Early the next morning, because the evening was about to go out, Kuroda Castle was extremely busy, especially in the longhouse area of Joshita Town, and by the morning, more than 400 ronins had already joined the Kuroda family's temporary reserve. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info these ronins are all samurai who hope to find a job in the Kuroda family, for various reasons, they have not been recruited by the Kuroda family or the important ministers of the Kuroda family, these people may not be strong in martial arts to be honest, otherwise they would have been recommended to the Kuroda family by the longhouse commissioners.

But these people, generally have received a certain amount of formal martial arts training, and most of them are the samurai class who have lost their land, and their combat effectiveness may not be as good as the standing samurai of the Kuroda family, but compared with the peasant soldiers of the Kuroda family, the combat effectiveness is still slightly higher, but the discipline is relatively much worse. They participated in this battle, firstly, to be able to eat well, after all, the Kuroda family promised that the military rations would not be deducted, and they would receive a certain reward after the war. If you are brave in battle, you will also get the opportunity to become a leader, whether it is the Kuroda family or an important general, it is a way to live.

The reserve commander of the ronin reserve team this time is Moriharu Ohtani, because the other fierce generals in the family basically have their own responsibilities, so Moriji Ohtani got the heavy responsibility of leading a reserve team this time. This reserve team is composed of ronin, and the discipline is poor, and there must be a fierce general to lead the team in order to shock these reckless people.

Sure enough, as soon as Otani Moriji arrived in the reserve, he met two disobedient ones, and Otani Moriji didn't say much, and directly knocked down the two people together, and the other ronins were immediately honest. A fierce general who has a certain reputation in the Kyushu giant Otomo's family, which is the opponent of these nameless ronins.

With the efforts of many retainers, the Kuroda family was busy running like a machine, with weapons, equipment, flags, food, bows and crossbows, and truckloads of wartime supplies all prepared.

The soldiers are assembling towards Kuroda Castle, and a large investigation operation is also being carried out in Kuroda's territory, investigating possible spies in Takino Castle, and all the 300 standing troops stationed in various places of the Kuroda family are dispatched, divided into more than a dozen teams, and they are acting separately, almost turning over Kuroda Castle. The Kuroda family has long carried out a certain degree of household registration management in the territory, if there is a foreign population, as long as you ask the local landlord, the local attendant will quickly find out the whereabouts, and soon captured a few spies of the Takino Akamatsu family, and also captured a Fujioka Kuro's spy from the collar, but in view of the fact that they are all members of the Kotera family, so he still let him go, and just reported the matter to Kuroda Zhilong, Kuroda Zhitaka was busy with the preparation of the war, and he didn't care too much about this matter, after all, he was a minister in the same hall, so as not to meet in the future.

That night, a group of concentric ninjas lurked near Takino Castle, after confirming that the army of Takino Castle had been out of battle, the three ninjas continued to follow the action of the Takino army, and the three ninjas lurked in the direction of Takino Castle to Koguchi Castle, passing on the news and preventing the Takino army from going to war, and finally the two returned to Kuroda's house to resume their lives.

At the same time, in the vicinity of Taniguchi Castle, the Tongxin people also began to act.

In the past few years, Akamatsu Masahide has absorbed the lessons of the previous defeat of the Kuroda family, and once again hired six ninjas, several of whom are lower ninjas, Akamatsu Masahide also knows the strength of these people, not the opponent of the Kuroda family, this time he didn't dare to let these ninjas sneak attack anymore, just for news exploration in the territory and to protect his own safety.

These ninjas didn't know how powerful Iga Tongxin was at first, and not long ago they entered a Kuroda collar to inquire about the news, and at the request of Hattori Baochang, Tongxin had a chance encounter with them, and after the Tongxin people easily solved one person, they were let go. After that, these ninjas never dared to cross the line again. Honestly act as a scout on the side of Taniguchi Castle.

At night, the remaining five ninjas gathered in the mountains and forests east of Taniguchi Castle, lit a bonfire, sat around to keep warm, and monitored the movements of Koguchi Castle by the way.

"Boss, do you think the Kuroda family will come to attack!"

