The man behind Katayama Moricho didn't have such a good skill, and before he could react, the flying feather arrow had already penetrated his chest. The man's body shook twice, and he tried to pull the hemp rope that pulled the cart, but he had no strength in his body, and he fell to the side of the cart, and the horse pulling the cart neighed.

Katayama Moricho glanced left and right, waved his hand at the driver who was driving the car, and shouted loudly: "I don't know which way of the hero, we are the convoy that went to Kyoto to pay tribute to the imperial court, and we are embarrassed by the imperial court, embarrassed by His Majesty the Emperor, and ask this heroic man to restrain the horse from the precipice." ”

While shouting, he immediately ordered the people to untie the rope on the horse, and after separating the horse from the cart, he took out the saddle and rope from the cart, and soon the three hundred carriages turned into three hundred cavalry, assembled in a conical formation, and waited for Katayama Mori to give orders.

Just as the Date family was preparing for the formation, footsteps came from the corner of the side of Mt. Keimi, and as the footsteps became louder and louder, the number of people increased, Katayama Moricho and Urakami Masamune glanced at each other, and sure enough, the two of them were not the slightest frightened.

There was not much time, and an infantry formation of about 2,000 people quickly gathered in front of the convoy, and in the last formation of the infantry array, several men in armor looked nervously at the horse team of the Date family who was assembling, one of the younger ones was Miki Tongqiu of Yinghe Castle, he said slightly nervously: "Sure enough, the whole 300 carriages are 300 cavalry, such a large number of cavalry, can these 2,000 infantry be able to stop it?" ”

Harumasa Akamatsu, who was not far away from him, had wanted to ask this silly question as well, but he looked at his retainer Masahide Akamatsu, who was the lord of Tatsuno Castle. It can be said that it is the Dinghai God Needle of the Akamatsu family. Masahide Akamatsu saw everyone's eyes. Said disdainfully: "Three hundred carriages have to transport a thousand stone of grain, plus the chariot and the driver, a horse has to pull the weight of five or six stones, and it has been walking continuously for most of the day, I am afraid that it has already reached the limit, can it fight again?" Besides, they didn't wear armor, so what were they afraid of? ”

Listened to this. Akamatsu Harimasa stretched his face, immediately became eyebrows and smiled, and said: "Three hundred war horses, plus a thousand stone of grain, haha, this time it can be said that you can get enough money, and more importantly, when Miyoshi Chikuchi defeats the other family, relying on the power of the Miyoshi family, the imperial court will not dare to do anything to us?" ”

Miki Tsuaki listened to Akamatsu Harumasa's words. But he frowned, and he said softly: "Salt placed in the Great Palace." We said okay, after this battle, we will help me coerce Eiga Mido to hand over the wealth. ”

Akamatsu Harumasa waved his fat fingers, smiling proudly, revealing a victor's attitude, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, rest assured, what I promised will definitely be done for you, and when the time comes, I will coerce Yingga Mido, not only to let them hand over their financial power, but also to treat us well, haha." ”

Apparently they didn't know what they had run into, and when the three hundred cavalrymen put on their bronze armor and lit up their dazzling spears, they began to run, carrying a crushing momentum towards the Akamatsu coalition, they realized that they had been deceived.

Miki Tongqiu was taken aback, and roared violently: "Array, array, array!" Block them! Block them! "Since the first war of the former country of the year ago, the Date family took advantage of the great victory to invade the Harima country, and the Akamatsu family suffered heavy casualties, among the more than 2,000 people, only about 300 people belong to Miki Tochiaki, and only 2,300 of the remaining 1,700 people belong to the elite of the Akamatsu clan, and more than 1,300 people are all peasant soldiers.

Even if Miki Tsuaki and Akamatsu Harumasa and others shouted out their throats, the result only made the originally neat-looking formation start to become chaotic. The gun array in front was still slowly advancing, but the gun array in the back had stopped advancing, and the team was divided into two parts.

Katayama Moricho led the cavalry team to rush towards the gun array with three spears, and the gun array in front of him was crooked, and then the second group of cavalry stabbed the enemy with two spears, and the sharp spears pierced the enemy's body lightly, and then pierced into the body of the second row of enemies, but more enemies were knocked headlong by the surging war horses, and they were already dead when they fell backwards in the air.

The Akamatsu coalition army was immediately in chaos, frightened by this sudden blow, and at a loss for what to do, at this time, the follow-up Date cavalry had already swept across with heavy Nima spears, and these well-trained cavalry combined into sharp arrows to rush into battle, like a sharp scalpel cutting the chaotic Akamatsu coalition army into countless scattered pieces, and the bloody slaughter began.

Miki Tongqiu saw a scene that he could never forget for the rest of his life, the front team collapsed the moment the cavalry rushed into the team, and with the collapse of the front team, the back team also began to collapse, he suddenly found that there was an emptiness around him, Huo Ran turned around, but saw that Akamatsu Harumasa and the others had already fled.

