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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 422 Zhuangchuan Battle

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    "Yes!" Genjin Sugiura told the whole story without hesitation: "I attacked Masuyama Castle for a 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.  The camp had been resting for a long time. Korinji Hideo, Anyangji Ryojun, and Honkaji Junyuki were slow to move. 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 camp to retreat, and I led the defeated remnant army to resist the Kira army's surprise attack, and try to see if it could  Stop this wave of surprise attacks and grasp the movements of Kira's army" After Sugiura Gento's explanation, Choshoji Miteru figured out the situation on the east bank of the Shogawa River. While the two were talking, they saw a few monks panicking.  They ran in and shouted: "No! The Kira family's naval forces are coming and are about to land to attack! The monks must drive them down quickly!" Chaoshengji Mizuru sneered: "Why are you still here!  If you think it's not enough to take down the entire army of the poor monk, do you want to take down the poor monk's main formation as well? Come here and put on some clothes and armor. The poor monk wants to see how powerful this Kira army is in shaking my 70,000-strong army!  Send an order to the God of War to keep an eye on the movement in the north. If you have any questions, please report immediately!" Sugiura Gento's main force of less than 19,000 people was withdrawn, and there were more than a thousand deserters who crossed Shochuan through various means.  , plus the 30,000 troops of Chaoshengji Miteru's main formation and the 23,000 troops guarding the Tonami Plains, the total is only a lot more than 70,000 people. Among them, there are five Chaoshengji Miteru who rely on them.  Qian Jingli never moved.  This is the biggest trump card in his hand.  However, he still misjudged the strength of Kira's navy. The entire Shochuan River was blocked by a steady stream of Kohayoseki ships. Kira's navy's ships were mobile, but Kaga's troops on the shore were stationary. Kaga's troops were stationary.  The ashigaru, who were always holding bows and arrows, stood together on the shore and shot arrows, which in all likelihood fell into the water.  The few that landed on the boat turned into light drizzle due to the quality and distance of the arrows.  But 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 bunch of bows and arrows gathered on the shore were emptied out and then replenished. After several rounds, even the wealthy and wealthy Kaga Ichikumune couldn't bear it.  Chaoshengji Mitaru stood outside the camp and saw clearly that a bright red fire appeared on the water surface of Zhuang River in the distance, and then the thunderous sound of iron cannons came. He knew that this was the special iron of the Kira family.  The cannon is famous for its long range and high power. No one has ever heard of the specific situation. The Kira family hid this iron cannon like a treasure.  Not even one strand escaped.  In fact, he also had five hundred iron cannon ashigaru in his hand, which he was reluctant to invest in as a treasure.  And his own level of iron artillery is also very good.  After briefly estimating the distance, he shook his head. The Kira Navy ship was very close to the east bank of the Shogawa River, making the Kaga Bow Ashigaru on the west bank of the Shogawa River more than thirty meters away.  The effective range limit of the Kishu Iron Cannon has basically been reached, and sending them there will probably be useless.  After a while, the envoy reported back. A large number of ships appeared in the upper and lower reaches of the Shogawa River at the same time to transport the Kira army to land. There were a large number of Kira naval forces nearby to protect him, so the envoy could not detect the specific number of troops. It was only after Choshoji Miteru realized the situation.  Regarding the seriousness of the matter, Genjin Sugiura said worriedly: "Daisendu, the situation is very bad. Why don't we retreat and make a decision?" "Well! It is indeed necessary! This formation will temporarily withdraw to Kuangshan Castle and leave you with it.  Let's cut off the strength of this formation and the retreating troops!" Chaoshengji Mikaru made a quick decision, and the 30,000-strong army quickly packed up.  The monks were busy cleaning up a lot of messy things, while the officials were busy with the small team carrying food. The army could not stabilize the morale of the army without food, but the retreat order came so urgently that they retreated very quickly.  trouble.  Time passed little by little, but the army was still slowly packing up the camp. Sugiura Genjin saw a group of monks quarreling over the relics of Korinji Hideaki, Anyangji Ryojun, and Honkaji Junyuki. They were all noisy.  His face was red and his ears were red, and he was completely unconcerned about the enemy's current basic rules of unity.  "If you fail to succeed, you will fail! No way! I have to go to the monk and explain everything clearly! If we delay like this, we will miss something important!" Sugiura Gennin was just about to walk back when he saw several envoys barging in front of the camp and making loud noises.  He yelled: "No! The Kira army is coming!" Numata Yumitsu and Yamamoto Tokiyuki led their troops to kill from the upstream and downstream of Shochuan River. Their majesty was unstoppable and they pulled out the hidden sentry that Kaga had always buried.  Suddenly, the situation turned very unfavorable to Kaga. Seeing that the situation was not good, Sugiura Gento ran back to the camp and shouted: "Master monks, please leave immediately! Kira's army has already come to kill him!" "It's so fast!  ! It seems that the poor monk made a mistake!Go and break up the camp immediately, abandoning everything except three days of rations. The order is given to be completed within half a quarter of an hour, and anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!  "Chaoshengji Mikaru 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 packed their bags and arranged the food and fodder silently from the beginning and waited for orders. The other 25,000 were far behind.  It took a while for the noisy crowd to get out of the camp, but the group of monks did not dare to argue 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.  , when they finally packed up their large and small bags and ran out of the camp, Chaoshouji Miteru's army had already left the camp and headed towards Kuwayama Castle. Yamamoto Tokiyuki stood on the bank of the Shogawa River on his horse, looking at Chaoshou who was far away.  Katsudera Mitaru smiled slightly and said: "Is this the commander-in-chief of Kaga, the superior general in the army?  It seems that his military strategy is nothing more than that!  He is a bit clever, but it's a pity that his cleverness doesn't last long!  ¡± With him and Masatora Uesugi cooperating with each other in Ezhong, it is impossible to give Miteru Choshoji the opportunity to display his military strategy. Even though Kaga has always had amazing military power, in the eyes of samurai who have been professional for hundreds of years  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 couldn't be as invincible as he was when he was old. Even if he had outstanding talent and extraordinary ability.  It is impossible to kill the Echigo guardian when he is over 18 years old, and kill the Kanto leader Nagao Shikage when he is in his early twenties. This is enough to see how wet this Kaga has always been.  A cavalry envoy came flying to report: "General!  Kakizaki Izumi Morden and Saito Shimono Morden are already in position and waiting, and Numata-den has already engaged Sugiura Gennin!  " Yamamoto Tokiyuki nodded and ordered: "Pass on 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 is really astonishing. Even if Sugiura Gento 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 Chaoshengji Miteru to stand firm. This move is indeed a good one.  It is much better than blindly rushing out of the camp to attack, but the cost of doing so is to lose the ability to defend Shochuan and allow the iron artillery team and archery team of the Kira Navy, as well as the long-hidden Roro team to land calmly.  Unaware of the serious disaster that would result from such laissez-faire, under the cover of the iron artillery team and the archery team, the two armies were able to calmly organize their assault forces and bombard them again and again with the long-prepared battering rams.  The village gate, this camp is not a permanent building. The village gate is definitely not comparable to the Otemon gate of Masuyama Castle. The mountain road of Masuyama Castle is an artificial slope, and there are steeper Horikiri on both sides. During the attack, it is full of obstacles.  It is impossible to use a battering ram in the upward attack position, but this camp is built on a flat bottom with no cover on all sides. In this case, it is completely useless when it encounters a cast iron battering ram with a devil's head.  Solution. In the process of attacking the gate with the 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, but every time the efforts were made by the iron artillery team of Kira Navy.  This very strong gate finally collapsed after struggling for two quarters of an hour. The dozens of ashigaru guarding the gate were swarmed by the waiting Kira ashigaru and killed them all.  When they rushed into the camp, they were greeted by the black muzzles of the five hundred iron cannon Ashigaru. The "bang bang" sound of the iron cannons came one after another. The first few hundred ashigaru who rushed into the camp, along with several  All ten warriors were beaten to the bottom of the sieve. The most unlucky ones were a few Yuezhong warriors. They rushed the fastest and died the most miserably. Their whole bodies were beaten into a pile of bloody rotten flesh by the dense iron cannons, and they could not die anymore.  Dead. 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.  , and blocking the front were hundreds of bow and arrow ashigaru. A wave of arrows at close range caused more than half of the group of ashigaru to be killed or injured. The remaining ashigaru were led by a dozen surviving samurai with their heads lowered.  The three guns charged hard. Before they could take a few steps, they bumped into the horseback samurai who came from the side. They killed the remaining survivors one by one with a random attack. The time delay caused the iron cannon to be full.  After completing a long round of reloading preparations, Numata Yumitsu secretly cursed himself for being stupid, how could he treat Sugiura Gento as an ordinary mediocre general? Such fine and small coordination is obviously a mature tactic that he has used many times, and maybe it is still Sugiura.  Genjin was good at dealing with Asakura in Echizen. In addition to having a strong body and a decent military strategy, to be able to become Kaga's top general, he would definitely have a unique skill to be able to suppress the many officials in Kaga and Echizen.  He just used his few ashigaru to fight against Sugiura Gennin's best tactics. In the end, no matter how many he sent, he would suffer a big loss. If thisAt this time, Sugiura Gennin counterattacked, and his army of less than four thousand, which was too exhausted to be strong outside, might be driven back to Shochuan and annihilated.
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