Chapter 960
In the early morning, the heavy fog between the foothills of the Toyoko Country of Kyushu gradually dissipated, and the military power of the Luo family suddenly appeared in front of the three armies of Shimazu family, Ito family and Sahiro family overnight.
In the mountain wind, in the distant mountains and forests, the Luo family army with black eagles on their backs were covered with the backs of the mountains, and there were also various military forces of various colors of flags. These were the troops of the local rich people of Nanyiyu, headed by the ally of the Xitusi family.
The two armies formed their own formations on the north and south sides of the mountain road, and their reserves were moving along the way, with spears, horse riding teams, bows and archers, and iron artillery teams arranged in an orderly manner on the mountain road.
"The Luo family army marched overnight, and then took advantage of our army to stay in the mountain road last night and appeared far behind our army and came to us in the early morning."
In the main formation of the three-party coalition forces, Sabuki, who was in charge of the rear formation, observed the enemy's military situation, and pointed at the main formation of the Luo family's army opposite and said. It was ashamed that his command did not even know that the Luo family's army appeared behind last night. If he had not personally checked the situation in the rear this morning, he would not have known that the other party had followed. But strangely, under such circumstances, the other party did not launch a surprise attack, but instead lined up the rear slowly.
"It seems that the other party is planning to follow us slowly and find an opportunity to attack!" Sabuki Weijiao did not see the intentions of the Luo family for the time being, but Shimazu Takaha could see it at a glance. Kyushu Eagle obviously did not intend to fight with them, but chose to delay the tactics and then find an opportunity to attack.
The Luo family army's main formation was directly on a mountainside next to the mountain road in the rear, facing up. The formation was surrounded by a square with the pattern of the Luo family's black eagle. Above the formation, the golden black eagle, stood there with a flag seal. Without thinking too much, the Jiuzhou eagle, Luo family's Masaliang, must have been in the formation.
Facing the Luo family army in the rear, the generals of the three coalition forces gathered here to discuss how to deal with the Luo family army.
"Ro's Masayoshi uses unpredictable weapons and is unpredictable. We have neglected this, but it is not a discussion of why the enemy is facing, but how should our army deal with it next?" Shimazu Takahiro said in a deep voice.
As soon as Shimazu Takaha said this, the Sabuki family, led by Sabuki Hoshi, felt a little ashamed. After all, the Luo family's army suddenly appeared in the rear. This was caused by the lack of guarding of the Sabuki family army behind the back hall. Moreover, the Sabuki family left Sabuki Shintaku and others to stay in Yicheng to block the pursuit of the Luo family army. But now the Luo family's army followed up so quickly. Although they didn't know what happened to Sabuki Shintaku, it was already stated that Sabuki Shintaku's blocking mission had failed. All of this was the problem of their Sabuki family. Of course, in addition to being ashamed, Sabuki Shintaku also secretly worried about the safety of his younger brother Sabuki.
Compared with the shame of the Sakai family, whether it was Shimazu family or Itkai family, they were indeed dissatisfied with the Sakai family. Among them, Itkai Yoshiyuki was the most serious. At this time, he even regretted the support for the Sakai family this time.
Facing Shimazu Takaha's words, the generals in the military tent were silent at this time.
"From this point of view, the Luo family army may have marched overnight after just captured Yicheng last night, and the soldiers must be exhausted. I think if our army took this opportunity to fight, there would be no time." Tadakashi Shimazu said.
"Is our army not tired? And with the potential of five thousand troops, can we defeat the enemy's nearly ten thousand troops? Besides, the opponent's chief general is the Kyushu Eagle, a famous general in the world." As soon as Tadon Tadon of Shimazu said this, the retainers of the Iton family immediately objected.
Previously, when fighting against the Luo family army in the Sabuki territory of Fenghou Kingdom, more than 2,000 people had been killed in battle, and more than 2,000 people were injured and unable to fight, resulting in the original military force of tens of thousands of people in the three-way coalition army, only more than 6,000 people were left when retreating (part of the more than 2,000 wounded soldiers, some of them chose to stay in Yicheng and did not follow the army to retreat, and the remaining wounded soldiers who followed the army to retreat could not participate in the battle at this time, so they had a full plan. At this time, the three-way coalition army had only more than 5,000 people).
