Warring States Eagle

Iki Island, the country of Western Kaido, is located on Genkai Beach.To the north, it faces Tsushima Island across the sea through the Tsushima Strait.The south is separated from the Hizen country through the Iki waterway. It is an island group consisting of Iki and several surrounding small islands on the northern Xuanhai Beach of the Matsuura Peninsula in the east of the Hizen country.

Native people lived here a long time ago. There are relics and ancient tombs from the Yayoi period on the island. It is also a country mentioned in the biography of the Three Kingdoms Wei Zhiwa.It is also a transit point from Kyushu to mainland China and North Korea.Although the area is small (there are only two counties of Iki and Ishida, with a total income of about [-] shi), it is also an important window to defend against foreign invasion.It suffered great damage when Mongolia attacked.As an island country, the fishing industry is very developed; at the same time, the island also has plains with crops such as rice, wheat and soybeans.Although the area is not as large as Tsushima Island, its arable land and population are higher than Tsushima Island.

At this time, in Gumi Castle on the southwest side of Ishida County, Iki Island, there were bursts of noisy sounds.It turned out that Hyuga Yamato Shouzi, who was the lord of Gumi City, just took a concubine today, so he held a banquet today.Of course, the so-called noise is more of a complaint.

"The sneak attacking eagle of Luo's family went too far, and actually blocked the waterway."

"Isn't it? We haven't had any rice for a while."

"Now on the Iki waterway, his Luo family's navy family dominates. If this continues, we will not be able to survive."

"Hmph, don't you guys know? The Luo family's navy is already preparing to attack us next month." Hyuga Yamato Shouzi, who was sitting on the main seat, said suddenly.

"What? The Luo family's navy will arrive next month?" As soon as Hinata Yamato Shouzi said this, everyone in the hall immediately cried out in surprise.This is very important news, and these people cannot help being shocked.

"Yamato Mori-sama. Are you serious?"

"Humph. It's absolutely true!" Hyuga Yamato Shouzi affirmed.

"The sneak attacking eagle has blocked our waterway. Now you want to attack us?"

"Hehe, you don't know? At the end of last year, Iki City, my hometown, sent a navy to rob the merchant ship of the sneak attack eagle. Now the sneak attack eagle must have come for revenge." Huge material.

"what?"

"There is such a thing? Why do we have no food and grass to support us here? Aren't we all a family? Why didn't we support us after we looted the food?"

"That's right! Yamato Mori-sama must ask the family to increase our food supply."

There was an uproar in the hall instantly.For just a split second, everyone was concerned about the food issue, and they forgot about the upcoming attack on the Luo family.

"Hey, you don't need to ask, I asked Iki County as early as the end of last year." Hinata Yamato Shouzi responded coldly.

"Then?" Everyone immediately looked expectantly at Hyuga Yamato, expecting an affirmative answer from Hyuga Yamato's mouth.After all, their life has been really hard recently.Not only their subordinates, even they themselves almost didn't have enough food to eat.Some people even ate all the grain that was planted in spring this year in their territory.If there is not enough food support this year, then the people in their territory will start to riot.One bad, even their men will leave them.At that time, if there is no need for the Luo family's navy to attack, they will voluntarily surrender.

"Are you all pig heads? It's already June, have you received any food from Iki County?" Looking at the idiots under his command, Hyuga Yamato Shouzi couldn't help but feel angry and cursed road.

"What? How could this be the case in my family?" Everyone in the hall quit immediately.However, some sensible people also thought that the food was looted by the family, and the situation there was not much better than here.So it is normal not to support here.

"Okay, everyone, don't quarrel. If you disturb the direct families of Bodo in the city, they will take the opportunity to slander me at my family. Even if my family didn't support us, the direct family members here also didn't get support. Seeing that the people around were getting more and more indignant, a few people who were still sober shouted immediately.Since the occurrence of the Hidaka family's separation from Bodo alone, the Bodo family of the main family has become less and less trusting of their branch families or general subordinate families, so they usually send some direct retainers to monitor them.

