The army of the Mori family marched quickly, and it did not take long to enter the territory of Iwami Province, and at this time, the main thing left by the Niko family in Iwami Province was more than 1,000 soldiers who relied on the defense of the three fortified castles of Kohama, Ogiwara, and Shikoya. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info other than that, there is no other defensive force.

To put it bluntly, Niko Yoshihisa has no vision, if he is changed to Kuroda Vocational High School, he will have to defend Iwami Silver Mountain if he is killed. But what Niko Yoshitsu has been thinking about for a long time is to keep his Izumo country, and Iwami country is fortunate to be good and loses my life. With this in mind, Niko Yoshihisa didn't have much defensive strength left at all.

When Mori Motoharu took Yoshikawa Motoharu, Kumagai Motonao, Katsura Motosumi, Kodama Kasutaka and others into Naga County, which had been taken away by the Niko family. The Maori family found out that the Niko family really burned down all the small castles according to Kuroda Vocational High School. This behavior of the Niko family, the angry Iwami country lord Yoshimi Masayori scolded his mother, and Yoshikawa Motoharu and others were also angry.

But it was okay, when everyone came to Iwami Ginzan with excitement. What they saw was a mine that had been completely destroyed by the Niko family, and it was judged that it would take a whole year to repair the entire Iwami Silver Mountain if it was to be re-mined, and it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to invest.

After this result came out, needless to say that Yoshikawa Motoharu and Yoshimi Masayori, even Maori Motoren himself cursed loudly for the Niko family, and he fainted, you must know that Iwami Ginzan is a big source of income for the Maori family! Now that it has become like this in the hands of the Maori family, how can Maori Yuan not be angry.

After learning about the situation of Iwami Ginzan, the Mori family began to move forward at full speed, and two hours later arrived at Kohama Castle, a fortified castle controlled by the Niko family.

The Maori family only took a short break to start a tragic siege battle, and the Maori family went through five rounds of continuous attacks before the dawn of the day, and successfully captured Kohama Castle.

Of course, such a high-intensity attack requires a great price, the Maori family almost paid the number of 500 casualties to capture Kohama Castle, after a night of repairs, the Maori family once again captured Ogiwara Castle at all costs, but in the end, the defender of the Niko family, Ogasawara Nagao, surrendered with nearly 100 people, and the relative loss of the Maori family was about 400 people.

There are nearly 1,000 casualties, which is not a small number for a Maori family with only 7,000 people, but Maori Yuan doesn't care at all, if the person dies, it would be good to let the people have another child, in his eyes, this is not a big deal, the so-called success will be a thousand bones, maybe that's what it means!

Shigenobu Furushi, the last defender of Sakatani Castle, was scared from the bottom of his heart after getting the speed of the Maori family's strategy for one city in one day. Although he had lost to Kuroda Vocational High School before, Mori Yuan was still the first wise general in the Western Kingdom, and he was still an invincible existence in the eyes of everyone in the Nizi family.

Therefore, Furushi Shigenobu took his 300 men to retreat towards Izumo Province very decisively, and the speed was still very fast, and finally met the 5,000 army led by Niko Yoshihisa himself on the border between Izumo Province and Iwami Province. However, thanks to his rapid retreat, if Gu Zhi Shigenobu was half an hour slower, it was estimated that he would be given dumplings by the Maori family, who were also advancing quickly, so his retreat also succeeded in retaining more than 300 soldiers for the Nizi family, but he made a contribution to the Nizi family.

The Mori family was unable to pursue the forces of Koshi Shigenobu, so they could only make a slight repair at Sakatani Castle and continue to advance towards Izumo Province. Finally, I met with the Niko family in the Senzan place on the border of Izumo Province.

Under the power of the Nizi family's 300 iron artillery team, the Maori family failed to take down the Nizi family's army again, but it cannot be said that they lost completely. Because Yoshikawa Motoharu led a heroic charge with 200 Maori horse cavalry teams, causing casualties among more than 30 people of the Nizi family's iron artillery team and more than 200 other miscellaneous soldiers.

In this battle, the Maori family lost more than 400 people, and the Nizi family lost more than 300 people, and the two sides were actually indistinguishable from each other, and the two families began to confront each other in the Xianshan area, but after that, they were all small fights, and the two sides won and lost each other, but the casualties were not big.

On the other side, at Numata Castle in Numata County, Bigo Province, Kobayakawa Takakei gathered an army of 5,000 men, plus the 3,000 people left behind by Mori Moto, a total of 8,000 troops, preparing to attack Fukatsu and Anna Gun, which were captured by the Kuroda family.

At this time, the total strength of the Kuroda family in Fukatsu and Anna counties was temporarily 500 people from Fukuyama Castle Hanabo Masayuki, 200 people from Awara Castle Kuno Shigekatsu, 100 people from Masaaki Masashi from Kamitsuka Castle, 100 people from Yoshida Nagatoshi from Kamikaga Castle, 100 people from Miyake Ieyoshi in Mitani Castle, and more than 400 people from several wealthy families who migrated over, totaling 1,400 people. It was still quite difficult to defeat Kobayakawa Takakei's army of 8,000 with these horses.

After receiving the information, the Kuroda family's concentrators did not dare to slack off, and immediately passed on the information they had obtained to the various samurai and wealthy clans of the Kuroda family in Fukatsu and Anna counties. Hanabo Masayuki, as the deputy official of the Kuroda family in Bigo Province, immediately ordered that the people of all the two prefectures retreat to Bigoku in an organized manner, and that all the samurai and wealthy clans would gather at Fukuyama Castle.

The Kuroda family's movement was very fast, and in just one day, all the people were evacuated to Beichu, and the 1,400 troops were all gathered in Fukuyama Castle.

Hanafang Masayuki immediately convened everyone to discuss the countermeasures this time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time Kobayakawa Takakei led an army of 8,000 Maori to attack us, intending to recover the territory of Bizen Province owned by the family, I wonder how you think we should respond?" Hanafang Masayuki said solemnly.

"Just kill it, let's fight with the Maori family once, as long as we are united, we will definitely be able to defeat the Maori family." Kuno Shigekatsu stood up and said loudly.

"It's not good!" "Yes!" "After all, the other party has an absolute advantage in numbers!"

Seeing that everyone was against his opinion, Kuno Shigekatsu immediately winked at Masaaki Masuda, Ieyoshi Miyake, and Nagatoshi Yoshida, but all three shook their heads and said they did not support his opinion. Seeing that his opinion had already been shot, Kuno Shigekatsu pouted and sat down.

Kuno-sama's words, I don't agree with it. There are 8,000 men on the other side! It's not easy to do! Fortunately, there are 1,000 or hundreds of people waiting for us, so let's just cage the city! Only Cage City has hope of survival! The head of the Hijikata family said. (To be continued.) )