that these 3,000 people are not all the soldiers and horses of Hanoi, Hanoi is not like Haquan State, it is a relatively small order country, the stone height of Hequan Country is 148,000 stones, and the total number of soldiers who can be mobilized is about 4 or 5,000 people.
This is not the case in Hanoi, where the number of stone heights in the country is 100,000 more than that of Haquan Kingdom, and the number of stones in the country of 100,000 stones also means that there are 3,000 more soldiers who can earn money.
And just judging from the table height of more than 200,000 stones, the entire country of Hanoi can definitely recruit an army of more than 7,000 people, and this is only the table height. In fact, some small wealthy families, the Chinese people will definitely cultivate some land privately, and will also hide some population. If all these factors are taken into account, it is likely that Hanoi alone will be able to recruit more than 8 or 9,000 soldiers.
We do see that the Kuroda family now has more than 15,000 people, and they are advancing smoothly under the leadership of the Imate Tomoclan. But in the country of Wa, the concept of the countryside is very strong, and many places are extremely xenophobic, Hanoi is just such a place, even if the world's famous general Ite Tomoshi personally led, in the end the Kuroda family also encountered great obstacles.
Especially in the country of Hanoi, because of the influence of the entire terrain being mountainous and broken, there are many large and small forces, and even a small piece of land will have the existence of a lord. In the entire country of Hanoi, there are dozens of large and small lords combined. In the end, the Kuroda family could only push over one by one, whether these people chose to submit, or they wanted to fight with the Kuroda family, which greatly slowed down the Kuroda family's advance.
And the one who had the greatest impact on the march of the entire Kuroda family was the Wakae trio under Matsunaga Hide. If you've ever paid attention to this article, you've probably seen these three people. When Matsunaga Hide-and Miyoshi attacked Kyoto, the task of the three of them was to take more than 500 men and horses under their command to capture Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the last general in history.
Although the three of them were not able to catch Ashikaga Yoshiaki at that time, because of their capture, Ashikaga Yoshiaki himself died at that time, and climbed along the rope to a well that had been abandoned for a long time, but the rope was broken by itself, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki finally starved to death in the well without getting out.
Although it was not possible to capture Ashikaga Yoshiaki alive at that time, it is true that Ashikaga Yoshiaki has not appeared since then, and this great credit has also been laughed at by the three of them, no matter how it is also a representative of the general's family, the final reward is indeed a lot, the three of them have been more or less rewarded with land, and the three brothers who were only able to make up five hundred people back then can now gather more than a thousand troops.
The three of them did not show any fear in the face of the Kuroda family's attack, but chose to fight the Kuroda family head-on like a samurai. The three of them concentrated all their armies in Wakae Castle.
Ruojiang Fortress is a small city, although it may not be as large as Hotan Castle on the shore, but at least in Hanoi, it is a small fortified city, and it is also the strongest place in the hands of three people.
The 1,000-strong army under the command of Ruojiang and the three of them was a regular army, even if it was mixed with some peasant soldiers. Its combat effectiveness is definitely not comparable to the miscellaneous army under the command of Matsuura Hizen Matsumi of Hequan Country. Therefore, in terms of the quality of the defenders, there is also a certain advantage.
And most importantly, when attacking Kishiwada Castle at that time, the Kuroda family's Ming State Navy provided strong artillery support, and directly blasted a huge gap in the walls of Ninomaru and Honmaru in Kishiwada Castle, which was the reason why the Kuroda family was able to quickly capture Kishiwada Castle.
And Hanoi is inland, even if the Kuroda family naval army is against the sky, it can't help at all, all the strategies can only be completed by the two of Ite, Yushi and Takenaka Shigeji, and in the face of the very fierce resistance of Wakae City, the two of them have no particularly good way for a while.
If there are only Honmaru and Ninomaru in Ejo, the area that needs to be defended is not large, and the garrison army of 1,000 people can not only prove the defense on the city wall, but even have a lot of manpower that can be used for rotation. It already occupies a favorable position, and it can live without fatigue on human horses, which is definitely very conducive to defense.
The Kuroda family spent a full eight days, and through a frontal attack, they were not able to conquer Ruojiang City, which gave the wealthy clans and people of other Hanoi countries the confidence to resist the Kuroda family, and it turned out that the Kuroda family was not invincible! If Wakae Castle can resist the Kuroda family's army, why don't you try it! After all, the submission conditions of the Kuroda family are indeed a little harsh.