Chapter 40 The Pacification of the Higo Kingdom
After hearing Otomo Sorin's words, Iate Yushi was very unhappy, as an orthodox samurai, he hated that samurai had to quibble in all kinds of ways when they were dying, so he scolded loudly: "Sure enough, as Kanbei said, the Nanban Sect is the way of evil and evil, and it is the best at demagoguery. Kill ......"
Having said that, foreign religions do believe that people cannot commit suicide, they feel that the creation of all things is God, life is a gift from God, no one has the right to kill or commit suicide, God in the sixth commandment of the ten commandments is commanded not to kill, and not to commit suicide also comes from this precept, because suicide is also guilty of homing!
For a rough person like Imate Tomoji, what kind of foreign doctrine do you talk to him, what do you talk about Jesus Christ, you say Amitabha, he may still laugh at you, and it is strange if you don't kill you if you don't kill these words, because Kuroda Vocational High School hates foreign religions that are extremely aggressive in spirit.
In this way, with the help of the Imate Tomo, Otomo Sorin, finally died, not only the core of the Otomo family was slaughtered by the Kuroda family, but also the important retainers of the Otomo family, the Saeki family, the Kisusu family, the Yoshigan family and other prominent families in Kyushu were also wiped out along with the Otomo family, and many retainers who resisted fiercely, such as Soda Zhenzuna, Saito Zhenshi, Tomitsu Kankyo, and Shibata Reineng, were ruthlessly exterminated by the Kuroda family, giving them a chance to be loyal to their lord.
At this time, news came from Higo Province, the 10,000 army of Shigeji Takenaka, who attacked Higo Country, first destroyed the Sagara family who dared to fight against the Kuroda family in one fell swoop, and as a retainer of the Sagara family, the Kyushu sword hero Marimome Nagahui, he alone annihilated nearly 100 people of the Kuroda family, and finally was beaten to death by the way of the master with a random fist, and was besieged and finally hacked to death in the chaos.
With the Sagara family being wiped out by the Kuroda family, many retainers under the Sagara family also made their own choices, such as Marumme Semei, Dongfang Brother and others all resisted the Kuroda family to the end, and died in their own cities, only the famous general Inudo Ryan surrendered to the Kuroda family, and the rest of the wealthy families and people were basically all killed by the Kuroda family. It can be said that the area around Minamihigo Province, because of the demise of the Sagara family, has become a power vacuum, just waiting for the final redistribution of the Kuroda family.
Later, the reinforcements of the Aso family and the Takenaka Shigeji army were fighting in Kuma County, and as a result, Takenaka Shigeharu was unexpectedly defeated by the Kai Soun of the Aso family, although there were many people and horses in Takenaka Shigeharu, and there was a factor of defeating the opponent head-on in the middle, but this time the defeat also made Takenaka Shigeharu know the strength of the Kai Soun he was facing, so he had the idea of recruiting him for the Kuroda family.
Later, after Takenaka Shigeji re-prepared, he ostensibly used the tactic of luring the enemy, so that the Aso family's team could win a small victory, and was introduced into the encirclement that Takenaka Shigeji had already arranged, and finally the Aso family surrendered to the Kuroda family, and Kai Soun also passed through the intermediary of Takenaka Shigeharu and went directly to Kuroda Vocational High School.
After receiving the allegiance of the Aso family, the Kuroda family has not yet fully mastered Higo Province, because there are still the three major bosses of the Kikuchi family, who are the original lords of Higo Province, they are the Akashi family, the Kumabe family, and the castle family.
These three families used to watch from the wall when others were fighting and dying, but now that the Kuroda family has come to the door, they finally remembered that they would have been beaten before. In the end, they decided to maintain the dignity of their samurai family, and in the end, the three of Higo Kuni's daimyo Akashi Toshi, Kumabe Konyasu, and Jo Kiyoto were defeated by the Kuroda family one by one, and they were killed in battle or seppuku in their own castle.
After that, Takenaka Shigeharu approached the north, and the Amakusa family of Amakusa had defeated the Shimazu family before, and after discussion, they knew that the Otomo family was gone, and they needed to replace a more powerful master, so they all took the initiative to surrender to the Kuroda family, so far the Bungo country and Higo country all fell into the hands of the Kuroda family, and the Kuroda family was far from unifying Kyushu, and only Hizen and Chikugo were left, and the Bunzen country belonged to the territory of the castle town.
At the beginning of the summer of the ninth year of Tensho (1579 AD), the Kuroda family raised an army of 10,000 to enter Hizen, and the daimyo of Hizen Province, Chikushi Hiromon, judged the situation and chose to submit directly to the Kuroda family. Counting Akizuki Tanemu and Tachibana Kanzai, they were already under the Kuroda family, and Hizen Province was completely the territory of the Kuroda family.
The lord of Chikugo Province was Kamachi Zhenjiu under the command of the Otomo family, and he had died in Bungo Province with the Otomo family, and the current person in charge of the overall situation of the Kamachi family is Puchi Zhenjiu's younger brother Puchi Zhenlian.
As a military general of the Otomo family, Kamachi Zhenlian was originally a retainer at the daimyo level, but he was the head of the fifteen castles of Chikugo Province under his brother. Together with Kamachi Zhenjiu, he received the town character in the middle of the original name of Otomo Sorin, thus getting the name (it is also recorded as a town merger). It is the seventeenth generation of the Puchi clan as the lord, and the eighth generation of the Puchi clan as the lord.
Most of the strength of the Kamachi family has been taken to the Bungo Kingdom, so the Kamachi Zhenren is actually full of old, weak, sick and disabled people under his hands now, and as a famous figure in history, he clearly knows his current situation, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to submit to the Kuroda family.
The eldest daughter of Kamachi Zhenlian, Tokuko, who is currently only thirteen years old, was given to the adopted son of the Ite Tomoshi clan as his main room. And sent a surrender table, and the Kuroda family accepted his submission conditions. As a result, Chikugo Province was also successfully subdued under the pressure of the Kuroda family's army.
The Kuroda family's army, plus 2,000 members of the Chikushi family, 1,000 members of the Aso family, 1,000 members of the Kamachi family, and 500 people of the Amakusa family, a total of more than 14,000 people, marched west into Hizen Province and prepared to continue the attack. At the same time, Akizuki Tanemi and Tachibana Kanzai of Chikuzen Province led 2,000 Chen soldiers to the border of Hizen Province to contain the Ryuzoji family.
The Shimazu family of Shimahara already knew it as soon as the Kuroda family arrived, although after years of development, the Shimazu family has regained some strength, and even in Hizen Province, it can be on an equal footing with the Ryuzoji family. But after all, the Shimazu family is an outsider, and the retainers of the Ryuzoji family are also luxurious, so this kind of military power cannot be broken by either the Shimazu family or the Ryuzoji family.
Now that the Kuroda family is here, the Shimazu family immediately gathered 3,000 elites to prepare for the battle. Some of these 3,000 people were the original elite of the Shimazu family brought all the way from Satsuma Province, some of them were selected from the people who came from Satsuma Province, and finally the local wealthy clans, countrymen and ordinary people who had submitted to the Shimazu family.