"This is what the lord said to us at the subsequent banquet during the New Year's assessment last year, and it is what the lord said when he mentioned the strategy of Kyushu at the subsequent banquet." Ota Hara said with a grin.

"Ahh That's not right, I also attended that banquet, why didn't I hear the lord say that? ”

"Are you embarrassed to say, aren't you drinking and getting drunk with Tsuchiyama-sama, Sasaki-sama Nagahide, and Miyata Miyata-sama? At that time, it was still the subordinates of Tohiya Yahachi who sent you back, and you are embarrassed to say it now. ”

Ota Hara Sotoki laughed after saying it at this time, and after hearing this, the Hattori family directly covered his face, and the fierce general of the Kuroda family, who did not blink in the face of the enemy's murder on the battlefield, was embarrassed in front of his good friends for such a thing.

"Hattori, look over there...... Shouldn't it be ......," said Ota Hara, pointing to the sea in the distance.

"Otawara, you're right." The Hattori clan was about to say something, but as his good friend looked at the place, he said blankly: "It's not good, Otawara, you're right, it's the Otomo family's fleet, and they really want to sneak attack at night." If that's the case, we're going to have to hurry up and prepare. ”

The Hattori family had just recovered from the surprise of the night attack from Otomo's house, and when he immediately switched to be optimistic about his friends, he found that his good friends had run far away, and when he looked at Otawara in surprise, his eyes opened very wide, and he thought that his good brother was afraid of the night attack of the Otomo family.

So the Hattori clan shouted loudly, "Otawara, what the hell are you doing?" The army of the Otomo family has already come, why did you run away, are you afraid? ”

Hearing his words, Ota Haramune's eyes rolled and he almost didn't fall.

"I'm going to inform Harada Yoshitane, Irita Yoshimi, Irita Qinli, Kosai Zhennao and a few other adults to hurry up and get ready for battle, Hattori, you TMD is a stupid fork." Ota Hara didn't look back and shouted loudly.

"Oh! No, I'm not a stupid fork, Otawara, you TMD is a bastard. But by the time he argued, Ota Hara had already run away, and he couldn't hear him at all, and of course even if he could, he wouldn't listen to his quibbles.

"Everyone, listen, the Otomo family is coming to attack, and immediately all go to the combat post to prepare for defense." The Hattori clan had a very loud voice, so he didn't bother to run, so he simply stood directly on the city wall, and maybe shouted a little faster.

After the Hattori clan shouted, there was a herald to convey the news to all the soldiers nearby, and the soldiers of the Kuroda family were indeed well-trained, in fact, it was already the middle of the night, and this time was actually the most difficult time for people, but as long as the soldiers of the Kuroda family got the order, all the soldiers immediately dressed up, took their weapons, and went to Akama to defend themselves.

The current Akama Pass is no longer a small fortress that can only accommodate one or two hundred people back then, if it was the Akama Pass at that time, guarded by 500 people under the Hattori clan and Ota Hara Sotoki, it would be difficult for even the most elite army of the Otomo family to break through this castle in a short period of time.

Of course, at that time, Akama was well defended, which means that when the number of the Otomo family is only a few thousand, in the face of the 30,000 army of the Otomo family, it will still be easy to be captured.

However, after two years of continuous renovation by the Kuroda family, Akama Sekizu is now a big city, and if it is just a number of people, it can accommodate more than three or five thousand people.

The large expansion of the number of people that can accommodate the Akama Pass represents a significant expansion of the area of the city, and if the number of people is small, it will not be enough to defend the Akama Pass. If the current Akama Pass is only 500 troops led by the Hattori clan and the Ota Hara sect, it will be basically difficult to hold such a big city.

Fortunately, as soon as Matsui Shigetaka got the news, he sent Harada Yoshitane, Kosai Zhennao and other Kuroda family samurai, leading 2,500 elite soldiers to Akama Pass for reinforcements. If it is 3,000 people, in the face of the army of the Otomo family, it can be defended for a long time.

Not only Akama Pass, but the entire Nagato Province has been mobilizing people and horses during this time, and the people of the Kuroda family have gathered in the only three remaining castles in the country, and these three places are also the battlefields that Matsui Shigetaka chose for the Otomo family after consulting with Kuriyama Riyasu.

However, these actions of the Kuroda family's troop transfer were carried out secretly under the protection of the Tongxin people, because Matsui Shigetaka keenly found that the information on his side was likely to have fallen into the control of the Otomo family, and it was difficult for the Kuroda family to get the corresponding news from the Fengzen country, even if there were thirty senior Tongxin people in the Fengzen country, they still could not change this situation.

These are all arranged by the Otomo family's military advisor Kakukuma Ishizong, which shows that this bald military advisor is indeed very powerful, at least in terms of intelligence attention, he is not lost to Kuroda Vocational High School at all, and even surpasses it.

It's just that after all the people in Akama Pass are ready, they have waited for a long time but still don't see the fleet of the Otomo family approaching, and they have always heard only their voices and not seen them, but the fleet in the distance is faintly visible, which is a very strange thing, at least at this point in time, so that everyone in Akama Pass feels that there must be something strange in this, and it is likely that something big is going to happen.

In fact, the people of the Kuroda family are not unfamiliar with this feeling, because this kind of atmosphere is a situation that the Kuroda family often encounters when they go out to fight. It's just that in all the previous battles, it was as the enemy of the Kuroda family, beware of the Kuroda family's fraud, so there will be such a performance, and now the bottomless has become the Kuroda family itself.

At this time, Ota Hara was also puzzled, what was the Otomo family going to do, if the Otomo family was really going to attack, it should have already landed and attacked the city.

It's just that the Otomo family didn't attack Akama Pass, if that's the case, in the understanding of the Ota Hara sect, he vaguely realized that the Otomo family must have other targets, because this time the opponent is the Otomo family's Kakukuma Ishi Sect, which is a terrifying opponent.

If there are other places that can be targeted, there is only ...... in the vicinity except for Akama Pass

Thinking of this, Otawara shouted loudly: "It's not good, it's not good...... Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of the Otomo family this time is not our Chima Pass at all, but the nearby naval army Dazhai. ”

After saying this, all the defenders were very shocked, but even if they knew all this, the people of Akama Pass still didn't have any way. [.]