Fujioka Kuro did not restrain his men, he ordered the entire castle to be closed, allowing his subordinates to act recklessly, and the castle suffered the greatest disaster since the castle was founded, nearly 200 thugs burned and looted in the castle, and did all kinds of evil, whether it was the house of the heavy minister, the longhouse of Ashigaru, or the wooden houses and thatched houses of ordinary people. Whether it is screens, tea bowls, porcelain, military equipment, gold, silver, copper and iron, chicken, duck and fish, as long as it is visible, it is mine, and as long as it is liked, I have to get it, including women and white-looking young men and boys.www.biquge.info

A day later, there were basically no good buildings in the castle except for the castle walls, turrets, and palaces, just as the whole city sank into hell and rose again a day later, and the population of the city decreased by forty percent, and almost all the important ministers of the Koji family were killed, and even the living Ashigaru group leader is now rare. Fujioka Kuro doesn't know it yet, this is their last madness.

When Fujioka Kuro ordered the castle to be opened, Yoshitoshi Kogawa and his party followed the fleeing people and finally escaped from the castle. The four of them fled quickly, and even Cedar Maru, who was only six years old, knew that he had to fight to survive and not drag others down.

I don't know if you think of another person, Seimune Urakami. More than an hour before the fall of Murozu Castle, Urakami Kiyomune and six samurai began to flee with him, but he did not leave in various ways, and finally was caught up by the pursuers, and all six accompanying samurai were killed. Compared with the eleven-year-old Urakami Seimune, the six-year-old Cedar Pill seems to be more sensible and mature.

The four of them arrived at Himeji Castle after more than half an hour, met with Kodera Takahisa, told him about the situation in the city, and asked the Kuroda family to take him in. Kotera Takahisa did not agree to Kogawa Yoshitoshi's request for the time being, but only asked the four of them to go down to rest first, and immediately sent a fast horse to deliver the news to Kuroda Castle.

The Kuroda family trimmed the smooth road and arrived at Kuroda Castle in less than two hours without stopping. As soon as Kuroda heard the important news of Gozuki Castle, he immediately summoned the samurai who delivered the letter. When the samurai saw Kuroda, he immediately knelt on one knee.

"My lord, Lord Koji Takahisa ordered me to come and report something important. There was a rebellion in the castle, Fujioka Kuro led people to rebel, Kotera Governor, Kogawa Yoshinao, and the important ministers in the castle were basically killed, and the househouse of the main family was burned down in the rebellion, and the families and people of the important ministers in the castle suffered heavy casualties. "The samurai sent by Kodera Takahisa immediately received a summons from Kuroda and told Kuroda and Kotera about what had happened at Mizuki Castle.

"What?" Hearing the news, Kuroda and Kodera stood up together, both shocked, because they were too excited, Kuroda passed out directly. Whether it is Kotera Masashi or Kogawa Yoshinao, it is Kuroda Zhitaka who has played since he was a child, a colleague, and a friend, this is a lifelong relationship, but now that both of them are dead, or died in the rebellion, it really makes him unacceptable for a while.

Although the Kuroda family has developed greatly after occupying nearly 100,000 koku of land, he has never forgotten the kindness of the Kodera family to the Kuroda family, and he did not go to the castle because he didn't know how to face the political position of Koji, as well as Kushihashi Isadi and Kogawa Yoshinao, who grew up together. As a result, the farewell of the New Year's assessment has now become a farewell.

"Someone's coming!" The little temple shouted.

"What does the young master command?" Two small surnames ran in, they were both sons in law of local wealthy families, and they were sent as hostages, and the Kuroda family let them be small surnames, which can be regarded as cultivating loyalty!

"The first order of the master of the whole sect entered the main pill to save my father; second, to assemble all the troops of the family except for the border areas and the Ite-reserve of Ako County, and be ready to send troops at any time; Third, send a letter to the various important ministers of the Kodera family, asking them to crusade against Fujioka Kuro together, do you understand? Hurry up and report it. ”

"Hey"

Then Kodera Zhigao said to the messenger samurai, "When you go back, you will order Kotera Takahisa-sama to gather an army and fight against Fujioka Kuro with the main army of the family." ”

"Hey"

The monk of the whole sect saw Kuroda Zhitaka and said to Mrs. Iwa, Muri, and Kamiyoshi, who were nervous at the bedside, as well as Koji Zhigao: "The lord has nothing to do, maybe it's just because the death of the two adults, Koji and Kogawa Yoshinao, is too excited, causing anger and causing coma, and I need to recuperate in the short term, and I can't be angry, I have already prescribed medicine here, I only need to take it on time for a month, there should be no problem, and it won't leave any root cause." At the same time, remember that the lord needs to recuperate during this time, so it is best not to go out of Kuroda Castle, it is better to recuperate here, and leave the rest to the ladies. ”

"Thank you, Master Quanzong." The three ladies all bowed to the monks of the whole sect.

Because he needed to stay in Kuroda Castle to recuperate, in the end, Kuroda Zhitaka could only entrust the matter of the Kuroda family's dispatch of troops to the castle and the crusade against Fujioka Kuro, and entrusted it to Koji Zhigao with full authority.

Kodera learned from the news that Fujioka Kuro is currently in the castle with only two or three hundred ashigaru and ronin exiles, and he did not try to absorb the various forces in the city, but mainly killed, which caused him to occupy the city now, but absolutely unable to hold the situation, only an army of hundreds of people can capture the castle, Kotera Shogao thought of this, showing a firm look.

In the end, Kodera Vocational High School decided to bring only 200 crossbows and ashigaru, Otani Moriji's 200-man reserve (among the 400 ronin, those who were willing to stay and were not of bad character were all accepted as the Kuroda family's standing ashigaru), Musato Takatomo's 100-spear ashigaru reserve, and 200 peasant soldiers led by Takasa Hajimoto, a total of 700 people, he felt that these horses were enough to deal with Fujioka Kuro's team.

After assembling, they immediately set out from Kuroda Castle and arrived at Himeji Castle when the sun set that day, and gathered 300 Himeji people from Kodera Takahasa to make the army 1,000 men.

The next morning, before the sun even appeared, the Kuroda army set out from Himeji Castle, and at dawn a thousand Kuroda troops surrounded Gosho Castle, which had become almost empty. On the morning of the same day, the Zhifang Castle Bridge Yiding Army, Guangfeng Castle Guangfeng Chang (the younger brother of the small temple political position, succeeded the Guangfeng family, inherited the family and Miao characters), the Shenji City Shenji Zhengding, and several small wealthy families in the territory of the small temple family brought people to the outside of the imperial castle, and the small temple high school converged, and the army reached about 1,700 people.

Small temple vocational high and Guangfeng, ctenophori. A brief meeting took place between the three parties of Kamiyoshi, and all three supported the defeat of Fujioka Kuro, and supported Kuroda to continue to serve as the head of the Kodera family.

After that, Kodera Vocational High School met with the three principals alone.

The Kushihashi family is a relative of Kotera Vocational High School's wife, and Kushihashi Iding and Kuroda Vocational Takashi are friends of the general horn and firm allies, so for the Kushihashi family, the Kuroda family only expressed their intention to continue to cooperate, and Kotera Vocational High promised to give the Kushihashi family more assistance with weapons and equipment. At the end of the meeting, the eldest brother of Kushihashi Ize also had a fight with the small temple high school, which was regarded as a hello, which was the norm for the two of them in the Imperial City in recent years.