Chapter Twenty-Three: The Battle of Oguchi Castle (Part II)
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Seeing that the situation is not good, the gap in the city has been opened, and there will be a tendency to expand at any time, the first fierce general of the Kuroda Army, Imate Tomoshi, immediately came to the aid with more than a dozen ashigaru, and finally stabilized the gap in this section of the city wall, but the biggest threat, Shibahara Yajuro is still on the city wall, waiting for backup safely, and Imate Tomoshi immediately said to the general of the Miki family: "This enemy general will be handed over to me, and you can deal with which ordinary ashigaru and peasant soldiers." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"What a big breath! Grandfather Shibahara Yajuro, don't kill the nameless ghost, the Kuroda family's military commander quickly reported his name. Yajuro Shibahara said with a scythe in his hand and pointing at Ide Yuji.
"Kuroda, Imate Tomoshi Ginseng, I don't like people pointing at me, so you'd better not die too quickly and live up to my expectations!" After Ide Tomoshi finished speaking, he went up with a gun, and a shot was pointed directly at Shibahara Yajuro in the abdomen, and the opponent blocked it with a scythe, ready to withdraw the attack, but it turned out that Imate Tomo's power was extremely great, and if he pulled back the scythe, he would immediately be stabbed through by the opponent's spear.
Shibahara Yajuro immediately moved half a step to the left, and then quickly retracted the scythe, his movements Ite, Tomoshi had already seen it, and when he made the action of retracting the sickle, he retracted his strength, and the spear gently went up to meet it, and when Shibahara Yajuro's sickle slashed obliquely, it was easy to hold.
Two people you come and go, fought for more than ten rounds, no one has an advantage, in fact, among the two people, the martial arts of the Ide Yushi clan are slightly better, but there are two soldiers fighting around, so there are not many positions for the two to perform, the space is too small to make a move, it becomes a little difficult, both of them can not play their full strength, and finally it becomes you attack a move, I block, I attack again, you fight back. The two people's initial plan was to kill each other quickly, and then take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, or defend the city wall, but slowly the two did become a tacit understanding and turned into a performance.
But no matter what, at least Imate Tomo's goal was achieved, and after he entangled Shibahara Yajuro, he faced the outnumbered defenders of the castle, and the soldiers of Akamatsu Masahidekata who rushed to the city wall were quickly killed.
Seeing that he was the only one left on the city wall, Shibahara Yajuro knew that he had nothing to do, and seeing that the situation was not good, he quickly made a false move to force back the Itetomo clan, "You are very powerful, at least my rare opponent, next time we will fight." He jumped from the top of the city, saw where he had landed, and just stepped on the halfway point of a ladder, and did not stop, but with the help of his strength, he jumped and rolled, and ran desperately backwards with his sickle.
With the retreat of Shibahara Yajuro, the Takino Akamatsu soldiers on the entire city wall were gradually suppressed, and this wave of attacks failed again.
Just half an hour before Masahide's army launched an attack on Koguchi Castle, Takino Castle sent a grain transport team composed of ten samurai, fifty temporarily conscripted peasants, and more than 100 ordinary people to escort 200 stone of grain and grass to Koguchi Castle.
Such a guardian force can actually be said to be very weak, the real combat effectiveness is those ten samurai, and these peasant soldiers recruited are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and when they really encounter a battle, they will not work at all. It's not that Takino Castle doesn't want to send more people, but there are only more than 100 people in the city now, plus Ashigaru, if you send more people out, any more daring wealthy family may capture Akamatsu Masahide's residence at any time, and then it will really be a big game.
Just as they had reached the thirty miles outside the city of Takino, they had already walked halfway through a path lined with trees on both sides, and just as the grain team had just entered the road, a large tree behind the convoy fell in the middle of the road.
"What's going on?" A samurai drew his katana, "It's just that a tree has fallen, don't panic." ā
Just as he finished speaking, dozens of black shadows sprang out of the woods on both sides, and this samurai bore the brunt of the attack, becoming the target of the attack, and the two ninja darts accurately hit the samurai's throat and eyebrows, taking his life. The other black shadows were first aimed at the nine samurai, and in just a few breaths, the ten samurai died cleanly.
The sneak attacker who took the lead walked out, he was the head of the Kuroda family's ninja army, Hattori Baochang, and said in the face of the remaining peasant soldiers and people: "We are the ninjas of the Kuroda family, you are just ordinary people, our Kuroda family will not be embarrassed for you, you can go, but if anyone resists, it will not matter if you kill." ā
These peasant soldiers and civilians are indeed ordinary people, and they have no idea of resisting at all, and when they hear the enemy say that they can spare their lives, they are too late to be happy, so they immediately drop their weapons, grain and grass, turn around and run.
"Let's go, get this grain back."
While the Akamatsu Masahide army was still resting, a fast horse galloped into the camp.
"Lord, our grain delivery team was attacked by the ninjas of the Kuroda family, and all the food was robbed, how should we be good?" Kuwabara Saemon did not dare to tell the news to others, so he could only enter the military tent immediately and tell the news to Akamatsu Masahide.
When Akamatsu Masahide heard the news this time, he finally didn't get angry, but just sat on the marching horse and sighed, "Saemon, order the whole army, retreat." The hateful Kuroda family, and the Miki family, you wait for me. ā
After that, the Akamatsu Masahide army began to retreat, an hour later, Koguchi Castle was sent by the ninja, Masahide Army confirmed the news of the withdrawal, the entire Koguchi Castle boiled, whether it was the Kuroda family, or the Miki family, for so many years in the face of Akamatsu Masahide, they were all pressed and beaten, and they had never won so easily, relieved, and they made such a big profit, basically obtained about one-seventh of the land of Akamatsu Masahide, as for the actual situation, it still needs to be checked later, to know.
The next day, the Kuroda family and the Miki family held a grand celebration banquet to celebrate the victory of the joint battle and the great gains of the two families. After the Miki family's reinforcements retreated to their own castle territory, the Kuroda family left Musato Kobei as the castle representative of Oguchi Castle, and left behind the necessary defenders, as well as all the ninja troops, and more than 400 people returned to occupy the castles they had abandoned before, and took a small part of the eastern and southeastern parts of Iho-gun for themselves. At the same time, the Kuroda family also sent someone to inform the Kushihashi family of the news of their victory, and at the same time, when the Kushihashi family passed by Himeji Castle, they rewarded the Kushibashi family's army.
The retainers of the Kuroda family began to publicize the tax policy of the five princes and five citizens of the family to various villages in the newly occupied land, and this tax immediately won the support of the common people, and some of the people also reported some evil local samurai of the Akamatsu Masahide family by the way, and eradicated these lurking time bombs.
The second is to arrange spring ploughing, in fact, it is still the beginning of March, and it is still in time to do the spring ploughing work immediately, and the Kuroda family sent some experienced farmers in the previous territory, under the leadership of the monks and the public council, to guide the local farmers in the new territory to cultivate, and further preach the tax policy of the Kuroda family, which further made the Kuroda family get the support of the people.
The third is the land inspection work, under the personal supervision of Kuroda Zhitaka, President Konishi also took a group of ministers to start a busy land inspection work, they spent five days running all over the new territory, but also for the family to arrange economic activities and carry out post-war rewards to make a basis.
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