In the third year of Eiroku, in August 1560, after several months of preparation, Urakami Sokei gathered 13,000 troops of the former kingdom, known as 20,000, and marched out from Tenjin Mountain Castle to officially begin the Kuroda Raid. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The famous generals of Bizen Province who accompanied the army included Otawara Nagasaki, Hattori Hisashi, Hisagasa Tsuno, Okamoto Hide, Akashi Keikin, Nobuhara Keino, Hikasa Tsunobo, Iga Kutaka, and Saura Nobumune, as well as Naokifa Naoke Naoka Naoki, Naokifera, Naokifera, Naoka Nao, Katsu Naobune, Kakuhide Hanafu, and Nishibizen 3,000 people.

The Kuroda family, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately reacted, and built a mountain castle on a 200-meter-high hill to the west of Fujibayashi Hotoyo's Laitian Castle at the junction of Sayo and Ako Counties, and sent Takenori Ogami to lead 200 standing troops to settle in.

A day later, the Kuroda family's army consisted of 800 standing men, 200 crossbows, 500 peasant soldiers, plus 200 standing guards of Takenori Ogami, and then Matsui Shigetaka led 200 Takino people, and Miki Akimitsu led 200 Yingga people to help, a total of 2,100 people set up a position in Yamashiro.

Many generals and important ministers in the family are guarding everywhere, only Matsui Shigetaka led 200 people from Takino Castle to help, and he still left the main elite in Takino Castle to guard against the Uno family, once the Uno family attacks, the Takino elites will go north to support the Musato small army position of Shiroyama Castle.

After the Kuroda clan built a castle on a hill, most of the Tongxin people were sent out, and they entered Bizen Province, Akaho County, and Sayo County, firstly to be able to explore the terrain and secondly, to take into account all the possible routes of the Urakami family's march. Thanks to the efforts of the concentric people, in the afternoon of the same day, a topographical map from Bizen Province and Ki-gun to the Kuroda family's main camp appeared in the Kuroda family's military tent.

"The Urakami family sent more than 13,000 troops this time, everyone, how should the family respond?" Kuroda asked the generals in the family.

"Why don't you defend right here?" Takeshi Ogami is good at defense, so he proposes to rely on the hill on the spot and defend it.

"I think it's good to fight, as long as you cooperate with the constant harassment of the family's ninja army, even if you attack head-on, your family has a great chance to win" Mitsuda Miyaji, the new head of the Ashigaru group, was eager to get a chance to perform, and immediately retorted to Takenori Ogami. Imate Tomoshi was in charge of Murozu Castle at this time, and if he were here, he would definitely agree with Mitsuda Miyaji's statement.

Although Itetomo was not there, there was another fierce general in the big tent, and he immediately said: "I agree with Miyata-sama's statement that the family should attack head-on, and with the power of the family's crossbow, combined with the concentric people, and the family's standing combat effectiveness, we will definitely be able to defeat the Urakami family."

Matsui Shigetaka has always been a relatively stable person in the family, not aggressive, not conservative, and has some strategy, he said tentatively: "I think the offense is not wrong, the defense is not wrong, I think if it is the official guard, I will not agree to attack rashly, nor will I agree to defend a stubborn attack, am I right?" Kandanwei? ”

Kodera Vocational High School was thinking about how to deal with the Kuroda family in this battle, so he seemed a little absent-minded, and Matsui Shigetaka asked, and then pulled his thoughts back.

"What a few adults said just now has given me a lot of reminders that our family must not just be passive defense here, but should take the initiative to defend."

"Active defense, how to take the initiative to defend?"

"To put it simply, keep building fortifications here and wait for the opponent to come. It's already a turtle shell. At the same time, some of the men and horses took the initiative to attack, thinking that it was impossible to defeat the attack of the Urakami family in one fell swoop with the current situation, but we can block the enemy by various methods, delay their offensive speed, consume the opponent's materials, reduce the enemy's morale, and then use traps, fire attacks, sneak attacks and other tactics to make the enemy tired, and then rely on this as a basis to defeat the Urakami family's army, what should we do. It is also necessary for everyone to deliberate. ”

Yasui Doton, who rarely spoke, said at this time: "I won't do anything else, but the main thing is that there is a way to delay for three days, and I am confident that I can make this place into a turtle shell" After speaking, everyone below laughed.

