Yamazaki Xingsheng raised his head and said: "Your Majesty looks at Date Zhengheng's past strategy, he is indeed a young talent, and what he does seems to be imaginative, but there is also a trace of law to check. Now taking advantage of the lord's expedition to invade Zhou Fang Jiuke County and forcibly take the Anhang Mountain City, one is the authority of the Shan's father and son in Jiuke County, as long as the Anhang Mountain City is defeated and the Shan's father and son are destroyed, the servants of Jiuke County will soon defect, and the second is that Du Longkang, the Lotus Mountain City of the Lotus Mountain City that takes over the Anhang Mountain City, will not go out of the city to rescue in public or private, and can capture the Anhang Mountain City before the lord returns, laying a nail for the Date army to enter the Zhou Defense Kingdom. ”

Hearing this, Yoshicho Ouchi glanced at Yamazaki Xingsheng and said, "Everyone knows this, tell me your opinion." ”

Yamazaki Xingsheng responded, eliciting his opinion, and said: "Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that the people of the three armies can make those who are bound to be defeated by the enemy, and Qi Zheng is also. Date Zhengheng has fought together in previous battles, and has used strange tactics to win this time, and this time he invaded Zhou Fangguo, I am afraid that he will also use strange, and the siege point that the lord said is likely to come true. Lotus Mountain City is a city that must be saved, and Date Zhengheng took a fancy to this, so he did not immediately attack the city. His Majesty was bold, and asked the lord to arrange the Numajo Castle in Tuno County as the second line of defense, and then led the army to march steadily into the Date army, forcing it to fight a head-on battle with our family, and at the same time ordered Sudu Longkang to prepare to go out of the city to respond. ”

Numa Castle, the lord of the castle is Yamazaki Prosperity, but Ouchi Yoshinaga did not object, obviously for the easy to defend and difficult to attack Numa Castle is still very important, you must know that Numa Castle is surrounded by swamps on three sides, as long as the small tsuji River near the castle is intercepted with a weir to prevent water attacks, you can block ten times the enemy outside the city. If you have seen the "Puppet City", you should think of Ninja City. The layout of Numa Castle is very similar to that of Ninja Castle. Facing a 20,000-strong enemy led by Ishida Mitsunari. With only 500 people, Ishida Mitsunari was helpless, and he ended up with strategic incompetence.

Ouchi Yoshicho took a deep breath, he roughly agreed with Yamazaki Prosperity's proposal, fought with Date Masaki in a dignified manner, stood up, and ordered: "Yamazaki Prosperity, I will defend the Nua Castle for me with three months of food for your thousand people." Jiang Liang Xianxuan ordered you to mobilize the farmers near Tono County to strengthen the Kotsuji weir, and Yamazaki Takakata, and ordered you to go to Chengjunji Castle, so that the Yamashiro region could be mobilized to block the grain route of the Date army. ”

Yamazaki Xingsheng, Jiang Liang Xianxuan, and Yamazaki Takakata bowed down and responded: "Yes!" He hurried away.

Ouchi Yoshicho looked at the remaining retainers and shouted: "At present, I have an army of 12,000 people, plus three or four thousand people mobilized by Yamashiro, which is enough to fight to the death with Date Masaki, everyone, our army will win this battle." Set out with me to slay all the enemies who dare to invade our homeland. ”

When Yoshicho Ouchi decided to send troops. Date Masaki, who had broken through the Kurahang Mountain Castle, was also holding a military meeting, and he was standing in the conference room, pointing to a map of Zhou and Chang Prefectures, and talking eloquently, the Date family has always attached importance to intelligence, and the map is also quite accurate and updated at any time.

Zheng Heng glanced around at everyone and said in his characteristic deep voice, "Everyone, let's talk about what to pay attention to?" ”

Ishikawa Hisataka was a little worried about the safety of the grain road, and said: "Your Highness, the minister is worried about the safety of the grain road, our army is 15,000, and Iwami has more than 8,000 partial divisions, a total of 23,000 troops, and the grain must be operated through the country of Aki, and no one dares to cut it off in the country of Aki, and the minister is worried about the crowd in the Yamashiro region." ”

The Yamashiro area of Jiuke County has always been disobedient to discipline, and the Ouchi clan also maintained a semi-independent state when it was in full swing, enjoying the preferential policies of five princes and five farmers, and when Ouchi Yoshicho was in power, he exempted them from agricultural taxes, but in fact, he could not collect grain, so he simply exempted them from agricultural taxes.

The Date army stationed in Ankake Mountain Castle implemented the policy of six princes and four peasants, which was considered good governance in other regions, but if this kind of policy was to be brought into the Yamashiro area, it was obviously impossible to satisfy Yamashiro's thoughts. In the Ouchi Yoshitaka era, five gongs and five peasants were levied, and in the Ouchi Yoshicho era, the agricultural tax was exempted, and now that Date Masaki has arrived, the agricultural tax that is higher than that of the Ouchi Yoshitaka era will be levied without giving money and grain, how can I agree.

