What the Kuroda family needs most now is to end the war as soon as possible, level the newly occupied territory, and bring everything in the new territory into the Kuroda family's orbit. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info instead of jumping from one quagmire to another, constantly confronting the surrounding forces, consuming the Kuroda family's own strength.

"Noriharu Koji-sama, I have no right to make any reply on behalf of the Kuroda family on your terms, please go back! You can send another envoy to Kuroda Castle. ”

"Really? It's a shame that I and Fujioka Kuro-sama told my lord that your Kuroda family has the intention of rebelling! If you promise me now, I may be able to tell the lord to withdraw his troops, but Kodera Takahisa-sama, do you want to confirm again, or you and Himeji Castle can join us! ”

"Lord Noriharu Koji, I have already made it very clear that this matter is not something I can decide, and I am the elder of the Kuroda family, so it is impossible to take refuge in another family. If that's all you have to say, please come back! Kodera Takahisa made a gesture to see off the guest.

"Okay, Koji Takahisa, you'll regret the choice you made." Noriji Kodera stood up, and when he walked to the door, he turned around and said.

Noriharu Kotera returned to his main camp on a hill not far outside Himeji Castle and immediately went to see Kodera Shoji.

"Brother, I'm back." Noriharu Kotera made a dusty appearance and sat down next to the political office of Koji.

"How? What does Kodera Takahisa say? ”

"Brother, Kodera Takahisa said that he didn't make a decision, let's go to Lord Kuroda, and then he kicked me out, and he said that he was not afraid of our attack, they have five hundred elites, and they can defend without leaking." Noriharu Kodera turned what had just happened into the picture he wanted with a few modifications. In Noriharu Kodera's thoughts, since the political office of Kodera has already determined that the Kuroda family has a desire to stand on its own, as long as he describes the refusal of the Kuroda family to surrender, the political office of Kodera will definitely be furious.

But what he didn't expect was that after hearing what he said, Koji didn't react at all, just sat there, and didn't move, as if he didn't hear his own words, Koji was also blind.

"Brother, brother."

"Zezhi! If the Kuroda family wants to be independent, they can be independent! We can't defeat the Kuroda family, Kodera Takahisa is right, even if they only have five hundred people, it is not something we can defeat. ”

"What? Brother, why do you think that? ”

"We don't have anything to lose except Himeji Castle, do we? The 2,000 stones in Ishikawa and the 3,000 stones north of Himeji are not all owned by the Kuroda family. The Kuroda family doesn't owe us the Kodera family, and we played since we were young, and I am very confident that even if Kuroda is self-reliant, he will not attack me. I've decided, let's go back to the castle. After saying that, the political position of the small temple turned around and left, looking a little lonely.

Koji Noriji looked at the back of Koji's political office, his eyes were full of ferocity, and his face was full of anger, a person with joy and anger written on his face, is it really suitable as the head of the family?

At the same time, Akamatsu Masahide of Shiroyama Castle and Uno Masayori of Nagasuiyama Castle, in addition to the 100 defenders of Joyama Castle, brought a total of 1,300 troops to Takino Castle.

In the impression of Akamatsu Masahide, the Kuroda family is good at ninja sneak attacks and defense of the city, and the battle between the Takino Akamatsu family and the Kuroda family seems to be more than ten years ago. The Kuroda family is so short and strong as they are, Akamatsu Masahide is really happy, and he will win this time if he doesn't do it well.

When the Kuroda family went out into battle, there were 1,400 people, and then 100 peasant soldiers were sent to Himeji with Inoue, and more than 100 were killed and wounded, and 100 peasant soldiers defended the castle, and finally the Kuroda army was only 900 people who were deployed outside Takino Castle. On the left is Otani Moriji's 400 ronin team, on the right is Ogami Takenori's 200 peasant soldiers, in the middle foreground is a 100-member crossbow ashigaru team, followed by the 130-member Iteya reserve team of the Imate Tomoji clan, and finally a dozen flag samurai and 90 standing ashigaru of the main camp.

