Warring States Eagle

With a sound of "boom", as the torch in the hands of the town of Jiuwang dropped on the pyre, the pyre suddenly ignited a raging fire.

It's just that most of the firewood is not dry, so while burning, it also emits a thick black smoke.The pitch-black thick smoke instantly rose into the air, forming a rolling black column.

"Dengdengdeng!"

At this time, Shiga, who was monitoring the defense situation in the castle at the highest point in Takashiro, suddenly saw the black smoke in the air, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately walked to the mouth of the city wall with a few steps, and let out a thick sound. A look at the smoke.

I saw a pile of firewood emitting thick black smoke in an open space hundreds of miles away from Gaocheng.And not far from the fire, the town of Rotten Net was smiling wryly at Gao Cheng.Cooperating with the Luo family's actions this time has almost completely pushed him into the Luo family's camp. If the Luo family's attack on the Bungo country ends in vain and they will eventually withdraw from the land of the Bungo country, then he It is necessary to take the retainers and the people to retreat with the Luo family, otherwise they will definitely be attacked and retaliated by the powerful families of the Dayou family in the future.

"Deadnet town, you deserve to die! You deserve to die! Ah! Damn it!"

Just as the town of the dead net had expected, when Shiga saw the town of the dead net standing not far from the fire, he understood everything in an instant.He immediately shouted furiously.The town of Jiuwang under the city was so frightened that he quickly retreated to the ranks of the Luo family's retainers, for fear that Shiga's relatives in the city would kill him immediately.

According to the agreement made by everyone when they learned that the Luo family had come out of Fenghou Kingdom, if they were unable to withstand the attack of the Luo family, everyone could light the smoke.Other powerful families will find ways to come to support after seeing it.Until all the powerful clans are completely merged into an army capable of confronting the Luo family's army head-on.

Prior to this, Zhengliang launched an attack on Gaocheng under the watchful eyes of everyone.It is for the rich families hiding nearby to take a closer look.Then deliberately postponed for a period of time, so that these detailed operations have enough time to report the battle situation in Gaocheng to their respective families, Zheng Liang ordered the cavalry squadron to impose a curfew within two miles of the surrounding area, causing these nearby wealthy families to be unable to Understand the situation in Gaocheng in a short time.

Then, use this time to ignite the black smoke that indicates the critical situation in Gaocheng.The location where the black smoke was ignited was very close to Gaocheng, and under the action of the evening mountain wind, it was almost as if black smoke was being ignited in Gaocheng.In the case of becoming blind.The other wealthy families in the vicinity must have thought that Gaocheng was on the verge of being destroyed.

And at the moment when he saw Kuiwang Zhenze, Shiga personally learned of the Luo family's treachery.So he was very angry, and even wanted to go out of the city immediately to extinguish the fire, and then kill the town of Rotten Net, but soon he tried his best to endure it.In the end, he had to order his subordinates to start shouting on the city wall: "Don't come, this is a trick of the Luo family."

Zhengliang felt a little disappointed that Shiga did not attack with anger. Originally, he hoped to use this to lure the other party to attack.As for the shouts on the city wall, Zheng Liang simply ignored them.Now within two miles of Gaocheng, there are no secret works of other wealthy families, even if there are.It is also impossible to be so close to Gaocheng.Their propaganda is completely in vain.

In fact, Shiga Kido guessed wrong.Zhengliang immediately thought of this plan after threatening to massacre his subjects and retainers and forcing the town of Jiuwang to reveal their method of lighting up smoke to communicate.Of course, his purpose is not to use this to gather around the spot to fight for aid, but to cover up the situation secretly, and has another goal.

"Looking at the sky, they should be here too?" Zhengliang first looked at Shiga Kido who was still yelling angrily in the city, then looked at the gradually sinking sky, and then said to himself.

At twilight time (evening), as night fell, torches began to be lit on the walls of the Oka Castle of the Kitashiga family.

Kitashiga Iaoka Castle, which was later famous in the mainland of Kyushu, was still a small walled city at this time.Zhengliang's real goal this time is this walled city.

