"So at that time, I personally said that if one day, we have the opportunity to go to Settsu Province, the land of a thousand stones that the bird raises his family, and then seal a thousand stones, and this is the fief of Kyoshiro. Now that my family is preparing to attack Settsu Province, I must keep this promise. Kyoshiro ......"

"Hey!"

"Bird Raising City is your fiefdom this time."

"Ahh After Kuroda finished speaking, Kyoshiro Mibu was still a little overwhelmed.

"I haven't thanked my lord yet." Xiaohe Liangli beside him immediately reminded.

"Whew! Thank you, Lord...... Lord. Kyoshiro Mibu said with a flushed face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Mibu-sama has been serving in my family for many years, although I have not played many battles, but I must be in the front of every battle, and he is humble, and he has also been recognized by everyone, this time the first is to fulfill my previous promise, and the second is to recognize his contributions to the family over the years.

This time the family will inevitably get a large piece of land, not only Mibu-sama, as long as you can be for the family, this time the land will definitely have a share of the adults, and this is also the promise I made. It's just that how much you can get depends on your own contributions. ”

"We will go to the soup for the Kuroda family." The crowd immediately shouted loudly.

Kuroda's 36,000-strong army was divided into three teams that day. The Kuroda family's 28,000 men were mostly stationed at Shiyama Castle that day, and a team of 1,000 led by Miyata Mitsuji, Sasaki Nagahide, and Umino Nobuyoshi served as the vanguard and arrived at the Kuroda family's newly established Kokuko near the Yamashiro country.

The 6,000 Tanba National Army led by the Kodera clan and the 1,000-strong 1,000-strong team led by Suzuki Shigenari specially sent by Kuroda Vocational High School will go to Settsu Province to attack.

And the remaining 2,000 people, under the leadership of Kuroda Naoyuki, stayed in Tanba Province, and at the same time provided logistics routes for the Kuroda family's army, and his task was not light, so Kuroda Vocational High School specially assigned Masuda Masaaki, Murata Yoshiji among the newly graduated small surnames, to him, Masuda Masaaki has proved his internal affairs ability under Hanafang Masayuki.

Murata Yoshiji is one of the twenty-four Kuroda generals in history, and he has outstanding martial arts. His family was originally a retainer of the Kuroda family, and his father, Yamaguchi Uemon, was born in the Kuroda family during the Kuroda Shigetaka period. His three elder brothers had already served in the Kuroda family before, but their abilities were average, so the eldest brother and the second brother went back to work in the family, and the third brother was an ordinary ashigaru group leader in the Kuroda family, and Murata Yoshiji got a chance because of his martial arts ability.

By the way, I want to say here that Murata Yoshiji likes to use spears instead of katanas, so under the recommendation of Aiker Yoshinaga, he secretly went to Kyoto to learn the martial arts of the treasure temple stream, and the year before last, he was exempted from the treasure temple stream. And this young man also got the favor of Ide Tomoshi and gave him a look, so he also has his own experience in Sasaki's marksmanship.

Masuda Masaaki and Murata Yoshiji are two people, one Wen and one Wu, one and one Chi, plus Kuroda Naoyuki's own subordinates who have been accepted in Nagato Province and Kyushu successively, but there should be no problem in the back road of encircling Tanba Country.

Let's talk about the Kotera clan first, because the Settsu country currently doesn't have much power except for Honganji, so the other small wealthy clans and countrymen are still secondary, and the most important task of the Koji clan is actually to suppress Honganji. Suppression is not elimination, Kuroda Vocational High School must destroy Honganji Temple in his plan, but time is not this attack.

Honganji is one of the most hated Warring States forces in Kuroda Vocational High School, plus the Kuroda family siege network launched by the Maori family before, Honganji took the initiative to attack the Kuroda family, so Kuroda Vocational High School will never let go of the bald donkeys of Honganji.

But because the main task this time is to try to eliminate the Oda family, even if the Oda family cannot be eliminated, at least it must be a fatal blow to the Oda family, and it is absolutely impossible for the Oda family to have any chance of turning around, or to be able to condense together.

At present, Honganji has more than 10,000 monks and soldiers, and has gathered more than 1,000 people from the Saga congregation, more than 2,000 people from the surrounding forces, and more than 100,000 believers and believers, which is already an extremely terrifying force.

Because the eastern part of Harima Province to the west is controlled by two groups of Kuroda family, plus Kuroda Naoyuki's 2,000 people. Therefore, the Kodera clan does not need to worry about his own back road. After discussing with his subordinates, he decided that this time the strategy of Settsu Province would start from the northeastern part of Settsu Province, and then slowly move westward, and then besiege the southernmost Ishiyama Honganji Imperial Workshop in Seisei County.

The path chosen by the Kodera clan is the same path chosen by Honganji when it attacked the Kuroda family, and if you want to pass through this road, you must pass through the torii pass. The forward of the Kodera family was led by Ino Kushihashi, and he had his three younger brothers, Kushihashi Zuo Uchinosuke, Kushihashi Right Masuke, and Kushihashi Masatoshi. Kajiwara Yichen, a countryman who is the brother-in-law, and a close relative of the eldest son Kushihashi.

Under the leadership of Kushihashi Inori, the forward army of 500 people quickly passed through the torii pass, and entered the Shimashita County in the Settsu country, the island of the county is relatively not large, just because the land is fertile, so it can have 73,000 stone of land, there are many lords here, but in the direction of entering the Settsu country, there are two lords of the Hao clan who were divided out of the sphere of influence by Yodogawa, the west is the powerful Hao family of the Setzu country, and the east is the powerful Hao family Yasumoto.

In the middle of the two houses is divided by the Chesaku River, a tributary of the Yodo River, and the territory of the Oiwa family is relatively large, with 7,000 koku; The An Yuan family has 6,000 stones, and the strength of the two families is basically not much different, because of the problem of water sources, the two families often have to fight, it is a real village war, so the two families are not harmonious.

Torii Pass entered the Shimoto-gun of Shimashimo-gun, Settsu Province, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was according to the territory of the Yasumoto family, and the Yasumoto family had only five castles in total, and the Jujo was the most central Angen Castle, and the north was the Uchi-Kanhara and Kiyosaka Castle that connected the Kuzuri Street, and the Shimizu and Chesaku Castle in the south.

The first role is to guard against a possible attack by the Tamba Kingdom in the north, and the second is to be able to defend against the first time when the Oiwa family comes to grab the water source.

When the more than 30 guards inside the Qizi saw the 500 men and horses of Kushihashi Ize, they were blinded on the spot, and the most time of the Dayiwa family was 500 people, and it was generally impossible to come to this side of the Chesakugawa.