At noon on March 2, in Gaowu City.
"Are you sure? Has Sen Kecheng been killed?"
"It's absolutely true, please rest assured, your two highnesses!" The ninja sent by the Matsunaga family knelt in front of Miyoshi Choitsu and Miyoshi Masayasu, "Mori Katsunari and the people around him were all killed by us, and no one escaped! Although
None of us have seen what Sen Kelong, the eldest son of Sen Kecheng, looks like, but he must be among those who were killed! Please also ask your two highnesses to immediately leave the city to counterattack as agreed! Cooperate with my lord to attack Yu Qiuzhi
department!"
"Since you said Mori Kaki and Mori Kolong are dead, why are the Mori troops outside the north gate not in chaos at all?" Miyoshi Choitsu was still very calm, but walked to the window of the castle tower and pointed at the gate outside the north gate.
Mori family troops.
"Maybe the Yuqiu Administrative Department has blocked the news! Because only his people have escaped back!" The ninjas of the Matsunaga family responded quickly when they saw this, "Your Highnesses, please wait a moment! My lord will send someone to capture Mori Kacheng soon.
Send his head! When the time comes, throw his head in front of the city gate, and the Mori family will naturally collapse without a fight!"
"Okay, let's wait and see." Miyoshi Changyi tapped the window frame with his fist, "As soon as Mori Kecheng's head arrives, we and His Highness Anzhai will abide by the prior agreement and launch an attack immediately.
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However, not long after the Matsunaga family ninjas left, Miyoshi Masayasu, who had been standing by the castle tower window to observe, suddenly discovered that two groups of people rode into the Mori family's camp one after another. Immediately afterwards, the Mori family's camp
A small-scale chaos and commotion broke out. However, the commotion was soon calmed down.
"Changyi, what do you think?" Miyoshi Masayasu nudged Miyoshi Changyi with his elbow, "What's going on with the Mori family?"
"It is estimated that the people of the Mori family discovered that the Matsunaga army made a sudden move and the situation was critical, and their own family governor has not returned yet, so they asked someone to ask the Yuqiu Administrative Department. In order to stabilize the Mori family, the Yuqiu Administrative Department continuously sent envoys to deceive the Mori family.
, saying that Sen Kecheng is safe and has returned to his camp." After thinking for a moment, Miyoshi Changyi concluded, "As soon as we show Sen Kecheng's head, the deceived Sen
After the family realizes that the family governor has been killed, they will definitely be in chaos. When the time comes, we will take advantage of the chaos to kill the Mori family first, and then the Yu Qiuzhi family!"
Just as the two were discussing, the ninjas of the Matsunaga family delivered Mori Katsunari's head as promised. Miyoshi Nagaitsu immediately lit up the smoke and asked Anzhai Fuyayasu and Miyoshi Yoshihiro to cooperate with Matsunaga Hide to attack Yu Qiupei who was outside the west gate.
Then, they hung Mori Katsunari's head high on the tower of Sannomaru at the north gate, and asked dozens of Ashokaru to repeatedly shout to the Mori family's troops: "Mori Katsunari is dead."
!" "Sen Kecheng is dead!"
Sure enough, the Mori family's troops were in an uproar after seeing Mori Katsuki's head, and the whole army was in chaos. Just when Miyoshi Choitsu and Miyoshi Masayasu were about to open the north city gate to cover up the killing, the Mori family's troops had already retreated on their own -
They abandoned their camp outside the north gate and retreated directly to the Yamato River in the north.
"You actually withdrew directly?" Miyoshi Changyi was shocked when he saw this, "Didn't this directly expose Yu Qiuzhi's retreat in front of our eyes?"
"They must have felt that the Yuqiu Zhibu deceived them. The Mori family lost their head and young master, and they were leaderless, so they just withdrew in anger." Miyoshi Masayasu chuckled lightly, "The Yuqiu Zhibu will suffer the consequences."
"In that case, don't waste time
Come on!" Miyoshi Changyi clapped his hands and pointed at Yu Qiuping's camp with his unsheathed samurai sword. "Two of us, one of us went around from the north gate and attacked the back of Yu Qiuping's headquarters! One of us directly
Open the west gate and attack the flanks of Yu Qiuzhi's troops! Cooperate with the bombs and defeat Yu Qiuzhi's troops in one fell swoop!"
