Chapter 40: Persuasion to surrender Feathertail City

In the end, the Kuroda army, dominated by the Miki family, killed more than 400 soldiers and civilians of Tokoyama Castle with nearly 120 dead and wounded, leaving the old and weak behind. Of course, after the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info was broken, a collective **** behavior was rare, and this was also the only atrocity recorded in the history of the Kuroda family after that.

After receiving this news, Kuroda was a little shocked, the Kuroda family had never done this before! Now that Miki Totsuaki is doing this in Changshan Castle, who will dare to surrender to the Kuroda family in the future!

Kuroda was a little angry in his heart, but he had just returned to Kuroda's house from Miki's house, and the order for the Miki family to attack Kojima-gun was given by himself, so I really didn't know how to deal with it.

At this time, a letter came from the high-ranking priest of Kojira, which said: If Miaoharu suffers the same experience, he will let the entire Kojima County be buried together. When Kuroda saw Kodera Vocational High School's words, he immediately had an idea, knowing that this matter could not be handled, but at the same time, it could not be dealt with too harshly.

After ordering the Miki family to turn around, Miki Tongqiu, as the main general, was not strict, and was punished with a three-month ban and a half-year penalty; Hidehide Okamoto, Hideaki Kurose, Akicho Kawamatai, Kiyoshi Miki and others, as subordinates, did not remind the commander, which was really a dereliction of duty, and was punished with a one-month ban and a three-month penalty. Sakabuchi Nagatsu and Funatsui Tsuji, as guest generals, immediately returned to Inhata to listen to the order before the military tent, and made up for the merits without further punishment.

After this decision came out, the Miki family was grateful to Kuroda Zhitaka, and Miki Totsuaki personally wrote a letter of thanks to Kuroda to express his loyalty, so I won't repeat it here.

Kojima-gun is over, and I return to Inaba Province. Kodera vocational high school led 3,000 troops into the country of Inaba, the first big city encountered was the castle of Hawei Castle in Juno County, the city is the gateway to the north of the country of Inhata, facing the sea in the north, the river in the west, and the mountains in the south. The castle is the territory of the Hongo family, the Hongo family is a wealthy family of Junong County, which has been rooted here for more than 300 years, and after continuous reproduction, coupled with the barrenness of the Inhata country, the Hongo family has slowly become the largest wealthy clan in the vicinity.

Knowing the arrival of the Kuroda family's army this time, the head of the family, Hongo Kamitoyo, originally wanted to rely on the dangerous terrain of this place, as well as his own two hundred ashigaru and peasant soldiers and the Kuroda family.

This time, the Kuroda family finally sent Takaquan Yamamoto, who had completed the task of pacifying the wealthy clan in the Bizen country.

"Takashi Yamamoto has seen the young master." As soon as Yamamoto Takaquan entered the Honjin shogunate, he respectfully bowed to the Koji Shogunate.

"Yamamoto, you're here, I've been looking forward to you for a long time!" Koji said with a smile.

"I wonder what the young master commands?" Yamamoto Takatsu said respectfully.

"Originally, you were running all the way, and I shouldn't have delegated you the task as soon as I came, but now I still have to trouble you, you go to the Hongxiang house on the other side!" Koji said with a smile.

"Hey! The young master is polite, it is a toiling life below, since this is the case, set off immediately. ”

Kinoshita Hidecho sat at the end of the crowd, his eyes kept on Yamamoto Takatsu, paying attention to his every move, is this the person that the young master relies on very much? Why doesn't it look so special? It's weird.

When Yamamoto Takashi left, he felt Kinoshita Hidenaga's gaze, and when he saw that he was a samurai who had newly joined the family, he seemed to be promoted by the young master, and he still had some impressions, so he smiled at him and walked out.

Seems to be very personable! This smile gives Kinoshita Hidecho the feeling that this is the case, it is really rude to stare at him, but he has no intention of being angry at all, he still doesn't see anything, his brother is still a little better in this regard, he must work hard, his current starting point is higher than his brother, so he must not be worse than his brother, Kinoshita Hidecho clenched his fists.

Koji Zhigao sat at the top, everyone's expressions were in full view, and Kinoshita Hidecho was no exception, it seems that he wanted to learn from Yamamoto Takatsu! The corners of Xiaoji's high mouth curled, how could it be so easy.

When Yamamoto Takatsu arrived at Hamao Castle, Hongo Kamitoyo immediately met him.

"In the Shimokuroda family, Yamamoto Takasen, I have met Hongo Kamitoyo-sama." Yamamoto Takashi bowed respectfully to Hongo Kamitoyo, and then straightened up, looking directly at Hongo Kamitoyo without being humble or arrogant.

"Oh! It's Yamamoto-sama! The name of the adult,It's thunderous below.,Send the adult here.,The Kuroda family really looks down on it! Hongo Kamitoyo said with a smile.

"What the adults said is right, the family really looks up to the adults very much, otherwise they wouldn't have sent them here." Takahiro Yamamoto said with a smile.

"This ......" I was just polite, I didn't expect this so-called Kuroda family's first person who can speak and argue, to answer himself like this, I really didn't expect that for a while, Hongo Kamitoyo didn't know what to say.

"My lord is a powerful and wealthy force in Junong County, but he has succumbed to this Feathertail City, and he is indeed a little wronged by his hometown. But just like Hongo-sama just said, the Kuroda family attaches great importance to adults, as long as adults can subdue to the Kuroda family......" Takashi Yamamoto was interrupted by Hongo Kamitoyo before he finished speaking.

"Are you here to persuade you to surrender? Needless to say, the Hongo family will never surrender. Although Hongo Shangfeng said so, but there was no meaning to send off the guest at all, Yamamoto Takatsu smiled slightly, knowing his thoughts, he was really an old fox, but he was just waiting for the price to sell, and he pretended to be awe-inspiring.

"Why don't you wait until you're done to make a decision?" Takatsu Yamamoto said with a smile.

"Ahh In this case, I can't lose the courtesy of the samurai family, so Yamamoto-sama will talk about what else! ”

"Hmmm! Before coming down, the young head of the family, Koji Zhigao, said that as long as the adults surrendered, they would find a piece of land of 1,200 koku for the adults in Tajima Province, and accept the sons of adults as direct ministers of the family, and if there were children under the age of ten, they could also go to Goshojo Castle to participate in the Kuroda family's training class. ”

"Training class?" When Hongo Uetoyo heard this word for the first time, he was very puzzled.

"All the important ministers of the Kuroda family and the children of the local powerful wealthy families from the age of four to ten can participate in this training class, and the military science, the art of war, arithmetic, Ming Chinese characters, etc., after the age of ten, the outstanding ones have the opportunity to become the small surname of the head of the family, until the age of sixteen, the head of the family guild personally serves its yuan, you can choose whether to stay in the family, and the particularly outstanding will directly enter the army or pursue the appointment."

"How can such a good thing happen?" Hongo Kamitoyo didn't think clearly about the key in the middle for a while, he just felt that this was the Kuroda family helping others cultivate excellent successors, if the heirs of his retainers were successful, and the heirs of the main family were weak, wouldn't sooner or later the Kuroda family be subverted by his retainers? Hongo's eyes rolled around, and he said hypocritically, if he sent his young second son to study and returned to his family after completing his studies, wouldn't Hongo be able to go to the next level?