"It's not good to say, it is said that the last time Takino Hall was defeated by the Kuroda family, it was because when Takino Hall led the army out of battle, he was attacked by the Kuroda family and lost all the land east of Koguchi Castle on the opposite side." The ninja leader said as he pointed to the shadow of Koguchi Castle in the moonlight on the other side.

After that, he continued in a helpless tone: "Although the Takino Hall was suddenly attacked this time, with the strength of the Kuroda family ninjas, the news is likely to leak!" Once the Kuroda family knows about Takino Palace's plan, there is such a good opportunity, and the Kuroda family should not miss it! ”

"Yes! The ninjas of the Kuroda family are really terrifying, last time it was just a face, and Liuheita was dead, if we didn't run fast, it is estimated that we would have died in the territory of the Kuroda family. ”

"Do you think you're lucky?" At this time, a voice suddenly appeared behind the ninja who had just spoken, and when this person didn't react, a hand had already covered his mouth, and the ninja knife gently slashed his throat, and he didn't even have time to scream, he fell to the ground, his eyes were full of horror.

The other four ninjas found that the situation was wrong, and when they were about to escape, they found that more than two dozen ninjas had appeared around them, surrounding them in the middle, and even on the big tree overhead, there were more than a dozen ninjas holding ninja darts, waiting for them.

They died quickly, and without even a little resistance, they all fell to the ground, the number was not superior, and the strength was very low, and it was difficult to live well in the Warring States.

"Deal with this place" The leader of the team, Zhezhi Sanzhi Cheng Qingguang, looked at the bonfire and said coldly: "Ninjas have to live in the shadows, and if they can't endure the darkness and coldness, they can't be ninjas." ”

Taniguchi Castle is a flat castle built opposite Koguchi Castle, a flat castle in the valley, facing mountains on both sides, the terrain is dangerous, and the Kuroda family has not attacked the Takino family because of the development and stability of the territory, and also because of the existence of this castle.

The city was a military fortress, so there were basically no civilians or families except soldiers. This time, the Takino Akamatsu family went out to Murozu Castle, and Akamatsu Masahide sent an additional 200 peasant soldiers to Taniguchi Castle for the sake of safety.

If these peasants and soldiers looked closely at each other, they would find that the two hundred people in the city now were different from when they had just set out from Takino Castle, and at least twenty or so people looked strange. But these peasant soldiers were all forcibly conscripted, and they had just eaten enough every day, and they didn't care about other things at all, and out of the two hundred, there were more than 20 people who didn't know each other, which was very normal, and none of them were from the same village.

After dinner, the city was very quiet, and more than twenty peasant soldiers gathered in one part of the city, in a ministry house with its back to the city wall. The peasants and soldiers in the city, from one place, would often gather together to tell interesting stories about their hometown and relieve their boredom, so these people gathered together without attracting anyone's attention.

These people talk and laugh in the house, sometimes they are cold, and some people will sing folk songs from the country of Harima, and it seems that a group of fellow villagers are entertaining themselves together. Slowly, there were more and more people in this room, and the people outside didn't notice it at all, and at night, there was still a sound of laughter in the house from time to time, and some peasants and soldiers were sighing that these people were really spiritual!

In the innermost corner of the room, two men in black sat together, none other than the Kuroda family's Iga Tongxin Shosho Hattori and Fujibayashi Hotoyo.

"Fifty people are here, just waiting to act." Fujibayashi Baofeng said.

"When the time comes, Sanzhicheng will put a ringing arrow, and then they will try their best to solve the defenders on the head of the city, we will open the city gate directly, and it will be good to receive the army into the city, frontal combat is not our strong point, and it is better to leave the matter to those soldiers after that."

Hattori squinted his eyes, he wasn't nervous, but he knew that this method of stealing the city could only be used once, and if it didn't succeed this time, it would be difficult to use it next time. As for his subordinates, most of the people brought this time are middle ninjas and upper ninjas, and there are only twenty lower ninjas, which are the twenty or so who pretend to be soldiers, once the matter is revealed and most of them escape from here, he is still confident. But what Hattori wanted was a smooth opening of the castle, a victory in the battle, and more merits.

Slowly the night grew deeper and deeper, and the room was completely dark, and now it was unusually quiet compared to the previous noise, because the walls blocked the moonlight, and in the darkness, the house was like a beast, lurking, waiting in the darkness to stretch out its claws.