In the spring of the following year, when the Kuroda family began spring ploughing, a messenger from Kyushu sent a good news to Kuroda Vocational High School, the inner castle of the Otomo family's residence was finally broken by the military strength of the Iate Tomo's clan, and all the descendants of the Otomo family, the main samurai under his command, were basically all killed in the inner castle, and the news that the Otomo family was exterminated made the Kuroda family more motivated.

The collapse of the Otomo family, coupled with the destruction of the small daimyos, wealthy clans, and samurai in many places attached to his family, also led to the entire territory controlled by the original Otomo family, many of which became borderless lands, and when the Kuroda family was rewarded later, there would be a lot more land for distribution! Isn't that what the Kuroda samurai wanted to see?

The samurai were very happy, but Kuroda Vocational High School, as the lord, was not too happy, because there were still many excellent retainers under the command of the Otomo family, which was still very clear to him when he played "Taiko Rishi Den V" and "Nobunaga's Ambition" before.

Kuroda Vocational High School, as a character who has a famous general collecting habit who has crossed over, of course, when the Otomo family fell, he hoped to be like many protagonists of the Three Kingdoms, the tiger body was shocked, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan bowed his head, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun came to take refuge with a dead face, and the five good generals also followed as if they didn't want money.

It's just that in the end, Kuroda Vocational High School is destined to be disappointed, and he has not been able to get the refuge of the historical famous player after a big victory. Through the meager knowledge in the game, he can name Takahashi Master Dining Guard Shaoyun, Shiga Bingbu Shosuke Shomo, Shiga Minbu Daisuke Kinto, Kifu Nakabu Zhenzhi, Wakabayashi Nakamu Shaofu Zhenxing, Questioning Shobu Daisuke Tongjing, Ando Ki Isuke Ietada, Uchida and Hyobei Zhenzi, Sugimori Uchizozo Zhenyuki, Ono Toe Nobuyuki and others, all in Funai Castle with Otomo Sorinyu shattered, no one took refuge in the Kuroda family, and the few samurai who took refuge in the Kuroda family were just ordinary samurai, And they were all taken as captives by the Kuroda family and sent to Iwami Ginzan.

The house was breached, and the Kuroda family actually used a not-so-honorable tactic, that is, starvation tactics. In this era, when there were not many good siege methods, starvation and thirst were often used tactics.

The method of warfare in which the relatively strong side of economic and military strength launches a siege but not attack on the opponent's city, cutting off the other party's food route by cutting off its connection with the outside world. Or cut off the opponent's water source and poison the water to hit the enemy.

Kuroda had preferred to pile up with human lives before, and had never used such a tactic that seemed very simple and reasonable, after all, he was a modern man, and he felt in his heart that such a tactic would hurt the heavens.

But this time there is no way to starve and kill, Kuroda Vocational High School is not there, and Takenaka Shigeji's strength is not to play conspiracy, so it is really more in line with the situation of Fuuchi Castle, and Imate Yushi also recognized this way.

The method of starvation and killing is indeed harmful, and it is a terrible thing to end the enemy's combat effectiveness by starving people to death, even if there are hundreds of people in a small city, all of them starve to death.

Historically, the monkey was blocked from fighting the long rule, after uprooting all the peripheral branches of the city, the three wood city was intermittently starved and killed for three years, the soldiers and civilians in the city finally changed their children and eaten, and the starvation died of no less than a thousand people, and finally in exchange for the whole clan of the other Changzhi to apologize for the seppuku, to protect the remaining soldiers and civilians, and the other Changzhi himself was also loved by the local people, until now, there are special sacrifices to the other Changzhi.

The Kuroda family first attacked the inner castle of the Otomo family's Ijofu last year, in June of the sixth year of Tensho (1578 AD), when the autumn harvest was not yet reached, and all the grain fields of the Otomo family were controlled by the Kuroda family, and any merchants in the castle town began to be forbidden to buy and sell grain.

The Otomo family first had 50,000 koku of grain in the vicinity of Funai Castle, but there were only about 10,000 koku in the granary in Funai Castle, and the rest of the grain was stored in the nearby two castles of Beppu Castle and Kurata Castle.

Beppu Castle and Kurata Castle are one south and one north, echoing the Funai Castle Zhao, and the reason why the Otomo family arranged this way is because the granary of Funai Castle is not so large, and secondly, it is also convenient to transport grain and grass to the required territory in case of emergencies.

However, under the arrangement of Shigeharu Takenaka before, the Kuroda family's attack on Bungo Province this time was very sudden, so that when the Kuroda family fought until Bungo Country, the Otomo family didn't know about this situation.

The most direct result is that when the Otomo family knew that the Kuroda family was going to fight, Otomo Solin remembered that he still had 40,000 stone grain and grass outside.

He immediately ordered Takahashi Shaoyun and Shiga to go to supervise the grain and grass separately, but the Kuroda family was faster than them, and when they each came to Beppu Castle and Kurada Castle with hundreds of people, the Kuroda family had already laid down the two granaries and tried to clean up the traces of the battle as much as possible.

The key to the success of the Kuroda family is that the Kuroda family army has absorbed some people from Kyushu who have been favored by the Kuroda family over the years, and these people have dispelled the other party's vigilance through the dialogue with the Otomo family's food collection team, and when they entered the city, the Kuroda family's army, which numbered more than 4,000 people, came out from inside and outside the city, and caught the Otomo family's food collection team by surprise.

Not only did the Otomo family not get back 40,000 koku of food, but they also lost 1,600 soldiers in vain, just the day before the Kuroda family's army attacked Funai Castle.

Although Otomo Zonglin said that he was angry, he couldn't solve the problem if he was angry, so he felt that if he lost 40,000 stone of grain, he would lose it! Don't you still have 10,000 stone in the city? There were already more than 5,000 people in the castle, and now there are 7 or 8,000 people in the castle, plus the samurai and civilians who fled here from various places and lost their territory under the attack of the Kuroda family.

In Otomo Zonglin's plan, reduce the food ration of all the old, weak, women and children, let the defenders carry out a rotation system, and the soldiers who were rotated also appropriately reduce the food ration, although 10,000 stone is not much, but it can be used for at least a year and a half, in fact, Otomo Zonglin is a little more ruthless, and it is no problem to persist for two years.

As a result, when inspecting the grain in the granary, the person who carried out the inventory told Otomo Sorin, that the total amount of grain and grass in the granary was less than 5,000 koku. In other words, the grain and grass stored in the granary of the inner city of Funai are only half of the amount that should be stored.