"Yes!" Genjin Sugiura told the whole story without hesitation: "I stormed Masuyama Castle for one day and found that the defenders in the city were not actively defending, but I couldn't figure out the reason. I returned in the evening.
We rested for a long time in the camp. Korinji showed off his strength, Anyangji showed off his handsomeness, and Honxiangji took his time. Just after the second watch, a group of defeated troops retreated into the camp. I don’t know what it was.
Because of this, more and more troops retreated later. I was worried that the river would be blocked and the 50,000 troops would be trapped in Gansei Temple, so I ordered the main formation to retreat, and I led the defeated remnant army to resist the Kira army's surprise attack to see if it could
Block this wave of surprise attacks and grasp the movements of Kira's army..."
After Sugiura Gennin's explanation, Choshoji Miteru figured out the situation on the east bank of the Shogawa River. While the two were talking, they saw several monks running in in a panic and yelling: "It's not good! The Kira family's
The naval forces are approaching and are about to land to attack! The monks must drive them down quickly!"
Chaoshengji Mizhao sneered: "Why are you still here! If you think it's not enough to take down the poor monk's entire army, do you want to take down the poor monk's main formation as well? Someone comes and takes it to put on his clothes and armor. The poor monk wants to see it.
Just how capable is this Kira army to shake my 70,000-strong army! Send an order to the God of War to keep an eye on the movements in the north. If you have any questions, report them immediately!"
Sugiura Gento's main force of less than 19,000 troops was withdrawn, and there were more than a thousand deserters who crossed Shogawa through various means. In addition, the 30,000 troops of Choshoji Miteru's main formation were guarding the Tonami Plains.
His 23,000 troops totaled 70,000, which was only a little more than that of 70,000. Among them, there were still 5,000 elite troops supported by Chaoshengji Miteru. This was the biggest trump card in his hand.
However, he still misjudged the strength of the Kira Army. The entire Shochuan River was blocked by a steady stream of small Hayoseki ships. The ships of the Kira Navy were mobile, but the Kaga Army on the shore was stationary. Kaga
The bows and arrows that have always been drawn are gathered together and the ashigaru stand on the shore. Nine times out of ten when they throw arrows, they will fall into the water. The few that fall on the boat will turn into a light drizzle due to the quality and distance of the arrows.
However, the navy in Shogawa used new iron cannons with strong range and power, as well as heavy rattan bows that everyone had in hand to fire round after round. No matter how powerful the Kaga Ichiku army was, they could only be beaten passively.
The bows and arrows gathered on the shore were emptied of one group and then replenished by another. After several rounds, even the wealthy and wealthy Kaga Ichikumune was a little unable to bear it.
Chaoshengji Mitaru stood outside the camp and saw clearly that a bright red fire appeared on the water surface of the Shochuan River in the distance, and then the thunderous sound of iron cannons came. He knew that this was the special iron gun of the Kira family.
The cannon is famous for its long range and high power. I have never heard of anyone telling anyone about the specific situation. The Kira family hid this iron cannon like a treasure. Not even one of it was leaked.
In fact, he also had five hundred iron cannon ashigaru in his hand, which he was reluctant to invest in as a treasure. Moreover, his own level of iron artillery skills was also very good. He briefly estimated the distance and shook his head. The ships of the Kira Navy were very close to the east bank of the Shogawa River, so that
The range of the Kaga Bow and Ashigaru on the west bank of the Shogawa River exceeds thirty meters. It has basically reached the effective range limit of the Kishu Iron Cannon, and sending them there will probably be a useless effort.
After a while, the envoys reported back. A large number of ships appeared in the upper and lower reaches of the Shogawa River to transport the Kira troops ashore. There were a large number of Kira naval forces nearby to protect them. As a result, the envoys were unable to detect the specific number of troops. It was only then that Choshoji Miteru realized the situation.
Due to the seriousness of the matter, Genjin Sugiura said worriedly: "The situation in Monk City is very bad. Why don't we retreat and make a decision?"
"Yes! It is indeed necessary! This formation will temporarily withdraw to the point of Sangshan City, leaving you to take this formation and the retreating troops to break up the rear!" Chaoshengji Miteru quickly made a decision, and the 30,000-strong army quickly packed up. The monks
Everyone was busy cleaning up a lot of messy things, while the officials were busy carrying the small loaders to load the food. The army could not stabilize the morale of the army without food, but the retreat order came so urgently that it was very troublesome for them to retreat for a while.
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Time passed little by little, but the army was still slowly packing up the camp. Genjin Sugiura saw a group of monks quarreling over the relics of Korinji Hideo, Anyangji Ryojun, and Motoji Junyuki. They were all noisy.
His face was red and his ears were red, and he was so happy that he had no regard for the enemy's current basic rules of unity.
"If you fail to succeed, you will fail! No! I have to go to the monk and explain everything clearly! If you continue to delay like this, you will miss something important!"
Just as Gennin Sugiura was about to walk back, he saw several envoys rushing in from the front of the camp and shouting: "Oh no! The Kira Army is coming!"
Numata Yumitsu and Yamamoto Tokiyuki led their troops to attack from the upper and lower reaches of the Shogawa River. Their majesty was unstoppable and they pulled out the secret sentry that Kaga had buried. The situation became very unfavorable to Kaga. Gen. Sugiura
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Ren ran back to the camp and shouted: "Master monks, please leave immediately! Kira's army has already come to kill us!"
"It's so fast! The poor monk made a mistake! He gave the order and immediately broke out of the camp. Except for the three days of military rations, he abandoned everything else. He was given half a quarter of an hour to kill anyone who disobeyed the order!" Chaoshengji Mizhao walked out of the camp wearing a large armor.
