On May 11, 1559, Okudaino Castle, Katayama Moricho, the three kingdoms of Inaba, Tajima, and Tango, sat at the head of the conference room in the castle with an unhappy face, and sat extremely upright in full armor, looking at the rain outside the castle.

Katayama Moricho originally chose a good day to break into Tango Province, but he never expected to encounter a rare heavy rain, which was extremely unpleasant, and the siege of Yugi Castle, which was originally prepared, was also extinguished because of the arrival of a heavy rain.

He sat on the top and looked at the Hao people gathered by this gang under his command, and the total strength of his army was only 5,000 when he attacked Inaba, but fortunately, Takeda Takanbu of Inaba did not cause him much damage, and he occupied Inaba with a loss of more than 100 people.

Although Takeda Matazaburo's surrender was unhappy, he was able to reluctantly accept his surrender, of course, Takeda Matazaburo himself was sent to Okayama Castle by Katayama Moricho early, and at the same time, he was also sent with Yamana Yutoyo and his family.

The number of people who went out to conquer Tango Province was much more than the poor 5,000 men, and at the same time, it was impossible for him to bring out all the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

Katayama Morinaga left 1,000 people in Inaba and 2,500 people in Tajima, and now the descendants who are following him are 1,400 people, and the loss of 100 people is not something that can be made up in the short term.

Katayama's strategy is. Recruit local wealthy clans and national armed forces to enter Tango Province to defeat the Isshiki clan. On the one hand, he let the gang of Hao people who had just surrendered hollow out their people. On the other hand, it also gives these people a place to vote.

Because of the Takeda Takanbu of the country of Hatata, the people of the country can be said to have suffered a crime, Takeda Takanobu's purpose is that those who follow me may not prosper, and those who oppose me must die, because the country of Hata has made him angry and resentful, and it is a loss for him to be able to hold on for so long.

However, thanks to Takeda Takanobu, the ordinary people of Inaba Province have no surplus food, and it is not difficult to break out in order to survive. Seeing this, Katayama Moricho also took a fancy to the poor mountains and bad waters, and ordered people to bring rice to recruit more than 2,000 people from it. At the same time, more than 1,000 people were dispatched to suppress the remaining 20,000 people, and seven or eight years ago, it was a medium-sized Inaba country with a population of 50,000 or 60,000, and it was left with more than 20,000 people by Takeda Takanobu.

Inaba simply recruited more than 2,000 people, and they were all a group of extremely vicious people, who were so poor that they would become villains when they only had one life left, and it was Katayama Moricho who found them a place to eat, otherwise the riot would have been in a month if no one suppressed it.

But Malaysia is much better, at least there is no need to worry about starvation. However, Yamana Yutoyo was beaten by Takeda Takanobu, but the Malaysians also suffered. The four major families of Gakiya, Yagi, Otagaki and Tayususo dominate in Tajima, and are also known as the Four Heavenly Kings, but in a war a year ago, the Four Heavenly Kings went to the second, and the remaining two were frightened.

Yuanya Susei and Tian Yuzhuang are righteous eyes saw that Yamana Yutoyo took more than a dozen of his relatives to Okayama Castle to retire, and they were frightened and immediately knelt down to lick Katayama Moricho, where did they dare not agree to Katayama Moricho's request, and sent money and food, and paid for the recruited peasant soldiers, and at the same time took hundreds of remaining clansmen with them to accompany the expedition.

When Katayama Morinaga was recruiting people from Inaba and Tajima to prepare for a big fight, the people of the three prefectures of Tango Province and Oku were so frightened that they sent envoys either to surrender or to send hostages.

As soon as he received the order of his lord, he began to gather his troops and horses and drove to the border between Tajima and Tango Province, and he did not think of Okudaino Castle, that is, the lord of this castle, Katayama Moricho turned his head to look at a young man of twenty-five or sixteen on the left.

I really don't agree with the things that look like people and dogs, the name of the lord of Okudaino Castle is Yamaguchi Yongneng, listen, Yongneng, what a name, he actually teamed up with the people of Okusan County to capture Yoshihara Yoshikiyo of Yoshihara Mountain Castle in one fell swoop, that is, the second son of Isshiki Yoshiki, the younger brother of the new castle lord of Kenbu Mountain Castle, Isshiki Yoshiki. Historically, this Isshiki Yoshikiyo is also a man of temperament, Isshiki Yoshiki was attacked by Akechi Mitsuhide and Hosokawa Fujitaka, and finally killed himself, after Isshiki Yoshiki was defeated and died, his son Yoshinori continued to fight, Yoshida was booby-trapped by Hosokawa Fujitaka, and after Yoshiki's death, his uncle Yoshikiyo succeeded him as the lord and continued to fight, and finally Isshiki Yoshikiyo broke into the enemy line in despair and died, and the Isshiki clan perished.