Kuroda said with a smile, "Then Kanshou, delay the Urakami army, and leave the work of active defense to you and Shigetaka to plan, as for how to build fortifications, I will hand it over to the Yasui Doton and Yasui Dobu brothers, and no one else can really do it." ”

"Hey" the four of them took the order together.

Urakami knew that there were many ninjas in the Kuroda family, so the Urakami family specially hired ten ninjas in the outside world, including two middle ninjas, who were specially used to fight against the Kuroda family. In the impression of Urakami Sokei, ninjas are a lowly profession, and there are many ninjas in the Kuroda family, and there are only a few dozen at most! But he made a mistake, the Kuroda family has 400 ninja concentrics, this is a secret of the Kuroda family, except for a few elders of the Kuroda family, Koji Zhigao, and people from the concentric people, the rest of the Kuroda family does not know how many concentric people there are, only that there are a lot of ninjas.

Ten ninjas from the Urakami side came to the border between Bizen and Harima to inquire about the news, and the ninjas were afraid that if they dispersed, they would be defeated by each of the Kuroda family, so they did not act separately, but slowly moved forward together.

"Kogoro, how many ninjas did you say there are in the Kuroda family?"

"I don't know, it won't be too little! It is said that at the beginning of the year, the five ninjas of the Takino Akamatsu family were wiped out at one time, even if they are all lower ninjas, there should be at least ten people on the other side! And there is definitely a middle ninja. ”

"Then the two of us will just entangle that middle ninja at that time, and then things will be well resolved"

While they were discussing what to do next, Shinobu Tsuchiyamaru seemed to have discovered something.

"Under is the middle ninja Tsuchiyamaru in the outside smell, is it the ninja of the Kuroda family? I don't know how to see it? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of swishing was incessant, and more than sixty ninjas surrounded them. As luck was in their hands, the ninjas of the Kuroda family divided two hundred and forty men into four teams to sweep away all possible enemy troubles along the way from Bizen Province to Harima Province, and lay traps at designated locations by the way.

What appeared now was the concentric team led by Kamishinobi Fuji Hayashi Hoho, and the two ninjas thought that there were many ninjas in the Kuroda family, but after seeing the dense ninjas that appeared around them, the two of them were desperate. If they had known that there were 400 ninjas in the Kuroda family, they would probably have cried and gone home to find their mother.

"Old husband Iga Kunito Hasuto, what do you want to come to my Kuroda family's territory?" A middle-aged man walked out, and it was Fujibayashi Hoho, one of the two leaders of the Kuroda family's two ninja armies, his steps were frivolous, even if he stood in front of these outside ninjas, he didn't feel his existence at all, and the two middle ninjas were left in a cold sweat.

"One of the three shinobi of Iga Province, Lord Fujibayashi Hotoyo?" Tsuchiyamaru asked nervously.

"You should be talking about the old man."

"We are ninjas in the outside world, hired by the Urakami family to come to the Kuroda family to inquire about information, I already knew that Fujibayashi was working in the Kuroda family, and the inferior people would never dare to come here, I hope the adults will let me go, I will return immediately, and never help the Urakami family again, please forgive me" After speaking, the two middle ninjas half-knelt on the ground, and the lower ninjas also rushed to do it.

If it was two shinobi who came at this time, they would have been killed by them a long time ago, but now it is Fujibayashi Baofeng, one of the three legendary Iga countries in the ninja world, one can kill all their existence, and the two of them took a look, there are at least six middle ninjas, if you really want to make a move, one can be wiped out by your own side, the quantity is invincible, and the quality is not good, so you can only beg the other party to let you go. And they found that it seemed that Fujibayashi Baofeng didn't want to touch them, otherwise they would have died a long time ago. Since there is something to talk about, let's go down the pole, this is the law of ninjas living in the dark.