On the outskirts of Tiannan Prefecture, Ziluo City, which guards the middle reaches of the water system of the Jiulong River Plain, has been surrounded by officials and troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the ground under the entire city wall, the soldiers of the rebel army who poured in were close together, stacking and raising the various cards and shields, and the intricate and quaint animal face painting and iron-clad pattern were facing upward, facing the charcoal fire of the masonry and stone ash bottles that kept falling from the city wall, and marched forward with difficulty.

Underneath them, they stepped on embers and corpses, separated several "passages", and let the soldiers carrying the soft ladders and ladders bow down through their waists, and put their instruments against the city walls, and then there were soldiers bravely holding up sharp spears and stepping up the ladders with shields on their sides, and there were screams and figures of fighting everywhere.

When the rumbling cannon sounded, the last bit of resistance and morale of the defenders was completely shattered.

From here, with the help of the well-developed shipping system of the Jiulong River, the army and baggage can be directly transported by river boat, and the capital Tiannan City can be driven straight downstream.

In Pugang, at the mouth of the sea downstream of Tiannan City, as the local officials, soldiers and civilians who belonged to the ******, what they saw was a dilapidated sailor fleet that had returned with a full load of injuries;

They were so impatient and hasty when they entered the harbor that several ships that had come close together in order to get into the channel were crowded together and blocked the channel; Other warships, which could not wait, simply ran ashore and ran aground on the beach;

Finally, a few more warships, which were so badly damaged, had to hastily lay down the rows and boats full of people, and then watched as their ships slowly sank a stone's throw away near the harbor.

Since then, the first town of the Kinai Water Division, which was known as the first well-equipped in the past, has only left less than half of these damaged families.

Once the blockade and threat of the rebel sailors on the sea route is gone, it means that the officers and troops no longer need to travel long distances by land and trek a long circle through the mountains and jungles along the central and southern coasts in order to obtain supplies and supplies from the rear.

On the other hand, the transmission of tribute from overseas island domains was also restored, and troops could also be transported by sea to land in the ports of those overseas island domains that were friendly to the imperial court, so as to deter and block the centrifugal local forces on the large islands of the outer domains, and secretly support and support the Tiannan ******.

Although the imperial court cannot liquidate and crusade against them for the time being, as long as the sea transportation between Anyuan Prefecture and Tiannan Prefecture can be cut off, then no matter how careful these people are, they will no longer be able to send personnel and materials ashore, and continue to transfuse blood to the rebellious Tiannan ******.

By opening up contact with those overseas island vassals as soon as possible, it is necessary to restore the authority of the dynasty and the source of tribute and taxation, and even to avoid being isolated for too long, so that these vassals who are inclined to the dynasty will have more changes and different ideas.

After all, in recent years, the national dynasty has exhausted its people's strength to launch the war to conquer the north, and has experienced serious internal friction and turmoil in the mountains, and under the continuous draining of the garrison troops, even in the Tokaido continents, which are still stable and stable, there are some signs of noise and dissonance.

For example, on the grounds of famine and road cut-off, or banditry, they tried every means to demand relief and relief for heavy taxes and various property imposed by the dynasty. or simply use the wind and waves and even the sea route as an excuse to openly delay and delay;

However, just starting from the local area, but on the way to Guangfu, there were more than a dozen official ships that inexplicably sank and were missing by thieves.

This is also the ultimate goal and intention of the Cantonese side to launch an offensive by sea at any cost, regardless of the amount of manpower and material resources, and to gradually drag down and exhaust the sea surface forces that are difficult to replenish in the hands of these rebels.

At least for now, these deployments and objectives have initially reached a considerable level. The fourth and sixth towns of the rebel sailors, who had been rampant between Tokaido and Saikaido, wantonly taking ships and intercepting tribute, had to retreat to the anchorage of Saikaido with their remnants due to the lack of local supplies.

And the only remaining first town of the Kinai Naval Division was also seriously injured and could not continue, so it could only retreat to the port to rest.

Another key to this overall strategy of first sea and then land is to completely cut off the route and possibility of the Tiannan ****** held hostage by the rebel party and to die again, so as to avoid the results of the labor expedition once again being deficient. ……

The land of Fuso, the eastern country, the Himeji domain, and the castle of Himezawa are already an atmosphere of soldiers and horses.

Fifty-five full-clothed servants and langdang, three hundred horsemen, and one thousand one hundred apprentices; There were also three thousand five hundred Ashigaru men who were simply armed; 1,600 men, 324 men, 566 horses and pack horses, and 80 pack carts, assembled in a makeshift military fortress and waited solemnly;

This was all the power that a 250,000-stone-high mid-level feudal clan and a famous lord could gather from the vicinity in a hurry. Although the Himeji Domain still had naval armies of varying sizes and several large groups of cross-sea ships, there was no way to turn them into combat forces on land under such circumstances.

In front of them, there were three military formations of various banners approaching, from the most friendly Tsuchiya clan, to the well-known Yoshigo clan, the Nan clan, the Lin Gao clan, the Gangchuan clan and other emblems and horse seals that were close to the strong feudal clans, as well as various banners of people and monks and soldiers of all kinds of countries, and the level of Lin Bi was held high in the air.

Among them, the nobles and envoys from the Heisei Imperial Court and the good king, under the escort of a group of imperial captains and sword drawing teams, were standing on the imperial court to carry out pre-battle encouragement and preaching, and from time to time aroused a tide of shouts and shouts.

A few months ago, he forced to death Zhou Yuanci, the acting officer of the Three Rivers, and in the name of conscripting the enemy, he divided the area between the Three Rivers and the Yuanjiang River, and the Kira family and all the territories it was assigned to, and the same combined army was the same; In this way, with the help and cooperation of some force, he easily drove straight into the relatively closed and self-defended peninsula of the Himeji Domain, and won a narrow victory, and suddenly the soldiers came in front of the important town and the main castle of the Himeji family.

With the sound of the earth-shattering golden drums beating in the battle, the rain of arrows and crossbow guns that came over the sky, and in the city that was hastily gathered in the city, there was suddenly a burst of wailing and miserable howls and mixed shouts and angry scolding.

This old clan, which has always been dominated by women for a long time, has a very long history, but acts relatively low-key and secretive, and has been detached and stayed out of things for a long time, has finally ushered in the biggest crisis and tribulation in its life.

Although the Fuso Domain has been plagued by civil wars and disputes for the past hundred years, the royal families of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the princes of the Eastern and Western Kingdoms, and the exchanges and exchanges with the Middle Earth have never been severed for a moment.

Therefore, the changes in the situation in Middle-earth can also be reflected through the growth and decline of these coastal princes and feudal families, as well as the growth and decline of local daimyo forces. And the fate that Himeji Domain and Himezawa Castle have to face is just a small microcosm and aftermath of this.