Chapter 187: Confrontation (11)

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The weather on November 29, 1553, was obviously not sunny, but it was still cloudy, and the desolate basin and the mountains that stretched for hundreds of miles in autumn and winter added a bleak atmosphere to the cold Bizen country.

Outside Masaki Castle, 3,000 elite soldiers led by Matsuda Seiho camped on the banks of the Sunagawa River. The battle for the pioneer officials of the hot spring valley, Matsuda Seiho and Yonehara Tsunahiro got the task of attacking Masaki Castle and Kamihito Castle respectively, but unfortunately neither of them completed the task perfectly, Yonehara Tsunahiro was defeated and fled, and Matsuda Tsunahiro was at a loss for the small Masaki Castle. Unlike Yonehara Tsunhiro, Matsuda Seiho has always regarded himself very highly, and he also has proud capital, and he was born in the Matsuda clan of the country where Izumo is illustrious and prestigious, the lord of White Deer Castle, and the nephew of Niko Haruhisa, which makes him even more empty-eyed and arrogant.

Generally speaking, any child who grew up in a family of military generals should be very good at field warfare. Matsuda Seiho is also proud of the capital, in addition to his background, he has made great achievements in the southern and northern wars with Niko Haruhisa, and this expedition to Bizen Country has taken over the position of his father, Mitsuyuki's Izumo Ten Banners.

Proud people are generally ashamed to do things like stealing chickens and dogs, Matsuda Seiho and Yonehara Tsunado are different, he sent troops to Masaki Castle, it seems that there is not much difference in time, but in fact, there is no sneaky light travel like Yonehara Tsunakuan, but whenever you sneak attack the enemy city, you will not bring siege weapons such as ladders and mallets, Matsuda Seiho brought. His march was half a beat slower than that of Yonehara Tsunaku, and this half beat was very different, Yonehara Tsunakuan fled alone, and he almost broke through Masaki Castle. Almost, it means that he has already climbed the city at that time.

For a time, Masaki Castle was not breached. This led to Matsuda's second assault. Under the stubborn resistance of the defenders. Unexpectedly, the defenders killed hundreds of people who dared to fight. Matsuda Seiho has read "Cao Di's Polemic" in "Zuo Chuan": "Husband fights, courage also, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion." Knowing that if he continues to attack, although Masaki Castle will definitely be breached, his military morale will plummet. Later, when dealing with the main force of Date in Ryonomiya Castle, it will be difficult to go into battle.

In the eyes of Matsuda Seiho, Masaki Castle is like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it, Date Masaki of Liangnomiya Mountain Castle is a big meal, and it is not a wise move to seize Masaki Castle and give up Date Masaki, so he gave up attacking Masaki Castle again.

Speaking of which, Matsuda seems to be arrogant, but in fact he is still very cautious. Although Niko Haruhisa's army was on the side, he still personally supervised his subordinates to fence the fence. Trenches were dug, water from the sand river was introduced, and deer barns were installed, of course, due to the rush of time, all of these facilities were rudimentary, but no matter how rudimentary, some could always have some effect.

Matsuda Seiho is not the only one in the big tent, but also the second banner of the Izumo Ten Banners, Misawa Castle Lord Misawa Weiqing, and the seventh banner god Nishi Makoto main god Nishi Mototsu, the three of them are the younger generation of the Izumo Ten Banners, and they are familiar with each other, of course, they all look down on Yonehara Tsunaku, who was born to sell ass.

