Chapter 953
"Look, what is that?"
Just as everyone was discussing whether the ship appeared on the sea was the navy that Iton's family came to support, a larger ship came again from afar. This situation suddenly made everyone exclaim.~~~~
"It's indeed the Navy of the Luo Family!" When he saw this giant ship, Sabuki Wei Nao was completely sure that the ship on the sea was just the Navy of the Luo Family. When the Navy of the Luo Family continued to harass the Sabuki family's Sabuki family's Sabuki family's navy from the Fenghou waterway from the Fenghou waterway, there were such ships in the Navy of the Luo Family. So when Sabuki saw such a ship, he recognized it at a glance.
Just when everyone was surprised, the Luo family navy on the sea sent a large number of ships slowly approaching the coast where they were located. Soon after, the sound of iron cannons "bang, bang, bang" came directly.
"It's bad, something big happened. The other party is going to attack us. Get off the coast quickly." After saying that, Sabuki Nao immediately jumped off the rock and ordered everyone to speed up the evacuation.
The opponent's giant ships had a very powerful weapon. Sabunarok, who had already suffered enough of the big guns when he fought against the opponent's naval forces in Sabunarok Bay in Fenghou Kingdom, was really a little scared. But it was probably because Sabunarok was too panicked. In fact, the coastal waters where they were located were not suitable for the small lucky ships of the Luo family, otherwise it would be possible to have a stranding situation.
In this way, under the command of Sahiro Yuuru, the army that Itojia and Sahirojia evacuated from Aiya Fort quickly marched.
On the side of the Luo family, when Li Huamei, the general of the Luo family's naval army landed on the sea, it was already midnight. She had personally led the tens of thousands of naval troops docked in Sabuki Bay, Fenghou Kingdom, to head towards the coast of Kuromatsuo Castle after receiving the order from Masayo.
In fact, when she received Masara's order, she realized that another army had already taken place in Matsuo Castle from the direction of Higashigoku Kingdom. She immediately ordered her subordinates to join forces with the Navy of the Navy and the Nishitoji family to launch the battle immediately. However, after the navy fleet entered the waters of Higashigoku Kingdom, she slowed down the speed of the fleet and sent several small boats to accelerate in advance to investigate the situation on the coastal waters of Matsuo Castle.
After all, the order provided by Masayoro clearly stated that this time, the army of the family, who came out of the direction of Feihouguo, attacked Matsuo City by rushing. In this way, once the navy she led appeared on the coast of Matsuo City earlier than that of the army, it would inevitably lead to the Matsuo City defenders entering a state of alert. This would likely affect the impact of the other Luo family army on Matsuo City.
As Li Huamei expected, from the front, she found out the information sent back by the reconnaissance ships. At that time, the Iton family naval forces on the coast of Matsuo Castle were quietly concentrated near the harbor, which only means that the other army had not arrived yet, so she simply ordered the fleet to suspend its march.
After waiting, she finally learned from the reconnaissance ships in front this morning that the Iton family naval army on the coast of Matsuo Castle had left in the morning, and she looked a little embarrassed when she left. At this time, Li Huamei concluded that the other army of the Luo family should have begun to attack Matsuo Castle. So she immediately led the United Navy to the coast of Matsuo Castle with great momentum. But she rushed forward early and finally missed the opportunity of United Isono Toshimatsu, Masano Takasaka, Yoshimi Irida, Yutake Midai and others to attack, but arrived at their destination in the evening.
At this moment, the ship responsible for the early warning discovered that it was carrying the banner of Itojia and Sahirojia on the coast. After misunderstanding that Sahiro Yuna's side was fighting against the army on the shore, Li Huamei immediately issued an order to attack. This was the scene in the evening.
At midnight, after Li Huamei finally landed and met with Masato Nobuki Takasaka who came to greet her, she learned that the area near Masato Castle was completely controlled by Masato Nobuki Takasaka and his army.
"Since that's the case, Isono Tomomasa, Irida Yoshimi and Midai Yutake all their efforts to block the enemy troops in the direction of Fenghou Kingdom. Why don't you and me join forces to pursue the defeated troops in the south?" After fully understanding the local situation, Li Huamei immediately suggested that Li Huamei, as a Ming Dynasty citizen, knew much more flexibility than the local generals in the Warring States Period.
