After Ouchi Qingying finished speaking, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do, after all, the situation has now gone, and the decline of the Ouchi family is irretrievable. Lengquan Longfeng was the first to speak: "Young master, everyone, the matter of the lord is already like this, if you want to get better, and the mountain city is afraid that there are no such good medical conditions, it is better to cross the sea and return to Fengqian as soon as possible." ”

Takakami Kurokawa responded: "That's right, once the siege of the mountain castle is formed, and the Date naval army has an absolute advantage, it will become extremely difficult to pass through the strait, and at the same time, the main body needs to be treated, I don't know if you have a way to defend the mountain castle." ”

The crowd was silent, apparently no longer having any illusions about the defense of the city. As for Takatoyo Ryuzumi and Takashi Kurokawa, it makes sense to withdraw from Honshu Island on the grounds of preserving Yoshitaka Ouchi's sick body. As for whether Yoshitaka Ouchi's health will improve after returning to Kyushu, this matter no longer needs to be considered by them. Even if Yoshitaka Ouchi survives the crisis by his own will, when Haruei Ouchi ascends to the throne, they will naturally become the arms of the new master. Why bother to look at Yoshitaka Ouchi's face again, not to mention that Yoshitaka Ouchi's body has already been hollowed out by alcohol and women, looking at his current situation, I am afraid that it will be very difficult to return to Bunzen, why bother to look at the face of a dying person.

Bunzen guards Daisugi Shigeju, he supports Ouchi Yoshitaka to return to Honshu Island out of interest considerations, and does not want Ouchi Yoshitaka to continue to stay in his territory, and now he sees that Ouchi Yoshitaka is no longer good, and returning to Bunzen has become inevitable. Otomo Yoshijin is eyeing Bunzen, and with the strength of Sugi Shigeju alone, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist the military strength of Otomo Yoshijin, and if Otomo Yoshijin's younger brother becomes the head of the Ouchi family, Bunzen Province is nominally under the rule of Ochi Haruhidetoku. In this way, it can also block the truth of Otomo Yoshizhen.

Thinking like this, Shanzhongju also expressed his approval, and as soon as he heard that the minister Shanzhongju agreed, the others also said: "The ministers seconded the proposal, please move the young master to Fengqian Country, and invite a famous doctor to treat the lord's illness as soon as possible." "Who doesn't want to stay away from war.

Everyone agreed. Ouchi Qingying also acquiesced in this matter, he suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Tao Zhongwucheng, I heard a few days ago that the remnants of the Maori clan of An Yi Country came to defect, is there such a thing?" "Tao Longxing, commonly known as Zhongwu Cheng.

Tao Longxing thought about it for a moment and replied: "It's true, he claims to be Maori Longjing, the second son of Maori Yuan, and led more than 200 people to defect. At that time, the lord was afraid that it was the work of the Date family, so he arranged for him to be monitored near Qingshan City. ”

Ouchi Haruei's face was solemn and heavy, and he said: "Now there are still 3,500 troops in Yamajo, Aoyama Castle, Akama Pass and other places, and if we want to get out of danger safely, we must leave enough troops in Yamajo to block the attack of the Date family and give us enough time." Since Maori Longjing has a life-and-death feud with Date Masahiro, he should not open the city and surrender, and we will leave 800 people, including his own men. A thousand people in total, should be able to hold out for a while. ”

Tao Longxing and the others did not have any opinions. Originally, there were already people among them who were already playing the drums, whether the person behind the palace would be themselves, and there would be no chance of survival if they served as the queen of the palace, you must know that all the land routes of the mountain castle have been blocked by the Date army, and the sea is afraid that it will be blocked soon, not to mention that if you want to cross the sea, you need a boat. Before fleeing, the Ouchi army feared that they would take all the ships they could find.

On July 7, Yoshitaka Ouchi left Nagato by boat. After three months of stiffening in bed, with the death of Yoshitaka Ouchi and Yoshicho Ouchi one after another, Yoshijin Otomo and Haruei Ouchi's brothers became angry, making the situation in the western country clear all of a sudden.

Against the backdrop, Maori Longjing also ushered in the last phase of his life.

Haruhei Ouchi chose to lead more than 2,000 people across the sea to Bunzen Province before the ultimatum. However, there are still many people who do not want to leave their homeland again, and they will die in their homeland, leaving them to fight for their beliefs and for the once glorious Ouchi clan.

