Matsuda Motohui saw that someone had surrendered, and he barely stood up with the city wall, and shouted: "You bastards, I treat you a lot on weekdays, and at this time of life and death, you don't even serve your own family, and you still take refuge in the Kuroda family, are you worthy of the old man?" ”

But Matsuda Motoki doesn't know, or doesn't want to admit it, in the current situation, the ordinary soldiers of the Matsuda family will die if they don't surrender, of course, they still have to cherish life and stay away from drugs...... No, it's dead. As for the Matsuda family's kinship samurai www.biquge.info, there is basically no possibility of survival.

Before, a traveling monk came here to tell about the experience of Harima Country, the Kuroda family is the tax policy of five public and five farmers, farmland can get a small piece of land for free, and I heard that the Kuroda family can harvest several times a year, a small piece of land can also make the whole family full, and the Tian family is very strict about conscription, even the peasant soldiers have age and physical requirements, as long as they become peasant soldiers, the family can also enjoy a lot of benefits, many of the original bachelors in Harima Country are relying on the identity of a peasant soldier, found a wife, it is really enviable! Even if you can't choose a farmer, it's not bad to farm honestly, and in this troubled era, it is a luxury to farm safely and steadily to feed your family. As for the traveling monk, he was pretended to be a member of the Kuroda family's concentric ninjas, and he could be regarded as doing a good job of counter-revolutionary propaganda against the Matsuda family in advance.

Since there are so many benefits to surrendering the Kuroda family, what else is there to consider? More and more Matsuda soldiers began to surrender on their knees. Matsuda Motoki also wanted to resist, and led a few relatives to resist to the end, and in the end he himself was hanged by Urakami Kiyozong, and none of the rest of his relatives were spared, and all of them were not in this battle.

Some of the small wealthy families in the vicinity who were originally subjugated to the Matsuda family, seeing that the Matsuda family was exterminated by the Kuroda family, could only send an envoy to send a surrender table, surrender to the Kuroda family, and honestly accept the conditions of cutting the land and transferring the seal and sending out the son-in-law.

Because the Goto family lost its governor, and Goto Keitsuna had no heirs, in the end, after consulting Kuroda Zhitaka, the Imate Tomoshi made a decision to let Goto Kikuni inherit the Goto family, and the surname Goto is not anyway. At the same time, taking the opportunity to reduce the Goto family's territory to 1,000 stones, everyone in the Goto family had seen the Kuroda family's methods, so they could only obediently accept the Kuroda family's arrangement. At least the head of the Goto family is indeed a person with the surname Goto, not just someone who changes his surname to Goto and deprives the family of their rights. And although the territory has been reduced, as long as the Goto family is still there, there will be a chance to expand the family territory in the future.

At this point, except for Kojima County, which was in the hands of Satsuura Shinmune, all the other lands in Bizen Province had fallen into the hands of the Kuroda family.

At the same time, the Kuroda family's 800-strong army of Matsui Shigetaka in Sanrong County, and 900 troops of the local wealthy clans of Sayo-gun and Ako County under the command of Moriharu Otani, Sakabuchi Nagadori, Funatsui Tsuji, Inoue Nomasa, and others, a total of 1,700 people, began to attack the forces of the wealthy clans in the Shishiwa-gun area that had not yet been subjugated.

Kodera Zhigao personally led the Kuroda family to prepare 500 ashigaru, 500 peasants, 100 crossbows, 200 Dawn Nobugen Mingguo reserves, and 50 Shiroyama Castle of Musato Takatomo, a total of more than 1,300 people, went out to Jinzen County, as for Toga County and Kamo County in the east, they are close to the Bessho family's sphere of influence, and before the strength of the first battle, the Kuroda family does not want to be an enemy of the Bessho family for the time being.

Think about the 20,000 army of the Nizi family, the 10,000 army that the three good practical cultivators were defeated and retreated not long ago, and the three years of siege and starvation of the monkeys in history, and the two Yuchai Four Heavenly Kings were also put in, all of which showed that the other family was not easy to mess with.

Matsui Shigetaka's army encountered the first castle in Shishiwa County, Hayashida Castle, which was unwilling to surrender to the Kuroda family, and as a mountain city, although the city was not large, the terrain of the city was dangerous, the drop was huge, and there were 300 defenders in the city, so it was really difficult for the Kuroda family to attack.

On the first day, Matsui Shigetaka's army attacked head-on, because the front wall of Hayashida Castle was small, it could only be used for more than ten people to attack together, the Kuroda family had an empty army, but it was difficult to climb the city in large numbers, after several people desperately landed the city, they were desperately driven down the city wall by the defenders of Hayashida City, and they did not dare to attack, they have not been able to open the situation, and finally the Kuroda family lost more than 50 people, Matsui Shigetaka reluctantly ordered to retreat, and the defenders only lost more than 20 people. This battle of Hayashida Castle can be regarded as the biggest defeat of the Kuroda family in recent times.

After Matsui Shigetaka returned to the camp, he frowned, so he could only gather everyone to come to discuss, and when everyone didn't have a good opinion, Ota Hara suddenly stood up at this time: "Takino Palace, there is a strategy below, maybe you can let Hayashida Castle fall into the city." ”

"Oh! What's the solution? Hurry up and hear about it. When Matsui Shigetaka heard him say that there was a way to break the city, he immediately became excited.

"Hey! Today's siege of the city, in the lower observation of the terrain of the city of Hayashida, the front of the city is steep, but the back of the city near the ridge is extremely gentle, in the next suggestion to leave a small group of men and horses to attract the enemy's attention, the large group of men and horses to detour to the rear of the city, and then attack. Ota Hara said slowly, very methodically speaking.

"Takino Temple, this is a good way!" Yan Yuan Jingneng said in surprise.

"It's really a good way, in this case, let's leave Lord Yanyuan to lead some men and horses to contain the enemy army, and after I personally lead people to attack the city, please prepare immediately." Matsui nodded and adopted Otawara's advice.

"Hey!"

Leaving Nobuhara Keineng to lead 500 people to contain Hayashida Castle, at 10 o'clock in the middle of the night, Matsui Shigetaka personally led the army to leave the camp at night and enter the woodland next to it to hide. At dawn the next day, he went around to the rear of Lintian City. Sure enough, the garrison behind the city was lax, and when the Kuroda family entered Hayashida Castle, the defenders didn't even know about it. After that, things were simple, the Kuroda army was divided into several teams, drove straight in, and quickly occupied all the key points in the city, and the defenders in the city also actively defended according to each yashiki and longhouse, and finally the Kuroda army killed all the defenders in the city and occupied Hayashida Castle.

After a day's rest, when it was time to leave, the rest of the army began to attack north, except for the twenty men who were left to escort the young woman and young children to Shangyue City. Along the way, there were small Hao clan cities, and when the army arrived, they basically surrendered to the wind, and it was not until the Holy Mountain City in the middle that they encountered resistance again. After gathering the soldiers of the local wealthy clans, the strength of Matsui Shigetaka's army at this time also reached 2,000 people.

There are more than 200 defenders of the Holy Mountain City, and the terrain is steep, and with the mountain, the drop between the city wall and the ground can reach four meters. Originally, the Nishiyama family of the Holy Mountain City had long been prepared for the cage city, and the Nishiyama family originally intended to surrender the Kuroda family, but when they saw that the Kuroda family only had more than a thousand people, the leaders of the Nishiyama family decided to fight the cage castle after discussion, and maybe they would be able to repel the Kuroda family in the end.