Chapter 28: Sailing on the Sea (4)

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The more than 100 people led by Katayama Moricho and Kotera Sabei Captain each quickly turned outside Manabe Castle, and more than 200 people were not a lot, especially on an island the size of like Manabe Island, there was also a sense of thousands of troops coming to meet, and Murakami Yoshinobu, who was full of Date Dragon Banner in front of the city, understood that it was indeed not a salt-saturated water army that came to attack a place with a shot, and his face was very bad, he didn't expect that the army of the Haoqiang Date family in Beizhong had the courage to challenge the prestige of the Murakami family on Nojima. biquge.info The rise of the Date family has quietly attracted the attention of the surrounding Haoqiang, and the Noshima Murakami family is no exception, Manabe Island is the main traffic artery of the Seto Inland Sea, and there are many merchants, Murakami Yoshinobu still knows some things about the Date family from the word of mouth of the merchants, the head of the Date family, Date Masahiro and their imperial general Murakami Takeyoshi are almost the same age, and they are really a year younger, but unlike Murakami Takeyoshi who relies on the ancestral shade to protect him, Date Mashiro can really be said to be a prestige that was shot with a knife. Date Mashiro's reputation as a wise general has also spread far and wide, especially among the middle and lower level samurai and ronin, there is a special market, and the country is like this, and a small thing will be spread, not to mention that Date Masaki's legendary and rapid rise speed, how not to make people feel excited. In normal times, Murakami Yoshinobu is also boastful, as if he also has the wisdom of Date Masahiro, and he shook his majesty in front of Murakami Jinghiro's wife, but after he really touched the military might of the Date family, his face was extremely pale, and a layer of fine sweat of white hair appeared on his forehead, and then looked at the colleagues on the castle tower, including the most courageous samurai, who also lowered their heads and did not dare to raise their heads, for fear of being brought out to be the scapegoat of the charge.

Murakami Yoshinobu's face is not worried, the people in Manabe Castle usually say that they are unruly and unruly, and to put it ugly, they are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and when they have nothing to do, they brag and fart as if they can do anything, but when it comes to the battle, they are all cowardly, but what he didn't understand is who will go to the sea to be a pirate if he has the courage and ability. Although the powerful name of the Japanese country is envious and hateful of pirates, but there are really few people who really want to give up the land in their hands and go to the sea to be pirates.

Murakami Yoshinobu thought about it for a while, looked at the generals present, and it could be seen from the expressions of each general that everyone was stunned by the attack of the Date family, and it was more of the cowardice that Date Mashow would win every battle, and with the rapid rise of the Date family, it was also spread out that Date Masaki would win every battle, and these prestige were good and bad, and the bad thing was that there were more people who paid attention to the Date family, and there were more things to consider when things were done. The good thing is that all Haoqiang who is an enemy of the Date family will think about how to deal with it, and most of them choose neutrality or surrender directly, which is why there is no one in the way of preparing for China's Aida Zhengheng galloping all the way.

Seeing everyone's faces, Murakami Yoshinobu couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The momentum of the Date family has come up, although it is difficult to guarantee that the Date family will attack in the city, but hiding in a strong city is better than running out of the city to be ravaged, at least there is a wall to resist one or two, but judging from everyone's faces, you know that this time the war against the Date family is more defeated and less victorious, I only hope that Murakami Jinghiro can lead the soldiers and horses of the Noshima Murakami family to arrive in time, otherwise there will be more luck and less." After thinking about it, Murakami Yoshinobu looked at everyone, looked at the movement outside the city, and said: "Everyone, everyone knows the environment of Manabe Island, but if you really can't resist it, Manabe Island is surrounded by water, and the ships are all in the port and cannot be transferred, so there is no way to escape, even if you want to go to Date's house when you have no way to retreat, you must also understand the temperament of the imperial general, the most hated thing in the life of the imperial general is betrayal, everyone can pat their butts and leave, but the family will be difficult to preserve, The ends of the earth will catch up with us, stuffed into sacks and thrown into the Seto Inland Sea to feed the big fish. ”

As soon as Murakami Yoshishi finished speaking, he was shocked that the generals were drenched in a cold sweat, they were able to mix up an official and a half-job, who didn't figure out Murakami Takeshi's temper, usually Murakami Takeyoshi was also generous and bold to his retainers, but if he really betrayed him, the death would be light, the family would be ruined, and the punishment of a thousand knives would be prohibitive, they were not the sailors under them without concern, and if they really got mixed up at that step, they were forced to the point of no way out. As Murakami Yoshinobu said, they still have Manabe Castle, although Manabe Castle has been dilapidated after many harassments by the salt-saturated water army, but having a castle to defend is always a lot more reassuring than going out of the city to fight in the field. Everyone expressed their courage, as if the originally unruly maniac had finally returned, but Murakami Yoshinobu understood that this was only for a while, and if the fleet of the Murakami family did not come within two or three days, I was afraid that the city would not be able to hold it.

