Iwagen Kanbei nodded frequently, since the battle of Numatawa, he is quite sure of Miyazawa Heihachi's words, and now the elite of the Maori family has been lost, and if he wants to rely on this gang of rabble to fight with the elite of the Date family, there is only one way to die.

Miyazawa Heihachi laughed for a while, but he didn't laugh anymore, leaned forward slightly, and asked, "Have you found out?" How many people are there? ”

Iwane Kanbei narrowed his eyes and said, "Touzaki Castle originally had five hundred and thirty people from the Hiraga clan, plus the men and horses who came to reinforce it, a total of more than two thousand, plus the thousand five hundred people stationed in Starling Castle, the total strength is between three thousand five hundred and four thousand. ”

Miyazawa Heihachi chuckled and said: "Look at the plain zhì of these people, if there is still a war between the men and horses of Hiraga Motoxiang, the men and horses sent by Maori Takakei, tsk, I heard that the age of conscription has been adjusted to fifteen years old and sixty-five years old, and it can be said that all those who can be conscripted have been recruited." The city can still be used, and the field battle is afraid that it will collapse at the touch of a button. ”

After a pause, Miyazawa Heihachi said with a stern expression: "Maori Takakei is a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and he wants to block our attack, and he doesn't want to consume the little men and horses left, so don't worry too much, but Ouchi Yoshicho should pay attention to it." ”

Ouchi Yoshicho and Mori Takakei competing to marry Ozaki Bureau is just a bit of lace news before the war, in the face of a common enemy, the alliance between the two of them is inseparable, Mori Takakei came to provoke, and Ouchi Yoshinaga's army will definitely follow.

It was an unknown enemy, and although it had been rumored for a long time that it was very capable of fighting, it was not known how strong it was because it had never been in battle. But. Ouchi Yoshicho has been a major minister of Ouchi for generations. At the age of twenty, he assisted Mori Moto's army to repel the attack on the mountain castle of Yoshida County. The following year, he led a large army to counterattack the base of the Niko clan, Gassan Tomita Castle, and returned with a crushing defeat. At the age of thirty, he rebelled against his lord and established himself as the head of the Ouchi family, renamed Ouchi Yoshinaga.

What is the strength of Yoshicho Ouchi, no one can take lightly, and there is one win and one loss in the two wars. After the rebellion, although he had a fight with Yoshimi Masanori, he forced Yoshimi Masariri to surrender. Yoshimi Masayori suffered little and became a vassal of Ouchi Yoshinaga.

Suddenly, a spy came to Takayama Castle, was immediately brought in with the Kusama token, identified himself to Miyazawa Heihachi, and then handed Miyazawa Heihachi an unopened letter in his hand and retreated.

Miyazawa Heihachi glanced at the seal on the letter in his hand, he knew that this was information sent from An Yiguo, so he immediately tore it open, looked at the information in his hand, the corners of his mouth cracked slightly, and said in a low voice: "Haha." I didn't expect Maori Longjing to still not give up, and wanted to come to die. As he spoke, he handed the letter in his hand to Kanbei Iwane.

Iwane Kanbei looked at it at a glance. With a slightly excited expression, he begged, "My lord, please let your subordinates go to the Maori family's surprise attack team for a while?" ”

……

It was day and night, and under the moonlight, near the mouth of the wide Numata River, the fields were full of rice, and the moonlight reflected in the rice rice showed a rather strange appearance, and some dead ghosts were fluttering about the blood and carnage that had been held here.

Iwane Kanbei led an elite team of three hundred men to ambush at the foot of Sakurayama and hid his troops here, waiting for the arrival of the big fish and a predictable ambush battle, he looked up at the moon in the sky and showed a cruel smile.

Although I could see far away in the moonlight, all I could hear was the sound of the Seto Inland Sea lapping on the shore, and all the other sounds were drowned out by the sound of slapping, and the time passed slowly, and the sky was getting slower and slower, and the palms of Iwane Kanbei were already covered with sweat, and the soldiers were a little impatient, and they moved their postures to make the summer mosquitoes bite them less.

Iwane Kanbei did not inform Sakurayama Castle, which was close at hand.

The lord of Sakurayama Castle was originally a retainer who belonged to the Numata Kobayakawa family, and originally Miyazawa Heihachi wanted to replace it when he became the acting manager, but this castle lord saw that the wind made the rudder extremely high, and took the lead in hugging Miyazawa Heihachi's thigh and refused to let go, and Miyazawa Heihachi also had to buy horse bones for him to inherit the position of Sakurayama City Lord. Sakurayama Castle is a castle at an important checkpoint between Bigo and Aki, and if Sakurayama Castle is cut off, Takayama Castle will lose the support of Bigo Kingdom.

Iwane Kanbei suddenly felt a palpitation, as if he sensed something else, and he thought to himself, "Are you here?" But he found that Sakurayama Castle suddenly lit hundreds of torches and opened the city gates, as if welcoming someone.