"Okay, stop arguing." At this time, Hyuga Yamato and Shouzi also shouted to stop.Everyone in the hall fell silent immediately.

"Everyone still think about how to deal with the attack of the Luo family's navy next month." Hyuga Yamato Shouzi said again.

"Even if the Luo family wants to attack their own family, they don't necessarily have to attack from us first?" Someone immediately questioned.

"Idiot, there are only two counties in Iki Island, and this county not only directly faces the Hizen and Chikuzen regions of the Luo family, but also half of the county is occupied by the Hidaka family who belonged to the Luo family. It is the least in the family. Tell me, when the Luo family attacks the family, where will they land first? Then attack there first?" Hyuga Yamato Shouzi cursed again.

"Boom!" The words of Hyuga Yamato Shouzi woke everyone up instantly due to a loud thunder.Don't you need to think about it, the first target of Luo's family is naturally them.

Nima's?Our family sent people to rob the Luo family merchants of food, not only did they not distribute the plundered food to us, why should we be their scapegoats now?This time everyone was really on fire.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Hyuga Yamato and Shouzi also felt relieved.At the beginning, because he opposed that woman's control of family power at home, he was sent to this place where grandma didn't love grandma and didn't kiss him, and he was angry all day long.Now he just wants to incite these people to put pressure on that woman, and then take the opportunity to ask the family for more rights and resources.

"It's not good, boats, many boats!" Just as the hall was arguing like a pot of porridge, an ashigaru hurriedly pushed open the wooden door of the hall, and then fell to the ground, but his mouth kept yelling. shouted.

"You damn guy. What are you yelling about. Tell me clearly." A wealthy family near the door stepped over to Ashgaru.Pulling this ashigaru up, first gave this ashigaru a loud slap, and finally shouted loudly.

"Boats, many ships are coming to our harbor."

"Boat, our boats are all in the harbor, where did they come from?"

"Kill!" Just as everyone was wondering, there was a sky-shattering shout of killing outside the city.The crowd headed by Hyuga Yamato Shouzi immediately ran to the city wall to look outside.

Good guy, a large number of troops are rushing towards Gumi City in the forest near the city.At the same time, on the farther bay, countless ships are approaching the bay at a fast speed.

"What are those border guys doing? No one sent an alarm when others killed the city. Quickly, close the city immediately." Hyuga Yamato Shouzi had no time to think and immediately ordered the city gate to be closed.

At this time, Zhengliang was standing on a closed ship in the sea.This time, Luo's family dispatched 21 Guan boats, 21 Xiaozao ships, 100 troop carriers, [-] permanent sailors and [-] temporary sailors from the first division of the navy.The second squadron of the navy dispatched [-] Guanchuan, [-] Xiaozao, [-] permanent sailors and [-] temporary sailors.There are a total of [-] Guan ships, [-] Xiaozao ships, [-] troop carriers, [-] permanent sailors, and [-] temporary sailors and soldiers.In addition, there are [-] cloaked members serving as Zheng Liang's bodyguards, [-] samurai samurai warriors, and [-] iron cannon team standing ashigaru.

As for the generals, the chief general is naturally Zheng Liang himself.In addition to Zhengliang, there are Takashi Murakami, Oyano Takamitsu, and Kamizuura Takayoshi from the first division of the navy; Tsunatsu and Fukuda Kenji from the second division of the navy; Ander and Irita from the Iron Pao squad Yoshishi.Zhengliang's side is Zhongfei Duan, Ahri, Taketori Sheranmaru, and the common people Takeshi Kenkan, Esatoguchi Nobujo, Narimatsu Nobukatsu, and Shimadzu Yoshihiro.

Although it was the Luo family who had occupied the five islands in the south of the territory a few years ago, ensuring that there was no direct threat to the south of the Luo family, but with the Shimadzu family navy in the southwest getting a group of temporarily unknown Ming country After the pirates' support, the sea area south of Roche's house seems to be under threat again.

