It's just that when they first raised their confidence, Shigeharu Takenaka remembered how to deal with Wakae Castle, a castle built on an alluvial plain between two rivers. Compared to the rivers on both sides, the terrain is not high.

When Shigeharu Takenaka saw such a special terrain around Wakae Castle, he immediately remembered the incident of flooding Matsuyama Castle made by Kuroda Vocational High School. At that time, Kuroda Vocational High School defeated Mori Motosho with this battle.

So Shigeharu Takenaka immediately went to the Chinese army and told this idea to Ide Tomo, who felt that this method was feasible, and then did not dare to have any slackness, and immediately sent a team of 3,000 people to continue to besiege Wakae Castle, and the other 12,000 troops were all distributed on the rivers on both sides to block the water upstream.

After three days, when there was a lot of water in the upper reaches that had been blocked, the Kuroda family finally dug up the soil that blocked the river, and a man-made flood appeared on the outskirts of Wakae Castle in an instant, and by this time the Kuroda family's army besieging them on the outskirts had already withdrawn.

After a big flood, Wakae Castle can be said to be in shambles, even some buildings in the city were washed away by the flood, and even the wooden walls of Wakae Castle had several gaps that could not withstand the huge impact of the flood, which was exactly what the Kuroda family needed.

When there was already a defensive hole in Wakae Castle, the Kuroda family's army, under the command of the Imate Yuclan, rushed forward without hesitation. The army led by the samurai of the Kuroda family quickly poured into Wakae Castle, not giving the defenders any chance to react at all, just like the previous flood, quickly breaking all the confidence of the entire Wakae Castle defenders.

After a great battle, four or five hundred of the 1,000 defenders were killed, and most of the remaining men and horses became prisoners of the Kuroda family and were sent to dig a pit. Only a few people dared to jump from the city before it was broken and escaped with their lives.

When Ruojiang Castle was captured, the local wealthy families and countrymen knew that the Kuroda family was really ruthless and could do everything, and Ruojiang Castle in the flood was the best example.

As a result, some wealthy clans and countrymen who had very little power and had little ability to resist immediately surrendered to the Kuroda family, and obediently sent hostages and surrendered the table, and at the same time accepted the request to keep sixty percent of the land and transfer it to other countries.

It's just that some of the larger wealthy clans and countrymen, they think completely differently from the smaller forces, whether it is for their own land or for the sake of the face of the entire Hanoi country, they resolutely do not agree to submit to the Kuroda family.

Because there are too many forces of resistance, the Imate Tomoshi can only slow down the pace of their march and clean up these ignorant people one by one. As mentioned before, such a situation is exactly in line with Matsunaga Shu's plan, and it only took 3,000 men and horses to contain the Kuroda family's army for more than a month.

Matsunaga Shu's calculations were extremely accurate, and when the army of the Iate Tomoshi basically pacified Hanoi and finally entered the Yamato Kingdom, the time had already entered the autumn harvest season. And the reason why Matsunaga Shu wanted to leave a part of the men and horses to contain the Kuroda family's army was to be able to step up the harvest of all the grain and grass in the entire territory by delaying for more than a month.

As an extremely intelligent man, after Matsunaga Shu gave the order, his subordinates harvested all the grain in the entire Yamato country, and when the Imate Yushi led people into the Yamato country, there was basically not a grain of grain on both sides of the road, except for the straw. It can be said that he has just entered Yamato Province, and Matsunaga Shu has taught the Kuroda family a very important lesson

It's just that there is one thing that Matsunaga didn't calculate, and that is that the Kuroda family doesn't have to worry about their own food and grass supply at all. In Matsunaga Hide's understanding, if the Kuroda family landed from the coast, and there was still suppression in the Setzu country to the north, especially when the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which was extremely opposed to the Kuroda family, was blocked, the Kuroda family's army could only get a certain amount of supplies by sea. If he could delay as much time as possible, the Kuroda family's army would soon collapse without food and grass.

The reason why Matsunaga Shu would make such an unexpected mistake is because he didn't see the Kuroda family's backhand clearly. The Kuroda family is not afraid of Matsunaga Hide's strategy because the Kuroda family's army has local support.

As a royal merchant of the Kuroda family, with his current ability, he can fully help the Kuroda family obtain a steady stream of food and supplies of various armaments and materials. In addition, the Kuroda family's own several merchant houses also have huge energy, which is the reason why the Kuroda family dares to invest so many troops.

So even if the Kuroda family's army misses the best opportunity to get grain and grass in Matsunaga Shu's territory, there is actually no big problem, because the Kuroda family's army is not bad at all, including Matsui Shigetaka's army in the south.

The army of the Imate Tomoshi clan also entered the Yamato country through Kishinoshi, and quickly came to the castle of Kishin Mountain Castle, and then it will be a protracted battle of power and defense.

Let's turn our attention to Tanba Province a month ago, where the Kuroda family's army was finally about to attack Yamashiro Province, and now the other armies of the Kuroda family have basically been able to capture, but only Kuroda Vocational High School has been leading the army in Tanba Province and did not immediately go to Yamashiro Province.

It wasn't until after Matsunaga Shu returned to Yamato Province in order to preserve his territory that Kuroda Vocational High School began to march towards Yamashiro Province with a large army.

When Matsunaga Shu and Hashiba Hideyoshi fought against each other before, the ministers of Kyoto, as well as the wealthy businessmen, basically had a limit and supported Hashiba Hideyoshi, after all, what Masunaga Shu did in Kyoto before was not a good thing, so these people didn't want Masunaga Shu to take charge of Yamashiro Country again in the end. Relatively speaking, Hideyoshi Hashiba is more humble, so it is a better choice for Hideyoshi Hashiba to temporarily manage Yamashiro Province.

But when they knew that the Kuroda family had crossed the border between Tanba and Yamashiro countries, their attitude towards Hashiba Hideyoshi immediately became ambiguous, after all, everyone knew the truth of enjoying the shade under the big tree, and relatively speaking, Kuroda Vocational High School and Hashiba Hideyoshi were the big trees, and they saw it clearly.

After weighing it with his subordinates, Hideyoshi had no choice but to withdraw from Kyoto, leaving it to the Kuroda family, and gathered the entire army around Katsuryuji Castle.