In the first year of Hongzhi (1555), on the evening of October 1.

After most of the day's naval battle, in the number of ships, the number of sailors, the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and the attack power of weapons all had an absolute advantage, and also occupied a favorable upper hand, the Luo family navy finally defeated the Maori family joint navy, nearly half of the Maori family navy ships were sunk, and the remaining half of the navy ships also surrendered to the Luo family's navy. After the surrender, the Maori coalition was captured, their ships were confiscated, and they were driven to an uninhabited island in the nearby sea, while the Roche sent several warships to guard the island. For these captives, they would have to stay on this island for a while to starve at least until the second line of troops of the Luo family arrived here to receive them.

As for the soldiers who fell into the water and were swimming while calling for help, because they were worried that there would be their own people from the Luo family, so Masahiro also left more than 30 warships in place to be responsible for salvaging them, because the soldiers of the Luo family were wearing the unique equipment and clothing of the Luo family, they were all easy to identify, if there were no these identification marks, they would be regarded as the captives who had been rescued, and they would also be placed on the captive island to wait for the subsequent disposal.

Due to the urgency of time, after arranging these, Masahiro immediately divided the remaining Luo family's army into four squadrons, the first squadron was the combined fleet of the second standing naval army and the fifth standing ashigaru fleet. The 2nd Standing Navy Squadron, to which Shuna Tong belonged, first escorted the 5,000-strong 5,000-strong Armie Squadron to the coastal landing in Saeki County, Aki Province. Subsequently, the waters near Itsukushima were quickly and completely blocked, and the connection between the coastal land of Aki Province and Itsukushima was eliminated.

After the landing, the 5th Standing Ashigaru Brigade took advantage of the fact that the Maori family had already transferred almost all of the local defenders to the decisive battle of Itsukushima. In the family early in ambush with the help of the local detectives. Quickly take the entire territory of Saeki County in Aki Province. Then prepare to support the nearby brothers.

The second squadron is a joint fleet of the 1st Standing Navy under the command of Murakami and the 1st Standing Ashigaru Brigade under the command of Kinoshita Masanao. Similarly, the 1st Standing Navy escorted the 1st Standing Ashigaru Brigade to land on the coast of Numata County in Aki Province, and immediately the 1st Standing Navy immediately destroyed the nearby Numata Police and Kawauchi Police Bases, and waited for an opportunity to support the remaining two Luo family naval forces.

And after the landing of the 1st Standing Ashigaru Brigade, it was also with the help of the Honke Detective, who had been preparing to meet in the local area for a long time, taking advantage of the emptiness of the local defense, to quickly take Numata County and Takamiya County in Aki Province, and waiting for an opportunity to attack Yoshida County, where the Maori family's lair was located. Since at this time, there were many defenders who stayed in the lair. Therefore, it is impossible to take down its lair, but at least it can contain the reserve forces of the Maori family, so that the rest of the Luo family's armies can quickly occupy the remaining areas of the Maori family.

The third team was a combined fleet of the 2nd Standing Ashigaru Brigade under the command of Shigemasa Yoshida and the 4th Standing Navy Force under the command of Takeyoshi Murakami. After the 4th Standing Navy escorted the 2nd Standing Ashigaru to land in Aki Province's Yasui County, it immediately attacked the Mishima Navy and Konoya's naval base in that direction, completely controlling the Seto Inland Sea and extending its power to the coastal areas of Bigo Province.

The second standing ashigaru team took advantage of the emptiness to quickly take the nearby Anyun County, Kamo County and even Shatin County. And directly approached Yoshida County, where the Maori family's nest was located, and jointly put pressure on the Maori family's nest with the first standing ashigaru team.

As for Masahiro, he took a part of the naval warships and the main escort team under his command, with Li Huamei as the main general of the naval army, and approached Itsukushima. Of course, for Itsukushima's strategy. Zhengliang has his own plans.

According to the information that has just been sent back from the main detective who is lurking in Zhou Fangguo and An Yiguo, it is on Itsukushima at this time. The Maori Yuan family has more than 10,000 troops on the island, and the Tao family also has more than 20,000 people on the island, even if after a bloody battle, it has been reduced by a lot, but the number of the two armies will be quite a lot. Therefore, Masarashi did not plan to send a large army to land on Itsukushima and join the melee. Instead, they adopted the method of trapping the island, blockading Itsukushima, and letting the Maori army and the Tao family army fight to the death.

Even Masato planned to send people to take advantage of the war between the two families to take the opportunity to forcibly relocate all the original owners of the island to settle in various parts of the Luo family in Kitakyushu, and even the property of these lords was looted (resolutely not to leave even a single rice for the two armies on the island). This approach, on the one hand, is to prevent the two armies from relying on the local people to supplement food, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to clear the complex situation on the island, and after the recovery of Itsukushima in the future, Masayo will send some students who graduated from the Shinto and Buddhist Academy of the Luo family school to serve as the priests of Itsukushima Shrine, responsible for taking care of the shrines on the island, and some new people from other regions will come in and settle here. In this way, in addition to being completely controlled by the Luo family, Itsukushima can also earn some extra money for the Luo family through the shrine.

