Chapter 52: Takanobu Matsuura surrenders
The second move of the Kuroda family is also to tell Matsuura Takanobu, you look at the power of the previous Wufeng ship owner, my Kuroda family has accepted a lot, and the local daimyo of Kyushu can only bow down under my Kuroda family, and you Matsuura Takanobu can compare to the strength of the naval army under the command of the Wufeng ship owner? Will you be able to compete with local daimyo like Akizuki Taneko and Chikushi Hiromon?
No, of course not, the Matsuura Party only has the strength of one or two thousand people, and a lot of the strength comes from the nearby Lang Party, as well as some of the men of the Goho Ship Owner who are unwilling to leave Hakata. Not to mention the Wufeng shipowner at his peak, even the strength of Mao Haifeng, the adopted son of Wang Zhi later, is not something that he Matsuura Takanobu can deal with, not to mention the original Kyushu daimyo under the current Kuroda family.
Although there are still a number of people in the Matsuura Party, like the men of the Huihezhong mentioned earlier, most of them are stragglers and do not have much combat effectiveness, so it is good to be able to maintain local law and order. If there was a war, if the Matsuura Party had been able to succeed, they would have already been fighting for hegemony in Kyushu, and who would be guarding a Hakata town!
Matsuura Takanobu can sit in his current position, and he has been sitting for so many years, and he has managed Hakata so well, he is definitely not a fool, and the leader of any big force will not have much problem at least intellectually.
At least at this moment, Matsuura Takanobu clearly understood the message that the Kuroda family wanted to pass on to him, and he clearly knew how to save his life, and there was only one way to bow his head, and there was no other room for maneuver.
After the surrender of Matsuura Takako, Hizen Province has been completely suppressed by the Kuroda family, and the entire Kyushu can threaten the Kuroda family, or it is said that it has not yet surrendered to the Kuroda family, and only the forces of the two people of Toyozen Province, Shiroi Zhenfang and Sugishigeryo. And in fact, now Sugishigero also knows that he is definitely not the opponent of the Kuroda family, so in order to protect himself, he simply took refuge in the castle town.
It is not easy for the castle to be in the town, he knows that sooner or later the Kuroda family will dominate Kyushu, and he also knows that sooner or later he will have to compete with the Kuroda family again. No matter what, as long as he is unwilling to submit to the Kuroda family, he will definitely die at the hands of the Kuroda family, but he has such pride and wants to keep his persistence as a descendant of Toyozen Utsunomiya.
Chengjing Zhenfang was also a little depressed at this time, the last time he fought with the Iteyu clan left a deep impression on him, it turned out that he always felt that he was in such a vast Kyushu, there were no opponents, except for his eldest son Chengjing Chaofang, then in this world, there should not be many people who can fight with him.
But the No. 1 fierce general of the Kuroda family who fell from the sky, yes, the guy who fought with him, actually had the strength equivalent to the intermediate level of the sword master.
Chengjing Zhenfang knows that he is the pinnacle of quasi-swordsmen, infinitely close to the strength of swordsmen, so he can abuse those who have not reached the strength of swordsmen on the battlefield, and even with pure martial artists who have the strength of swordsmen, which also has a certain relationship with the fact that real swordsmen are obsessed with moves and are not suitable for battlefield fighting.
However, this Imate Tomoshi not only has the intermediate strength of the swordsman, but also is a samurai himself, and the martial arts of Sasaki Genryu, who is best at it, is battlefield fighting, and the moves are also back to basics, attaching importance to the ability to continue fighting on the battlefield, which is the opponent that Shiroi Zhenfang cannot defeat.
Although Chengjing Chaofang, the eldest son of Chengjing Zhenfang, said that his strength was above himself, he still only had the strength of the peak of the quasi-sword master, and he relied more on the terrifying arm strength that was more amazing than himself. If the castle is compared to the Iate Tomo, he definitely has a better chance of winning than himself, but the odds of this victory are definitely not high.
It is precisely because of this that Chengjing Zhenfang has always had a very sense of crisis, but his territory is limited, coupled with the Kuroda family's deliberate blockade of his territory, it is difficult for him to obtain too many resources from outside the territory. As long as the Kuroda family is willing, in a few years, the castle town house will also starve to death in the castle valley castle.
The limited equipment, weapons, and other necessities that the Shiroi family obtained were all items from the Kuroda family's merchant house that they had purchased at a high price without their knowledge.
Even if Chengjing Zhenfang deliberately accumulates strength, it can even be said that he is a reckless display of military equipment, and now his subordinates are only more than 2,000 people at most. With the addition of Sugishige's men and horses, there are only 3,000 people.
Fortunately, the Kuroda family first copied Sugishige's lair, and he had to be attached to his command, and Sugishige's command of nearly a thousand people became a man he could mobilize at will.
It's just that even so, the current situation of the castle is still a lot weaker than the strength before the battle with the Kuroda family. And the Kuroda family is difficult this time, after the two armies of the north and south converge in the Chengjing Valley, the number of people has reached more than 30,000, which is no longer something that the Chengjing Town House can resist.
The only suspense he has now may be how many attacks the Kuroda family can repel, and how long he can hold out under the Kuroda family's offensive.
That is to say, in the face of the attack of the Kuroda family, even the castle town house himself does not have much confidence, but he still behaves very certically, and the castle town house in the eyes of the soldiers is still the invincible number one fierce general in Kyushu.
The castle town house still uses the strategy of supporting the city this time, but after the Kuroda family gathers the two armies this time, they have an iron artillery team of 2,000 people and a crossbow foot light brigade of 1,000 people, and this kind of long-range strength is basically only the Oda family can piece together, and the other daimyo can't even afford to pay for maintenance.
The two stalks arranged in the front of the castle town, because of the Kuroda family's long-range attack, they were not able to give them too many opportunities, and the salvo of 3,000 people was quite powerful.
When more than 100 people died on the side of the castle town without fighting, although they were all Sugi Shigeliang's men and horses, but the castle town also knew that in the face of the Kuroda family's army, he could not consume his strength so plainly.
So the Chengjing Town House ordered to abandon the four branch cities, burn the connecting plank road between the branch city and the Chengjing Valley Castle, and all the horses did their best to protect the Chengjing Valley Castle located in the middle.
Joi Tani Castle has long been ready to resist the Kuroda family and face the army to cage the city. The three sections of the wide and deep Hori in front of the castle, the sharp standing trees in front of the castle wall, and the hot water that has been boiling on the castle wall are all big meals prepared by the castle well for the Kuroda family.
Although the castle valley is named after the castle valley, it is located on an open flat bottom in the valley, and it is actually a flat castle, and if it were not for these defensive means, it would not be a fortified castle.
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