The decisiveness of Miaoin monk impressed both the Kamamo clan and Oda clan warriors.
Who says men are inferior to women? Men from good families are really great. With an old man like Miaoyin Seng as the head of the family, there is no need to worry about the family business not being prosperous.
While others were still buckling down and hesitating whether to fully mobilize during the spring plowing season, the men of the Yura family were already shedding their blood for the saint on the battlefield.
As long as Miaoyin Monk dares to push his son and son-in-law out of the Xiaojin City Gate tonight, even if the two hundred cavalry return without success or even the entire army is wiped out, the merits of the Youliang family will shine everywhere and no one can match them.
Other families would at most sacrifice their daughters for the saint, but the good family would even send their sons and sons-in-law to the battlefield. Who dares to be more loyal than me? It is well deserved that Miaoyin Monk has secured his position as the leader of the brotherhood, and his prestige is unrivaled!
Monk Miaoyin was determined to make meritorious deeds with the blood of all the men in his family, and Pu Sheng's village would not stand in the way of others' meritorious deeds. She thought for a while, pointed to the map and said.
"Satake Yoshitaka came from the north, and the entire army of 23,000 people was divided into two armies, the east and west, and poured southward.
The Western Route Army was personally led by Satake Yoshitaka. They confused Furukawa City, raided Guansu City, crossed Liushan Mountain, and headed straight for Xiaojin City. They had been attacking the city for a day.
The East Route Army should be led by the Utsunomiya family of Shimono Kuni, passing through Maenosaki Castle and Katori Shrine, and now arrives at Otaniguchi, not far east of Kogane Castle."
Monk Miaoyin traced the route map of the Eastern Route Army with his finger and said decisively.
"Don't worry about the Eastern Route Army for now.
My daughter was brought to the throne by Liang Guofan's husband, who was born in the Shuucheng family. He has returned to her husband's family a few days ago, taking my autographed letter with her.
In summary, the Cheng family has been standing for many years and still has some brains. It is impossible for her family to ignore the righteousness and join in the evil deeds of the East.
This time Satake Yoshitaka raided Furukawa Castle and was good at provocations. Because he was eager for success, he did not attack Yuki Castle and only bypassed the city.
The logistics line behind the Eastern Route Army must pass through the Xiasumu Chengjia territory.
My personal letter persuaded me that even if the Yuki family did not want to take the risk of going into battle, in order to stand in a better position after the war, they would still find ways to harass the enemy to supply baggage in order to get away with war merits.
Therefore, even if the Eastern Route Army is approaching the city, its logistics will be short and its back road will be unstable, so it will not pose much of a threat to us for the time being."
Kamaojigo nodded, and Odajiji's eyes flashed.
The Oda family and the Yuuki family have a deep feud. Their territories are adjacent to each other, and they fight against each other all the year round. It can be said that they have a blood feud.
In the early years, the Yuki family and the Satake family joined forces to defeat the Oda family.
In recent years, the Satake family's main attention has been on the four Aizu counties of Ou in the north, and the Yuki family has taken refuge with the Hojo family, still beating the Oda family to pieces.
Odajiji lost Oda Castle several times and fled to the lake to take refuge. It was thanks to the blessing of the Sumitomo family.
If the favor of Oda's famous family hadn't been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and his retainers and people were unwilling to abandon their old master, the Oda family would have been doomed long ago.
But even so, Oda Ujiji, who had recaptured Oda Castle several times, not only gained the reputation of a phoenix who did not know praise or blame, but his family business was deteriorating, and he hated the Yuki family with a passion.
From the bottom of his heart, Oda Ujiharu hoped that the Shiro family would be stupid, get involved with Satake Yoshitaka, and become part of the bandit army. After the war, he would take the opportunity to liquidate the Shiro family and avenge their private grievances.
But rationally, I told Oda Shiji that Miaoyin Monk was right. I concluded that the Cheng family could stand firm in the troubled times of Guanbazhou for hundreds of years because of her family's political wisdom and that she would not be unable to see the situation in front of her clearly.
Satake Yoshitsune was at the end of his powerful crossbow, and now he was jumping over the wall in a hurry. He didn't even care about Furukawa Castle and Yuki Castle behind him, and rushed straight to the south, seeking a decisive battle with the Saint.
Not to mention whether Satake Yoshitaka can defeat the invincible saint in battle, in fact, all the saint needs to do is avoid fighting, and Satake Yoshitige will be finished!
The Kanto Palace made an extremely violent response to the unexpected incident in which the saint was trapped in the main country.
The two powerful clans of Uesugi and Takeda began to mobilize, and the nearby Hojo army had already obeyed the sage's dispatch and started fighting.
The mountains were prosperous, the island was fierce, and Sanada Nobushige and other Shiba ministers were even madly clamoring to make the people of the East pay the price. Who knows if their cavalry would have killed Xia Zong in the next moment.
The granaries and warehouses of the Enforcement Office and the Samurai Giri Promotion Association are fully open. Military supplies and armaments can be thrown out without any money. If you pass by the military station and shout, go to the headquarters. They will fill your luggage directly and tell you to get out quickly.
Da Xiong Chaoxiu and Da Zang Changan are playing a money-burning game of who is more loyal, fearing that if the money burns slowly, the other party will be accused of being disloyal.
This year's economic development plan is over, this year's water conservancy project construction has been discontinued, and all the money and food intended for development and construction have been thrown away at this moment. One word stands out, bold and unrestrained.
Everyone knows that this year in Guanbazhou must be a year of poverty. The middle- and lower-class martial arts families who long for a better life will roast the people of the East to death with their anger.
People can never truly empathize with each other because human nature is inherently selfish.
