Akamatsu Masahide thought about the loss of his side if the Kuroda family went out to fight, and he actually told the guards of Taniguchi Castle to pay special attention to the movements of the Kuroda family and be careful against ninjas. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info So in his heart, there are sneak attacks on both sides, but his side is already on guard. He had already prepared to abandon Taniguchi Castle, which had arranged more than three hundred people, just to delay the Kuroda family's actions and increase the Kuroda family's casualties. Anyway, giving up Taniguchi Castle means giving up about 3,000 koku of land around it at most. Three thousand stones, this is nothing compared to invading Ako County, exterminating the Urakami family, and obtaining tens of thousands of stone land, it is simply not worth mentioning, it is a small price.

But I didn't expect that in just one night, just one night, although I completed my pre-war goal, the Kuroda family broke through their bottom line, broke through Taniguchi Castle, exterminated a group of small wealthy clans under their command, captured Sakamoto Castle, and occupied their old nest Takino. He instantly felt that this arrangement had become a gamble, and he ended up losing without even pants.

"Guangzhen, how are they?" After Akamatsu Masahide recovered, the first thing he cared about was the safety of his son, and as for Takino Castle, now that it has fallen, he can't take care of it anymore.

"The Kuroda family numbered more than 1,000, and before the castle fell, we escorted the three young masters out of Takino Castle smoothly, but Lord Akamatsu Harimasa, Mrs. Yuri Hirai were all martyred. Out of the city, I encountered a sneak attack by the ninjas of the Kuroda family, and two brothers died, and the young masters are all right, it was the young master Guangzhen who sent me to come over to inform the lord first, and they should come over to meet later. The kinship samurai explained the general situation and didn't say anything more.

"Everyone, everyone knows the current situation, the family may only have the Shiroyama Castle guarded by Kawashima Yorimura not lost yet, how are we okay now?" Akamatsu Masahide looked at the people on the left and right, many people in the middle had flashing or avoidance in their eyes, Akamatsu Masahide has read countless people, and he already knows the thoughts of these people, it seems that he wants to get back a city quickly! Otherwise, it's really finished.

Seeing that everyone else didn't speak, Shibahara Yajuro shouted, "Aren't you usually noisy? How come things become dumb? Lord, I think that not long after the Kuroda family fell from the city, we quickly drove to Takino Castle and fought with them, I don't believe that the Kuroda family is really that powerful. ”

"Okay, Yajuro, you're all injured, it's better to rest." Yazaburo Bono said with a smile: "My lord, let's send someone to Shiroyama Castle to deliver a message to Kawashima-sama, and after converging the men and horses of Joyama Castle, we will attack Takino again." ”

Kuwabara Saemon frowned and said: "My lord, there are two ways to deal with it, the first is to send someone to contact the Uno family of Sanrong County, put forward certain conditions, let them send troops, we will meet in Shiroyama Castle, and then attack the Kuroda family, we will recover our skills; The second is to abandon Joyama Castle, which is close to Takino Castle, and it is only a matter of time before it is attacked, and after the confluence of the armies, we will occupy Ako Prefecture on the spot and carry out a counterattack as a foundation. ”

"Uno ...... Ako-gun? Now that Urakami Masamune is dead, although it is easy to occupy Higashi-Ako County, Nishi-Akaiho-gun still has the power of the Kamitsuki family! There's the one behind them, and we can't afford to mess with the Uetsuki family right now. When we digested Higashi-Ako County, the Kuroda family had already polished Iho County into an iron plate, and half of the county, we couldn't feed so many troops, and the Kuroda family's internal affairs ability was very strong! No, if that's the case, we don't have a chance. ”

"Uno Masayori, Uno Masanori, although he is nominally a relative, he is also an old fox! He will never send troops without paying the price that satisfies him, I think about it, I think about it, Kuwabara Saemon. ”

"Hey!"

"You sent an envoy to Changshui Mountain Castle and told Uno Masayori that he would send troops to help me recover the ability of Ibao County, and I would give 10,000 stone to the north of the inner city of Ibao County." Akamatsu Masahide pinched his forehead and said with difficulty. 10,000 koku, it's better than 60,000 koku gone, and after defeating the Kuroda family, you must occupy Higashiakaho County before the last month's house, so that at least this time there won't be too much loss.

