"Shio-Matasaburo has been taken from Shimoshihara Yajuro. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Yajuro Shibahara raised Matasaburo's head with his left hand and shouted loudly, and the voice passed through the entire battlefield. Almost instantly, the entire battlefield was stunned. Zhengxiufang suddenly broke out with a huge shout, Zhengxiu's army moved forward, and Yiyou's side was already defeated. The Yiyou army fought and retreated, and there was even a rout in some places.

Even at this time, the forces on the left and right flanks of Akamatsu Yoshisuke had not yet engaged the Akamatsu Masahide army. Seeing that Akamatsu Yoshiyu's army was retreating, he naturally wouldn't stupidly rush up to the back of Akamatsu Yoshiyu's palace, so all the wealthy clans, including the small temple government, were scrambling to retreat.

The Zhengxiu army chased after him, and the Yiyou side fled with all his heart, until the Yiyou side returned to the defensive position that had been dug before, and the people who stayed behind killed several pursuing Zhengxiu troops with arrows, and then let the Yiyou army enter the position, which stabilized the situation. After nearly half an hour of fighting, under the fierce resistance of the Yiyou side, the Masahide side, who failed to capture the position, retreated unwillingly.

In this battle, the Akamatsu Yiyou army lost more than 300 people, which can be described as a fiasco, and after this battle, it can really only be defended according to Lushan. However, Zhengxiu's side only lost more than ten people, basically no losses, and the whole army could fight again at any time.

At the same time, on the border between the Kuroda family and the Takino family, on the west side of the Yumazene River, the Kurodino side of the Kuroda family was besieged by the Kuroda family, and when this Kuroda family had just discovered the strength of the Kuroda family, he wanted to send someone out to deliver a letter to the family, but before he left the city, he found that all sides of the Kuroda army had been completely surrounded.

At this time, there were only twenty people in the fort to garrison, the ram was not big, and it was only able to accommodate fifty people in the nature of a sentry post, and these twenty people did not have long weapons such as bows and arrows, and there were no materials to defend the city, even if they resisted, they could only see how long they resisted.

"Lord, attack!" Imate Tomoshi said to Kuroda Jobaka.

"When the whole army attacks, it is important not to let one go."

"Hey, Shajigi." The Kuroda army received an order from Kuroda to attack from all directions, and the twenty defenders saw so many enemies attacking together, in fact, they had no faith in resisting in an instant.

There was a person in the army who was particularly conspicuous, and Kuroda took a few looks at him, and it was the Enryakuji monk who joined the Kuroda family with the monks of the whole sect. This man had a big bald head and rushed to the front of the entire army with two ring knives in his hand, and even the Itetomo clan was left behind.

When the guards did not come back to their senses, they cut down one with one knife with their left hand, and one person with their right hand back, and the defenders were frightened. Until the end of the twenty defenders, Kuroda knew that Tsuchihi Yahachi had killed six, and he was really a samurai with great power! It seems that there is another great general in the family.

"Alright, all the armies are assembled, and we are going to kill the next one."

After the Miki family received the news that the Kuroda family had sent troops, they also went out to the Takino family and captured the northern part of the territory overnight

Akamatsu Masahide's three bars, and has basically restored the original territory of the Miki family.

The Kuroda family was led by Kuroda Jobaka this night, and acted quickly, and captured the three bars of the local wealthy clan to which the Takino family belonged overnight, and expanded the Kuroda territory to the west for more than 20 miles, and the army finally encountered the first fortified castle in Iho County, Ichikawa Castle, which was said to be a fortified castle, but in fact, it was just a relatively large fort, but for the island country, in the era when there were many lords in a small area, a relatively large fort was actually their castle.

This city has a two-meter-high wall, which is enough for the islanders who are generally not tall in height. The area is also relatively large, not comparable to the target of the previous attack, and in the end it can only be attacked head-on. There were only more than fifty people in the city, and the offensive of Kuroda's army was stopped for the first time.

At this time, at the head of the city, the only general in the city looked at the city and was very worried. Akamatsu Masahide can be said to be out of the army this time, not to mention Ichikawa Castle, even Takino Castle has less than a hundred defenders, and the elite soldiers and strong generals have been taken away, and the rest are actually some old and weak soldiers. Masahide Akamatsu never imagined that there would be adventurers like the Kuroda family who would dare to attack their territory. These defenders also did not expect that the safe rear would be touched by the enemy under the city walls.

