Warring States Eagle

Just as Kinoshita Masunao's third army was entangled with the Maori army at the border of Yamagata County and Yoshida County in Aki Country, good news came from the eastern part of Aki Country and the southern part of Bingo Country.

The first is the fourth army that is in charge of attacking the eastern region of Anyi Country.Under the leadership of Shigemasa Yoshida, the Fourth Route Army quickly captured the Mucun Castle and Takayama Castle in the coastal area of ​​Shatian County in the east, and then began to attack the central area of ​​Shatian County.

As the base camp of the Kobayakawa family in the two-river system of the Maori family, the eastern region occupies an important position in the Maori family.Even when he realized that he had been forced to flee after realizing that someone had picked the fruits of the final victory in the Battle of Itsukushima, Mori Moto still had his mind on how to ensure that this area would not be lost.Therefore, he deliberately took the governors of the local wealthy families such as the Hiraga family and the main retainers and warriors with them, and fled back to the coastal land of Anyi Kingdom by boat together, and then ordered these people to rush back to the territory of the eastern region immediately. , together with the Kobayakawa family to resist the attack of the invading enemy.

And the local wealthy families such as the Hiraga family did follow Mori Motozuru's wishes and returned home before the Luo family's army continued to attack the eastern region.It's just that Mo Liyuan didn't expect that at this time, the Luo family had two trump cards to attack the eastern part of Anyi country.

The first trump card is naturally Ouchi Yoshitaka and Ouchi Yoshitaka's original blood book and other relics.With the help of this trump card, the Hiraga family, who had been loyal to the Ouchi family at first, but had to be forced to surrender to the Mori family after the death of Ouchi Yoshitaka, first fell into the arms of the Luo family, and then Under the instigation of Hiraga's family, many local wealthy families also rebelled against the Maori family.Became a member of Roche's family.

Of course, even the surrender of wealthy families such as the local Hiraga family.But after all, the Kobayakawa family is the largest wealthy family in the area.If you want to take the eastern part of Anyi Country completely, you must get rid of the Kobayakawa family.And at this time, the second trump card, that is, Kobayakawa Takakage, who was unfortunately captured, came in handy.

When the Luo family's army attacked the Kobayakawa family's strongholds, Yoshida Shigemasa would tie Kobayakawa Takakage, whose mouth was gagged with rags, to the front of the battle line, and use Kobayakawa Takakage as a shield to launch an attack on each of the strongholds. Violent attack.

Seeing this scene, the defenders of the Kobayakawa family's fortresses couldn't help yelling at the Luo family's military strength, but they didn't dare to take a real shot at Kobayakawa Longjing who was tied up in front of the formation.After all, Takakage Kobayakawa is not only the governor of the Kobayakawa family.Moreover, he is the third son of the former governor of the clan, Mori Motozuru.After the Luo family's deliberate smearing and everyone's personal experience, everyone knew that Mao Liyuan was vicious.Even if Takakage Kobayakawa in front of the enemy line is killed for the overall benefit of the so-called Mori family and the Kobayakawa family, it is very likely that the Mori family will retaliate afterwards, so no one wants to go to Kobayakawa Takakage's side attack.For this reason, everyone seemed to shrink back and forth.At this time, even Takakage Kobayakawa, who had a heroic heart for the benefit of the family, could only stare blankly when he saw such a situation, because his mouth was blocked and his hands and feet were tied.

In this way, not only the morale of their own army was hit.In addition to increasing the morale of the Luo family's army, it made it easier for the Luo family's army to use the weakness of the defenders not to attack Takakage Kobayakawa to attack the city.So in just over a month.The villages in the east of the Kobayakawa family were successively captured by the Luo family using these two trump cards in their hands.As a result, some of the previous layouts of Maori Yuan lost their effect.

So why didn't Mao Liyuan immediately remedy it after seeing that his arrangement was miscalculated?After all, the betrayal of the local wealthy family is still a trivial matter, but the matter of his third son is a major event!If it really doesn't work, as long as he personally gives an order to be killed by Kobayakawa Takakage who acts as a shield, then the eastern region of An Yi Country will not collapse so quickly.

However, during this period of time, Mao Liyuan was actually still trying to escape back to the territory of the Mao Li family?

After fleeing back to the western part of Anyi Country overnight, they immediately split up and started to head to the old nest of the Maori family.Because of the fear that the nearby rich families who belonged to the Ouchi family will rebel during this special period (after all, the Maori family has just occupied these areas for less than two years. At this time, I was naturally worried that I would be killed by other people's conspiracy), and the defenders in the nearby walled city were really limited, even if I temporarily settled there, I was likely to be surrounded by the enemy who arrived later At that time, even if he really wanted to escape, he would not be able to escape.

In fact, just as Mao Liyuan expected, during the daytime on the second day after going ashore, they learned that the nearby walled cities in the western part of Anyi Kingdom, including Yingwei City, had fallen into the hands of the Luo family. At that time, Mao Liyuan locked the thieves who came to steal the peaches of victory this time as the Luo family.

While gnashing their teeth and determined to make Luo's family look good in the future, everyone had to think about how to escape.Because after learning that this area was controlled by the Luo family, Mao Liyuan immediately realized that the fat former eagle of the Luo family would definitely pursue him after he learned that he had escaped, so he immediately ordered one hundred The rest of the team disbanded on the spot, scattered and fled back to their respective territories or to Yoshida County, the home of the Maori family, and regrouped in the future.After everyone left, there were only a dozen or so people left by Mao Liyuan's side, including his first son Mao Li Longyuan and second son Yoshikawa Motoharu.

An old fox is an old fox, and Mao Liyuan had indeed predicted Zheng Liang’s actions in advance, so when the various teams of the Luo family began to set up a large number of checkpoints in the local area to check the escaped Mao Liyuan and others, Mao Liyuan and others had already left the western region , came to the central region of Anyi Country, not far from the territory of the Kumagai family.

Just when Mao Liyuan and others thought they had reached the safe zone, they suddenly learned that the Kumagai family had been destroyed by the Luo family's army, and the central region had gradually fallen into the hands of the Luo family.At this time, Mao Liyuan really realized the horror of Luo Shizhenliang's opponent. Even if he was resourceful, he still couldn't figure out how the Luo family achieved such great results in such a short period of time. .This time, Mao Liyuan really thought that he had met an opponent who was a match for him.

After learning that the Kumagai family had also fallen, Mori Moto immediately expected that the ensuing checkpoint investigation would begin soon.And this time Mao Liyuan didn't dare to rush forward. After all, the Luo family's army had already rushed ahead of him at this time, and these areas were already dominated by mountainous areas. Only with his pair of lame legs , couldn't quickly get away from the sight of Luo's family, so he immediately led everyone into the forest. (To be continued..)