It was night, Yu Qiuhei and Asai Nagamasa were having a meal at Tianshou Pavilion, chatting about major events in the world, but the attendant suddenly came in to report that Yu Qiuhei's command Masayuki Sanada was asked for a meeting.
"Xi Bingwei?" Yu Qiuping shook his hand holding chopsticks, "Didn't he go to see your information? Come over in such a hurry..."
"Please come in quickly!" Asai Nagamasa suddenly became nervous and shouted in a hurry. After a moment, Masayuki Sanada walked quickly from outside the door, bowed hurriedly, and whispered: "Two sirs! I feel that the Hexake family is likely to launch an offensive before the autumn harvest is over!"
"Well? How could it be!" Asai Nagamasa was surprised. "Now it is the most important few days of autumn harvest. How can it be possible to recruit troops? The wealthy families and people under their command are unwilling to delay the harvest for a year. There will be great resentment, and it may also be deliberately delayed."
"It's unlikely." Masayuki Sanada shook his head, "But I found in the information that the wealthy families in Rita County and Nosu County in the west have begun to gather, but the wealthy families in the east have no movement."
"The wealthy families in the west and south are all relatively powerful families, such as the Pu Sheng family and the Yamaoka family. There are many soldiers in the family, so it is very likely to gather at Guanyin Temple in advance." Asai Nagamasa explained.
"That's right." Masayuki Sanada nodded in embarrassment. Yu Qiuhei gave him an encouraging look, and the latter continued: "But it is also very likely that the Hexao family issued the order that the various wealthy families in the leadership gathered at Guanyin Temple Castle, but directly gathered at Saheyama Castle."
"Nani!" Asai Nagamasa was shocked, "It is very likely that we will defeat each of us when we scattered like this."
"But the Asai family is still busy with the autumn harvest and cannot assemble the troops." Masayuki Sanada whispered, "There is indeed no basis for facts. But if we want to make a judgment, I would think that the Hexake family plans to gather some troops to fight the favorable terrain before we have not completed the autumn harvest. We will first gather some troops to fight against the favorable terrain and surround Sawa Yama Castle. Wait until the autumn harvest is over and the main force is assembled before the war begins."
"You must be careful." Yu Qiuping nodded with a serious expression, "Changzheng, what do you think?"
"What he said makes sense." Asai Nagamasa shouted a small surname, "Go to inform Lord Amasa Shigetsu Onoki Shigetsu and ask them to assemble some troops immediately and go to Sawa Yama Castle to support!"
On the morning of July 29, Yu Qiuping had just woken up and finished breakfast, but was informed by Xiao's surname and asked him to go to the Tianshou Pavilion evaluation room. After Yu Qiuping met with several of his subordinates, he immediately rushed to the Tianshou Pavilion. When they arrived, they saw Akao Kiyo and Yumori Kiyozaki quarreling, and Haibei Gang was trying to mediate. 66 Xuxue had many important officials coming to Tianshou Pavilion again.
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiuping asked Nagamasa Asai, who had a serious expression on the side.
"I was unfortunately told by Lord Sanada." Asai Nagamasa pointed to the location of Sawa Yama Castle. "This morning, a large number of Hexake family troops were crossing the river by the side of Nose River. So he hurriedly sent someone to call the police."
"Sure enough, did the troops be mobilized before the autumn harvest end?" Yu Qiuping whispered, "How many people are there in total?"
"There are not many people, and the warriors are less than 800. These are the number of soldiers in the Hexao family. More than a thousand civilians are followed behind them." Asai Nagamasaki whispered, "Just just to defend Sawa Yama Castle, Isono was forced to stop the autumn harvest in his throne and gather all the troops into Sawa Yama Castle. The crops under the city are probably going to be handed over."
"Master Akao and Yumori are quarreling over their subsequent actions." Asai Nagamasa said, "Master Akao asked to stop the full autumn harvest immediately and recruit troops to fight. However, Master Akao suspected that this might be just a trick to disturb the enemy and refused to recruit troops."
"I can only wait for further information." Yu Akihei sighed and waited in the evaluation room with Honta Nosuke and Maeda Taki family, listening to the disputes within the Asai family. The lords with slow autumn harvest in the territory are generally conservative, but those pro-war factions whose territory is not large or whose autumn harvest is about to be completed require troops to be sent immediately, and both sides have different opinions. Amano Kyoto, Matsushita Gengran and Masayuki Sanada were asked to come up with a map and sit in the corner discussing something. Masayuki Masayuki still had a disagreement with each other, and Masayuki Sanada had to smooth things over.
At noon, the latest information came. Asami Satsuma and Onoki Shigetsu who were sent to the front line sent a messenger back to the messenger that the two gates of Sahoyama Castle were surrounded and that the contact inside and outside the city had been cut off. Sahoyama Castle sent a messenger for help before being surrounded. The messenger said that the food from the autumn harvest could not be recovered and the food in the city had fallen into the hands of the Hexao family, and the food stored in the city might be supported for one month later.
The troops of Amasasa and Shigetsu Onoki also said that the number of teams in the Hexaku family has increased further, reaching 5 ooo people, and 66 more small troops have arrived. The advance team of the Asai family has only 15 o people, which cannot match it, so they have to wait on the north bank of Yakura River and dare not cross the river. The troops of the Hexaku family's famous minister Goto Kentoyoshi were stationed in the south bank of Yakura River and confronted them.
