It is also recorded in historical records that after the Kuroda family defeated the Joi clan through disgraceful means and unified the Bunzen Province, Kuroda Kazunari became the shadow warrior of Kuroda Nagamasa.

And then Yu Wenlu? In the Battle of Keichau, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to Korea, because this period of history is the history of the invasion of the Japanese Kingdom, and I will not describe it much here, anyway, Kuroda Issei also received a certain reward for his military exploits.

In the 5th year of Keicho (1600 AD), he joined the Eastern Army with the Kuroda family and participated in the Battle of Sekigahara. In the outpost of the Battle of Sekigahara, Kisogawa? In the battle of Hedu River, he also gained a lot of merit. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he killed Ishida Mitsunari's important minister, General Gamo (Naoshige Ando). Because of the important role of the Kuroda family in the Sekigahara War, the Kuroda family (to be precise, the Kuroda family of Kuroda Nagamasa, which has nothing to do with Kuroda Rusui) received 523,000 koku from Chikuzen Province.

After the Kuroda family entered the Chikuzen Kingdom, Kuroda Issei acquired the territory of 16,205 koku in and around Sannagi Castle because of his merits, and from this time on, Kuroda Isseri's family called itself the Sannagi Kuroda family.

In the 19th year of Keicho (1614 AD), Osaka Winter Battle, as a subordinate of Kuroda Tadayuki, Kuroda Isseri led people to fill in the hori outside Osaka Castle.

In the 14th year of Kanei (1637), at the age of 66, he participated in the suppression of the Shimabara Uprising. The Sannagi Kuroda family was still the head of the Kuroda family until the Meiji period, and after the Meiji Restoration, the head of the Sannagi Kuroda family, Kuroda Kazuyoshi, became a baron, thus becoming a Chinese.

When Kato Shigeto's news reached Kuroda Vocational High School, it was already five days later, and when he saw this name, he was slightly stunned, and immediately remembered who he was, and when he learned that the nine-year-old Tamamatsumaru had become a hostage of the Kato family in the Kuroda family, he immediately ordered someone to let Tamamatsumaru go to study at the school in Kuroda Castle and take more care of him.

No one in the Kuroda family dared to resist Kuroda's order, and no one had even the slightest doubt about his act of taking a child very seriously, because there were powerful concentric people behind Kuroda Vocational High School, and everyone felt that he knew from the correspondence that this child was a child worth cultivating, so there was such a move.

In fact, the reason why Kuroda Vocational High School pays attention to Tamamatsumaru is only based on his own meager understanding of the history of the Kuroda family. And Kuroda Issei happens to be one of the few people among the retainers of the Kuroda family who can make Kuroda pay attention to it.

The Kodera clan's army of nearly 6,000 men marched from Banyan Castle in the direction of Ikeda Castle. At this time, Nakagawa Kiyohide had already lost most of his territory, and only took more than 300 people with him to stick to the area of Ikeda Castle.

After the defeat of the previous battle of Obara, he did not dare to do anything more, he knew that under the current situation, he would probably no longer be able to resist the attack of the Kuroda family, but only led the army to retreat in Ikeda Castle, and the surrounding Nishijuku Kujo, Ishimaru, Shiratori, Ofushi, Tamaya, Goda Castle, Kuchii Castle, Higashiyama Castle, Hondo Castle, Ichihachi Castle, etc., were all abandoned by Nakagawa Kiyohide.

The forces of Nikaido Hideka, under the command of the Kodera clan, directly seized Honto Castle, which was only 100 meters away from Ikeda Castle, and the Kodera clan led a large army into Goda Castle, which was only 300 meters away from Ikeda Castle. Ikeda Castle, on the other hand, was originally a flat castle with low terrain. With Kataga Castle at its back, the terrain is relatively high, and you can see every move in Ikeda Castle through the walls of Kataga Castle.

On that day, the Kodera clan was only repairing his army in Katada Castle, and the next day he launched an attack on the famous castle of Toshima County. Ikeda Castle was the former home of the Ikeda family, which had previously been the head of Settsu Province, and it took more than 10 generations and hundreds of years of rule and renovation to reach its current level. However, due to the influence of the Kitagawa River, a tributary of the Yodo River to the north and south, the terrain is extremely narrow, so it is not allowed to have a large area.

The current situation is that Ikeda Castle is bordered by Kitagawa to the north, west, and south, Honto Castle to the northeast, and Katada Castle to the east.

But even so, under the long-range fire suppression of the Kuroda family, and under the continuous attack of the Kodera family, Nakagawa Kiyohide and the three hundred men and horses under his command still supported it for five days, and finally the Kuroda family attacked the city. Nakagawa Kiyohide finally took his own cut in the two-story castle tower of Ikeda Castle at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Outside of Ikeda Castle, the northern part of Toshima-gun is already under the control of the Kuroda family, except for a small amount of land in the north that is connected to the riverside gun across the Kitagawa River.

Further south of Toshima is the domain of the Itami family. When we talk about the Itami family, we still have to mention Kato Shigetoku.

The current lord of the Itami family is Itami's loyal relative, and Kato Shigetoku is the head of the Kato family, a side branch of the Itami family, so it is natural that he served under the Itami family before.

As we mentioned before, the Itami family had declined before, especially after the rise of Nakagawa Kiyohide, which originally spanned Minami-Toyoshima County and Minamijima Shimo-gun, and there were as many as 90,000 koku at the peak of the territory, but the current Itami family only has less than 20,000 koku of land around Itami Castle in Minami County, and there are no more than 700 soldiers who can assemble it.

Kato Shigetoku is actually not a figure who forgets his righteousness, and his submission to the Kuroda family is also a last resort. He had persuaded the head of the Itami family before, Itami, to be loyal and that the Kuroda family was strong, even if it was to protect the name of the Itami family, he should temporarily bow to the Kuroda family, otherwise the army would be unable to resist at all with the current strength of the Itami family.

However, Kato Shigetoku's loyalty was taken by Itami as evidence of his betrayal and glory, and without saying a word, Kato Shigetoku was put under house arrest. It was because of Itami's loyal subordinates who interceded for Kato Shigetoku that he was released.

It is precisely because of this that Kato Shigetoku saw the true heart of Itami's loyal relatives and knew that he was not the head of the family who could lead the Itami family to go down.

After that, Kato Shigetsu secretly took his second son as a hostage and went to the Kodera clan to ask for submission.