After Li Huamei mentioned this, Masatoshi Takasaka immediately started to move. Although the lord Masaruo demanded that the two armies of their army be to take down the area near Matsuo Castle as soon as possible, and then build fortifications on the mountain road leading to the territory of the Toyogo Kingdom's Sakai family on land, and do his best to intercept the three-way coalition forces from the Toyogo Kingdom's side.
But now they have fully controlled the territory near Matsuo Castle in advance. Not long ago, there has been news from the other side of Isono Toshimasaki on the other side that they have controlled the mountain road and have started to build fortifications in the mountain road overnight. Even Yoshimi Irida and Uetake Mida Ini are organizing manpower and supplies to help Isono Toshimasaki.
As for Masatoshi Takasaka, he was responsible for guarding the attack from the central area of Hinagaku, the south to avoid affecting the interception war. If that is the case, why not take offense as the defense? What's more, with the manpower and material resources of Isono, and the terrain of the mountain road and the defensive tactics of the mountain road personally granted by the lord Masaro Masato, unless the three coalition forces from the Toyogoku Kingdom have all given wings, they will definitely not be able to break through the interception of Isono's army.
"Since that's the case, we'd better just launch a joint attack with the navy." Thinking of this, Masatoshi Takasaka immediately discussed with Li Huamei about the joint attack between the two armies.
On the second day, Takasaka Masato personally led his 3,000 army from Aiwa Fort to mengkawa Castle, the gateway to the central region of the country. As for the 5,000 naval army led by Li Huamei (more than 5,000 naval troops were left to assist the land defenders in protecting the coastal areas of Matsuo Castle) again set sail.
When the two armies of the Luo family came out, Sabuki Weinao's army had a fierce battle to defend the city yesterday and then ran away overnight at night. So in the early morning, everyone could not hold on. Finally, after crossing Okada River to a hill, Sabuki Weinao ordered the army to rest on the spot on the spot by the river.
"Big... Sir, it's not good." Just as Sabuki Nao was lying in the military tent, he had just closed his eyes, but suddenly heard the anxious cry of his retainers. After opening his eyes in a daze, Sabuki Nao saw a figure rushing in in panic.
"What's going on?" Sabuki asked in desperation.
"Not good, I'm chasing you, the Luo family is chasing you." The retainers who came in immediately exclaimed loudly.
"Catching?" At this time, Sabuki Yuna was still a little confused, but after a brief pause, he immediately understood what the retainer meant, so he opened his eyes suddenly, grabbed the collar of the retainer who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "What did you say? The Luo family is chasing him."
"Yes...yes." The retainers were obviously still in panic, and even their voices seemed a little stuttering.
After hearing the retainer's affirmative answer, Sabuki simply climbed up directly, then quickly walked out of the military tent, went directly to the hillside next to the military tent, and looked up at the Aiyan Mountain in the distance.
In fact, from the straight-line distance, the hillside where Sahiro Yoshina was located could still blur the general situation of Aiyan Mountain in the distance. Under the instructions of the retainers who followed him hurriedly, Sahiro Yoshina did find that the Luo family army on Aiyan Mountain was constantly surging down the mountain, and the direction of their journey was in this direction of their army.
"Damn it!" Seeing this, Sabuki Weijiao immediately cursed.
He originally wanted to scold the leader of the Luo family for being unfaithful, but the other party took the initiative to give up the retreat last night and did not pursue them overnight, so he could not say that it was a move of unfaithfulness. However, in the face of such a situation, they had to continue on the road no matter what, so he shouted:
"Start camp, hurry up. Keep going."
"ah?"
Not long after he had just rested, he suddenly rushed to the road again, which immediately caused many complaints. Among them, the retainers who were guarding his lord Yua Ito were particularly dissatisfied. After all, Yua Ito was injured in an arrow yesterday and was forced to travel overnight. After some hard work, even though he was lying on a wooden board and was carried by his retainers, he still fell into a coma again. Now he finally stopped to rest and was about to continue his journey. Isn’t this intention to kill his lord? So Yua Ito’s retainers immediately stopped and even took the initiative to mobilize the soldiers of the Ito family.