Date Masahiro can see this, Ouchi Yoshicho will not see this, he will definitely try to break this relationship, in this way, he will definitely be able to lead the Yamashiro region to launch a land raid and cut off the land food of the Date family, which can bring some trouble to the Date family.

Zhengheng smiled slightly, and said disapprerovingly: "Yamashiro has been around for a long time, but the lord of Takamori Castle in Yamashiro, Saka Shingoemon Motoyu, has surrendered, as long as a partial division is sent to feign to attack Chengjunji Castle, it is enough to make a group of people stick to Chengjunji Castle, and then strengthen the guard, combined with the waterway, do not worry about the safety of the grain route." ”

Glancing at all the retainers, all of them listened to Zhengheng's orders, he stood up, pointed to the road from Yamaguchi Castle to Kurakake Mountain Castle, and said: "Looking at the previous battles of the Date Army, all of them have seen a little strange word, Ouchi Yoshicho must think that I will attack it with strange soldiers, okay, I will follow it, let him see what is called a surprise battle." Kumagai Takanao, Takakane Toto, Hiraga Hirosang, Amano Juni, Asonuma Hirohide, Misu Fang Kiyoshi, and others each led their headquarters to bring five days of dry food, and lay down their troops and horses here, here, here, here, and here, and when the Ouchi army arrived, they attacked it with throwing spears and stones, and immediately retreated when they were pursued, without having to fight. "Kumagai Takanao, Takakane Toto, Hiraga Hirosang, Amano Juni, Azenuma Hirohide, and Misubo Kiyoshi are An Yizhong who surrendered to Date Masaki, and of course they will accompany them on this expedition.

The six of them glanced at each other, did not dare to slack off, and immediately stepped forward to respond: "The ministers receive orders!" ”

Date Masaki's order, Kumagai Takanao obviously did not want to stick to it, he had his own unique understanding, and understood that this was a good opportunity, a good opportunity to gain the trust of the new master, as long as he could get enough heads, yes, heads.

The people of the Kumagai family carried out the character of his ancestors and always rushed to the front line for their master, Kumagai Takanao's grandfather and father rushed to the front line to protect the Takeda clan for Aki, and his father braved the bullets for Maori Moto, and now he is also going to charge for Date Masahiro.

Kumagai Takaozhi stood on a small hill, and next to him were his two younger brothers, Naokiyo Kumagai and Hiroma Kumagai. Under the small hill is about 300 spirited Kumagai family samurai. This is a battle-hardened force. There are a large number of gaps in the knives and guns, which are colliding with the hard stream, which makes the power of this team look very scary.

Kumagai smacked his mouth and wondered: "Brother, these people are the backbone of the Kumagai family, as long as they are there, our Kumagai family will not die, why do you want to hand over all the Kumagai samurai." It is also necessary to charge the Ouchi army. ”

Kumagai Hiroma also looked at his eldest brother with a blank look.

Kumagai Takachi adjusted his mental energy, to behave more perfectly in the attack that he waited for a while, he heard his brother's question, turned his head and glanced coldly, so frightened that Kumagai Naokiyo lowered his head, sighed slightly, and said: "Naokiyo, this is a war where the victory and defeat have been decided, if they can't get enough merit in this war, do you think the adults will let them continue to maintain a samurai army of three hundred people?" Before adult does not propose. If you take the initiative to hand it in, you can also get a certain amount of compensation. ”

Kumagai Naokiyo wondered, "My lord handed back the command to my brother. Does it mean that the brother has been forgiven, and the brother has been appointed to the task of the surprise attack? ”

Kumagai Takanao shook his head slightly, and said: "My lord sent Takakane Butto, Hiraga Hirosang, Amano Juni, Azenuma Hirohide, Misu Fang Kiyoshi and the remnants of our six Aki countries, why don't you send others and send all of them to fight, and finally said a very strange thing, as soon as the Ouchi army arrives, they will attack it with throwing spears and stones, and if they are pursued, they will retreat immediately, and there is no need to fight." Is this sentence very strange, you must know that our original task is to harass, why do we still focus on retreating immediately, no need to fight? ”

Kumagai Naokiyo and Kumagai Hiroma glanced at each other, their eyes were even more confused, and they couldn't figure out why they wanted to mention it again, and they looked back at their brother with blank eyes, trying to interpret the true meaning of Date Masahiro's last sentence from their brother's mouth.

