Astronomy 22 winter.

In a wooden house outside Tomita Castle in the Tsukiyama of Izumo Province in the western country, the Duke of the Luo family, who had stayed in the Niko family as an allied hostage, had just thrown a letter into the fire pit of the wooden house.

"Presumably, at this time, the lord has already begun to fight against the Bungo Kingdom and the Harvest Former Kingdom, right? It's really the style of the lord, and he always goes out when others don't expect it. It's just about the Nizi family, but it's really a little hard to understand. Duanmu Qingzheng frowned, looked at the handwritten letter of Zhengliang who was gradually burned to ashes in the fire pond, and said to himself.

In fact, since September of this year, rumors have been circulating around Getsan Tomita Castle about the Shingu Party of the Niko family. The so-called Shingu Party refers to the elite troops of the Niko family commanded by Niko Haruhisa's uncle Niko Kunihisa and his sons Niko Seihisa, Niko Toyohisa, and Niko Keihisa. Because the residence of Niko Kunihisa is in the Shinmiya Valley in the north of the main city of Niko's house, Tsukiyama Tomita Castle, it is called the Shingu Party. This powerful army is the greatest reliance of the Nizi family in attacking cities and plundering land.

The rumors that have been circulating near Getsan Tomita Castle in recent times are aimed at the Shingu Party of the Niko family, and the main content of the rumors is that the father and son of Niko Kunihisa secretly colluded with the Yoshikawa family at the junction of Aki Province and Izumo Province in an attempt to unite the Mori family and the Yoshikawa family to seize the position of the clan. Under normal circumstances, when people hear such rumors, they will naturally not believe it.

However, due to the increasing number of meritorious deeds, the father and son of Nizi Guojiu have become more and more arrogant, and they have gradually lost their courtesy to Nizi Qingjiu. In Duanmu Qingzheng's opinion, as the governor of the sect, Nizi Qingjiu should have become jealous of Nizi Kunijiu's father and son, and now these rumors have been added. It's hard to guarantee that Niko Haruma will not be suspicious of Niko Kunihisa and his son. So these rumors are obviously deliberately created in response to the situation of the Nizi family at this time. It has the purpose of causing chaos in the Nizi family.

From the point of view of the allies. Duanmu Kiyomasa naturally didn't want the Nizi family to fall into civil strife, so after sensing that these rumors were wrong, he immediately wrote a letter about the rumors and his own judgment, and ordered someone to send them back to Masashi in Kyushu urgently.

Masara received a letter from Kiyomasa Duanmu before he officially left the Bungo Kingdom and the Bunzen Kingdom. As soon as he saw the content of the rumors, Masato knew that this was the handiwork of Maori Motoshi, and its purpose was to use the hand of Niko Haruhisa to eliminate the biggest threat to the Niko family in his eyes, the Shingu Party. And historically, Niko Haruma really obediently eliminated the Shingu Party next year according to Maori Moto's idea.

For this conspiracy of Maori Moto, as Duanmu Kiyomasa said in the letter. As long as the conspiracy purpose of this rumor is told to Niko Haruha, it may be possible to avoid the downfall of the Niko family's Shingu party. But this is only to be avoided temporarily, with the contradiction between Niko Kunihisa and Niko Haruhisa, the two will still have a conflict again sooner or later, unless one of them is willing to take the initiative to compromise.

Moreover, from the perspective of a third party, the collapse of the Nizi family's Shingu Party was beneficial to both the Maori family and the Luo family. If the Nizi family's Shingong Party is really retained, then with the Nizi family's background at this time, it is really possible to become a giant. Although now the Luo family is an ally with the Nizi family. But this so-called alliance is just an ally between interests, once the two sides do not have the same interests. Then the Luo family will have to face a battle with the Nizi family. So Masahiro naturally didn't want the Nizi family to swell. Anyway, even if the Shingu Party is destroyed, the Niko family will still be able to spend a long time with the Maori family. When the Nizi family and the Maori family were both defeated, the Luo family happened to be a fisherman who took advantage of the fisherman.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Zhengliang replied to Duanmu Qingzheng to wait and see what was going on, not to do anything, as long as he reported back the situation of the Nizi family in time. And Masaliang's order made Duanmu Kiyomasa, who was about to make a speech to remind Nizi Qingjiu, into confusion. Of course, no matter how confused he is, Duanmu Qingzheng still truthfully carried out Zhengliang's orders.

In fact, Maori Yuan did not just carry out a conspiracy against the Nizi family during this period of time. He also set his sights on Tao Longfang, who was entangled with the Iwami Kuniyoshi family. This time, Maoli Yuan's target was Jiang Liangfang Rong, who was Tao Longfang's left arm and right arm.

