Chapter 147 Household Inspection

From the castle town, Toji Kenren and Kiusu Kansu knew that Kuroda Toshitaka and Kuroda Toshinori, the younger brothers of Kuroda Ritaka and Kuroda Toshinori, the head of the Kuroda family, entered the castle valley with a thousand troops, and the two of them now hope that the castle town house can catch these two people, even if they can't exchange any conditions with the Kuroda family, at least kill them, bury them for the Otomo family, and at the same time hit the morale of the Kuroda family.

After Toji Kenren, Kitusu Kansu, and Kitusu Zhensu and others arrived at Takase Castle, they immediately ordered their subordinates to completely block the passage from Takase Castle to Joi Valley in order to accept the possible attack of the Kuroda family in the future.

Moreover, in order to facilitate the follow-up soldiers to replenish the casualties in front of them at any time, they demolished the entire city wall near the castle valley, and then 5,000 men were stationed in the city along the mountain road and in the direction of the castle valley.

Of course, there are advantages to this, but Takase Castle is only a small village, which can accommodate two or three hundred people at most, and it is very crowded. After removing the fence near the castle valley, Takase Castle became a fence with an imperial hall, and these 5,000 people are equivalent to the defenders here, infinitely reducing the limit of the original castle area, and after the people in front of them are killed in battle, the people in the back can immediately make effective supplements and continue to fight with the Kuroda family, which is the method of the samurai of the Otomo family.

Kuroda Vocational High School had received news from Kuroda Toshitaka before, and he also knew that they had passed through this place, but they did not burn down this small village, although he himself was a little sorry that Kuroda Toshitaka was negligent, but he didn't care too much, what did a small gourd in the rear care about.

At that time, because the Kuroda family's army was about to enter the castle valley, there was not much attention to the always cautious Kuroda Rigaka who made a mistake, anyway, before entering the valley later, it was impossible for the army led by Kuroda Vocational High to enter the valley at one time anyway, maybe Kuroda Vocational High School could also rest in Takase Castle for a while, and use this place as a transit point for the logistics of the entire army.

But what I didn't expect was that now this place, because of the extremely accurate time difference between Toji Kanren and Kiusu Kan, the dangerous but narrow Takase Castle turned out to be the location where the Otomo family was stationed. And even the most unfamiliar with military personnel, as long as they take a look at Takase Castle, they know that the Otomo family has a lot of soldiers here, which has become a serious stumbling block to their progress, which makes Kuroda Vocational High School, who has always been unfazed, very surprised and dissatisfied, especially when Kuroda Vocational High School saw the banner of the Toji family and the Kiusu family, Kuroda Vocational High School was even stunned for a moment.

Who is Toji Kanren? Originally, at this time in history, because of Tachibana Kanzai's rebellion against the Otomo family, he was attacked by the Otomo family, and successfully captured Tachibana Mountain Castle and killed Tachibana Kanzai, in order to be able to find a more reliable and loyal castle lord, so Otomo Sorin, after thinking twice, decided to inherit the name of the Tachibana family by not being the son-in-law of the family, but also as a very capable Toji Kanren under his own hands.

After that, Toji Kanren became the lord of Tachibanayama Castle, which is the Tachibana Michiyuki, one of the two masters of the Otomo family, which we often call the god of thunder. Of course, Thor is just a joke, but his ability is absolutely undeniable, otherwise he would not have become the right-hand man of Otomo Sorin.

Tachibana Michiyuki is such a nice name, but because the appearance of the Kuroda family changed history, the Tachibana family has never rebelled, and the Otomo family has not attacked the Tachibana family's Tachibana Mountain Castle, so Tachibana Michiyuki will never appear in this life.

Toji Kanren has no way to enter the Tachibana family, and Tachibana Kanzai, who should have died a long time ago in history, the orthodox heir of the Tachibana family is still alive and well in Chikuzen Province, and has been merged with Akizuki Taneshi, with not many people, he firmly occupies most of the land of Chikuzen Province in his own hands, and is resisting the invasion of the Ryuzoji family.

As long as there are no accidents, after the Kuroda family's actions in the Toyozen country are over, or even earlier, the Kuroda family's people, although there may not be too many, there will definitely be thousands of people entering Chikuzen country. Consolidate the territory that Akizuki Tanemi has already mastered, and occupy the territory that he has not mastered, and Chikuzen Province is already under the rule of the Kuroda family.

At that time, Tachibana Kanzai responded to the call of the Kuroda family and assisted Akizuki Tanemi to achieve the suppression of most of Chikuzen Province, plus the adjustment of some wealthy clans and people, which was already a great achievement. As long as he can live peacefully until the end of this battle, he will inevitably be rewarded by the Kuroda family, after all, he is a person who has made great contributions, and even if the Kuroda family is a show, he must show something.

And the Kuroda family and the Kiusu family also have a deep hatred, and the eldest son of Kiusu Jiansu, Kiusu Zhenshun, was originally going to go to Otomo's family to mix up a little merit, and then be able to get a certain status in Otomo's family, or smoothly inherit his own territory.

As a result, during the Second Battle of the Hishidagawa (Kuroda family and Otomo family), he fought with the Kuroda family's Shikoku Army as a striker, along with Takita Town, who Kisusu-kin thought he could trust, and finally died next to Hishidagawa with the Battle of Takita Town.

How can this not be a great hatred for the pestle and the sword? This is the eldest son who is most likely to inherit his position, and he is also the most outstanding talent of the generation of the Kijiu family, and there is absolutely no one, because of the victory of the Kuroda family, Kijiu Jiansu is a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, and the hatred of the loss of a child is not shared.

It is precisely because of the loyalty to the Otomo family, as well as other reasons, that in the face of the attack of the Kuroda family, the people of Chikuzen Province, which are dominated by these two families, resisted very thoroughly.

The Kuroda family was the first to send a team of hundreds of people led by several Kyushu samurai, which was also a revenge battle led by Harada Yoshitane and what the Kuroda family's Kyushu samurai group believed to be.

The Kuroda family's side was menacing, and Toji Kanren's side immediately sent hundreds of Maruki archers to shoot, because the Kuroda family's soldiers occupied a bit of a dense position, even if the Maruki bow did not have much lethality, it also caused the loss of more than ten people in the Kuroda family, even if the Kuroda family's soldiers were well-equipped, they couldn't bear the unlucky ones with bad luck everywhere.

Seeing that the Otomo family has so much long-range power, although it is only a Maruki bow, the Kuroda family has always had the habit of suppressing other people's long-range forces, how can they tolerate a long-range attack on their side?