It's late at night, and Koguchi Castle, which is located in the middle of Iho County, has been completely shrouded in darkness, and because it is also located inside the territory, and because it feels that there will be no enemy attack, Koguchi Castle is basically undefended at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Under Kuroda's arrangement, Hattori Baocho led more than a dozen ninja soldiers into the night, and until they came to the city wall, they were not discovered by any of the defenders. Hattori Baochang nodded, and threw the hook lock with a long rope on the city with a few ninjas, and Hattori was the first to climb up to the city, but what he didn't expect was that there was no defender in the city, but there were two Ashigaru who slept with spears next to the gate, and the ninja knife was one, and these two unlucky ghosts didn't make a sound at all, so they went to see Amaterasu.

"Squeak!" The gate of Oguchi Castle was opened by the ninjas, and Hattori Baocho lit the fire fold prepared in advance, and the Kuroda army knew that the ninjas had succeeded, and immediately rushed to Oguchi Castle, and in less than half an hour, all the thirty defenders in the city were wiped out, and more than a dozen people in the city and the families of the samurai in the land wanted to resist, and they were also killed.

After the Kuroda family took control of Koguchi Castle, in addition to a small number of troops who began to patrol, several ninjas scattered around Koguchi Castle and began to work as scouts to find out the news. The rest of the people went to rest. After dawn, the entire Kuroda army will begin to strengthen the inside and outside of Oguchi Castle, increase defense facilities, and dig moats.

At this time, Yasui Doton, a famous man who has been in Kuroda's house for a long time, knows that he is finally going to come in handy. So he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all. Therefore, despite the poor vision at night, he checked the nearby terrain and the construction of the castle overnight, and had a general understanding of the geographical situation of the entire Koguchi Castle and its surroundings.

Returning to the room where he had been arranged, Yasui Doton began to draw the planning drawings of Koguchi Castle on paper, where to increase the height of the city wall, where to dig deep ditches, where to increase the number of horses and wooden thorns, where to arrange secret whistles, for Yasui Doton, everything is what he hopes to show his talent.

Early the next morning, Yasui Doton handed over the drawings to Kuroda Doton, and when Kuroda looked at the drawings, Yasui Doton sat on the floor of the reception room and fell asleep.

The Kuroda family worked together to give the fortifications of Koguchi Castle a new look in just one day. Several sections of the wooden walls were raised by more than a meter, and the entire wooden walls of Oguchi Castle were covered with a layer of earth, and fire was always the best way to attack wooden walls, and with this layer of mud, if the enemy wanted to attack with fire, it would be ineffective.

At the same time, under the city wall, combined with the topography, there are three sections of trenches more than one meter deep, with the height of the city wall, the drop reaches four meters, for the height of the island people, the height of four meters is simply a moat, and it becomes a joke to think of a simple ant-attached siege.

In other areas under the city wall, because of the restrictions of the terrain, only a number of logs can be buried sharpened the original version of the horse, at least to protect the city wall, if you want to attack the city wall, you must first move away from the horse, and when you move away from the horse, it is the best time to kill and injure the enemy.

While the Kuroda family continued to strengthen and expand Koguchi Castle, the confrontation between Yoshisuke Akamatsu and Masahide Akamatsu continued, but only two small-scale engagements were fought, and both sides suffered losses, and Masahide Akamatsu did not know that his backyard had begun to catch fire.

In a forest on the mountain three miles away from Koguchi Castle, if you look closely, you can see that there are two other people in the grass, both of them are dressed in black, and it is the ninja of the Kuroda family who is watching the two patrols of Takino Castle run away.

"Master Bao, why did you let them go?" A ninja asked, puzzled.

"Koguchi Castle is actually almost ready, even if it is easy to defend it with only the strength of the Kuroda family, the lord has already contacted the Miki family, and two hundred people from the Miki family will also be stationed in Koguchi City tonight, and the defenders in the city will reach seven hundred, plus our ninja army is harassing outside, this time the Kuroda family has made a lot of profits! When Takino Hall gets the news, he will immediately bring a large army to come, and it will be early tomorrow morning at the earliest."

