Strategically defying the enemy and tactically valuing the enemy. When Zhengheng heard this sentence in his previous life, he just used it as a conversation between online games, and a joke between colleagues, without understanding the true meaning of this sentence. Therefore, Masahiro can despise the Saida Rebellion and the personality quality of Hideki Ueki, but he can't let it go. After learning of the riots at Saidada Castle, Masahiro sent Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari to Matsuyama Castle to replace the 500 standing army to conquer Saida Castle, and at the same time took 50 iron cannons with him.

The iron cannon was a very powerful new weapon at the time, and one iron cannon was considered to be worth 100 soldiers. Compared to the power of iron cannons, it should be said that possessing such weapons will greatly boost morale and make enemies fearful. Since the production of the first Bi Medium, the Date family did not rest on their laurels and made arquebuses, which were quite advanced at the time. According to the urine nature of the traverser, it is inevitable to improve the fire gun. Although it was not possible to create a breech gun. At least the flintlock pistol has been proposed, because Zhengheng is not an engineering student, so it is still under research, and I am afraid that it will not be able to improve in a short time.

On June 29, 1554, Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari did not go to Saida Castle, but first besieged Arihan Iiyama Castle, which had not left Hideshi Ueki until the siege. Once Haniiyama Castle is lost, Saita Castle will become a completely isolated city, and as long as a small number of people are watched, Saita Castle can be immobilized, plus those rebellious servants. can only obediently enter the grain. Be part of the Date family's overall strategy.

Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari first led more than 20 horsemen to a place not far from Arihan Iiyama Castle. Observe the nearby terrain.

There is Haniiyama Castle, as the name suggests, it is a castle built on top of Iiyama, with stone walls, and the height of the castle is more than three or four zhang, and it guards the main road leading to Nakatsu and the mountain wall. From Matsuyama Castle to Saida Castle, it is necessary to pass Guò Haniiyama Castle, and Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari discuss taking Haniiyama Castle first, and then taking Saiida Castle. It is the issue of back road safety that is taken into account.

A few days later, Hosaku who had been sent to Nakatsu in advance came back to report on the deployment of troops and the amount of food and water for the two castles of Haniiyama Castle and Saida Castle. There were 150 defenders of Saida Castle, 350 people from Haniiyama Castle, there were no iron cannons, and the food rations of Saida Castle were enough for two months, and there were wells in the city, and there were enough soldiers for Haniiyama Castle for one month, and a reservoir was built.

Kawasaki Yorihiro listened to the report and said, "If you want to capture the castle in a short period of time, you can only climb along the narrow mountain road and go straight to the city gate. There is no other way. However, if you use this method, you will fall into the trap of the enemy. This increases our casualties. Once there are too many casualties in Haniiyama Castle, even if Saida Castle is captured, the casualties will definitely not be light, and the combat exploits of the two of us will be greatly reduced, so it is best to draw out the defenders in the city, and just give full play to the power of our iron cannon. ”

Yoshida Masanari looked up at the castle built on the hill and said with a wry smile: "Yes, it may not be possible to attack otherwise." However, there must be Iyamashita, who must have been scared, I'm afraid that it will not be good to lead the enemy out of the city to fight, I don't know what Kawasaki-kun thinks? ”

Kawasaki Yorihiro pondered for a moment and said: "To put it mildly, you and I are not as famous as Noyama Masato, Katayama Moricho, Katsuro Hengnobu, Miyazawa Heihachi and other independent generals in the Date family, and their reputation is not obvious, which can be used for a thing or two. After speaking, he put forward his plan.

Yoshida Masanari listened to Kawasaki Yorihiro's plan and praised it again and again, and after the two agreed, they arranged their own arrangements. After returning to the main camp, they arrested a head of the castle town and sent a letter of persuasion to surrender to the castle, declaring that the retreat had now been blocked for safety, and there was only one way to surrender.

After carefully questioning the head of the household, he learned that it was not Date Masahiro who came to attack Arihan Iiyama Castle, nor was it several other important ministers of the Date family, but only sent two nobodies and 500 soldiers who had not dried up, so that he thought that there was an opportunity.

On the one hand, the head of Iyamashita pretended to express his intention to surrender, and on the other hand, he sent an envoy to Saida Castle to teach him the opportunity, and then wait for the arrival of reinforcements and then attack from both sides, completely eating the 500 Date army, so that Date Mashiro can take a good look at the courage of the Nakatsu people.

The next morning, when it was dark, the besieging Date army suddenly began to withdraw from the siege and retreated in the direction of Tawa Mountain, and the roar of iron cannons was heard, which convinced Iyamashita that Saita Castle had come to the rescue. Iyamashita always mistakenly thought that reinforcements had arrived, so much so that the enemy troops surrounding Iiyama were forced to retreat one after another, and he thought to himself: "Hideki Ueki made a decision this time, without the slightest hesitation, and he deserves to have the blood of Ueki Shizu, and he can be in the same boat at the moment of the great enemy." ”

Iyamashita immediately ordered the whole army to attack. At his command, all the gates of Arihan Iiyama Castle were opened, and 350 soldiers rushed out of Iiyama Castle and attacked the retreating Date army. The idea is good, but the ending is tragic.

