Chapter 39: Dominating Kurashiki (3)
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(Like this book, please collect biquge.info) The west bank of the Takaliang River and the large fertile fields on both sides of the Oda River have fallen into the bag of the Date family in a short period of time, and the Akashi Soldier Shosuke of the original Shinbe Town Yube Yamashiro wanted to resist to the end as the elder of Ishikawa Hisachi's family, and saw that Ishikawa Hisachi was extremely weak and disappointed, and after thinking about it, he decided to surrender Kaejo, and the Date family obtained the bridgehead overlooking the Takahara River, Yube Yamashiro Bubble - book_) The loss of Yube Yamashiro suddenly increased the pressure of Ishikawa Hisachi several times, In less than 20 days, Yuyama Castle Ishikawa Hisachi was in a panic, and finally couldn't bear to ask Matsuda Motomori to send troops to help again, it was to send envoys to Takamatsu Castle again and again to tell the story of the death of the lips and the cold teeth Matsuda Motomori was trying his best to suppress the dissatisfaction at home, and he really didn't have the strength to send troops to rescue, and the last time he sent troops to nothing, he was more or less resentful, Matsuda Motomori found a few excuses to drag the past, Takamatsu Castle Ishikawa Hisataka pretended to be deaf and dumb, and pretended to be haunted by typhoid fever and had no time to send troops, The retainers of Takamatsu Castle, Ashigaru, frequently saw the strong Ishikawa Hisataka walking around the castle, and he was not at all as sick and weak as the legend said
The originally prosperous town inside and outside the castle suddenly became deserted, and the people with a provenance had already fled to other places, and the people without a provenance also ran into the mountains and forests with their sons and daughters, waiting for the two heroes to fight for a victory before returning home, and those who couldn't run were also hiding in the house and shivering, and the streets were full of overturned messy goods, a mess, of course, some worthless things, and those who exchanged some money had long been hidden, For fear that the ashigaru people will harm the people in the name of joint war, and it is also a kind of welfare in troubled times, and the peasants and soldiers often have to delay the cultivation of the family, and the samurai are only responsible for the rice and the samurai are only responsible for the fullness of the rice, and at most they get a little fancy for the war exploits, but where are there so many to get the war merits, and it takes a lot of life to win the delayed farming, and where to reimburse the delayed farming, and also to harm the enemy's people from the enemy's territory, snatch rations, and plunder women and children. Extremely vicious, for example, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, who are known as dragons and tigers, are happy to do this kind of thing, Takeda Shingen's favorite thing to do is to capture men and women and send them to Jinshan for mining, Uesugi Kenshin is to burn, kill and loot in the name of righteousness, and Kawanakajima has become a dragon and tiger's reputation and suffers the lives of the people
Matsuda Motomori returned to Kanegawa Castle after taking advantage of the turmoil at home to make a sum of money and food, and just lost the important arm of Matsuda Motomori, that Ishikawa Hisataka of Takamatsu Castle was sick and could not raise troops, but some rumors came out of Takamatsu Castle, and the rumors were not confirmed The news came to the ears of Ishikawa Hisachi, and the man of Chihime turned out to be Zhengheng, so that it can be explained with a qiē, why Ishikawa Hisashi fell into the well at this time, Ishikawa Hisashi was sad at this moment, and he was angry from his heart at this moment, and shouted:" Ishikawa Jiuxiao, I underestimated you, I will repay this hatred, this hatred, this hatred, I will repay him" He is considered to have hated Ishikawa Jiuxiao completely, in fact, in the final analysis, these are all the sins done by Zhengheng, Ishikawa Jiuzhi was originally angry, Zhengheng was just more than enough and not enough, and he wanted to be resentful Zhengheng and did not have the courage to let him face Zhengheng, so he had to send his resentment on Ishikawa Jiuxiao, he thought that he was not sure about dealing with Zhengheng, and he was still able to deal with Ishikawa Jiuxiao
Just when he was thinking about whether to blame Ishikawa Hisataka, the news of the surrender of the Akashi Shosuke of the Akashi Soldier Department of Yubu Yamajo came to the castle, in fact, as mentioned above, looking at Yukiyama Castle from Yube Yama Castle, you can see the banner of the castle, and vice versa, the defenders of Yukiyama Castle saw that Yube Yamajo had changed the flag, and immediately knew that it was not good, and hurriedly came to report it to Ishikawa Hisachi
This news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, so that Ishikawa Hisachi lost the strength to speak, and there was no idea of going to reprimand Ishikawa Hisataka, the bad news suddenly made him nervous and fell to the ground all of a sudden, almost vomiting blood, a mouthful of thick fish into the tip of his nose, snorting in one breath, swallowing, his face was unusually pale, and he heard that the Date family raised 2,500 troops to invade the banks of the Takaliang River and began to cut down trees, and there was great intention to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river to fight, and several medium-sized transport ships also appeared at the mouth of the Takaliang River, A discerning person can see at a glance that the pontoon bridge is the main attack, and the transport ship is a flank attack! Book*
Just when Ishikawa Hisachi was at a loss, the attendant officer with a faint look of excitement on his face stumbled in and reported, "Your Highness, Yakushiji Yashiro of Magaki Castle is here with hundreds of reinforcements."
