It is precisely because of this elite army of the Otomo family, with the fall of Tianbei Zhenzhou in Erchuan, that when the Otomo family faced the attack of the Ryuzoji family and the Shimazu family, it was basically defeated in a row, and was even directly beaten by the Shimazu family to the home city of the Otomo family, and finally could only ask the monkey for help.

Otomo Sorin took Kuroda's hand and asked excitedly, "Are you a tease sent by the monkey?" ”

Kuroda Kanbei said, "I'll go to your uncle's." ”

Now the first to attack the Kuroda family is this Otomo family's ace army, this well-equipped army with sharp weapons.

Tahoku Zhenzhou, this man who is exactly thirty years old this year, is from the Bungo Kuni, Otomo clan, and the Takita clan of the village of Tsuyoshi Kori. Because of his outstanding martial bravery, he received the attention of Otomo Sorin, and received the biased "town" in his name to get his name.

In the third year of Eiroku (1560 AD), when the Mori clan invaded the Bunzen Kingdom, at the age of eighteen, he already showed outstanding martial prowess and killed five famous samurai of the Mori clan one after another, thus becoming famous.

In the 11th year of Eiroku (1568 AD), he led the army to suppress the rebellion of Chikuzen Kunitaka Hanakanzai, but unlike in history, because the Kuroda family subdued the Mori family, there was no historical battle in which Takita Zhenshu defeated the Mori army led by Kobayakawa Takakei.

And Tachibana Kanzai, who was supposed to die in this battle, also accepted the decision to reduce the territory and surrender to the Otomo family because there was no foreign aid, and held his own life, and the "Thor" Toji Kanren was not able to inherit the Tachibana family and became the Tachibana Michiyuki in history.

At this time, Shigeharu Takenaka was at the front of the shogunate, looking at the army of the Otomo family opposite the Hishida River, and the Iate Tomoji came over.

"Lord Takenaka, it seems that the Otomo family is about to attack." Itetomo said, pointing to the team of Tian Kita Zhen Zhou opposite the Hishida River.

"Danzheng-sama! I didn't know that adults were coming, and I was rude under it. When Shigeharu Takenaka saw Ite, he immediately bowed to him and said.

"The military advisor doesn't need to be polite, it was I who came here suddenly, disturbing the military advisor's thoughts, I'm just a rough person, I don't understand the layout of these battles, and this battle with the Otomo family has to rely on the military advisor to command in the middle." Itetomo said modestly.

"Lord Danzheng is too modest, this time I have already thought of countermeasures, as long as the various military forces can act according to the arrangement, we should basically have no problem."

"Oh! Are you sure? That's great, and if you can defeat the Otomo family, your lord will be very happy. Imate said.

"It's just that this time the army of the Otomo family is indeed very strong, and the various situations on the battlefield are also complicated, and we must unite all of them to be able to defeat the Otomo family."

"Takenaka-sama is right, I hope there will be a good result this time."

The last time the Kuroda family was in such a numerical disadvantage was when he first entered the Sanki country, Kuroda led thousands of people to face the 20,000 army of the Miyoshi family.

Tianbei Zhenzhou took 5,000 people to prepare to cross the Lingtian River, and he looked at the relatively turbulent river, and his heart was still very worried. The Kuroda family is adept at taking advantage of various opportunities and applying various tactics. Tianbei Zhenzhou is a battlefield veteran, and it can be seen at a glance that a river like the Ryoda River is a good location for half-crossing and attacking.

Before the battle, Tianbei Zhenzhou had already ordered Ono Nobuyuki and Sada Takaju and others on both sides of him that as long as they led people to go and were attacked by the Kuroda family in the middle of the crossing, they must be the first to take their own thousand-man team to step forward to protect the two wings of Tianbei Town's Zhou army, and after they stabilized, they would attack the Kuroda family together.

Fearing that the Kuroda family would play a conspiracy when crossing the river, Tankita Zhenzhou asked everyone under his command to march quickly.

Just as the 5,000 troops of the Otomo family were about to cross the Hishida River, the advance of the Kuroda family finally moved, and the gunners, who numbered about 100 people, walked to the front of the team, and under the order of the leader of the group, they began to start free fire at the vanguard of the Otomo family.

Although the number of people was small, after a round of shooting, the Otomo family still fell by a dozen or twenty people. If it was only the army of the ordinary small wealthy family who crossed the river at this time, and there were such casualties, then it should have been routed long ago. But for the 5,000-strong army, such casualties were like tickling, without any shocking power, and did not hinder or delay the march of Tianbei Zhenzhou's troops in the slightest.

This army is the elite of the Otomo family, and it is the main force that Tianbei Zhenzhou has been leading and has experienced a hundred battles. They are not only the strongest combat power of the Otomo family, but also the guarantee of the Otomo family's domination of Kitakyushu.

Because of the brutality of Otomo Sorin, what has never been lacking in the territory of the Otomo family is the rebellion of the wealthy clan and the people, and every rebellion that is difficult to extinguish is also the appearance of this team as the end of the actions of these rebels.

This elite army of the Otomo family is already accustomed to seeing wind and rain, not to mention only a dozen or twenty people, as long as the casualty ratio is not particularly large, or Tianbei Zhenzhou took the initiative to ask for retreat, or there is such a situation as the main general is killed, then they will not be defeated.

This army is capable of withstanding large casualties, which is already a representative of the elite army. It's just that the most elite Kuroda family's military strength, even if the main general is killed, as long as he can still fight, he will continue to fight, and he is definitely a more elite soldier.

In the face of the Kuroda family's firearms, in fact, the Otomo family soldiers who are more accustomed to long-range firearms are not afraid, and the Otomo family itself has a large number of iron cannons, so these elite infantry soldiers still know this weapon, and they know that the hit of this weapon will not be particularly high, as long as they quickly approach the enemy, they can effectively contain the iron cannon.

The 1,500-strong iron artillery brigade of the Otomo family was at the front of the main formation at this time, and their current task was not to assist Tianbei Zhenzhou in the attack, but to surround Otomo Sorin's surroundings and protect his personal safety.

If it were said that Kuroda Vocational High School had such a long-range force, it would never be used like this, but there are a few famous masters in the world who can achieve the same level as Kuroda Vocational High School in order to win? Kuroda Vocational High School is definitely unique.

At this time, in order to reduce casualties and not to become the target of the next Kuroda family's firecrackers, the soldiers of the Otomo family did not retreat, but also continued to try their best to speed up the march.