Chapter 138: Chaos (Part II)

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This time the Date army attacked, Zhengheng had planned to test the defense line of the Maori army, to see if he could make some gains after more than ten years of confrontation, so as to give the later subjugated countrymen some eyes to see the might of the Date army. Although there was a great victory in the Gaoyachuan Gorge in front, for the more than 3,000 soldiers who came later, it was far from being able to face the attack this time, and the total strength of the feint attack plus the ambush was only more than 700 people, but the level obtained was thirty or forty, plus the sixty or seventy who did not have time to cut the rank, plus the head of an enemy commander, it can indeed be regarded as a great victory. Sixty or seventy casualties in the preparation of China's village-level joint battle can already be regarded as a decisive victory, and the losing side is often injured and has no four or five years of vitality, and it is afraid that it will be difficult to recover, and if it is not done well, the family will be ruined. But now that the Date Army and the Maori Army, plus the number of Bigo Coalition forces that are still in the local area, the number of the Coalition Army has exceeded 10,000, and in the face of a big war of tens of thousands, the casualties of less than 100 people are far from being broken.

Maori Yuan and Date Zhengheng's rise to the road is very different, for the Xin people to achieve great things generally rely on two strategies, one is to appease, the other is to kill chickens and monkeys, most of the two use each other, but there are also heavy and light, Maori Yuan's rise can be said to be bumpy, although there is also thunder rage, most of the time the former is used, the conspiracy is redundant, and it is called a conspirator. Date Zhengheng rose in the end of the slightest, but it was not a Maori method, it was directly uprooted, completely eradicated, and used thunderous means to deter the surrounding wealthy clans, and rein in the weak and suppress the strong.

Kagawa Kokyo, who was originally subordinate to the Ouchi family, was a wealthy family of Aki Province, but now the Ouchi family has only defected to Mori Moto, and his position in the Mori family is that of a guest secretary rather than a retainer, and Mori Moto, who can only use the colloquial language of consultation to make Kagawa Kokagei obey him. But it is not a mandatory order, and now that Kagawa is dead, it also gives Mori Motoshi the opportunity to directly seize the power of the Kagawa family, and he seized the Yoshikawa family and Kobayakawa family after eradicating the conspiracy and tricks of the Yanliu.

Of course, Masahiro is not interested in knowing the future of the Kagawa family, nor does he want to know, anyway, he has no way to cross the country of Bigo to intervene. Zhengheng didn't expect that the freshly baked Ge Lang Hengxiu and the young and mature Shimizu Soji would have such ability. In the midst of the enemy army, he took out Kagawa in one fell swoop, greatly boosted the morale of the Date army, and cut the morale of the Maori army, which was already not high. He now suddenly had a sense that he was a little more conservative militarily in the face of the famous Maori Yuan. Of course, between winning and undefeated, the choice made by the political balance to drag the Maori army to death was the only one.

It is different from the angle that Kazulong Hengxiu has to consider. Zhengheng has to consider the overall situation, for the generals under his command, killing the enemy generals is a shortcut to becoming a knight, and for him, as the head of a family and the commander of an army, it is what he needs to consider how to fight for the greatest interests.

But victory is a good thing after all, and it gives Zhengheng a sense of sudden enlightenment, and a new perspective on the original negative confrontation. Although the practice of changing the order is despicable, it is the best way to make a slight change to the original flawed plan, and sticking to the old rules is also the beginning of failure.

Zhengheng rewarded Ge Long Hengxiu, Shimizu Soji and others, and ordered Akagi Kaohsiung to send personnel to pacify the soldiers, and the rewards were varied.

Katsuro Hengshu and Shimizu Soji thanked him, and Masahiro casually opened a letter from Tsurujo that had been delayed due to his victory, and the content of the letter did not contain the latest news about Nuke-gun and Sugihara Yorishige, and it had little to do with Kagawa's situation. It is closely related to the current war situation.

Normally, when he got the information, he was able to read and think quietly, but now he couldn't read a word, and his gaze quickly swiped over the pages of the letter, all the way to the last page of the letter, and when he saw the last page, his eyes were fixed. Took a deep breath.

After a long while, Zhengheng reunited from his thoughts, and he took out a page from the letter in his hand, handed it to Noyama Masato, and whispered, "It seems that we are going to end this confrontation as much as possible." After speaking, he carefully examined the map of the Three Kingdoms of Kibi on the desk.

This map, which was mostly drawn by Zhengheng himself, is very rudimentary. The distribution of hills, rivers, castles, factions, and roads in the exit is generally marked by different symbols and characters, and it is impossible to give an intuitive impression of the geographical environment of the Kibi area. When viewed from above, most of the hills are layered on top of each other, and that is the famous Kibi Plateau in the western country, which occupies almost two-thirds of the territory of Bizen, Bichu, and Bigo, and only a few plains are fertile, such as the Asahikawa estuary in Bizen Province, Kurashiki in Bizoku Province, and the Kanno Plain in Bigo Province.