By the way, also, Akamatsu Harumasa, that old thing, is also dead, you go to Changshui Mountain Castle and go directly to Yancheng, just say that the Kuroda family killed Akamatsu Harumasa when they were attacking the city, do you know? ”

"Knowing the lord, I'll leave right now."

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's change our route and go north to Chengshan Castle. Waiting for the arrival of the Uno army, we defeated the Kuroda family in one fell swoop. ”

"Hey!"

After the Kuroda family occupied Takino Castle, they did not immediately make the following action, because it had been fighting continuously all night, and the army needed to rest. Except for some personnel patrolling and extinguishing the fire in batches, everyone else rested on the spot.

At noon, Kuroda and Kodera had lunch together at Ninomaru Ichiyashiki, which was a few rice balls and a few pickled radishes, and the soldiers also found a few drowned fish in the yashiki, which also became the next meal for the two.

"Kan Kanwei, you said that Akamatsu Masahide still has more than a thousand people in his hands, how will he act?" Kuroda looked at Kodera Vocational High School and ate the rice balls in his hand as he spoke.

After so many years, although there are no snacks, pastries, drinks, and hot pots before the crossing, after so long, he has slowly become accustomed to the diet of the Warring States. Kodera picked up a piece of dried radish, threw it in his mouth, closed his eyes, and chewed slowly, as if he was tasting the taste of each, and as if he was thinking about Kuroda's question. He didn't speak right away, and Kuroda wasn't in a hurry, and he didn't mean to urge at all.

"If my father were the current Lord Akamatsu Masahide, and my father had 1,500 soldiers and horses, what choice would he have?" After thinking about it for a while, instead of answering Kuroda's question, Kodera asked his father another question.

"This, if I were to take the Takino Palace, the territory would basically be occupied, and there would be a castle and mountain castle left, but it would only be a matter of time before it was captured, what would I do? It is absolutely impossible to surrender to the family. And what about surrendering to the other one in the surrounding area? ”

"At present, the big forces around me except for my Kuroda family, that is, Bizen Kuniku Urakami Sokei, Shangyue Castle Kamitsuki Keizada, Nagasuiyama Castle Uno Masayori, Shioshi Akamatsu family, Inga Miki family is too small not to count, Urakami Sokei will need 1,500 people of Akamatsu Masahide, but because of the original Akamatsu Three Kingdoms territorial dispute (Bizen, Misaku, Harima, the history is a bit long, I won't repeat it here), Akamatsu Masahide and the two Urakami have not had a good relationship, and they will not take refuge in Urakami Sokei unless they have to.

The Shioden is the guardian of the Harima Kingdom, and he is the nominal monarch, and if the Takino Hall takes refuge in him, he can put pressure on us through the intermediary of the Shioden Palace. But back then, the relationship between the salt hall and the Takino hall was not good, and the salt hall exiled Akamatsu Harumasa, and there was also a fear of Akamatsu Masahide, and the two sides of the battle of Lushan fought a battle, and now it is even more impossible to get along.

When we entered the city, we didn't find the Akamatsu Haruma who lived here, and the ninja's report only mentioned the news of the three young masters of the Akamatsu family and a few samurai, and it was very likely that Haruma had died in the fire of the Imperial Palace, and I was afraid that Takino Hall would make a fuss about this and use the salt temple to attack us.

As for the last month, the family is a vassal of Urakami Sokei, so it is possible to come over and take advantage, but he will not attack Akamatsu Masahide without Urakami Sokei's order, so don't worry about him.

The Uno family is more troublesome, the Uno family and the Takino family are relatives, and the Takino Hall sometimes calls itself Uno Shimono Masatsu, and the Uno family is likely to send troops to help, and the largest number of troops of the Uno family are around five or six hundred, and the two armies really converge, it will reach two thousand, and it is estimated that they will converge in Shiroyama City. ”

Kodera Vocational High School said a lot, Kuroda Vocational High School has been listening carefully, and before he knew it, a rice ball was finished, "Kankanwei, in that case, the most likely situation now is that the two armies of Takino Hall and Uno Masayori will merge to attack, and the Shio-Chimatsu family may be used, I am not afraid of the former, even if the more than 1,200 people here fight in the field, I am confident that I can win, but it will not be easy to do it!" ”