At the same time, a major event also happened in the western country, which wiped out the Mori of the Ouchi family and fought with the Daimyo family of Kyushu. Pen ~ fun ~ Katsu www.biquge.info originally Mori Moto signed an alliance with Otomo Yoshijin, Mori accepted the territory of the Ouchi family, and the Otomo family attacked Iyo Province.

After the Itsukushima War, the Maori Navy successfully blockaded the defense coast, which made Yoshijin sigh with admiration, and in addition to the diplomatic troubles, it relaxed the military expansion of Kitakyushu and the defense minister, but in fact, it was difficult to make substantial progress, so he turned his target to Iyo Province. From the first year of Eiroku to the third year of Eiroku, the Otomo family finally defeated the Minami Iyo clan after continuous and fierce attacks, and in the battle of Ishijo, the governor of the Toi clan, Toi Kiyomune, and his son Toi Kiyosada were killed.

However, Otomo Yoshijin underestimated Mori Moto's ability to seize the opportunity, thinking that Mori had just pacified the Minister of Defense, and that he had already made an alliance, so he would not enter Kitakyushu all at once, so while Otomo achieved major results in Minami Iyo, he was exploited by Mori to capture Moji Castle in Bunzen Province, and with the help of a powerful naval army, he completely gained a firm foothold in Bunzen. At this time, Yizhen was thirty years old, far less than the sixty-three-year-old Maori Yuan.

Bizen Province Tenjin Mountain Castle, a fast horse enters the city.

Urakami Zongjing was playing the general flag with a retainer at this time, and Urakami Zongjing was racking his brains for where to go, and he was undecided for a while.

"Lord, there is news" A small surname handed a folded piece of paper to Urakami Zongjing.

Urakami Sokei put down the chess pieces in his hand, opened the paper, and with a slight shake of his hand, the whole paper was fully unfolded. He watched quickly and suddenly stood up happily.

"Okay! It's not too late, and I have to thank the Maori family and the Mimura family! Ukita finally bowed his head. Urakami Sokirai put down the piece of paper in his hand, looked at the chessboard, suddenly his eyes lit up, he picked up the chess piece and took a step, which was a crucial step, just fatal.

"The lord, admitting defeat in the game, the lord's chess strength is higher." The retainer Touko admitted his defeat and said with a smile.

"Hahaha!" Urakami laughed.

It turned out to be the Ukita Naoka, who had never surrendered, but recently due to the frequent invasions of the Mimura family in the region supported by the Mori family, they finally decided to surrender to Urakami Sokei. And Urakami Sokei has been paying attention to the situation in Harima Country, since his good brother Urakami Masamune was killed, he has taken the Kamitsuki family as the front and broke into Harima Country, but because the Ukita Naojia has always refused to surrender, he did not dare to rashly raise troops, so as not to cut off the back road by the Uki family when he went to war.

Now that the Ukita family has surrendered, his back is worry-free, and he can attack the Kuroda family, thinking about the land of 100,000 stone under the Kuroda family, his eyes burst out with eagerness.

When Urakami Munekei was a child, his father, Urakami Mune, told him that his goal was to ask for the rule of the Akamatsu family, establish himself as an independent daimyo, and take advantage of the weakness of the main family to occupy the three kingdoms of Bizen, Harima, and Misaku, so as to dominate the eastern part of the western country, and then develop eastward until Kamiraku, which was really a beautiful dream.

But after his father's death, the waste brother only thought about keeping the plan, instead of taking advantage of the situation to fulfill his father's dream, which was really unbearable, so he and Urakami Masamune embarked on the opposite path. After the Uki family surrendered, he had basically suppressed the entire Bizen, and the next step was to open the knife to the Kuroda family, who had just obtained a large piece of territory, and had not yet been able to digest it, this was the first step, entering the Harima country, and defeating the Kuroda family, and then the Kotera family that had just suffered a major blow, what role can a doll family governor play? Then it's to eliminate the salt Chisong family, anyway, he has already stood on his own, and he doesn't need to worry about any righteous name. Bessho's family is a hard bone, and there are many branches of the East Harima country, and a mature defense system has been formed.

As long as he can fulfill the above idea, he will basically occupy two-thirds of the Harima country in his neighborhood, and he may be able to turn around and destroy Misasakaku, and then his father's dream will be the first step to come true.

A few days later, Urakami sent several envoys to various places to prepare for his own army.

The envoy went to Bichu Matsuyama Castle to meet with the Mimura family, and the Urakami family proposed a temporary truce at the cost of a large amount of money and food. The Mimura family has risen rapidly in Beizhong in recent years, but because of the frequent wars, the contradictions within the territory have intensified, and recently there has been a land break in his territory, and some small wealthy clans have also participated in the rebellion.

Moreover, the terms of harmony proposed by the Urakami family are to give a large amount of money and grain, because many territories have been affected by the rebellion, and this year's spring ploughing has been seriously affected, and there is no guarantee of how much food can be obtained during the autumn harvest.

Anyway, it was just that they would not attack each other in the short term, and the three village relatives decisively agreed, and immediately began to think about how the money and grain would be used to suppress the territorial rebellion, and he really wanted to live a day or two now.

Another envoy came to Zhiyan Castle and met with the lord of the castle, Yoshisuke Akamatsu, the guardian of Harima Province.

Yoshisuke Akamatsu, who is in his twenties, has just experienced the first defeat in his life, in fact, he should have lost the battle of Kayama before, but Akamatsu Masahide took the initiative to withdraw his troops, even if it was his first victory. And in his second battle, attacking the Kuroda family's Howai River, his 800 army lost to the Kuroda defenders of 200 people, and it was a big rout, and he was chased and slashed by the Kuroda family's soldiers for a long distance, and now he still has palpitations when he thinks about it.

Originally, when he heard that the Urakami family had come to the main house to ask for a meeting, he didn't want to see this Urakami family, after all, the civil strife and decline of the Akamatsu family in recent decades are inseparable from the strong rise of the Urakami family. As the heir of the Akamatsu family, he is unwilling to have any relationship with the Urakami family, which has already established itself outside the Akamatsu family.

But when Xiao surnamed said that this person was talking about how to divide the territory of the Kuroda family on behalf of the Urakami family and the Akamatsu family, his eyes suddenly lit up. He was just humiliated by the Kuroda family (he won't remember that he took the initiative to attack the Kuroda family, he will only remember that he was defeated by the Kuroda family), his face was lost by the Kuroda family, there were few flag warriors in total, and four died at once, how could he not hate the Kuroda family.

So he immediately summoned the envoy of the Urakami family, and this envoy promised him that he would contact the surrounding forces of the Kuroda family to attack the Kuroda family together, and divide the land of the Kuroda family together. Sure enough, after gaining power, people's hearts are easy to change.

At the same time that Akamatsu Yoshisuke decisively agreed, he would not have thought that the Urakami family had never thought of dividing the land equally with others, and in Urakami Sokei's plan, Akamatsu Yoshisuke was just a small force of 20,000 stones, and what he wanted to use was his name as the guardian of Harima Country. As long as he can destroy the Kuroda family, then the next thing is this small force that is weak and doesn't know his depth. You want to follow someone else and the soup when someone else may want to eat your meat.