Chapter 121: The tide is rising

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On the shores of the Seto Inland Sea, in the southeast of the Numakuma Peninsula, Tomanoura is located, and it has been a natural harbor since ancient times, and is known as the "place where the tide is waiting". When the current of the Seto Inland Sea is at high tide, the Bungo Waterway and the Kii Suido collide towards the Tonooura Sea in the center of the Seto Inland Sea, and when the tide is low, the Tonooura Coast is the boundary and flows separately from east to west. Such geographical conditions have made the Manyoshu Songs, written by Otomo Travelers and others, seem to be famous as a good port waiting for the high tide from ancient times to the present.

As a strategic location in the Seto Inland Sea, the center of business is also geographically important to the east. Although the Seto Inland Sea was unable to determine the final victor due to the disturbance of Date Masata, the Seto Inland Sea was in turmoil, but there were still many merchants who were willing to take risks to travel to and from the Seto Inland Sea, and the coast of Tonooura became an important stronghold for them, and for a time it became even more deformed prosperity.

The night is deep, and only hope can dawn. Approaching the dawn, a temple near the coast of Tonooura has become the center of Buddhism in the West due to the fame of Tonooura and the importance of the rulers, and a large number of temples have been built here, making the streets appear narrow and cluttered.6

This temple is not the largest temple in Tonoura, and of course it is not small, there are about ten monks in normal times, and due to the prosperity of the coast of Tonoura, most of the Buddha statues enshrined in the temple here are on par with Kyoto, and the incense is okay.

The original monks of the temple have already been relocated to other places, and the temple is full of samurai in military armor or water thieves in short coats and rude behavior. In the temple's Daxiong Hall, a huge topographic map is placed in the center. It seems to be a rough map of the Three Kingdoms of Kibi, and around the topographic map stand more than a dozen samurai with different expressions, either thinking calmly, or discussing, or pointing and pointing, and a young man is sitting calmly on the other side of the topographic map near the Buddha statue.

The biggest characteristic of young people who are called young people is that they are not very old, but their bodies are not weak. But the scholarly aura on his body is quite dignified, and the cyan uniform worn on his body can't hide the scholarly aura on his body, he smiled with a gentle and tranquil smile, and even the eyebrows and eyes that originally felt too sharp as if they were about to be stabbed also looked quite soft under the smile. Compared with him, although the images of the more than ten people gathered in front of the topographic map were different, they were all stout and reckless. It seems that he is even more weak. However, none of the people present would look at the young people with contempt for what they saw in front of them, and from the glances of the people from time to time, it was clear that these people were quite jealous of young people, but they seemed to be a little nondescript.

At this moment, with the sound of hurried footsteps, Starling Hongping's second son, Starling Jingliang, hurried in, and shouted loudly: "Father! Lord! Where are you? Lord Riko Yu Xuanpei and others rushed over overnight from the gods and plains. He shouted and ran towards the Mahavira Hall.

Starling Hirohei and Riko Yu Nobunhei were both active supporters of Kobayakawa Takakei entering the Numata Kobayakawa family. It has always been valued by Kobayakawa Takakei and his father Mori Motosashi, and the children of the two families are also under Kobayakawa Takakei, and Starling Keira is one of the best.

That young man was none other than the third son of Mori Motosa, known as Kobayakawa Takakei, who was known as the second in Mori Moto, and he could hear the eager shouts of Starling Keira. His face suddenly sank, and his originally relaxed face was suddenly clouded. But after a pause, he smiled nonchalantly and said: "Even if the little preparation China wins, it is not much credit, the second brother can go out with his father, and the big head of the victory is still on the father's body, as long as the eldest brother returns safely, it is just the second brother's wishful thinking." It's just that his expression is obviously a little unnatural, and when he talks about the eldest brother, he gritted his teeth, if it weren't for the swaying of the ever-bright lamp, his expression couldn't be seen clearly, and Wen Jing's face looked extremely hideous.

Kobayakawa Takakei's idea was good, but Riko Yu Nobunpei, who arrived with Starling Keira, looked panicked and uneasy, wiping his sweat under the corridor, Starling Hirohei had already seen that something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?!" ”

Pear Ziyu Xuanping didn't care about watching the field and there were still many attendants, and replied with a frightened face: "Today's Shenshi, Mao Li Yuan Gong led a large army in the Takayagawa River Gorge and fought a decisive battle with Date Dan Zheng Xinheng, Date Dan Zheng burned the way, after tens of thousands of preparations, the whole coalition army collapsed, and the other remaining departments fled home one after another when they saw the victory and defeat, and Mao Li Yuan Gong now has less than 5,000 people left to stay in the Shenbian Plains. He paused, trying to look up to see Kobayakawa Takakei's reaction.

