Inoue Nobo said with an unhurried smile: "Think about it yourself, the current siege of the inner city should have been a military secret for the Shimazu family, and the army of the family should be blocked as closely as possible." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info And now they can get the corresponding news, why do you say? ”

"The military advisor deliberately let it out?" Akashi Quanden thought for a moment and said.

"That's what I thought, if it was really the military advisor who deliberately revealed this information, so that the family could achieve the military purpose of encircling and sending reinforcements. So now the head of the Shimazu family should already know the news, I think it's very likely that these are also the calculations of the military advisor, you must know that the military advisor is a character who can compete with the lord! Although the lord and Lord Takenaka do have their own priorities when calculating, the strategy of the military master should not be too bad! ”

"That's right, I understand what you mean, so let's continue to go to Lingjia's house. If we are fast enough, maybe in two or three days, we will have time to tell the news to Iate-sama and Takenaka-sama before the Shimazu family. Akashi said.

"Hmmm! Then I won't delay, hurry up! ”

It's been the sixth day since the Kuroda family besieged the inner city, and another two days have passed since the use of artillery. Although the situation of the entire battlefield has been tilted to a certain extent due to the use of artillery, it is not easy to attack the inner city.

In the past two days, the Kuroda family attacked twelve times, losing nearly thirty firearms and ashigaru, fifty crossbows, and four hundred ordinary soldiers, before finally breaking through the hundred-meter street in front of Ninomaru. This kind of urn castle design, which is close to Honmaru, is really something that makes the besieging side crazy.

The most important thing is that the Uchijo Honmaru still uses sea rat squirts, which are also a kind of squirrels that strengthen moisture resistance. In the previous chapter, we introduced the lacquer skull, and when the outside of the skull is painted, it is very good at improving the durability and fire resistance of the skull, and the white skull is also very beautiful in appearance. And by pasting tiles on the lacquer skull, it becomes a "sea rat squire".

Even if the Kuroda family can have an absolute majority advantage in the number of long-range people, in the end it still can't take any advantage, and everyone is hiding behind the gun, and the Kuroda family's long-range soldiers are standing there, serving as a live target for others, which are completely incomparable two situations.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Kuroda family fought bravely, and in the end, they used the method of piling up human lives to break through the Ninomaru defense line of the Shimazu family, otherwise the Kuroda family would have to pay a greater price. In this series of attacks, the Shimazu family only lost more than 80 melee soldiers, which was quite acceptable to them.

In the process of repeatedly fighting for Ninomaru after that, the Kuroda family soldiers finally played a majestic role, even though the individual combat power of the Shimazu family soldiers was stronger, but the Kuroda family soldiers always had the upper hand through their own willpower, desire to win, and the use of small formations.

After the Kuroda family continued to break through the line of life and death into the city, and the Shimazu family had already lost nearly 300 people, Shimazu Yoshihiro promptly ordered to abandon Ninomaru and shrink all the defenders to the Honmaru defense.

At this time, Shimazu Yoshihiro only had less than 400 defenders left to use, and there were fifteen samurai of the Shimazu family under his command, or the heads of various branches, such as Ijiin Tadashi.

Almost all of the people who were originally recruited to protect the courtyards of the various clans, clans, wealthy clans, and national families had been killed in battle, and at this time, all the courtyards of the Shimazu family's vassal forces of Ninomaru had fallen into the hands of the Kuroda family, and most of these people died when the Kuroda family attacked the courtyard.

After all, compared to the Shimazu family's Honmaru, it is their duty and duty to protect their own yard and the lord's family. They were the retainers of the various vassal forces, not the retainers of the Shimazu family, and they agreed to guard Ninomaru before, but also just to protect the safety of their master's family, and sometimes people are not so noble.

At this time, more than 1,500 people from the Kuroda family had been gathered in the inner city, led by Ite Tomokiyo, Hanafang Masayuki, Shimizu Soji and others, and the entire Ninomaru had basically been purged. Even if there are only these people, with Shimazu Yoshihiro's current people, it is absolutely impossible to recapture Ninomaru.

Shigeharu Takenaka, as a military advisor, is a smart man, and after the Kuroda family broke through the Ninomaru gate, he immediately ordered to open a hole in the city wall in the direction of the Ninomaru family's camp near the Kuroda family's camp, and then all the soldiers could enter Ninomaru through this gap, and there was no need to walk the hundred-meter road of death.

Just as the Kuroda family was preparing to attack Honmaru, a message came back from the Tongxin people that Shimazu Yoshihisa, the head of the Shimazu family, had returned to Satsuma from Hyuga Province with an army of 3,000 troops.

This news is not surprising to Shigeharu Takenaka, just like the previous analysis of Inoue Nofu, he has already anticipated this possibility.

There are some things that the Kuroda family doesn't know, and the Shimazu family is coming back from Hyuga Province quickly in order to be safe this time. Not only did he return all the previously occupied land of Hyuga Province to the Ito family. And he paid the price of fifty iron cannons and the return of all the captured samurai, so that he was able to get the understanding of the Ito family, and in exchange for the full body of all the personnel.

Moreover, the Kuroda family did not know that the people of the Shimazu family could actually go out of the castle during the siege before, because there was a secret passage from the inner city to the outside of the castle, and many castles had such a life-saving plan.

Of course, having a secret such as a passage to the outside of the city is very important to the Shimazu family, so basically only the Shimazu family itself knows, and the person who escaped is a samurai of the Shimazu clan, otherwise he is also not qualified to take this secret path.

And he wasn't a lucky guy, on the way back, he was killed by Inoue and Akashi Quanden, but because of this, Inoue no Fang and they missed the opportunity to know this secret passage.

It's just a pity that this secret passage is in the position of Ninomaru close to Honmaru, not in Honmaru, and now that Ninomaru has all fallen into the hands of the Kuroda family, the news of the inner city can no longer be simply transmitted by Shimazu Yoshihiro.

It had been two days ago when Inoue Nobo and the Shimazu clan samurai sent out by Shimazu Yoshihisa had been encountered, and now the three thousand elites of the Shimazu family were not far from Satsuma Province.