About 5,000 or so soldiers of the Miyoshi Army are besieging Miki Castle, and the rest of the soldiers are uprooting the branch cities around Miki Castle, the most important thing is that Miyoshi Shixiu needs a warm bed for the injured soldiers to rest, these branch cities are obviously a good choice.

The defenders of the main city were only more than 1,000 people, and the defenders of the branch city were even fewer, and they were uprooted one after another under the attack of Miyoshi Shixiu, and it became a resting place for Miyoshi's army.

When the sky gradually cleared on February 24, Miyoshi Minoru looked at Miki Castle, which was still resisting, and said his order: "Send messengers to persuade them to surrender, and tell them that if they do not open the castle and surrender again, they will slaughter the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left." ”

Slaughtering the city, yes, slaughtering the city, after paying more than 500 lives and thousands of injuries, Miyoshi Shixiu knew that only the great plundering and slaughter of the city could raise the mood of the soldiers, but once the city was slaughtered, it would be very difficult to rule this land in the future.

However, Miyoshi Shikyu can only hope that the defenders of Miki Castle can see the situation clearly, not do things that are quick for relatives and enemies, and give up the last chance, this is Miyoshi Shikyu's ultimatum, and it is the last chance to surrender to Miki Castle.

Shinohara Nagafang heard that the always gentle and elegant Miyoshi Shixiu was going to do such a devastating thing as slaughtering the city, and he couldn't help but worry about Miyoshi Shixiu, and he couldn't help but persuade: "Lord, this matter is detrimental to Yin morality, don't do it personally, and ask the lord to temporarily avoid Danhe City." ”

How did Miyoshi Shinohara Shinohara not understand the meaning of Shinohara's words, and let him temporarily take refuge in Tamkawa City, and then the order to slaughter the city was issued by Shinohara Nagabo, and when the time came, all the sins would be borne by Shinohara Nagabo. He glanced at Shinohara Nagafu. said: "Sun Shiro." I'm the general general, and no matter where I take refuge, people will always blame me for it. Besides, if we want to break through Miki Castle in the short term, we need to reinvigorate their fighting spirit, and we must give them a reason to continue this war. ”

Shinohara's eyes lit up, of course he knew the truth about what Miyoshi Shixiu said, and what he said just now was just to share the pressure. The order to slaughter the city is good, but it takes a lot of effort and time to clean up the mess, and people's insults can not be ignored, but the Miyoshi family will definitely blame Miyoshi Shixiu. He said, "My lord, is there really only one way to go? Besiege Miki Castle with a small number of troops, and then wait for the arrival of aids from the Date family to decide the winner. ”

Miyoshi Shixiu shook his head, his eyes slowly became cold and solemn, and then said in a low tone: "It's cold, and I was against sending troops to Harima. However, since the troops have already been dispatched, once they decide to wait for the arrival of the Date family's reinforcements, they will decide the victory. The initiative will be completely lost. After a long siege, the Miyoshi army will inevitably be exhausted, and the army will return to their hearts, and when the time comes, the Date family will suddenly arrive, and it will definitely be defeated. Now only the slaughter party can break through Miki Castle in a short period of time, and then as long as two or three thousand soldiers and horses are left, they can gain a firm foothold and slowly train the Date family. ”

Shinohara Nagabo was completely convinced, and he didn't say anything for a while, and then went down silently to preach.

The so-called massacre of the city, when killing people, it is certain, and it will kill a lot of people, after the city is broken, it is good that half of the soldiers and civilians in the city can survive, because after the slaughter order is issued, the soldiers of the Miyoshi army will kill the red eye, and when the time comes, even Miyoshi Shixiu will not be able to stop them from committing the murder, unless the agreed deadline has arrived.

However, the slaughter of the city is not just a simple slaughter of the city. The so-called massacre of the city, in addition to wanton killing, also means that all the items in the city will become spoils of war, as long as the city is broken, every qiē in the city will become the spoils of the soldiers of the Sanhao army, and whoever grabs it first will be whom.

The soldiers of the Three Good Army are soldiers and fight in addition to supporting their families, that is, they are to seal their wives and children, and to be promoted to make a fortune. Feng Wife Shadow is too far away for the vast majority of low-level soldiers, so grabbing windfalls from the war has become the ultimate pursuit of the vast majority of low-level soldiers.

The exception to this is the massacre of the city.

Under the order to slaughter the city, the soldiers will be able to burn, kill, plunder, and do anything, as long as it is in the designated area, the property, people, and manor property you can loot will become your wealth. It is precisely because of so many benefits that as long as Miyoshi Shixiu gives the order to slaughter the city, the morale of the Miyoshi army can immediately become unprecedentedly high.

It is easy to give the order to slaughter the city, but it is difficult to take it back, Takeda Shingen once issued a slaughter order in Shinano, which made it countless times more difficult for him to attack the Shinano country, and it took more than ten years to take the Shinano country, and each city needed to be done by himself.

Miyoshi Shixiu can give an order to slaughter the city for his brother.

Sitting at the head of the city, Bessho Anji could hear the shouts of slaughtering the city under the city, which made him sweat coldly, he didn't expect that Miyoshi Minoru would be so mad that he would do such an evil thing, and he couldn't help but worry about whether Miki Castle would be able to withstand the storm of the Miyoshi army.