"Even if you lose, you won't be afraid. At most, you can die in the battlefield. If you are afraid, you can just run away. You won't retreat anyway." Tadakashi Shimazu said sarcastically.
"you?"
"Shut up." Seeing that his subordinates were about to quarrel, Shimazu Takaha and Ito Yoshiyuki interrupted the dispute between them at the same time. The quarreling Tadaka Shimazu also realized that they had lost their composure and hurriedly bowed to apologize.
Seeing the two of them quiet, Ito Yoshiyuki and Shimazu Takaha looked at each other again and found that both sides had something to say, so Ito Yoshiyuki signaled Shimazu Takaha to say first. Then, Shimazu Takaha said in a deep voice: "If we want to fight, our army's chances of victory are still below 10%, so the only way out is to fight and retreat now and continue to retreat along the mountain road to Matsuo Castle. However, this move will definitely be pursued by the enemy. If you come here like this, our army will definitely be defeated and suffer heavy losses. Therefore, we must arrange the people who go to the death as the rear army to block the offensive of the Luo family army."
"That's right!" Ito Yoshiyuki, who was standing beside him, immediately agreed.
As soon as the two generals said this, the generals immediately looked silent, but they also accepted this suggestion. But who would be the army behind the palace? This is a mortal task.
At this moment, Sabuki Weijiao's face was slightly pale, and there was a hint of hatred in his eyes when he looked at Shimazu Takaha and Ito Yoyoshi. It was obvious that these two people had already tacitly connected in the same way as they were just looking at each other, and the purpose of their connection was naturally to let the Sabuki family army come to the palace. After all, since the moment he evacuated his nest to use it for the city, the Sabuki family was like the rootless Ping, and they would rely on the Ito family and the Shimazu family in the future. Moreover, Sabuki's son and grandson were still in the other territory at this time. Although with the fall of Matsuo Castle, the life and death of his son and grandson and others were uncertain, there was always a glimmer of hope. Since this is the case, Sabuki Weijiao cannot turn against the Shimazu family and Ito family now.
Thinking of this, a look of accepting fate flashed in Sahiro Yoshiko's eyes. At this moment, he thought that instead of being voluntarily placed on his shoulders, it would be better to voluntarily admit this responsibility, die in the battlefield in the future, and achieve his reputation for courage and shine the family. If neither the legitimate son nor grandson died, then the way Shimazu Takaha and Ito Yoshiyuki will naturally treat them very well.
After thinking about all this, Sabuki Yujiao immediately stood up and said, "Let me lead the back of the team."
"ah?"
As soon as Sabuki's words were said, everyone was shocked. In fact, who was the candidate of the palace? After thinking about it for a while, everyone knew what it meant, but they didn't expect that Sabuki's voluntary came forward at this moment.
At this moment, the Shimazu family and Ito family were immediately impressed by the act of Sabuki Yorika taking the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility. However, as the subordinates of Sabuki Yorika, everyone in the Sabuki Yorika, cursed in their hearts, and this time they were killed by the Lord.
"Sir Sahiro, why are you doing this?" Shimazu Takaku was naturally very satisfied with Sahiro Yoko taking on the heavy responsibility of the palace without his persuasion, but on the surface, Shimazu Takaku still wanted to keep him, so he quickly stood up, walked to Sahiro Yokoku in two steps, reached out to Sahiro Yokoku's shoulder, and said in a deep voice. Judging from his face, it really seemed that he wanted to keep him.
"Mr. Shimazu, there is no need to say much. Everyone is afraid of Masayoshi Luo. Only I, Sabuki Sunzaburo, is not afraid of it." Sabuki Weijiao answered decisively.
"Okay! OK! It's worthy of being Lord Sahiro!" At this time, Ito Yoshiyuki also came over and praised with admiration. Then the generals of the Shimazu family and Ito family in the military tent expressed their admiration to Sahiro Weijiao. Only the generals of the Sahiro family remained silent, and several even left the military tent with disdain and dissatisfaction.
Among the three-way coalition forces, the Shimazu family and Ito family teams heard that Sabuki was willing to be the queen and fought for a little livelihood for their own army. On the contrary, the Sabuki family army was filled with panic. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!