Warring States Eagle

Even after Zhengliang learned about Mao Liyuan's miraculous escape process in the future, he deeply lamented Mao Liyuan's keen sense of danger.

Not long after Mori Moto fled into the nearby forest with everyone, Kinoshita Masao immediately followed Masara's order to completely block the local access to Anyi Guoshan County and Yoshida County, and at the same time began a large-scale local investigation of suspicious figure.Because Mao Liyuan was crippled with a leg, and Yoshikawa Motoharu was crippled with an arm, so this time the investigation also focused on the investigation of people with this type of characteristics.

With just a lot of hard work, many of the Mao family's retainers and warriors who had separated and fled with Mao Liyuan were captured, but Mao Liyuan was still waiting for others.

As for Mao Liyuan and others, after entering the mountain forest, taking advantage of their familiarity with the local terrain, they directly returned to the territory of the Maoli family in the mountain county directly from the trail in the mountain forest.But because they escaped from the forest road in the mountains this time, it was already late November when they appeared in front of the Hinoyama castle of the Maori family.At this time, the Luo family's army had completely controlled the western, southern, and central regions of Anyi Kingdom, and even the eastern region had almost completely fallen. The last strong city, the Chausu Mountain Castle of the Kobayakawa family, was missing.And Masao Kinoshita's army also began to attack the Maori family's Yamagata County and Yoshida County.

Under such a critical situation, the first thing Mao Liyuan had to resolve was the crisis facing Shanxian County and Yoshida County, so under his series of mobilizations.The two counties not only withstood the attack of the third army of Kinoshita Masao, they even dug a hole, waiting for the Luo family's third army to jump down, trying to rewrite the central area of ​​An Yiguo, and even the southern and western areas. situation.Only because of Masao Kinoshita's vigilance, Motozuru's attempt was finally shattered.

After resolving the current crisis in Yamagata-gun and Yoshida-gun, Mori Moto was able to receive news that he had temporarily lost contact with the eastern region of Ayi Country because of the attack on the border of Yamagata-gun, and finally knew that his third son Takakage Kobayakawa He has become a captive of the Luo family, and used it as a tool for the Luo family to attack the Kobayakawa family in the eastern region.

The so-called tiger poison does not eat its children.But Mao Liyuan told us with facts at this time.Now even his own son still has to sacrifice in the Warring States period.Even at this time, the entire eastern region of Ayi Kingdom has basically fallen into the hands of the Luo family, but Chausuyama Castle controls the main roads from the eastern region to the northern region of Ayi Kingdom, Yoshida County, and the central region of Bingo Kingdom. .Once it is occupied by the Luo family.Then the Luo family can attack the Maori family's Yoshida County in the north.Going east can also threaten the central part of Bingo Country, which the Maori family finally took control of, thus cutting off the connection between the Maori family and the more distant Bigoku region.

Therefore, for the sake of the family's interests, Mori Moto gave the order to kill Kobayakawa Takakage with great difficulty.This is even so.Maori's response was still slow.At the beginning of December, when the vassals who conveyed Mori Motozuku's order were still half a day away from Chausuyama Castle, the Otemon Gate of Chausuyama Castle had already fallen under the loud noise of Luo's family's explosive packs. Immediately, a large number of Luo's family troops The momentum poured into the city, and finally captured this mountain city at the junction of Shatian County and Jitian County.

So far, the entire Anyi Kingdom, the eight counties of Numata, Kamo, Anyun, Saeki, Yamaxian, Takamiya, Yoshida, and Shatian, of which the six counties of Numata, Kamo, Anyun, Saeki, Takamiya, and Shatian have fallen into the Luo family. In the hands of the Maori family, only the two counties of Shan County and Yoshida in the northern region are still in the hands of the Maori family.

From a geographical point of view, in fact, the Luo family at this time is equivalent to mastering the eastern, southern, central and western regions that are the main passages of Sanyang Road in Anyi Country.The northern region controlled by the Maori family is the transitional zone connecting Aki Country, Iwami Country, and Izumo Country.As a result, the Maori family was caught between the Luo family in the south and the Nizi family in the north.

