A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"Your Highness, are you going to abandon the people in my mountain?" Xiaoping was too careless about propriety, and his tone even contained questions.

"That's not the case, Zheng Zheng. It's just that the people of Yue have been defeated one after another, their military morale has been exhausted, and they are really unable to fight anymore in a short period of time.

Now we can only temporarily calm people's hearts and set up camp on the north bank as a righteous wing. It is really a last resort. "

"But this? How can Songshan City send reinforcements? How can everyone in our mountain break the siege?"

"There is nothing we can do for the time being..."

A bitter expression appeared on Uesugi Teruhora's face. For such a strong person to say such words, it was more uncomfortable for him than to cut him with a knife. It almost cost him half his life. After saying this sentence, all his strength was drained and he became depressed.

Everyone present clearly understood that the rift between the Uesugi clan and the Yamauchi clan was impossible to mend.

It’s not that Kodaita didn’t know that Uesugi Teruatora was detouring to Ninja Castle, trying to attack the Hojo Takeda Army’s camp from the side and rear, in order to rescue Hosokawa Saime and Matsuyama Castle.

He watched helplessly as the Nagano Imasa's troops in Sugiyama Castle were defeated. He was anxious and did not wait for subsequent reinforcements. But what's the use of having reinforcements? If you can't break through the Tone River, you can only go to Ninja Castle and take a detour. Maybe even Xiaoheita will be sent into the pit of fire.

But after all, why did the Yamauchi Army come? It’s not just to support your steward’s war!

"How can Your Highness abandon me and ignore everyone in the mountain?" As he said this, Xiaoping felt sad for no reason and even shed tears.

The circles under my eyes were still red, and there was no irritation at all, so tears rolled down my face. As soon as the tears fell, I felt powerless, my knees softened, and I sat down on the ground.

The scene became even more embarrassing. Xiaopingtai fell to the ground and cried loudly. He only had ten thousand men and six thousand volunteers (shielded) and brave (shielded) soldiers, and it was impossible to defeat the 5,500-strong coalition army.

It doesn’t matter if others advise me, or if they don’t. They all sat helplessly on the horse and looked at Uesugi Teruhu.

"His Royal Highness Taro is your nephew, how can you ignore death? Is God going to destroy my Yamauchi family?"

No one tried to persuade her. The more she thought about it, the more sad she became. Why! Why!

"Tanzheng, I'll go with you!" No one was caught by Kamiizumi Hidetsuna, and Nagano Yamori came out of the crowd and ran over to help Xiaoheita.

Everyone looked at the 14-year-old Nagano Yashimai. After all, he was young and energetic, but they couldn't tell that Uesugi Teruhora had already begun to think about quitting. Moreover, the Nagano family was a standard daimyo in charge of retainers. He actually went beyond Uesugi Terutora and agreed to Koheita first.

This matter was very taboo. If he were a petty master, he might have killed Nagano Yamori on the spot.

Hidetsuna Ueizumi looked at Uesugi Terutora nervously, but found that Uesugi Terutora didn't have any dissatisfaction.

"Tanzheng, let's do this. I will try to organize the army tonight. If you go out to the battle tomorrow, the Yue people can only watch the battle. The Haijin people and the Jilun people will try to join you."

Uesugi Teruhu and Koheita, whose tone softened, discussed it. They can only say that this is not a solution. It is the only result that both parties can reluctantly accept at the moment.

"I'll go back to the camp and make arrangements right now!" After howling, he recovered from his collapse. Xiaoping Tai saluted and went to each Hamamatsu team to summon the generals of each team to discuss how to fight.

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Sugiyama Castle has now become the headquarters of Takeda and Hojo's two armies. The war has lasted for almost a month, far exceeding expectations. But it was inevitable that the soldiers would become war-weary due to fatigue from continuous combat.

Coupled with the successive great victories, all the soldiers had been plundered with spoils of war, and North Musashi was about to recover them all. The army lost the will to fight and was determined to retreat.

The reason why they haven't retreated yet is because there is still Koshihata Castle in front of them. If Koshihata is surrounded, they can try to persuade Matsuyama to surrender and take all Kitamushi.

The Oishi clan has achieved more than half of the set strategic goals, and is already relatively satisfied. Although they did not capture and kill Uesugi Teruhora, the great destruction in the battle of Ninja City is enough.

Takeda Harunobu was more cautious, but could not hide his excitement. When the combined battle is over, he can go back and disband the 20,000 people, gather the 10,000 people he didn't bring out, and first capture the finished Nishi Ueno. Then when a crop of wheat is harvested, 35,000 people can always be brought out by hand at this moment, and they will attack the mountain with a crushing force.

So beautiful!

"There's less smoke from Koshihata's kitchens again." A happy-looking Ionomi Masaki came in to report.

"Really? Hahahahahahaha, if we delay it for another two or three days, Koshihata will run out of food, and that will be the day they forget."

Takeda Harunobu nodded with satisfaction. Although the Takeda-Hojo coalition forces had been fighting continuously for more than ten days, they had sufficient strength and did not relax the siege of Koshihata for a moment.

In addition to the four thousand people directly under Yamauchi in Koshihata Castle, there was actually a large area outside the city that was originally under the control of various departments of the Yamauchi army, and was defended with trenches and fences. So there is really no shortage of firewood and the like, and we can still cook.

But now that the Takeda-Hojo coalition forces are pressing forward step by step and constantly oppressing them, the Yamauchi Army's living space is getting smaller and smaller. Now it is basically limited to the small Koshihata Castle, and the situation is becoming increasingly dangerous.

The point is that Koshihata Castle was surrounded by people and had no idea about the arrival of Koheita's reinforcements. After all, it was possible that Koheita was still fighting against Ichikui in Mikawa. The Takeda Hojo coalition forces learned of the arrival of Yamauchi reinforcements.

But so what?

There are many experienced generals in the world's most powerful army, such as the Kōkō Army. When they scanned across the Tone River, they found out that the Yamauchi Army came with about 15,000 troops, Takanashi Masayori came with 5,000, and Nagano Yamori came with 3,000 or 4,000 troops. . The total amount was just over 20,000, including the remaining defeated generals of Uesugi Teruhu, at most 30,000.

The coalition forces only needed 30,000 men to confront on the south bank of the Tone River, 20,000 men to surround Koshihata, and 5,000 men to surround Matsuyama.

Foolproof.

The battle will end when Koshihata runs out of food!

Koheita was also fully aware of the consensus between the two armies. It had been sixteen days since Hosokawa Kainyu was besieged, and the food supply during the siege was almost exhausted. There was no way to hide it. Once the food is exhausted, no matter how loyal the samurai in the mountain are, they will waver, and Koshihata will be finished.

If you want Koshihata to hold on longer, you must let Koshihata know that reinforcements have arrived and there is still a chance of survival. In this way, we might be able to delay for two or three more days and seek opportunities for combat.

Tonegawa is not far from Koshihata, just over a mile, which is about five kilometers in total.

Naturally, the sound of the battle between the two armies can be carried so far. For a large-scale battle of 50,000 to 60,000 people, there is no problem at all for the sound to reach 56 kilometers. However, even if the battle occurred, Hosokawa Saime and the soldiers of Yamauchi could not be sure that reinforcements from Yamauchi were coming. , as long as it cannot break through the Tone River, it will be useless.

Always make some big noise!