As for the group of pirates from the Ming Dynasty, although Zheng Liang probably expected it to be that group of pirates.However, because its main base is said to be on the Ryukyu Islands, and currently it is only setting up a foothold on Zhen Island in Satsuma.Therefore, Zhengliang is still unable to confirm his true identity.

But in any case, with the emergence of this group of sea forces, it undoubtedly increased the threat level in the sea area south of the Luo family.Therefore, in order to avoid the predicament of Luo's family being besieged from all sides, this time Masaragi made up his mind to occupy Iki Island and expand the territory to the west to keep the enemy out of the gate.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Zhengliang looked at the bay in the distance.I saw that under the leadership of the Hidaka family's navy, the Luo's family's navy was heading towards the bay at high speed, and the ghost tail city on the shore of the bay had also been taken a shortcut by Luo's who suddenly came out from the land. Surrounded by the army of the family and the army of the Hidaka family.

"The rest will be left to you." Seeing that the army has already entered the bay of the opponent according to the previous deployment, the following specific matters will be handed over to the retainers below to be responsible.

"Yes!" The remaining retainers around immediately led the people away.

"Then I'll wait for everyone's good news in the cabin." Zheng Liang nodded immediately, and then went back to the cabin.After so many years of growth, the retainers under his command should be able to direct such a big battle alone, and Zheng Liang also has to hurry up to deal with the internal government affairs of the territory. After all, some government affairs involving core issues must be reviewed and approved by him personally. Therefore, Zhengliang's daily government affairs are also quite a lot.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, on the morning of the second day, when the sky began to rain lightly, good news finally came from the shore.The forces of the Luo family and the Hidaka family finally completely occupied Gumi City in the harbor.

Soon after, Murakami Takashi and Kuna Tong came to Chuanshan to report.The two of them carried a few first-level letters in their hands, and they faintly smelled of blood.

"My lord!" After arriving behind Funato Masara, the two saluted immediately.

"Well, how's the situation on the shore?" Zheng Liang nodded and asked immediately.

"The shore has been completely controlled by us. In the harbor, except for some ships that did not see the situation well at the beginning. The ships that ran away before we surrounded the harbor. The rest of the ships were captured by us. The specific captured ships Statistics, materials, and casualties are still being counted. I will report to the Lord later." Murakami said immediately.Since joining the Luo family seven years ago.Murakami devoted himself to the navy and cultivated an elite navy for the Luo family.However, Zhengliang’s original promise to assist Murakami Takashige and Murakami Takekichi’s two uncles and nephews to recapture Setouchi Kamura Sanshima has been infinitely close to fulfillment after the Luo family occupied Bungo Kingdom, so Murakami Takashi is naturally more loyal to Masaragi Respected.

"Hmm!" Zheng Liang nodded, then looked at the first-level letters that had been opened by several surnames one by one and asked, "These are?"

"My lord, this is Hinata Yamato Shouzi, an important minister of Bodo. He is also the lord of Gumi City in the harbor here. The rest of them are the heads of several retainers of the main family and branch families of Bodo." At that time, Ri Gaozi, who had been kneeling on the periphery, took the initiative to take over the topic and report.

Ever since he lost the battle with the Luo family for the supremacy of Matsuura County in the Hizen country ten years ago, Hata fled to Iki Island to recuperate with all the powerful families under his command.The situation on the island has also changed a lot during these ten years.First, Bodo attempted to forcibly unify all the powerful families in the family and merged into the Bota clan, but it was resisted by some wealthy families headed by the Hidaka family, and finally split into two camps headed by the Bodo family and the Hidaka family.