The conquest of the East by the Guandong Shisuo was originally a conflict between the upper-class martial arts families in the east and west of the eight states, and a political dispute over who would rule whom.
But at this moment, the storage warehouses of the Enforcement Office and the Wujia Yili Promotion Association were empty, and the political conflicts at the upper levels suddenly destroyed the jobs of the middle and lower levels.
In this world, the most fundamental and unsolvable problem is the economic problem. To put it simply, it is the problem of food for the common people.
The middle and lower classes don't care about your upper class fighting for power or what your upper class does.
But when the lower-level officials saw that the copper coins and grain that were originally intended to be distributed to them for water conservancy construction and production were eliminated due to the rebellion of some people, they immediately became furious.
The simple emotions of the middle and lower classes have never been so sympathetic to the new ideas of Sputnik Bank of China, and have never been so deeply aware of the value of peaceful development.
The money and food that originally belonged to them are gone! Damn it to the people in the East!
Who allowed you to resist! Why don’t you just lie down and die! Because you are unwilling to die, so everyone will have less to eat this year! Will you die?
When the struggle between the upper class affects the jobs of the middle and lower class, the middle and lower class will not care about you. They only know how to vent their anger in the simplest and most direct way.
Since the saints are good people who give out money and food, then regardless of whether the people in the East are forced to rebel, these bastards are bad people! They deserve to die!
When Satake Yoshige failed to surround Shiba Yoshige in Furukawa Castle, she had already lost.
Even though Satake Yoshige herself did not admit defeat and was still struggling desperately, hoping to finally take the gamble, all the discerning people watching already knew that she was destined to lose and lost everything.
At this time, it was no longer just a question of whether the Shiro family had any brains, but whether someone within the Oriental Crowd was already thinking about betraying Satake Yishige in exchange for their own retreat.
While Oda Ujiharu lamented that he could not kill Yuuki with this opportunity, he nodded and agreed with Miaoyin Monk's judgment that the Eastern Route Army had nothing to fear.
Nowadays, except for the Western Route Army led by Satake Yoshige, all the troops outside Satake Yoshige's control are becoming increasingly uncontrollable unexpected factors that may backfire on Satake Yoshige at any time.
Satake Yoshige may not be willing to face reality and admit this, but it is the fact.
Kamaojigo nodded, pointed at Satake Yishige's troops who were coming from the direction of Liushan, and said.
"Satake Yoshige's Western Route Army, after defeating Sekijuku Castle, went south along the Edogawa River and attacked Kogane Castle where we were stationed from the north.
In today's first wave of offensive, she didn't expect that there were 3,000 troops in our city. She couldn't attack them all at once, and the front was already frustrated.
There is a saying in the art of war: one can make a great effort, then it will weaken, and three times it will be exhausted.
Satake Yoshige's time was running out, so she frantically dug up the embankment and released the torrent during the spring flood season to hit the Xiaogan City Wall in order to quickly breach the city."
The Pu Sheng family subconsciously glanced at the guard of the Gaocheng family who was still dead. A large part of the reason why this man wanted to abandon the city was actually because the Gaocheng family was a local samurai family.
Satake Yoshige came from Hitachi Province, Kamao clan, Oda clan, and Myoin monk. Their territories and related interests were not in the lower kingdom.
Therefore, Satake Yoshishige could dig dikes without any hesitation during the spring plowing season and release torrents to defeat the enemy. He did not care at all that the winter wheat he had planted and the spring rice he was planting would be washed away by the floods.
Kamao clan, Oda clan, and Miaoin monk could just watch Satake Yishige destroying farming without any fluctuation in their hearts.
Because they are not locals! The locals are starving to death after this year’s harvest, so don’t worry about them!
But the Gaocheng family was local, and the Gaocheng guard cared about her, so she died.
The people of Kamojigo and others, who are righteous, only care about the safety of the saint. As for how many people in the Takagi family's territory will starve to death this year, and how miserable their lives will be, it has nothing to do with them.
If only a few people in the Gaocheng family starve to death, their credit record will not be a bit thicker. But if the saint is good or bad, everyone's credit will be greatly reduced, or even all in vain.
This is called eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. This is called keeping things high and low as it has nothing to do with oneself.
Kamojigo sighed, forced himself to concentrate, and continued.
"When I went south with the sage, I took this road, and I also observed the terrain here. Satake Yoshitaka should have set up the main formation at Edodai and directed the army to attack the city.
The topography of Mount Liu is high in the north and low in the south. She should have sent people to dig out the Edogawa River on the west side of Mount Nan. With Mount Nan in the way, the torrent would flow eastward and directly hit the west wall of Xiaojin Castle.
In this case, neither the enemy's Western Route Army attacking the North Wall nor the enemy's East Route Army stationed at Otani Pass outside the East Wall will be greatly affected.
The earthen walls of Xiaojincheng are fragile and cannot withstand water soaking. Let alone three days, they will loosen after being soaked overnight and may collapse at any time."
Monk Miaoyin nodded.
"I understand. I immediately organized 200 cavalry to go out from the south gate and circle to Nanliu Mountain in the west to look for the enemy troops attacking the embankment."
Pu Sheng clan bowed solemnly.
"please."
Monk Miaoyin bowed in return, his face solemn.
The three people present actually understood that even if the enemy was prevented from digging the embankment tonight, the enemy could continue digging the embankment tomorrow.
The efforts of the two hundred knights tonight are just to buy one more day to defend the city.
If the garrison of Xiaojincheng does not retreat tonight, they will be trapped in a dead end. Whether they can wait for a turn of events in the future can only be left to fate.
The saint will definitely be able to defeat Satake Yoshige, and the Kanto Palace will be able to suppress and pacify the people of the East, but it is not known whether the three people present will be able to see the day of victory.