Tachibanayama Castle.

With the beating of the drums, the three long spears were raised like a forest.

A herald galloped past on the horse and exclaimed, "The spear is light." ”

"Oh."

The makeshift peasants, who were sitting on the ground and waiting, stood up one after another, lined up at the orders of the leaders of each group, and began to advance towards the front. On the side of the gate, the logistics general Hondajun was standing there on a war horse, and behind him were the logistics peasants loading bags of military rations onto pack horses and small lotus carts.

Under the stone wall of the huge stone wall of Tachibanayama Castle, the banner group composed of heralds held the Black Eagle Banner of the Luo family and walked in the front, and the rest of the banner group had just left the Otemen Gate of Tachibanayama Castle.

After the flag group, the clanging armor collided, and the standing ashigaru soldiers wore hats on their heads, dressed in royal loan equipment that had been transformed by the Luo family's workshop, wore straw sandals on their feet, and trotted all the way with spears on their shoulders, following behind the flag group, and running out of the gate. The brightly colored black eagle flags of the Luo family behind them swayed in the wind, beating like black flames in their eyes from a distance.

Masarashi sat high on the back of the Nanban horse "Lightning", wearing the iconic Roche armor, his Nanban head pocket was often held by the military companion surnamed Esato Koushi, and the longbow was held by Shimazu Yoshihiro in turn. Right now, he was riding his horse along the horse path in the city, and his retainers such as Yamamoto Kansuke and Hida were one or half behind him, following behind. Around him were cloaked people, and behind him were samurai bands.

"Kansuke, is there any new progress in the matter of sending an envoy to the eastern part of Chikuzen Province to do so?"

Hearing Masayo's words, Kansuke Yamamoto immediately jumped off his horse with the help of several of his own retainers. followed to Zhengliang's side. He said respectfully, "My lord." The Qiuyue family has already agreed to advance and retreat together with the family, presumably at this time they have already acted according to the plan previously agreed with the family; The Aso family is still hesitating, but if they learn that Tao Long was killed in rebellion against Yoshitaka Ouchi, they will definitely make a choice. Only the Zhanbu Shangshou of Xu Fei Mountain City refused to be wooed by his own family, but considering that it was his wife's younger brother Lu Ci who came to persuade him, he did not tell his own family Zongxiang family. ”

"Humph!" When Zhengliang heard this, he immediately snorted, struck the air with his horsewhip, and said, "Since you are stubborn. Don't give him a chance, this time in the eastern region of the former country, he will first set foot on the Zhanbu family. ”

"Oh." Kansuke Yamamoto, the military advisor who accompanied the army, agreed to retreat.

"Lord Lord," said another military advisor this time, Kakukuma Ishizong, who rode close to Masahiro's side and said, "Xu Fei Mountain Castle is the gateway to the hinterland of the Zongxiang family from the western land direction, and the castle is very strong. ”

Hearing this, Zhengliang also nodded. The mountain castle of Xufei is flanked on the left and right by the towering and steep mountains of Xufei Mountain and Tsushima Mountain, both of which belong to a section of the Sangunshan mountain range that extends to the northern coastal area. After years of operation by the Zongxiang family, not only the city wall is towering. And it's also a castle of two pills. The geographical location is stuck in the critical position between the western part of Chikuzen Province and the eastern region, and it is like a gate, embedded in the tail section of the northern side of the Sankosan mountain range, which divides Chikuzen Province into two parts. In history, due to the special geographical location of Xu Fei Mountain City and the fact that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Zongxiang family later moved the Jucheng from Baishan City here.

If Zhengliang's army was blocked under Xu Feishan City, then it would have to be rerouted along the seashore in the direction of the land island and the big island to the north, which was once the base of the Zongxiang family's naval army, but now it is a charred ruin. After arriving there, the navy will be used to transport the Luo family's troops in batches to the coastal territory of the Zongxiang family on the other side of the mountain forest. It's just that there is already another army of the Luo family landing on that side at this time, and now rushing over is just to join in the fun, and once this army leaves, the army in Xu Fei City can support other places, and even take advantage of the emptiness in the western part of Chikuzen Country to enter the territory of the Luo family. So no matter what, Zhengliang's army is going to storm Xu Feishan City.

