Warring States Eagle

() On the thirteenth day of November in the tenth year of Tianwen (1541), Nizi, the town guard of Nizi's house, died of illness after a long period of illness.All kinds of favorable situations make Yilong feel complacent that the opportunity to uproot Nizi's family has finally come.At the joint request of Anyun, Ishijian, and Bingo, Yilong decided to go on an expedition to Izumo and wipe out the Nizi family in one fell swoop.

On the 11th day of January in the 1542th year of Tianwen (5000), Ouchi Yoshitaka appointed himself as the general general. With Tao Longfang, Sugi Shigemo, Naito Xingsheng, etc. as generals, he personally led 5 Ouchi troops to set off from the mountain pass.The lords of the Ouchi faction of Shufang, Nagato, Anyu, Iwami, and Bingo gathered about [-] people, including Mori Motojo and Takamoto father and son, Kumagai Nobunao, Amano Kosada, and Shido Takaya , Yoshikawa Kokeke, Kobayakawa Masahei, Hira Takamune, Kagawa clan, Yamagata clan and other Yasuko people; Ogasawara Nagao and other Iwami Kunisu; Miyoshi Hirotaka, Yamana Riko, Yamauchi Takamichi, Miya Wakasa, Tagayama Tsutsuru and other Bingo Kunisu.Yoshikawa Kokei, Honjo Tonemitsu, Misawa Weiqing, Mitoya Hisasuke, Honjo Keimitsu, Shindou Masataka, Koshi Yoshinobu and other Nizi core forces even abandoned Nizi Jingjiu and took refuge in Yoshitaka.

Of course, the above news is the latest information that Zheng Liang has received.Some of them didn't come directly to the Ouchi family's territory to meet up, but after gathering soldiers and horses in their own territory, they waited for the Ouchi family's army to pass by.

Everything is surprisingly consistent with history, the only exception is that, as the army of Kyushu, there is an extra powerful Luo family.

This time, he and Zheng Liang went to Zhou Fang together.There are Shigemori Daisugi, the guardian of Buzen, Ouchi family who pursues Iida Kohide, Chikuzen Akizuki family Akizuki Wenzhong, Chikuzen Tachibana family Tachibana Kammitsu, Chikuzen Harada family Takashi Harada, Chikuzen Munakata family Munakata Usui, Chikuzen Takahashi family Takahashi Chocho, Buzen Jomo Yamada family Yamada Seiichi, Buzen Joi family Joi Nagabo, etc., totaling more than [-] troops.

As the two tallest among them both in terms of strength and official position, Zheng Liang and Sugi Shigemo naturally became the temporary leaders of this group of people.

"Saemon Hizenmori-sama, this trip to Yamaguchi Castle depends on you." The old and cunning Sugi Shigemo said politely to Masara.

"But according to the order of the guardian." Zheng Liang said immediately.Whether it is Chikuzen or Buzen, those tyrants are dissatisfied with Zhengliang, especially after the incident that Zhengliang sent to hunt earlier, this is even more so.Although most people maintained a polite attitude, they obviously would not obey Zhengliang's dispatch.And this is only a temporary command, after arriving at Yamaguchi Castle, they will be reassigned.It can be described as an extremely tasteless task, so why should Zheng Liang bother with it?Now that Sugi Shigemo said such polite words, it was because he saw Zhengliang was less than 19 years old and came to tease him sincerely.Once Zheng Liang accepts Sugi Shigemo's "good intentions" in his youth, he will probably turn against the rest of the powerful.

"Isn't it a little strange for you to say that!" Shan Zhongju nodded and smiled at Zheng Liang, whether it was true or not, he acted very friendly.

"How dare I do that!" Zheng Liang's "mask" from later generations has long been honed and proficient, and he is not afraid of these tricks at all, so he immediately pretended to be panicked.This astonished expression was neither blunt nor exaggerated, "Master Guardian is a strong guardian! He has repelled the invasion from Otomo's family several times. I have always admired this from the bottom of my heart, how dare I show any disrespect."

"Hahaha. Zaemon-sama is flattering you." Originally, Zheng Liang thought that the other party would pretend to be modest after receiving his compliments, but he did not expect the other party to accept it so generously, and by the way, the power of the temporary general of the army also I took it easily.Perhaps because he was able to show off in front of the recently famous "Hizen Eagle", Sugi Shigemo seemed very proud.

"I'm so proud!" Akabane Shinnosuke said in a low voice after the other party walked away.

