And just when the Takayama family swept away Mutsu in a hurry, and there were no worries at all, Kinoshita Hideyoshi was depressed to death.

The reason why Kinoshita Hideyoshi was able to agree to Kuroda Kanbei to go to Kyushu in person this time was because he was already dissatisfied with him and wanted to temporarily transfer him away from his side, so as not to be an eyesore all day long, and the more important reason was naturally to completely eliminate Kyushu's troubles.

Of course, if you want to completely bring Kyushu into the rule, with the strength of the Kinoshita family now, you only need to dispatch a large army, and then led by a general, with the cooperation of Shimazu and other forces, then it is not difficult to completely eliminate Otomo, so as to achieve the goal of ruling Kyushu, but Kinoshita Hideyoshi did not dare to do this, compared with the Takayama army, although the total number of Kinoshita family has an advantage, but such an advantage is based on the sum of the retainers, alliances, and wealthy clans, but although the number is more than the other party, There is nothing to boast about the combat power of the troops under the command of those wealthy families, and even Kinoshita Hideyoshi himself knows that those troops are simply vulnerable in front of the Takayama army.

So he can't send a large army to attack Kyushu, otherwise after the Kinoshita family is exhausted, what if the Takayama army comes over at this time? Gao Shan's ability to gather intelligence, he has no doubt at all, I am afraid that after he goes out of the army, it will not take three or five days for the other party to get the news, by then the army of the family has just arrived in Kyushu, and the other party has already sent an army to attack, so it can only be in vain, such a meaningless thing, he is unwilling to do it, and there is no need to do it.

And at that time, since Kuroda Kanbei applied to go to Kyushu to pacify the rear for himself, Kinoshita Hideyoshi naturally agreed, although he thought that the other party might take advantage of this opportunity to get out and want to gain a foothold in Kyushu, after all, Kinoshita Hideyoshi also knew that Kuroda Kanbei did not seem to be satisfied with his existing knowledge and deeds.

But Hideyoshi still agreed, the reason is because if he can succeed, then handing over Kyushu to Kuroda Kanwei will naturally make Otomo dominate much better, only Kuroda Kanwei will not stab him in the back when he fights the Takayama family, and this is what Kinoshita Hideyoshi wants, and once he defeats the Takayama family, then a small Kuroda family, even if it controls all Kyushu in his hands, what can it do, if it has a disobedient heart, it can be eliminated in an instant, from this matter, Hideyoshi thinks that Kuroda Kanbei's intelligence is just like that, how good it is to follow him, although the Kuroda family's knowledge and deeds are less now, but as long as he can help him win the world, then the reward of a country is definitely indispensable, and he only needs to move his mouth to get a country, isn't it better than going to Kyushu to fight, and what is good about the broken place in Kyushu.

However, although Kinoshita Hideyoshi thought so, he was very concerned about the situation in Kyushu since he left Kuroda Kanwei, and at first learned that Kuroda Kanwei had joined the Shimazu family and won a joint battle with the Otomo family in Ogawa, and advanced all the way north, and the Otomo family who fought along the road had no power to fight back, he was really overjoyed, and in his opinion, as long as the Kuroda and Shimazu armies continued to pursue the victory, according to this posture, it would take less than five days to fight to the prefecture.

That is Kinoshita Hideyoshi is already preparing to send someone to inform Mori Terumoto of Yamashiro in Yoshida County, so that he can send an army to attack the Otomo family, as long as the Otomo family can be eliminated, then Kyushu will be completely pacified, and the nail behind him will finally be removed.

It's a pity that before Kinoshita Hideyoshi sent someone, he heard that the Shimazu and Kuroda armies were stagnant, and more than that, the two families had no intention of destroying Otomo at all, and after crippling him, they actually parted ways, which made Hideyoshi feel very angry, so he immediately sent people to Kyushu to order them to continue the attack on Otomo's house until they were eliminated.

But regrettably, when the retainers he sent to Kyushu returned, they learned that the Kuroda family had been defeated and had been besieged in Kuma Castle, and the order could not be delivered at all, and it was meaningless for Hideyoshi to be delivered until it was delivered, and since Kuroda Kanbei had been besieged, how could he send troops to attack Otomo?

If this was enough to make Kinoshita Hideyoshi feel angry, then the next thing that made him feel even more angry happened, just now he met the people sent by the Mutsu side, and at first he thought that those small wealthy clans of Mutsu were forced by the attitude of the Takayama clan towards the wealthy clan, and wanted to submit to themselves, if this is the case, it would be good, when the time comes, he will help the other party with some iron cannon money, and arm them, which can also play a role in containing part of the army of the Takayama family, after having such an idea, he personally met with the other party, When I saw it, the other party's intention to surrender was true, but unlike what I thought, the Takayama clan had already begun to attack Mutsu, although it was said that the army was only about 10,000, but it was not something that these Mutsu forces could resist, so after the meeting, he asked the Mutsu envoys to return immediately in the hope that they could hold on, and on the other hand, he said that the family would immediately send troops to relieve Mutsu's worries.

Three days later, the retainers of the Kinoshita family and their ally Tokugawa Ieyasu have appeared in the assessment room of Himeji Castle, the size of the retainers of the Kinoshita family is much larger than that of the Takayama family, and there are nearly 100 retainers who can sit in the assessment room and serve the status of generals, if it were not for the continuous expansion of Himeji Castle in the past few years, then the previous assessment room really could not accommodate so many people.

After the retainers were anxiously came, I saw that some of them seemed very excited, while others were worried, and the differentiation was very obvious.

Although Kinoshita Hideyoshi hasn't said anything yet, they know that if the two points are divided today, it is rare for the family to hold an evaluation meeting so excitedly, and basically the lord of everything is to directly meet the retainers in charge of related matters, and the only one who can suddenly convene a meeting of this scale, without asking, knows that it must be related to the Takayama family. As long as it is related to the Takayama family, it must be inseparable from the war.

The retainers who showed excited expressions naturally hoped that they would be able to make great achievements in wartime and get more rewards, while those with sad faces were very aware of the strength of the Takayama family, and if a decisive battle was held, it would be really worrying.

"Subordinates, etc., see the lord." When Kinoshita Hideyoshi walked out of the inner room quickly, no matter what thoughts the retainers had, the number of etiquette was still indispensable, so I saw them immediately salute and say.