Iwane Kanbei said viciously, "Damn bastard! His worries came true, the lord of Sakurayama Castle was really unreliable, and his defection to Miyazawa Heihachi may be exactly what Mori Takakei meant, breaking into the Date family's internal response, and playing a decisive role in an emergency.

Illuminated by hundreds of torches, Sakurayama Castle is as bright as a fire in a summer night, like a lighthouse on the sea, and the ships of the sea are slowly approaching the abandoned port. The three hundred soldiers all stopped moving, holding the weapons in their hands firmly, for fear that one would accidentally fall to the ground and let the other party find out where he was hiding.

As the ship docked, the soldiers saw a dense group of people coming from the shore, and although the moonlight was gone, under the light of Sakurayama Castle, they could still clearly see a group of people advancing.

This time, it was the new head of the Kumagai family, Kumagai Takanao, who led the troops, along with the ship commander Naomi Munekatsu, and the few remaining elites of the 200 Maori family.

They took advantage of the darkness to smuggle Sakurayama Castle and cut off the connection between Takayama Castle and Bigo Province, forcing Miyazawa Heihachi out of the castle, and once Miyazawa Heihachi abandoned the defense of Takayama Castle, Mori Takakei had countless opportunities to ambush and defeat Miyazawa Heipachi.

Kumagai Takanao drank a pot of good wine before leaving, dreaming that if this operation was over, he would be able to completely subdue his subordinates who were not convinced. And Naomi Sokatsu was extremely cautious, and the last defeat cast a huge shadow on him.

Glancing at the advancing procession, Iwagen Kanbei gave an order to the ten gunners beside him, "Now light the arquebus and give me a shot!" "The iron cannon of this era is considered an early arquebus, and when it is lit in the dark, it is as bright as a light bulb, so he did not light the arquebus beforehand.

In a grinding sound, the firerope was ignited, but fortunately, the sound of the torches and waves crashing against the reef in Sakurayama Castle completely drowned out the sound of the firerope igniting, but the neurotic Naomi Munekatsu looked left and right, and was mocked by Kumagai Takanao, who was walking in front, and was timid before he followed.

Seeing the fire rope lit, Iwane Kanbei knew that Shun could attack at any time, so he gave the first order: "Quiet, wait for them to pass, rush up from behind, shouting as you rush, victory, victory slogan, do you understand?" ”

The soldiers knew that if they rushed up at this time, it would be cool, but the danger would be greater, and if they rushed up from behind, the danger would drop a lot. As nearly all of the enemy passed by their ambush and approached Sakurayama, Iwane Kanbei shouted, "Victory! At the sound of the order, the first roar drowned out his shout, which shocked the entire estuary, and at once smashed the upper and lower parts of Sakurayama Castle into chaos.

Iwane's Kanbei rushed out at the sound of iron cannons, and the soldiers rushed out with red eyes as if they had been waiting for a cheetah to see their prey, and soon came into contact with the enemy. Due to the suddenness of the incident and the imminent arrival at Sakurayama Castle, it was quickly dispersed after a moment of relaxation.

Kumagai roared angrily, brandishing the sword in his hand and slashing several fleeing soldiers in succession. Kumagai didn't know why this happened, the only thing he could think of was that someone had betrayed them, and until now he hadn't believed that it was Horitachi Naomasa who betrayed them, but he had turned all his anger on the people of Sakurayama Castle who were ushering, and he took it for granted that the people of Sakurayama Castle wanted to flank them back and forth and kill them all.

The people of Sakurayama Castle were all blinded, and they obviously didn't know why there was an ambush with iron cannons on one side of the castle, and there were only two with iron cannons near Numata Sho, one was the Mori family, and the other was the Date family, and it was the Date family who was obviously attacking now.

What made the people of Sakurayama Castle feel even more wronged was that Kumagai Takachi went crazy and led a front team of about forty people, regardless of the crisis of the rear team, brandished a sword and rushed towards Sakurayama Castle, killing more than ten Sakurayama Castle soldiers one after another.

The Iwagen Kanbei was attacking, Kumagai Takanao and Nomi Munekatsu were quickly dispersed, Nomi Munekatsu fled to the sea with more than 30 people to look for ships, while Kumagai Takanao led more than 40 people to rush to Sakurayama Castle, and the rest of the people ran towards Shino.

The shouts of killing became less and less, and the soldiers slowly gathered, and an ashigaru captain reported back: "My lord, about thirty thieves have fled into Sakurayama Castle, most of the people in Sakurayama Castle have been killed, and the city lord has also been found and died. ”

Iwane Kanbei had just won a big victory, and he was in a good mood, so he asked, "Have you asked clearly, who led the team?" ”

Captain Ashigaru replied, "I asked clearly, it was Kumagai Takanao who fled to Sakurayama Castle, and it was Naomi Munekatsu who fled to the seaside. ”

Iwane Kanbei laughed and said, "Nomi Sokatsu, old friend, I haven't suffered enough in the last battle of the Numata River, and I'm still here today, well, since I went to the beach, let him live for two more days, and show me Sakurayama Castle." ”

It's getting darker, and Moon Bright may have quietly hid because she didn't want to see the bloody scene. (To be continued......)