Chapter 100: The Rebellion of the Lotus Terrace (20)
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Kiyokawa Atsutaro listened to the latest information he received from Matsushima Castle suspiciously, and asked strangely to Matsushima Yajiro, Katsugoro Shichiro Saemon Lieutenant, and Hihata Rokuro Guard, who were also puzzled beside him, "They didn't use Matsushima Castle's city defenses to wait for reinforcements, and they rushed out of Matsushima Castle to fight us, are they arrogant or determined to win?" "They do have a reason to wonder, when the four small teams come together, the strength gathered is unusually strong, and most of the ashigaru troops they lead are quasi-standing armies that have participated in several joint battles, and once the financial pressure on the Date family is weakened, these people will become real standing armies and enjoy the treatment of Zhixing, according to their ideas, these standing armies can be used as five at a time, That is to say, the Date army that is now going to Matsushima Castle can be called four or five thousand troops, but what makes them puzzling is that the defenders of Matsushima Castle not only did not stand for reinforcements, but went out of the city to fight in the field. If Matsushima Castle is used to defend and wait for reinforcements, although it claims to have four or five thousand troops, it is really difficult for the Date Army, which actually has more than 800 people, to conquer Matsushima Castle in a short period of time, after all, these quasi-standing armies are the hearts and minds of their lords, and if they are lost on such an inconsequential battlefield, they will greatly lose more than they lose, and if the losses are too large, they will not have the opportunity to lead the army alone.
Captain Katsugoro Saemon couldn't figure out what was going on, and muttered, "If they are on guard and waiting for reinforcements, we will lose fewer soldiers and horses." At most, send a partial division to contain Matsushima Castle, and the main force will go straight to Teruin and Kanryuji Temple, forcing the two temples to compromise, and it will be a very troublesome thing if he goes out of the castle to fight again after we leave Matsushima Castle. But now we have 800 people alone, all of whom have really been on the battlefield, and if we want to defeat us in the field, we will have at least three or four thousand fanatics who will fight to the death. However, it is reported that the total strength of Songdao Castle is only more than 200 people, and all of them are nearby peasant soldiers, and the guards not only do not wait for reinforcements, but also rush out of the city to fight with us in the field. ”
However, Matsushima Yajiro was full of spirit, and there was not much consideration from Atsutaro Kiyokawa and Captain Katsugoshiro Saemon. He glared angrily at the direction of Matsushima Castle: "Since they want to fight a field battle with us, then we can just fight them with dignity, let them see that the strength of our Date family is not in vain, and it can also deter other Xiaoxiao, so that they dare not underestimate us." "Yes, now that the defenders of Matsushima City have run out of the city to fight them in the field, where is there any time for other conspiracies to calculate, let's be ready to fight in a dignified manner.
There is no better reflection of a general's temperament than the soldier's ethos. Date Masaki has been a surprising person since the Battle of Karamatsu and Nakayama. And a prodigy who has been successful repeatedly. But those retainers who were several levels inferior to Zhengheng in strength were intoxicated to imitate and follow the same path. It is destined to only be a template for political balances, and there is no way to go. Kiyokawa Atsutaro and Matsushima Yajiro are both close ministers around Masahiro, both of them take Masahiro's every move as the criterion, Kiyokawa Atsutaro thinks that he is imitating Masahiro's resourcefulness, Matsushima Yajiro's character is destined to be able to develop only in the direction of martial arts, even if he is a general, Kakuro Shichiro Saemon Captain has unknowingly become an imitator of Masahiro, this is the influence of the strongman.
Hihata Rokuro Bei looked at the three young generals of the Date family, yes, I heard that Date Masaki was less than twenty years old. The slightly older of the three people in front of him was only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and Atsutaro Kiyokawa and Yajiro Matsushima were only about twenty years old. This can be said to be the shortcomings of the Date family, but it can also be regarded as a strength, their plasticity is much stronger than those who have been stereotyped in their thirties and forties, and they can also keep up with his footsteps under the ambition of Zhengheng, so that the glory of the Date family shines on the whole world. Jun didn't see that Mao Liyuan, who was energetic enough, stopped when he had achieved the hegemony of Yin and Yang not many years after the death of his son-in-law, and no longer fought for the hegemony of the world, and was willing to become a stepping stone to assist the people of the world. His son is known as "Komotoshi" Kobayakawa Takakei was influenced by Mori Motoshi's later years, and he retreated step by step to achieve Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Taiko Rishi, and his adopted son was the gravedigger who died of Toyotomi II.
