Now the Otomo family team that wants to destroy Iwami Ginzan and the Maori family army that went to rescue the Daneiji Castle of Nagato Province met the Otomo family unexpectedly, and after being stunned for a while, the generals on both sides immediately ordered a battle, hoping that their side could defeat the opponent as soon as possible.

Obviously, only the 3,000 army composed of Shiga and several wealthy families was not a strong opponent of the Maori family, who had many samurai and had initially completed the separation of peasants and soldiers, and after an hour of fighting, Shiga was able to retreat with more than 2,300 men.

The Maori family, after paying the price of 100 people, killed more than 300 members of the Otomo family and captured nearly 300 more people, and won the battle.

The army of the Maori family pursued until the city of Daningji Castle, only because the more than 4,000 troops gathered together by the Otomo family stopped, and because of the arrival of the Maori family, the 1,000 people in the city of Daningji Castle and the army of the Maori family outside the city formed a corner, and in the case of similar numbers, the Otomo family actually did not have much chance.

In the middle of the night, the army of the Otomo family, led by Yoshihiro Kanri, retreated cautiously, but after consulting with Kuroda Toshitaka, Mori Terumoto, and Kobayakawa Takakei, they decided to ignore it.

But soon Kuroda Toshitaka could not be calm, because after a military officer came to pay his respects, he quickly ran to the highest point of the Honmaru castle tower, and as far as his eye could see, all the flames were in the sky.

The Otomo family is burning the grain fields on the land of the Kuroda family, "Damn, why is the Otomo family so despicable." ”

However, not only Daning Temple Castle, but almost the entire farmland of Nagato Province was set on fire by the Otomo family, and by the time the Kuroda family reacted, the entire Nagato country was no longer the shadow of the Otomo family's army.

The military operation of the Otomo family this time is indeed very strange, they stayed in Nagato Country for less than three days in total, and during these three days, the army of the Otomo family only besieged the three cities of the Kuroda family without attacking, in addition to burning the Kuroda family's naval army battle in Akama Pass, that is, in Iwami Province and the Maori family fought once, which did not have any other military conflicts, and after burning a large amount of farmland of the Kuroda family, they returned directly to the Bunzen country by boat.

However, when Kuroda Vocational High School arrived in Nagato Province in only three days with 5,000 men and horses, he learned that the Otomo family's army had long since begun to know where to withdraw.

This made him feel very annoyed, because this time it was the Otomo family fighting on the territory of the Kuroda family, and the entire power of the Kuroda family in Nagato Province was played by the Kakuma Ishizong between applause, and the Kuroda family suffered a very big loss because of the Otomo family's burning of farmland.

It's August, very close to the autumn harvest, and the fields are about to ripen with grains that are already full of ears of rice, which are part of Kuroda's military rations.

The height of the table in Nagato Province is 131,000 koku, and after the Kuroda family cleared all the large and small castles, after reclaiming these lands and some abandoned land, the stone height has reached about 150,000 koku, which is not an easy thing. Such a high number of stones has basically met the requirements of Kuroda Vocational High School for Matsui Shigetaka.

It was the fire before the Otomo family left that caused the Kuroda family to lose at least about 100,000 stone of food, and this was because the Otomo family was in a hurry to retreat, otherwise the loss would be even more heavy, and even the entire Nagato country would be lost.

Although the Kuroda family has a big business, with a table height of more than 3 million stones, a real height of nearly 5 million stones, and a strong commercial strength behind it, speaking of 100,000 stone of food, it is really just a drop in the bucket, but after all, it is also the property of the Kuroda family, which makes Kuroda Vocational High School, who has always lived with calculations, very angry.

After that, the news sent back by the Tongxin people made Kuroda Vocational High School even more annoyed, this time the Kakuma Stone Sect was definitely prepared, and it was from Akizuki Tanemi who came to Kuroda's house from Moji Port, and he was planning this battle of Nagato Country.

The Otomo family went out to fight the soldiers of the Kuroda family this time, and after repeated confirmation by the concentric people, the result was that these people were basically just ordinary people of the Otomo family who did not have any combat effectiveness, and they could not even compare with the combat effectiveness of the peasant soldiers.

And the scene that Akizuki Tanemi saw in Mojigang was deliberately leaked by the Otomo family to the Kuroda family, so that the people put on the armor of the elite soldiers, pretending to be the elite soldiers of the Otomo family, and because of the distance, yes, the information that Akizuki Tanemi got was also half-truth. It's really the Otomo family who really wants to come to the Nagato country of the Kuroda family, and the fake thing is that there aren't many elites of the Otomo family who come at all.

Because of the important information of Akizuki Tanemi, Kuroda Vocational High and Matsui Shigetaka, and even all the relevant samurai below, mistakenly thought from the beginning that the main force of the Otomo family was going to attack the Kuroda family, and this time tens of thousands of troops were coming, and its momentum was extremely fierce. From this time on, the entire Kuroda family has fallen into the calculations of the Otomo family.

In the entire team of the Otomo family to go out to Nagato Province, only the 3,000 people who fought against the Maori family under the leadership of Shiga personally were the elite of the Otomo family.

It's no wonder that the Otomo family has not done any siege actions before, just besieged but not attacked, there are only 3,000 elites in total, and the other so-called armies are all paper tigers pretended to be people, as long as there is any siege behavior, as long as the defenders of the Kuroda family are not fools, the quality of this army will be revealed in front of the Kuroda family.

In addition to Kakukuma's own appearance in the initial attack on the Kuroda family's military port, after successfully occupying and burning the Kuroda family's military port, he had already taken a boat to Kyushu to join his lord Otomo Sorin.

In fact, most of the samurai of the Otomo family in Nagato Province are just ordinary low-level samurai, and the only ones who can speak to the real middle and high-level samurai are Yoshihiro Kanri and Shiga Shinmori, Yoshihiro Kanri is the commander-in-chief of this Otomo family's operation except for Kakukuma Ishizong.

And Kakukuma's plan is also very simple, with these troops without any combat effectiveness to contain the more than 10,000 troops of the Kuroda family, no matter what, it is a good deal.

The most important thing is that through this military operation, first of all, the Kuroda family's military port was burned, the Kuroda family's sailors were attacked, and at the same time, a large amount of grain in the Kuroda family's frontline farmland was burned, which to a certain extent could effectively contain the Kuroda family's action from Nagato Province, and then the Kuroda family's food supply would be delayed for a long time.