Chapter 51: The Conquest of Kyushu (4)
Ouchi Yoshinaga galloped back to Bunzen Province from the front line of Bungo Province, and was in a bad mood. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info walked along the Zhoufang Beach, against the wind, and the cheeks of Ouchi Yoshinaga hurt, but he did not pity the horses, and waved the whip vigorously, the scars on the horse's rump were oozing with blood, and the horse's nose and mouth were foaming at the mouth, showing that he was too tired to do it. When he was defeated and fled back to Toyozen Province, he met the Shikoku Legion of the Date family on the way, and turned around and beat Otomo Yoshijin. Originally, I was very grateful to Date Masahiro for saving his life, but I never thought that Date Masahiro would suddenly cross the sea without his consent, and board the Fengzen country, and the magpie's nest dove occupied, and he didn't take his master seriously.
The changes that had happened were unbearable for him, and Ouchi Yoshinaga was eager to burst out with earth-shattering power and destroy everything. However, Ouchi Yoshicho knew that he could not change anything, and it could be seen from his return to Bunzen Province alone how weak he was, and after entering Bunzen Province, none of the people who had originally offered flattery and favor came to greet him, and followed him to the camp of Ogura Castle to beg for a conversation.
The changes in Bunzen Country were far beyond Ouchi Yoshinaga's expectations, beyond his ability to bear, and the pampered body's empty arrogance was the first time in such a bad situation, and there was no way to follow it. His sanity is being lost, his composure is slowly disappearing, the limits of patience are about to collapse, and the cruelty and ruthlessness of the real world destroy his fragile self-confidence.
The base of the Ouchi clan is the Zhou Defense Province and the Nagato Province, and the place of the Bunzen Province in the Ouchi family was only revealed in the later period of Ouchi Yoshitaka, but Ouchi Yoshitaka has always hoped to counterattack Honshu Island, and he has been fighting against Otomo Yoshicho with the power of one country. When Ouchi Yoshinaga was strong and strong, the people of Fengzen naturally flattered and invited pets, but now Ouchi Yoshinaga is ruined, and it is for the sake of the Date family not to turn against him.
Ouchi Yoshicho whipped his horse hard, and his mount's front hooves collapsed, throwing Ouchi Yoshinaga out fiercely, and then fell to the ground, foaming at the foam and twitching, apparently exhausted.
Ouchi Yoshinaga who had thrown out rolled down in the wild grass, his exposed cheeks and palms scratched some scars, but there were no other injuries, and he stood up dizzily and stomped his feet hard.
Ouchi Yoshicho pulled out the sword, walked to the twitching horse, and slashed down from top to bottom, the horse's head fell down, and a cavity of blood splashed out, throwing Ouchi Yoshicho off his head and body, stunned.
Ouchi Yoshicho looked at the war horse in a different place, he wiped a handful of donated blood, completely sobered up from resentment, and was afraid for a while, if he went to accuse Date Masahiro in his state just now, I am afraid that he may end up with the horse in front of him.
Ouchi Yoshicho silently recited: "Thank you! He looked worried, looked at the blood on his body, looked at the rough sea, pondered for a moment, and then found a beach to cleanse himself.
The autumn sun was still scorching, and without the ride of his mount, Ouchi Yoshicho had to go to the camp at Kokura Castle on foot, but his mood was much better than just now, and there was a little less resentment on his face.
Zhengheng sat in the camp of Ogura Castle, and the 200,000 troops he led were naturally all arranged around Ogura Castle, in fact, there were only more than 35,000 people guarding the camp in Kokura Castle.
In addition, nearly 170,000 people were divided into two routes, east and west, and the western route army was led by Date Sangogogu Kiyokawa Henghide, Matsushima Hengsheng, and Iwayai Hengzhong, and entered Chikuzen Province under the leadership of Akizuki Bungen, Munakata Shisada, Tachibana Kanzai, Takahashi Kantane, Harada Ryei, and Tsukushi Yuimon, and then marched to Hizen Province, containing the main forces of the Otomo family, Tojimichi Yukibe and Shaoji Dongshangbu, and waited until the East Route Army Noyama Yoshitomo broke the Funai Castle, and the east and west formed a situation of encirclement and attack.
After defeating the Tojido Yukibe and the Shaoji Winter Shobu, the east and west roads will continue to advance, all the way to Higo, all the way to Hyuga Province, and then to join the Satsuma Province to completely solve the unresolved matter in Kyushu.
Masaki placed the main formation in Okura Castle in Bunzen Province, and the two countries of Bunzen Province and Chikuzen Province immediately formed several large circles centered on Okura Castle, forming a formation in a circle. Ouchi Yoshicho rode into the country of Fengzen after naturally attracted the attention of many checkpoints, in the inquiry, but also to be identified by the people of Fengzen before he was released, this is also the reason why Ouchi Yoshicho was angry, so that the head of the place who didn't even look at the right eye before over and over again, no one can stand it, not to mention that his prestige will be completely swept away.
Of course, Ouchi Yoshicho will think that all this is instructed by Zhengheng, that is, to hit his prestige hard, in fact, where does Zhengheng have time to pay attention to the mood of this little person. When Masahiro placed this camp in Hirozen Kokura Castle in Bunzen Province, he had completely torn off the skin on Yoshicho Ouchi's face, and he didn't need to do anything else to let everyone see the power of Masahiro and the weakness of Yoshicho Ouchi.
When entering the camp of Kokura Castle, Yoshinaga Ouchi finally borrowed a mule and horse from a temporary military station of the Date family, and went to the camp under the escort of a detachment of the Iva Army.
Yes, mules and horses, there are very few horse breeding lands in the Wa Kingdom, and Zhengheng has occupied more than 20 countries, but there is no organized horse breeding land in the territory, which makes it impossible for him to form a large-scale cavalry team.
War horses can only exert enough strength if they are formed into a large scale, and it is possible to open the distance between the horses and horses if they fight alone, but after all, the Date family has a big business, and there are still a lot of mules and horses to transport materials, and this expedition to Kyushu has requisitioned a full 8,000 mules and horses.
The speed of mules and horses cannot be compared to that of horses, not to mention the team of Date Ashigaru who escorted him looked at him, and Ouchi Yoshinaga could not whip mules and horses like horses. The Date family clearly stipulated that military mules and horses would be punished with a flog once and bloodstains as well.
The speed of the mule and horse was really not fast enough, and Ouchi Yoshinaga's originally calm emotions were a little out of control, which was obviously related to the situation in front of him, but he was helpless and didn't know what to do. Escorting him was a low-ranking samurai, and naturally there would be no common language between the two. The junior samurai glanced at Yoshinaga Ouchi, laughing and pointing at the ashigaru from time to time.
From a distance, I saw the flag of Ogura Castle waving, and the junior samurai who escorted it saw that Yoshinaga Ouchi's face was pale and sweaty, and he hurriedly handed over the water bladder. Ouchi Yoshinaga took the water bladder, held it high, and swallowed it in a big gulp, completely ignoring his demeanor.
Arriving at the military station closest to the Ogura Castle camp, the escort left after the handover, and Ouchi Yoshinaga was led by Yamanaka Kasuke in the direction of the camp.
Seeing Masahiro standing leisurely at the gate of the city to greet him, Ouchi Yoshicho suppressed the resentment in his heart, tried to maintain a humble smile on his face, and forced a happy face.