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Not to mention the tragedy of Liantai Temple, after Zhengheng issued orders in Baofu Temple, the retainers were ordered to go to Zhucheng to stand by, and his team increased from the original 100 to 300 people, of which 100 were retainers who had recently arrived from the neighborhood. Leaving Hofukuji Temple and entering the Kurashiki area, as far as the eye can see, there is a lush farmland dotted with ragged people who have worked hard. He did not rush to Takamatsu Castle, but the speed of his march became slower and slower, and at each post station, he had to recruit nearby magistrates to see if there were any missing talents among them, so that one or two of them could be transferred to the Date family as direct retainers, and ask whether the German decree issued by the Date family was fully implemented. Regarding the contradictions between the people of the small country and the landowners, Zhengheng always did it himself, showing fairness and strictness, and did not let anyone be wronged, so that the lowest level of the samurai class, who had never seen the lord of the country in their own lives, were moved.

Soon, the sun was setting behind the distant hills. In the scorching summer season, when the sun goes down, the temperature still feels that the temperature has not dropped in the slightest, and in the unbearable transpiration heat, only fireflies are wandering playfully, and the team of Masahiro finally arrived at the commanding heights of the west bank of the Ashikatsu River, and Takamatsu Castle is far away, Gengshen Mountain is also known as Iwasaki Mountain, and the Yoshikawa Motoharu reinforcements are famous for their deployment on the mountain after the flooding of Takamatsu Castle by Hashiba Hideyoshi, and it is recorded as a background in the battle of Hashiba Hideyoshi's fame. Now this camp has not yet been formed, and there is an ancient temple on the mountain, Jizenji Temple.

When Zhengheng was disturbing Jizenji Temple, there was a sound of frogs around, and Zhengheng stood on the top of Jizenji Temple and looked at Takamatsu Castle on the other side, and it was getting late. The water of the Ashimori River is turbulent. Ashimorigawa, a natural moat that keeps Takamatsu Castle out, is accustomed to seeing the mountains and trees, and suddenly seeing the plains under a large river makes people feel a kind of pride that is refreshing and suddenly bright, and this is the forefront of the flooding of Takamatsu Castle in history. He suddenly had a feeling, Yoshikawa Motoharu standing on the Iwasaki mountain formation looking at the ocean and sighing, maybe when he stood on the Iwasaki mountain formation, he saw Takamatsu Castle floating like a boat in the big lake without trying to save it.

Noyama Yoshichao saw that Masahiro was suffocated in the face of Takamatsu Castle. He stepped forward and pointed to Takamatsu Castle and said, "Your Highness, this is Takamatsu Castle, I have been to Takamatsu Castle once on a safari for a while. Although Takamatsu Castle is a castle built on a plain, it is backed by a large mountain and the Ashimori River to the east. There was only one path leading to the castle, making it difficult for the attacking troops to deploy and it became the target of slaughter with iron cannons and bows and arrows, and it was an important stronghold of the Ishikawa clan in Heyang County. ”

Zheng Heng squinted at Yeshan Yichao, shook his head, and said: "Yichao, I'm not lamenting the solidity of Takamatsu City, as long as I am given enough money and food, Takamatsu City is easy to break?!" He suddenly thought about whether the generals under Hideyoshi Hashiba had also sighed at the dilemma of not being able to attack Takamatsu Castle when they faced it, but he was able to use the tactics of Hideyoshi Hashiba to cover himself, showing that he was wise and martial.

Noyama looked back in amazement. He couldn't imagine that Takamatsu Castle, which was so strong and difficult to attack, became an example of easy attack in the eyes of Zheng Heng, and couldn't help asking, "Please also ask Your Highness to solve your doubts." ”

Masahiro suddenly had a feeling that Hashiba Hideyoshi was leaning over, and he had the pride and ambition to point out the country, pointing at this large plain, and said, "A heavy rain the day before yesterday made the area around Takamatsu Castle muddy. If I am afraid that it will turn into a swamp during the rainy season, if I am in command of the army, I will first turn Takamatsu Castle into a naked castle, drive the defenders to hold Takamatsu Castle, and if I can't persuade them to surrender, I will build a huge embankment in the direction of Mt. Takamatsu to block the Ashimaru River, and then light a bonfire on the embankment to monitor the enemy. In a matter of days, Takamatsu Castle will be an isolated island. ”

Noyama Yichao was stunned and said, "Sure enough?!" It's just that building such a large-scale embankment will require a lot of money and food, and our Date family will not be able to afford it. ”

Zhengheng smiled brightly and did not answer. Of course, he knew that the reason why Yushiba Hideyoshi was able to do such an unbelievable thing back then was not because his predecessors had not thought of how to attack Takamatsu Castle, but because Yushiba Hideyoshi had the support of Oda Nobunaga, a big man with one-third of the world's wealth, to be able to make a huge amount of money, if it was someone else, it really didn't have such a big financial and material resources, and the total financial resources of the Date family now were not as much as the cost of a war for Hashiba Hideyoshi in the Momoyama era. Hashiba Hideyoshi spent 63,500 stone meters and 635,000 yen on the construction of the embankment alone, and he was very wealthy.

