Higo, Tamana-gun, on the mountain road leading to the prison castle of the Koyo family.

After a long day of marching, the army finally entered a basin of the Kodai family. Previously, the army had taken a break near Suwa Shrine, and in addition to allowing the soldiers to enjoy the meals provided by the Koyo family, Yoshihiro Kanri also led the generals to visit the Suwa Shrine and pray for a successful trip to Chikugo.

After a momentary pause, the army set out again. It turns out that Kai's initial worries were unnecessary. Until the army walked out of the mountain road and entered the basin controlled by the Xiao Dai family. Seeing that the Prison City was about to be in sight, everyone even saw the army of the Xiao Dai family gathered under the Prison City, but they didn't encounter any trouble.

"Self-proclaimed clever guy!" As soon as Yoshihiro remembered what Kai had told him to be wary of at the beginning, he muttered to himself with a little disdain.

In the basin surrounded by mountain passes, there are endless paddy fields as far as the eye can see, and only three or four families are scattered in the vicinity of the paddy fields, two of which have a forest nearby. You can see the torii arch and it is a shrine of the town guard.

Most of the paddy fields on both sides of the road have been planted, and each field is filled with water, reflecting the early summer sunset. The peasants in the paddy fields, holding white cloth on their heads and sticking their feet in the fields, saw the neat army all showing surprise in their eyes.

Ashigaru soldiers dressed in cargo gear were marching, stepping over puddles on the road, leaving mud on their straw sandals. This large army, both ashigaru soldiers and samurai on horseback, with their own flags on their backs, is advancing loudly and noisily.

Before setting out on the expedition, I got the news from the detective. After learning that the Otomo army was about to attack them. The defenders of the Luo family, who were located on the border of Chikugo, immediately withdrew the border checkpoint. He also relocated all the people on the side of Tajiri Castle that bordered the Higo Koyo family. And Tajiri's door was also tightened. It is strictly forbidden for any unrelated person to approach. The other party is obviously preparing to defend the city. The opponent is timid before fighting. Anyway, the purpose of this battle is to contain the Luo family's army in this direction, and now it seems that they have won this battle before it has started. For many people, this time it was like going to play.

On one side of the dirt road is a hillside covered with dense forests and grassy grass, while on the other side is a large area of irrigated paddy fields, and the afternoon sun casts a trace of golden scales on the water, and the whole area exudes a peaceful atmosphere. At this point, the soldiers somewhat relaxed their vigilance. The pace of the march slowed down, and I was even in the mood to enjoy the scenery around me.

One mile further ahead is the prison city of Xiaodai's family!

Dressed in armor, Yoshihiro Kanri rode his horse across the ditch, and was now thinking about whether to rest in the prison city for the night? It's better to advance directly to the outside of Tajiri Castle of the Roche family after Chikugo.

Just as Yoshihiro Kanri was thinking about his next step, in a dense forest on the side of the basin, Shinnosuke Akabane, the general of the Otomo coalition that came to fight against Higo, had been watching the opposing coalition forces through the gap in the dense forest for a long time.

Shinnosuke Akabane likes to play tricks with his enemies the most. This time, he did not arrange any ambush in the mountain road where the enemy thought it was the most vulnerable to ambush, but instead set up an ambush at the place where he was about to arrive at Oyo Home Castle. In his opinion. At this time, on the contrary, it is the time when the enemy's defenses are the weakest.

The ambush was carried out by the 6th Standing Ashigaru Brigade, which was secretly dispatched from Fukushima Castle in Minamihizen, with a total of 500 people. The main general will be the general of the Luo family, Yuanchengji Shinyin, and the deputy generals will be Kumon Chongzhong and Luo Masamune.

It was from Minamihizen that they arrived directly at the Koyo family's territory on the coast of Shimabara Bay, and then secretly came here to ambush. Ji Hong Jianli didn't know that the Xiao Dai family had been completely controlled by the Luo family, but he was also worried that the relationship between the two families would be affected because he did not accept the Xiao Dai family's Lao Jun meals.

