Your Excellency may say that in this era of war, the people are precarious, and there is a fart effect, and if there is no one, there will be no one! In fact, the people are still very useful, at least the Otomo family has lost the surrounding people, even if they survive the Kuroda family's attack, they will eventually lose all the military replenishment, and lose all the labor force in the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, which is a very terrible thing.

The Otomo family, which has lost the hearts and minds of the people, can be said that the current Funai Castle has become a lonely city, a wanderer in the ocean, and even the people outside the city, many of them have already thrown themselves into the arms of the Kuroda family, and are not ready to continue to be the people of the Otomo family, how sad is this!

And many of the people of the Otomo family who were deliberately put into the inner city by the Kuroda family before, because they are now in the city, and the Otomo family has implemented martial law in the whole city, and they are used as cannon fodder to defend the city, so they are strictly guarded, so they can't leave the city at all.

Now most of the people who have entered the city can be said to regret it, if they can be given a chance to choose again, they are likely to go out of the inner city of the prefecture and go to the camp of the Kuroda family to surrender, so as to get a chance to live a stable life, you must know what it represents to go to the Kuroda family, that is the virtue and politics of the five princes and five people!

Funai Castle has been almost completely cut off from the outside world, and the only hope that the Otomo family can hope now is that the Kuroda family can retreat on their own. Even if there will inevitably be follow-up actions for the Kuroda family in the future, as long as the Kuroda family retreats temporarily, even if it is only for a month or two, this can at least give the Otomo family a chance to breathe. Even if they could give a buffer to be able to conscript, train and requisition food, although they didn't know that the Kuroda family had cut off their sources of soldiers and food.

But the Otomo family just waited, waiting for the Kuroda family to retreat on their own, waiting for this miracle to happen. However, until the autumn harvest, the Kuroda family still did not retreat, and the Kuroda family's camp was still smoking on time as usual, and soldiers patrolled outside the city on time.

At this time, the Otomo family knew that something was wrong, didn't the Kuroda family need these soldiers to go back for the autumn harvest? Do you want the harvest of the land of these soldiers to rot in the land? Even if the Kuroda family is willing to do this, don't these soldiers need their own land to be managed, are they themselves willing to do this for the Kuroda family?

The Kuroda family's abnormal behavior of not letting the soldiers go back to the autumn harvest made the people of the Otomo family not only very confused, but also began to worry slowly, could it be that the soldiers of the Kuroda family really don't need to go back to the autumn harvest, otherwise you see that there is no trace of chaos on the Kuroda family's side, everything is in order, it seems that the Kuroda family is really unusual!

They didn't know that the soldiers of the Kuroda family were all professional soldiers, not like their soldiers, but mainly temporarily recruited peasant soldiers, and they also needed to engage in heavy manual labor, and they also needed to estimate the life and death of the people in their own family, and they also needed to fight for food, so the combat effectiveness of the Kuroda family's soldiers would be so strong.

The autumn harvest is a thing that naturally has other people in their family to complete, and they don't need to worry about it, they have only one duty, which is to serve in the army of the Kuroda family, fight for the Kuroda family, fight hard for the Kuroda family, and sacrifice their lives for the Kuroda family.

By the time the first snowflakes fell in winter, the Kuroda family's army was still holding out outside the city. Under the order of Kuroda's vocational high school, the Kuroda family prepared cotton clothes and charcoal fires for these soldiers who stayed in the city in advance for the winter.

Many of these cotton clothes were bought from the Ming Kingdom, because the quality of the Ming Kingdom's cotton clothes was good and the price was low, so the Kuroda family is now willing to purchase a large number of them, mainly so that the soldiers can also keep out the cold in winter and continue to fight for the Kuroda family.

It's just that the original 18,000 people from the Kuroda family came, and now there are only 8,000 people left outside the Funai Castle, although this number is not much, but it is enough to besiege the Funai Castle.

Because when the Kuroda family withdrew 10,000 horses, the Otomo family wanted to take this opportunity to carry out a counterattack, but the Kuroda family not only had extremely strong combat effectiveness, but even the high-end combat power of the samurai, because of the existence of the Iate Tomo, the final result was still that the Otomo family was defeated by the Kuroda family.

The Otomo family is now trapped in the castle, and most of the Kuroda family's soldiers have cotton clothes to protect them from the cold, and a burning charcoal fire to protect them from moisture.

But the people of the Otomo family are not so lucky, if it is the lord of the castle in the city, and the samurai lords, they can get some charcoal fire, so that they can ensure the warmth of their bodies. Ordinary people, on the other hand, can only shrink into their own homes, or even shiver under the eaves outside the streets.

Although the core of the starvation tactic is to let the enemy slowly lose all their food and grass, and then slowly break the enemy's confidence in fighting in this way, but to put it bluntly, it is to let the enemy slowly disintegrate his own chaos after the hope slowly collapses.

But if it is possible to continue the siege of the inner castle in the winter, contrary to the enemy's expectations, as is the case now. Allowing the enemy to continue to demoralize themselves is also part of the starvation tactic.

This winter was not easy for the people of the Otomo family, and after one winter, hundreds of people were killed and injured in the castle, which seemed to be a cruel reality.

But if you know that the people of these cities basically don't have anything to protect them from the cold, you will know how well these people can endure all kinds of harsh conditions.

The people of this era are really very admirable, not only the people of the Japanese Kingdom, but also the people of our Heavenly Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. But even in the most difficult environment, although the people of the Ming Kingdom occasionally had small uprisings, large-scale uprisings did not really appear until decades later, and at that time it was more than a hundred years since the foundation of the Ming Dynasty was corrupted, which is the loveliness of our great Chinese people.

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.