Warring States Eagle

Outside the Takajo Castle of the Kita Shiga House on the east bank of the Onogawa River in Bungo Country, Kyushu.

At this time, the small surname Kamiya Zongzhan shook his white fan, as if he had just finished reciting the pre-war speech.Zheng Liang immediately stood up, and then stretched his hands into the misty rain.

Not long after everyone inspected Gaocheng, light rain began to fall in the sky.It was light rain that was almost as small as hair.This is a common weather in the mountains of Kyushu in the early spring. For the soldiers from Kyushu who have long been accustomed to this weather, it has no impact on them at all.And even other people who were not born and raised locally, had lived in Kyushu for so long, and had already gotten used to this kind of weather.

The misty light rain is still slowly falling.Zheng Liang also held a military fan, which was sent to Zheng Liang by the shogun recently entrusted by the Luo family resident in the Kyoto area, mainly to thank the Luo family for their support of the shogunate.Zheng Liang brought him by his side, mainly to set off his identity.This has an effect on both the general retainers of the Luo family and other ministers.

Shimadzu Matashiro Yoshihiro, who had already had his hair up, stood behind Masara with his head held high and his black hawk Mayin in his arms.Zheng Liang opened the military fan with a stern expression, stirring the raindrops.Honda beside him gestured confidently and comprehensibly, and the orderly next to him immediately raised his chest and blew the conch horn.

"Woooooooo..."

"Kill, kill, kill!"

With the blowing of the Faluo Trumpet, the Luo family's army, which had gathered outside Gaocheng long ago, shouted the slogan of Xiao Sha, while preparing to attack Gaocheng.

"Prepare!"[

"shooting!"

"Bang, bang, bang..." Following the order of Prussia, the leader of the Iron Cannons, the Ashigaru of the Iron Cannons hiding in the temporary canopy decisively lit the ignition wire of the Iron Cannons, and the bullets of the Iron Cannons Immediately shot out from the barrel of the iron cannon.With an irregular line of movement, they shot towards the soldiers of the Beishiga family on the high city wall.After several years of research in the Luo family workshop.The problem that the ignition wire of the iron cannon is not easy to ignite in wet weather has finally been solved.Pilot cords with cotton as the main raw material were mass-produced.At this time, iron cannons produced by people from other countries have appeared in Satsuma, Kyoto and other areas of the Wa Kingdom, but at this time the Luo family is one step ahead in technology.

"Shoot!" Immediately following the iron cannon's attack was a bow and arrow shooting team drawn from various formations.

"Swish, swish..." In an instant, a pitch-black rain of arrows fell from the sky.

"Damn it, you cowardly man, if you have the ability to get close to the city wall and fight." Shiga, who was originally on the city wall to boost the morale of the defenders, was unfortunately shot by scattered arrows during the Luo family's first attack. He was hit in the right arm, so he had no choice but to yell at the Luo family for attacking far outside the city and not approaching the city, while taking back the city for treatment under the guard of relative warriors.

Yes.Now Zhengliang is just pretending to attack Gaocheng with all his strength, but secretly, he has another attack target.

"Heihachi! Let's begin."

After witnessing the long-range attack team storming Takashiro for several rounds, Zhengliang immediately said to Masaru Isano who was standing beside him.

"Obey, my lord! Guaranteed to complete the task." After receiving the order, Masahiro Isano immediately bowed to Zheng Liang, and then walked quickly to the cavalry squadron that had been on standby not far away.

"Get on the horse! Let's go!" Immediately, Isano Yuanchang, who jumped onto the horse with a thud of one foot, shouted to the cavalry squadron behind him.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Akakane Mitsukiyoshi and Tianwei Nakamoto behind him also echoed and led the standing cavalry to start the cavalry squadron while shouting loudly.So the entire cavalry squadron was divided into several groups, and began to sweep towards the area near Gaocheng one by one.This is the task that Zheng Liang assigned to the cavalry squadron.Be sure to drive all nearby local residents home in a short time and impose a curfew on the local area.The curfew is not lifted for a moment.No offenders are allowed outside for a moment, otherwise they will be killed directly.By doing this, Zhengliang wanted to wipe out all the powerful clans in the territories east of Gaocheng, and make these wealthy clans blind.

