Chapter 51: The Battle of Kyushu Begins Today (4)

Otomo Yoshijin stumbled out of the military formation, and what he saw was his younger brother Ouchi Haruei riding a war horse and raising his saber high, and slashing off the head of a big friendly soldier, "Goodong", the head of the Otomo soldier fell to the ground, and the body was lying on the ground with the fall of the head, and the eyeballs on the head were huge, as if he couldn't believe that all this was true, and maybe he was still nostalgic for all the love and pain in the world. Haruei Ouchi kept cutting through the soldiers of the Great Friendly Army who stood in front of him, and his head kept falling to the ground.

This cautious general actually didn't renovate the military formation, and actually held the wine glass, Otomo Yoshizhen didn't know whether he was ashamed or drunk, his cheeks flushed, and he shouted: "Block their attack, quickly, stop their attack." ”

Ignoring the rudimentary military formation, the galloping Ouchi cavalry knocked the soldiers of the Great Friendly Army who stayed in place into the air.

Ouchi Haruei looked up and caught a glimpse of his panicked brother, and shouted in the direction of Otomo Yoshizhen: "The enemy general is there, kill, don't care about the heads of other creeps, I want to take the head of Otomo Yoshizhen directly, whoever obtains the head of Yoshizhen will immediately become the lord of a city." As he spoke, his left hand clenched his fist and slammed it on the buttocks of the war horse, and the war horse that was in pain suddenly suffered pain, neighed sadly, and suddenly rushed forward.

With the dull sound of a sharp blade entering the flesh and the crisp sound of bones shattering, Haruei Ouchi's sword slashed on the leather armor of the Great Friendly Army's soldiers, splashing a puff of blood, and the horses galloped past without stopping, and the half-cut Great Friendly Army soldiers suddenly fell.

When the brave met on a narrow road, the brave won, and more than 1,000 people led by Haruei Ouchi immediately got mixed up with the big friendly army, killing the sky in the dark. The sun and the moon have no light. Sure enough, it was as Wakabayashi Echizen Mamoru expected. It was a foggy day. Of course, the sun and the moon were gone, and Otomo Yoshijin secretly regretted that on a foggy day, the troops he sent around him could not support his home formation in a short time, and he fell into a desperate situation for a while.

Haruei Ouchi slashed down a soldier of the Great Friendly Army, and shouted loudly under the hooves of the rolling horses: "Brothers, it's foggy, God is protecting us." The enemy can't come to support, so if you kill it, you can only survive if you get the head of Yizhen. ”

Otomo Yoshijin forced himself to compose himself, his face became very ugly, staring at the battlefield, silent. Kakuma Ishimune, Yoshioka Nagamasa, Toji Kenren and other fierce generals were not around, and now he was followed by all retainers with mediocre martial arts.

He was about to go into battle with his good brother with his sword in person, when a cavalryman galloped in, dressed in black uniform and carrying a heavy spear. He jumped off his horse and shouted, "Takaju Sada, meet Otomo-sama." He raised his spear as he spoke. Aimed at Yoshijin Otomo's chest and stabbed it.

Approaching Shiga to see the spear stabbing at him, he exclaimed "Be careful", the sudden appearance of the spear was really unexpected by everyone, and he originally thought it was his own general, but he thought it would be the fierce general Soda Takaju under the command of Haruhide Ouchi.

Shiga personally saw the crisis, and he had no weapon in his hand to resist, looking at the spear that stabbed him, gritted his teeth, and stretched out his hand to resist. With a "thud", the spear stabbed through Shiga's forearm, and with a muffled grunt, pain deep into the bone marrow came from the wound.

Shiga used one arm to block the spear's stabbing, although it still didn't resist its stabbing, but it also slowed its speed, giving Otomo Yoshijin time to react, and he didn't have time to draw his saber to block, so he took two steps back to avoid it.

Where can Takaju Sada's spear be blocked, Shiga himself blocked it, and still stabbed Otomo Yoshijin in the thigh. Ignoring the gunshot wound on his thigh, Yoshijin Otomo jerked up his saber and slashed it down in the air. Sadataki had already given up the spear, resisted the attack with a short knife, and then suddenly pulled Shiga Kinome, who was bending down and wailing with a broken arm, and pushed towards Otomo Yoshijin, holding the handle of the gun and wanting to pull it out.

Yoshijin Otomo roared angrily, throwing a rat bogey, and Shiga personally blocked the view between the two, and the injury on his leg had begun to paralyze.

Ignoring the injury to his leg, he immediately rolled on a donkey and dodged the second stabbing of the singing voice. After a roll, Otomo Yoshijin immediately burrowed into the crowd. There were his own people around him, Otomo Yoshizhen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and tore a strip of cloth to tie the wound, but he still couldn't stop the blood from flowing out of the wound.

