The weather in central Vietnam in April is warm and dry. The lack of rain in the past two months has brought great trouble to spring plowing. In addition to worrying about when it will rain, the Chinese people and field servants in central Vietnam have to be distracted and keep an eye on the growing weather.
In the tense war atmosphere, Masuyama Castle has successively issued orders to several generals. Local people are not allowed to leave the townships without orders, and Tonami County has also entered a wartime state.
The location of the Funune Castle in the northwest of Tonami County is special. Because it is adjacent to Kaga Country, it is regarded as the gateway guarding the Echuxi Gate. At this time, this door is wide open to welcome a special group of guests, mixed with Echuchu who have retreated to Kaga Country to seek refuge.
Fangguan, the Kaga of the Chinese people has always been a vanguard.
The lord of the city, Ishiguro Sakonzoto Naritsuna, stood outside the city to welcome the arrival of the former lord, the chief priest. As a thorn in the way of the chief priest, he pretended to obey the Kira army and surrendered to the city, because Yamamoto Tokiyuki's main focus was on
In terms of screening, executing, and reassigning followers of the Yixiang Sect, Chinese people like him who were not from Yixiang Yikui were given the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
As a grasshopper who is tied to the rope of always following the chief priest, he has no choice but to retreat. Most of the men in the clan have been dragged to Kaga country by the chief priest, including his clan leader Ishiguro Sakon.
Shomitsu Kane is also among them. His famous family is being pinched by the chief minister and he has no choice. He can only cooperate with Kaga's actions. He knows very well that if the Kira family finds out that he will still be in contact with the defeated army who fled into Kaga.
If you get entangled, you may become a member who is hanged on the streets of Yuezhong.
"Lord, since Kira's army entered Koulibo County this time, they have killed a total of 6,731 disciples of Shiyikui, and exiled more than 25,000 followers of Shiyikui. It is said that they will be exiled to Vietnam.
Later, he was imprisoned as a criminal miner in the mountains. This time, the people in the county suffered great losses. Most of the people's possessions, including the lord's territory, were confiscated. The population of the county decreased by nearly 60%, and the Kira family has been in decline since autumn.
We have been transferring people from Fufu County and Xinchuan County, and transferring people from the country to live here. I heard that in the next few days, the city will be demolished, the villages will be moved to form larger villages, and the streets of Qianmo will be reorganized. To this end, we have called several times.
I will go to Zengshan City to attend the evaluation meeting..."
The chief priest was dark and thin, and his messy beard was unkempt. It was obvious that his life in Kaga was not easy. After hearing his introduction, he stopped and looked at the wooden boat city carefully, and whispered: "I don't move well."
What a small ambition! How are the remaining retainers doing? Have they been discovered?"
"No, probably not." Ishiguro Naritsuna shook his head. In fact, he was not sure about his judgment. He always felt that he was stared at by strange eyes intentionally or unintentionally several times when he went to Zengshan Castle. Maybe he was too nervous.
the illusion.
The Chief Jinbo stared at it for a while, then sighed and said: "This matter is related to the great cause of the revival of the Jinbo clan. We must act cautiously and carefully to ensure that the Kira family does not know our actual actions. We will try our best to seize Masuyama Castle in one fell swoop."
, release the major fortresses along the Jincheng front line, and then merge and capture Toyama Castle to expel the Kira army."
Ishiguro Naritsuna secretly cursed an idiot. Echichu's emergency general order was so obvious that you couldn't see it, but on the surface he still pretended to be ignorant and asked: "But Yamamoto Tokiyuki seems to have discovered Kaga's movements. So what?"
How about ensuring that the action is secretive?"
"Don't be afraid of this. The movements over Kaga will be discovered sooner or later. However, there are many Chinese people like me who have sneaked into Tonami County quietly. As long as the opportunity comes, they can go out at the same time to catch the Kira family by surprise. , when the time comes, you and I will both be meritorious people, and it is natural for us to share more of the territory of the people of the Genocide Country!" The Chief Divine Protector laughed triumphantly, and if no one could see him standing on the castle tower, he would With his shabby plain coat and messy attire, he might be kicked out as a ronin warrior.
Ishiguro Naritsuna's expression improved, and he quickly flattered him and said, "My lord, what a wonderful plan!"
But this time he took the photo in the wrong place. The chief priest shook his head and said: "This strategy is so brilliant, but it is not the hand of my family, but the strategy personally formulated by Kaga Ichikui, the great monk Toshoji Miteru. Most of the monks promised that as long as we are successful in our work, they will not give us more territory after seizing Yuezhong."
Ishiguro Naritsuna always felt a little uneasy, but he couldn't show any color on the surface. He kept mumbling: "This is the best! This is the best..."
At dawn on April 18th, Tonami County adjacent to Kaga Province's side of Hasunuma Castle, Ichijoji Castle, Anyangji Castle, Takakiba Gobo, and Tsuchyama Gobo were all captured, with more than 30,000 soldiers. Kaga's troops immediately poured into the territory of Yuezhong from several mountain passes, and urgent reports came one after another into Zengshan Castle.
Even though he had expected it, when faced with the corrupt situation of separatism across the entire western Tonami County, Tokiyuki Yamamoto was still annoyed by it. Even if you tried to block them, you could not win over the hearts of these Vietnamese people. Their deep-rooted mentality was simply It is not something that can be disintegrated in an instant. This is the most typical mentality of Chinese people in the Warring States Period. They don't eat soft and hard things and especially like to push their noses and faces. Not to mention Kira Yoshitomo, an outsider, even if you are a guardian appointed by the general. It's just one sentence to say kick him out.