If the joint wars fought in the past were all small fights with careful calculations, then after entering the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, it became an attack with money and rice grain, and when the wealth was rich, it was often possible to stun many rural daimyo who had not seen the world, and if the rural daimyo gritted their teeth and was indifferent, his subordinates would shake their minds and rebel under the money offensive, and they were often invincible. Even an old turtle like Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't stop Toyotomi Hideyoshi's money offensive, and Mikawa Soul was no longer loyal under the money offensive. Although the old turtle had the upper hand in the Battle of Komaki Nagakute, he was defeated by the money offensive, which made Tokugawa Ieyasu realize the power of money for the first time, and laid the foundation for his later use of the money offensive to achieve the Edo shogunate.

Without the support of enough money and food, Takamatsu Castle is indeed a difficult city to overcome, Zhengheng said with a smile: "As long as I spread the rumors of flooding Takamatsu Castle, and then issue an order to build a dam to block the Ashimori River in the short term, do you think the Takamatsu Castle guards will not go out of the city to stop it, this is another version of the siege to send reinforcements, as long as the will to defend the city in the city is continuously weakened, Takamatsu Castle will not be difficult to overcome." ”

Noyama Masaasa nodded slightly, he silently calculated in his heart, and found that the strategy of the political balance was indeed an unsolvable strategy, first turning Takamatsu Castle into a naked city, and then building a dike downstream of the Ashimori River to usher in the counterattack of the defenders, half-intercepting, weakening the will of Takamatsu Castle to defend the city again and again, if you don't go out of the city, you can only watch the formation of the embankment slowly, and it takes a lot of money to complete the embankment in the short term, but if the long-term project starts to build the embankment and repair the dam in March and April, It will not be very heavy to mobilize the labor of the people in two or three months, and it can really be done.

With no foreign aid, even if the defenders of Takamatsu Castle have a strong will to defend the city, they can't always calm the restless psychology of the soldiers in the city, and as long as they relax a little, the tight bowstring will break. The reason why Takamatsu Castle was able to hold back was because he knew that the Maori family would not sit idly by, and now Takamatsu Castle does not have Shimizu Soji in charge, and there is no Maori army to rescue, as long as a little strategy can make this seemingly strong and abnormal castle collapse from the inside.

Just as Masahiro and Noyama Masatomo were teasing about how to conquer Takamatsu Castle, Ishikawa Hisataka, the lord of Takamatsu Castle, had already learned about Masahiro's team, and thought that he would be able to meet this cheap son-in-law in Takamatsu Castle today, but he didn't expect his team to be so slow, starting from Hofukuji Temple during the day, and before spending time at night, he had not spent the Ashmorikawa River, and set up his station on Mt. Gengshen.

A strong man rode a horse, galloping through the market town on the edge of the city, because of the wind and sun, his cheeks turned copper, this strong man, with a full face, eyes slightly narrowed, seemed to be a little compassionate and peaceful, but then look at the essence that came out of the eyes that tried to open wide, it was clearly a terrible fierce general, there was no excess fat on his body, with every movement, the muscles on his body vibrated violently, as if he would make a metallic knocking sound at any time.

The strong man's name is Sekiguchi Takasei, it can be said that the Optimus Jade Pillar of the Takamatsu Ishikawa family, the golden beam of the sea, and Shimizu Soji's father, Shimizu Zong, has always been at odds, and the last time he went to Matsuyama Castle, it was really difficult to travel because of the recurrence of his old injuries, so he let Shimizu Zong pick up the cheap, which made him very regretful.

There are disadvantages and advantages, after Matsuyama Castle, Shimizu Soji became the small surname of Zhengheng, and Shimizu Zongzhi returned home for fear of Zhengheng's revenge and lived in seclusion, Sekiguchi Xiaocheng is becoming more and more healthy, and his position is stable, but now his face is obviously not very good-looking, and he walked into the gate of Takamatsu Castle and went straight to the castle tower.

Running into the castle tower, seeing Ishikawa Hisataka standing up with a sad face and wanting to ask, Sekiguchi Takanari didn't wait for questions and answers, wiped a handful of sweat stains, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, something is wrong, the Liantai Temple in Kojima County was attacked in the early hours of this morning, and the whole temple and the believers were killed as a full five or six hundred. The disciples of the Shingon sect of the Imperial Family School have all gone crazy, they have gathered ronin, earth attendants, and believers, and the total number of mobs has reached six or seven hundred, and there are signs of gathering more and more, they have already muttered about Amitabha, Mogami Inari, the Pure Land of Bliss, and the Infernal Hell, and they have gathered at Rentai Temple, and pointed the murderous finger of the slaughter of Rentai Temple at Mogami Inari. ”

Ishikawa Hisataka's frightened expression was overflowing, he never expected such a tragedy to happen, and said urgently: "Is the murderer who slaughtered Rentai Temple the most disciple of Inari?" He was obviously shocked by what he heard, and if there was a real riot, Takamatsu Castle would be directly affected, and he was a little incoherent.

Sekiguchi Takanari did not blame Ishikawa for being incoherent, he was also shocked when he first heard the news, completely overwhelmed, took a deep breath and said the news again, and then asked: "Your Highness, now that the disciples of the Shingon Sect Imperial Sect are all crazy, they will no longer listen to anyone's mediation, the riot will come soon, and please ask Your Highness to stabilize the hearts of the people inside and outside the city first." "Since it is located near Mogami Inari Honzan, most of the people in Takamatsu Castle are followers of the Nichiren sect, and if there is a riot, the impact on Takamatsu Castle will be fatal.

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