An hour later, after Gaocheng was attacked for several more rounds, and the cavalry squad also sent people back to report that the area within two miles had been cleared, Zheng Liang then said to Yuwang Town, who had been standing anxiously near Zheng Liang:

"Master Rotten Net, it's time to light the fire."

After hearing the words, Ruinwang Town gave a wry smile, and then slowly walked to the firewood pile that had already been piled up in the distance. Several logistics farmers and soldiers guarding here immediately began to pour kerosene on the firewood pile, and everything was ready Finally, one of the peasant soldiers lit a torch and handed it to Jiuwang Zhenze.

Rotten Net Town took the torch in a daze, and looked up at Gaocheng, which was still under the long-range attack of the Luo family in the distance, with a complicated expression.Just a few hours ago, he, who was under house arrest by the Luo family, was received by the fat former eagle, the governor of the Luo family, and then he experienced repeated interrogation.In the end, after Luo's family directly pointed out that if he did not cooperate, he would slaughter his subjects, he finally succumbed. [

Before Zhengliang went to Bungo, he conducted a detailed investigation of the situation on the Bungo border.For example, Otomo's defense against the burnt bridge connecting the east and west banks of the upper reaches of the Ono River. In his opinion, it is difficult to send people to sneak in and take the bridge forcibly, because there are too few people infiltrating. The family's troops had to protect the bridge before they arrived, so he asked the logistics team to prepare the materials for building rafts before going out to prevent the Luo's family from quickly building rafts to cross the river once the bridge was burned down.

In addition, he also conducted a detailed investigation of Jiuwang's family and his family's governor.As the border area of ​​Bungo Kingdom connected to the border of Aso County of Higo Kingdom, it should have been taken seriously. Moreover, with only 300 people in the Kuiwang family and an army of less than 50 people, it is entirely possible that it will be destroyed by such as It was annexed by a powerful family like the Shiga family, so why has the Kuiwang family survived until now?

The main reason is that the territory of the Kuiwang family is too barren (it was originally located between many mountains, and the land was mostly rocky, and even the land they cultivated at this time was due to the soil alluvial from the source mountains of the Ono River. It was formed. The fertility of this kind of soil is limited. After several times of cultivation, if the fertility of the land cannot be replenished, it will drop rapidly), and there are few people. For a wealthy family like the Kita Shiga family Well, the rotten net home is just a chicken rib, it tastes good to eat, but it's a pity to discard it.

Especially after the Luo family occupied the Higo country, the territory of the Kuiwang family became even more tasteless. The reason why they did not take advantage of the trend to confiscate the territory of the Kuiwang family is that it is estimated that the Otomo Yoshikan and Kitashiga families used the Kuiwang family as their opponents. The warning zone of Luo's family.In fact, Ruinwang Town also knew his situation, so when the Luo family's army came under pressure, he simply surrendered to the Luo family directly when the people and vassals requested not to participate in the war.Otherwise, the advance of the Luo family's army would be delayed a lot of time just because the Rotten Wang family relied on the dangerous conditions along the mountain road to resist.

Of course, it is precisely because the territory is too barren that the Rotten Wang family is very good at farming, and they are also very kind in order to retain the people.Historically, Kuiwang Zhenze's son, Kuizuna Jiankang, was reused by Dayouyi Town because of his outstanding farming and civil affairs skills, and his official position even reached the rank of Zhongwu Shaofu and Sanhe Shou.Of course, official positions in this period have become Chinese cabbage. In order to raise funds for the shogunate and get support from daimyos from all over the world, the 13th generation of the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshiki and his successor Ashikaga Yoshiaki began to sell a large number of official positions. Situations where jobs are sold to several persons.

As for the current territorial tax in Ruinwang Town, it is even smaller than that of Luo's family.It is precisely because of such benevolent government that the father and son of Ruinwang Town are loved by all the leaders, and in turn, Ruinwang Township also values ​​their leaders and retainers very much, so Zheng Liang used his weakness to persecute him. He cooperated with the next series of strategies of the Luo family.

Outside Gaocheng City, the light rain in the afternoon had receded a long time ago, and the sun that showed its face was about to set.The setting sun shone on Jiuwang Zhenze's face, making him stand out both inside and outside Gaocheng.

"Hey!" After sighing again, he resolutely threw the torch in his hand into the firewood next to him.