Chapter 4 Remote Sensing Gyeonggi Rebellion (4)
Hidden Qidao was originally a place of exile, and the conditions were naturally not very comfortable, and Nizi Qingjiu exiled Nizi Yoshihisa for three years, and after three years of training, Nizi Yoshihisa had already faded away from his youth and became much more gloomy. If Niko Haruhisa saw Nizi Yoshihisa again before he died of illness, it is no longer known whether he would regret not handing over Tsukiyama Tomita Castle to him. Niko Yoshihisa looked up at the sky, it was overcast, the wind had become a little colder, and he muttered in a low voice, "It's going to rain soon." ”
Bad weather is very bad news for both armies, Niko Yoshihisa knew that Uyama Feibi would not welcome his arrival, but he still didn't expect that he heard the news that Nizi Lunjiu and Uyama Feibi had surrendered to the Date family when he landed for the first time, and the setback received was so great that he was attacked by the Date army before he could capture a city, if he couldn't defeat the Date army in front of him, I was afraid that the rabble he had recruited with great difficulty would immediately collapse.
Nizi Yoshihisa was in a bad mood, the enemy was only more than 2,000 people, but the formation was neat, and the pride was full of faces, which made him clear that with the rabble under his command, it was impossible to achieve an easy victory.
Looking up at the sky, it looked like it was going to rain soon. Before it rains, win a battle with a single horse, seize the momentum on the battlefield, boost morale, and perhaps a chance of victory, send a small force to surprise the enemy in the rain.
Sneaking up on an enemy camp at night when you can't see the stars and moon sounds good. If Date had been prepared, it would have been a good chance of success. But could the Date Army be unprepared? But on a rainy night, even if it's a precautionary measure. The odds of success are also enormous.
Attack on a rainy day. The crossbow on the opposite side will indeed be much less powerful. The iron cannon has directly become a burning stick, and if you want to walk at night in the rain, you must boost enough morale, and you need more morale to attack the enemy in the dark. One ride became the only viable way.
Niko Yoshihisa also knew that with the rabble under his command, he would not be able to defeat the neatly formed Date army, and if he did not make contact, he would be defeated, and then he would flee in a big rout, and the only way he could think of was to fight on horseback. Of course, he won't go into battle in person, and with his small arms and legs, I'm afraid he really can't beat Yoshida Masanari with even one move. In his imagination. The samurai of the Date Army were either fat sumo wrestlers or kendo masters with a tiger's back, and he was their opponent.
He relied on recruiting three boar skins from Tunguska while he was on the island of Ogaki, and it is said that the boar skins mean warriors.
The Japanese people called all the battles of military generals on the battlefield "one horse". "One horse" is simply a heads-up, never can fake hands to others to come forward to help, can only rely on the general's personal bravery to decide the victory, even if the side that wins by relying on the number of people, it is also to be forced to look at, is an insult to the samurai personality.
This challenge between the samurai. Naturally, as a combatant, cannot escape, otherwise it will be regarded as timidity. Nizi Yoshihisa in order to be able to make the three Tunguska boar skins conform to the rules of "one ride". The exception recruited all three of them as his personal retinues, gave them the title of samurai, and changed their names to Nuerhachi, Mulhachi, and Shulhaqi. The Miao character of Hatch is taken from the name of Tunguska called the dogs of Hutchis, Nu'er, Muhr, Shur are their names, because they are the wild boar skins of Tunguska, so the Miao character is in the back, and the name is in the front.
In addition to recruiting three wild boar skins of Tunguska, Niko Yoshihisa also recruited a large number of wandering samurai who lost their land to become his retainers, due to the Date family's ban on Japanese invaders, coupled with the fact that the Date family had already lost the stage of early arrivals not refusing, and the Date family's policies implemented in various places, there were many unemployed samurai ronin who were dissatisfied with the Date family, most of them went to Kyushu and Kinai to seek opportunities, and some went to Izumo Province and were recruited by Niko Haruhisa and Niko Yoshihisa.
Niko Yoshihisa thought of using a horse to decide the victory, at least to boost morale before the rain, but he didn't know how to let the generals of the Date army, who occupied the height of morale, ride with him, knowing that the Date family has always been known for intrigue and intrigues.
