Chapter 103 Knocking on the Turtle Shell
At this time, seeing that the time was ripe, under the order of Kotera Takahisa, not only the 4,000 people who had been deliberately hidden by the Kuroda family moved, but even the small number of men and horses that had just been left by the Chinese army were all thrown into the battlefield. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At the same time, under the order of Iga Kutaka, the middle soldiers of the Kuroda family can launch a comprehensive attack on the Bessho family, and from this time on, they don't have to hold back anymore, and they can finally let go of their hands and feet and attack the Bessho family army with all their might.
In other words, at this moment, the soldiers of the Bessho family suddenly felt that the soldiers of the Kuroda family on the opposite side seemed to have increased their attack power a lot. Seeing this, some of the soldiers of the other house still wanted to resist, and some of the smart ones had already begun to escape, and the formation of the other house was chaotic in an instant.
And at this time, for some reason, there was a shock in the rear, and the news came that the head of the family asked the whole army to retreat. This news was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and it was already a little unbearable for the soldiers of other houses, and because of this news, there was a large-scale rout immediately. The army had no fighting spirit and collapsed like a tide.
In fact, if you want to retreat now, it's not so easy, and the three sides of the Bessho family's army are all Kuroda family's army. In particular, the two thousand-strong teams on each side of the Kuroda family were still racing against the Bessho army, intending to block the return route of the Bessho army before them.
Just when the situation was so urgent for the other family, a Kuroda family army suddenly appeared in the rear, although there were not many people, but the soldiers of the other family couldn't manage so much, they were all completely thinking about escaping, and the army of the other family was completely chaotic.
The military strength of the Kuroda family that appeared behind was Inoue Nomasa's special team. Originally, according to the original plan, they were preparing to attack the main camp of the Bessho family. However, when he entered the main formation, he found that the people of the Besho family had already fled far away under the decisive order of Bessho Nagaji. When Inoue wanted to chase them again, it was too late.
After the Besho family divided into two groups of about 20 palace troops, Inoue knew that the big fish would not be caught. However, with these nearly fifty people, Inoue Yukimasa still laughed at it, killing more soldiers from other families now, and maybe he could face a little less in the future. And killing fifty people is not considered a merit.
After that, Inoue Masami could no longer catch the big fish, and he immediately ordered the army to turn around, preparing to attack the Bessho army, intending to form an encirclement with the Kuroda family's left, center, and right armies.
However, Inoue Yukimasa and the others solved the palace army of the other family, after all, it still took some time, so now when they want to close the siege, it is still a little late.
In addition, the number of other families is indeed a bit large, two thousand and hundreds of people, and if they want to force their way over, even if Inoue is powerful, it is difficult to stop them when there are only five hundred people.
In the end, although hundreds of soldiers from Besho still blocked the Besho family, most of the Besho family team still rushed out. These soldiers who were stopped, when they saw that the general trend had gone, simply knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. What awaits them will be two years of hard labor, and if they survive, there is hope that they will have a good life at the Kuroda family.
There are still some mid- and low-ranking samurai who are loyal to the Bessho family, and even if they are surrounded, they are still reluctant to join the Kuroda family at this time. For this stubborn remnant, the Kuroda family will never show mercy, and in the end, they all killed.
In less than half an hour, nearly 400 people were killed, hundreds surrendered, and less than 2,000 escaped.
As for the Kuroda family's side, at the beginning, when the Chinese army accompanied the Besho family to act, because everyone except Mibu Kyoshiro couldn't play their full strength, but there were some losses during that time, but compared to the Besho family, it was completely negligible.
Since the Kuroda family defeated the Bessho family in Yoneda, and the Kuroda family is not a good gentleman who is beaten and does not fight back. And the other family came to attack first, and the Kuroda family happened to have the righteous name of attacking the other family, so they would not let go of this opportunity.
After Koji Takahisa reorganized the army, he did not hesitate without any hesitation, and immediately led an army of 6,000 to follow the defeat of the Besho family all the way. From the territory of the Kuroda family's Yama Prefecture, they marched to the central and eastern part of Harima Province, which had never been touched before. At this time, there was still some land in Innan County, which was in the hands of the Bessho family, because in the end it failed to catch up with the Chinese army of the Bessho family, and these lands naturally became the first target of Koji Takahisa.
What makes Koji Takahisa very puzzled is that the small wealthy families and countrymen in the territory of the Bessho family seem to be very loyal to the Bessho family, and none of the more than 20 small cities along the road have surrendered, which makes Koji Takahisa very sad.
Even Inoue Nomasa, who is known as a wise general in the Kuroda family, has no way to deal with these turtle shells, and in the end he can only push them over one by one.
Don't be too surprised by the aforementioned figures. In the western part of a small Innan County, there are more than 20 cities on the part of the other family's side in just a small part of the western part of the land owned by the other family, which is indeed an exaggeration. But this is the turtle shell that Besho family relies on all year round.
If you know that there are nearly 200 such small castles around Miki Castle in the territory of Bessho's house, you may not be surprised.
I think that back then, even Nizi Haruhisa and Miyoshi Shixiu, who were too guarded by Yin and Yang, came with tens of thousands of troops, and there was no way to take the turtle shells of other houses, which was the effect of the tactics of other houses.
Although Koji Takahisa has laid down 20 castles, except for one small castle that was built relatively solidly and in a good location, he burned all the other small castles, which is considered a good achievement.
However, even with the suppression of the crossbow, the Kuroda family also lost nearly two hundred people, which was even greater than the previous loss of the 3,000 army of the Bessho family.
Moreover, Koji Takahisa has spent nine days in this place, whether it is a gain or a loss, it is really hard to say. After that, Kotera Takahisa led a large army into Lady Iwa's hometown, Kako County.
As soon as he entered Kako-gun, the lord of Kakogawa Castle, the lord of Kakogawa Castle, who had exchanged hundreds of stones of land from the Kuroda family for the Kuroda family, surrendered to the Kuroda family on his own initiative.
Originally, Kodera Takahisa thought that this would be a good start, but after the bad house Tadashiya, Kotera Takahisa began a long work of knocking turtle shells, silently uprooting one castle after another in Kagu County.