After learning that Chajiu Mountain City had fallen, Mao Liyuan shut himself in the house and thought alone for a full day and night.

For the Maori family, this battle was really a big ups and downs.First, after these years of secret accumulation, finally waited until Ouchi Yoshitaka was killed and the god-sent opportunity of the Ouchi family's civil strife, so Mori Moto immediately gathered the Ouchi family's forces in Ayi Kingdom, Bigo Country and Bi China.Then he made painstaking arrangements in Yandao, and finally successfully lured Tao Longfang to the Yandao battlefield he had prepared, and defeated Tao Longfang's army.

It was about to destroy Tao Longbo, the pillar of the Ouchi family, and took the opportunity to enter the Ouchi family's Shufang and Nagato countries, and expand the Mori family into a giant of the samurai family in the Western Kingdom in one fell swoop.But at this juncture, it happened that the Luo family picked the peaches. Not only did they take away the fruits of the Maoli family's victory on Yan Island, but they were also returned by the Luo family in their own way. At the time of the failure of Itsukushima, the family of Jiazhong Taotao aggressively invaded the territory of the Maori family in Anyi country.And the territories of Zhou Fangguo and Nagato Kingdom, which Mao Liyuan had already included in his own territory, were completely far away from the Maoli family, and instead became the fat meat in front of the Luo family.

Now, with the fall of Chausu Mountain City, in fact, the Maori family's territory in Anyi Country has almost returned to the time when it was still a small local turtle.Fortunately, at this time, the Maori family still held the control of Beihou Kingdom and parts of Beizhong.

As for retainers and military power.At present, it has been determined that the retainers who have lost in this war include Kodama Yugata, Iida Yoshitake, Kumagai Nobunao, Sansu Fangqing, Nami Zongsheng and more than [-] people, and such as Kumagai, Kodama, Iida , Naomi, Kihi, Nisato, Iga and other families have almost suffered genocide-like blows. Even Takashi Amano, Fukuhara Sadatoshi, Kagawa Kwangkage, Katsumoto Cheng and others who escaped with their lives have also lost their family territories. into the hands of the Roche family.What's more terrible is that the Kobayakawa family in the Liangchuan system that Mao Liyuan had painstakingly built over the years also collapsed after the third son Kobayakawa Takakage was captured, and the Kobayakawa family's territory in the eastern region was captured.

In terms of military strength, the tens of thousands of troops that had been put together with great difficulty were almost wiped out. Some of them were taken as prisoners of the Luo family and surrendered to the Luo family (at this time, they had been taken by the Luo family to attack the Ouchi family. The cannon fodder troops of Zhou Fangguo and Nagato Kingdom), some of them died in the Battle of Itsukushima.Even the last part of the diehards who hid on Itsukushima and were unwilling to surrender were eventually hunted down by the local people of Itsukushima as "fallen warriors" and died under spear gun feces. Voucher for receiving food rewards.

Therefore, after this big war, whether it was the territory of the Maori family or the personnel situation of the Maori family, Maori Yuan felt like being beaten back to a long time ago by the Luo family.

What's more serious is that with the defeat of the Maori family this time, the Maori family managed to operate in Bingo and Bizhong. Due to the loss of the military power of a large number of wealthy families, they became dissatisfied with the Maori family. , is also facing the division of mutual annexation by taking the opportunity to annex each other.As the Nizi family, who have been competing with the Maori family for control in areas such as Beizhong and Bingo, they will never let go of such an opportunity.Therefore, the Maori family must make every effort to prepare for the attack of the Nizi family in the north.

Since it is necessary to deal with the attack of the Nizi family in the north, it is necessary to contain the Luo family in the south as much as possible to avoid the situation of being flanked by the Luo family and the Nizi family at the same time.

So, what should be done so that the Luo family has no time to take care of the Maori family?

Mao Liyuan first thought of the temple and shrine forces in Anyi Country, Nagato Country, and Zhoufang Country.Due to the oppressive and even bloody policy against temples and shrines since its establishment, the Luo family is from hostile forces in the eyes of temples and shrines such as Yixiangzong.That being the case, Mao Liyuan naturally cannot let go of these potential allies. (To be continued..)