Matsuda Seiho's Yori Ushida Gen Gobei opened the curtain of the camp tent and walked in, with a very solemn expression on his face. Matsuda Seiho was already in a bad mood, and when he saw the appearance of a dead face on Ushida Gengobei, he frowned, and said angrily: "Pulled a dead face in broad daylight? ”

Niu Tianyuan Wubei did not ask for guilt as usual, and reported: "My lord, something happened, just now the Luxia group came to report, Date Masahiro sent troops, led tens of thousands of troops towards Masaki Castle, and asked your Excellency to make plans early." ”

After listening to the report of Ushida Gengobei, Matsuda Seiho changed slightly, and then his face welled up with fanatical joy, and said: "Finally let me wait, okay, very good, Date Masahiro finally sent troops, full of courage, originally thought about knocking and knocking on the two palaces mountain castle, but I didn't expect him to send troops!" ”

Shenxi Mototsu is a few years older than Matsuda Seiho and Misawa Weiqing, and he has already felt a slight sense of danger from the only clues, why did Kamihito Baocheng and Masaki Castle know the movements of the Nizi Army in advance as if they were predicting a qiē, and made the most favorable decision, if Masaki Castle was not cautious in marching, I am afraid that he would also suffer with Yonehara Tsunakuan. Now that Masaki Castle has not fallen, Kamihito Bosei is eyeing the tiger, and Date is suddenly arriving, so it cannot help but arouse alarm.

When Shenxi Mototsu saw that Matsuda Seiho and Misawa were excited about the upcoming battle exploits for the Qing capital, he pondered for a while before he said: "The top priority is to report the matter of Date Masahiro's dispatch of troops to the lord, and ask him to make a decision as soon as possible, and also to guard the camp and wait for reinforcements." ”

Matsuda Seiho obviously had a different opinion from Kamisai Mototsumi, and said: "Kamihito Ho Castle Yonehara Tsunagan was defeated, and we didn't take Masaki Castle lightly, we all need soldiers to be prepared, plus the cowardly Boqi army is unstable, if we let Date Masaki calmly set up the formation, what are our chances of winning?" Only by striking a heavy blow to Date's army before it could it have a chance to win the final victory. The words are beautiful, in fact, his original intention is to have a good fight, let the world take a good look at his ability, and show his prestige.

Shenxi Mototsu frowned, Matsuda Seiho's words also made three senses, and he had no reason to refute it, the current situation was really unfavorable for the Nizi Army, but he still had a sense of crisis in his chest and couldn't swallow it, so he could only agree with Matsuda Seiho's opinion.

Misawa explained to Matsuda Matsuda Mototsu for Kiyoshi, of course, he didn't object, the three of them agreed, and there was a rallying horn inside and outside the camp. Matsuda Seiho quickly conveyed one order after another, and the three thousand Nizi army adjusted nervously and orderly under the instructions, and soon formed a formation of fish scale formation.

The first echelon was led by Ushida Gengobei with 200 death squads, the second echelon was led by Misawa Weiqing with 350 elites, the third echelon was led by Shenxi Mototsu with 600 soldiers, and finally by Matsuda Seiho led 1,200 soldiers, and more than 600 stayed in the camp to guard against the attack behind Masaki Castle.

The sound of war drums made the already blood-boiling and murderous Nizi Army roar in a low voice: "Kill! Kill! Four echelons were formed to leave the protection of the camp and advance in the direction of the mountain castle of the two palaces, roaring like thunder. Thunderous footsteps. Immediately resounded between the basins.

In the grove to the south of the camp. Masaga Ueno, who was climbing on a tree, showed a stunned smile: "The lord is really clever, knowing that once the Nizi army besieging Masaki Castle learns that Liangnomiya Mountain Castle has sent troops, it will definitely come to meet it, hehe." ”

Jumping down from the tree, Masaga Ueno turned his head to look at Kawasaki Yorihiro and asked, "Kawasaki-kun, how are we going to attack?" ”

Kawasaki Yorihiro glanced up at the sky and said, "We can't attack too early, and our own losses will be greater. It can't be too late, let the others take the capture of the flag, we must disrupt the opponent's formation, let the lord calmly defeat them.

