Ozu Castle is actually a fortified castle in Iyo Province, after all, the Utsunomiya family has been recuperating here for more than a hundred years. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the ancestors of the Utsunomiya family for more than ten generations are all building Dazu Castle according to the standards of the famous samurai family.

In the third year of Motoku (1331 AD), as the head of the Utsunomiya clan as the guardian of Iyo Province, Utsunomiya Toyobo began to build a castle here, he was a person who valued the geographical location, and after careful selection, the castle was selected at the place where the Chigawa River and the Kumegawa River meet, and the hill here is called Mt. Jizo, so the original name of this castle was Jizodake Castle.

Ozu Castle is located at the intersection of Osu Street and Uwajima Street, which runs between the north and south of Iyo Province, and to the east is the Tosakuni Street in the middle of the Shikoku Mountain Range. To the west of Ozu Castle is Hachimanhama, the outer port of Ozu Castle, which is also an important port for the Utsunomiya family. It can be seen that Ozu Castle was an important transportation point in Shikoku at that time, connecting Sanuki, Iyo, and Tosa, and it is no wonder that the Kono family and the Saionji family would attack his idea.

As a mountain castle, Ozu Castle is divided into Honmaru and Ninomaru, and Ninomaru is a square castle structure with a modest structure. In addition to the two-story castle tower located in the southeast, the main maru has a high fence on the north side and a low terrain on the west side, so a high platform was built on it, and the turret was also built into a four-story turret with a composite connection.

"Brother, something is wrong, the Kuroda family and the Kono family army have surrounded Continent City, what should we do?" Utsunomiya Masatsuna had just entered the castle tower, and he said loudly and uncontrollably.

"Hmm!" Utsunomiya Toyotsuna just responded, saying that he already knew. But he didn't have any other words after that, and Utsunomiya Masatsuna didn't know exactly what he wanted to do or what he was thinking.

"Elder brother, according to the military report, they have as many as fifteen thousand people this time, and all the soldiers are well-equipped (only the elite of the Kuroda family is like this, and the miscellaneous soldiers of the Kono family and most of the noble clans that have surrendered are not like this), so they should be very combative." Utsunomiya Masatsuna continued to say tentatively.

"Okay, I already know." Utsunomiya Toyotsuna looked very irritable at this time, and suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly at Utsunomiya Massuna.

"Brother, now that the Kuroda family has besieged the city, according to the Kuroda family's combat effectiveness, even the Miyoshi family is not its opponent, if it resists, my Utsunomiya family will definitely be a dead end, otherwise we will ......" Utsunomiya Masatsuna suddenly whispered.

"You mean......" Utsunomiya Toyotsuna's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hmm!" Utsunomiya Masatsuna nodded.

"Then let's send someone over to find out first!"

"Hey!"

However, half an hour later, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna received a piece of news that made the two brothers very upset, and the head of the Kuroda family, Mamoru Ando, refused the Utsunomiya family's request for submission.

"In that case, we can only fight." Utsunomiya Toyotsuna was in the Imperial Pavilion, looking outside alone, and said dejectedly.

In fact, after this battle, Kuroda Vocational High School agreed very much with Ando's decision. A daimyo who is incapable and ignorant of current affairs, even if you are a famous family, the Kuroda family will not accept it, not to mention that you are Utsunomiya, that is, one of the four positions of the shogunate, the Yamana family has not been destroyed by the Kuroda family.

The defense of Dazhou City is still very tight, after all, there are 4,000 defenses...... It can only be said that it is human. The Utsunomiya family originally had relatively complete simple protective gear, and many peasants and ordinary people, that is, they didn't love their mothers at all, these people were all dressed in linen, standing at the head of the city to make up the number of people.

The Kuroda family's two hundred crossbows and ashigaru just fired one salvo, which caused chaos on the walls of Dazu City, and it was okay to be prepared, after all, they were all soldiers who were used to seeing life and death, but where had the peasants and ordinary people seen such a terrifying weapon.

A crossbow bolt shot directly through a person's head, and even the brains were brought out, and the whole person flew up with the crossbow bolt and fell under the city wall. In just an instant, a life was lost.

The peasants and the common people were in chaos, and the samurai of the Utsunomiya family could only use their own katana and use the same bloody killings to quiet these untouchables.

Because the Kuroda family's crossbowmen were reluctant to use the most precious crossbows on the people, they all aimed at the Utsunomiya family's samurai and standing guards who were on the city walls to maintain order.

Therefore, the farce on the city wall became bigger and bigger, and it lasted for a long time before it was barely suppressed. When the castle finally stopped, the Kuroda family was about to start the siege.

A siege battle lasted for a long time, although the Kuroda family also worked hard to attack the city, after all, there were too many people on the city wall, even if it was a common person without any combat effectiveness, it would take time to kill. An hour later, Mamoru Ando decisively ordered a retreat, although he failed to capture Continent Castle, but the strategic goal had been achieved, killing and injuring many living forces in Continent Castle.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, someone suddenly opened the gate of the city in Ozu Castle, and after Ando Mamoru got the information, he didn't have time to put on his clothes, and he was naked, and he began to order the siege of the city with a katana.

The Kuroda family was lucky, and until a team of 1,000 people rushed into the city, the Utsunomiya family failed to close the city gates. This battle didn't last long, because everyone who was coerced by the Utsunomiya side had no intention of fighting at all, and they all surrendered directly to the Kuroda family's side.

And after this battle, the Iyo Utsunomiya family perished, so why did it say that the main family perished? Because Utsunomiya Toyotsuna's third brother Utsunomiya Fangzuna, as well as the Higashitada Utsunomiya family, at this time were still under the command of the Saionji family, and the Kuroda family did not need to fight with the Saionji family, so this Utsunomiya was still retained.

After the war, Mamoru Ando learned that it was Toyonaga Omori, a retainer of the Utsunomiya family, who opened the castle gate because he couldn't bear the slaughter of the people. For this reason, Mamoru Ando specially met with Toyonaga Omori on behalf of the Kuroda family and gave him a simple compliment.

From Utsunomiya's attack on the Kono family, to the Kono family's counterattack, and then to the Kono family's submission to the Kuroda family and the destruction of Utsunomiya, the whole process only lasted less than five days, and the Kuroda family gathered under the leadership of Ando Morisashi and took the land of 180,000 koku in Higashiiyo Province.

For the performance of Ando Shousu in this battle, Kuroda Vocational High School is very satisfied, and it is worthy of being under the command of a lord like Saito Ryuxing, and he can still carry the Saito family and resist the Oda family for several years.