"Master Bao, will we really work in a small wealthy family like the Kuroda family in the future?"

"Baoqing, we must look at the long term, the Kuroda family has promised me to be the commander of the ninja army, the general of the service, and the land of five hundred stones, the head of the shiny army and the head of the ashigaru are appointed by me, and all the dead are compensated, which is equivalent to the soldiers of the army. Baoqing, even the general, can't do this! And what I value the Kuroda family most is the young master of the Kuroda family. ”

"The young master of the Kuroda family? The rumored Harima country Kirin? ”

"Exactly, I've already gone to the Imperial City to see this son, the young master has a unique vision, and the wisdom is even worse than that of an adult, and he is a meritocracy, without a view of the family, and the most important thing is that he has ambitions, an ambition to calm the world, he said a word to me, the name of the ninja."

"What, really? Endure...... Ninja...... Daimyo? How is this possible. ”

"Yes, that's what he said, isn't that exactly the honor we ninjas want to get for hundreds of years? And I said that if the Kuroda family perishes, my Hattori family can break away from the Kuroda family and find another master. ”

"In that case, let's play for the Kuroda family first! Ninja Daimyo? ”

Before Akamatsu Masahide went out to the army, he arranged for a few ashigaru patrols to patrol the collar, and when the two ashigaru patrolled to Oguchi Castle, they found that Oguchi Castle had fallen, and the flag of the Kuroda family had been planted at the head of the castle. The two didn't know that because Hattori was deliberately releasing water, the two of them were left with their lives, but based on their mission, the two ran all the way back to Takino Castle and informed the castle guards of the news of the fall of Koguchi Castle.

The garrison general knew that the matter was so serious that it threatened the security of the territory and the survival of Akamatsu Masahide's forces, so he immediately sent a fast horse to tell this information to Akamatsu Masahide, who was still in Lushan and confronted Akamatsu Yoshiyu.

Akamatsu Masahide is lying down in the marching tent to rest, the spring afternoon sun, the sun is lazy, it is indeed a little sleepy, the war is relatively smooth, two more days, just return to Takino City, anyway, Akamatsu Yoshiyu's army has been killed and wounded, the armies of other wealthy clans will go with him! Anyway, when he becomes the master of Zhiyan City by then, he must be able to order them to help him!

"Lord, Takino Castle is in a hurry." A voice outside the tent disturbed Akamatsu Masahide's beautiful thoughts.

"What's the matter?" Akamatsu Masahide was a little impatient, got up slowly, lifted the curtain and walked out.

"The Kodera family's Kuroda Itaka and Eiga Miki families attacked the main family, and the main family lost a total of two castles and seven fortifications, and now the two families are building fortifications at Koguchi Castle."

"What? Kuroda and Miki, these two ants dared to touch my tiger whiskers. Koguchi Castle, Koguchi Castle, no, we can't let them gain a foothold in Koguchi Castle, Koguchi Castle is not protected, Sakamoto Castle and the territory of Oguchi River will be threatened, and my Takino Akamatsu family is in danger!! Hurry up and give the order to the whole army and quickly advance in the direction of Koguchi Castle. ”

On Lushan, as long as they could still stand, everyone saw that the Akamatsu Masahide army had retreated.

"What's going on?" Akamatsu Yoshiyu held the military ration in his hand, and looked at the distant army suspiciously, he originally wanted to order the pursuit, but he found that there were only more than 300 people left in his hands who could fight, what kind of performance these wealthy families have been in the past few days, he also saw it, or go back to the city to accumulate strength!

In the entire Akamatsu Yoshiyuka, only Kodera Masashi and his subordinates know why Akamatsu Masahide withdrew from the army.

"Zhilong is really trustworthy! I hope he can resist Masa-so's counterattack, you must win! Standing on the hill, Koji said to himself.