Warring States Eagle

As early as when Zhengliang learned that his son Huiliang was defeated in Southern Kyushu when he was fighting in the Western Kingdom, Zhengliang began to plan for the strategy of Southern Kyushu.

At that time, Zhengliang had already secretly informed the Cabinet and the military ministers to prepare for the mobilization of temporary farmers and soldiers and the preparation of supplies.Of course, due to the ongoing strategy of the West Country at that time, part of the peasants and soldiers had been mobilized on a large scale. In order to ensure the stability of the territory, the only way to mobilize another part of the peasants and soldiers was by rotation.

In order to avoid the leakage of the news of the South Kyushu's battle, the mobilization passwords for these farmers and soldiers are all under the pretext of temporary drills.In the territory, such a large-scale drill suddenly appeared, which indeed added a lot of work to the territory.Moreover, at that time, the Luo family was still attacking the West Country area. While preparing for this part, they also had to ensure the logistical support for the West Country strategy at that time. This once again brought even greater challenges to the various organizations of the Luo Family. These institutions and retainers have successfully completed the tasks assigned by Zhengliang.

At the same time, since the Luo family's standing equipment was a little tired during the Western Kingdom strategy, after the end of the Western Kingdom strategy, Zheng Liang had to rest for a while. Staff replenishment and weapon maintenance were carried out.As for the other part of the farmers and soldiers who were supposed to gather in the Bungo area, they also started to gather there blatantly.The navy also gathered along the coast of Bungo country.Anyway, the purpose of everything is to give the Saeki family, the Shimadzu family and the Ito family an illusion.That is, the Luo family is going to attack the Saeki family's territory in Bungo country with all their strength.

In fact, while doing these actions on the surface, Masara also secretly dispatched standing equipment to the borders of Higo, Hyuga, and Satsuma in a decentralized manner.Of course, regardless of whether Masara will send troops to these areas, once the Ito family and the Shimadzu family decide to support the Saeki family, just in case, they will inevitably mobilize the troops in the territory to the border with the Luo family. dispatched troops.Although according to the laws of the Luo family, after the main labor force of a certain household was mobilized.The cabinet of the Luo family will hire another part of the unmobilized leaders to help the family members who stay at home with the spring plowing, or send slaves from the slave farm to help.Anyway, according to the laws of the Luo family, the citizens only need to pay taxes within the specified time. As for corvee service and temporary mobilization within a normal period of time, the Roche family’s cabinet will provide them with coins, food, and even labor assistance. of remuneration.

From the perspective of later generations, this method is actually an investment in the people. The wealth invested in the people will be returned to the rule of the Luo family through the taxes and business actions of the people later.And this kind of investment, even if it cannot recover the wealth spent.It also ensures the stability of the territory to a certain extent and promotes the development of the territory, so it is beneficial anyway.

certainly.Sudden temporary mobilization investment for war like the current one is very expensive, and the income will not be returned after a period of time.But this time, more than [-] people were mobilized, including several armies arranged by Zheng Liang and retainers from various organizations of the Luo family.The number of people was even larger than in the previous Western Raiders.

And because the West Country Raiders had just ended not long ago, all kinds of materials and wealth in the Luo family's warehouse were consumed in a sudden.Coupled with the current consumption of various internal affairs constructions in the territory, if the local construction consumption after occupying Southern Kyushu is added in the future.According to the budget of the Cabinet, after the end of the Southern Kyushu Raiders, the family needs at least a period of recuperation to replenish the various combat preparations and supplies that were consumed.

Of course, if Southern Kyushu fails this time, then the Luo family really made a loss-making investment.But with such an investment, Zheng Liang is indeed willing to gamble.After all, according to Masaragi's previous layout, it is entirely based on the Hizen Country, Higo Country, Chikuzen Country, Chikugo Country, Buzen Country, Bungo Country, Zhou Fang Country, Nagato Country, and Anyi Country currently controlled by the Luo family. Waiting for resources from more than a dozen territories, they came to engage in a war of attrition with the Satsuma country of the Shimadzu family in Southern Kyushu and the Hyuga country of the Ito family.In fact, since the Shimadzu family, the Ito family, and the Saeki family entered the battlefield prepared by Masara for them in this battle, they have gradually begun to become losers.

With the manpower and material resources of their territory, how can they gamble with the manpower and material resources of such a huge territory of the Luo family?What's more, from the information reported by the intelligence cabinet before, Zhengliang also knew that the Shimadzu family had prepared a lot of horses and iron cannons in order to deal with the Luo family, which caused a lot of resource consumption in the family.Therefore, under Zhengliang's layout, as long as there is a serious delay, the tyrants in Southern Kyushu will be dragged to death by the Luo family.

But now that Matsuo Castle is occupied by the Luo family, the three armies of the Shimadzu family are blocked in a fixed area.In this area, the south is a narrow and resource-poor mountain road, and the north is the territory of the Saiki family that has been looted by the army sent by Masara.Without enough manpower and material resources, they couldn't rely on this area to fight against the Luo family's army besieging them by themselves.

As for Hyuga Country, Satsuma Country, and even the Osumi Country region that has already been occupied by the Shimadzu family.In the absence of the command of their own family governor and the loss of a large number of their own elite troops, how can they resist the invasion of the Luo family?After all, according to Masaragi's second plan, after the three armies of the Shimadzu family, the Ito family, and the Saeki family were blocked in place.On the one hand, the Luo family adopted a strategy of sticking to the local area to intercept the opponent, and on the other hand, they ordered the several armies that had assembled in the border area of ​​Nanfeihou country to start encroaching on the territories of Hyuga, Satsuma and even Osumi.

