Under the instruction of Akihei Ame, the Momiji Fleet cruising in the Seto Inland Sea chose to return to the Bichū frontline area. The Momiji Fleet anchored in the western waters of the Kojima Peninsula first, and dropped the Nagasoga Army and the Miyoshi Army at Amagi, and they
Go north to Kurashiki and contain them south of Mount Hizashi, where Yoshikawa Motoharu is stationed. It is said to be a containment, but in fact, the strength of Choso's army and Miyoshi army has reached 25,000, and the Yoshikawa Motoharu army they want to contain only has 25,000 troops.
Just less than 30,000 people - this is also a microcosm of the Oda family's Western Kingdom strategy - the overwhelming material difference and extravagant deployment and planning, even the number of a special force responsible for the side and rear containment is less than that of the Mori family.
The main force is almost the same size.
Subsequently, at the request of Amakihei, the Momiji Fleet bypassed the Kojima Peninsula and sailed into the port in Kojima Bay to anchor. At the same time, 12,000 people from Sawaki Yoshiyuki and Mori Kotaka were put down on the north shore, allowing them to compete with Oriji.
The main force of the Tian family gathered together. Due to the increasingly heavy rain in the past few days, it became somewhat difficult for the fleet to dock and the troops to land. It took them a lot of time to land ashore.
On May 25, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), as Akihei expected, Ryo Sawaki had just braved the heavy rain to arrive at the Oda family's main camp at Ishiiyama, and then he made a big fuss to get Akihira and Hideyoshi.
He and Ikeda Tsuneki came to see him. After Yu Qiupei and others hurriedly arrived, they immediately took on the huge anger of Sawaki Yoshiyuki.
"Good guys, you won't get any credit, you're going to drag us into the water!" Ryoichi Sawaki saw that he was holding his breath all the way. When he saw Yu Qiuping and the others coming, he cursed, "
We have all seen clearly that there are not many people in the hinterland of the Maori family. As soon as we landed from Itsukushima, the entire Aki Country was at our fingertips! But you were transferred back to me to accompany you on the front line? There are also red leaves,
That Naoe Tadahei you sent to oversee the army is really incompetent! He treated your orders as if they were imperial edicts and returned without saying a word. We refused to go back no matter what..."
"Okay, okay! Touhachi!" Seeing that Sawaki Yoshiyuki was done, Ikeda Hengxing interrupted first, "You don't understand, we brought you back to share the credit with you, so what?
Stealing your credit? What's the point of going to Aki to attack the empty city? Hmm? The noble Sawaki Yoshiyuki can only use the old, weak, women and children in the city to show off his power? Isn't it shameful to say it? Of course he came to our frontal battlefield to annihilate the main force of the Mori family.
If we capture the fortified city of Bichu Takamatsu Castle, we will be even more prominent!"
"Come on, if you capture Aki, you can capture the governor of the Mori family. Isn't it more useful than your Bichu Takamatsu Castle?" Ryoyuki Sawaki gave Ikeda Tsuneaki a blank look and shot back mercilessly.
"Then we still have Yoshikawa Motoharu who has never been defeated in his life. To defeat him, don't we have to capture the third generation ancestor of the Mori family who has never been on the battlefield to show off?" Ikeda Tsuneaki once again argued eloquently, making Sawaki Yoshiyuki angry.
He came up to choke him, but Ikeda Hengxing raised his hand to stop him, and the two of them pushed him back and forth.
"Koron didn't say a word. You who yelled, do you look like an elder?" Yu Qiuping also helped. After all, he had a share in the decision to call back Sawaki Yoshiyuki and others.
Sen Kelong, who was staying aside, saw that the flames of war were burning him, and apologized hurriedly, not daring to join the quarrel among the elders.
"Okay, okay, this time we can't forgive you, why don't we give you some compensation? Please
It's a good show!" Hashiba Hideyoshi saw Ikeda Tsuneaki, Ame Qiupei and Sawaki Yoshiyuki who were also tired of arguing, so he stepped forward with a smile and pulled them away.
"What's the show?" Sawaki Yoshiyuki glanced sideways at Hashiba Hideyoshi, while his hands were still exerting force on Ikeda Tsuneaki.
"You'll know when you get there!" As soon as Hashiba Hideyoshi mentioned his proud work, he immediately burst into laughter and pulled Sawaki Yoshiyuki out of the tent, "When you see it then, don't be scared!
"
"Can I still be scared? I grew up on dry food?" Sawaki Yoshiyuki snorted a few times disdainfully, and picked up the oil-paper umbrella that had not been put aside yet. As soon as he walked out of the tent, Dou
The big raindrops pattered on the umbrella. It was so noisy that I couldn't even hear what I was saying. I had to shout, "But this rain is really heavy."
"It's been raining for several days." Hideyoshi Hashiba was walking in the heavy rain, his vision was a little blurry, every step of his shoes on the ground was filled with water, and the water on the ground almost covered his shoes. From time to time, he would see
There were a lot of puddles and water flowing into streams, but his steps were particularly brisk, "But if it hadn't been for the heavy rain, this show wouldn't have been possible!"
"What is so mysterious?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki couldn't help but asked curiously. Hashiba Hideyoshi replied to him, but they happened to pass by a group of peasants wearing raincoats and carrying tools. Raindrops hit the raincoats and feet.
The sound of treading water was so noisy that Yoshiyuki Sawaki could not hear clearly what Hideyoshi said.
"What did you say?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki shouted at the top of his lungs, hoping that his shout could drown out the sound of the rain.