Kobayakawa Takakei really showed a look of surprise, and a trace of surprise appeared, but in a flash, he quietly looked at Riko Yu Xuanping, and asked in an unusually calm voice, "What is my father's opinion?" ”

Riko Yu Xuanpei had obviously received instructions from Mori Motosho, otherwise he would not have rushed to Tonoura overnight to ask to see Kobayakawa Takakei, he nodded slightly and said: "Mori Motokoshi means that the Lord Wangzhu will lead the whole army to take the initiative to attack the coast of Bei China overnight, and it is best to be able to climb the hinterland of Bei China, so that the tail of the Date army is difficult to take care of." ”

No one thought that the main army of Maori would fail, or it was defeated under the leadership of Maori Moto, and Lord Maori Motoyashi, who was preparing to enter China to force the Date army to submit, was actually burned off by a fire and routed, although his face was full of disbelief, in fact, Kobayakawa Takakei's heart was churning like the tide of the Seto Inland Sea, not to mention the other retainers, who were all immersed in their own thoughts and could not extricate themselves.

Kobayakawa looked out at the deep night and said to himself, "It's high tide." ”

Starling Hirohei and Riko Yu Xuanping suddenly felt cold and stood under the corridor in a daze.

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A high tide allowed Kobayakawa to stay in the temple near Tonoura for a brief period of tranquility, the fire of the Takayagawa River was still burning, and the fighting continued.

Once one side of the battlefield broke and fled, the ensuing battle became a one-sided slaughter, although the Date army was not prepared to pursue at all, and Date Masahiro did not have the legendary ability to transfer the army from the other side of the fire, but even the hundreds of Date troops who remained on the other side still dealt a heavy blow to the Maori coalition army, and the hundreds of guys who had killed their temperament forgot the fear they felt when they faced tens of thousands of enemy troops just now, and screamed that they were chasing the coalition soldiers who had already been frightened, swords and guns were fired, that is, it took less than a cup of tea, and the enemy level that fell into their hands was already more than a multiple of their number.

Atsutaro Kiyokawa and other generals had already abandoned the iron cannon, and charged with various swords and guns to kill the Maori coalition army, which had long lost the courage to reflexively confront. The iron cannon without lead bullet and gunpowder was completely a useless burning stick, and more than 100 enemies were killed or wounded in front of them before throwing away the iron cannon, because their sudden attack made the Maori coalition army, which was already about to regroup, crush their last straw, and the roar of the iron cannon in the originally undetermined coalition peasant soldiers collapsed instantly, and the people with different minds of the country also led their generals to fish in troubled waters, so that the general collapse of the Maori coalition army was led.

Taoshan Shinbei and Katayama Moricho, who had traveled through the Maru Road, also reflexively attacked under the notice of the Kusama people, which made the collapse of the Maori coalition army even faster, and hundreds of allied peasant soldiers saw that they could not escape, so frightened that they lost their knees and kowtowed, begging the Date army to spare their lives. Their idea is good, in the troubled times of the Warring States, the "village-level" joint battles are often fought in a rout war, not a war of annihilation, even if the last few leaders come out to commit suicide, most of the rest can save their lives, and some of the most murderous ones are sent to the mine for mining.

However, their surrender was not forgiven by the officers and men of the Date Army, and the cold swords and guns still stabbed into their bodies, although after this battle, the situation had changed in the direction of the Date Army, but there was still not much clarity at that time, the Date Army still had an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and the killing and wounding of the enemy's living force was still the main goal of the Date Army, so there was not much spare energy to look at the prisoners.

At the end of the battle, Date Masahiro saw that the Maori defeated army escaped from the Takayagawa Gorge, he didn't think about wanting to follow the idea of rushing out of the canyon to chase to the end, but the numerical disadvantage and the threat from the sea made him stop his subordinates' crazy pursuit and killing, and also made Maori Yuan breathe a sigh of relief, but the next thing also made Maori Yuan completely indignant, of course, those things are not something that Date Masahiro can control, and now he has begun to gather the Date army to return to the main formation of Nishiehara. The fire in the Takayagawa Gorge was still burning, and the burning gorge could not be garrisoned, and the Maori coalition army became a Maori defeated army, and the Date army, as the victorious side, could only retreat to Nishiebara, one was to wait for the fire that seemed to be burning more and more to extinguish before thinking about the follow-up, and the other was to wait for the scattered Date soldiers to return, and then calculate the casualties of the enemy and the enemy.

With the return of soldiers such as Taoshan Shinbei, Katayama Morinaga, and Kiyokawa Atsutaro, more and more news about the defeat of the Maori army entered the Nishiehara formation, and there were cheers one after another, and in the cheers, Date Masahiro's calm face was a happy gaze. By the time the fire in the Takayagawa Gorge was extinguished, the number of generals and soldiers killed by the Date Army was only about 100 people, and there was not a single military general with a surname, and the heaviest casualties were caused in the Battle of Komiyama. More than 100 nameless enemy generals were killed and wounded, more than 1,000 soldiers, and the number of casualties caused by stampedes and cannibalism reached 3,000.

Big win, big win like never before.