Spring is coming, and the Kuroda family has not retreated during the autumn harvest, and such a thing as spring ploughing is not in their eyes. When the snow had just melted in the spring, the Kuroda family unexpectedly launched several sieges, and the sudden attacks made the Otomo family have to deal with them in a hurry, although these attacks did not break through the castle, but they also brought great damage to the Otomo family.

It's been around for so long, and hope is slowly emerging, and the Kuroda family has not given up the possibility of sharing at all at this time, which also makes the defenders and people of the Otomo family in Funai City more and more desperate.

The Kuroda family has been besieging Funai Castle, and the water in the first castle in Kyushu has been blocked. Until the summer, the soldiers of the Otomo family were extremely nervous for a long time, and the despair of defending the city could not see the edge, and finally showed fatigue and slackness, and this was the opportunity that the Kuroda family was waiting for, an opportunity to use the last despicable means.

Because early with the people of the Otomo family, a few soldiers who were united in the city of Funei, seized an opportunity to burn down the granary of the Otomo family on a dark and windy night, which gave the Otomo family a fatal blow.

At this time, the Otomo family's grain and grass were actually nearly 2,000 koku. In other words, within half a year, the Otomo family's 4,700 stone of grain and grass was only used up a little more than half. This was the intention of Otomo Sorin, who wanted to have a ration system for the entire castle from the beginning.

Before the beginning of winter, under the organization of the Otomo family, in order to provide as much food as possible, a large area has been opened up in the city to grow vegetables such as large white radishes that can survive the winter, and all kinds of wild grasses and even tree bark have been stripped by the hungry people. And in the spring, some grain was planted, which can be regarded as a helpless move!

It can be said that the Otomo family's rationing system is very thorough, and they have been very successful in saving food. To some extent, we can say that the Otomo family's rationing system was somewhat incisive and miserable, and the people in the city were almost miserable to the extent that they could only drink gruel, wild vegetable porridge, and even black food that they didn't know what was almost every day.

The samurai class and ordinary soldiers must have enough food to ensure their combat effectiveness, and the final result is that the front-line combat soldiers can eat well, and the soldiers who are rotated to rest can only drink gruel to ensure that they do not die.

If the Otomo family can persist like this forever, even with these 4,700 koku of grain and grass, it is very possible to support it for a year, or even longer.

And now, as the only hope of the Otomo family, the grain and grass were actually burned by the ninjas of the Kuroda family. Although after everyone's efforts, two or three hundred stone of grain and grass were rescued, but such a quantity was already stretched for the Otomo family and the Funachi Castle, which still had more than 8,000 people.

Seeing that the inner city of Funei was about to be unfortified, some smart people naturally had all kinds of thoughts to protect themselves and their families.

In addition, at this time, our wife and tyrannical monarch Otomo Zonglin came up with a way, that is, let the wealthy family, the countrymen, and their own retainers contribute all the food in the family, gather these grains and grass, and then distribute them by the Otomo family.

In the past, the Otomo family was able to achieve the purpose of defending the city through the food ration system, which was actually inseparable from the self-sufficiency of these wealthy families, countrymen, and retainers.

They didn't need the Otomo family to subsidize them with any food, and they had a lot of food in their own granaries, so they were able to continue to live comfortably under the pressure of the Kuroda family's army, and they could ensure the combat effectiveness of these samurai and their command.

This is the motivation for them to follow the Otomo family to resist, after all, they have food, and they don't panic, this old saying of the Ming Kingdom is still very reasonable.

They followed the Otomo family to resist the Kuroda family, and the premise was to preserve all their wealth, and in the current situation, there is no doubt that food is the most valuable wealth, a precious material that cannot be bought with money.

Their own food and property were obtained by themselves through their work and through their merits, and they were their own property and should be protected, and they were very clear about this, so they were unwilling to accept the Otomo family's request to deprive them of their property rights.

Once they handed over their food and accepted the Otomo family's request for rationing, they knew very well that there would be starvation in their own homes soon. They knew that there were only two or three hundred stone of grain and grass left in the city, and many people personally participated in the firefighting.

The people of Funai Castle, who had always been very united before, because of Otomo Sorin's decision, finally appeared a crack on the inside before it was broken from the outside.

That night, Mizusaki Morimasa, who was an important minister of the Otomo family, opened the gates of the castle, and the Kuroda army rushed in, and many of the Otomo family soldiers who had long since lost the will to resist immediately surrendered to both sides of the road.

The ordinary people in the city who had long been interested in the Kuroda family, and at the request of the Kuroda family, they were escorted out of the city by the Kuroda family soldiers in an orderly manner to avoid accidental injuries in the subsequent battles, and this move was also more supported by the people.

Two days later, the castle tower was breached, and Itetomo personally entered the castle tower with more than a dozen samurai.

When they entered the castle tower, Otomo Sorin, with a core retainer, was all waiting in the Great Hiroma.

"Why don't you die with dignity like a samurai (why don't you cut your stomach)?" Itetomo pointed the spear in his hand at the Otomo family and said.

Otomo Sorin glanced at this man who was 1.8 meters tall, rubbed the cross on his chest, looked at Imate Tomoshi and said, "As a child of the Lord, you can't commit suicide. (Are you a stupid fork?) I'm not going to kill myself! ）

"It's the Nanban monk's set, isn't it?"

"Foolish ones, only the glory of God is merciful, and even if you are victorious for a while, you will be punished in the end." Otomo Sorin said firmly. [.]