And the current guard of the mountain castle, Maori Takakei, looked at the dense Bamboo Feather Bird Banner of the Date family outside the city, the muscles on his face twitched, his eyes revealed murderous intent, and the handsome face in the past was full of hideous color, and he whispered in his mouth: "Date Ah Ida, my Maori Longjing's relatives in the country of Aki all fell into the ghost clan overnight, this revenge will not be avenged, and I will not be a man." He looked at the more and more Date soldiers gathered in the city, and he couldn't help but think of his father Mori Motosho, who was caught between Nizi and Ouchi and survived, in order to expand the territory and enhance the strength of the Ada Shoheng to conquer the Date Shoheng who had just unified China, the shadow of the nightmare fell on the head of the Maori family for the first time, and in just a few years, the Maori family lost all the strength to fight, and the land, the city, and the retainers left one after another.

In order to resist Date Masei, Mori Takakei asked Ouchi Yoshicho to form a three-family alliance, and in the last battle, Murakami Buyoshi was killed in another country, and Mori Takakei also lost everything, and Koriyama Castle was destroyed, and he took hundreds of people on the road of escape. Originally, he thought that he could regain power by relying on the counterattack of his ministers, but he really tasted the feeling of betrayal and separation, and found that the loyal retainers who followed his father threw themselves into the arms of Date one after another, and in less than five or six years of annual hunger, the Date family has grown from a useless little tyrant to a overlord who impresses the world.

Once the lord of a country, the de facto ruler of the country after the Maori Gen era, Maori Takakei has become a down-and-out country ronin, watching the glory that should have belonged to him shrouded the head of Date Masahiro, his heart is dripping blood.

A year and a half on the run, Maori Takashi did not look at all like a young man of twenty-three or four, he was tall and thin, with a straight back and an impatient look, he kept swaying his body, his thin hands in front of him, his hair had been shaved, like a monk, the corners of his mouth had wrinkles, and his black eyes were always cold and elusive.

To his left, fiddling with a pile of dirt is the younger brother of Mori Takakei, a young man who shares the same fate as him. Prepare for the lord of Matsuyama Castle in China, and the younger brother of Zhuang Gaozi who committed suicide after losing the battle with Date Masahiro.

After the death of Zhuang Gaozi, his people either became low-ranking samurai of the Date family, or they left Beichu, the latter of whom Jinjin belonged to, and he had always been a restless fellow. Ben was a little unwilling, and he always wanted to contact Hideko Ueki. Gradually, the rapid expansion and rise of the Date family, coupled with the fact that Hideki Ueki is really a useless guy, made his heart depressed all of a sudden, and the unwilling and degenerate Jinzu met the equally unwilling Maori Longjing, or it can be said that Maori Longjing took the initiative to meet him, and the two sides hit it off. became a good friend, and he also came to the castle with Mori Takakei as his brother, hoping that Yoshitaka Ouchi could help them rebuild their family business.

Another samurai leader who is currently on patrol in the forest and Yamashiro speaks, his experience is very similar to the experience of the previous two, but he is more innocent, and Mori Takakei and Jinzu can be said to be the end of the loser.

Speaking of his name, the Ukitaharu family, is quite controversial in historical documents, often linking him with his brother Tadahara, sometimes merging the two. Sometimes they are separated, and when it comes to his eldest brother, the Ukita Naojia, who died unjustly in Tenjin Mountain Castle, his second brother also did not end well due to the assassination of Masahiro.

Such a guy with a very low sense of existence due to the likes and dislikes of political balance, the Ukita Naojia was unjustly killed, the Ukita family was given to death, and the Ukita Tadashi family attempted assassination and was persecuted again. Gradually embarked on the road of revenge. The three of them involuntarily gathered together again, looking at Date's army with hatred. The hatred in his eyes grew stronger.

Date Mashiro is their common enemy, the culprit who makes them so down.

Maori Longjing looked at the castle and his eyes couldn't help shrinking, gathered into a point, and said hatefully: "Can you see how many enemies there are?" ”

Jin Zishi's eyes beside him were not very good, and he said in a deep voice: "The formation is neat, and there should be no less than 10,000 people when you look at it." It seems that he still thought that Yoshitaka Ouchi was personally in charge of the mountain castle. But he didn't know that Date Masahiro already knew the truth when the Ouchi army withdrew to Kyushu Island, and even the people who were guarding the mountain castle were clear, or if Ouchi Haruei would cross the sea so safely, the Date family's navy was not jealous, and the salt and injima navy had been competing.

