"Ouch!" I was drowsy and lost my mind, and my head hit the table, and although it wasn't bleeding, it still hurt. I picked up a mirror on the side and looked at it, although it was a little red, it was not unsightly. "It's okay, it won't affect the image!" I put down the mirror and yawned and stood up.

Step by step, I came to the door of the tent, poked my head out and looked outside, and it happened that a drop of water fell on my nose. It rained last night, and it still hasn't cleared up today, and it's wet everywhere.

Hizen's affairs were resolved quite satisfactorily, and when I entered Saga Castle, I saw the ruler of Ryuzoji Temple, dressed in white, kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty, and heard his tearful confession. According to himself, it was the temptation and temptation of the Maori rebel party that led to such a rebellious deviance, and he was willing to accept all kinds of punishments, just to be able to keep the name of the Ryuzoji family and spare the others.

Killing people is not too much, and besides, I still have to consider the feelings of Naoshige Nabeshima and others, and there is no need to cause a bad reaction of the rabbit and the fox. I left 20,000 stone territory to the Ryuzoji family and continue to keep Saga Castle, although the territory is a little smaller, but the daimyo who has been disabled to this extent will not be moved, which is an extremely rare thing, and besides, I haven't asked the Ryuzoji politician to retire!

In fact, this is also because the Ryuzoji Ruler does not belong to the kind of people who must die, and it is impossible for the Ryuzoji Clan to be revived in his hands. As for the ten or twenty years later, the world must have been basically calmed down by that time, and if the weak families want to prosper, they will have to look at their own means to win the favor of those in power!

As for Nabeshima, Omura, and several other important ministers of the former Ryuzoji family, I have made it clear that they will be officially independent, and as for the number of territories of each family, we will wait until Kyushu is fully pacified. Several of them are all samurai families that have been passed down for several generations, and in the face of historic opportunities, they naturally know how to choose.

After the Hizen affair, I turned around and killed Chikuzen, and Yoshikawa Motoharu, who had been standing still for a while, actually came to meet him, although I was a little surprised, but I was still very happy, so it saved me a lot of things. Despite the superiority of zhan, I did not get carried away and fought steadily in the initial contact battle, using the advantage of cavalry and iron artillery to gain some advantage. But just when I was about to start a full-scale decisive battle, Yoshikawa Motoharu turned his head and left without any nostalgia.

His move was so unexpected, and although I quickly got the news through the ninja, arranging a pursuit of tens of thousands of people was not a simple matter. After a rush of upside-down confusion, I followed the Maori army to the coastal area north of Chikuzen.

Yoshikawa Motoharu contracted his defenses, concentrated his men and horses in the five strongest castles, and then transported them back to the perimeter in waves through the fleet at sea.

There is a powerful fleet on the sea, so the navy under the command of the Maori family adopts the method of small boats traveling at night, and walks from the shallow and narrow and complex places of the waterway, which limits the advantage of our navy's giant ships and heavy artillery. This area is not a regular area of activity, and the navy is unable to approach the battle in the face of the unknown situation, and although long-range attacks on Maori transports are carried out by artillery fire every night, the effect is not very obvious.

After annihilating about 2,000 Maori troops in the land pursuit, and the number of damage caused by the capsizing of the sea ships is estimated to be the same, Yoshikawa Motoharu returned to Yasuki with about 20,000 troops, leaving more than 12,000 men to defend the fortified castles north of Chikuzen. In the previous days, Yoshikawa Motoharu put a lot of effort into it, and built a lot on the foundation of these cities themselves, which were extremely strong, and needless to say, the grain reserves.

In fact, it is not necessarily a good thing to have too many people left, and it is just right for more than 10,000 people to guard these key castles, plus a steady stream of food has been transported in the past two months. Since the Maori army has no intention of fighting me, I am afraid that it will cost me a lot of money to take these places quickly.

After careful consideration and discussion with Takenaka Hanbei, I finally decided that this set of practices of the Mori family was designed a long time ago, and it was not just a matter of tacit cooperation with a series of actions, but that the consequences of this would be the best for the Mori family.

For the "monkeys", the allies, they fought and died, while retaining considerable strength to deal with all kinds of situations. The purpose of dragging me in Kyushu has also been achieved, and the "monkey" should have nothing to complain about.

There is no resentment for me, because wars of this magnitude can happen every day, and if in the future we need to destroy each other or cooperate with each other, what happens today will not be an obstacle of sorts. Anyway, this is politics, this is life!

Judging from the posture of Yoshikawa Motoharu, although the Maori family is allied with the "monkey", their attitude is not resolute, so there is no need for me to make a fish to death, I have already gained enough face in the previous part, and I just need to continue the siege. In fact, if I were to go south to attack Shimazu at this time, it wouldn't matter much. However, I was not in a hurry to match the progress of, and the siege lasted for more than two months, and it was the end of April of the ninth year of Tensho (1581).