Ishikawa Hisachi heard that Yashiji Yashiro was coming, and a rare smile appeared on his face, and he shouted loudly: "The fierce generals of the two counties of the lower road and the capital are finally here, well, bring him" Yakushiji Yashiro is the fierce general of the lower road and the two counties of the capital, and once left a word in history, and after more than ten years in history, it was Yakushiji Yashiro who stayed in the city of Mingzen Temple after more than ten years in history, when he resisted the tens of thousands of troops of the Ukita Naojia for several days with the strength of more than 150 people, and finally the people were trapped and the city was broken, which is enough to see the ability of Yakushiji Yashiro, Of course, it can also be seen from another side that the Ukita Naoya is quite good in terms of intrigue and intrigue, but in terms of frontal battles, it still can't be compared with Hiromori Moto, so the Ukita Naoya can only be a conspirator and cannot be called a wise general
The attendant had to take the order and go, and after a while, behind the attendant came a sword eyebrow bald head, wearing a big armor in his thirties of the prime, it was Yakushi Temple Yashiro Yakushi Temple Yashiro was wearing a black barrel of big armor, wearing a black cloak, majestic, looking at the physique and skin color exposed, you can know that he must be a dignified general, if it were not for the nervous general, how could the civil officials tan their skin to red copper, and their expressions were as stiff as rocks
Ishikawa Hisachi saw Yakushiji Yashiro coming, his face was quite haggard, his eyes were overjoyed, and he hurriedly greeted: "Thank you Yakushiji Yashiro for coming to help, thank you here" Yakushiji Yashiro is a maverick in the two counties, Ishikawa Hisachi has been unsuccessful in soliciting many times, but he has not annoyed the other party, and he will inevitably give a generous gift during the New Year's holidays
Yakushiji Yashichiro listened to Ishikawa Hisaro's words, but the expression on his face did not change at all, but he said softly: "This time I sent troops to repay Ishikawa Hisatoshi for his kindness over the years, and secondly, I want to see how the well-known Date Masato's strength is, don't let him underestimate the heroes of the world."
Ishikawa Hisachi heard Yakushiji Yashiro's words a little bit of a sigh of emotion, as if a flame was about to burn, but remembering Date Masahiro's battle example made him deflated all of a sudden, and the courage that he finally mustered up was discharged, and he couldn't be condensed again Even if Yakushiji Yashiji Yashiro was a fierce general, he couldn't prompt Ishikawa Hisachi to go out of the city to face the battle, and only a victory might make Ishikawa Kuchi see that victory might befall him, and muster up the courage to fight with the Date family
Yakushiji Yashiro raised his head and looked at Ishikawa Hisachi with burning eyes and said: "I want to borrow five hundred soldiers and horses from Ishikawa-sama to go out of the city to meet the Date army, so that they can know that our ability is not in vain, and I also ask Ishikawa-sama to complete it" It turned out that he came to Koyama Castle to borrow troops, and the peasants and soldiers under Mabi-jo Castle were still in spring ploughing and could not gather, Yakushiji Yashichiro fell in love with the soldiers and horses under the command of Ishikawa Hisachi, and the dead Taoist friend did not die poor Dao, and your spring ploughing delay was not my spring ploughing delay, so what did he do
Ishikawa Hisaro narrowed his eyes, glanced at Yakushiji Yashiro's resolute gaze, nodded and said, "Pioneer officer?" Okay, I'll lend you 500 soldiers and horses, just hoping that Yakushiji Yashiro can win the battle."
