Warring States Eagle

As the Luo family defeated the Kobayakawa family and occupied Mihara Castle, the west gateway of the Bingo country, it also indicated that the Luo family's power had officially extended into the Bingo country area.This impact is quite huge, and even spread to the Beichu area in the east of Bingo country.

Especially those local nobles in Bingo who participated in the First Battle of Itsukushima and were later abandoned by the Mori family. With the help of the Luo family, they all followed the Luo family's army and returned to Bingo and Bi China. After returning to the family, they betrayed the Mori family and moved closer to the Luo family, helping the Luo family gain a foothold in Bingo.

Regarding the rebellion of these small wealthy families, Mao Liyuan had no choice. After all, in order to avoid being besieged by the Luo family in Yandao and become the turtle in the urn of the Luo family, he had no choice but to give up these small wealthy families with limited ships.In order to choose those powerful families to flee together.As a result, the Luo family took the opportunity to win over these small wealthy families, making them the vanguards against the Maori family in the country of Bi, China, and even the country of Bizen.

As for those wealthy families who were rescued from Itsuku Island by Mao Liyuan, they finally returned home at this time.They are indeed doing their best to help the Maori family maintain their power map in Bingo and other places according to Maori Moto's original plan.However, since these families were also severely damaged in the First Battle of Itsukushima (basically only a few important members of the family fled back home, as for the general retainers and soldiers, they were all abandoned in Itsukushima. The captives of the Luo family have already become dead bones), so the family's own strength has weakened and there have been turmoil, and it is impossible to suppress those small wealthy families who were allowed by the Luo family to return to Binhou with their own military power.

And to the east is China, those wealthy families who did not respond to the request of the Maori family and participated in the Battle of Yandao.Whether it is a big wealthy family or a small wealthy family.They are all watching the changes in Bingo Country.Always be ready to make some amazing moves.So at this time in Bingo Country and Bei China, after the Itsukushima World War, the power of the Maori family weakened and they had to weaken their power in these two places, and the Luo family entered strongly again, the undercurrent was already undercurrent at this time. Surging, there will be a violent storm at any time.

Fortunately, before the Battle of Itsukushima, Mori Moto inherited some of the rich families in these areas from his son.To a certain extent, it also guaranteed the stability of the Maori family's sphere of influence in these areas.

And the newly established "four-person collegiate assembly" system also ensured the stability of the family.Before the decisive battle of Itsukushima, Morimoto originally planned to hand over the position of family governor to his son Mori Takamoto after the end of the battle, but he retreated behind the scenes to support him. After all, he is already very old, so he should Take a break.As a result, in the current situation, he had no choice but to stand up to his old bones, personally preside over the family affairs, and fight to the end with the Luo family.

It can be said that in the face of the Luo family's invasion.Mao Liyuan has almost exhausted all his skills.He first sent people to secretly rush to Zhou Fangguo, Nagato Country, Anyi Country and other places in an attempt to incite local temple and shrine forces and the Maori family to jointly resist the Luo family.But until now, the temples and shrines in these areas have not responded.

Secondly, he also sent envoys to Nizi's house, Miyoshi's house, and the powerful families in Southern Kyushu, hoping to establish diplomatic relations with these powerful families.

For the Nizi family, Mao Liyuan naturally hoped to establish an alliance with the other party to prevent the Maoli family from falling into the predicament of being attacked by the Nizi family and the Luo family.But unfortunately, the envoys sent to Nizi's house were quickly driven back. Nizi Qingjiu obviously planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Maoli family's loss of power to make things worse for the Maoli family.For this reason, Mao Liyuan was even more eager to promote a truce with the Luo family.

Sending envoys to the Miyoshi family naturally hoped to unite with the Miyoshi family to deal with the Luo family. After all, as the Luo family entered the coast of Bingo, it was obviously in conflict with the interests of the Miyoshi family in the local waters.

As for the South Kyushu area, it is hoped that the Maori family will relieve the pressure from the Luo family, and through the mutual cooperation of the two sides, they will contain the expansion of the Luo family's power for the other party from the north and the south.

In the end, Morimoto sent envoys with a large amount of money gifts to the Kyoto area to ask the host of the Ishiyama Gobo, hoping that the other party can call on Zhou Fangguo, Nagato Country, Anyi Country, and even the local Ichigozong of the Bingo Country The faithful support themselves.At the same time, I also hope that the shogunate court will be invited to mediate.

Mori Moto's ultimate goal is to cease the war with the Luo family, so that the Mori family can breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, he also hopes to exchange his third son Takakage Kobayakawa from the Luo family.Although the Kobayakawa family in the Mori family's Liangchuan system dissipated because the governor, Kobayakawa Takakage, was captured by the Luo family, and the territory was completely occupied by the Luo family, but as long as the capable third son, Kobayakawa Takakage, was exchanged, Mori Moto would have the confidence to rebuild. A Kobayakawa system.Of course, Mao Liyuan was also prepared to be asked for a lot of benefits by the Luo family.