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At noon in the afternoon, the north and west gates of Takaya Castle opened. Miyoshi Nagaitsu and Miyoshi Masayasu attacked Yu Qiuping from two directions. Ming Dybei had to deploy separately and stick to the north and east gates of the camp. Tokiwa Bei had to
It is even more difficult to resist Matsunaga Hide's fierce attack on his own.
At the same time, the troops of Anzhai Fuyang and Miyoshi Nagaitsu bypassed the south of Matsunaga's army, intending to make a detour to the west of Yu Qiuping's headquarters, and block Yu Qiuping from all directions outside the west gate of Takawu Castle.
However, to everyone's surprise, the Mori family's troops, which had originally retreated north to the Yamato River Ferry, suddenly turned south after the exchange of fire between Miyoshi Choitsu and Yu Qiupei's troops, and headed in the opposite direction to the north of Takaya Castle.
The killing came at the door. Due to the obstruction of his vision, Miyoshi Choitsu, who was in the middle of the battle, did not notice the unusual movement of the Mori family troops at first. It was Miyoshi Masakatsu who stayed in Takaya Castle who noticed the abnormality and sent someone to inform Miyoshi Choitsu and Miyoshi Masayasu.
When Miyoshi Changyi realized that something was wrong and tried to retreat to the north gate, Yu Qiuping immediately sent the cavalry led by Nobuyuki Anesama to stick up, determined not to let Miyoshi Changyi, Miyoshi Masayasu return to the army. The two were harassed and were in a dilemma, Miyoshi
Chang Yi was unable to complete the retreat because the distance was too long, while Miyoshi Masayasu finally managed to withdraw half of his people back to Gaowu City.
However, before he could reorganize the defense of the north gate, the Mori family's troops had already rushed back. When they retreated, they left all the ladders, rams and other siege equipment in the camp and did not take them away when they counterattacked.
Directly pushed out to attack the city. Only the few troops left by Miyoshi Masakatsu were left in the city. Sannomaru's north gate was immediately breached, and Mori Katsura's head was also recaptured by Mori Katsura himself. Immediately afterwards, Mori Katsura
Takashi took the lead and stormed Ninomaru, capturing Ninomaru before Miyoshi Masayasu's reinforcements arrived. Miyoshi Masakatsu was also beheaded to death by Mori Kotaka himself at the top of the city.
The death of Mori Katsunari did not collapse the morale of the Mori family. Because Takenaka Shigeharu cooperated with Mori Katsura to arrive first and stabilized the morale of the army before the chaos broke out. On the contrary, after Mori Katsunari's head was singled out, the Mori family
Everyone was excited and vowed to avenge the murdered head of the family. At the request of Takenaka Shigeharu, Mori Kotaka first led the Mori family's troops to pretend to evacuate, deceived the Miyoshi family's troops and then struck back. The morale of the Mori family troops was high.
Unstoppable, they defeated Sannomaru and Ninomaru. Mori Kotaka even led his troops to attack the west gate in person, and He Mingdyus prepared a flanking attack, leaving Miyoshi Masayasu at the west gate to attack half of Yu Qiupei's army and completely defeated it, opening the door
Go to the gate of the west city of Gaowu City.
Tokiwa Bei and Naru Dysprosium were ready to fight and retreat, and gradually retreated from the west gate to Takaya Castle. At this time, the positions of Miyoshi Yoshihiro and Anzai Fuyasu's troops were very awkward - they were located southwest of Matsunaga's army, and they were halfway around the detour.
.There is no way to immediately engage in the pursuit of Yuqiu's army, and there is no way to immediately return to the south gate of Takaya Castle and enter the city to support. The largest force of the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition is at the most anxious moment of the war.
At that time, I could only circle around on the periphery and watch from the sidelines.
At this time, in Takaya Castle, Miyoshi Masayasu's 500 soldiers and 4,000 auxiliary soldiers in the city had to face nearly 150 of the Mori family.
