Akechi Mitsuhide took the lead in attacking, and in order to clear up the relationship, he sent the shogunate's retainer Sawai Motoie to lead 3,000 men to clear the outpost fort outside Ibaraki Castle, which is known to be a flat castle, and Honda Masanobu built more than a dozen outposts outside Ibaraki Castle in order to strengthen the defense.

The soldiers and horses in the sentry fort are generally about two or three hundred, and the Sawai Motoya soon arrived outside the first sentry fort, he raised his spear and pointed in the direction of the sentry fort in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill it, kill a future, kill a tomorrow." ”

Pointed by the spear, Ze Yuanzhong was in high spirits, bravely took the lead, and rushed to kill the past. Sentinels are mostly made of civil engineering, and if they are attacked, they need to pay multiple costs to be breached, but these sentry forts have an obvious disadvantage, that is, they are not fireproof.

Sakii Motoya rushed to the outside of the first outpost, waved to stop, and then shouted loudly: "Shoot arrows, use rockets, burn them for me." "Burn the city, this cruel order, if it is really ordinary, it will definitely tremble, but the war between the eastern and western armies is not only a war of territory, but also a war of faith, a war of life and death.

Honda Masanobu of Ibaraki Castle was shocked to see the sentry forts at the front of the border being lit like torches, he never imagined that Akechi Mitsuhide would be so cruel, just hitting his soft underbelly, worthy of Mino Wisdom. It is important to know that these forts are made of wood, especially now that it is the height of summer and the wood is dry, and setting fire is indeed the most effective method. Honda Masaki is also the easiest and most effective way to build a sentry fort with wood, in order to prevent fire attacks, there is a river mud on the perimeter, but it is afraid of rocket fire.

Honda Masanobu knew that once he let Akechi Mitsuhide burn down the outlying outposts. Then the strategy and tactics that Akechi Mitsuhide was looking forward to for a quick victory were half the battle. Ibaraki Castle is a flat castle. Even if there is a diversion of Miyakejo, it will not be able to fill the army of twenty or thirty thousand.

Thick smoke billowed over the banks of the Yodogawa River, and one sentry fort after another was quickly engulfed in flames. The guards inside the outpost tried to escape and try to resist, but they were bloodily slaughtered by the Sawai Motoya, and with the advantage of numbers, the sentry forts were quickly burned and slaughtered.

The killing had a tremendous deterrent effect, after several outposts were set in flames. The rest of the outposts were all afraid of following in the footsteps and abandoned the forts one after another, and Maeno Nagayasu originally wanted to make an example of them and let them return to the sentry fort to continue resisting, but Honda Masanobu stopped his action.

Knowing that Honda Masanobu's strategy was to delay Akechi Mitsuhide's attack and kill Akechi Mitsuhide, but seeing that Akechi Mitsuhide had swept away the outlying outposts on the first day, he was afraid that the strategy of a quick victory would be realized, so he asked, "My lord, what should I do?" ”

Honda Masanobu impatiently scolded at the bee house Hannojo, "What are you panicking about? Don't you just want a quick fix? Maeno Nagayasu. You lead the people of the headquarters and rush to rush! "Between words. He pointed to the Sakii Moto's family department in front of him, which was burning down the sentry fort.

Maeno Nagayasu looked up suspiciously and said, "Rush? ”

Honda Masanobu glanced at Nagayasu Kanno, his eyes flashed, and he asked sharply, "You dare to ...... Still don't dare?! ”

Maeno Nagayasu is the righteous brother of Wasuka Masakatsu, and he can be called a brother and brother with Wasuka Masakatsu, and he can be regarded as the number one person on the Thick Tail Plain. ”

Maeno Nagayasu's headquarters is actually a crack force formed with the Kawa Nagaya Party as the backbone, the number is about 3,000, originally subordinate to Wasuka Masakatsu, he came to support Honda Masanobu this time brought 600 men and horses, previous battles, and now there are more than 500 people left, he glanced at everyone: "Brothers, kill with so!" ”

The gate of Ibaraki Castle was open, the field of vision was wide, outside the moat, there was smoke everywhere, flames were burning, and there was an enemy of about 3,000 people slaughtering a soldier and horse who had no time to retreat, Maeno Nagayasu spat fiercely and shouted in a low voice: "Kill out!" Brothers, rush! ”

More than 500 people rushed out of Ibaraki Castle with a roar, because they were infantry, it was naturally impossible to charge like cavalry, but due to the flames and smoke, their marching speed was quite fast, and they did not notice when they rushed to the outskirts of Sawai Moto's house.

