Warring States Eagle

Regarding Yoshikawa Xingkei's defeat, Zheng Liang could only express his helplessness.

Mao Liyuan was indeed the number one wise general in the Warring States Period. Although Zheng Liang had made arrangements in advance, he was still cracked by Mao Liyuan.Of course, this is also due to Zhengliang's entrustment to non-human beings. No matter how much Zhengliang provides help, but with Yoshikawa Kyosuke, an unsupportable Adou as the house governor, it can only end in failure.

It seems that the rise of the Mori family is unstoppable, and another Kobayakawa family is expected to become a victim of Mori Moto's conspiracy in the near future.

The only consolation is that Yoshikawa Xingjing, who should have been framed and killed by Mao Liyuan after several years of house arrest, escaped now and became the fierce general of the Luo family.

In this way, not only will it add support to the Luo family and provide righteousness for those who enter Anyi in the future, but it is also likely that those who were killed by the Mori family in history because they supported Yoshikawa Xingjing who was under house arrest All the retainers survived.These retainers might become the internal support of Luo's family under the persuasion of Yoshikawa Xingjing in the future.

After setting up Yoshikawa Xingjing's father and son, and sending people back secretly to Yoshikawa Xingjing's territory in Anyi to find an opportunity to escort the rest of his family members to the Luo family's territory, Zheng Liang once again paid attention to the progress of Nan Feihou's strategy.

At this time, the three most important fortresses of Takatsuka Castle, Yatsushiro Castle, and Yingfeng Castle in Higo Yatsushiro County have all fallen into the hands of the Luo family, and some of the remaining small fortresses may have been captured and plundered by the army of Yixiangzong. After that, it was discarded, or it maintained a neutral defensive attitude.It can be said that Yatsushiro County has fallen into the hands of the Luo family.

In order to control Yatsushiro County in his hands as soon as possible, Masara ordered the Higo guard Dainabeshima Kiyobo of the Cabinet to immediately take people into Yatsushiro County and start taking over the territory.In addition, he ordered Kai, who was resting at Takamine Castle, to lead the army to start marching towards Takao Castle and Sashiki Castle on the border of Yatsushiro County.

Takao Castle is located at the foot of Mount Takao where the Kuma River that originates in Kuma County flows into Yatsushiro County and Weibei County.Control the exits of Kuma County into and out of Yatsushiro County and Weibei County.

Astronomy 16 years (3000).July.Nao Kai led an army of [-] soldiers, which consisted of part of the seventh standing Ashgaru squad of the Luo family and soldiers from the Ogo family of Yatsushiro County who successively expressed their surrender to Kai Nao, to the gates of Takao Castle.

The person in charge of guarding Takao Castle is Nagatake Smuta, a retainer of the Sagara family.at the begining of.Samuda Changjian still decided to stick to the fortress in the face of Kai's direct army.

Later, Sagara Jiyori, who gradually controlled the situation in Hitoyoshi Castle, also sent an army of 300 people (in fact, most of them were old and weak soldiers recruited temporarily, and it is said that there were women among them) to the other side of Takao Castle, and Kai's direct army from the direction of Yatsushiro County formed a flanking attack on Takao Castle.

At this time, news came from Yatsushiro County that the governor of the Ra family, Masarao Ra, asked Kai for the body of Yoshiki Sagara, and that it was buried in Mount Yingfeng near Yingfeng Castle.Afterwards, Nao Kai personally went to the city to persuade him to surrender. After learning that Nao Nao was a retainer of the Luo family, Samuda Changjian, who was shocked, finally made the decision to surrender the city.

With the surrender of Takao Castle.It means that the passage for Luo's family to enter Kuma County has been completely opened up.In Kuma County at this time, following the surrender of Sagara Jiyori, the fortresses such as Gangcheng and Hitoyoshi Castle in West Kuma County were successively included in the scope of the Luo family, while the larger East Kuma County was divided into upper villages. The Uemura family, the Dongfang family, and the Okamoto family are the main forces, among which the Uemura family is the most powerful.

At this time, Sagara Qinghiro and Uemura Laixing's father and son also fled back to the Naocheng of Uemura's family.Hearing that Kai had captured Takao Castle directly, the two of them were startled.If Kai had continued to advance towards the eastern part of Kuma County at this time, they would not be able to organize a strong resistance at all.

Not only the father and son Sagara Haruhiro of Higashikuma County have this idea, but even the Tocho family governor of Fengfu City and the Okamoto family governor Okamoto Lai of Okamoto Castle have this idea.

Indeed, if Kai's army continues to advance bravely while taking advantage of the great victory, they can even defeat the powerful families in Higashikuma County one by one before they unite.

Unfortunately.In Zhengliang's view, the Satsuma Shimadzu's family across the mountain is the biggest threat.So at this critical moment, Zheng Liang gave an order to Kai Chihiro and the others to leave some people behind to consolidate the territory he gained, and then immediately diverted to Weibei County, before the Shimadzu family on the other side dispatched troops to Nanfeihou. Seize the passage into Weibei County in Nanfeiqian.

However, what Zheng Liang didn't know was that the Shimadzu family had actually made the decision to attack Naka Satsuma with all their strength at this time, and they had no plans to split up Nanhio for the time being.

The reason why Zhengliang made such a decision is entirely because of his understanding of the history of the Shimadzu family, and subconsciously guarded against the Shimadzu family, which eventually led to a small mistake in this decision-making.

It is precisely because of this mistake that the rich families in East Kuma County got a precious breathing opportunity.They took advantage of this opportunity to quickly mobilize the farmers and soldiers in the territory to strengthen the defenses of their respective territories. At the same time, they formed a temporary alliance headed by Shangcun Laixing to jointly fight against Kai Kinzhi (at this time they did not know that Kai Kinzhi The boss behind it is the Luo family).

On this side, the powerful clans of Higashi-Kuma County are doing their best to guard against Kaikino, while the Kaikino army on the other side has entered Weibei County.The army's first goal was Sashiki Castle, located at the junction of Yatsushiro County and Weibei County.

To everyone's surprise, the defenders of Sashiki Castle dispersed before their army arrived at the city.Kai's army took down Sashiki Castle without bloodshed.

Just when everyone thought that Weibei County would be taken easily, the army encountered great resistance from the local forces in the follow-up march.The forces blocking the attack were mainly local nobles, but it was found that many temples also participated in the resistance.These are all caused by the secret instigation of the dog boy Ryan in Minamata City.

Faced with such resistance, Kai directly issued the order of destruction, and the entire Weibei County immediately fell into a bloodbath, and a large number of wealthy families and temple forces were uprooted.During this expedition, Kosaka Masanobu and Yoshikawa Kokei emerged one after another.

Kosaka Masanobu is mainly known for his strategies in combat. He can often avoid confrontation with the enemy wisely, and then take advantage of the opponent's relaxation to launch a full blow to completely defeat the enemy.

Contrary to Kosaka Masanobu, Yoshikawa Kokeke took a full-on frontal attack.Since he had just joined the Luo family, Yoshikawa Xingjing naturally hoped to gain a lot of merit through this battle, so as to gain a foothold in the Luo family.So this time he fought more bravely than ever before, taking the lead in almost every battle.After several battles, except for a little injury, he was still safe and sound. (To be continued..)