"Since you don't want to wait, then continue to rest here. Let's go." Sabuki Wei Nao was too lazy to continue to analyze, so he simply took his son Sabuki Wei Ding, who was only eight or nine years old, and others were on the way.
"Ah? No, there are pursuers behind."
At this moment, a sharp-eyed guy also found that the Luo Family army was constantly chasing in the distance. Although everyone could still vaguely see the Luo Family army at a straight line distance, from the actual distance, the Luo Family army was still half a day away (the two sides were actually a mountain apart, and the Luo Family army wanted to catch up with them, first went down the mountain, then climbed over a relatively low mountain, then went down the mountain, crossed the Kototan River, and then climbed some mountains before they could reach their place). But everyone was quite panicked.
"Retreat for me now!"
Seeing that the Luo family army was chasing, the people who had just woken up as if they were dreaming quickly followed Sahiro Yuzuna and others to escape. Of course, when they were escaping, some of the warriors of Ito's family did not forget to secretly scold Sahiro Yuzuna behind their backs, and actually believed the lies of the Luo family, which has led to being pursued.
The Masanobu Takasaka was closely watching the movements of Sabuki Yoshina's army in front. Compared to Sabuki Yoshina, he could only use his naked eyes to check the situation. He had a tool from the Southern Barbarians, which was called the Climate Eye by the Lord Zhengliang. Through the Climate Eye, he had a clear understanding of Sabuki Yoshina's situation. When he found that the other party hurriedly started the camp and continued his journey, he immediately urged his army to speed up the pursuit. If he could leave the front army here, then the next strategy for the central region of Hinata would naturally be easier, so he is now looking forward to eating the other party.
In this way, both sides chased after him. At noon, Sahiro Yoshinaga and others in front were about to arrive at the gateway of the central region of Hinata.
As the only place to pass through the land from the North Hinata region to the central Hinata region, Menkawa Castle is directly built in the mountains. After passing through Menkawa Castle, you will walk on a slowly sloping downhill terrain and enter the first small plain in the central Hinata region. Then you will pass through this small plain and then pass through a slightly narrow coastal plain area, and the largest plain area in Hinata, the Ito family's residence Satohara Castle stands there. Therefore, Menkawa Castle has a very huge strategic position.
At this time, the defenders of Menkawa Castle saw deserters headed by Sahiro Yoshina, so they fled here temporarily yesterday and temporarily organized more than a hundred peasant soldiers to defend the city. At this time, they welcomed the dusty Sahiro Yoshina and others at the gate.
"Sir Sahiro, are you?" Seeing that Sahiro Yuki was so embarrassed, the two brothers Ito Yuki and Ito Yuba couldn't help but look at each other. Moreover, Sahiro Yuki was carrying at least a team of thousands of people behind him, which made the two of them worry about Ito Yuki who had been with Sahiro Yuki before.
"You two, if you have any questions, you can wait for a moment. I believe your retainers are about to arrive." But before you wait for the brothers Ito Yuki and Ito Yuba to continue asking, Sabuki Yuna directly interrupted the two of them, and said instead, "As for the safety of this city, please ask you to say goodbye." After saying that, Sabuki Yuna simply bypassed the two and quickly entered the gate of Menkawa Castle.
"Haha, depending on the situation, these two men had not recruited enough troops to defend the city yesterday. In this way, even if there were more than a thousand remaining soldiers who followed him, they could not resist the pursuers of the Luo family behind them." As they walked into Menkawa City, Sabuki Weina kept thinking.
Taking the situation of the Luo family's naval army that I saw last night, the Luo family also added at least tens of thousands of reinforcements. In this way, if the Luo family continues to attack the area behind the country with all their might, there will be at least tens of thousands of troops. Moreover, with the incompetence of the Iton family's naval army, it is naturally impossible to be the opponent of the Luo family's naval army. Once the opponent's naval army goes around the coast to the rear of Menkawa Castle, then Menkawa Castle will become the turtle in the urn of the Luo family. Thinking of this, Sabunarokawa already had more ideas in his mind.
Chapter completed!