Warring States Eagle

"OK!"

Seeing the heads of Sugi Shigeki, Sugi Takakage, Nagano Yoshifua and others placed in front of him, Masara laughed.

The Battle of Kokura Castle ended with the capture of Sugi Shigeki and Sugi Takakage, and the Luo family finally captured Kokura Castle, one of the northern bridgeheads of the Bungzen Kingdom.At the same time, there was a fierce battle on the southeast of the Ogura Plain on the bank of Zichuan. With the arrival of the five hundred cavalry sent by Masara to support, the coalition forces of the Sugi family and the Nagano family were completely defeated. The war horse ran away frantically because of an eye injury, leaving behind Nagano Yifang who was thrown to the ground.

He himself was subsequently chased by the Luo family's army, and he was hacked to death together with the Nagano family's vassals and warriors who accompanied him.The army of the Luo family took advantage of the victory and pursued it even more, and directly killed the Nagano family's home city, Nagano Castle.After seeing the head of their lord and being persuaded to surrender by Sagara Taketo, who had a good relationship with the Nagano family, the orphan and widow who was in charge of staying in Nagano Castle finally chose Kaesong to surrender, and then the Nagano family’s other A walled city, Xiaojianyuecheng, also surrendered.As a result, more than half of the territory of Qijiu County, which is located in the northernmost part of Fengqian Kingdom, has fallen into the hands of the Luo family.

At this moment, Zhengliang was inspecting the enemy's head in front of everyone after the war in accordance with the custom of the Warring States Period.

"My lord, the Nagano family has surrendered to the main family. How should we deal with the Nagano family's retainers and the family members of Nagano Yoshinaka?" Honda Junzheng, who was in charge of disposing of the prisoners, asked.

"Two military advisers, what suggestions do you have?" Zheng Liang asked immediately.

"My lord, according to my subject, since Nagano Yifang, who was against the lord, is dead, there is no need to pursue the responsibility of the orphans and widows left by him. After all, the main family is a force that has recently entered the Buzen Kingdom. The lord is good. Letting go of the orphan and widowed mother in Nagano Yoshika to convey goodwill to the local rich family." Kakukuma Ishimune thought for a while.Be the first to speak.

"That's right." Kansuke Yamamoto also nodded in agreement, "Sugi Shigeki, Sugi Takakage, and Nagano Yoshinaka who were against our family have already been taken over by our family, and the Nagano clan who voluntarily surrendered has been forgiven by the lord. Those who die, and those who follow me live will be conveyed to the rest of the rich families in Buzen Kingdom."

"Yes." After listening to the suggestions of the two military advisors, Zheng Liang also nodded, and then said to Toshimoto Honda, "The territory of the Nagano family will be confiscated. Ordinary prisoners of war will enter the slave team of the family as the family in Buzen The country’s local territory construction services. The Nagano family’s surrendered retainers and clansmen dispersed and migrated to Hizen, Higo, and Chikugo to settle in three places. Living in the castle town of Xuefu City."

"Yes!" Toshimoto Honda said immediately.

"My lord! My lord!" Just as Junzheng Honda had just finished taking orders, there was an urgent call from the yard outside the council hall of the lord's mansion of Xiaocang Castle.Not long after, Jiang Likou Xinchang, a member of the army with a small surname of joy, ran in.

"What's the matter?" Zheng Liang asked solemnly.He was obviously a little dissatisfied with Jiang Likou Xinchang's rude behavior now.

"My lord, my lord!" Jiang Likou Xinchang, who also realized that he was a little rude at this time, quickly saluted.

"What happened outside the city?" Just as Jiangli Kou Xinchang was paying respects and apologizing, Zheng Liang also heard a growing commotion outside the city. It is estimated that Jiang Li Kou Xinchang came in this time to report something related to this, so Zheng Liang asked immediately.

"My lord, our navy has arrived at the harbor outside the city." Jiang Likou Xinchang immediately reported.

"Oh? Is it finally here?" Zheng Liang frowned and said to himself.In fact, although the navy arrived before the last day of the time limit set by him, Zheng Liang was still dissatisfied with the speed of the navy.Under normal circumstances.The navy fleet should have arrived as early as the day before yesterday.Now Zheng Liang wants to see what the navy generals who came to report have said what they have been doing during this period of time, which actually caused the arrival time to be delayed for so long.

Shortly after.The naval commander Murakami, who was in charge of accompanying the land army led by Tong Zhengliang, walked into the meeting hall solemnly.It's just that Murakami's solemn dress is a bit weird at this time.I saw that his upper body was naked, and he was tied with a few wooden bars.From Zhengliang's point of view, this is a bit like pleading guilty.It is estimated that because the bamboo strips could not be found temporarily on the sea, Murakami had no choice but to use wooden strips instead.So pleading guilty with a thorn turned into "pleading guilty with a tree".

"This? Grand, what's going on with you?" After seeing Murakami's strange dress and entering the meeting hall, he knelt down on the ground, causing the entire retainer in the meeting hall to look at each other, not knowing what happened What happened, so Zheng Liang immediately asked.

"My lord, this subject is guilty! Please punish me, my lord!" Hearing Zhengliang's inquiry, Murakami, who was kneeling at the entrance of the meeting hall, immediately pleaded guilty loudly.