0 warriors and Naru Dybei attacked. However, Matsunagahide's troops were blocked outside the west gate of Takaya Castle by Tsukiwabi and were unable to enter the city for support. Miyoshi Choitsu finally got rid of the harassment of Nobuyuki Anayama and retreated outside the north gate.
, but were blocked outside Sannomaru by the 500 soldiers left by Moriko Takashi. Under the frenzied attack by Naru Gabei and the Mori family troops like ants on the city, Miyoshi Masayasu was unable to resist and fled from Honmaru.
They retreated to the south gate of Sannomaru and stood firm, trying to wait for reinforcements from the Miyoshi family to arrive.
Yu Qiupei immediately withdrew Tokiwa Bei and all the auxiliary troops into the city and completed the defense of the West City, East City and North City. Then he and Mori Kolong attacked the south gate of Sannomaru from both the city wall and the ground. Inside and outside Takaya Castle
Just like giant concentric circles, the Oda army circled around in the small circle, while the Miyoshi army had to rush on the big circle outside the city. When Miyoshi Yoshihiro and Matsunagahide finally reorganized their formation, they circled to the south
When the gate was preparing to support, the brave and unstoppable Moriko Takashi had already controlled the gate of the southern city. Miyoshi Masayasu's last troops struggled to hold on at the city gate, but they were treated as live targets from high places by the iron cannons of Ming Dybei and Tokiwa Bei.
Continuous shooting. Masayasu Miyoshi himself was shot and wounded by Hidetaka Uji of the Iron Artillery Team in the rebel army. He died of excessive blood loss soon after.
With the death of Miyoshi Masayasu, Miyoshi Masayasu's remaining soldiers were unable to resist. They were forced to the edge of the wall battlements, many surrendered, and a few Miyoshi family ashigaru jumped off the battlements in despair and fell into the moat and died.
The Miyoshi Army was originally here to defend the city. They did not carry siege equipment at all and had no way to attack. Only the siege equipment was built in Matsunagahide's camp. However, the extremely active Mori Kolong immediately moved to the east city after capturing the south city.
Opening the city gate and rushing into the camp where Matsunagahide was guarded by almost no soldiers. The Matsunaga family's auxiliary troops scattered like birds and beasts, and all the siege equipment they had worked hard to build were burned by Mori Kotaka. Before the reinforcements from the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition arrived at the east gate
, withdrew to Gaowa Castle again.
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After a series of dazzling melee, the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition and the Oda army performed a jaw-dropping move that could only be seen in the war chess game invented by Yu Qiupei. Originally in the hands of the Miyoshi family,
Gaowa City fell into the hands of Yu Qiuping and Mori Kelong, and the original camps of the Yu Qiu family and the Mori family were occupied by the Miyoshi family.
The Miyoshi Army, which was originally surrounded in Takaya Castle and waiting for reinforcements, now surrounded the Oda Army in Takaya Castle. The Oda Army was now waiting for Oda Nobunaga's reinforcements.
After a great battle, the Oda army suffered nearly 800 casualties. Mori Katsunari, the governor of the Mori family, was also assassinated by Matsunaga Hide. The Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition suffered nearly 1,500 casualties. Miyoshi Masayasu, one of the Miyoshi trio, was killed in the battle.
, Sanhaozhengsheng was also sought.
In order to capture Takaya Castle, the Miyoshi family immediately began to build siege equipment. However, the Oda family's reinforcements, Takigawa Kazumasu and Ikeda Tsuneko's troops, also arrived at the Yamato River line on March 6. At the same time, Oda Nobunaga also
They sent people to take the northern route to attack Yamato, forcing Matsushita Nagahide to detach troops to defend. Although the Miyoshi family's troops did not withdraw, they had no intention of storming Takaya Castle. Because all the small wealthy families in Minamihanoi had already turned to the other side.
The Yuqiu family put considerable restrictions on the activities of the Miyoshi Army. At this point, the crisis in Takaya Castle was finally lifted. After the Oda Army on the southern front was betrayed by Matsunagahide, it accidentally captured the important town of Hanoi.
Chapter completed!