Yakushiji Yashiro replied, "Thank you, Lord Ishikawa," he said, bowing and leaving
At noon on May 3, 1552, Yakushiji Yashiro crossed the Takaliang River from the corner of Mt. Akiba, looking at the flowing Takaliang River, and he said to himself, "It seems that the wind is rising, and we should act too" A cold wind blew across his cheeks, and his eyes were staring at the field in front of him, and the Aradaira Yamajo Castle, which had just surrendered at the same time as the Yube Yamashiro, was gathering his troops and horses and moving in the direction of the Yube Yamashiro, but he didn't notice that a team of hundreds of people suddenly appeared on their flanks
As he spoke, Yakushiji Yashiro's mount rushed out first, followed by several other soldiers, who rushed straight down the slope with astonishing momentum and intensity
"Enemy attack", "enemy attack", "It's a cavalry samurai" The chaotic shouts woke up Ueda Shiken, the lord of Arabaira Mountain, who was daydreaming about how to curry favor with Masahiro and get promoted, he didn't expect Ishikawa Hisachi to take him with a knife In the roar of the horse's hooves, Yakushiji Yashiro rode a horse and galloped ahead, and hundreds of ashigaru followed behind him with a whistling
At this moment, Uedabe finally organized a slightly effective block, and the arrows flew sideways, one of which abruptly slashed through Yakushiji Yashiro's face armor, Yakushiji Yashiro felt a hot cheek The five or six hundred people led by Yakushiji Yashiji Yachiro had already made head-on contact with the three hundred people of Uedabe, because one side was rushing down the hillside, and the other side was an unprepared counterattack, and the number of people was overwhelming, and for a time Uedabe suffered heavy casualties
Where did Ueda Shiken think that he would encounter such an unfortunate thing, he didn't have the courage to continue to deal with Yakushiji Yashiro, and gathered a few henchmen who would not go to Yakushiji Yashiro Mountain, and directly took several henchmen to Yakushiji Yashiro Yashiro didn't catch up, and said with a slight smile: "I want to see how Date Masahiro cracks my attack, if you want to delay, then use the method of delay so that you can't delay, once you cross the river, you can attack halfway and kill you" said and giggled, The generals around him flattered one after another, and they felt like the god of war was in the world
Yakushiji Yashiro did not pursue, but only cleared the battlefield, and then returned across the Takaliang River and returned to the east bank before the other party rushed to the rescue
Since learning that the mountain castle was attacked, Zhengheng's mood has not been better, he did not expect that he has not suffered such heavy casualties so far, although he already knows from the mouth of the defeated army that the enemy does not belong to the direct jurisdiction of Ishikawa Hisachi, but he is also inextricably linked with him, Yakushiji Yashiro, a rather unfamiliar name, but in the mouths of his retainers know that this is a well-known general, so it can also explain why he was able to do such a thing, completely without Ishikawa Hisachi's approval, Yakushiji Yashiro and Ishikawa Hisachi have no subordinate relationship, the two of them are independent and free, but this time they suffered from the Dekuhei Mountain Castle Ueda Shiken, although they are not the descendants of the Date family, they are also considered to be retainers of the Jin family, and they were attacked just when they wanted to send troops to the alliance, so how did other Haoqiang who wanted to take refuge think of the Date family
The atmosphere of Sarukake Castle was depressing, Zhengheng's face was not good-looking, Ueda Shiken's crying seemed to be vivid, his eyes looked directly in the direction of Yukiyama Castle and muttered in a low voice: "Since you want to fight, which side is the right side to fight?" Yakushiji Yashiro's private actions also forced out a little anger of Zhengheng
Zheng Heng pointed in the direction of Yuyama Castle and said in a low voice: "Since you have won a victory, then let you gain enough self-confidence, okay, I want to see how long you can shrink?" Hmph, Yakushiji Yashiro, you're not a descendant of Hisachi Ishikawa, that's your weakness"
On the evening of May 4, Aradaira Mountain Castle was attacked again, and the defender Ueda Minoru and the reinforcement Atsutaro Kiyokawa could not defend the castle; At noon on May 5, the mountain castle of Yubu was attacked and could not be retreated; On the evening of May 6, the temple was attacked, and Ueno Masakatsu was slightly wounded and retreated for several days
