Anyway, the Otomo family gave an order, and Kitahara Tadazawa reluctantly took the three hundred soldiers under his command, set up the position as late as possible, and rushed slowly towards the Kuroda family's formation.

Kitahara Tadasawa had paid attention to the surrounding situation before setting off, and what he was most worried about now was that there would be an ambush by the Kuroda family on the hills on both sides. In his heart, he was most worried that the Kuroda family would use intrigues.

For the methods of the Kuroda family, Kitahara Tadasawa has long heard of it, whether it is the Kuroda family's true battle examples, or the enemy's exaggeration of the Kuroda family for their own purposes, anyway, in Kitahara Tadazawa's impression, the Kuroda family is despicable and shameless, and the daimyo who only knows how to use intrigues and tricks is an opponent that he can't easily defeat.

Even in the Battle of Takachiho Mountain, the Kuroda family basically defeated the coalition forces of southern Kyushu with hard power. In the heart of Kitahara Tadazawa, who did not know the truth, he had been in a state of confusion throughout the battle, and the Kuroda family must have used some shady conspiracy to win the final victory. This is what he has always thought of the Kuroda family, and it has influenced his most basic conscious judgment.

However, his team continued to move forward until it was only thirty or fifty paces away from the Kuroda family's base, and there was nothing suspicious on the Kuroda family's side, everything was quiet, and there was nothing suspicious.

At this time, Kitahara Tadazawa was a little relieved, it seems that the Kuroda family has no other preparations! So he ordered his men to attack first. He had already made up his mind at this time, and in hand-to-hand combat, as long as there were more casualties, he would immediately order a retreat.

Before, even the elite division of the Otomo family attacked the defensive position of the Kuroda family, but they failed to break through twice, and lost dozens of people, and now he has no confidence in how much of a role he can play.

Not to mention dozens of people, if the Otomo family is not able to defeat the Kuroda family this time, the Kitahara family, who has already committed acts for the tiger, will inevitably accept the wrath of the Kuroda family after that. In the heart of Kitahara Tadasawa now, in fact, he doesn't even want to lose one of his subordinates, or many people, who can hold out for one more day in the possible attack of the Kuroda family.

Until now, Kitahara Tadasawa has never thought that in his subconscious, he already thinks that he will accept the revenge of the Kuroda family, that is to say, he believes that this time the Kuroda family can defeat the Otomo family, he himself doesn't know why he has such an idea, but this idea really appears in his own head.

As a result, the military strength of the Kitahara family took ten steps carefully, and when it was already very close to the position of the Kuroda family, suddenly there was a great noise between the two mountains, and the Kuroda family's crossbows, which were twenty or thirty people on each side, appeared lightly, and forty or fifty crossbows took the lives of more than ten Kitahara family soldiers.

Before the Kitahara family soldiers could react, the Kuroda family fired another volley, taking the lives of nearly twenty soldiers again, and under the sudden fierce blow, the Kitahara family's military situation was finally completely chaotic.

They were just peasants who had just put down their hoes, and some of them were even standing in the middle of the line with their hoes, when had they ever seen such a bloody scene, but for a moment, without understanding the situation, their companions fell thirty or forty people, and the ground was full of flesh and blood, for them, this is the scene of hell!

"Brother, it seems that the Kuroda family really has a conspiracy, what should we do now?" The mortar identified asked.

Usuki saw the scene of the Kitahara family in front, but he didn't care about these miscellaneous soldiers of the Kitahara family, they were obviously perfunctory soldiers sent by the Otomo family, and he wouldn't feel distressed no matter how much he died, all he cared about was whether his side could break through the blockade of the Kuroda family and whether he could complete the tasks assigned by the Otomo family.

"It would be good if the third child was in this place at this time, with his intelligence, he would definitely be able to come up with a good way, but it's a pity that he is now confronting the Kuroda family with the Lord's justice. Although there are few defenders of the Kuroda family in this place, relying on the excellent terrain advantage here, as well as the long-range soldiers of the Kuroda family on the mountain, even if it is only this number of people, it is difficult for us to break through from this place. ”

"Then we ......"

"Let's go around to the first junction and attack it!" Usuki said helplessly.

"What if you still can't break through?" The mortar identified asked.

"I don't know, I don't know, but this time, I think the military master may really be wrong, at least he miscalculated the situation here, and I hope that there can be a smooth breakthrough over there." Usuki said as he looked in the direction of the Kuroda family's defenders.

On the other side, Shigeharu Takenaka, the military advisor of the Kuroda family, has already chosen the location of the final battle with the Otomo family, that is, the Hishida River where the Kuroda family and the Southern Hyuga National Alliance Army fought before.

The Kuroda family is facing the Rhishida River and the direction of the Hyuga country, and this action also means that the Kuroda family has temporarily abandoned the Iino Castle in the southern Hyuga country, although this castle is very important, but it is completely insignificant compared to the face of the Otomo family's army this time, and the joint battle that needs to be launched later.

As long as the Kuroda family can successfully defeat the Otomo family this time, not to mention an Iino Castle, even the entire Hyuga Country is not too much of a problem.

Don't focus on the gains and losses of one city and one place, but try to destroy the enemy's living forces as much as possible in the movement war, a quote from Kuroda Shidaka, whom Shigeharu Takenaka now admires very much. This sentence almost broke his understanding of military affairs for twenty or thirty years, and made him feel as if he had broken through some bottlenecks in military strategy.

On the other hand, if the Kuroda family loses this time, then the Otomo family can take advantage of the situation to enter Osumi Province and Satsuma Province, or even completely defeat the Kuroda family and seize the hegemony of the entire Kyushu.

The reason why the Kuroda family set up a formation in the Hishida River this time is the result of Shigeharu Takenaka's thinking and synthesis of the opinions of Inoue Nobo, Takimoto Temple and others.

This time, the Otomo family was at the forefront, and it was the 5,000 elites led by the general Tian Beizhen Zhou in his family, and this military force was the most elite soldier of the entire Otomo family.

In the historical Battle of Ogawa, it was Tian Bei Zhenzhou who led this 5,000-man soldier, and in the face of the 3,000 army of the Shimazu family, Tian Bei Zhenzhou was hit by the Shimazu family's fishing and wild ambush, which led to the collapse of the entire army, and he also died in the Battle of Ogawa.