The combined forces on the side of Akamatsu Takino and Nagasuiyama Castle, after a short arrangement, handed over the left and right wings to the Uno family of Chosui Castle, and Uno Masayori and one of his generals led each side. In the middle at the front were more than 120 people from the Shiroyama Castle of Shirokawashima Yorimura, followed by 160 people from the Takino Gunban Team of Shibahara Yajuro, followed by 130 people from the 2nd team of Yazaburo Bono, followed by 110 people from Kuwabara Saemon 3rd Division, and finally 10 people from the Honjin Banner and 70 Ashigaru.

The Akamatsu family had the advantage in numbers, so they started to act as soon as they lined up their formation, and the army pressed on as a whole, but it was obvious that the left and right wings of the Uno family were relatively backward, and the Chinese army was in front. Uno Masayori is not a fool, the Uno family is only for 10,000 stone land to help, it is impossible to really sacrifice their soldiers for the Takino Akamatsu family in vain.

The soldiers are walking quite neatly, in fact, the military quality of the Takino Akamatsu family is good, so it will enjoy a good reputation in the surrounding three countries, but it is unlucky to meet the Kuroda family who likes to take crooked ways, and the Takino Akamatsu family is still very powerful in fighting the small wealthy family.

When the two armies were a hundred paces apart, the crossbowhead shouted: "Ready, free fire." ”

Ninety or eighty paces were not fired, until they entered the seventy paces, and finally a dozen crossbows were aimed at the chosen target, and they shot their crossbow arrows first, and immediately after shooting, they came to the front row and began to load the crossbow arrows.

"Whoosh" more than a dozen wind-breaking sounds sounded, and the Shiroyama Castle people of Kawashima Yorimura didn't take it seriously at first, lowering the array hat on their heads, thinking that the opponent had shot an arrow, but as a result, three or four Ashigaru and peasant soldiers were all carried backwards with a strong force, at least they all took a few steps back, except for one Ashigaru who was not shot at the point, but was only slightly injured, and the other crossbowmen all fell to the ground.

Although the morale of the Takino Akamatsu army dropped after seeing the power of the crossbow, no one stopped advancing and continued to move forward, and the army discipline of the Takino Akamatsu family was still very good. But when the people of Uno Nagasuiyama Castle on both sides saw this scene, they immediately slowed down their already slow pace, and Uno Masayori made up his mind, and only the Akamatsu family rushed to the front of the Kuroda army and started a white-knuckle battle, and he brought people up. His own subordinates can't lose their lives because of this unknown long-range weapon on the other side.

In order to run to the Kuroda family's army formation for white-knuckle combat faster, in order not to be shot to death, the soldiers of the Takino Akamatsu family obviously accelerated their pace, and as for the changes in the two wings, they couldn't care so much.

"The first row fires, the second row loads the crossbows" "The second row fires, the first row loads the crossbows" The head of the Kuroda family's crossbowashigaru group constantly ordered the crossbowshigaru to act. After four rounds of shooting, the Takino Akamatsu family finally attacked.

"Retreating" 100 crossbows completed their mission, and under the leadership of the group leader, they withdrew to the front of the main formation at the gap specially left on both sides of the middle lane, and rearranged the position in front of the main formation. If the middle lane is breached, the enemy can still be sniped once before they charge into the formation, but they may not have a chance anymore.

Under the crossbow shot, as cannon fodder, and the Shiroyama Castle Clan, which was dominated by peasant soldiers, suffered heavy losses, and only about 20 people remained in the 120 Castle Castle Castle of Kawashima Yorimura, if it weren't for the Ichiban team of Shibahara Yajuro who followed behind with knives and killed five escapees, it would have collapsed long ago. Shibahara Yajuro's Takino Army Ichiban team also suffered more than 20 casualties, because after the people of Shiroyama Castle were almost dead, his Ichiban team also began to become cannon fodder, but fortunately, this time did not last long.