In addition to the 6th Standing Ashigaru Team, the 1st Standing Ashigaru Team stationed at Tahei Castle, Uto-gun, Hizen, participated in the ambush this time, with a total of 400 people. Before setting out for this place, they left only a hundred soldiers to stay in Tianping City. Of course, they will also have the third standing naval force to help protect the city.

The main commander of the first standing ashigaru team this time is the executive Tankane, and the deputy generals are Tetsunosuke and Asakura Sote. The military commander Fu Luo Zhengxiu stayed in Tianping City.

Compared to the Sixth Standing Ashigaru Team, their journey here was a bit tortuous. In order to avoid being discovered by the Otomo family, who was stationed on the coast of Higo Island's Hara Bay, they were secretly sent directly by the navy to the junction of the Inner Space House and the Kagoko Kiya Bay. Then follow the edge of the two houses to the vicinity of the ambush.

Of course, such a large-scale personnel operation, no matter how secretive it is, will still be discovered by the two families who are the landlords, the Inner Space Family and the Kagoko Mu Family. For this reason, Masahiro has sent someone to make a deal with them. As long as they keep quiet about this, then the Luo family will not only release the inner space town house and the Kagoko Wood Inspector captured in the Tahei Castle after the Otomo family's allied forces enter the Chikugo border, but will also no longer harass their coastal land territory (of course, their ships are absolutely not allowed to appear at sea).

After getting the quid pro quo of Masahiro, the two families agreed to it. They thought about it very clearly, not to mention the conditions provided by Zhengliang that they could not refuse, and the most important thing was that if the Luo family could severely damage the rest of the wealthy families after the fattening, then the risk of the two of them being coveted by other wealthy families would be much lower after the strength of the family decreased due to the defeat to the Luo family.

For them, whether it is the Luo family or the wealthy families around them, even the Otomo family, they are actually wolves, and they may bite you at any time. Therefore, everything is not as practical as ensuring its own strength. Because of this, they also sent a small number of troops to help the Otomo family this time, and even most of these soldiers were farmers. They are very cunning, and after the Luo family secretly carried out the army transfer, they knew that the strategy of the Luo family this time would definitely not be good, so they naturally tried to avoid the loss of their own family's strength in this strategy.

In addition to the 1st Standing Ashigaru Team and the 6th Standing Ashigaru Team, Shinnosuke Akabane also commanded a hundred samurai of Masaya's personal samurai team. In this ambush, the Luo family alone invested 1,000 standing soldiers, in addition, there were also soldiers from the Koyo family, who were responsible for blocking the exit from the direction of Tsujito Castle, and the army of Kikuchi Yoshitake who came from behind. And the other side is just a rabble of 2,500 people. In this ambush, Shinnosuke Akabane was confident that he would defeat the other party.

Seeing that the Great Friends coalition forces below have completely entered the ambush circle. Shinnosuke Akabane immediately signaled to the heralds around him to blow the horn of the conch to attack. Due to the complex terrain, it was difficult to unify the command, so Shinnosuke Akabane had no choice but to use the method of command.

"Woo woo woo ......" The herald who received the instruction immediately sounded the conch.

"What's going on?" The sudden sound of the conch horn surprised Yoshihiro Kanri, who was thinking about the next step, and immediately asked subconsciously.

"Shoot!" The execution of the kind and the Wonjoji Temple Nobuyin didn't care whether Yoshihiro was surprised or not, and immediately gave the order to shoot the bow and arrow after the conch horn sounded.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" Just when the allied forces of the Great Friends family outside the mountains and forests still understood why the horn of the conch suddenly appeared, the feather arrows of the Luo family shot towards each other like rain.

"Bang, bang......" In the rain of arrows, there was occasionally one or two iron cannons. These are a few iron guns that Shinnosuke Akabane deliberately applied to Masaka. Their purpose is not to shoot and injure their opponents, they are only to scare them with the sound of iron cannons.

Under the attack of Luo's fan, the Neighing of the war horses suddenly broke out, and the army also fell into chaos, and many horseback warriors fell off their horses because of the fright of their horses.

"It's not good, I was ambushed by the Luo family." As for the sound of the iron cannon, which is currently unique to the Luo family, as long as they hear it, they will know that the person who ambushed them is the Luo family.

"It's just, how the hell did the other party end up here?"

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