At ten o'clock, Yuji and Ono Town were fortunate to kill and retreat the patrol, ran through the Chikugo River, and encountered two waves of pursuers in succession, and the Chikugo River was also not spared, but fortunately, it was only escaped by Bu Weixin. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Urgent letters from the house came one after another, and most of the castle was lost in just a few days, and the subordinates of the Otomo family in various places, whether they were relatives or genealogies, turned against each other.

Toji Michiyuki was anxious, but not depressed. He knew that in order to hold the Bungo Kingdom, there must be the Seto Inland Sea, and without the Bungo Kingdom of the Seto Inland Sea, even if he went back, he would not be able to defend it. In fact, Chikugo Province is a horse and a flat river, and Toji Michiyuki also understands that it is impossible to hold it, so the only way to retreat to Higo Province is to use the mountains and mountains at the junction of Chikugo, Higo, and Bungo to drag down the Date army, and more than 200,000 people eat and drink The cost is huge, as long as it survives until winter, the Date army will retreat, and then it will be time for them to counterattack.

As long as you keep the hole card of the army, even if you have to sue for peace in the end, you can get satisfactory conditions and keep a country's territory. In the case of chaos in the internal affairs of the inner city of Otomo Town, Toji Michiyuki must first preserve his strength.

Toji Michiyuki really hated the inaction of Yoshihiro Kanri, Usuru Kansu and others.

The city in the house is in danger, and Yoshihiro Jianli and Utaru Jiansu do not decisively jump out to seek a way out, seize the road to save themselves, and are also entangled in the struggle for power and profit with Mrs. Nado. Once the two-sided attack of the Date army is completely formed, it will be a heavy price to get out of Funai Castle.

According to Toji Michiyuki's idea, he acted decisively and withdrew from Funai Castle and retreated to the triangle, which was enough to empty all the warehouses in Funai Castle if time permitted, so that there was no need to worry about food and rewards.

At ten o'clock, Yuji and Ono Zhenyuki hurried to inform Toji Michiyuki of the bad news of the destruction of Sefukuji Castle.

Toji Michiyuki didn't expect Sefukuji Castle to fall so quickly, although the fall of Sefukuji Castle was a matter of time sooner or later, but Sefukuji Castle was surrounded by Ryuzoji Takanobu for more than a month without losing confidence, and in his thoughts, he could resist him for at least six or seven days, and he never thought that it would fall to this point. His heart sank into the abyss, and now they could not ride the tiger.

Toji Michiyuki viciously ordered: "Let the cavalry out, sweep away the enemy on the south bank of the Chikugo River, and provoke the Date army with great fanfare." "Although Toji Michiyuki only has a pitiful two or three hundred horsemen in his hands, he usually regards it as a treasure, and he won't send it out casually at all, but he can't take care of it so much at the moment, hoping to scare the Date army.

Yubu Weixin was just about to go out, but Toji Michiyuki grabbed him and commanded in a low voice, "You must be careful." ”

Yubu Weixin replied: "Yes! ”

Ono Zhenyuki's expression was solemn, and he hesitated slightly, and said: "My lord, please give me a force of more than 1,000 people, and deploy it on the bank of the Chikugo River to pose in a half-crossing posture. ”

At ten o'clock, he only heard Ono Zhenyuki's pleading, and his eyes were full of eagerness, obviously he heard Ono Zhenyuki's intentions, and he attacked halfway on the surface, but he actually wanted to break off for the army.

Pursued by tens of thousands of troops, it was difficult for Ono Town to escape. This spirit of giving up the hope of life to others touched the generals in the tent, but no one shared it with him.

At ten o'clock, he asked, "My lord, what should we do now?" Retreat? ”

Toji Daoxue shook his head firmly and said, "You can't withdraw the army immediately!" The Date army is coming, and if we leave without a fight, the already panicked coalition forces will immediately mutiny. ”

The total strength of the Great Friendly Army was nearly 25,000 people, of which only 5,000 were from the Toji Michiyuki headquarters plus the Bungo people, and the rest of the men and horses were all from the countrymen of Chikugo and Higo, and I am afraid that most of the Chikugo people would flee after he withdrew from the battlefield. If you don't go without a fight, not only will most of the people flee, but the fat people will be no exception, and only by letting them see each other's blood can they follow their own path to the end.

Ten o'clock was only convinced, and nodded: "Indeed?!" However, this battle must be cautious, the Date army is not easy to mess with, judging from their march and deployment, they are all outstanding leaders. ”

Toji Michiyuki nodded and said in a low voice: "This is also what I'm worried about, once things don't get along, I'm afraid that Chikugo and Higo will all run away." Now I've placed Chikugo on Mt. Higo, and Higo on Mt. Kora, which looks much safer. As everyone knows, as long as we will block the road down the mountain, they will have to use it for us. If the Date army wants to attack us, it must first attack Mt. Kora, and if the Higo wants to withdraw from Higo, they will have to obey their orders. The people of Zhuhou watched the battle of Gaoliang Mountain, and they would sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. However, Kamachi Kansheng showed me that he is our talisman, as long as he is in our hands, Chikugo Kingdom will not be pacified quickly, and there will be chaos for a while. ”

At ten o'clock, he replied: "Understood! ”

Toji Michiyuki got up and walked out of the big tent, looked at Chikugo River, gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Date thieves broke my home, killed my relatives, divided my land, today I will fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and those who dare to retreat and flee will be killed." ”

Kiyokawa Henghide's easy victory gave Matsushima Hengsheng and Iwase Hengzhong a great stimulus. Although the city of Shifu Temple was already dilapidated, and he originally intended to give the first credit to Qinghe Hengxiu, who knew that Shao Erdongshang would be so vulnerable, and he even sacrificed the city without fighting, making many of their plans a joke. Now Qinghe Hengxiu informed them of the news and screamed excitedly.

The two of them were about to give the order to cross the Chikugo River, but word came that Toji Michiyuki had sent a cavalry team to sweep across the southern bank of the Chikugo River, and there were faint signs of an ambush in a shoal near Mt. Kora.

When Matsushima Hengsheng heard the report, his face turned pale, thinking that this must be Toji Michixue's half-crossing strategy, and he didn't launch an attack at the first time, obviously he fell for Toji Michixue's plan.

To everyone's surprise, Iwase Hengzhong was not only not frightened, but laughed out loud and said: "Half-crossing, hehe, if you don't find it sooner or later, you won't find it later, but it's not very strange that it was discovered when the city fell?" If there is no movement on the south bank, it makes people suspicious, but now there is a lot of movement, which means that they are afraid, they have no strength, and they want to use tactics to scare us, and then they can deploy calmly. In that case, let them see how good we are and build bridges to cross the river. ”

On both sides of the Chikugo River, Iwase Hengzhong's big action of building a bridge with chain boats to cross the river upstream was obviously not concealed by Yubu Weixin and Ono Zhenyuki and others, Yubu Weixin wanted to stop it, but he couldn't get close to the beachhead, and watched more and more Date troops cross the Chikugo River. Ono Zhenyuki was also helpless, so he had to lead his army to leave in a hurry, and set up a formation at the corner between Mt. Kora and Chikugo River to block the advance of Date's army.