Now in the middle and late stages of the Warring States period, food output determines the increase in population, and there is no other way to be effective in a short period of time, the only way to take action is to occupy more land to feed the increased population, and use the increased population to expand the army to seize more land.

Yeshan Yichao looked at the pages handed over by Zheng Heng, his brows suddenly twisted together, and he said in an unkind tone: "The Nizi family is really good at picking the time." After he finished speaking, he passed the page in his hand to the Taoshan Shinbei under the lower Taoshan Guard, and everyone looked at it with different expressions, all of them seemed to be preoccupied, obviously the content of the letter made everyone finally mention that they wanted to fight to the death with Mao Liyuan to dispel their beliefs, and most of them were even more angry at the movements of the Niko family.

There is not much content in the letter, only two lines are written, and Niko Haruhisa began to assemble in Misaku, and the 3,000 people of the Shingu Party have also gathered, and the total strength is about 12,000.

After everyone looked at it, Zhengheng suddenly laughed, and for a while everyone didn't know how to speak, they all looked at him suspiciously, and laughed for a while before saying: "Nizi Haruhisa seems to really think that he has eaten me, haha, he doesn't want me to weaken Maori Motosaku, thinking that Maori Motoshi will return to Aki Country and Ouchi Yoshicho to continue to fight, so that he can calmly deal with Misaku, Bigo and those of us who are drifting away, and then turn around and eat the winner of Maori Motogaku and Ouchi Yoshinaga." He couldn't help but feel a wave of resentment in his heart, but this step of Nizi Qingjiu was really a one-step conspiracy, and he had to step into the conspiracy he planned.

Taoshan Zhenbei Jue Zhengheng's expression was wrong, obviously not because of excitement, he hurriedly responded: "Your Highness, once the time is ripe, Nizi Qingjiu will definitely have the next step, he has gathered heavy troops in the United States There are no more than two ways, one is to prepare the Urakami brothers, the other is us, the most likely is both, we have to be guarded against."

Everyone nodded yes, the original relaxed feeling of victory was suddenly overwhelmed by the pressure of Nizi Haruhisa like a huge mountain, obviously everyone did not expect that Nizi Haruhisa would do such a thing at this time, and the Date army had just had some chances of winning after more than ten days of confrontation, so he turned his head and gave a basin of ice water, which caught everyone in the Date family off guard.

On the contrary, Akagi Takao, who had just returned from Tsurujo, said in an affirmative tone: "Your Highness, ladies and gentlemen, it seems that Niko Haruhisa's approach is quite beneficial to the Mori family now, but it has been more than a month since he made such a decision and the time it takes to gather troops and horses." The meaning of his words does make some sense, from the distribution of orders to the assembly of an army, or an army of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, this is not a thing that can be done in a short period of time, it takes a long time to assemble, plus the supply of food and weapons for 10,000 people, logistics support, etc., it will take a month at the shortest.

The Mori military had only left Aki a month earlier, and had not yet had any substantial contact with Date Gunse, and no one would have expected that Mori would fall in the same pit again and again, and no one would have thought that Mori would fall so badly in the short Takayagawa Gorge.

Zhengheng paused slightly, his emotion was based on the situation after the war in the Gaoyachuan Gorge, not the situation before the war, but he didn't have any face, paused slightly, and said: "In this way, Nizi Qingjiu gathered soldiers and horses to help us when we fail!" He said it easily, but there was no expression of joy on his face, and everyone did not smile, and the atmosphere in the tent was gloomy for a while.

The meaning of Zhengheng's words couldn't be clearer, before the war, Niko Haruhisa thought that the Date family could not resist the attack of the Maori family, and after the defeat of the battle, the Niko army was able to enter the preparation of China to annex the Date family as a savior, which was a good calculation, but what he never expected was that the Date family would be so powerful. The expected result was not seen, but the Mori Moto, who had always made it difficult for Niko to sleep for a long time, was defeated, and he had to do something that was quick for his relatives and enemies, and gathered soldiers and horses to pressure the Date family to stop continuing to expand the results of the war against the Mori family.

The original annexation plan had to be stopped, but the troops and horses were gathered to pressure the Date army to stop the army, so that Zhengheng had no choice but to continue the original plan of passive confrontation, without having to make a decision to change the order.

But at this moment, the soldiers guarding the door outside the tent came in and reported: "Your Highness, the messenger sent by the East Ehara Array is here."

Since the second group of more than 3,000 soldiers came to the Xieyuan Formation, the originally somewhat narrow camp became even more crowded, so a position was rebuilt on the other side of the river, connected by three pontoon bridges in the middle, but it formed a huge chain of positions, so that the Maori Yuan, who detected this qiē, had no way to counterattack.

The person who came knelt on the ground and reported: "The messenger of the Maori family is here, and it is still the original bald donkey named Zhu Yun Huixin."