Besides, it is rumored that the military generals of the Date Army are a bunch of thick-skinned guys, saying that they are a horseman, but in fact, they will rush up and beat you one by one, and you are alone with a group of them, and a group of them beat you one, anyway, their thick-skinned ones are unprecedented.
Most of these rumors denigrating the Date family are the complaints of the landless samurai ronin who are dissatisfied with the loss of the Date family, and Niko Yoshihisa has heard more of their complaints, so he naturally takes a seat, and his impression of the Date family is limited to this, so that he has nothing to do for a while.
The three brothers, Nuerhachi, Muerhaqi, and Shulhaqi, stood up and said in an extremely awkward language: "Master, let the three minions come forward and sweep the formation, attack the prestige of our army, and destroy the morale of the rebels." "The Tunguska people are still a slave society, so it is natural to give them the master of Nizi Yoshihisa, who eats and drinks women.
Nizi Yoshihisa had no way to provoke the Date army to go into battle, so he had nothing to do but nod his head and let the three brothers go into battle to fight a dozen, if they could win one or two victories, they would be able to boost morale, thinking of this, he said: "Okay! ”
The three brothers Nuer Hatch, Murhach, and Shuerhach glanced at each other, and finally the third Shuerhaqi took the lead, with a height of 1.78 meters, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a dog's head and dog arms.
Shulhach shouted loudly: "Shulhachi, a retainer under the command of General Nizi, I don't know that you cowards have come up to fight me. After reciting such a long sentence in one sitting, Shulhach breathed a long sigh of relief, and then winked at his two older brothers for a while.
The meaning of a horse is one to one, fighting alone, others can not interfere, and whoever loses the family can not take personal revenge, generally on the battlefield to ask for it has been very rare, because with the rapid development of iron artillery, this form of one bargaining can no longer be used as a popular trend, but for the samurai, do not accept a bargain, then prove themselves to be cowards.
Nizi Yoshihisa was not wrong, the people of the Date family were very thick-skinned, and the first reaction when they saw a horse was not to be annoyed and angry, and then rushed forward to kill. That's not the quality of a commander. Once there is a change in the commander. An army will collapse.
Yoshida Masanari squinted his eyes at the tall man who ran to the center of the two armies, shook his head and smiled, and said: "I never thought that Niko Yoshihisa would actually summon the Ezo people to become his samurai, what a scum of the Yamato nation, and the Ezo people dare to be worthy of riding with our samurai." ”
The Tunguska and the Ezo people look much different in the eyes of the Yamato people, in fact, the two ethnic groups are very different in terms of race, but for an uneducated country samurai like Yoshida Masanari, the difference from the Yamato people is the Ezo people. Naturally, I don't deserve to talk to them about the spirit of bushido.
Nizi Yoshihisa thought about it very beautifully, in order to be able to meet the rules of a horse, not only gave them a name, but also taught them a Japanese language, but the appearance is impossible to deceive, and suddenly Yoshida Masanari found a loophole, and at the same time pushed Nizi Yoshihisa to the wall, calling him a scum and a traitor of the Yamato nation.
The four large islands of the Wa Kingdom were originally inhabited by the Ezo people, who were persecuted by the Wa En for centuries before migrating north. The name of the shogun of the shogunate, the name of the shogun. In the Wa Kingdom, it was called Ezo people, so there was a feud between the two peoples.
Yoshida Masanari ignored the provocations of the three brothers, Nuer Hatch, Murhachi, and Shulhachi. At the same time, his words were disseminated, and it couldn't help but not cause the morale of the army to drop, but because he heard that he was from Ezo, he also made all kinds of disgusting jokes about the origin of Niko Yoshihisa.
Yoshida Masanari shouted loudly: "Queue! Immediately, the captains of the various ashigaru captains also began to shout, and the Date Army, which had already been lined up, began to form a team again, and the spears on their shoulders were also put down, holding diagonal stabs in front of the left.
Although the formation was not yet fully arranged, Yoshida Masanari saw that at least seventy percent of the ashigaru had already completed the queue and carried the spear formation, and the rest of them would also carry some long barrels and start waving, and the military formation was disciplined.
Yoshida was concerned that the army would not be disciplined enough, and he knew that the unit under his command belonged to the second-line army, that is, it belonged to one of the 30,000 permanent troops stationed in various places. Yoshida Masato trained them, which can be said to be practiced many times.