In the face of the Luo family's upcoming invasion of the Dongzhu Qianguo region, Shang An of the Zhanbu in Xu Fei City had already made sufficient preparations, and he had carried out a comprehensive mobilization of troops in the territory before, recruiting men over the age of fifteen and under fifty, gathering more than 500 troops, plus the 500 people who were originally supported by the Ouchi family here, and now there are more than 1,000 people. He's ready for a cage battle.

It is important to know that although Xu Fei City is not a big city, it is built on a steep mountain, which is very easy to defend and difficult to attack. Before, there was enough grain and grass in the city, and there were iron cannons to defend the city, so the soldiers in the city were stable. Even if the Luo family's army attacked with all its might, Zhanbu Shang'an was confident to hold on and give the Luo family's army enough damage.

It's just that what puzzled Shang An of Zhanbu was that after arriving at the city of Xu Feishan, the Luo family was not in a hurry to attack, but slowly set up a large camp under the city, and was very prepared to slowly fight a protracted battle with the defenders in the city.

"Lord Shang'an of the Ocham, what do you think this Luo family's army is doing?" As the chief general of the Ouchi family's garrison stationed in Xu Fei City, Xiangyue Zexiao immediately asked Zhanbu Shang'an after seeing the strange behavior of the Luo family's army.

"Hmph, did Kazuki-sama see it? Is there an eagle banner with a golden family pattern in the opponent's military array? That's the unique main banner of the Hizen Eagle Luo Zhengliang, and the cunning Hizen Eagle is under the city? Chabu Shangan immediately said.

"This?" Xiangyue Zexiao, who was standing at the head of the city, looked in the direction pointed by Zhanbu Shang'an, and sure enough, he saw that among the Luo family's military array, there was a big banner glowing golden in the sun, and the golden eagle on it was shining in the sun.

"Hmph, the Eagle of Hizen is nothing more than that, Lord Zhanbu, you see, judging from the following, the army of the Luo family who came to attack the city under the city is not even a thousand people, with such a force, how can it be the opponent of the city guarded by more than 1,000 people?" Looking at the golden banner of the Luo family, no matter how Xiang Yue Zexiao looked at it, he felt that the Luo family was demonstrating to them, so he immediately said.

"Lord Xiangyue, don't despise that cunning eagle, the other party has always been scheming, but no matter what the other party is, as long as we can't hold on to the city, then we can naturally stop the other party's tricks." Feeling that Xiangyue Zexiao was a little contemptuous of the Luo family's military strength under the city, Zhanbu Shang'an, who had long understood the combat effectiveness of the Luo family's military situation, immediately reminded. Anyway, this time he was iron-hearted, and he couldn't hold out of the city. With the cliffs on the left and right sides of Xu Fei Mountain City, and the geographical location connected to the hinterland of the Zongxiang family in the rear, the Luo family's army could not besiege them, so they could only attack forcibly from the west, as long as they could not hold on, the Luo family would not be able to help him.

In the following days, the Luo family did not storm Xu Fei Mountain City, but instead rested during the day and adopted harassment tactics at night. Although Zhanbu Shang'an had long known about the tactics of the Luo family, after experiencing it personally, he realized that it was despicable and shameless.

Whenever the sound of shouting and drumming continued outside the city at night, the Zhanbu Shang'an had to send additional soldiers to the city wall, and the soldiers were exhausted from coming and going. Later, Zhanbu Shang'an thought of a way to deal with it, that is, to divide the soldiers into several groups, and then take turns to guard the city wall when the Luo family came to attack the city, and the rest of the people continued to rest. But there are limits to what you can do. After all, these soldiers are mainly composed of ordinary lords, and when they are harassed at night, even if it is not their turn to go to battle, they are still terrified and unable to rest peacefully, so they will still be harassed and exhausted. If it goes on like this for a long time, even if they don't use the Luo family's army outside to kill them, these soldiers defending the city will mutiny.

Why don't you just ignore the harassment of the Luo family and don't send people to reinforce the city? What if the Luo family really changed from a harassment war to a siege war? You must know that although the walls of Xu Feicheng are towering, the other party also has those long ladders that can be climbed. Then the city will soon be captured, and Xu Fei City will be in danger. A simple harassment tactic by the Luo family suddenly made the city helpless.

(Thanks to the votes for "Spring".) (To be continued......)