"Right in front!" Hideyoshi Hashiba yelled back.
"I can't see anything!" Yoshiyuki Sawaki looked at the sky that turned yellow due to the heavy rain and the rain and fog with a visibility of less than 50 meters, and shouted in confusion.
"It will be there in a while!" Hideyoshi Hashiba shouted impatiently, "You will see it then!"
Sawaki Yoshiyuki walked for a long time without knowing where he was going, and finally found that Hashiba Hideyoshi in front of him and other people leading the way were slowly filling up their steps. He looked forward and could only see a yellow patch of sky and a hazy sky.
The colors are almost the same.
"Has the heavy rain already fallen to this extent..." Yoshiyuki Sawaki muttered a few words, and then walked slowly with the people in front. However, as he walked, he found that the yellow patch in front became clearer and clearer.
It's becoming more and more solid - it's not rain or fog, it's like a wall.
Sawaki Yoshiyuki was stunned for a moment, then ran out in a few steps, passed Hashiba Hideyoshi and the others and ran to the edge of the yellow. After getting close enough, he could finally confirm that this was indeed a diagonally upward wall.
, it looks like a dam. He pressed his hand on the wall and could feel that it was a building made of earth and stone. He knocked it hard a few times and it didn't move at all. It seemed that the quality was very good.
"Is this the city wall of Bitchu Takamatsu Castle?" This idea suddenly came to Ryoji Sawaki's mind, "But how could the wall be tilted over? How could it be possible for us to walk down to the city without being guarded?"
He slowly moved his hand away from the wall, took a few steps back, turned his head left and right, and found that the wall in front of him had no end in sight. He looked back at Hideyoshi Hashiba and others, who were all in their teens.
Abutai smiled at himself. Sawaki Yoshiyuki felt a little embarrassed about his face, so he stepped back a few steps.
Stepping forward, he raised his head and looked up. The rain blurred his eyes, but he still roughly estimated that the wall in front of him was about three feet high. Then, he walked quickly to the left, walking a long way but still couldn't see.
When he reached the end of the wall, he suddenly found a staircase protruding from the wall on his right. He hurriedly ran along the stairs and up the wall, and then he was completely stunned there.
It seemed that God was in his favor. When Yoshiyuki Sawaki climbed to the top of the wall, the rain temporarily subsided a little, allowing him to see clearly what kind of monster he was standing on - the first thing he saw was the Bei in the distance.
In Nakatakamatsu Castle, his position was almost level with the city wall of Bitchu Takamatsu Castle. Then, he lowered his head and looked at his feet, and found that he was standing on a long embankment that was very scary in length, width, and height. Under the rain and fog, he was standing on both sides.
He couldn't even see the end, it was at least several miles long. He moved his head forward a little further and looked at the ground on the inside of the long embankment - it was no longer the ground, but water about a foot high.
While he was in a daze, Hashiba Hideyoshi and others also walked up the embankment and came to Sawaki Yoshiyuki's side.
"What's going on with this long embankment?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki looked at Hashiba Hideyoshi and pointed at his feet, "Why haven't I heard of this thing south of Bitchu Takamatsu Castle before?"
"We just repaired it," Hideyoshi Hashiba replied with a smile.
"You did it in a month?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki widened his eyes and looked at Hideyoshi Hashiba in disbelief.
"It's not a month, it's ten days." Hashiba Hideyoshi's expression became more and more serious, he laughed and shook his finger, then looked at Kuroda Takataka who was following behind him, "Kanbei, how are you preparing? Can you do it now?
Just release the water and open the eyes of our Lord Sawaki?"
"Everything is ready." Kuroda Takaka leaned slightly and responded, "The dam on the Ashimori River has been built. Now the water depth of the lower reaches of the Ashomori River outside the Hongye Army Camp has dropped to less than half a meter, and a large amount of water has accumulated in the upper reaches.
The river bed. The river bed of the Ashimori River is relatively high. Coupled with the heavy rains in recent days, the water in the river has surged. A lot of water from upstream has already poured into the basin. As long as we blast the river channel and let the Tetori River change its course, Takamatsu will be flooded immediately."
"Well, it's better to choose the day than to hit the sun. Let's show our strength to His Highness Sawaki!" Hideyoshi Hashiba clapped his hands excitedly, and Kuroda Takataka immediately retreated. Not long after, he saw a sudden sudden change in the upper reaches of the river in the distance.
A burst of smoke rose up in the rain and fog. Immediately afterwards, everyone felt their feet shake, and what followed was a roar. The sound of the gunpowder explosion was quickly obscured by the roar of the flood that followed, so that it was no longer possible.
You can't even notice it if you listen carefully.
The surging water from the Ashimori River was like a beast that had been trapped in a cage for several days. It roared into the water in the basin. The popping sound of the splashing water instantly drowned out the sound of the rain. In the large area,
In front of the water, Bitchu Takamatsu Castle was as weak and helpless as an isolated island in a vast ocean. The water level rose rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the rough water continued to erode the parts of Bitchu Takamatsu Castle that were exposed on the water. Until finally, the flood
It has almost reached the top of the causeway, and the part of Binchu Takamatsu Castle that remains above the water is only a thin layer of city wall. The dim yellow water is sweeping and raging in all directions, and countless houses in the castle town have been destroyed.
It turned into fragments in the flood and floated around the city. On the city, the Maori family's three-star flag seemed to be falling into the water at any time, teetering.
Chapter completed!