"My lord, how are we doing?" The three ashigaru group leaders leaned over and asked pleadingly.

"Everyone, look at the banner is the military strength of the Kuroda family, the number is hundreds, with the fifty people in our city, it seems that this time is the time to be loyal to the Takino Palace."

Just when the general pointed to the castle and spoke to the head of the ashigaru group, a pair of eyes were already staring at him, only to see a black shadow rushing out of the Kuroda army, stopping fifty steps away from the city, jumping high, and instantly five ninja darts flew towards the city.

Just when everyone didn't react, five ninja darts had already flown to the head of the city, the accurate head was very good, two of them were nailed to the throat and forehead of the ashigaru general, and the other two also took the lives of the two ashigaru group heads without accident, only one group head close to the ashigaru general, the reaction quickly squatted on the ground, dodging the attack of the ninja dart, and he also became the highest position in the city.

Just when the five archers in the city found out that they were being attacked, they opened their bows and arrows and prepared to counterattack, but the person who sneaked up on the attack had already run an S-shaped route and ran back to the Kuroda family's military formation, and there was no chance to attack. This person is the head of the Kuroda family ninja army, Hattori Baochang, three deaths and one escape under one blow, which is not bad.

Hattori Security Chief came to Kuroda and said, "Please forgive me, I only killed one local general, two group leaders, and one group leader failed to die." ”

Kuroda has just seen the whole process of sneak attack in the military formation, and it took more than ten seconds to kill three enemies, and they were all samurai-level enemies, which really changed Kuroda's entire values, is this what Wanji said about ninja tactics, sneak attack assassination or endure it!

"Hattori-sama doesn't need to be like this, you have already done a good job, if you can take this city, your Excellency will be a part of this battle." Kuroda said with a smile.

As soon as Kuroda's words were spoken, several samurai around him, including the Ite Tomoji, began to talk to each other. These samurai masters, who have learned the spirit of bushido since childhood, can't accept that a ninja can get a lot of work in war, isn't a ninja a tool? A feat should be an honor for a samurai!

Hattori didn't care much about the opinions of these samurai and went down first. After all, Hattori is a person who has served the general, so the city still has this. But Kuroda feels that just like Wanyoshi said, ninjas will become an important combat force of the family in the future, and both parties will be relied on by the Kuroda family in the future, and there must be no contradiction between the samurai and the ninja.

"Kodera Takahisa, Ite, Matsui Shigetaka, and Musato Kobei stay, and the others go down first! The entire sect of Enryakuji Temple took Tu Fei Yahachi to the castle to persuade him to surrender. ”

"Hey!"

After everyone left, Imate Yushi immediately walked up to Kuroda and said angrily, "Brother, how can you give that ninja a meritorious service?" It's just that he killed a general, which is incomprehensible! ”

"Do you think the same way?" Kuroda asked the others. The other three didn't answer, but they should have thought the same way.

"This is a letter from Wanyoshi that Hattori brought back a few days ago, so take a look at it for yourself." Kuroda took out the letter that Wanyoshi had written earlier from his bosom.

Ite's Tomoshi couldn't wait to grab the letter and read it. Itaire Yushi rarely looked very seriously, and the previous content saw that Ide Yushi nodded again and again, and when he saw the ninja war, he began to frown, and when he saw a series of promises to Hattori Baocho in the back, Imate Yushi closed his eyes and handed the letter to Kotera Takahisa.

Everyone read it one by one, and after a while, everyone read the letter and remained silent for a long time.

"Lord, the young master is the most knowledgeable person I have ever met, I mean that he is an adult, I have lived for so long, and no one has the vision and insight of the young master, so although the content of this letter is still a little unacceptable, but I believe in the vision of the young master, and I also believe in the efforts made by the young master for the Kuroda family, so I agree with the young master's opinion, and I also hope that all adults believe in the young master." The mother of the little soldier was half-kneeling on the ground, pleading with several family elders.

"Yes! Looking at Wanji's performance last year, I always feel that I am old, but I am only in my twenties! It's really unwilling, since Wanji said it, I also agree. Matsui Shigetaka smiled helplessly.

"I agree," Kodera Takahisa nodded.

"Agreed" Ite Yuji sat down in his seat and squeezed out two words.