Ishikawa Hisachi heard that Yakushiji Yashiro was victorious, not only did he not be happy but he was sad, everyone knew that Yakushiji Yashiro was not his retainer, and now Yakushiji Yashiro has won many battles and his reputation is high, and Ishikawa Hisachi's reputation is gradually falling behind, and now there are rumors that Yakushiji Yashiro will replace Ishikawa Hisachi as the main general, which makes Ishikawa Hisachi deeply afraid, as if Yakushiji Yashiro wants to attack him and replace him, and under such suspicion, the five hundred ashigaru that was originally lent to Yakushiji Yashiro are also called back, The reason is that Ishikawa Hisatomo is also going to send troops
On the night of May 9th, like a jet-black cauldron buckled on the waterway beach, on this night when I couldn't see my fingers, I faintly heard the whirring sound of a sailing ship, which was a small force transported by the leader of the naval army under the command of the Date army, Captain Kotera Sabei, to land on the east bank of the Takaliang River in the dark scene, several small morning boats soon entered the Mizushima beach, they were ordered by Mashiro to carry out a special mission, when Ishikawa Hisachi left the city, occupy Koyama Castle, and hold on to wait for the arrival of Date army
The main generals of this team were Yoshida Masanari and Captain Kodera Sabei, who kept shaking the wood pulp, and the sound of the wood falling into the water was swishing, and they liked this beautiful sound very much, and this time the team accounted for about one-third of the elite of the Date family, nearly three hundred and fifty people
In the darkness of the night, the raiding team approached the target step by step
When Yoshida Masanari and Captain Kodera Sabei heard that Masahiro was going to summon the two of them, they had already guessed a little about the purpose of summoning them, but when Masahiro ordered them to capture Koyama Castle and then hold on, they still felt the arduousness of the task, Yoshida Masanari understood Masahiro's temperament, and the things he decided must be done to the end, and no one else was allowed to bargain
The raid team quietly sailed into the Mizushima beach under the leadership of the two, and the small hayafune hid in the reef bushes in the beachhead, Yoshida Masanari sat on the front seat of the small hayafune, his eyes looked at the beach in front of him from time to time, and after a while, their feet finally stepped on the sand and gravel of the beach, he turned around and whispered: "It's time to arrive, brothers, the victory belongs to us," said he led the team day and night to hide in the Waling Mountain, waiting for the change of the situation to seize Yukiyama Castle in one fell swoop, and Yukiyama Castle is located at the foot of Heling Mountain
On May 13th, the tireless Masahiro finally raised an army of 1,500 people to gather on the bank of the Golden Pond on the other side of Mabijo Castle and began to sink the felled trees into the Takaliang River, tied them with ropes, and had a great posture of all-out attack, which shocked Yakushiji Yashichiro, the lord of Mabejo Castle, who was stunned, he did not expect that he had good intentions to do bad things, not only offended the Date family, but also offended Ishikawa Hisachi because of the high merit of the master, but in the face of the aggressive posture of the Date army, he also had to lower his head and send an envoy to Koyama Castle for help, Under the sign of cold lips and teeth, he also secretly threatened that if he did not come to the rescue, Magaki Castle would open the castle and surrender to lead the Date family across the Takaliang River
Ishikawa Hisachi originally thought of a trick for the two tigers to fight, but when he heard that Yakushiji Yashiro was so shameless as a scoundrel, he had to deal with it carefully, and immediately ordered all the men and horses to advance towards Makabe Castle, wanting to rely on the danger of the Takaliang River to resist the attack of the Date army Ishikawa Hisachi is not a fool, of course he knows that it is not the four or five thousand rabble under his command that can resist the attack of the Date family now, but the surging Takaragi River, and only by relying on the Takaliang River can he resist the invasion of the Date family
At this moment, 6,500 men and horses gathered on both sides of the Takaliang River, which is dozens of zhang wide, with nearly 1,500 people on one side and nearly 5,000 people on the other side
Yeshan Yichao turned his head to look at Zhengheng and asked, "Your Highness, the other party has a large number of people, and I am afraid that the pontoon bridge cannot be built, how can I attack?" ”
Zheng Heng looked up at the sun in the sky and said with a smile: "We can't force an attack, lest we suffer heavy losses, the pontoon bridge is slowly built, and the archers of the opposing side are suppressed with iron cannons and strong bows, and the catapults are pulled up and their attacks are suppressed with pebbles, I am not in a hurry, and we are slowly consumed" (to be continued)
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