Warring States Eagle

Zhengliang's reward order for searching Tao Longfang is not only a favorite for the retainers and warriors who were abandoned by the master, but also for the rest of the people.

For those small local tyrants and servants whose family governors and all their retainers and soldiers are only a dozen or so people, they don’t know what the situation is like in the territory of their families now. Under normal circumstances, they will basically be replaced by more powerful tyrants soon. It took the opportunity to annex it.They are also very light-hearted, so if this is the case, now that there is such a broad road ahead of them, such as becoming a direct minister of the Luo family, they should seize the opportunity and start a new life from scratch.Anyway, as long as they are not dead, even if they lose their family territory or even their family blood, they can still start a new family business in another place.

Finally, there are those bottom-level ronin warriors and soldiers.For them, this reward order is simply a super sweet pastry that changes their status in life.As long as they find Tao Longfang first, their lives will undergo earth-shaking changes immediately, so this group of people are most concerned about this reward order.

Regarding Tao Longfang, Zheng Liang also has the mentality of saving as much as possible.With his help, the Luo's family was not only able to quickly recruit and surrender many defeated Tao family soldiers on the island, but also quickly played a huge role in Zhengliang's next plan.Of course, all of this is based on Tao Longfang's willingness to submit to the Luo family. If Tao Longfang is unwilling to submit, then don't blame the political conscience for being cruel.

This time, the reward order for searching Tao Longfang, in addition to achieving the purpose of searching Tao Longfang, also secretly boosted the intensity of the fighting among the various forces on the island.

Affected by the so-called "Certificate of Voting" by the Luo family.In order to get rewards (mainly food) from the Luo family and get the attention of the Luo family.The many forces on the island that had already surrendered to the Luo family not only worked together to attack those who were unwilling to surrender to the Luo family.Even in places where the Luo family didn't notice, there would be internal fights, and then the bodies of the defeated party would be used as their own votes.Moreover, the fight between them can not only reduce the strength of their forces, but also further accelerate the consumption of their own food reserves.Without food, they were naturally more likely to be controlled by the Luo family's army.

Zheng Liang is naturally aware of such things, but not only will he not stop them.Even secretly to encourage.Because the Maori family and the Tao family on the island have too many soldiers (at least tens of thousands of soldiers) who have not yet died in battle. Once they all surrender to the Luo family, and the Luo family cannot immediately fully trust them, naturally For the time being, they can only be left on Yandao.Then the daily food consumed by these people needs to be provided by the Luo's family, even if they are only provided with porridge that can barely survive, it will consume a lot of the Luo's family's food reserves.

Of course, Zheng Liang could also choose to ignore these guys and simply trap them to death on Itsukushima.However, if these people have been cleaned up by the Luo family and initially gained the trust of the Luo family, they will play a lot in Zhengliang's next plan.So it really cannot be given up.

So, with the release of the Tao Longfang search reward order.The Maori family and Tao family forces who had surrendered to the Luo family immediately went to various places in Yandao to search for Tao Longfang.

In the evening, when the search operation of Tao Longfang was in full swing, Kunatong, who was patrolling the waters around Yandao nearby, suddenly sent someone to send an urgent report.

"Oh? There is such a thing?" After reading the emergency report, Zheng Liang was immediately surprised.It turned out that this afternoon, the patrolling Kunatong fleet suddenly discovered a suspicious fleet consisting of more than a dozen ships sailing in the nearby waters.This fleet immediately attracted the attention of Hunatong, so he immediately ordered his own fleet to besiege the opponent.

After being surrounded by the Luo family's navy, the fleet also cooperatively accepted the inspection of the Luo's family's navy. Although they claimed to be a commercial fleet that accidentally entered the waters controlled by the Luo's family, they could not deceive Hu Natong at all. .Because he only received a notification from the intelligence cabinet this morning, and learned that the Seto Inland Sea and Anyun Beach have completely fallen into the hands of the Luo family's navy, so it is impossible for these ships that claim to be merchant ships to go smoothly at this time. The only explanation for those who entered the vicinity of Itsukushima from the periphery was that they were originally the navy ships of the Maori family or the Tao family hiding in this area.

Therefore, under the torture of several detectives who acted temporarily as executioners, the crew of this boat admitted that they were the navy of the Maori family. They had been in ambush since they were responsible for sending Maori Yuanjiu and others to the coast of Anyi Kingdom last night. In the nearby bay, he was waiting for an opportunity to get close to Itsukushima, and according to Motonari Motonari's instructions, he attempted to pick up Motonari Motonari's third son, Takakage Kobayakawa, back to the coast of Aki.

"Haha, even though Morimoto is a big fish, Takakage Kobayakawa is still a small fish!" Knowing that Takakage Kobayakawa is still on Itsukushima, Zheng Liang couldn't help being happy.