Seeing that the great opportunity was lost, Takaju Sada, screamed and stabbed Shiga to death with a general shot.

This Shiga kinmori is the three major clans of Otomo along with the Tsuma and Tawara clans, and his reputation is not very loud, but when it comes to his grandson, Shiga kinji, who is called "Tensho Kusunoki" by Shimazu Yoshihiro, is famous. This Shiga proji also had a good performance in the battle with Shimazu Yoshihiro, and other times he can only be replaced by hehe. The reason why Otomo Yoshitomi was changed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and deposed was Otomo Yoshitomi's unauthorized retreat in the Korean battlefield, and the person who advocated the retreat at that time was Shiga Kinji. After the change of the Otomo family, Shiga Hideki was not implicated, and later became a retainer of Kobayakawa Hideaki, who is known for what he did during the Battle of Sekigahara, and it is rumored that it was Kobayakawa Hideaki who followed Shiga Hideji's advice.

No matter what Shiga's unborn grandson will do, he paid for his life at the time of Otomo Yoshijin's life and death, becoming the only person to die in battle in the vicinity of Otomo Yoshijin, and Soda Takaju misses the blow, knowing that it will be difficult to get Otomo Yoshijin's head again.

Sadaka didn't care about the difficulties, brandished his spear and swept away with a loud roar, Otomo Yoshizhen covered his wounds and knew that it might be disadvantageous to fight again, so he shouted loudly: "Withdraw, withdraw from the battlefield first?!" Immediately retreated frantically under the leadership of the flank.

Originally, Otomo Yoshijin thought about joining up with the other armies after retreating, but where did he think of the foggy day, coupled with the retreat of the main general, so that Soda Takaju saw the hope of victory, cut off the head of Shiga's personal guard, picked it up, and shouted loudly: "Otomo Yoshijin has been beheaded by I, Soda Takai." ”

Haruei Ouchi heard Sada's roar, a tear welled up in the corner of his eye, and then shouted loudly: "Otomo Yoshijin is dead, Otomo Yoshijin is dead!" Everyone shouted loudly, and the soldiers of the Great Friendly Army looked back at their own formation, and sure enough, they saw an enemy general carrying a rank. The rest of the crowd were nowhere to be found.

Saeki Weikyo led a reinforcement of 100 men and just rushed into the battlefield. I heard the news that Otomo Yoshijin had been killed by shouting loudly on the battlefield. Oops, he shouted loudly: "Damn, kill with me!" As he spoke, he plunged into the fog again.

One of the ashigaru generals in the headquarters asked in a low voice, "My lord, the enemy is riding in the east, not in the west?" ”

Saeki said evilly: "Bastard thing, I know or you know, the main force of the Ouchi army is in the west, understand?" Man your posts. Rush with me! "Saeki Yukyo is the twelfth generation head of the Bungo Saeki clan, and at the time of the Second Order Collapse, he was ordered by Otomo Yoshijin to control the inner castle of Fuuchi and win his trust.

The main general disappeared, and the panicked soldiers began to revolve, and the general collapse began, and they ran blankly, helpless, with only one thought in their minds: escape.

Saeki escaped in the fog and caught up with a group of people. If you look closer, it is Otomo Yoshijin. hurriedly stepped forward and cried: "Pavilion master, are you okay?" Otomo Yoshijin was speechless, seeing that there were only more than a hundred people around Saeki Yukyo, he knew that the counterattack would be useless.

Ouchi Haruei returned victorious, halfway learned that Sada's killing was not Otomo Yoshizhen, and in frustration, he praised Sada's Takaju and appreciated his ability to adapt on the battlefield, which led to the collapse of the Otomo army, otherwise the battle would be unpredictable.

When Ouchi Haruei killed the Quartet, behind him, at the mouth of the Yamakuni River, Toji Kan stepped heavily on the mud ground, and it felt good to step on the flat ground again, took a deep breath of cool air, and then spit out, and shouted to his subordinates who were still landing behind him: "Hurry up, hurry up, go to the neighborhood to rest for a while, and attack Woniu Mountain Otsu Castle early tomorrow morning." ”

On the morning of May 4, the fog had not yet cleared, and the sun could not penetrate directly into the earth, which looked gray, but it was still clear that the distance of a hundred meters or so could not be seen clearly, and the farther distance was impossible to see clearly.

Toji Kenren had already touched the vicinity of Mt. Woniu, and due to the fog, the Yamada clan in Otsu Castle could not know that he would be the first and last target of Toji Kenren, and the news of Otomo's defeat and death had not yet come.