Sawai Motoya seems to be defenseless, but he is also a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time and has participated in the battle of Yamazaki, where will he not be prepared, he only ordered a team of men and horses to besiege more than 100 enemy soldiers, and the rest of the men and horses all looked around nervously, and they should see hundreds of infantry rushing out of the smoke.

Sawai Yuanjia's face changed greatly, and Lian Sheng shouted: "Knock the gong, knock the gong, prepare to meet the enemy...... The guards sitting on the side also shouted loudly: "The enemy is attacking...... The enemy is coming to attack......" The enemy soldiers in the center of the slaughter suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums, and were a little dazed. But then they heard the sound of their footsteps marching forward, and saw a group of four or five hundred infantry coming again, and it seemed that the ground could feel a tremor as well.

Most of the soldiers of the Sawai Motoya family have not participated in the battle of Yamazaki, but fortunately, most of their backbones are veterans who participated in the battle of Yamazaki.

Fortunately, under the orders of the Sawai Motoie, after the samurai oversaw more than a dozen people, they regrouped and waited for the enemy's attack. Sawai Motoya saw that the enemy was still about a hundred steps away from his formation, and once the enemy rushed into his still chaotic formation, he was afraid that there would be more than one bad luck, so he shouted loudly: "Archers aim, spear team protection, a hundred steps ahead, shoot!" ”

Three hundred soldiers loaded their bows and arrows and began to fire at the rushing enemy, and although the Maruki bow did not kill people, the bow and arrows falling from the sky shot at most a little skin under the protection of the foot gear, and continued to fire.

"Rush, don't care about the bow and arrow, kill it!" Maeno Nagayasu knocked down several bows and arrows at will, and shouted in a low voice: "Brothers, kill it, don't kill it, kill me ......" His face was fierce and hideous, and his eyes flashed with bloodthirsty coldness.

The long knives and spears were like the vicious fangs of the mad blood basin of the beast, frantically biting at all the creatures in front of them, roaring hysterically one by one, waving the weapons in their hands. The desolate beast pounced on the enemy in its way.

The pikemen are in front. The long sword soldier is behind. The archers gave up their bows and arrows, took out their swords and followed closely, the arrows were too consumed and there was no reserve, so they had to use the close range to block the enemy's attack, and everyone soon took on a huge parallel position, looking ahead with a tight expression.

A gust of wind hit, and Sawai Motoya was standing right against the wind, and the thick smoke rushed to their ears and noses. A hot smell swept through their senses of taste, vision and other senses, making them unable to open their eyes, snot flowing, Maeno Nagayasu saw the rare opportunity, raised his spear, and shouted: "God bless me, kill!" ”

Sakii Motoya was sneezing and his eyes were blurry, and he knew that it would be difficult to resist another attack under such unfavorable conditions. But he didn't have anything to do, could he turn his back on the enemy's swords, guns, swords, and halberds. Retreat is also a dead end.

When they were in a dilemma, Maeno Nagayasu had already killed in the middle of the formation, and although their eyes were also difficult to see, they didn't feel much discomfort, and the knives and guns in their hands gave them courage, wielding swords, guns, swords, halberds, and slashing and killing at will.

Blood is splashing, stumps are flying, corpses are rolling, trampling, and the battlefield is full of bloody and fierce battles, crazy slashing and slashing the enemies around them, and flesh and blood are flying. Maeno Nagayasu led an assault team, like a leopard with red eyes, roaring furiously, and began to assault towards the last main formation, roaring.

The members of this assault team are all members of the Kawanami Party, and those who can follow Wasuka Masakatsu out of the Nooo Plain are all brave and strong martial arts, and the Sawai Motoke family has a fierce battle with them, and Maeno Nagayasu is worthy of being the first person under Wasuka Masakatsu.

Maeno Nagayasu didn't know how many people he had killed, his gun head was stained with blood, and the gun heads of several other people were also stained with blood, and everyone's body was stained with blood, from top to bottom, on people, there was no place that was not terrifying.

Everyone's thoughts are the same as Maeno Nagayasu's, they only know that they keep chopping and killing, and now they have only one thought in their hearts, either you die or I die. It was a hand-to-hand fight, a hand-to-hand fight of flesh and blood, a hand-to-hand fight of life and death, and it was killed.