Of course, Yoshida Masanari, who had not yet made great achievements, would not let go of such a good opportunity, and he immediately ordered the fifty iron artillery teams lying in ambush on the side of the road to fire at the same time, and he himself led fifty soldiers to rush into the enemy line after the first class iron cannon was fired.

The salvo of fifty iron cannons was fast and slow, but the shock brought by the belt type did not weaken in the slightest, and fifty lead bullets were fired into the soldiers who had just rushed down the mountain and panted, and one by one they fell to the ground, and the miserable howls were endless, and they collapsed in an instant.

Yoshida Masanari led fifty men to cut down more than a dozen enemies who stood in the way, and soon occupied a local advantage, blocking all the roads for Iyamashita to return to Haniiyama Castle, and the rear team also began to counterattack, and for a time Iyamashita was defeated.

Iyamashita always watched the shocking happening, watched the team that rushed out completely collapse, and the soldiers who were crushed to fight fled like a tide, hoping to escape with their lives, and even the relatives of the Iyama family were mixed up and lost the will to fight.

There was a faint pain in Yi Yamashita's chest, and he couldn't give an order in the confusion, so he stepped up his efforts to gather a small number of troops, and gave the order: "Withdraw!" Go to the mountain castle usually! He knew that there must have been an ambush of the Date army when he retreated to Saida Castle, and that Tsuneyama Castle and Iiyama Castle were not far apart, and that they were built by Akiniwa Shigenobu at the beginning of the Kamakura period, and that they were gradually abandoned after the Akiniwa clan moved to Matsuyama Castle, and that Iyamashita's brother, Misaku Iyama, left more than 30 old and weak guards in Tsuneyama Castle.

Dozens of soldiers followed the leadership of General Iyamashita, rushing through a road in the chaos, shouting along the way: "Withdraw!" Remove! "Everyone has a blind obedience mentality, and more and more people follow the general team of Yishan to flee in the direction of Changshan Castle.

Iyamashita's overall reaction did not meet the expectations of Yorihiro Kawasaki and Masanari Yoshida. Iyamashita will definitely not flee to Saida Castle, and Iiyama Castle must pass through Tawa Mountain Ridge to Saidada Castle, and it has been decided that as long as there are twenty or thirty people left in Tawa Mountain Castle, it is enough to wait for the Date army that surrounds it.

At the corner of Taibi, behind a broken earthen wall, Kawasaki Yorihiro saw a group of wolves from a distance who could not bear to flee to Changshan Castle, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, this earthen wall was originally a stone wall of the Taibi Pavilion, which was completely abandoned after the Autumn Courtyard clan moved to Matsuyama Castle, and the wooden planks and bricks and stones of the residence hall were all demolished by the nearby villagers, leaving only a broken earthen wall.

Kawasaki Yorihiro raised his right hand, and the Date Army iron gunners behind the earthen wall assumed a shooting posture. At the moment when the right hand was thrown down, the sound of iron cannons resounded in the sky, and in an instant, more than a dozen fell to the ground, and the other soldiers panicked.

The iron cannon salvo is still a little lethal within fifty or sixty steps, and after fifty or sixty steps, you can only resign yourself to fate, and you can only blame yourself for your bad luck and bad luck for eight lifetimes. Yi Shanxia instinctively tilted his head, and a lead bullet almost grazed his cheek and flew past, and the scorching wave of air scorched his facial muscles. Yi Shan always dodged the attack of more than ten lead bullets one after another, and the soldiers who followed him fell into the blood, and several soldiers were shot into the body, bursting blood, and fell to the ground wailing. Yi Shanxia was always calm, and when he looked back, he was already so frightened that his legs were limp and he sat on the ground. Even Yi Shanxia was always frightened, not to mention the others, the soldiers either competed to surrender, or ran away.

In the face of this sudden change, even Kawasaki Yorihiro behind the earthen wall couldn't believe that the power of the iron cannon would be so powerful, and only a dozen people really fell to the ground.

Kawasaki Yorihiro saw Mr. Iyamashita, who was escorted over and was scared, shook his head and said, "He's wasted, give him a good time!" ”

After the end of the battle at Arihan Iiyama Castle, Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari led their troops to continue their advance towards Saida Castle. When the Date army besieged Arihan Iiyama Castle, Saida, which was not far away, was already in turmoil. When Haniiyama Castle fell, because Hideshi Ueki really had no prestige at all, all the soldiers in Saida Castle were so frightened that they had no intention of defending it. When the Date army passed Guòta and Yamanda, Hideji Ueki realized that the number of soldiers in the castle had been reduced by nearly half.

With the arrival of the Date Army, Saida Castle became weaker and weaker.

Almost everyone is far away from Ueki Hideshi, no one wants to die with Ueki Hideshi, and there is no willingness to follow Ueki Hideshi into exile in other countries, although the weak are dependent on the strong, but they will not cling to a fool, even if he was once a countryman. (To be continued......)