Warring States Eagle

On the mountain road in Haibu County, Bungo Country, Kyushu, the Luo family's brigade was marching forward under the leadership of Zheng Liang. It was the beginning of March at this time, and peach blossoms and cherry blossoms were blooming on both sides of the mountain road.

Three days ago, after being repeatedly attacked by the Luo family's Otsutsu, the gate of Umemure Castle finally collapsed, and the garrison of the Shimadzu family and the Saeki family allied forces in Umemure Castle fled into the Honmaru of Umemure Castle in a hurry. Chengwaiwan officially declared its fall.

And when the Luo family's army entered the city to occupy the outer pill, and Ander also moved the big tube into the outer pill to set up a new big tube position, so as to attack the gate of the inner pill in Meimuli City, a guard envoy with a small flag, He was hanged by a bamboo basket from the city wall of Uchimaru, and then ran to the headquarters of the Luo family to declare his surrender to Masara.

The surrender of the defenders almost didn't make Ander die of anger, "Damn, I'm playing well!" But he had no choice but to order his subordinates to stand by.

After being accepted by Zheng Liang, the gate of Umemure Castle was also opened wide, and rows of dejected Umemure Castle defenders and samurai ashigaru began to walk out of the gate.As soon as they walked out of the gate, they all threw their spears and swords aside.After disarming, they all knelt down in front of the door.And part of the Luo family's army, which was in charge of guarding the prisoners, also began to receive the weapons dropped on the ground, while guarding the prisoners.

These captives will be sent to Lishan City later to become members of the Luo family's slave road construction brigade, but because they voluntarily surrendered to the Luo family, the enslavement time is only one year.A year later they will be free again.Become the leader of the Luo family, go back and reunite with the family members who have been dispersed and relocated to various parts of Kyushu (Zheng Liang is determined to completely solve the problem of pacifying Southern Kyushu this time, and the time must be controlled within one year. For this reason, he has announced It's a big round, waiting to face off against the Shimadzu family and the Ito family).

Seeing this situation, Zheng Liang, who was riding on the Lightning Horse of the Nanman Horse, waved his hand and said to his subordinates, "Get into the city!"

Although most of the defenders headed by Saeki Zhentada have surrendered, there are still some diehards (mainly the defenders of the Shimadzu family) who are still fighting against the Luo family's army that entered Uchimaru earlier.

At this moment, all the retainers of the Luo family showed admiration for Zheng Liang.In this extremely short cage city battle, such a strong and towering Meimuli City fell unexpectedly.More than [-] samurai in Meimuli City under Zuobo Zhenzhong surrendered, but the Luo family's army did not have any casualties for the time being.

As for the recalcitrant members of Uchimaru.With the entry of the Luo family's army into the city, they were quickly destroyed.This time in the cage city battle, no one from the Luo family was killed, and only a dozen people were injured (injured during the fierce battle with the recalcitrants).On the side defending the city, more than 200 people died in the battle (more than [-] people died in the fierce battle of Waimaru. The remaining nearly [-] people were recalcitrant members of Uchimaru, all of whom were killed).As for the three people including Xinna Zhongyuan who committed suicide in the courtyard, they were buried on a hilltop of Meimuli Mountain under the order of Zheng Liang.This was deliberately done by Zheng Liang. Zheng Liang wanted the three of them to watch the Luo family's army continue to advance and return with a big victory from the top of the hill.

After repairing in Meimuli City for a whole day, Zheng Liang left Li Huamei's navy to stay there temporarily, ordering them to wait for the interior cabinet and military cabinet personnel who were coming to receive the new territory, as well as some temporary farmers and soldiers guarding the city before advancing by water. .As for Zhengliang, he led the army to continue to fight again, and marched towards the last stronghold of the Saeki family, which was also the place where the Saeki family started.

Same way as before.Both sides of the road the team walked were densely wooded mountains, and the large group of people marched in the depressions, and brought a lot of military supplies.So go very slowly.After crossing the Panjiang River in the south of Umemori Castle, crossing Mt. Sama and Mount Takashiro, the Luo family's army officially entered the area where the Saiki family used to fortify. There is still a relatively long distance to the city, and the two mountain cherry blossoms on the mountain road seem to overflow from the valley.The mountains and plains are very charming.

along the way.From time to time, you can still see scattered farm houses in some relatively open places on both sides of the road, but when the detectives went to guard, they found that the houses were empty.Presumably, it was the farmers in these farms who discovered the Luo family's army and fled to the nearby mountains and forests to hide in advance, or they were reminded by Yongcheng and went to take refuge in Yongcheng.

In this way, the team marched all the way, and arrived near a river named Kurusugawa on a drizzle day.The air is filled with a strong breath of spring, the rain is as thin as silk, and the loneliness of the march blends with the softness of the world.

"According to the calculation, there should be information in the past few days, right?" On a grassland next to the river in Kurusugawa, Masara who was feeding the horses suddenly said something in his heart.

"Report." In the drizzle, just as Zheng Liang expected, a detective who seemed to have been riding a horse for a long time, with a weathered face, was brought in front of him.

"My lord, a message from Southern Kyushu!"

"Oh? Is it finally here?" Zheng Liang's eyes lit up immediately after hearing the words, and then he quickly took over the sealed information in the detective's hand, opened it and looked at it.The content of the intelligence mainly describes the situation of the Shimadzu family. According to the investigation of the Black Hawk of the main family lurking at the junction of Satsuma and Hyuga, it was learned that a month ago, the reinforcements of the Shimadzu family had just crossed the border and entered the Hyuga country.

"The support army of the Shimadzu family must have come to support the Saeki family, and in a month's time, it seems that the other side should have almost arrived." After reading the information, Zheng Liang thought to himself.

The information was delayed for a month, which is already a very good job for the intelligence system of the family. After all, in order to deal with the Luo family, the Shimadzu family and the Ito family were doing their best to investigate and conduct detailed investigations in the territory. Rounding up, and then passing through Higo Country and Bungo Country, after several relay transmissions, the information was finally successfully delivered to Masaragi's hands. For other countries in the Warring States Period at this time, even such an intelligence system could not be established. As far as the big names and wealthy families are concerned, it is really not bad.

Just when Zheng Liang learned that the reinforcements of the Shimadzu family had already dispatched a month ago and went to the territory of the Saeki family to prepare to unite the Saeki family and the Ito family to jointly resist the invasion of the Roche family, the Shimadzu family's movement did exactly as Zheng Liang expected. We came to Yoro Castle of the Saikis with all our strength.

However, they also encountered a lot of trouble at this time.

(Thanks to "aya198106" for the two valuable monthly tickets; thanks to "Little Fifth Floor" for the reward of 100 points.) (To be continued)