Xinzhuang Zhichang was completely convinced.
The initial request for help from the Kyogoku family was just a stop-gap measure for the new villagers. What they really wanted was the support of Ashikaga Yoshiharu who had taken refuge in Kuchiki Valley.
Compared to the Kyogoku family, who is a guardian of Omi in name only, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the general who conquers the barbarians, will still play a greater role. At least if Ashikaga Yoshiharu comes forward, neither the Takashima family nor the Tagaya family will dare to openly For new bookmakers.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Before the Shinjo family could send someone to grab Ashikaga Yoshiharu's lap, their base, Shinjo Castle, was attacked by the Takashima family. Immediately after the fall of Xinzhuang City, Xinzhuang Zhikuan was seriously injured, and the Xinzhuang family's territory was wiped out.
To make matters worse, the Tianya family in the north also took the opportunity to send troops. Faced with the north-south attack from the Tianya family and the Takashima family, the new banker seems to have been sentenced to death.
But who could have known that in such a situation, the situation would be suddenly overturned?
"Kyogoku Sakyo Susumu is worthy of being a samurai who can defeat Asai Bizen, and was even praised by Hosokawa as being able to defeat a thousand men! This plan only relied on a few letters to play tricks on the Takashima family and the Taya family. Between the palm of your hand."
"After this battle, if possible, I will convince my father to change his view of the Kyogoku family."
"With Sakyo Susumu here, the day when the Kyogoku family will be revived is not far away!"
Xinzhuang Naochang was riding on the war horse. He lowered his head and looked at the saber in his hand, looking straight ahead.
"The Tianwu family's troops are at the front, please follow me to kill the enemy!"
"oh!"
The new banker's troops in Yijing City were out in full force at this moment.
The Tianya family's troops were currently engaged in a melee with the Takashima family's ashigaru, and they didn't even notice the new dealer who suddenly appeared from behind. Although the ashigaru led by Shinjo Naomasa only had more than 200 people, they were caught by surprise and quickly defeated the Taya family's troops.
The morale of the peasants and soldiers was already average, and since they had not been able to gain an advantage after fighting for so long, they had lost their will to fight. Now there was a sudden attack from behind. After a short while, the Tianya family's troops began to collapse.
Since Kyogoku Takamasa launched his attack late, and the Takashima family's attention was on the Tagaya family, the troops in the Takashima family's front line had no idea that their own side was also being attacked from behind.
So when the Takashima family was defeated, the first reaction of the troops in the Takashima family's front line was to chase and kill the fleeing enemies.
Soon, the troops in the front line of the Takashima family began to pursue.
The pursuing Takashima family ashigaru was running around on the battlefield like a runaway horse, while the escaping Takashima family ashigaru was running around like a headless fly, and the situation was instantly out of control.
Although the Takashima family's main team knew that they were under attack, the Takashima family and the Taya family were still fighting at the moment. The two sides could neither escape nor continue to fight. They were completely blindsided.
"Father, our front line has separated from the command and started to pursue the Tianya family's deserters. Now the situation is out of control, and we can't worry about so much now. Let's withdraw first!" When Takashima Takamochi was in a dilemma, the leader of the second line Shima Gaoxian ran over with a long gun in hand.
Takashima Gaochi unconsciously twitched the corner of his mouth, slowly raised his right hand, and then put it back weakly, "I didn't expect that I would fall into the hands of the new dealer today. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely repay this. Big revenge!"
"Send the order, all troops retreat!"
"withdraw!"
As for the other people on the battlefield, Takashima Takamochi and Ben couldn't care less. At the moment, preserving their own lives was the most important thing. As for the others, they could just hope for their own good.
Under the protection of Takashima Takanochi, Takashima Takamochi fled with dozens of flags and samurai from his own team.
Tagaya Akimasa took into account the situation in the rear, and Takashima Takamochi's escape was in line with his wishes, so Tagaya Akimasa did not pay attention to Takashima Takamochi at all, and also led his team to turn around and leave.
The two people who were fighting for life and death just now chose to turn a blind eye in a tacit understanding.
"Don't be greedy for the head, everyone should keep up and don't fall behind!"
Rushing down the hillside behind the Takashima family, the Ashigaru Jun encountered along the way were defeated in one blow. Kyogoku Takamasa and others easily defeated the Takashima family's rear team without any effort at all.
There are still too few people.
Kyogoku Takamasa looked back at Ashigaru behind him and shook his head.
There are over a thousand peasants and soldiers of the Takashima family, and they are fleeing in all directions at this time. It is obviously unrealistic to cause many casualties to the Takashima family, because the ashigaru of the Takashima family will not stand there stupidly. The ground is waiting for you to cut it.
If he had 500 people in his hands, Kyogoku Takamasa would even be confident that he could completely annihilate either the Takashima family or the Tagaya family in this battle. But with only a hundred people, all Kyogoku Gaomasa could do was to maximize the results.
"Lord, look, that seems to be Takashima Euchaka's hand!" Next to Kyogoku Takamasa, Yamazaki Hiroyuki suddenly pointed not far away and exclaimed.
Looking in the direction Yamazaki Hiroyuki pointed, a samurai wearing large variegated armor was fleeing to the southeast under the protection of twenty or thirty samurai. Based on the situation on the battlefield at this time, it is not difficult to guess the identity of this person. Over there is Takashima Takamochi, the head of the Takashima family.
"Lord, that person must be Takashima Ezhong. If we can win over this person, then our family can seize Takashima County!"
"Yes, lord, let's chase him quickly!"
After hearing the words of the retainers in his ears, Kyogoku Takamasa did not give a hasty order. Instead, he stood there and considered for a few seconds before suddenly raising his head and saying, "Don't chase!"
"If we don't go after Takashima Echu, let's go after Tagaya Ishimi!" Kyogoku Takamasa said something that puzzled the retainers.
Hatayama looked suspicious, looked around at the expressions of other retainers, and then said, "My lord, Takashima Etchu is so close, why should you let him go?"
"It's very simple!" Kyogoku Takamasa turned around and glanced at Hatayama Asanobu, "Because Takashima Etchu can't die, at least not yet!"
Kyogoku Takamasa's real target is actually not Takashima Takamochi, but Tagaya Akimasa.
As the overlord of Takashima County, if Takashima Takamochi dies in this battle, the Takashima family will be leaderless. Nationalists such as Yokoyama and Kuchiki would take the opportunity to cause trouble in Takashima County.
With the few people Kyogoku Takamasa has, even if he adds a semi-crippled new banker, Kyogoku Takamasa doesn't think he can take advantage of Kuchiki and other powerful people.
So the best result is to save Takashima Takamochi's life.
Anyway, the Takashima family will suffer heavy casualties after this battle. Yokoyama, Kuchiki and other people will naturally go to make trouble for Takashima Takachi. Although Takashima County will be in chaos, at least it will not happen with Takashima Takachi here. Completely out of control.
Therefore, Kyogoku Takamasa's real target is Tagaya Akimasa, because there is only one wealthy family in the northern part of Takashima County, the Tagaya family. If Tianya Akimasa died here, Kyogoku Takamasa would have great confidence that he would be able to eliminate the Tianya family after the war.
In this way, he not only gained a territory and found a foothold in Takashima County, but also weakened the strength of the Asai family, the Kyogoku family's number one enemy at this time, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone!
