At 3:00 a.m. on November 18, the sky gradually became brighter, but the situation on the Settsu-Harima border became increasingly confusing.
Matsunagahide and Araki Murashige brazenly raised the flag of rebellion in the army, but they had no intention of attacking at all, but focused on stabilizing the defense. Oda Nobunaga believed that this was a signal that the two were waiting for help, and asked Yu Qiupei, De
Kawa Ieyasu and Hashiba Hideyoshi were keeping an eye on the two of them, while he himself was preparing to execute his plan to fake defeat in Akashi Castle.
At four o'clock in the morning, Akashi Castle.
Oda Nobunaga was standing on the roof of Akashi Castle's castle tower. That's right, he was standing on the edge of the tower's spire, looking at the situation. The guards beside him were nervously lying on the bricks of the castle tower, using human walls to protect them.
A circle was formed around them, fearing that Oda Nobunaga would fall from above.
Under his order, the tens of thousands of troops of the Oda family stationed around Akashi Castle were slowly withdrawing. From Hori Hidemasa at the forefront, to Inaba Ittetsu, Ando Mamoru, and then to Yamauchi Kazutoyo and Kanamori Naga.
Nearby, Hidetaka Hajiriya, Hidetaka Kawajiri, Kazushi Nakamura, etc. And the troops under the direct control of Oda Nobunaga personally cut off the rear.
The troops of the Oda family were like a rolling torrent. Countless troops with papaya flags broke out from the front line and slowly retreated around both sides of Akashi Castle. Oda Nobunaga's troops lived northwest of Akashi Castle, right in front of them.
Facing the direction of the Sanhao Maori Allied Forces Camp.
"It's finally moving." Oda Nobunaga stood on the roof blowing the cold wind for a long time, and finally watched with satisfaction as the Miyoshi Army and the Maori Army began to slowly form an array outside the camp, chasing their own troops. The Maori Army led the charge.
Fukuhara Sadatoshi, and the leader of the Miyoshi Army was Awa Zhong of Miyoshi Yoshihide.
"The pioneers are all mature and prudent people who are not known for being good at fighting." Oda Nobunaga frowned and sighed, "Do they still have some brains? They know how to keep a guard up."
"Then let's make it more realistic." Oda Nobunaga laughed dryly, sat down on the tiles of the castle tower, followed the curvature of the roof to the edge of the eaves, flipped over and jumped back indoors.
"Send the order, after the entire army evacuates, we immediately abandon Akashi City and retreat. I'll see if they can pursue us."
At four o'clock in the morning, the Oda family's army had basically withdrawn from around Akashi Castle. Oda Nobunaga himself led the last troops to burn the Akashi Castle tower and withdrew towards the east. However, although he was withdrawing, he had no head.
But he kept turning around and looking in the direction of the Miyoshi Maori Allied Forces, expecting them to invest more troops. Sure enough, after Akashi Castle was burned, the Miyoshi Maori Allied Forces obviously increased their speed. Miyoshi Nagakei's own flag and Hoida Motoki
The flag also appeared in the pursuit team.
Hoida Motoki was the fourth son of Motonari Mori, and he made countless military exploits in the northern and southern battles in the Sanyo area. The world always only remembers the second son Yoshikawa Motoharu and the third son Kobayakawa Takakage of "Moori Ryokawa", but always forgets them.
This fourth son was also adopted into his family for the sake of Mouri's prosperity. However, he, Takamoto Moori, Motoharu Yoshikawa, and Takakage Kobayakawa were not of the same mother, but were sons born after Motomoto Moori was over half a century old. Therefore,
There is also a huge age gap between him and his three brothers. On the contrary, he has a better relationship with the current head of the Maori family, Terumoto Mori, Takamoto Mori's son and grandson of Motonari Mori. In the history of Yu Qiupei's previous life, Hoida Motoki's son was
He was adopted as an adopted son by Mouri Terumoto and restored the Mouri clan, which was the future Mouri Hidemoto. The most famous deed of this Mouri Hidemoto was that he served as the frontline commander of the Maori Army in the Sekigahara War, but was later dismissed as Sekigahara.
Yoshikawa Hiroie, one of the original three gods, was blocked behind him and did not participate in the entire battle.
The troops under Miyoshi Nagakei once frightened Kinki, and Hoida Motoki also made outstanding achievements. Their troops went into pursuit, which showed that the Miyoshi-Maori coalition really began to take this pursuit seriously.
At the same time, Yantian on North Road.
Charlie was ordered to lead Ming Dybei to set up formations in the canyon to stop the Awaji people from attacking from the north. Ming Dybei had nearly 1,500 soldiers, enough to guard this narrow mountain road airtight. Charlie took Ming Dybei and
The iron gunners worked in platoons and personally arranged garrison positions for them beyond the company commander.
Charlie set up a long and deep defensive position. On the highlands on both sides of this section of the canyon, the Red Leaf Army iron artillery platoons were stationed at favorable shooting positions in the dense forest. On the mainland in front, Charlie placed a large number of iron artillerymen.
They were arranged behind a creek and on the slope of the valley, giving full play to the firing angle and lethality of the iron cannons. And the three artillery pieces were pushed into the simple fort built halfway up the canyon, and they aimed condescendingly.
On the way here, the pikemen who fired their weapons were stationed behind the trenches and fences built by the auxiliary troops.