If a field battle really broke out between Noguchi Shinjiro and the Date Army in Matsushima Castle, it would not be a problem as mentioned above. It's a real battle. Who made Noguchi Shinjiro also guilty of empiricism, thinking that the Date army was just a small force, as long as it was defeated, it could calmly return to Matsushima Castle to hold on, and then defend the city with a victorious army, no matter how bad it was, it could withstand it for ten days and half a month. Noguchi Shinjiro thought so from the beginning, and when he heard that the team sent by the Date family was only more than two hundred, he did not surrender in the first place and tried to eat the other party in the field battle. Shinjiro Noguchi had no intention of being martyred for the Shingon sect of Imperial Families, and he and Shoin were only hired and hired, but he wanted to sell himself for a good price. The more you can give Date Mashiro a good influence, the higher the price you can sell.
However, when he saw the neat military formation of the Date army, he suddenly felt hopeless, in the troubled times of the Warring States of the Japanese Kingdom, once the number exceeded 500, it could be enough for a large-scale army. Noguchi Shinjiro felt hopeless, and the 150 peasant soldiers under his command were all psychologically shocked. In a panic, they all lost the courage to fight, and all they thought about was how to escape with their lives, and they were not devout fanatics, nor were they samurai bound by the spirit of bushido, and they began to collapse before they could engage in battle, and an escape caused a group of people to flee, and the escape of a group of people instantly triggered the total collapse of all the peasants and soldiers.
Noguchi Shinjiro's dream suddenly came to naught, watching the peasant soldiers under his command begin to collapse, even if he wants to escape back to Matsushima City, it is impossible to organize to resist one or two, bloodshot hideous eyes staring at the peasant soldiers under his command, he knows that once he escapes from Matsushima City, it will be the most wanted by the Date family all over the world, and he can only escape from Bei China, and if he returns to the temple, those thieves will definitely take the opportunity to cut off his head and send it to Date as a scapegoat in front of the battle, he knows the virtue of this group of thieves. He's not reconciled! Shouted loudly: "Stop me!" Be sure to block it for me! When he said this, even he didn't believe that he could still stop the attack of the Date army, in fact, the Date army had not yet come up to engage them, and they had now collapsed.
Noguchi Shinjiro gave up the plan of killing the peasants under his command to expel them to resist the Date army, he now knew that once he annoyed the desperate peasants, they would fight back, and he had no cronies but a way to die, and after shouting for a while, he also joined the ranks of the escape, fleeing in the direction of Matsushima Castle, he didn't want to escape alone, he hoped to lead the thirty or forty people left behind in Matsushima Castle to go into exile with him, and maybe he could also become a bandit and wild bandit on a large scale, and get other powerful blue eyes to be hired.
Kiyokawa Atsutaro and the others were dumbfounded, originally thinking that Matsushima Castle had at least the ability to fight out of the city, and at least it could cause them some damage, but they didn't expect that the Date army would always collapse as soon as they saw it, so how could they be embarrassed by their cautious treatment at the beginning, Captain Katsuro Shichiro Saemon sighed: "What are they here for?" "yes, what are they here for.
Matsushima Yajiro didn't have their long sighs, his originally excited mood suddenly became a little depressed, and he said viciously: "Abominable things, ran out of the city to scare us, but now they are running away on all sides, if they run away in one direction, there is still the possibility of luring the enemy to go deeper, but they run away in all directions, and they don't even need weapons, where is there still a little field battle, are they playing with us, they really ate the courage of the ambitious leopard, let them know who eats whom!" He shouted loudly, and then rushed out first, and the dozen horsemen and one hundred and thirty foot soldiers who followed him immediately let out a loud roar before the battle, each holding a weapon, with Matsushima Yajiro as the central arrow, and the black and white bamboo two feather flying bird flags fluttering, lined up, galloping towards the enemy soldiers who were scattered and fleeing.
Atsutaro Kiyokawa, Captain Saemon of Shichiro Katsugo, and Rokuro Hihata looked at each other, and Atsutaro Kiyokawa yelled: "Don't worry about anything else, go straight to Matsushima Castle!" The other six or seven hundred men also rushed out, and the horses they were riding gradually widened the distance between them and the foot soldiers, and Matsushima Yajiro gathered, and the charge of fifty or sixty horsemen formed a violent vibration on the plain, and the muddy water splashed in the mud puddle frightened the fleeing enemy soldiers in front of them. Date began to form a cavalry team since the unification of China, although there are not many horse fart resources in China, but there are still more than 100 horses to attack with money.
Masahiro likes to get up in the morning to practice archery, and the young retainers of the Date family have also developed this habit, all of them have good bow and arrow skills, and almost everyone is proud to own a wisteria bow. Captain Katsugo-shichiro Saemon saw Shinjiro Noguchi in armor in the fleeing procession, grabbed the wisteria bow hanging from the saddle, mounted an iron-feathered arrow, and shot an arrow at the enemy general's neck as he ran. He knew that as long as he shot the enemy general, he would be able to achieve the greatest credit in this field battle that had already won a great victory, and with the archery he had practiced for a long time, plus a vine wood bow that had been purchased for half a year, he was fifty percent sure that he could complete this shot.