And Shimizu Yasuei's response is worthy of the pen of the people of Izu Province, he did not rashly send troops or prepare to attack the cage city, but immediately sent people and horses to various places to call on the people of Izu Province to move closer to him.

The wealthy clans and people of Izu Province are also more cooperative, and most of them have given up their own territories, and led their men and horses to quickly approach the city of Yasuei Shimizu from the coastal place in the east of Izu Province.

Izu has 70,000 stone high, and after the strength of all the wealthy clans and people gathered, they were able to gather nearly 2,500 people, of which more than 2,200 people gathered under the command of Yasuei Shimizu, and about 300 people have been or are about to be wiped out by the Kuroda family.

The two families that had been wiped out by the Kuroda family had lost a total of more than 150 people, and Hikojiro Yamanaka gathered more than 150 people from the vicinity to Cage Castle in Yamanaka.

The castle is located in the middle of the mountains, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it is also on a small hill, and with the management of several generations of the mountain family, it is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are only two directions in which Yamanaka Castle can attack, so Hanafang Masayuki ordered Araki Murashige to lead 500 men to guard the path behind Yamanaka Castle to prevent anyone in the castle from escaping, and he himself attacked the front of Yamanaka Castle with 2,500 men.

In the face of Yamanaka Castle, which had a relatively large number of people, the Kuroda family's first attack was still suffocated, and the attack that lasted for half an hour did not make much progress, and the Yamanaka family did not have many casualties due to the terrain of the castle.

The next day, when Hanafang Masayuki led people to inspect a hill near Yamanaka Castle, he found that Yamanaka Hikojiro was actually inspecting the defense of the castle, and the distance between Hanafang Masayuki and him was exactly about 100 steps, what is the distance of 100 steps, if it is an ordinary Maruki bow, in such a situation between the two mountains, just the mountain wind can make the arrow float halfway down and fall back.

Hanafang Masayuki took out his wisteria bow, and the defenders of the city on the opposite side all saw his actions, and saw that a samurai was actually going to shoot an arrow, and they were still scared at first, so everyone looked nervously in the direction of Hanafang Masayuki.

Hanafang Zhengxing opened his bow and shot at the castle in the mountains, and under the nervous gaze of the defenders in the city, the arrow slowly drifted down into the valley with the mountain wind.

When the people in the city saw this, they all laughed arrogantly, he meowed, we all took off our pants, you show us this?

Immediately afterwards, I saw that Hanafang Zhengxing took out an arrow again and shot it at the opposite side, this time the people in the city were even more cheerful, you couldn't even shoot half the way with his meow, and now you dare to shoot, are you messing with us.

I saw the corner of Hanafang Zhengxing's mouth jumped slightly, and then he let go of his hand, the arrow was fast and ruthless, and rushed quickly towards the opposite side, just the first arrow was just a temptation of Hanafang Zhengxing, he wanted to see the impact of factors such as wind speed and wind direction on himself, just now he already knew this, so now there is no need to keep his hand.

The target of Hanafang Masayuki's arrow was Yamanaka Hikojiro, and he still wanted to see the excitement at this time, but he soon found out that something was wrong, that is, the arrow was too fast, so fast that he couldn't see it clearly, and when he saw it clearly, only one arrow shaft was still in his eye, and the arrow had penetrated deep into his skull.

Hikojiro Yamanaka was directly shot in the head by Hanafang Masayuki, and in the surprise of everyone, he fell on the city wall. Hanafang Masayuki used a wisteria bow, and it was also a strengthened version handmade by Kuroda family Li Sanbao, with a range of more than 120 meters, and he was able to kill Yamanaka Hikojiro, which was a reflection of his strength.

As soon as Yamanaka Hikojiro died, the city was immediately leaderless, and the most important thing was that his twenty-five-year-old son was not able to serve the public at all, and he was a gentleman.

Because each samurai has their own ideas, although they are unwilling to submit to the Kuroda family, the final resistance is obviously not as strong as at the beginning.

The Kuroda family soon launched a second round of attacks, and although they did not break through Yamanaka Castle in the end due to the terrain, the Kuroda family's army still saw the hope of breaking through Yamanaka Castle, because most of the castle soldiers had already been killed and wounded.

When the third round of attack came, the castle was able to resist at first, but when Hanafu Masari attacked the castle wall, the castle's defenses collapsed, and Yamanaka Hikojiro's son wanted to submit to the Kuroda family at the last moment, but was killed by Arakimura Shige, in the name of fulfilling his martial name.

As soon as the castle in the mountains was reached, the Hojo family lost the land in the northernmost part of Izu Province, and at the same time, it also represented that the Kuroda family had severed the connection between Izu Province and Sagami Province and initially completed their strategic goals.

At this time, the Hojo family was a little panicked, mainly because of the awkward position of Tamu Mototada, who immediately told his current situation to the Hojo clan, and the Hojo clan was only able to send a temporary patchwork of 300 men and horses before the reinforcements arrived, and first came to the Sagami's land of Feicheng to block the road between Sagami and Izu countries.

If the Hojo clan and Tamu Mototada knew that Hanafang Masayuki's goal was nothing more than Izu Province from the beginning, it is estimated that they would regret their deaths, but everything is not if, what happened is what happened, and it is impossible to turn back time, and it will be difficult to turn back everything from the moment it is settled.

When the Kuroda family occupied Yamanaka Castle, the Kuroda family's Kumano Navy Army arrived at the Izu Islands in the southern part of Izu Province after transporting the Kuroda family's army.

When the Kuroda family attacked Izu Province, the Hojo family really couldn't imagine that the Kuroda family had deployed more than 40,000 horses in Kai, 26,000 people in Echigo Province and Aizu Province in the north, 15,000 people on the outskirts of Mt. Hakone, and another 3,000 men in Izu Province.

The Izu Islands are an archipelago in the southern part of Izu Province, consisting of seven large islands including Oshima, Rishima, Shinjima, Kozujima, Miyake Island, Mikurajima, and Hachijojima Island, as well as Hachijo Island, Aoshima, Torishima and other islands.

We all know that because the country is located on the top of the volcanic earthquake zone, there are frequent geological movements, so there are many earthquakes, which is a disadvantage in terms of natural disasters. However, the place in the seismic zone is not completely without benefits, and the advantage of frequent geological movements is that the geothermal resources are abundant, and the abundance of geothermal resources also brings hot spring resources.