The battle situation was no longer so optimistic. The Asai family was forced to make the same decision as the Hexao family. Asai Nagamasa sent the important officials back to the territory, and 6 continued to recruit troops to complete the autumn harvest and assembled on the north coast of Yakura River. He himself brought the samurai warriors and the horse lords to first arrive at Mihara, five miles away from the Yakura front line to set up his main formation. The six continued to rush to the camp in chaos and set up a camp in a mess. The Hexao family opposite was also chaotic, and neither side intended to attack. The Hexao family's main formation was set up at Hikone four miles south of Yakura River.
The time has been delayed until August 7. Both the autumn harvest of Kitao and Nano River have come to an end, and the troops from both sides have also been assembled in Sawa Yama Castle. The number of troops of the Asai family reached 13 ooo, while the Hexao family was 2 ooooo. However, due to the Hexao family's first move, the initiative in the war has fallen into the hands of the Hexao family. The Asai family originally planned to cross Yakura River, and the attempt to rely on the terrain around Sawa Yama Castle has been shattered. Sawa Yama Castle has been surrounded by the Hexao family, and the geographical advantage has also fallen into the hands of the Hexao family. The Asai family has had to try to break through the Hexao family's defense line to relieve Sawa Yama Castle.
The Hexake family tentatively attacked Sawa Yama Castle twice on the 5th and 6th, but the Sawa Yama Castle was in a dangerous terrain, and the guard general Isono Tomotashi was brave and good at fighting. After the Hexake family's attack failed, they turned to defense, intending to trap Sawa Yama Castle to death.
Yakura River is a river surrounding Sawa Mountain. It flows from the Ibuki Mountain source and turns around Sawa Mountain from the east. It turns west in the northern section of Sawa Mountain and flows into Biwa Lake. Close to Sawa Mountain, it is Ono River. It flows northward almost parallel to Yakura River and then flows into the Yakura River that turns westward.
In the northwest of Sawa Mountain, there is a small mountain that hinders the movement of the troops from the north bank of Yakura River. This makes the area where Yakura River can cross the river extremely narrow, only a short area of ​​three or four hundred meters between two mountains. Under the defense of the Hexaki family Goto Kento and other important officials, the Asai family has no choice but to take advantage of it. After two tentative attacks, the fierce generals Ayumori Kiyosaki and Endo Naoki took two tentative attacks, it is difficult to find a breakthrough on the defense line. Although Yakura River is not very wide or deep, it has brought great difficulties to the troops' march and formation mobilization.
In desperation, the Asai family decided to start a roundabout battle and sent four-ooo people from the Akao Kiyoto family to cross the Yakurakawa from Sai and Shandong, passing through the plain between Yakurakawa and Onogawa, and heading south, trying to attack Hikone from the east. However, the elusive harassment of the Hexaga Ninja from the Hexaga family seriously affected the marching. Later, the banner of the Pusheng family and the Miyun family appeared on the south side of Sai and Mountain. Akao Kiyoto family, who was afraid of being ambushed, had to return the same route.
On August 15th, Sawa Yama Castle had been besieged for half a month and had half of the food and grass consumed. This morning, after Nagamasa Asai convened a military discussion, he felt that he would launch a large-scale attack on the entire line to find the weaknesses of the Hexao family's defense line. Kiyosasaki Yumori, Naoto Endo, Sashimasatsu Asahi and Shigetsu Onoki led 5ooo Football to attack the Hexao Army opposite Yakurakawa as a feint. Nagamasaki Asai personally led the 6ooo Football to detour from the plain between Onogawa and Yakurakawa to the flank of the Hexao Army. Kamiki Hirohiro, who included Eagle and Ma Li, and left behind to prevent accidents. Yu Qiuhei and his subordinates followed Nagamasaki Asai to the flank of the Hexao Army.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, the Asai family arrived near Yakurakawa and began the battle plan.
When Kiyosaki Yumori led his troops to line up on the north bank of Yakura River, the Hexao Army on the south bank was ready. With the sound of drums on the north bank, the 1ooo soldiers lined up in five rows of dense formations and stepped into the river of Yakura River. What welcoming them was the rain of arrows coming from the Hexao Army on the other side. After the archers of the Hexao Army left the line, the archers of the Asai family also shot at the archers of the Hexao Army on the shore to cover the friendly forces that were swept across the river. The first row of the Asai Army advance team did not carry weapons, but held large rattan signs and wooden boards and walked in the front to cover their companions behind them. However, the shield could not protect their whole body, and many foot archers still lost their combat power because of the middle of their legs.
As the distance narrowed, more and more Asaki's family's feet fell down by the arrows on their legs, and more than 20 people were killed or killed by the archers of Asaki's family. As the Asaki's family began to approach the shore, Kento Goto took all the archers, but let the 6O melee foot gently push up. In the past ten days, the Hei's family has built many fortifications on the south bank. On the mudflats on the south bank, many horse-rejected and wooden fences were placed horizontally and vertically on the mudflats on the south bank. Further forward, there were two trenches and two rows of fences. The Hei's defensive forces stood behind the fences and trenches, preparing to block the Asaki army.
In the previous two tentative attacks, the Asai family only invested a few hundred people, but only slightly destroyed some fortifications and left. This time the Asai family was aggressive and obviously came to the real world, and the Hexao family also cheered up.
Chapter completed!