Just when Pu Chi Jian was shocked, the life-saving straw finally arrived. Tajiri Kanshige, the head of the Tajiri family, Kamachi Kanhiro, and Kantaka, the head of the Kuroki family, were invited to Yanagawa Castle. Perhaps by coincidence, these four heads of the family are all heads of the family in their twenties.

A few guests were followed by a letter of war from the Luo family. It turned out that the Luo family, in the spirit of bushido to avoid affecting innocent people and causing too many senseless sacrifices, officially challenged all the powerful in the southwest region of Chikugo, and the Luo family would set up a large array at the foot of Mt. Sanmon in Yamamon County, Chikugo Province, to meet the coalition forces of various wealthy clans.

The moment he saw the Luo family's war book, Pu Chi Jiansheng knew that he had made a mistake again. When sending reinforcements to rescue the Shengjin Pavilion, he actually forgot to send someone to guard the pass of Shanmen Mountain.

It is said that Sanmon-gun is mainly named after the mountain gate that is almost surrounded by mountains on both sides and the sea on one side, and the entire terrain is like a mountain gate that controls the passage connecting Chikugo and Higo. Mt. Sanmon in Sanmon-gun is the main gateway connecting Sanmon-gun, Mizuma-gun, and Shimozuma-gun.

If Puchi Jiansheng had been able to deploy defensive forces here in advance, then the Luo family's army could be avoided from coming directly to the city. In this regard, Puchi Jiansheng regretted it. It's just that no matter how remorseful you are, you have to face reality now.

Looking at the Luo family's war book in front of everyone, the four most powerful wealthy families in the southwest region of Chikugo immediately discussed.

According to Puchi Jiansheng's idea, of course, it is relying on Liuchuan City, which has mountains and rivers and has its own system, to block the progress of the Luo family's army. But others don't see it that way.

After hearing Puchi Jiansheng's thoughts, the other three family heads all thought in unison: "Of course, it's okay for your Puchi family to hide in Liuchuan City, but what if the Luo family directly bypasses your Puchi family's Liuchuan City and pounces directly on our side?" We won't be fools to help you defend the city. And his own homeland was lost because of this. ”

Judging by the terrain. It is indeed possible for such a thing to happen. The Luo family could completely attack the Kamachi clan and the Kuroki family through Nagagen Castle in Yamamoto County, which they already controlled. Or or. The Luo family can bypass Yanagawa Castle directly along the banks of Yanagawa and go straight to Tajiri Castle of the Tajiri family and Yamashita Castle of the Kamachi family.

As for whether the Urachi family will contain the actions of the Luo family from behind? Forget it? Counting on this guy who planned to hide in the city from the beginning to take the initiative to attack, it is better to count on the Luo family to take the initiative to retreat? Besides, as long as you look at the expressions of the Puchi family and the Puchi family, you will know that the Puchi family is unreliable.

So, around how to deal with the Luo family's attack, everyone argued. After arguing for a long time, they finally calmed down after receiving the news that the Luo family's army had begun to camp at the foot of Shanmen Mountain.

In the end, the other three families, led by the Tajiri family, came up with their own plans. The first is to accept the battle letter of the Luo family, and each family goes back to urgently gather all the combat forces in the territory, and after the last battle, they will fight with the Luo family's army at the foot of Shanmen Mountain, and resolutely drive the Luo family back to Feihou.

Second, the remaining three families retreated, and then united in the Yabe River area on the border between the Kamachi family and the Tajiri family, and combined the three families to resist the Luo family's army. As for the life and death of the Puchi family, it has nothing to do with them.

After thinking about it again and again, especially under the persuasion of the general Miike Jianying, Puchi Jiansheng finally agreed to the first plan of the other three. Originally, Kamachi Kanmori should have consulted the family's important minister, Megumi Harano, but because Megumi Harano's son, Megumi Harano, collaborated with the enemy. Megumi Harano had committed suicide at home an hour ago to apologize.

On the 23rd day of the second month of the twelfth year of astronomy (1543), noon. The Chikugo coalition led by the Kamaike family, the Tajiri family, the Kamaike family, and the Kuroki family finally appeared on the plain under Mt. Sanmon.

The coalition forces divided into four phalanxes and came directly to the battlefield. Look at the scattered formations inside. Zhengliang knew that the vast majority of the Ludao coalition army were peasant soldiers.

Compared with the somewhat scattered coalition army, because it has experienced a lot of major battles and waits for work, the camp of the Luo family's army seems to be a lot more sluggish.

This time, Masahiro's formation is like this.

The army of the Luo family is divided into three formations: left, center, and right. The army was on the left, and the general was the executive who was urgently transferred from Matsuoka Castle in Fujitsu-gun, Higo, and the temporary deputy was Watanabe-dori. The main force was 100 standing ashigaru and 200 temporarily conscripted peasant soldiers belonging to the 1st Standing Ashigaru Brigade.

Since they had just repelled a sneak attack by the Arima clan that attempted to take advantage of the Higo War, the morale of the 1st Standing Ashigaru Team led by the execution of Tanekane was high. As for the peasant soldiers, they were not vegetarians, they were recruited from the Higo Matsuura Prefecture area. This area can be said to be the first area to implement the daily training system of peasant soldiers, although the combat strength of these peasant soldiers is not as light as the standing ashiba, but it is much stronger and more disciplined than other strong peasant soldiers.

