Chen's banner army landed in Inaba Province and joined forces with Niko Katsuhisa, reaching an agreement on the Iwami local mines.

Shengjiu asked Chen Bazhi to mine Iwami Yinshan for at least ten years, and five years was not enough.

Yamanaka Kasuke was much wiser, and he demanded that at least 30% of the silver ore be mined for the Niko family, otherwise he would rather wait for the Oda family to attack westward before reclaiming his homeland.

Li Dan was very clear about Nizi Shengjiu's calculations, and Shengjiu was afraid that the Ming army would leave in five years, and they would not be able to resist the comeback of the Maori clan...... No one who stands in Katsuhisa's position will think that it will be easy to restore the country.

Even the restoration of the country itself is not what Niko Katsuhisa wants.

His father and grandfather were cleaned and killed by the family governor Nizi Harujiu, and he escaped and became a monk, but he was dragged out by the dead-eyed Lujie to let him inherit the family governor, and there was no place to stand under his feet, and he was mixed among the pirate henchmen all day long, and now a young Ming general popped up, talking to himself about the restoration of the country, talking about the silver mountain two hundred miles away, and mining for five years?

"If you can let me live in Tsukiyama Castle in Tomita in peace, I will give you five hundred years, not to give you five years!" ’

In the end, Li Dan and Niko Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Yukimori reached an agreement that Iwami would mine the silver mountain for ten years, and the ore obtained would belong to Chen Bazhi, and the Nizi family would open a port in Izumo, and Li Dan promised that five Daifuku ships would arrive at the port every year carrying goods, and open up the right to buy Ming iron cannons for the Nizi family, but did not say the quantity and price.

When it came to the banquet at the end, Li Dan procured wine and meat for the retainers of the Nizi family and the Chen clan to drink and have fun, and hired Noh artists to dance with the taiko drums, although they didn't understand it very well.

During the banquet, when Nizi Katsuhisa toasted Chen Bazhi, he wanted to taste the wine brought by General Mingguo.

After drinking a bowl of Liaodong soju that Li Rubai gave to Chen Bazhi, Shengjiu's painting style changed, holding the wine jar and muttering, "Ah, I really don't want to experience the past anymore, and I worry about whether Lu Nosuke will come back alive when he goes out to rob every day!" Strange things like that.

Jiu Han Ren Chang, Chen Bazhi and others reached the mission of contacting the Nizi family, and the generals of the Nizi family also led nearly 10,000 strong reinforcements led by the Ming State General to join the restoration of the country and the morale was greatly boosted, sweeping away the previous decadence of the Tang Dynasty.

Toyokuni, who was vacillating between Maori and the Niko family, also gradually eased his heart due to the arrival of the Ming army.

They did not delay for too long in Inaba Province, but they divided their forces and launched an assault with 2,000 ashigaru divisions of Yamana Toyo Province as a partial division against the people of Hakugi Province, and the main force of the Niko family and the Hiki Naval Army attacked the Izumo region directly through the sea road broken by the Ming fleet.

In March of the first year of Wanli, the governor of the Nizi family, Niko Katsuhisa, led his army to set foot on the land of Izumo Province again, and marched from Mihoguan to White Deer City.

"The goal is already very clear, capture the Ten Banners of Nizi, use the method of isolated invasion of the branch city, and encircle Futian Yueshan City!"

Under the White Deer Castle, Yamanaka Yukimori wore a deer antler helmet, rode Oda Nobunaga and gave him a famous horse forty miles of deer hair, and held a spear and a small sword to plan the front of the formation, looking at the four eyes of the Nizi family in the Ashigaru array, and shouted with a spear: "Let the world know that the Nizi family is back!" ”

The ashigaru formation all over the mountains and fields let out a weak shout, although they are Peniko's family tattoo, but they are not soldiers of Izumo country, these people are all transferred to Yamanaka Yukimori by wise Mitsuhide, and few of them care about whether the Niko family can return to the country in their hearts, and they are not excited at all.