"Lord, you are so leisurely!" I was boredly counting the patrol soldiers passing by the camp gate, and Shinhachiro stepped on his feet in muddy water and turned out of nowhere.

"Why are you here, is there nothing wrong?" I glanced at him with squinted eyes, and immediately recognized that he was in an uncomfortable state of idleness. "I remember that the task of the armor was to clean the weapons and wipe the armor, have you done it all? Equipment can be easily damaged in rainy weather! "Now he's serving as Shima's lieutenant, so that's why I asked.

"I've wiped it eight times, and now I need to ask Master Song to repaint!" He frowned and complained loudly, his dissatisfaction at a glance. "We're stupid people there, and I'm afraid we won't even be able to ride a horse if we go on like this. So everybody called me to ask, when will it be our turn? ”

"There's nothing to do with you in the near future, so let's continue to rest!" I knew he was looking for trouble, and the official arrangement Katsutakeshi Shima also knew, so he couldn't come and ask me.

"Will we be able to leave tomorrow's feint to us?" Shinhachiro begged.

"No, Gao Hu's troops are ready!" I was sitting back in my chair and shaking my head with my eyes closed. Cavalry is almost useless in sieges, even in armour.

"Please! The task of ambushing a Maori food convoy on the beach the night after tomorrow must be entrusted to us! He said flatteringly.

"No, I promised to give Omura and His Highness Nabeshima this chance!" I continued to shake my head with my eyes closed, feeling a little heavy in my head. The Maori fleet will land on an open beach, and the surrounding area is not suitable for cavalry to hide, and besides, the other side is only a small operation of five boats and 100 people, how can I use my armored cavalry.

"Then we ......" he still wanted to fight for.

"No way!" I leaned on the table and said firmly, because I had nothing to do, and I was sleepy at every turn lately. It would be nice if Ying and Ah Xue were here, the "Three Sisters of Mirage Thousand Nights" is not suitable to appear by my side openly from time to time, I don't know how the pregnant Ah Xue is, although the letter always says that everything is normal ....... Shinhachiro didn't say anything again for a long time, probably because he felt bored and left by himself.

"Lord...... The lord ......, "I don't know how long it took for the half-guards of Takenaka to come, and I screamed twice in a row before I reacted."

"Oh...... What's the matter? I asked, propping myself up from the table and rubbing my eyes.

"It's not a big deal, it's just some routine arrangement!" He seemed relieved after making sure I wasn't "big", but he also clearly sensed that I wasn't there. "The grain and grass have been transported from the inner city of Funai, are they all distributed?" He picked up a stack of official documents and began to report to me.

"Normally, one copy is distributed to each battalion every 10 days, but now, ......," I said after a slight mutter, "In order to calm the hearts of those wealthy families, let's distribute them according to a month's consumption!" ”

"Yes!" Takenaka Hanbei changed again. "Do you have any new instructions for the tentative attack on the cities?"

"No change!" I picked up a pen and signed it and stamped it with my name.

"And ......" Takenaka Hanbei took out the documents one by one and explained them, and I gave instructions one by one.

In fact, most of these are routine business, even if a new thing occasionally appears, he will first draw up a few sets of plans according to his own opinions, so there are not many things that I really want me to do, just a little judgment and signing, and the trained chimpanzee can also do eight or nine without leaving ten.

"There's nothing urgent going on these days, that's all for the routine!" He packed up his things and prepared to leave. "Do you have any other orders?"

"There's a little thing...... "I leaned back and leaned back in my chair." You're in charge of things here, and I want to be away for a few days! ”

"Lord, this seems to be a bit ......" Takenaka Hanbei frowned and hesitated, but still said: "Although Yoshikawa Motoharu has retreated now, there are still 12,000 Maori troops stationed here. At this time, it was not appropriate to draw too many troops, and it was not very well prepared to attack Shimazu now. The lord might as well wait a little longer, until all the wealthy clans in the central and southern parts of Kyushu have gathered......"

"You misunderstood me, I didn't mean to do anything!" I shook my hand at him, excited about my sudden idea. "I wanted to go to Hirado and see how many more people I could meet. I'm just going to go in plain clothes, not with the army! ”

"Although Hizen is under our control now, it is still at war after all, so please think twice for the minister!" Takenaka Hanbei persuaded.

"Hirado isn't close to strong hostile forces, and I'll bring a guard!" I did think there would be no danger there, but it was always good to be careful, so I said, "I'm going to leave the day after tomorrow, and I'll have our people lurking in the area check again, and I'll be back in about ten days and half a month!" ”

"That'...... How many people does the lord want to take? Seeing that I was resolute, he didn't persuade me again.

"Let Sakichi pick a few strong guards ...... martial arts"

"And me!" At this time, an excited voice came from behind me, and it turned out that Shinhachiro had not left.