The army is on the right. The main general is Yoshida Shigemasa, who was urgently transferred from Higo Mise Castle, and the temporary vice general is Kamiyo Katsuri. The main force was one hundred standing ashigaru units and two hundred temporarily conscripted peasant soldiers belonging to the 3rd Standing Ashigaru Division.

The 3rd Standing Ashigaru Brigade, as the main combat force involved in the defeat of the Otomo coalition army, also had high morale. Moreover, due to the crushing defeat of the Ouchi coalition army, the Chikuzen-Harada family, which was adjacent to Mise Castle, fell into a trough again, and there was no threat to Mise Castle for the time being, so Masarashi was relieved to transfer them over and participate in this battle.

The last is the Chinese army. The main commander of the Chinese army will be Aguta. The main combat force is the 5th standing ashigaru team of 300 people.

And the chief general of the Luo family is, of course, Zhengliang himself. A team of 300 samurai followed closely behind the Chinese army and formed part of the Chinese army. A hundred of the Luo family's most elite cloaks stood around Luo Ming. At the end of the pack was a 100-man musket team. Led by the Iron Cannon General Andrew.

Since the battle with the Otomo coalition forces, the weapons and personnel of the musketeers have also suffered a lot of damage, and the original 120-member musket team has only 100 people left. The casualties were all caused by the bursting of the musket or musket in their hands. That is, twenty muskets or muskets were withdrawn from the battle sequence and returned to the firearms workshop for repairs.

Regarding the quality of these muskets or fires, Luo Ming was also quite speechless. Especially those from the Ming Kingdom, which are even more popular. This also shows the degree of corruption in the Ming Dynasty from another aspect. The firearms that the Ming Kingdom has developed for so long, the quality is definitely not so bad, and the only possibility is that there is corruption that cuts corners. In desperation, Zhengliang had no choice but to increase the number of arquebuses purchased from Zhu Qinfeng.

In addition to the most rearly musketeers, there were also 200 cavalry commanded by Isono Yuanmasa, Mitsukiyo Akagu, and Tao Nakamoto. They will serve as a mobile team.

Combined, the Luo family dispatched a total of 1,600 regular troops this time. This does not include the detectives and Black Hawks, who are in charge of intelligence and other work, as well as the 200 logistics teams led by the physician Ming Feng Hidemasa, the weapons officer Liu Ye, and the ashigaru general Honda Toshimasa.

And what about the coalition side?

Due to the crushing defeat at Mizuma-gun, the Uraike family only sent an army of 400 people this time, led by the general Miike Kenei and his son Miike Kensu. Kamachi Kanmori remained in the rear of the army as one of the generals of the coalition army.

The Tajiri family is directly under the head of the family as the main general, with an army of 500 people under his command. Similarly, the Kamachi clan and the Kuroki clan were both headed by the head of the family, with armies of 300 and 200 respectively.

These armies were made up of the soldiers of the lord lord himself, as well as the soldiers of the wealthy clans of other places. After the four powerful families led by them fell, their local wealthy families would not be happy, so after the mobilization of the four powerful families, they also came to participate in the war. Judging from the situation of the soldiers on the battlefield, these wealthy families can be said to be young and strong, and almost all the people are soldiers.

Combined, the coalition forces totaled 1,400 men. In terms of numbers, the two armies can be said to be evenly matched.

After arranging the formation, the two armies faced each other.

By the time it was close to the afternoon, the coalition side was a little out of breath! The first to attack was the Kamachi family in the central position, and the head of the Kamachi family ordered his archers to start firing, and the entire coalition army began to attack.

Of course, the army of the Luo family would not show weakness, and suddenly a rain of arrows shot at the other party. The arrows of both sides met in the air, forming a rain of arrows that almost covered the sky. It's just that in comparison, the arrows of the Luo family appear to be more powerful and have a longer range.

Bows and arrows at such distances actually have a limited lethality. So with a wave of his hand, the two hundred cavalry, who had been prepared for a long time, under the leadership of Isono Yuanchang, Akaxue Mitsukiyo and Tanao Nakamoto, slaughtered along the empty space in the center of the two camps.

Then, like a rolling black dragon, it rushed forward from a distance of more than ten meters from the coalition barracks. Seeing such a powerful cavalry team, the morale of the coalition soldiers was stunted, and the attacks of bows and arrows became scarce.

Just when the coalition soldiers estimated that they would be attacked by the cavalry, they saw this cavalry team strangely passing in front of them. They were followed by short spear-like spears that shot at them like arrows. The most terrifying cavalry pikemen of the Luo family pulled the bloodthirsty trigger.

The moment they saw those short guns, many of the soldiers who had participated in the earlier operation organized by Tojikanren to cross the Chikugo River and assault the Roche family Hasuike Castle screamed in horror.

That sneak attack ended in the failure of Toji Kanlian. What's more, in that defeat, almost all the troops they landed at the beginning were killed under such short-shot attacks. The scene was so tragic that more than a hundred people, all of them were pierced by short guns like smuggling flesh. Not even the slightest ability to fight back.

So, when the soldiers, who had escaped the ship without going ashore, saw these short guns again, they were immediately frightened. And the confusion of some soldiers also caused a slight confusion in the coalition army. This further weakened the coalition's defenses, which in turn increased the lethality of these short guns. (To be continued......)