However, because of the agitation of Yukimori in the mountains, the various Nizi warriors who were generals in front of the battle were full of excitement, and they wanted to draw their swords and climb the castle and slash them now.

In the highlands and mountains and forests not far behind the Nizijia army formation, in the mixed military formation of less than 500 Chen's artillery banner army, Liaodong iron cavalry, and Wudao Japanese bandits, Li Rubai looked at the military formation besieging the city under the mountain, and smiled lightly and comfortably: "I didn't inspire morale, Chen Shuai, what are they counting on to win the cage city in a few months, let's open artillery to bombard the city, let's break the city gate, and these Japanese soldiers will have morale." ”

"No, no, it's a small military village in a key transportation area, and they call it a branch city."

Chen Bazhi said and slowly stepped forward, facing Bailu City, which was four miles away, and said: "There are not many defenders, the city walls are not high, and the Maori army is behind, they can't wait for the opportunity to cage the city, so they can only attack." ”

"We will watch this battle, wait for them to attack and shoot a few shots, let them fight, between attack and defense, see the usual tactics." Chen Bazhi said, turned his head to look at Li Rubai, and said: "The ten branch cities are all the hometown of Nizi, not to mention that Izumo is too cold, and Nizi's military clothes are very thin, they will win as soon as possible." ”

"In the east, there are mountains and famous soldiers, and there is no need to worry about it in the short term; Bigo, which is connected to the main road in the south, will clean up the mess after Yuniko captures Tomita Tsukiyama Castle, and we are going to San'in Iwami Province, which is closer to the most powerful Mori province of Sanyo Province, Aki Province, between the three cities of Yamabuki, Onyu, and Crocodile Go, Iwami Province, Anno County, and the opponent is the elite soldiers of the Maori territory, and before that, it is easier to win by knowing them a little more. ”

How can it be so simple to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, Yinshan is looked at to death no matter who is in the hands, Chen Bazhi is very worried about being dragged into the battle that he is tired of dealing with.

His strategy was to set out the chariots and horses from the beginning, and gather troops in Anno Prefecture, the main route to Izumo Province in the western country, and fight a decisive battle with the reinforcements that the Mori clan might send, and the first decisive battle would be a great success, so that the Mori clan would not dare to fight the idea of silver mountain again.

"There's also a chance that there won't be any pressure over there, Otomo in Kyushu is attacking Nagato, and if the war goes well, we can easily get Ginzan."

Chen Bazhi shook his head as he spoke, and when he heard the shouts under the mountain, the formation changed, and he focused on the situation on the battlefield, and said: "You can't trust your life to others, Chen is also looking forward to fighting with Maori, Magui's soldiers are fighting cowpox on the five islands, and I don't know where to go to fight, we ...... Look, persuasion failed. ”

Yamashita Honjin, who was wearing armor on his shoulder, stood up angrily from his belt, and the little horse, which was called the waist hanger, was knocked down, tore the letters sent from the city to shreds, and shouted to the herald samurai with his fists, and the samurai pressed his sword through the forest.

When the order was transmitted to the front army, Yamanaka Shikasuke brandished a tassel spear, the formation of taiko drums sounded, and several military formations slowly pressed towards White Deer City.

Chen Bazhi jumped down from the top of the low mountain with a smile, and the experience of serving in the army under Qi Shuai made him unsmiling, but every time he saw others fighting, he still had a smirk when he stretched out a flag-planting spike gun in the Haojing Fort in the early years, raised his hand and waved his arm to the gunners under his command, and passed on silent orders.

Several artillery pieces were pushed to the front, and the angle of the muzzle had already been adjusted, and on the way to the Nizi army's formation to press on Bailu City, the artillery roared in the mountains, and the shells swept over the military formation Ashigaru, frightening Ashigaru along the way to dodge.

The cannonballs screamed near the city gate, and although the sawdust flew in unison, it did not break through the city gate with a single blow, but pierced the iron cannon on the gate, breaking the silence of the moment before the battle.