However, the strength of the Hidaka family camp is obviously not the opponent of the Bodo camp, especially since the other party has received assistance from the Ouchi family, so they are retreating again and again.After finally retreating to only one-half of Ishida County (this part of the territory occupies about one-fifth of the area of ​​Iki Oku), the Hidaka family finally took the initiative to ask the Luo family for help.And slowly became a vassal of the Luo family.It was also with the support of the Luo family that the Hidaka family barely managed to keep their remaining territory on Iki Island (of course, this was mainly because Masaragi deliberately limited support to the Hidaka family to prevent it from dominating the Iki Island. And when the Luo family didn’t have the energy to take care of Iki Island, it became another Porta family).

Three years ago, when the Luo family was still a small wealthy family in Matsuura County, the former governor of the Hidaka family, Hidaka Zongyoshi, who had supported the Luo family when he was a small wealthy family in Matsuura County, died of contracting a cold. And strengthened the connection with Luo's family.Up to now, the Hidaka family has almost become a small wealthy family under the Luo family's command, and any decision in the family will be made after consulting the Luo family's attitude.

Similar to the situation of the Hidaka family, many changes have taken place in the Bodo family in the past ten years. The current governor of the Bota family is named Bo Duolong, who seems to be the second son of the branch family of Bodo, who was replaced by the original head of the Bodo family. The woman who pushed it onto the stage.As for the characters such as Hatamasa and the Iki Six who appeared on Iki Island in history, none of them appeared at this time. Obviously, because of the appearance of the Luo family, they did not appear on the stage of history.

"Is Hyuga Yamato Shouzi?" After listening to Higakasuke's report, Masahiro thought of this. In history, after the death of the Hakata family governor, this guy was the one who took the lead in the rebellion and was then killed by Hatsumoto's wife. (That is Taijiu Ling's sister, the woman who is still controlling Bodo behind the scenes) He was killed by the Longzuosi family with his enemies. I didn't expect that even if the fate of Bodo changed, this guy would still die the fate of ah.

"My lord, it's raining lightly at this time. Would you like to continue to Iki County?" At this time, seeing Masara's distraction, Murakami immediately reminded him.

"Put off the attack, let the army take a rest here, and at the same time speed up the time to count the supplies and casualties. As for the prisoners, they are temporarily closed. Remember not to feed them." Zheng Liang finally ordered.

At this time, the Luo family has completely occupied the Ikita County of Iki Island (the area of ​​the territory is equivalent to two-fifths of the area of ​​Iki Island), and has completed the goal of the first step.In addition, it was raining at this time, and the power of the baked jade and the iron cannon, which were the main combat power of the Luo family, would be affected or even lose their effect.So it's better to take a break for a while.

So, following Zhengliang's order, the Luo family's army in the bay and on the land of the bay began to rest on the spot.

At noon, after lunch, the rain was getting heavier and heavier.In this regard, Zheng Liang is not surprised at all. It is normal to encounter rainy weather at sea this month.Fortunately, Zhengliang ordered to rest on the spot in advance, otherwise the fleet would still be on the way to another harbor in Bodo at this time.Even if they reach their destination, the baked jade and iron cannons on their own side will lose their great effectiveness.

Just as Zheng Liang was wearing a coir raincoat and standing on the bow of the boat enjoying the afternoon rain, a small boat from Luo's family quickly approached the Guan boat where Zheng Liang was.Not long after, a soaked sailor was brought in front of Zheng Liang.

"My lord, a group of navy ships have been found on the sea ten miles away. According to the speed of the other party's sailing, I am afraid that it is less than six miles away from here."

"Oh? Can you see clearly that the opponent is the navy there?" Zheng Liang asked immediately.

"Due to the heavy rain and the long distance, it is really impossible to see clearly."

"Since it is impossible to identify the enemy and us, and it can still appear here at this time, it is probably the navy of Bodo. Immediately send an order to order the navy fleet to attack." Zheng Liang immediately ordered.Although the baked jade and iron cannons lost their great effectiveness at this time, relying on the number of ships of the Luo family, they can defeat the opponent even in a boarding battle.

(Everyone, there will be a special character familiar to everyone in the following episodes. Guess who it will be?) (To be continued...)