Chapter 141: Nozhong Town

Dao Mengsheng calculated that these people under his command were indeed a little less, if only two hundred people continued to move forward, the final result might be more than lucky. Moreover, Kuroda Ritaka's task is to let himself discover possible dangers ahead, he has eliminated an enemy ambush, and killed the enemy's samurai, which is already a great achievement, and there is no need to be greedy for merit.

So in the end, Shima decided to stay where he was, waiting for Kuroda to arrive, rather than continuing the attack. Originally, his subordinates had already fought a battle, and it really needed to be repaired, and at the same time, the gains in this battle were counted.

It's just that Dao Mengsheng didn't know how correct this decision he made by himself. Because in a small valley not far from him, a group of people from the Otomo family was already ready to go, and the leader was the leader of the people of Toyozen Province, Shiroi Zhenfang, who Kuroda Vocational High School feared.

If Shima Takeshikatsu chose to continue the attack, Joi Jinfang definitely didn't mind solving this team of only 200 people before attacking Kuroda Rita, with the strength of him and Joi Asaka, even if Shima Takeshikatsu was in the army, it would have no effect.

After getting the news from the front, the samurai Nonaka Zhenkane, a native of the Toyozen country, immediately walked quickly to the front of the castle town, and said loudly: "Lord Lord, just now our Lord Otake Yabei-sama, who did not listen to Lord Gong's orders to fight without authorization, has been killed by the Kuroda family's samurai island. ”

Nonaka Jinkani is the right-hand man of the castle town, the twenty-third generation of the head of the Nonaka clan of the Toyozen countrymen, the lord of Changyan Castle, and the last lord of Changyan Castle in history.

At the same time, this Nozhong clan is the descendant of the Toyozen Kuniyu Metropolitan Clan, Chengjing Township, Nakatsu County, Toyozen Province, that is, the head of the Chengjing Town's own ability.

His ancestor was the ancestor of the castle town, the younger brother of the Utsunomiya Nobubo of the Utsunomiya clan of the Bunchi-zen Utsunomiya Nobubo, and because of the order of the Utsunomiya Nobubo, he went to the Nonaka Township of Shimomo-gun in Bunzen and became the appointed administrator of the place, so starting from the Utsunomiya Shigebo, they also took the Nonaka clan as their own name.

Utsunomiya Shigebo was built in Nagaiwa Castle in Nonaka Township in the ninth year of its construction (1198 AD), and since then it has also been known as Nozhong Shigebo, and it has been living here since then.

Historically, after the Kyushu conquest of the monkeys, the land of the six counties of Bunzen Province became the domain of Kuroda Takataka (Kannewei), so it was logical that he became a retainer of Kuroda Kanwei from the subordinates of Joi Zhenbo.

In July of the 15th year of Tensho (1587 AD), Kuroda Takataka began to accept the land of the six counties in the Toyozen Province, but as a result, a years-long antagonistic relationship began between Kuroda and the people of the Toyozen Province, who had a strong sense of the local community.

In October of the same year, the leader of the people of the Toyozen country, Shiroi Zhenfang (Utsunomiya Townhouse), as the center, the wealthy clan and the people of the Toyozen country swarmed to resist the rule of Kuroda Kanwei over the Toyozen country, which was for the people of the Toyozen country, and after an extremely tragic battle, in the end it was the Kuroda Kanwei who was more skilled, and the Kuroda Kanwei, Kuroda Nagamasa father and son finally succeeded in suppressing the people of the country this time by force of force.

On April 5, 1588, the 16th year of Tensho, Kuroda Kanwei and Kuroda Nagamasa led a large army of the Kuroda family, surrounded the town of Nonaka and the residence of Nagaiwa Castle, and began to attack the Nonaka family.

As the heir of the Toyozen Utsunomiya family, Nonaka Jin inherited the fine traditions of the Utsunomiya family, and when facing the enemy, he knew that he would die, but he still led the soldiers of the city to firmly cage the castle and resist the attack of the Kuroda family.

Under the fierce attack of the Kuroda family, or the strategy of the middle commander, and the land owned by the Nozhong family is not very large, its own strength is not strong, so the resistance of Changyan Castle did not play a big role.

After three days and nights of fierce fighting, on the morning of April 8, Nagaiwa Castle fell under the attack of the Kuroda family, and after killing all his wives and concubines and children, Nonaka committed suicide by seppuku in the Imperial Palace.

However, there is another theory that the reason why the Kuroda family was able to capture Nagaiwa Castle so easily was because the Momotomi Kawachi Mamoru family, a major minister of Nonaka Jinkane, introduced the soldiers of the Kuroda family into the castle as an internal servant, so they lost Nagawashi so quickly.

In this statement, it is also mentioned that Nonaka Jinkane's son-in-law, Nonaka Shigesada, was taken by the rebellious Motofu Kaneji family during the battle with the Kuroda family before the fall of Nagaiwa Castle, and the second son of Nonaka Jinkan also died in the battle.

In fact, this statement is basically not much different from Changyan City's adjustment by the middle commander, but it just highlights the role of the rich and the family in the whole process.

Having said so much, I just want to tell you that this descendant of the Utsunomiya family, Nonaka Zhenkane, as a samurai, is still very backbone, and he is still very loyal to his main family, the Shiroi family, so he can be reused by the Shiroi Townhouse.

The tall samurai standing in front of Nonaka Jinkan is the Kuroda family's bitter lord Shiroi Zhenfang, who is a martial artist in history, although he is both civil and military, but martial arts are still more talked about, which is somewhat similar to Akashi Quanden of the younger generation of the Kuroda family.

He is currently in middle age, both in martial arts and in the most peak state, a typical moon leader, that is to be shaved like this at any time for the convenience of fighting. When he wasn't fighting, or even when he was fighting, he didn't like to wear a helmet very much, maybe because his head was more afraid of heat!

The height of Chengjing Zhenfang is 1.7 meters tall, which can definitely be regarded as a giant in the era when the general height was only 1.4 or 1.5 meters in the Wa Kingdom at that time.

His face is very square, but more like the face of a man with a stick, and every natural trace on his face is like a knife carving, so it gives people the impression that he is unusually resolute. A person with outstanding martial arts must be a person with a firm will, and it is indeed reflected in his face.

The eyebrows like a sword, the eyes that can make people afraid if you gather your spirit, the big hands on the chessboard, and the strong muscles are all portrayals of him. But it is these signs that make people often ignore the glint in his eyes from time to time.

Chengjing Zhenfang turned his head silently, just now he had been looking at the direction of the Kuroda family's advance, and he was fascinated, I don't know if he was carrying out the follow-up deduction, or looking forward to the arrival of the Kuroda family's army.