Murakami Yoshinobu said some more scenes, then went down the castle tower, strolling in Manabe Castle full of concern, thinking about how to deal with the attack of the Date family, the people below may not know the current situation on Noh Island, but he knows, most of the Murakami water thieves on Noh Island went to Kyushu to participate in the united front of the Ouchi family, and there were only four or five hundred people and a few ships left, if it was really hard to say whether it could beat the Date family in a fight on land, but if it was cruising on the sea, there might be a possibility of victory.

Yoshinobu Murakami, who was thinking about his thoughts in a daze, walked slowly, and suddenly heard someone calling him from behind: "Lord Murakami, please stay!" He turned his head to see, a petite and delicate woman in full gear walked briskly behind, she shouted while thinking that he was walking quickly, Murakami Yoshinobu recognized that the person who came was the personal maid next to Murakami Jingguang's wife, he didn't expect to be so bold, he dared to meet him in the bright sun, if it weren't for the fact that people's minds were all on the enemy army outside the city, I am afraid that gossip is indispensable, and it really makes the returning Murakami Jingguang hear that it will be a big storm.

I saw that the maid dressed as a woman dressed as a man hurriedly walked to Murakami Yoshinobuyo's side and said hello to him, and then said: "Lord Murakami, my wife heard about the enemy attack, and she was afraid that the adult would make a mistake, so the special slave came over and asked you to deign to go over." ”

said that it was in the past, not because now that Murakami Jingguang has left the city, the one who can give this suave lady a sense of security in the city is the Murakami Yoshinobu in front of him, for fear that a lady who has been abandoned by someone will be frightened, otherwise he would not blatantly order his personal maid to come and call. Murakami Yoshinobu frowned slightly, knowing that since Mrs. asked the maid to dress up as a man, she was afraid that others would know, and now that the situation was turbulent, if he didn't go, it would be difficult to ensure that Mrs. would not get along with him in the future, and he would end up empty. After thinking about it for a while, Murakami Yoshinobu followed the maid and left in a hurry, and Haosheng comforted his wife, and the matter between Murakami Yoshinobu and Mrs. Murakami Jingguang was not mentioned for the time being.

Outside the city, there were obviously different scenes between the two sides, and the people on the one side of Katayama were very calm, as if they were not aware of the upcoming battle, calmly, calmly, as if they understood that this battle would be won, and there was nothing unusual.

The sailors under the command of the left guard captain of Koji are a little unbearable, crooked and crooked, there is no military strength at all, but the body is very strong, and they are all good hands, if they really fight alone, although Katayama is not afraid, it is also difficult to resist, but when it comes to fighting on the battlefield, the victory will definitely be the former.

Captain Koji looked at the sailors under his command, and then glanced at the neat team of Katayama Shengchang, his brows wrinkled involuntarily, and it was easy to distinguish between them, usually he thought that he was a disciplined team in the Murakami family, but after really meeting the elite of the Date family, he understood that they could only be regarded as a rabble, and turned to the cronies on the side and said: "Team, let the people of the Date family see that we are not eating dry food, if they really let them look down on it, there may be no benefits for me in the future, Without my benefit, you don't want to get any chance of being promoted to a knighthood. ”

The cronie smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, what you said is good, but it can be said that these guys are good at fighting and killing, if they line up the team to fight neatly, they will really suffer since they joined in, and now it is good to be able to line up the team." ”

After listening to the words of his cronies, the left guard of Koji also stopped, how he didn't understand his own affairs, usually they ran on the sea and didn't have the same appearance of attacking the city and plundering the land as now, just thinking that they would have to practice hard when they went back, so that others could see that they were not all lazy rabble.

When Captain Kotera Left was still in the group, Katayama Moricho had already arranged the posture of attack, although before he left, Masahiro explained his plan and plan, but when the battle was really coming, it would be really difficult for them to run away without firing a single shot. As soon as he arrived outside Manabe Castle, Katayama Moricho immediately put on a posture of assault, in order to intimidate the people in Manabe Castle, and also to deter Captain Kodera Sabei and his sailors, who had always been unruly, and could not resist the Noshima Murakami family, but it was difficult to prevent a defeat from the unfavorable situation of the battle. If you really encounter a defection blow, it will be a real headache, not to mention that there are only more than 100 of them who have landed on Manabe Island now, and there are very few people who can escape under the attack from both sides.

Looking at the dense crowd of human heads at the head of Manabe Castle, Katayama Shengchang's eyes narrowed slightly, looked at the distance, and said to the people beside him: "The archery team is ready to string the twenty wisteria bows distributed by His Highness, a group of left guards and Taro, a group of Jiro and Shinzaemon, and at the same time shoot at the enemy who dares to take the lead, remember to aim before shooting, this wisteria bow is the treasure of His Highness, for these rattan bows, His Highness can be regarded as having a lot of effort, and now His Highness lets us use it first to see us, I must not be able to live up to His Highness's love. ”

The ashigaru who received the Fujiki bow expressed their admiration for Date Masahiro, and although they were under Katayama Moricho's subordinates, everyone understood that Katayama Moricho only had temporary command, and there was only one person they were truly loyal to, and that was Date Masahiro. There are only four or five hundred people like them under the command of Date Masahiro, and most of the small leaders who lead the troops are from Aga County, among which the Tang Song people and the Tongshan people are the most, which can be regarded as the descendants of the Date family. They were able to obey the orders of Katayama Moricho, a foreigner, because Katayama Moricho and his sister-in-law Katayama Shiro Bei broke into the famous name of Date in the Date family, and also because Date Masahiro trusted their father and son quite a lot, not only made Katayama Moricho become the lord of a city as soon as he came, but also made Katayama Shiro Bei serve as the leader of his own soldiers, which can be described as a figure who has both glory and loss.