In particular, it is the core area of the Ichiku activities. Even Yamamoto Tokiyuki would not dare to attack them first. He must first clean up the influence of the Ichiko sect in the eastern part of Tonami County. After the front line of Masuyama Castle in the east is completely stabilized, he can then attack the western part of Tonami County. Unfortunately, It was because Kaga had always refused to give him more worldly life that the war ended last year and started again this year.
Kokura Rokuemon, Araki Hall, Araki Taifubo Castle, asked for help. The entire Tonami Plains in the west of Tonami County were completely unobstructed. It was like a woman who had no power to resist, being fucked as much as she wanted by this rude man. After being ravaged, Yamamoto Tokiyuki ordered the remaining Japanese people on the Tonami Plains to burn their supplies and lead their troops to retreat, and lured the Japanese to launch an attack on the high mountains of Mount Takao in the east.
Between the not-so-high mountains of Mt. Habuto, Mt. Takao, and Mt. Tengu, there is an exquisite fortress defense composed of Inami Castle, Yinwei Castle, Habutsu Mountain Castle, Ankawa Castle, Masuyama Castle, and Kameyama Castle. This walled city defense network is like the Maginot Line of Defense in Vietnam, shouldering the important task of blocking Kaga's attacks.
This castle defense network was not built by Yamamoto Tokiyuki, but was gradually formed after Momoi Naotsune built Kameyama Castle during the Southern and Northern Dynasties more than 200 years ago to guard the Tonami Plains. The exact person who handled it was The successive family governors of the Etsuchu Jimbo clan spent several generations carefully building mountain castles one after another. They used this walled city line from south to north to form an echoing encirclement network with Fangshengjin Castle and Shushan Castle. The prey in the network was The entire Tonami County and half of Emizu County.
It has to be said that the rise of the Jimbo clan did have its reasons. With the title of the third guardian of Ezhong, it gradually squeezed out the Yusa clan in the west of Tonami County and completed the complete control of the two counties in the west and center of Ezhong. This set of castles The Internet provided the Jimbo clan with great convenience, and the Yuzuo clan, the guardian of Ezhong, who lacked geographical support, could only escape in despair.
This same walled city network, as well as the branch cities built one after another by the Ishiguro clan on the Tonami Plains, formed a three-dimensional defense network throughout the core area of Tonami County. In the past few decades, we have relied on this walled city network. The Echichu Ichikui was sealed in the mountains in the west of Tonami County and could not come out. If the Kira family hadn't interfered too much, the godbocho should have been able to block Echichu Ichikui with one hand, and then continue to complete it with the other hand. His layout.
Just like what the previous family governors of the Jimbo clan had done, they took advantage of Masuyama Castle's commanding view of the plains of Fufu County in the east, and quickly completed the annexation of Fufu County, and built a new building on the bank of the Jintsu River adjacent to it twenty years ago. Toyama Castle, thereby completing the first and most important step in the layout of Shinkawa County. This is the rise of the Jimbo clan again after the death of Jimbo Keimou. In the past twenty years, the tenure of Jimbo has been smooth and smooth, and it has continued to suppress Shiina. To expand his influence, he is no longer the guardian of Tonami County, he wants to be the guardian of Ezhong.
If the Jinbo Nagasaki is allowed to continue to expand according to the established plan, the Shiina clan may be bullied and flee to Echigo for help, just like what Murakami Yoshikiyo, Takanashi Masayori, and Ogasawara Nagaki did. From a daimyo to a warring states daimyo, he became a famous hero. Unfortunately, he encountered a powerful opponent who made him lose his territory. He was also an opponent that he could not fight against in his life, Yoshitoki Kira.
On April 28, the main force of Kaga Ichikui and another group invaded central Vietnam via Sheshui County. The army of this group consisted of more than 20,000 people. Genjin Sugiura, a newly powerful official of the Kaga Ichixiang clan, served as the general, which happened to be the same as the general. The 30,000 troops attacking Tonami County responded to the Yikui Army. This change brought a great crisis to Vietnam and China.
This route of Kaga Ichiki's army came very cleverly. It happened to catch Yamamoto Tokiyuki at the critical moment when he was focusing his main energy on dealing with the sudden influx of 30,000 Kaga Ichiki's army from Tonami County, and he used it to cover his ears with lightning speed. They attacked the unprepared Ankoyama Castle and Iikubo Castle, and the strong front attacked Moriyama Castle standing alone next to Futami Mountain.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the lord of Moriyama Castle, Jimboji, hurriedly surrendered, giving up the good situation of Eishui County so easily. His surrender was like knocking down a domino, and the avalanche effect caused by it instantly destroyed half of Eishui County overnight. In the meantime, the 20,000 Kaga Ichiki army captured a large area of territory without using a single soldier, and forcibly cut Sheshui County into two sections, the north and the south.
When the Kaga troops in Tonami County heard the news of the victory of the partial division, their morale was greatly boosted. They ran rampantly on the Tonami plains and passed through all the Japanese and Japanese soldiers, big and small, like passing through a sieve. Fortunately, all the Japanese soldiers who were pro-Kira were captured. After evacuating, the farmers also took refuge in the deep mountains and old forests as early as possible. They knew very well that if they were caught by Yi Kui, they would either be killed or be coerced into serving as cannon fodder in the Yi Kui army.
By the beginning of May, even the people in Fufu County were experiencing small-scale riots. Fortunately, Numata Yumitsu led the army to suppress them. They caught a few gangsters who were fomenting trouble and hanged them as a warning to others. This evil trend was suppressed, but Yumitsu Numata did not feel complacent about it. Instead, he looked worriedly at the distant coastline to the east and murmured to himself: "How long should we wait to act like the main hall?" ( To be continued...)