Kumagai Takanao enjoyed the reverence of his two younger brothers very much, and said a few more words in a happy mood: "He is giving us the last chance of the Rokkaku Yasui countrymen, and he wants to see how we perform in the war, and nothing else can judge whether it is good or bad, but the war is very easy." ”

Kumagai Takanao saw that the two younger brothers didn't seem to understand, and said again: "The plan this time is very simple, we will attack the rear of the Ouchi army, and only withdraw from the battlefield when Ouchi Yoshinaga rushes back to rescue, so that we can delay the attack speed of the Ouchi army." ”

Kumagai Takanao used his own unique thinking to analyze Date Masaki's order and gave the order to attack the rear of the Ouchi Army. You must know that there are thousands of people immediately, boundless, the front team has gone far away, and the back team has just walked out of Yamaguchi Castle and attacked the rear team, and it is not as simple as a difficult turn and cover up if the front team wants to return to help.

An army was marching through the gorges of the Saba River, standing in the middle of the line, with no head in sight in front and no end in sight behind. There are tens of thousands of people. The front army has turned over the tributary of the Saba River, and the rear army is still at the mouth of the Saba River.

Ouchi Yoshicho was in this team with a gloomy face, riding a horse and wearing armor, this time leading the army to fight to the death with Date Masahiro is not to be considered, Date Masahiro led the Mandai army to capture Kurakake Mountain Castle, surrounded Lotus Mountain Castle, and stuck the neck of the Ouchi clan. If there is no reaction, Jiuke County will be difficult to protect, Zhou and Changzhou will be lost, and the best result will be exiled to other countries like Anyi's loser Maori Longjing. Lotus Mountain City, he had to save.

Once the Lotus Mountain City falls again, Jiuke County will become the stronghold of the Date family, and now there are more and more local forces in the country that have secretly communicated with the Date family, once the Date family has a firm foothold in the Zhou defense, the next step is not to use their troops, and they will be ousted from power.

Ouchi Yoshicho had to rescue Lotus Mountain Castle, but he didn't expect that he had just walked out of Yamaguchi Castle and was harassed by the enemy one after another, throwing guns and stones, although there were no casualties, but the disgusting tactics made the morale of the Ouchi army, which was not very high, suddenly depressed.

Whenever he was harassed, Yoshicho Ouchi would let out a night owl-like smile, reprimanding Date Masaki for being a scoundrel, and at the same time boosting morale: "It seems that Date Masaki has exhausted his donkey skills, doesn't this make me lose my mind, ignore him, and rest after arriving in Numajo." ”

Ouchi Yoshicho's encouragement, especially the last sentence of the order to rest and recuperate after arriving in Numajo, made the originally low morale rise slightly, but Tao Changfang, who followed him, clearly saw a trace of anxiety and nervousness in Ouchi Yoshicho's eyes.

Ouchi Yoshicho verbally said that Date Masahiro Qian's donkey skills were poor, but the harassment of the other party still made his marching speed greatly reduced, and after walking for most of the day, the rear team had not yet left Yamaguchi Castle, and I am afraid that such a speed would not be able to catch up with Numajo tonight.

Ouchi Yoshicho was worried that Date Masaki would slow down his marching speed, not thinking of encircling the point to send reinforcements, but to conquer Lotus Mountain Castle as soon as possible, and then lock the gate of the perimeter with Lotus Mountain Castle and Kurahang Mountain Castle, and drag his army, even if they consume food from each other, they can drag him to death.

Hongzhong Takabao's expression is also ugly, at the gate of Yamaguchi Castle reprimanded the rear team that was still out of the city, as the general of the rear team, he has been out of touch with the army in front, Ouchi Yoshicho's urging, so that he is quite cultured and frequently scolds abroad.

Outside Yamaguchi Castle, Kumagai Takanao also didn't expect that the rear team of the Ouchi Army had not all walked out of Yamaguchi Castle, which made him feel a little depressed, you must know that he almost got lost in the mountains in order to avoid the Ouchi Army, and found Yamaguchi Castle, which took him around for most of the day.

If you come, you can fight, and you can't care about anything else. Kumagai put on a black bear mask and a plush shawl, and the more than 300 Kumagai samurai who followed him into battle also wore the same outfit, and men like dogs and bears were waiting for the horn of attack.

Kumagai waved his arms and roared in a low voice, "Hehehe! With his roar, the three hundred Kumagai samurai also made a hehe, and then followed behind him and launched a charge towards the rear of the Ouchi army that was congested outside Yamaguchi Castle.

"Enemy attack!" The rear team of the Ouchi army immediately found a group of monsters who rushed over with a smile, they involuntarily shivered, and instinctively took half a step back under their feet, and the next step, Kumagai Gao screamed violently, and with the impact of his feet, he leaned forward, and the spear in his hand came out of his hand like lightning, and stabbed the neck of one of the Ouchi soldiers in the queue impartially, blood gushed out, and the soldier staggered and fell to the ground. (To be continued......)