At the end of the year, the sun was setting in the west, and the quiet Chikugo River suddenly became lively. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Thousands of Date Army Iwase soldiers walked through the middle of the blue waves, and everywhere there was the sound of bronze armor clattering, neat shouts, as well as the sound of hurried orders and sharp whistles, as well as the clatter of iron cannons firing, and the iron artillery team that crossed the river first drove away the incoming enemy cavalry.

During the orderly march across the river, Iwase Hengzhong of the Chinese army kicked the plank and shouted: "Be careful, don't fall into the river to feed the fish, hurry, cover the horse's eyes, and steady." ”

People were able to cross the river in order, but the timid horses and mules caused a commotion, and Iwase Hengtada, learning from the experience of the old army, covered the horse's eyes with a leather holster, and then dragged him across the river.

But Iwase's attention was immediately drawn to the sound of horses' hooves.

More than 130 horsemen, led by Yubu Weixin, assembled in front of the battle and began to cruise beyond the range of the iron cannons, apparently trying to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the soldiers of the Date Army, who had not gained a firm foothold.

The iron artillery captain of the Iwase department, Tachihara Hissuna, commanded more than 300 iron artillery teams to set up in front of the temporarily arranged formation, and he shouted loudly: "The pikemen are in front of the block, the first and second iron artillery teams are in battle one after another, and the third team is free to fire." ”

Tachihara Kuzuna and his father Yukitsuna and brother Yukitaka are all direct retainers of the Niko family, and like the Niko clan, they are all descendants of the Sasaki clan. Go-Niko Haruhisa ordered his adopted son-in-law, Date Masahiro, to raise an army against Yoshihisa, and surrendered Izumo Province to Date Masahiro.

The above is nonsense, and Niko Haruhisa will not give it to Date Masahiro, who is the culprit who caused the Niko clan to turn from prosperity to decline, but the former Niko clan retainers advertised it widely in order to sound good and not to be ridiculed.

Historically, Hisatsuna Tachihara has been loyal to the Niko family all his life. The military general at the end of the Niko clan, the second son of Tachihara Yuzuna, the elder brother is Tachihara Yutaka, and the son is Tachihara Tatsuna. His sister was the mother of Yamanaka Kasuke. At the time of the Maori family's invasion of Izumo, Tachihara Hisatsuna and Yamanaka Shikasuke, as Niko Yoshihisa's close Xima people, surrendered to the Maori army one after another with many of the other Niko clan's direct ministers, but Tachihara Hisatsuna still put up the last resistance. In the final battle, the Battle of Upper Moon Castle, Hisatsuna Tachihara and Shikasuke Yamanaka assisted Satsuko Haruhisa to resist to the end. The Nizi Revival Army, which was outnumbered, was completely defeated, and Nizi Katsuhisa stabbed himself, Yamanaka Kasuke was killed for refusing to surrender after being captured, and Tachihara Hisatsuna was captured by Yoshikawa Motoharu. Later, Tachihara Hisatsuna escaped and became a monk, with the Dharma name Zhujiu.

In this time and space, Tachihara Kuzuna obviously did not have the determination to be loyal to the Niko family to death, and the Shingu Party Rebellion broke out in Izumo Province one after another, and the father and son of Niko Haruma and Yoshihisa killed each other, exhausting the vitality of the Niko family.

Tachihara Hisatsuna left the Date family through Yamanaka Kasuke on the condition of preserving the orphans of the Niko clan, and Masahiro sent Niko Yoshihisaku to Shinenryakuji Temple in Mt. Hiei to give protection to Zen Master Sakushi Kuaikawa.

Tachihara Hisatsuna took appropriate measures, and the neat drums were beating, and he quickly deployed his position and watched the enemy cavalry patrolling in the distance.

Yubu Weixin's face became extremely ugly as he looked at the rapidly assembled Date army, he knew that even if he could break through the enemy formation with his cavalry, he would have to pay a heavy price, not to mention the steady stream of Date troops in the distance.

You Bu Weixin raised his hand, and all the horsemen looked at him, he sighed, shook his hand back, and said weakly: "Withdraw!" As he spoke, he turned his horse's head and galloped in the opposite direction.

The horsemen breathed a sigh of relief, they were all Toji Daoxue's own soldiers, if Bu Weixin ordered the charge, they would naturally follow the people to die together, but who really wanted to die, the severity of the death, they all turned their horses and left.

Tachihara Hisatsuna wiped the sweat stains and breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he was not prepared, even if he could block the enemy horse, he would also have to pay a terrible price. He shouted in a low voice: "Pay attention to the movement of the enemy's cavalry, do not risk pursuit, and wait for the army to complete the crossing of the river." ”

Two legs cannot outrun four legs, and the infantry can only defeat the formed cavalry by exerting their collective strength. If you attack in vain, you will destroy the integrity of the battle formation of the Date army, which is something that the cavalry cannot ask for.

The army successfully crossed the river, and it was already the time when the sun was setting. Iwase Hengzhong listened to the report of the scouts under his command, sketched on the dirt floor, quickly raised his head, and ordered: "The whole army is advancing in the direction of Mt. Kora, slow down, and wait for the cooperation of the two divisions of Qinghe and Matsushima." ”

Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of this, Yubu Weixin had to retreat slowly, although he knew that there was no chance to counterattack, but he still had to make an appearance, not only for the enemy, but also for the friendly forces in the rear. He wants to tell everyone that they haven't given up yet, and try to give them enough time to evacuate the battlefield and give them hope of survival.

After Yufu-nobu and Ono Zhenyuki converged, they glanced at each other, and looked at the Date army that swept in like a rising tide, they did not stop to resist, and rushed to the Kora Pass according to the original plan, and they were going to deploy defense in the Kora Pass.

With the retreat of Yubu and Ono Jinyuki, the Takarayama military formation became the foremost salient.

Because of the emergency military situation of the Date army's attack, all the Akashi in-laws, Jo Hinoshi, and Kube kinaga, who were all from the Kikuchi spectrum in the Takarayama army, abandoned their prejudices and gathered together to discuss the next response.

The three of them were originally the genealogical retainers of the Higo family who guarded the Kikuchi family, but after the Kikuchi family fell, these people stole the territory that originally belonged to the Kikuchi family, and they went their own way and attacked each other.

Originally, Kumabe Qinei backed by Ryuzoji Takanobu defeated the Akashi family and the city family supported by Otomo Yoshizhen, and dominated the Northern Higo, but in this time and space, Otomo Yoshizhen and Shao Erdong Shang formed an alliance, making Otomo Yoshizhen's domination of Higo more stable, and although the relationship between the Akashi family, the city kinwinter, and Kumabe kinei was not harmonious, and the conflict continued, there was no large-scale fight.

Chixing's family said angrily: "No wonder Toji Daoxue is so generous, and he gave us the steep Koliang Mountain to station, this Kora Mountain is certainly steep, there is only a small narrow road up and down the mountain, how to evacuate?" ”

Cheng Qindong was furious, and said: "Now that the Date army is close at hand, if you retreat, I am afraid that most of it will be difficult to preserve, and I really give Toji Daoxue a calculation." ”

Kumabe said, "We need to get the people out of the mountains as soon as possible." ”

In fact, as soon as they heard that the Date army was besieging Fukuji Castle, the three of them had already ordered their men and horses to be gathered, but Mt. Kora was so big, and the way down the mountain was steep and difficult to walk, and everyone wanted to leave first, so you can imagine how quickly they could be.