Yoshida knew that in order for the army to have sufficient discipline, it would require a large number of experienced ashigaru captains, most of whom had participated in previous expansion battles and were considered low-ranking samurai of the Date family. Since Date Masaki founded the Date Army, a large number of peasant soldiers from the end of the year have become low-level samurai, and these people have formed the foundation of the Date Army, and they are a group of people who are absolutely loyal to Date Masaki. It can be said that without Date Masaki, most of them are still farming with their heads on the ground and their backs to the sky, and they have no future.
Yoshida Masanari shouted loudly: "Forward! The captains of the ashigaru immediately shouted loudly, and with the beat of the drums, a group of three hundred spears began to march in the direction of the Nizi Army, and the footsteps were quite neat as a whole, which was already a rather terrifying team for the Nizi Army against them.
As long as they rush to the front of the enemy's formation, with Yoshida Masanari's experience, a uniform pace can frighten the courage of this rabble, as long as one of them turns and runs away, under the emotion of fear, once someone starts to flee, the others will completely subconsciously imitate it.
Nizi Yoshijiu never thought that the Date army would be shameless to the extreme, and if he couldn't get it, he would start to attack instead, coward, he scolded like this, but he didn't know that the Date army on the other side had already regarded him as the scum and traitor of the Yamato people. And a scum and a traitor is not to speak the spirit of bushido.
The three brothers, Nuerhachi, Murhachi, and Shulhaqi, who bore the brunt of the attack, shouted loudly, and were so anxious that they rebuked loudly in their own language, but to no avail, and watched the neat array of spears approaching step by step, and listened to the sound of uniform footsteps on the land, which made their hearts tremble.
The three brothers, Nuerhaqi, Murhachi, and Shuerhaqi, wanted to attack for a while, but when they saw such a neat and uniform formation, they were already so frightened that they didn't know what to say, and subconsciously shouted: "Withdraw!" Remove! "In their own language, no one could understand it, but their actions told everyone what they meant by what they had just said. While shouting, he turned his horse's head and began to retreat towards the gap between the two armies. Before them, some of the Nizi soldiers had already begun to flee.
Niko Yoshihisa originally wanted to send the Overseer to kill the deserters who dared to escape, but he never thought that when the three brothers Nuer Hatch, Murhachi, and Shulhaqi, whom he had spent a lot of money on, were the first to start escaping, he knew that everything was over.
Before the heavy rain, the real battle was over, most of them fled, and some of them became prisoners of the Date army, and there were indeed not many wounded and killed in battle, but Niko Yoshihisa did not escape, he sat on a tent cloth and committed suicide, and it was a young general of the Date family who was wrong for him.
Yamanaka Kanosuke looked at Niko Yoshihisa who fell to the ground, and muttered in a low voice the words that Niko Yoshihisa sang before he died: "Dream is like a half-life song, 18 years old to live a life, born in Tsukiyama and die Matsukawa, I hope that the next life will fall to the earth." Then he let out a long sigh.
With the suicide of Yoshihisa Niko, Niko Ryūhisa surrendered to the Date family, symbolizing that the "Izumo Niko family", which once controlled the eleven kingdoms of Sanin and Sanyo and was famous for a while, will only continue to exist as a samurai under the command of the Date family.
Kanosuke Yamanaka, who was originally persistent in history, has now become a retainer of Date Masaki and a gravedigger of the Izumo Niko family, and it is terrible to go from one extreme to another. Personally confessed to Nizi Yoshijiu, which made him let go of his hatred for the Nizi family, and his heart was full of faint sadness, and in the days to come, he became a sharp knife for Date Masahiro. After Yamanaka Kanosuke had achieved great things, he still took good care of some of the descendants of the Niko family, and most of the descendants of the "Izumo Niko family" became retainers of him and his descendants.
The turmoil in Izumo Province soon ended with the strong intervention of the Date army, and along with the victorious army to Okayama Castle to meet Masahiro, the three Tunguska boar skins fled into the mountains and forests and were arrested as inhuman by the local mountain people when they were eating turnips, and sent to the Date army.
Masanari Yoshida met on September 13, and of course he also saw three Tunguska wild boar skins, and he was quite interested in these three wild boar skins who knew a little about the Japanese language, especially after hearing about their names.
Obviously, there was a monk who was more interested in Zhengheng, and Shimoma Yoriren finally arrived at Okayama Castle. (To be continued......)