Katayama Moricho pulled up the wisteria bow and glanced at the head of Manabe Castle, although he is not a professional archer, but the bow and arrow is a compulsory course for samurai, in order to be able to better adapt to the future battle, he has practiced a bow and arrow, and the level of the original Zhengheng when he first practiced bow and arrow can not be checked too much, ten bows and arrows can not be counted to hit the target, four or five is still reasonable. The nineteen people he deliberately pulled out were all good archers, although they were not as strong as him, but they were also the strong men in the team, and Date Masahiro broke his heart when he was full of food and three meals a day, even when he was full of food, after a winter, the original loose and loose ashigaru also burst out with a different style.

Anyone who has eaten and drunk enough will be as energetic as them, and they will have an extra five points of strength, plus winter drills, so others will see a kind of deterrent effect. In normal times, the subordinates of the left guard of the small temple are really not afraid of those weak legs, and they will beat them crying and calling their mothers with three or four points of strength. But seeing this group of Date family's ashigaru, not many people really have the courage to say that he can easily win alone, although they are confident of winning, but it is difficult to guarantee that they will not pay a heavy price. In fact, in the final analysis, the reason why the sailors can be so strong is not because they rely on the sea to eat the sea and eat better than the people on land, if they are really nutritious, they are really not powerful and famous, which is why the pirates are mostly dependent on the powerful and powerful.

Katayama Moricho clenched the wisteria bow in his hand and called out in a low voice: "Hold the bow and arrow in your hand, don't miss, aim for me, everyone aim, prepare, release!" With the faint and dull sound of strings, twenty bows and arrows sliced through the air and let out a low whistling, and the sharp and sharp arrows swooped down on the heads of the panicked Manabe Castle guards at the head of the castle.

With the "poof" sound of a low hard stab, like the dull sound of a sack falling to the ground, it instantly took the lives of seven or eight guards, the range of the Fujiki bow was one or two hundred meters above, and their formation was seventy or eighty meters away from Manabe Castle, which happened to be a range that was difficult for the Maruki bow to shoot, and the arrows shot by the Fujiki bow were already extremely powerful, and the penetration was amazing. Thunderbolts pierced through their fragile bodies, and the remaining momentum propelled them to continue on their way without stopping, until the hard bricks stopped them.

More than twenty bows and arrows shot seven or eight guards, and it could be seen that the elite Su zhì under the command of the Date family was so tall that he could shoot seven or eight people at such a distance. Their mouths were wide open, as if they had not expected that the bowstrings of the Date family would be so powerful that they could shoot them from a distance of seventy or eighty meters, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight of their companions were all killed and wounded. Originally, seeing that the Date family was seventy or eighty meters away, and they were not afraid of shooting with the Maruki bow through the city walls, their courage was still quite large, and they all stood on the head of the city to point out the country, but who would have thought that at such a long distance, seven or eight people would be killed and injured in one blow, which made them so embarrassed that they were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads to expose themselves, for fear of falling into the same fate as a lesson from the past. Before, he glanced at the bow and arrow, and shouted in a low voice: "It's the bow and arrow from the vine wood bow, damn it, they have so many vine wood bows, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight, I hope that the fleet of Noh Island will come soon, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." Hearing the words of the old ashigaru leader, everyone took a breath of cool air, the rattan bow turned out to be the bow and arrow shot by the rattan bow, in fact, the bow and arrow shot by the rattan bow and the bow and arrow style shot by the maruki bow are almost the same, the reason why he can tell the difference at a glance is that he saw that the arrow actually drilled directly into the gap of the foot, but it is not something that the maruki bow can do, and only a powerful bow like the rattan bow can do it.

Another slightly younger leader hurriedly said: "The Date army is about to attack, go and inform Lord Murakami Yoshinobu to come to supervise the battle, what about the others?!" He looked left and right and didn't notice the whereabouts of Murakami Yoshinobu for a while, he was shocked, and wondered: "Could it be that he ran alone, but Manabe Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the boats of Miyawa Shrine have been borrowed by the people of Murakami Jing, and the boats on the dock cannot be obtained, and he is from the Murakami clan and it is impossible for him to return to the Date family, is there still a hidden boat." As soon as I thought of this, morale inevitably fell suddenly, and most of the people who were still thinking of resisting to the death became disheartened, and the two main generals who could speak in Manabe Castle were all gone, so could they not let them fight alone.

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