But now Isshiki Yoshikiyo doesn't have such good luck now, he is now being imprisoned by Katayama Moricho in the bottom warehouse of Okudaino Castle to endure cold and starvation, originally the May day will not make people feel cold, who let the bottom warehouse leak rain, it is raining so heavily, who will take care of the prisoners.

The 2,000 Inaba and 3,000 Tajima, plus the 1,500 Okusan Commanders who had just surrendered, plus 1,400 men from Katayama Moricho's headquarters, for a total of 7,900 people, this is the total strength of Katayama Moricho's Tango Raiding Army.

The country of Tango is not high, and the population is naturally not high, but after years of fighting with the Takeda clan of Wakasa country, the domestic army is not much, and the combat effectiveness is not weak, otherwise Hosokawa Fujitaka had to invite Akechi Mitsuhide to attack together, and even fought with cutting and deception for several years to get the people of Tango.

If it weren't for the fact that the prestige of the Date family was too strong, coupled with the fact that Katayama Moricho broke through Inaba and Tajima too quickly, and the original Isshiki Yoshiyuki was standing side by side with the people of the country when he was in power, it was considered the relationship between the leader and the members of the alliance, and Isshiki Yoshiki retired and played ruthlessly, and pressed a Taishang Emperor Yoshihara Yoshikiyo on their heads, which made the people of Okusan County embarrassed. In addition, Yoshihara Yoshikiyo is young and vigorous, and his attitude towards them is really not good, if it is safe for twenty or thirty years, it will be able for the two brothers to clean up the domestic disobedience.

Isshiki Yoshimichi had just succeeded to the throne, and not long after Isshiki Yoshikiyo changed his name to Yoshihara Yoshikiyo, the people of Okusan County had not yet changed from the alliance leader and members to the relationship between the lord and the minister, plus Tango and Tajima were too close. However, news from Malaysia soon spread to Tango. Look at the Date army so violent. Where do you dare to resist, you don't see that the four heavenly kings who were originally coaxed have all died, and Yamana Yufeng, the descendant of Yamana Soquan, obediently packed his bags and went to Okayama City, which is still it.

Katayama Moricho was originally quite satisfied with the attitude of Okusan-gun, and with the gathered seven or eight thousand people, he invaded Tango Province, and all the way was flat, and all of them surrendered, and finally encountered a hard bone in Kameyama Castle. The lord of this Kameyama City is full of faith, and when he hears the name, he knows that he is a relative of the Isshiki clan, or a very close clan, in fact, the people of this group of people in the country of Zidango have more or less the blood of the Isshiki clan, and they can be regarded as the clans of the Isshiki clan and the like, but the surname of Isshiki Manxin is naturally different from them.

The reason why Isshiki Manshin left a name in history is all due to the grandson of his pen family, Inatomi Youshu, that is, the guy who pioneered the Inatomi-ryu iron cannon technique. It is the descendants of Inatomi Yushu and Naohide's father and son who went to report to Isshiki Yoshido in the previous chapter.

Kameyama Castle has not left much of a reputation in history, but it is the city of Gongmu Castle that has left some fame in the home of this iron cannon celebrity. That is, after the death of Isshiki Yoshimichi, his son Isshiki Yoshiki led the remnants of the army to defeat the cage city of Gongmu Castle. Hosokawa Fujitaka is good at intrigue and trickery, and his skills in fighting are very fashionable, and he has not made any progress in fighting for more than half a year, so he has to ask his old friend Akechi Mitsuhide to come to help. Wise Mitsuhide gave him a crooked idea, the two families were harmonious, Isshiki Yoshiki married Hosokawa Fujitaka's daughter as his wife, and also got the 20,000 stone collar of Yukijo, he never thought that within a year, Hosokawa Fujitaka would murder Isshiki Yoshiki who fell into a woman, and Yukijo fell without a fight.

Katayama Moricho and his team just wanted to attack Kameyama Castle, but Ichishiki Manshin saw that the enemy was unstoppable, and immediately sent the old Inatomi Yuhide and Naohide father and son of the pen head family to Kenbu Mountain Castle for help, and this happened to the above scene, I never thought that he had just sent soldiers and horses, and it was such a downpour behind him, so that the crusading army could not go up, so he had to retreat to Okudaino Castle for long-term consideration.

Thinking about it, Katayama Moricho stood up and walked out of the house, generally saying that Honmaru is placed in the most dangerous place, usually set up on the highest point of the mountain, Okuno Castle is built quite strongly, but there is no need to worry about the danger of landslides.