"Hehe, it's okay!" Zheng Liang said with a smile.According to the development of history, after Tao Longfang rebelled and killed Ouchi Yoshitaka, when he checked Sagara's last statement, Tao began to suspect that Toyozen's guardian Sugi Shigemo had also slandered Ouchi Yoshitaka.In a rage, he attacked Zhongji without hesitation.Zhongji had anticipated this moment in advance, so he had passed the position of family governor to his son Chongsuke in advance, trying to resolve Tao's dissatisfaction, but failed in the end.When the enemy was at hand, Sugi Shigesuke advocated a resolute war of resistance. Shigemo knew the disparity in strength between the two sides, and said with the consciousness of death: "The Tao family will also weaken one day. At that time, you can fulfill my father's regret!" After Shigesuke fled to Aki with his brother Masashige, Sugi Shigemo was also killed by Tao.

"Your Highness Masaragi!" At this moment, Iida Kyohide, one of the magistrates of the Ouchi family, came over and saluted, "Your Majesty will be in charge of the rear of the army. Since I have always been in love with His Highness Masaragi, I don't know if His Highness can guard the rear together with you." What about array?"

"Just what I want!" Zheng Liang said immediately.It seems that this is Sugi Shigemo's arrangement.The rear line is the logistics army that escorts the food, and Luo Shifan's task is to ensure the safety of these logistics personnel.It is estimated that Sugi Shigema deliberately arranged for the Luo family to take charge of this task, but he was worried that Masaragi, who was one position higher than him, would directly refuse in front of everyone, which would make him lose face, so he sent Iida Xingxiu, who had a good personal relationship with Masara, first. Came to say hello in advance.

When Zhengliang led the army into Chikuzen, it was Iida Xingxiu who was in charge of accompanying and guiding the whole process.Therefore, Zheng Liang and Iida Xingxiu established a good personal relationship.Iida Xingxiu is a native of Buzen, the lord of Buzen Iida Castle.When Zheng Liang proposed to go hunting in the wild, he also accompanied Zheng Liang on a safari.In Zheng Liang's view, his horse bow and horse skills are considered very good in Ouchi's family.

After accepting Iida Kohide's invitation, Masara met with Akizuki Bunzhong and Munakata Utsutsugu respectively.

The Akizuki clan is a powerful family in Chikuzen Yasu County since the Kamakura shogunate. Together with Harada and Takahashi, they are also known as the "Three Great Clans of the Great Zang Clan".It is said that the Dazang family is the last descendant of Emperor Han Ling of the Han Dynasty in China. According to the records of "Ancient Events", "Riben Secretary" and "Ji Ji", it was at the end of the Han Dynasty that he traveled to Japan eastward, and was in charge of the collection of official objects during the Japanese court era. , Assuming the title of "Da Zang".Of course, there are other theories. Some people think that because they lived in Bichu Dazang Valley, this Dazang is not named after an official name, but the surname of the place.In the fourth year of Tianqing (941), Juntomo Iyo Fujiwara launched the Xikai Riot, which is also known as the "Tianqing Rebellion" in history.Dazang Chunshi joined the legion led by Ono Yoshiko, and was entrusted to Kyushu Chikuzen for his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion. He worked in Dazaifu and built the defense system of Kitakyushu.The main stream of the Dazang family is the Harada family, and later the wild branch branched out into the Akizuki, Takahashi, Tajiri, Egami, Mihara, Togami, and Xiaojinmaru.

And Qiuyue Wenzhong is the current governor of the Qiuyue family.Since Kamiya Shaozhan is his relative, and the former Duanmu Kiyomasa visited, the Luo family and Qiuyue family can be regarded as almost allied.This time we will go out together, of course we need to communicate with each other first.

As for Munakata's visit, it was for the purpose of friendship.Along the coast of Chikuzen, besides the naval forces of the Ouchi family, there are mainly naval forces of the Munakata family, the Sugi family, and the Harada family.Compared with the Luo family's navy, the latter two sailors are actually not a threat. Zheng Liang believes that as long as the Luo family's standing navy is used, they can win the two sailors steadily.The Munakata family's navy is different, he is the most powerful navy along the Chikuzen coast, and even the Ouchi family has scruples about his strength.In order to avoid unnecessary friction with the increasingly powerful Luo family's navy, Munakata's subsequent visit can be said to be an expression of friendship.After all, after making good friends with each other, misunderstandings between the two navies on the sea can also be avoided.