"Guilty? Why are you guilty?" Zheng Liang immediately asked with false doubts.

"My lord, because of my impulsiveness, the arrival of the navy was delayed. So I ask the lord to punish me!" Murakami begged once again.

It's just that Murakami's answer suddenly made Zheng Liang feel strange.What is it that makes this calm and steady navy general who is almost 40 years old become "impulsive"?So Zheng Liang immediately said: "Tell me in detail why you were delayed."

"Yes, my lord!" After receiving Zhengliang's order, Murakami immediately reported to Zhengliang what happened to the navy army he led during this period.

This time, the navy led by Takasuki Murakami has a total of 400 permanent members of the first squadron of the navy, 600 farmers and soldiers, 200 early boats, 300 Dutch ships, and [-] closed ships; The standing team of the Fan team is [-] people, [-] farmers and soldiers, seven Dutch ships, forty Xiaozao ships, and thirty Guan ships.In addition, there is Li Huamei's large blessing boat that is independent from the outside world and is in charge of escorting the army.The accompanying generals included chief generals Takashi Murakami and Li Huamei, deputy generals Oyano Tanemitsu, Shangjinpu Zhongjiao, and Fukuda Kaneji.

When the army sailed from Hakata Port to a certain sea area in Chikuzen Outer Sea, they encountered several navy ships of the Ouchi family who were patrolling there. After those ships fled actively, in order to prevent these ships from going back for ventilation The report attracted a large number of Ouchi family sailors, and Murakami immediately decided to follow these ships after discussing with everyone.

The sailors of the two families chased each other all the way at sea. During this process, Murakami Takashi and others encountered several batches of sailors from the Ouchi family.What surprised Murakami Takashi and others was that even though they had entered the traditional jurisdictional waters of the Ouchi family, these Ouchi family sailors seemed to be avoiding confrontation with the Luo family's navy.

It was probably too smooth, and when they found out that they had entered the Guanmen Strait unknowingly, it was already too late.Several Guan ships of the Ouchi family took the initiative to attack the approaching Luo family water army.Nearly [-] Ouchi family navy ships are gathering behind these Ouchi family ships.In the view of Murakami Takashi and others, it is inevitable that the Luo family's navy and the Ouchi family's navy will have a fierce battle in the Kanmon Strait this time.

Just when Murakami was about to order his navy to attack, Li Huamei's boat that came from behind took the task of attacking the oncoming ships of the Ouchi family.Afterwards, Li Huamei directly used the two big tubes that had just passed the test this year from Luo's big tube workshop to attack.

With one shot, one of the Ouchi family's Guan ships was sunk directly.Then something happened that surprised everyone in the Luo family.I saw the rest of the Ouchi family's navy ships that had come to the Luo family's fleet aggressively turn around and leave immediately, and the nearly [-] navy ships that were originally gathering behind also scattered and fled. .

Although he didn't understand what happened, Murakami found that they had the opportunity to seize the opportunity to seize Moji Port, which was empty due to the fleeing of the navy.You know, as long as this port city is captured, it will indicate that Murakami's navy will be able to set foot in Sufang Beach and even the Seto Inland Sea.

For the Seto Inland Sea, Takashi Murakami has special emotions.Back then, he and Takeshi Murakami were hunted down after they failed to compete for the governor of the family, and had to leave the Murakami Navy on Noh Island in the Seto Inland Sea.Even though so many years have passed, and their two uncles and nephews have also received a lot of fief rewards from the Luo family, deep in his heart he still misses the Nojima Murakami Navy, and hopes that one day he can return there and snatch the position of family governor back to him. Murakami Takekichi came to inherit.Now as long as Mojiko is taken down, this wish will be one step closer.So under the influence of selfishness, Murakami began to encourage people to attack the empty Moji Port and Moji Castle.

Under Murakami's solemn instigation, everyone finally thought that this was the best time to seize Moji Port and Moji Castle, the bridgehead between the Bungzen Kingdom and the Nagato Kingdom and Zhou Fangguo.So more than 200 warships and [-] Luo family sailors, led by the generals, took the opportunity of the escape of the Ouchi family sailors guarding the harbor to break into Moji Port, and took advantage of the opportunity to kill Moji Port Under the Moji Castle.

At the beginning, the remaining guards in Mosi City were still desperately resisting, but they were fired several times by Li Huamei's lucky boat when they came to the bay, and after several people were killed by solid shells, the guards in the city He gave up Moji Castle in a panic, and then fled to Matsuyama Castle, the Buzen Sugi home city on the south coast.So the Luo family successfully took down Moji Port and Moji City.

Just as everyone was cheering for this, another navy came from the other side of the Kanmon Strait along the coast of Nagato Country.These naval forces are responsible for guarding Nagasaki Castle, the bridgehead of the Nagato Kingdom in the Kanmon Strait.They came to support in a hurry after learning that Moji Port was attacked, but they happened to meet the navy of the Luo family.So after being knocked down by Li Huamei's lucky boats several ships in succession, these sailors fled in embarrassment.The Luo family's navy even took advantage of the victory to pursue, and took advantage of the opportunity to take down the city of Luzaki, which is located at the checkpoint of the Kanmon Strait of the Nagato country in Honshu. (To be continued..)