At the same time that Kuroda Vocational High School occupied Doi Castle and destroyed the Tsunoda family and its two clans, Shigeharu Takenaka had already entered Yoshino Prefecture in Mimasaka Province through the streets of Masakatsu with an army of 800 men. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Takenaka Shigeharu was quite smooth along the way, unimpeded, and it was not until he met the small wealthy Yeye family that he stopped marching.

You may ask, why only give Takenaka the strength of 800 people? Didn't Kuroda Vocational High School itself bring 2,200 people? What is 800 centaurs, will this point be too few, is it just because others are also "unicorns", do you expect others to be able to return to the capital and attack the city with 16 people?

The answer is no, the reason why Takenaka Shigeji is such a military situation, Kuroda Vocational High School is definitely deliberate, and it is definitely not to kill Takenaka Shigeji. Nonsense, the military advisor who finally came back from Omi Province, Kuroda Vocational High School is very precious! These 800 men and horses are actually not a lot, because the concentric members of the Kuroda family have been lurking in Misasakaku for several years, and they have already compiled all the information before sending out the army, and sent it to Kuroda Vocational High School, which is the basis for the division of the number of the two armies.

Speaking of which, there is no decent power of the wealthy people in the entire Yoshino County, and the Yoshino County of 20,000 or 30,000 koku is all small wealthy clans and countrymen with tens of hundreds of koku, and many of them are even the original wealthy clans, and the small land samurai left over are just small lands, and theoretically speaking, even the samurai class is not counted.

The wealthy family with the largest number of troops in Yoshino County can only send more than 80 troops, and relatively speaking, the army of Shigeharu Takenaka can already be called a large army. It is because of this that Kuroda Vocational High School dared to put Takenaka Shigeji in Yoshino County, if even one family could gather two or three hundred people, Kuroda Vocational High School would definitely not consider dividing the troops.

The Yeye family is just the kind of small wealthy family mentioned above, and the amount of troops is estimated to be less than a fraction of that of others, plus most of the peasants and soldiers, who are still farming outside the city at this time, and they don't know the news of the Kuroda family's arrival.

Therefore, as soon as it seemed that the army that came here was extremely majestic under the banner of the Kuroda family's rattan pattern, and the number of people was nearly 1,000, and the entire Yeye family immediately wilted. Compared with the Kuroda family, this is a battle that must not be fought, otherwise with the number of more than ten people in the family in this city, it is completely the old birthday star hanging himself looking for death!

Since it is absolutely impossible to fight with the Kuroda family, then the Yeno family is also a bachelor, and immediately opened the gate. At the same time, the head of the Yano family stood under the city gate with the whole clan, like a hero who greeted the triumphant, and stood on both sides of the gate to greet the army of the Kuroda family.

After Shigeharu Takenaka entered the city with a group of samurai, in the Imperial Hall of the Yano family, Shigeharu Takenaka accepted the hostage and surrender table from the head of the Yano family. At this time, the Yeno family was officially under the command of the Kuroda family.

And Takenaka Shigeji's requirements for the Yeno family are also very simple, that is, according to the method discussed with Kuroda Vocational High School before, order the Yeno family to be represented by the son-in-law of the head of the family, and lead half of the soldiers in the family to fight with the Takenaka Shigeji army.

Now that the Yeno family has made up their minds to join the Kuroda family, and in the Imperial Pavilion, Takenaka Shigeharu promised the Yeno family some real money and land in a harmonious atmosphere, and the Yeno family is very happy to divide the twenty young adults, according to the requirements of Takenaka Shigeji, with the head of the family and the son-in-law to follow Takenaka Shigeharu to continue to march in Yoshino County.

After the submission of the Yeno family, Shigeharu Takenaka immediately led people to the Nakayama family, the next target.

The Nakayama family, like the Yeno family, is also a small wealthy family with only a few hundred stones of land in Yoshino County, and there are not many defenders at all, and they also have no time to assemble their own soldiers in advance.

After seeing the banner of the Kuroda family, as well as the familiar banner of the Yeno family. The Zhongshan family, who knew the times, also had no will to resist. After figuring out that the land of the Kuroda family remained unchanged, and that there were simple conditions for transferring the seal and sending hostages, the head of the Nakayama family immediately ordered the direct surrender of Kaicheng.

After subduing the Zhongshan family and accepting half of the soldiers as well. Immediately after the repair of Zhongshan Castle, Takenaka's army marched rapidly, and swept all the way before dark, without fighting a battle. After subduing more than a dozen wealthy clans, such as Douda, Kotaki, Gangwon, Okumura, and Shimoan, a lot of hostages were collected, and at the same time, the number of Takenaka Shigeharu's army also rose to 1,100 people.

After the surrender of the Shimo-an family, it was already mid-night, so Shigeharu Takenaka decided to stay at the Shimo-an house to rest and march again the next day.

The next day, Shigeharu Takenaka, who was sitting in Shimoan, simply ordered that the army should no longer be marched, but sent more than 20 soldiers from various wealthy families to other wealthy families in Yoshino County who had not yet surrendered, and sent letters from the Kuroda family to persuade them to surrender.

The reason why the soldiers of the Hao family were allowed to deliver the letter was to protect the safety of the soldiers of the family, so as not to meet the second stunned man who didn't care about anything and cut down his own soldiers, after all, the Kuroda family were all elite soldiers, and it would be bad to die like this. Of course, if it is a soldier of the Hao family, if it dies, it will die, and at the same time, it can also weaken their strength.

Second, there are frequent marriages between the wealthy people of Yoshino County, which can be described as the same spirit, and the news that Kuroda Vocational High School was in the bar was told to Shigeharu Takenaka, how could Shigeharu Takenaka not use such important information? So sending people from these wealthy families to persuade each family to surrender may be more effective, you see that our family has surrendered, the conditions of the Kuroda family are not bad, what are you waiting for, second uncle? That's just a statement!

Shigeharu Takenaka only waited for one day, except for the farthest wealthy family who was still on the way, the other wealthy people were all in accordance with the requirements of the Kuroda family, and brought half of the people under their command to the lower hermitage to join the stream, and after sending hostages and surrendering tables, it was regarded as officially surrendering to the Kuroda family.

The surrender of more than 30 wealthy clans in Yoshino County also caused the strength of Takenaka's army to soar to about 1,600 people, which was exactly double the number when he went into battle.

Shigeharu Takenaka was not in a hurry to march into Katsuhoku Prefecture, but set up camp in Hase Tim Castle, on the border of Yoshino and Katsuhoku Prefecture. The reorganization of the Hao clan team was started in order to improve their combat effectiveness a little, and also so that these cannon fodder could burst out with stronger combat effectiveness in the later battles. (To be continued.) )