Due to the fog, only a few people in Hirozen Province knew whether Otomo Yoshizhen was alive or died in Bunzen Province, and Ouchi Haruei covered it up and did not publicize it, even if Otomo Yoshizhen appeared, it could be said that it was the hidden samurai of Otomo Yoshizhen, and flatly denied the fact that Otomo Yoshizhen was still alive.

Toji Kanren personally led more than 30 people to touch Otsu Castle. The two soldiers at the gate of the city had just gone out listlessly with their spears, if it weren't for the big battle in Qingshan City, I am afraid they would not have come out so early to guard, who knows if someone will sneak over Qingshan City to loot.

Drinking water can also stuff his teeth, Toji Jianren was already about to touch the city gate, where did he think that one of the soldiers had a faint look in his eyes, his face changed greatly, he turned around and ran towards the city gate, shouting as he ran: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! Hu Cijian even secretly said that it was important to fight for the city gate, and shouted loudly: "Bastard, rush me!" With a loud shout, he screamed the strength of his feet, leaned forward, and the sword in his hand came out like lightning, and stabbed impartially on the back of the defender who was fleeing backwards, and blood gushed out, and the soldier staggered before falling heavily on the hillside.

Seeing the tragic death of his companion, the other guard was unmoved, sneered, waved his long knife, and slashed at the defenseless Tojikanren.

He is also an old birthday star who eats arsenic, and he is impatient to live, and he is not even a man, but he is a fierce man who dares to fight with thunder and lightning, and he is even stronger than Li Yuanba, who was killed by lightning in the romance, he was just half struck by thunder.

Of course, now he has not done so much that he has been struck by lightning, his legs and hands are still fine, and when he saw that he was cut off, he turned sideways, and then grabbed the head of the guard, pulled and turned, and with a bang, the guard fell down with his head in white eyes.

The current head of the family, Yamada Echichu Mamoru, heard the screams of the enemy attack coming from outside the castle, and was taken aback and shouted, "What, the enemy attack, who is it?" Who is attacking, is it the nearby Sugi clan? ”

The Yamada clan still didn't know who was attacking, and thought that it was the nearby wealthy clan that they had been fighting for many years who took advantage of the fog to attack his city, and took the clansmen up to the city, squinting at the movement outside the city, but it was faintly unreal.

The Yamada clan has lived in Bungo for hundreds of years, and they are the descendants of the Kamakura boys who came from Kanto in response to Hojo Tokimune's resistance to the invasion of the Motoko.

It's just that the Sugi clan got the support of the Ouchi clan and entered the Bunzen country, relying on the national politics controlled by the patriarch of the Sugi clan, the Yamada clan is not as good as the next generation, and the generations have withered, but fortunately, the ancestors left this Otsu Castle, and the descendants of later generations still have the opportunity to struggle in the Bunzen country.

The Yamada clan originally wanted to follow Ouchi Haruhei to Aoyama Castle to resist the invasion of Otomo Yoshizhen, but they missed the first battle of the first year of Eiroku, and this year they wanted to keep up but had no chance.

Where did they think that the disaster would fall on their heads, and the clansmen of the Yamada clan saw the sound of the enemy's attack, and they had not yet figured out whether the enemy was a partial division of the Great Friendly Army or the Sugi clan, who had always looked at them unpleasantly, took advantage of the fog to steal the city.

At the gate of the city, Hu Cijian Lian is a fierce general, and the more than 30 people led by him are all carefully selected warriors, under his leadership, they snatched the city gate that has not yet been closed, with swords and guns, bloody killing, and more than ten clansmen have been killed in a blink of an eye.

The patriarch of the Yamada clan, Yamada Echichumoru, stood on the castle tower, witnessing this amazing scene, his mind suddenly went blank, and a strong sense of suffocation made him smell the breath of death, it was the enemy, the enemy of the Great Friendly Army, not the people of the well-known Sugi clan, they did not have such a fierce general.

If it was a big friendly army, Yamada Echichu Mamoru had already written a lot of letters to Funai Castle, didn't he receive it, he looked at the enemy who broke through the city gate in a daze, looked at the bloody sword that roared, and his people fell to the ground one by one.

Toji Kenren broke the gates of Otsu Castle, and the follow-up soldiers and horses poured in continuously, and under normal circumstances, this battle would never have been such a simple victory. Because the fog obscured the movement of the army, the Yamada clan of Otsu Castle found that the enemy attack was too late and had no time to close the gates, so Tojikanren quickly attacked Otsu Castle. It may be that Yamada Echichu Mamoru saw that the city was about to be broken, and he also made a decision, the Yamada clan existed in Otsu Castle, and the Yamada clan destroyed Otsu Castle also disappeared, and he ordered people to set fire everywhere, and black smoke rose from the sky.

This seems to be a symbol of the imminent demise of the Yamada clan. (To be continued.) )