Although the massacre order made the morale of the Miyoshi army skyrocket, it also made the defenders of Miki Castle in the siege of the group send out a desperate death, they understood that only by resisting the attack of the Miyoshi army and blocking the footsteps of the Miyoshi army entering the city could they have a chance to live.

The war broke out for no reason, and the pikemen of the Miyoshi Army let out an earth-shattering cry and accelerated forward in a neat formation. In fact, Miyoshi Nagayi, the main commander of the front team, felt that they did not need to be so cautious, as long as they climbed to the top of the city, victory belonged to the Miyoshi family.

Miyoshi Nagayi needs to wash away his shame, the shame of being rejected in front of the Miki Castle Bessho clan. Miyoshi Nagayi led 2,000 pikemen and began to launch a fierce attack, accompanied by shouts of killing, the Miyoshi army that was neatly arranged in the army formation first smashed into the range of Miki Castle's bow and arrows, and began to charge rapidly.

Miki Castle began to shoot arrows out. Miyoshi Nagayi followed Miyoshi Nagakei to fight in Kinai, which can be regarded as a long-tested, extremely experienced battlefield, and he knows that under the counterattack of bows and arrows, only by quickly approaching the city wall can he better save his life.

Sure enough, as he expected, the spear array quickly approached the city wall, and the bows and arrows on the city did not play much role, only more than ten people were injured, and for a team of 2,000 people, the casualties of more than a dozen people did not have much effect, and the spear array began to climb Miki City.

He shouted and tried to organize a counterattack, but the bow and arrow had little effect, so he had to use stones to counterattack, and soon he gathered more than 200 people, dismantled the warehouse, and then threw the dismantled stones on the top of the Miyoshi army.

There is always a time when the stones are thrown away, when there are no stones to throw on the city, the Miyoshi Changyi Department has rushed to the city, and the defenders started hand-to-hand combat, the battle is indistinguishable for a while, the flesh and blood are blurred, extremely tragic.

Standing on the top of the hill and looking at the Miyoshi army who climbed to the top of the city, Miyoshi Shixiu's face showed a smile of victory, but his smile was not closed, but there was a thunderous cheer behind him, he turned around suddenly, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

It was the arrival of the Date family's reinforcements, and just as a team with the banner of the Date Army was rushing to kill the rear formation, which had already become a crumbling army, Ueno Masacho, dressed in armor, brandished three spears, and rushed into the core of the rear formation like lightning, stabbing the heavily guarded flag guards with one shot, and then killing many people around him. Almost all of his armor was stained red with the blood of the enemy, and from a distance, he looked like a bloody demon biting at the enemy's ranks.

Under the onslaught of Ueno Masaaga and others, the rear of the Miyoshi Army was completely unable to organize any resistance, and could only flee with wolves, and there was even a situation where some people fought each other in order to escape for their lives. Iwanari Yutong, one of the three people known for his bravery, turned out to be so unbearable.

Miyoshi Shixiu shouted in a vicious voice: "The collapse of the rear formation will inevitably affect the whole army, the hateful lord tax help, bad for me, I will not be spared after I go back." The order was given, Mingjin withdrew his troops, let the Shinohara Nagafang be broken, and retreated, retreating to Danhe City. ”

Miyoshi Shikyu knew that the matter could not be continued, and now there were only 5,000 people besieging Miki Castle in total, and the remaining 7,000 people were still uprooting the surrounding branch cities, and 2,000 of the 5,000 people had already attacked Miki Castle, and they were trapped, and there were still 1,000 people who collapsed, and only 2,000 people in this formation could fight again. However, Miyoshi Minoru took it for granted that there were more than 1,000 people in the Date army as an attack, so there must be 3,000 or 4,000 people in the back as a backup to prevent his own counterattack, but he did not expect that Ueno Masacho would put all his forces into battle as soon as he arrived at Miki Castle.

Miyoshi Changyi heard Mingjin, looked back, only to see the rear army collapse, shouting bastard, and had to withdraw from Mimaru, who was already victorious, and withdrew from the battlefield. Fortunately, Besho Anji has no power to fight back, and if it weren't for the fact that the Date army came in a hurry, I'm afraid it would have already been killed.

Miyoshi Shixiu converged with Miyoshi Changyi and then slowly retreated, although Ueno Masato was reckless, but he was not stupid, he had taken advantage of enough of him, he knew that he would have to go through the gang if he pursued again, and hurriedly beat the drum and trumpet and began to gather troops and horses, stop the attack, and watched the Miyoshi army leave.

Although Ueno Masaga defeated the rear of the Miyoshi Army, he also lost hundreds of people, but fortunately, most of them were only wounded, and as long as they recuperated for two to three months, they could heal their injuries, but the losses of Miki Castle were much worse, and there were less than three or four hundred people who could still fight, and most of the rest were wounded.

After the war, Ueno Masada's face was not very good-looking, and the reason for the bad look was that Miki Castle did not let them enter the city, for fear that the Date family would take Miki Castle like the Miyoshi family, if it wasn't for Akashi Kei's dissuasion, I was afraid that Ueno Masaga would be mad on the spot. (To be continued......)