I have to say that the five thousand elites in his hands are really powerful. They were in place from the beginning and silently packed up their belongings and food and waited for orders. However, the other twenty-five thousand were far behind. They rushed out of the camp noisily and it took a while to get ready.
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The group of monks did not dare to quarrel anymore. They gathered together to discuss for a while and then divided into three groups. Each of them grabbed the belongings left by the three monks in a tent and finally packed up the large and small bags and ran out of the camp.
, Chaoshengji Miteru's army has left the camp and marched towards Mulberry Mountain Castle.
Yamamoto Tokiyuki stood on the bank of the Shogawa River on his horse, looked at the distant Chaoshoji Mitaru and said with a smile: "Is this the Kaga's always admirable general, the superior Chaoshoji Mitaru?
It seems that his military strategy is nothing more than that! He is quite clever, but it’s a pity that his cleverness doesn’t last long!”
With him and Masatora Uesugi cooperating with each other in this Etsuchu, it is impossible to give Miteru Chaoshoji the opportunity to display his military strategy. Even though Kaga's military power has always been astonishing, in the eyes of samurai who have been professional for hundreds of years, it is not possible.
But that's all. When Asakura Sotechi was young, he was able to defeat the 300,000-yuan army with 18,000.
When Asakura Sotechi was young, he could not be as invincible as he was when he was old. Even if he was talented and capable, he would not be able to kill the Echigo guardian when he was over 18 years old. He could not kill the Kanto governor Nagao Shikage when he was in his early twenties.
One look like this is enough to see how full this Kaga is.
Not long after, I saw Ichikichiban flying in to report: "General! Kakizaki and Izumi are guarding the palace, Saito Shimono is guarding the palace, and they are on standby. Numata-den has already engaged Sugiura Gennin!"
Yamamoto Tokiyuki nodded and ordered: "Pass my command to the general and immediately go north to meet Sugiura Gennin. We must not let him retreat easily!"
The momentum of Kira's army's two-pronged attack was really astonishing. Even if Genjin Sugiura had an army of 20,000, he would not dare to be careless at all. He chose to rely on the large camp set up by Chaoshouji Miteru to stand firm. This move is indeed good and better than
It is much better to blindly rush out of the camp to attack, but the price of doing so is to lose the ability to defend Shochuan, allowing the iron artillery team and archery team of Kira Navy, as well as the long-hidden Roo team to land calmly.
Genjin Sugiura didn't realize what kind of serious disaster he would bring if he let it go like this. Under the cover of the iron artillery team and the archery team, the two armies were able to calmly organize the assault force and use the long-prepared battering ram once
The Zhaimen was bombarded again. This camp was not a permanent building, and the Zhaimen was certainly not comparable to the Datsumon of Zengshan City.
The mountain road of Masuyama Castle is an artificial slope, and there are steeper Horikiri on both sides. When attacking, you have to attack from above and cannot use the battering ram. However, this camp is built on a flat bottom and is surrounded by all sides.
There is no cover, and in this case it is completely unsolvable if it encounters a battering ram made of cast iron with a devil's head.
In the process of attacking the gate with a siege ram, Genjin Sugiura sent archery teams several times to climb up the arrow oars in an attempt to kill the siege troops outside the camp. However, every attempt was defeated by the iron artillery team of the Kira Navy.
To no avail, this very strong gate finally collapsed after holding on for two-quarters of an hour. The dozens of ashigaru guarding the gate were swarmed and killed by the Kira ashigaru waiting for an opportunity.
When the first wave of ashigaru excitedly rushed into the camp, they were greeted by the dark muzzles of the 500 iron cannon ashigaru. The "bang bang" sound of the iron cannons came one after another. The first few people who rushed into the camp were
Hundreds of ashigaru, as well as dozens of samurai, were all beaten to the bottom of the sieve. The most unlucky ones were a few Etsuchu samurai. They rushed the fastest and died the worst. Their whole bodies were beaten into a pile of blood by the dense iron cannons.
Rotten flesh, too dead to die.
Hearing the sound of intensive iron cannons, the second wave of ashigaru rushed in without hesitation. It took time to charge their iron cannons, but they never expected to rush into the camp and find that the iron artillery team was missing.
In front were hundreds of bow and arrow ashigaru. A wave of close-range arrow rain caused more than half of the group of ashigaru to be killed or wounded. The remaining ashigaru, led by a dozen surviving samurai, lowered their heads and carried three spears.
Charge hard.
Before he could even take a few steps forward, he bumped into a mounted samurai who came out from the side and killed the remaining survivors one by one with a random attack. This time delay allowed the Teppanyaki Ashigaru to complete a long round of
Reloading and preparing, Numata Yumitsu secretly cursed himself for being stupid for treating Sugiura Gento as an ordinary mediocre general.
Such fine coordination is obviously a mature tactic that he has used many times. Maybe it is Sugiura Genhito's specialty in dealing with Asakura in Echizen. To be able to become Kaga's top general, in addition to his bravery and a decent military strategy,
In addition, there must be someone with unique skills to suppress Kaga, there are so many officials in Echizen.
He just used his few ashigaru to fight against Sugiura Gennin's best tactics. In the end, no matter how many ashigaru he sent, he would suffer a big loss. If Sugiura Gennin counterattacked him at this time, he would be the best at it.
The exhausted army of less than 4,000, which is too strong to be strong outside, might be driven back to Zhuangchuan and be completely annihilated.