Ueno Masacho nodded slightly, grinned, "Listen to you." ”

Kumazaki, the Date army that had just walked out of the mountain castle of Ryonomiya began to deploy in the Kumazaki area, and arranged a special combat method, that is, the formation method of the pocket formation, the vanguard was Takahata Yuren, who killed the famous general of the Mimura family, Toriya Kojiro, in the battle of Tomiki Castle, and the follow-up troops were Sano Tokiyori, Ishikawa Hisada, and Yoshida Masanari. Date Masahiro personally sat in the base camp, and five or six hundred meters away from the base camp, there were more than 300 cavalry led by Shiro Katayama to supervise the formation.

Inside the camp. Zhengheng listened to the attendant's return, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Matsuda Seiho is really young and vigorous!" I didn't know that he was nearly ten years younger than Matsuda Seiho, but when he said such a thing, the people present did not object.

As mentioned earlier, Ryonomiya Castle is only a mile away from Masaki Castle, in fact, it is three or four thousand meters, Kumasaki is just on the other side of the Sunand River, echoing Masaki Castle from afar, Matsuda Seiho They can see Date as long as they cross the river from the camp, so he will be so eager to deploy an attack.

Sunagawa and Asahikawa could not be compared, at that time it was just a small river just above the knee, and when the 3,000 Nizi Army turned and forced in the direction of Kumazaki, Ueno Masanaga and Kawasaki Yorihiro, who stayed in the grove, had lunch and marched towards the tail side of the Nizi Army to cover the flag.

The weaknesses of the fish scale formation and the front formation were all on the tail side, and when Ueno Masaga and Kawasaki Yorihiro led five hundred Date troops appeared hundreds of meters behind the flank of the Nizi Army, the Nizi soldiers at the back were shocked and frightened, and the formation suddenly became chaotic, and they shouted: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

Ushida Gen Gobei, Misawa Weiqing, Shenxi Yuantong and others, who had already crossed the river and re-arranged, were shocked to hear that there was a guerrilla attack of the Date Army behind them, and they were also frightened, some people wanted to retreat to the river to meet the attack, and some people wanted to continue the attack, and it was a mess for a while, and Shenxi Yuantong wanted to integrate with a shout and was ready to fight against the water, but at this time, it was obviously too late.

Because Takahata Weiren had already rushed to the front of the Nizi Army, and fought with the Ushidayuan Wubingwei, the first echelon of the Nizi Army was quickly defeated, and the Ushidagen Wubeiwei held his own martial arts and raised his sword to attack Takahata Weiren, wanting to kill Takahata Weiren and muster up the courage of the army.

Niu Tianyuan Wubing Wei shouted: "I am the general Niu Tianyuan Wubing under the command of Nizi Qingjiu, I have the ability to fight with me with real knives and guns, and win or lose!" "He actually wanted to come to the formation to a horseman.

Takahata Weiren burst into a shout, and more than ten personal soldiers around him surrounded and killed, and Niu Tianyuan Wubei fell into a heavy encirclement, and Niu Tianyuan Wubei exclaimed: "You are not a samurai, you villain!" As he spoke, he was stabbed in the chest.

After a while, he was knocked to the ground. Takahata Weiren walked up, raised his spear and smiled at Ushida Gengobei, who fell to the ground: "I have the advantage in numbers, why should I fight you alone, fool!" Saying that, the head of the spear stabbed into the neck of Niu Tianyuan Wubei, and Niu Tianyuan Wubei stared at a pair of round eyes, indicating that Niu Tianyuan Wubei was not blind.

The front army was blocked, the rear army was attacked, and the result was self-evident, the Nizi army, which had already been in chaos, had no intention of fighting at all, they were like frightened deer, scattering and fleeing, and the swarming Date army was like a hungry wolf that broke into the flock, one by one opened its bloody mouth, revealing a cold and cold fang, and began to enjoy the bloodthirsty feast!

The battle was soon over, and before Niko Haruma could react, Matsuda Seiho paid with his life for his youth, and Misawa fled alone for Kiyowa Kamishi Mototsu, with a whopping 1,200 dead and nearly 1,000 prisoners of war in the service alone. After the war, Date had an advantage in numbers. (To be continued......)