Among the many senior officers of the Hongye Army, Charlie is the best at commanding iron gunners and artillery, and Ming Dybei's long-range firepower has always been the most powerful. Yu Qiuping arranged for him to defend in a narrow canyon because he took a fancy to his use of firearms.
talent.
Soon after, the Awaji people of Anzhai Fuyaka slowly appeared in the field of vision. The Awaji people obviously noticed the iron wall in front of them and had no intention of attacking. They stopped far away from the range of the artillery, and then
There he looked at Naru Dybei silently.
"Sir, what should we do? Should we take the initiative to attack?" Lieutenant Colonel Shinshinariyo, the oldest lieutenant colonel in Mingdyberi, stepped forward and asked, "At this rate, let alone breakfast, the group of people may not be able to wait until lunch.
Will attack?"
"No need." Charlie shook his head. It seemed that he was as dull as An Zhai Dongkang and had no intention of attacking. "His Royal Highness's order is for us to stick to this place. There is no need to cause trouble."
"When enemies come, we have to defeat them. After defeating them, we can go back to help His Highness. Your Highness will have more troops to deal with others." Xinxian Chengliang kept talking beside Charlie, hoping to convince himself.
The reserve captain. Charlie was annoyed by him for a long time, and finally ordered in a low voice very impatiently, "Each company takes turns to have breakfast."
"It's your Excellency." Upon hearing this, the gluttonous rice cook Xin Xian Chengliang immediately stood up and gave a military salute, then turned around with a smile and prepared to start eating.
On the other side of the salt field, Fukushima Yasunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu were besieging Matsunaga Hide's military camp. The Red Leaf Army was in the northwest, and the Tokugawa Army was in the southwest. Unlike the Tokugawa Army, which fought hard, the Red Leaf Army did not sacrifice a large number of people.
To advance the front line at the cost. Because Amakihei knew Oda Nobunaga's plan to lure the enemy, they only needed to hold back Matsunagahide, so they ordered the troops not to work too hard. However, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not know this plan and was thinking of hurrying up
Put down the rebellion and stabilize the situation.
"Calibration." In front of Tokiwabi's position, Naoe Nohei, the current captain of Tokiwabi's artillery, was ordering the gunners to take aim. And his original captain Senju Ounari had been transferred from the army by Yu Qiupei to prepare for the establishment of Omaezaki Nakahide.
That artillery company mentioned earlier.
The three artillery groups each conducted two rounds of test fire, and gradually locked on the two tall oars outside the Matsunaga Army camp. The two oars were all equipped with iron gunners, aiming at the ground at all times, allowing Tokiwa Bei's attack
It seemed a bit difficult. If we directly let the iron gunners go up and shoot, we can win, but the casualties are estimated to be high. Fukushima Yasunari was not in a hurry anyway, so he asked the artillery to remove these obstacles first. Anyway, the Matsunaga army did not have artillery, and the iron gunners were not enough.
to the artillery.
Junichiro Okuno is an iron artillery ashigaru general of the Matsunaga Army. He is currently commanding the iron artillerymen on the oar to the north outside the Matsunaga Army camp. After a tentative attack launched by the Red Leaf Army was repulsed by a volley of guns,
No more people were sent to charge. Junichiro Okuno was puzzled and a little regretful that he could not fully enjoy the oars and ammunition that he had prepared for so long. Many iron gunners of the Matsunaga family also laughed at the Red Leaf Army, claiming to each other that they were "shooting"
"Repulsed the world-famous Red Leaf Army". However, when the roar of artillery sounded in the opposite position, they could no longer laugh. Although the previous two rounds of shooting did not hit their oars, the location of the impact of the artillery shells had already been
Very close.
However, Junichiro Okuno still had something to be thankful for. The red leaf army artillery test target was another oar next to him. In other words, his oar could still survive for a while. However, when the red leaf army artillery launched the third round,
After the volley, he couldn't be thankful for the tragic situation of the oar next to him. Although this round of volley failed to knock down the oar, it had already made countless cracks in the wooden structure of the oar.
The first shell of the next round of firing hit the center of the oar, making a large gap in the wooden structure of the oar. The entire oar instantly began to slowly swing and tilt. The second cannonball hit the iron gunner.
On the gathering platform, screams and wails erupted before the splashing blood and broken limbs. The third cannonball hit the gap of the first cannonball, directly smashing the oar to pieces. The iron cannon oar "creeped"
"After a few sounds, it quickly collapsed and was shattered into pieces on the ground, with blood lying on the ground.
"The earth and stone structure should be repaired." Junichiro Okuno stared blankly as the iron gunners of the Red Leaf Army slowly adjusted the angle of the muzzle and turned towards the oar he was on. This was completely a gift. Three three-pound cannons with two rounds.
A single wooden oar would be gone in a volley. Wood that can withstand a volley of artillery may only be as thick as a city gate.
Seeing that the angles of the three cannons had been adjusted and the test firing started, some of the iron gunners on the oars could no longer sit still, and deserters began to appear in twos and threes. Junichiro Okuno had no interest in stopping them because he was also sitting on the oar.
He couldn't hold it any longer. After the artillery fired the first round of volleys at the oar he was on, Junichiro Okuno completely lost the courage to resist. Without saying a word, he led the remaining men to abandon the oar and turned towards the people behind him.
They ran to the camp. Not long after they left the camp, the oar on the back collapsed under the fire of the Hongye Army.
Chapter completed!