The corners of Maori Takakei's mouth pursed slightly. The muscles on his face were distorted, his handsome face became hideous, his temples were full of green tendons, and he said, "Maybe his thoughts are not this, has Naito Takaharu of the Nagaoka Nato family thought about it?" ”

The Ukitaharu family shook their head and said, "They don't seem to be willing to fight hard with the Date family, hoping to reach an agreement with the Date family by peaceful means, but Naito Takaharu didn't say anything to death, telling us that as long as we can stay long enough, he has sent an envoy to Kinai to visit Miyoshi Chokei." ”

Maori Takakei's eyes were slightly red, and he said in a low voice: "Naito Takaharu's words can't be believed, as long as the mountain castle is held for one more day, the chance of him reaching an agreement with the Date family will be scored, obviously hoping that we will have as many as possible, with a thousand defenders who want to defend the mountain castle, Aoyama Castle, and Akama Pass, it is impossible, we must abandon the two cities and gather all the soldiers and horses in one city." The current Date family is not something we can defeat, and we must leave a way back. ”

Ukita Haru nodded, leaving a back road, this matter is easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to do, you must know that the current land route from the mountain castle to the outside has long been blocked by the Date army, and it is not possible to take the sea route without ships.

Jinzi asked in a low voice, "Brother, what do you say we should do?" ”

Mori Takashi looked up at the sky, and sighed leisurely: "This battle must be fought, and it must be held for more than ten days, when the time comes, we will evacuate by the route of the Naito family, and lead the war of the Date army to the Naito family, and then there will inevitably be a battle, take the opportunity to cross the border, and then take a boat to Shikoku." After saying that, he gave the order, gathered the whole army, and prepared the order to defend the city.

There are only more than 1,000 defenders, but they have to defend three places, of course, it is not possible. Mori Takakei gave up the key point of Akama Pass, and showed his determination to live and die with the castle, and Aoyama Castle and Yamayama Castle had actually been trained together, so he garrisoned most of the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses close to the Date army formation of Yama Castle.

Those who stayed in the mountain castle to fight were the former witnesses of the Ouchi clan, who were unwilling to leave the land that the Ouchi clan fought for, so they stayed and became the main part of the defenders, and some of the personnel were people who hated the political balance, or should it be said that they hated the Date family, and they were all a group of people who had lost their vested interests because of the rise of the Date family.

In the early days of the war, the Date Army had already firmly gained the upper hand, and the mountain castle and Qingshan Castle were both big cities, so big that more than 1,000 people were thrown into it like a boulder thrown into a big river, which could only play the role of waves.

Under the help of the ladder, one by one the Date soldiers climbed the tall city wall.

The decisive battle of Yamashiro broke out during the street fighting, and Mori Takakei knew from the beginning that it would be difficult to resist the attack of the Date army with his thousand swords and guns alone, and only by dragging them into the streets could he have the living strength to shoot them with the help of familiar roads.

He did, and street fighting was unexpected.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Ouchi clan played their other side, the side of death, and the balance of victory gradually tilted in their direction. The victory and defeat on the first day made the soldiers who stayed behind rise in their hearts a sense of courage and the courage to persevere.

Mori Takakei was deeply worried that the first day's attack was obviously tentative, and that the Date family did not commit too many soldiers, but the defenders of Akutagawa Castle suffered a terrible price, and after more than 300 dead and wounded, they retreated, and Yamashiro lost more than 100 lives.

The next day's attack was launched before dawn, and the order given by Masayo to Noyama Masutomo was direct and effective, he could rebuild a new castle, so there was no need for the mountain castle to exist, so let it be history.

Fire, iron cannons, explosives, all the destruction that can be used is unfolding at this moment, simple, but extremely effective, relying on street fighting to deal with the weakness of the Date army, since the Date family can not even do with the mountain castle, what is the use of you hiding in the city.

Mori Takakei, Tsutsu Shitoki, and Ukita Haru Ieji showed helplessness in their eyes, I have seen crazy people, I have never seen such crazy people, and it is really incomprehensible that people who don't even want the strongest castle in the world in order to be able to end the battle as soon as possible.

According to Zhengheng's original words: "People are the city, people are the sea, and with people, there is the world!" "He coincides with Maori Yuan's thoughts, Maori Longjing did not have a good rest of his father's ideological elite, in his understanding that the city can be torn down and rebuilt, but the soldiers cannot be bought, since you want to rely on the strong city to fight his soldiers, then he will destroy your strong city, let your soldiers face to face with his soldiers, in terms of numbers and courage his soldiers are not weaker than any soldier in the world. (To be continued......)