The brutality of the former wilderness finally forced the soldiers of the Sawai Motoya to become extremely terrified, and for a moment all the soldiers around them retreated, forming a team to keep killing the enemies who approached them, killing, killing, and killing.

Maeno Nagayasu still maintained a little bit of sanity, he stabbed an enemy, looked back, did not think that there were no enemies around him, the ground was covered with corpses, blood, he looked at a group of retreating towards the rear, surrounded by a samurai in armor, and shouted at everyone: "Assault!" ”

Sawai Motoya saw that Maeno Nagayasu led a group of barbarian-like evil ghost killers over, and he also followed Akechi Mitsuhide's side as a reserve during the Battle of Yamazaki, where had he seen such a scene, he was already so frightened that he peed his pants and hurriedly wanted to run back.

"Kill!"

Maeno Nagayasu roared loudly, and a spear burst forward, directly piercing the head of the Sawai Motoya, pulling him directly from the ground and throwing him to the ground. "Your Excellency is dead!" "Run!" The soldiers of the Sawai Motoya family began a small-scale escape, and one escape caused a chain reaction, and one after another joined the queue of escapes.

Maeno Nagayasu heard the shout, grinned, and was so frightened that a soldier who didn't have time to escape was directly frightened, his eyes were white and he lay on the ground, he didn't pay attention to it, stepped forward and cut off the head of the Sakii Moto's family, and then waved his hand and shouted: "Cut off the head, go back to the city." ”

The defeat and death of the Sawai Motojia gave both sides a great shock, and it could be said that it was a slap in the face for Akechi Mitsuhide, and the expression on his face was gloomy and gloomy, sweeping away the outpost forts on the periphery, and the strategy of quick victory was not realized in the end.

3,000 people were lost, of which less than 10% were killed in battle, that is to say, only more than 300 heads were cut off in the end, and three times as many were wounded in battle, but the most worrying thing is that this army of 3,000 people has no morale and no desire to fight.

Akechi Mitsuhide saw this group of frightened and trembling deserters, they had no desire to fight, they only wanted to desert, leaving them in the army, it was very bad for the morale of the army, once the army's morale was weakened, it was delusional to want a decisive battle, he commanded softly: "After receiving, send them to Takatsuki Castle." ”

Seeing that the Sawai Moto's family was killed in battle and suffered heavy losses, the righteous brother of Akechi Mitsuhide Onda Sunjuro advised in a low voice: "Brother, the Sawai Moto's family was defeated and died, and it is impossible to solve the current crisis quickly, even if you advance now, I am afraid that it is not an opponent, do you want to consider a way out?" ”

Wise Mitsuhide waved his hand without thinking, and said in an unquestionable tone: "The general is kind to me, a certain is a strong and powerful Minong, and the auxiliary lord was attacked by thieves and wandered, it was the general who promoted him to Weimo, so he sat in the current high position, how can he abandon it?" ”

Onda Sun Juro was clumsy, and Ikeda Terujia heard the words of wise Mitsuhide, rolled his eyes, and bowed: "Lord, the general has a favor to the lord, and the lord has a kindness to repay the kindness, it is true, but the current situation is in crisis, please leave a way back for the general." ”

Onda Sun Juro's words were stiff and dull, but Ikeda Teru's words were much easier to hear, and when Akechi Mitsuhide heard it, he nodded slightly and said, "Ji will be released?!" Obviously, Wise Guangxiu was also thinking about what to do next, and the three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang. Although he compares himself to Zhuge Liang, it is better to listen to the opinions of others.

Ikeda Teruya listened to the advice of Akechi Mitsuhide, and then said: "My lord, in fact, you also know that the competition between the two sides is not about military strength, but actually about food and endurance, and in the final analysis, it is a matter of food. ”

Onda Sun Juro asked: "Oribe, what is your intention, to put it bluntly, don't beat around the bush?" ”

Ikeda Teruya looked at Akechi Mitsuhide's face and said bluntly: "My lord, since the two sides are competing for food, as long as our food increases and their food decreases, then the final victory does not belong to the shogunate, but to the shogun." ”

Onda Sun Shiro was stunned for a moment and said, "You mean? ”

Ikeda Teruya nodded and replied, "Exactly, the current source of food for Honganji Temple is, firstly, the Kii Province, which has not been burned much by the war, and Hanoi and Izumi can also produce some food, and if the lord can burn the flames of war to Kawachi, Izumi, and Kii, it will be like destroying the stove of Honganji." (To be continued.) )

PS: No anti-piracy, no anti-piracy today