Chapter 24: Attack Shimazu first

"What's the difficulty, as long as the family gathers tens of thousands of people and fights all the way, are we still afraid that the war will not work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And their combined strength may really be comparable to the family, plus the family has always taken the elite route, and they may even be stronger in terms of numbers, but the problem is that they are not monolithic! As long as the family can divide them and fight them one by one, are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat Kyushu? Speaking of which, this is the specialty of the two adults of the family, Takasan Yamamoto and Hidecho Kinoshita! Master Quanzong is already relatively old, and I dare not alarm him. At this time, Itetomo shouted again.

"Oh! My brother knows that the enemy is going to divide and disintegrate, and it seems that after sitting in the place for a long time, it is really very effective. Matsui Shigetaka finally smiled and teased at Ite.

"This ...... After all, the soldiers who have been brought for so many years, and the officers and guards, as well as the people under his command, have also learned something. Ite touched his bald head and said with a smile.

"My uncle is right, this Kyushu is a vast and rich land, but there are many forces in between, and they are constantly attacking each other. If the family can make good use of the information between the families and understand the intricate relationship between the parties, it can just divide and disintegrate them, some of them will be co-opted, some of them will be suppressed, and some of them will be eliminated, so as to achieve the goal of taking all Kyushu from the family! Two uncles, in order to be able to take Kyushu, I have the courage to assign you a task, I don't know if it's okay? Kuroda said to the two of them.

"Kannonei, as long as it's for the Kuroda family, for the family to be able to continue, everything is worth it. If there's anything you want to say, just say it! Not to mention assigning me a task, I will not hesitate to sacrifice it. Matsui Shigetaka said.

"Yes! The fourth child is right, our Kuroda family has been silent for too long, as long as I can get to that position, I am willing to let me die for the Kuroda family in time. But Kan Guard, I'm just a martial artist, don't go around in circles with me, just say what you have to say! Imate said.

Kuroda looked at the two of them again before he spoke: "Two uncles, if that's the case, if you have anything to say, I'll say it directly." In this battle of the western country, the main family took all the western provinces and the four countries, although they have achieved a complete victory, and now it seems that they have tens of thousands of soldiers, but twenty or thirty thousand of them are soldiers of the wealthy people of the previous Miyoshi family, the Maori family, and Tosa Province, and I think my uncles should have seen what their combat effectiveness was.

As with every new territory before, this time the family has obtained too much new land, and the family has never obtained so much land at one time. If this land is to be transformed into the actual combat strength of the family, the family must sink down, and it will also be necessary to carry out several years of all-out rest and recuperation before it can be realized.

If you want to take all of Kyushu, there are still many things that you need to do before you do. For example, among the existing tens of thousands of wealthy families and countrymen, select and train elite soldiers, equip soldiers with better equipment, develop newly acquired land, rectify the commerce of new territories, transfer the starting point of trade with the Ming Kingdom, change the stronghold of the navy, etc., all of which must be well planned. ”

"Doom...... That Kansui, what you just said is too complicated for me to understand, so don't embarrass me, so tell me directly, what exactly is the task that we need to accept? Imate asked.

"I'll still say it bluntly, I have prepared a task for one of you, one of the two uncles will stay in Zhou and Chang, and then for the strategy of Kyushu, this will be the starting point of the entire strategy of Kitakyushu. The other person needs to sit in Shikoku, and will go out from Shikoku to attack southern Kyushu. Kuroda said.

"In that case, you can just say which of us stays here!" Itetomo said very impatiently.

"Brother, don't worry, it stands to reason that the current Kitakyushu is dominated by the Otomo family, and the local daimyo forces such as the Ito family, the Shimazu family, and the Sagara family in southern Kyushu are intricately intertwined, and it is relatively more advantageous. So I think it's better for my brother to stay in Zhou and Chang, and it is better for me to go to Shikoku. Shigetaka Matsui spoke his mind.

"Officer and soldier, I'm too lazy to think about it, just say it directly!" Imate said.

"Kitakyushu Otomo is indeed strong, and there are no less than Kakuma Ishizong in his family, who is not less intelligent than me, Hanbei and Gengoro, and there are many famous generals such as Toji Kenren, Takita Jinshu, Saeki Yukyo, Tahara Kingen, Yoshihiro Zhenli, Yoshioka Nagazo, etc., and there are no less than 20,000 elites, which are the fierce opponents of the family. Originally, as the fourth uncle said, the more warlike Beizhong Legion was supposed to be in charge of Kitakyushu. However, the first battle to start at that time would be the Battle of Minami-Kyushu, and it would be necessary to attack the Shimazu family in Minami-Kyushu first. ”

"Kannonei, why did you attack the Shimazu family first, instead of the Ito family or the liver family, which were stronger and had completely suppressed the Shimazu family? Relatively speaking, the Ito family, which owns the Hyuga country, and the liver family, which owns the Osumi country, need to be eliminated more than the Shimazu family, which was still engaged in internal strife before the division and the clan family! Matsui asked.

"This ...... Relatively speaking, the Kyushu conquest is a long process, and the Shimazu family is weak, and it has just experienced infighting, and its strength has decreased a lot, so it is just our target. Taking the two or three counties in the southern part of Satsuma Province that the Shimazu family currently controls (in fact, it is completely different from the power of the Shimazu family in the game), and using this as a base for attacking southern Kyushu, is exactly in line with the situation of the southern Kyushu conquest! Kuroda said nonsense.

The actual ruler of the Shimazu family is still the head of the Shimazu family in Isaku and Xiangshu, and he counterattacked the powerful figure of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Takahisa. I believe you are all familiar with this gentleman, he is the son of Shimazu Tadarashi, who is a branch of the Shimazu clan and is known as the "ancestor of the Shimazu family", and the adopted son of Shimazu Katsuhisa (the fourteenth governor of the Shimazu clan).

In the 11th year of Eisho (1514 AD), when Takahisa Shimazu was born in the castle of Tabushi Kame, the Shimazu clan, the clan, and the people of the country became independent at that time, and Shimazu Tadaharu (the twelfth family governor) and Shimazu Tadataka (the thirteenth family governor) of the clan died young. As the fourteenth generation of the family governor, Shimazu Katsuhisa is still young, and many of the people under his command are not convinced, which seriously weakens the strength of the clan.