Chapter 146: Takase Castle
Naoshige Nabeshima doesn't know that except for Akizuki Tanemi himself, who has already taken refuge in the Kuroda family, the other wealthy families and people are basically optimistic about the Kuroda family, and none of them are interested in the Ryuzoji family, which is what the people want.
In fact, after the death of the Kakukuma Stone Sect, Kyushu will inevitably fall into the Kuroda family in the end, it seems that this has become a general trend, and in the end it is only a matter of time, as long as you are not blind, you can clearly understand this.
Everyone knows the truth that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, especially in such a troubled world of the Warring States in which everyone is trying to protect themselves, sometimes in order to survive, you have to be shameless to become a wall grass. You don't see how many wealthy families and countrymen in the process of the rise of the Kuroda family, either because they are unwilling to transfer the title, or because of their loyalty to the main family, so they are unwilling to submit to the Kuroda family, and finally they are destroyed by the Kuroda family, or they perite with the main family.
When the Otomo family was strong before, many small forces in Chikuzen Province betrayed the Akizuki family in order not to be bullied, and fell to the side of the Otomo family, so they were able to survive.
It's just that as the subordinates of the previous Qiuyue family, they are not willing to be enemies with the Qiuyue family, and when the Otomo family attacked the Qiuyue family before, these families still remember the good of the Qiuyue family before, so they basically did not contribute to the joint battle.
They can be said to be lurking under the command of the Otomo family for the time being, just to see the situation in Kyushu first, and then when the Kuroda family strongly intervened in the affairs of Kyushu, many people were already not optimistic about the Otomo family, can the Kuroda family be resisted by the Otomo family? Of course not, the Kuroda family is the largest force in the world, and the forces that stand in front of the Kuroda family will be eliminated in the end.
Before, the Otomo family was able to rely on the layout of the Kakukuma Stone Sect to confront the Kuroda family for time, but even so, it was impossible to take care of both sides, and it was slowly weakened by the Kuroda family. Now that the Otomo family doesn't have the Kakuma Ishizong, it's even less of a Kuroda family's opponent.
In contrast, the Ryuzoji family, not to mention the powerful Kuroda family, even the Otomo family, which currently only has part of the territory of the three kingdoms of Bunzen, Bungo, and Chikugo, is much better than the Ryuzoji family that is currently invading Chikuzen Province.
You must know that the current Hizen country is not very peaceful, in addition to the Ryuzoji family, there are also the Shimazu family, the Arima family, the Omura family, etc., and the territory that can be controlled is less than half of the Hizen country. If most of the Chikuzen country is defeated by such a family, these wealthy families and countrymen themselves will think that this is a joke.
When the time comes, if the Kuroda family comes, how should they face the Kuroda family! So just when Akizuki Tanemi and Aoki are here, they can perform hard in front of them, even if they lose some strength, as long as the Kuroda family can clearly know this, it will be good to be able to keep their territory with the same stone high number in the future.
And at this time, Kuroda Vocational High School and the army have come to Takase Castle outside the Joi Valley Trail, which is the last barrier outside the Joi Valley, and then there is the very dangerous Bunzen Kuniti Danger Castle Valley, Takase Castle is the northernmost part of the entire Joi Valley, and the west is the Toyozen State-owned Enterprise Rescue County controlled by the Kuroda family.
When Kuroda Toshitaka passed by here with a thousand men, more than 20 old, weak, sick and disabled defenders of this grate knew that the Kuroda family was about to attack, so they all fled, and it was empty at that time.
In the face of such a turbulence that is not difficult to attack, although the terrain is dangerous, in order to save time, coupled with Kuroda Toshinori's persuasion, Kuroda Toshitaka, who has always been cautious, did not burn this small barrage, which is really a big mistake.
Kuroda Toshitaka, who has always been cautious, didn't know how much trouble his behavior would bring to his brother Kuroda Zhigao in the future. Kuroda didn't know that because of his occasional imprudent move, he and the people who followed him would almost fall into a state of no return.
Just mentioned that when Tanemi Akizuki led his men and horses to sweep through Chikuzen Province and continue to regain territory, he learned an important piece of information from Tachibana Kanzai, that is, the Otomo family no longer has any power in Chikuzen Province, and it has become a vacuum of power, so where did these centaurs go?
All the horses of the Otomo family in Chikuzen Province before, under the leadership of Toji Kanren and Kiusu Kansu, according to the arrangement with the previous castle town, all secretly entered the Bunzen Province, and the time was stuck after Kuroda Toshitaka entered the castle valley, and before Kuroda Vocational High School sent troops, the time was just right, and it was not discovered by the Kuroda family.
The 5,000 Chikuzen people of the Otomo family occupied Takase Castle, and this was a plan that had already been negotiated between the Joi Town House and Toji Kanren and Kiusu Kansu.
Because of the Kuroda family's strong intervention in Kyushu, coupled with the death of Kakukuma Ishimune at the beginning of the year, Toji Kenren and Kitusu Kansu themselves are not very optimistic about the Otomo family.
It's just that they first have the identity of the Otomo family, and the second is indeed grateful for the benefits of Otomo Zonglin to the two of them, so they are willing to resist the Kuroda family together with the castle and town, and embark on a path of killing.
In the case of the absolute superiority of the Otomo family, it was impossible to defeat the Black family, and in the previous battle of the Hishida River, Kiusu Kansu participated as an important strategist, and the leaders of the Kuroda family at that time were only Ite Tomoji and Takenaka Shigeji.
And now the enemy that the Otomo family needs to face is the head of the Kuroda family, the mythical Kuroda vocational high school who has never been defeated since the beginning of the Yuanfu with the Kuroda family's southern and northern wars.
This time, Toji Kanren and Kiusu Kansu led an army of 5,000 people from Chikuzen Province all the way to Bunzen Province, and they were actually mentally prepared for all kinds of things, including dying for the Otomo family.
They knew very well what kind of combat power the elite of the Kuroda family was, because they had all fought with the Kuroda family's Ite-tomo clan army before, and even if they were not the core elite of the Kuroda family, they defeated the Otomo family on the frontal battlefield and killed the Otomo family's fierce general, Takita Zhenzhou.
Therefore, although the two of them were carrying an army of 5,000 people, such a large number in the Warring States, it did not bring them any sense of security.
They also know that they may not have a chance of winning when they face Kuroda Vocational High School, but even so, even if these 5,000 people are exhausted, they have to do something for the Otomo family, at least at the end of their lives, they will be loyal to the Otomo family.