Of course, for the insidious intention of Masato to besiege them on the island and let them fight on their own, the generals of the two families must have seen through it. But even so, as long as Zhengliang does not land for a duel, even if the two of them join forces to deal with the Luo family, due to the loss of the navy, they can only stare on the shore, and they will be harassed by the Luo family's navy from time to time. Until the end of the day, the armies of both sides would even have to surrender due to lack of food.

With this decision in mind, Masarashi arrived in the sea area opposite Itsukushima Shrine in the middle of the night on a warship. At this time, the Mori Yuan had just landed in the Igneous Rock area, which belonged to Saeki Prefecture. Ironically, he had just come out of here in high spirits the previous night, and the next night he had fled in disarray.

"My lord, a large number of ships have been spotted in the sea in the distance on the left." At this time, a samurai came to report. Mao Liyuan immediately looked at the sea in the distance, and sure enough, he saw a large group of stars dotted on the sea near Itsukushima. These dots are naturally the torches on the warship. Apparently, at this time Itsukushima had been blockaded by these ships.

"My lord, a large number of ships have also been found on the western coast." At this time, another samurai came to report.

"Did the other party know that we escaped ahead of time?" Retainer Amano said solemnly.

"No, it's not necessarily, it's also possible that the other party took advantage of the emptiness of these areas of the family and attacked overnight." Gui Yuancheng said.

"Whether it is to pursue us and others, or to attack when the territory of this family is empty, this place is not a place to stay for a long time, my lord, according to the ministers, it is better to evacuate this place overnight." Retainer Fukuhara Sadatoshi persuaded him.

"Well, Tongliang." Mao Liyuan nodded, and then ordered.

"In!" The called Kouyu Tongliang immediately responded.

"You quickly find some people, let these people rush to various cities overnight, and inform those defenders that they must desperately resist the attack of the invading army, and the reinforcements of our family will arrive soon."

"Yes!" Kouyu Tongliang immediately received the order to go down to assign the task.

"Grand!"

"In! Lord! Amano replied immediately. At this time, he didn't know that another army of the Luo family had landed from another place and then killed his territory.

"Leave some sailors and let them find a way to get close to Itsukushima, and then find Saburo and bring Saburo back." Mao Liyuan commanded again. Due to the critical situation, he had to give up Kobayakawa Takakei tonight, but he still hoped to be able to save Kobayakawa Takakei.

"Yes!" Amano solemnly took the order and left immediately.

The rest of the men immediately went down to gather their forces and prepared to set off. For the sake of safety, don't talk too much about being attacked tonight. After the last time, Amauriyuan ordered.

"Yes!" Then they were commanded and departed.

"Lord, are you going to rest for the night in nearby Sakurao Castle tonight?" After everyone left, the important minister Fukuhara Sadatoshi asked with a solemn face.

"No, I went around the city overnight and went directly to the mountain castle of Yoshida County." Maori Yuan said.

"Huh? My lord, I'm afraid this is too rushed! The soldiers may be suspicious, and even if they rush overnight, the castles along the way will go around the city, at least the day after tomorrow to rush back to the mountain castle of Yoshida County? Gui Yuancheng on the other side reminded.

"Even so, there is no way, didn't you notice that the other party came very quickly this time, but was very prepared?" Mao Liyuan said, "I suspect that the rest of my family has been attacked by the other party, and the coastal counties of Anyi Country are empty of troops at this time, even if the soldiers left behind in the cities are desperately resisting, they can't resist for long, and we can't stay in these cities for a long time, otherwise once the other party learns, it is very likely that they will send a large army to besiege us, then the dragons of this family have no leader, and they are not far from extermination!" ”

And this time, Mao Liyuan was really right, and Masahiro's division of troops this time did have the same plan. The so-called wise man may have a mistake. Although Masarashi has tried in every possible way to besiege Mori Motoya on Itsukushima, it is also possible that Mori Motogaku will escape. And even if Maori Yuan really escapes, then his most likely foothold is naturally the city in the coastal area of An Yi Country. And in order to avoid this from happening, that's why he came up with this strategy of besieging Itsukushima instead of attacking itsukushima, but instead scattering and attacking all parts of Aki Country, in order to capture Maori Yuan in these castles.

If this is the case, if the Maori Yuan cannot be caught, then after occupying these cities, it should also be able to contain the Maori Yuan in the local area, right? Later, if you mobilize the people, you will naturally be able to pull him out. If it is really unlucky to let Mao Liyuan escape in the end, then the most lull will at least occupy the territory of the coastal area of An Yi Country. No matter what, it's not a loss.

(There's one more chapter in the evening!) (To be continued......)