What disappoints Mao Liyuan is that he has made so many countermeasures. At present, only the Nizi family has responded, and it is still a failed response. As for the other places, due to the distance, there is still no response. There was no response or the responding messenger was returning, which made Mao Liyuan feel a little urgent.

Just as Mori Moto was sighing in his own courtyard, Nizi Haruhisa, the governor of Nizi's family, was also sighing in a courtyard of Tsukiyama Tomita City in the Izumo Kingdom.

Prior to this, he had just finished playing in the United States.The reason for joining the battle was that the Urakami family of the Bizen Kingdom actually attempted to get involved in the Niko family’s sphere of influence in the Misaku country, so Haruhisa Niko decided in September last year (just when the Battle of Itsukushima took place. Calculated, Mao Liyuan obviously did not want to be attacked by the Nizi family when the Maoli family was fully engaged in the Battle of Itsukushima, so after some calculations, the Nizi family had something to do), and he led the army to officially go to the United States , although repelling the invasion of the Urakami family, but when they took the opportunity to attack the Bizen country, they were repelled by the Urakami family.

It was only when he led the army back to Izumo that he learned of the details of the Itsukushima battle, but at this time the battle was over.He sighed for three main reasons.

One is the envy, jealousy and hatred towards Luo Shi Zhengliang.Compared with Luo Shizhenliang, he found that his family's power and his own achievements were not as good as that of the other party. The territorial map in the hands of Zheng Liang is really far away.

The second is that he only now realizes the importance of the Xingong Party to his military power.After the absence of the Shingu party, the combat effectiveness of the Nizi family's army has dropped significantly, otherwise the Urakami family would not have been driven out of Bizen Kingdom this time.

Thirdly, since they have just returned from the battle, the army needs to take a rest before going out again. At this time, the Nizi family's mortal enemy, the Maoli family, is being invaded by the Luo family. Now that this opportunity has come, Nizi Qingjiu will naturally sigh.

Just as Niziqing sighed for a long time, in Otoko City of Bizen Kingdom, Ukita Naoya, the governor of the Uki family, also let out a long sigh.Of course, he is not lamenting, but admiring.

As a wealthy family of the Bizen country who had a good relationship with the Mori family, in fact, the former Mori family persuaded the Uki family’s Urakami family to join the Misakuni. It was the Ukita Nao family who offered advice and ordered the Zong family to make up their minds.Of course, although the Urakami family's strategy in Misaku was repelled by the Nizi family this time, the Zong family also gained a lot of benefits from it. As the Maori family's secret alliance, the Ukido naturally also benefited a lot from the Maori family.

Since he was a secret ally of the Mori family, Ukita naturally wanted to become the Mori family's army in the Battle of Itsukushima in the name of Urakami's retainers this time.And Hidean Togawa, the important minister in the family, is the main general who leads his own army this time.Originally, after hearing the news of Mori's disastrous defeat in the Itsukushima War, he thought that Togawa Hidean and others would have no chance to return home, but Togawa Hidean unexpectedly led the people back safely.

At this time, information about the details of the Battle of Itsukushima gradually spread among the samurai ashigaru who escaped from the battlefield. The Ukita Nao family, who were extremely concerned about this battle, naturally immediately asked Hidean Togawa to help him. described in detail.

"Xiu'an, from now on you will be the envoy of our family to contact the Luo family. This matter must not be known to others." After Togawa Hidean described in detail what Togawa Hidean experienced in the First Battle of Itsukushima, Ukita Nao The family immediately decided to send Togawa Hidean secretly to Luo's house as soon as possible to establish diplomatic relations with the other party.

As for the allies of the Mori family, the Ukita Nao family did not think about it at all. Anyway, as long as no one else, especially the Mori family, knew, it was all right. Besides, the reason why Hidean Togawa and others were able to come back safe and sound this time was entirely because Because Togawa Hidean and others pretended to be ordinary ronin and captured Mori Motonari's third son, Kobayakawa Takakage, and handed it over to the Luo family as a bargaining chip for his own freedom.

And because of this, Yuxi's family also established a relationship with Luo's family, which is simply the best result.Although he didn't know why the governor of the Luo family would pay attention to such a small wealthy family in Bizen country (at this time, the Ukita Nao family certainly didn't know how famous he would be in history in the future), but as long as he was like the Luo family Yuxijia will definitely be able to get enough benefits from the relationship with the Big Mac.

The Ukita Nao family in the Bizen country is planning to get more benefits, but the Kono Tsunao in the northern Iyu country in the Shikoku area is not thinking about eating and drinking for his own life and death. (To be continued..)