"Good...... Okay, no problem, you will be my most important family treasure in the future, thank you to Lord Koji. Tohata Sadataka bowed three times to Kodera clan.

"Well, since there is no problem on both sides, you can take her back to your tent!" Kodera said.

"Hey!"

Tohata Sadataka and Silkhime have been living happily ever after, and this forced marriage has finally achieved a good marriage, which can be regarded as a good story. Hitohata gave birth to two sons and a daughter to Higashihata Sadataka, and after that, Tohata Sadataka has always been very fond of Hitohata and did not marry other women. This is all an afterthought, so I won't show it here for the time being.

When Nakagawa Kiyohide was collecting his subordinates at Ikeda Castle and trembling in the castle, the Kodera clan led the army to the island county in the east, and this time the Kodera clan's attack sequence was originally from east to west, from north to south, and finally besieged Honnoji Temple.

Toshima-gun, where Nakagawa Kiyohide's Ikeda Castle is located, is to the west of Shima-gun and Shimashita-gun, so the Kodera clan must first solve Shimashi-gun.

Only Higashihata Sadataka was deliberately arranged by the Kodera clan to guard Suita Castle with Hijikata Suizo, and there were also two hundred people under Suzuki Shigenari, a total of three hundred and fifty people.

To the south of Suita Castle is the power of Honganji, and across the Yodo River to the south are Oe Castle, Hirata Castle, Hikie Castle, Gamo Castle, Kawaguchi Castle, Imasato Castle, Tachihara Castle, Daido Castle, and so on.

And Kuno Shigeyuki led the headquarters of 100 people to guard Ibaraki Castle, and all the castles of the Yasumoto family were demolished, and all the materials that could be used were transported along the river to Ibaraki Castle.

Akai Naoyoshi led 300 people into Banyan Castle, Banyan Castle is facing Toshima County, and the Akai family's combat effectiveness has also recovered over the years, so it should be enough for them to guard against the Nakagawa family, which has been defeated.

Hiromine Nagahide led 300 men to continue to garrison Shimigo-gun in Kitajima, and the location was changed from Shimizu to Oiwajo, and at the same time, he also led people to start demolishing the surrounding castles and transporting materials to Ibaraki Castle.

The Kodera clan led the 6,000 army, or from the Ota Shrine landing on the opposite side of the Chesakugawa, the Kotera clan led everyone to the Ota Shrine to pay homage, as for the Ota Shrine to worship which monster of the Wa Kingdom, I don't know, anyway, because of this, the morale of the Koji family's army has risen greatly.

The Tomita family and the Shosho family on the west side of the road are only small families of hundreds of stones, and these two families have no ability to resist, so they can only send hostages, surrender to the Kuroda family, and bring dozens of their own people to join the army. And successfully captured Akutagawa Castle and Takakugawa Castle, which no longer had too many defenders.

Later, Tsukahara Castle, Sukuya Castle, Monzen Castle, Shakushiro Castle, Nariai Castle, Ozawa Castle, Nakamura Castle, Motoyama Castle, Kamisho Castle, Anman Castle, and Masto Castle were captured by the Kuroda family, or Kaejo surrendered, a process that took nine days.

After leaving behind the 400 men of Kawakatsu Hirotsugi, the Kodera clan led the army to turn westward, and after converging with Akai Naoyoshi at Baniwa Castle, he did not attack Toshima Prefecture, and at this time a countryman from Settsu Province took the initiative to take refuge, and this person was named Kato Shigetoku.

Kato Shigetoku, commonly known as Saemon, is the son of Itami Harima Mamoru Yasukatsu, a wealthy family in Toshima Prefecture, Settsu Province, and he is the fifteenth general Ashikaga Yoshiaki flanked by the public, and then Ashikaga Yoshiaki was chased by Oda Nobunaga and became a subordinate of Araki Murashige, the lord of Settsu Province appointed by Oda Nobunaga.

In October of the 6th year of Tensho (1578 AD), Araki Murashige suddenly erected a banner against Oda Nobunaga in Arioka Castle (Itami Castle), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent him to advise Araki Murashige's Kotera Takataka (Kuroda Kanwei), who was imprisoned in a dungeon by Araki Murashige and began a year-long prison life, during which he was always cared for by Kato Shigetoku.

A year later, on October 19, the 7th year of Tensho (1579), when Arioka Castle fell, he happened to be the head of the prison in charge of Kuroda Kanwei, and it is said that he played a great role in the rescue of Kuroda Kanwei's retainers Kuriyama Riyasu, Musato Tomonobu, and Inoue Nobo.

In order to thank him for taking care of himself for a long time, as well as the rescue of himself at the last moment, so after the destruction of the Araki family, Kuroda Takataka received Kato Shigetoku's young second son, Tamatsu, to his side, so Tamatsu became Kuroda Takataka's adopted son in Himeji Castle, changed his surname to Kuroda, and his name after Motofu was Kuroda Issei.

After that, together with the eldest son Kato Yoshinarari, Kato Shigeto, he successively served the Ukita Naoya and Ukita Hideya and Konishi Yukicho. In the fifth year of Keicho (1600 AD), during the Battle of Sekigahara, because with Konishi Yukinaga as the western army, he was punished and posthumously released as a ronin. As the second son, Kuroda Issei, after asking the lord Kuroda Nagamasa, the Fukuoka Domain was credited with rescuing Kuroda Takataka before Kato Shigetoku, so Kato Yoshishinai, the eldest son of Kato Shigetoku, became the middle elder of the Sannaki Kuroda family, assisting his own brother in managing the place, and the Itami Kato family has been continued.

This time Kato Shigetsu surrendered to the Kuroda family and sent a hostage and a surrender table, this hostage happened to be his second son in history and later became one of the eight tigers of the Kuroda family, Kuroda Issei, who was only nine years old at this time, and his name was still Tamamatsumaru.

Tamamatsumaru was born in the second year of Motokame (1571 AD) in Settsu Itami Castle. Because there was no appearance of Araki Murashige, Itami Castle was not renamed Ariya Castle.

The imprisonment of Takataka Kuroda in the middle and the adoption of him as an adopted son have been described for more than a paragraph, so I will not repeat them here. Kuroda Kazunari later became the adopted son of Takataka Kuroda, and was raised by him as the same heir as Kuroda Nagamasa.

In the twelfth year of Tensho (1584 AD), the Nerai people of Izumi Province and the Saga people launched a rebellion, and the Kuroda family went to suppress it together on the orders of the monkeys, and Kuroda Isseri completed his first battle in the Kishi Wada War, when he was only thirteen years old.

After that, the Kuroda family participated in the Shikoku Expedition and the pacification of Kyushu, and Kuroda Issei also went out as a subordinate of the Kuroda family. He became famous by courting two samurai from the Shimazu family during the Battle of Ogawa.

When the Kuroda family entered the Bunzen Kingdom, they were given a fief of 80 koku, and in the 18th year of Tensho (1590 AD), their territory increased to 2,488 koku, and then because of their efforts to suppress the earth, they were given a fief of 2,000 koku, and their territory reached the level of 5,000 koku.