Warring States Eagle

Asking Zhu Suo's family for their submission, Zheng Liang secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

There are several reasons why Zheng Liang first chose to attack Wen Suo's family.First of all, by chance, he caught Jianfang Huci, who had a good relationship with Wenzhusuo's family. This person was helpful to promote the development of Zhengliang's strategy, which gave Zhengliang an idea and temporarily decided on this trip.Otherwise, according to his original plan, he would first settle the Kusano family and the Hoshino family, which were much easier to deal with, first, and then force the Wenzhu family to surrender with the force of thunder.

Second, convincing the inquirer first helps save a lot of time.Masaragi had previously calculated that whether it was to attack the Kusano family and the Hoshino family first, or to attack the Wenzhu family by force, he might even use a large cylinder to attack in the next period. This series of actions, even if these powerful families finally surrendered , it will take at least a few days.This is obviously the worst situation for the Luo family who are racing against time to expand their results.Now that the Zhusuo family surrendered without any resistance first, it actually saved the Luo family a lot of time.

In addition, since there was no need to use force, the Luo family also reduced unnecessary casualties.There is no need to waste unnecessary military rations.This is because Changyan City at this time was located on a high mountain, and to its west was a huge lake (due to the influx of a large number of mountain streams, this lake was still preserved even in later generations, and was even transformed into A lake used for power generation), and steep mountains to the east and south. Only the side facing the Chikugo River in the north can enter Changyan Castle.If there is a strong attack, the casualties caused during the period can be imagined.

In the end, the Wenzhusuo family has always been acquiesced as the die-hard supporters of the Otomo family by the wealthy families of the Chikugo country.Now even such supporters have surrendered to the Luo family.can imagine.How much impact did this have on the remaining Kusano family and Hoshino family.So it's like the first domino to be pushed down.As the army of the Wenzhusuo family appeared outside their city, the Hoshino family and the Kusano family soon made a decision to surrender.

Of course, in order to avoid wasting more time, Zhengliang did not put too many demands on these wealthy families, but only asked their family governor to personally lead the family army and merge it into Zhengliang's army to participate in the next strategy You can come.This not only temporarily stabilizes these families, but also monitors and utilizes these families.

Therefore, after the troops of the three powerful families were assembled that day, Zhengliang immediately led the sixty cloaked crowd.Two hundred Luo family warriors, 150 three Luo family standing ashigaru, more than 500 Luo family farmers and soldiers, more than 1000 captive soldiers and more than 300 people from the three combined forces, a total of nearly 3000 people The army is mighty and mighty. In the evening of the same day, I arrived at Akizuki's house outside Sugimoto Castle in Yasu County, Chikuzen Country.

In order to race against time, Zhengliang did not even enter their strongholds during the reception process of the Wenzhusuo, Hoshino, and Kusano families. He just accepted the surrender ceremony of the three family governors outside the city, and then urged everyone to meet urgently. Merger began to advance to Chikuzen country.

During the march, in order to speed up.Zhengliang even ordered people to cook meals along the way in advance, and then put these meals on the wooden cart.Then mix in sea salt.When Zhengliang's army passed by, all the soldiers lined up and grabbed the mixed grains and rice meals along the way, and ate them as they marched.It was just before night fell that they arrived at the Luo family's barracks outside Sugimoto City.

At this time, Sugimoto Castle of the Akizuki family and the nearby Guchu Mountain Castle had been besieged by Kinoshita Masunao's army of more than 4000 people for two days and one night.In the past two days, Kinoshita Masao had fully learned the harassment tactics that Masara used to use before, and continued to adopt the tactics of attacking during the day and harassing with gongs and drums at night, which made the Qiuyue family miserable.

"My lord, I'm really deceiving people too much. Why don't I let my servants rush out of the city and fight the Luo family to the death." The always violent retainer Fukae Minomori suddenly raged.

It's hard to blame Fukae Minomori for being so furious. It turned out that just now, the envoy of the family who had just returned from the Luo family's family spoke out the terms of the Luo family's peace negotiations one by one. The harsh conditions immediately made everyone in the meeting hall furious. stand up.Some retainers even yelled directly:

"This is simply robbery!"

indeed.Sitting in the first place, Qiuyue Wenzhong also completely believed that this was a robbery of the family.Originally, according to his idea, for this peace negotiation, as long as he pays some money and food, at worst, he will also send out the already occupied upper and lower counties, and the result of the peace negotiation with the Luo family can basically be reached.

But now the envoy came back and told him that not only would he have to pay the upper and lower counties as well as a lot of money and food, but he would also give up the Yexu County where the Qiuyue family's main family was located and send the son-in-law as hostages.Isn't this looting or what?

What makes Qiuyue Wenzhong even more angry is that the envoy of the envoy this time did not see Luo Shi Zhengliang at all. I met Takasaka Masanobu, the guard of Sunshine Castle.Masanobu Kosaka was not polite to the messenger of the Akizuki family at all. He not only directly reprimanded the Akizuki family for their previous treacherous abandonment of the alliance, but also directly raised the above seemingly unacceptable conditions.

Qiuyue Wenzhong was really annoyed.He felt that he had been tricked by the Ouchi family (if the Ouchi family hadn't pressured them to break the covenant and pay more to the Luo family, how could they be attacked by the Luo family now), and he also felt that the Luo family was quite rude at this time.According to the thinking between the two countries in the Warring States Period, although the upper and lower counties of the Qiuyue family had been lost before, they originally belonged to the Qiuyue family after all, so now the Qiuyue family has admitted that they have fallen and handed over the two counties to the Luo family. This is the biggest concession. After all, this is a righteous concession. It also allows the Luo family to occupy these places in a legitimate manner, and allows the local people to quickly accept the new lord.

But in Zhengliang's thinking, the Luo family spent manpower and material resources to conquer the two counties of Shang and Xia, and they were already the territory of the Luo family at the moment they were occupied by the Luo family.As for your Qiuyue family to negotiate a peace, naturally you have to come up with other things to negotiate a peace, and now you have to treat the things he has in his hands as belongings to your Qiuyue family, which is really impossible.

At this time, invisibly, it is obvious that two different thinking are in conflict.

"My lord, the Luo family's army outside the city has begun to increase their troops again." At this moment, a retainer rushed in to report.

"Another increase in troops? Where did the Luo family come from so many troops? Even though they defeated the Ouchi family and Otomo's army that night, there are still people in Chikugo and even Bungo that the Luo family needs to resist." Great army." Qiuyue Wenzhong asked doubtfully.Because he had been on the run before, and was suddenly besieged by the Luo family's army after returning to the city, he did not know the situation of the Chikugo country and the Chikuzen country after that night.He still thought that even if the Luo family won that night, they still had to face resistance from the forces of the Ouchi family and the Otomo family in Chikugo and Chikuqian. (To be continued..)