Kobayakawa Takakage is the key figure of Kobayakawa in Motomo’s family’s Liangchuan system. Whether it’s capturing Takakage Kobayakawa alive or killing Takakage Kobayakawa, it’s the same for Motomo Mori (there will be a great pain of bereavement) and Moto’s family. What a blow.Therefore, Zhengliang immediately issued a reward order to the island to capture Takakage Kobayakawa, regardless of Takakage Kobayakawa's life or death, as long as the body of the empress can be sent to the boat of the Luo family, he can directly become a direct minister of the Luo family.

As soon as the news came out, it naturally triggered a wave of tracing among the forces on the island.

The time soon came to the morning of October [-]rd, and the first person who was brought alive to Zhengliang was Takakage Kobayakawa who had been beaten with a bruised nose and a swollen face.Speaking of it, he was unlucky enough. After chasing Tao Longfang in the mountains for a day and a night, he realized that there were not enough people around him to continue hunting Tao Longfang, so he ran out again. to assist in the search.

It just so happened that the first army he encountered was the army of the small Chinese faction that surrendered to the Luo family. Since Takakage Kobayakawa had just emerged from the forest and didn't know the situation in Itsukushima at this time, it was really true. Thinking that the team he met was still his own family, he immediately called them to move forward together.

The chief general of the Xiaohao family army who was called was also very smart. After discovering the abnormality of Kobayakawa Takakage, he immediately looked for an opportunity to trick out the fact that Kobayakawa Takakage didn't know the outside situation, so he immediately continued to fight with Kobayakawa while pretending to be the army of the Mori family. On the one hand, taking advantage of Kobayakawa Takakage's entry into the forest to scatter his men to search Tao Longfang, he immediately took action to gather his army who pretended to go out to help in the search, and then surrounded Kobayakawa Takakage and others.

Kobayakawa Takakage is better at military strategy and internal affairs, but as for martial arts, he is not as brave as Yoshikawa Motoharu. Even with the life-saving protection of dozens of guards, Kobayakawa Takakage was eventually defeated by a young man who was several times as prepared as them. They were captured alive by the powerful army and finally sent to Zheng Liang.

At this time, Kobayakawa Takakage has not yet reacted from the fact that his family's victory over the Tao family was picked by the Luo family. At this time, Takakage Kobayakawa explained the situation on the island), so even when he saw Masara, he still had a dull expression on his face.Zheng Liang had no choice but to order someone to take him down and take care of him.

After escorting Kobayakawa Takakage away, Zheng Liang also personally received the leader of the small wealthy clan who had captured Kobayakawa Takakage back alive.

The leader of the Xiaohao Clan did not expect that this time he could really be received by Zheng Liang in person, so he came to Zheng Liang a little nervously and excitedly and said:

"The villain pays homage to Mr. Zhengliang, the guardian of Luo's house shape fat, the chief repairman of Kyushu Tanti."

"Are you Hidean Togawa?" Zheng Liang asked with a smile after the leader of the small wealthy clan sat down.

Who is Hidean Togawa?When it comes to Togawa Hidean, first of all we have to talk about the Ukita Nao family, who together with Saito Michizo and Matsunaga Hideo are known as the "Three Evil Men of the Warring States Period".The Uki family is a branch of the Miyake family of the wealthy Bizen family. It owns Kojima, also known as Ukita or Ukita, and served and guarded the Akamatsu family and the Daiuragami family successively.The Ukita Nao family was a conspirator second only to Saito Dozo in the Warring States Period. He had not fought a war for decades, and gained territory through marriage and assassination, and finally defeated the main family, completely dominating the two countries of Yuqian and Misaku.In history, when Oda and Maori fought, he fell to the Eastern Army in time. Before he died of illness, he was entrusted to the Oda Army General Hashiba Hideyoshi (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi) to take care of his son Ukita Hideyoshi.

According to the previous information from the Information Office, the Ukita Nao family had already been ordered by the Urakami family governor, Urakami Munekei, to take dozens of retainers to guard Otoko Castle at the mouth of the Yoshii River in the Bizen Kingdom.Kojima County to the west of Otoko Castle belongs to the Shikoku Hosokawa family, and Shangdo County to the north belongs to the hostile Matsuda family. Pirates on Seto Inland Sea Dog Island often land to plunder the property of the people's houses. It can be said that they are facing enemies from three sides. This is the time when the retainers need to stay at home to assist the family governor in guarding the fortress, but what makes Zhengliang puzzled is why Hidean Togawa, one of the three elders of the Uki family, will appear here , and also participated in the Maori family's attack on Itsukushima?

Even though the forces of the Ouchi family and the Mori family had invaded the coastal areas of Bizen country before, Masara learned that the joint forces of the Ouchi family and the Mori family invaded Beizen after a detailed investigation from the front of the Luo family's scouts. When the former country was on the coast, they were repulsed by the wealthy families of the former country headed by the Urakami family.In other words, even after Ouchi Yoshitaka was killed, it should not be possible for the Maori family to extend their power to Bizen Country in such a short period of time.So why did the Uki family get involved with the Mori family? (To be continued..)