In the 14th year of Tensho, after the defeat in the Battle of Otokawa, the Otomo family declined rapidly, and at this time even Bungo of his own country began to waver.In February of that year, Shimadzu's army was divided into two groups. Shimadzu Yoshihiro led an army of [-] troops from Higo to the west of Bungo to encroach on Otomo's territory.Under the attack of the Shimadzu family, many local wealthy families of the Otomo family surrendered to the Shimadzu family one after another.Just when the Shimadzu's army seized the territory of the Otomo's family like splitting bamboo, at this time, the Kita Shiga family Shiga personally led the army to directly resist the attack of the Shimadzu's family with this fortress until the next day. At the request of Otomo Sorin, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to Kyushu to force the Shimadzu family to retreat.Later, Shiga Kiji was also appreciated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for this matter.

At this time, Oka Castle still looks a bit narrow and low because it has not yet experienced the successive generations of the Kita Shiga family.However, because it was built next to the Luci River (in fact, the locals prefer to call the Luci River the Ono River), the Kita Shiga family dug a deep ditch along the walled city when they built the Oka Castle, and then diverted the river of the Ono River. Introduced into this deep ditch, a moat was formed.The bridge on the moat named Huaze Bridge is the only way to enter and exit the Walled City.

The reason why Zhengliang chose this fortress as his target was mainly because as long as he captured this fortress and built a camp on the mountain next to this fortress, he could completely isolate the southwestern area of ​​Zhirui County and make other Completely lost contact with the other territories of the Otomo family.At that time, the Luo family will be able to slowly attack the wealthy families in this area.

In addition, this fortress is also the gateway from Zhirui County to Ono County in Bungo Kingdom. To conquer this city, for the Luo family, it is a fortress that can attack Ono County in advance and defend the southwestern part of Zhirui County in retreat. .

Yesterday, because I temporarily learned that the Luo family's army had invaded the nearby territory, my lord temporarily drew half of the guards from here to prevent the Luo's family's army from crossing the river smoothly, so the weak defenders seemed a little nervous at this time.What made the defenders even more alarmed was that just before the sun went down, they witnessed a black smoke column appearing in the sky.That direction is the direction of the high city of my family. Could it be that my own city will fall so soon?

Just when the guarding soldiers were in shock, a somewhat scattered army came from a distance.

"Stop, people in front stop, don't climb the bridge, or I'll shoot arrows later." Seeing such an army suddenly appearing outside the city, the guards on the city wall immediately shouted.

"Help, I'm the lord's soldier, I'm the soldier who followed the lord to intercept the Luo's family along the Ono River." After being stopped, the team that had planned to set foot on the Huaze Bridge stopped immediately. Then one of them stood by the bridge and shouted at the city.

"Our people? Do you know them?" The guard asked the other people around him immediately after hearing the words.

"It's pitch black, so far away, how can I see clearly." Someone muttered.

"Let the future guard decide." Someone else suggested.

So, everyone quickly found the guard in Gangcheng.After figuring out the origin of the group of people on the opposite side, the guard immediately shouted:

"Shimo Matagoro, please bring some people who are familiar with me here quickly." As Shiga's personal soldier, Matagoro naturally knew many people who followed Shiga to the river beach to intercept the Luo family's army. Soldiers, besides, it's an extraordinary time, so he naturally asked a few people he knew well to come over and ask about it, just to be on the safe side.

"Quickly, carry some samurai adults over here." After receiving Matagoro's order, the leader at the opposite bridge immediately ordered.

Soon, a few warriors with feathered arrows stuck in their bodies, almost barely breathing, were carried onto the bridge by several people, and then sent to the city gate on the other side of the bridge.

Through the firelight, Matagoro carefully looked down from the city wall to see the appearance of these people.Seeing that the few people who could still stand on the bridge were all unfamiliar faces, Yougoro immediately became suspicious, but when he saw the few people lying on the ground, he was suddenly startled, so he immediately asked:

"Say, what's going on here?" (To be continued...)