Tao Longfang was not bare-ass to make Ouchi Yoshitaka against, as the chief of the Ouchi Arbitrary School, he also has his own personal power, the most powerful of which are Jiang Liang Fang Rong and Hongzhong Takabao, both of whom are famous for their wisdom and bravery. Especially Jiang Liang Fangrong, who is good at calculation and has a vision of the overall situation. Because he had dealt with Maori Yuan many times before, Jiang Liang Fangrong knew the inside story of the Maori family, so he suggested to Tao Longfang many times during this time, and told Tao Longfang that at this time, the main direction of attack of the family should not be in Iwami Province, but in Anyu Country, and in addition, we should make every effort to manage Itsukushima, win over the local wealthy families and pirates, and don't let them throw themselves into the Maori family. It's a pity that Jiang Liang Fang Rong had a dispute with Tao Longfang because of the previous issue of territorial division after the war, and Tao Longfang was still angry about it at this time, so there was no suggestion from Tori Jiang Liang Fang Rong.

Jiang Liang Fang Rong's suggestion was learned by the Maori family who was lurking beside Tao Longfang, and it was transmitted back to the ears of An Yiguo's Maori Yuan. This immediately made Mao Liyuan murderous to Jiang Liangfangrong.

So in the same way as the method of dealing with the Niko family, Mori Moto sent people to infiltrate the area around the Yamaguchi Ouchi Pavilion and spread rumors, saying that "the Era clan is trying to deal with Mori Moto."

Tao Longfang is indeed a talent in the military, but he is very lame in domestic strategy. Such a simple rumor immediately caught his attention. Probably Tao Longfang himself is a rebel, and for a long time, anyone has a suspicious and suspicious psychology of "opposite": "You Jiang Liang Fang Rong had a deep relationship with the old Maori thief before, who knows what the relationship between the two of you is, and you always persuade me to go to Itsukushima, do you want to give me to Maori Yuan to be willing?" ”

So this year, when the Luo family made a big move to form areas that were not included in the territory of Fengqian and Fenghou, Tao Longfang also personally cast Jiang Liangfangrong's unjust case. After hearing the rumors, he killed the Jiang Liang clan without serious investigation, and Jiang Liang Fangrong's brother Jiang Liang Xianxuan and his son Hikojiro were killed, and Jiang Liang Fang Rong himself was assassinated by another confidant of Tao Longfang, Hiroka Takabao, in the Iwakuni Amber Temple near Itsukushima.

In fact, this incident is a great blow to the Tao family, you must know that Jiang Liangfang Rong has been in charge of the offensive and defensive affairs around Itsukushima before, his unjust death, many wealthy families in the south of Anyun and Itsukushima have a resentment towards Tao Longfang, and in the future wartime have thrown themselves to Maori Yuan, more importantly, Tao Longfang actually self-destructed an eye facing the Itsukushima war, in the later Itsukushima war, Tao Jun almost became blind and deaf in the local area, and was beaten passively everywhere, and the consequences were very bad. This was one of the reasons for the outcome of the Itsukushima Water Battle in the future.

After the Jiang Liang clan, who was in charge of the offensive and defensive affairs of Itsukushima, was destroyed, Mori Yuan immediately began to implement his strategy of dividing and encroaching on Itsukushima. While he was still fighting hard with Yoshimi Masalai in Iwami Province in the Tao Taka House, Mori Moto was wielding a knife and cutting the flesh of Itsukushima with a knife: under the intimidation and temptation of the Mori family, Itsukushima God led the people to split, such as the Shishido family, the Sakano family, and the Ohno family continued to be loyal to Tao Fang, while the Jifei family, the Shinsato family, and the Shiga family were led by the Jifei family, the Shinzato family, and the Shiga family, and they happily fornicated with Moto, and became a glorious "leading party". In history, the most famous bloody battle of Itsukushima is beginning to kick off.

Regarding the situation of Zhou Fangguo and An Yiguo, the Luo family also increased surveillance, so when the extermination of the Jiang Liang clan occurred, Zhengliang, who was already on the way, naturally received the news as soon as possible. In addition to being surprised, Masashi became anxious about the progress of the strategy of the Bunzen Kingdom and the Bungo Kingdom this time. Looking at the situation, the bloody battle of Itsukushima is about to happen according to the historical trajectory, since you have missed the opportunity to remind Tao Longfang, it is better to be a fisherman. But if you want to be a fisherman, you must also get out of this strategy as soon as possible. (To be continued......)