At the same time, it is supplemented by various methods such as spreading rumors and assassination.After all, after learning that their family governor and the main elite army were besieged, and the Luo family began to attack from multiple directions, the Shimadzu family and the Ito family must be panicked inside.

Moreover, after so many years of development of the intelligence cabinet, a large number of chess pieces have been arranged in various places in the past few years in accordance with the strategy that Zheng Liang had set when he established the intelligence cabinet.certainly.In fact, these chess pieces were not arranged for this time's attack on Southern Kyushu, but the consistent style of the Intelligence Pavilion.

In the intelligence cabinet.According to different levels, a large number of people will be deployed in various places. For example, the Intelligence Pavilion has even deployed chess pieces in the easternmost Xiahe area.These chess pieces generally settle in various places as normal people.In addition to occasionally passing local information through commercial houses such as Luo's House, the information is summarized in a coded manner to the secret sub-stations in each region, and then the sub-stations will aggregate the information before sending the information back to the Luo family's territory.And once the territory where these chess pieces are located becomes the place for Luo's family to attack in the future, these chess pieces that are no different from ordinary people will turn around and start to play a greater role.

In addition, the closer the area to Luo's family, the more chess pieces there will be.As for the treatment of these chess pieces, under normal circumstances, their family members and clan members will settle in the Luo family and receive good treatment.Even the pawns themselves have established new families locally.The Intelligence Pavilion will also provide regular rewards to these chess pieces.As for the occasional chess pieces that leave the intelligence cabinet of the Luo family, because according to their ranks, they actually only know their own situation and not the situation of others.Therefore, as long as they don't take the initiative to disclose the information of the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, they will become ordinary people from now on and will not be retaliated by the Luo family.Of course, if they have family members or clansmen staying in the Luo family's territory, then unless the other party takes the initiative to settle in the Luo family's territory, they will no longer be able to contact them.

I believe that with the help of these intelligence cabinet chess pieces who settled there as ordinary people a long time ago.Masamune's second plan to encroach on Southern Kyushu will make great progress.

As for why Zheng Liang suddenly had such a plan, it was all due to a secret letter.This secret letter was written when Zheng Liang presided over the strategy of the Western Kingdom in Zhou Fangguo.It was sent to Masara along with the news that his father-in-law Saito Michizo was murdered and disappeared by his son Saito Yoshiryu.After receiving this letter, Zheng Liang was indeed very happy.Then he thought of the Zhongshan Castle of the Mitai family. This place secretly controlled by the Luo family provided great help for the layout that Masara had thought of immediately.

Of course, Zhengliang is not a omnipotent person. After the capture of Mita Iyoutake, Zhengliang only planned to control Zhongshan City through Mita Iyoutake, and then used it as a pawn to seek the Hyuga Kingdom.It's just this unintentional move, but it has provided great help for Zhengliang's layout this time.

Now, with the back road where Matsuo Castle is located, and the main forces of the Shimadzu, Saeki, and Ito families being besieged, Masara's first step of layout is completed, and the second step of layout will begin immediately.In this layout, Zhengliang used the entire family property of the Luo family to face off against the family properties of the three powerful families in Southern Kyushu.The Luo family is qualified to initiate such a confrontation, and they can initiate it at any time, and they can afford to lose.And the three Southern Kyushu tycoons, who were much smaller than the Luo family in terms of territory and wealth, were not even qualified to initiate such a confrontation.They can only fight against the Luo family in a specific local area, but cannot launch a full-scale battle.

In fact, neither Shimadzu Takahisa nor Ito Yoshisuke, the governor of the Shimadzu family, was aware of this problem.It's not that they're not smart enough, it's that they lack an understanding of the big picture.All they care about is their own territory. Even Takahisa Shimadzu is not more concerned about Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga, the three places that the ancestors of the Shimadzu family ruled.They didn't fully realize how much territory their opponent, the Luo family, had at this time.Not to mention that he would not thoroughly compare the territory he owns with the Luo family's territory.So in their subconscious mind, they will confront the Luo family in a certain local area, and the family fortune of the Luo family can only be like this.

But in fact, with the family background of the Luo family, it is completely possible to confront them in an all-round way. Even if a certain area fails in the confrontation, it will not have much impact on the overall situation.Described according to the language of later generations, they confronted the Luo family with the mentality of a frog in a well, just like a county confronts a large province.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and knowing the enemy, it is very disadvantageous to fight without mastering others.Neither Shimadzu Takahisa nor Ito Yoshisuke not only did not know the strength of the Luo family very well, but they were also troubled by the previous combat methods, thinking that defeating the Luo family on a battlefield would win the victory, and this is why they joined forces. Get up and come to support the actions of the Saeki family.

More importantly, Zheng Liang came from later generations. He already had a map of the entire Warring States period in his mind, so he not only knew his own situation clearly, but also made a rough estimate based on the investigation of the enemy by the intelligence cabinet. Find out the enemy's situation, so as to make a layout.Moreover, Zhengliang's combat methods do not follow the old-fashioned methods, but pay more attention to reality and results, and everything is based on victory.In this way, it is strange that Takahisa Shimadzu, Yoshisuke Ito and others did not fall into Masaragi's layout.

Therefore, since the Shimadzu family and the Ito family entered the chess game arranged by Masara, they have gradually become losers.