Standing in front of the door, Katayama Moricho can see the surrounding scenery at a glance, but of course, it is not real because of the rain. The rain was still falling, but it was falling a lot, he looked up at the sky, his face was a little less depressed, and said, "It seems that it will clear again soon." ”

A night of rain washed away the blood on the ground, but it could not wash away the blood in the air.

Kameyama Castle's Isshiki Manshin and Inatomi Naohide, who returned last night, stood at the head of the mountain castle one after the other, looking at the dense flags of various colors that had re-arrived outside the castle, and their hearts were inevitably anxious.

Katayama Morinaga's headquarters were born in the Date Army and were highly disciplined, but the newly recruited thugs, especially those recruited from the Inaba country, were pushed onto the battlefield before they were trained, and military discipline had little binding force on it, and as long as it was within the scope of the law, it could do whatever it wanted, and the degree of freedom was greater.

And it is at this time that the sun mercifully sheds its brilliance on the earth, and in the air, light and blood dance together, and the sun tries to tear through all camouflage and let the world see the most real world. The ugliness that last night's rain tried to hide was exposed under the scorching sun, and in this ugliness there were all kinds of helplessness and sighs in the world, hovering into the world.

Looking at the enemies coming and going outside the city, he said with a sad face: "I already know about your father's affairs, and I still ask for condolences and good changes, but if there are no reinforcements coming, I am afraid that you and I will also set foot on the road to Yellow Springs in the near future." ”

Inatomi Naohide didn't know how to answer, his tears had already dried up in the rain, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Lord, reinforcements will come, the lord of the country knows the importance of Kameyama Castle, once this place is lost, the Tango Kingdom will be over." ”

Isshiki Manshin shook his head and said in a condensed voice: "If the reinforcements want to kill Kameyama Castle, they must fight head-on with the Date Army and fight their way out of the Date Army's blockade. The Jianbu Yamashiro army was disheartened, and it was not the opponent of the Date army, and it was sent to death when it came. ”

Inatomi Naohide didn't answer, thoughtfully, he knew that Isshiki Manshin was telling the truth, if the Takeda clan of Wakasa Province came, they would still be able to attack and defend, but it was the powerful Date family who came, and they only had the courage to wait for the enemy to run out of food and grass.

Isshiki Manxin shook his head and sighed: "There is no living water in Guishan City, if it weren't for a heavy rain yesterday, I'm afraid it wouldn't last long if it hadn't accumulated some water, but." As he spoke, he looked at Naohide Inatomi and said, "You shouldn't have come to Kameyama Castle." ”

The meaning of Isshiki Manxin, Inatomi Naohide understands, the Inatomi clan also has their own origin Gongmu City, he means to let him guard Gongmu City, echoing with Guishan City, he also wants to return to Gongmu City, there are his clansmen in the city, but isn't he loyal? There's something wrong with that, too. Besides, Gongmu Castle is known as a city, but it is a small village, and it cannot be compared with Kameyama Castle, let alone Jianbu Mountain Castle. Gongmu City, the core of the Inatomi clan, is actually a rotten place.

It's just that I don't know that in history, Isshiki Yoshiki relied on such a small city to withstand Hosokawa Fujitaka's attack, and he had to use conspiracy and trickery to assassinate Isshiki Yoshiki before seizing Yukijo Castle, which can only show that Hosokawa Fujitaka's fighting skills are too trendy.

Katayama Moricho naturally won't let go of Yuki Castle, Isshiki Manshin fancy Yukiki Castle just wants to echo Kameyama Castle and reduce the pressure on Kameyama Castle, in Katayama Moricho's eyes, although this is a small city, but the location is quite good, just stuck in the middle of Tango Kingdom, as long as Yukiki Castle is stuck, it is only a matter of time before Kenbu Mountain Castle is captured.

Yukiki Castle is so important, Katayama Moricho naturally has to hand it over to a trustworthy person to capture, it seems that Inaba, but this group of people in Equestria are all a bunch of mediocre people, so they have to look at the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and finally chose Goto Katsuki.

Fortunately, it was Goto Katsuki who went to attack Yuki Castle, and the others were about to suffer a disaster in Yukiki Castle, although he was not a descendant of Date Masahiro, but in the eyes of Inaba, Tajima, and Tango, it also represented the image of the Date family, and naturally he couldn't do anything to slaughter the city. The celebrity of Inatomi-ryu gunpowder, the eight-year-old Inatomi Younao, who is still called Inatomi Matsushoumaru, will not just be taken into custody. (To be continued.) )