Chapter 71: The Conquest of Kyushu (24)
It was completely dark, and the fighting on the battlefield finally came to an end, and Kiyokawa Hengxiu and Iwase Hengzhong tentatively launched several attacks, apparently without much effect. Seeing www.biquge.info ugliness of Kamachi Jiansheng and the Chikugo people, Toji Michiyuki gave up his plan to continue to gather the Chikugo people and began to think about how to successfully withdraw the army.
Toji Daoxue has a treasure Song version of "Jiang Yuan", familiar with his book, its meaning is self-seeing, although he thinks he is not a famous general, but he has his own unique views on the "five virtues and four desires" in the text, and knows the way to advance and retreat for the general.
Toji Michiyuki knew that he had lost this battle, whether it was the right time and place, he did not have an advantage, and when he thought that his old and unequaled plan was discovered, he already knew that it was time to retreat. But how to retreat is a science.
Now that the situation has taken a turn for the worse, and the Date Army has firmly controlled the development of the situation, Toji Michiyuki knows that if this continues, an encirclement will be formed against him in a day or two, and then he will not evacuate but break through, and the casualties will increase sharply.
The guerrilla Andong Renshi, who was deployed on the periphery, hurried back to his main camp and reported to Toji Michiyuki the shocking news that the Shangwan Date Army had bypassed Feiyue and moved to the flank and rear, and that an encirclement of the Great Friendly Army would soon be formed, and Toji Michiyuki was asked to make a decision.
Anton Lianshi is the eldest son of the old Anton family of Toji Michiyuki, and before this battle, Andong Iezhong had a gout attack and was difficult to travel, so he sent his son-in-law Anton Renshi to lead the Andong clan to follow Toji Michixue and serve as a guerrilla of Toji Michiyuki.
Toji Michiyuki heard Anton's report and knew that the retreat had become an imminent matter, and it had become the top priority related to the life and death of the Great Friendly Army. However, how to retreat in order to preserve the greater vitality was placed in front of him.
Toji Michiyuki found the general who led the army and said, "It's time to retreat." "Actually, neither the Toyogo people want to fight anymore, but Toji Michiyuki's authority in the army is too high, so that no one dares to say cowardly words in front of it, let alone the Chikugo people who show all kinds of ugliness.
Toji Michiyuki said the worry in his heart, how to retreat? Now they are facing a critical situation, the right time, place and people are not on their side, they must evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible, exchange space for time, and strive for a bargaining chip to survive.
Now that the Date army has an absolute advantage, the two iron pincers of Mt. Korayama and Higaku have been broken one by one, and the Higo people on Mt. Kora have left the field ahead of schedule to return to Higo Province, while the Chikugo people on Mt. Hitake have lost half of them before withdrawing from the battlefield.
Kamachi Kansheng resented Date Jun's ruthlessness, and didn't give him a chance to survive at all, forcing him to die with Toji Michiyuki, regained some composure a little, and scolded viciously: "Now the situation is critical, please make a decision." ”
That's true, but if Toji Michiyuki wants to send the queen of Chikugo to death, Kamachi Kanmori won't be stupid enough to really listen to Toji Michiyuki's words. Puchi Jiansheng will not throw away the capital of his comeback at will. If he loses the Chikugo people who still have six or seven thousand people left, the Kamachi family will be abandoned by Toji Michiyuki in an instant, and he will also be reduced to a miscellaneous person to be killed at will. However, Kamaike Kanmori didn't want to be too alienated from Toji Michiyuki, because he knew that now that Sensei saw that the people of Chikugo were bowing down to him, in fact, everyone wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and cut off his head and send it to Date Jun in exchange for a ticket home. Puchi Jiansheng was also able to master six or seven thousand Chikugo people, all relying on the monitoring of Feng Hou.
When everyone was worried, Ono Zhenxing led a group of flower deer back to the main formation, and the only time he saw the jubilant Hualu frowned, and asked: "Zhenxing, where did you catch these flower deer, don't you know that we don't eat red meat?" ”
Hana deer is a deer species endemic to Kyushu, the Wa Kingdom, similar to the sika deer, but with a smaller body. The Japanese people mostly believe in Buddhism, believing that animal meat is red meat, which is regarded as cheap meat, and is disgraced by the ruling class such as ministers and samurai, which is one of the reasons why the Date family is criticized and despised, because the Date family advocates eating meat.
Toji Michiyuki saw Ono Zhenxing bring a group of flower deer, and suddenly thought of the relevant strategy in the book, so he suddenly said: "Zhenxing, you are really my lucky general, good, good, good, in the past, there were hanging sheep drumming to set up suspicious soldiers, and now there are hanging deer drumming and setting up suspicious soldiers." ”
Ono Zhenxing was stunned for a moment, he originally just wanted to add food to everyone, even if there are people who have faith problems and are quite disdainful of eating red meat, but he has no taboos, and he does not refuse to come, and now he can listen to Toji Daoxue's strategy, he is also a smart person, and immediately replied: "Hanging deer beating drums to set up suspicious soldiers?!" Clever plan, so good, just confuse the Date army for a while, so that we can calmly evacuate. ”
Soon, in the main formation of the Great Friendly Army, there were twelve big drums, a flower deer was hung on each drum, the rope was tied to the hind hooves, hung on the beam, and only the front hooves were stepped on the drum surface. When it is uncomfortable, the front hooves step on it, so that the drum surface will sound as soon as it kicks, and the deer will be startled when it sounds, and it will jump up more and more, so that it will resound in all directions.
The twelve deer jumped desperately at the same time, and the drums were of course dense and urgent, and from a distance it seemed like the drums of war were gathering to fight.
The sound of war drums resounded in the sky, Qinghe Hengxiu and Iwase Hengzhong gathered together an army, and in the middle of this formation, Tachibana Hisatsuna, who was standing on one side, heard the sound of war drums and said in a deep voice: "My lord, it seems that the movement of the big friendly army is a little strange, do you want to go and investigate!" ”
Iwase Hengzhong suddenly remembered something, his face became a little weird, he looked at Qinghe Hengxiu and said, "Qinghe, you also thought of it, right?" Do you feel a little familiar, but Katayama Atsuga was played around back then, and we laughed at it. ”
Qinghe Hengxiu frowned slightly, and said: "It's really similar, Katayama Atsuga was tricked, if we are also deceived, I'm afraid that when we meet him in the future, we will have to do it on our own, you say, how to do it?" I'm afraid that they will play tricks in vain and reality, and deliberately put on a tired plan, just waiting for us to be deceived and kill us by surprise. ”
Iwase Hengzhong pondered for a moment and said, "You can't let them evacuate calmly, even if it's an ambush." Songdao has already surrounded the past, and with such a big movement, it is impossible for them not to know that the time, place, and people are all on our side, and it is a fool not to be there. ”
Qinghe Hengxiu smiled cruelly: "Okay, I'll go first, you cover the formation for me!" ”
Iwase Hengzhong smiled: "Okay! ”