If Itami's loyal relatives just want to keep a land of 5,000 to 8,000 koku in exchange for the safety of themselves and their families, perhaps the Kodera clan will also consider it, after all, there are still 200 enemy troops in the city, and how can they reduce the damage to their own army.

Such a character, Kotera clan really didn't dare to let him enter the Kuroda family, otherwise when Kuroda asked about it, it would be really difficult to explain, and then he would think that there was some py transaction in it.

Itami finally died in his castle tower, but instead of seppuku in the name of a samurai who fulfilled himself, he was beheaded by Araki Kiyoshi under the crying and shouting. It was supposed to be killed by the Araki clan, but the Araki clan gave this credit to his eldest son, which is really pitiful for the hearts of parents in the world!

However, Itami's loyal behavior made the Kodera clan feel that his choice was not wrong at all, this is a timid and afraid of death, but he is a villain who is stubborn and self-serving, and it is not a pity to die, and it is not a pity to die.

The historical Itami Tadashi is the eldest son of Itami Kinko, one of the three guardians who co-ruled the Settsu Province with Wada Yumasa and Ikeda Katsumasa, and to put it bluntly, his father was very bullish.

In the 11th year of Eiroku (1568 AD), Oda Nobunaga supported Yoshishinaki Kamira, and Itami became a subordinate of Oda Nobunaga along with his father. Later, as a subordinate of the Oda family, he participated in the battle with the main family against the Miyoshi family's Honkuji Temple (not Honnoji Temple, nor Honganji Temple), and Nakajima in August of the first year of Motogame? In the battle of Tenmanmori, Motokame went out to Kawachi Province with Sakuma Nobumori and Shibata Katsuie in the third year, and fought against Miyoshi Yoshitsugu and Matsunaga Hide.

In the second year of Tensho, Itami Castle was attacked by Araki Murashige, and he was forced to fight in a cage city. On November 15 of the same year, on the condition that Itami himself pro-koss surrender to Araki Village for the reopening of the castle. After the change of Honnoji Temple, he became the horse of Hashiba Hideyoshi and became a monkey. In the 20th year of Tensho (1592), he was supervised by Taiko in Hizen Nagoya Castle, and has remained in Kyushu since then. After his death, Monkey became a subordinate of Kuroda Nagamasa, and then died in the Battle of Sekigahara, and now he has died at the hands of the Kuroda family, which is the later in history.

The reason why Itami Tadashi resisted the Kuroda family to the end, okay! At the end, the part of crying and fussing can be skipped. In fact, it is related to his uncle, his uncle Shiokawa Hakusho Nagaman, who is the daimyo of Settsu Province, married Itami's aunt, so he is also the righteous brother of his father Itami Qinxing.

Shiokawa Nagamitsu was originally subordinate to the Miyoshi clan, and then to Oda Nobunaga, and it is recorded that Noda participated in the Oda family? Fukushima fought together, and later became a subordinate of Araki Murashige. After Arakimura's rebellion, he participated in the Battle of Arioka Castle and the Battle of Hanakuma Castle with the Oda family.

The daughter of Shiokawa Nagamitsu, married to Oda Nobunaga's eldest son, Oda Nobutada, and is said to be the biological mother of Oda Hidenobu. After that, he played for Ikeda Tsuneko, the daimyo of Settsu Province, and participated in the Battle of Tottori Castle under Akechi Mitsuhide, and after the Battle of Honganji, Shiokawa Nagamansu Ishitanwa Nagahide and received a Monkey's Thanksgiving Certificate, and was very active as a pioneer of the monkeys in the Battle of Yamazaki.

When Shiokawa Changman was alive, it can be said that the organs were exhausted, and he successively produced six people and obtained his own territory of tens of thousands of stones, although his reputation was not obvious, but his ability was indeed there.

However, after his death, his eldest son, Aizo, and adopted son, Tatsuchiyo, were instigated by their respective supporters to start a struggle for inheritance, which directly led to the collapse of the Shiokawa family.

Besides, Shiokawa Nagamitsu's wife is the daughter of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and her daughter Reiko is the wife of Oda Nobutada, so he will not submit to the Kuroda family. He is a man who loves his daughter, and once he submits, his daughter will inevitably be punished by Oda Nobutada, which he cannot accept. And the first gift he gave to the Oda family was the hostility and destruction of the Itami family towards the Kuroda family.

In view of the Kuroda family's strong siege ability, Shiokawa Nagamitsu gathered all 800 of his men at Kohama Castle in Settsu Province in the hope that he would be able to resist the Kuroda family's attack until autumn. It's just that there are still two months before autumn at this time, and it is actually very difficult to support the Kodera clan for two months under the attack of the Kodera clan's military forces.

But if it is said that it is a competition between ordinary old forces before, it is not very difficult to defend more than 5,600 people with 800 people. Because in the old style of combat, it is difficult to break through the opponent's defense.

And because they are all temporarily conscripted peasant soldiers, the soldiers' ability to resist pressure is extremely low, and they can be considered elite before they are defeated when the battle loss ratio exceeds 10%, and the soldiers of the Joi family, who fought with the Kuroda family before, can withstand a battle loss ratio of about 30%, which is even more powerful than the elite soldiers of some famous families.

However, the Kuroda family has always emphasized that the soldiers are good and not numerous, and the current 6,000 people of the Kodera clan are definitely not comparable to the armies of the old-style daimyos.

It's just that Shiokawa Nagamitsu felt that according to the information, Nakagawa Kiyohide's Ikeda Castle only had 300 people, and Itami's loyal Itami Castle only had 400 people. His own Xiaobin City also has an army of 800 people, and the area of Xiao Bincheng is relatively small, so when it comes to defense, each section can have enough reserve teams, and there will definitely be no gaps in defense.

The Kodera clan made a quick decision and exchanged hundreds of captives from the Setzu Kingdom for the two teams of Tohata Sadataka and Hiromine Nagahide. This action of the Kotana clan is actually very bold, because what these captives will be guarding is the more critical places on their own retreat, or the territory that connects the Honganji side, which can be said to be a crucial place.

The Kodera clan dared to do this because when they released these captives, they told them in advance that this time was just to let them take on the task of defending the city very easily, and if they could complete the task relatively well, they would have the opportunity to become the Kuroda family's soldiers later, and at the same time told them all the benefits of the Kuroda family's soldiers.

In the face of the extremely generous welfare system of the Kuroda family's soldiers, these soldiers from miscellaneous soldiers almost couldn't believe their ears, because this was simply better than the treatment of their Ashigaru group leaders.

In fact, this feeling is not wrong, because of the support of the Kuroda family's strong economic strength, the treatment of the Kuroda family's own soldiers is indeed no worse than that of low-level samurai such as the head of the ordinary daimyo family.