Katayama Morinaga brandished three spears and rampaged through the formation, one enemy after another was killed, his cold eyes revealed a suffocating killing intent, he looked at the enemy's Chinese army, saw a samurai in armor, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

Miki Tongqiu saw the enemy cavalry rushing forward, and knew that he was now running away from a dead end, so he had to slap the war horse hard, and danced the sword to meet him, and the staggered place of the war horse, the knife and gun slammed together without any tricks, making a deafening sound of gold and iron, Miki Tongqiu felt a suffocation in his chest, like being hit by a thousand pounds, his arm was sore, and he couldn't pinch the handle of the knife tightly, and when it sounded, the long knife had fallen into the dust. The war horse continued to sprint forward with inertia, and Miki Tsuaki hugged the horse's neck and fled desperately towards the open field.

When Katayama Moricho turned back, Miki Toaki had already taken more than 100 steps, and was blocked by the coalition forces on the way, so he had to give up the pursuit. As soon as the main general left, the coalition army immediately collapsed, scattering and fleeing all over the mountains and wilderness, but fortunately, the Date army was obviously unwilling to continue the attack, and only stopped the pursuit after a while.

To the north of Mt. Keimi, between the valleys of Mt. Masan and Joyama, a team of 1,000 people was quietly ambushing here, and a man with a giant blade hurried over and saw the Koji Masatoshi sitting on the boulder, and the Kushibashi Sakyo Kyyoryo and Kodera Itaka who were guarding the side.

Xiaoji Zhilong's face was happy, and he hurriedly asked, "Zhizheng, how is the situation?" ”

Hearing that the lord of Koji Takashi was acting on his behalf, Koji Zhengzhi frowned slightly, but he didn't ask, looking at the person who came, he knew that this was Inoue Nomasa, a close retainer of Koji Zhilong, who was sent to Bizen Province to spy on Date 's house. Inoue Yumasa's face was very ugly, and he replied: "My lord, the situation is very bad, the Akamatsu coalition has been defeated. ”

"What?"

Hearing Inoue's reply, without waiting for Kodera to answer, Koji Masato, who was sitting on the boulder, stood up and looked at Inoue with a look of surprise, he never thought that a team that occupied the right time and place would be defeated by a convoy that had traveled a long way.

After Inoue told everything he had seen and heard, no one responded for a while, and there was silence, none of them thought that the three hundred carriages would instantly turn into three hundred cavalry, nor did they think of the fact that the Akamatsu coalition army collapsed under a single charge.

There was a hint of panic in Zuo Jingliang's eyes, and he persuaded the political position of the small temple: "Lord, retreat!" A full 2,000 people could not resist the impact of 300 horsemen, and we only had more than 1,000 people, so I was afraid that we would end up in the same fate, so it was better not to go and die. ”

Xiao Si slapped his hands and said, "What Zuo Jingliang said is bad, not only can we not retreat in this battle, but we also have to attack immediately?!" ”

Kushibashi Zuo Jingliang looked back at Kotera in astonishment, he didn't expect that the other party would oppose his advice at such a time, you must know that at the beginning, it was clear that the other party had always held an opposing opinion, but now it was a 180-degree turn, and he was going to attack the cavalry of the Date family, and shouted: "Do you want to put the lord in danger?" ”

Koji Zhilong didn't look at Kushiqiao Zuo Jingliang, but directly saluted Koji and said: "Lord, today's battle is about the future hegemony of Nishiharima, Akamatsu and Miki have been defeated, although they have suffered heavy losses, there is still time to lick their wounds." Once the Bessho family can't block Miyoshi Chokei's attack, they will inevitably choose to surrender, and then Higashi Harima will become a battlefield for Miyoshi and Date to fight, and this is said to the lord when he was in the castle. Now the minister still has to say it again, but it is to mention another meaning. Even if Akamatsu and Miki have been defeated, in the eyes of Miyoshi, whether they win or lose is already considered to have surrendered. If my family retreats now, in the eyes of Miyoshi, it will be like a betrayal, and the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

As mentioned earlier, Koji has an indecisive character, and after listening to Koji Zhilong's analysis, he suddenly fell into deep thought, and his original intention was the same as Kushibashi Zuo Jingliang who wanted to return immediately, but Koji Zhilong's words were not unreasonable.

Seeing that the political position of the small temple had been moved, the small temple Zhilong continued to say: "Lord, we must take a long-term view, think about it, how can the other institute block the attack of the army of Miyoshi Changqing, once the West Harima falls, the East Harima will definitely fall into the flames of war." Now the lord has joined forces with Akamatsu and Miki, and in the eyes of the Date family, he has been branded with the Miyoshi family, but if he retreats, he will be regarded as a traitor by the Miyoshi family, and the two sides will not please him, and the consequences of the Koji family will be worrying. ”

Xiaoji listened to the analysis, looked back at Kushiqiao Zuo Jingliang, but Kushiqiao Zuo Jingliang did not refute the opinion, a series of analyses were like blows again and again, he was a little stunned, and his tone was hesitant and a little cowardly: "Two thousand people have been defeated, how can we fight?" ”

The corners of Xiaoji Zhilong's mouth curled: "Not necessarily? (To be continued......)